The record-union., 1894-07-05

tn rome of Greece. She supported Paups
candidature in London. However, the
three Powers decided that no fOrtuneiess
Prince should be chosen, Greece being
too poor to afford a handsome civil list
England then put forward Frederick,
Prince of Orange, whose fortune was
enormous. He was objected to by France
as a stauch Protestant and as belonging to
family which had been for three centu-
ries closely connected with England.
Prince Leopold of Saxe-C Coburg mean
while proposed himself. He came over
to Paris secretly, saw all the Cabinet
Ministers, and when he had talked them
round asked to see Charles Y. Leopold
said that he was not welded to Protest
antism; that he would regard with equal
eyes all shades OF Christians; that ne
would be devoted to France, and even
belong to her; that he would lose no OPP
portunity TO show his gratitude If she
accepted him, and that he was wealthy,
and by reason OF his wealth independents
OF Great Britain. The wealth was saved
capital and the. life annuity OF ECO, 600
settled on him by the British Parliament
when he arranged to marry the Princess
Charlotte of Wales. This income he rep
resented was absolutely secure. Charles
consented. Leopold asked him TO give
him a daughter Of Louis Philippe, then
Due d'Orleans. But the King of France
referred him to the young lady's father.
who, knowing Leopold 10 be OF immoral
life in private and OF a harsh disposition,
refused.
It was settled in Paris that Leopold was
TO be King. But he then said he could
not accept the throne for which he had
been intriguing unless the Powers gave
him 80, ,000, 900 francs TO start with. 1ney
agreed TO let him have l2,000,000. lie
went back to London and there sur
mounted the opposition OF George ~,
VINO detested him. The Gar and the
King of France sent him their congratu-
lations. Eancying that he was sure,
come what might, of the regal post, he
wrote TO the conference that after deep re-
Election and study he found he could not
begin on less than 60.000,O00 francs. THIS
astounded the diplomatists. They had at
first refused to give him half as much.
But Baron Stockmar and Leopold ln-
trigued, and it was agreed to let him have
36,0000O0 francs. He wrote a note in
which he hid his greed under high tone,
and warned the congress that he must
withdraw his candidature if his demand
for G0000,0O francs were not entertained.
As the King hated him, and he had made
himself a bore, he was taken at his WORD.
0tho of Bavaria was then chosen and sent
to Athens. He was taken from Trieste to
the Piraeus in British man-of-war by
Captain Sir Edmund Lyons, father of the
late Lord Lyons. Leopold, however,
was born to luck. Paris soon revolted
against Charles X. and made Louis Phi
lippe King. The Belgians following the
example, broke away from the Neither
lands, and were induced by England to
elect Leopold their King, This done, he
again proposed for the Orleans Princess.
and was accepted. Leopold II. is their
son, and the Princess Josephine, who is
soon 10 be married to d Prince OF Hohen
zollern. their granddaughter. The Or
leans Princess transmitted the heritage OF
deafness to her descendants, and Leopold
that of hypochondria. The former shows
itself in the Kings brother. the Comte de
Flandre, and the latter in the madness of
Charlotte, Empress of Mexico" and in
the moping melancholia of Clementine,
youngest daughter of Leopold IL. She
has renounced all idea of matrimony, and
aspires to bury herself in convent
Paris correspondent New York Tribune.