RULERS NOBODY WANTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 115, 12 June 1909, Page 4

RULERS NOBODY WANTS.

The sad plight of ex-President Castro of Venezuela denied an asylum by the civilised world he l,a- ,n long ;-.->jted. and condemned apparently to fill hence-

forward the role of a modern -wandering Jew." J ad its counterpart one hundred and liftv years ago in that of King Theodore of Corsica. Like Castro. Tl lore .was a soldier of fortune and a usurper, his real name being Xculk.ll'. He .tillered from -swelled head,'' too. to an, if possibl«, even greater extent than the famous South

American dictator, lie addros.s'ed groat ; European monarch* as "ilt-itr cousins." p .-iiiil made war upon France witji a 211 gun frigate. Dii liis nv..H!iru«- he took refuge in I'.iiglaiid. but was iui|ii'i n oiu-(I for debt in the King's IScnrh Prison, whence lie ' was released only to die. ||,. .would have Im'i'ii nnricd in a pauper'-, ".rave ■but for tin- chat-itv of a London shopkeeper named .Mm Wright, -who declared that "b,. for once would pay the funeral cxpi-n-t-.s of „ ki M! r.» His epitaph, by .Horace Walpole. "van still lie seen 111 the church of St. AlinoV Solin. FRANCE'S V\(i.\Ll,.\XT ACT I OX. Ranavalona. Hi., ex 0,, i of M-adn-•riscar. afler ,!,cin,. turned out of li-r king loin by the Fi-emli, was refund bv M.licm an asylum in Pari,, one of tlie few I really unaalliiiit actions they were eye; ((.'iiilly of. For diuloinatic 'reasons die. was likewise forbidden lo settle either in donnanv or Austria, but was .perjinilf.iMl ovcniually (o take up her re.-i----deuce af. Algien.. wliere -die occnpicri ■hev-'elf <■!■! !iv in works of cliaritv. .VOT WAXTKI) 1!V dEiniAXT. I

■A ruler who was driven from pillar to post during the greater portion of his earlier lifetime raised himself in middle life to heights „f unexampled splendour, and died in obscurity after all. was Napoleon [II. When die derma lis look him prisoner at Sedan. tAcv did not in |h ( . least know what to do willi him. Xo| „ countrc in Europe won!.l have him ;l (. ;,„ v piic ■, and lo pack him „|l' back lo Prance would have been to have condemned him (o certain death nt the hands of (lie new Hennblican (ioveniniont. Evcnluallv Kuglaud gave him shelter, as it continues to give to hips widow to this present dav.