Arizona republican., 1898-09-25
THE ARIZON

their father had rendered himself guilty, in calling attention to the stain upon their birth by subjecting them tc
 the species Of fierce light that beats around a foreign embassy.
 Nor did even those who disliked him
 most ever cause his daughters to snf-
 fer fer tho indiscretiCn of which he
 had been guilty in claiming the honCrs,
 not merely of mistresses Of his house hold. but even of ambassadress. for daughters who, by reason Of the nlis-
 fortune of their birth, he had net dared
 to produce. when at Madrid. Tn all in stances where . foreign envoy has no
 wife, it is his eldest daughter, or his sister, if she happens to be with him
 who is accorded, both socially and off
 cially, the same precedence and rank
 as if she | ere his wife and . full fiedgea aznb assadress.
 It was On y after the sudden depart iuTe of Lord .sackville from Washington that his two daughters married, Flora to Nj. SalansCn and Victoria to the cid est son of her fathers younger brother
 and heir, so that she is destined iG course Of time. thanks to this marriage, to become not only Lady Sackville, but likewise Countess of DelawaTr, the present earl Of that ilZ having no male issue, and the next heir to his earldo1n being Lord Sac.ville, who is his uncle. It was on tire occasion Of these two
 marriages that attention was drawn for the first time to the difference in the certificates of birth and of baptism of the two girls The certificate Of the cid est daughter. Victoria, was to the ef- feet that she was the daughter of Pepita Durand. and of an 'unknown father" although Lord Sackville, being
 an unmarried man at the time Of her
 birth, could have without injuring him
 self in any way acknowledged himself as her father.
 In the certificate of Flora, and Of the son. Henry, however, they are both set down as the legitimate children of Li- C1el Sachville-W and of his lawful wife, Josephine. Dura1d.'
 This peculiar=ty was noted by young Salanson. and when some time later Lord Sac6ville decliHed to increase the annual allowance which he had agreed at the time Of Flora's marriage to pay her, but which proved inadequate to
 satisfy the extravagant expenditure Of
 the young Galic diplomat, the latter opened q species of warfare against his
 father-in-laW.
 He summoned his brother-in-law, Henry Sackyilie-West, from South Af- rica, pointed out to him that he was not an illegitimate offspring, but the { lawful sen of his father according to the terms of his birth certificate, and that he was therefore entitled to in ! herit his fathers peerage, as well as : the large estates that go herewith. in cljsding the historic Knowie park ii Kent
 Lord Saekville denied this, insisted
 that his sen was illegitimate. and that { his sole heir was his son-in-law and nephew, Lionel.
 Thereupon Henry commenced suit against his father. his brother-in-law. Salanscn. providing the funds for the legal expenses, in order to dc which he
 was obliged to pawn his wife's jewels,
 as well as all the beautiful wedding
 presents which she had received. The case is still pending, and the en-
 tire issue turns upon the question as to
 whether English law or Trench law