New-York tribune., 1909-04-12

lish navy in which he ultimately attained the rank
of vice-admiraL In 1872 Duke Godfrey died ana
was succeeded by his imbecile son Leopold. who
forthwith driven from his dominions, dying at
the beginning of 1902 without Issue. In 17s4-that Is
to say, years after the death of Duke Godfrey
Philip d dAuvergne, vino had meanwhile attained
the rank of captain. was stationed OFF his native
isle of Jersey on board the frigate Nonsuch With
fotilla of gunDoats under his command, for the
defence of the Channel Islands, and with orders to
communicate with and befriend the royalist party
on the coast of France and to further the royalst
insurreCton in Brittany and the Vendee. Indeed
throughout al tha; time he made point of tax
ing under his special protection the many French
refugees who had fed the Channel Islands
from the fury Of the Revolution. Between 1870 ana
1890 more than four thousand royasts principally
ecclesastics and representatives of the old French
noblesse, had sought safety iii Jersey, among the
the famous poet and statesman Chateaubriand-
When peace was restored between England ana
France in 1892 Captain Philip d'Auvergne went 10
Paris to claim his inheritance and the estates ana
dominions of Duke Godfrey and Duke Leopold,
which had been confiscated by the republic But
the consular government had not forgotten or for
given the services which Captain d'Auvergne had
rendered to the royaists while serving IN the
English Channel He arrested on some frlVo-
lous pretext other not long after his arrival in
the French capital. his papers were seized, and
after being subjec,e considerable amount of
I'll treatment. he expelled from France. In
Jersey from that time forth he was known as the
Duke of -BOullOn and Prince de Ia ! JSk q <Au-
vergne. was recognized by the French Toyalists
there as such and sundry buildings his former
estates in Jersey known TO this day as the
Dukes Hall and the Princes Pavilion, On the
overthrow of Napoleon he was, like the other petty
sovereigns who had been deprived of their thrones
and dominons by tie French Emperor, called upon
10 submit to the Congress of Vienna his demands
for their restoration to him. He had a clear case
He was the lawful heir of the last two authentic
princes Ia Tour d'Auvergne and sovereign
-. al,er Of 10
family acknowledged by them such and as their
legitimate successor. The Congress of Vienna
should therefore either have revived the sovereign
duchy Of Boullop in his favor or else should nave
granted to him the status Of a medlauzed prince
His claims however. were opposed at Vienna both
bv Prince TalIeyrand the French Plenipotentiary'
and by the great Prince Clemens Metternich. who
allowed themselves to be influenced by the eulsre
Prince Jules de Rohan, who had married Louise
the only sister of Godfrey dc Ia Tour d'Auvergne'
Due de BouillCn-
Ultimately the Congress of Vienna, yielding to
the recommendations of Talleyrand and OF Meter
Mich and basing itself on considerations OF gen
eral policy" denied the pretensions OF t'nhp
d AuverEne. who had meanwhile become an ad-
miraI, refraned from either revivinE the SOW
ereignty BouiIlou from mediatizing its heir
but declared the titles of the Duke OF Bouliloh
;4nG the estates though not the doninions belong
ing thereto to be vested in Jules Prince de Roman
10y virtue Of his marriage To the sister OF the
penultinlate sovereign Duke Of Bouilion-
Admiral dAuvergne profoundly chagrned his
fortune wrecked by the money which he spent in
succoring French royalist refugees in Jersey
throughout the Revolution and Napoleonic reign
and through the heavy cost entailed by the prose
cution Of his claims before the Congress of Vienna
died shortly afterward, September L. 1916. in an
obscure hotel Just off St. James's Square in Lon
don almost the very same day of the death Of
his only son on board ship off Colombo. the Jersey
d'Auvergnes thus becoming extinct. The present
Prince de Rohan and Due de Bouillon is the
grandson of the emigre Prince Jules who with the
assistance Of TalIeyrand and Metternch, succeeded
in robbing Admiral Philip d'Auvergne of his in
heritance MARQUISE DE FONTENON.