PORTUGUESE PLOTS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1189, 26 July 1911, Page 4

PORTUGUESE PLOTS.

ALLEGATION AGAINST EX-KING

ByTelecraph—PreaaAssoclation-Oopyrieht Madrid,: July 2-1.

Senhor Cristo, son of tho well-known Portuguese Monarchist, declares that exiting Manuel has devoted one-third of his. forl'uno to tho support of iho Monarchist cause in Portugal, and personally directs a conspiracy" for his' restoration. Tho Monarchists can count on the support of tea thousand meu. A MONARCH OUT OF BUSINESS. EX-KING MANUEI/S AIMS. Although ex-King Manuel has withdrawn himself from tho public gaze and for tho timo being, it must not be imagined for one moment, said the "Dailj r Mail" recently, that ho is faltering in his intention to b3 .true to- his great destiny—tho Sovereignship of Portugal. That his country will call him to take, his seat onco more on tho Toyal throno of his fathers his Majesty is convinced, nnd, in the manner of an enlightened monarch, King Manuel has decided that when the time comes he shall bo fit iu training and experience to accept the call and worthily uphold tho best traditions of his l'ace.

King Manuel is planning out his future, making arrangements for his immediate present, and scheming schemes for the resumption oJ his royal throno. We are informed, continues tho "Mail," that tho PoTtngueso King will employ his time in training himself in scholarship nnd diplomacy, and all the arts of statecraft. From his new home at Richmond his Majesty, expecting no special privileges, will attend lectures at Oxford University, and other centres of learning. He will not attempt to obtain a degree, but since the young King's tastes and inclinations are strongly -literary and scientific in character, his regular attendances at academic lectures may bo counted upon with certainty, Hl3 Majesty will, to a certain Sxteut, enter into the lifo_ of tho univerlity, nnd will not bo behindhand in taking the keenest interest in tho sporting tide 'of 'varsity life. When he ceases to attend lectures at various universities. King Manuel will make a tour of the world, and mako a special study of British colonial methods. He will visit Australia, Africa, Canada, America, and the ,Far ast. During this timo he will travel as a private individual, with the objeot of personally inquiring into the different systems of government obtaining among tho over-seas colonies of the rarions European Powers, and of seeing something of the marvellous regeneration of the Far East. His interest in tho United State-s will also be purely that of ft student of affairs of government. 'The Portuguese Foreign Minister recently stated that the Republican Govorn'ment was allowing the ex-King the revenues of tho Braganza property, amounting >to about .£II,OOO yearly, less a deduction of .-S3OOO as a guarantee for the payment of the late King Carlos's debts. ' Ex-King Manuel's agents have- been repeatedly accused of stirring up trouble on the Portuguese, frontier. In. May last President Braga stated that before tho revolution King Manuel had bran endea'Touring to obtain promises of foreign intervention should there bo a revolt in .Portugal. "TTp have discovered at the ■Royal Palace," he said, "a dozen of the • c-x-King's letters of a particularly grave character. They are now in tho tiantis of the Minister of Justice. In these letters, written before the Revolution, and addressed to his mother, from two friendly' •countries which he was visiting, Doiii Manuel apprises her of'certain conversations he had had with the Prime Ministers of these countries. In particular, he speaks of having endeavoured to obtain a nromise that they would interveno if the Braganza Dynasty .wjjre.-threaten.ed,-but of. (obtaining in response only Proposals for 'treaties of commerce."