Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-03-21

Lite Of Col. de Albuquerque Who
Lately Committed Suicide.
THE MYSTERY EXPLAINED.

governor and chief of the household
to the crown prince of Portugal and
h story of his meteoric career is thus
told in the letter:
The colonel first achieved fame by a
piece of most sensational gallantry in
east Africa. 1t may be remembered
that some few years ago-it was before
the outbreak of the war between Great
Britain and the Transvaal-Mozam-
bique, Delagoa bay, and in fact all Por-
tugaIs possessions in east Africa were
menaced by the native King Gungun-
hama, who at the head of an immense
army of warlike tribes seemed to be on
the eve of fulfilling his threat of driv-
ing the Portuguese into the sea.
All of a sudden the danger was
brought to an end by a feat of arms
which created a great deal of noise
throughout the civilized world. An up
to that time totally unknown infantry
captain, at the head of a little party of
fifty men, rushed the camp of the At
rican monarch one night, and, although
the latter had with him a force of A.
900 warriors, most of them armed with
rifles and his tent pitched in their
midst, yet this little band of forty Por-
tuguese managed to seize him and to
"a hiih Oi loOhth " IL bCd 1Odol
before his warriors mad time to recov-
er from the CONSERVATION and surprise
sufficiently to attempt any rescue.
The disappearance of the king and
his being carried off into captivity t.
Fernando Poe, on the west coast of At
RIGA, put an end to the instruction. the
native forces that had been threaten
ing Delagoa bay melting away, and it
was not without reason hat Albuquer-
que was hailed in both Africa and
Europe as the savior of Portugal's
east African colonies.
Honors began to pour in upon the
captain, who was at once promoted to
the governorship of the colony of Mo-
zambique, advanced to the rank of
colonel, presented with the highest
Portuguese decorations, as well as ov-
erwhelmed with orders and tokens of
distinction by the emperors of Germa-
ny, Austria and Russia, as we'll as by
other European sovereigns. Queen
Victoria made him a knight of st. Mi
chael n st. George, for he was held
to have rendered a great service to
the of civilization by preserving
a considerable portion of white Africa
from being wiped out of existence by
native barbarism.
Unfortunately, the new fiedged colo.
nels head was turned by all these hon.
ors. He began to rule the colony like
a tyrant, absolutely declined to accept
any orders from the minister of the
colonies or minister of war at Lisbon,
and finally brought matters to such a
pass that the two ministers in question
asked the king to choose between their
resignation and the governors recall.
AS the entire cabinet took sides with
the ministers, and the king was con-
fronted by a cabinet crisis, he had no
alternative but to yield. But realizing
that any attempt to discipline or dis
grace such a national idol as Albu-
querque would result probably in a
revolution, he put the recall in the
form of an invitation to visit him at
Lisbon.
The c%olonel's trip home was in the
light of a triumphal progress. Presi-
dent Kruger received him with the
highest honors at Pretoria, hailing him
as the defender of civilization against
barbarism. whilst at Capetown trium-
phai arches were put up in his honor
n the entire city went out to meet
him. On reaching Lisbon the king
himself received MIN at the wharf and
publicly embraced him, and all kinds of
festivities of a public and official char.
acter were organized in his behalf. The
king appointed him as one of his prin-
cipal aids de camp, and likewise NOM
mated hin as governor of the Is year
old crown prince.
Or course, in due time, there was a
reaction. Popular enthusiasm cannot
be kept at the boiling pitch indefinitely
and by and bye it began to cool percep-
tibly. This had the effect of rendering
Albuquerque irritable and sour. He
could not realize hat he was no longer
the national idol, and thought himself
bound to recall what people we're so
manifestly forgetting by asserting him
self. He offended everybody. both
high and low, by his intense arrogance
and brusquerie, and on one occasion,
when going out for a drive with the
crown prince and the kings brother,
the Duke of Oporto, actually had the
presumption to take the place of honor
in the carriage-that is to the right
putting the crown prince on his left.
n forcing the good natured Duke of
Oporto to sit with his back to the
Shortly before Christmas it was ar
ranged that the crown prince should
make a trip through the provinces for
the purpose of becoming acquainted
with the people in the rural districts
and in the provincial towns. Here
again Albuquerque showed himself
absolutely impossible. For whenever
the local authorities and delegations
assembled for the purpose of present
ing addresses of loyalty to their future
king. he declined to permit them to
approach his royal charge, and that.
too. in the most coarse and brutal fash
ion possible. To make matters worse,
in at least two of the big towns that
ne visited he showed himself at the
theaters and in similar places of pub
lie resort In the company of women of
notorious character, leaving his royal
pupil TO the care of his German teach
er.
Naturally. the Lisbon press got hold
OF this, and the widely circulated o
Dia commenced a series of articles of a
satirical nature entitled How to Edu.
cate a Royal Prince" The king and