and dissimulation find no echo in his heart; and he alone can once for all remove the difficulties which delay the fusion of all Monarchist Frenchmen into one body. But his adherents will remain true to him to the last, or until such time as he bids them to follow their chief's Heir- Apparent, H.R.H. the Comte de Paris. It is worthy of note that His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, on his way to Trieste, made a short stay at Frohsdorff. This is the first time that any living King or Emperor has openly visited H.R.H. the Comte de Chambord. But the present state of things in France could not fail to draw the Emperor of Austria and Hungary to the side of the chief living representative of French Monarchy.[1] Indocti discunt, ament meminisse periti! Of one fact we remind intelligent men, open to a sense of truth and justice towards their next-door neighbour as much as towards themselves: when self-styled politicians, only busy in now turning out of their situation well-informed and valuable advisers, have done masquerading as patriots, the hypocritically disguised King Petaud is sure, sooner or later, to be stripped off, and the certain sequel is humiliating exposure and fall. We will wait and also
- ↑ Prince Bismarck—who is not the man of an idle, shuffling, sceptical and embittered political turn of mind—is well aware that a general feeling of disgust has arisen throughout Europe, thanks to the bad faith and unpractical government of the French Republic. M. de Bismarck knows that H. R. H. the Comte de Chambord is no adventurer seeking after power, and that His Royal Highness is in no way effaced. Perhaps Germany would not discourage the efforts of French Monarchists. King Humbert of Italy would probably have no scruples in following the example of Austria and Germany. His Italian Majesty leads a trembling existence at the Quirinal or at Monza; and he feels that the Republic of France is probably destined to be the forerunner of that of Italy, just as the unification of Italy was the forerunner of that of Germany. Alexander III. has already sent forth his Russian doves with the olive-branch from his Northern Empire. Indeed, in this present Europe, honey-combed with sedition, and bristling with concealed daggers in the hands of the modern breed of low democrats, once more it proves to those who required further proof, that such a disorderly government as has been the rule in France for the past few years is inconsistent with real social and commercial prosperity in any country in general and in Europe in particular. Confidence, which is the very breath of life to private or public success and happiness, refuses to spring up and flourish in an atmosphere of sedition and conspiracy. The Moonlighter and the Assassin, the Land League and self-styled Nationalism in Ireland, are plainly and visibly to Englishmen the most telling and truest evidence about what we are to expect from present and past democrats.
