he required; and he soon relieved himself by losing a quantity of blood. The circumstances, however, had attracted general attention, in consequence of the accident to the waggon, and of the injury to the traveller, and still more from the extraordinary occurrence of auto-phlebotomy; and a large crowd had collected in the tavern to watch the result of the operation. About this period, the New England states were sending out those swarms of emigrants to Ohio, who went to lay down the forests before them, and to build up their fortunes in the west. LouisPhilip speaks English as well as an American or an Englishman, and no accent would betray that he was a Frenchman. It is probable, the curious spectators thought he was a Yankee doctor, going to the west to establish himself, and to vend medical skill and galenicals. Apparently well satisfied with the surgical ability which the new Esculapius had just displayed, they proposed to him to remain at Carlisle, and to commence there his professional career, promising to employ him, and assuring him that his prospect of success would be much more favourable than in the regions beyond the mountains.

attention. His eldest son, the Duke of Chartres (now
Duke of Orleans), was instructed, like his ancestor
Henry IV., in the public institutions of the country,
and distinguished himself by the success of his studies.
The family of Louis-Philip was ever a model of union,
good morals, and domestic virtues. Personally simple
in his tastes, order and economy were combined with
a magnificence becoming his rank and wealth, for the
restoration of his patrimony had placed him in a state
of opulence. The protector of the fine arts, and the
patron of letters, his superb palace in Paris, and his
delightful seat at Neuilly, were ornamented with the
productions of the former, and frequented by the dis-
tinguished men of the age.

The events of the revolution of 1830 need not here
be related; it is sufficient to state that, on the abdi-
cation of Charles X., the Chamber of Deputies invited
the Duke of Orleans to assume the executive power,
under the title of lieutenant-general of the kingdom;
and in a few days afterwards he was offered the vacant
throne. Having taken the required oath to the con-
stitution, he was proclaimed king, under the title of
Louis-Philippe. It is not our desire to enter upon any
account of his political conduct since his accession to
the throne. It has been marked by great prudence,
love of order and peace, and a wish for gradual
meliorations and improvement.

When our party reached Pittsburg, they found the Monongahela frozen; but ultimately the travellers continued their voyage, and met with but one sinister accident. By the inattention of the helmsman, the boat struck a tree and stove in her bows. Though considerably advanced in life, his conAll the crew, princes and hired men, went to work; stitution is vigorous, and there are no marks of deand after twenty-four hours the damages were re-clining years about him. His frame is bulky, but paired, and they reached New Orleans in safety, on there is much ease in his movements, and his whole the 17th of February 1798. carriage is marked by that happy address which good taste and the polished society in which he has moved, have enabled him to acquire. He belongs to that small class of men, the individuals composing which you cannot meet in a crowd or pass in the street, without turning round to regard them, and involuntarily asking yourself who they are. and writes English as fluently as any Englishman or He speaks American, and possesses a familiar knowledge of most modern languages. He is very ready in conversation, and displays great tact and judgment in his observations. In the execution of his public duties, he is said to be prompt and active, and, it is known, he exercises a degree of control over his ministry which almost goes beyond the bounds of constitutional monarchy.

From this city, they embarked on board an American vessel for Havana; and upon their passage they were boarded by an English frigate, under French colours. Until the character of the cruiser was ascertained, the three brothers were apprehensive that they might be known and conducted to France. However, when it was discovered, on one side, that the visiter was an English ship, and, on the other, that the three young passengers were the princes of the house of Orleans, confidence was restored, and the captain hastened to receive them on board his vessel, where he treated them with distinction, and then conducted them to Havana.

The wanderers attempted in vain to get a passage to Europe. Notwithstanding their regret at being obliged to live out of France, they would have been contented in obscurity, if they could have obtained the means of an honourable subsistence. Their reception by the Spanish authorities, and the inhabitants of Havana, gave them some hopes; but the court of Madrid disappointed them by forcing them to quit the island of Cuba. The brothers now proceeded to the English Bahamas, where they were kindly received by the Duke of Kent, who, however, did not feel authorised to give them a passage to England in an English frigate. They were not discouraged, but sailed in a small vessel to New York, whence an English packet carried them to Falmouth, and they arrived in London in February 1800. The duke still desired most earnestly to see his mother, and the English government allowed him to take passage in a frigate to Minorca. The war between Spain and England threw many obstacles in the way of the interview between the duke and his remaining parent, and he was obliged to return to England without seeing her. He then established himself, with his brothers, at Twickenham, on the banks of the Thames, where he gained the esteem of all who knew him. During his stay in Great Britain at this period, he visited many parts of the country, and studied with great zeal its political economy and laws. The Duke of Montpensier died in the year 1807. Count Beaujolais was in feeble health, and was ordered by the English physicians to visit a warmer climate. The duke accompanied him to Malta; from thence to Sicily; but before their arrival at the latter place, the young prince died. At Mahon, after many adventures, the duke had the gratification of meeting his mother, from whom he had been separated sixteen years.

The court of France, under the auspices of the
queen, is acknowledged to form a pattern for royalty.
The thirty-first year of her marriage has just ex-
pired. and she and her husband, once poor, are now
at the summit of human power, with a most interest-
ing family of seven children, and, as is known to every
body, with the warmest attachment to each other.
In the bitterness of French political discussions-
and bitter enough they are indeed-
calumny has ever been heard against the queen; and
-no whisper of
one who could pass through this ordeal, has nothing
more to dread from human investigation. A kinder
and more anxious mother is nowhere to be found; and
she is a sincere believer in the Christian religion, and
devout in the performance of its duties. Her charity
is known throughout the country, and appeals for the
distressed are never made to her in vain. In the per-
formance of her regal duties, while her bearing is
what the nature of her position requires, there is a
kind affability which seems continually seeking to
put all around her as much at their ease as possible.

The king's sister, the Princess Adelaide, forms a
part of the royal family, and she is said to be one of
the most devoted sisters that brother ever possessed.
It would seem like panegyric were I to report to you
the golden opinions which this elevated lady has won
for herself. In the qualities of head and heart, all
who know her award to her the meed of praise. Re-
ligious, charitable, exemplary, she is one of those who
adorn high places by higher virtues.

whole family seems united in the bonds of common affection; and the example they thus offer is as refreshing to the philanthropist as it is useful to the country.

The wife of the Duke of Orleans is a Princess of Mecklenberg-Schwerin, and she has brought to her high station qualities eminently fitted to adorn it. She is tall, with a singularly expressive and attractive countenance, and a general deportment at once dignified and easy. Though she came to France a stranger and a Protestant, yet she has conducted herself with such exemplary propriety that all tongues are loud in her praise, and her husband is considered equally fortunate, as a prince and as a man, in the choice he has made. The duchess is well versed in English literature.

The four younger sons of the king are the Duc de Nemours, the Prince de Joinville, the Duc d'Aumale, and the Duc de Montpensier. The first is in the army, and has already given proofs of conduct and courage which have drawn upon him the applause of his fellow-citizens, and excited their hopes. His personal bearing at the storming of Constantine is said to have been remarkable for self-possession and intrepidity. He is a young man, with light hair and light complexion, slim and apparently slender in his form, but with a handsome face and polished manners; and these advantages are set off by a modesty of deportment, which, in any station of society, and at his time of life, would be highly creditable, and which is still more so in the position that he occupies. Those who know him speak very favourably of his endowments, and he has participated in that careful education which Louis-Philip has deemed essential for all his children

-an education not conducted in the seclusion of the domestic circle, but intrusted to the public institutions of the country, where all these young men have been brought into contact with youths of their own age, and where their faculties have been strengthened, and their minds disciplined, by the competition of their companions, and by the regulations of theso establishments. The Prince de Joinville is a captain in the navy, and lately was in command of a frigate in the East. The two remaining sons of the king are yet so young that it would not be proper to attempt to give any sketch of their characters or endowments. They are fine-looking young men, with expressive countenances and very prepossessing appearance.

COLONISATION.

land, at Plymouth, on the 30th October last, Sir William Ar a fête given by the Plymouth Company of New Zea Molesworth delivered an eloquent and convincing speech on the general question of colonisation, which we here present in a somewhat abridged form.

turies

Sir William began by adverting to the efforts of the Company, of which he is a director. He said they were mainly animated by a desire to afford to a por tion of our suffering population a better field for their industry than what could be obtained in their native country. It was this desire of new fields which, cenago, caused western Europe to be overspread by the ancestors of its present races. He then proceeded diate ancestors to seck in the new world a refuge from the as follows:-"The same spirit moved our more imme fortable homes to the wilderness, in pursuit of that freetyranny of the Stuarts, and bade them fly from their com-dom of conscience and thought, which is the loftiest aspiration of the human mind. There, contending with a rigorous climate, a barren soil, and warlike savages. their undismayed energies have built up an empire which, in its noblest chject, the happiness of its people, surpasses all others on record in ancient or modern times. As a parent is proud of the virtues and prowess of his offspring, so ought we to rejoice in the industry, intelligence, and well-being of our kinsmen of America. They are men of the same bold, hardy, and persevering race with ourselves, The Duke of Orleans, the eldest son of the king, motives, enjoying similar institutions, and as such as animated by the same feelings, actuated by the same and the heir of the monarchy, is now about thirty nearly allied to us as if they were subject to the same years of age. He is a young man above the middle sovereign authority. Be assured, that in the conquest stature, and of rather a slender form. But he is well which they have commenced of the new world, they will A brighter day was now dawning on the house of made, with a symmetrical figure, and he is one of the Orleans. In November 1809, the duke was married never rest satisfied till they have covered with their mul most graceful men I have ever seen. His countenance titudes all the vast continent which extends from the at Palermo to the Princess Amelia, daughter of the is remarkably handsome, and there is something very Atlantic to the Pacific, and reaches from the Arctic Pole King of Sicily, and of exceedingly estimable character. prepossessing in his whole appearance. He speaks to Cape Horn. Such have hitherto been the effects of the After the fall of Napoleon, the Duke of Orleans re- English with great ease and fluency, and with very colonising spirit of our race-the subjugation of Europe, turned to Paris, and enjoyed the happiness of finding little foreign accent. In conversation he is ready and and the substitution of an advancing for a decaying civi himself in a country which had not forgotten his unassuming, evincing the general knowledge of a well-lisation-the peopling, I may say the creation, of America. former services. On the return of Napoleon in 1815, educated man of the world. Having no direct consti- Nor have we in the present age degenerated from the vir he sent his family to England, and was ordered by tutional position with reference to the administration tralia and Van Diemen's Land at test the undecaying vigour tues of our ancestors. Our flourishing settlements in Austhe king, Louis XVIII., to take command of the army of the government, he has evidently kept himself aside of the spirit of colonisation, and that we still aspire to give of the north. He remained in this situation until from the course of its operations, committing himself the 24th of March 1815, when he gave up the command with none of the parties who are contending with the Anglo-Saxon. But how different are our conquests an all but universal empire to the name and language of to the Duke of Treviso, and went to join his family each other for power. In all this he displays great from those of our progenitors! They acquired their in England, where he again fixed his residence at judgment, and a profound knowledge of his country- possessions by the sword and the spear: we make use Twickenham. On the return of Louis XVIII. after men. Every reader must recollect the dissensions of the ploughshare and the steam-engine. Under our the Hundred Days, an ordinance was issued, authoris- which have existed in the English royal family, ever influence, the forest and the morass are changed into fering, according to the charter, as it then stood, all the since the accession of the house of Brunswick to the princes of the blood to take their seats in the Chamber throne, and the disastrous effects which these have covered with numerous flocks and herds. Great cities tile and cultivated fields, rich with waving harvests, or of Peers; and the duke returned to France in Septem- produced upon the parties themselves, as well as upon spring up, as it were, by magic, in the wilderness, containber 1815, for the purpose of being present at the public men and measures. session. Here he distinguished himself by a display internal discord have too often existed in other reign-who wanders naked in the desert, becomes the object of And similar scenes of ing all that art, science, and civilisation can contribute to redeem and improve mankind. The wretched savage, of liberal sentiments, which were so little agreeable ing families of Europe, where the ambition of the to the administration, that he returned again to Eng-prince has overpowered the duties of the son, and a land, where he remained till 1817. He now returned deplorable spectacle of filial disobedience, and someto France, but was not again summoned to sit in the times of parental harshness, has been offered to the Chamber of Peers, and remained therefore in private public curiosity. But this state of feeling is unknown life, in which he displayed all the virtues of a good in the family of Louis-Philip. There is no political father, a good husband, and a good citizen. coterie round the prince royal, seeking by present opposition to lay the foundation of future power. The

The education of his family now deeply engaged his

the result is knowledge, happiness, peace, and good-will our protection and regard, and is carefully instructed in the sacred mysterics and morality of our holy religion; and amongst men. This is a true and not exaggerated pic

America and Australia. Nor less conspicuous are the advantages that have redounded to the parent state. I will make no reference to the vast extent of our colonial

ture of the benefits which colonisation has conferred on

the limited ideas we as yet have of MORAL INFLUENCE. Exalted sentiments of benevolence, unmixed by a single particle of sordidness and selfishness, and conjoined with fair intellectual endowments and the gift of fluent oratory, form a power compared with which all others sink into insignificance. Men have all of them sorrows to be sympathised with, aspirations to be directed and encouraged, consciousness of error to be awakened and stimulated into good resolution: when the man possessing the above power comes before his fellows and addresses them on these points, not merely by the words of his mouth, but by the example of his own conduct, and by well-timed allusions to the things which form their religious faith, the effect is overpowering. Theobald Mathew seems one of those rare individuals whom nature has qualified to work such wonders. We are told that, ever since his becoming a clergyman, he has devoted himself to tasks of benevolenco for his flock. Not only did he show that untiring zeal, for which the humble Catholic clergy are remarkable, in visiting the sick and comforting the afflicted, but he entered into the temporal concerns of his people, was noted for his willingness to become the executor of wills in behalf of widows and orphans, and was resorted to on all hands as an arbiter in disputes of every kind. His charities were far beyond his means. He also acquired fame for a magnificent church which he built, and for obtaining a burial-ground for the Catholic inhabitants of Cork. It is evident that the veneration to which these acts had entitled him, would give him a great advantage in addressing the people on the subject of a vice which they could not but be sensible was most detrimental to all their best interests. The penetration of a superior understanding gave him other advantages. Former temperance preachers had caused their converts to sign the pledge. He saw that this was a dilatory process, inconsistent with great results. He adopted the mode of repeating the pledge before a great number at once, who all said it after him: thus he obtained for his cause the benefit of that mutual support and mutual fomentation which attends the bringing together of great multitudes entertaining a common object. In the very form of his pledge there was something emphatic and impressive" I promise, with the Divine assistance, as long as I shall continue a member of the Total Temperance Society, to abstain from all intoxicating drinks, except for medicinal and sacramental purposes; and to prevent, as much as possible, by advice and example, drunkenness in others." When this has been said by the crowd of postulants, he extends his hand over them, and pronounces a short prayer May God Almighty bless you, and grant you strength and grace to keep this promise!" Then ho descends from his place, and signs each kneeling votary with the cross, in which sign alone, he adds, can they hope to persevere and conquer. It may easily be imagined that the first successes which Mr Mathew gained by these means would be followed by greater and greater, until, even in his own limited district, something like supernatural influence would be attributed to him. This notion once established amongst a people notedly excitable, and universally under strong religious feeling, it is easy to see how his simple bodily presence in any district would be sufficient to prepare the inhabitants for abandoning drunkenness. The first steps are in this, as in most other cases, difficult; but when a certain power has been attained, it can be easily exercised. Portumna sinks before the influence which has already reduced Loughrea; and, after Portumna has fallen, Roscrea can no more hold out, than it could have resisted the troops of General Ginkle after the surrender of Limerick.

frenzy, to call it so, which Father Mathew has ex-
cited, will remain in a goodly twilight state at least,
during the future times of Ireland.

LOUIS-PHILIP-HIS LIFE AND

ADVENTURES.

CONCLUDED.

AT the termination of the previous paper, we left the
Duke of Orleans and his two younger brothers pur-
suing a journey of difficulty and danger through the
western wilds of the United States, and we now con-
tinue the narrative of their adventures.

At Chilocothe, the duke found a public house kept
by a Mr M'Donald, a name well known to the early
settlers of that place; and he was a witness of a scene
which the progress of morals and manners has since
rendered a rare one in that place, or, indeed, through-
out the well-regulated state of Ohio. He saw a fight
between the landlord and some one who frequented
his house, in which the former would have suffered, if
the duke had not interfored to separate the com-
batants. The second in command, who distinguished
himself at the battles of Fleurus and Jemappes, per-
formed, in the ancient capital of the north-western ter-
ritory, the office of mediator between two rival powers!
of Mr M'Intyre, whose name has been preserved in
At Zanesville the party found the comfortable cabin
the king's memory, and whose house was a favourite
place of rest and refreshment for all the travellers who
at this early period were compelled to traverse that
part of the country. At Pittsburg the travellers
rested several days, and formed an acquaintance with
some of the inhabitants, and particularly with General
Neville, so well known for his respectability and
amiable qualities. They met there Mr Brackenridge,
afterwards Judge Brackenridge, whose peculiar cha
racteristics were equally visible in his rambling satire
called "Modern Chivalry," and in his personal eccen-
tricities, both as a lawyer and a magistrate; but
withal a man of genius, of unquestioned probity, and
of much intelligence.

thence down the lake shore to Buffalo. At CattaFrom Pittsburg the party travelled to Erie, and raugus, they found a band of Seneca Indians, to whom they were indebted for a night's hospitality; for there were then few habitations but Indian wigfewer vessels, except birch canoes, which sailed over wams upon the borders of our internal seas, and still their waves. Among this band was an old woman, habituated to her fate, and contented with it. She taken prisoner many a long year before, and now was a native of Germany, and yet retained some recollection of her native language and country; and the faint, though still abiding, feeling which connected her present with her past condition, led her to take an interest in the three young strangers who talked to her in that language and of that country, and she exerted herself to render their short residence among her friends as comfortable as possible. The chief assured the travellers that he would be personally responsible for every article they might intrust to his care; but that he would not answer for his people unless this precaution was used. Accordingly, every thing was deposited with the chief, saddles, bridles, blankets, clothes, and money; all which being faithfully produced in the morning, the day's journey was commenced. But the party had not proceeded far upon their route, when they missed a favourite dog, which they had not supposed to be included in the list of contraband articles, requiring a deposit in this aboriginal custom-house, and had therefore left it at liberty. He was a singularly beautiful animal; and having been the companion in imprisonment of the two younger brothers at the Castle of St Jean, they were much attached to him. The duke immediately returned to seek and reclaim the dog, and the chief, without the slightest embarrassment, said to him, in answer to his representations, "If you had intrusted the dog to me last night, he would have been ready for you this morning, but we will find him." And board; and on his removing this, the faithful animal he immediately went to a kind of closet, shut in by a leaped out upon his masters. The travellers pursued their way to Buffalo, and there crossed to Fort Erie, and then repaired to the Fall of Niagara on the Canadian side, the state of the country on the American side intercepting all direct communication between Buffalo and the cataract.

den which Louis-Philip now bears is more oppressive than the weight which the Duke of Orleans carried through the forest and over the hills of the Susquehannah. From Tioga, the party descended the river in a boat to Wilkesbarre, and thence they crossed the country to Philadelphia.

I have found in a French publication a letter dated from Philadelphia, the 14th of August 1797, written by the Duke de Montpensier to his sister, the Princess Adelaide of Orleans, in which he describes the incidents and impressions of this journey. Having ascertained from the proper quarter that this letter is a genuine oro, I have thought that an extract from it would not be unacceptable; and here it follows:

After

"I hope you received the letter which we wrote you from Pittsburg two months since. We were then in the midst of a great journey, that we finished fifteen days ago. It took us four months. We travelled, during that time, a thousand leagues, and always upon the same horses, except the last hundred leagues, which we performed partly by water, partly stage, or public conveyance. We have seen many on foot, partly upon hired horses, and partly by the Indians, and we remained several days in their country. They received us with great kindness, and our national character contributed not a little to this them, we found the Falls of Niagara, which I wrote good reception, for they love the French. you from Pittsburg we were about to visit, the most interesting object upon our journey. It is the most surprising and majestic spectacle I have ever seen. It is a hundred and thirty-seven (French) feet high; and the volume of water is immense, since it is the whole river St Lawrence which precipitates itself at this place. I have taken a sketch of it, and I intend to paint a gouache from it, which my dear little sister will certainly see at our tender mother's; but it is not yet commenced, and will take me much time, for truly it is no small work.

which they travel in this country, I will tell you, my To give you an idea of the agreeable manner in dear sister, that we passed fourteen nights in the woods, devoured by all kinds of insects, after being wet to the bone, without being able to dry ourselves; and eating pork, and sometimes a little salt beef, and corn bread."

On their return to Philadelphia, the brothers found their finances so exhausted, that they could not quit But their mother having recovered a part of the prothe city during the prevalence of the yellow fever. sary resources; and in September they undertook perty of the family, hastened to send them the necesanother excursion, which this time led them to the eastern part of the United States. They proceeded and Boston. to New York, and thence by the Sound to Providence

In this metropolis of New England they remained some time, greatly satisfied with the hospitality and kindness of the inhabitants. LouisPhilip yet speaks of General Knox, Colonel Pickering, Mr Otis, and others, whom he met here. They continued their journey by the way of Newburyport and Portsmouth, to Portland; and from this last place they returned to Boston, and thence took the route by Hartford, New Haven, and New London, to New York. Governor Clinton, Judge Jay, Colonel Burr, and Colonel Hamilton, appear to have been well known to Louis-Philip.

public papers that a new law had just decreed the While at New York, the brothers learned from the expulsion of all the members of the Bourbon family yet remaining in France from that country; and that their mother had been deported to Spain. Their object was now to join her; but, owing to their pecuWhere a conversion has been so sudden, and conliar circumstances, and to the war between England ducted in so wholesale a fashion, doubts naturally arise and Spain, this object was not easily attained. To avoid the French cruisers upon the coast, they deter as to its permanency. On this point we shall adduce mined to repair to New Orleans, and there to find a the evidence of Mr Birmingham. During the two conveyance for Havana, whence they thought they years that the society had existed up to April last, could reach the mother country. They set out, there❝few, very few-I might say none, comparatively fore, for Pittsburg on the 10th of December 1797; speaking--have violated the pledge; and these, for the and upon the road, fatigued with travelling on horsemost part, touched with sorrow and remorse, have returned to renew their promise. Our people," he adds, horses to it, and placing their luggage within, they back, they purchased a waggon, and, harnessing their "have never been known to swerve on matters recontinued their route more comfortably. They arrived garding general religious discipline or doctrine, and at Carlisle on Saturday, when the inhabitants of the they look upon their pledge as a religious engagement, neighbouring country appeared to have entered the in the observance of which they believe their honour, town for some purpose of business or pleasure, and their national character, and [the good of] their souls drove up to a public-house, near which was a trough to be deeply involved. Again, the multitudes will sustain each other by their example. Experience, also, for the reception of the oats which travellers might has made them taste the bitter fruits of intemperance: into the stable. A quantity of oats was procured by be disposed to give their horses, without putting them it will now make them feel and appreciate the comforts, the happiness of temperance; and this will be the party, and poured into the trough; and the bits another powerful inducement to their perseverance." to eat freely. The duke took his position in the were taken from the horses' mouths, to enable them We are not sufficiently sanguine to hazard a predicwaggon, looking round him; when the horses being tion on this point, but of course hope the best, and suddenly frightened, ran away with the waggon, which, feel in the mean time able to say that the history of passing over a stump, was upset and broken. The "revivals" is not unfavourable to the prospect of the reform being permanent, at least to a considerable duke was thrown out, and somewhat injured. In early extent. Of the five hundred persons at the Kirk of they procured a boat and embarked upon the Seneca and, among other acquirements, he was able to open They now continued their route to Geneva, where life, he had luckily been taught a little of every thing; Shotts in Scotland, and the thousand at a particular Lake, which they ascended to its head; and from here place in the north of Ireland. whom the celebrated they made their way to Tioga Point, upon the Sus- with him in all his excursions, and an incident of a vein quite surgically. He is said to carry a lancet John Livingstone converted respectively by a single quehannal-each of the travellers carrying his bag-recent occurrence shows that this precaution is a wise serinon, it is on record that many continued all their gage, for the last twenty-five miles, upon his back. and humane one. days under steadfast religious impressions. The same fact was remarked with regard to the Cambuslang but I am strongly inclined to believe, that the burThe load was no doubt heavy, and the task laborious, converts of the succeeding century, and indeed of almost every other set of persons brought under religious convictions in similar circumstances. scarcely, then, reasonably doubt that much of the

We can

through a country almost in a state of nature, and by
From Buffalo they proceeded to Canandaigua,
paths, rather than roads, which to this day seem to
furnish Louis-Philip with his beau ideal of all that is
marshy and difficult, and even dangerous, in travel-
ling. In one of the worst parts of this worst of roads,
they met Mr Alexander Baring, the present Lord Ash-
burton, whom the duke had known at Philadelphia,
where he had married a daughter of Mr Bingham.

*It is necessary to remind the reader that the bulk of this
rican author, entitled "France, its King and Court."
acecunt of Louis-Philip is abridged from the work of an Amo-

tion required he should be bled; and making his way, Louis-Philip immediately perceived that his gituaas he best could, to the tavern, he requested permishouse, and to be furnished with linen and water. The sion of the landlord to perform the operation in his family was kind, and supplied him with every thing

attention. His eldest son, the Duke of Chartres (now
Duke of Orleans), was instructed, like his ancestor
Henry IV., in the public institutions of the country,
and distinguished himself by the success of his studies.
The family of Louis-Philip was ever a model of union,
good morals, and domestic virtues. Personally simple
in his tastes, order and economy were combined with
a magnificence becoming his rank and wealth, for the
restoration of his patrimony had placed him in a state
of opulence. The protector of the fine arts, and the
patron of letters, his superb palace in Paris, and his
delightful seat at Neuilly, were ornamented with the
productions of the former, and frequented by the dis-
tinguished men of the age.

he required; and he soon relieved himself by losing
a quantity of blood. The circumstances, however,
had attracted general attention, in consequence of
the accident to the waggon, and of the injury to the
traveller, and still more from the extraordinary occur-
rence of auto-phlebotomy; and a large crowd had
collected in the tavern to watch the result of the
operation. About this period, the New England
states were sending out those swarms of emigrants to
Ohio, who went to lay down the forests before them,
and to build up their fortunes in the west. Louis-
Philip speaks English as well as an American or an
Englishman, and no accent would betray that he was
a Frenchman. It is probable, the curious spectators
thought he was a Yankee doctor, going to the west
to establish himself, and to vend medical skill and be related; it is sufficient to state that, on the abdi-
The events of the revolution of 1830 need not here
galenicals. Apparently well satisfied with the sur-
gical ability which the new Esculapius had just dis- the Duke of Orleans to assume the executive power,
cation of Charles X., the Chamber of Deputies invited
played, they proposed to him to remain at Carlisle, under the title of lieutenant-general of the kingdom;
and to commence there his professional career, pro-and in a few days afterwards he was offered the vacant
mising to employ him, and assuring him that his throne. Having taken the required oath to the con-
prospect of success would be much more favourable stitution, he was proclaimed king, under the title of
than in the regions beyond the mountains.
account of his political conduct since his accession to
Louis-Philippe. It is not our desire to enter upon any
the throne. It has been marked by great prudence,
love of order and peace, and a wish for gradual
meliorations and improvement.

When our party reached Pittsburg, they found
the Monongahela frozen; but ultimately the travel-
lers continued their voyage, and met with but one
sinister accident. By the inattention of the helms-
man, the boat struck a tree and stove in her bows.
All the crew, princes and hired men, went to work; stitution is vigorous, and there are no marks of de-
Though considerably advanced in life, his con-
and after twenty-four hours the damages were re-clining years about him.
paired, and they reached New Orleans in safety, on
His frame is bulky, but
the 17th of February 1798.
there is much ease in his movements, and his whole
good taste and the polished society in which he has
carriage is marked by that happy address which
moved, have enabled him to acquire.
to that small class of men, the individuals composing
He belongs
street, without turning round to regard them, and in-
which you cannot meet in a crowd or pass in the
voluntarily asking yourself who they are.
and writes English as fluently as any Englishman or
He speaks
American, and possesses a familiar knowledge of most
modern languages. He is very ready in conversation,
and displays great tact and judgment in his observa-
tions. In the execution of his public duties, he is
said to be prompt and active, and, it is known, he
almost goes beyond the bounds of constitutional mo-
exercises a degree of control over his ministry which
narchy.

From this city, they embarked on board an American vessel for Havana; and upon their passage they were boarded by an English frigate, under French colours. Until the character of the cruiser was ascertained, the three brothers were apprehensive that they might be known and conducted to France. However, when it was discovered, on one side, that the visiter was an English ship, and, on the other, that the three young passengers were the princes of the house of Orleans, confidence was restored, and the captain hastened to receive them on board his vessel, where he treated them with distinction, and then conducted

them to Havana.

The wanderers attempted in vain to get a passage to Europe. Notwithstanding their regret at being obliged to live out of France, they would have been contented in obscurity, if they could have obtained the means of an honourable subsistence. Their reception by the Spanish authorities, and the inhabitants of Havana, gave them some hopes; but the court of Madrid disappointed them by forcing them to quit the island of Cuba. The brothers now proceeded to the English Bahamas, where they were kindly received by the Duke of Kent, who, however, did not feel authorised to give them a passage to England in an English frigate. They were not discouraged, but sailed in a small vessel to New York, whence an English packet carried them to Falmouth, and they arrived in London in February 1800. The duke still desired most earnestly to see his mother, and the English government allowed him to take passage in a frigate to Minorca. The war between Spain and England threw many obstacles in the way of the interview between the duke and his remaining parent, and he was obliged to return to England without seeing her. He then established himself, with his brothers, at Twickenham, on the banks of the Thames, where he gained the esteem of all who knew him. During his stay in Great Britain at this period, he visited many parts of the country, and studied with great zeal its political economy and laws. The Duke of Montpensier died in the year 1807. Count Beaujolais was in feeble health, and was ordered by the English physicians to visit a warmer climate. accompanied him to Malta; from thence to Sicily; The duke but before their arrival at the latter place, the young prince died. At Mahon, after many adventures, the duke had the gratification of meeting his mother, from whom he had been separated sixteen years.

A brighter day was now dawning on the house of Orleans. In November 1809, the duke was married at Palermo to the Princess Amelia, daughter of the King of Sicily, and of exceedingly estimable character. After the fall of Napoleon, the Duke of Orleans returned to Paris, and enjoyed the happiness of finding himself in a country which had not forgotten his former services. On the return of Napoleon in 1815, he sent his family to England, and was ordered by the king, Louis XVIII., to take command of the army of the north. He remained in this situation until the 24th of March 1815, when he gave up the command to the Duke of Treviso, and went to join his family in England, where he again fixed his residence at Twickenham. On the return of Louis XVIII. after the Hundred Days, an ordinance was issued, authorising, according to the charter, as it then stood, all the princes of the blood to take their seats in the Chamber of Peers; and the duke returned to France in September 1815, for the purpose of being present at the session. Here he distinguished himself by a display of liberal sentiments, which were so little agreeable to the administration, that he returned again to Eng land, where he remained till 1817. He now returned to France, but was not again sumnioned to sit in the Chamber of Peers, and remained therefore in private life, in which he displayed all the virtues of a good father, a good husband, and a good citizen.

The education of his family now deeply engaged his

queen, is acknowledged to form a pattern for royalty.
The court of France, under the auspices of the
The thirty-first year of her marriage has just ex-
pired. and she and her husband, once poor, are now
at the summit of human power, with a most interest-
ing family of seven children, and, as is known to every
body, with the warmest attachment to each other.
In the bitterness of French political discussions-
and bitter enough they are indeed-no whisper of
calumny has ever been heard against the queen; and
one who could pass through this ordeal, has nothing
more to dread from human investigation. A kinder
and more anxious mother is nowhere to be found; and
she is a sincere believer in the Christian religion, and
devout in the performance of its duties. Her charity
is known throughout the country, and appeals for the
distressed are never made to her in vain. In the per-
formance of her regal duties, while her bearing is
what the nature of her position requires, there is a
kind affability which seems continually seeking to
put all around her as much at their ease as possible.

part of the royal family, and she is said to be one of
The king's sister, the Princess Adelaide, forms a
the most devoted sisters that brother ever possessed.
It would seem like panegyric were I to report to you
the golden opinions which this elevated lady has won
for herself. In the qualities of head and heart, all
who know her award to her the meed of praise. Re-
adorn high places by higher virtues.
ligious, charitable, exemplary, she is one of those who

affection; and the example they thus offer is as
whole family seems united in the bonds of common
refreshing to the philanthropist as it is useful to the
country.

Mecklenberg-Schwerin, and she has brought to her
The wife of the Duke of Orleans is a Princess of
high station qualities eminently fitted to adorn it. She
is tall, with a singularly expressive and attractive
countenance, and a general deportment at once digni-
fied and easy. Though she came to France a stranger
and a Protestant, yet she has conducted herself with
such exemplary propriety that all tongues are loud
in her praise, and her husband is considered equally
fortunate, as a prince and as a man, in the choice he
literature.
has made. The duchess is well versed in English

Nemours, the Prince de Joinville, the Duc d'Aumale,
The four younger sons of the king are the Duc de
and the Duc de Montpensier. The first is in the
army, and has already given proofs of conduct and
of his fellow-citizens, and excited their hopes. His
courage which have drawn upon him the applause
personal bearing at the storming of Constantine is said
pidity. He is a young man, with light hair and light
to have been remarkable for self-possession and intre-
complexion, slim and apparently slender in his form,
but with a handsome face and polished manners; and
ment, which, in any station of society, and at his time
these advantages are set off by a modesty of deport
of life, would be highly creditable, and which is still
and he has participated in that careful education which
know him speak very favourably of his endowments,
more so in the position that he occupies. Those who
Louis-Philip has deemed essential for all his children
-an education not conducted in the seclusion of
stitutions of the country, where all these young
the domestic circle, but intrusted to the public in-
men have been brought into contact with youths of
strengthened, and their minds disciplined, by the
their own age, and where their faculties have been
competition of their companions, and by the regula
tions of theso establishments. The Prince de Joinville
is a captain in the navy, and lately was in command
of a frigate in the East. The two remaining sons of
the king are yet so young that it would not be proper
to attempt to give any sketch of their characters or
endowments. They are fine-looking young men, with
pearance.
expressive countenances and very prepossessing ap-

COLONISATION.

land, at Plymouth, on the 30th October last, Sir William
Molesworth delivered an eloquent and convincing speech
Ar a fête given by the Plymouth Company of New Zea-
present in a somewhat abridged form.
on the general question of colonisation, which we here

Company, of which he is a director.
Sir William began by adverting to the efforts of the
tion of our suffering population a better field for their
He said they
were mainly animated by a desire to afford to a por
industry than what could be obtained in their native
country. It was this desire of new fields which, cen-
turies ago, caused western Europe to be overspread by
diate ancestors to seck in the new world a refuge from the
the ancestors of its present races. He then proceeded
as follows:-"The same spirit moved our more imme-
fortable homes to the wilderness, in pursuit of that free-
tyranny of the Stuarts, and bade them fly from their com--
a rigorous climate, a barren soil, and warlike savages.
aspiration of the human mind. There, contending with
dom of conscience and thought, which is the loftiest
their undismayed energies have built up an empire which,
in its noblest object, the happiness of its people, surpasses
all others on record in ancient or modern times. As a

parent is proud of the virtues and prowess of his offspring, so ought we to rejoice in the industry, intelligence, and well-being of our kinsmen of America. They are nien of the same bold, hardy, and persevering race with ourselves, and the heir of the monarchy, is now about thirty nearly allied to us as if they were subject to the same The Duke of Orleans, the eldest son of the king, motives, enjoying similar institutions, and as such as animated by the same feelings, actuated by the same years of age. He is a young man above the middle sovereign authority. Be assured, that in the conquest made, with a symmetrical figure, and he is one of the never rest satisfied till they have covered with their mulstature, and of rather a slender form. But he is well which they have commenced of the new world, they will most graceful men I have ever seen. His countenance titudes all the vast continent which extends from the is remarkably handsome, and there is something very Atlantic to the Pacific, and reaches from the Arctic Pole prepossessing in his whole appearance. He speaks to Cape Horn. Such have hitherto been the effects of the English with great ease and fluency, and with very colonising spirit of our race-the subjugation of Europe, little foreign accent. In conversation he is ready and and the substitution of an advancing for a decaying civi unassuming, evincing the general knowledge of a well-lisation-the peopling, I may say the creation, of America. educated man of the world. Having no direct consti- Nor have we in the present age degenerated from the vir tutional position with reference to the administration tralia and Van Diemen's Land attest the undecaying vigour of the government, he has evidently kept himself aside of the spirit of colonisation, and that we still aspire to give tues of our ancestors. Our flourishing settlements in Ausfrom the course of its operations, committing himself with none of the parties who are contending with each other for power. In all this he displays great from those of our progenitors! They acquired their an all but universal empire to the name and language of judgment, and a profound knowledge of his country- possessions by the sword and the spear: we make use the Anglo-Saxon. But how different are our conquests men. Every reader must recollect the dissensions of the ploughshare and the steam-engine. which have existed in the English royal family, ever influence, the forest and the morass are changed into fersince the accession of the house of Brunswick to the tile and cultivated fields, rich with waving harvests, or throne, and the disastrous effects which these have covered with numerous flocks and herds. Great cities produced upon the parties themselves, as well as upon spring up, as it were, by magic, in the wilderness, containpublic men and measures. internal discord have too often existed in other reign- redeem and improve mankind. The wretched savage, And similar scenes of ing all that art, science, and civilisation can contribute to ing families of Europe, where the ambition of the who wanders naked in the desert, becomes the object of prince has overpowered the duties of the son, and a deplorable spectacle of filial disobedience, and sometimes of parental harshness, has been offered to the public curiosity. But this state of feeling is unknown in the family of Louis-Philip. There is no political position to lay the foundation of future power. The coterie round the prince royal, seeking by present op

Under our

our protection and regard, and is carefully instructed in
amongst men. This is a true and not exaggerated pic-
the sacred mysterics and morality of our holy religion; and
the result is knowledge, happiness, peace, and good-will
America and Australia.
ture of the benefits which colonisation has conferred on
will make no reference to the vast extent of our colonial
advantages that have redounded to the parent state. I
Nor less conspicuous are the

YOUTH AND SUMMER.
[BY MARY HOWITT.]

Summer's full of golden things!
Youth it weareth angel's wings!
Youth and love go forth together,
In the green-leaved summer weather,
Fill'd with gladness!

Summer, rich in joy it is,
Like a poet's dream of bliss;
Like unto some heavenly clime!
For the earth in summer time

Doth not wear a shade of sadness!
Radiant youth! thou art ever new
Thine's the light, the rose's hue;
Flowers' perfume, and winds that stir,
Like a stringed dulcimer,
All the forest!
Joyous youth! thou art fresh and fair,
Wild as wildest bird of air;
Thou, amidst thy ringing laughter,
Look'st not forward, look'st not after,

Knowing well that joy is surest!
Brighter than the brightest flowers;
Dancing down the golden hours;
Thus it is in every land,
Youth and love go hand in hand,
Link'd for ever!

Youth, thou never dost decay!
Summer, thou dost not grow grey!
We may sleep with Death and Time,
But sweet youth and summer's prime

From the green earth shall not sever!

--Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap-Book.

THE GREAT DRINK.-A FATAL CURE.

empire, upon which the sun never sets, and in which is companied with every auspicious omen. Be the pioneers
to be found every climate with its peculiar productions. of civilisation. Imitate your forefathers: subdue the
These considerations fill the mind with ideas of enor- forest-carry your name, and your language, and your
mous power and dominion; but, in my humble judgment, arts, and your institutions, into the wilds of the southern
they do not alone display the especial advantages of hemisphere. Let the sea and the land be alike witness
olonisation to the parent state. Those advantages are of your toils. Become the founders of a mighty empire
to be traced in the effects of colonisation on commerce, in a new world of your own creation. Thus accomplish
industry, and manners. Compare England in the six- the destiny of your race. It is true, you are few in
teenth century, when colonisation was about to com- number, but not more numerous were those who first
mence, with what it is at the present moment. In the landed in this kingdom with Hengist and Horsa, and still
reign of Elizabeth, the clothing and even the luxuries of fewer were the pilgrim fathers of the thirteen millions of
the richest class were of the rudest description, and such America. Go, then, be bold yet prudent. Place firm
as the poorer orders would now despise. Cotton, tobacco, faith and reliance in yourselves. And remember in
and sugar, were all but unknown, or at least unattainable, the hour of peril, that there are no dangers nor diffi-
except at enormous prices. With the emigration of Eng-culties that the energy of the Anglo-Saxon man has not
lishmen to the new world, these and other productions already overcome. Go, then, and prosper. And that
were discovered, cultivated, and sent home in return for happiness and every success may attend your steps, is
the produce of our industry. The new desires, thus the humble prayer which all here present offer up in your
created, stimulated our exertions to gratify them. Hence, behalf."
a sudden and rapid development of the useful arts. Ma-
nufactures sprung up in every direction, and along with
them agriculture flourished. The seas were covered with
fleets of merchantmen, busily engaged in exchanging the
productions of Englishmen in different hemispheres. The
sea-ports were crowded with ships, and became important
cities; witness Bristol and Liverpool. In the interior of
the country large towns were built, for the sole purpose
of manufacturing the raw produce of America; as, for
instance, Manchester, and other towns in Lancashire.
Thus society was profoundly agitated, the middling classes
became wealthy, acquired influence, and, ultimately, pre-
dominance. The feudal aristocracy disappeared; the
power of the crown was diminished; and liberty was
established upon a rational and solid basis. In bring-
ing about these beneficent results, colonisation has had
no small part. Without doubt, other and more im-
portant causes have likewise contributed. But I deem
it impossible to over-estimate the influence on our wealth
and prosperity of the circumstance, that some of the
most productive portions of the globe are possessed by
men of our own race, with wants, habits, and inclinations
similar to our own, able and willing to purchase British
goods, and affording numerous and daily increasing mar-
kets for our manufactures. What, I ask, is this but the
result of colonisation? Could it have existed without
colonisation? Would America have been the same source
of wealth and enjoyment to us, if its forests had been un-
felled by Englishmen, and its fierce savages had remained
undisputed lords of the soil? Could the same results
have been brought about by any other people? I point
to South America with its scattered and rude population,
its intestine wars and constituted anarchy-I point to
the colonies of the Spaniard, the Portuguese, and the
French-and I answer, none but the Anglo-Saxon could
have worked the wonders of North America. We are by
nature a colonising people. God has assigned to us the
uninhabited portions of the globe, and it is our duty to
take possession of them." [Sir William then adverted
to the colonisation of New Zealand, and the peculiar
plans of Mr Wakefield. He was himself, he said, deeply
interested in New Zealand, having a brother amongst the
first settlers. This young person had gone thither with
his cordial approbation and concurrence.]
humble judgment, a young man with active body and
"For in my
vigorous understanding, who has his fortune to make,
cannot seek it in a better manner than in the colonies,
especially in those of the southern hemisphere, where the
climate is similar to our own. In this country every
occupation is overstocked; in every employment com-
petition is excessive; the profits of capital are scanty,
and there is no room for competitors. Look at the num-
ber of barristers without briefs-of lawyers without
fees--of doctors without patients. Behold the swarms
of clergymen that crowd into the church without any
special vocation for that sacred office, and awaiting in
vam expectation for some scanty living. The army and
navy are equally overstocked. In the same manner
might go on enumerating every description of trade and
industry, showing in all an excess in the number of com-
petitors, and a state of general uneasiness. It is only
therefore, after a long life of patient and painful toil, and
in too many cases not even then, that a prudent man, who
does not possess the gifts of fortune, can indulge in the
social affections-become a husband, and the honoured
father of a family. It is unnecessary for me to dwell upon
the unhappiness which ensues, and the injury done to
morality. It is but too well known to all persons who
have reflected upon the social condition of mankind. Nor
will I speak of the lamentable effects upon the social
condition of women-the blighted affections, the misery,
and unhappiness, which are to be attributed to the causes
that I have just mentioned. The deepest sorrow and
compassion must fill the mind of every man who has
carefully considered these subjects, and traced the moral
as well as the physical consequences of over-competition
in this densely peopled country. How different is the
scene in the colonies of the southern seas! There in-
dustry and capital meet with a reward three times
greater than in this country. There, with moderate
prudence and exertion, every man and every woman can
obtain a comfortable subsistence; and a numerous off-
spring, instead of being a burden, is the greatest of
benefits. What, then, hinders multitudes from hasten-
ing to these lands of promise? Surely abundance there
is better than penury here. Why do not the younger
branches of our aristocracy, instead of wasting their
time at home in sloth and idleness, or in the ignoble
attempt, and henceforth, I trust, a van one, to quarter
themselves upon the resources of the nation-why do not
they, I repeat, lead forth numerous bands of emigrants
to the colonies? Can they have a more honourable or
useful occupation? By putting themselves at the head
of systematic colonisation, they would confer a lasting
benefit on their country and themselves, and gain a repown
m history similar to that of the Raleighs, the Gilbs,
the Drakes, and other worthies, distinguished in the an-
nals of the planting of America. You, intrepid men,
who are about to leave these shores, emigrants to New
Zealand, bright prospects are before you. Go, then, ac-

ledge that there are many observances practised by them
Those who know the Highlanders best will acknow-
larly the case as to their domestic remedies; and we
which are productive of much mischief. This is particu-
cannot but record a fatal instance of this, in the hope
that others will take warning. There is a remedy of great
credit, as usual, in almost all diseases, known by the
Gaelic phrase signifying the "great drink," which is in-
since, a lad of eighteen or nineteen years, who had been
tended to produce a copious perspiration. A few weeks
complaining of some rather obscure internal disease, and
was continuing in much the same state under medical
treatment, hearing of this cure, urged his father to give
it to him. After much entreaty, he yielded, and one
evening administered the following draughts: The first
was a bowl of gruel, with milk and butter, and two glasses
of toddy made with two glasses of whisky; and in a short
of whisky; this was followed in a brief space by a tumbler
time after two tumblers of hot porter followed, the whole
wound up by a glass of raw spirits. These were admi-
nistered within an hour and a quarter, and the lad fell
into a profound sleep, from which he awoke next morning
about six, and expressed himself free from pain. His
father, however, became alarmed, when he observed that
peared, indicating a fatal issue to the experiment. În
he spoke feebly; and other symptoms very speedily ap-
his mouth. The event has caused a great, and it is hoped
an hour he was dead, and the blood began to ooze out of
a salutary, sensation in the district.-Inverness Courier.
SUPERIORITY OF MORAL TO PHYSICAL FORCE.
Among the operatives there is continually manifested
a growing sense of the superiority of moral force to phy-
sical strength. Mischievous as strikes and turns-out are,
they exhibit features which must afford some consolation
to the philanthropist and the moralist. There is a firm-
ness of purpose displayed on these occasions-an iron
spirit of endurance, which it would be the worst of all
mistakes to confound with sulky obstinacy; it is the
repose of conscious strength; it is founded on a mistaken
notion of right, but in spite of the mistake, the notion of
rectitude, whenever present, cannot but be influential, and
hence it is an invariable rule, that whenever a strike has
led to an act of violence, the whole matter is at once
ended-the moral cohesion which held the workmen to-
gether is melted and solved by crime; each man is
anxious to disclaim any participation in outrage, and
quietly returns to his employment.-Dr Taylor's Natural
History of Society [new work].

EFFECT OF MUSIC ON A MANIAC.

An intimate acquaintance waited on Madame Cam-
porese one evening, to make a request. In the hos-
pital for the insane, a man was confined, literally music
inad; he had lost his senses on the failure of an opera,
in which the labour of the composer was greater than
the excellence of his music. This unfortunate had
heard of Camporese, whose fame filled the city of
Milan, and conceived a strong desire to hear her. For
a while his representations passed unheeded; he grew
ungovernable, and had to be fastened to his bed. In this
state Camporese's friend bad beheld him.
dressed for an evening party when this representation
was made to her. She paused a moment on hearing it;
then throwing a eloak over her shoulders, said, “Come,
then." "Whither?" "To the Ospedale." But why?

She was

there is no occasion to go now; to-morrow, or the next day." "To-morrow!-no, indeed; if I can do this poor man good, let me go instantly." They went. Being shown into a room separated from that of the maniac only by a thin wall, Camporese began to sing one of Haydn's melodies. The attendants in the next room observed their patient suddenly become less violent, then composed, and at last he burst into tears. The singer now entered; she sat down, and sang again. When she had concluded, the poor composer took from under his bed a torn sheet of paper, scored with an air of his own composition, and handed it to her. There were no words, and nothing in the music; but Camporese, running it over, sang it to some words of Metastasio, with such sweetness that the music seemed excellent. "Sing it to me once more," said the maniac. She did so, and departed, accompanied by his prayers and the tears of the spectators.-Seven Years of the King's Theatre.

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CONDUCTED BY WILLIAM AND ROBERT CHAMBERS, EDITORS OF "CHAMBERS'S INFORMATION FOR THE PEOPLE," "CHAMBERS'S EDUCATIONAL COURSE," &c.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1840.