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Show : IMPUDENCE OF DON CARLOS. Don Carlos, bent upon making the most of his friendship with Piux X. when the latter was patriarch patri-arch of Venice, has just caused to be inserted into the wall of the Loredan palace, his residence on the Grand canal, a huge marble tablet bearing an inscription in-scription in big letters of gold that it was destined . to commemorate the fact that Piux X had been a frequent, and honored guest of Don Carlos and of the Duchess of 'Madrid-there, as a testimony of their veneration and affection of his holiness, and in honor of the golden jubilee of the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception, of which he. Don Carlos, Car-los, and his followers in Spain "have always been the most ardent champions.' The attempt made to associate a tribute to the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception with an advertisement of the fact that he has been on terms of intimacy with the present pope has attracted no end of criticism and not a little ridicule, but is. after all. thoroughly characteristic of Don Carlos, who. like most other pretenders, notably the Duke of Orleans. Prince Victor Xapoleon and General Francis of Bourbon, is lamentably lacking in tact and in delicacy. The late pontiff declined to hold any communication communi-cation whatsoever with Don Carlos, and never permitted per-mitted him to cross the threshold' of the Vatican. Pius X, mindful of his former relations with the pretender at Venice, has shown himself far more gracious and has gone to the length' of . receiving Don Carlos and his wife at the Vatican, with roval honors, but has given him thoroughly to understand under-stand that he will not eounlenanee any Carlist movement in Spain nor modify the attitude of his predecessor in the chair of St. Peter toward the present reigning family and dynasty of Spain. |