The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-05-12

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Madrid, chief of the Bourbons, who,
claiming the crown of Spain by the
Sale law, could also, in virtue of the
same rights, claim that of France.
The death of the Comte de Chambford
left him chief of the house, and there
are even now in France old Royalists
who hate the Orleans" usurpers,"
as they call then-and pray devoutly
that Don Carlos may one day sit on the
throne of st. Louis. But hitherto the
Don has been considered in France as
entirely Spaniard; and one cannot
| reasonably expect him to succeed, even
if he should seriously contemplate adj
vancing his claim. The only son of
Don Carlos, Don Jaime, is now an off,
Ger in the Russian army; and we have
| the curious coincidence of a Bonaparte
| and Bourbon in the same army and
| in the same country. The other posi-
BILE French claimants are somewhat
| less serious, and to most Frenchmen
| are merely royalties pour rire. The
| best known is the good Dutchman of
| Teteringen, who signs Charles Louis
| de Bourbon, Due de Normandie," and
who calls himself the son of Louis
| XVII, the poor child of Louis XVI,
who died at the Temple in 1875. The
| partisans of this claimant whom others
call simply "Naundorff," make up in
earnestness what they lack in num-
bers.
An abolition of the Salic law provok-
| ed in Portugal struggle for the throne
several years before the first Spanish
Carlist war. The old king, Dom Pedro
w, wished to leave the throne of Por-
tugal to his eldest daughter, Dona Ma
ria de Gloria, when he left that of Bra
I'll to his only son, Dom Pedro, the
poor Emperor who died a few years
] since at a Paris hotel. Dom Miguel has
! been named Regent during the minor
ity of Dona Maria, but on his brothers
death he proclaimed himself King, and
Portugal was given up to a six years
war between the partsans of the uncle
and those of the niece. At length the
uncle was beaten, and chased out of
Portugal, him and his, for ever. The
only son of Dom Miguel, who bears his
| fathers name, is at present settled in
Austria. He is the sole Portuguese pre-
tender, a pretender caring little and
| unlikely to dare the tremendous stroke
of reconquering the crown from the
branch of axe-Coburg and Gotha
which reigns at Lisbon.
In founding Italian unity, nearly for
! ty years ago Victor Emmanuel created
for his country a number of pretenders
who have now no longer any chance of
| recovering their lost thrones. Carl
baldi swept away from the throne of
the Two Sicilies the young King Fran
| co.'s, and added him to the list of those
unfortunate sovereigns who drift from
hotel to hotel, isolated and ignored to
| settle finally in Paris or some other
great metropolis. After a lamentable
existence the dethroned Francois died
| in poverty two years ago, leaving no
children to take up his hopeless cause.
| His brother, the Count of Caserta, has
accordingly notified the foreign courts
of his succession to the chmerical title
of claimant to the throne of Naples.
Another Italian, the ex-Duke Robert
of Parma, who was dispossessed of his
estates at the age of eleven, after the
|
Ill, lives quietly in his Castle of War
egg in the midst Of his fourteen chill
dren, well persuaded that his estates
are for ever lost.
The pretenders, indeed, are always
ready, but there Is many a slip 'twixt
the cup and the lip The country Of
Rumania has no exiled royalties. The
descendants of the old hospodars-the
Sturdza, the Chika, and others-have
plenty of partiSans but King Charles
fears rivalry so little that the members
of these ancient reigning families oc-
cupy the first posts in the kingdom. In
Bulgaria, Prince Ferdinand, who
dreams of wearing royal crown Is in
the happy position Of having no i'm
portant rival to his throne. Alexander
of Battenberg, who died four years
ago, has certainly left son, Arsene,
Count of Hartenau; but as he Is barely
eight years old, and takes after his
mother, Jeanne Loisinger, he hardly
counts as political power. Yet it is
possible that when he arrives at mans
age he may pose as a competitor with
the young Prince Boris.
1t only remains to speak of Turkey
and the unfortunate Sultan Murad w.,
who, under the pretext of madness,
was dethroned by his brother Abdul
after five months reign, and shut up
in sort of palace prison. There he
has remained for the last twenty
years, and is likely still to remain, for
the victories lately won by the "Great
Assassin" have strengthened his shaky
throne, and there are very few Mussul-
| mans who think of Murad. Besides,
Abdul Hamid has a rapid method of
replying to those who manifest too
much sympathetic curiosity about his
brother. He makes them disappear. 1t
is practical, radical and Oriental at the
same time.-English illustrated Maya
| zine.
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