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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

PAIS IPAPIIIIS.
Patin, MAT 14.
The illastriont and venerable Prince Louis
aoseph de Bourbon Conde, Grand Muter of
France, sunk at eight o'clock last morning, at the
age of a years, under a disease with which his
Serene Highness was attacked three days ago.
He was the only son of the Duke of Bourbon
and the Princess Caroline of Hesse FtheinTels, and
being left an orphan when live years old, was edu-
cated under the direction of the Count de Charo-
Isis, his uncle and guardian. Louis XV. Con-
ferred on the young Prince the post of Grand
Master of his Household, which had been held by
his hither, and delegated its functions to the Count
de Charolais, till hit► nephew should be old enough
to fulfil them. In like manner be gave the reVer-
Mon of the government of Burgundy to the buke
de St. Aignan, in trust for the young Prince, when
he should have attained the age of 18 years.
The Count de Charolais superintended the edu-
cation of the heir of the house of Conde, with u
strictness which early developed in him the love of
learning and of glory. On the ed of February,
1732. he was created a Knight of the Order of the
Holy Ghost ; and on the 3d of May following he
married the Princess Charlotte Godefride Elisabeth
de Hoban Souhise, who died in 1760, in the flower
of her age; leaving two children by him : the
Duke of Bourbon, born in 1736, and Mademoi-
selle de Conde in die following year. On the 13th
of August, 1734, hit Serene Highness, then IS
years of age, in quality of Governor of Burgundy,
opened the Assembly of the States of that Province.
In the ensuing year he commenced his military
career in the first campaign of the Seven Years'
War, in which he obtained great distinction. At
the battle of flastenbeck, being solicited by M. de
'noir:sine, his first Gentleman and Aide-cle.Camp,
to move ten paces to the !tit to avoid the di.
riction of a battery, which was making dread-
ful havoc round about him, lie replied, " I
Soil no such precautions in the history of the
great Conde." At the battle of Minden. two
3 ears afterwards, lie displayed the most impetuous
courage. At the head of his reserve he vigoro►►sly
charged the enemy upon a field strewed with the
Isorlies of officers of the gendarmerie awl carbineets.
I 111 military talents were still more strikingly dcve-
lop►ed when the Prince had a separate body of troop.
miller his command. He then obtained various ad.
vantages over Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick. the
relative and worthy Lieutenant of the Great Fre.
oleic. The victory of Johannisberg, gained over

the Hemliter) Prince of Bruntwicl, in I';f4oens
the most brilliant achievement of the young Pfirice
of Conde daring that war. He bad held a ,Cougeil
in the midst of the fire, and natwithstandisse the
superiority of numbers, he remained master of the
field of battle. Louis XV.to reward his valour, gave
him part of the cannon taken from the enemy on this
occasion. The Duke of Brunswick afterwards visited
the Prince of Conde at Chantilly, and not finding
these pieces of cannon. which, from genuine delicacy,
, Ake Prince haul kept out of sight, be observed—" You
have contrived to vanquish me twice' in war by
your arms, and iu peace by your modesty." The
first time that the Prince appeared at the Comedic
Frencnise after his return, a piece, entitled
" llitirewleistetts," was performed, and the public
hpplied to him with acclamations the expression
which occurs in it;—" Andijor my part, I drink to
Mars."
This Prince was fond of literature, nand Culti-
vated it with success. A society of literary Men
Wet' at the •Palais Bourbon, and dined with the
Prince once a week. Afitong them were Vaininat
de Bomar', Desormeaux, Sr. Alphonse, Gronvelle,
asitiChampfort. The first had fortned at Chantilly,
at the expense of his Highness, one of the 6064
cabinets of natural history that eveeexisted. It is
well known that this Prince, Who was a friend to
noble inagalficence„ built the Bourbon Palace,
which, notwithstanding some defects of proportion,
is one of the most important edifices cif the capital.
He also made a pt intof adding every year to the ens.
bel I ishments of Chantilly, which afforded work to the
population of that then sollonrishing village. Nothing
could he more brilliant than the entertainments which
his Highness there gave to i I I ustri oub travellers. When
the Comte du Nord (Paul I. Emperor of Russia)
visited France, the Prince of Coude entertained
him three days at Chantilly. He never disregarded
the distresses of the people. In 175, affected by
their sufferings, occasioned by the high price of
provisions, he directed 30,000 francs to be laid out
in corn, for the purpose of being sold at 45 sons
per bushel, whatever the cost might be, to the
most distressed inhabitants Of the Clernsontais.—

Endowed with all the qualities of a genuine
knight, the Prince of Conde, though he had suffi-
ciently evinced his bravery in the field of battle,
did not refute upon occasion to piece himself upon
a level with any gentleman. A striking proof of
this spirit was seen in Isis celebrated duel with the
Count d'Agnolt, Captain of his Highness's guards.
At the appointed hour the tiro champions met in
the Champ de Mars, and fought before witnesses.
The Prince was slightly wounded in the arm, and
the interference of the Marquis d'Autichamp and
the Count de Cayle, his Highness's second, was re-
quired to put an end to a combat which might have
proved so fatal.
On the 17th of July, 1789, on the breaking out
of the first civil disturbances, the Prince of Conde
quitted France with his family, sud retired to
Brutsels, whence he proceeded by way of Switzer-
land to Turin. A great number of gentlemen, all
ready to fight for the cause of royalty, accompanied
him in his retirement. It is well known what sacri-
fices were made by his Highness to support this
little army. Having ethausted all his finances, he
borrowed near 500,000 livres upon his diamonds at
Genoa. Declining the generous offers of Gus-
tavus HI. of Sweden, he remained on the frontiers
of Germany. The National Assembly then confis-
cated all the property of the Prince. The Revo-
lutionists ravaged Chantilly, and tarried away the
C.lllOOO which adorned that beautiful teat, and
commemorated the glory of him by whom it had
been inhabited.

The Prince, at the head of his army, opened
the campaign of by marching towards Lan-
dau. That of 1793 was marked by important
events. the Duke de Bourbon, accompanied by
his son, the Duke d'Eughien, joined his father's
army in the Black Forest ; and three generations
of heroes were seen combating together in the
midst of dangers. The Most remarkable affairs in
that campaign were the battles of Jockrim, Pfortz,
Barbelroth.Bersthei m, W riineni bu rg and naguenau.
At Berstheim the noble chaaseurs, in older to sup-
port the legion of Mirabeau, advanced upon the
tillage, crying. " With the bayonet ! With the bay-
and !" The Prince of Conde, yielding to their ar-
dour, thu3 addressed them :—" Gentlemen. you are
all Bayard,; let as march to the village ; bat I
will run my sword through the body of him who
shall enter it before me." The village was carried,
and the Prince was the first that entered it. After
this glorious action, the Austrian General Wormier
visited hie Highness. " Well, Marshal," said the
Prince, " what do you think of my little body of
infantry ?"--4' Monseigneur," replied Wurumer,
it grows larger in the fire."
In the cainpaigns of 1714 and 1195, the army of
Conde was employed only in marches and counter-
marches. That of 1796 furnished his flightless
with fresh occasions of ►ignalising himself; hut
Austria having made peace with France, the Prince
passed in 1797 into the service of Russia. His
army was calitoned in Poland, arid he himself re-
paired to Petersburg; where Paul I. treated him in
such a assurer as proved that he had not forgotten
the hearty welcome which the Comte du Nurd had
ft erly re-cowed at Chantilly. After the COM..
pingo of tattu, his Highness removed to Eng-
land, and resided at the Abbey of Amesbury.
There he mattied the Dowager Princess of Monica,

who died in .1839 ; and id t 1 retirement also lie;
received As fatal tidings of the death of Ilia grand-
son, the. Duke d'ilagloien. the last scion or foul;
so prodoetire of heroes. •• .
The Prince of Conde male his entry into-Paris
with the King on the 9d of May, IEII4. It will be
renseinbertd iaiih what -joy his Highness again
beheld and *learned all tiis old aeirants, and Won

Yesterday Parks's 07 WALidi soss..-.leot this day at the
Bask, Esebetaer, East ladies, sad South Sea Holism

THE BRITISH PRESS•

77*rd) LONDON,
MONDAY, MAY 18, 18114

Ite hive received Paris Papers to the 15th inst.
The Session of the Chambers will close early in the
present week. The Prince of CONDE died on the
13th. He was in his 82d year.
The convicts at A Ibi, for the murder of M.
FuaLtsca, have appealed from their sentence to the
Court of Cassatioo. A new process is about mbe
instituted against several other pertains accused of u
participation in the same crime.
The Russian squadron. consisting of five sail of
the line and three frigates, which has lately drawn
the public attention► will not soil beyond the Baltic,
but will there cruise for the purpose of exercising
and instructing the oScers and men of the Russian
navy.

The Five per Cents. are 68 I.loth fr.

The Curlew, 18, Captain W. WALPor,E, sailed
from St. listens on Saturday evening, for the gait

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SN.%

In( There remain at Spithead, tl» solpt, 0,
18,•Clipinin PLUM RIDG E. tud Dotterel, Is, Copt.
'Coat, for the Cmpr otation ; tornation. 18,' f loth
.I.4bibut4, fur Newfoundland; and the .I";rost-
hoigiee, 18, Captain Fuaisss. for the Ilalira*
station.
The Lord keit% )Vortlumberlantl, and 1110-
grave Castle, for Bengal, which put into Ports-
mouth by contrary winds, sailed on Saturday
morning.
The Weymouth is under orders to tike stores to

The ship Caledonia, Captain kIiDERSON,
last week from Plymouth, fur Picot' and ship
Sir `George Prevost, 'Captain filloaalsow, fur
Quebec, both hiving 'on hoard pasapugers fur
North America. two or three other vessels lire
now fitting op at that port, to take ant emigrants
for the same destination.

. •
Extract of a letter received from Mr. J. DE
PERRON, Missionary in 'Canada, in reply to tiOille
gneations put to him on the subject of emigration
to Canada, by his friend, Mr. N. !tom Na, ill
ra.uernsey
" In my opinion a farmer can sureera here if he call bring
from 3 to 4001. sterling in ready money with him, and pur-
chase a farm near sonic town (I prefir Montreal, ns the
frosts often destroy the crops at Quabec, which seldom hap-
pens at Montreal, where the climate is much milder), where
be would be able to sell the produce of his rind to advan-
tage. Rat if Ike farmer It 000 T he hoe a great deal to cc-
eomnle► before lie ran establish himself. He lands at
Quebec, whence be goes to Montreal (180 milts) in a steam
boat, thence be goes in a carriage, or walks, Mue nailer, to
where they embark in the great Wits for Upper Canada ;
these baste are forced against the strehm by lung pules, and
'sin' from twenty to twenty-five miles a day. Government
gives land to those who choose to occupy it, and working
tools, but no provisions, Arrived it his laud, he has no
shelter till be builds his horse, eacept at the habitation of
some neighbour, and this rarely haPpens, as they stand
very distant from each other; he must then immediately
eat down trees and build his house with the twines, clear
his ground of brushwood, Ike. by fire, and then plant
them between the trunks, as it is difficult to rout them
up, anti 'by degrees ameliorate his land, till be has got
a comfortable dwelling place cur his (milli., Sec. Au en-
terprising man, who has courage to surmount these die.
entries, will in the end do very well, as thortssads have
done. The country G delightful, and amply recompenses
the labourer fur his trouble. As to artificers at Montreal,
carpenters, Masons, awl painters can Wet wot during the
summer, but they must imitate the ant. The wages are
good, but clothing double the price of what they i►e Ta
England. Tailors and shoemakers are numerous, but bare
little to do. Farmers' servants get from 351, to dam-Year
eirrency, and are fed. A saving man may lay by something.
Thoat who cannot save during the monnsi:r, are miserable
during the winter, because great nueithers are out of cm-
ploymeut."

On Saturday Virconnt CASTLEREAGH had an
audience of the PRINCE [Leash? at Carlton-house.

The Earl of Ltvearook. had an audietfce of the
PRINCE REGENT yesterday.
The Hon. G. P. CAMPBELL has taken the corn.
tuand of the Rimehone, for the Mediterranetin—
Lieutenant JONATHAN FAULENoR is appointed to
her. Messrs. VV. Kra° and Westess, of the
Sybille, are promoted to the rank of Lieutenant,
and appointed to the RU?ernan and Pelican, on Ilie•
Jamaica station.
That universally-respected Nobleman (especially
io by the whole British nav), Earl SPENCER, in-
tends to embank with his -friend, Sir BENJAMIN
HALLOWELL, in the Tosinant, and go with him on
the two mood's' cruise with the spiadroir. A Sub-
ahem and Su men of the Royal Marine Artillery
are to embark on board each of the eight ships.—
The Rochefort and Vesta,- will go oft of Ports-
mouth harbour this day.
Dear-Admiral Sir JostAs lici*Vev Orrired at
Plymouth on Thursday, on his way to Cork, to
hoist his flag on that station during Sir RENJANIN
HALLowet.t's absence with the squadron of guard-
ships. Sir Jost AS will assume the perniattent com-
mand at Cork in October nett.
The harbour at Burlington quay, in Yorkshire,
is about to have a new pier erected, the present one
hiving suffered so much from the violence of the
Sea, as to become in a very unsafe state.
His Royal Highness the Duke of CLARENCE.
Admiral of the British Fleet, has, we understand,
presented Capt. ALERANHER with a handsome re-
gulation sword, value one hundred guineas, in tes-
timony of hit high approbation of the iwrfrct sea.
manlike order in which he saw his Majesty's ship
Vengetsr, when he lately visited that ship, at Ports-
mouth. On one side of the sword are the arms of
his Royal Highness ; on the other, those of the
meritorious Officer named),
The Hon. CHARLES PAGET and Sir ARTHUR
PAGET, have lately launched yachts, at South-
ampton ; the former is called the Anglesey, the lat-
ter, the Union.—They are of excellent model, aid
finished in a very superior style of accommodieimi.
DRIFFIELD, YORILsHIRE.-a-The iHnival Whit-
son fair was held here on Monday last, and gely
high prices obtained for every sort of cattle, lest,.
ing the farmer every cause ill be satisfied that the
produce of his laud would now trove him no reason
for complaint. Ewes with two hamlet sold as
as three pounds live shilling.; wetter hogs upwards
of forty shillings, and in calving cows rap to twenty
pounds : the &mama for draught horses was illl•
commooly brisk, particularly for black mares,
which the breeders have found to be a remarkably
goad cross with well bred Yorkshire horses, which,
from the iutioduction of too much blood, welt
lotting their size and bone.
Tuesday re'inaight a melancholy accident hap-
pened to JOHN, lisle oldie sorra of Mr. J. Pt Elect,
clerk to Messrs, 11:11.altss, bankers, Brecon, about
twelve years old, while crossing a small wood, ii
bridgen at the Forge near Brecon, the residence of Ins
u JoHN PIERCE. Esq. on bolsi-back,uncle,.
the ani-
std took tright and ran against the stile of the
bridge, which gave way, and precipitated them
into the forge dimi. The poor buy found a watrry
grave, but the horse twain to the slime. A boot three
years ago a daughter of Mr. Poets: sass drowned
to the same dew,

their boatel mini
tied in triumph r
four day, ago (the
Tusking to weed a'
eadsavoar to rim
•
FORE.
The Muhl
aoseph de B
France, sunk
age of 84 year
Serene Highne
He was the
and the Prince
I being left an o'
coed under ti
leis, his uncle
(erred on the
Master of his
Ms father, and
de Charolsis,
to fulfil them.
Gioia of the goi
de St. Aignan,
he should have
The Count
Cation of the I
strictness whicl
learning and a
1752. he was c
Holy Ghost ;
married the Pa
de Hoban Sun
of her age; I
Duke of Bou
Belle de Conde
of August,
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years of age, ii
opened the As
In the eitsuin
career in the I
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t hisrt to move ten
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ful Havoc re
Sort uo auch
V . great Conde.
3 ear. afterwar
courage. At
charged the ei
bodies of offic
ploy military
loped whets tl
miller his con
1 vantages over
relative and
oleic. The