The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-14 00:00:00

DEATH

OF Tl[l

DUKE-ORLEANS

By en extraordinary express from Paris, dated Six
o'Clock yesterday afternoon,we have received the afflict-
ing latelligenee of the death of his Royal Highness the
Duke of Ottrxe....cs, eldest son of his Alajesty the KING
of the Famicst. The Paris Correspondent of the
Chronicle, writing yesterday afternoon, says :—" A
serious accident happened, to the Duke of ORLEANS this
morning, as his-way to Neuilly. The horses in his car-
riage took fright, and prOceeded at such a fearful rate
shat the Thilce, becoming- alarmed, threw himself out,
and fell on his bead. He was immediately conveyed to
a nErighbouriug wine shop, where he was bled, and his
medical atteddanta have reported favourably. It is said
the aectdent to the I take of ORLEANS is more serious than
at first an pposeil." The Times Correspondent, writing two
hours later, thus announces a catastrophe which plunges
the Royal family or France in the deepest affliction :
" Jlis Royal Highness the Duke of OriLuaNs was thrown
from Iris cebri..4et elan the Bois de Boulogne. abaut twelve
o'clock, and oltheugh no danger was apprehended from
the accident et first alarming symptoms appeared after-
wards, and the Dttke breathed his last about half-past
fun:. o'oloeic!"Chis sad intelligence has sincerely and
.aleeply affected ns, and will be heard with profound
wrow throagheet these realms. Towards the individeal
members of the Royal family of France the people of
England entertain strong feelings of respect and affection.
To them the Duke of ORLEANS was known as a high-
minded, chivalrous, have, and accomplished Prince,
who had distingoished himself in Africa, and gave early
]sromise as a In and a father to set an example of
domestic virtue to Fiance worthy of the son of King
LOUIS PHILIPPE. Without his father's talents for Go
vernment, it was hoped that, under his less
exert i ve sway, France would recover those liberties which
1.0 is PHILIPPE withholds from her, and without which
a 0-eerronen: cannot truly be called the emanation of
11;e ref,rest.niotive system. Such was the impression of
the Duke of ORLEANS' character entertained in Eng
land, and such a character could inspire no other senti-
ments towarets so exalted a person than those of esteem
and affection.

W. there tr,t trust onlolites to speak of the deep and
pxid in which this dreadful accident will
th!-ow, the eider membors of the French Royal
-Family. The QnEms of the FaEtscit is deep v
to he her genuine end unaffected piety
-esrn glen*. sustain her under so many sad and severe
trials. The terrible attempts upon the life of her hits-
htini,; to wisom site is so devoted ; the loss of her ac-
co:nplished daaghtor, the Princess MARIA, Duchess of
Wurteukerg, and tae shocking death of her eldest and
fit-nitrite 54,81, era severe trials of the Christian fora-
y:de r, the wife of once sovereign, and the mother of

e nniher

Zut it is us regards the future relations of France and
Enrupe that kt,l6 lamentable event assumes a peculiarly
grave impoibtinse. The Duke has left an infant heir to
the throw of France, and 'as in the natural order or
human lite, Loris PHIL/PPE cannot live many years,
-there is the sad prospect of the dangers which threaten
the probability of a ion minority in France. In
tho ill-seeing and all-wise dispensations of Heaven
bow often ace those aling,-s which purblind man
regard; as the woatest and most sovereign good,
*nay. the earnest of futuro evils All France
r,joictxl. when the Monett iie nulls was horn ;
et, tic?. he Mak* of OILLT:A.Ns died childlesi, the Duke
aNamotw, his bruLhec, sv,,tdri have succeeded him as
heir-pt.c:,,uropLive to the Throne, and thus alit alarm-
-lug pisattiwt of K Ric gene 14, kingdo:u so unsettled EL:.
France, could n• now gore every European statesman
hi the -Lace. -wr (we urovEling, stik.l a moment as
this, to mix cp politics with relation of so distressing
a catastrophe, but not to regard it in a po itic-al as well

as in a ruiviito ditto of view, is to overlook its imp/v-
-:thee to .Englund *s a nation. Nothing Mil h.
Inovo motoeLtouss than tha time when this culaini;y
has befallen Franco. Happening at the close of an dec-
tiou in which the capital has declared hostile
to a Cabinet aweions only to maintain the
peace of Europe, without detriment to the honour
and .irlierest of France, it cannot but give an ion
petus to tite spirit of disaffection, and rekindle the hopes
of those who here been labouring for years to overthrow
the ORt.n_eoss dynasty. For ten years have they been
predictian; that the Monarchy of July would descend
.to the grave with its Royal founder, Louis Par-
-3•APPE, arid this end accident will appear a partial
realivAtion of such predictions, which cannot but work
dangeromly upon the imaginations of the more ignorant
and more :raaiguine Revolutionists. In whatever light
we view the death of this young, amiable, and accom-
plished Frince, we see in it the cause of much appre-
hension--of much sorrow.to Europe.

THE LATE DUKE OF ORLEANS.
We are indebted to the very excellent work, entitled
" The Lit and Times of Louis .Philippe, King of th::
French," published Messas. Fist'En, of Newgate-
street, for the subjoined account of the lamented Prince
whose death we announce above, and from which source
we have drawn together the following facts :
The Duke of OULHANS was horn at Palermo, on the
2d of September, 1818, showing him to have just
reached the age of 82 at his death. His mother,
Al &HIE AMaX.iE, the present Queen of the French, is
daughter of ittiarasAND, King of the Two :doilies, and
whom Louis PHILIPPE espoused at the time that he
was wandering abroad as plain Duke D'ORLEAss.
The departad Duke was one of a family of seven chil-
dren, to whom MARIE AMELIE has been ever warmly
attached. The Duke de NEMQVAS, Louis PIiILIPPrfs
second son, was born at Paris on the 25th of Oct., 1814.
Tho early life of the Duke of ORLEANS appears to have
afforded him, as his father desired, a free and unre-
stricted intercourse with the world, for it was a maxim
with J. OrIS PHILIPPE that the wisest method was to allow
his sons every opportunity of studying mankind, which
circumstances should afford. Education at the public
sch4ols of the country seemed to him the best method
evi' <Accomplishing this object, end without hesitation,
itist‘e.,l of keeping them hampered by the walls
aml 31eEters of a palace, he seat them to the
National I:p:elutes. This, of course, the Court
disliked, but there, undistinguished from the chil-
dren or other citizens, the young Duke, with his
brothers, felt, iilte his a.,,Y•iate schoolfellows, a desire
I"li*atiug, in the public rewards of ambition, and
to obtain those psizes to-arid it was necessary even for
Pi-locos to deserve them. Princes had hitherto not been
seen colleges. They heti never joined an aca-
demic 4•185.3. 'limy had never kad companions and
sehooi iel

, .
Such were tae rcunietances attendant upon the col
legirtti,•lll4 of the _Duke of CHARTEEa. He was treated
without distinction IR difference ; he contended with the
eons of lawyers, "Penchants, bankers, and others, not in
auperioritY of,vccidontal rank, but in legitimate objects
of youthful em bition by mastery 01' mind.
Wit de revolt; don re.4non in Paris, end King CHARLES
WA/8 iotterilif his ;ail, Loris PHILIPPE remained at
etti lly, his fart incite nasidenco. The Duke of CUARTReS
however, was an this period apart from his Lin" ily, being in
company vvitli his rogicuent at Joign.v-. The state of his
family at this period may be conjectured. As his ami
able "'Artily so around a rustic table, in the pleasure-
grouat:s twat~ slope from the front of the chateau to the
Seine, they he trd the thunder in the distance rolling
along, thneati wing every moment to announce the
d"tmerion. of the cause of liberty. His family and
friends enel savoured. to tranquillise him, but he turned
from theta, esej.aimin„, No, no ! I have tears and blood
Sri my hewn, Po. .r Paris : Poor France !"
Soon aftity the youag DuLe had received the glorious
'Dews, 120,7.1, ti', rd".l:llte revolution, he determined to leave
Jolgny, abad-ei an endeavour to reach his father a!
.Iv;,.uill, but be was detained by the Mayor of Mont-
-4,4(41 from confinement by a 'ems. from Ge-
neral LArArl TTE. he conceived it was his first duty to
irojoin Lis rog -uncut, and accordingly set out upon his
journey to Jo i;,,ruf. Upon the heights of Melun his car-
silage was crcaWi ny that of the Duchess D,
...NCOULEME,
on her route fre-xi Ifi;:on to P aris. Her Royal Highness
renognieefl tgo,.„-ourft.esolAer, and, stopping her equipage,'
Inquired ankitafsly wi,:iether he had come from Paris