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voung Duke of Orleans . * They jnay interest you . They were given me by a person too cJosely connected with him to be herself deceived , and ( oo good and sincere to wish to deceive others , so that you may depend
on the truth of the recital . When upon the decree for his arrest the > oung Duke of Orleans determined to leaVe France , it was never his intention to bear amis . against his country ; and even when the Archduke Charles offered him , in the service of
the Emperor * honours smtabie to his rank , he refused the appointment of Lieutenant-General , remained at Mows do longer than was necessary to obtain his passport ( about twenty-four hours ) and departed for Switzerland with little more than lOOlouis , which
was all that he possessed . He no sooner arrived in Switzerland than the Aristocrats began to persecute him , and knowing that Robespierre would make his family answerable for his emigration , he determined- , so .
effectually to conceal himself , that to those in France he might appear to be out of existence . To this end he retired into the highest mountains of Switzerland , and not daring to go into those parts frequented by the curious ,
his travels were of necessity rendered the more interesting by being- directed to places the most unknown . As he left with his sister the little money that remained , he passed there four months , in the midst of the greatest
privations . Even on festival days he spent only 30 sols for his own food awl lodging as well as that of an old servant who would not leave him . At length , being reduced to the last louLs , he was forced to deprive himself of this last comfort , atid to separate
himself from his faithful valet ; and having heard that the professorship ° f Geometry was vacant in a College ° f the Orisons , he presented himself , and having obtained the situation , remained in it six months before any ° » e knew who he was : and so much
* vaa he beloved by the scholars and res pevxed by the uiasurs , that one of ! he Messrs . Dc Salis , f who hod per
b Louis Philip , Duke of Oki . eans , ° rn 1 ? 73 ; married Maria Amelia , < < aug'h-* of Ferdinand IV . King- of the 'i wo £ » cil , ) 1809 A hig-Uy accomplished Prince . b * T JJk SAiiS y a well-known faiuily oi
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secuted Iiim as the Duke of Orleans , struck with the wisdom and virtues of the young professor , proposed to him to become preceptor to his children . This offer he declined , but remained in his College teaching
Geometry in German till after the death of Robespierre , when , no longer apprehensive for the safety of his mother and brothers , he left this retreat , reclaimed the attachment of his friends , and has till now resided in a little town of Switzerland in the utmost
simplicity and retirement . He has at this moment resolved to go to North America , there to enjoy that liberty for which he has suffered so much . ' Tis there in the midst of those forests that he will finish the
education which his misfortunes so well began , and will no doubt continue to display that magnanimity which has hitherto rendered him superior to good or evil fortune , it was with the same purity of manners and greatness of mind that he was seen a Prince at
sixteen without pride * , a General of the army at seventeen rallying three times his troops at Gemappe ; Professor of Geometry at twenty , as if he had spent his life in tlie study of the sciences ; and , in short , acting in every circumstance as if born to the
situation which he filled . Nor can the strength and moderation of his character be more fully depicted than by giving you the copy of a letter written the other day by him to an American who had offered him some uncultivated land to clear . " I am
disposed , said he , "to work to acquire independence . Misfortune has fallen upon , but thanks be to God ! it has not crushed me ; being so far happy in my reverses , that my youth had prevented my forming habits , which are difficult to overcome , and that I was deprived of fortune before 1 could either use or abuse it .
great distinction in Switzerland . These gentlemen founded an Academy at their own expense in the Grisons : the place of its establishment was tlie ancient Castle of 11 aidestein . This seminary flourished for a short time , but owing to dissensions anioii" * iho professors , ami the discomiler" 5 17
nance of literature in the country where it was situated , if declined , and has uow \ pvvm many years dissolved . Count dk Sams , a member of this family , was formerly British Knvoy to the Grisons . Set Coke ' * Switzerland , ' iii . 19 & >
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The Duke of Orleans . 6 IS
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1815, page 613, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1765/page/13/
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