Star.
London, England, 1830-08-20 00:00:00

OF FRANCE.

Louis Philippe, Duke of Orleans, is the eldest son of the Duke
of Orleans, guillotined at the beginning of the French Revolution.
He was born on the 6th of October, 1773, and descends from
Henry IV. in the same degree as Louis XVI 11, the head of his house
being Monsieur, the brother of Louis XIV. Few princes possess
more general and more varied information. He speaks most of the
European languages with equal facility and correctness. During
the whole course of his life he displayed a remarkable degree of pru.
deuceand reserve, and was constantly a friend of liberty. When a
decree of the Assemble Constituante ordered the Colonels-Proprie-
tors to take the command of their regiments, this Prince, who
was then Duke of Chartres, put himself at the head of the regiment
of dragoons which bore his name, and joined the Army of the North.
There he distinguished himself; was made a Msrechal de Camp on
the 7th of May, 1792, and a Lieutenant.Oeneral on the 11th of
September following, in consequence of the retreat of Kellerman.
It was in that capacity that, by his firmness, he decided the victory
of Valmy. He afterwards served under Dumoureis, and was in.
vested with the command of the 211 column which entered Flanders,
where he drove the Austrians to St. Ghislam. The victory of (le.
mapper was principally owing to this Prince. It was he who rallied
the flying troops, and collected them into one column, under the name
of Hatailion:de Maras, and took possession of the enemy's batteries and
redoubt's.

On the 13th of November he again beat the Austrians at Ander-
keht, and entered Liege on the 28th. He assisted at the siege of
Maestricht, and commanded the centre of Dumouries's army at the
battle of Neerwinde. At the time of Dumouries's proscription, a
decree of arrest was issued against the Duke of Chartres, as well as
against the former. He then followed Dumouriez into exile. On pass-
ing through Mons he was offered the command of an Austrian diet-
vision, which be refused. He retired in the first place to Switzerland,
where he placed his sister, itledsle. d'Orleans, in the convent of Breen.
garten, and travelled afterwards, for oeveral months, alone and on foot,
about the most savage districts of the Alps. Such was the perse-
cution directed against him, that he was not suffered to tarry in any
one place, and being destitute of all resources, he was compelled to
accept the situation of a Professor in the College of Reichenan,
near Coir, in Orison, or Graubunden, where he was teaching for
eight months; after which he went to Hamburgh, traversed Den.
mark, Norway, and Lapland, on foot, and returned through
Sweden to Hamburgh. As the presence of the new Duke of Orleans
in Europe gave umbrage to the Executive Directory, it promised
him the liberty of his two brothers, on condition of his going to
America, where he went in 1793. Learning that his mother, the
Duchess of Orleans, had been exiled to Spain, he proceeded
in 1798, with his brothers, to the Spanish colonies, where the
Government would not allow them to sojourn. The Duke of
Kant gave them a better reception at Halifax. That Prince
having induced them to sail for England, they arrived here in
1800, and reconciled themselves with the branch of Bour-
bons. 'After having vainly attempted to deliver his mother,
the Duke of Orleans went to the Court of Sicily, where be
became attached to the Princess Maria Amelia, the King's
daughter, whom he married at Palermo on the 23d of November,
1809. The fluke of Orleans returned to this country after the
Restoration. He hoped to take a share in the discussions of the
Chamber of Peers, but Louis XVIII withheld his authority
and consent. During the hundred days he retired to Eng.
land, and rejected all the proposals made to induce him to go to
Ghent. During the short stay he then made in England, he, one
night, in company of the Duchess of Orleans and another lad, said
to be the Princes Talleyrand, attended in that part of the gallery of
the House of Commons which is set aside for the Members, when the
late Mr. Whitbread took occasion to reflect rather severely on the
conduct of the House of Bourbon, contrasting with it the liberal
proceedings of Napoleon, who, on his return from Elba, had abolish.
ed the slave trade by a single stroke of his pen, which Louis XVIII.
had not only hesitated, but actually refused to do ever since his re.
storation. The Duke did not return to France till the King had
authorised the Princes to take their seats in the Chamber of Peers.
The Duke of Orleans, very emphatically, opposed then the Ad.
dress on the purification of the administration, and the punishment
of the guilty, when under discussion in that Chamber. The issue
of the debate, the prohibition of its publication, and the distrust of
the Court, determined this Prince to return to England till 1817.
He since fixed his residence at Neuilly, near Paris, where he spent
the greatest part of the fine season, occupied with the education of
his numerous family. The Duke of Orleans is enlightened and eco-
namical in his hahits, having been reared in the school of misfor.
tune. The splendour of his Royal station will not allow him to
forget the wholesome leaves of adversity ; a son of France, he
never attacked his mother, either with his tongue or sword, having
adopted the liberal opinions of the French Revolution, when only
16 years of age, as Colonel of the 14th.