The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-21
FAIRFAX CARTWRIGHT
BITTERLY ATTACKED
az "a MAnaUIsE DIE FoNTpNoY.

BY LA MARaUIsE DE FoNTpSoY.
@ 1R FAIRFAX CARTWRIGHT, tho
- British ambassador to Austria,
who has been during the last few
weeks tho object of such bitter attacks
In the German newspapers. owing to
his remarks criticising Germany's
Moorish policy, made In conversation
with the well known Austrian journal
list. DIR. Siegmund Num-, and published
by the latter in the Vienna '.Neus Freie
Presse." Is persona grata at the court
OF Emperor Francis Joseph. and in
Viennese society. He has a very strong
strain of German blood in his veins.
For HIS grandfather. Sir Thomas Cart
wright. who died as British minister
pienipotentiary at Stockholm, in 1850.
was married to Countess Marie Won
Sandizell. daughter of the grand mas
ter of the court of King Macmillan II.
OF Vavaria. Sir Fairfnx's own mother
was also German. a Fraule!n ClemeH-
tine Gaul. who had been the companion
| OF the first wife OF his father, William
CORVALLIS Cartwright OF Aynho.
Banbury.
The Cartwrights have been seated at
Aynho ever since the days OF Richard
Cartwright. n successful lawyer. who
bought the property carly IN the sew
enteenth century, and whose son mar
ried the daughter OF the famous Parlia-
mentary general. the second Lord
Fairfax, who commanded at Marston
Moor II is from this general that Sir
Fairfax derives his Christian name.
When he was at Rome he married the
youngest daughter of the Marchese
Chigi, a member OF that historic and
prIncely house OF the old Roman patri-
ciatc. and the head OF which IS here
ditary marshall of the Holy Roman
Church. and guardian of the Papal Con-
clavc: responsible as such for all the
arrangements for the election OF Popes.
Through his wife. and through his
grandmother Sir Fairfax Is thus re-
lated not only to most of the great
patrician houses of Rome. but likewise
Austrian mediatized nobility. such as
the ayn-Wittgensteins, ThGrn and
Taxis, etc.
While minister at Munich. SIR Fair
fax became a great favorite with the
Bavarian royal family. especially with
Prince and Princess Leopold. and OF
their sons and daughters. Princess
Leopold being the eldest daughter of
Emperor Francis Joseph. Indeed, H.
was the interest which Princess Leo
pold exercised in his behalf at Vienna,
that led her father, the Emperor. to-
ask King Edward to have Sir Fairfax
appointed as amba ssador to his court.
Sir Fairfax Is possessed OF very am
pie means, that is to say. very large
allowance from his father. and this to-
gether with the fact that he as well as
his wife, are Roman Catholics, renders
his position among the diplomatic
corps on the banks of the Danube. OF
very privileged character. Nor is 4.
in the least degree probable that the
clamor in the German press will find
any response on the part of the Wen
nese court and government. or that any
demand will be made by them for his
recall although 1t cannot be denied
that for SO clever man he has been
somewhat unfortunate in his relations
with the press. This IS not the Art
time that he has made the mistake of
imagining that he could make use of
the Continental press for political pur-
poses, and without his confidence being
betrayed, and himself compromised
thereby. Perhaps his tendency to take
Journalists into his confidence Is due
to the fact that he has done u good
deal of writing himself, being the au-
thor OF several tragedies, of review
articles and even Of one or two books.
He has probably inherited his literary
gifts from his father. who is the au-
thor OF very erudite history of tho
Jesuits. and who for some time was
Rome's action in giving the name of
Crispi to one of it's principal through
fares, without exciting any protest,
but. on the contrary, approval even
from those organs of the press which
were most bittar against him during
his lifetime, demonstrates the extra
ordinary revulsion which public senti-
ment has undergone I'm Italy towards
King Humbert's all-powerful premier.
In fact, the Italian whole seem to
have at length reached the conclusion,
formed long ago abroad, namely. that
Crlspi was the greatest statesman pro-
duced by Italy in the nineteenth cen
fury. next to Cavour, and Leo XIII.
Crispis countrymen have likewise
ended by approaching the fact that
in addition to being a statesman OF in
ternational renown. he was also In
every sense of the word a gentleman.
and very chivalrous one at that, de-
spite his origin. The one great mis-
take which he made. was his associa-
ton with the inscriptions woman who
is now receiving a pension from the
Italian government as his widow. but
who is execrated from one end of the
Peninsula to the other and through
out Sicily, under theS name OF Dcna
Lima, He did not marry her until the
eve of the wedding OF the daughter