The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-07-21
Louis Fhilippe and his F0rtunes.
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s 1t is now several years SINCE the following anee
dote appeared the Literary Gazette
An English noblemara Lord I'm, having
had the honor of dining with the king ~ fniAt hi-
ceremoniois manner in which he delights e WITH
draw himself from the tramInels Of state me cen,
Yersation was carried on If between equals anu
his Majesty, inter ala, remarked that be was tle
only sovereign now in Europe fl g tlll q tlfens;
Lord BIN, somewhat staggered by thus piece 81
egotisn 1nuttered out some trite compliments upon
the great talents for government which hls royal
entertainer had always displayed, etc e,e., when
tlle KING burst into ito1 Laughter and exclaimed,
no, no, that Is not what mean; but kings are at
sueha discount incur days there is no saying what
may happen; and am. the only monarch who has.
cleaned his own boots, and could do il again y
The events Of the last iortidght in eoHunetioI
with tins conversation, finnish another versihga-
Jest When on Friday Louis Philippe landed at
NeWhaven, in an old green blouse borrowed from 2
a French farmer, and q pea-aeSet, the present OF
an English skipper, he was himself living tuil
ment OF his own phrase KING ata discount
and if he did not put his oot-ceaning abilities mo
practice it was not because there was no occasion
for tile work but because lie was otherwise too
much engaged al taking care Of rs person
We hear the Americans say he beats reality
but Louis Philippe, IN his remarkable ne aiit i9f
tunes has beaten romance. This world is popuiarly
acquainted with the general outlines and leading
passages Il his past career.
s** But the sngularity and wonder Of Louis
Philippe's life do not end or begin here either In
fact, his very first appearance upon the stage OF
exstence his birth, andthe circumstance of bis be-
longing TO the house Of Orleans, are all according
to one account romance and the most wonderful
romance of ALL shall astonsh the reader, per
haps, by the tale am about 10 unfold, as myself
was astunished When first nv attention was called
to il by very Intelligent and travelled foreigner a
few days ago. But The reader shall have the tale
as ii was told TO me Without exaggerafion " an
tentionaf colorng, and accompanied with sicll'an-
tority as can furnish, and he can then believe OF
dsscredit the extraordinary allegation as he ikes
In Burke's Peerage You will find, under The head
of g Marlborough, the following entry
Z Sir Thomas WYNN, afterwards Baron NeWhO-
rough, married 2ndly, Maria Stella Fatronea,
daughter of Lorenzo Clliapplni, and BY her ewllQ
married 2ndIy, in 1910. tie Baron Sienberg, and
died in l84S) had issue Thomas John, lis SUCCESSOR
and Spencer Buckley, the present peer.
To the above the compiler Of the Peeage has
appended the following note
" This lady Chat is Maria Stella Ghiappll1,
Baroness Newborough1 in apanphlet publislledin
1899 claims to be the Legitimate eldest anghiero Of
the late Duke and Duchess of Orleans and asserts
that the French king Louis Plilippel vas born III
Florence in l713, whom her parents anxious fora
male heir, purchased from an inkeeper. Tlie boots
adds BurkeJ created some seEsation al the time N
Paris
have not Bretts Peelage at hand to refer To-,
but think the same circumstances above alluded
| 10 by Burke, are there given at greater length
The reader who has now heard OF this exiraGft-
nary pamphlet for the first time, viii naturally ase
/ why he never heard oft before There are pruba-
| by few who have it in this country, nevertheless
such pamphlet was published, and was at tle Time
| and still is very extensively credited on the Cont
rent The rank of the lady herself, the plausible,
and some believed the unmpregnahle evidence
which she adduced in support Of her assertion, and
the very serious and 10 some extent. favorable hear
| ing which her case received from de high Tribunal
before which she brought il, all gave an Appearance
of authenticity TO her statement and gravity and
importance to the whole business that started more
than the mere gossips and set them thinking Ihe
ady's allegations too, II viii be borne III mind,
seemed the less suspicious from having been made
before Louis Philippe was King q France and
! only Duke of Orleans for had they been advanced
year or two later, might lave naturally thought
there was something Of poiteal intrigue m the bu-
siness in order to embarrass tie newly raised hing
| Of the Barrcades
And now 10 give with a little more detail, and at
greater lengths the Continental version Of The story
! glanced atm the above note icalnQt obtain the
pamphlet though one or two whose attention have
called to this extraordinary Circumstance say they
recollect some such brochure coming ont Under the
title Of Maria Stella but lis contents iheylav
/ a vague and indefinite knowledge, or rather ia fact
no knowledge at all must therefore supply the
! narrative from the relation Of very respectable
and intelligent FTeuchman, from whom srecelVed
it few days ago, and who himself deyouty be-
lieves the baroness story, and declares the err
1 cunsancs was we'll known and talked OF in Flor
enee, and believed there and elsewhere On the Cons
| tipent
! Louis Philppel father Of the ex-King of the
French, commonly known as Egalile (or Equali-
| ty, which name he assumed on The abolition OF
titles of nobility by the Observation-Disclosures was,
| as the reader is doubtless aware, married TO The
daughter Of the Duke de Penthievne, admiral of
| France and possessing the largest private fortune
| in the kingdom Soon after tins marriage, go the
story, and | believe the statement Of Maria Stella
go) The Duke of Orleans Chenille Duke OF Chnrtres,
for hisather was still liying) being sore want Of
money to supply his extrayagance, applied 20 lGs
4 fatheT-ir-law for large sum bufslhe latter SAID,
e No, let me first see male heir to the houses and
fortunes Of Orleans and Penthieyre and then Twill
/ show YOU 10 what amountmy liberality VIII extend
| The young Duchess was then eacieHtt, and soon
after she and her husband started on tonr through
italy. AT Florence she was taken lliand delivered
/ Of daughter, whom the Dixie her husband, know
ing thai all his hopes from his iatlern law depended
| upon an heir removed and exchanged for the male
child Of The keeper of the mn in which they were
and whose wife had been brought bed the same
day Wien the Duchess had sufficiently recovered,
she with the Duke resumed her journey all ln-
conscious thatthe infant which she carried away
with her was the suppositlos chud OF another, and
that she left Behind her to- be for the future the pu
fatv,s DAUGHTER OF Florentine inn-keeper the real
1 ofIsprang and Ieiress Of the house Of Orleans
| Ths Italian, whose name was Chlappini ofcourse
got large epRsIderapoil or liie sAcliange ana by
Sgav 81 making amends for the injustice 20 which,
he lad been party, had the little GIRL who soon
discovered great beauty, and manifold talent, IS
pecialy formusic, early and well instructed in POI
4 lie accomplishments. After time She went on
the stage, under the title Of Maria Stella as
4 public singer, and think sang in the Theatre Of
I La Scala II Milan. where she attracted the atlerl-
i tionof Sir Thomas Wynn, afterwards Lord New
borough, then travelling abroad to whose ofers OF
marriage she acceded, and BY whom she had the
1 two sons set down in The peerage. All this time
# she knew nothing Of ie real secret of her birth,
though All incident is said 70 have occurred when
/ she and her husband, Lord NeWboroug were stay
ing in Paris, which subsequent relations singuarly
/ ing through Tie Palais Royal The Paris residencs
Of the family Of Orleans when tie youngest ofhe
two suddenly stopped before q paintuies OF a lady,
sand exclaimed, How Ike mamma it was q