M. Stambouloff is full of revelations concerning his Sovereign. He
has informed a correspondent of the Frankfurter Zeitung that the present policy pursued by the Bulgarian Government is entirely that of the Prince. It is an exact reversal of M. Stambouloff's own, which favoured a good understanding wit a Turkey and the Triple Alliance. The Prince's policy is all directed towards obtaining recognition from Russia. To obtain this he is seeking the election of a Russophil Chamber, which will endorse his overtures to Russia, and so damp down discontent in the Army. The Prince has actually gone so far as to appoint as Commissioners of Police men who helped to kidnap Prince Alexander. And with all that he will never get recognised by Russia. " The Czar is a type of the Russian mujik, honest, orthodox, narrow- minded, and as obstinate as an ox." The Prince is a clever man, but wastes his cleverness on petty mat- ters. He reads everything that is written about him, perhaps some fifty newspapers a day, and tears one into pieces if it contains disparaging remarks. " I have often told him, ` Do not read so many papers, but study publics affairs. Get a French or English colonel to teach you the elements of military knowledge so that you may be able to understand your War Minister.' I used to speak to him just as freely as I speak to you." The Prince, says M. Stambouloff, thinks of nothing but his Court, his uniforms, &o. His real reason for troubling about his recognition " is to be able to travel abroad as a reigning Prince, to show himself in his Bulgarian uniform, and to be received at railway stations by a General." M. Stambouloff ended by saying that he will never again serve the Prince in person, but hints that there is a locus penitentiu for the Bulgarian Sovereign.
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