and Princess Caroline of Naples, the grandson of Charles X. (Count d'Artois) and great nephew of the unfortunate monarch Louis XVI. The sole reproach, not unexpectedly flung by anti-monarchical men at the head of this Royal Prince, is the ever-new one flung at the head of every Royal Prince deserving the name of such. Henri V.'s crime can be none other but to have been well educated, and to have kept faithful to the duties of man towards his God, his fellow-countrymen and his native land: in short, Henri V. is the very scarecrow of self-seeking adventurers, of men of duplicity and dissimulation: in short, of either ignorant or arrogant men whom it "pays" to believe and to make others believe in falsehoods. His mother, gentle and pious-hearted—nay, are the Royal Princesses of France known to have proved ever otherwise?—had ever watched over him in all outward changes, assiduously keeping human pieties and good affections alive in her Royal son. Our words doubtless may sound harsh to the ears of men whose motto is: virtus post nuimnos! However, truth ever finds a high-born heart ready to stand by champions of religion and patriotism.
The Heir Apparent is Louis Philippe's grandson, viz., the Count de Paris (born in 1838), eldest son of the Duke d'Orléans (run away with by his horses and killed in jumping from his carriage at Neuilly, July 13th, 1842)[1] and Princess Helena of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.[2] The brother to the Comte de Paris is the Duke de Chartres (born in 1842), Colonel commanding the 1 2th Regiment of Chasseurs (cavalry) now stationed at Rouen. Lieutenant-General H.R.H. the Duke d'Aumale is the uncle to these Princes of the Royal Blood of France. (Read " Genealogical Tables," p. 14.)
Providence placed the destiny of France in the hands of this Royal Family, and no one has the right to abrogate that succession. Unless Royalty and Monarchy, under the present system of morality prevalent now, more than ever, in democratic Parliaments and
- ↑ Her Majesty Queen Victoria, in one of her letters to her uncle (King Leopold of Belgium) at the time of this terrible misfortune, exclaims: "Perhaps poor Chartres is saved great sorrow and grief. Him we must not pity."
- ↑ The eldest son of the Comte de Paris is H.R.H. Prince Louis Philippe, Duke d'Orlèans, at present a pupil of the College Stanislas (Paris).
