The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09
ROYAL RESIDENTS
 OF UNITED STATES Louis Philippe Gained Much By
 Residence Here JEROME BONAPARTE'S TRIP Marriage of Napoleon's Nephew to Washineton's Grand Niece United
 Two of the Worlds Great
 est Families.
JEROME BONAPARTE'S TRIP
BY FREDERIC HAsKlN.

Ever since the day when the English Puritans, exiled to Holland, looked across the sea and saw in America refuge from further persecution, this land has beon the haven toward which the religious and political fugitves from the old world have turned. Catholic. covenanter. Huguenot, Moravian Lutheran. Free-thinker-all came and found the hope of new life full filled. Even royalty has looked this way, has sometimes come, and has always $ been satisfied. After the execution of Charles l, Queen Henrietta Maria thought seriously of coming over and setting up a miniature court in loyal Virginia Crom- well, lord protector of the commonwealth is also said to have thought of a home in Connecticut where three of the regicides had been harbored, because the unfamiliar crown of the cavalier stuarts weighed heavily on his Puritan head.
 Tradition tells pretty story of how the Dauphin, son of Louis XVI of France, es- oaped to Canada and there lived out a quiet and uneventful life as simple cit izen, Another tradition, said to be veri- lied by German historiographers, Is that the German princess Charlotte Christina Sophia. compelled to be the wife of the czarowitch Alexis. son of Peter the Great of Russia, escaped 10 America in 1721 to avoid the brutality of her husband. She came with John Laws German colony in- tended for Arkansas, and lived for awhile In Mobile. She married Cheyalier d'Au- bant, known to Frederick the Great as Waldeck. They lived happily at We tumpka for ten years, but after his death she died in Paris in great poverty.
 On October 25, 17s8, there appeared in the New World" of Philadelphia this paragraph Among the passengers of the ship America was L. P de Orleans, eldest son of the ci-devant Egalite, and distinguished in French history as lieu tenant general at the battle of Jemap- pes Thus was chronicled the advent of a future king of France into the United States. fugitive from the maeIstrom of the French revolution, Louis Philippe. son of the Duke of Orleans, who lost his life on the guillotine in 1793, had gone out into the world on an equal footing with the average man of education Under an assumed name he taught school in Switzerland and travelled In Norway, Sweden and Lapland, studying people and conditions with d zest before unknown n member of either the Bourbon or Or leans families. The directory of France felt that the nation would be less per turbed if he were out of the way and offered the prince the liberty of his two brothers if they would all go to America
 Gouveneur Morris, United States minis- ter to France, loaned the money on which the princes were to make the journey and in the carefully kept books of Louis Philippe every penny is accounted fo1, and later every penny was duly repaid. Louis Philippe waited In Philadelphia for the coming of his brothers, the Count 1e Montpensier and the Count Beaujolais. who arrived in a ship bringing home eighty Americans newly freed from slav- cry in Algiers. The brothers kept house for several months on Fourth street. Philadelphia. their only servant being a faithful attendant. who followed them from France. The seat of government was then in Philadelphia, so they saw the inauguration of John Adams and heard " tOb ldISWtli dQuTeSS. It WIS here that the friendliness grew In Wash ingtons heart for these frail, exilcd youths, and later they were his guests at Mount Vernon.
 It was the wish of the princes to study this country, as Louis Philippe had studied Europe. and they planned an extensive horseback trip through the then far west Washington drew pocket map for them, indicating the route, and with a few ser wants and companions the princes set out from Mount Vernan, visiting the Balls, Madlsons and Lees on the way. They went down the valley through Virginia, into Tennessee and Kentucky, visiting In- dian villages, studying slave life. pioneer life-everything that came their way. From Louisville they went to Indiana and Ohio to Niagara Falls, then on by Sen eoa lake, and down the Susquehanna val ley, ending their journey as they had be- gun, at Philadelphia
 On the Holston river they were enter tained by Colonel Campbell of King mountain fame. In the Cherokee country Louis Philippe cured the chief of ma- adv and was shown high favor In