1898.] on ''Marked Unexplored:' 675 



hearing of the Eussian Emperor's advice, he said : " The Emperor 

 knows nothing about it. My return is longed for as if I were the 

 Messiah. As for constitutions, why doesn't the Emperor grant one to 

 Eusjiia, since he is so ready with his advice to me ? " 



Brave words ; but words brought him no nearer to moving Murat. 

 Murat, a fiery and impulsive man, was playing his game with great 

 skill. He merely sat steady under his treaty obligations, and called 

 upon the contracting powers to fill theirs. 



Louis Philippe now approached Louis XVIIL Surely his kins- 

 man the King of France would help him. Perhaps the son of Egalite 

 Orleans was not a very welcome figure to the brother of Louis XVI. 

 Anyhow the King of France received him with reserve. King- 

 Ferdinand, he said, had all his sympathy, and he would instruct 

 M. de Talleyrand to urge legitimacy and restoration at the Congress 

 of Vienna with all possible force. He even went so far as to say 

 that he would never recognise Murat himself. There was an amusing 

 passage of arms between the two monarchs at about this period. The 

 of&cial gazetteer, when it appeared, contained — in accordance with 

 this resolve of Louis XVLEI. — the following entry : 

 Naples, see Sicily, kingdom of. 



Murat, not to be behindhand, published the official gazetteer of 

 Naples with this entry : 



Frarice, see Elba, island of. 



All of which brave doings brought Louis Philippe no nearer to 

 turninu; Murat off the throne of Naples. 



Bafiled in Paris, he now turned to London, and craved from 

 Louis XVIIL a line of introduction to the Prince Eegeut. " No," 

 said the King, " I can 't do that ; the Prince would show the letter to 

 his ministers, and it would become an ofiicial document, but you may 

 give H.R.H. this message. Ask him if he remembers that Knight of 

 the Garter whom he received sitting." This was all the letter of 

 introduction that Louis Philippe brought to London. It seems to 

 have reference to some incident for which the Prince Regent owed 

 rej)aratiou,for he received the Duke graciously enough. But he held 

 out no more hope than the other kings. " Your father-in-law has 

 played his cards badly." " Votre beau-pere a mal mene sa barque," he 

 said. " Our engagements with Murat must be maintained." " England 

 has no engagements with Murat," said the Duke. But the Prince 

 was silent, and then he added, " I can't think what the Allies meant 

 by stuffing Napoleon into the Island of Elba, just outside Murat's 

 gates." This was a most unpleasant line for the Prince's thoughts to 

 take, for it led to the conclusion that if another exile were found for 

 Napoleon, Murat would do no harm where he was. So the Duke 

 hastened to turn the conversation : " Let your Royal Highness put 

 yourself at the head of the movement," he said, " and do for Naples 

 what you have already done for France." 



On this appeal, vague and grandiose, the Prince Regent shook 

 hands with the Duke, and rang his bell for Lord Liver2)ool and 



