A Drunken Ambassador

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 97, 7 February 1891, Page 4

A Drunken Ambassador

Ami hf>r name has just been added tj the lorn? list of those who have lost position, ie]!Utaiiou, and name in 'connection w.ui the scandals that have r mdeied the Court of Set via a^by word hi Europe during the last ten or twenty yeai's. The former Austrian : . Minister, Count Eudi Khevenhuller ; the Geimau Envoy, Count Bray ; M. Cristise, Al, Garasbuuine ; the Greek Plenipotentiary, M. Na»o ; and a u umber of others are now iuourning in retirement their indiscretion at Belgrade. Both Milan himself and Queen Natalie have be< n forced by the popular iudignation 1 engendeied through their disreputable conduct to surrender their tin one and I"u' ivvithdraw fur a time from the country. Aud now last, but by no ineaus least, is the disgrace of Count t Peisiaui the Czar's Miuister at Belgrade; wtio for years pa&t has been , legarJed as the wiie puller and organiser ut all the Russian intrigues and Conspiracies in the Balkan Status. •Siuce live "weeks JVI. Persian i has been the iuuidte of a private insaud asylum at -Pads, where he has been under ..'treatment by the' famous specialist, Dx Ckarcot, lor an aggiavated attack oi • ideUHnvi treniens and alcoholic , tnauia., binte the middle of last , «u(U_iner he has been subject to fits of hallucination, during the course of _one of .which he publicly announced I his intention of demolishing the entire > j .Russian army with his bi unity bottle. . Oqh another occasion. M. ' Riatics, the ..Servian Regent, who had called to . seei him, i found him cryiug like a child. •' My -grandmother is 'dead,?' i -said he, sobbing. The Regent began p. cffering' connotation. ".No!" exc.imued the diplomat, '' I do not cry _:tor,her;l cry because my grandmother died bei'oro I was born, and I never knew hex; ?" Auother ,day he ■' was called suddenly into 1 the presence L t>rQueeu iNutaiie, who had something c 'to communicate to him of the greatest " -importance. It was impossible for i-'the Minister to avoid this visit," and he was obliged to go to Her Majesty . -in «- a deplorable state. He div his best to keep quiet for a few seconds, '--listening gravely to the accusations ' jagaiust the K.ug, which had such a -^Somniferous efteot ou the diplomat that he actually Ml asleep, aud worse, ' dropped down suddenly full length at fett of the' Queen. Natalie -at ■^vouce' began screaming, the seivants* '•i-io^thfe ante-room ran in frightened, -" and to then* at>touit>liuieut found the •^inaii rfuil tua. the <grouitd in a 'l^osiliou very uudigmtieii for a peison 'of his ' impyijtauce. The doctors -in iielgiade tiied in vain to separate this terrible en«oiy, but the M3ouut would lisleu to nothing, .aßsertZ iiijg that-it-ua.s o,uly coguac that gave Ahiui any ideas. Thedoctois, wibhing to try how far he Was gone, asked - r lmu-oue.,day ii he saw mice, running f' J afo,und him. '* N«," answered ,the r'feouut, "^but I believe one of my does for yesterday, on -'-'going into his 'office, I saw him sur-..-xouuded by -httie devils -' -Of course h|B' olfiuiai firt>er is uovv at au endT — c Duueuiii & ar