contrivance of the Prince's friends, it was arranged that the Duc de Chartres should appear in the name and place of the absent candidate. The Prince accordingly presented himself for examination, and was unanimously elected, after receiving great commendation for the ability and knowledge he had evinced throughout the ordeal. He was then twentytwo years of age; his salary was about 587. a-year, a larger salary than was usual in Switzerland, and for that sum he taught history, geography, mathematics, and the English language. For the space of one year the Duc de Chartres held the professorship, and none but the director of the institution was aware of the teacher's rank. Louis Philippe was quietly instructing the youth of Reichenau, when he received news of his father's melancholy death, and of his own accession to an empty bloodstained title. He threw up his appointment at once, and in June, 1794, retired to Bremgarten. He carried along with him an honourable testimonial of the services he had rendered at the academy, and was justly proud of the document when he afterwards sat upon the throne of France, reputed the wisest monarch of his time.

Melancholy and weary of his fate, the exile pined to quit Europe, and in a new world "to forget the greatness and the sufferings which had been the companions of his youth." But he was literally without a farthing. A friend wrote on his behalf to Mr. Morris, who had been ambassador to France from the United States, had been acquainted with Egalité, and was then at Hamburgh, about to return to his native country. Mr. Morris answered the application with promptitude and kindness. He offered

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the Prince a free passage to America, his services when the exile should arrive there, and, at the same time, he transmitted an order for 1007. to defray the expenses of the journey to Hamburgh. The Prince accepted Mr. Morris's friendship in the spirit in which it was offered. "I am quite disposed," he wrote to his benefactor, "to labour in order to make myself independent. I scarcely entered upon life when the greatest misfortunes assailed me; but, thank God, they have not discouraged me. I feel it a great happiness in my reverses that my youth has not given me time to attach myself too much to my position, or to contract habits of life difficult to be broken, and that I had been deprived of my fortune. before I was able to abuse or even to use it." It was well and royally said. the intellectual vision of the youth than the maturer eyesight of the man! On the 10th of March, 1795, Louis Philippe quitted Bremgarten, and, travelling still incognito, reached Hamburgh at the end of the month.

But how much clearer

We have asserted that the opportunities of Louis Philippe for the acquisition of worldly wisdom, from his boyhood upwards, were immense. Let the reader judge as he pursues the singular story. At Hamburgh the Prince missed his friend, who was then employed upon a diplomatic mission in Germany. Some months must elapse before Mr. Morris could return to Hamburgh, and the young adventurer resolved to employ the interval in exploring Northern Europe. The undertaking half a century ago was associated with difficulties unknown to the traveller of to-day. He visited the Duchies of Holstein and Schleswig,

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the island of Zealand, Copenhagen, and Elsinore, and in every place exhibited an honest zeal for information that put suspicion to sleep. From Denmark he crossed to Sweden, and thence passed into Norway, making excursions that were remembered long afterwards, to the iron and copper mines of that country. The northward journey did not end even here. The traveller was not content until he had seen the wonders of the Maelström, and had advanced some degrees beyond the Arctic Circle. Returning southwards, the Prince traversed on foot the desert which separates the Northern Ocean from the river Tornea. Fifteen days were occupied in the journey, during which time no other nourishment could be procured than the milk and flesh of the reindeer. Picking up knowledge, and enlarging the range of his acquirements at every step, the youth returned once more to Fredericstadt, in Holstein, at which town he received the gratifying intelligence that the executive directory of France were prepared to grant liberty to his brothers, who had been kept close prisoners since their father's death, upon condition that the Duke of Orleans with them would consent to banishment from Europe. The consent was given as soon as asked, and on the 24th of October, 1796, Louis Philippe landed in Philadelphia; it was not until he 7th of February following that, after a cruel and protracted absence, the three brothers met in the same city, and found in their restoration to one another some consolation for the sufferings long endured by all.

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arrival of money, and the youths were on their travels again. Arriving at Boston, they learned, to their dismay, that their mother too had been expelled from her native land. Concluding that she would be sent to Cayenne, they determined to reach that colony before her, and proceeded as far as Connecticut on their way. Here they were informed that Spain was her destination. This rendered necessary an alteration of their plans; they would go to Havannah, and thence sail direct to Europe. Their road was to New Orleans by the Ohio and the Mississippi, but the winter had set in severely, and the danger and difficulty of the expedition were fearful. So, indeed, they found them. On the Ohio the frost was SO bitter that the cider and milk were congealed in the cabin of the boat, although it was heated by a large fire, and by the presence of seven or eight passengers. Four of the boatmen, disabled by cold and fatigue, gave way, and the Princes took their place. Near the point where the Ohio falls into the Mississippi, at the western extremity of Virginia, matters were even worse, for, the travellers having no boatmen with them who knew the river, and could steer the vessel, were obliged, in spite of the cold, to keep watch themselves by day and night. For three hundred leagues at one part of their course they met but with three habitations. After many hardships, from which two of the three adventurers never thoroughly recovered, New Orleans was reached at last, whence they embarked for Cuba on board an American vessel under the Spanish flag. The devoted young men reached Cuba, to be immediately expelled from it by the Captain-General of the island. Orders had been

received to deny them hospitality. In their despair the Princes resolved to seek shelter in a British colony. They proceeded to the Bahamas, thence to Halifax, and by the kindness of the Duke of Kent, father of our Queen, and then governor of Nova Scotia, were enabled finally to set sail for England. They reached London on the 15th of February, 1800. Their destination, however, was Spain, not England. Obtaining a passage in an English frigate as far as Minorca, they sailed from that island in a Spanish ship to Barcelona. They were now indeed within hail of that dear mother whom they had travelled so far to comfort with their presence; they were, never'theless, not permitted to land at Barcelona; and the poor lady was not even told that they had reached the harbour on their affectionate pilgrimage. The Princes returned to England, and took up their abode on the banks of the Thames, near Twickenham. Not to remain. The cup of sorrow was full, but did not overflow. The Duc de Montpensier died of consumption, in the arms of his brothers, in 1807, and was buried in Westminster Abbey. The funeral was scarcely over before the Count de Beaujolais was attacked with the same disease, and ordered to a warmer climate. Louis Philippe accompanied the invalid to Malta, and reached the island in time to find a final resting-place for the young sufferer. The Count de Beaujolais died at Valetta in 1808. Fortunately for Louis Philippe, he was not left alone in the world. He had still a sister.

After fifteen years' absence brother and sister met again at Portsmouth. The Princess Adelaide had traced the wanderings of the fugitive, after her