DEATH OF THE DUKE OF ORLEANS.

New Zealand Colonist and Port Nicholson Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 38, 9 December 1842, Page 3

DEATH OF THE DUKE OF ORLEANS.

We take the following from the afternoon edition of the Galignani’s Messenger of Wednesday : “ At the moment of going to press, we learn that a very serious accident has just occurred to his Royal Highness the Duke of Orleans. While driving his cabriolet, in the vicinity of the Porte Maillot, his horse, it would appear, became restive, and, oversetting the vehicle, threw the Duke out, who, falling on his head, wus so stunned as to have been raised from the ground in a state of insensibility, and bleeding profusely. We are happy to state, however, that no serious consequences are thought likely to ensure from this unfortunate event.” Our Paris correspondent’s further adds, that on making inquiries at the Tuileries, he was informed that the Prince had been removed to the residence of Lord Henry Seymour, at Sablonville, which is in the immediate vicinitv of the Porte-Maillot, and that medical assistance having been immediately procured, his Royal Highness was copiously blooded, and was considered to be entirely out of danger.” We have likewise received the following postscript to our Paris correspondent’s letter, dated Wednesday, 10 minutfes to five, p.m.: — “ The following details from an eye-witness have just reached me : —The Duke of Orleans was returning from a review in the Champ de Mars, in his four-wheel cabriolet, when, arriving at the fortifications in the Bois de Boulogne, near the Porte-Maillot, his horse suddenly, took fright, and becoming unmanageable, his Royal Highness attempted to jump out of the vehicle, but being in full uniform, and having his military cloak round his legs, he pitched on his head without being able to extricate himself. The gendarmes and a host of persons immediately came to the Duke’s assistance, and he was forthwith conveyed to a petty restaurateurs, facing Lord Seymour’s stables at Sablonville, which gave rise to .the report that he was at that nobleman’s establishment. His Royal Highness has one side of his face much disfigured from the fall, and he bled considerably from the nose and mouth. Medical assistance having been instantly obtained, the Prince was blooded copiously. Information was imme-

diately transmitted to the King and Royal Family at Neuilly, who lost no time in coming to the Assistance of. their illustrious relative. Although no danger was in the first instance apprehended, alarming symptoms supervened, which terminated in his death, at about halfpast four o’clock, in the presence of the King and Royal Family.” The Morning Chronicle states that a large French frigate, having on board about 100 supernumeraries, had sailed from Valparaiso for Callao; she was to he joined by several other vessels from France, provided with materials for the establishment of a new colony in the Pacific Ocean. New Zealand was generally supposed to he their destination; but it was most probably the expedition which has taken possession of the Marquesas.