THE TICHBORNE BARONETCY.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIII, Issue 3017, 28 March 1867, Page 6

THE TICHBORNE BARONETCY.

Sir Rogh* Tichborve, the long-lost heir to the baronetcy and estates of Tichborne, near Alreaford, in Hampshire, arrived on the 2ad January at the Clarendon Hotel, Gravesend. As soon as.his arrival became known to Mr. Gosford, the legal adviser of the late Sir James Tichborne, who was acting in that capacity at the time Mr. Roger Tichborne left England iri 1853, and who was thoroughly familiar with him, he came up from his residence in Wales to Gravesend, to have an interview with him. Upon proceeding to the Clarendon, and asking for Sir Boger, he was told that he was not in. In going downstairs, however, Mr. Gosford met a person whom he by no means recognised as the long-lost baronet, but who was called " Sir Roger >y by the persons about him. This stranger went to his room and locked himself in. Mr. Gosford sent in his card, asking for a personal interview, which privilege was declined ; and in reply to a note from Mr. Groaford, who pressed him on the subject, the gentleman persisted in his refusal. With reference to this affair, a correspondent of the Morning ?° st > writing on January 20, says :— " It is a source of considerable satisfaction to those who have followed the intricate tale of the baronetcy of Tichborne to have something definite at last to announce, and whenthatsomethingisapositive confirmation of previously doubtful circumstances, involving most incredible incidents and vast interests, this pleasure is undoubtedly increased a hundredfold. The baronet has returned. So says his mother, the Lady, Doughty Tiehborne. Of this fact I can speak with the greatest confidence. At the end of last week Sir Roger Charles Tichborne went over to Paris, and saw the Lady Doughty Tichborne, who immediately recognised him and acknowledged him as her long-lost and long-looked-for son, exhibiting, as was natural, the most profound emotion. But it would seem that, though Sir Boger has increased so much in bulk, his health has not been improved by bis ro?ing life. Soon after his arrival in Paris he was taken ill, and up to the last tidings received by intimate fweads he is still confined to his bed-chamber. The moat eminent physicians of the French capital have been ■ummoned to attend upon him. The anxiety of Lady Tichborne on his account is intense. Hardly can she be prevailed upon to leave the bedside of the . sufferer, but they remain together from morning till night discoursing upon the strange events of the past. Every precaution that prudence could suggest was taken tnattheinterviewbetweenthemmightnotprove too muoh for the lady. Andrew Bogle, who has taken such » conspicuous part in the proceedings throughout, preceded SirKoger to Paris, and announced that he would follow. Almost simultaneously another gentleman, in the interest of the present Sir Henry Alfred Doughty Tiehborne— the minorstarted for the same capital, and bad several interviews with her ladyship, to whom he gave the benefit of his counsel and experience, but it would appear without accomplishing the object of his journey. But, though Sir Boger Charles has returned, accord* ing to the acknowledgment of his mother, it would not be safe to assume for one moment that he will be - permitted to enter on the undisputed possessions of ; ' the family estates. To all present appearances, he will hare to fight a stubborn foe in the law courts. Already, it would seem, the hostile for:es au ■, I arrayed, and a long lawsuit may result." I

The following letter, signed "John Holmes, solicitor for Sir R. O. D. Tichborne," appeared in the daily papers of January 23 :—: — "So many vague statements having appeared in the press with reference to Sir Roger Tichborne, I tnmfc it right to inform you that I accompanied him and another gentleman to Paris on the 10th January, where his mother, the Dowager Lady James Doughty Tichborne, instantly recognised and acknowledged Sir Roger as her son, and has spent the last ten days with him. I only returned yesterday evening, and have brought with me the necessary declarations of Sir Roger's identity, taken at the British embassy in his presence and that of her ladyship and the two most distinguiflfeed English physicians in Paris. Acting under the advice of counsel, Sir Roger will now take the requisite steps to obtain possession of bis eßtatei."— Home News.