Star.
London, England, 1830-09-02 00:00:00

Letter of the King to General Lafayette.

" I long to know first, my dear General, how you find
yourself after this memorable day. I fear that you must
stiffer greatly from fatigue. But I have also another object
in sending to you, which lies next to my heart. It is to en-
treat of you to be my channel of communication with that
glorious National Guard, of which you are the Patriarch,
and to express to them all the admiration with which they
have this day inspired me. Say that they not only
surpassed my most sanguine hopes, but that it is not
in my power to impart to them all the joy and happi-
ness which I experienced. Witness of the Federation
bf 1790 in the same Champ de Mars ; witness also of
the great event of 1792, when I saw arrive our
army of Champagne of forty-eight battalions, which
the city of Paris had set on foot in three days, and which
contributed so eminently to repulse the invasion, which we
had the happiness to stop at Valmy making the com-
parison, it is with transport I bid you inform them, that what
I witnessed to-day surpassed what I had formerly thought so
noble, and which our enemies found so invincible. Do me
the kindness, my dear General, to express to the National
Guard how great my joy has been in witnessing it, and how
much my heart is penetrated. Affectionately yours,
(Signed) " Louis PHILIPPE.
6, Parts, Aug. 29, 1830."

Garde Nationale ! Order of the day. August 30.--
The beautiful review of yesterday, the admirable appearance
of the citizen army, whose rapid formation is in unison with
the rapidity of our triumph for liberty ; the appearance
which the National Guards presented when under arms, and
in defiling before the King, excited the enthusiasm of the
immense population who witnessed it, and the just eulo-
glum of the Generals tibia* victories long since gained,
qualify them u the best judges of military tactics. The
presence of our brave wounded of the Great Week, and of
several of our brothers in arms from the departments, com-
pleted the rejoicings of this memorable day. The General-
in-Chief confines himself this day to rejoice with his com-
rades of the Parisian National Guard, at the brilliant and
patriotic spectacle which has been exhibited. What en-

pressions can he find after tho address pronounced ht the
King when ho bestowed on us our colours, and after the
letter which be hastened to write to his brothers iu anus ?

What I stated to you in my letter of yesterday, respecting
the death of the Duke of Bourbon, has now found its wav
into the Papers. On Saturday an inquest was held at Saint
Len, on the body of the Prince. It was ascertained that the
Prince hung himself with his cravat, which lie had attached
to a part of the fastening of the window, in his bed-room.
The officers attached to the Duke's household, upon fitalitigt
the body, determined not to change its position until the
commission arrived at Saint Leu, and drew up minutes et'
the deceased. The body has been opened by order of the
Solicitor-General, and submitted to examination. On exa-
mining the brain, a partial disease and decay of the cerebral
portion was discovered ; by which appearance, the sur-
geons state that his Royal Highness was likely to have
been affected with mental aberration. Letters have
been found, written by himself, which leaves no doubt
of his having been the author of his own death.
He had written a letter to the King the evening before his
death, expressed in the most affectionate terms. He few
subscribed 10,000 francs to the wounded, and appeared pt.:.
fectly happy under the new order of things. None of thi
papers allude to the cause of his committing the act of self-
destruction, excepting the National. I will give you the
extract, as it exactly agrees with what I stated to you yes-
terday, and what from good authority I know to
the fact. " There is now no more doubt as to the
na-
ture and cause of the death of the Prince of Conde.—
The unfortunate old man has believed that there existed
a necessity of punishing himself for having dishonoured
his race. Ever since lie had taken the resolution of remain-
ing in Prance, and of acknowledging his Majesty King
Louis Philippe, he has been tormented nearly night and day
by some old courtiers, who have reproached him with having
abandoned the cause of the grandson of the ex-King. His
head for some time past has been in a weak state, and he
could not resist the effect of the observations and menaces
with which he has been harassed. In being the terminator
of his own life, the lingering means which he had recourse
to must have condemned his last moments to horrible suf-
ferings.