THE STATE OF AFFAIRS AT SAN REMO.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 314, 26 April 1888, Page 3

THE STATE OF AFFAIRS AT SAN REMO.

Writing under date March 1, Mr Labouolieie says:—J have received a letter from Sail Remo from an individual who is in a position to know the real truth about the Grown Prince, from which the following passages are extracted; There is not the slightest hope of the Crown Prince’s recovery, and it is exceedingly doubtful whether he will live for more than a few weeks. The bulletins arc mere fairy tales. They are rigorously revised by the court officials, and are no more reliable than the famous notification respecting Prince Albert, which declared that his fever was “unattended by unfavourable symptoms,” when at that very time he was piactically a dead man. The physicians and surgeons in attendance on the Crown Prince are in a state of cruel embarrassment, for they are obliged to give quasi-favourable reports to the innumerable correspondents by whom they are beset. The German practitioners are furiously jealous of Sir Mo veil Mackenzie, who, as they well know, has stayed here solely in compliance with the entreaties of the Crown Prince, who seems to regard him as lies last earthly hope, and the Crown Princess fully shares her husband’s sentiments. There was a difference of opinion between Sir Morell and the Germans, both as to the precise form of the pipe which was to be placed :u the Crown Prince’s throat after the operation, and also as to Ids treatment, and events have justified the views of the English specialist on both points. The fact is, that it would be infinitely better for the patient if he were confided entirely to Sir Morell Mackenzie, and. this is what he himself would desire; but German susceptibilities must net be wounded, and it may be doubted whether Sir Morell would now undertake the sole charge of the c aso, as when the end comes the fatal issue would, of course, bo attributed to British blundering: but even Professor Bergmann and Ids colleagues have been struck with adrr'-ation at tho almost stipoi natural doxerily with which SR- Morel! manipulates tho interior of tho throat, and dr ing tho past week ho has succeeded in romov.ug some obstruction which was threatening to suffocate the Crown Prince in ono of his severe fits of

coughing, and by doing so ho saved the •To of the patient, as, with all their skill, 'ho German surgeons are quits incapable of such work. Tho Crown Prince is greatly worried about bis private affairs, and 1 am sorry to have to confirm the unfavorable reports as to Prince William which have recently been current. 110 has practically refused ro facl’itato arrangements which Lis father is desirous of carrying out (to appreciate the importance of his attitude it is necessary to understand that tho Emperor Wiliam is now in a state of senile dementia), and lie has behaved with a perfectly barbarous rudeness to bis mother. If be is coming here, as people say, it is not by his parents’ invitation.