COMTE DE CHAMBORD.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume III, Issue 134, 26 November 1875, Page 8

COMTE DE CHAM BORD.

The expected Orleanist pamphlet urging the Comte de Chambord to abdicate is out. It is entitled " Responsibilities," and is in the form of letters to that Prince " from a gentilhomme do province." The writer appeals to the Count to put an end himself to the deadlock into -winch the Monarchical came and party have got in consequence of his own refusal to accommodate himself to existing facts. He tells him that at the time of the publication of his Manifesto in 1871, an Archbishop compared him to Pope St. Celestine V.. who in spite of his heroic virtues, in consequence of his (omp'.ete ignorance of public affairs, felt himself compelled to abdicate after five months' reiyn. " The Manifesto of the Comte ile Chambord," said this Archbishop, proved him to be a man so deceived as regards his country and himself that he would never reign, or it he did, in spite of the be&t intentions, would make as many blunders as St. Celestine." The pamphlet concludes with a pas-bioimte appeal to the Coi.irb as "a descendant of the Kings who made France" not to ruin it, and "as a son of St. Louis" not "to nun the line and kingdom ol St. Louis." The ' Union ' treats the publication as a device to provoke a refusal to abdicate, in order that on that refusal another usurpation may be "based; but this is unfair to the Comte de Puris. There is no reason to suspect that Prince of being insincere in his declaration that he will never violate his cousin's rights; and we cannot see that there is any necessity for talking about usurpation, because supposing almost per impos&ibile that the Comte de Chambord -were to abdicate, France would only be placed in the position in which she will be when in the course of time he pays the common debt of nature. But it is rather the fault of the extreme Legitimists to think and talk as if Henri V. were to live for ever, or as if they did not care what came alter him. The writer of this pamphlet must ha\e a shrewd suspicion that his persuasions will not be effectual, but that does not prove that he contemplates an Orleanist usurpation. It he fails — as he must — there is always the new Monarchical liepublie to fall back upon. — ' Tablet.'