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MR. WARBURTON'S ANATOMY BILL.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

- -
observe that Mr. Warburton has given notice
of his intention to introduce his Bill to facilitate the study
of anatomy ; although I look upon the outcry against the
source whence it is proposed to procure dead bodies, as
originating in very equivocal philanthropy, yet thousands
respond to it, and I fear the time is not arrived for such
an enactment, without painful excitement in many. That
medicine is one of the most useful of the arts, that a
knowledge of anatomy is necessary to practise it with
success, and that something must be done to facilitate
this study, are propositions universally admitted. But is
there no other mode than by devoting the bodies of the
poor who die in workhouses to the dissecting-room, fur
preventing the atrocious crime of 'lurking? There is:
Place the hospitals throughout this country on the same
footing as those abro id, and the demand for subjects lutist
be diminished two.thirds. Let Mr. Warburton obtain a
Committee to inquire into the system of our hospitals,
and he will find out, in its working, it is more atrocious
than Barking itself. Every county his its public hospital,
where the knowledge of diseases might not only be learned,
but during the examinations made of those patients who
die, students might well learn the anatomy of the head,
chest, and abdomen, and also many of the important ope-
rations in surgery, with what is called surgical anatomy,
without materially disfiguring the body. Yet, will you
believe it, these institutions are shut up from the students
of medicine under enormous penalties, for I can call the
large fees exacted for permission to attend on the practice
in them nothing but penalties; the evil of causing more
subjects to be required—of sending half educated men
afloat to practise—is not all, for in open hospitals, the
number of cured always bear a larger porportion than in
ch,se hospitals, the cases of the patients not being suffi-
ciently investigated to ascertain their true nature and proper
treatment in the latter.

remain, your obedient servant,
Gloucester, vec. IS, 1831. CIIIRURGUS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Stu,—As you are in th:• habit of reporting the leading
articles of the Morning Papers, many of your readers here
and in the neighbourhood are somewhat surprised that
you should have omitted one published in the Morning
Herald of Wednesday, on the subject of the late trials of
the Lnrhion Assurance Offices.

Surely this matter is of sufficient importance to the
public to be made the subject of a few observations on
your part, for whatever may be the honourable conduct of
some Assurance Companies, it is a fact not to be denied
that, as things at present stand, a life policy is any thing
but a satisfactory document. If Directors and Managers
of Life Offices grant assurances, and continue for years to
receive the premium on such assurance, I would ask you,
Mr. Editor, whether or not the assured had not a reason-
able right to assume that such an acquiescence on the
part of such Directors that they were satisfied with the
basis of their contract, should not bind them both morally
and legally to the performance of it ? But what is the
state of the case ? Do they ever demur to the reception
of the premium ? Do they ever throw difficulties or objec-
tions to the validity of the policy while the party lives?
I answer no; but when the same Hie), becomes a claim
on the office, then tooth and nail go Directors, Actuaries,
Agents, et hoc genus oinne, in quest of irregularity of
coughs, astlimas, and all the
and it is a hard case indeed
"ills
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them
that chronic h
io efsnh they
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eis heir o
wit
yd eases,a niitot,'s'addle some of these numerous
complaints on the deceased, either by implication or some
other means.
Now, Mr. Editor, the public have but one way to go
to work, and that is simply this. That as every office
has it sufficiently in their power to get information re-
garding the health and habits of a person proposing an as-
surance, without the possibility of being deceived (that is,
if they will take the trouble), and when such assurance is
effected and the party die, however soon or late that may
he, and such office refuse to satisfy the claim, then I say,
let the public at once set their face against such office,
and treat them with that indignation and contempt such
conduct deserves. This will have the good effect 01
making them grant assurances with due caution, and
satisfying claims with due promptitude.
With regard, I remain, Sir,
Your very obedient servant,
Deansgate, Manchester, Dec, 31. POLICY.

TRIBUNAL OF FIRST INSTANCE.

SUIT FOR ANNULLI24 G THE WILL OF
THE DUKE OF BOURBON.
THE PRINCE 9 DE ROHAN, V. THE DUKE D'AUMALE AND

THE BARONESS DE FELICHERES.
Presidency of M. de Belleyme.—Hearings of the 9th and
16th of December.
Amidst the political excitement which followed
the three great days, public attention was directed
with a lively interest to the tragical death of the
Duke of Bourbon, whose name had just before ap-
peared in the Constitutionnel attached to a donation
for the heroes of July.
A solemn investigation into the circumstances of
the death took place, the result of whieh was made
known at the time. It was also then announced
that a civil process was instituted by the Princes de
Bohan against the Duke d'Aumale, the King's son,
and the Baroness de Feucheres, to set aside, on the '
ground of deception and instigation, the holograph
will by which the Duke of Bourbon constituted the
Duke d'Aumale his universal legatee, and be-
t gileathed a very considerable legacy to the Baroness
de Feucheres.
The pleadings commenced on the 9th inst., before
the First Chamber of the Tribunal, and were ad-
journed to the 16th. In consequence of the interest
felt in the case, the Court was excessively crowded.
We here give a complete abstract of M. Henne-
quin's opening, which was not concluded until the
second day.
Hennequin—The Duke de Bourbon, after the
catastrophe of Vincennes had only exchanged the
misfortunes of exile for the troubles which his im-
mense fortune soon brought upon him in his own
country: he died; his last moments were involved
in mystery, and the most odious suspicions followed
him to the grave. Be his manes appeased ! Rela-
tionship, friendship, have provided avengers, and
light begins to exhibit the real nature of the event
of St. Leu. It is no longer believed that a Conde
resolved to close the glorious history of his house
by the horrors of an ignominious suicide; and I say
with confidence that one of the greatest names of
our history will be purified from this degrading ac-

cusation.
Another duty remains to be fulfilled. It is now
no longer doubted that the Prince had manifested
the strongest repugnance to the idea of choosing the
inheritor of his name and patrimony from that branch
of his family which marched wider other colours
than his; that other demands were indignantly re-
sisted, and that his resistance greatly surpassed what
might have been expected from his age, and the in-
explicable subjugation in which he had long lived.
It is known that in submitting to the law of a do-
mineering will, he only sought to obtain by the sa-
crifice of his sentiments and personal inclinations
some repose for his latter days, and that it would be
in vain to look into what is called his last will for
that liberty and independence, which, according to
Aguessau, ought to superabound in testamentary acts.
The only question, then, which circumstances
now become notorious leave to be solved, is, whether
the rights of blood should by the silence of the heirs
be immolated in favour of a document obtained by
the grossest circumvention, and therefore void. The
Princes of Rohan have not thought that they ought
to follow such a course ; and after fulfilling the duties
which a noble alliance imposed on them, they come
here to exercise the rights which belong to that re-
lationship.
Issue, in 1757 (quere 1756), of the marriage of
Lcuis Joseph de Bourbon and Charlotte Godefride
Elizabeth de Rohan-Soubisse, the Prince whom an
event so tragical lately precipitated to the tomb, was
at all periods of his life remarked for his attachment
to the ancient constitution of the kingdom. In 1787,
he signed the memorial addressed by the Princes to
Louis XVI., in which the rights of the throne and
of the two privileged orders were defended. In the
month of July, 1789, he left France, and afterwards
fought under his father, and by the side of his son.
It was in the campaign of 1793, at the attack of the
village of Berstheim, that he received that yound in
his hand which now contributes to protect his me-
mory against a disgraceful imputation.
The Duke of Bourbon brought back to his country
the sentiments he had professed during his emigra-
tion. He commanded in the west during the
hundred days, and after the second restoration paid
several visits to England, where he resided in 1818,
at the time of his father's death. Returning to render the
last hOnours to the conqueror of Johannisberg, who, by his
valour on the field of battle, revived the memory of the
most illustrious of his ancestors, he fixed himself in
France. Here he passed his time at Chantilly, which he
never left but with regret, St. Leu, destined to be so fatal
to him, and the Palace of Bourbon, built by his father.
Placed henceforth between the tombs of his father and
his son, separated from his sister, who, not less distinguished
for her piety than her birth, had long devoted herself to
a religious life, and lived retired with her companions in
the ancient palace of the Temple, the Duke of Bourbon
was exposed, by his solitude, by the impulse of that loving
kindness which was implanted in his soul, and by the im-
mensity of his fortune, to all sorts of projects and enter-
prises. Fear not that I shall afflict your hearts by intro-
ducing into my narrative the bases of a view of the case
which may have been attributed to rue, but which certainly
is not mine. I come here"to demand justice, not for seduc-
tions of love, but for artifices of circumvention, and above
all for excesses of violence.
The Baroness de Feucheres, who, as I am informed, is
adorned with the most seductive graces, and endowed, as
her letters prove, with much talent, lived near the Prince
in 1822, an epoch which I think it right to mark, and as
I must presume front the expressions in one of this lady's
letters, that it may be intended to hold her up to you as a
pattern of disinterestedness, I consider it my duty here to
give you a brief sketch of the benefits conferred on her by '
the Prince. In the course of the year 1825, the Baroness
received from the Prince 1,000,000 f , as is proved by Nos.
29 and 51 of the Inventory. In 1829 her income drawn
from the Prince's treasury amounted to 120,000 francs.
On the occasion of her going to the waters she repaired to
Rome. She visited Naples, Venice, and the whole of
Italy, and this tour was the subject of a correspondence be-
tween her and the Prince, of which a bad use may be at-
tempted to be made. It may be said that the Prince en-
tertained a strong attachment to the Baroness de Feu-
chores. This e concede to our adversaries. We shall
add, that if the testament was merely the price of affection,
we should understand the defence ; but it is easy for us to
show that affection was not sufficient to produce the will,
and that transactions of another kind gave birth to the
document now attacked. Therefore, all the Prince's cor-
respondence, which would otherwise be useless in the cause,
will be merely produced to prove the ingratitude of the
person who was its object. In 1824, by a will anterior
in date to the journey to Aix, the situation of the Baroness
de Feucheres was assured. A holograph testament, deli-
vered into her hands, bequeathed to her Boissy and St.
Leu ; the revenues of which were given up to her. We
find in the references of the inventory a document in
these terms :—" Paid to Madam de Feucheres, July 2d,
1824, 5,000 francs for the first quarter of the revenues of
St. Len." It will be seen that this course of anticipating
the abandonment of the revenues was afterwards applied to
the Forest of Enghien.
A visit made to England in 1826 by the Baroness de
Feucheres may have productive of farther testimonies
of affection on the part of the Prince, numerous proofs or
which may be submitted to you without touching the point
which constitutes the real question in this case. Certain
of the Duke of Bourbon's weakness, the Baroness of Feu-
cheres had more than one kind of ambition to satisfy.
She had no idea of confining herself within the narrow
limits of the testament of 1824. She hoped that the
certainty of a donation during life would rescue her from
the doubts which might attach to a testamentary disposi-
tion. But, above all things, she desired to have the order
of Louis XVIII., forbidding her to visit the Court, re-
voked, and to the attainment of this object she was at once
instigated by her pride and by the allies who had procured

her her fortune. The Prince wrote on this subject to the
K;ng ; but the revocation, which involved something more
marked than simple tolerance, mes with difficulties. The
Baroness de Feucheres needed a patronage which had
equal power with greater activity.
Her individual legacy was sufficient to enrich her, and
still leave au immense interest attached to the title of the
adopted son, or universal legatee of the Prince of Conde,
and it may be easily conceived that a powerful house might
be desirous of seeing these titles given to one of its nu-
merous descendants. But how many difficulties were to
he overcome ! Did not the whole political life of the
Prince seem to raise an insurmountable barrier against
such a scheme? You will now understand the importance
of the historical recollections which I submit to you, and
which will supply the features of a very remarkable
contrast.
While the house of Orleans embraced the ideas of Re-
form and emancipation which were developed in 1789, the
house of Conde was invariably attached to the old French
Constitution, and took the part of the Crown in the early
part of the revolution. Opposed in their political senti-
ments,
the Princes of the two houses differed not lees in
their political conduct. Thus, while the Prince of/Conde
in private circles never dissembled the little sympathy he
felt for the house of Orleans, he never allowed any op.
portunity for expressing his attachment to the head of the
elder branch of the Bourbons to escape him.
Under these circumstances, it was not difficult to divine
the Prince's thoughts, and to tell for whom the splendours-
of Chantilly would be reserved.
Another idea prevailed at the Palais Royal. It was a
fixed principle of public right in France, that at his acces-
sion to the throne the monarch should forfeit his per-
sonal fortune, which he added to the property of the
State. Was so much wealth to be bequeathed for this
purpose ? Was it not more natural to leave to a prolific
family, having so many young shoots, the honour of con-
tinuing the glory of the Condos ?
These reflections arose. The affections, the prejudices
perhaps, of the Prince of Conde caused him to entertain
them. The head of the house of Orleans, a model of pa-
ternal tenderness, might especially allow himself to be per-
goaded by considerations which would find a powerful
support in the sentiments of the father of a family. But
what difficulties must be surmounted in order to make
the subscriber of the memorial of the Princes, and the
commandant of the noble caul?), in the army of Conde,
adopt these ideas !
In 1822, owing to the respect in which the Prince held
the social and family properties, he stood godfather for
one of the sons of the Duke of Orleans. This was a tri-
umph, no doubt ; but at the period when the attacks com-
menced, the young Prince could not yet give any indica-
tion of what he would one day be. It was clever to di-
rest the attention of the Duke of Bourbon to the young
Duke of Nemours, who seemed to unite with the exterior
graces which appear to be the portion of all his race, the
most amiable disposition and the most generous heart.
What could be more ingenious than an article in a journal
calculated to give the first direction to the Prince's
thoughts, and to tell him what was expected from hint,
and by the fiction of the past to prepare the reality of the
future.
On the 12th of November, 1828, the Aristarchus,
referring to an article which appeared on the 11 th iii
another paper, expressed itself as follows :-
4, A journal asserts that his Royal Highness the Duke of
Bourbon has made a will, by which the Duke of Nemours,
second son of the Duke of Orleans, is appointed his heir, on
condition that he shall assume the title of Prince of Conde."
We shall see bow this circumstance was appreciated at
the Palais Bourbon. The article was immediately followed
by a letter from M. de Boonal, secretary to the Duke of
Orleans, to M. de Gatigny, st,ward to the Duke of
Bourbon. In this letter, which is written with admirable
address, the cause of the Palais Royal is ably pleaded.
Of this you shall judge by hearing the letter, which is as
follows :
" The Duke of Orleans has read is several journals of
yesterday and to-day an article stating that the Duke of
Bourbon has made a will, by which the Duke of Nemours
is appointed his heir, on condition of his taking the title of
Prince of Conde. On a somewhat similar occasion I had
the honour of calling upon you, and requesting you to
assure the Duke of Bourbon that their Royal Highnesses
and the individuals connected with them were entirely un-
connected with these reports, as well as the publication of
such articles in the Gazettes. As they are now repeated,
I must, on the part of their Royal highnesses, request the
same favour again. They cannot disguise from themselves
how highly advantageous to one of their children and his
posterity would he the will which is supposed to have
been made, and to inherit the name of Conde, so dear to
France and so resplendent with glory. But the senti-
ments which their Royal Highnesses entertain for their
august relative, to whom they are tenderly attached, make
them deeply regret that such articles have been published
in the journals. I have been commanded to express these
sentiments to you, and to request that you will make them
known to his Royal Highness the Duke of Bourbon."
This letter I have no doubt contained the expression of
unfeigned regret, and I admit that the paragraph must
have proceeded from some indiscreet friend to whom the
illustrious house was not indebted ; but it is certain that
the idea expressed in it was understood in another sense at
the Palais Bourbon, at least by M. de Gatigny, who laid
the letter before the Prince, aeconip tnied by the following
note :
~1 have the honour to lay before you the accompanying note,
the contents of which lam requested to communicate to you. I
acquit myself of this task, and your Lordship can without difti.
culty judge of the spirit of the epistle.- lihaye put in parenthesis
some phrases in this letter which appear a sort
.of contradiction
to its oommencensent."
This, doubtless, is only the opinion of M. Gatigny ; but
we come to a circumstance which is connected directly
with the Prince.
One of his officers having read the article of the 11th,
or that of the 12th, in the journals, felt it to be his duty
to speak of it to the Prince.
"I perceive," said he, " that your Lordship has fixed
upon an heir for Chantilly."—" No," replied die Prince,
" the idea is Suggested' to me, but you are well aware of
my wishes on this subject ; you know whom I intend to
have that property." The officer understood him, and in
another conversation he satisfied himself that he was not
deceived, and that a Prince of the House of Orleans was
not pointed at in these words—" you know whom I in-
tend to have that property."
There existed a means of obtaining great influence over
the mind of the Prince, but more than one consideration
rendered it necessary that it should not be resorted te.
cupied solely with considerations of her personal interest,
the Baroness of Feucheres wa:, as we have said, absorbed
in selfishness; nevertheless, it occurred to her that it
would be greatly to her advantage to have her interests
united with those of the House of Orleans by the same
In fact, of what use would it have been to Madame de
Feucheres to have bequeathed te her all the riches of the
house of Conde, if such an enormous bequest should excite
the indignation of all France, and leaVe her without pa-
tronage and support ? Would it not be better to confine
herself to a legacy of some millions, and to acquire claims
to the protection—l was going to say to the gratitude—of
an illustrious and powerful house ? What happiness to
unite the acquirement of riches with the honours of disin-
terestedness ! Might not the revocation of the unfortu-
nate exclusion pronounced by Louis XVIII. be obtained
from the easy disposition of Charley X. ? Might it not be
hoped from the interest which was about to be conciliated ?
This did not remain long in the region of conjecture. It
was but two years and a half after the first attack that
Madame tie Feucheres adopted the resolution of acting in
favour of the house of Orleans ; it was by her that the
adoption was proposed, in a letter dated May 1, 1829.
This letter is a chef d'ceurre of ability, and every thing
which it contains is of importance. It is as follows :
My dearest friend,"l—A very important project has occu-
pied my thoughts for a long time ; but hitherto 1 have not had
courage to open my heart to you entirely, from the fear of
afflicting you. The moment has arrived when I inn obliged
to fulfil a sacred duty to you. Malevolent i.ersons do not
cease to proclaim that I wish to take advantage of the tender
friendship which you entertain for pie, in order to possess
myself of your fortune. Confident of the purity of my
intentions in this respect, I have, up to this moment,
neglected to take the necessary steps to instil), myself in the
sight of the Royal Family, who I doubt not will render me
justice when my conduct shall be known. When, my dearest
friend, I saw you so indisposed lately at Chantilly, the most
dreadful reflections occurred to me; and indeed if your illness
had been of a more serious nature, what would nave been my
situation ? I, who at such a moment ought to hope to bestow
upon you the most tender attentions{ would be the first to be
banished from your presence ou account of the interesting views
which I am supposed to entertain' respecting your fortune.
Pardon me, my dearest friend, if 1 am compelled here to enter
into details too afflicting to my heart ; but I have already told
you, that it is a sacred duty I have imposed upon myself, to fm.
plo.re,ryhe uw, on soy knees, if it be necessary, to fulfil the duty in-
cumbent 'poordne:,'e..y r‘iy man
friend
nrest " and "dearest" are written
of whatsoever rank he may be, but
throughout these letters in the English language—the remainder
of the letters being, of course, ill French,