KING LEOPOLD.

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 575, 20 November 1902, Page 4

KING LEOPOLD.

Paris, oet. r. A correspondent to day met in Paris prominent member of the Belgian Goven incut. This man, although absolute! devoted to King Leopold and the royi dynasty, was most pessimistic us to tl future of the royal household. “The King,” he said, “ lnudo a dcplo able mistake in his attitude toward tl Countess Lonyai. The incident will y< prove his undoing. The public prote has been temporarily subdued cu aceout of the solemnity of the circumstances, bt ’ the indignation of the people still rankle ami, as it will be judiciously fanned 1: I K'.ing Leopold's enemies, it will soon bur in (o „ueh a storm that tin King s abdiei tio.i-j vvill be unavoidable v/iinm si. m.mtc i’o&'sihly Prince Albert will then beallosvi to a- rc! 'id th c throne, but a graver revolt lion i, more likely, which will result i thc Ci .iMjli-duuent of a republic. *• Kjing i ropoid Ims lately grown ii tenscl.y 'iinpopitiar. II;.; supercilious eh taelmiput from the album of his kingdou his co-uinnous escapades in Paris, i BiamL> - illK ] Nice, his curious limtnch uianipu!‘. ; .ii 0113 comieciion with tb Congo N(.,t ot in’s practical abandonmcii of the V’uoon, even ai’ier her physician had warii ec ] him that she was doomed his cruclt.y to Princess Louise of Cobur and now ! 0 th o Countess Lonyai, togethe with die s,.] nc .||der of all his power int the hands -f the reactionary Clericn party, have, tmaiiy rendered King Leo pold's very i lalM loathsome to the work ing and mipidlc classes. The aristocrat-; alone, whose, privileges run with iiis, sup port him. '

“The King*:, however, will not bo surprised or dispose, 1 V ;hcn an abdication is wrought from’, j l j nj . lie has long looked forward to the. possibility of enjoying bis immense forttS ne jn freedom. Most of his money is now .invested in France, England and America;. He is now building a fine residence in i uis and is ail ready to move out of Beigm. “ However if be ihvds the movement is likely to dispossess iic s cherished nephew also. King Leopold i nnv show light, in which case the conilicr between tbe army and the people will be a bloody one. whose result no one can foretell. "