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+The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Fall of Prince Florestan of Monaco, by
+Charles Wentworth Dilke
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+Title: The Fall of Prince Florestan of Monaco
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+Author: Charles Wentworth Dilke
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+Release Date: July 14, 2012  [eBook #40226]
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+Language: English
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+***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE FALL OF PRINCE FLORESTAN OF
+MONACO***
+
+
+This ebook was transcribed by Les Bowler.
+
+                 [Picture: Monaco Town, from Monte Carlo]
+
+
+
+
+
+                                 THE FALL
+                                    OF
+                       PRINCE FLORESTAN OF MONACO.
+
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+                               BY HIMSELF.
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+                                 London:
+                            MACMILLAN AND CO.
+                                  1874.
+
+        [_The Right of Translation and Reproduction is reserved_.]
+
+                   [Picture: Map of the Town of Monaco]
+
+
+
+
+THE FALL OF PRINCE FLORESTAN OF MONACO.
+
+
+I am Prince Florestan of Wurtemberg, born in 1850, and consequently now
+of the mature age of twenty-four. I might call myself “FLORESTAN II.” but
+I think it better taste for a dethroned prince, especially when he
+happens to be a republican, to resume the name that is in reality his
+own.
+
+Although the events which I am about to relate occurred this winter, so
+little is known in England of the affairs of the Ex-principality of
+Monaco, now forming the French commune of that name, that I feel that the
+details of my story, indeed all but the bare facts on which it is
+grounded, will be news to English readers.  The English Post Office
+believes that Monaco forms part of Italy, and the general election
+extinguished the telegrams that arrived from France in February last.
+
+All who follow continental politics are aware that the Prince Charles
+Honoré, known as Charles III. of Monaco, and also called on account of
+his infirmity “the blind prince,” was the ruling potentate of Monaco
+during the last gambling season; that there lived with him his mother,
+the dowager princess; that he was a widower with one son, Prince Albert,
+Duc de Valentinois, heir apparent to the throne; that the latter had by
+his marriage with the Princess Marie of Hamilton, sister to the Duke of
+Hamilton, one son who in 1873 was six years old; that all the family
+lived on M. Blanc the lessee of the gambling tables.  But Monaco is shut
+off from the rest of the world except in the winter months, and few have
+heard of the calamities which since the end of January have rained upon
+the ruling family.  My cousin, Prince Albert, the “Sailor Prince,” a good
+fellow of my own age, with no fault but his rash love of uselessly
+braving the perils of the ocean, had often been warned of the fate that
+would one day befall him.  Once when a boy he had put to sea in his boat
+when a fearful storm was raging, had been upset just off the point at
+Monaco, and had been saved only by the gallantry of a sailor of the port
+who had risked his own life in keeping his sovereign’s son afloat.  In
+October 1873 my unfortunate cousin bought at Plymouth an English sailing
+yacht of 450 tons.  He had a sailor’s contempt for steam, which he told
+me was only fit for lubbers, when he came up and stayed with me at
+Cambridge in November to see the “fours.”  He explained to me then that
+he had got a bargain, that he had bought his yacht for one-third her
+value, and that he was picking up a capital crew of thirty men.  He had
+no need to buy yachts for a third their value, for he was rich enough and
+to spare, having enjoyed the large fortune of his mother from the time he
+came of age.  She was a Mérode, and vast forests in Belgium—part of
+Soignies for instance—belonged to him.  His wife had her own fortune of
+four and a half million francs, bringing her in about seven thousand
+pounds a year, so he was able to spend all his money on himself.  He did
+not spend it on his dress, for when he came to Cambridge and was
+introduced to Dr. Thompson, he neither had a dress suit to dine in at the
+lodge, nor a black morning coat to put on for hall, where his rough
+pea-jacket scandalised the “scouts.”  He sailed from Plymouth in
+November, and reached Monaco at the end of that month.  In December he
+made several excursions, in none of which did his father go to sea with
+him, but on the 26th of January, as ill luck would have it, he tempted my
+poor uncle to go with him for a three days’ cruise.  It came on to blow
+hard that night, and nothing was ever heard of them again.  Great was the
+excitement at Monaco on the 27th and 28th, but on the 29th the worst was
+known, as a telegram from Genoa informed the unfortunate old princess—who
+has all her faculties at the age of eighty-six—that her son and grandson
+were both numbered with the dead, for one of the boats of the rotten
+yacht had been fallen in with by a fishing vessel floating empty in mid
+sea.
+
+The Conseil d’Etat was at once called together by the Governor General,
+and the little boy of the Princess Marie proclaimed by their order at the
+market-place.  A proclamation was posted in the town the moment the
+sitting ended, declaring the joint regency of the dowager princess and of
+Baron Imberty.  A telegram was sent to Princess Marie, who was staying
+with her child at Nice, informing her of her husband’s death and of the
+accession of her son, and begging that she would the next day confide the
+little Duc de Valentinois to the deputation of the councillors of state
+and of the officers of guards, who would reach Nice by train at noon.
+She was in the same despatch assured that on the death of the old dowager
+princess she should succeed her in the regency, but for family reasons on
+which I need not enlarge, she was requested not on this occasion to
+accompany her son.
+
+All this I learnt by a telegram from the baron; I, as the son of the
+sister of the late prince, having now become most unexpectedly next heir
+to the throne of Monaco.  I had no idea of the possibility of my ever
+being called upon to succeed a healthy boy of six, and gave the matter no
+thought but one of regret at the death of my gallant cousin Albert, who
+in the Prussian war had proved his courage in the French navy, while I,
+had I been older, should have had to have fought upon the other side, my
+father having been a prince of Wurtemberg.
+
+I was thoroughly English in my ways.  My father, a man of wide and
+liberal views, disliking “professors” as much as Mr. Disraeli does, and
+especially distrusting Prussian pedagogues, had sent me to Eton and to
+Trinity. At Eton I had lived rather with the King’s scholars than with my
+more natural allies, and had imbibed some views at which my poor father
+would have groaned.  When I went up to Cambridge my friendships were in
+King’s rather than in Third Trinity, and my opinions were those now
+popular among spectacled undergraduates, namely, universal negation.  I
+even joined First Trinity Boat Club, instead of Third, because the
+gentlemen of the latter were too exclusive for my princely tastes.
+
+During my four years at Cambridge I had rowed in First Trinity Second.  I
+had heard at the Union Mr. Seeley defend the Commune, and oppose a motion
+declaring it innocent because it did not go on to express the “love and
+affection” with which that body was regarded by the University.  I had
+supported a young fellow of Trinity when he showed that the surplus funds
+of the Union Society should be applied to the erection of statues of
+Mazzini in all the small villages of the West of England—a motion which I
+believe was carried, but neutralized by the fact that the Union Society
+possessed no surplus funds.  I had also had the inestimable advantage of
+attending the lectures of Professor Fawcett on the English poor laws.  I
+had, by the way, almost forgotten the most amusing of all the Union
+episodes of my time, which was the rising of Mr. Dilke of Trinity Hall,
+Sir Charles Dilke’s brother—but a man of more real talent than his
+brother, although, if possible, a still more lugubrious speaker—to move
+that his brother’s portrait, together with that of Lord Edmond
+Fitzmaurice, the communist brother of a Marquis and a congenial spirit,
+should be suspended in the committee room to watch over the deliberations
+of that body, because, forsooth, they had happened to be president and
+vice-president of the Society at a moment when the new buildings were
+begun out of the subscriptions of such very different politicians as the
+Prince of Wales, the Duke of Devonshire, and Lord Powis.  Mr. Dilke and
+his radicals were sometimes in a majority and sometimes in a minority at
+the Union, and the portraits of the republican lord and baronet went up
+on the wall or down under the table accordingly, Mr. Willimott, the
+valued custodian of the rooms, carrying out the orders of both sides with
+absolute impartiality.
+
+Fired with the enthusiasm of my party and of my age, I had subscribed to
+the Woman’s Suffrage Association, to Mr. Bradlaugh’s election expenses,
+to the Anti-Game-Law Association, and to the Education League.  My
+reading was less one-sided than my politics, and my republicanism was
+tempered by an unwavering worship of “Lothair.”  Mr. Disraeli was my
+admiration as a public man—a Bismarck without his physique and his
+opportunities—but then in politics one always personally prefers one’s
+opponents to one’s friends.  As a republican, I had a cordial aversion
+for Sir Charles Dilke, a clever writer, but an awfully dull speaker, who
+imagines that his forte is public speaking, and who, having been brought
+up in a set of strong prejudices, positively makes a merit to himself of
+never having got over them.  This he calls “never changing his opinions.”
+For Mr. Gladstone I had the ordinary undergraduate detestation.  There
+are no liberals at Cambridge.  We were all rank republicans or champions
+of right divine.
+
+The 31st of January was a strange day in my history.  On entering my
+rooms in my flannels, hot from the boats, and hurrying for hall, I saw a
+telegram upon the table.  I tore it open.
+
+                      “_The Governor-General_, _Monaco_;
+                                     _to_
+                   _His Serene Highness Prince Florestan_,
+
+                                                        _Trinity College_,
+                                                             _Cambridge_.”
+
+“His Serene Highness!”  Surely a mistake!  I read on.
+
+    “This morning at noon his Serene Highness the reigning prince was
+    committed by the princess his mother to the care of M. Henri de
+    Payan, at Nice.  The princess being nervous about railway accidents,
+    the departure for Monaco took place by road.  The carriage conveying
+    his Serene Highness and M. de Payan was drawn by four horses.  Turbie
+    was reached without mishap, but half-way between Turbie and
+    Roquebrune, at a sharp turn in the road, the horses took fright, and
+    the coachman, in avoiding the precipice, threw the carriage upon the
+    rocks on the mountain side of the road.  His Serene Highness was
+    thrown on his head and killed on the spot.  Your Serene Highness is
+    now reigning prince of Monaco, and will be proclaimed to-night after
+    the meeting of the Council of State by the style of Florestan II.
+    Lieutenant Gasignol, of the guard, will proceed at once to England
+    and meet your Serene Highness at any spot which your Highness may
+    please to indicate.  M. de Payan escaped without a scratch.”
+
+Prince of Monaco!  Prince of Monaco.  And I had seen Lafont in _Rabagas_!
+I was not a “milk-and-water Rabagas,” as Mr. Cole called Mr. Lowe, when
+all the papers reported him to have said “milk-and-water Rabelais,” and
+the _Spectator_ mildly wondered at the strangeness of the comparison.
+No, but I was somewhat of a milk-and-water Prince of Monaco after Lafont.
+What distinction!  What carriage!  If the princes of the earth were only
+like the princes of the stage, there would be no republicans.  But then,
+fortunately, they are not.  “Fortunately!” and I one of them.  What am I
+saying?
+
+Poor little fellow!  How sad for his young mother too.  A reigning prince
+for nineteen hours, and that outside of his own dominions and at the age
+of six.  A strange world! and a strange world, for me too.  A
+half-Protestant, half-free-thinking, republican, German, Cambridge
+undergraduate, suddenly called to rule despotically over a Catholic and
+Italian people.  My succession, at least, would be undisputed.  No one
+had ever vowed that I “should never ascend the throne—without a protest.”
+One of the Grimaldis had a claim which was no doubt a just one, my
+respected great uncle having been probably a usurper; but Marshal
+MacMahon and the Duc de Broglie would, I well knew, support me,
+preferring even a German prince at Monaco to an Italian.  My succession,
+I repeat, was undisputed; but if anybody had taken the trouble to dispute
+it, I can answer for it that they would have been cheated out of their
+amusement, for I should willingly have resigned to their charge so
+burdensome a toy.  I was that which the republican mayor of Birmingham,
+Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, in his jocular speech proposing the Prince of
+Wales’ health at the mayor’s banquet, said that one of his friends had
+been trying by argument to make the Prince—with, “as yet,” only “partial
+success”—a republican King.  I would have gone only to Monaco to proclaim
+the republic had I not known that the strange despotism—presided over not
+as a despotism should be by one clever despot, but by two stupid despots,
+the Dukes of Magenta and Broglie—which is called the French republic,
+would not permit the creation of a small model for herself in the middle
+of her commune of Roquebrune.
+
+I was not sorry to leave Cambridge.  My rooms in the new court overlooked
+Caius, where they had typhoid fever; and between the fear of infection
+and the noise of the freshmen’s wines in Trinity Hall, I was beginning to
+have enough of Cambridge.  My bedmaker and tutor were the only people to
+whom I bid goodbye.  The men were all in hall and out at wines, and I
+left notes for my friends instead of looking them up in their rooms.  I
+caught my tutor as he was going into hall.  I told him of the news, and I
+could see the idea of an invitation for next winter to the castle at
+Monaco pass through his mind as he assured me that my rule would be a
+blessing to my country, and that nothing could better fit me for a
+sceptre than the training of an English gentleman.  He added, with a
+return of the grim humour of a don, that he supposed that as a sovereign
+prince I need scarcely “take an _exeat_.”  My poor old bed-maker, who had
+read the telegram in my absence from my room, called me “your imperial
+majesty” three times while she packed my shirts, but in half-an-hour I
+was off to London; and on the evening of the 3rd of February I met M. de
+Payan and Lieutenant Gasignol by appointment at the Grand Hotel at Paris.
+
+From M. de Payan I obtained my first accurate ideas as to the State of
+Monaco.  I found that I was not more independent under the supremacy of
+France than is the Emperor William independent under the domination of
+Prince von Bismarck.  I had not only the Code Napoléon, and a Council of
+State dressed in exact copies of their Versailles namesakes, but French
+custom-house officers levying French custom-house duties in my dominions.
+At the beginning of our conversation I had said to M. de Payan, “Between
+ourselves, and fearing though I do that like Charles I. of England I may
+be committing high treason against myself, I feel bound to tell you that
+my only ideas of my principality are derived from M. Sardou’s _Rabagas_.”
+
+Why is it that inhabitants of small and isolated communities never can
+see a joke?  M. de Payan, slightly drawing himself up and speaking with
+as much stiffness as he could assume towards his prince, gravely answered
+me, “Your Serene Highness is not aware, I presume, that _Rabagas_ was a
+satire directed against France in her decline, and not against your
+Highness’s principality.”
+
+M. Sardou wasting his hours on satirising Monaco.  I will never joke
+again, I said to myself, unless I should suffer the modern fate of kings
+and be deposed.
+
+“M. de Payan,” I replied, “I am aware of what you say, and I was joking.”
+
+“We have no Gambettas at Monaco, your Highness; that is all I meant.”
+
+“Perhaps, Sir, the country would be happier if you had.  Rabagas was not
+Gambetta, but Emile Olivier—not the man who never despaired of France,
+but the man who sacrificed his opinions to his advancement.  I admire M.
+Gambetta, who is at this moment the first man in France, in my
+estimation, and the second political man in Europe.  His figure will
+stand out in history, daubed as even it is with the mud that French
+politicians are ceaselessly flinging at each other.”
+
+“M. Gambetta is, as your Serene Highness says, a man of extraordinary
+powers; but his father was a tradesman at Cahors, and is retired and
+lives at Nice, near your Serene Highness’s dominions.”
+
+What more could I say?  There was nothing to be made of M. de Payan.
+
+On the 5th of February I reached Nice by the express, and after reading
+the telegram which announced the return of Mr. Gladstone by a discerning
+people as junior colleague to a gin distiller, was presented with an
+address by the Gambettist mayor at the desire of the legitimist préfêt.
+The mayor, being a red-hot republican in politics but a carriage-builder
+by trade, lectured me on the drawbacks of despotism in his address, but
+informed me in conversation afterwards that he had had the honour of
+building a Victoria for Prince Charles Honoré—which was next door to
+giving me his business card.  The address, however, also assumed that the
+Princes of Monaco were suffered only by Providence to exist in order that
+the trade of Nice, the nearest large French town, might thrive.
+
+In the evening at four we reached the station at Monaco, which was decked
+with the white flags of my ancestors.  What a pity, was my thought, that
+M. de Chambord should not be aware that if he would come to stay with me
+at the castle he would live under the white flag to which he is so much
+attached all the days of his life.  My reception was enthusiastic.  The
+guards, in blue uniforms not unlike the Bavarian, but with tall shakoes
+instead of helmets, and similar to that which during the stoppage of the
+train at Nice I had rapidly put on, were drawn up in line to the number
+of thirty-nine—one being in hospital with a wart on his thumb, as M. de
+Payan told me.  What an admirable centralisation that such a detail
+should be known to every member of the administration!  Two drummers
+rolled their drums French fashion.  In front of the line were four
+officers, of whom—one fat; Baron Imberty; the Vicar General; and Père
+Pellico of the Jesuits of the Visitation, brother as I already knew to
+the celebrated Italian patriot, Silvio Pellico, of dungeon and spider
+fame.
+
+“Where is M. Blanc?” I cried to M. de Payan, as we stopped, seeing no one
+not in uniform or robes.
+
+“M. Blanc,” said M. de Payan, severely, “though a useful subject of your
+Highness is neither a member of the household of your Highness, a soldier
+of His army, nor a functionary of His government.  M. Blanc is in the
+crowd outside.”
+
+Had I ventured to talk slang to M. de Payan, of whom I already stood in
+awe, I should have replied, “Elle est _salée_, celle là; puisque sans M.
+Blanc mon pays ne marcherait pas.”  But I held my tongue.
+
+I have seen many amusing sights in the course of my short life.  I have
+seen an Anglican clergyman dance the cancan—I have seen Lord Claud
+Hamilton, the elder, address the English House of Commons—I have watched
+with breathless interest the gesticulations of French orators in the
+tribune of the Assembly, when not a word could reach my ears through the
+din of Babel that their colleagues made.  But the oddest sight I ever saw
+was the bow with which Colonel Jacquemet, conscious even at the glorious
+moment that history would not forget his name, assured me that “the
+devoted army of a Gallant and a Glorious Prince would follow him to the
+death, when Honour led and Duty called.”
+
+At this moment Père Pellico slipped round to my side and said, “A word
+with your Highness.  A most unfortunate report has got abroad that your
+Highness is a heretic.  What is to be done?”
+
+“I very much fear I am,” I replied.
+
+“But surely your Highness has never formally joined a Protestant body?”
+
+“Protestant?  Oh, no.  I am a freethinker; a follower of Strauss rather
+than of Dr. Cumming.”
+
+“How your Highness has relieved my mind!  Only a freethinker—but that is
+nothing.  I feared that possibly your Highness might have suffered a
+perversion to some of the many schisms.”  He bowed and hurried off into
+the town, while taking the arm of Baron Imberty I said, “Introduce me to
+M. Blanc.”
+
+“Your Highness wishes that M. Blanc should be presented to your Highness,
+but there are three hundred and ten or three hundred and twenty gentlemen
+who take precedence of M. Blanc.  Nevertheless, your Highness has only to
+command.”
+
+“Well, then, touch my arm as we pass him in the crowd, and I will speak
+to him informally.”
+
+My ideas of etiquette would have horrified Madame von Biegeleben, the
+lady-in-waiting to my poor mother; still, I was improving already, as may
+be seen.
+
+As we left the station building a little man in black, who when he is
+twenty years older will be as like M. Thiers in person as he already is
+in tact, in power of talk, and in the combination of a total absence of
+fixed opinions with a decided manner, made a low bow, accompanied with
+the shrewdest smile that I had seen.
+
+“That,” I said, halting before him, “is M. Blanc.  I am glad to have so
+early an opportunity of commencing an acquaintance, which I hope to
+improve.”
+
+“Your Serene Highness does me too much honour.”
+
+Thus I passed the man who played Haussmann to my Emperor, but who had the
+additional advantage which the costly baron of demolishing memory
+certainly did not possess, of being a magnificent source of revenue to my
+state.
+
+Mounting the really fine horse that they had sent me down, and escorted
+by the sixteen mounted carbineers (who do police duty on foot in ordinary
+times at Monte Carlo and in the town), I rode off at a sharp trot by the
+winding road.
+
+“Will your Serene Highness graciously please to go at a walk, for
+otherwise the guards will not have time to get up by the military road
+and to form again to receive your Highness at the _Place_.”
+
+I did as I was bid, of course.  Bouquets of violets were showered on me
+as we passed through the narrow street, and the scene on the public
+square in front of the castle was really fine.  The sun was setting in
+glory over the Mediterranean in the west; on the north the Alpes
+Monégasques were beginning to take the deep red glow which nightly in
+that glorious climate they assume.  On the east the palms at Monte Carlo
+stood out sharply against the deep still blue sky, and in the far
+distance the great waves of the ground swell were rolling in upon the
+coast towards Mentone and the Italian frontier, with thousands of bright
+white sea-gulls speckling the watery hills with dots of light.  At the
+palace gate I was received by the old dowager princess.  She bent and
+kissed my hand.  I threw my arms round her neck and kissed her on both
+cheeks.
+
+“That was kindly meant, Highness,” she said, “but your Serene Highness is
+now the reigning prince, and in the presence of the mob your dignity must
+be kept up.”
+
+Passing the two great Suisses who, arrayed in gala costume, stood
+magnificently at the gate—but whose wages I afterwards discovered were
+supplemented by showing my bedroom when I was out to English tourists at
+a franc a head—we entered the grand courtyard, ascended the great stairs,
+and passed straight into the reception hall known as the Salle Grimaldi.
+There, standing on a dais, opposite to the magnificent fireplace and
+chimney-piece, with the baron at my side, I held a levee, and received
+the vicar-general, père de Don; the curé of the cathedral, l’abbé Ramin;
+the chevalier de Castellat, vice-president of the council of state; the
+chevalier Voliver, member of council of state, and president of the
+council of public education; the Marquis de Bausset-Roquefort, president
+of the high court of justice and member of the council of state; the
+treasurer-general, M. Lombard; Monsignore Theuret, the first almoner of
+the household; Monsignore Ciccodicola, the honorary almoner; Colonel the
+Vicomte de Grandsaigne, my first aide-de-camp; Major Pouget d’Aigrevaux,
+commandant of the palace; the two attachés of M. de Payan in his office
+of secretary-general, MM. Stephen Gastaldi and John Blanchi; my doctor,
+M. Coulon, a leading member of the council of education, and evidently a
+most intelligent man; the curés of the six smaller churches; the five
+professors of the Jesuit college of La Visitation; three aides-de-camp;
+the chef du cabinet; the chamberlain himself, who had introduced the
+others; and four officers of guards and one of carbineers, in addition to
+Colonel Jacquemet, whom I have already named.  No conversation took
+place, and the presentations being over in five minutes, I got out in the
+garden before dark for a quiet stroll by myself before dinner.
+
+I was struck by the scene.  The tall palms, the giant tree geraniums
+blooming in masses down the great cliffs to the very edge of the dark
+blue sea, the feathery mimosas, the graceful pepper trees laden with
+crimson berries, the orange grove, the bananas fruiting and flowering at
+the same time, the passion flowers climbing against the rugged old castle
+walls, all were new to me—unused to the south, and brought up in
+Buckinghamshire, in Cambridgeshire, and in central Germany.  The scene
+saddened me, I know not why, and I asked myself whether, with the odd
+combination of my opinions and my position, I could be of any use in the
+world except to bring Monarchy into contempt.  Here was I, a freethinker,
+called upon to rule a people of bigoted Catholics through a Jesuit
+father—for I had already seen that Père Pellico was the real vice-king.
+Here was I, an ardent partisan of the doctrine of individuality, placed
+suddenly at the head of the most centralized administration in the world.
+What was to be done?  Reform it?  Yes, but no reformer has so ill a time
+of it as a reforming prince.  Sadly I went in to a sad dinner
+_tête-à-tête_ with my crape-covered great aunt in a gloomy room, and so
+to bed, convinced that unhappiness may co-exist with the possession of a
+hall porter as big as Mrs. Bischoffsheim’s.
+
+The next morning when I dreamily called for my coffee there was brought
+to me along with it a gigantic envelope sealed with soft wax stamped with
+my arms, and containing a terrific despatch of twenty-three pages.
+“Rapport Hebdomadaire.”  “Weekly report” of what, I asked myself.  Why, I
+have but five thousand subjects—the same number that Octavia Hill rules
+in Marylebone with such success.  I began to read.
+
+    “On Monday night a man named Marsan called the carbineer Fissori a
+    fool.  He was not arrested (see Order No. 1142 and correspondence 70,
+    10, 102), but a private report was addressed to the Council of State,
+    on which the Secretary General decided to recommend that Marsan
+    should be watched for a week; referred to the Sub-Committee on Public
+    Order.”
+
+    “M. Blanc on Tuesday visited the tunnel in the commune of Turbie
+    (France) by which he hopes to obtain an additional water supply for
+    the Casino.  As M. Blanc had not had the courtesy to inform the
+    secretarial office of his excursion it was impossible to send an
+    agent to obtain details of what took place.”
+
+So on for twenty and more pages, the last informing me of the names of
+the fishing boats that had come in and gone out, of the time of sunrise,
+and of the fact that a private in my guards had caught a cold in his
+head.
+
+It was unbearable.  These formalities should be suppressed at once.  The
+administration should be decentralised.  I rang and sent to the
+secretarial office for M. de Payan.  I addressed him thus:—
+
+“I gather from this tedious document that my principality of five
+thousand persons possesses every appliance and every excrescence of
+civilized government except a parliament.  The perfection of bureaucracy
+and of red tape has been reached in a territory one mile broad and five
+miles long.  No doubt centralisation is less hurtful than it is elsewhere
+in a country so small that it is virtually all centre, but I intend that
+this state of things (for which you are in no way responsible) shall
+cease.  In the first place kindly inform me of the facts.  What are the
+expenses and what are the revenues of the state, and what is the number
+of its officials?”
+
+“There are, Sir,” he answered, “including your household and the officers
+of your guards, one hundred and twenty-six functionaries in Monaco.
+There are sixty soldiers and carbineers, and there are one hundred and
+fifty unpaid consular and diplomatic representatives of Monaco abroad.”
+
+“How many servants have I in all, including stable men?”
+
+“Twenty-five.”
+
+“Then you mean to say that there are three hundred and sixty-one persons
+employed under the crown for a population of thirteen hundred male
+inhabitants of full age?”
+
+“Yes, Sir, and M. Blanc employs on his works and at the Casino eight
+hundred of the remainder.”
+
+This was a startling state of things, but I soon found out that, as
+Colonel Jacquemet had used his men twice over on my arrival, so we used
+our politicians twice or thrice, politicians being happily scarce with
+us.  Many posts were filled by one man, a plan which has its advantages
+as well as its drawbacks, the advantages predominating in a country where
+there are eleven hundred and sixty posts to fill and only thirteen
+hundred grown male inhabitants.
+
+To give you an idea of the way in which we used our men, Baron Imberty,
+our Governor-General for instance, was also President of the Council of
+State, Chancellor of the Order of St. Charles, President of the Maritime
+Council, President of the Board of Public Works, President of the Bureau
+de Bienfaisance, etc. etc.
+
+Thanks to M. Blanc and his gambling establishment, and thanks to the
+large private fortune of my family, the finances of Monaco were in a
+flourishing position.  Prince Charles had had half a million of francs a
+year of private fortune and of revenue from the gambling tables.  My
+cousin Albert had had three hundred thousand francs a year.  I
+consequently had eight hundred thousand francs of private fortune, or
+£32,000 a year, out of which I could easily keep up the palace, the
+stables, and, if I chose, a powerful steam yacht, together with my
+cousin’s house in Belgium as a summer residence.  The cost of the
+government for army, church, education, and justice, was two hundred
+thousand francs a year.  Public works were dealt with liberally by M.
+Blanc as a part of his “concession.”  The ordinary revenue was derived
+from four sources, each contributing about an equal share.  These were:—
+
+  I.  The payment of the Government of France for half the value of the
+  tobacco sold in the principality on behalf of the French _régie_.
+
+  II. The payment of France for customs collected by France in my ports.
+
+  III. The payment by the “Paris, Lyons, Méditerranée” Railway for right
+  of passage.
+
+  IV. Our only local tax, one on all lands and houses changing hands.
+
+The total receipts were two hundred thousand francs, or about the same as
+the total expense of government.
+
+I dismissed M. de Payan; and without telling anyone where I was going I
+walked up to the Casino by myself.
+
+I was little known by sight at present in the town, as those who had seen
+me enter it in uniform and on horseback the day before would hardly
+recognize me in deep mourning and on foot.  I passed unnoticed by the
+guards, and on reaching the Casino, hot and dusty, was stopped by one of
+the employés of the bank, I said, “Take me to M. Blanc.”
+
+Under similar circumstances the Prince of Wales is introduced as “Captain
+White,” but then he is not a _sovereign_ prince; and I preferred to give
+no name at all than to assume an alias.
+
+I found him literally “a counting out his money.”  That is to say, two
+clerks were counting rouleaus of gold while he at a small table was
+quietly playing patience with two packs of cards.  At a bureau was a
+third clerk, an Englishman, translating into French for his benefit one
+of Mr. Bagehot’s leaders in the _Economist_.
+
+He knew me at once, although he had seen me but for a moment and in a
+wholly different dress.  Bowing low, and speaking not to me but to his
+clerks, he said, “Qu’on nous laisse.”  The moment they had left the room
+he bowed to the ground again, and said, “Ah monseigneur, votre
+seigneurerie me fait trop d’honneur!  J’allais écrire à monsieur le
+chambellan pour lui demander de vouloir bien solliciter une audience en
+mon nom, afin de déposer mes respectueux hommages aux pieds de votre
+Altesse.  Elle me comble en venant chez moi incognito.”
+
+M. Blanc, whose appearance I described before, is well known to gambling
+Europe as a distinguished political economist, the keeper of the greatest
+“hell” on earth, and the loving father of a pair of pretty and
+accomplished daughters, living upon roulette, but himself innocent
+nowadays of all games but the mildest patience—of which he knows sixty
+kinds.  At Monaco he is more than a public character: he is a benefactor
+and a prince.  Attacks may be made upon gambling establishments even
+conducted as his is, but I am disposed to agree with the Jesuit fathers
+of the Visitation that the Monaco roulette—forbidden to the inhabitants
+of Monaco and of the neighbouring parts of France—does not do much harm
+to anyone, although I could hardly go with Père Pellico so far as to
+prohibit the building of a Protestant church while he tolerates a “hell,”
+and even permits his students to visit the musical portion of its rooms.
+I had no wish in my proposed reforms to reform out of existence my
+roulette revenue.  I wished indeed to make good use of it; better use
+than my predecessors had done.  I wanted to make of Monaco a Munich and a
+Dresden all in one.  I would have a gallery of the greatest modern
+pictures—great ancient ones are not now to be obtained—a magnificent
+orchestra, a theatre of the first rank; art, in short, of all kind of the
+highest class by which to raise the culture of my people, who, excluded
+from the gambling side of the Casino by a wise ordinance of my
+predecessor, would reap the benefit without drinking the poison of the
+roulette.
+
+I found M. Blanc’s mind running upon the question of whether English
+families would be most attracted to Monaco by pigeon-shooting or by an
+English church.  The church he fancied most, but owing to the opposition
+of Père Pellico it would have to be built upon the hill a mile off from
+the Casino, in the territory of France.
+
+“I will authorise you to disregard Père Pellico’s bigotry, and to build
+it where you please,” I cried.
+
+M. Blanc smiled, and said, “If your Serene Highness will excuse me, I had
+sooner not go against the Jesuits.”
+
+I wasn’t king in my own country, as it appeared.  Expel the Jesuits, the
+tempter within me suggested; but then I wasn’t Bismarck, and I hadn’t a
+“national liberal” party at my back.
+
+I rapidly exposed my views to M. Blanc.  I was much struck by the fact
+that his practical mind insisted on viewing my reforms as questions not
+of principles but of men.
+
+“You have no men to back you,” he kept saying; “and if you turn out your
+present set and get some clever Germans you will be deposed.”  He had
+dropped the excessive formality of speech with which he had begun.
+Several times he used the phrase, “Dr. Coulon is the only man you have.”
+Then, after thinking for a time, “What do you propose to gain by your
+reforms?  You are rich.  Your people are contented.  Why trouble
+yourself?  As for works of art, as for theatre, as for orchestra, these
+things are matters of money, and I will do my best to help.  I am not
+sure that as a mere investment they will not pay, and at all events I
+will do my best to make them do so; but as for your reforms of army,
+church, and education that you talk about, I beg your Highness to leave
+it all alone.  The shares in the bank will fall ten per cent. when it is
+known.  My shares here are like the funds at Paris, they hate liberty.
+The less liberty, the higher they stand.  It is just the same at Paris.
+Suppress a journal, and the _rente_ rise a franc.  Suppress all the
+journals, and they would rise five francs!  Suppress the Assembly, and
+they would rise ten!  Does your Serene Highness take part in
+pigeon-shooting?”
+
+Making nothing of M. Blanc, except as to art matters, I returned slowly
+to the Castle, where I found the Council of State assembled to take the
+oaths.
+
+I chatted with the members of the Council, but arranged to develope my
+plans in the first place to a few carefully-selected individuals.  I
+fixed hours at which I would receive M. de Payan; Dr. Coulon; the curé of
+the cathedral; l’abbé Ramin; Père Pellico; and Colonel Jacquemet; after
+seeing the Governor General, Baron Imberty, and talking matters over with
+him.  Baron Imberty I only saw because not to see him would be to pass a
+slight upon him; but I had no hope of help from him, and none from
+Colonel Jacquemet.  From Père Pellico I knew that I should meet with
+opposition, and I received him only to see how strong and of what nature
+the opposition would be.  I built my hopes upon M. de Payan, Dr. Coulon,
+and l’abbé Ramin.
+
+To Baron Imberty I said only that I contemplated a reform in the army, a
+gradual liberation of the church from state control, and the
+re-organization of the schools.  He answered that my wish was law, but
+that the church was very well as she stood.
+
+To Colonel Jacquemet I explained in detail my military re-organization
+scheme, which was the best of my reforms.  I pointed out to him that his
+force of forty men, now reduced to thirty-eight by the unfortunate wart
+and cold, was only preserved from becoming the laughing-stock of Europe
+by its exceptional discipline and courage.  It was absolutely necessary
+for me to say this or he would have had a fit upon the spot.  I directed
+that a list should be prepared of all the male inhabitants aged from
+sixteen to thirty, and numbering, as I calculated, about eight hundred.
+That of them those physically fit—some six hundred, as I should
+suppose—were to receive drill, and ultimately uniforms.  The gallant
+forty men were to become sergeants, corporals, and inferior officers of
+the new national regiment.  Captain Ruggeri and Lieutenant Gasignol were
+named its majors, and Lieutenants Plati and De la Rosière the senior
+captains.  Four other captains were to be selected from among the
+privates and non-commissioned officers of the guard.  The new levy was to
+be unpaid, and the only increased expense would be the uniforms and
+rifles, and at first the additional pay of the ten new officers.  As
+vacancies occurred in company officers they were to be filled up by
+election by the company, but the majors were to be appointed by the
+colonel.  The cost of the uniforms and arms I proposed to meet by selling
+for old iron our twenty magnificent, but useless pieces of old artillery.
+Modern artillery for the fortress I proposed to provide out of my private
+income, and as defence of the town was our only possible service, of
+field artillery I decided to have none.  The night sentry duty at the
+palace was to be performed by the paid sergeants only, and the regiment
+was to parade but once a week.  I could see that Colonel Jacquemet did
+not like it, but he bowed and left the room.
+
+My next interview was with M. de Payan.  He heartily concurred in my army
+reform, and said that no measure could be better for the country,
+educationally, than my plan of universal service of this limited
+character.  When I came to talk of church reforms, however, M. de Payan
+was very cold and hard to fire.  He advised me to talk the matter over
+with the curé, l’abbé Ramin, a most moderate man, and to beware of Father
+Pellico.  From this negative position I could not move him.
+
+The curé was my next visitor.  He also agreed heartily in the wisdom of
+my army reform.  He listened without dissent to my proposal for the
+gradual cessation of the small grant to the priests, including that to
+himself.  On the other hand, when I spoke about the necessity of
+procuring lay teachers for the schools, he began to weep.  I changed the
+subject, and when I allowed him to leave the room he said, with a
+singularly sweet smile, that he would go with my reforms as far as he
+could, that so just a man as my Highness would not harm his country, that
+God would watch over his church. I was touched by Abbé Ramin.
+
+Dr. Coulon was then shown in.  A man of intellect, as I could see at the
+first glance.  I set before him my army reform, and he was delighted with
+it.  I touched upon the separation of church and state, and he said that
+it was not hard to be done at Monaco—in name, that is, but difficult
+indeed to be done in fact.  Still he supposed the name of separation was
+what I wanted, and the gradual cessation of the stipends, which would put
+Monaco in accord with the modern movement.  I then referred to education.
+
+He shook his head, and answered, “I should be your Highness’s sole
+supporter, and I am a materialist, and only tolerated here on account of
+my medical skill, and placed on the Council of Education because, as I am
+not in the habit of running my head against stone walls, I always side
+with the Jesuits.”
+
+I insisted on the vast improvement in the standard of secular education
+to be expected from the introduction of highly trained lay teachers, and
+said that the priests should be absolutely free to teach the children out
+of school hours.
+
+His reply was a singular one, and shook me.
+
+“Your Highness is a democrat,” he said.  “How then can your Highness
+impose your will in this matter upon a people who are unanimous?  If your
+Highness wishes to escape individual responsibility for the existence of
+the present state of things, your Highness can dissolve the council of
+state and institute an elective parliament.  That parliament would
+consist, let us say, of twelve members.  If so, eleven would be priests
+or Jesuits, and the twelfth M. Blanc of the Casino—a body which would
+resemble in complexion some of the school boards in your Highness’s
+favourite England.  Your Highness has a heavy task, and if that task be
+persevered in, I fear that the state of your Highness’s nerves will be
+such as to require my prescriptions.”
+
+He was very free in his conversation, the old doctor, but it was a
+pleasing change after Baron Imberty and M. de Payan; not but what Abbé
+Ramin had much attracted me.
+
+I did my best to charm Père Pellico.  I courted him as my other subjects
+courted me.  He was expansive in manner; but I am not a fool, and though
+only twenty-four, I knew enough of human nature to see that there was
+another Père Pellico underneath the smiling case-work which talked to me.
+To my military reform he had no objection, provided I exempted Jesuit
+students from service.  I answered that I would exempt all those at
+present in Monaco, to which he replied that he feared then that I should
+never have the pleasure of seeing any others.  I thought to myself “here
+is”—but Père Pellico smiled and slowly spoke again.
+
+“Your Highness was thinking, I venture to imagine, that that would be an
+additional reason for hurrying your military reform.  But I must crave
+the pardon of your Highness for speaking except in reply to your
+Highness.  I have not the habit of courts.”
+
+I spoke then of the Church; he was indifferent—the salaries of his four
+professors could easily be got from Italy.  I then touched upon
+education.
+
+Père Pellico, to my astonishment, exclaimed, “But on the contrary; my
+opinions are not different from those of your Highness.  They are the
+same.  But as a democrat I do not venture, although I may be wrong, to
+force them upon the people.”
+
+Here was a change of base.
+
+“If I were your Highness,” he continued, “I would dismiss the Council of
+State and call an elected parliament to frame a constitution.  That would
+be a more regular method of proceeding than limiting your own prerogative
+by the exercise of that very prerogative itself.”
+
+“Father,” I replied, “is not the country somewhat small for the
+complicated machinery of parliament?”
+
+“Why then not try a Plebiscite, ‘yes’ or ‘no,’ upon certain written
+propositions, as in Zurich?”
+
+“How liberal a politician can afford to be when he has the people with
+him,” I thought to myself as I bowed out Father Pellico.
+
+For the next three weeks, until the end of February, things went smoothly
+with me.  My great aunt bothered me so to marry a “nice steady young lady
+who would maintain the dignity of the Court, check the extravagance of
+the steward, and count the linen,” that I got Dr. Coulon to tell her that
+she would die unless she removed to Nice.  She preferred a short remove
+to a long one, and took herself off to my great relief.  She was a very
+fussy, but a clever and a really good old lady.  My army reform went well
+enough, and the church edict was fulminated without meeting with
+opposition.  I bought, through Mr. Gambart, who often came to Nice, a
+charming Leighton and a glorious Watts, and a fine Verboeckhoven from M.
+Blanc, as a beginning of the public collection.  I moved the councils to
+the palace, and fitted up the public offices thus rendered vacant as my
+museum.  I got M. Lucas at the Casino to improve his already admirable
+orchestra, to start a free school for instrumental music, and to play
+once a week in the town of Monaco instead of at Monte Carlo.  I wrote to
+M. Gounod, whom I had the honour to count among my friends, to offer him
+the Louis Quinze rooms beyond the Chambre d’York, at the north-west
+corner of the Castle, with the most lovely view in both directions, and
+the prettiest decorations to my mind in all the palace, if he would come
+and stay with me as a permanent visitor, and countenance our musical
+efforts.  I founded a school for modelling in clay, a class in decorative
+art which I taught myself, and I made the arrangements for the reception
+of a troop of actors in the winter, and for the production of Gounod’s
+“Jeanne d’Arc”—a piece which was suggested by Père Pellico.  In the
+palace itself I made many improvements.  Of the Chambre d’York I left
+nothing but the pretty mosaic floor, but the room itself, which had been
+gilt from top to bottom, bed and all, by my great-grandfather to take out
+the taste of the Great French Revolution, during which the palace had
+been a poor-house, I turned into a meeting room for the Council of State.
+My steam yacht had come with a temporary crew of English tars, and my two
+great 15-inch 60-ton Krupp guns—one for the terrace, seawards, and one
+for the garden, landwards—were ordered.  The “reports” had been
+abolished; the nagging surveillance of the police had been abolished; the
+Church establishment had been abolished; and I then had nothing left to
+abolish but myself, the abolition of myself being a measure from which I
+shrank although, like King Leopold, I was ready to go if my subjects
+wished it.
+
+The only one of my reforms which was really popular was the national
+army, which afforded all the young married men in the principality a
+weekly holiday away from their wives.  But Major Gasignol, who had a
+“soul above buttons,” used on parade when he was acting as adjutant to
+take an opportunity of reminding me of the days of glory when one of my
+ancestors, Grimaldi II., about the time of the Norman conquest of
+England, had delivered at Rome the Pope from the forces of no less a
+personage than the Emperor.
+
+All this time, however, my education scheme and my substitution of an
+elective for a nominated council were in abeyance, the first on account
+of Père Pellico’s opposition, the second I might almost say on account of
+his support.
+
+Dr. Coulon, consulted by me, often used to say, “Why does not your
+Highness throw the responsibility upon a parliament of leaving matters
+where they are?”
+
+“But I wish to change them,” I as often replied.
+
+“I can understand that your Highness should wish to be thought to wish to
+change them, but further than that point I can not follow your Highness.”
+
+I seriously thought of clapping Dr. Coulon into prison for his
+impertinence, but then he was the only liberal in Monaco, and I was a
+liberal prince.  How I wished, though, that my uncle had not been such a
+fool as to invite the Jesuits, harassed in Italy in 1862, to take refuge
+in his dominions.
+
+I was no further advanced than my grandfather, Florestan I., who when
+overtaken by the events of 1848, which lost him Mentone and Roquebrune,
+contemplated a parliament, which however he never formed.  It was a funny
+constitution was that one which he posted on the walls, and over which I
+had often mused.  It had not gone further than being posted on the walls,
+I should add, because my grandfather found that it would not bring back
+Mentone, and as he was strong enough to keep Monaco with or without it he
+had, very sensibly, put it in the fire.  The 11th article of it was the
+oddest:—“La presse sera libre, mais sujette à des lois répressives.”  But
+the first article gave the tone to the whole:—“The sole religion of the
+State is the Catholic, Apostolic, Roman.”
+
+I strolled up the terraces of Monte Carlo, which always reminded me of
+John Martin’s idea of heaven, and consulted M. Blanc.  He was in
+especially good humour that day, because “Madame Brisebanque” and “the
+Maltese” had both been losing money.  Still, when I talked of my
+parliament and my education reform, he talked of “Jacob’s ladder” and of
+other infallible systems of ruining him which never had any result except
+that of beggaring their authors.  He told me a long-winded story of how
+at Homburg a company called “La Contrebanque” had won twenty-four days in
+succession, and how on the twenty-fifth they had sent for a watchman and
+an iron chest to guard their winnings, how that afternoon their secretary
+had lost the whole capital in eighteen _coups_, and how the innocent
+watchman had marched up and down all night religiously guarding an empty
+chest.  I tried to hark back to my subject, when off he went again at a
+tangent, and told me how the day before on opening the “bienfaisance”
+collection-box in the hall of the hotel they had found no money, but all
+the letters of an American gentleman who had posted them there the year
+before.  Another of his anecdotes was of a lady who, having lost, had
+eaten a thousand-franc note on a slice of bread and butter to improve her
+luck.  M. Blanc left the Casino in his carriage just after I had ridden
+off, and without seeming to look I saw well enough out of the corner of
+my eyes after he had passed me on the road, that the people uncovered to
+him more universally and for a longer time than to myself.  There was,
+however, one difference between us—I returned the bows and he did not.
+
+I gave up M. Blanc and pursued my reforming course, abandoning, however,
+the idea of a parliament and fearing to touch education.  My government,
+now in working order, resembled in no way that which you English think
+the best of all possible polities—“constitutional monarchy”—which with
+you appears to me to mean a democratic republic tempered by snobbism and
+corruption.  Mine was a socialistic autocracy, which, in spite of my
+failure, I maintain to be the best of governments, provided only that you
+can secure the best of autocrats.
+
+I had no one to back me in what I did.  Major Gasignol and some of the
+other officers were strongly favourable to the army reform, which gave
+them service and promotion.  Dr. Coulon was half favourable to my views,
+and a quarter favourable to my ways of working them out in action.
+L’Abbé Ramin was conciliatory and kind.  M. de Payan was grimly neutral.
+Every other functionary was an active, though veiled, enemy to
+nine-tenths of my proposals.  The people were abjectly passive, and I
+almost wished that the auberge of the “_Crapaud Volant_” of _Rabagas_ had
+had a real existence.  At last, however, I conjured up the spirit to
+found a school with lay teachers, arranging to pay its cost over and
+above the expected fees out of my own purse.  No one came to it, and the
+Jesuit schools and the schools of the _frères de la doctrine_ continued
+to be thronged.  The Catholic schools were supported by the state.  Mine
+were supported by myself.  I went a step further, and I offered Father
+Pellico the alternatives of stopping the state contributions to all
+schools, or of continuing them, provided that lay teachers only were
+employed during the principal hours of the day.  He coldly said that an
+agreement of the nature proposed by me would be contrary to his duty, and
+that if I chose to stop the state contributions to his schools the effect
+of my action would be to shake my throne without harming them.  He added
+that if he was to go to prison he was at the service of my officer of the
+guard.  I replied that he was welcome to his opinion.
+
+The next day the edict appeared.  It was countersigned by Baron Imberty,
+who disapproved of it, but not by M. de Payan, who had resigned and left
+for Nice to consult the Bishop.  As I drove through the town in the
+afternoon, I was coldly received by the people, and the proclamation was
+torn down on the following night.  The weekly parade of the militia was
+put off for fear of a hostile demonstration; and on the day on which it
+would have taken place I received, instead of the muster-roll of the
+national regiment, a vote of thanks from the Executive Committee of the
+English National Education League, and notice of my unanimous election to
+membership of the Council of that body.
+
+A strange event occurred in the afternoon, (it was the 11th of March), to
+distract my thoughts.  General Garibaldi, who had been travelling
+_incognito_, and with the permission of the French Government, given
+conditionally on the _incognito_ being strictly preserved, to visit his
+birthplace—Nice, applied to me to know whether I would receive him if he
+stopped at Monaco for a day on his return.  I replied that I should be
+glad to see him, the more so as I had met his son Ricciotti at Greenwich
+in June 1870, at the dinner of the Cobden Club, to which orgy he and I
+had both been lured by the solicitations of the arch-gastronomist, the
+jovial Mr. T. B. Potter.  I did not add that our acquaintance had been
+interrupted by the war in which the same clever and conceited officer had
+cut up my cousin’s (the King of Wurtemberg) troops at
+Châtillon-sur-Seine.
+
+On the 12th the old General came, and I met him at the station and drove
+him to the palace.  The news that he was with me soon spread through the
+town, and a mob collected at the palace gates.  The General, to whom I
+had given the “bishop’s rooms,” which had once been occupied by
+Monseigneur Dupanloup, his arch enemy, imagined that the crowd was
+composed of his admirers, and, leaning upon his stick, he proceeded to
+harangue them from the window of the private apartments.  Some hundreds
+of my subjects, I was afterwards informed, had listened to him languidly
+enough until he began to attack the Jesuits, when arose the uproar which
+brought me to his room, and all my household into the courtyard.  I
+begged him to remember where he was, but the howling of the mob had
+excited the old lion, and the more they threatened the more violently he
+declaimed.  When he was pulled into a chair by Major Gasignol the
+mischief was done, and a maddened crowd was raging on the _place_ crying
+“à bas Garibaldi,” “à bas les Communistes,” “à bas le Prince.”
+
+Colonel Jacquemet made his way to me and said, “Sir, I can count on
+twenty of the sergeants and corporals who are in the courtyard,
+ex-soldiers of your Highness’s ex-garde.  They are grand old soldiers,
+and with the strong walls to help them will hold this _canaille_ in
+check.”
+
+He might have said, “Sir, I don’t like your ways, and have disapproved of
+everything that you have done, but after all you are the rightful Prince
+of Monaco, as well as a good fellow, saving your Highness’s presence, and
+I am ready to die for you.”  He didn’t.  He only spoke the words that I
+have set down.
+
+My answer was an unhesitating one.
+
+“I, Prince Florestan the Reformer, am not going to hold my throne by
+force if I can’t hold it by love; and, moreover, if I wished to do so it
+is doubtful whether I could succeed.”
+
+As I spoke the crowd parted asunder, and I saw advancing through it in a
+wedge the English blue-jackets from my yacht, armed with cutlasses.  A
+few stones were thrown at them, but of these they took not the smallest
+notice.  At their head was the captain of the port, a native Monegascan,
+the very man who years before had saved my sailor cousin from the waves.
+They entered the courtyard, and I at once asked them to make their way,
+with General Garibaldi in the midst, back to the yacht, and steam with
+him to Mentone, land him, and return.  At the same time I sent for Father
+Pellico.  It was lucky the sailors had come, for I soon discovered that
+the carbineers had made common cause with the mob, and that the sergeants
+who were ready to die for me would not have escorted Garibaldi.
+
+The mob howled dismally as he left, but he was embarked safely just
+before Father Pellico reached the palace gate.  I told him that the
+General had left, and asked him whether this concession would satisfy the
+crowd.  He asked whether I was prepared at the same time to give way
+about the schools.  I told him that if I thought that after doing so I
+could continue to reign with advantage to the country and credit to
+myself I would willingly give way, but that if he thought that in the
+event of my abdication the public peace could be maintained until a vote
+was taken to decide the future of the country, I should prefer to return
+to my books and to my boat.  He said that he hoped that I should stop,
+but that if, on the other hand, I went he thought that order would be
+maintained.
+
+I bowed to him and said, “Père Pellico, you may if you please occupy the
+throne of the Grimaldis.  I shall leave in an hour when the yacht
+returns.”
+
+I went on to the balcony and attempted to address the crowd.  If they
+would have listened to a word I said I might have turned them, but not a
+syllable could be heard.  I could not “address my remarks to the
+reporters,” because owing to the wise precautions of my predecessor with
+regard to the press there were none.  I retired amid a shower of small
+stones.
+
+Colonel Jacquemet’s language was fearful to listen to.  The air was thick
+with his curses.  I was reminded of the question of a little girl friend
+of mine, who having been taken out one day to an inspection by the
+Commander-in-Chief of the garrison of Portsmouth upon Southsea common,
+asked on her return home if “the Duke of Cambridge wasn’t a very pious
+man,” explaining that she had heard him “say his prayers”—alluding
+doubtless to His Royal Highness’s favourite expression of “God bless my
+body and soul!”  If he had ever read history the colonel would have known
+that the fire-eating d’Artagnan of “Three Musketeers” renown once
+commanded the fortress of Monaco for Louis the Fourteenth, under my
+ancestor the Marshal, and he might have been inspired by a desire to
+emulate his fame, but, as it was, he seemed chiefly moved by a loathing
+for his tattered fellow-subjects.  He wanted to mow them with grape—of
+which we had none; he wanted to blow them into the air—but to reason with
+him was useless, and I was unable even to fix his attention enough to bid
+him farewell.
+
+As I left the palace, surrounded by the tars and preceded and followed by
+the sergeants of the ex-garde, Abbé Ramin came running up and seized me
+by the hand.
+
+“Your Serene Highness must not leave us,” he cried; “the people are
+irritated for a moment against their prince, but happier days will come.”
+
+“I can stop if I please, Abbé Ramin,” I replied, “but only either by
+firing upon the people, or by blockading them and depriving the women and
+children of the upper town of their daily bread.  I will do neither.”
+
+“History will speak of your Highness as your Highness deserves!”
+
+“My dear friend—for I believe you are my only friend in Monaco—I thank
+you for coming to bid me farewell, but don’t talk of history, for history
+will only declare me to have been an obstinate young fool.”
+
+We moved off slowly down the hill amid the hisses of the crowd.  The
+sergeants formed square upon the quay, I embraced Colonel Jacquemet and
+the Abbé, stepped into the gig, and in a minute was on board.  Steam was
+up, and the next evening I landed at Marseilles.
+
+By a telegram from the Abbé I learnt that an informal vote of the adult
+male inhabitants of the principality had been taken that day, and that
+the result was this:—
+
+                         For Annexation to France
+
+                               1131—_Oui_.
+                                 1—_Non_.
+
+The _Non_ was M. Blanc, who, being a Frenchman, ought not to have been
+allowed to vote at all.  I heard afterwards that on learning my departure
+he had pronounced the following epitaph upon me:—
+
+“Ah le jeune homme est parti.  Je m’y attendais.  Il aimait la liberté
+celui là.”
+
+The Casino is removed to Cairo, and M. Blanc’s eldest daughter is to
+marry the Viceroy’s youngest son.
+
+My tutor at Cambridge received me with a solemn face; but I laughingly
+exclaimed, “You see, Sir, after all I did want an _exeat_, even if an
+_absit_ would not have done.”
+
+The only later news that I have to record is a letter from my friend
+Gambetta, promising that when he becomes President of France I shall be
+préfêt of the Department of the Alpes Maritimes, which includes my
+ex-dominions, on condition that I am very moderate.
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+                                   END.
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+There is no moral that can be drawn from my fall applicable to the
+present state of English politics.  This may be seen indeed from the
+comments of the only three English papers of last Friday and Saturday
+that noticed it.  The _Morning Advertiser_, which, Tory as it is, prefers
+Radical-Orangeism to Tory-Popery (and beer to both), classed me along
+with the Tichborne claimant as a victim to the Jesuits, whereas I wasn’t
+a victim at all; and if I had been, should have been a victim to my own
+obstinacy, as I certainly could have stopped at Monaco if I had pleased
+to do so—either by raising a popular clamour against the priests, which
+would have been immoral, or by accepting Père Pellico’s conditions, which
+would have been humiliating.  The _National Reformer_, the organ of Mr.
+Bradlaugh, patted me on the back as an ill-used republican; and the
+_Standard_ said that my fall showed the absolute necessity of maintaining
+the 25th clause of the Education Act intact, which is what I could not
+for the life of me see.  On the contrary, so opposite are the conditions
+of England and of Monaco, that what would have succeeded in one would
+have failed in the other as a matter of course.  In England you have a
+divided church; an increasing and active though still little numerous
+Catholic body; a materialistic world of fashion which goes alternately to
+Mr. Wilkinson and Canon Liddon, Mr. Haweis and Mr. Stopford Brooke, and
+does not believe a word that any of them says—unless it is Mr. Haweis,
+but then, doctrinally speaking, he says nothing.  You have the old
+nonconformist bodies, able and powerful still, though less powerful than
+before 1868; and you have the Wesleyans, pulpy but rich.  Outside of them
+all you have people who believe two-thirds of them in the Bible pure and
+simple, but with prominence given in their minds to the communistic side
+of the New Testament, and one-third in nothing unless it is Mr. Charles
+Watts, Mr. Austin Holyoake, and Mr. Bradlaugh.  The most flourishing
+publications in your country are _Zadkiel’s Almanac_ and _Reynolds’
+Newspaper_, belonging to the opposite poles, but equally at war with all
+that is most powerful and rich and respectable in your society.  What
+resemblance is there in this state of things, full of life but wholly
+wanting in unity, to that at Monaco, dead, but single in faith?  At
+Monaco all that believed—and most believed—were earnest Catholics,
+wielded for political purposes by one man.  Had my parliamentary scheme
+been carried out the cumulative vote would have been inoperative, and Mr.
+Hare had he been there would have hanged himself from the castle
+flag-staff, for there was no minority.  As in East Prussia the peasants,
+suddenly presented with universal suffrage by Von Bismarck and asked for
+whom they would vote, said with one accord, “For the King.”—“You
+can’t”—“Then for the Crown Prince”—so at Monaco the population would have
+replied “for Père Pellico.”
+
+All the same there is a moral to be drawn from my fall, and it applies to
+the French Republic.  I conjure my friends of the French radical party
+not to let radicalism in France be bound up with indecent speeches made
+over the graves at “civil funerals,” or with the denial of the
+Immortality of the Soul.  In England, in spite of occasional attempts of
+the _Standard_ to couple “atheists” and “republicans,” no such warning is
+needed; but in France it comes almost too late.  No system of government
+can be permanent which has for its opponents all the women in the
+country, and for supporters only half the men; and any party will have
+for opponents all the women which couples the religious question with the
+political and the social, and raises the flag of materialism.  Women are
+not likely to abandon the idea of a compensation in the next world for
+the usage which too many of them meet with in this.
+
+As for my failure at Monaco, I went too fast.  I agree with Mr. Freeman,
+your English historian, that a sudden breach in the continuity of
+national institutions is an evil, and that “the witness of history
+teaches us that, in changing a long established form of executive
+government, the more gently and warily the work is done the more likely
+it is to be lasting.”  I could have stopped at Monaco by humbling myself,
+but at all events I went too fast.  If they take me back, which I really
+think for their own sakes they had better do, I will go much slower.  But
+I have no time to write any more, for I have been put without training
+into the first boat, and we are to stop up during the greater portion of
+the Easter “vac.,” as we have a capital chance of “keeping head.”
+
+
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