Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1848-04-20
The Late Citizen King of the French.

that we shall Law the account of his adventures be-
fore our readers tomorrow Meantime. we give asa
more seasOnable article the following extract from
one of the last London Times The King seems 10
have lost all his presence of mind-al his moral
rape-and was indebted to the self-pOssesson 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 are so much calculated
lower him in the opinion of the French, that they
alone would contribute to cut off his return to power
linton.
From the London Times. March 4n.
The FRENCH REvoLUTIoN.-It is with the great
est pleasure that we announce the safe arrival OF the
last and illustrous instalmen OF the "royal fu
gtives'' on these shores. For whole week the ex-
King of the French after playing for eighteen years
the most conspicuous part on the most conspicuous
stage of European affairs, had totally disappeared
from the scene. His place could nowhere be found
and shocking all would have felt it, it at least
ms probable conjecture as any other that his Majes
~ had persisted in the channel The Express steam
er brought them yesterday morning TO Newhaven,
where they had to wait for hours till the state
of the tide should enable them TO enter the harbOr.
At last they landed, and glad to receive very
hearty welcome to the well-known shore. For the
rest we must refer to the particulars which we have
been enabled to supply, aud to which the rank, the
msfortunes and, it must be added, the of the
distinguished sufferer will impart 50 peculiar an in-
terest
1t may be safely said, there is nothing in history
occur to the mind-tIat at all comes near the tre-
mendous suddenness Of the present royal reverse.
This day fortnight, Louis Philippe was the most
prosperous, the most powerful, and accounted the
ablest sovereign in the world. If the reader will just
think of IT, he will find that this wonderful man had
attained the acme of success, consideration, and
power. Ii is work of time to enumerate the many
circumstances of his splendid condition. His numer
ous handsome, and dutfu children the brilliant al
liances-One of them recently concluded-which
brought into family interest the vast region from
Antwerp to Cadiz the prospect of an event which
would probably make his grandchid the sovereign,
his son the regent Of Spain the great and draw
back of his reign just Algeria paci6ed af-
ter eighteen years war; his immense private for
tune his eleven twelve palaces, unequalled for
situation and magniicence, on all of which he had
recently spent immense sums of money; his splendid
army of four hundred thousand men, in the highest
discipline and equipment; a minister of unequalled
energy and genius, who had found out at last the
cret Of France metropolis fortified and armed to
the teeth against all the world the favorable advan
ces recently made by those powers who had previous
ly looked down the royal pdrrena the well-bal-
anced state of his foreign relations, and the firmly
grasDed reins of the political all these gifts Of
fortune, and MORE if we had time to 90 with the
list, heaped man in such profusiOn
really To pail the Imagination. What crowned it ALL
was, that Louis Philippe allowed the entire Gre
dit of his success. 1t all the work of his
hands. He might stand like the ancient king the
walls and tower, which he had drawn round his city,
and contemplate the perfect work of beauty and policy
which himself had made. The balance of Europe,
the causes of peoples and kings the issues of peace
and of war, in his hands. II there was an
auari atguid in this garden of roses and delights,
twenty impregnable forts and hundred thousand
armed men were no Insignificant watch upon few
disorderly subjects. Scion himself would hardly have
ventnred to preach upon his enyous tex-ant> O6itun
nenaO-to So safe man.
What we have described sober and solid
atty. What we now to, reads like the prepos
ferrous incidents of nursery tale. mob of arti-
sans, boys and women pOurs through the streets
of Paris. Eighty thousand infantry, cavalry, and ar
tlery are dumbfounded and stultifed In few
minutes, an elderly couple are seen bustlIng away
from the hubbub; they thrust into hack-cab,
and driven out Of the way. The mob rushes into the
Senate, and proclaIms republican government
which exists, which is ruling the nation with great
energy and Judgment, and is already communicating
with the representatives, of foreign powers But let
follow the princes. We say it without intending
any dsrespect and only relating the simple truth
of the affair. No family of Irish trampers was ever
so summarily bundled of the way, as this illus
trlous group. The Queen, we told, had run back
to bureau for some silver; but ii seems it was not
enough, hat sent round for the royal couple
at St. Cloud, and small sum dubbed by the national
guard At Dreux, they were left with fve-franc
piece between them. Flying "when pursueth''
they get TO Louis Phllppes once celebrated chateau
at Eu which they afraid to enter. So there they
disappear into space. They to be at Eu, and
for a week-ihat is all that knew of them. Mean
WHILE the rest lad dropped in, one by one. They
come like foreign birds dashed by storm against
lighthouse. The Duke de Nemoars and certain
SAKE Coburgs come one day, knowing nothing of the
rest. They parted in the crowd Spanish lnfanta,
for whose hand all the world competing only the
year before last, scrambled another way, and through
bye-roads and back-doors and-strange events
likely to give Spain Engish-born sovereign, I'M
der VictOrIas kindly auspices. No sooner, however,
have the fngitives found friendly asylum than they
obliged to seek another roof. Other princes and
prncesses turn up here and there. A lady-in-wait-
ing reioins her mistress. A cabinet minister is
found The children and governess of another arrive.
The rencOntreS and reunions strange enough. A
prince of the blood and exprefect meet in disguise
and do not know another. Very late youthful
heir 10 the crown of France and who had been actu-
ally acknowledged regning king by the deputies,
discovered at channel island with his mother and
brother. The two children had been almost lost in
the mob leaving the chamber, had been got some
how TO Eu, with their mother, wearied and bearing
muddy marks Of rough travel. Thence, by heavy
bribing, they had procured passage the first Brit
sh rock. Thus they driven aud scattered by the
bosom of revolution. They arrive penniless, without
change of raiment, detected and bewdered. telling
another their stories of many strange adventures,
having each come a different Journey, though starting
from point, and almost a hour.
After many days suspense, the King and Queen
heard OF, on some private information, on the
of Normandy, where they had been ION the
run" from house to house, and content with humble
hospitality, the King, told, in strange dis
guIses They still have a small retinue. These half
dozen invaders, without either arms or baggage, do