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event Maury wrote, "Poor Max! He died for his honor. 

 He and 'my' Carlotta are the marytrs of the age". 



As affecting his own affairs, he afterwards wrote of 

 this Mexican tragedy, "But for my good luck in having 

 J. D. and Mai. for enemies to send me here into banish- 

 ment, and then kind Mexican villains to intrigue me out 

 of Mexico, you see the rocks that but for enemies I 

 should have split upon". A very few years afterwards 

 the mills of the gods ground out their punishment for 

 the faithless Emperor Napoleon, and his empire went 

 down like a house of cards before the onrush of the 

 German armies in 1870. Of Maury's connection with 

 Maximilian and Napoleon, his cousin Rutson Maury 

 wrote, "It was a special Providence that carried you 

 away from Mexico and that prevented your linking your 

 fortunes with those of Louis Napoleon". 



Maury's decision to remain in England turned out 

 better, in every way, than he had anticipated. Here 

 in London in the midst of most pleasant and congenial 

 surroundings he lived with his wife, three youngest 

 daughters, and son Matthew, Jr., who was then attend- 

 ing the London School of Mines. During this peaceful 

 life, in 1866, Maury became a regular member of the 

 Church, being confirmed with his son and his daughter 

 Lucy in Dr. Tremlett's church at Belsize Park, London, 

 by Dr. Charles Todd Quintard, Bishop of Tennessee, 

 who was then in England to attend the Pan-Anglican 

 Assembly at Lambeth and also to raise money for the 

 University of the South at Sewanee. 



In 1868, Maury was signally honored by Cambridge 

 University which bestowed upon him the degree of LL.D. 

 He was accompanied to Cambridge for the ceremonies 

 by his wife, his daughters Mary and Lucy, and his 



