The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-04-01

account OF his adventures before our readers TO morow
Meantime, we give a seasonabe article the fol-
lowing extract from of the last London Times The
King seems to have lost all his presence OF mnd-all his
moral courage-and was indebted to the selfpossesson
OF his wife for many Of the facilities of escape The fact
is, the King has not fallen with dignity and the very
circumstances OF his retreat much calculated 10
lower him in the opinion of the French that they alone
would contribute 10 cut off his return TO power
| From the London Times March
The FRENCH RKvoLUToN-It is with the greatest pleas
that the safe arrival OF the last and most
llusous insalment of the ''roya fugityes' these
shores For whole week the King OF the French, after
ing for eighteen the conspicuous the
most conspicuous stage of European AFFAIR." had totally dis
appeared from the His place could nowhere be
found; and, shocking all would have felt it, it
least probable conjecture any other that his Majesty
had persisted in the Channel The Express brought
them yesterday morning to Ncwhaven, where they had
wait for hours till the of the tide should enable
them enter the habor. AT last they landed, and
glad to receive very hearty welcome 10 the weknown
shore For the rest, refer the particulars which
have been enabled supply and to which the rank,
the msortunes, and, it be added, the of the
distinguished sufferer will impart peculiar Interest,"
may be safely sad there is nothing in hsorynohing
at least in the examples which readily the
mndtha all the tremendous suddenness of
the present royal reverse This day fortnight Louis Phil
lppe was the most prosperous the powerful and
counted the ables sovereign in the world If the reader
will just think of IL he will find that this wonderful man
had attained the very of consideration and
power. 1t is work of time enumerate the many cir
! cumstances Of his splendid condition His numerous,
handsome, and dutul children the brilliant alliances
one of them recently concuded-whch brought into
family interest the vast region from Antwerp Cadz the
near prospect of event which would probably make
his grandchd the sovereign, his the regent of Spain
the great and drawback of his reign Just removed
Algeria pacifed after eighteen years war; his immense
| private fortunes his eleven twelve palaces, unequal
ed for situation and magnidcence ON all of which he
had recently spent immense sums of money! his splendid
army of four hundred thousand men, the highest dscip
line and equip minister of unequaled energy ana
genius, who had found at last the of France
tropois fortified and armed to the teeth against all the
world favorable advances recently made by those
who had previously looked down the royal pcruenu
the webalanced of his foreign relations and the firm
lygrasped reins of the political all these gifts OF for
tune and more, if we had time go with the list, Were
heaped in such profuson really to pail the
imagination What crowned all, was that Louis Philippe
allowed the entire credit of his all the
work OF his hands He might stand like the ancient
king on the walls and towers which he had drawn round
ais city, and contemplate the perfect work of beauty and
policy which himself had made The balance OF Europe,
the of peoples and kings the issues OF and OF
in his hands. If there aiquid in
his garden of and delights twenty mpregnabe forts
md hundred thousand armed men insignificant
watch upon few disorderly subjects Scion himself
would hardly have ventured preach upon his envious
| ext-ante obitum safe man.
What we have described sober and solid reality
What we to, reads like the preposerous Incl
tents of nursery tale mob of artisans, boys, and some
vomen pours through the streets of Paris They make for
ne palace. Eighty thousand infantry, cavalry and arl-
lery are dumbfoundeda and stied In few minutes, an
dery couple seen buslling away from the hubbub;
they are hackcab, aud driven of the
The rushes into the Senate, and procaim repub-
an exists, which is ruling the nation
With great energy and judgment. and is already communl
eating with the representatives of foreign powers But let
rs follow the princes We say it without intending any
srespect and only relating the simple truth of the
| ltfa O
umnarily bundled of the way this illus
| 5rious group, The Queen, told had run back
| o n bureau for silver but it seems it was moi
,nough hat round for the royal couple at ST.
| Cloud, and small dubbed by the national guard
Vt Deux, they left with veranc piece between
hem. Flying 'when none pursueth, they get to Louis
Philippe. celebrated chateau at Eu which they are
,rad So there they disappear into space They
be Eu, and weekthat is all that we knew
If them Meanwhile the rest had dropped in one by one
they like foreign birds dashed by storm against
CLUBHOUSE The Duke de Nemours and certain Sake Co
,urgs come day, knowing nothing of the rest They
,arled the crowd Spanish Infanm, for whose hand
I'll the world competing only the year before iast'
crambled another through bye.roads and back
loors and-srange EVENTS likely to give Spain an
English born sovereign, under Vctorias kindly auspices
No sooner, however, have the fngitives found friendly
| ,syum, than they obliged to seek another roof
Other princes and princesses turn up here and there
rejons her mistress cabinet minister is
ound The children and governess of another arrive The
enconf,es and strange enough prince oil
The blood and ex-pre1ect meet 40
know another. Very late youthful heir to the crown
IF France, and who had been actually acknowledged as
eignng king by the deputies, is discovered channel
stand with his mother and brother. The children had
been almost lost in the mob leaving the chamber had
been got somehow to Eu, with their MOTHER we aried and
bearing muddy marks of rough travel Thence by heavy
bbing, they had procured passage to the first British
rock Thus they driven and scattered by the bes Of
revolution They arrive penniless, without change OF
tanen detected and bewildered telling another their
stories of many strange adventures, having each
ferent journey though starting from point, and al
most at one hour
After many days suspense, the King and Queen are
heard Of private information, the coast of Nor
mandy where they had been on the run" from house
house, and content with humble hospitality, the King,
told in strange disguises They still have small ret
nue These half dozen invaders, without either or
Baggage do not find it easy the channel Sta
onng themselves at Honeur within twenty miles sail OF
| iavre, they watch opportunity and the weather, which
last delays their passage several days At length they get
British Arrived at Newhaven, after rough
passage they fresh delays, if to that
England soeasly surprised Louis Philippe, who
TO bridge the British Helespont, with foreign aid,
md lands in peaiacket borrowed from the English
captain he finds himself home the associations and
the friends of his former exile greet him generation
passes like dream and the aged monarch finds himself
he Duke of Orleans the banished of old Egae again
Would that all could be forgotten! But if what is said be
rscoections did of accusing character
The frequent exclamation 'Lke Charles X, told,
betrayed the of his thoughts eve verify guilty
concerning brother therefore is this distress
upon U.S." At the very moment the missing King appears