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discovered * Tho I' nd is carrying home Count Armans
perg, the dismis- "~*~ € (freece, after bringing th
King and Ne--- * saw this ship at Malta on mJ
wey out ti; Fo vembor. She was fitted up superb]
for this yo-- and gentleman, and their maids ©
honour and ¢it-nd-ut:. She went to Venice, and was U
waiting for the royal holiday folks for two months, Th
Madagascar, Capt. Lyons, brought out the Regency and th¢
young king. The wives of the members of the Regent
quarrelled even on the passage. Sometime ago the Mede?
steamer was carrying the old King of Bavaria and his son
the islands of the Archipelago and the coast of Asia Minor
We are general carriers for erratic royalty all over the world:
witness, Donna Maria Miguel, old Ferdinand of Naples, tb¢
King of Portugal and their precioas minions, were the choict
freights of our ships of war, When will this folly have 8
end ?
March 24. At twelve o’clock at night {in the Pirav*
harbour] I went on board a little boat, which set sail imme
diately for Kalamaki [in the Isthmus of Corinth]. It was?
clear, fresh, moonlight night, and a favourable breeze s00"
carried us from among the ships in the harbour.”
March 25.—~“ In the morning we were halfway across th?
* The now kingdom was entrusted to a Regenoy until the completion d
King Otho's twentieth year (June 1, 1835). Connt Armaneperg wae Prof”
dent, and Von Maurer was his principal colleague. The pair showed aa
Germans are capable of rivaling the Greeks themselves in hatred 8%
intrigne. “Count Armansperg, as & noble, locked down on Maurer 69 :
pedant and law professor. Maurer sneered at the count as an idler, b
only to be a diplomatist or a master of the ceremonies” (Finlay, vii. 18)
When King Otho returned to his kingdom in the Portland (Feb., 1887), 1
brought with him his young bride, Queen Amelia, and Rudhart to be 157
prime minister. Armansperg was recalled to Bavaria, after disastro®
fulure in his administration. Cobden might have found an exooeilent we!
for a germon, iu the childish perversity which marked Lord Palmerstot®
dealings with Greece in these yeurs, from his stubborn defence of Cou!
Armansperg down to hig disputes about court etiquette, and his emplo®
ment of the fleet to enforoe the payment of a trifling debt.