The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-19 00:00:00

I HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS the LATE
DI/ItE OF ORLEANS.
(Further particulars front Galignani's Messenger of Friday.)
In addition to the details which we have already given of the
deeply deplored accident which has deprived France of the heir
to her throne, and the Royal Family of its most distinguished
member, we have gathered the following :—The Prince Royal
lefi the Tuileries in the carriage we have described. Every
part of the carriage was in perfect order, having been carefully
examined in the morning, a duty uniformly performed pre-
viously to any of the Royal carriages being used by the family.
he horses were not frightened by anything, nor did they sud-
denly run away. The accident arose in the following manner :
The Duke of Orleans, in returning from Paris, was accuss
toured to take the avenue leading from Porte Maillot to his re-
sidence of Villiers, and from thence obtained entrance to the
Park of Neuilly, by the gate which is opposite to this avenue.
13a on Wednesday his Royal Highness wished to go by the
road which crosses Sablonville obliquely to the old Neuilly
road, and then enter the Park by the grand gate. Having
been driven very fast, the horses on reaching the Porte 3laillot
became excited, and, in spite of the exertions of the postilion,
took the road to which they were habituated, instead of the
diagonal road the Prince intended to go. Finding themselves
approaching their stables, the animals became still mere eager,
and the horse the boy rode kicked out several times and struck
the cross-bar, which, from the nature of the carriage, came ra-
ther close to his haunches. Then it was that the Duke stood up,
arid fancying that the postilion had lost all command of
his horses, cubed to him. The boy replies! that he still held
them, and, in tact, the hand-horse was perfectly temperate,
he lad firm in his seat, and Dulling at. the bridle. Not suc-
ceeding in getting them into a trot, the Prince, who was ex-
tremely expert in gymnastic exercises, attempted to do what he
had frequently practised before while his carriage was moving,
but Fourthly nut with the same velocity. He put one foot on
the step, and then sprang to the ground. The fatal conse-
quence, are too well known. They are sadly aggravated by
the tact, that had his Royal Highness forborne but a few mi-
nutes longer lie would have been spared to his family and
country. It is presumed that the I'm nice saw, that if the horses
continued unmanageable, the carriage must be overturned
with considerable violence over some heaps of stones which
were laid on the side of the road for the purpose of repairing it.
Although still overwhelmed in the deepest grief, the Royal
Family ale, as we learn direct from Neuilly, as well as can be
expected, but the Queen dues not receive any one.
A Council of Ministers was held yesterday, at which Mar-
shut &suit presided. It lasted from half-past twelve to two
o'clock. \s hen it broke up the esinisters set out for Neuilly.
There a fresh Council was held, at which the King presided.
" Ills Majesty," says the Moniker Parisien, iii announcing
the holding of this Council,, ••lost nothing of the admirable
) firmness which he exhibited at the moment of the late dreadful
catastrophe. The blow is terrible,' was the remark of the
King, • but it ought not to shake our confidence in the future.
We snail surmount every difficulty.' The Queen is nut less
heroic in her resignation."
The funeral of his Royal Highness the Duke of Orleans will
take place at the commencement of August. The Prince will
he buried at Drell's, but the funeral ceremony will take place at
Notre Dame. Yesterday morning, at seven o'clock, Drs.
Pasquier, father and sun, were to proceed to Neuilly, to embalm
the bod. The King has authorised them to jolts in their sad
task whatever medical men they pleased.
The Royal Family went yesterday into mourning for four
months.
The Moniteur Parisien says, " The Queen observed on
Wednesday to the persons who thronged around her, • I was
too happy and too proud of him; God has thought fit to take
lion front me."'
Then. Royal Highnesses the Count do Paris and the Duke de
Chartres arrived yesterday evening at Paris from Eu.
All the Peers in Paris have hastened to Neuilly to inscribe
their names as coming to make inquiries of condolence after
the King and Royal Family. Even some who were at consi-
derable distances have travelled up expressly to perform this
sad duty.
The fallowing order of the day to the army has been pub-
lished :
" The King and France are plunged into grief. His Royal
Highness the Duke of Orleans expired yesterday. in conse-
quence of a fall from his carriage. The army will share this
grief. It wiil deplore the loss of the Prince, the hope of his
country, as he was the hope of the army, the more bitterly, in-
asmuch as he took part in the fatigues and dangers of the
soldiery, whom he loved, and to whom he manifested frequent
marks of his solicitude, as well as an example of all military
virtues; of excellence in command, and the most striking
bravery. Mourning will be immediately worn by the army,
until further orders. Crape will be placed on the colours and
star dards ; the drums will be covered with black serge; crape
and mufflers will be affixed to the trumpets ; officers will wear
crape on their swords. The cruel event which France so much
deplores will excite the devotedness of the army, and will
tighten the bonds which unite it to the King and his august
family.
(Signed) "MARSHAL DUKE OF DALMATIA,
" President of the Council and Minister of War."
" Paris. July 14."
The following order of the day, bearing the same date, has
been issued to the National Guard of the Seine
The National Guard of the Seine is aware of the immense
less which France and the King have sustained. It will be
anxious to take part in the profound grief with which so disas-
trous a blow must inspire all good citizens. The General in
Command, therefore, issues the following orders :—From this
day until further orders, the National Guard is ill wear mourn-
ing ; the officers will wear crape on the arm and sword-handle;
the colours will be veiled with black, and the drums will bear a
crape. (Signed) " Count GERARD.
(By order) " JACQUENOT, Lieut.-Gen of the Staff."
Immediately after the meeting of the Chambers a Bill pro-
viding for a Regency will be presented to the Legislature. It
is also rumoured that, after the new Chamber has voted its
Address, the Legislature will occupy itself with the project of
a law having for its object the Regency being intrusted to his
Royal Highness the Duke de Nemours, and fixing the age of
18 as the majority of the young Monarch, her Royal Highness
the Duchess of Orleans retaining the education and guardian-
ship of her children.
The Archbishop of Paris went yesterday to Neuilly, as he
did on Wednesday. The Bishop of Versailles, the newly- ,
appointed Archbishop of Avignon, and the newly-appointed
litshop of Tulle, went there yesterday. It is the Chapter
of St. Denis who officiate in the chapel of Neuilly. They ,
are a-sisted by the clergy of St. Germain-l'Auxerrois and
St. Roch, there being always on duty four canons and
three priests of each of the two parishes. The sacred ser-
vice is thus organised : —During the whole morning, until one
o'clock, masses are celebrated. At that hour vespers com-
mence, and are continued until night.. After midnight, ma-
ture are chaunted. 'The whole of the Royal Farrely, and the
imitates of the chateau, attended miss yesterday. The King
returned several times during the day to the chapel. Each
lime, after having knelt down and prayed, he drew aside the
drapery which covers the body of his son, and after having
contemplated him with a touching resignation, sprinkled the
body with holy water. The Prince still ljes on the sort of
couch on which the body was placed when it was brought front
the house where he expired Black draperies have been placed
around him. Yesterday morning his Majesty gave orders that
an apartment should be prepared at the chateau at Neuilly for
her Royal Highness the Duchess of Orleans and the Princes
her sons. At nets the Duke d'Aumale again went to the re-
sidence of the Duke of Orleans, at the Tuileries, where he su-
pet intended the arrangement of the papers of his deceased bro-
ther,
and the putting on of the seals. During the day their
Majesties received a telegraphic communication from the Duke
de Nemours, who had received by telegraphs at Nancy the ac-
count of the melancholy blow which had fallen on the Royal
F. mile. 'I he Prince announced that he should immediately set
off for Plmnbieres, where it was calculated he could arrive
before the first accounts could reach that place from Paris. It
is feared that the Prince de Joinville will not receive for seve-
ral days the summons which has been sent to him by the King,
for Admiral Ilueon's squadron was to leave the Bay of Naples
yesterday fur Smyrna. Yesterday evening, and during the I
'whole of the day, a continued file of carriages covered the road
to Neuilly. The number of visitors at the chateau was ins-
intense. Their Majesties received no person, but the names
were entered in a book at the door of the palace.
Masses were celebrated yesterday in all the churches of Paris
for the repose of the soul of the Duke of Orleans.
The Queen was for three hours on her knees by the side of I
the mattress on which her dying son lay extended- At her
first arrival she took a small medal from her bosom, where it
had rested ever since the day she received her first communion,
arid placed it on the heart of her beloved child.
" The Duke of Orleans," says the Univers, " appears to I
have had a presentiment of an early death ; for he said, two
days before the late disaster, to the Princess Clementine, who
was speaking to him of the glorious chances of his future life,
• I shall die young, sister ; I shall die shortly.' "
The Constitutionnel says:—
" 'the King's grief, although it may have appeared on
Wednesday to have been less violent than that of the Queen, 1
vas not the less profound. He had sufficient firmness of mind
to supple as his paternal feelings during the heart-rending
scene, in order that he might be able to support the courage
and resignation of his family. But afterwards, when he was
t krown back upon himself, he became a prey to the more bitter
affliction from a blow which brought back all the recollections
of time severe trials he had to undergo in his youth. The deaths ,
of his two brothers, the Count de Beaujolais and the Duke de
Alontpensier, to whom he was attached with the closest
friendship, the warmest affection, left for a long time the
deepest traces of affliction in his heart. Both these princes
fell nearly at the same time in their youth, under the same
insidious disease, pulmonary phthisis. After suffering a long
and frightful imprisonment, they had rejoined their elder
brother, and strengthened their union in the school of exile
and misfortune, when it was severed by the death of one
of them near London, and of the other on the rock of Malta.
in May, 1807. At a later period the premature death of his
amiable and accomplished daughter, the Princess Mary, again
put the King's resignation to another severe trial. lie could
not believe it possible for him to sustain a greater loss, so ele-
vated were the virtues, so high the talents of the chid therm
torn from his affections. lie has, ho,sever, been destined to
bear a still more poignant agony. His measure of grief has
now been filled to overflowing by the sudden and terrible ac-
cident which has just bereft him of a son destined to succeed
him on the throne, and whom he had himself initiated into all
the intricacies and difficulties which surround France. To en-
dure this last domestic visitation, mixed up as it is with so many
serious political consideratious, requires a fortitude of soul very
rarely indeed to he found in man. Let us hope that his Ma-
jesty's character, tempered by so many adversities, will enable
him still to be resigned to the decree of fate. Let us hope that
Heaven, in consolation for pain so acute. may grant him the
satisfaction ot living long enough to see his grandson arrive at
an age when the crown may devolve upon him without appre-
hension of the kingdom being dislurbed by any violent com-
motion."
(From Galignani's Messenger of Saturday. )
ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE MELANCHOLY EVENT
TO THE DUKE OF NEMOURS.
A telegraphic despatch, per Metz, had made the sad loss
known to Al. Arnault, prefect of the Meurthe, who immediately
communicated it to General Villatte. The General under-
took to convey the intelligence to the Prince ; but on coming
to perform his painful task was so pale and agitated that his
Royal Highness conceived him to be taken suddenly ill, and
kindly inquired what was the matter with him. •` Oh, Sir !"
reelied General Villatte, " terrible news has arrived from
Paris !" 1 understand you," exclaimed the Prince ; "the
King is killed." " No, Sir; but the Prince Itoyal is no more.
Ile died Yesterday at Paris, in consequence of a fall from hie
can iage." 'this painful scene passed at seven in the morning,
in the presence of numerous officers collected for an inspection
of the quarters of the Ist Regiment of Hussars, which was
ender the command of the Prince Royal in Ib3o, and filled
e...ery one with grief ; the regiment more deeply than others,
because it had to deplore the loss of him who had been its
youne but intrepid Colonel. As soon as the Duke de Nemours
could rouse himself from the first and overwhelming effects of
this hitter news, he gave orders for his departure. At B
he met Al. Berlin cte Vaux, who was on his way to nom-
aieres, and received from him time details of the disastrous
catastrophe. The Duke was attended by one of his orderly
officers, M. Borel do Bretizel.
ARRIVAL OF THE DUKE OF NEMOURS AT
NEUILLY.
On Friday morning, at nine o'clock, a courier announced the
approach of the Duke of Nemours, and the Royal Family went
clown into the vestibule to receive him. We need not attempt
to describe the meeting. Immediately after their meeting,
the Duke of Nemours accompanied the King, Queen, and the
rest of the. Royal Family to mass. The body of the deceased
Plitice Royal had been removed for the purposes of the autopsy
and embalming, but the catafalque remained ; the chapel was