New-York tribune., 1910-06-03
Edward VIZ and the Poles.

Edward VIZ and the Poles.
Polish mobiles although most brilliant
witty and agreeable acquaintance, 40 nor
wear particularly well as friends This mas
reen the experience not only of people Of
their own rank abroad, bur also Of prac-
ticaIiy every reigning house in Europe. AT
one time they were all powerful al the
courts Of Berlin and Vienna They even
PLAYED role az the court Of King Victor
Emmanuel II and were in great favor with
Edward VII Yet the latter during the
last three decades Of his life had little or
no intercourse with his onetime Polish
friends and cronies. .
There was a moment, however, when the
Polish aristocracy were wild with enthusi-
sSn about Edward VII II was when he
secured the pardon Of Count Stanislas "a
rnovski. in 1856 The Prince Of Wales, rs he
wgss then, had arrived at ST. Petersburg TO
attend the marriage cf his brother-in-law
the Czarowftch tafterward Alexander I'D
90 Princess Dagmar Of Denmark. sister Of
Queen Alexandra. Emperor Alexander II
met the British heir apparent at the rail
road station, and in driving hack thence
20 the Winter Palace declared that he
was profoundly disappointed and cha
grined He explained that he had got to-
gether an absolutely matchless team Of
four Orioff trotteTs for the purpose OF pre-
senting IL to him, hut that during the pre-
ceding night one Of the horses had sud
denly and mysteriously died. I wish
concluded the car. L could know how to
make up for il. what ] could do TO please
you: Some pleasure that ! could give you
in its stead" Without a minutes hesita-
tion The British heir apparent replied: IF
you v-lll do that. then let me beg Of you
the pardon Of Stanislas Zamoyski"
The Emperor at once promised this, and
on reaching the palace gave orders, in the
presence Of the Prince Of Wales, that the
count should be Immediately brought back
from tire remote part of Siberia To which he
had been exiled three years previously, In
consequence Of the prominent part which ne
had taken in the Polish insurrection Of
1863 Although the pardon granted in
October, vet 50 great was the distance that
IL was not until the end Of December
namely. Christmas Eve-that the count was
restored 10 his family at WARSAW
The eldest son Of Stanislas-namely,
Count Andrew Zamoyski-married Princess
Caroline OF Bourbon. daughter Of the late
Prince Francis, of the Nearolit4n branch 0f
that dynasty. and Of his Austrian wife,
Archduchess Marie Isabel. Of the House o.
Hap.burg Princess Caroline Zamoysld's
ser.a. claimant 10 the throne cf Naples and
half-brother Of the last king OF that iIk.
brother Of Count Stanislas Zamoyski
was that Count Andrew who Minis
ter OF the Interior at Warsaw during the
Nationalist administration. prior 20 the in
surrection while still another is Count Jean
Zarnoyski, who was at one moment on the
r,oint OF marrying Zibah Nubar, the daUgh-
ter Of Nubar Pacha. the Armenian Prime
Minister OF Egypt, but who subsequently,
married instead Louise Pelissier. the eccen-
trtc daughter OF the French Marshal Pol;s-
gier, Duo DC Malakof.
The history Of this marriage, which. after
seven years OF litigation in France, in Aus
tria-j5ungary, in Russia and al Rome. was
ultimately sundercd by divorce and by ec-
ciesiastical annalTnent granted py the Tati-
can, was most extraordinary. For thc
countess. dark haired. black eyed woman,
of great beauty and chic, a granddaughter
Of Empress Eugene. whose name she bears,
insisted, from the very outset Of her unior,
that her relations with the count. for wholl
she professed the most profound feelings of
admiration and affection. should remain
purely Of Platonic character. + or a time
Gre count consented 10 this hoping 10 event
Ually win her love; but his hopes We're not
realized. and when he demanded that she
should become his wife in reality we'll as
II name. she left him. Her mother was =
Spaniard. protegee Of Empress Eugene.
and some forty years the JUNO" OF Marshal
Pelissier al the time when she became his
wife. Some wears after his death she mar
Tied an Italian. Of the name of lie Nsnega.
thereby forfeiting the pension ~ s2,0oo a
year 10 which she WAS entitled as the widow
Of French marshal But she did rot find
her italian husband to her liking. secured
q judicial separation from him. and when
last ] heard Of the eccentric ex-d,lcress and
her equally odd daughter. the ex-Countess
Zsnoyski. they were living together il
Paris
Roosevelt and the Noble Guard
Theodore Roosevelt, II now appears, was
the more or leas indirect cause OF the re-
cent pronunciamento Of the entire Noble
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