The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-18

sador at Paris for the baron, perhaps by
reason of his Catholic faith. is not a uar-
tlcular favorite with the Gar, and did
not stand in the good graces of Prince
fortschakof, whose private secretary he
was for a time
The story of his trouble with Prince
Sortschakotf is of rather an amusing char
acter. The Russian chancellor had Jus
finished debating his memora BILE circular
TO the emperor's representatives abroad.
IN which the famous sentence Ia Russie
ne Doude pas, ellie Sc receuille." occurs
and ne remarked To De M0nrenheim. as
he handed it TO him, that he might read
IL over and suggest any changes that he
might think IL required. The baron. un-
mindful of the story of Gil Bias and the
olsh0p, returned an hour later and told the
prince that he regarded the dispatch as a
most remarkable one, and that the
only sentence that he considered advisab
TO alter was that mentioned above-one
which, begging his highness's pardon,
must nave been due to the mistake of a
stenographer, since it did not make sense
and was even trivial and ridiculous.
Now, as the whole dispatch centerd on
that one sentence which has since become
historical, Gortschakof's feelings NAV
better be imagined than described and a
fortnight later the baron was DISPATCHED
into kind Of honorable exile as envoy to
the court of Denmark
Prince Gortschakoff himself, Imay add
won his way into imperial favor by his
negotiation, while Russian envoy at
Stuttgart, of match between the Grand
Duchess Olga, daughter of Car Nicho-
las, ana the prince, who subsequently be-
came King of Wurtemburg. There, too
the negotiations were of not ALTOGETHER
facile character, as the Grand Duchess
Olga' woman OF most imperious char
acter, had become infatuated with a very
handsome young guardsman, a Prince
Bariatinski. The grand duchess had ar
ranged everything for fight with her
lover into Germany; and it was only at
the last minute that the princes
COURAGE forsook him, and that he
backed out, prostrating himself Mt the
feet of the car and explaining that his
feelings of loyalty to the latter were even
greater than his love for his masters
daughter, and that ne threw himself
upon the emperor's mercy 1t was shortly
after this that the marriage was ar
ranged between the grand duchess and
the Crown Prince of Wurtemburg, while
Prince Bariantinski was first of all
raised to the lucrative post of governor
OF the CaucauseS, and subsequently,
rapidly promoted to the grade of Field
Marshal, losing therefore nothing by his
faithlessness- to the princess who had
IbuOtCu HIN WIFI nbf love.
The match between the daughter of the
Due de Charities Orleans and Prince Wal
demar of Denmark was IN ade by Nine
Appert, wife of the French general who
for so many years represented his country
at the Court of st. Petersburg Indeed
it was the part played by the ambassa-
dress in bringing about the union that led
the republican authorities at Paris to in
sist on the dismissal of Gen. Appert from
IA aecfn 4,
strongly resented by the czar-so much
so, indeed, that his successor in o lice
found the place almost intolerable, and
was only too glad to make way for the
COmte de Montebello, who now repre-
sents the French government on the
banks of the Neva.
1t would take me too long to enumerate
here the names of all those who are enti-
tied TO place in the list of queen-makers,
including M. Gui2Ot, the French states
man who is responsible for the shameful
union between the 15-year-old Queen lisa
bella of Spain and her dwarfed and pre-
posterous husband, King Francis Assist;
and King Leopold of Belgium and his
tidus aehates, Baron Stockmar who
brought about the marriage of Queen
Victoria and the late prince consort, a
most difficult task, as there were many
eligible suitors III the field. Nor should
omit the name of Nine. de Fable,
the intimate friend of the prin-
cess of Wales, under whose roof took
place the bethrothal of Princess May of
Teck, now Duchess of York to the late
Duke of Clarence, and who stood their
friend on the occasion, helping to smooth
the many difficulties in the way of their
betrothal. Nine. de Fable is an English
woman who married, when quite young
the late Capt. Dudley Ward, penniless
cousin of the late Earl Dudley. At his
death she married the late Mr.. Gerard
Leigh, an enormously wealthy man, who
left her on his death all his money as
well as the magnificent country seat of
Luton Hoo. She married as her third
husband Baron de Fable, who was at the
time Danish minister at the court of ST.
James. Nor was the Duke of
Clarence. the only member of
the British royal family who
appealed to the kindly old Nine de Fable
when anxious to obtain the consent of his
parents to his marriage; for it was to
her. too, that the young Princess Louise,
of Wales, applied when she fell in love
with the Duke Of Fife. The influence Of
Nine. de Fable with the Princess of
Wales is very great, and she may be said
to be the only woman not belonging to
the royal household who has ever sue
ceeded in winning the marked affection
of the princess. Tae two ladies hold the
same views on most matters, especially
with re- ard to the education of young
girls, which may, perhaps, account for
the readiness with which the princess
listened to her advice in matters where
the happiness of her children was con-
cerned.