Louis Philippe was born in Paris, 6th October, 1773, the eldest son of Philippe Joseph, Duke of Orleans (so well-known under the revolutionary soubriquet of Egalite), by Marie Louise Adelaide de Bourbon his wife, daughter and heir of the wealthy Duke de Penthievre.  At his birth he bore the title of Valois; but after the death of his grandfather, in 1785, was styled Duke of Chartres.  The care of the young Prince’s education was assigned to Madame de Genlis, who ably and admirably performed her important duties.  From her guidance Louis Philippe passed at once to the arena of active life.  In 1791, the Prince, then Duke of Chartres, having previously received the appointment of Colonel in the 14th Dragoons, assumed the command of that regiment, and shortly after, quitting the garrison of Vendome, proceeded to Valenciennes, where he continued to pursue his military avocations.  In the April of the following year, war being declared against Austria, the Duke made his first campaign, fighting with gallantry under Kellerman at Valmy, and with Dumouriez at Jemappes.  But the horrors of the Revolution were progressing with giant strides; the unfortunate Louis XVI. was carried to the scaffold, and within a few months after, the Duke of Orleans was seized on a plea of conspiracy against the French nation, and after a mock trial, consigned to the executioner.  A short time previously to the death of his father, the Duke de Chartres had effected his escape through Belgium into Switzerland, and there was joined by his sister Adelaide and Madame de Genlis.  Our confined space precludes the possibility of our dwelling on the romantic events of this period of Louis Philippe’s life, and permits us to glance only at his wanderings through Switzerland, Denmark, Lapland, Finland, America, and England.  For one year he held the Appointment of Professor in the College of Reichenau, at a salary of fifty-eight pounds; and for that sum undertook to teach history, mathematics, and English.  He bore the name of Chabaud-Latour, and none but the superiors of the institution were aware of his rank.  The news of his father’s execution reached him while quietly instructing the youth of Reichenau, and he instantly threw up his Professorship, and after a protracted journey through northern Europe, succeeded, by the kind instrumentality of Mr. Gouverneur Morris, the American Ambassador at Paris, in reaching the United States.  He landed at Philadelphia on the 24th October, 1796, and was soon after joined by his brothers, Montpensier and Beaujolais.  The three brothers passed the winter in that city, and afterward made a journey through the Western States, and visited General Washington at Mount Vernon.  Their residence in this country was not however of very long duration.  After an inhospitable reception by the Spanish authorities in Cuba, the royal exiles made their way to England, in February, 1800, and thence immediately proceeded to Barcelona, in the hope of meeting their mother.