The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-07-19 00:00:00

THE DUKE OF ORLEANS

The late Duke of Orleans was the eldest son of the King
of the French, and of her present Majesty the Queen of the
French, who is daughter of Ferdinand, King of the two
Sicilies. The deceased was a native of Palermo, having been
born in that city on the 2d of September, 1810. On the
restoration of the House of Bourbon to the throne of their
ancestors, the Orleans branch of that family immediately re-
turned to their native country, where the young prince, now
so unhappily removed from this life, commenced his ;:duca-
tion as a pupil of the public Lyceums in Paris ; for his
father, Whose pally life had been spent under the ,guidance of
Madame de Geniis, vas resolved' that his son should pot be
brought up in what Dr. JohnsOn calls " ignorance of princely
education," and for the first time a Freneh'prince entered an
academic class, exposed himself to the fellowship of school-
boys, and contended with the sons of the nobility and gentry
of France in the rivalry proper to a place of public education.
He has, however, been less distinguished in literature than
in arms, having served tvth considerable reputation in the
African war. . . . .

When the news of that revolution which placed 'nis father
on a throne reached him, he was at Joigny with his regiment.
Of course he lost no time in attempting to join his relatives;
he was, however, detained by the mayor of Montrouge, but
was speedily liberated by an order from Lafayette, and he
then thought it expedient to return to his regiment, instead
of proceeding to Neuilly, where his father then was. On
his return he met the Duchess d'Angouleme, who expressed
a hope that he would support the cause of that portion of
the family to yhich she belonged. His characteristic reply
was, that undei all cir,,,:umptances he would do his duty, re-
gardless of consequences.
Louis Philippe 1., the King of the French, has now a
family of six children (exclusive of the late lamented Duke
of Orleans), four of whom are sons, viz., the Duke de Ne-
mours, the Prince de Joinville, the Duke d'Aumale, and the
Duke de Nlontpensier. The present heir apparent to the
throne of France is the young Comte de Paris, the eldest
child of the late Duke of Orleans, who was born in August,
1838, and is consequently in his fourth year. His younger
brother, the infant Duke de Chartres, was born on the 9th
of November, 1840.
The lake Duke of Orleans married, in June, 1837, the
Princess Helena pf Mecklenburgh-Schwerin, by whom he
had the two sons aboiie oiresAoned. He always entertained
a marked predilection for military ewployment, and a strong
love of military glory, and was undersOod to be much
beloved by the soldiers under his command, Mank of yvoin---
sturdy veterans of the Napoleon armies—shed tears as his
lifeless body was carried from the fatal spot. '
It is curious to remark the hapless fate which has been
attendant upon so many of the youthful scions of royalty in
France.

In the. irst place, t4ei.-e was the unfortunate Dauphin, the
son of Louis XVI., who, after urrdergoing the most horrible
sufferings, perished in the prison of the Temple, at the age
Years. Although, however, he never came to
the
aboutui
throne,
nelt
ei
thei title of Louis the Seventeenth hasteen never
thelzsa assigned him.

The tie.7,-...(:iouthfid heir to the French crown was the puke
de Reichstailt, or, as he was called, " the King of Rome,"
whom Napoleon wished ,to Ibis,
on the throne when he abdi-
cated in 1814 and 1815. This? however, the conquerors of
France would never listen to, and the yoking prince Was con-
sequently compelled to retire with his impArial
rn°'th4rtiolno
Austria, where he lived for some years, under the 1). ilot.
of his maternal grandfather, the late Emperor Francis 1,
lie finally died of pulmonary consumption, in the year 1832,
aged 21 years.
Louis XVIII. having died in 1821 without issue, he was
succeeded'by iii;; brother, Charles X., who, as all our readers
are aware, was coinpl,:ed to abdicate his throne in July,
1830. His eldest sou the i?..c,tiphin (entitled the Duke
d'Angoul&me) at the same time resigngd his pretensions to
the throne in favour of his nephew; the young puke de
Bordeaux, whose father, the Duke de Berri, was assssinate,c;
at the Opera House, by Lonvel, in the year 1820; thereby
affording another instance of the evil destiny of the Bourbon
race,
The Duke de Bordeaux has, however, been compelled, like
the son of Napoleon,
,to wander abroad for twelve years an
exile from his native land, with very little prospect of ever
recovering the throne of his ancestors.

B. W. Bridges, Bart. is upon the eve of taking his seat in
the House of Lords, as Baron Fitzwalter, a title which goes
back to the time of King John.—Kentish Observer.