The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-08 00:00:00

lis Duke as Mattes, by kis kertio
these occasions, fixed the attention of This s
and entitled himself to an honourable mention, in the
official bulletin. Ire hft the winter quartersed tlie army
in Belgium to visit his sister, tle Price ', . flu
Louise Adelaide. who had just bier. inclade -"aa—ae:e_*ith
Madame de Geniis, in the proscriptive low''f- .'"-4r •': -
gration. Whiterhe was at Tourney, whi -'!tee . t,::had
conducted his sister, a decree appeared, dee. . - that
every member or the Bourbon-Caper family . 4!1:11 Tett
the territory of the republic, as well as that oce %lea:eV--
its armies. The young Duke urged his father, Egalite,
to take advantage of this decree, and retire from the
Convention to the United States ; but he, with a firmness
worthy of a better cause, made it a point of honour to
remain, and an exception was made by the Convention
in favour of the Orleans princes. Thebuke de Chartres
returned to the army to acquire fro sh reputation at the
siege of Maestricht, under General Miranda. At the
battle of Nerwinde, in March, 1793, where the
young Duke, who commanded the centre, performed
many acts of valour, Dumouriez was defeated by the
Austrians, who were only prevented from destroying
the French army by the Duke de Chard es and General
Leveneur, who, at the head of a battalion of veterans,
checked their advance. The Duke had ti horse killed
under him during the action. This defeat was the ruin
of the Duke's hopes in the Republicen service. Only 13
dills after this event (March 31, 1793) leumouriez was
supping with the Duke, when a courier arrived with
orders that beth should proceed to Paris, to explain
their conduct at the battle of Nerwinde bei't» e the Com-
mittee of Public Safety. Both perceived that their lives
were demanded, and that not a moment was to be lost ;
they set off to the frontier, and thus cloied the connexion
of Louis Philippe with republican France.
The Duke repaired in the first in.tance to Mons, the
Austrian head quarters, to obtain passports. There
Prince Charles invited him to enter the service of the
empire ; but he refused to carry arias against France,
and, assuming the name and appearance of an English
traveller, journeyed with some risk and slender resources
through Germany and Switzerland. Ile was almost a
pennyless fugitive in the Grisons, Iv hen the Duke received
a letter from el. Montesquiou, offering him the eituation
f professor at the College of Reichceau, which—such
was the state of his resources—he gladly accepted, and
lie was admitted in October,l793, in his 22d year, under
the name of M. Chabaud ; having undergone a rigid
examination without being recognised by any one, save
M. Jost, the President of the College, who had been
made acquainted with his real character. Here he
continued to teach geography, history, the French and
English languages, and mathematics, for eight months,
during which time he inspired the inhabitants of Riche-
lieu with so high an esteem for his virtues and abilities,
that they appointed him their deputy to the Assembly
of Coire.
The intelligence of his father's fate overwhelmed hire
with affliction, and ho was compelled to seek chanty cif
scene. He once more became a wanderer, his whole
property being a staff and a knapsack. Ile proceeded
to Hamburgh, thence to Denmark, Sweden, Norway,
Lapland, and the North Cape, pushing his travels to
within 18 degrees of the Arctic Pole. Returning to
Sweden, he revisited Denmark, and reached ilawburgh
again in 1796. These countries he had not merely seen,
but minutely examined, his finances not permitting him
to travel in any other manner than that which alone
brings a visitor into intimate communication with the
people of the country.
At Hamburgh the French Directory commenced a
negotiation with the illustrious exile, in consequence of
which the Duke (then of Orleans) consented to proceed
to the United States, and in September, 1796, he eine
barked on board an American trader, and arrived at
Philadelphia in October. He was soon after joined by
his two brothers, the Duke de Montpensicr 41.11 d the
Count Beaujolais.
Philadelphia was then the seat of the Federal Govern-
ment, of which Washington was the head. The Duke
contracted an acquaintance with the illustrious chief
citizen of the United States, of whom ho subsequently
drew a most accurate character. Whilst a resident in
America, the Duke moved about the country, acquaint-
ing himself critically with its character, and that of the
people. As he spoke fluently the German and Unglish
languages, there was no impediment to his intercourse
with all classes.
Once, in his travels, he acted as surgeon to an Indian
chief, whom he bled in his wigwam with such success,
that the tribe bestowed a high, though not very cc-Acta-
ble honour, upon the white stranger.
"It was customary in this tribe, that the whole
family, however illustrious, should sleep upon one spa-
cious mat, the relations being all ranged according to
proximity, rank, age, and other discriefinating circum-
stances. In acknowledgment of the cervices rendered
by the Duke to the grandfather of the chiefs family, he
was permitted to pass the night upon the family mat be-
tween the grandmother end grand aunt, the highest ho-
nour ever conferred by that tribe upon an individual of
any age or colour."
The incidents of the residence and travels of the illus-
trious exiles in America would alone fill a little volume.
From the United States the Royal exiles were con-
veyed in a British frigate to the Ilavannah, where they
were well received; but the Court of Madrid ordered
the Captain-General of Cuba to send them away.
Exasperated at the persecution of the Court of Spain,
they turned their eyes to England, is here they deter•
mined to seek an as) lum. Proceeding to the Bahamas,
they passed over to lisilifax, where the Duke of Kent
(the father of Queen Victoria) received them in the
kindest manner. His Royal Highness, however, did not
feel authorised to grant the Princes a free passage in an
English vessel of war; and they proceeded to England
by the ordinary conveyance.
They arrived at Falmouth in February, 1800, sea
having received permission from the King, George 111.,
they proceeded immediately to London, and took up
their residence at Twickenham. By placing himself in
the centre of a large aristocratical society, the Duke vo-
luntarily exposed his manner of life and his associates to
observation, which removed all suspicitn as to his mo-
tives and designs, and his character daily augmented the
number of his friends. Very soon after, a reconciliation
took place between the Orleans Princes and Louis
XVIII. They were now admitted to the British Court,
and the three Princes of Orleans became the lions
of the fashionable society of the metropolis, till
the Duke proceeded, with the permission of our
Government, to Minorca, with the view of visiience
the Court of Spain ; ,but such was the jealousy of the
Spanish Government towards this family, that ho wag
obliged to return to Twickenham, where he lived as a,
private gentleman, not in seclusion or even retirement--
for he mixed in society—but without any appearance of
the eclat of a public character. His pursuits were of a lite-
rary and scientific kind ; he studied political economy,
and the history, laws, and constitution of England.
The death of his two brothers took place a few years
after their arrival in England, and on the last of the two
events grief drove Louis Philippe abroad fur a change
of scene. He proceeded to Sicily, and here he engaged
the affections of the Princess Amelia, the second daughter
of the King, and it would appear that the Queen of
Naples made her consent to the marriage ef her
daughter to the Duke conditional upon the latter diking
part in the wild expedition which was to make her second
son, Leopold, Regent of Spain. The Duke of Orleanit
entered upon this project, and conducted himself in it
with as much prudence and discretion as could be ex-
pected in such an enterprise. As he had Lord Coiling-
wood for a coadjutor, this " strange adventure," as Mr.
Wright terms it, though it failed, had a more wise and
honourable termination than the Sicilian politicians
would have given to it, had its management been lett to
diem alone. It did, indeed, no service to the elute
teeter of the Duke of Orleans in the estieetation
of the French people ; but the presence el' the
Duke on the coast of Spain seems to have sug-
gested to seine of the patriotic party in that coun-
try that it would be beneficial to the cause if the
Prince should place himself at their head, he
being the only member of the Bourbon family who
enjoyed a military reputation. The Duke of Orleans
was appointed by the Central Junta to the command of
a corps in Catalonia ; but all the proceedings of the
patriot leaders were so wild and extravagant, that this
project came to nothing.
The disappointment of the Queen of Naples in her
Spanish ',reject provoked her to throw impediments in
the way of the marriage between her daughter and the
Duke of Orleans, who, however, proceeded to Paler
in order to face his calumniators, and this bold step
dissipated the fresh cloud which seemed about to gather
over his fortunes. On the 25th of November, 1809, his
Royal Highness was united to the Princess, in the pre-
sence of his venerated mother, who came to Palermo ex-
pressly on the occasion. "If ever a marriage contract
was formed, between individuals of such exalted rank
without the least admixture of ambition or interest," ob-
serves Mr. Wright, " it was that of the Princess Amelia
with the wandering Duke of Orleans."
In the following May the Duke, leaving his bride,
landed in Spain, upon the invitation of the Regency, with
the view of aiding the patriot cause ; but the condition
of the Government was such, that, not only were his
services declined, but the Cortes ordered him to eiettth
Spanish territory within twenty-four hours. Correa
refused to withdraw their decree even after a h
personal
address from the Duke at their bar, whereewithhis:
to be
cha-
racteristic spirit and decision, he demanded he
event
was
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Ile accordingly returned to PlalerniToh,is
where h ,
till the fall of Napoleon 18 4 .
at Palermo on the 23d of April, and on the 18th of May
the Duke was in Paris, which he had not seen for more
than twenty years :
" The Duke's first care, on his return to Paris, was
to pay a stolen visit to the home of his fathers. The
porters, who still continued to wear the Imperial livery,
were with difficulty induced to permit a stranger, and
clad also in the costume of Sicily, to penetrate fho in-
nermost apartments of the palace ; but the earnestness
with which he pursued his survey left them little leisuro
to question him as to his object. As he approached the
grand staircase, the recollections of his boyhood, the
lustre of his ancient race, the agonies of mind he had,
endured since he last beheld that spot, and gratitude to
that Providence which had spared him amidst such
universal ruin, completely overwhelmed him, and falling
prostrate on the tesselated pavement, he imprved a
thousand kisses on the cold white marble, whil yearsgushing from his eyes indicated, while they relic the
iit
emotions with which he contended. The atten sof
the palace looked on this scene of fervent feeling with
surprise, some imagining that it was the workings of
frenzy or of folly ; but on being informed that it was
the long-exiled and sole surviving son of Egalite—the
Ulysses of modern ages—whom they beheld entering the
palace of his fathers after his wanderings over Europa
and America, pity was superseded by admiration.
" On the following day Louis Philippe was presented
to the King at the Palace of the Tuileries in his Sicilian
costume, not choosing to wait for a French court suit.,
lest his Majesty might imagine that he bad not been suf-
ficiently diligent in appearing amongst the Royal
Family. As the Duke approached Louis xvnr. de.
sceuded, and advancing towards him, said, ' Your High-
ness was e Lieutenant-General in the service of your

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