The Washington times., 1902-10-28

of the fifties incurred the enmity o
some of the palace favorites, wa.
charged with treason and forced to fee
to France, where he died in exile.
His son, Victor by name, was educated
at Paris and graduated at the French
Military School Of Saint Cyr-the Gallo
Weet Re.at-wtth the grade Of ljeuteu=
}n0a- Or Eea0T0aaE 10 Go0s100tl0DDI1 Il
1865 he was appointed 4. q. G. By SUI
tan Abdul ASST, With the rank Of cap
tain. and IN that capacity attended his
master on the occasion of his visit to
! Paris and to London. being assigned
more particularly to the service Of the
rulers nephew. Prince Abdul Hamid,
the present Sultan.
| In the war of 1877, against Russia, he
SO distinguished himself under fire that
he was promoted to the rank of colonel
| on the battlefield of Shoumla After
the war he advanced in turn to the rank
of general of brigade. general of d.
vision and grand master of the horse to
the Sultan. Like his father before him,
| he is, in spite of his Ottoman nation
ality, Roman Catholic. and is married
to Mile. de Chieregs, lady of the
same faith, born at Constantinople. but
a member of one of the great families
of Ragusa.
the great powers of Europe provide that
the governor general of Palestine. and es-
pecially of the Lebanon, shall always be
| a Christian. and that is why Count Vic
| tor Czaykowski, who is known as Mou-
zaffer Pasha, was chosen by the Sultan
| for the post.
The pasha has two sons. the younger of
whom, Fuad Bey, is member of the
Sultan's household, with the rank of
A. d. c.; while the elder, Rechid Bey,
married TO Edith Collins, is, as l have
stated, secretary of the Ottoman lega-
tion at the court of the Queen Of the
Netherlands.
may add that Mouzaffer Pasha and
his two sons, Fuad Bey and Rechid Bey,
are but three OF long list Of Polish.
Austrian, Hungarian, German and
French mobiles who have entered the
service of the Sublime Porte and as
sumed along with the Ottoman national
ity Turkish names, under which it IS
difficult to discover their original pa
tronymics.
A few of them have become converts
to Islam. But many of them adhere to
the faith OF their fathers. a circum
stance which does not in any way seem
to diminish the confidence of the Caliph
in their honesty and complete loyalty.
Indeed, from time immemorial, the Otto
man ambassadorship to the court OF st.
James-one of the most important and
difficult posts in the diplomatic SER
vice of the Sultan-has always been held
by Christian pasha, who does not keep
harem or indulge in plurality of
wives.
An old landmark is about to disap
pear in London, which has long consti- |
tuted an illustration Of the regard paid |
even in the most lawless times to the |
sacred character of the prerogatives of |
diplomatic ENJOYS. 1t Is the famous So
called Sandman Chapel of Lincoln's- |
place of worship in the British metrop
oils
The existence of the chapel dates from
the reign of King James l. and owes Its
peculiar name to the fact that it was
an annex, and indeed part of the estab- 7
lishment of the Sandman ambassador
to the court of St. James.
In the days when IT was built, Roman
WAS regarded in England as
4 crime. and severe penal laws were in
ng of mass. An ambassadors house.
however. was and still is to this day a
Dit of his own native land. beyond the
of the authorities of the
in which he is stationed. extra
erritorial in fact. so that at a moment
when it would have entailed imprison-
nent and even death TO set up Roman
Catholic place of worship elsewhere in
he British metropolis. no exception
ould be taken by the government to
oreign ambassador transforming part
# his residence into church or chapel
lomnally for the use of the members of
lis household.
The so-called Sandman Chapel passed /
through all the anti-Catholic
lots of the seventeenth century, not
ven oliver Cromwell or his Puritans