Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1892-04-30
THE 0 o OF U A
Historical Errors Concerning It's
Living Representative.
Ouoon vIctoriA'S Claim to That Title .
singular AbSurdity-The Count OF
Paris Alone Entitled 60 That
Distinction.

There is q historical blunder which
ercr and anon comes up, and which,
though of no practical Significance, yet
cannot be without an imaginative in
tluence on Anglo-Saxons, says Dr..
Charles c. Starbuck in the Boston Adj
vertiser. 1t respects the question:
Who is the representative Of the
Situarts? The statement is often made
that it is the king of Italy, but this is a
mistake.
When by death of Henry Stuart, Car
final York, in 1907, the house of Stuart,
md with it all the heirs of James H.,
'ecame extinct, then as his eldest sis
ter, Mary, had no grandchildren the
Stuart representation devolved On
King Victor Emmanuel I. of Sardinia
rs the heir Of James younger sister,
Henrietta, duchess of Orleans. Victor
Emmanucl's heir for the throne of Sar-
,iinia, as he had no sons, was his
brother Charles Felix, but for the
Stuart representation, which, of course,
followed the English rule, it was his
ELDEST daughter, Mary Beatrice. Her
heir was her eldest son, Francis w., the
last duke of Modena, whom Disraeli,
in "Endymion," represents as ac-
tnally receiving the homage of some
English idiots as their true sovereign.
At his death without issue in 1876, the
stuart claim (now, of course, purely
ideal) passed to his next brother, Ferd-
inand's only child, the archduchess Ma
ria Theresa, wife Of Trrncc Lewis, of
bavaria, who is thus the representative
IF the Stuarts, the Tudors and the
lantIgcnctS. The eldest of this lady S
o or five o n bears the sign of his
famous descent in the name of prince
Rupert" Thus the ideal claims of the
ancient English royalty, having passed
from the house of Savoy into the Mode
nese branch of the house of IIapsburg-
Lorraine, will in the next generation
he settled in the house of Wittelsbach
and ascend the throne of bavaria, sup
losing that monarchy to be then in eX-
iStcnce.
On the death of Charles Felix in 1881
the Sandman crown passed to the
branch OF Savoy-Carignano which part
I'd from the elder line Il generation be-
fore Henrietta Stuart was born. King
Iumbcrt, therefore, and his cousin and
wife, Qur IN Margaret, are not only not
the representatives of the Stuarts, but.
as pointed out in "Chambers' Encyco-
pGcGia." they arc not descendants of the
StuIrtS.
Queen Victoria is guilty of n singular
o3urdity in II of her books when she
roudly calls herself, with true royal
nd feminine toryism, 1.-THE representa-
i've of the Stuarts." Uer house was
"hoscn for the very reason that its elc.
v1ti0n signalized the national rejection
g.: thc Stuarts. The act of settlemen
A.Dws that she is not only not the rep
"c"cntative of Charles l., but is no,
'vHn the representative of his sister
EliZnbcEh until all the posterity o.
E~lizabcth's sons shall be extinct, tol
tho act passes over the sons and ovej
tho eldest daughter, the abbess o.
Maubisson, and fixes on the younges,
daughter, Sophia, as being n Protest
ant. The present dynasty, therefore,
rCigns by no Anticipated right Of de-
scent, but by a true act of national
election. Victoria is not the represen-
t,&ive of the Stuarts, but, which is an
iniluitely higher dignity, she is, by a
free act Of national choice, the repre-
sentative of the majesty of mighty
lLgl&nd. And perhaps the now de-
";..sing British monarchy would do we'll
t" close it's long and ~bestained, but yet
iiIustrious, history, with this long and
v%Irtuous reign.
may remark TINT the present repre-
s~Atativc of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen
N!Ctoria'H anccstress, Is said TO be, curl.
"u3ly enough, the count Of Paris.
a Grent Memory,