The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-02-04
TITLES OF DIPLOMATS.
FOREIGNERS WITH HANDLES TO
THEIR NAMES.

Honors Too Freely Given-A Popular
tendency to Distinguish a Repre-
sentative Of Another Country Be
yond His Deserts-Members OF high
Dssree in the LeRatioEs-No am
bassadors Eere.
From the Washington Star.
In democratic America no titles Of nobil-
| ity are permitted among American citizens,
but in Washington there are more foreign
titles than there are In any other American
city. This is due TO the presence here Of
the diplomatic corps, and among foreign
diplomats titles are numerous enough.
Nevertheless they are not so numerous as
some people like to make them out.
In conve sation with writer for the
Star a member Of one Of the foreign lega-
tions laughed about this the other day and
| pointed TO several notices of himself in
newspapers published outside of Washing
ton wherein be was alluded to variously as
marquis, count and baron, whereas in
reality he has no title OF nobility at all. He
said it struck him as very strange that in a
republic like ours he should be so often put
down in the public press as having a title
which he had no right or desire to lay
claim to.
A POSSIBLE EXPLANATION.
The explanation is found perhaps in the
| strange desire TO heap hOnors, or So-called
| honors, upon the head of every foreign resi-
dent. In some countries a diplomatic
! position IN itself confers title upon an in
| dividual and in nearly all monarchies it is
kpretty sure to lead to titles, for with the
| possible exception of the military and naval
service there are no duties which a sover-
| elgn is so ready TO recognize as the success
full performance of diplomatic duties. If a
| foreign minister negotiates a successful
treaty with this country he is pretty sure to
| have some new handle or some letters signi-
| flying new honors added to his name.
NO TITLED REPRESENTATIVES, OF FRANCE.
In taking up the titles of the diplomats
who reside in Washington it will be well to
! begin with our sister republic, France
Strange to say there is not now a single
| titled individual on the French legation
This is something that has not happened for
| long time, but since Count Sala went
home the legation has been without any
| SC on or nobility. The new minister is plain
| III. Patenotre. OF course France confers no
titles of nobility now, but the old titles
made in times gone by are still retained by
| courtesy. They carry with them no mean
| ing and confer no privileges. A French
| count Is the eldest son of a marquis, but the
marquis has nothing tangible to leave the
count when he dies except the empty title,
sequences. These French titles are very
much as though an American having been
once senator left the title of senator to
| his Sod
There are hundreds Of these useless titles
In France, and many marQuises. counts and
chevaliers are having hard time to keep
| their heads above water and make an hon
| est living. They come over to America,
too sometimes. and it is not long since one
OF them was discovered waiting upon the
| guests of fashionable restaurant in New
York. he reaped the crop which some-
times falls to the share of the clever foreign
titled husbandman and married q rich
American girl. But he had exceptional
luck, and most of his compatriots find that
they must sink or swim, according to their
own abilities, without any help from their
titles.
| GERMANY's REPRESENTATIVE.
In Germany, Of course, q title means
more than 1t does in France, for Germany
has an emperor and all the grades of no.
bility are bis especial care. DIR. Won Hol-
! lenben is the new German minister. He has
no designation Of nobility except the Won.
which, like the French de, is supposed to
signify gentle birth. His predecessor, Won
Arco Valley was a fulfil edged count. a
high title with the Germans; before him
| was commoner, Won Alvensleben. and
before that Baron Eisendecker
NO PRINCE IN THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS.
There is no prince in any legation at
| present, which is unusual, for of all foreign
titles this is the commones5 in some coun-
tries. In other countries it is the highest
| liz Great Britain, for instance, were to send
prince to this country as a diplomatic rep
resentative she would have to take one Of
| the royal family, for they are the onlv
| princes she has. If Germany wanted a
prince he. too, would have to come of a
| sovereign olan. Bismarck, it is true. is a
prince, but not OF Germany proper. On
the other hand Russian princes are SO CON-
mon as not to be worth looking for They
may be encountered by the thousands. and
| it has been estimated that there are 600 of
them belonging to the house of Gslitzin
alone. II the father of the family is a prince
all the children are princes, and all OF their
children, and so on. BY natural progress
| sion, it would be fair to presume that in
course of time traveller will be able to
parapPrase the remark about England and
! the fools aud America and the colonies and
say that the population of Russia is 100. OOO.-
600, mostly princes.
ENGLAND's BARoNET MINISTER.
Coming to our old rival, England. there
are not many titles in her legation. Her
last minister was a lord, and OF one of the
noblest and most powerful families of Great
Britain. The present minister is not lord
although some newspapers In other cities
are fond Of calling him so. He is Sir Julian
Pauncefote, G.. C. M. G., K. c.. B. He is
not even a genuine baronet, his knighthood
being Of recent creation and not in.
herited. His father was ROBBERS Paupce-
fots. Esq, of Preston Court, Gloucestershire.
His son Julian began life as a LAWYER in
1852, was afterw ward an attorney general Of
Hong Kong, and in 1873 filed the rather
Insignificant Office of chief Justice of the
Leewnrd Islands. The next year he was
knighted by patent and made assistant
under secretary of state for the colonies. In
1876 he was appointed assistant under secre-
tary OF state for foreign affairs. In 1880 he
was made c. B. and K. c. NJ. G.. and in
1892 became permanent under secretary for
foreign affairs. In 1885 he received the
grand cross of the Order Of st. Michael and
st. George.
Thus it will be seen that Great Britain's
minister is to a very great extent self
made man. none of his honors or titles hav-
ing been due to inheritance. He Is probably
proudest of the G. c. M. q. which follows
his NAME This means Grand Cross ST.
Michael and st. George, and is an order is.
sued to subjects holding "high and conf
Dental offices within her maiesty's colonial
possessions, and in reward for services to
the crown in relation to the foreign affairs
of the empire" It is not very numerous
order, and Sir Julian stands high in it.
In the order of precedence in England he
is No. S2S on the bsronet list that is to say
there are 327 knights who have a right to