THE AMERICAN BOURBON.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4360, 11 March 1875, Page 3

THE AMERICAN BOURBON.

(Fi'om the' 'New' York Herald, November 29.) The following letter from Mr. Charles Allen Perkins,; who. married.a niece of Queen Isabella of Spain, has been given for publication, and will be found interesting to many readers who remember his recent troubles in Paris : Pakis, September 27, 1874.

I received your letter, with an extract from .the New York Herald. The newspapers have made capital out of my trouble on account of my relationship with the Queen and the Bour,bons. The,whole affair has been brought out' here to attack them, and partakes more of a political nature than anything else. The Queen promised to pay the' hotel bill—she promised it to me and to'the vicious landlady. The consequence was we allowed it to increase till one fine day two priests, confessors, pf the . landlady, were sent to, see the Queen and receive the pay.. Her. Majesty consented at first, and all went on finely ;' but, strange to say, the two priests got. into a quarrel, which resulted in the Queers, refusing to have anything to do with the affair. These two holy men had advanced money to their friend, the landlady,' and they' were not to be done for without a struggle. • : so they'laid a plot to lay hands upon'_the. Queen's niece,.my wife, and me iu : such a' way as to force her to pay. Since imprisonment for debt has been abolished there, : is no way of holding, a debtor.except by entering a criminal complaint before a magistrate that the credit was-given on account of representations which/'are not true. It was not difficult, therefore, to hatch up arid give a forced interpretation 1 to every word spoken respecting money, interest,''and-business, projected and unprojected. The complaint was prepared and entered' ten days before my wife's confinement, ; the chosen moment' to create distress and call in relief. 'Twas a cruel thing; but when woman's anger is arousedand inflamed by confessors, any crime may be looked for. • ' ■'■■'' ' ' : ' ' ~'.,' .''--..

The surprise : was the greater; as she had never at- any'['time said that we' had deceived her, arid we 'Wer6;.theref6re; as 'unsuspecting bfi treachery as children. i She declares in her complaint to the Judge,* as a principal reason for laying it, that shff hopes to force-the intervention of my wife's* family. ' ...--... i A..republican police- court., was; happy tobring my wife's name before them and. bespatter the Bourbons. They' acquitted \ my wife, and I should' have -been served' the" Bame if I had been able at once to pay the enemy the enormity of her bill. -1 am passing through several courts, and am promised an honorable acquittal. On account of my sensitive nature, I have suffered all the torments of the infernal region. 'My wife is well, and, strange 'to say, that the happiness, created by the'possessibn of,: two* children (boys) makes 'her gay and forget''; ful of the nasty storm which has fallen upon us. She comes daily and passes "an hour with me and her nurse and children. .

The moral suffering has. partly subsided. Physically I can't coiriplairij for the treatment of persons like me is, mild. I have nothing to do but to read, arid eat/all! I..wish to order, with two hours' walk alone.'' I fear most of all. God, and after, Him I fear the man who does riot fear Him. I suffered dread-, fully at the thought of the pain this news'would, give you. .'.'.' ....!..-.. ; As for being guilty of any crime, you would never believe it. ■-Kb one that/knows me ivould believe it, and no,court of justice, will fever prove it. ■ . , . My life, more than another's, appears filled with adventure an(l accidents, unavoidable, I place my trust more than ever in Him who governs the universe, and who will give me an impartial judgment for life to come. .'.lt.is-sad to.lose the esteeni of man, but after all I may. bo better in this "world and the future for thq* pain inflicted :onme now.. r ;/ i -; ... ■i It may be a consolation for you to know that I am not the only unlucky man, and that my company does not consist,of robbers.and assassins. For instance, the "rooms joining mine are occupied by persona of distinction. In one is the Prince Suzzo j anqljher, the Baron Boilleau, who married tho sister of Mrs.. General Fremont, and was many years French Consul in America, condemned for three years ; then there is the > late -President of the Republic of Switzerland ; then comes the son of a Protestant minister, then a priest, &c. The lawyer employed to develop this scandal against us is the noted criminal lawyer of France, the one lately employed to defend Marshal'Bazaine, who surrendered Metz during the late war. His name is Lachaud, a stout bag of- vulgarity, which he blows off'atwill in a court of justice. Repossesses really no merit and less good manners. lam obliged to give these details in order that you may understand the importance given to a case which should have commenced a'civil suit and not a criminal one. It is likely to end in a civil court, for the plaintiff has already commenced suit against the Queen. ._■■'; • It was proved in the trial that the author of the complaint is the Jesuit confessor, who, with his co-religionist, at the second visit to the Queen, attempted to bully her Majesty.The consequence was the " major domo" of the palace politely kicked them out of the door! You may fancy that I did not shine in their mind, and my intercourse with them was limited and was icy. I am a Protestant, a foreigner, and I married a person of enviable rank. For all of which I thank God daily, while they pray God, without doubt, to pardon me these Bins. Their conduct in this affair proves the way they practise their holy mission. Their means and motive were scandal. Their success has been complete in that respect, but they misjudge the heart and susceptibility of the Spanish Bourbons when they thought to touch them with , such arrows. ' The blow intended for them strikes me alone. ■ C. Allen Perkins.