Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1813-05-17
FROM Il LONDON PAPER.
HOUSE OF BOURBON.


In these even'ful times, every day, as
it approaches. appears pregnant with oc-
currenccs still more important, if posi-
bic, than those which have preceded it
TIE revolution Of France. in its cqnvul-
.ive throes, overturned its government,
extinguished its nobility, inundated the
monarch, and in the frenzy which in.
famed the peoples minds, they swore
eternal haired TO Kings! And yet the
same age and people lived to see an
Usurper ascend the thrnne from which
they had driven the lawful owner! 1t
would not be mors wonderful we're Eu-
rope soon to witness that same people
recall the Bourbon family to fill the
thrsnc Of their ancestors and may cir
cumstances seem 10 conspire, al the pre-
sent moment, to render such an event
not improbable. Fer some years past
.he Regal Family Of France have been
lille heard Of, it may, therefore, be liz
teres!yns TO our readers, to peruse the
following account OF the surviving
branches Of that family. There were
three grand branches of the Cspet line !;
the Bourbon, the Condo, and the Orleans
family. The first was the reigDing
branch, it was represented BY three sons,
before The revolution. Louis XVI Mon.
sicur tie present King, now resident in
England, and the Count D. Arteis. Mon.
sieur was married to SayoyaId Prin-
cess, by whom he never had any chill.
dren. The only daughter Of Louis the
10th, married the only son Of his brother
Count D'Artois ulder dispsnsa,ion
from the la.e Pope, they being cousins
German, and of course requiring such
dspensst;on The son Of the Count
D'Artsis is the presen, Duke of DIAN.
goalesme, and the sole Surviving child
of the i'll lated monarch, is the present
La Duchssse D'Angoulesme. This in
teresting couple were regarded by oil
the emigrant adhcrsnts of the old re-
gime, as tic unios which shruld and
might perpetuate the claimants to The
throne Of their ancestors. They we're
driven from Courland, their last CONT
Mental retreat, by the policy OF the pre-
sent Alexander, when ne had formed his
irst strict alliance with Bonaparte. In
England they were never received a,
Court BY the King, but they have expe-
rienceJ the most delisate and marked
hospitality from the Grcnvil!c family, 1t
Stowe, and lately from the Prince Re
gent at Carlton House They have been
married mary years, but have not any
children. Thus, the FIRST branch is like
ly to be extinct The second branch
was the House Of Condo. The sole re-
preventative of this family, and the re-
siduary heir to the hopes Of the French
Royalists, was the highly gifted and IN
happy Duke D'Enghein. He was the
youngest of his family--disdngslshed
for yiger, spirit, talent and enterprise.
He was, in truth, the hope: and We tear
that his death extinguisbed bis family
No doubt Bopaparte foresaw that this
Young Prince would be most likely TO
unsettle OF oyerturn his throae, or his
successors and no doubt that cIrcam'
stance may have created new motives to
remove efectusIIy the alarming claim.
ant to the Bourbon Crown. He is gone,
and with hin have vanished the seeeha
branch Of the Bourbon family The
third and last branch. is that OF Orleans.
The late Infamous Duke Of Orleans
Monsieur Egalite, LEI, I've children, two
daughters were ,illegi.imats children, by
the ceIebra ed Madame De Gents. One
Of them, Adelaide, married Frsncn
Nobleman; and the other, Pamela, was
wife and rslict TO tho i'll fatsd Lsrd Ed
ward Fitzgerald. The three sens were
and with their father, resigb-
I'd nobility, asi embraced the principles