The history of the other States of the Balkan Peninsula during these years is by no means so happy as that of Roumania. Prince Alexander of Bulgaria was forced by shameful intrigues to quit his adopted country within a year of a successful campaign with Servia, whose ruler also abdicated in favour of his son after endless and painful quarrels.
The present German Emperor has ably summed up the great work to which the scion of the Hohenzollern House has devoted his life, in a letter to King Charles, in May 1891.
"Five and twenty years have elapsed since your Majesty was first summoned to undertake the government of the Roumanian State, and a decade will have passed on the 22nd of this month since that memorable day on which your Majesty was able, after a regency victorious in war and proved in peace, to receive a royal crown for Roumania and your illustrious house from God's altar by the unanimous desire of the Roumanian nation. Thanks to your Majesty's wise and vigorous rule over a richly endowed and sober nation, Roumania has become an equal and respected member of the Council of the Nations, and under your Majesty's sceptre every Roumanian can rejoice in the proud consciousness of belonging to a State which, as warden of an old-world civilisation, enjoys the sympathetic goodwill of all civilised nations.
"Since our Houses are so closely connected, it is my heart's desire to express my warm congratulations to your Majesty on this joyful occasion, and also the hope that, as the bonds of our personal friendship, so also the firm political relations of Roumania to the German Empire, may be preserved in time to come such as they have been for past years under the enlightened government of your Majesty.
"Your Majesty will place me under an obligation by laying my sincere congratulations before her Majesty the Queen, who has earned undying honour by your side in cultivating Art and the Ideal as well as in the formation of the Roumanian nation."
INDEX
Abdul Aziz deposed, [232].
Abdul Hamid, [238].
Ali Pacha, [42], [116], [158].
Alliance Israelite, [145], [151].
Alphonso, King of Spain, [209].
Amadeo, King of Spain, [187].
Ambronn, Councillor, [131], [134].
Andrassy, Count, [71], [188].
Army:
Command of, [258];
insubordination, [253];
manœuvres, [255], [261], [263];
mutiny, [33];
organisation, [257].
Battenberg, Prince Alexander of, [313], [327];
letter, [336];
elected, [335];
abdicates, [361].
Bavaria, Prince Otto of, [80].
Berlin Congress, [317].
Bessarabia, [199], [317], [324].
Beust, Count, [70], [86].
Bismarck, Prince:
Conversation with Prince Charles, [18];
Col. Bauch, [23];
Bratianu, [316];
Sturdza, [341];
letters on Russia, [63];
Roumania, [73], [113], [168];
railways, [139], [167];
result of the war, [348];
"honest broker," [309].
Bratianu, [11], [28], [312], [318], [356].
Bucharest:
Riots, [35], [122];
Jockey Club, [212];
Commission, [6].
Bulgarian Massacres, [238];
raid, [66];
throne, [329].
Charles Anthony, Prince:
Character, [xi].;
letters on France, [46];
Germany, [49], [164], [185], [338];
Spanish Throne, [79], [93], [94], [101];
abdication of Prince Charles, [120];
railways, [138], [165];
Jewish Question, [149];
Church Question, [214], [217];
Eastern Question, [226], [233], [243];
war of 1877, [270];
result of the war, [298];
Dobrudscha, [309];
death, [360].
Cogalniceanu Jewish Question, [151];
Russian Treaty, [249].
Cotroceni, [158], [197].
Crèmieux, [145].
Crete, insurrection, [52], [57], [59], [65].
Crimean War, result of, [6].
Czar Alexander, letter, [56];
on Roumania, [315];
in Bucharest, [270];
assassinated, [351].
Danube, Commission, [260];
crossing of, [272].
Denmark, war with, [xvi.]
Dobrudscha, [309], [330], [360].
Dondukof-Korsakoff, Prince (Governor-general of Bulgaria in 1878), [327].
England, visit to, [201];
attitude of, [71], [233];
and Russia, [307], [315].
Eugénie, Empress, letter, [333].
Ferdinand, Prince, [361].
Feteschti, bridge at, [360].
Flanders, Count of, [9].
France, ill-feeling of, [58], [62], [67], [79].
Franco-Russian Alliance, [61].
Furceni Camp, [258].
Gladstone, W. E., [53].
Gordon, Charles, [260].
Gornji-Dubnik, [289].
Gortchakoff, Prince, [33];
Jewish Question, [153];
before the war of '77, [239];
confidence of, [270];
on Bessarabia, [304];
threats of, [312].
Greece, draft treaty, [81].
Grivitza Redoubt, [xxviii], [284], [289].
Hagens, Captain, [xiv].
Hohenlohe, Prince, [49], [86].
Hospodars, [1].
Hungary, agitation in relations with, [70], [140], [357].
Ignatieff, General, [57], [106], [305].
Imeritinski, Prince, [286].
Jewish persecution, [148];
denied, [153];
financiers, [179];
emancipation, [318], [344];
congress, [153].
Journey to Roumania, [27].
Krenski, Colonel von, [69], [76], [258].
Kusa, Prince, [7], [9].
Lieutenance Princière, [5], [9].
Livadia, visit to, [83].
Marie, Princess, birth, [103], [180];
illness and death, [192].
Ministries:
Catargiu, [32];
Ghika, [38];
Cretzulesku, [53];
Golesku, [58];
D. Ghika, [70];
Golesku, [91];
Lepureanu, [96];
Ghika, [113];
Catargiu, [125];
Floresku, [229];
Lepureanu, [231];
Bratianu, [237].
Miquel, Dr., [151].
Moldavia, journey through, [40], [78], [155].
Moltke, Count, [261].
Montefiore, Sir M., [148].
Montenegro, [237].
Müller, Max, [202]; letter, [208].
Murad, Sultan, [232].
Napoleon III., visit to, [xvi]., [88];
letter on Jewish Question, [147];
death, [185].
Napoleon, Prince, visit to Bucharest, [88].
Nelidow, M., [242], [267].
Nicholas, Grand Duke, telegram, [275];
urges attack, [280].
Nikopoli bridge, [291].
Omar Pacha, [57].
Osman Pacha, [272], [291], [293].
Paris Conference, [9].
Pelesch, Castle, [159], [360].
Phanariotes, [2].
Piteschti riot, [96].
Plevna, [269];
first action, [273];
second action, [275];
bombardment, [281].
Plojeschti riots, [96], [102];
Russian headquarters, [269].
Poradim Roumanian headquarters, [279].
Portugal, visit to, [xv].
Prussia, Crown Prince of:
Letters on Germany, [169], [182], [192], [220], [325];
Eastern Question, [232], [241];
Russia, [324], [347];
death of Princess Marie, [194];
of Prince Waldemar, [324].
Radowitz, Consul-General, [113], [123].
Railways:
Ofenheim concession, [130];
Strousberg, [131];
payment stopped, [108];
repurchased, [329];
collision, [215].
Rauch, Colonel, [13], [23], [24].
"Roumania, Star of," instituted, [268].
Schools, [160].
Servia:
Prince Michael, [65];
Prince Milan, [199];
extravagance, [208];
war with Turkey, [229]-237.
Sinaja, [158].
Spain, candidature for throne of, [69], [92], [97], [99].
Skobeleff, General, [281], [284], [289], [291].
Strousberg, Dr., [181], [135], [342].
Sturdza, M.:
Report on Servia, [206];
conversation with Bismarck, [341];
mission to Turkey, [41];
to Berlin, [338].
Todleben, General, [285].
Treaty of Balta Liman, [6];
with Servia, [61];
of San Stefano, [311].
Turkey, journey to, [43];
war declared, [265].
Victoria, Queen, [51].
Vienna Exhibition, [189].
Wales, Prince of, [167].
Werner, Councillor von, [26].
Widin, bombardment of, [268].
Wied, Princess Elizabeth of, [87], [88];
marriage, [90].
William I., Emperor:
letter on Roumania, [15];
Jewish Question, [172], [341].
William II., Emperor, letter, [361].
Ypsilanti, Prince, [71].
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