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me. On November 19, 1866, 1 promised Arch- 

 duke Albrecht, in writing, to be silent on these 

 matters in future. This promise may be called 

 a rash and even a foolish one, but it was the 

 characteristic expression of my soldierly char- 

 acter. It passes my ideas of right, honor, and 

 decency, that the Austrian Government, hav- 

 ing my promise, had its strange article on me 

 published in the papers on December 9 or 

 10, 1866, in which even my entire past career 

 was belittled ; that this article was composed 

 by Field-Marshal John and , and was pub- 

 lished by order of the Government. I have 

 endured it silently, and have now borne my 

 hard lot for seven years with patience and self- 

 denial." 



BERTHATTT, General, French Minister of War 

 in the Dufaure Cabinet, under President Mac- 

 Mahon, and one of the prominent organizers of 

 the French army ; died December 24th, at the 

 age of sixty-four. In the defense of Paris, dur- 

 ing the war of 1870, he displayed signal brav- 

 ery at the head of his division of Gardes Mo- 

 biliers. 



BONAPABTE, PIERBE, Prince, a son of Lncien 

 Bonaparte and a nephew of Napoleon I, born 

 October 11, 1815 ; died April 8, 1881. He was 

 one of those members of the Bonaparte family 

 who by their adventurous lives have gained 

 considerable notoriety. He was elected to the 

 National Assembly from Corsica in 1848, and 

 after the coup d'etat was recognized as a French 

 prince. He very seldom came to court, and in 

 1869 married his mistress, the daughter of a 

 laborer. In 1870 he shot Victor Noir, who came 

 to him as the second of Pascal Groussets, and, 

 although acquitted by the court at Tours, the 

 excitement in the country was so intense that 

 he was compelled to leave France. After the 

 war with Germany he became so reduced finan- 

 cially that his wife opened a milliner's shop in 

 London, to the great disgust of the Bonapart- 

 ists. 



BOEROW, GEOBGE, a British author, born in 

 February, 1803; died July 30, 1881. He was 

 the son of a British officer, and spent a roving 

 life in following his father about. He lived for 

 some time among gypsies, and acquired an ac- 

 curate knowledge of the language and customs 

 of this race. Afterward he studied theology 

 at Edinburgh, and since 1835 traveled through 

 most of the countries of Europe and parts of 

 Africa as agent of the British and Foreign Bible 

 Society.. In this way he acquired a knowledge 

 of a large number of modern languages and di- 

 alects. In St. Petersburg he published a trans- 

 lation of the New Testament in the Manchoo 

 language and a volume of poetical translations 

 from thirty languages. In Spain he translated 

 the Gospel of St. Luke into the language of the 

 gypsies and recounted the history of Ms wan- 

 derings in "The Bible in Spain " (2 vols., 1843, 

 third edition, 1873); "The Zincali: an Ac- 

 count of the Gypsies in Spain " (2 vols., 1841, 

 third edition, 1873); and " Lavengro, the 

 Scholar, the Gypsy, and the Priest " (3 vols., 



1851, third edition, 1873). He severed his con- 

 nection with the Bible Society in 1839, and con- 

 tinued his travels iu Hungary, Ronmania, and 

 Turkey, publishing " Romany Rye," a sequel 

 to "Lavengro" (3 vols., 1867, third edition, 

 1873), and " Wild Wales " (3 vols., 1862, second 

 edition, 1873). 



Bosco, FERDINANDO BENEVENTANO, Baron 

 DEL, general of the army of the former King of 

 Naples ; died at Naples, January 8th, aged six- 

 ty-seven years. He was the ablest officer in the 

 Bourbon service, and the most esteemed; he 

 was given the rank of field-marshal, and after 

 the fall of the King, whom he served with 

 bravery and fidelity, he entered the Italian 

 service. 



BRESTEL, RUDOLF, formerly Austrian Minis- 

 ter of Finance, and the author of reforms which 

 prevented the frequent deficits; died March 

 2d, at Vienna, where he was born in 1816. 

 He was Minister from 1867 to 1870. 



BUDBERO, Baron ANDREAS, formerly Russian 

 embassador at Berlin and other capitals ; died 

 February 10th. He enjoyed the favor of the 

 Emperor Nicholas, and represented the Russian 

 pretensions and hatred of the constitutional 

 developments in Germany so faithfully as to 

 become exceedingly unpopular at Berlin, where 

 he was embassador from 1851 to 1856, and a 

 second time from 1858 to 1862. 



BURGEES, THOMAS FRANCOIS, ex-President of 

 the Transvaal Republic, born April 15, 1834; 

 died December 9, 1881. He was born in the 

 Cape Colony, of one of the oldest Dutch fami- 

 lies, and was educated at the University of 

 Utrecht in Holland, where he imbibed some 

 rationalistic views, which, on his return to Af- 

 rica and his accession to the ministry, caused 

 him considerable trouble. He became the cler- 

 gyman of the Dutch Reformed Church at Han- 

 over, in Cape Colony, and won great renown 

 by his eloquence. As the doctrines he preached 

 were at variance with the Calvinistic tenets 

 of his church, he was accused of heresy, but, 

 in the trial which followed, judgment was 

 given in his favor. When Mr. Pretorius retired 

 from the presidency of the Transvaal Republic 

 in 1872, Mr. Burgers became the candidate of 

 the Liberal party, and was elected by an over- 

 whelming majority. His administration ex- 

 tended up to 1877, when the republic was an- 

 nexed by the British, and was characterized by 

 magnificent but lor the greater part impracti- 

 cable schemes. 



CAROLINE, ex-Queen of Denmark, born June 

 28, 1796; died March 9, 1881. She was the 

 daughter of Frederick Christian, Duke of 

 Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburp-Augustcnburg, 

 and married King Christian VIII of DcUttn 

 in 1815, shortly after he had come forward as 

 the champion of national independence of Nor- 

 way, and had been proclaimed king of that 

 country. He was compelled to relinquish this 

 title soon after, and it was not until the death 

 of Frederick VI, in 1889, that he ascended the 

 throne of Denmark. He died in 1848. 



