The Prince de Joinville, thin?, and last surviving son of
Louis Philippe, died at Paris on Saturday last in his eighty- second year. As a young man he served with distinction in the naval expedition against Mexico in 1838, being decorated for his gallantry at the storming of Vera Cruz, and in 1810 was entrusted with the duty of bringing back the remains of Napoleon from St. Helena, when he rather gratuitously announced his intention of blowing up his ship if attacked by the English. Both the Queen and the Prince Consort were cor- dially attached to the young Prince, the former describing him as "our great favourite," and the latter as "straight- forward, honourable, gifted, and amiable." During the Second Empire he lived in exile in England. Returning to France in June, 1871, he passed the remainder of his life in voluntary seclusion, his last public utterance being a touching protest against the action of his grandnephew in defaming the "glorious Sovereign of a land which has been the sanctuary of our dynasty and the birthplace of some of its scions."
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