The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-05-29

~ the late Queen Isabella OF Spain.
N and of King Alfonso Nil, has
1Ra Isly, submitted gbtt petition to the
rision of the proceedings OF the court
martial which In 1873 sentenced to
death his father. the French Marshal
the state, and OF cowardice. in surrend-
ering the stronghold or Metz TO tho
Germans In the War OF 1870. Time
er bitterness, and the countrymen OF
Bazaine are now able TO take moro
impartial view of his conduct In con-
nection with tho Siege of Metz.
The Germans have always held that
the condition OF affairs In Metz at the
Time OF us surrender was such that
he could not hold out any longer; while
In England. here in America, and In
most other foreign countries the con-
siction prevails that in giving up the
OF loyalty, to Emperor Napoleon III !,
to whom he owed all his fortune and
all his honors, and that he expected
70 70 pc permitted TO use tho armies i'm.
maintaining Napoleon on the throne
Even In France It is admitted that the
court martial to which he was SUBJ
jected was not only unfair but illegal
In many particulars, and that but for
public luminosity. which placed upon
MS shoulders the responsibility for all
the Germans In 1870. the proceedings
would have been quashed within a
year. ...ti 4-t.tt, Esd .'ss-
The fact remains that the marshal
prohtcd In no way. financially or other
lsc, by the surrender of Metz which
found him ruined in fame and in
niahon was aware of this. and not only
insisted upon the commute ton Of his
sentence to lifelong imprisonment. but
even is known to have connived at
land OF st. Marguerite
Bazaine died in the utmost perjury at
Madrid His son. Colonel Alfonso
Bazaine had been summoned, after the
surrender of Metz, by Napoleon ILL.,
tEen prisoner OF state at the nearby
palace OF Wilhelmshohe. and reminis-
cences OF German and French officers
who were at Cassel and at Wilhelms-
hohe at the time of Napoleon Ills So
journ there make reference to the arr
rival there OF Marshal and Nine Ba-
zaine and TO the birth Of their boy, who
| was afterwards chrlstened in Switzer-
Isabella. ]
Young Alfonso Bszaine and his elder
brother Face were brought up in
mic Bazaine. a celebrated engineer. But
when they attained manhood, finding it
difficult on account of their parenta &c
to hope for any prospects in the NIL /.
sanction of the Spanish royal family
entered the Spanish army. Both fought
under the Spanish flag in Cuba,
ents. and where Alfonso almost sue
cumbed to yellow fever. subsequently,
with the object OF allowing him to be
near his mother, who was dying in
Mexico, Queen Christina caused him to
be assigned to the Spanish legation in
Mexico as military attache. and there
he remained until after Nine Bazaines
death, and when the troubles In Mo-
nc Geo broke out he volunteered for
active service there.
lie is held in very high regard by
the present King Alfonso. who has
known him ever since his own early
boyhood, and is very fond of HIM
In fact, when the king was at Meltlla
the other day, and found his old friend
Alfonso Bazaine among the officers as
senbled on parade. he embraced him
before the entire troops, expressing his
delight and satisfaction at seeing him
again. 4
The one dream Of the colonel's life
is to secure the rehabilitation OF his
ia ther. and 1t looks very much as lie
the proceedings OF the court martial
condemning the marshal to eternal ig-
nominy Will have to be quashed, not
| only on the ground OF illegalities, but
also on the score of injustice. 55,
| Frances Riviera is about to lose one
through the. disappearance OF the Cet-
| Gle de la Mediterranee of Nice For
the past forty or fifty years 1t has
been the most popular and the smart
! est club In that portion of the world,
| being run on the lines of London
! club with the additional attraction
of very, heavy gambling. In fact.
there was no necessity for foreign roy
altics to nlingle with the hoi polloi that