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THE BOURBON FA \ !MY.

VI. was the sixty-sixth King of his race,
whose private virtues and public patriotism were
equally eminent. I-Lid he been a tyrant, he might
yet hate occupied the titronv of his ancestors. A
patriot—he was the first of them who perishel on a
scatlOld. Louis XVI L the unfortonate son o!' this
unfortunate father, b:•f..:•.• he had seen his second
lustre, was poisoned in the same prison from which
he had witnessed his father, morher, and aunt,
dragged to be butchered. Louis XVIII. the pre-
sent lawful King of France and pavane, inherited)
in 1795, the rank with the misfortunes of his roya
relatives and predecessors. His Alajesty resided as
an exile at Verona in Italy, when he was proclaimed
a King of France and Navarre, by the brave army
of Conte, in Germany. During 1796 and 1797,
he shared the dangers and fatigues of those his
faithful subjeCts. In 1793, he was saluted as a
King, by Paul I. the Emperor of Russia, invited
to his dominions, received with honours due to roy-
alty during 1799 ; and m 1800 turned again adrift
upon the world ; and though the sixth-eighth King
over one of the richest and most populous nations in
Europe, civilised and made powerful by his :mces-
tors, His Majesty was wandering from Russia to
Prussia, from Prussia to Poland, without a home,
and almost without a friend, destitute, and deserted
both by kings and by subjeCts. In l7!'li, Louis
XVIII. escaped in Germany the hired assassins of
the Dirdlory ; and in 1804, at Warsaw, in Poland,
those of the atrocious Bonaparte, and that at the
same time when this atrocious usurper had his
hands yet reeking with the blood of the Duke of
Enghien, another Bourbon. Louis XVIII. was
born on the 17th November, 1755, and married on,
the 14th of May, 1771, to Maria .Josephine Louisa,
born on the L.l of September, 1753, a Princess of
Sardinia. Their Majesties have no issue, and re-
side for the present at Warsaw.
His Royal H:ghness Charles Philip, brother
to Louis XVIII. called Monsieur, ci.devant Count
d'Artois, was horn on the gth OCtober, 1757,
and married on the 16th November, 1773, to Her
Royal Highness Maria Theresa, Princess of Sar-
dinia, born on the 31st of January, 1756. Their
Royal Highnesses have issue, two Princes:—Louis
Antoine, Duke of Angouleme, born on the 6th of
August, 1775 ; married on the 10th of June, 1799,
to his first cousin. Princess M Ilia Theresa, only
daughter of Louis XVI. and born en the lgth De-
es!rnher, 1778. 2dly, Charles Ferdinand, Duke of
Berry, horn on the C•kb of January, 1778. Their
Royal liglinesces Monsieur and the Duke of Berry
reside io London, and the Duke and Duchess of
Aagoulem•• at Warsaw.
The Orleans Branch of the Bourbons:—The
Dache,s Dowager of Orleans, Louisa Mafia A de-
I.ti .le, daughter of the Duke of Penthievrc, was horn
the 13th March, 1753, and has been a widow since
:he fidt November, 7;i3. Her children :—lst,
Louis Philippe, Duke of Or7eans, born Oauber
t 2,1, Anon n • Philippe, Duke of Montpen-
..;,,, horn July a, 1773. 3d, Eugenia Adelaide
Louis, Duchess of Ch trtres, bo•ra Atigtict 23, 1777.
Alifionso Leodger, Count of Baujolois. born
OCt.•bcr 7. 177). The twa Duchesses reside in
Spain, and the three Princes in England.

Louis X'

The Conde Branch of the Bourbons:—His Se-
rene Ahness Louis .Toseph de Bourbon, Prince of
Crind,, horn Angn,:t 9, 173(i, and married, for the
second rime, in November, *798, to Catharina, Prin-
cess Dowager of Monaco, by whom His Ilighnest
has no children. By Charlotte, his first wife,
'Duchess of Rohan Soubise, the Prince hail-Ist,
Louis Henry Joseph, Duke of Bourbon, born on the
13th of April, 1756, and married on the 24th of
1770, to Her Serene Highness Louisa Maria
Theresa Nlatilda, sister to the late Duke of Orleans,
horn on the 9th of July, 17.5 n. Their only issue
was His Serene Highness Louis Antoine Henry
Duke of Engliien, born August 2, 1772, and
murdered by Napoleon Bonaparte, in the night
of le 20th and 21st March, 180.1. 3d, Louisa
Adelaide, Mademoiselle de Bourbon-Conde, for-
merly an abbess of It emiremont in France, at
present a nun of the severe order of La Trappe. Her
Serene Highness was born Ono`aer 5, 1757. The
Prince and Princesss of Conde, and the Duke of
Bourbon, reside in England.
The Conti Branch :—Louis F. Joseph, Prince of
Conti, born September 1,173 i ; married the 27th
of February, 1759, to the Princess Fortunie MAI ia
d'Este, daughter of Francis 111. late Duke of Mo-
dena, born November 24, 1731. Their Serene
Highnesses reside both in Spain.
His Spanish Majesty, Charles IV. who has six
children, is a Bourbon, as well as His Majesty Fer-
dinand IV. King of the Two Sicilies, who has six-
teen children and grandchildren.
Tile young King of Etruria is also a Bourbon.
According to the constitutional laws of Fiance,
the peaces of Utrecht and Aix la Chapelle, and the
Bourbon fArt.ily corrum:l, all these Kings and
Princes, and their issues, are in succession heirs t'
t'ae throne cf Franc: and Navarre.

LAW INTFLLICFNCE.

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THH HON. 0. C. CHANFIELD BERKELEY, ILA.' AD-

5411111.., V. CONGRt:VF, PA RSaNS, AND OTH..kti.
This was an a :lion against the Proprietor, Publish-
er, aid Printer, of a weakly publication, caliA 7.4 e
Royal Staed.rrel, for a maticii.u. libel contained in
that print, intended to traduce the honour, courage,
and reputation, of the gall:ea Admiral.
Mr. ERSUNE, is a mosteloquent speech, expa-
tiated on the freedom of the press, and the respon-
sibility individuals were under who abused such
licence, by making it the medium of defaming the
most honourable charade: s. The world, he observed,
had ever felt the most exalted sentiments of the abi-
lity, as a naval officer, and courage, possessed by the
gallant Admiral, the Plaintiff in this :[:Rion, and the
country eaterrained a grateful sense of hi:, sp.endid
services perfoimed at a period, glorious in the an-
nals of England. It was to that service the libel in
question related, namely the atchievement of that
brilliant viaory over the enemy, on the Ist of June,
1794. The Marlborough, a line of battle ship, com-
manded by the Plaintiff, acquired, upon that glo-
rious occasion, the most honourable charader for
the bravery of her crew, and the heroic conduit of
her officers. The Plaintiff fought her like a British
Officer, and in the contest, being wounded, was
reluitantly obliged to leave the deck : the latter cir-
cumstance had become the subjed of the most gross
and sc aid:dons attack made by the Defendants.
The inuendoes of the libel insinuated, that the
Plaintiff, by quitting the 'deck, had aged like a shy
cock ; that his wound had been received by running
his head against a block, and that his conduit was
cowardly in the extreme. The learned Counsel di-
reted his observations to interest the Jury upon the
injury such insinuations had done the Plaintiff, feel-
ing as a man of honour, conscious of having done
his duty to his country with promptitude and ar-
dour. There were no damages, he contended, that
could remedy the injury; such, however, as would
operate as a punishment for the offence the Jury
were bound to give, and the sum could not be too
great.
Mr. Pteraza followed on the sane side.
The libel having been ascertained to have been
published by the Defendants;
Captain John Monkton, of the Royal Navy, was
examined fur the Plaintiff, and stated, that he
was l'ir.t Lieutenant on board the AfarlAoroargh,
when she was under the command of Captain Berke-
ley, in the s ngagement of the I,t of June, 1794, he,
in his situation as first officer n the quarter-deck,
had an opportunity of olrierving the behaviour of
the Plaintiff, e ;ici, on nu ,:cc t• luring the ac-
tion, appeared to be deficient -age, coolness,
or ability, but condußed himself b!iir a British Of-
ficer. The Witness produced minutes wide, during
the proceedings of the ship and fleet, in the eiigage-
went, and read part of them to the Court, by wbich
it appeared, that on the morning of the Ist of June,
the signal was made by Lord Howe, on board the
Queen Clierlutie, for the Alartherargh and a:fence
to bear down on the enemy's line • in compliance
with which, the Plaintiff concluded his ship towards
the enemy, and with great precaution ordered the
s.-ew not to l:-e until close to the ships which they
has; to engage ; his orders being obeyed, they did
no: engage till between the sternof one Frenchman,
and the head of another, when the Marlboro: 44
raked both, and threw the :'reach line into the great-
est confusion; she then drooped to leeward of the
eneniy, and was engaged by an 84 gun ship on
the larboard bow, and a large ship on the starboard
quarter, after having fprced two ships to strike to
her. By this anequal contest, and being separated
from the British fleet, which was then to windward,
she was totally dismasted, had upwards of thirty
men killed, and 100 wounded. The Plaintiff fought
uu the quarter-deck, the greater part of the engage-
ment, and received a violent contusion on his fore-
head by a splinter-shot; in consequence of which, by
the advic.: of his officers, he went down in the cock-
pit to have the wound dressed, after giving his
sword and the command of the ship to the Witness,
his First Lieutenant, during the Plaintiff's absence,
who remained with the Surgeon. The ship was re-
duced to the most shattered condition; her stern was
shot away; her bowsprit, masts, and the last of her
colours. At the same time, Le Men agar, a French
s;iip, mounting 130 guns on 4 decks, was bearing
down to sink the Marlborough, but was cut
off by the Revd George. Under such cir-
cumstances, the Witness kept the command du-
ring the Plaintiff's illness, who appeared to have
been dangerously wounded. There was not the
smallest want of courage to he imputed to the PI sin-
tad; and the Witness saw that he behaved like a
brave British officer.

The Surgeon of the ship stated, that the wonnd
which the Plaintiff had sustained, was a violent con-
tusion in the head, and was of such consequence,
that he required immediate assistance.
Admiral Duncan gave the Plaintiff a most ea-
cellent chars der for oilicer-like condud.
Lord Flood and I.arl St. Vincent attended for the
same purpose.
The Cott, Rasoic and the Jury, however, ex-
pressz:d their entire satisfaction with the testimony
of the gsii.i .t Admiral, and dispensed with ex-
amining more

Mr. DA e Les, for the Defendants, made a very long
and Able Address to the Juryia mit igationof damages ;
he descriLed the libel to have been scat to the De-
fendants in a latter signed Roes LING. It was anony-
mous, and, from want of caution, and without. any de-
to injure the reputation and honour of the gal-
lant Admiral, had been 1 u.slished. The unfortunate
men, lie ota.erved, who hat been employed merely
AS mechanics, namely, the ',linter and publishes,
ought, in justice, to be ex:luded from the quan-
tum of d Images, as they had a:led under the orl:rs
of Comreve, the Editor.
Mr. bAussesv folluned on the defence, with ar-
guments extenueing the flefendant's condua.
The Loan Cu.Li BA LON obi• rvrd, no defer. c
had heen made; and. -..setsvz cert•ured the pal Tea•
tion of the libel, Isom its evil tendency, cl.reaed the
Jury to give sur.h damages as they ad;uclied com-
mensurate to the injury it produced.
Verdi& for the EAinnif, Owe Thesacnd Pea ads
d as. iges