BOURBON, PRINCE DE. 



BRAZIL. 



.nl lu-r claims for tho recognition of hor- 

 .iul lior son; an imperial council decided 

 'i.! was entitled to tlio name of Bona- 

 |i:irti, but not to bo regarded as one of the 

 iinp.-ri.il family. Ho was, however, thence- 

 forward on terms of intimacy with his father, 

 niul was welcomed at court. The mother was 

 not recognized. In 1860, on tho death of Je- 

 ronu', her claims were again presented in be- 

 half of her son, and Borryer advocated her 

 This suit was never decided. Mr. 

 Hon.iparto was a man of considerable ability. 

 Mis only son, Jerome Napoleon, a graduate of 

 West Point, is an officer in the French Army. 

 BOURBON, ENRIQUE MARIE FERDINAND, 

 Prince de, Dnko of Seville, Infante of Spain 

 and Vice- Admiral of tho Spanish fleet, a prince 

 of tho Spanfsh Bourbons, brother of Francisco 

 d'Assis, ex-King-consort, and cousin of the ex- 

 Qneon Isabella II., born April 17, 1823; killed 

 in a duel with the Duke de Montpensier, near 

 Madrid, March 12, 1870. Prince Enrique was 

 tho second son of Francisco de Paulo Antoino 

 Marie, Duke of Cadiz, and tho Infanta Louisa 

 Carlotta Maria Isabella, daughter of Francis I., 

 King of the Two Sicilies. He received a very 

 good education and was considered both mor- 

 ally and intellectually much superior to his 

 brother the Kin consort. He married in 

 May, 1847, Dofia Helena de Castelvi y Shelley, 

 Fernandez de Cordova, at Rome. During part 

 of the reign of Queen Isabella, Prince En- 

 rique was the most important person of Spain. 

 He did not, however, exercise the influence 

 his ability and relationship to the King might 

 be supposed to have secured him. The King 

 preferred the counsel of others, and the prince 

 and Queen Isabella disagreed in consequence 

 of the partiality shown by her for Marfori and 

 his friends. He once informed her that if Mar- 

 fori, his agents, friends, and adulators, con- 

 tinued to be all in all in the palace, he would 

 never return there in his life. At the age of 

 twenty-seven he was Vice-Admiral of the 

 Spanish fleet. In March, 1867, a royal decree 



deprived him of that position, and his rank as 

 lni. into of Spain, but the deposition of tho 

 Queen led to hU being restored, nominally at 

 least, to the position. lie was very poor, and 

 had, a few months before his death, honestly, 

 no doubt, avowed himself a republican. Ho 

 had been generally considered an aspirant for 

 the vacant throne, but had repeatedly dis- 

 avowed any designs upon it. He had become 

 embittered against the Duke de Montpensier, 

 whose wife was a younger sister of Isabella 

 II., both because he believed him to be a can- 

 didate for the Spanish throne, and because ho 

 regarded him as tho cause of the persecutions 

 which he had suffered. 



BRAZIL, an empire in South America. Em- 

 peror, Pedro II., born December 2, 1825 ; suc- 

 ceeded his father, April 7, 1831 : has two 

 daughters : Isabella, married to the Count d'Eu, 

 son of the Duke de Nemours ; and Leopoldina, 

 married to Duke Augustus of Saxe-Coburg 

 Gotha; eldest son of the latter, Pedro, born 

 March 19, 1866. The ministry, during the first 

 months of 1870, was composed as follows : Sen- 

 ator Viscount de Itaborahy, President and Min- 

 ister of Finances; Dr. P. J. Soares de Souza, 

 Minister of the Interior ; Niebas, Minister of 

 Justice ; Senator J. M. da Silva Paranhos, Min- 

 ister of External Affairs ; Senator Baron do 

 Murityba, Minister of War; Senator Baron 

 de Cotegipe, Minister of Marine ; Velho, Min- 

 ister of Public Works, Commerce, and Agricul- 

 ture. The United States of America are repre- 

 sented at the seat of government by H. J. Blow, 

 ambassador and minister resident at Rio de Ja- 

 neiro ; the Brazilian minister at Washington is 

 D. J. G. de Magalhaes. Area, 3,231,000 square 

 miles. The population was estimated by the 

 Government, in 1867, at 11,780,000, of whom 

 500,000 were Indians. This estimate is, how- 

 ever, generally regarded as too high. E. J. 

 Pakenham, secretary of the British legation 

 at Rio de Janeiro, transmitted to his Govern- 

 ment in October, 1867, the following statement 

 of the population of the empire : 



