Evening star., 1923-07-30
Members of the French Royal Family
In Marriage Alliances With Nobility

other took leading part in the
colonization of Virginia. Simon Hary
court was Queen Anne's lord high
chancellor of England and the father
OF the present xisCount was secretary
of state for the colonies.
In France the history of the Har
courts has been equally illustrious
and prior 10 the great revolution Of
furnished no less than five field mar
shals TO the French army, unique
record. The College de France was
| founded by d French Harcourt. The
French marquisate of Harceurt dates
from the sixteenth century, while the
dukedom of Harcourt, of which the
present boy chief of the entire family
| is the tenth holder, was created in
100 and his other dukedam, that of
Beuvron, was added TO the honors Of
his house in 1854 by the Inflated king.
Louis XVI.
F, In the Official announcement the
viceroy OF India in compelling the
| Maharajah of Nahba to abdicate his
| throne in favor of his four-year-old
| boy. on account of gross maladminis-
| tration and the oppression of his peo
| pie. it was stated that he would con-
tinue TO receive q fxed allowance
J
| condition that he remained beyond
| her borders and refrained from inter
| ference in her affairs, and also that
| he would be permitted to retain the
enjoyment OF his salute of eleven
guns.
!, People ., :, this side OF the ocean
have no idea of the value which the
native rulers of India attach to these
| salutes OF guns, which they esteem
| more highly than any distinction or
\ tfl Of fIN. ~
suzerain. namely the Kaisr Hindu
/ George V. Native rulers have been
| brought, indeed, 10 the very verge OF
armed rebellion by the uninttntional
| neglect to fire, on the, part Of the
! English authorities, the stipulated
number of guns in their honor. Whilt
| the most draSti punishment that tlIr
empire can inf1ict, short of dethront-
ment in disgrace, is the suspension di
| the gun salute.
| Each native ruler has his quota Of
guns assigned to him by treaty. The
! three or four most powerful native
! rulers of India are accorded the sa
| lutte of twenty-one guns. The viceroy
and so it is all along the line down
| to the sheik of Mohammera. a Mos
lem chieftain. whose capital looks out
I onto the Persian gulf. For over 3
hundred years each English ship thai
passes Shaft Ell Arab fires one gun in
grateful memory of a service rem
! dered by the then sheik of Moham
| mera, more than a century ago. to
| Great Britain When any of the lat
| of twelvsNguns shakes the entire city
as an. eloquent tribute of the debt
of gratitude which the greatest Of
empires dwes 10 this chleitaln OF D
| tiny and remote Moslem state on ths
If e shreStd Fr-nehrnen on enc eee.r
| sion made remark TO Lord Curzou
when the latter was viceroy OF India
anent the Importance OF the gun sal
| lutes and of the value attached
| thereto by the native rulers: mo one
| but you English could have found ouf
| how to maintain your rule over
! three hundred million orientals by the
use of mere blank cartridges"
r y Il
The saluting by guns, so far as Is
known, dates from the end of the nj
teenth century, and an accident Is sait
to have settled the number Of guns
needed for a sovereign salute.
seems that Emperor Macmillan I. rs~
turning to the city of Augsburg aftsI
a victorious expedition, was recetveM
with what was to have been salutf
of a hundred guns The off1cer III
his nervousness and, in order to MAKE
sure that the full number was relk
dered, fred AN extra gun The city d1
Nurenburg, which was the next u
have the honor of entertaining thhf
emperor. thought that the new numr
ber was Official and followed the ex-
ample of Augsburg. Thus, the high.
est honor thatwas payable by gunf1re
became 101 rounds.
The greatest number of guns ever
fired by way of salute was undoubt-
edly that of the thousand and one
guns which, in 1g40. greeted the ar
rival in France of the warship, La
Belle Poule, bearing Napoleon's res
mains back from st. Helena =