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The next son, Cart was the family’s chief courier. He was the least intelligent of all the brothers. He
was awkward when he spoke and he had a nasty temper. One biographer described him as "punchy".
In 1821 Carl was sent to Naples, Italy to oversee loans there that were meant to finance Metternich’s
forces who had arrived to quell a rebellion. While in Italy the Rothschild
"mantle" came upon Carl
and he made a series of ingenious deals with the Italian government that forced Naples to pay for its
own occupation. He also helped Luigi de Medici of the Black Nobility to re-gain his position as
finance minister of Naples, and later did business with the powerful man. Due to his success it was
decided that he would stay in Naples and set up his own bank. He became financier to the court, the
"financial overiord of Italy." Carl "...wound the Italian peninsula around his hand." He did business
with the Vatican, and when Pope Gregory XVI received him by giving him his hand rather than the
customary toe to kiss, people realized the extent of his power. The Pope conferred upon him the
Order of St. George.
It appears that in Italy Carl became a leader of Carbonarism. After the Bavarian IllumInati was
exposed, Carbonarism
(or the Alta Vendita) became the major European occult power. Carl’s
leadership
in this group is very significant.
In 1818 a secret Alta Vendita document, that Cari had
participated
in preparing, was sent to the headquarters
of Masonry. A copy of this document was lost,
and the Masons got very upset, and offered rewards for the return of this copy. The title of the
document translates "Permanent
Instructions,
or Practical Code of Rules; Guide for the Heads of the
Highest Grades of Freemasonry.
"
Last, but absolutely not least, was the youngest son, James. During the Napoleonic conflict James had
spent his time between London and Paris, supporting the Rothschild’s
network of illegal trade with
England. After the Wellington smuggle and the defeat of Napoleon, James became an established
figure in France. He founded a bank there and began the French branch of the Rothschild family.
James was a 33 degree Scottish Rite Mason. At this time the French House
was the center of operations
for the Rothschilds.
Even though successive
revolutions
would de-throne
ruler after ruler, Rothschild
power kept the family in control. James was good friends with the leading
minister of the Bourbon court, Count de Villele, and he "owned" King Louis Philippe. He also
secretly funded Spanish revolutionaries
(his agent in Madrid was Monsieur Belin). James yearned for
social status. The pursuit of which was second only to money. He had gown so powerful that the
French exchange was deeply affected by all his decisions. Like his brother, Salomon, he pioneered
the railroad business in France. He also bought the great Lafite vineyards. His bank, de Rothschild
Freres was in a league all its own. No one in France could even wish to be as powerful as James. As
Salomon had, James received the Order of Vladimir for his work with the Russian dynasty. He also
became a member of the Societe de Antiquites. In the Rothschild tradition (as
constituted by Mayer’s Will) of trying to keep everything within the family James married his niece,
Betty Rothschild, the daughter of Salomon. The Rothschilds
main advantage was their incredible
courier system. It kept the 5 Houses connected. In fact, the Hapsburgs used this system quite often.
All evidence points to the Rothschild brothers being very powerful within Freemasonry. They were
one of the leading families in occultism at that time in Europe. Many prominent Masons of their day
praised the brothers. In 1820, due to Metternich’s
lobbying, Nathan was made Austrian consul in
London, and two years later he was made consul-general.
James was also made an Austrian consul in
Paris. Metternich’s
promptings
also provided something else very important to the family; in 1822 all
the brothers
and their descendants of either sex were made Barons. This established social position for the
Rothschilds.
The Gentz-Metternich
team was very beneficial to the House of Rothschild. By this time
a
few papers had run some upsetting articles about the family. Salomon asked Gentz to censure any
more unkind reports and he also commissioned
the Illuminist to write a bogus biography on the
family that would portray them in a good light. Gentz, now called the "Pen of Europe", proceeded to
write legends for the Rothschilds,
and the family fully encouraged the propaganda
in their social
circles. The brothers had a system (based on Mayer’s Will) where only family members were partners
or owners of the banks. This system is still in use today. The Rothschild banks bought everything up,
