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+Title: The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay Volume 3
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+                           THE DIARY AND LETTERS
+                                    OF
+                              MADAME D'ARBLAY
+                             (FRANCES BURNEY.)
+
+                         WITH NOTES BY W. C. WARD,
+                  AND PREFACED BY LORD MACAULAY'S ESSAY.
+
+                             IN THREE VOLUMES.
+
+                                 VOL. III.
+                               (1792-1840.)
+
+                   WITH A PORTRAIT OF GENERAL D'ARBLAY.
+
+                           LONDON AND NEW YORK:
+                          FREDERICK WARNE AND CO.
+                                   1892.
+
+19. (1792-3) THE FRENCH POLITICAL EMIGRANTS: MISS BURNEY MARRIES
+M. D'ARBLAY--11-70
+
+Arrival of French Emigrants at juniper Hall--The Doctor's five
+Daughters--A Visit to Arthur Young--The Duke de Liancourt's
+abortive Efforts at Rouen--The Duke's Escape to England: "Pot
+Portere"--Madame de Genlis's hasty Retreat--A Nobleman of the
+Ancien Regime--Ducal Vivacity and Sadness--Graceful offers of
+Hospitality--The Emigrants at juniper Hall described--Monsieur
+d'Arblay--M. de Jaucourt: Madame de Stael--Severe Decrees against
+the Emigrants--Monsieur Girardin--The Phillipses at juniper
+Hall--Mystery attending M. de Narbonne's Birth--Revolutionary
+Societies in Norfolk: Death of Mr. Francis--Departure of Madame
+de la Chatre--Arrival of M. de la Chatre--English Feeling at the
+Revolutionary Excesses--Louis XVI's Execution--A Gloomy Club
+Meeting--Madame de Stael at juniper Hall--Miss Burney's
+Admiration of Madame de Stael--Failing Resources--The Beginning
+of the End--"This Enchanting Monsieur d'Arblay"--Talleyrand is
+found charming--A Proposed Visit to Madame de Stael disapproved
+of--M. de Lally Tolendal and his Tragedy--Contemplated Dispersion
+of the French Colony--Madame de Stael's Words of Farewell: M.
+d'Arblay--Regrets respecting Madame do Stael--M. d'Arblay's Visit
+to Chesington--The Matrimonial Project is Discussed--Dr. Burney's
+Objections to the Match--The Marriage takes place--Announcement
+of the Marriage to a Friend.
+
+20. (1793-6) LOVE IN A COTTAGE: THE D'ARBLAYS VISIT WINDSOR--
+71-121
+
+The French Clergy Fund: The Toulon Expedition--Madame d'Arblay on
+her Marriage--Mr. Canning--Talleyrand's Letters of Adieu--M.
+d'Arblay's Horticultural Pursuits--Mrs. Piozzi--M. d'Arblay as a
+Gardener--A Novel and a Tragedy--
+
+page vi
+Hastings's Acquittal: Dr. Burney's Metastasio--Baby d'Arblay--The
+withdrawn Tragedy--"Camilla"--An Invitation to the Hermitage--
+Presentation of "Camilla" at Windsor--A Conversation with the
+Queen--With the Princess Royal and Princess Augusta--A Present
+from the King and Queen--Curiosity regarding M. d'Arblay--The
+King approves the Dedication of "Camilla"--A delicious Chat with
+the Princesses--The King notices M. d'Arblay--The King and Queen
+on "Camilla"--Anecdote of the Duchess of York--A Visit to Mrs.
+Boscawen--The Relative Success of Madame d'Arblay's Novels--A
+Contemplated Cottage--The Princess Royal's first Interview with
+her Fianc`e--Opinions of the Reviews on "Camilla"--Death of
+Madame d'Arblay's Stepmother--The French Emigr`es at Norbury--Dr.
+Burney's depressed state--Covetous of Personal Distinction--Baby
+d'Arblay again and other Matters.
+
+21. (1797-8) "CAMILLA" COTTAGE: SUNDRY VISITS TO THE ROYAL
+FAMILY--122-169
+
+A Disagreeable journey Home--Burke's Funeral at Beaconsfield--
+Death of M. d'Arblay's Brother--From Crewe Hall to Chelsea--At
+Dr. Herschel's--Hospitality under Difficulties--War Taxes:
+"Camilla" Cottage--Visitors arrive inopportunely-Another Visit to
+the Royal Family--Interview with the Queen--The King and his
+Infant Grand-daughter--Admiral Duncan's Victory--The Prince and
+Princess of Orange--Some Notable Actresses--The Duke of
+Clarence--Princess Sophia of Gloucester--Indignation against
+Talleyrand--The d'Arblay Maisonnette--Interview with the Queen
+and the Princesses--Royal Contributions towards the War--
+Invitation to the Play--Mrs Schwellenberg's Successor--Madame
+d'Arblay's Little Boy at Court--His Presentation to the Queen--
+Mlle. Bachmeister produces a Favourable Impression.
+
+22. (1798-1802) VISITS TO OLD FRIENDS: WEST HANIBLE: DEATH OF
+MRS. PHILLIPS: SOJOURN IN FRANCE--170-247
+
+A Visit to Mrs. Chapone--Mrs. Boscawen, Lady Strange, and Mr.
+Seward--A Mysterious Bank-Note--The new Brother-in-law: a Cordial
+Professor--Precocious Master Alex--The
+Page vii
+
+Barbaulds--Princess Amelia at juniper Hall--Death of Mr. Seward--
+Dr. Burney again visits Dr. Herschel--Dr. Burney and the King--
+Overwhelmed with the Royal Graciousness--War Rumours--Illness and
+Death of Mrs. Phillips--A Princess's Condescension--Horticultural
+Misfortunes--A Withdrawn Comedy--M. d'Arblay's French Property--
+Home Matters--Contemplated journey to France--M. d'Arblay's Rough
+Sea Passage--Suggested Abandonment of Camilla Cottage--M.
+d'Arblay's Proposed Retirement from Military Service--M.
+d'Arblay's Disappointment--On the eve of Madame d'Arblay's
+journey to France--In France during the Peace and subsequently--
+Arrival at Calais--"God save the King!" on French Soil--A Ramble
+through the Town--Sunday on the Road to Paris--Engagements,
+Occupations, and Fatigues--Aristocratic Visitors--Anxiety to see
+the first Consul--At the Opera-bouffe--Difficulties respecting
+Madame de Stael--Madame de Lafayette--Sight-seeing at the
+Tuileries--A Good Place is Secured--M. d'Arblay's Military
+Comrades--Arrival of the Troops--An Important New Acquaintance--
+Madame c'est mon Mari--Advent of the first Consul--The Parade of
+Troops--A Scene--With M. d'Arblay's Relatives at joigny--Some
+joigny Acquaintances--The Influenza in Paris--Rumours of War--
+"Our little Cell at Passy"--The Prince of Wales eulogized--Dr.
+Burney at Bath--Affectionate Greetings to Dr. Burney--Dr.
+Burney's Diploma.
+
+23. (1812-14) MADAME D'ARBLAY AND HER SON IN ENGLAND--248-291
+
+Narrative of Madame d'Arblay's journey to London--Anxiety to see
+Father and Friends--A Mild Minister of Police--Embarkation
+Interdicted--A Change of Plan--A New Passport obtained--
+Commissions for London--Delay at Dunkirk--The MS. of "The
+Wanderer"--Spanish Prisoners at Dunkirk--Surprised by an Officer
+of Police--Interrogated at the Police Office--The "Mary Ann"
+captured off Deal--joy on arriving in England--Young d'Arblay
+secures a Scholarship--The Queen alarmed by a Mad Woman--Weather
+Complaints: Proposed Meeting with Lord Lansdowne--A Young Girl's
+entry to London Society: Madame de Sta`el--Rogers the Poet--
+Interview with Mr. Wilberforce--Intended Publication of "The
+Wanderer"--General d'Arblay's wounded Comrades
+Page viii
+
+--Death of Dr. Burney--Favourable News of M. d'Arblay--"The
+Wanderer"--Madame d'Arblay's Presentation to Louis XVIII.--At
+Grillon's Hotel--Grattan the Orator--A Demonstrative Irish Lady-
+-Inquiries after the Duchess d'Angouleme--Preparations for the
+Presentations--Arrival of Louis XVIII.--The Presentations to the
+King--A Flattering Royal Reception--An important Letter Delayed--
+M. d'Arblay arrives in England--A Brilliant Assemblage--M.
+d'Arblay enters Louis XVIII.'s Bodyguard.
+
+24. (1815) MADAME D'ARBLAY AGAIN IN FRANCE: BONAPARTE'S ESCAPE
+FROM ELBA--292-333
+
+An Interview with the Duchess of Angouleme--Arrival at the
+Tuileries--A Mis-apprehension--A Discovery and a Rectification--
+Conversation on Madame d'Arblay's Escape and M. d'Arblay's
+Loyalty--The Prince Regent the Duchess's Favourite--Narrative of
+Madame d'Arblay's Flight from Paris to Brussels--Prevailing
+Inertia on Bonaparte's return from Elba--Bonaparte's Advance:
+Contemplated Migration from Paris--General d'Arblay's Military
+Preparations--Preparations for Flight:
+Leave-takings--Aristocratic Irritability--The Countess d'Auch's
+Composure--Rumours of Bonaparte's near approach--Departure from
+Paris at Night Time--A Halt at Le Bourget--The journey Resumed--A
+Supper at Amiens with the Prefect--Reception at the Prefecture at
+Arras--A Cheerful D6jeuner somewhat ruffled--A Loyal Prefect--
+Emblems of Loyalty at Douay--State of Uncertainty at Orchies--A
+Mishap on the Road--A kindly offer of Shelter--Alarmed by Polish
+Lancers--Arrival at Tournay--Futile Efforts to Communicate with
+M. d'Arblay--Interviews with M. de Chateaubriand.
+
+25. (1815) AT BRUSSELS: WATERLOO: REJOINS M. D'ARBLAY--334--383
+
+Sojourn at Brussels--Letters from General d'Arblay--Arrival of
+General d'Arblay--A Mission entrusted to General d'Arblay--"Rule
+Britannia!" in the All`ee Verte--General d'Arblay leaves for
+Luxembourg--An Exchange of visits--The Fete Dieu--The Eccentric
+Lady Caroline Lamb--A Proposed Royal Corps--Painful Suspense--
+Inquietude at Brussels--The Black
+Page ix
+
+Brunswickers--The Opening of the Campaign--News from the Field of
+Battle--Project for quitting Brussels--Calmly awaiting the
+Result--Flight to Antwerp determined on--A Check met with--A
+Captured French General--The Dearth of News--Rumours of the
+French coming--French Prisoners brought in--News of Waterloo--The
+Victory declared to be complete--The Wounded and the Prisoners--
+Hostilities at an end: Te Deum for the Victory--Maternal Advice--
+About the Great Battle--An Accident befalls General d'Arblay--
+Madame d'Arblay's Difficulties in rejoining her Husband--A
+Friendly Reception at Cologne--From Cologne to Coblenz and
+Treves--Meeting with General d'Arblay--Waiting for Leave to
+return to France--Departure for Paris--A Chance View of the
+Emperor of Russia--English Troops in Occupation--Leavetaking: M.
+de Talleyrand.
+
+26. (1815-8) AT BATH AND ILFRACOMBE: GENERAL D'ARBLAY'S ILLNESS
+AND DEATH--384--431
+
+Arrival in England--Alexander d'Arblay: Some old Bath Friends--
+French Affairs: General d'Arblay's Health--The Escape of
+Lavalette: The Streatham Portraits--Regarding Husband and Son--
+Maternal Anxieties--Advantages of Bath: Young d'Arblay's Degree--
+Playful Reproaches and Sober Counsel--Preparations for leaving
+Bath--Installed at Ilfracombe--A Captured Spanish Ship--The
+Spanish Captain's Cook--Ships in Distress--Young d'Arblay's
+Tutor--General d'Arblay's Ill-health--Particulars of Ilfracombe--
+Young d'Arblay's Aversion to Study--A Visit from the first Chess
+Player in England--A Coast Ramble in search of Curiosities--
+Caught, by the Rising Tide--Efforts to reach a place of safety--A
+Signal of Distress--Little Diane--Increasing Danger--The Last
+Wave of the Rising Tide--Arrival of Succour--Meeting between
+Mother and Son--General d'Arblay's return to England--The
+Princess Charlotte's Death--The Queen and Princesses at Bath--
+News arrives of the Princess Charlotte's Death--An old
+Acquaintance: Serious Illness of General d'Arblay--The General's
+First Attack: Delusive Hopes--General d'Arblay presented to the
+Queen--Gloomy Forebodings--Presents from the Queen and Princess
+Elizabeth--The General receives the Visit of a Priest--The Last
+Sacrament Administered--Farewell Words of Counsel--The End
+Arrives.
+Page x
+
+27. (1818-40) YEARS OF WIDOWHOOD: DEATH OF MADAME D'ARBLAY'S SON:
+HER OWN DEATH--435--458
+
+Mournful Reflections--Visits received and Letters penned--Removal
+from Bath to London--Death of the Queen: Sketch of her Character-
+-Madame d'Arblay's Son is Ordained--With some Royal Highnesses--
+Queen Caroline--Gossip from an Old Friend, and the Reply--More
+Gossip--Ill-health of the Rev. A. d'Arblay: Dr. Burney's MSS.--A
+last Gossiping Letter--Death of Mrs. Piozzi--Mrs. Piozzi compared
+with Madame de Stael--Sister Hetty--Official Duties Temporarily
+Resumed--The Rev. A. d'Arblay named Lent Preacher--Madame
+d'Arblay's Health and Occupation--Destroyed Correspondence--The
+Princess and the Rev. A. d'Arblay--A Visit from Sir Walter
+Scott--Memoirs of Dr. Burney--Deaths of Hester Burney and Mrs.
+Locke--Death of the Rev. A. d'Arblay--Death of Madame d'Arblay's
+sister Charlotte--Illness and Death of Madame d'Arblay.
+
+
+INDEX--459-480Page 11
+                               SECTION 19.
+                                 (1792-3)
+
+                     THE FRENCH POLITICAL EMIGRANTS:
+                     MISS BURNEY MARRIES M. D'ARBLAY.
+
+[The following section must be pronounced, from the historical
+point of view, one of the most valuable in the " Diary." It gives
+us authentic glimpses of some of the actors in that great
+Revolution, "the Death-Birth of a new order," which was getting
+itself transacted, with such terrible accompaniments, across the
+channel.  The refugees with whom Fanny grew acquainted, and who
+formed the little colony at juniper Hall, near Dorking, were not
+the men of the first emigration--princes and nobles who fled
+their country, like cowards, as soon as they found themselves in
+danger, and reentered it like traitors, in the van of a foreign
+invasion.  Not such were the inmates of Juniper Hall.  These were
+constitutional monarchists, men who had taken part with the
+people in the early stage of the Revolution, who had been
+instrumental in making the Constitution, and who had sought
+safety in flight only when the Constitution was crushed and the
+monarchy abolished by the triumph of the extreme party.  To the
+grands seigneurs of the first emigration, these constitutional
+royalists, were scarcely less detestable than the jacobins
+themselves.
+
+A few leading facts and dates will perhaps assist the reader to a
+clearer understanding of the situation.   September 1791, the
+French Assembly, having finished its work of Constitution-making,
+and the said [Constitution being accepted by the king, retires
+gracefully, and the new Assembly, constitutionally elected,
+meets, October 1. But the Constitution, ushered in with such
+rejoicings, proves a failure. The king has the right to veto the
+acts of the Assembly, and he exerts that right with a vengeance
+:--vetoes their most urgent decrees: decree against the emigrant
+noblesse, plotting, there at Coblenz, the downfall of their
+country; decree against nonjuring priests, intriguing endlessly
+against the Constitution.  Patriot-Minister Roland remonstrates
+with his majesty, and the patriotic ministry is forthwith
+dismissed.  Meanwhile distress and
+
+Page 12
+
+disorder are everywhere, and emigration is on the increase
+Abroad, Austria and Prussia are threatening invasion, and the
+emigrants at Coblenz are clamorous for war.  War with Austria is
+declared, April 20, 1792; war with Prussia follows three months
+later; England remaining still neutral.  One of our friends of
+juniper Hall, Madame de Staél's friend, Count Louis de Narbonne,
+has been constitutional minister of war, but had to retire in
+March, when the popular ministry--Roland's--came into office.  It
+is evident that the king and the Assembly cannot act together;
+nay, the king himself feels the impossibility of it, and is
+already setting his hopes on foreign interference, secretly
+corresponding with Austria and Prussia.  The people of Paris,
+too, feel the impossibility, and are setting their hopes on
+something very different.  The monarchy must go; jacobins'
+club(1) and men of the Gironde, afterwards at death- grapple with
+one another, are now united on this point; they, and not a
+constitutional government, are the true representatives of Paris
+and of France.
+
+A year ago, July 1791, the people of Paris, demanding the
+deposition of the king, were dispersed by General Lafayette with
+volleys of musketry.  But Lafayette's popularity and power are
+now gone.  "The hero of two worlds," as he was called, was little
+more than a boy when he fought under Washington, in the cause of
+American independence.  Animated by the same love of liberty
+which had carried him to America, Lafayette took part in the
+early movements of the French Revolution.  In 1789, after the
+fall of the Bastille, he was commander of the national guard, and
+one of the most popular men in France.  A high-minded man, full
+of sincerity, of enthusiasm: "Cromwell Grandison," Mirabeau
+nicknamed him.  Devoted to the Constitution, Lafayette was no
+friend to the extreme party, to the jacobins, with their Danton,
+their Robespierre.  He had striven for liberty, but for liberty
+and monarchy combined; and the two things were fast becoming
+irreconcilable.  And now, in July 1792, distrusted alike by the
+Court and the people, Lafayette sits sad at Sedan, in the midst
+of his army.  War has already commenced, with a desultory and
+unsuccessful attack by the French upon the Austrian Netherlands.
+But the real struggle is now approaching. Heralded by an insolent
+proclamation, the Duke of Brunswick is marching from Coblenz with
+more than a hundred thousand Prussians, Austrians, and emigrants
+; and General Lafayette, alas ! appears more bent upon denouncing
+jacobinism than upon  defending the frontier.
+
+
+The country is indeed in danger. With open hostility advancing
+from without, doubt and suspicion fermenting within, Paris at
+last rises in good earnest, August 10, 1792. This is the answer
+to Brunswick's insolent proclamation. Paris attacks the
+Tuileries, King Louis and his family taking refuge in the
+Assembly; captures the Tuileries, not without terrible loss, the
+brave Swiss guard
+
+Page 13
+
+standing steadfast to their posts, and getting, the greater part
+of them, massacred.  Yielding to the demands of the people, the
+Assembly passes decrees suspending the king, dismissing the
+ministers, and convoking a National Convention.  This was the
+work of the famous 10th of August, the birthday of the French
+Republic.  on the 13th August the royal family is sent to the
+prison of the Temple from whence the king and the queen, unhappy
+Marie Antoinette, will come forth only to trial and execution.  A
+new patriotic ministry is formed--Rolan again minister of the
+interior, Danton, the soul of the insurrection, minister of
+justice; a tribunal is appointed) and the prisons of Paris are
+filled with persons suspect.  Executions follow; but the tribunal
+makes not quick enough work.  Austrians and Prussians are
+advancing towards Paris; in Paris itself thousands of
+aristocrats, enemies to their country, are lying hid, ready to
+join the foreign foes.
+
+In these desperate straits, Paris, at least sansculotte Paris,
+frenzied and wild for vengeance, falls upon the mad expedient of
+massacring the prisoners: more than a thousand suspected
+royalists are slaughtered, after brief improvised Trial or
+pretence of trial; or even without trial at all.  This butchery
+is known as the "September massacres" (Sept. 2-6, 1792), infamous
+in history, heartily approved by few, perhaps, even of the more
+violent Republicans; indignantly denounced by Rowland and the
+less violent, powerless, nevertheless, to interfere, Paris being
+"in death-panic, the enemy and gibbets at its door."(2)  Sept.
+22, the Legislative Assembly having
+Dissolved, the National Convention holds its first meeting and
+proclaims the Republic: royalty for ever abolished in France.
+
+
+ Among the feelings, with which the news of these events are
+received in England, horror predominates.  Still the Government
+takes no decisive step.  The English ambassador in Paris, Lord
+Gower, is indeed recalled, in consequence of the events of August
+10, but the French ambassador, Chauvelin, yet remains in London,
+although unrecognised in an official capacity after the
+deposition of Louis.  War is in the wind, and, although Fox and
+many members of the opposition earnestly deprecate any hostile
+interference in the affairs of the Republic, a strong contingent
+of the Whig party, headed by Burke, is not less earnest in their
+efforts to make peace with France impossible. Pitt, indeed, is in
+favour of neutrality, but Pitt is forced to give way at last.
+Meanwhile, the popular feeling in favour of the royalists is
+being heightened and extended by the constant influx of French
+refugees. Thousands of the recalcitrant clergy, especially, with
+no king's veto now to protect them, are seeking safety, in
+England. Many adherents of the Constitution, too, ex-members of
+the Assembly and others, are fleeing hither from a country
+intolerant of monarchists, even constitutional; establishing
+themselves at juniper Hall and elsewhere. Among them we note the
+Duke de Liancourt, whose escape the
+reader will find related in the following pages; Count de Lally-
+
+Page 14
+
+Tollendal and M. de jaucourt, saved, both, by - good fortune,
+from the September massacres ; Vicomte de Montmorency, or call
+him citoyen, who voted for the abolition of titles; ex-minister
+of war Narbonne, concealed after August 10 by Madame de Stael,
+and escaping disguised as a servant; and presently, too, Madame
+de Stael herself; and last, but not least interesting to readers
+of the Diary, General Alexandre dArblay, whom Fanny will before
+long fall in love with and marry.
+One person, too, there is, more noteworthy, or at least more
+prominent in history, than any of these, whom Fanny meets at
+Mickleham, whom she dislikes instinctively at first sight, but
+whose plausible speech and ingratiating manners soon make a
+convert of her.
+
+This is citizen Talleyrand--Charles Maurice de
+Talleyrand-P‚rigord, Bishop of Autun. He, too, is now an
+emigrant, although he came to England in a far different
+character, as secret ambassador from the Constitutional
+Government of France ; citizen Chauvelin being the nominal
+ambassador.  On the whole, Talleyrand's diplomacy has not been
+productive of much good, to himself or others. Back in Paris
+before the 10th of August, he returned to London in September
+with a passport from Danton. A questionable man; some think him a
+jacobin, others a royalist in disguise. And now, while he is in
+London, there is talk of him in the Convention : citizen
+Talleyrand, it seems, has professed himself " disposed to serve
+the king ;" whereupon (December 5, 1792) citizen Talleyrand is
+decreed accused, and his name is inscribed on the list of
+emigrants.
+
+We must turn once again to France. At Sedan, in a white heat of
+indignation on the news of that 10th of August, constitutional
+(sic) Lafayette emits a proclamation : the Constitution is
+destroyed, the king a prisoner: let us march for Paris and
+restore them! There is hope at first, that the army will follow
+Lafayette, but hope tells a flattering tale : the soldiers, it
+seems, care more for their country than for the Constitution.
+Lafayette sees that all is lost ; rides (August 18) for Holland
+with a few friends, of whom General d'Arblay is one; intends to
+take passage thence for America, but falls, instead, into the
+hands of the Austrians, and spends the next few years imprisoned
+in an Austrian fortress. General d'Arblay, after a few days, is
+allowed to proceed to England.
+
+Lafayette gone, the command of the army falls to General
+Dumouriez.  Brunswick with his Prussians and emigrants, Clairfait
+with his Austrians, are now in France; advancing upon Paris. They
+take Longwy and Verdun; try to take Thonville and Lille, but
+cannot; and find Dumouriez and his sansculottes, there in the
+passes of Argonne, the "Thermopylae of France," an unexpectedly
+hard nut to crack. In fact, the nut is not to be cracked at all:
+Dumouriez, " more successful than Leonidas," flings back the
+invasion; compels the invaders to evacuate France; and in
+November, assuming the offensive, conquers the whole Austrian
+Netherlands. Meantime, in the south-east, the war in
+
+Page 15
+
+which the Republic is engaged with the King of Sardinia
+progresses also favourably, and Savoy and Nice are added to the
+French territory. Europe may arm, but a people fighting for an
+ideal is not to be crushed. France has faith in her ideal of
+liberty and fraternity, questionable or worse though some of the
+methods are by which she endeavours to realise it. But Danton is
+right: "il nous faut de l'audace, et encore de l'audace, et
+toujours de l'audace;" and with superb audacity the Republic
+defies the armed powers of Europe, decrees (November 19)
+assistance to every nation that will strike a blow for freedom,
+and cast off its tyrants. A yet more daring act of defiance
+follows--tragic to all men, unspeakably horrible to Fanny Burney
+and all friends of monarchy, constitutional or other. In December
+1792, poor King Louis is tried before the National Convention,
+found guilty of "conspiring against liberty;" condemned to death
+by a majority of votes; in January, executed January 21.  It is
+even as Danton said in one of his all-too gigantic figures 'the
+coalesced kings threaten us; we hurl at their feet, as gage of
+battle, the Head of a King."' (3)
+Louis's kinsman, profligate Philippe Egalit‚, ci-devant Duc
+d'Orl‚ans, votes for death; before another year has passed he
+himself will have perished by the guillotine. In England, war is
+resolved upon; even Pitt sees not how it can be avoided. January
+24, ambassador Chauvelin is ordered to quit England within eight
+days; Talleyrand remaining yet another year. Spain, too, is
+arming, and Holland is England's ally.  War being inevitable, the
+Republic determines to be first in the field; declares war on
+England and Holland, February 1, 1793, and on Spain, March
+7.-ED.]
+
+               ARRIVAL OF FRENCH EMIGRANTS AT JUNIPER HALL.
+
+August 1792.  Our ambassador is recalled from France
+Russia has declared war against that wretched kingdom. But it may
+defy all outward enemies to prove in any degree destructive in
+comparison with its lawless and barbarous inmates. We shall soon
+have no authentic accounts from Paris, as no English are expected
+to remain after the ambassador, and no French will dare to write,
+in such times of pillage, what may carry them à la lanterne.(4)
+
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+
+(Mrs. Phillips to Fanny Burney.)
+Mickleham, September 1792.
+We shall shortly, I believe, have a little colony of unfortunate
+(or rather)  fortunate, since here they are safe) French noblesse
+in our neighbourhood.  Sunday evening Ravely informed Mr. Locke
+that two or three families had joined to take Jenkinson's house,
+juniper Hall, and that another family had taken a small house at
+Westhamble, which the people very reluctantly let, upon the
+Christian-like supposition that, being nothing but French
+papishes, they would never pay. Our dear Mr. Locke, while this
+was agitating, sent word to the landlord that he would be
+answerable for the rent ; however, before this message arrived,
+the family were admitted. The man said they had pleaded very hard
+indeed, and said, if he did but know the distress they had been
+in, he would not hesitate.
+
+This house is taken by Madame de Broglie, daughter of the
+mareschal, who is in the army with the French princes;(5) or,
+rather, wife to his son, Victor Broglie, till very lately general
+of one of the French armies, and at present disgraced, and fled
+nobody knows where. This poor lady came over in an open boat,
+with a son younger than my Norbury, and was fourteen hours at
+sea. She has other ladies with her, and gentlemen, and two little
+girls, who had been sent to England some weeks ago; they are all
+to lodge in a sort of cottage, containing only a kitchen and
+parlour on the ground floor.
+
+I long to offer them my house, 'and have been much gratified by
+finding Mr.  Locke immediately determined to visit them; his
+taking this step will secure them the civilities, at least, of
+the other neighbours.
+
+At Jenkinson's are-la Marquise de la Chƒtre, whose husband is
+with the emigrants; her son; M. de Narbonne, lately ministre de
+la guerre;(6)  M. de Montmorency; Charles or Theodore Lameth;
+Jaucourt; and one or two more, whose names I have forgotten, are
+either arrived to-day, or expected. I feel infinitely interested
+for all these persecuted persons. Pray tell me whatever you hear
+of M. de Liancourt, etc. Heaven bless you!
+
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+
+                       THE DOCTOR'S FIVE DAUGHTERS.
+
+(Fanny Burney to Dr. Burney.)
+Halstead, October 2, '92.
+My dearest padre,-I have just got your direction, in a letter
+from my mother, and an account that you seem to be in health and
+spirits; so now I think it high time to let you know a little
+about some of your daughters, lest you should forget you have any
+such incumbrances.
+
+In the first place, two of them, Esther and F. B., had a safe and
+commodious journey hither, in the midst of pattering showers and
+cloudy skies, making up as well as they could for the
+deficiencies of the elements by the dulcet recreation of the
+concord of sweet sounds ; not from tabrets and harps, but from
+the harmony of hearts with tongues.
+
+In the second place, a third of them, Charlotte F., writes word
+her caro sposo has continued very tolerably well this last
+fortnight, and that she still desires to receive my visit
+according to the first appointment.
+
+In the third place, a fourth of them, Sarah, is living upon
+French politics and with French fugitives, at Bradfield,(7) where
+she seems perfectly satisfied with foreign forage.
+
+In the fourth place, Susanna, another of them, sends cheering
+histories of herself and her tribe, though she concludes them
+with a sighing ejaculation of "I wish I did not know there was
+such a country as France !"
+
+
+
+                        A VISIT To ARTHUR YOUNG.(8)
+
+Oct. 5.-I left Halstead, and set off, alone, for Bradfield Hall,
+which was but one stage of nineteen miles distant. Sarah,(9) who
+was staying with her aunt, Mrs. Young, expected
+
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+
+me, and came running out before the chaise stopped at the door,
+and Mr. Young following, with both hands full of French
+newspapers. He welcomed me with all his old spirit and
+impetuosity, exclaiming his house never had been so honoured
+since its foundation, nor ever could be again, unless I
+re-visited it in my way back, even though all England came in the
+meantime!
+
+Do you not know him well, my Susan, by this opening rodomontade?
+
+"But where," cried he, "is Hetty? O that Hetty! Why did you not
+bring her with you? That wonderful creature! I have half a mind
+to mount horse, and gallop to Halstead to claim her! What is
+there there to merit her? What kind of animals have you left her
+with? Anything capable of understanding her?"
+
+During this we mounted up-stairs, into the dining-room. Here all
+looked cold and comfortless, and no Mrs. Young appeared. I
+inquired for her, and heard that her youngest daughter, Miss
+Patty, had just had a fall from her horse, which had bruised her
+face, and occasioned much alarm.
+
+The rest of the day we spoke only of French politics. Mr. Young
+is a severe penitent of his democratic principles, and has lost
+even all pity for the constituants r‚volutionnaires, who had
+"taken him in" by their doctrines, but cured him by their
+practice, and who "ought better to have known what they were
+about before they presumed to enter into action."
+
+Even the Duc de Liancourt,(11) who was then in a small house at
+Bury, merited, he said, all the personal misfortunes that had
+befallen him.  "I have real obligations to him," he added, "and
+therefore I am anxious to show him respect, and do him any
+service, in his present reverse of fortune; but he has brought it
+all on himself, and, what is worse; on his country."
+
+He wrote him, however, a note to invite him to dinner the next
+day.  The duke wrote an answer, that lamented excessively being
+engaged to meet Lord Euston, And dine with the Bury aldermen.
+
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+
+            THE DUKE DE LIANCOURT'S ABORTIVE EFFORTS AT ROUEN.
+
+I must now tell you the history of this poor duke's arriving in
+England, for it involves a revival of loyalty-an effort to make
+some amends to his unhappy sovereign for the misery into which he
+had largely contributed to plunge him; which, with me, has made
+his peace for ever.
+
+ But first I should tell, he was the man who almost compelled the
+every-way- deluded Louis to sanction the National Assembly by his
+presence when first it resisted his orders. The queen and all her
+party were strongly against the measure, and prophesied it would
+be the ruin of his authority; but the duke, highly ambitious of
+fame, as Mr. Young describes him,
+and willing to sacrifice everything to the new systems then
+pervading all France, suddenly rushed into his closet, upon the
+privilege of being one of the five or seven pairs de France(12)
+who have that licence, and, with a strong and forcible eloquence,
+declared nothing but his concession would save the nation from a
+civil war; while his entering, unarmed, into the National
+Assembly, would make him regarded for ever as the father and
+saviour of his people, and secure him the powerful sovereignty of
+the grateful hearts of all his subjects.
+
+He succeeded, and the rest is public.
+
+This incident has set all the Coblenz(13) party utterly and for
+ever against the duke. He had been some time in extreme anguish
+for the unhappy king, whose ill-treatment on the 20th of June
+1792,(14) reached him while commandant at Rouen. He then first
+began to see, that the monarch or the jacobins must inevitably
+fall, and he could scarce support the prospect of ultimate danger
+threatening the former.  When the news reached him of the bloody
+10th of August, a plan which for some time he had been forming,
+of gaining over his regiment to the service of the king, was
+rendered abortive. Yet all his officers except One had promised
+to join in any enterprise for their insulted master.  He had
+hoped to get the king to
+
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+
+Rouen under this protection, as I gather, though this matter has
+never wholly transpired, But the king could not be persuaded to
+trust any one. How should he?--especially a revolutionnaire?
+
+
+No time now was to be lost, and, in his first impetuosity of rage
+and despair, he instantly summoned his officers and his troops ;
+and, in the midst of them all, upon the parade or place of
+assembling, he took off his hat, and called out aloud, "Vive le
+roi!"
+
+
+His officers echoed the sound, all but one!--yet not a soldier
+joined.  Again be waved his hat, and louder and louder called
+out, "Vive le roi!" And then every soldier repeated it after him.
+
+
+Enchanted with hope, he felt one exulting moment, when this
+single dissentient officer called out aloud, as soon as the loyal
+cry was over, "As an officer of the nation I forbid this!--Vive
+la nation!"
+
+The duke instantly had the man arrested, and retired to his
+apartment to compose his excess agitation, and consider how to
+turn this promise of loyalty to the service of his now imprisoned
+king; but, in a short time, an officer strongly attached to him
+entered the room hastily, and cried, "Sauvez
+vous, M. de Liancourt!(15)--be speedy! the jacobin party of Rouen
+have heard of your indiscretion and a price is this moment set
+upon your head!"
+
+The duke knew too well with whom he had to act for a moment's
+hesitation. To serve the king was now impossible, as he had but
+to appear in order to be massacred.  He could only save his own
+life by flight.
+
+
+
+               THE DUKE'S ESCAPE To ENGLAND: "POT PORTERE."
+
+In what manner he effected his escape out of Rouen he has never
+mentioned. I believe he was assisted by those who, remaining
+behind, could only be named to be torn in pieces for their
+humanity. M. Jamard, a French priest, tells me no human being
+knows when or how he got away, and none suspected him to be gone
+for two days. He went first to Abbeville there, for two days, he
+appeared everywhere, walking about in his regimentals, and
+assuming an air of having nothing to apprehend. This succeeded,
+as his indiscretion had not yet spread at Abbeville; but,
+meanwhile, a
+
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+
+youth whom he had brought up from a child, and on whose fond
+regard and respect he could rely, was employed in seeking him the
+means of passing over to England.  This was infinitely difficult,
+as he was to leave France without any passport.
+
+How he quitted Abbeville I know not; but he was in another town,
+near the coast, three days, still waiting for a safe conveyance;
+and here, finding his danger increased greatly by delay, he went
+to some common house, without dress or equipage or servants that
+could betray him, and spent his whole time in bed, under pretence
+of indisposition, to avoid being seen.
+
+At length his faithful young groom succeeded; and he got, at
+midnight, into a small boat, with only two men. He had been taken
+for the King of France by one, who had refused to convey him ;
+and some friend, who assisted his escape, was forced to get him
+off, at last, by holding a pistol to the head of his conductor,
+and protesting he would shoot him through and through, if he made
+further demur, or spoke aloud. It was dark, and midnight.
+
+Both he and his groom planted themselves in the bottom of the
+boat, and were covered with fagots, lest any pursuit should ensue
+: and thus wretchedly they were suffocated till they thought
+themselves at a safe distance from France.  The poor youth then,
+first looking up, exclaimed, "Ah! nous sommes perdus!(16) they
+are carrying us back to our own country!" The duke started up; he
+had the same opinion, but thought opposition vain; he charged him
+to keep silent and quiet; and after about another league, they
+found this, at least, a false alarm, owing merely to a thick fog
+or mist.
+
+At length they landed--at Hastings, I think. The boatman had his
+money, and they walked on to the nearest public-house. The duke,
+to seem English, called for "pot portere." It was brought him,
+and he drank it off in two draughts, his drought being extreme ;
+and he called for another instantly. That also, without any
+suspicion or recollection of consequences, was as hastily
+swallowed; and what ensued he knows not. He was intoxicated, and
+fell into a profound sleep. His groom helped the people of the
+house to carry him upstairs and put him to bed.  How long he
+slept he knows not, but he woke in the middle of the night
+without the smallest consciousness of where he was, or what had
+happened.
+'
+
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+
+France alone was in his head-France and its horrors, which
+nothing-not even English porter and intoxication and sleep -
+could drive away.
+
+He looked round the room with amaze at first, and soon after with
+consternation. It was so unfurnished, so
+miserable, so lighted with only one small bit of a candle, that
+it occurred to him he was in a maison de force(17) '- thither
+conveyed in his sleep.  The stillness of
+everything confirmed this dreadful idea. He arose, slipped on his
+clothes, and listened at the door. He heard no sound.  He was
+scarce, yet, I suppose, quite awake, for he took the candle, and
+determined to make an attempt to escape.
+
+Down-stairs he crept, neither hearing nor making any noise and he
+found himself in a kitchen ' he looked round, and the brightness
+of a shelf of pewter plates struck his eye under them were pots
+and kettles shining and polished.  "Ah! "? cried he to himself,
+"je suis en Angleterre."(18)  The recollection came all at once
+at sight of a cleanliness which, in these articles, he says, is
+never met with in France.
+
+He did not escape too soon, for his first cousin, the good Duc de
+la Rochefoucault, another of the first
+r‚volutionnaires, was massacred the next month.(19) The
+character he has given of this murdered relation is the most
+affecting, in praise and virtues, that can possibly be
+heard.  k Sarah has heard him till she could not keep the tears
+from her eyes.  They had been ‚lŠves(20) together, and loved each
+other as the tenderest brothers.
+
+
+
+                     MADAME DE GENLIS'S HASTY RETREAT.
+
+You will all be as sorry as I was myself to hear that every ill
+story of la Comtesse de Genlis was confirmed by the
+duke.
+
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+
+She was resident at Bury, when he arrived, with Mlle.
+Egalit‚, Pamela, Henrietta Circe, and several others, who
+appeared in various ways, as artists, gentlemen, domestics, and
+equals, on various occasions.  The history of their way of life
+is extraordinary, and not very comprehensible, probably owing to
+the many necessary difficulties which the new 'system of equality
+produces.(21)
+
+A lady of Bury, a sister of Sir Thomas Gage, had been very much
+caught by Madame Brulard,(22) who had almost
+lived at the house of Sir Thomas. Upon the arrival of the duke he
+was invited to Sir Thomas Gage's immediately; and Miss G, calling
+upon Madame Brulard, mentioned him, and
+asked if she knew him?--No, she answered; but she had seen him.
+This was innocently repeated to the duke, who then, in a
+transport of rage, broke out with "Elle M'a vu!(23) and is that
+all?--Does she forget that she has spoke to me? that she has
+heard me too? " And then he related, that when all was wearing
+the menacing aspect of anarchy, before it broke out, and before
+he was ordered to his regiment at Rouen, he had desired an
+audience of Madame Brulard, for the first
+time, having been always a friend of Madame d'Orl‚ans, and
+consequently her enemy. She was unwilling to see him, but he
+would not be refused. He then told her that France was upon the
+point of ruin, and that the Duc d'Orl‚ans, who had been its
+destruction, and "the disgrace of the Revolution," could alone
+now prevent the impending havoc. He charged her
+therefore, forcibly and peremptorily, to take in charge a change
+of measures, and left her with an exhortation which he then
+flattered himself would have some chance of averting the coming
+dangers. But quickly -after she quitted France voluntarily, and
+settled in England. "And can she have
+forgot all this ?" cried he.
+
+I know not if this was repeated to Madame de Brulard but
+certain it is she quitted Bury with the utmost expedition, She
+did not even wait to pay her debts, and left the poor Henrietta
+Circe behind, as a sort of hostage, to prevent
+alarm.  The creditors, however, finding her actually gone,
+entered the house, and poor Henrietta was terrified into
+hysterics.  Probably she knew not but they were jacobins, or
+would act upon jacobin principles. Madame Brulard then
+
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+
+sent for her, and remitted money, and proclaimed her
+intention of returning to Suffolk no more.
+
+                     A NOBLEMAN OF THE ANCIEN R‚GIEM.
+
+The duke accepted the invitation for to-day, and came early, on
+horseback. He had just been able to get over some two or three of
+his horses from France. He has since, I hear, been forced to sell
+them.
+
+Mrs. Young was not able to appear; Mr. Young came to my room door
+to beg I would waste no time; Sarah and I, therefore, proceeded
+to the drawing-room. The duke was playing with a favourite
+dog-the thing probably the most dear to him in
+England; for it was just brought him over by his faithful groom,
+whom he had sent back upon business to his son.
+
+He is very tall, and, were his figure less, would be too
+fat, but all is in proportion. His face, which is very
+handsome, though not critically so, has rather a haughty
+expression when left to itself, but becomes soft and
+spirited in turn, according to whom he speaks, and has great play
+and variety.  His deportment is quite
+noble, and in a style to announce conscious rank even to the most
+sedulous equaliser.  His carriage is peculiarly upright, and his
+person uncommonly well made. His manners are such as only admit
+of comparison with what We have read, not what we have seen; for
+he has all the air of a man who would wish to lord over men, but
+to cast himself at the feet of women.
+
+He was in mourning for his barbarously murdered cousin the Duc de
+la Rochefoucault. His first address was of the
+highest style.  I shall not attempt to recollect his words, but
+they were most elegantly expressive of his satisfaction in a
+meeting he had long, he said, desired.
+
+With Sarah he then shook hands. She had been his
+interpretess here on his arrival, and he seems to have
+conceived a real kindness for her; an honour of which she is
+extremely sensible, and with reason.
+
+A little general talk ensued, and he made a point of curing Sarah
+of being afraid of his dog. He made no secret of
+thinking it affectation, and never rested till he had
+conquered it completely.  I saw here, in the midst of all that at
+first so powerfully struck me of dignity,
+importance, and high-breeding, a true French Polisson; for he
+called the dog round her, made it jump on her shoulder, and
+amused himself as,
+
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+
+in England, only a schoolboy or a professed fox-hunter would have
+dreamt of doing.
+
+This, however, recovered me to a little ease, which his
+compliment had rather overset. Mr. Young hung back, nearly quite
+silent. Sarah was quiet when reconciled to the dog, or, rather,
+subdued by the duke; and then, when I thought it completely out
+of his head, he tranquilly drew a chair next mine, and began a
+sort of separate conversation, which he suffered nothing to
+interrupt till we were summoned to
+dinner.
+
+His subject was 'Cecilia;' and he seemed not to have the
+smallest idea I could object to discussing it, any more than if
+it had been the work of another person. I answered all his
+demands and interrogatories with a degree of openness I have
+never answered any other upon this topic; but the least hope of
+beguiling the misery of an ‚migr‚ tames me.
+
+Mr. Young listened with amaze, and all his ears, to the many
+particulars and elucidations which the duke drew from me; he
+repeatedly called out he had heard nothing of them before, and
+rejoiced he was at least present when they were
+communicated.
+
+This proved, at length, an explanation to the duke himself, that,
+the moment he understood, made him draw back, saying, "Peut-ˆtre
+que je suis indiscret?"(24)  However, he soon
+returned to the charge - and when Mr. Young made any more
+exclamations, he heeded them not: he smiled, indeed, when Sarah
+also affirmed he had procured accounts she had never heard
+before; but he has all the air of a man not new to any mark of
+more than common favour.
+At length we were called to dinner, during which he spoke of
+general things.
+
+
+
+DUCAL VIVACITY AND SADNESS.
+
+The French of Mr. Young, at table, was very comic ; he never
+hesitates for a word, but puts English wherever he is at a loss,
+with a mock French pronunciation. "Monsieur Duc," as he calls
+him, laughed once or twice, but clapped him on the back, called
+him "un brave homme," and gave him instruction as well as
+encouragement in all his blunders.
+
+When the servants were gone, the duke asked me if anybody might
+write a letter to the king? I fancy he had some per-
+
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+
+sonal idea of this kind.  I told him yes, but through the hands
+of a lord of the bedchamber, or some state officer, or a
+minister. He seemed pensive, but said no more.
+
+He inquired, however, if I had not read to the queen and seemed
+to wish to understand my office; but here he was far more
+circumspect than about 'Cecilia.' He has lived so much in a
+Court, that he knew exactly how far he might
+inquire with the most scrupulous punctilio.
+
+I found, however, he had imbibed the jacobin notion that our
+beloved king was still disordered; for, after some talk upon his
+illness, and very grave and proper expressions
+concerning the affliction and terror it produced in the
+kingdom, he looked at me very fixedly,, and, with an arching
+brow, said, "Mais, mademoiselle--aprŠs tout--le roi--est il bien
+gu‚ri?"(25)
+
+I gave him such assurances as he could not doubt, from their
+simplicity, which resulted from their truth.
+
+Mr. Young would hardly let Sarah and me retreat; however, we
+promised to meet soon to coffee.  I went away full of concern for
+his injuries, and fuller of amazement at the
+vivacity with which he bore them.
+
+When at last we met in the drawing-room, I found the duc all
+altered. Mr. Young had been forced away by business, and was but
+just returned, and he had therefore been left a few
+minutes by himself; the effect was visible, and extremely
+touching.  Recollections and sorrow had retaken possession of his
+mind; and his spirit, his vivacity, his power of
+rallying were all at an end.  He was strolling about the
+room with an air the most gloomy, and a face that
+looked enveloped in clouds of sadness and
+moroseness. There was a fiert‚ almost even fierce in his air and
+look, as, wrapped in himself, he continued his walk. I felt now
+an increasing compassion:--what must he not suffer when he ceases
+to fight with his calamities! Not to disturb him we talked with
+one another; but he soon shook himself and joined us; though he
+could not bear to sit down, or
+stand a moment in a place.
+
+
+
+"CETTE COQUINE DE BRULARD."
+
+Sarah spoke of Madame Brulard, and, in a little malice, to draw
+him out, said her sister knew her very well. The duc "
+
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+
+with eyes of fire at the sound, came up to me: "Comment,
+mademoiselle! vous avez connu cette coquine de Brulard?"(26)  And
+then he asked me what I had thought of her.
+
+I frankly answered that I had thought her charming; gay,
+intelligent, well-bred, well-informed, and amiable.
+
+He instantly drew back, as if sorry he had named her so
+roughly, and looked at Sally for thus surprising him; but I
+immediately continued that I could now no longer think the same
+of her, as I could no longer esteem her; but I
+confessed my surprise had been inexpressible at her
+duplicity.
+
+'He allowed that, some years ago, she might have a better chance
+than now of captivation - for the deeper she had
+immersed in politics, the more she had forfeited of feminine
+attraction.  "Ah!" he cried, " with her talents-her
+knowledge-her parts-had she been modest, reserved, gentle, what a
+blessing might she have proved to her country! but she is devoted
+to intrigue and cabal, and proves its curse."
+He then spoke with great asperity against all the femmes de
+lettres now known; he said they were commonly the most
+disgusting of their sex, in France, by their arrogance,
+boldness, and mauvais moeurs.
+
+
+
+                      GRACEFUL OFFERS OF HOSPITALITY.
+
+I inquired if Mr. Young had shown him a letter from the Duke of
+Grafton, which he had let me read in the morning. It was to
+desire Mr. Young would acquaint him if the Duc de
+Liancourt was still in Bury, and, if so, to wait upon him, in the
+Duke of Grafton's name, to solicit him to make Euston his abode
+while in England, and to tell him that he should have his
+apartments wholly unmolested, and his time wholly unbroken; that
+he was sensible, in such a situation of mind, he must covet much
+quiet and freedom from interruption and impertinence; and he
+therefore promised that, if he would honour his house with his
+residence, it should be upon the same terms as if he were in an
+hotel-that he would never
+know if he were at home or abroad, or even in town or in the
+country - and he hoped the Duc de Liancourt would make no more
+scruple of accepting such an asylum and retreat at his house than
+he would himself have done of accepting a similar
+
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+
+one from the duke in France, if the misfortunes of his own
+country had driven him to exile.
+
+I was quite in love with the Duke of Grafton for this
+kindness. The Duc de Liancourt bowed to my question, and
+seemed much gratified with the invitation; but I see he
+cannot brook obligation; he would rather live in a garret, and
+call it his own. He told me, however, with an air of
+some little pleasure, that he had received just such another
+letter from Lord Sheffield. I believe both these noblemen had
+been entertained at Liancourt some years ago.
+
+I inquired after Madame la duchesse, and I had the
+satisfaction to hear she was safe in Switzerland. The duke told
+me she had purchased an estate there.
+
+He inquired very particularly after your juniper colony, and M.
+de Narbonne, but said he most wished to meet with M.
+d'Arblay, who was a friend and favourite of his eldest son.
+
+
+
+                 THE EMIGRANTS AT JUNIPER HALL DESCRIBED.
+
+[It is hoped that some pages from Mrs. Phillips's
+journalizing letters to her sister, written at this period, may
+not be unacceptable , since they give particulars
+concerning several distinguished actors and sufferers in the
+French Revolution, and also contain the earliest description of
+M. d'Arblay.(27))
+
+(Mrs. Philips to Fanny Burney.)
+Mickleham, November, 1792.
+It gratifies me very much that I have been able to interest you
+for our amiable and charming neighbours.
+
+Mrs. Locke had been so kind as to pave the way for my
+introduction to Madame de la Chƒtre, and carried me on
+Friday to juniper Hall, where we found M. de Montmorency, a
+ci-devant duc,(28) and one who gave some of the first great
+examples of sacrificing personal interest to what was then
+considered the public good. I know not whether you will like him
+the better when I tell you that from him proceeded the motion for
+the abolition of titles in France; but if you do
+
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+
+not, let me, in his excuse, tell you he was scarcely one-and-
+twenty when an enthusiastic spirit impelled him to this, I
+believe, ill-judged and mischievous act.  My
+curiosity was greatest to see M. de Jaucourt, because I
+remembered many lively and spirited speeches made by him
+during the time of the Assembl‚e L‚gislalive, and that he
+was a warm defender of my favourite hero, M. Lafayette.
+
+Of M. de Narbonne's abilities we could have no doubt from his
+speeches and letters whilst ministre de la guerre, which post he
+did not quit till last May.(29) By his own desire, he then joined
+Lafayette's army, and acted under him; but on the 10th of August,
+he was involved, with perhaps nearly all the most honourable and
+worthy of the French nobility,
+accused as a traitor by the jacobins, and obliged to fly
+from his country M. d'Argenson was already returned to
+France, and Madame de Broglie had set out the same day,
+November 2nd, hoping to escape the decree against the
+emigrants.(30)
+
+Madame de la Chƒtre received us with great politeness. She is
+about thirty-three; an elegant figure, not pretty, but with an
+animated and expressive countenance; very well
+read, pleine d'esprit, and, I think, very lively and
+charming.
+
+A gentleman was with her whom Mrs. Locke had not yet seen, M.
+d'Arblay. She introduced him, and when he had quitted the room,
+told us he was adjutant-general to M. Lafayette,
+mar‚chal de camp, and in short the first in military rank of
+those who had accompanied that general when he so
+unfortunately fell into the hands of the Prussians; but, not
+having been one of the Assembl‚e Constituante, he was
+allowed, with four others, to proceed into Holland, and
+there M. de Narbonne wrote to him. "Et comme il l'aime
+infiniment," said Madame de la Chàtre, "il l'a pri‚ de venir
+vivre avec lui."(31
+
+He had arrived only two days before. He is tall, and a good
+figure, with an open and manly
+countenance; about forty, I imagine.
+
+It was past twelve. However, Madame de la Chàtre owned
+
+
+             Page 30
+
+she had not breakfasted--ces messieurs were not yet ready. A
+little man, who looked very triste indeed, in an old-
+fashioned suit of clothes, with long flaps to a waistcoat
+embroidered in silks no longer very brilliant, sat in a
+corner of the room.  I could not imagine who he was, but when he
+spoke was immediately convinced he was no
+Frenchman.  I afterwards heard he had been engaged by M. de
+Narbonne for a year, to teach him and all the party English. He
+had had a place in some college in France at the beginning of the
+Revolution, but was now driven out and
+destitute.  His name is Clarke. He speaks English with an accent
+tant soit Peu Scotch.
+
+Madame de la Chàtre, with great franchise entered into
+details of her situation and embarrassment, whether she
+might venture, like Madame de Broglie, to go over to France, in
+which case she was dans le cas oû elle pouvoit toucher sa
+fortune(32) immediately. She said she could then settle in
+England, and settle comfortably.  M. de la Chàtre, it
+seems, previous to his joining the king's brothers, had
+settled upon her her whole fortune.  She and all her family were
+great favourers of the original Revolution and even at this
+moment she declares herself unable to wish the
+restoration of the old r‚gime, with its tyranny and
+corruptions--persecuted and ruined as she and thousands more have
+been by the unhappy consequences of the Revolution,
+
+M. de Narbonne now came in.  He seems forty, rather fat, but
+would be handsome were it not for a slight cast of one eye. He
+was this morning in great spirits. Poor man! It was the only time
+I have ever seen him so. He came up very courteously to me, and
+begged leave de me faire Sa Cour(33)  at Mickleham, to which I
+graciously assented.
+
+Then came M. de jaucourt, whom I instantly knew by Mr.
+Locke's description. He is far from handsome, but has a very
+intelligent countenance, fine teeth, and expressive eyes. I
+scarce heard a word from him, but liked his appearance
+exceedingly, and not the less for perceiving his respectful and
+affectionate manner of attending to Mr. Locke but when Mr. Locke
+reminded us that Madame de la Chàtre had not
+breakfasted, we took leave, after spending an hour in a
+manners so pleasant and so interesting that it scarcely
+appeared ten minutes.
+
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+                            MONSIEUR D'ARBLAY.
+
+NOV. 7.- --Phillips was at work in the parlour, and I had just
+stepped into the next room for some papers I wanted, when I heard
+a man's voice, and presently distinguished
+these words: "Je ne parle pas trop bien l'Anglois,
+monsieur."(34) I came forth immediately to relieve Phillips, and
+then found it was M. d'Arblay.
+
+I received him de bien bon coeur, as courteously as I could.  The
+adjutant of M. Lafayette, and one of those who proved faithful to
+that excellent general, could not but be
+interesting to me. I was extremely pleased at ]its coming, and
+more and more pleased with himself every moment that passed. He
+seems to me a true militaire, franc et loyal--open as the day;
+warmly affectionate to his
+friends; intelligent, ready, and amusing in conversation, with a
+great share of gai‚t‚ de coeur, and, at the same
+time, of naŒvet‚ and bonne foi. He was no less flattering to
+little Fanny than M. de Narbonne had been.
+
+We went up into the drawing-room with him, and met Willy on the
+stairs, and Norbury capered before us. "Ah, madame," cried M.
+d'Arblay, "la jolie petite maison que vous avez, et les jolis
+petits hôtes!"(35) looking at the
+children, the drawings, etc. He took Norbury on his lap and
+played with -him. I asked him if he was not proud of being so
+kindly noticed by the adjutant-general of M. Lafayette? "Est-ce
+qu'il sait le nom de M. Lafayette?"(36) said he,
+smiling. I said he was our hero, and that I was thankful to see
+at least one of his faithful friends here. I asked if M.
+Lafayette was allowed to write and receive letters. He said yes,
+but they were always given to him open.
+
+- Norbury now (still seated on his lap) took courage to
+whisper him, "Were you, sir, put in prison with M.
+Lafayette?" "Oui, mon ami," "And--was it quite dark?" I was
+obliged, laughing, to translate this curious question.
+M. d'Arblay laughed too: "Non, mon ami," said he, "on nous amis
+abord dans une assez jolie chambre."(37)
+
+i lamented the hard fate of M. Lafayette, and the rapid and
+wonderful reverse he had met with, after having been, as he
+
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+
+well merited to be, the most popular man in France. This led M.
+d'Arblay to speak of M. de Narbonne, to whom I found him
+passionately attached. Upon my mentioning the sacrifices made by
+the French nobility, and by a great number of them voluntarily,
+he said no one had made more than M. de Narbonne; that, previous
+to the Revolution, he had more wealth and more power than almost
+any except the princes of the blood.
+
+For himself, he mentioned his fortune and his income from his
+appointments as something immense, but 1 never remember the
+number of hundred thousand livres, nor can tell what their amount
+is without some consideration. . . .
+
+The next day Madame de la Chƒtre was so kind as to send me the
+French papers, by her son, who made a silent visit of about five
+minutes.
+
+
+M. DE JAUCOURT. MADAME DE STAEL.
+
+Friday morning.-I sent Norbury with the French papers, desiring
+him to give them to M. d'Arblay. He stayed a prodigious while,
+and at last came back attended by M. de Narbonne, M. de Jaucourt,
+and M. d'Arblay. M. de Jaucourt is a delightful man--as comic,
+entertaining, unaffected, unpretending, and good-humoured as dear
+Mr Twining, only younger, and not quite so black.  He is a man
+likewise of first-rate abilities--M. de Narbonne says, perhaps
+superior to Vaublanc(38) and of very uncommon firmness and
+integrity of character.
+
+The account Mr. Batt gave of the National Assembly last summer
+agrees perfectly with that of M. de Jaucourt, who had the
+misfortune to be one of the deputies, and who, upon some great
+occasion in support of the king and constitution, found only
+twenty-four members who had courage to support him, though a far
+more considerable number gave him secretly their good wishes and
+prayers. It was on this that he regarded all hope of justice and
+order as lost, and that he gave in sa d‚mission(39) from the
+Assembly. In a few days he was seized, and sans forme de
+proces(40) having lost his inviolability as a
+
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+
+member, thrown into the prison of the Abbaye, where, had it not
+been for the very extraordinary and admirable exertions of Madame
+de Stael (M. Necker's daughter, and the Swedish ambassador's
+wife), he would infallibly have been massacred.
+
+I must here tell you that this lady, who was at that time seven
+months gone with child, was indefatigable in her efforts to save
+every one she knew from this dreadful massacre. She walked daily
+(for carriages were not allowed to pass in the streets) to the
+H6tel de Ville, and was frequently shut up for five hours
+together with the horrible wretches that composed the Comit‚ de
+Surveillance, by whom these murders were directed; and by her
+eloquence, and the consideration demanded by her rank and her
+talents, she obtained the deliverance of above twenty unfortunate
+prisoners, some of whom she knew but slightly. . . .
+
+Madame de la Chƒtre and M. de Jaucourt have since told me that M.
+de Narbonne and M. d'Arblay had been treated with singular
+ingratitude by the king, whom they nevertheless still loved as
+well as forgave. They likewise say he wished to get rid of M. de
+Narbonne from the ministry, because he could not trust him with
+his projects of contre revolution.
+
+M. d'Arblay was the officer on guard at the Tuileries the night
+on which the king, etc., escaped to Varennes,(41) and ran great
+risk of being denounced, and perhaps massacred, though he had
+been kept in the most perfect ignorance of the king's intention.
+
+
+                   SEVERE DECREES AGAINST THE EMIGRANTS.
+
+The next Sunday, November 18th, Augusta and Amelia came to me
+after church, very much grieved at the inhuman decrees just
+passed in the Convention, including as emigrants, with those who
+have taken arms against their country, all who have quitted it
+since last July; and adjudging their estates to confiscation, and
+their persons to death should they return to France.
+
+" Ma'am," said Mr. Clarke, " it reduces this family to nothing :
+all they can hope is, by the help of their parents and friends,
+to get together wherewithal to purchase a cottage in America, and
+live as they can."
+
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+
+I was more shocked and affected by this account than I could very
+easily tell you. To complete the tragedy, M. de Narbonne had
+determined to write an offer--a request rather--to be allowed to
+appear as a witness in behalf of the king, upon his trial ; and
+M. d'Arblay had declared he would do the same, and share the fate
+of his friend, whatever it might be.
+
+
+                            MONSIEUR GIRARDIN.
+
+On Tuesday, the 20th, I called to condole with our friends on
+these new misfortunes.  Madame de la Chƒtre received me with
+politeness, and even cordiality: she told me she was a little
+recovered from the first shock--that she should hope to gather
+together a small d‚bris of her fortune, but never enough to
+settle in England--that, in short, her parti ‚tait pris(42)--that
+she must go to America. It went to my heart to hear her say so.
+Presently came in M. Girardin. He is son to the Marquis de
+Girardin d'Ermenonville, the friend of Rousseau, whose last days
+were passed, and whose remains are deposited, in his domain. This
+M. Girardin was a pupil of Rousseau; he was a member of the
+Legislative Assembly, and an able opponent of the jacobins.
+
+It was to him that M. Merlin, aprŠs bien de gestes mena‡ans,(43)
+had held a pistol, in the midst of the Assembly. His father was a
+mad republican, and never satisfied with the rational spirit of
+patriotism that animated M. Girardin; who, witnessing the
+distress of all the friends he most esteemed and honoured, and
+being himself in personal danger from the enmity of the jacobins,
+had, as soon as the Assembl‚e L‚gislative broke up, quitted
+Paris, I believe, firmly determined never to re-enter it under
+the present r‚gime.
+
+I was prepossessed very much in favour of this gentleman, from
+his conduct in the late Assembly and all we had heard of him.  I
+confess I had not represented him to myself as a great, fat,
+heavy-looking man, with the manners of a somewhat hard and morose
+Englishman: he is between thirty and forty, I imagine; he had
+been riding as far as to the cottage Mr. Malthouse had mentioned
+to him--l'asile de jean Jacques(44)--and said it was very near
+this place (it is at the foot of Leith Hill, Mr. Locke has since
+told me).
+
+They then talked over the newspapers which were come
+
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+
+that morning.  M. de St. just,(45) who made a most fierce speech
+for the trial and condemnation of the king, they said had before
+only been known by little madrigals, romances, and heures
+tendres, published in the 'Almanac des Muses.'  "A cette heure,"
+said M. de jaucourt, laughing, "c'est un fier republicain."(46)
+
+
+
+                      THE PHILLIPSES AT JUNIPER HALL.
+
+Nov. 27.-Phillips and I determined at about half-past one to walk
+to "junipre" together. M. d'Arblay received us at the door, and
+showed the most flattering degree of pleasure at our arrival. We
+found with Madame de la Chƒtre another French gentleman, M.
+Sicard, who was also an officer of M. de Lafayette's.
+
+M. de Narbonne said he hoped we would be sociable, and dine with
+them now and then. Madame de la Chƒtre made a speech to the same
+effect, "Et quel jour, par exemple," said M. de Narbonne, "feroit
+wieux qu'aujourd'hui?"(47)  Madame de la Chƒtre took my hand
+instantly, to press in the most pleasing and gratifying manner
+imaginable this proposal; and before I had time to answer, M.
+d'Arblay, snatching up his hat, declared he would run and fetch
+the children.
+
+
+I was obliged to entreat Phillips to bring him back, and
+entreated him to entendre raison.(48) . . . I pleaded their late
+hour of dinner, our having no carriage, and my disuse to the
+night air at this time of the year; but M. de Narbonne said their
+cabriolet (they have no other carriage) should take us home, and
+that there was a top to it, and Madame de la Chƒtre declared she
+would cover me well with shawls, etc. . . . M. d'Arblay scampered
+off for the little ones, whom all insisted upon having, and
+Phillips accompanied him, as it wanted I believe almost four
+hours to their dinner time. . . .
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+
+Then my dress: Oh, it was parfaite, and would give them all the
+courage to remain as they were, sans toilette: in short, nothing
+was omitted to render us comfortable and at our ease, and I have
+seldom passed a more pleasant day--never, I may fairly say, with
+such new acquaintance.  I was only sorry M. de jaucourt did not
+make one of the party.
+
+
+MYSTERY ATTENDING M. DE NARBONNE'S BIRTH.
+
+Whilst M. d'Arblay and Phillips were gone, Madame de la Chƒtre
+told me they had that morning received M. Necker's "D‚fense du
+Roi," and if I liked it that M. de Narbonne would read it out to
+us.(49) You may conceive my answer. It is a most eloquent
+production, and was read by M. de Narbonne with beaucoup d'ƒme.
+Towards the end it is excessively touching, and his emotion was
+very evident, and would have struck and interested me had I felt
+no respect for his character before.
+
+I must now tell you the secret of his birth, which, however, is,
+I conceive, no great secret even in London, as Phillips heard it
+at Sir Joseph Banks's. Madame Victoire, daughter of Louis XV.,
+was in her youth known to be attached to the Comte de Narbonne,
+father of our M. de Narbonne. The consequence of this attachment
+was such as to oblige her to a temporary retirement, under the
+pretence of indisposition during which time la Comtesse de
+Narbonne, who was one of her attendants, not only concealed her
+own chagrin, but was the means of preserving her husband from a
+dangerous situation, and the princess from disgrace.  She
+declared herself with child, and, in short, arranged all so well
+as to seem the mother of her husband's son ; though the truth was
+immediately suspected, and rumoured about the Court, and Madame
+de la Chƒtre told me, was known and familiarly spoken of by all
+her friends, except in the presence of
+
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+
+Narbonne, to whom no one would certainly venture to hint it. His
+father is dead, but la Comtesse de Narbonne, his reputed mother,
+lives, and is still an attendant on Madame Victoire, at Rome. M.
+de Narbonne's wife is likewise with her, and he himself was the
+person fixed on by Mesdames to accompany them when they quitted
+France for Italy.  An infant daughter was left by him at Paris,
+who is still there with some of his family, and whom he expressed
+an earnest wish to. bring over, though the late decree may
+perhaps render his doing so impossible. He has another daughter,
+of six years old, who is with her mother at Rome, and whom he
+told me the pope had condescended to embrace. He mentioned his
+mother once (meaning la Comtesse de Narbonne) with great respect
+and affection.
+
+
+
+         REVOLUTIONARY SOCIETIES IN NORFOLK. DEATH OF MR.
+FRANCIS.
+
+(Fanny Burney to Mrs. Philips.)
+Aylsham, Norfolk, November 27, '92.
+My dearest Susanna's details of the French colony at juniper are
+truly interesting.  I hope I may gather from them that M. de
+Narbonne, at least, has been able to realise some property here.
+I wish much to hear that poor Madame de Broglie has been
+permitted to join her husband.
+
+Who is this M. Malouet(50) who has the singular courage and
+feeling to offer to plead the cause of a fallen monarch in the
+midst of his ferocious accusers? And how ventures M. de Chauvelin
+to transmit such a proposal? I wish your French neighbours could
+give some account of this.  I hear that the son for whom the Duc
+de Liancourt has been trembling, has been reduced to subscribe to
+all jacobin lengths, to save his life, and retain a little
+property.  What seasons are these for dissolving all delicacy of
+internal honour!
+
+I am truly amazed, and half alarmed, to find this county with
+little revolution societies, which transmit their notions of
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+
+things to the larger committee at Norwich, which communicates the
+whole to the reformists of London.  I am told there is scarce a
+village in Norfolk free from these meetings. . . .
+
+My good and brilliant champion in days of old, Mr. Windham, has
+never been in Norfolk since I have entered it. He had a call to
+Bulstrode, to the installation of the Duke of Portland, just as I
+arrived, and he has been engaged there and at Oxford ever since.
+I regret missing him at Holkham: I bad no chance of him anywhere
+else, as I have been so situated, from the melancholy
+circumstances of poor Mr. Francis's illness, that I have been
+unable to make acquaintance where he visits.
+
+(Miss Burney's second visit at Aylsham proved a very mournful
+one.  Soon after her arrival, Mr. Francis, her brother-in-law,
+was seized with an apoplectic fit, which terminated in his death;
+and Miss Burney remained with her widowed sister, soothing and
+assisting her, till the close of the year, when she accompanied
+the bereaved family to London.]
+
+
+
+                    DEPARTURE OF MADAME DE LA CHATRE.
+
+(Mrs. Philips to Fanny Burney.)
+December 16, '92.
+. . .. Everything that is most shocking may, I fear, be expected
+for the unfortunate King of France, his queen, and perhaps all
+that belong to him. M. d'Arblay said it would indeed scarce have
+been possible to hope that M. de Narbonne could have escaped with
+life, had the sauf-conduit requested been granted him, for
+attending as a witness at the king's trial. . . .
+
+M. de Narbonne had heard nothing new from France, but mentioned,
+with great concern, the indiscretion of the king, in having kept
+all his letters since the Revolution; that the papers lately
+discovered in the Tuileries would bring ruin and death on
+hundreds of his friends ; and that almost every one in that
+number "s'y trouvoient compliqu‚s"(51) some way or other. A
+decree of accusation had been lanc‚ against M. Talleyrand, not
+for anything found from himself, but because M. de Laporte, long
+since executed, and from whom, of course, no renseignemens or
+explanations of any kind could
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+
+be gained, had written to the king that l'Eveque d'Autun(52) was
+well disposed to serve him.  Can there be injustice more
+flagrant?
+
+M. Talleyrand, it seems, had proposed returning, and hoped to
+settle his affairs in France in person, but now he must be
+content with life ; and as for his property (save what he may
+chance to have in other countries), he must certainly lose all.
+
+Monday, December 17, In the morning, Mr. and Mrs. Locke called,
+and with them came Madame de la Chƒtre, to take leave.
+
+She now told us, perfectly in confidence, that Madame de Broglie
+had found a friend in the Mayor of Boulogne, that she was lodged
+at his house, and that she could answer for her (Madame de la
+Chƒtre) being received by him as well as she could desire (all
+this must be secret, as this good mayor, if accused of harbouring
+or befriending des ‚migr‚s, would no doubt pay for it with his
+life).  Madame de la Chƒtre said, all her friends who had
+ventured upon writing to her entreated her not to lose the
+present moment to return, as, the three months allowed for the
+return of those excepted in the decree once past, all hope would
+be lost for ever. Madame de Broglie, who is her cousin, was most
+excessively urgent to her to lose not an instant in returning,
+and had declared there would be no danger. Madame de la Chƒtre
+was put in spirits by this account, and the hope of becoming not
+destitute of everything; and I tried to hope without fearing for
+her, and, indeed, most sincerely offer up my petitions for her
+safety.
+
+Heaven prosper her! Her courage and spirits are wonderful. M. de
+Narbonne seemed, however, full of apprehensions for her.  M. de
+Jaucourt seemed to have better hopes ; he, even he, has now
+thoughts of returning, or rather his generosity compels him to
+think of it.  His father has represented to him that his sister's
+fortune must suffer unless he appears in France again - and
+although he had resisted every other consideration, on this he
+has given way.
+
+
+                        ARRIVAL OF M. DE LA CHATRE.
+
+Friday, December 21st, we dined at Norbury Park, and met our
+French friends: M. d'Arblay came in to coffee before the other
+gentlemen.  We had been talking of Madame de la
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+
+Chattre, and conjecturing conjectures about her sposo: we were
+all curious, and all inclined to imagine him old, ugly, proud,
+aristocratic, -a kind of ancient and formal courtier ; so we
+questioned M. d'Arblay, acknowledging our curiosity, and that we
+wished to know, enfin, if M. de la Chƒtre was "digne d'etre ‚poux
+d'une personne si aimable et si charmante que Madame de la
+Chƒtre."(53) He looked very drolly, scarce able to meet our eyes;
+but at last, as he is la franchise mˆme, he answered, "M. de la
+Chƒtre est un bon homme--parfaitement bon homme: au reste, il est
+brusque comme un cheval de carrosse."(54)
+
+We were in the midst of our coffee when St. jean came forward to
+M. de Narbonne, and said somebody wanted to speak to him. He went
+out of the room; in two minutes he returned, followed by a
+gentleman in a great-coat, whom we had never seen, and whom he
+introduced immediately to Mrs. Locke by the name of M. de la
+Chƒtre. The appearance of M. de la Chƒtre was something like a
+coup de th‚atre; for, despite our curiosity, I had no idea we
+should ever see him, thinking that nothing could detach him from
+the service of the French princes.
+
+His abord and behaviour answered extremely well the idea M.
+d'Arblay had given us of him, who in the word brusque rather
+meant unpolished in manners than harsh in character. He is quite
+old enough to be father to Madame de la Chƒtre, and, had he been
+presented to us as such, all our wonder would have been to see so
+little elegance in the parent of such a woman.
+
+After the first introduction was over, he turned his back to the
+fire, and began sans fa‡on, a most confidential discourse with M.
+de Narbonne. They had not met since the beginning of the
+Revolution, and, having been of very different parties, it was
+curious and pleasant to see them now, in their mutual
+misfortunes, meet en bons amis. They rallied each other sur leurs
+disgraces very good-humouredly and comically; and though poor M.
+de la Chƒtre had missed his wife by only one day, and his son by
+a few hours, nothing seemed to give him de phumeur.(55) He gave
+the account of his disastrous journey since he had quitted. the
+princes, who are themselves reduced
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+
+to great distress, and were unable to pay him his arrears: he
+said he could not get a sou from France, nor had done for two
+years. All the money he had, with his papers and clothes, were
+contained in a little box, with which he had embarked in a small
+boat--I could not hear whence : but the weather was tempestuous,
+and he, with nearly all the passengers, landed, and walked to the
+nearest town, leaving his box and two faithful servants (who had
+never, he said, quitted him since he had left France) in the
+boat: he had scarce been an hour at the auberge (56) when news
+was brought that the boat had sunk,
+
+At this, M. de Narbonne threw himself back on his seat,
+exclaiming against the hard fate which pursued all ses malheureux
+amis!(57) "Mais attendez donc," cried the good humoured M. de la
+Chƒtre, "Je n'ai pas encore fini: on nous a assur‚ que personne
+n'a p‚ri et que mˆme tout ce qu'il y avait sur le bƒteau a ‚t‚
+sauv‚!'(58) He said, however, that being now in danger of falling
+into the hands of the French, he dared not stop for his box or
+servants; but, leaving a note of directions behind him, he
+proceeded incognito, and at length got on board a packet-boat for
+England, in which though he found several of his countrymen and
+old acquaintance, he dared not discover himself till they were en
+pleine mer.(59)  He went on gaily enough, laughing at ses amis
+les constitutionnaires,(60) and M. de Narbonne, with much more
+wit, and not less good humour, retorting back his raillery on the
+parti de Brunswick.. . .
+
+M. de la Chƒtre mentioned the quinzaine(61) in which the princes'
+army had been paid up, as the most wretched he had ever known. Of
+22,000 men who formed the army of the emigrants, 16,000 were
+gentlemen,-men of family and fortune: all of whom were now, with
+their families, destitute.  He mentioned two of these who had
+engaged themselves lately in some orchestra, where they played
+first and second flute. The princes, he said, had been twice
+arrested for debt in different places--that they were now so
+reduced that they dined, themselves, the Comte d'Artois,
+children, tutors, etc.--eight or nine persons in all--upon one
+single dish.
+
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+
+              ENGLISH FEELING AT THE REVOLUTIONARY EXCESSES.
+
+(Fanny Burney to Mrs. Locke.)
+Chelsea, December 20, '92.
+..... God keep us all safe and quiet! All now wears a fair
+aspect; but I am told Mr. Windham says we are not yet out of the
+wood though we see the path through it. There must be no
+relaxation. The Pretended friends of the people, pretended or
+misguided, wait but the stilling of the present ferment of
+loyalty to come forth. Mr. Grey has said so in the House. Mr. Fox
+attended the St. George's meeting, after keeping back to the
+last, and was nobody there!
+
+The accounts from France are thrilling. Poor M. d'Arblay's speech
+should be translated, and read to all English imitators of French
+reformers. What a picture of the now reformed! Mr. Burke's
+description of the martyred Duc de la Rochefoucault should be
+read also by all the few really pure promoters of new systems.
+New systems, I fear, in states, are always dangerous, if not
+wicked. Grievance by grievance, wrong by wrong, must only be
+assailed, and breathing time allowed to old prejudices, and old
+habits, between all that is done. . . .
+
+I had fancied the letters brought for the King of France's trial
+were forgeries. One of them, certainly, to M. Bouill‚, had its
+answer dated before it was written. If any have been found,
+others will be added, to serve any evil purposes. Still, however,
+I hope the king and his family will be saved.  I cannot but
+believe it, from all I can put together. If the worst of the
+jacobins hear that Fox has called him an "unfortunate monarch,"-
+-that Sheridan has said "his execution would be an act of
+injustice,"--and Grey, "that we ought to have spared that one
+blast to their glories by earlier negotiation and an
+ambassador,"--surely the worst of these wretches will not risk
+losing their only abettors and palliators in this kingdom? I mean
+publicly; they have privately and individually their abettors and
+palliators in abundance still, wonderful as that is.
+
+I am glad M. d'Arblay has joined the set at "Junipre." What
+miserable work is this duelling, which I hear of among the
+emigrants, after such hair-breadth 'scapes for life and
+existence!--to attack one another on the very spot they seek for
+refuge from attacks! It seems a sort of profanation of safety.
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+
+                          LOUIS XVI.'S EXECUTION.
+
+(Fanny Burney to Dr. Burney.)
+Norbury Park, January 28, '93.
+My dearest padre,-I have been wholly without spirit for writing,
+reading, working, or even walking or conversing, ever since the
+first day of my arrival. The dreadful tragedy(62) acted in France
+has entirely absorbed me. Except the period of the illness of our
+own inestimable king, 1 have never been so overcome with grief
+and dismay, for any but personal and family calamities. O what a
+tragedy! how implacable its villainy, and how severe its sorrows!
+You know, my dearest father, how little I had believed such a
+catastrophe possible: with all the guilt and all the daring
+already shown, I had still thought this a height of enormity
+impracticable. And, indeed, without military law throughout the
+wretched city, it had still not been perpetrated. Good heaven!-
+-what must have been the sufferings of the few unhardened in
+crimes who inhabit that city of horrors!--if I, an English
+person, have been so deeply afflicted, that even this sweet house
+and society--even my Susan and her lovely children--have been
+incapable to give me any species of pleasure, or keep me from a
+desponding low-spiritedness, what must be the feelings of all but
+the culprits in France?
+
+M. de Narbonne and M. d'Arblay have been almost annihilated :
+they are for ever repining that they are French, and, though two
+of the most accomplished and elegant men I ever saw, they break
+our hearts with the humiliation they feel for their guiltless
+birth in that guilty country!
+
+We are all here expecting war every day. This dear family has
+deferred its town journey till next Wednesday.  I have not been
+at all at Mickleham, nor yet settled whether to return to town
+with the Lockes, or to pay my promised visit there first, All has
+been so dismal, so wretched, that I have scarce ceased to regret
+our living at such times, and not either Sooner or later.
+These immediate French sufferers here interest us, and these
+alone have been able to interest me at all.  We hear of a very
+bad tumult in Ireland, and near Captain Phillips's property: Mr.
+Brabazon writes word it is very serious.
+
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+
+Heaven guard us from insurrections! What must be the feelings at
+the queen's house? how acute, and how indignant!
+
+
+                          A GLOOMY CLUB MEETING.
+
+(-Dr. Burney to Fanny Burney and Mrs. Phillips.)
+Chelsea College, January 31, 1793.
+. . . At the Club,(63) on Tuesday, the fullest I ever knew,
+consisting of fifteen members, fourteen seemed all of one mind,
+and full of reflections on the late transaction in France ; but,
+when about half the company was assembled, who should come in but
+Charles Fox! There were already three or four bishops arrived,
+hardly one of whom could look at him, I believe, without horror,
+After the first bow and cold salutation, the conversation stood
+still for several minutes.  During dinner Mr Windham, and Burke,
+jun., came in, who were obliged to sit at a side table. All were
+boutonn‚s,(64) and not a word of the martyred king or politics of
+any kind was mentioned; and though the company was chiefly
+composed of the most eloquent and loquacious men in the kingdom,
+the conversation was the dullest and most uninteresting I ever
+remember at this or any such large meeting. Mr Windham and Fox,
+civil-young Burke and he never spoke.  The Bishop of Peterborough
+as sulky as the d--l; the Bishop of Salisbury, more a man of the
+world, very cheerful; the Bishop of Dromore(65) frightened as
+much as a barn-door fowl at the sight of a fox; Bishop Marlow
+preserved his usual pleasant countenance. Steevens in the chair;
+the Duke of Leeds on his right, and Fox on his left, said not a
+word. Lords Ossory and Lucan, formerly much attached, seemed
+silent and sulky.
+
+
+                     MADAME DE STAEL AT JUNIPER HALL.
+
+(Fanny Burney to Dr. Burney.)
+Norbury Park, Monday, February 4, '93.
+. . . Madame de Stael, daughter of M. Necker, is now at the head
+of the colony of French noblesse, established near
+
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+
+Mickleham. She is one of the first women I have ever met with for
+abilities and extraordinary intellect.  She has just received, by
+a private letter, many particulars not yet made public, and which
+the Commune and Commissaries of the Temple had ordered should be
+suppressed.  It has been exacted by those cautious men of blood
+that nothing should be printed that could attendrir le
+peuple.(66)
+
+Among other circumstances, this letter relates that the poor
+little dauphin supplicated the monsters who came with the decree
+of death to his unhappy father, that they would carry him to the
+Convention, and the forty-eight Sections of Paris, and suffer him
+to beg his father's life.  This touching request was probably
+suggested to him by his miserable mother or aunt....
+
+M. de Narbonne has been quite ill with the grief of this last
+enormity: and M. d'Arblay is now indisposed.  This latter is one
+of the most delightful characters I have ever met, for openness,
+probity, intellectual knowledge, and unhackneyed manners.
+
+
+(Madame de Stael to Fanny BUrney.(67))
+Written from juniper Hall, Dorking, Surrey, 1793.
+When I learned to read English I begun by milton, to know all or
+renounce at all in once.  I follow the same system in writing my
+first English letter to Miss burney; after such an enterprize
+nothing can affright me.  I feel for her so tender a friendship
+that it melts my admiration, inspires my heart with hope of her
+indulgence, and impresses me with the idea that in a tongue even
+unknown I could express sentiments so deeply felt.
+
+my servant will return for a french answer.  I intreat miss
+burney to correct the words but to preserve the sense of that
+card.
+
+best compliments to my dear protectress, Madame Phillipe.
+
+
+(Madame de Stael to Fanny Burney.)
+Your card in french, my dear, has already something of Your grace
+in writing English : it is cecilia translated.  my !. '
+
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+
+only correction is to fill the interruptions of some sentences,
+and I put in them kindnesses for me. I do not consult my master
+to write to you; a fault more or less is nothing in such an
+occasion. What may be the perfect grammar of Mr. Clarke, it
+cannot establish any sort of equality between you and I. then I
+will trust with my heart alone to supply the deficiency. let us
+speak upon a grave subject: do I see you that morning? What news
+from Captain phillip? when do you come spend a large week in that
+house? every question requires an exact answer; a good, also. my
+happiness depends on it, and I have for pledge your honour.
+
+good morrow and farewell.
+
+pray madame phillips, recollecting all her knowledge in french,
+to explain that card to you.
+
+(Madame de Stael to Fanny Burney.)
+January, 1793.
+tell me, my dear, if this day is a charming one, if it must be a
+sweet epoch in my life?--do you come to dine here with your
+lovely sister, and do you stay night and day till our sad
+separation? I rejoice me with that hope during this week do not
+deceive my heart. I hope that card very clear, mais, pour plus de
+certitude, je vous dis en françois que votre chambre, la maison,
+les habitants de juniper, tout est prêt á recevoir la première
+femme d'angleterre.(68) Janvier.
+
+
+
+               MISS BURNEY'S ADMIRATION OF MADAME DE STAEL.
+
+(Fanny Burney to Dr. Burney.)
+Mickleham, February 29, 1793
+Have you not begun, dearest sir, to give me up as a lost sheep?
+Susanna's temporary widowhood, however, has tempted me on, and
+spelled me with a spell I know not how to break. It is long, long
+since we have passed any time so completely together; her three
+lovely children only knit us the closer. The widowhood, however,
+we expect now quickly to expire, and I had projected my return to
+my dearest father
+
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+
+for Wednesday next, which would complete my fortnight here but
+some circumstances are intervening that incline me to postpone it
+another week. Madame de Stal, daughter of M. Necker, and wife of
+the Swedish ambassador to France, is now head of the little
+French colony in this neighbourhood. M. de Stael, her husband, is
+at present suspended in his embassy, but not recalled and it is
+yet uncertain whether the regent Duke of Sudermania will send him
+to Paris, during the present horrible Convention, or order him
+home.  He is now in Holland, waiting for commands.  Madame de
+Stal, however, was unsafe in Paris, though an ambassadress, from
+the resentment owed her by the commune, for having received and
+protected in her house various destined victims of the 10th
+August and of the 2nd September. She was even once stopped in her
+carriage, which they called aristocratic, because of its arms and
+ornaments, and threatened to be murdered, and only saved by one
+of the worst wretches of the Convention, Tallien, who feared
+provoking a war with Sweden, from such an offence to the wife of
+its ambassador.  She was obliged to have this same Tallien to
+accompany her, to save her from massacre, for some miles from
+Paris, when compelled to quit it.
+
+She is a woman of the first abilities, I think, I have ever seen;
+she is more in the style of Mrs. Thrale than of any other
+celebrated character, but she has infinitely more depth, and
+seems an even profound politician and metaphysician. She has
+suffered us to hear some of her works in MS., which are truly
+wonderful, for powers both of thinking and expression. She adores
+her father, but is much alarmed at having had no news from him
+since he has heard of the massacre of the martyred Louis; and who
+can wonder it should have overpowered him?
+
+Ever since her arrival she has been pressing me to spend some
+time with her before I return to town. She wanted Susan and me to
+pass a month with her, but, finding that impossible, she bestowed
+all her entreaties upon me alone, and they are grown so urgent,
+upon my preparation for departing, and acquainting her my
+furlough of absence was over, that she not only insisted upon my
+writing to you, and telling why I deferred my return, but
+declares she will also write herself, to ask your permission for
+the visit. She exactly resembles Mrs. Thrale in the ardour and
+warmth of her temper and partialities. I find her impossible to
+resist, and therefore, if your answer to
+Page 48
+
+her is such as I conclude it must be, I shall wait upon her for a
+week.  She is only a short walk from hence, at juniper Hall.
+
+
+                            FAILING RESOURCES.
+
+There can be nothing imagined more charming, more fascinating,
+than this colony ; between their sufferings and their argr‚mens
+they occupy us almost wholly. M. de Narbonne,
+alas, has no thousand pounds a year! he got over only four
+thousand pounds at the beginning, from a most splendid fortune;
+and, little foreseeing how all has turned out, he has lived, we
+fear, upon the principal ; for he says, if all remittance is
+withdrawn, on account of the war, he shall soon be as ruined as
+those companions of his misfortunes with whom as yet he has
+shared his little all. He bears the highest character for
+goodness, parts, sweetness of manners, and ready wit. You could
+not keep your heart from him if you saw him only for . half an
+hour. He has not yet recovered from the black blow of the king's
+death, but he is better, and less jaundiced ; and he has had a
+letter which, I hear, has comforted him, though at first it was
+almost heart-breaking, informing him of the unabated regard for
+him of the truly saint-like Louis. This is communicated in a
+letter from M. de Malesherbes.(69)
+
+                         THE BEGINNING OF THE END.
+
+M. d'Arblay is one of the most singularly interesting characters
+that can ever have been formed.  He has a sincerity, a frankness,
+an ingenuous openness of nature, that I had been unjust enough to
+think could not belong to a Frenchman. With all this, which is
+his military portion, he is passionately fond of literature, a
+most delicate critic in his own language, welt versed in both
+Italian and German, and a very elegant
+
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+
+poet. He has just undertaken to become my French master for
+pronunciation, and he gives me long daily lessons in reading.
+Pray expect wonderful improvements!  In return, I hear him in
+English; and for his theme, this evening he has been writing an
+English address "… Mr. Burney," (ie. M. le Docteur), joining in
+Madame de Stael's request.
+
+I hope your last club was more congenial?  M. de Talleyrand
+insists on conveying this letter for you.  He has been on a visit
+here, and returns again on Wednesday. He is a man of admirable
+conversation, quick, terse, fin, and yet deep, to the extreme of
+those four words.  They are a marvellous set for excess of
+agreeability.
+
+
+
+
+                   "THIS ENCHANTING MONSIEUR D'ARBLAY."
+
+(Fanny Burney to Mrs. Locke.)
+Mickleham.
+Your kind letter, my beloved Fredy, was most thankfully received,
+and we rejoice the house and situation promise so much local
+comfort; but I quite fear with you that even the bas bleu will
+not recompense the loss of the "Junipre" society. It is, indeed,
+of incontestable superiority.  But you must burn this confession,
+or my poor effigy will blaze for it. I must tell you a little of
+our proceedings, as they all relate to these people of a
+thousand.
+
+M. d'Arblay came from the melancholy sight of departing Norbury
+to Mickleham, and with an air the most triste, and a sound of
+voice quite dejected, as I learn from Susanna for I was in my
+heroics, and could not appear till the last half hour. A headache
+prevented my waiting upon Madame de Stal that day, and obliged me
+to retreat soon after nine o'clock in the evening, and my douce
+compagne would not let me retreat alone. We had only robed
+ourselves in looser drapery, when a violent ringing at the door
+startled us; we listened, and heard the voice of M. d'Arblay, and
+Jerry answering, "They're gone to bed." "Comment? What?" cried
+he: "C'est impossible! what you say?"  Jerry then, to show his
+new education in this new colony, said "All‚e couch‚e!" It rained
+furiously, and we were quite grieved, but there was no help. He
+left a book for "Mlle. Burnet," and word that Madame de Stael
+could not come on account of the bad weather. M. Ferdinand was
+with him and has bewailed the disaster
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+
+and M. Sicard says he accompanied them till he was quite wet
+through his redingote; but this enchanting M. d'Arblay will
+murmur at nothing.
+
+The next day they all came, just as we had dined, for a morning
+visit,--Madame de Stael, M. Talleyrand, M. Sicard, and M.
+d'Arblay; the latter then made "insistance" upon commencing my
+"master of the language," and I think he will be almost as good a
+one as the little don.(70)
+
+M. de Talleyrand opened, at last, with infinite wit and capacity.
+ Madame de Stael whispered me, "How do you like him?" "Not very
+much," I answered, "but I do not know him." "Oh, I assure you,"
+cried she, "he is the best of the men."
+
+I was happy not to agree ; but I have no time for such minute
+detail till we meet. She read the noble tragedy of
+"TancrŠde,"(71) till she blinded us all round.  She is the most
+charming person, to use her own phrase, "that never I saw." . .
+
+We called yesterday upon Madame de Stael, and sat with her until
+three o'clock, only the little don being present. She was
+delightful; yet I see much uneasiness hanging over the whole
+party, from the terror that the war may stop all remittances.
+Heaven forbid!
+
+
+                       TALLEYRAND IS FOUND CHARMING.
+
+(Fanny Burney to Mrs locke.)
+Thursday, Mickleham.
+I have no heart not to write, and no time to write. I have been
+scholaring all day, and mastering too : for our lessons are
+mutual, and more entertaining than can easily be conceived. My
+master of the language says he dreams of how much more solemnly
+he shall write to charming Mrs. Locke after a little more
+practice. Madame de Stael has written me two English notes, quite
+beautiful in ideas, and not very reprehensible in idiom.  But
+English has nothing to do with elegance such as theirs--at least,
+little and rarely.  I am always exposing myself to the wrath of
+John Bull, when this c“terie come in competition; It is
+inconceivable what a convert M. de Talleyrand has made of me; I
+think him now one of the first members, and one of the most
+charming, of this exquisite set: Susanna    is as completely a
+proselyte,
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+
+His powers of entertainment are astonishing, both in information
+and in raillery. We know nothing of how the rest of the world
+goes on. They are all coming to-night. I have yet avoided, but
+with extreme difficulty, the change of abode. Madame de Stael,
+however, will not easily be parried, and how I may finally
+arrange I know not. Certainly I will not offend or hurt her, but
+otherwise I had rather be a visitor than a guest
+
+Pray tell Mr. Locke that " the best of the men " grows upon us at
+every meeting. We dined and stayed till midnight at "junipre" on
+Tuesday, and I would I could recollect but the twentieth part of
+the excellent things that were said. Madame de Stael read us the
+opening of her work "Sur le Bonheur:" it seems to me admirable.
+M. de Talleyrand avowed he had met with nothing better thought or
+more ably expressed; it contains the most touching allusions to
+their country's calamities.
+
+
+            A PROPOSED VISIT TO MADAME DE STAEL DISAPPROVED OF.
+
+
+(Doctor Burney to Fanny Burney.)
+Chelsea College, February 19, 1793.
+Why, Fanny, what are you about, and where are you? I shall write
+at you, not knowing how to write to you, as Swift did to the
+flying and romantic Lord Peterborough. I had written the above,
+after a yesterday's glimmering and a feverish night as usual,
+when behold! a letter of requisition for a further furlough! I
+had long histories ready for narration de vive voix, but my time
+is too short and my eyes and head too -weak for much writing this
+morning. I am not at all surprised at your account of the
+captivating powers of Madame de Stael. It corresponds with all I
+had heard about her, and with the opinion I formed of her
+intellectual and literary powers, in reading her charming little
+"Apologie de Rousseau." But as nothing human is allowed to be
+perfect, she has not escaped censure.  Her house was the centre
+of revolutionists Previous to the 10th of August, after her
+father's departure, and she has been accused of partiality to M.
+de N.(72) But Perhaps all may be jacobinical malignity.  However,
+unfavourable stories of her have been brought hither, and the
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+
+Burkes and Mrs. Ord have repeated them to me. But you know that
+M. Necker's administration, and the conduct of the nobles who
+first joined in the violent measures that subverted the ancient
+establishments by the abolition of nobility and the ruin of the
+church, during the first National Assembly, are held in greater
+horror by aristocrats than even the members of the present
+Convention. I know this will make you feel uncomfortable, but it
+seemed to me right to hint it to You. If you are not absolutely
+in the house of Madame do Stael when this arrives, it would
+perhaps be possible for you to waive the visit to her, by a
+compromise, of having something to do for Susy, and so make the
+addendum to your stay under her roof. . .
+
+(Fanny Burney to Dr. Burney.)
+Mickleham, February 22, '03,
+What a kind letter is my dearest father's, and how kindly speedy
+! yet it is too true it has given me very uncomfortable feelings.
+ I am both hurt and astonished at the acrimony of malice; indeed,
+I believe all this Party to merit nothing but honour, compassion,
+and praise. Madame de Stael, the daughter of M. Necker--the
+idolising daughter--of course, and even from the best principles,
+those of filial reverence, entered into the opening of the
+Revolution just as her father entered into it; but as to her
+house having become the centre of revolutionists before the 10th
+of August, it was so only for the constitutionalists, who, at
+that period, were not only members of the then established
+government, but the decided friends of the king. The aristocrats
+were then already banished, or wanderers from fear, or concealed
+and silent from cowardice; and the jacobins --I need not, after
+what I have already related, mention how utterly abhorrent to her
+must be that fiend-like set. The aristocrats, however, as you
+well observe, and as she has herself told me, hold the
+constitutionalists in greater horror than the Convention itself.
+This, however, is a violence against justice which cannot, I
+hope, be lasting ; and the malignant assertions which persecute
+her, all of which she has lamented to us, she imputes equally to
+the bad and virulent of both these parties. The intimation
+concerning M. de N. was, however, wholly
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+
+new to us, and I do firmly believe it a gross calumny. M. de N.
+was of her society, which contained ten or twelve of the first
+people in Paris, and, occasionally, almost all Paris ! she loves
+him even tenderly, but so openly, so simply, so unaffectedly, and
+with such utter freedom from all coquetry, that, if they were two
+men, or two women, the affection could not, I think, be more
+obviously undesi,gning. She is very plain, he is very handsome ;
+her intellectual endowments must be with him her sole attraction.
+M. de Talleyrand was another of her society, and she seems
+equally attached to him. M. le Viscomte de Montmorenci she loves,
+she says, as her brother: he is another of this bright
+constellation, and esteemed of excellent capacity.  She says, if
+she continues in England he will certainly come, for he loves her
+too well to stay away.  In short, her whole coterie live together
+as brethren. Madame la Marquise de la Chƒtre, who has lately
+returned to France, to endeavour to obtain de quoi vivre en
+Angleterre,(73) and who had been of this colony for two or three
+months since the 10th of August, Is a bosom friend of Madame de
+Stael and of all this circle : she is reckoned a very estimable
+as well as fashionable woman ; and a daughter of the unhappy
+Montmorin, who was killed on the 1st of September(74) is another
+of this set.  Indeed, I think you could not spend a day with them
+and not see that their commerce is that of pure, but exalted and
+most elegant, friendship.
+
+I would, nevertheless, give the world to avoid being a guest
+under their roof, now I have heard even the shadow of such a
+rumour; and I will, if it be possible without hurting or
+of-fending them. I have waived and waived acceptance almost from
+the moment of Madame de Stael's arrival.  I prevailed with her to
+let my letter go alone to you, and I have told her, with regard
+to your answer, that you were sensible of the honour her kindness
+did me, and could not refuse to her request the week's furlough ;
+and then followed reasons for the Compromise you pointed out, too
+diffuse for writing.  As Yet they have succeeded, though she is
+surprised and disappointed.  She wants us to study French and
+English together, and nothing could to me be more desirable, but
+for this invidious report.
+
+M. d'Arblay as well as M. de Narbonne, sent over a declaration in
+favour of the poor king.  M. d'A. had been the
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+
+commandant at Longwy, and had been named to that post by the king
+himself In the accusation of the infernals, as Mr. Young justly
+calls them, the king is accused of leaving Longwy undefended, and
+a prey to the Prussians. M. d'Arblay, who before that period had
+been promoted into the regiment of M. de Narbonne, and thence
+summoned to be adjutant-general of Lafayette, wrote therefore, on
+this charge, to M. de Malesherbes, and told him that the charge
+was utterly false . that the king had taken every precaution for
+the proper preservation of Longwy, and that M. d'Arblay, the
+king's commandant, had himself received a letter of thanks and
+approbation from Duniouriez, who said, nothing would have been
+lost had every commandant taken equal pains, and exerted equal
+bravery. This original letter M. d'Arblay sent to M. Malesherbes,
+not as a vindication of himself, for he had been summoned from
+Longwy before the Prussians assailed it, but as a vindication of
+the officer appointed by the king, while he had yet the command.
+M. de Malesherbes wrote an answer of thanks, and said he should
+certainly make use of this information in the defence, However,
+the fear of Dumouriez, I suppose, prevented his being named. M.
+d'Arblay, in quitting France with Lafayette, upon the deposition
+of the king, had only a little ready money in his pocket, and he
+has been d‚cr‚(75) I since, and all he was worth in the world is
+sold and seized by the Convention. M. de Narbonne loves him as
+the tenderest of brothers, and, while one has a guinea in the
+world, the other will have half.  "Ah!" cried M. d'Arblay, upon
+the murder of the king, which almost annihilated him, "I know not
+how those can exist who have any feelings of remorse, when I
+scarce can endure my life, from the simple feeling of regret that
+ever I pronounced the word liberty in France!"
+
+
+                   M. DE LALLY TOLENDAL AND HIS TRAGEDY.
+
+(Mrs. Phillips to Mrs. Locke.)
+Mickleham, April 2, 1793.
+....I must, however, say something of juniper, whence I had an
+irresistible invitation to dine, etc., yesterday, and
+
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+
+M. de Lally Tolendal(76) read his "Mort de Strafford," which he
+had already recited once, and which Madame do Stael requested him
+to repeat for my sake.
+
+I had a great curiosity to see M. de Lally.  I cannot say that
+feeling was gratified by the sight of him, though it was
+satisfied, insomuch that it has left me without any great anxiety
+to see him again.  He is the very reverse of all that my
+imagination had led me to expect in him: large, fat, with a great
+head, small nose, immense cheeks, nothing distingu‚ in his manner
+and en fait d'esprit, and of talents in conversation, so far, so
+very far, distant from our juniperians, and from M. de
+Talleyrand, who was there, as I could not have conceived, his
+abilities as a writer and his general reputation considered. He
+seems un bon gar‡on, un trŠs honnˆte gar‡on, as M. Talleyrand
+says of him, et non de plus.(77)
+
+He is extremely absorbed by his tragedy, which he recites by
+heart, acting as well as declaiming with great energy, though
+seated, as Le Texier is. He seemed, previous to the performance,
+occupied completely by It, except while the dinner lasted, which
+he did not neglect; but he was continually reciting to himself
+till we sat down to table, and afterwards between the courses.
+
+M. Talleyrand seemed much struck with his piece, which appears to
+me to have very fine lines and passages in it, but which,
+altogether, interested me but little.  I confess, indeed, the
+violence of ses gestes, and the alternate howling and thundering
+of his voice in declaiming, fatigued me excessively. If our Fanny
+had been present, I am afraid I should many times have been
+affected as one does not expect to be at a tragedy. We sat down
+at seven to dinner, and had half finished before M. d'Arblay
+appeared, though repeatedly sent for; he was profoundly grave and
+silent, and disappeared after the dinner, which was very gay. He
+was sent for, after coffee and Norbury were gone, several times,
+that the tragedy might be begun; and . at last Madame de S.
+impatiently proposed beginning without him. "Mais cela lui fera
+de la peine,"(78) said M. d'Autun (Talleyrand), good-naturedly;
+and, as she
+
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+
+persisted, he rose up and limped out of the room to fetch him he
+succeeded in bringing him.
+
+M Malouet has left them. La Princesse d'Henin is a very pleasing,
+well-bred woman: she left juniper the next morning with M. de
+Lally.
+
+
+               CONTEMPLATED DisPERSION OF THE FRENCH COLONY.
+
+(Mrs. Phillips to Fanny Burney)
+Mickleham, April 3.
+After I had sent off my letter to you on Monday I walked on to
+juniper, and entered at the same moment with Mr. jenkinson(79)
+and his attorney--a man whose figure strongly resembles some of
+Hogarth's most ill-looking, personages, and who appeared to me to
+be brought as a kind of spy, or witness of all that was passing.
+I would have retreated, fearing to interrupt business, but I was
+surrounded, and pressed to stay, by Madame de Stael with great
+empressement, and with much kindness by M. d'Arblay and all the
+rest. Mr. Clarke was the spokesman, and acquitted himself with
+great dignity and moderation; Madame de S. now and then came
+forth with a little coquetterie pour adoucir ce sauvage
+jenkinson.(80)  "What will you, Mr. jenkinson? tell to me, what
+will you?"  M. de Narbonne, somewhat indign‚ de la mauvaise foi,
+and exc‚d‚ des longueurs de son adversaire, (81) was not quite so
+gentle with him, and I was glad to perceive that he meant to
+resist, in some degree at least, the exorbitant demands of his
+landlord.
+
+Madame de Stael was very gay, and M. de Talleyrand very comique,
+this evening ; he criticised, amongst other things, her reading
+of prose, with great sang froid. . . . They talked over a number
+of their friends and acquaintances with the utmost unreserve, and
+sometimes with the most comic humour imaginable,--M. de Lally, M.
+de Lafayette, la Princesse d'Henin, la Princesse de Poix, a M.
+Guibert, an author. and one who was, Madame de Stael told me,
+passionately in love with her before she married; and innumerable
+others.
+
+M. d'Arblay had been employed almost night and day since
+
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+
+he came from London in Writing a m‚moire, which Mr Villiers had
+wished to have, upon the 'Artillerie … Cheval,' and he had not
+concluded it till this morning.
+
+(Mrs. Philips to Fanny Burney.)
+Tuesday, May 14.
+Trusting to the kindness of chance, I begin in at the top of my
+paper.  Our Juniperians went to see Paine's hill yesterday, and
+had the good-nature to take my little happy Norbury. In the
+evening came Miss F- to show me a circular letter, sent by the
+Archbishop of Canterbury to all the parishes in England,
+authorising the ministers of those parishes to raise a
+subscription for the unfortunate French clergy.  She talked of
+our neighbours, and very shortly and abruptly said, "So, Mrs.
+Phillips, we hear you are to have Mr.  Norbone and the other
+French company to live with you--Pray is it so?"
+
+I was, I confess, a little startled at this plain inquiry, but
+answered as composedly as I could, setting out with informing
+this bˆte personnage that Madame de Stael was going to
+Switzerland to join her husband and family in a few days, and
+that of all the French company none would remain but M. de
+Narbonne and M. d'Arblay, for whom the captain and myself
+entertained a real friendship and esteem, and whom he had begged
+to make our house their own for a short time, as the impositions
+they had had to support from their servants, etc., and the
+failure of their remittances from abroad, had obliged them to
+resolve on breaking up housekeeping.
+
+I had scarcely said thus much when our party arrived from Paine's
+hill; the young lady, though she had drunk tea, was so obliging
+as to give us her company for near two hours, and made a curious
+attack on M. de N., upon the first pause, in wretched French,
+though we had before, all of us, talked no other language than
+English:--"Je vous prie, M. Gnawbone, comment se porte la
+reine?"(82)
+
+Her pronunciation was such that I thought his understanding her
+miraculous : however, he did guess her meaning, and answered,
+with all his accustomed douceur and politeness, that he hoped
+well, but had no means but general ones of information.
+
+"I believe," said she afterwards, "nobody was so hurt at
+
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+
+the king's death as my papa! he couldn't ride on horseback next
+day!"
+
+She then told M. de Narbonne some anecdotes (very new to him, no
+doubt), which she had read in the newspapers, of the Convention;
+and then spoke of M. Egalit‚.  "I hope," said she, flinging her
+arms out with great violence, "he'll come to be gullytined. He
+showed the king how he liked to be gullytined, so now I hope
+he'll be gullytined himself!--So shocking! to give his vote
+against his own nephew!"
+
+If the subject of her vehemence and blunders had been less just
+or less melancholy, I know not how I should have kept my face in
+order.
+
+Our evening was very pleasant when she was gone, Madame de Stael
+is, with all her wildness and blemishes, a delightful companion,
+and M. de N. rises upon me in esteem and affection every time I
+see him: their minds in some points ought to be exchanged, for he
+is as delicate as a really feminine woman, and evidently suffers
+when he sees her setting les biens‚ances(83) aside, as it often
+enough befalls her to do.
+
+Poor Madame de Stael has been greatly disappointed and hurt by
+the failure of the friendship and intercourse she had wished to
+maintain with you,--of that I am sure; I fear, too, she is on the
+point of being offended. I am not likely to be her confidant if
+she is so, and only judge from the nature of things, and from her
+character, and a kind of d‚pit(84) in her manner once or twice in
+speaking of you. She asked me If you would accompany Mrs. Locke
+back into the country? I answered that my father would not wish
+to lose you for so long a time at once, as you had been absent
+from him as a nurse so many days.
+
+After a little pause, "Mais est-ce qu'une femme est en tutelle
+pour la vie dans ce pays?" she said. "Il me paroit que votre
+soeur est comme une demoiselle de quatorze ans."(85)  I did not
+oppose this idea, but enlarged rather on the constraints laid
+upon females, some very unnecessarily, in England,--hoping to
+lessen her d‚pit; it continued, however, visible in her
+countenance, though she did not express it in words.
+
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+
+[The frequency and intimacy with which Miss Burney and
+M. d'Arblay now met, ripened into attachment the high esteem
+which each felt for the other; and, after many struggles and
+scruples, occasioned by his reduced circumstances and clouded
+prospects, M. d'Arblay wrote her an offer of his hand ; candidly
+acknowledging, however, the slight hope he entertained of ever
+recovering the fortune he had lost by the Revolution.
+
+At this time Miss Burney went to Chesington for a short period;
+probably hoping that the extreme quiet of that place would assist
+her deliberations, and tranquillise her mind during her present
+perplexities.]
+
+
+             MADAME DE STAEL'S WORDS OF FAREWELL. M. D'ARBLAY.
+
+(Mrs. Philips to Fanny Burney at Chesington.)
+
+Sunday, after church, I walked up to Norbury; there unexpectedly
+I met all our juniperians, and listened to one of the best
+conversations I ever heard : it was on literary topics, and the
+chief speakers Madame de Stael, M. de Talleyrand, Mr. Locke, and
+M. Dumont, a gentleman on a visit of two days at juniper, a
+Genevois, homme d'esprit et de lettres. I had not a word beyond
+the first " how d'yes " with any one, being obliged to run home
+to my abominable dinner in the midst of the discourse.
+
+On Monday I went, by invitation, to juniper to dine, and before I
+came away at night a letter arrived express to Madame de Stael.
+On reading it, the change in her countenance made me guess the
+contents, It was from the Swedish gentleman who had been
+appointed by her husband to meet her at Ostend; he wrote from
+that place that he was awaiting her arrival.  She had designed
+walking home with us by moonlight, but her spirits were too much
+oppressed to enable her to keep this intention. M. d'Arblay
+walked home with Phillips and me. Every moment of his time has
+been given of late to transcribing a MS. work of Madame de Stael,
+on 'L'Influence des Passions.' It is a work of considerable
+length, and written in a hand the most difficult possible to
+decipher.
+
+On Tuesday we all met again at Norbury, where we spent the day.
+Madame de Stael could not rally her spirits at all,
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+
+and seemed like one torn from all that was dear to her. I was
+truly concerned.  After giving me a variety of charges, or rather
+entreaties, to watch and attend to the health, spirits, and
+affairs of the friends she was leaving, she said to me, "Et dŒtes
+… Mlle. Burney que je ne lui en veux pas du tout--que je quitte
+le pays l'aimant bien sincŠrement et sans rancune."(86)
+
+I assured her earnestly, and with more words than I have room to
+insert, not only of your admiration, but affection, and
+sensibility of her worth and chagrin at seeing no more of her. I
+hope I exceeded not your wishes; mais il n'y avoit pas moyen de
+resister.(87)
+
+She seemed pleased, and said, "Vous ˆtes bien bonne de me dire
+cela,"(88) but in a low and faint voice, and dropped the subject.
+
+Before we took leave, M. d'Arblay was already gone, meaning to
+finish transcribing her MS. I came home with Madame de Stael and
+M. de Narbonne. The former actually sobbed in saying farewell to
+Mrs. Locke, and half way down the hill; her parting from me was
+likewise very tender and flattering.
+
+I determined, however, to see her again, and met her near the
+school, on Wednesday morning with a short note and a little
+offering which I was irresistibly tempted to make her. She could
+not speak to me, but kissed her hand with a very speaking and
+touching expression of countenance.
+
+it was this morning, and just as I was setting out to meet her,
+that Skilton arrived from Chesington.  I wrote a little, walked
+out, and returned to finish as I could.
+
+At dinner came our Tio--(89) very bad indeed. After it we walked
+together with the children to Norbury; but little Fanny was so
+well pleased with his society that it was impossible to get a
+word on any particular subject.  I, however, upon his venturing
+to question me whereabouts was the
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+
+campagne o– se trouvoit Mlle. Burney,(90) ventured de mon
+c“t‚(91) to speak the name of Chesington, and give a little
+account of its inhabitants, the early love we had for the spot,
+our excellent Mr. Crisp, and your good and kind hostesses. He
+listened with much interest and pleasure, and said,
+"Mais, ne pourroit-on pas faire ce petit voyage-l…?"(92)
+
+I ventured to say nothing encouraging, at least, decisively, in a
+great measure upon the children's account, lest they should
+repeat; and, moreover, your little namesake seemed to me
+surprisingly attentive and ‚veill‚e, as if elle se doutoit de
+quelque chose.(93)
+
+When we came home I gave our Tio so paper to write to you; it was
+not possible for me to add more than the address, much as I
+wished it.
+
+
+                    REGRETS RESPECTING MADAME DE STAEL.
+
+(Fanny Burney to Mrs. -Locke.)
+Chesington, 1793.
+I have been quite enchanted to-day by my dear Susan's
+intelligence that my three convalescents walked to the wood.
+Would I had been there to meet and receive them. I have regretted
+excessively the finishing so miserably an acquaintance begun with
+so much spirit and pleasure, and the d‚pit I fear Madame de Stael
+must have experienced. I wish the world would take more care of
+itself, and less of its neighbours.  I should have heen very
+safe, I trust, without such flights, and distances, and breaches.
+But there seemed an absolute resolution formed to crush this
+acquaintance, and compel me to appear its wilful renouncer. All I
+did also to clear the matter, and soften to Madame de Stael any
+pique or displeasure, unfortunately served only to increase them.
+Had I understood her disposition better, I should certainly have
+attempted no palliation, for I rather offended her pride than
+mollified her wrath. Yet I followed the golden rule, for how much
+should I prefer any acknowledgment of regret at such an apparent
+change, from any one I esteemed, to a seeming
+
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+
+unconscious complacency in an unexplained caprice! I am vexed,
+however, very much vexed, at the whole business.  I hope she left
+Norbury Park with full satisfaction in its steady and more
+comfortable connection. I fear mine will pass for only a
+fashionable one.
+
+Miss Kitty Cooke still amuses me very much by her incomparable
+dialect; and by her kindness and friendliness. I am taken the
+best care of imaginable. My poor brother, who will carry this to
+Mickleham, is grievously altered by the loss of his little girl.
+It has affected his spirits and his health, and he is grown so
+thin and meagre, that he looks ten years older than when I saw
+him last. I hope he will now revive, since the blow is over; but
+it has been a very, very hard one, after such earnest pains to
+escape it.                                   ..
+
+Did the wood look very beautiful? I have figured it to myself
+with the three dear convalescents wandering in its winding paths,
+and inhaling its freshness and salubrity, ever since I heard of
+this walk. I wanted prodigiously to have issued forth from some
+little green recess, to have hailed your return. I hope Mr. Locke
+had the pleasure of this sight. Is jenny capable of such a
+mounting journey?
+
+Do you know anything of a certain young lady, who eludes all my
+inquiries, famous for having eight sisters, all of uncommon
+talents? I had formerly some intercourse with her, and she used
+to promise she would renew it whenever I pleased but whether she
+is offended that I have slighted her offers so long, or whether
+she is fickle, or only whimsical, I know not all that is quite
+undoubted is that she has concealed herself so effectually from
+my researches, that I might as well look for justice and clemency
+in the French Convention, as for this former friend in the plains
+and lanes of Chesington where, erst, she met me whether I would
+or no.
+
+
+                    M. D'ARBLAY'S VISIT TO CHESINGTON.
+
+(Fanny Burney to Mrs. Locke.)
+Chesington, 1793.
+How sweet to me was my dearest Fredy's assurance that my
+gratification and prudence went at last hand in hand! I had
+longed for the sight of her writing, and not dared wish it.
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+
+I shall now long Impatiently till I can have the pleasure of
+saying "Ma'am, I desire no more of your letters."
+
+I have heard to-day all I can most covet of all my dear late
+malades. I take it for granted this little visit was made known
+to my dearest sister confidant.  I had prepared for it from the
+time of my own expectation, and I have had much amusement in what
+the preparation produced. Mrs Hamilton ordered half a ham to be
+boiled ready; and Miss Kitty trimmed up her best cap, and tried
+it on, on Saturday, to get it in shape to her face. She made
+chocolate also, which we drank up on Monday and Tuesday, because
+it was spoiling. "I have never seen none of the French quality,"
+she says, "and I have a purdigious curosity; though as to dukes
+and dukes' sons, and these high top captains, I know they'll
+think me a mere country bumpkin. Howsever, they can't call me
+worse than 'Fat Kit Square,' and that's the worst name I ever got
+from any of our English petite bears, which I suppose these
+petite French quality never heard the like of."
+
+Unfortunately, however, when all was prepared above, the French
+top captain entered while poor Miss Kitty was in dishabill, and
+Mrs. Hamilton finishing washing up her china from breakfast. A
+maid who was out at the pump, and first saw the arrival, ran in
+to give Miss Kitty time to escape, for she was in her round dress
+night-cap, and without her roll and curls. However, he followed
+too quick, and Mrs. Hamilton was seen in her linen gown and mob,
+though she had put on a silk one in expectation for every noon
+these four or five days past; and Miss Kitty was in such
+confusion, she hurried out of the room. She soon, however,
+returned with the roll and curls, and the forehead and throat
+fashionably lost, in a silk gown. And though she had not intended
+to speak a word, the gentle quietness of her guest so surprised
+and pleased her, that she never quitted his side while he stayed,
+and has sung his praises ever since.
+
+Mrs. Hamilton, good soul ! in talking and inquiring since of his
+history and conduct, shed tears at the recital.  She says now
+she, has really seen one of the French gentry that has been drove
+out of their country by the villains she has heard Of, she shall
+begin to believe there really has been a Revolution! and Miss
+Kitty says, "I purtest I did not know before but it was all a
+sham."
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+                  THE MATRIMONIAL PROJECT IS DISCUSSED.
+
+(Fanny Burney to Mrs. Phillips.)
+Friday, May 31,   Chesington.
+My heart so smites me this morning with making no answer to all I
+have been requested to weigh and decide, that I feel I cannot
+with any ease return to town without at least complying with one
+demand, which first, at parting yesterday, brought me to write
+fully to you, my Susan, if I could not elsewhere to my
+satisfaction.
+
+in the course of last night and this morning Much indeed has
+occurred to me, that now renders my longer silence as to
+prospects and proceedings unjustifiable to myself.  I will
+therefore now address myself to both my beloved confidants, and
+open to them all my thoughts, and entreat their own with equal
+plainness in return.
+
+M.  d'Arblay's last three letters convince me he is desperately
+dejected when alone, and when perfectly natural. It is not that
+he wants patience, but he wants rational expectation of better
+times, expectation founded on something more than mere aerial
+hope, that builds one day upon what the next blasts; and then has
+to build again, and again to be blasted.
+
+What affects me the most in this situation is, that his time may
+as completely be lost as another's peace, by waiting for the
+effects of distant events, vague, bewildering, and remote, and
+quite as likely to lead to ill as to good. The very waiting,
+indeed, with the mind in such a state, is in itself an evil
+scarce to be recompensed. . . .
+
+My dearest Fredy, in the beginning of her knowledge of this
+transaction, told me that Mr. Locke was of opinion that one
+hundred pounds per annum(94) might do, as it does for many a
+curate. M. d'A. also most solemnly and affectingly declares that
+le simple n‚cessaire is all he requires and here, In your
+vicinity, would unhesitatingly be preferred by him to the most
+brilliant fortune in another s‚jour.  If he can say that, what
+must I be not to echo it? I, who in the bosom of my own most
+chosen, most darling friends---
+
+I need not enter more upon this; you all must know
+to me a crust of bread, with a little roof for shelter, and a
+fire
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+
+for warmth, near you, would bring me to peace, to happiness, to
+all that My heart holds dear, or even in any situation could
+prize.  I cannot picture such a fate with dry eyes ; all else but
+kindness and society has to me so always been nothing.
+
+With regard to my dear father, he has always left me to myself; I
+will not therefore speak to him while thus uncertain what to
+decide.
+
+it is certain, however, that, with peace of mind and retirement,
+I have resources that I could bring forward to amend the little
+situation ; as well as that, once thus undoubtedly established
+and naturalised, M. d'A. would have claims for employment.
+
+These reflections, with a mutual freedom from ambition might lead
+to a quiet road, unbroken by the tortures of applications,
+expectations, attendance, disappointment, and time-wasting hopes
+and fears; if there were not apprehensions the one hundred pounds
+might be withdrawn. I do not think it likely, but it is a risk
+too serious in its consequences to be run. M. d'A. protests he
+could not answer to himself the hazard.
+
+How to ascertain this, to clear the doubt, or to know the fatal
+certainty before it should be too late, exceeds my powers of
+suggestion.  His own idea, to write to the queen, much as it has
+startled me, and wild as it seemed to me, is certainly less wild
+than to take the chance of such a blow in the dark.  Yet such a
+letter could not even reach her.                 His very name is
+probably only known to her through myself. In short, my dearest
+friends, you will think for me, and let me know what occurs to
+you, and I will defer any answer till I hear your opinions.
+Heaven ever bless you! And pray for me at this moment.
+
+
+                  DR. BURNEY'S OBJECTIONS TO THE MATCH.
+
+(Dr. Burney to Fanny Burney.)
+May, 1793,
+Dear Fanny,-I have for some time seen very plainly that you are
+‚prise, and have been extremely uneasy at the discovery. YOU must
+have observed my silent gravity, surpassing that of mere illness
+and its consequent low spirits.  I had some thoughts of writing
+to Susan about it, and intended begging her to do what I must now
+do for myself--that is, beg and admonish you not to entangle
+yourself in a wild and
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+
+romantic attachment, which offers nothing in prospect but poverty
+and distress, with future inconvenience and unhappiness.  M.
+d'Arblay is certainly a very amiable and accomplished man, and of
+great military abilities I take for granted ; but what employment
+has he for them of which the success is not extremely hazardous?
+His property, whatever it was, has been confiscated--d‚cr‚--by
+the Convention - and if a counter-revolution takes place, unless
+it be exactly such a one as suits the particular political sect
+in which he enlisted, it does not seem likely to secure to him an
+establishment in France. And as to an establishment in England, I
+know the difficulty which very deserving natives find in
+procuring one, with every appearance of interest, friends, and
+probability; and, to a foreigner, I fear the difficulty will be
+more than doubled.
+
+As M. d'Arblay is at present circumstanced, an alliance with
+anything but a fortune sufficient for the support of himself and
+partner would be very imprudent. He is a mere soldier of fortune,
+under great disadvantages. Your income, if it was as certain as a
+freehold estate, is insufficient for the purpose ; and if the
+queen should be displeased and withdraw her allowance, what could
+you do?
+
+I own that, if M. d'Arblay had an establishment in France
+sufficient for him to marry a wife with little or no fortune,
+much as I am inclined to honour and esteem him, I should wish to
+prevent you from fixing your residence there; not merely from
+selfishness, but for your own sake, I know your love for your
+family, and know that it is reciprocal; I therefore cannot help
+thinking that you would mutually be lost to each other. The
+friends, too, which you have here, are of the highest and most
+desirable class.  To quit them, in order to make new friendships
+in a strange land, in which the generality of its inhabitants at
+present seem incapable of such virtues as friendship is built
+upon, seems wild and visionary.
+
+If M. d'Arblay had a sufficient establishment here for the
+purposes of credit and comfort, and determined to settle here for
+life, I should certainly think ourselves honoured by his alliance
+; but his situation is at present so very remote from all that
+can satisfy prudence, or reconcile to an affectionate father the
+idea of a serious attachment, that I tremble for your heart and
+future happiness.  M. d'Arblay must have lived too long in the
+great world to accommodate himself
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+
+contentedly to the little. his fate seems so intimately connected
+with that of his miserable country, and that country seems at a
+greater distance from peace, order, and tranquillity now than it
+has done at any time since the Revolution.
+
+These considerations, and the uncertainty Of what party will
+finally prevail, make me tremble for you both. You see, by what I
+have said, that my objections are not personal, but wholly
+prudential. For heaven's sake, my dear Fanny, do not part with
+your heart too rapidly, or involve yourself in deep engagements
+which it will be difficult to dissolve; and to the last degree
+imprudent, as things are at present circumstanced, to fulfil.
+
+As far as character, merit, and misfortune demand esteem and
+regard, you may be sure that M. d'Arblay will be always received
+by me with the utmost attention and respect - but, in the present
+situation of things, I can by no means think I ought to encourage
+(blind and ignorant as I am of all but his misfortunes) a serious
+and solemn union with one whose unhappiness would be a reproach
+to the facility and inconsiderateness of a most affectionate
+father.
+
+
+                         THE MARRIAGE TAKES PLACE.
+
+                      Memorandum, this 7th May, 1825.
+
+In answer to these apparently most just, and, undoubtedly, most
+parental and tender apprehensions, Susanna, the darling child of
+Dr. Burney, as well as first chosen friend of M, d'Arblay, wrote
+a statement of the plans, and means, and purposes of M. d'A. and
+F. B.--so clearly demonstrating their power of happiness, with
+willing economy, congenial tastes, and mutual love of the
+country, that Dr. B. gave way, and sent, though reluctantly, a
+consent - by which the union took place the 31st Of July, 1793,
+in Mickleham church, In presence of Mr. and Mrs. Locke, Captain
+and Mrs. Phillips, M. de Narbonne, and Captain Burney, who was
+father to his sister, as Mr. Locke was to M. d'A. ; and on the
+1st of August the ceremony was re-performed in the Sardinian
+chapel, according to the rites of the Romish Church; and never,
+never was union more blessed and felicitous; though after the
+first eight years of unmingled happiness, it was assailed by many
+calamities, chiefly of separation or illness, yet still mentally
+unbroken.  F. D'ARBLAY.
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+
+                ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE MARRIAGE TO A FRIEND.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Mrs.----.)
+August 2, 1793.
+How in the world shall I begin this letter to my dearest M--! how
+save her from a surprise almost too strong for her weak nerves
+and tender heart!
+
+After such an opening, perhaps any communication may be a relief
+but it is surprise only I would guard against; my present
+communication has nothing else to fear; it has nothing in it sad,
+melancholy, unhappy, but it has everything that is marvellous and
+unexpected.
+
+Do you recollect at all, when you were last in town, my warm
+interest for the loyal part of the French exiles?-=do you
+remember my ‚loge of a French officer, in particular, a certain
+M. d'Arblay?
+
+Ah, my dear M--, you are quick as lightning; your sensitive
+apprehension will tell my tale for me now, without more aid than
+some details of circumstance.
+
+The ‚loge I then made, was with design to prepare you for an
+event I had reason to expect: such, however, was the uncertainty
+of my situation, from prudential obstacles, that I dared venture
+at no confidence, though my heart prompted it strongly, to a
+friend so sweetly sympathising in all my feelings and all my
+affairs--so constantly affectionate- so tenderly alive to all
+that interests and concerns me.
+
+My dearest M-, you will give me, I am sure, your heart-felt
+wishes--your most fervent prayers. The choice I have made appears
+to me all you could yourself wish to fall to my lot--all you
+could yourself have formed to have accorded best with your kind
+partiality.
+
+I had some hope you would have seen him that evening when we went
+together from Mrs. M. Montagu to Mrs. Locke's, for he was then a
+guest in Portland Place; but some miserable circumstances, of
+which I knew nothing till after had just fallen out, and he had
+shut himself up in his room. He did not know we were there.
+
+Many, indeed, have been the miserable circumstances that have,
+from time to time, alarmed and afflicted in turn, and seemed to
+render a renunciation indispensable.  The difficulties, however,
+have been conquered; and last Sunday
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+
+Mr. and Mrs. Locke, my sister and Captain Phillips, and my
+brother Captain Burney, accompanied us to the altar, in Mickleham
+church ; since which the ceremony has been repeated in the chapel
+of the Sardinian ambassador, that if, by a counter-revolution in
+France, M. d'Arblay recovers any f his rights, his wife may not
+be excluded from their participation.
+
+You may be amazed not to see the name of my dear father upon this
+solemn occasion - but his apprehensions from the smallness of our
+income have made him cold and averse and though he granted his
+consent, I could not even solicit his presence.  I feel
+satisfied, however, that time will convince him I have not been
+so imprudent as he now thinks me. Happiness is the great end of
+all our worldly views and proceedings, and no one can judge for
+another in what will produce it, To me, wealth and ambition would
+always be unavailing ; I have lived in their most centrical
+possessions, and I have always seen that the happiness of the
+richest and the greatest has been the moment of retiring from
+riches and from power.  Domestic comfort and social affection
+have invariably been the sole as well as ultimate objects of my
+choice, and I have always been a stranger to any other species of
+felicity.
+
+M. d'Arblay has a taste for literature, and a passion for reading
+and writing, as marked as my own ; this is a sympathy to rob
+retirement of all superfluous leisure, and insure to us both
+occupation constantly edifying or entertaining.  He has seen so
+much of life, and has suffered so severely from its
+disappointments, that retreat, with a chosen companion, is become
+his final desire.
+
+Mr. Locke has given M. d'Arblay a piece of ground in his
+beautiful park-, upon which we shall build a little neat and
+plain habitation.  We shall continue, meanwhile, in his
+neighbourhood, to superintend the little edifice, and enjoy the
+Society of his exquisite house, and that of my beloved sister
+Phillips. We are now within two miles of both, at a farm-house,
+where we have what apartments we require, and no more, in a most
+beautiful and healthy situation, a mile and a half from any town.
+The nearest is Bookham; but I beg that MY letters may be directed
+to me at Captain Phillips's, Mickleham, as the post does not come
+this way, and I may else miss them for a week. AS I do not
+correspond with Mrs Montagu, and it would
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+
+be awkward to begin upon such a theme, I beg that when you write
+you will say something for me.
+
+One of my first pleasures, in our little intended home, will be,
+finding a place of honour for the legacy of Mrs. Delany. Whatever
+may be the general wonder, and perhaps blame, of general people,
+at this connexion, equally indiscreet in pecuniary points for us
+both, I feel sure that the truly liberal and truly intellectual
+judgment of that most venerated character would have accorded its
+sanction, when acquainted with the worthiness of the object who
+would wish it.
+
+Adieu, my sweet friend. Give my best compliments to Mr. ---, and
+give me your kind wishes, your kind prayers, my ever dear M--.
+
+(1)  So called from the convent where their meetings were held.
+
+(2) Carlyle.
+
+
+(3) Carlyle.
+
+(4 "To the lamp;" the street lamp-irons being found, by the -
+French sansculottes, a handy substitute for the gallows.-ED.
+
+(5) The old Marshal Duke de Broglie was one of the early
+emigrants. He quitted France in July 1789, after the fall of the
+Bastille.-ED.
+
+
+(6) "Minister of War."
+
+(7) Bradfield Hall, near Bury St. Edmund's, Suffolk, the house of
+Arthur Young, See infra.-ED.
+
+(8) " Arthur Young, the well-known writer of works on
+agriculture, still in high repute.  He was a very old friend of
+the Burneys ; connected with them also, by marriage, Mrs.  Young
+being a sister of Dr. Burney's second wife. His " Travels in
+France " (from 1769 to 1790), published in 1794, gives a most
+valuable and interesting account of the state of that country
+just before the Revolution. Arthur Young was appointed Secretary
+to the Board of Agriculture, established by Act of Parliament in
+1793. He died in 1820, in his seventy-ninth year, having been
+blind for some years previous to his death.-ED.
+
+(9)  Fanny's half-sister, Sarah Harriet Burney, -ED.
+
+(10) " Minister of war."
+
+(11) One memorable saying is recorded of the Duke de Liancourt.
+He brought the news to the king of the capture of the Bastille by
+the people of Paris, July 14, 1789.  "Late at night, the Duke de
+Liancourt, having official right of entrance, gains access to the
+royal apartments unfolds, with earnest clearness, in his
+constitutional way, the Job's- news.  'Mais,' said poor Louis,
+'c'est une r‚volte, Why, that is a revolt!'—'Sire,' answered
+Liancourt, 'it is not a revolt,--it is a
+revolution.'"-(Carlyle.)-ED.
+
+(12) "Peers of France."
+
+(13) Coblenz was the rallying-place of the emigrant noblesse.-ED.
+
+(14) On the 20th of June 1792, sansculotte Paris, assembling in
+its thousands, broke into the Tuileries, and called upon the king
+to remove his veto upon the decree against the priests, and to
+recall the ministry--Roland's--which he had just dismissed. For
+three hours the king stood face to face with the angry crowd,
+refusing to comply.   In the evening, the Mayor of Paris, P‚tion,
+arrived, with other popular leaders from the Assembly, and
+persuaded the people to disperse.-ED.
+
+(15) "Save Yourself, M. de Liancourt!"
+
+(16) "Ah! we are lost!"
+
+(17) "prison."
+
+(18) " I am in England.
+
+(19)  The Duke de la Rochefoucault, "journeying, by quick stages,
+with his mother and wife, towards the Waters of
+Forges, or some quieter country, was arrested at Gisors;
+conducted along the streets, amid effervescing multitudes, and
+killed dead ' by the stroke of a paving-stone hurled
+through the coach-window.'  Killed as a once Liberal, now
+Aristocrat; Protector of Priests, Suspender of virtuous P‚tions,
+and most unfortunate Hot-grown-cold, detestable to Patriotism.
+He dies lamented of Europe; his blood
+spattering the cheeks of his old mother, ninety-three years old."
+-(Carlyle, Erench Aevolulion, Part III., Book I., ch. vi.)- ED.
+
+(20) School-boys.
+
+(21) See note 361 ante, vol. ii.
+p. 449.-ED.
+
+(22) The name under which Madame de Genlis was now passing.
+
+(23) " She has seen me!"
+
+(24) "Perhaps I am indiscreet?"
+
+(25) "But, mademoiselle--after all--the king--is he quite cured?
+"
+(26) "What, mademoiselle! you knew that infamous woman?"
+
+(27) These "journalizing letters " of Mrs. Phillips
+continue without interruption from the present page to page
+37.-ED.
+
+(28) Not yet duke, but viscount.  He was created duke by Louis
+XVIII., in 1822.-ED.
+
+(29) It should be March. "The portfolio of war was
+withdrawn from him, by a very laconic letter from the king, March
+10, 1792; he had held it three months and three
+days." (Nouvelle Biographie G‚n‚rale: art. Narbonne.)-ED.
+
+(30) Severe decrees against the emigrants were passed in the
+Convention shortly afterwards. See infra, P.  33.-ED.
+
+(31) "And as he is extremely attached to him, he has begged him
+to come and live with him."
+
+(32) In a position to realise her fortune."
+
+(33) "To pay his respects to me."
+
+(34) "I do not speak English very well."
+
+(35) "*What a pretty little house you have, and what pretty
+little hosts. "
+
+(36) "Does he know the name of M. Lafayette ?"
+
+(37) "They put us at first into a pretty enough room."
+
+(38) A constitutionalist and member of the Legislative Assembly,
+who narrowly escaped with his life on the 10th of August. He
+lived thenceforward in retirement until after the fall of
+Robespierre and the jacobins, and came again to the fore under
+Napoleon.-ED.
+
+(39) "His resignation."
+
+(40) "Without form of law."
+
+(41) The night of June 20-21, 1791, King Louis fled disguised
+from Paris, with his family; got safely as far as Varennes, but
+was there discovered, and obliged to return.-ED.
+
+(42) "Resolution was taken."
+
+(43) "After many threatening gestures."
+
+(44) The asylum of Jean jacques (Rousseau).
+
+(45) St. just was one of the most notable members of the National
+Convention.  "Young Saint-just is coming, deputed by Aisne in the
+North; more like a Student than a Senator; not four-and-twenty
+yet (Sept. 1792); who has written Books; a youth of slight
+stature, with mild mellow voice, enthusiast olive-complexion and
+long black hair." (Carlyle.)
+He held with Robespierre, and was guillotined with him, July 28,
+1794.-ED.
+
+(46) ' "And now he is a proud republican."
+
+(47) "What day better than the present?"
+
+(48) "Listen to reason."
+
+(49) M. de Necker was father of Madame de Stael, and at one time
+the most popular minister of France.  Controller-general of
+finances from 1776 to 1781, and again in 1788.  In July 1789, he
+was dismissed, to the anger of indignant Paris; had to he
+recalled before many days, and returned in triumph, to be, it was
+hoped, "Saviour of France."  But his popularity gradually
+declined, and at last "'Adored Minister' Necker sees good on the
+3rd of September, 1790, to withdraw softly, almost privily--with
+an eye to the 'recovery of his health.' Home to native
+Switzerland; not as he last came; lucky to reach it alive!"
+(Carlyle)-ED.
+(50) Malouet was a member of the Assembly, and one of the
+constitutional royalists who took refuge in England in September,
+1792. Hearing of the intended trial of the king, 'Malouet wrote
+to the Convention, requesting a passport, that he might go to
+Paris to defend him.  He got no passport, however ; only his name
+put on the list of emigrants for an answer. ED.
+
+(51) "Were mixed up in it."
+
+(52) The Bishop of Autun:--Talleyrand.-ED.
+
+(53) "Worthy to be the husband of so amiable and charming a
+person as Madame de la Chƒtre."
+
+(54) "M. de la Chƒtre is a capital fellow; but as rough as a
+cart-horse."
+
+(55) The spleen.
+
+(56) Inn.
+
+(57) "His unfortunate friends."
+
+(58) "But wait a bit ; I have not yet finished : we were assured
+that no one was lost, and even that everything on the vessel was
+saved."
+
+(59) "Out at sea."
+
+(60) "His friends the constitutionalists."
+
+(61) Fortnight.
+
+(62) The execution of Louis XVI.
+
+(63) The Literary Club.
+
+(64) Guarded: circumspect.
+
+(65) Dr. Percy, editor of the "Reliques of Ancient English
+Poetry."-ED.
+(66) "Move the people to compassion."
+
+(67) As literary curiosities, the subjoined notes from Madame de
+Stael , have been printed verbatim et literatim: they are
+probably her earliest attempts at English writing.
+
+(68) "But, to make more sure, I tell you in French that your
+room, the house, the inmates of Juniper, everything is ready to
+receive the first woman in England."
+
+ (69) Malesherbes was one of the counsel who defended Louis at
+his trial. The Convention, after debate, has granted him Legal
+Counsel, of his own choosing. Advocate Target feels himself 'too
+old,' being turned of fifty-four - and declines. . . . Advocate
+Tronchet, some ten years older, does not decline.  Nay behold,
+good old Malesherbes steps forward voluntarily; to the last of
+his fields , the good old hero! He is gray with seventy years; he
+says, 'I was twice called to the Council of him who was my
+Master, When all the world coveted that honour; and I owe him the
+same service now, when it has become one which many reckon
+dangerous!"--(Carlyle). Malesherbes was guillotined in 1794,
+during "the Reign of Terror."-ED.
+
+(70) Mr. Clarke.
+
+(71) Voltaire's.--ED.
+
+(72) Narbonne.-ED.
+
+(73) "Something to live on in England."
+
+(74) September 2, it should be.-ED.
+
+(75) i.e., D‚cr‚t‚ d'accusation, accused.-ED.
+
+(76) Lally Tolendal was the son of the brave Lally, Governor of
+Pondicherry, whose great services in India were rewarded by the
+French government with four years' imprisonment, repeated
+torture, and finally ignominious death, in 1760. The infliction
+of torture on criminals was not put a stop to in France until the
+Revolution.-ED.
+
+(77) "A very good fellow, and nothing more."
+
+(78) "But he will be hurt at that."
+(79) The owner of Juniper Hall.-ED.
+
+(80) "Coquetry to soften that barbarous jenkinson."
+
+(81) "Indignant at the bad faith, and tired with the tediousness
+of his opponent."
+
+(82) "Pray, Mr. Gnawbone, how is the queen?"
+(83) Punctiliousness: propriety.
+
+(84) Pet: Vexation.
+
+(85) "Is a woman in leading strings all her life in this country?
+It seems to me that your sister is like a child of fourteen."
+(86) "And tell Miss Burney that I don't desire it of her-that I
+leave the Country loving her sincerely, and bearing her no
+grudge."
+
+(87) "There was no way out of it."
+
+(88) "You are very good to say SO."
+
+(89) M. d'Arblay. "When Lieutenant [James] Burney accompanied
+captain Cook to otaheite, each of the English sailors was adopted
+as a brother by some one of the natives.  The ceremony consisted
+in rubbing noses together, and exchanging the appellation Tyo or
+Toio, which signified 'chosen friend.' This title was sometimes
+playfully given to Miss Burney by Mrs. Thrale."  note to the
+original edition of the "Diary", vol. ii. page 38.-ED.
+
+(90) "Country place where Miss Burney was."
+
+(91) "On my part."
+
+(92) "Could not one make that little journey?"
+
+(93) "Wide awake, as if she suspected something."
+
+(94) The amount of Fanny's pension from the queen.-ED.
+
+
+
+
+                               SECTION 20.
+                                 (1793-6)
+
+
+              LOVE IN A COTTAGE: THE D'ARBLAYS VISIT WINDSOR.
+
+
+[Never, probably, did Fanny enjoy greater happiness than during
+the first few years of her married life, "Love in a cottage" on
+an income Of One hundred pounds a year, was exactly suited to her
+retiring and affectionate nature. The cottage, too, was within
+easy walking distance of Mickleham, where resided her favourite
+sister, Susanna, and of Norbury Park, the home of her dearest
+friends, the Lockes. Here, then, in this beautiful part of
+Surrey, with a devoted husband by her side, and, in due time, a
+little son (her only child) to share with him her tenderness and
+care          ' did Fanny lead, for some.time, a tranquil and, in
+the main, a happy life. Her chief excursions were occasional
+visits to the queen and princesses-delightful visits now that she
+was out of harness. Towards the end, however, of the period of
+which the following 'Section contains the history, two melancholy
+events, happening in quick succession, brought sorrow to the
+little household at Book'ham. The departure for Ireland of Susan
+Phillips left a grievous gap in the circle of Fanny's best-loved
+friends. We gather from the "Diary" that Captain (now Major)
+Phillips had gone to Ireland, with his little son, Norbury, to
+superintend the management of his estate at Belcotton, some
+months before his wife left Mickleham. In the autumn of 1796 he
+returned to fetch his wife and the rest of his family. An absence
+of three years was intended, The parting was rendered doubly
+distressing by the evidently declining state of Susan's health.
+Shortly afterwards, in October 1796, died Fanny's step-mother,
+who had been, for many years, more Or less an invalid. Fanny
+hastened to Chelsea on receiving the news, and spent some time
+there with her           father and his Youngest daughter. The
+following extract from a memorandum of Dr. Burney's will be read,
+we think, not without Interest.
+
+"On the 26th of October, she [his second wife) was interred in
+the burying-ground of Chelsea College. On the 27th, I returned to
+my melancholy home, disconsolate and stupified, Though long
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+
+expected, this calamity was very severely felt; I missed her
+counsel, converse, and family regulations; and a companion of
+thirty years, whose mind was cultivated, whose intellects were
+above the general level of her sex, and whose curiosity after
+knowledge was insatiable to the last. These were losses that
+caused a vacuum in my habitation and in my mind, that has never
+been filled up.
+
+"My four eldest daughters, all dutiful, intelligent, and
+affectionate, were married, and had families of their own to
+superintend, or they might have administered comfort. My youngest
+daughter       ' Sarah Harriet, by my second marriage, had quick
+intellects, and distinguished talents ; but she had no experience
+in household affairs. However, though she had native spirits of
+the highest gaiety, she became a steady and prudent character,
+and a kind and good girl. There is, I think, considerable merit
+in her novel, 'Geraldine,' particularly in the conversations; and
+I think the scene at the emigrant cottage really touching. At
+least it drew tears from me, when I was not so prone to shed them
+as I am at present."(95)
+
+During these years Fanny did not suffer her pen to lie idle. Her
+tragedy, "Edwy and Elgiva," was produced, though without success,
+at Drury Lane. On the other hand, the success of her third novel,
+"Camilla, or a Picture of Youth, " published by subscription in
+1796, was, at least from a financial point of view, conspicuous
+and immediate. Out of an edition of four thousand, three thousand
+five hundred copies were sold within three months.
+
+Were we to attempt to rank Madame d'Arblay's novels in order of
+merit, we should perhaps feel compelled to place "Camilla" at the
+bottom of the list, yet without intending to imply any
+considerable inferiority. But it is full of charm and animation
+the characters--the female characters especially-are drawn with a
+sure hand, the humour is as diverting, the satire as spirited as
+ever. Fanny"s fops and men of the ton are always excellent in
+their kind, and "Camilla" contains, perhaps, her greatest triumph
+in this direction, in the character of Sir Sedley Clarendal.
+Lovel. in "Evelina," and Meadows, in "Cecilia," are mere
+blockheads, whose distinction is wholly due to the ludicrousness
+of their affectations; but in Sir Sedley she has attempted, and
+succeeded in the much more difficult task of portraying a man of
+naturally good parts and feelings, who, through idleness and
+vanity, has allowed himself to sink into the position of a mere
+leader of the ton, whose better nature rises at times, in spite
+of himself, above the flood of affectation and folly beneath
+which he endeavours to drown it. Camilla herself, the
+light-hearted, unsuspicious Camilla, however she may differ, in
+some points of character, from Fanny's other heroines, possesses
+one quality which is common to them all, the power of fascinating
+the reader. Perhaps the least satisfactory character in the book
+is that of the hero, Edgar Mandlebert, whose extreme caution in
+the choice of a wife betrays him into ungenerous suspicions, as
+irritating to the impatient reader as they are dis-
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+
+tressing to pool- Camilla.      In fine, whatever faults, as
+occasionally of style, the book may have the interest never for
+One moment flags from the first page to the last of the entire
+five volumes.
+
+
+The subscriPtion-price of " Camilla " was fixed at one guinea.
+Fanny's friends, Mrs. Crewe, Mrs. Boscawen, and Mrs. Locke,
+exerted themselves with the utmost zeal and success in procuring
+subscribers, and the printed lists prefixed to the first volume
+contains nearly eleven hundred names. Among  wthem we notice the
+name of Edmund Burke, whose great career  was closing in a cloud
+of domestic trouble'. Early in 1794 he lost his brother, Richard,
+and in August of the same year a far heavier blow fell upon him
+in the death, at the age of thirty-six, of his only and promising
+son, "the pride and ornament of my existence," as he called him
+in a touching letter to Mrs. Crewe.  The desolate father, already
+worn with the thankless toils of statesmanship, in which his very
+errors had been the outcome of a noble and enthusiastic
+temperament, never recovered from this blow. But when Mrs. Crewe
+sent him, in 1795, the proposals for publishing "Camilla," Burke
+roused himself to do a new kindness to an old friend. He
+forwarded to Mrs. Crewe a note for twenty pounds, desiring in
+return one copy of the book, and justified his generous donation
+in a letter of the most delicate Courtesy. "As to Miss Burney,"
+he wrote, "the subscription ought to be, for certain persons,
+five guineas; and to    take but a single copy each. The rest as
+it is. I am sure that it is a disgrace to the age and nation, if
+this be not a great thing for her.     if every person in England
+who has received pleasure'and instruction from 'Cecilia,' were to
+rate its value at the hundredth part of their satisfaction,
+Madame d'Arblay would be one of the richest women in the kingdom.
+
+"Her scheme was known before she lost two of her most respectful
+admirers from this house; and this, with Mrs. BUrke's'
+subscription and mine, make the paper I send you. One book is as
+good as a thousand: one of hers is certainly as good as a
+thousand others."
+
+The book, on its Publication     'was sent to Bath, where Burke
+was lying ill-too ill to read it.  To Mrs. Crewe, who visited him
+at the time, he said : "How ill I am you will easily believe,
+when a new work of Madame d'Arblay's lies on my        table,
+unread!"(96)
+
+Meanwhile the retirement of the "hermits" at Bookham was now and
+again disturbed by echoes of the tumult without. The war was
+progressing, and the Republic was holding its own against the
+combined powers of Europe. Dr. Burney refers to the "sad news"
+from Dunkirk. In August, 1793, an English army, commanded by the
+Duke of York, had invested that important stronghold: on the
+night of September 8, thanks to the exertions of the garrison and
+the advance of General Houchard to its relief, the siege was
+urriedly abandoned and his royal highness had to beat a retreat,
+leaving behind him' his siege-artillery and a large quantity of
+aggage and ammunition. Another siege--that of
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+
+Toulon-seemed likely to prove a matter of nearer concern to
+Fanny. The inhabitants of Toulon, having royalist, or at least
+anti-jacobin, sympathies, and stirred by the fate of Marseilles,
+had determined, in an unhappy hour, to defy the Convention and to
+proclaim the dauphin by the title of Louis XVII. They invoked the
+protection of the English fleet under Admiral Hood, who
+accordingly took possession of the harbour and of the French
+ships of war stationed therein, while a force of English and
+Spanish soldiers was sent on shore to garrison the forts. In the
+course of these proceedings the admiral issued to the townspeople
+two proclamations, by the second of which, dated August 28, 1793,
+after noticing the declaration of the inhabitants in favour of
+monarchy, and Their desire to re-establish the constitution as it
+was accepted by the late king, he explicitly declared that he
+took possession of Toulon and should keep it solely as a deposit
+for Louis XXIII., and that only until the restoration of peace.
+This hopeful intelligence did not escape General d'Arblay, busied
+among his cabbages at Bookham. A blow to be struck for Louis
+XVII. and the constitution! The general straightway flung aside
+the "Gardener's Dictionary," and wrote an offer to Mr. Pitt of
+his services as volunteer at Toulon, in the sacred cause of the
+Bourbons. Happily for Fanny, his offer was not accepted, for some
+reason unexplained.(97) In the meantime, General Dugommier and
+the republicans, a young artillery-officer named Napoleon
+Buonaparte among them, were using their best endeavours to reduce
+Toulon, with what result we shall presently see.-ED.]
+
+
+              THE FRENCH CLERGY FUND. THE TOULON ExPEDITION.
+
+(Dr. Burney to Madame d'Arblay.)
+September     12, 1793.
+Dear Fanny--In this season of leisure I am as fully occupied as
+ever          your friend Mr. DelVile(98) was. So many people to
+attend, so many complaints to hear, and so many grievances to
+redress,        that it has been impossible for me to write to
+you sooner.    I have been out of town but one Single day, I
+believe, since you were here: that was spent at Richmond with my
+sisters. But every day
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+
+produces business for other people, which occupies me as much as
+ever I found myself in days of hurry about my own affairs.
+
+I have had a negotiation and correspondence         to carry on
+for and with Charlotte Smith,(99) of which I believe I told you
+the beginning, and I do not see the end myself.        Her second
+son had his foot shot off before Dunkirk, and has undergone a
+very dangerous amputation, which, it is much feared, will be
+fatal.
+
+Mrs. Crewe, having seen at Eastbourne a great number of venerable
+and amiable French clergy suffering all the evils of banishment
+and beggary with silent resignation, has for some time had in
+meditation a plan for procuring some addition to the small
+allowance the committee at Freemasons' hall is able to allow,
+from the residue of the subscriptions and briefs in their favour.
+Susan will show you the plan. . . .
+
+You say that M. d'Arblay is not only his own architect, but
+intends being his own gardener. I suppose the ground allotted to
+the garden of your maisonnette is marked out, and probably will
+be enclosed and broken up before the foundation of your mansion
+is laid ; therefore, to encourage M. d'Arblay in the study of
+horticulture, I have the honour to send him Miller's 'Gardeners'
+Dictionary,'--an excellent book, at least for the rudiments of
+the art.   I send you, my dear Fanny, an edition of Milton, which
+I can well spare, and which you ought not to live without ; and I
+send you both our dear friend Dr. Johnson's 'Rasselas.'
+
+This is sad news from Dunkirk, at which our own jacobins will
+insolently triumph. Everything in France seems to move in a
+regular progression from bad to worse. After near five years'
+struggle and anarchy, no man alive, with a grain of modesty,
+would venture to predict how or when the evils of that country
+will be terminated. In the meantime the peace and comfort of
+every civilised part of the globe is threatened with similar
+calamities.
+
+(Madame dArblay to Dr. Burney)
+Bookham, September 29, 1793.
+When I received the last letter of my dearest father, and for
+some hours after, I was the happiest of all human beings. I make
+no exception, for I think none possible : not a wish remained to
+me; not a thought of forming one.
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+
+This was just the period--is it not always so?--for a blow of
+sorrow to reverse the whole scene : accordingly, that evening M.
+d'Arblay communicated to me his desire of going to Toulon. He had
+intended retiring from public life; his services and his
+sufferings in his severe and long career, repaid by exile and
+confiscation, and for ever embittered to his memory by the murder
+of his sovereign, had justly satisfied the claims of his
+conscience and honour; and led him, without a single
+self-reproach, to seek a quiet retreat in domestic society : but
+the second declaration of Lord Hood no sooner reached this little
+obscure dwelling,-no sooner had he read the words Louis XVII. and
+the constitution to which he had sworn united, than his military
+ardour rekindled, his loyalty was all up in arms, and every sense
+of duty carried him back to wars and dangers.
+
+I dare not speak of myself, except to say that I have forborne to
+oppose him with a single solicitation; all the felicity of this
+our chosen and loved retirement would effectually be annulled by
+the smallest suspicion that it was enjoyed at the expense of any
+duty - and therefore, since he is persuaded it is right to go, I
+acquiesce. He is now writing an offer of his services, which I am
+to convey to Windsor, and which he means to convey himself to Mr.
+Pitt. As I am sure it will interest my dear father, I will copy
+it for him. . . .
+
+My dearest father, before this tremendous project broke into our
+domestic economy, M, d'Arblay had been employed in a little
+composition, which, being all in his power, he destined to lay at
+your feet, as a mark of his pleasure in your attention to his
+horticultural pursuit. He has just finished copying it for you,
+and to-morrow it goes by the stage.
+
+Your hint of a book from time to time enchanted him: it seems to
+me the only present he accepts entirely without pain. He has just
+requested me to return to Mrs. Locke herself a cadeau she had
+brought us. If it had been an old Courtcalendar, or an almanac,
+or anything in the shape of a brochure, he would have received it
+with his best bow and smile.
+
+This Toulon business finally determines our deferring the
+maisonnette till the spring. Heaven grant it may be deferred no
+longer!(100)  Mr Locke says it will be nearly as soon ready as if
+begun in the autumn, for it will be better to have it
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+
+aired and inhabited before the winter seizes it,
+If the memoire which M. d'Arblay is now writing is finished in
+time, it shall accompany the little packet; if not, we will send
+it by the first opportunity.
+
+Meanwhile, M. d'Arblay makes a point of our indulging ourselves
+with the gratification of subscribing one guinea to your
+fund,(101) and Mrs. Locke begs you will trust her and insert her
+subscription in your list, and Miss Locke and Miss Amelia Locke.
+Mr. Locke is charmed with your plan. M. d'Arblay means to obtain
+you Lady Burrel and Mrs. Berm. If you think I can write to any
+purpose, tell me a little hint how and of what, dearest sir; for
+I am in the dark as to what may remain yet unsaid. Otherwise,
+heavy as is my heart just now, I could work for them and Your
+plan.(102)
+
+(Dr. Burney to Madame d'Arblay.)
+October 4, 1793.
+Dear Fanny,--This is a terrible coup, so soon after your union;
+but I honour M, d'Arblay for offering his service on so great an
+occasion, and you for giving way to what seems an indispensable
+duty. Common-place reflections on the vicissitudes of human
+affairs would afford you little consolation. The stroke is new to
+your situation, and so will be the fortitude necessary on the
+occasion. However, to military men, who, like M. d'Arblay, have
+been but just united to the object of their choice, and begun to
+domesticate, it is no uncommon tbing for their tranquillity to be
+disturbed by " the trumpet's loud clangor." Whether the offer is
+accepted or not, the having made it will endear him to those
+embarked in the same cause among his countrymen, and elevate him
+in the general opinion of the English public. This consideration
+I am sure will afford you a satisfaction the most likely to
+enable you to support the anxiety and pain of absence.
+
+I have no doubt of the offer being taken well at Windsor, and of
+its conciliating effects. If his majesty and the ministry
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+
+have any settled plan for accepting or rejecting similar offers I
+know not; but it seems very likely that Toulon will be regarded
+as the rallying point for French royalists of all sects and
+denominations. . . .
+
+I shall be very anxious to know how the proposition of M.
+d'Arblay has been received; and, if accepted, on what conditions,
+and when and how the voyage is to be performed , I should hope in
+a stout man of war ; and that M. de Narbonne will be of the
+party, being so united in friendship and political principles.
+
+Has M. d'Arblay ever been at Toulon ? It is supposed to be so
+well fortified, both by art and nature, on the land side, that;
+if not impregnable, the taking it by the regicides will require
+so much time that it is hoped an army of counterrevolutionists
+will be assembled from the side of Savoy, sufficient to raise the
+siege, if unity of measures and action prevail between the
+Toulonnais and their external friends. But even if the assailants
+should make such approaches as to render it necessary to retreat,
+with such a powerful fleet as that of England and Spain united,
+it will not only be easy to carry off the garrison and
+inhabitants in time, but to destroy such ships as cannot be
+brought away, and ruin the harbour and arsenal for many years to
+come.'
+
+
+
+I have written to Mrs. Crewe all you have said on the subject of
+writing something to stimulate benevolence and commiseration in
+favour of the poor French ecclesiastics, amounting to six
+thousand now in England, besides four hundred laity here and
+eight hundred at Jersey, in utter want. The fund for the laity
+was totally exhausted the 27th of last month, and the beginning
+of the next that raised by former subscriptions and briefs will
+be wholly expended!
+
+The expense, in only allowing the clergy 8 shillings  a-week,
+amounts
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+
+to about 7500 pounds a-month, which cannot be supported long by
+private subscriptions, and must at last be taken up by
+Parliament; but to save the national disgrace of suffering these
+excellent people to die of hunger, before the Parliament meets
+and agrees to do something for them, the ladies must work hard.
+You and M. d'Arblay are very good in wishing to contribute your
+mite ; but I did not intend leading you into this scrape. If you
+subscribe your pen, and he his sword, it will best answer Mr.
+Burke's idea, who says, "There are two ways by which people may
+be charitable-the one by their money, the other by their
+exertions."
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Dr. Burney.)
+Sunday noon, October 21, 1793.
+My dearest father will think I have been very long in doing
+the little I have done; but my mind is so anxiously discom-fited
+by the continued suspense with regard to M. d'Arblay's
+proposition and wish, that it has not been easy to me to weigh
+completely all I could say, and the fear of repeating what had
+already been offered upon the subject has much restrained me, for
+I have seen none of the tracts that may have appeared. However,
+it is a matter truly near my heart ; and though I have not done
+it rapidly, I have done it with my whole mind, and, to own the
+truth, with a species of emotion that has greatly affected me,
+for I could not deeply consider the situation of these venerable
+men without feeling for them to the quick. If what I have written
+should have power to procure them one more guinea, I shall be
+paid.
+
+If you think what I have drawn up worth printing, I should
+suppose it might make a little sixpenny paper, and be sold for
+the same purpose it is written.  Or will it only do to be printed
+at the expense of the acting ladies, and given gratis? You must
+judge of this.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Dr. Burney.)
+Bookham, October 27, 1793.
+My most dear father,--The terrible confirmation of this last act
+of savage hardness of heart(104) has wholly overset us again. M.
+d'Arblay had entirely discredited its probability,
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+
+and, to the last moment, disbelieved the report  not from milder
+thoughts of the barbarous rulers of his unhappy country, but from
+seeing that the death of the queen could answer no purpose,
+helpless as she was to injure them, while her life might answer
+some as a hostage with the emperor. Cruelty, however, such as
+theirs, seems to require no incitement whatever; its own horrible
+exercise appears sufficient both to prompt and to repay it. Good
+heaven! that that wretched princess should so finish sufferings
+so unexampled!
+
+With difficulties almost incredible, Madame de Stael has
+contrived, a second time, to save the lives of M. de Jaucourt and
+M, de Montmorenci, who are just arrived in Switzerland. We know
+as yet none of the particulars; simply that they are saved is
+all: but they write in a style the most melancholy to M. de
+Narbonne, of the dreadful fanaticism of licence, which they dare
+call liberty, that still reigns unsubdued in France, And they
+have preserved nothing but their persons ! of their vast
+properties they could secure no more than pocket-money, for
+travelling in the most penurious manner. They are therefore in a
+state the most deplorable. Switzerland is filled with gentlemen
+and ladies of the very first families and rank, who are all
+starving, but those who have had the good fortune to procure, by
+disguising their quality, some menial office!
+
+No answer comes from Mr. Pitt ; and we now expect none till Sir
+Gilbert Elliot makes his report of the state of Toulon and of the
+Toulonnese  till which, probably, no decision will be formed
+whether the constitutionals in England will be employed or not.
+
+[M. d'Arblay's offer of serving in the expedition to Toulon was
+not accepted, and the reasons for which it was declined do not
+appear.]
+
+
+
+                     MADAME D'ARBLAY ON HER MARRIAGE.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to mrs.----.)
+
+The account of your surprise, my sweet friend, was the last thing
+to create mine: I was well aware of the general astonishment, and
+of yours in particular. My own, however, at my very extraordinary
+fate, is singly greater than that of all my friends united. I had
+never made any vow against marriage, but I had long, long been
+firmly persuaded it was for me a state of too much hazard and too
+little promise to draw me from my
+
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+
+individual plans and purposes.        I remember, in playing -at
+questions and commands, when I was thirteen, being asked when I
+intended to marry? and surprising my playmates by solemnly
+replying) "When I think I shall be happier than I am in being
+single." It is true, I imagined that time would never arrive -
+and I have pertinaciously adhered to trying no experiment upon
+any other hope - for, many and mixed as are the ingredients which
+form what is generally considered as happiness, I was always
+fully convinced [hat social sympathy of character and taste could
+alone have any chance with me; all else I always thought, and now
+know, to be immaterial.    I have only this peculiar,--that what
+many contentedly assert or adopt in theory, I have had the
+courage to be guided by in practice.
+
+We are now removed to a very small house in the suburbs of a very
+small village called Bookham. We found it rather inconvenient to
+reside in another person's dwelling, though our own apartments
+were to ourselves.         Our views are not so beautiful as from
+Phenice farm, but our situation is totally free from neighbours
+and intrusion. We are about a mile and a half from Norbury Park,
+and two miles from Mickleham. I am become already so stout a
+walker, by use, and with the help of a very able supporter, that
+I go to those places and return home on foot without fatigue,
+when the weather is kind.   At other times I condescend to accept
+a carriage from Mr. Locke ; but it is always reluctantly, I so
+much prefer walking where, as here, the country and prospects are
+inviting.
+
+I thank you for your caution about building: we shall certainly
+undertake nothing but by contract - however, it would be truly
+mortifying to give up a house in Norbury Park   we defer the
+structure till the spring, as it is to be so very slight, that
+Mr. Locke says it will be best to have it hardened in its first
+stage by the summer's sun.           It will be very small,
+merely an habitation for three people, but in a situation truly
+beautiful, and within five minutes of either Mr. Locke or my
+sister Phillips: it is to be placed just between those two loved
+houses.
+
+My dearest father, whose fears and drawbacks have been my Sole
+subject of regret, begins now to see I have not judged rashly, or
+with romance, in seeing my own road to my own felicity.  And his
+restored cheerful concurrence in my constant principles, though
+new station, leaves me, for myself,
+
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+
+without a wish. L'ennui, which could alone infest our retreat, I
+have ever been a stranger to, except in tiresome company, and my
+companion has every possible resource against either feeling or
+inspiring it.
+
+As my partner is a Frenchman, I conclude the wonder raised by the
+connexion may spread beyond my own private circle; but no wonder
+upon earth can ever arrive near my own in having found such a
+character from that nation. This is a prejudice certainly,
+impertinent and very John Bullish, and very arrogant but I only
+share it with all my countrymen, and therefore must needs forgive
+both them and myself. I am convinced, however, from your tender
+solicitude for me in all ways, that you will be glad to hear that
+the queen and all the royal family have deigned to send me wishes
+for my happiness through Mrs. Schwellenberg, who has written me
+what you call a very kind congratulation.
+
+[In the year 1794, the happiness of the "Hermitage" was increased
+by the birth of a son,(105) who was christened Alexander Charles
+Louis Piochard d'Arblay; receiving the names of his father, with
+those of his two godfathers, the Comte de Narbonne and Dr.
+Charles Burney.]
+
+
+                               MR. CANNING.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Doctor Burney)
+Bookham, February 8, 1794.
+The times are indeed, as my dearest father says, tremendous, and
+reconcile this retirement daily more and more to my chevalier-
+-chevalier every way, by birth, by his order, and by his
+character; for to-day he has been making his first use of a
+restoration to his garden in gathering snowdrops for his fair
+Dulcinea--you know I must say fair to finish the phrase with any
+effect.
+
+I am very sorry for the sorrow I am sure Mr. Burke will feel for
+the loss of his brother, announced in Mr. Coolie's paper
+yesterday. Besides, he was a comic, good-humoured, entertaining
+man, though not bashful.(106)
+
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+
+What an excellent opening Mr. Canning has made at last!
+Entre nous soit dit, I remember, when at Windsor, that I Was told
+Mr. Fox came to Eton purposely to engage to himself that young
+man, from the already great promise of his rising abilities - and
+he made dinners for him and his nephew, Lord Holland, to teach
+them political lessons. It must have had an odd effect upon him,
+I think, to hear such a speech from his disciple.(107)
+
+Mr. Locke now sends us the papers for the debates every two or
+three days ; he cannot quicker, as his own household readers are
+so numerous.  I see almost nothing of Mr. Windham in them ; which
+vexes me: but I see Mr. Windham in Mr. Canning.
+
+
+                    TALLEYRAND's LETTERS OF ADIEU.(108)
+
+(M. de Talleyrand to Mrs. Philips.)
+Londres, 1794.
+Madame,--Il faut qu'il y ait eu de l'impossibilit‚ pour que ce
+matin je n'aie pas eu l'honneur de vous voir; mais l'im-
+
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+
+possibilit‚ la plus forte m'a priv‚ du dernier plaisir que je
+pouvois avoir en Europe. Permettez moi, madame, de vous remercier
+encore une fois do toutes vos bont‚s, de vous demander un peu de
+part dans votre souvenir, et laissez moi vous dire que mes voeux
+se porteront dans tous les terns de ma vie vers vous, vers le
+capitaine, vers vos enfans.  Vous allez avoir en Am‚rique un
+serviteur bien zˆl‚; je ne reviendrai pas en Europe sans arriver
+dans le Surrey: tout ce qui, pour mon esprit et pour mon coeur, a
+quelque valeur, est l….
+
+Voulez-vous bien pr‚senter tous mes complimens au capitaine?(109)
+
+(M. de Talleyrand to M. and Madame d'Arblay.)
+Londres, 2 Mars, 1794.
+Adieu, mon cher D'Arblay: je quitte votre pays jusqu'au moment o–
+il n'appartiendra plus aux petites passions des hommes. Alors j'y
+reviendrai; non, en v‚rit‚, pour m'occuper d'affaires, car il y a
+long tems que je les ai abandonn‚es pour jamais; mais pour voir
+les excellens habitans du Surrey, J'espŠre savoir assez d'Anglais
+pour entendre Madame d'Arblay; d'ici … quatre mois je ne vais
+faire autre chose que l'‚tudier: et pour apprendre le beau et bon
+langage, c'est "Evelina" et "Cecilia" qui sont mes livres d'‚tude
+et de plaisir. Je vous souhaite, mon cher ami, toute espŠce de
+bonheur, et vous ˆtes on position de remplir tous mes souhaits.
+
+je ne sais combien de tems je resterai en Am‚rique: s'il se
+r‚f‚roit quelque chose de raisonnable et de stable pour notre
+malheureux pays, je reviendrois; si l'Europe s'abŒme dans la
+campagne prochaine, je pr‚parerai en Am‚rique des asyles … tous
+nos amis.
+
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+
+Adieu: mes hommages … Madame d'Arblay et … Madame
+phillips, je vous en prie: je vous demande et vous promets amiti‚
+pour la vie.(110)
+
+
+                   M. D'ARBLAY's HORTICULTURAL PURSUITS.
+
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Doctor Burney.)
+Bookham, March 22, 1794.
+My dear father.--I am this Moment returned from reading your most
+welcome and kind letter at our Susanna's.  The account of your
+better health gives me a pleasure beyond all words; and it is the
+more essential to my perfect contentment on account of your
+opinion of our retreat.  I doubt not, my dearest father, but you
+judge completely right, and I may nearly say we are both equally
+disposed to pay the most implicit respect to your counsel.  We
+give up, therefore, all thoughts of our London excursion for the
+present, and I shall write to that effect to our good intended
+hostess very speedily. I can easily conceive far more than you
+enlarge upon in this counsel: and, indeed, I have not myself been
+wholly free from apprehension of possible embarras, should we, at
+this period, visit London; for though M. d'Arblay not only could
+stand, but would court, all personal scrutiny, whether
+retrospective or actual, I see daily the extreme susceptibility
+which attends his very nice notions of honour, and how quickly
+and deeply his spirit is wounded by whatever he regards as
+injustice.  Incapable, too, of the least trimming or
+
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+
+disguise, he could not, at a time such as this, be in London
+without suffering or risking perhaps hourly, something
+unpleasant.  Here we are tranquil, undisturbed and undisturbing.
+Can life, he often says, he more innocent than ours, or happiness
+more inoffensive? He works in his garden, or studies English and
+mathematics, while I write.  When I work at my needle, he reads
+to me; and we enjoy the beautiful country around us in long and
+romantic strolls, during which he carries under his arm a
+portable garden chair, lent us by Mrs. Locke, that I may rest as
+I proceed. He is extremely fond, too, of writing, and makes, from
+time to time, memorandums of such memoirs, poems, and anecdotes
+as he recollects, and I wish to have preserved.  These resources
+for sedentary life are certainly the first blessings that can be
+given to man, for they enable him to be happy in the extremest
+obscurity, even after tasting the dangerous draughts of glory and
+ambition.
+
+The business of M. de Lafayette(111) has been indeed extremely
+bitter to him.  It required the utmost force he could put upon
+himself not to take some public part in it. He drew up a short
+but most energetic defence of that unfortunate general, in a
+letter, which he meant to print and send to the editors of a
+newspaper which had traduced him, with his name at full length.
+But after two nights' sleepless deliberation, the hopelessness of
+serving his friend, with a horror and disdain of being mistaken
+as one who would lend any arms to weaken government at this
+crisis, made him consent to repress it.  I was dreadfully uneasy
+during the conflict, knowing, far better than I can make him
+conceive, the mischiefs that might follow any interference at
+this moment, in matters brought before the nation, from a
+foreigner.  But, conscious of his own integrity, I plainly see he
+must either wholly retire, or come forward to encounter whatever
+he thinks wrong.  Ah--better let him accept your motto, and
+cultiver son jardin! He is now in it, notwithstanding our long
+walk to Mickleham, and working hard and fast to finish some
+selfset task that to-morrow, Sunday, must else impede.
+ page 87
+
+M. d'Arblay, to my infinite satisfaction, gives up all thoughts
+of building, in the present awful state of public affairs.  To
+show you, however, how much he is " of your advice " as to son
+jardin, he has been drawing a plan for it, which I intend to beg,
+borrow, or steal (all one), to give you some idea how seriously
+he studies to make his manual labours of some real utility.
+
+This sort of work, however, is so totally new to him, that he
+receives every now and then some of poor Merlin's "disagreeable
+compliments;" for, when Mr. Locke's or the captain's gardeners
+favour our grounds with a visit, they commonly make known that
+all has been done wrong. Seeds are sowing in some parts when
+plants ought to be reaping, and plants are running to seed while
+they are thought not yet at maturity.  Our garden, therefore, is
+not yet quite the most profitable thing in the world; but M. d'A.
+assures me it is to be the staff of our table and existence.
+
+A little, too, he has been unfortunate ; for, after immense toil
+in planting and transplanting strawberries round our hedge, here
+at Bookham, he has just been informed they will bear no fruit the
+first year, and the second we may be "over the hills and far
+away!"  Another time, too, with great labour, he cleared a
+considerable compartment of weeds, and, when it looked clean and
+well, and he showed his work to the gardener, the man said he had
+demolished an asparagus-bed! M. d'A. protested, however, nothing
+could look more like des mauvaises herbes.
+
+His greatest passion is for transplanting. Everything we possess
+he moves from one end of the garden to another, to produce better
+effects.  Roses take place of jessamines, jessamines of
+honeysuckles, and honeysuckles of lilacs, till they have all
+danced round as far as the space allows; but whether the effect
+may not be a general mortality, summer only can determine.
+
+Such is our horticultural history.  But I must not omit that we
+have had for one week cabbages from our own cultivation every
+day!  O, you have no idea how sweet they tasted! We agreed they
+had a freshness and a go–t we had never met with before. We had
+them for too short a time to grow tired of them, because, as I
+have already hinted, they were beginning to run to seed before we
+knew they were eatable. . .
+
+April. Think of our horticultural shock last week, when Mrs.
+Bailey, our landlady, "entreated M. d'Arblay not to Spoil
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+
+her fruit-trees!"--trees he had been pruning with his utmost
+skill and strength.  However, he has consulted your "Millar"
+thereupon, and finds out she is very ignorant, which he has
+gently intimated to her.
+
+
+                               MRS. PIOZZI.
+
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Dr. Burney.)
+Bookham, April, 1794.
+What a charming letter was your last, my dearest father How full
+of interesting anecdote and enlivening detail! The meeting with
+Mrs. Thrale, so surrounded by her family, made me breathless; and
+while you were conversing with the Signor, and left me in doubt
+whether you advanced to her or not, I almost gasped with
+impatience and revived old feelings, which, presently, you
+reanimated to almost all their original energy How like my
+dearest father to find all his kindness rekindled when her ready
+hand once more invited it! I heard her voice in, "Why here's Dr.
+Burney, as young as ever!" and my dear father in his parrying
+answers.(112) No scene could have been related to me more
+interesting or more welcome. My heart and hand, I am sure, would
+have met her in the same manner. The friendship was too pleasant
+in its first stage, and too strong in its texture, to be ever
+obliterated, though it has been tarnished and clouded. I wish few
+things more earnestly than again to meet her.
+
+
+
+                        M. D'ARDLAY AS A GARDENER.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Dr. Burney.)(113)
+Bookham, August, '94.
+It is just a week since I had the greatest gratification of its
+kind I ever, I think, experienced :---so kind a thought, so
+
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+
+sweet a surprise as was my dearest father's visit!  How softly
+and soothingly it has rested upon my mind ever since!
+
+"Abdolomine"(114) has no regret but that his garden was not in
+better order; he was a little piqu‚, he confesses, that you said
+it was not very      neat--and, to be shor!-0-but his passion is
+to do great works: he undertakes with pleasure, pursues with
+energy, and finishes with spirit; but, then, all is over!  He
+thinks the business once done always done; and to repair, and
+amend, and weed, and cleanse--O, these are drudgeries
+insupportable to him!
+
+However, you should have seen the place before he began his
+operations, to do him justice ; there was then nothing else but
+mauvaises herbes; now, you must at least allow there is a mixture
+of flowers and grain! I wish you had seen him yesterday, mowing
+down our hedge--with his sabre, and with an air and attitudes so
+military, that, if he had been hewing down other legions than
+those he encountered--ie., of spiders--he could scarcely have had
+a mien more tremendous, or have demanded an arm more mighty.
+Heaven knows, I am "the most contente personne in the world" to
+see his sabre so employed!
+
+
+                          A NOVEL AND A TRAGEDY.
+
+You spirited me on in all ways; for this week past I have taken
+tightly to the grand ouvrage.(115) If I go on so a little longer,
+I doubt not but M. d'Arblay will begin settling where to have a
+new shelf for arranging it! which is already in his rumination
+for Metastasio;(116) I imagine you now .,Seriously resuming that
+work; I hope to see further sample ere long.
+
+We think with very great pleasure of accepting my mother's and
+your kind invitation for a few days.  I hope and mean, if
+possible, to bring with me also a little sample of something less
+in the dolorous style than what always causes your poor shoulders
+a little Shrug.(117)  . . .
+
+How truly grieved was I to hear from Mr. Locke of the death of
+young Mr. Burke!(118) What a dreadful blow upon his
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+
+father and mother ! to come at the instant of the son's highest
+and most honourable advancement, and of the father's retreat to
+the bosom of his family from public life !  His brother, too,
+gone so lately! I am most sincerely sorry, indeed, and quite
+shocked, as there seemed so little suspicion of such an event's
+approach, by your account of the joy caused by Lord Fitzwilliam's
+kindness. Pray tell me if you hear how poor Mr. Burke and his
+most amiable wife endure this calamity, and how they are. . . .
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Mrs.----.)
+Bookham, April 15, 1795.
+So dry a reproof from so dear a friend! And do you, then, measure
+my regard of heart by my remissness of hand? Let me give you the
+short history of my tragedy,(119) fairly and frankly. I wrote it
+not, as your acquaintance imagined, for the stage, nor yet for
+the press.  I began it at Kew palace, and, at odd moments, I
+finished it at Windsor; without the least idea of any species of
+publication.
+
+Since I left the royal household, I ventured to let it be read by
+my father, Mr. and Mrs. Locke, my sister Phillips, and, of
+course, M. d'Arblay, and not another human being. Their opinions
+led to what followed, and my brother, Dr. Charles, showed it to
+Mr. Kemble while I was on my visit to my father last October. He
+instantly and warmly pronounced for its acceptance, but I knew
+not when Mr. Sheridan would see it, and had not the smallest
+expectation of its appearing this year. However, just three days
+before my beloved little infant came into the world, an express
+arrived from my brother, that Mr. Kemble wanted the tragedy
+immediately, in order to show it to Mr. Sheridan, who had just
+heard of it, and had spoken in the most flattering terms of his
+good will for its reception.
+
+Still, however, I was in doubt of its actual acceptance till
+three weeks after my confinement, when I had a visit from my
+brother, who told me he was, the next morning, to read the piece
+in the green-room.  This was a precipitance for which I was every
+way unprepared, as I had never made but one copy of the play, and
+had intended divers corrections and alterations. Absorbed,
+however, by my new charge and then
+
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+
+growing ill, I had a sort of indifference about the matter,
+which, in fact, has lasted ever since.
+
+The moment I was then able to hold a pen I wrote two short
+letters, to acknowledge the state of the affair to my sisters -
+and to one of these epistles I had an immediate laughing answer,
+informing me my confidence was somewhat of the latest, as the
+subject of it was already in all the newspapers!  I was extremely
+chagrined at this intelligence; but, from that time, thought it
+all too late to be the herald of my own designs. And this, added
+to my natural and incurable dislike to enter upon these
+egotistical details unasked, has caused my silence to my dear M-
+-, and to every friend I possess.  Indeed, speedily after, I had
+an illness so severe and so dangerous, that for full seven weeks
+the tragedy was neither named nor thought of by M. d'Arblay or
+myself.
+
+The piece was represented to the utmost disadvantage, save only
+Mrs. Siddons and Mr. Kemble - for it was not written with any
+idea of the stage, and my illness and weakness, and constant
+absorbment, at the time of its preparation, occasioned it to
+appear with so many undramatic effects, from my inexperience of
+theatrical requisites and demands, that, when I saw it, I myself
+perceived a thousand things I wished to change. The performers,
+too, were cruelly imperfect, and made blunders I blush to have
+pass for mine,-added to what belong to me. The most important
+character after the hero and heroine had but two lines of his
+part by heart !  He made all the rest at random, and such
+nonsense as put all the other actors out as much as himself; so
+that a more wretched Performance, except Mrs. Siddons, Mr.
+Kemble, and Mr. Bensley, could not be exhibited in a barn. All
+this concurred to make it very desirable to withdraw the piece
+for alterations, which I have done.
+
+(Dr. Burney to Madame d'Arblay.)
+May 7, 1795.
+One of my dinners, since my going out, was at Charlotte's, with
+the good Hooles. After dinner Mr. Cumberland came in, and was
+extremely courteous, and seemingly friendly, about you and your
+piece.  He took me aside from Mrs. Paradise, who had fastened on
+me and held me tight by an account of her own and Mr. paradise's
+complaints, so
+
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+
+circumstantially narrated, that not a stop so short as a comma
+occurred in more than an hour, while I was civilly waiting for a
+full period. Mr. Cumberland expressed his sorrow at what had
+happened at Drury-lane, and said that, if he had had the honour
+of knowing you sufficiently, he would have told you d'avance what
+would happen, by what he had heard behind the scenes. The players
+seem to have given the play an ill name.  But, he says, if you
+would go to work again, by reforming this, or work with your best
+powers at a new plan, and would submit it to his inspection, he
+would, from the experience he has had, risk his life on its
+success. This conversation I thought too curious not to be
+mentioned. . . .
+
+
+              HASTINGs' ACQUITTAL. DR. BURNEY'S METASTASIO.
+
+Well, but how does your Petit and pretty monsieur do? 'Tis pity
+you and M. d'Arblay don't like him, poor thing! And how does
+horticulture thrive ? This is a delightful time of the year for
+your Floras and your Linnaei: I envy the life of a gardener in
+spring, particularly in fine weather.
+
+And so dear Mr. Hastings is honourably acquitted!(120) and I
+visited him the next morning, and we cordially shook hands. I had
+luckily left my name at his door as soon as I was able to go out,
+and before it was generally expected that he would be acquitted.
+. . .
+
+The young Lady Spencer and I are become very thick , I have dined
+with her at Lady Lucan's, and met her at the blue parties there.
+She has invited me to her box at the opera, to her house in St
+James's Place, and at the Admiralty, whither the family removed
+last Saturday, and she says I must come to her the 15th, 22nd,
+and 29th of this month, when I shall see a huge assembly. Mrs.
+Crewe says all London will be there.  She is a pleasant, lively,
+and comical creature, with more talents and discernment than are
+expected from a character si folƒtre. My lord is not only the
+handsomest and the best intentioned man in the kingdom, but at
+present the most useful and truly patriotic.  And then, he has
+written to Vienna for Metastasio's three inedited volumes, which
+I so much want ere I advance too far in the press for them to be
+of any use.
+
+I am halooed on prodigiously in my Metastasio mania. All the
+critics--Warton, Twining, Nares, and Dr. Charles--say that his
+"Estratto dell' Arte Poetica d'Aristotile," which I am
+
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+
+now translating, is the best piece of dramatic criticism that has
+ever been written. "Bless my heart!" says Warton, "I, that have
+been all my life defending the three unities, am overset." "Ay,"
+quoth I, "has not he made you all ashamed of 'em? You learned
+folks are only theorists in theatrical matters, but Metastasio
+had sixty years' successful practice. There!--Go to." My dear
+Fanny, before you write another play, you must read Aristotle and
+Horace, as expounded by my dear Metastasio. But, basta. You know
+when I take up a favourite author, as a Johnson, a Haydn, or a
+Metastasio, I do not soon lay him down or let him be run down. .
+. .
+
+Here it strikes three o'clock: the post knell, not bell, tolls
+here, and I must send off my scrib: but I will tell you, though I
+need not, that, now I have taken up Metastasio again, I work at
+him in every uninterrupted moment. I have this morning attempted
+his charming pastoral, in "il Re Pastore."  I'll give you the
+translation, because the last stanza is a portrait:--
+
+To meadows, woods, and fountains
+Our tender flocks I'll lead;
+In meads beneath the mountains
+My love shall see them feed.
+
+Our simple narrow mansion
+Will suit our station well;
+There's room for heart expansion
+And peace and joy to dwell.
+
+
+                   BABY D'ARBLAY. THE WITHDRAWN TRAGEDY.
+
+(From Madame d'Arblay to Dr. Burney)
+Hermitage, Bookham, May 13, 1795.
+As you say, 'tis pity M. d'A. and his rib should have conceived
+such an antipathy to the petit monsieur!  O if you could see him
+now! My mother would be satisfied, for his little cheeks are
+beginning to favour of the trumpeter's, and Esther would be
+satisfied, for he eats like an embryo alderman. He enters into
+all we think, say, mean, and wish ! His eyes are sure to
+sympathise in all our affairs and all our feelings. We find some
+kind reason for every smile he bestows upon us, and some generous
+and disinterested Motive for every grave look.
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+
+If he wants to be danced, we see he has discovered that his
+gaiety is exhilarating to us ; if he refuses to be moved, we take
+notice that he fears to fatigue us.  If he will not be quieted
+without singing, we delight in his early go–t for les beaux arts.
+If he is immovable to all we can devise to divert him, we are
+edified by the grand sirieux of his dignity and philosophy: if he
+makes the house ring with loud acclaim because his food, at first
+call, does not come ready warm into his mouth, we hold up our
+hands with admiration at his vivacity.
+
+Your conversation with Mr. Cumberland astonished me. I certainly
+think his experience of stage effect, and his interest with
+players, so important, as almost instantly to wish putting his
+sincerity to the proof.  How has he got these two characters-
+-one, of Sir Fretful Plagiary, detesting all works but those he
+owns, and all authors but himself--the other, of a man too
+perfect even to know or conceive the vices of the world, such as
+he is painted by Goldsmith in "Retaliation?" And which of these
+characters is true?(121)
+
+I am not at all without thoughts of a future revise of "Edwy and
+Elgiva," for which I formed a plan on the first night, from what
+occurred by the representation. And let me own to you, when you
+commend my "bearing so well a theatrical drubbing," I am by no
+means enabled to boast I bear it with conviction of my utter
+failure. The piece was certainly not
+
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+
+heard, and therefore not really judged.  The audience finished
+with an unmixed applause on hearing it was withdrawn for
+alterations, and I have considered myself in the publicly
+accepted situation of having at my own option to let the piece
+die, or attempt its resuscitation,-its reform, as Mr. Cumberland
+calls it.  However, I have not given one moment to the matter
+since my return to the Hermitage. F. D'A.
+
+PS-I should he very glad to hear good news of the revival of Mr.
+Burke. Have you ever seen him since this fatality in his family?
+I am glad, nevertheless with all my heart, of Mr. Hastings's
+honourable acquittal.
+
+
+                                "CAMILLA."
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Mrs.--.)
+Bookham, June 15, '95,
+Let me hasten to tell you something of myself that I shall be
+very sorry you should hear from any other, as your too
+susceptible mind would be hurt again, and that would grieve me
+quite to the heart.
+
+I have a long work, which a long time has been in hand, that I
+mean to publish soon--in about a year. Should it succeed, like
+'Evelina' and 'Cecilia,' it may be a little portion to our
+Bambino.  We wish, therefore, to print it for ourselves in this
+hope; but the expenses of the press are so enormous, so raised by
+these late Acts, that it is out of all question for us to afford
+it. We have, therefore, been led by degrees to listen to counsel
+of some friends, and to print it by subscription. This is in
+many--many ways unpleasant and unpalatable to us both; but the
+real chance of real use and benefit to Our little darling
+overcomes all scruples, and therefore, to work we go!
+
+You will feel, I dare believe, all I could write on this Subject;
+I once rejected such a plan, formed for me by Mr. Burke, where
+books were to be kept by ladies, not booksellers,--the Duchess of
+Devonshire, Mrs. Boscawen, and Mrs. Crewe; but I was an
+individual then, and had no cares of times to come: now, thank
+heaven! this is not the case;--and when I look at my little boy's
+dear, innocent, yet intelligent face, I defy any pursuit to be
+painful that may lead to his good.
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+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Dr. Burney.)
+Bookham, June 18, '95.
+All our deliberations made, even after your discouraging
+calculations, we still mean to hazard the publishing by
+subscription.  And, indeed, I had previously determined, when I.
+changed my state, to set aside all my innate and original
+abhorrences, and to regard and use as resources, myself, what had
+always been considered as such by others. Without this idea, and
+this resolution, our hermitage must have been madness. . . .
+
+I like well the idea of giving no name at all,-why should not I
+have my mystery as well as "Udolpho?"(122)--but, " now, don't
+fly, Dr. Burney! I own I do not like calling it a novel; it gives
+so simply the notion of a mere love-story, that I recoil a little
+from it.  I mean this work to be sketches of characters and
+morals put in action,-not a romance. I remember the word " novel
+" was long in the way of 'Cecilia,' as I was told at the queen's
+house; and it was not permitted to be read by the princesses till
+sanctioned by a bishop's recommendation,--the late Dr. Ross of
+Exeter.
+
+Will you then suffer mon amour Propre to be saved by the
+proposals running thus?--Proposals for printing by subscription,
+in six volumes duodecimo, a new work by the author of "Evelina"
+and "Cecilia."
+
+How grieved I am you do not like my heroine's name!(123) the
+prettiest in nature! I remember how many people did not like that
+of "Evelina," and called it "affected" and "missish," till they
+read the book, and then they got accustomed in a few pages, and
+afterwards it was much approved.  I must leave this for the
+present untouched ; for the force of the name attached by the
+idea of the character, in the author's mind, is such, that I
+should not know how to sustain it by any other for a long while.
+In "Cecilia" and "Evelina" 'twas the same: the names of all the
+personages annexed, with me, all the ideas I put in motion with
+them. The work is so far advanced, that the personages are all,
+to me, as so many actual acquaintances, whose memoirs and
+
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+
+opinions I am committing to paper.  I will make it the best I
+can, my dearest father. I will neither be indolent, nor
+negligent, nor avaricious. I can never half answer the
+expectations that seem excited.  I must try to forget them, or I
+shall be in a continual quivering.
+
+Mrs. Cooke, my excellent neighbour, came in Just now to read me a
+paragraph of a letter from Mrs. Leigh, of Oxfordshire, her
+sister. . . . After much of civility about the new work and its
+author, it finishes thus:--"Mr. Hastings I saw just now: I told
+him what was going forward; he gave a great jump, and exclaimed,
+'Well, then, now I can serve her, thank Heaven, and I will! I
+will write to Anderson to engage Scotland, and I will attack the
+East Indies myself!'" F. D'A.
+
+P.S.-The Bambino is half a year old this day.
+ N.B.-I have not heard the Park or Tower guns.  I imagine the
+wind did not set right.
+
+
+                      AN INVITATION TO THE HERMITAGE.
+
+(Madame d"Arblay to the Comte de Narbonne.(124)]
+Bookham, 26th December, 1795.
+What a letter, to terminate so long and painful a silence! It has
+penetrated us with sorrowing and indignant feelings. Unknown to
+M. d'Arblay whose grief and horror are upon point of making him
+quite ill, I venture this address to his most beloved friend; and
+before I seal it I will give him the option to burn or underwrite
+it.  I shall be brief in what I have to propose: sincerity need
+not be loquacious, and M. de Narbonne is too kind to demand
+phrases for ceremony.
+
+Should your present laudable but melancholy plan fail, and should
+nothing better offer, or till something can be arranged, will you
+dear Sir, condescend to share the poverty of our hermitage? Will
+you take a little cell under our rustic roof, and fare as we
+fare? What to us two hermits is cheerful and happy, will to you,
+indeed, be miserable but it will be some solace to the goodness
+of your heart to witness our contentment;--to dig with M. d'A. in
+the garden will be of service to
+
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+your health; to muse sometimes with me in the parlour will be a
+relaxation to your mind. You will not blush to own your little
+godson. Come, then, and give him your blessing; relieve the
+wounded feelings of his father--oblige his mother--and turn
+hermit at Bookham, till brighter suns invite you elsewhere. F.
+D'ARPLAY.
+
+You will have terrible dinners, alas !--but your godson comes in
+for the dessert.(125)
+
+
+                   PRESENTATION OF "CAMILLA" AT WINDSOR.
+
+[During the years 1794 and 1795, Madame d'Arblay finished and
+prepared for the press her third novel, "Camilla," which was
+published partly by subscription in 1796 the dowager Duchess of
+Leinster, the Hon. Mrs. Boscawen, Mrs. Crewe, and Mrs. Locke,
+kindly keeping lists, and receiving the names of subscribers.
+
+This work having been dedicated by permission to the queen, the
+authoress was desirous of presenting the first copy to her
+majesty, and made a journey to Windsor for that honour.)
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Dr. Burney.)
+Bookham, July 10, 1796.
+ If I had as much of time as of matter, my dear father, what an
+immense letter should I write you !  But I have still so many
+book oddments of accounts, examinations, directions, and little
+household affairs to arrange, that, with baby-kissing, included,
+I expect I can give you to-day only part the first of an
+excursion which I mean to comprise in four parts: so here begins.
+
+The books were ready at eleven or twelve, but not so the tailor!
+The three Miss Thrales came to a short but cordial hand-shaking
+at the last minute, by appointment; and at about half-past three
+we set forward.  I had written the day before to my worthy old
+friend Mrs. Agnew, the housekeeper, erst, of my revered Mrs.
+Delany, to secure us rooms for one
+
+page 99, day and night, and to Miss Planta to make known I could
+
+not set out till late.
+
+When we came into Windsor at seven o'clock, the way to Mrs.
+Agnew's was so intricate that we could not find it, till one of
+the king's footmen recollecting me, I imagined, came forward, a
+volunteer, and walked by the side of the chaise to show the
+postilion the house.--N.B. No bad omen to worldly augurers.
+
+Arrived, Mrs. Agnew came forth with faithful attachment, to
+conduct us to our destined lodgings.  I wrote hastily to Miss
+Planta, to announce to the queen that I was waiting the honour of
+her majesty's commands ; and then began preparing for my
+appearance the next morning, when I expected a summons - but Miss
+Planta came instantly herself from the queen, with orders of
+immediate attendance, as her majesty would see me directly! The
+king was just gone upon the Terrace, but her majesty did not walk
+that evening.
+
+Mrs. Agnew was my maid, Miss Planta my arranger; my
+landlord, who was a hairdresser, came to my head, and M. d'Arblay
+was general superintendent.  The haste and the joy went hand in
+hand, and I was soon equipped, though shocked at my own
+precipitance in sending before I was already visible.  Who,
+however, could have expected such prompt admission? and in an
+evening?
+
+M. d'Arblay helped to carry the books as far as to the gates. My
+lodgings were as near to them as possible. At our first entry
+towards the Queen's lodge we encountered Dr. Fisher and his lady:
+the sight of me there, in a dress announcing indisputably whither
+I was hieing, was such an Astonishment, that they looked at me
+rather as a recollected spectre than a renewed acquaintance. When
+we came to the iron rails poor Miss Planta, in much fidget,
+begged to take the books from M. d'Arblay, terrified, I imagine,
+lest French feet should contaminate the gravel within!--while he,
+innocent of her fears, was insisting upon carrying them as far as
+to the house, till he saw I took part with Miss Planta, and he
+was then compelled to let us lug in ten volumes as we could.
+
+The king was already returned from the Terrace, the page told
+us." O, then," said Miss Planta, "you are too late!" However, I
+went into my old dining-parlour; while she said she would see if
+any one could obtain the queen's
+commands for another time.  I did not stay five minutes
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+
+ruminating upon the dinners, "gone where the chickens," etc.,
+when Miss Planta return and told me the queen would see me
+instantly.
+
+The queen was In her dressing-room, and with only the Princess
+Elizabeth.  Her reception was the Most gracious.  yet, when she
+saw my emotion in thus meeting her again; she herself was by no
+means quite unmoved. I presented my little--yet not small--
+offering, upon one knee placing them, as she directed, upon a
+table by her side, and expressing, as well as I could, my devoted
+gratitude for her invariable goodness to me. She then began a
+conversation, in her old style, upon various things and people,
+with all her former graciousness of manner, which soon, as she
+perceived my strong sense of her indulgence, grew into even all
+its former kindness.  Particulars I have now no room for ; but
+when in about half an hour, she said, "How long do you intend to
+stay here, Madame d'Arblay?" and I answered, "We have no
+intentions, ma'am," she repeated, laughing, "You have no
+intentions!--Well, then, if you can come again to-morrow Morning,
+you shall see the princesses."
+
+She then said she would not detain me at present; encouraged by
+all that had passed, I asked if I might presume to put at the
+door of the king's apartment a copy of MY little work. She
+hesitated, but with smiles the most propitious;. then told me to
+fetch the books - and whispered something to the Princess
+Elizabeth, who left the room by another door at the same moment
+that I retired for the other set. Almost immediately upon my
+return to the queen and the Princess Elizabeth, the king entered
+the apartment, and entered it to receive himself my little
+offering.
+
+"Madame d'Arblay," said her majesty, "tells me that Mrs. Boscawen
+is to have the third set; but the first--Your majesty will excuse
+me--is mine."
+
+This was not, you will believe, thrown away upon me.  The king,
+smiling, said, "Mrs Boscawen, I hear, has been very zealous."
+
+I confirmed this. and the Princess Elizabeth eagerly called out,
+"Yes, sir! and while Mrs. Boscawen kept a copy for Madame
+d'Arblay, the Duchess of Beaufort kept one for Mrs. Boscawen."
+
+This led to a little discourse upon the business, in which the
+king's countenance seemed to speak a benign interest; and the
+queen then said,
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+
+"This book was begun here, sir." Which already I had mentioned.
+
+"And what did you write Of it here?" cried he. "How far did You
+go?--Did You finish any part? or only form the skeleton?"
+
+"Just that, sir," I answered; "the skeleton
+was formed here, but nothing was completed.  I worked it up in my
+little cottage."
+
+"And about what time did You give to it?"
+
+"All my time, sir; from the Period I planned publishing it, I
+devoted myself to it wholly. I had no episode but a little baby.
+My subject grew Upon me, and increased my materials to a bulk
+that I am afraid will be more laborious to wade through for the
+reader than for the writer."
+
+"Are you much frightened cried he, smiling,
+"as much frightened as you were before?"
+
+"I have hardly had time to know yet, sir.  I received the fair
+sheets Of the last volume only last night. I have, therefore, had
+no leisure for fear. And sure I am, happen what May to the book
+from the critics, it can never cause me pain in any proportion
+with the pleasure and happiness I owe to it." I /am sure I spoke
+most sincerely and he looked kindly to believe me.
+
+He asked if Mr. Locke had seen it; and when I said no, he seemed
+comically pleased, as if desirous to have it in its first state.
+He asked next if Dr. Burney had overlooked it; and, upon the same
+answer, looked with the same satisfaction. He did not imagine how
+it would have passed Current with my dearest father: he appeared
+Only to be glad it would be a genuine work: but, laughingly,
+said, "So you kept it quite snug?"
+
+"Not intentionally, sir, but from my situation and my haste; I
+should else have been very happy to have consulted my father and
+Mr. Locke; but I had so much, to the last moment, to write, that
+I literally had not a moment to hear what could be said. The work
+is longer by the whole fifth Volume than I had first planned; and
+I am almost ashamed to look at its size, and afraid my readers
+would have been more obliged to me if I had left so much out than
+for putting So much in."
+
+He laughed and inquired who corrected my proofs? 'Only myself," I
+answered.
+
+"Why, some authors have told me," cried he, "that they
+
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+
+are the last to do that work for themselves.  They know so well
+by heart what ought to be, that they run on without seeing what
+is.  They have told me, besides, that a mere plodding head is
+best and surest for that work ; and that the livelier the
+imagination, the less it should be trusted to."
+
+I must not go on thus minutely, or my four parts will be forty.
+But a full half-hour of graciousness, I could almost call
+kindness, was accorded me, though the king came from the concert
+to grant it ; and it broke up by the queen saying, "I have told
+Madame d'Arblay that, if she can come again to-morrow, she shall
+see the princesses."
+
+The king bowed gently to my grateful obeisance for this offer,
+and told me I should not know the Princess Amelia, she was so
+much grown, adding, "She is taller than you!"
+
+I expressed warmly my delight in the permission of Seeing their
+royal highnesses, and their majesties returned to the
+concert-room.  The Princess Elizabeth stayed, -and flew up to me,
+crying, "How glad I am to see you here again, my dear Miss
+Burney!--I beg your pardon,--Madame d'Arblay I mean -but I always
+call all my friends by their maiden names when I first see them
+after they are married."
+
+I warmly now opened upon my happiness in this return to all their
+sights, and the condescension and sweetness with which it was
+granted me - and confessed I could hardly behave prettily and
+properly at my first entrance after so long an absence. "O, I
+assure you I felt for you!" cried she; "I thought you must be
+agitated ; it was so natural to you to come here-to mamma!"
+
+You will believe, my dearest father, how light-hearted and full
+of glee I went back to my expecting companion: Miss Planta
+accompanied me, and stayed the greatest part of the little
+remaining evening, promising to let me know at what hour I should
+wait upon their royal highnesses.
+
+
+
+                      A CONVERSATION WITH THE QUEEN.
+
+The next morning, at eight or nine o'clock, my old footman, Moss,
+came with Mlle, Jacobi's compliments to M. and Madame d'Arblay,
+and an invitation to dine at the Queen's lodge.
+
+Miss Planta arrived at ten, with her majesty's commands that I
+should be at the Queen's lodge at twelve.  I stayed meanwhile,
+with good Mrs. Agnew, and M. d'Arblay made
+
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+
+acquaintance with her worthy husband, who is a skilful and famous
+botanist, and lately made gardener to the queen for Frogmore - so
+M. d'Arblay consulted him about our cabbages! and so, if they
+have not now a high flavour, we are hopeless.
+
+At eleven M. d'Arblay again ventured to esquire me to the rails
+round the lodge, whence I showed him my ci-devant apartment,
+which he languished to view nearer.  I made a visit to Mlle.
+Jacobi, who is a very good creature, and with whom I remained
+very comfortably till her majesty and the princesses returned
+from Frogmore, where they had passed two or three hours. Almost
+immediately I was summoned to the queen by one of the pages.
+
+She was just seated to her hair-dresser. She conversed upon
+various public and general topics till the friseur was dismissed,
+and then I was honoured with an audience, quite alone, for a full
+hour and a half.  During this, nothing could be more gracious
+than her whole manner, and The particulars, as there was no
+pause, would fill a duodecimo volume at least. Among them was Mr.
+Windham, whom she named with great favour; and gave me the
+opportunity of expressing my delight upon his belonging to the
+government.  We had so often conversed about him during the
+accounts I had related of Mr. Hastings's trial, that there was
+much to say upon the acquisition to the administration, and my
+former round assertions of his goodness of heart and honour. She
+inquired how you did, my dearest father, with an air of great
+kindness and, when I said well, looked pleased, as she answered,
+"I was afraid he was ill, for I saw him but twice last year at
+our music."
+
+She then gave me an account of the removal of the concert to the
+Haymarket since the time I was admitted to it. She then talked of
+some books and authors, but found me wholly in the Clouds as to
+all that is new. She then said, "What a very pretty book Dr.
+Burney has brought out upon Metastasio! I am very much pleased
+with it. Pray (smiling) what will he bring out next?"
+
+"As yet, madam, I don't know of any new plan."
+
+"But he will bring out something else?"
+
+"Most probably, but he will rest a little first, I fancy."
+
+"Has he nothing in hand?"
+
+"Not that I now know of, madam."
+
+"O but he soon will!" cried she, again smiling.
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+
+"He has so active a mind, ma'am, that I believe it quite
+impossible to him to be utterly idle , but, indeed, I know of no
+present design being positively formed."
+
+We had then some discourse upon the new connexion at Norbury
+park--the Fitzgeralds, etc.; and from this she led to various
+topics of our former conferences, both in persons and things, and
+gave me a full description of her new house at Frogmore, its
+fitting up, and the share of each princess in its decoration.
+She spoke with delight of its quiet and ease, and her enjoyment
+of its complete retirement.  "I spend," she cried, "there almost
+constantly all my mornings.  I rarely come home but just before
+dinner, merely to dress, but to-day I came sooner."
+
+This was said in a manner so flattering, I could scarce forbear
+the air of thanking her , however, I checked the expression,
+though I could not the inference which urged it.
+
+
+               WITH THE PRINCESs ROYAL AND PRINCESS AUGUSTA.
+
+At two o'clock the Princess Elizabeth appeared.  "Is the princess
+royal ready?" said the queen. She answered, "Yes:" and her
+majesty then told me I might go to her, adding, "You
+know the way, Madame d'Arblay." And, thus licensed, I went to the
+apartment of her royal highness up stairs.  She was just quitting
+it, She received me most graciously, and told me she was going to
+sit for her picture, if I would come and stay with her while she
+sat.  Miss Bab Planta was in attendance, to read during this
+period.  The princess royal ordered me a chair facing her; and
+another for Miss Bab and her book, which, however, was never
+opened. The painter was Mr. Dupont.(1266) She was very gay and
+very charming, full of lively discourse and amiable
+condescension.
+
+In about an hour the Princess Augusta came in : she addressed me
+with her usual sweetness, and, when she had looked at her
+sister's portrait, said, "Madame d'Arblay, when the princess
+royal can spare you, I hope you will come to me," as she left the
+room. I did not flout her; and when I had been an hour with the
+princess royal, she told me she would
+
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+
+keep me no longer from Augusta, and Miss Planta came to conduct
+me to the latter. This lovely princess received me quite alone ;
+Miss Planta only shut me in - and she then made me sit by her,
+and kept me in most bewitching discourse more than an hour.  She
+has a gaiety, a charm about her, that is quite resistless: and
+much of true, genuine, and very original humour. She related to
+me the history of all the feats, and exploits, and dangers, and
+escapes of her brothers during last year; rejoicing in their
+safety, yet softly adding, "Though these trials and difficulties
+did them a great deal of good."
+
+We talked a little of France, and she inquired of me what I knew
+of the late unhappy queen, through M. d'Arblay ; and spoke of her
+with the most virtuous discrimination between her foibles and her
+really great qualities, with her most barbarous end. .She then
+dwelt upon Madame Royale, saying, in her unaffected manner, "
+It's very odd one never hears what sort of girl she is." I told
+her all I had gathered from M. d'Arblay. She next spoke of my
+Bambino, indulging me in recounting his faits et gestes; and
+never moved till the princess royal came to summon her. They were
+all to return to Frogmore to dinner. "We have detained Madame
+d'Arblay between us the whole morning," said the princess royal,
+with a gracious smile. "Yes," cried Princess Augusta, "and I am
+afraid I have bored her to death; but when once I begin upon my
+poor brothers, I can never stop without telling all my little
+bits of glory." She then outstayed the princess royal to tell me
+that, when she was at Plymouth, at church, she saw so many
+officers' wives, and sisters, and mothers, helping their maimed
+husbands, or brothers, or sons, that she could not forbear
+whispering to the queen, "Mamma, how lucky it is Ernest is just
+come so seasonably with that wound in his face! I should have
+been quite shocked, else, not to have had one little bit of glory
+among ourselves!"
+
+When forced away from this sweet creature, I went to Mlle.
+Jacobi, who said, "But where is M. d'Arblay?" Finding it too late
+for me to go to my lodging to dress before dinner I wrote him a
+word, which immediately brought him to the Queen's lodge : and
+there I shall leave my dear father the pleasure of seeing us,
+mentally, at dinner, at my ancient table,-both invited by the
+queen's commands. Miss Gomme was asked to meet me, and the repast
+was extremely pleasant.
+
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+
+                    A PRESENT FROM THE KING AND QUEEN.
+
+just before we assembled to dinner Mlle. Jacobi desired to speak
+with me alone, and, taking me to another room, presented me with
+a folded little packet, saying, "The queen ordered me to put this
+into your hands, and said, 'Tell Madame d'Arblay it is from us
+both."' It was a hundred guineas. I was confounded, and nearly
+sorry, so little was such a mark of their goodness in my
+thoughts. She added that the king, as soon as he came from the
+chapel in the morning, went to the queen's dressing-room just
+before he set out for the levee, and put into her hands fifty
+guineas, saying, "This is for my set!" The queen answered, "I
+shall do exactly the same for mine," and made up the packet
+herself. "'Tis only,' she said, 'for the paper, tell Madame
+d'Arblay, nothing for the trouble!'" meaning she accepted that.
+
+The manner of this was so more than gracious, so kind, in the
+words us both, that indeed the money at the time was quite
+nothing in the scale of my gratification ; it was even less, for
+it almost pained me.  However, a delightful thought that in a few
+minutes occurred made all light and blithesome. "We will come,
+then," I cried, "once a year to Windsor, to walk the Terrace, and
+see the king, queen, and sweet princesses. This will enable us,
+and I shall never again look forward to so long a deprivation of
+their sight."  This, with my gratitude for their great goodness,
+was what I could not refrain commissioning her to report.
+
+
+                     CURIOSITY REGARDING M. D'ARBLAY.
+
+Our dinner was extremely cheerful; all my old friends were highly
+curious to see M. d'Arblay, who was in spirits, and, as he could
+address them in French, and at his ease, did not seem much
+disapproved of by them. I went to my lodging afterwards to dress,
+where I told my monsieur this last and unexpected stroke, which
+gave him exactly my sensations, and we returned to tea. We had
+hopes of the Terrace, as my monsieur was quite eager to see all
+this beloved royal House. The weather, however, was very
+unpromising. The king came from the lodge during our absence; but
+soon after we were in the levee three royal coaches arrived from
+Frogmore: in the first was the queen, the Princesses Royal and
+Augusta, and some lady in waiting. M. d'Arblay stood beside me
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+
+at a window to see them; her majesty looked up and bowed to me,
+and, upon her alighting, she looked up again. This, I am sure,
+was to see M. d'Arblay, who could not be doubted, as he wore his
+croix the whole time he was at Windsor. The princesses bowed
+also, and the four younger, who followed, all severally kissed
+their hands to me, and fixed their eyes on my companion with an
+equal expression of kindness and curiosity ; he therefore saw
+them perfectly.
+
+
+              THE KING APPROVES THE DEDICATION OF "CAMILLA."
+
+In a few minutes a page came to say, "The princesses desire to
+see Madame d'Arblay," and he conducted me to the apartment of the
+Princess Elizabeth, which is the most elegantly and fancifully
+ornamented of any in the lodge, as she has most delight and most
+taste in producing good effects.
+
+Here the fair owner of the chamber received me, encircled with
+the Princesses Mary and Amelia, and no attendant. They were
+exactly as I had left them--kind, condescending, open,
+and delightful; and the goodness of the queen, in sparing them
+all to me thus, without any allay of ceremony, or gˆne of
+listening Mutes, I felt most deeply.
+
+They were all very gay, and I not very sad, so we enjoyed A
+perfectly easy and even merry half-hour in divers discourses, in
+which they recounted to me who had been most anxious about "the
+book," and doubted not its great success, as everybody was so
+eager about it. "And I must tell you one thing," Cried the
+Princess Elizabeth; "the king is very much pleased with the
+dedication."
+
+This was, you will be sure, a very touching hearing to me; And
+Princess Mary exclaimed, "And he is very difficult!"
+
+"O, yes, he's hardly ever pleased with a dedication," cried one
+of the princesses.  "He almost always thinks them so fulsome."
+
+"I was resolved I would tell it you," cried Princess Elizabeth.
+
+Can you imagine anything more amiable than this pleasure in
+giving pleasure?
+
+
+                   A DELICIOUS CHAT WITH THE PRINCESSES.
+
+Soon after the Princess Augusta came in, smiling and lovely.
+Princess royal next appeared Princess Augusta sat down, and
+charged me to take a chair next her.  Princess
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+
+royal did not stay long, and soon returned to summon her sister
+Augusta downstairs, as the concert was begun : but she replied
+she could not come yet : and the princess royal went alone.  We
+had really a most delicious chat then.
+
+They made a thousand inquiries about my book, and when and where
+it was written, etc., and how I stood as to fright and fidget. I
+answered all with openness, and frankly related my motives for
+the publication.  Everything of housekeeping, I told them, was
+nearly doubled in price at the end of the first year and half of
+our marriage, and we found it impossible to continue so near our
+friends and the capital with our limited income, though M. d'A.
+had accommodated himself completely, and even happily, to every
+species of economy, and though my dearest father had capitally
+assisted us ; I then, therefore, determined upon adopting a plan
+I had formerly rejected, of publishing by subscription.  I told
+them the former history of that plan, as Mr. Burke's, and many
+particulars that seemed extremely to interest them. My garden,
+our way of life, our house, our Bambino,-all were inquired after
+and related.  I repeatedly told them the strong desire M.
+d'Arblay had to be regaled with a sight of all their House -a
+House to which I stood so every way indebted,-,and they looked
+kindly concerned that the weather admitted no prospect of the
+Terrace.
+
+I mentioned to the Princess Augusta my recent new obligation to
+their majesties, and my amaze and even shame at their goodness.
+
+"O, I am sure," cried she, "they were very happy to have it in
+their power."
+
+"Yes, and we were so glad!"
+
+"So glad!" echoed each of the others.
+
+"How enchanted should I have been," cried I, "to have presented
+my little book to each of your royal highnesses if I had dared!
+or if, after her majesty has looked it over, I might hope for
+such a permission, how proud and how happy it would make me!"
+
+"O, I daresay you may," cried the Princess Augusta, eagerly. I
+then intimated how deeply I should feel such an honour, if it
+might be asked, after her majesty had read it - and the Princess
+Elizabeth gracefully undertook the office. She related to me, in
+a most pleasant manner, the whole of her own recent transaction,
+its rise and cause and progress, in "The
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+
+Birth of Love:"(127) but I must here abridge, or never have done.
+I told them all my scheme for coming again next July, which they
+sweetly seconded. Princess Amelia assured me she had not
+forgotten me ; and when another summons came for the concert,
+Princess Augusta, comically sitting still and holding me by her
+side, called out, "Do you little ones go!"
+
+But they loitered also, and we went on, on, on, with our chat,-
+-they as unwilling as myself to break it up,-till staying longer
+was impossible ; and then, in parting, they all expressed the
+kindest pleasure in our newly-adopted plan of a yearly visit.
+
+"And pray," cried Princess Elizabeth, "write again immediately!"
+
+"O, no," cried Princess Augusta, "wait half a year--to rest; and
+then--increase your family--all ways!"
+
+"The queen," said Princess Elizabeth, "consulted me which way she
+should read 'Camilla-' whether quick, at once, or comfortably at
+Weymouth: so I answered, 'Why, mamma, I think, as you will be so
+much interested in the book, Madame d'Arblay would be most
+pleased you should read it now at once, quick, that nobody may be
+mentioning the events before You come to them - and then again at
+Weymouth, slow and comfortably.'"
+
+In going, the sweet Princess Augusta loitered last but her
+youngest sister, Amelia, who came to take my hand when the rest
+were departed, and assure me she should never forget Me.
+
+We spent the remnant of Wednesday evening with my old friends,
+determining to quit Windsor the next day, if the weather did not
+promise a view of the royal family upon the Terrace for M.
+d'Arblay.
+
+
+                       THE KING NOTICES M. D'ARBLAY.
+
+Thursday morning was lowering, and we determined upon departing,
+after only visiting some of my former acquaintances. 'We met Miss
+Planta in our way to the lodge, and took leave; but when we
+arrived at Mlle. Jacobi's we found that the queen expected we
+should stay for the chance of the Terrace, and had told Mlle.
+Jacobi to again invite us to dinner. . . .
+
+We left the friendly Miss Goldsworthy for other visits;--first to
+good old Mrs. Planta; next to the very respectable
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+
+Dr. Fisher and his wife.  The former insisted upon doing the
+honours himself of St. George's cathedral to M. d'Arblay which
+occasioned his seeing that beautiful antique building to the
+utmost advantage.  Dr. Fisher then accompanied us to a spot to
+show M. d'Arblay Eton in the best view.
+
+Dinner passed as before, but the evening lowered, and hopes of
+the Terrace were weak, when the Duke and Duchess of York arrived.
+This seemed to determine against us, as they told us the duchess
+never went upon the Terrace but in the finest weather, and the
+royal family did not choose to leave her.  We were hesitating
+therefore whether to set off for Rose Dale, when Mlle. Jacobi
+gave an intimation to me that the king, herself, and the Princess
+Amelia, would walk on the Terrace. Thither instantly we hastened,
+and were joined by Dr. and Mrs. Fisher. The evening was so raw
+and cold that there was very little company, and scarce any
+expectation of the royal family - and when we had been there
+about half an hour the musicians retreated, and everybody was
+preparing to follow, when a messenger suddenly came forward,
+helter skelter, running after the horns and clarionets, and
+hallooing to them to return.  This brought back the straggling
+parties, and the king, Duke of York, and six princesses soon
+appeared.
+
+I have never yet seen M. d'Arblay agitated as at this moment ; he
+could scarce keep his steadiness, or even his ground.  The
+recollections, he has since told me, that rushed upon his mind of
+his own king and royal House were so violent and so painful as
+almost to disorder him. His majesty was accompanied by the duke,
+and Lord Beaulieu, Lord Walsingham, and General Manners; the
+princesses were attended by Lady Charlotte Bruce, some other
+lady, and Miss Goldsworthy: The king stopped to speak to the
+Bishop of Norwich and some others at the entrance, and then
+walked on towards us, who were at the further end.  As he
+approached, the princess royal said, loud enough to be heard by
+Mrs. Fisher, "Madame d'Arblay, sir;" and instantly he came on a
+step, and then stopped and addressed me, and, after a word or two
+of the weather, he said, "Is that M. d'Arblay?" and most
+graciously bowed to him and entered into a little conversation;
+demanding how long he had been in England, how long in the
+country, etc., and with a sweetness, an air of wishing us well,
+that will never, never be erased from our hearts.
+Page 111
+
+M. d'Arblay recovered himself immediately Upon this address, and
+answered with as much firmness as respect.
+
+Upon the king's bowing and leaving US, the commander-in-
+chief(128) most courteously bowed also to M. d'Arblay, and the
+princesses all came up to speak to me, and to curtsy to him ; and
+the Princess Elizabeth cried, "I've got leave! and mamma says she
+won't wait to read it first!"
+
+After this the king and duke never passed without taking off
+their hats, and the princesses gave me a smile and a curtsy at
+every turn: Lord Walsingbam came to speak to me, and Mr. Fairly,
+and General Manners, who regretted that more of our old tea-party
+were not there to meet me once more.
+
+
+                     THE KING AND QUEEN ON "CAMILLA."
+
+As soon as they all re-entered the lodge we followed to take
+leave of Mlle. Jacobi; but, Upon moving towards the passage, the
+princess royal appeared, saying, "Madame d'Arblay, I come to
+waylay you!" and made me follow her to the dressing-room, whence
+the voice of the queen, as the door opened, called out, in mild
+accents, "Come in, Madame d'Arblay!"
+
+Her majesty was seated at the upper end of the room, with the
+Duchess of York (129) on her right, and the Princesses Sophia and
+Amelia on her left. She made me advance, and said, "I have just
+been telling the Duchess of York that I find her royal highness's
+name the first Upon this list,"--producing "Camilla."
+
+"Indeed," said the duchess, bowing to me, "I was so very
+impatient to read it, I could not but try to get it as early as
+possible. I am very eager for it, indeed!"
+
+"I have read," said the queen, "but fifty pages yet; but I am in
+great uneasiness for that Poor little girl that I am afraid will
+get the small-pox! and I am sadly afraid that sweet little other
+girl will not keep her fortune! but I won't Peep! I read quite
+fair. But I must tell Madame d'Arblay I know a country gentleman,
+in Mecklenburg, exactly the very character of that good old man
+the Uncle!" She seemed to speak as if delighted to meet him upon
+paper.
+
+The king now came in, and I could not forbear making up
+
+Page 112
+
+to him, to pour forth some part of my full heart for his
+goodness!  He tried to turn away, but it was smilingly; and I had
+courage to pursue him, for I could not help it. He then slightly
+bowed it off, and asked the queen to repeat what she had said
+upon the book.
+
+"O, your majesty," she cried, "I must not anticipate!" yet told
+him of her pleasure in finding an old acquaintance.
+
+"Well!" cried the king archly, " and what other characters have
+you seized?"
+
+"None," I protested, "from life."
+
+"O!" cried he, shaking his head, "you must have some!"
+
+"Indeed your majesty will find none!" I cried.
+
+"But they may be a little better, or a little worse," he
+answered, "but still, if they are not like somebody, how can they
+play their parts?"
+
+"O, yes, sir," I cried, "as far as general nature goes, or as
+characters belong to classes, I have certainly tried to take
+them. But no individuals!"
+
+My account must be endless if I do not now curtail. The Duke of
+York, the other princesses, General Manners, and all the rest of
+the group, made way to the room soon after, upon hearing the
+cheerfulness of the voice of the king, whose .graciousness raised
+me into spirits that set me quite at my ease. He talked much upon
+the book, and then of Mrs. Delany, and then of various others
+that my sight brought to his recollection, and all with a freedom
+and goodness that enabled me to answer without difficulty or
+embarrassment, and that produced two or three hearty laughs from
+the Duke of York.
+
+
+                     ANECDOTE OF THE DUCHESS OF YORK.
+
+After various other topics, the queen said, "Duchess, Madame
+d'Arblay is aunt of the pretty little boy (130) you were so good
+to."
+
+The duchess understood her so immediately that I fancy this was
+not new to her.  She bowed to me again, very smilingly, upon the
+acknowledgments this encouraged me to offer; and the king asked
+an explanation.
+
+"Sir," said the duchess, "I was upon the road near Dorking, and I
+saw a little gig overturned, and a little boy was taken out, and
+sat down upon the road.  I told them to
+Page 113
+
+stop and ask if the little boy was hurt, and they said yes .- and
+I asked where he was to go, and they said to a village just a few
+miles off; so I took him into my coach, Sir, and carried him
+home."
+
+"And the benedictions, madam," cried I, "of all his family have
+followed you ever since!"
+
+"And he said your royal highness called him a very pretty boy,"
+cried the queen, laughing, to whom I had related it.
+
+"Indeed, what he said is very true," answered she, nodding.
+
+"Yes; he said," quoth I, again to the queen, "that he saw the
+duchess liked him."
+
+This again the queen repeated and the duchess again nodded, and
+pointedly repeated, "It is very true."
+
+"He was a very fine boy-a very fine boy indeed!" cried the king;
+"what is become of him?"
+
+I was a little distressed in answering, "He is in Ireland, sir."
+
+"In Ireland ! What does he do in Ireland? what does he go there
+for?"
+
+"His father took him, Sir," I was forced to answer.
+
+"And what does his father take him to Ireland for?"
+
+"Because-he is an Irishman, Sir!" I answered, half laughing.
+
+When at length, every one deigning me a bow of leavetaking, their
+majesties, and sons and daughters, retired to the adjoining room,
+the Princess Amelia loitered to shake hands, and the Princess
+Augusta returned for the same condescension, reminding me of my
+purpose for next year. While this was passing, the princess royal
+had repaired to the apartment of Mlle. Jacobi, where she had held
+a little Conversation with M. d'Arblay.
+
+
+                         A VISIT TO MRS. BOSCAWEN.
+
+We finished the evening very cheerfully with Mlle. Jacobi and
+Mlle. Montmoulin, whom she invited to meet us, and the next
+morning left Windsor and visited Rose Dale.(131) Mrs. Boscawen
+received us very sweetly, and the little offering as if not at
+all her due, Mrs. Levison Gower was with her, and showed us
+Thomson's temple. Mrs. Boscawen spoke of my
+
+
+Page 114
+
+dearest father with her Usual true sense Of how to Speak of him.
+She invited us to dinner, but we were anxious to return to our
+Bambino, and M. d'Arblay had, all this time, only fought off
+being ill with his remnant of cold. Nevertheless, when we came to
+Twickenham, my good old friend Mr. Cambridge was so cordial and
+so earnest that we could not resist him, and were pressed in to
+staying dinner. . . .
+
+At a little before eleven we arrived at our dear cottage, and to
+our sleeping Bambino.
+
+
+
+            THE RELATIVE SUCCESS OF MADAME D'ARBLAY'S NOVELS.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Dr. Burney.)
+Bookham, Friday, October, 1796.
+I meant to have begun with our thanks for my dear kind father's
+indulgence of our extreme curiosity and interest in the sight of
+the reviews.  I am quite happy in what I have escaped of greater
+severity, though my mate cannot bear that the palm should be
+contested by "Evelina" and "Cecilia;" his partiality rates the
+last as so much the highest; so does the newspaper I have
+mentioned, of which I long to send you a copy. But those immense
+men, whose single praise was fame and security--who established,
+by a word, the two elder sisters-are now silent, Johnson and Sir
+Joshua are no more, and Mr. Burke is ill, or otherwise engrossed;
+yet, even without their powerful influence, to which I owe such
+unspeakable obligation, the essential success of "Camilla"
+exceeds that of the elders.  The sale is truly astonishing.
+Charles has just sent to me that five hundred only remain of four
+thousand, and it has appeared scarcely three months.
+
+The first edition of "Evelina" was of eight hundred, the second
+of five hundred, and the third of a thousand. What the following
+have been I have never heard, The sale from that period became
+more flourishing than the publisher cared to announce. Of
+"Cecilia" the first edition was reckoned enormous at two thousand
+and as a part of payment Was reserved for it, I remember our dear
+Daddy Crisp thought it very unfair. It was printed, like this, in
+July, and sold in October, to every one's wonder.  Here, however,
+the sale's increased in rapidity more than a third.  Charles
+says,--
+
+"Now heed no more what critics thought 'em,
+Since this you know, all people bought 'em."
+
+Page 115
+
+                          A CONTEMPLATED COTTAGE.
+
+We have resumed our original plan, and are going immediately to
+build a little cottage for ourselves.  We shall make it as small
+and as cheap as will accord with its being warm and comfortable.
+We have relinquished, however, the very kind offer of Mr. Locke,
+which he has renewed, for his park. We mean to make this a
+property saleable or letable for our Alex, and in Mr. Locke's
+park we could not encroach any tenant, if the Youth's
+circumstances, profession, or inclination .should make him not
+choose the spot for his own residence. M. dArblay, therefore, has
+fixed upon a field of Mr. Locke's, which he will rent, and of
+which Mr. Locke will grant him a lease of ninety years.  By this
+means, we shall leave the little Alex a little property, besides
+what will be in the funds, and a property likely to rise in
+value, as the situation of the field is remarkably beautiful.  It
+is in the valley, between Mr. Locke's park and Dorking, and where
+land is so scarce, that there is not another possessor within
+many miles who would part, upon any terms, with half-an-acre.  My
+kindest father will come and give it, I trust, his benediction. I
+am now almost jealous of Bookham for having received it.
+
+Imagine but the ecstasy of M. d'Arblay in training, all his own
+way, an entire new garden. He dreams now of cabbage-walks,
+potato-beds, bean-perfumes, and peas-blossoms.  My mother should
+send him a little sketch to help his flower-garden, which will be
+his second favourite object.
+
+
+           THE PRINCESS ROYAL'S FIRST INTERVIEW WITH HER FIANCE.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Mrs. Locke.)
+1796.
+A private letter from Windsor tells me the Prince of Wurtemberg
+has much pleased in the royal House, by his manner and address
+upon his interview, but that the poor Princess royal was almost
+dead with terror, and agitation, and affright, at the first
+meeting.(132)  She could not utter a word, The queen was obliged
+to speak her answers. The prince said he hoped this first would
+be the last disturbance his
+page 116
+
+presence would ever occasion her.  She then tried to recover, and
+so far conquered her tumult as to attempt joining In a general
+discourse from time to time.  He paid his court successfully, I
+am told, to the sisters, who all determine to like him; and the
+princess royal is quite revived in her spirits again, now this
+tremendous opening sight is over.
+
+You will be pleased, and my dearest Mr. Locke, at the style of my
+summons: 'tis so openly from the queen herself, Indeed, she has
+behaved like an angel to me, from the trying time to her of my
+marriage with a Frenchman. "So odd, you know," as Lady Inchiquin
+said.
+
+
+                   OPINIONS OF THE REVIEWS ON "CAMILLA."
+
+(Dr. Burney to Madame d'Arblay.)
+November, 1796.
+. . .The "Monthly Review" has come in to-day, and it does not
+satisfy me, or raise my spirits, or anything but my indignation.
+James has read the remarks in it on "Camilla," and we are all
+dissatisfied. Perhaps a few of the verbal criticisms may be worth
+your attention in the second edition; but these have been picked
+out and displayed with no friendly view, and without necessity,
+in a work of such length and intrinsic sterling worth. J'enrage!
+Morbleu!
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Dr. Burney.)
+Bookham, November, 1796.
+I had intended writing to my dearest father by a return of goods,
+but I find it impossible to defer the overflowings of my heart at
+his most kind and generous indignation with the reviewer. What
+censure can ever so much hurt as such compensation can heal? And,
+in fact, the praise is so strong that, were it neatly put
+together, the writer might challenge my best enthusiasts to find
+it insufficient. The truth, however, is, that the criticisms come
+forward, and the panegyric is entangled, and so blended with
+blame as to lose almost all effect, The reviews, however, as they
+have not made, will not, I trust, mar me. "Evelina" made its way
+all by itself; it was well spoken of, indeed, in all the reviews,
+compared with general novels, but it was undistinguished by any
+quotation, and only put in the Monthly Catalogue, and only
+allowed
+
+Page 117
+
+short single paragraph.  It was
+circulated only by the general public till it reached, through
+that unbiassed medium, Dr. Johnson and Mr. Burke, and thence it
+wanted no patron.
+
+Nov. 14.-Upon a second reading of the Monthly Review upon
+"Camilla," I am in far better humour with it, and willing to
+confess to the criticisms, if I may claim by that concession any
+right to the eulogies.  They are stronger and more important,
+upon re-perusal, than I had imagined, in the panic of a first
+survey and an unprepared-for disappointment in anything like
+severity from so friendly an editor.  The recommendation, at the
+conclusion, of the book as a warning guide to youth, would
+recompense me, upon the least reflection, for whatever strictures
+Might precede it.  I hope my kind father has not suffered his
+generous--and to me most cordial--indignation against the
+reviewer to interfere with his intended answer to the
+affectionate letter of Dr. Griffiths.(133
+
+
+                  DEATH OF MADAME D'ARBLAY'S STEPMOTHER.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Mrs. Phillips.)
+Bookham, November 7, 1796.
+Yes, -my beloved Susan safe landed at Dublin was indeed
+all-sufficient for some time; nor, indeed, could I even read any
+more for many minutes.  That, and the single sentence at the end,
+"My Norbury is with me"--completely overset ne, though only with
+joy. After your actual safety, nothing could so much touch me as
+the picture I Instantly viewed of Norbury in Your arms.  Yet I
+shall hope for more detail hereafter.
+
+The last letter I had from you addressed to myself shows me your
+own sentiment of the fatal event(134) which so speedily followed
+your departure, and which my dear father has himself announced to
+you, though probably the newspapers will anticipate his letter. I
+am very sorry, now, I did not write sooner; but while you were
+still in England, and travelling so slowly, I had always lurking
+ideas that disqualified me from writing to Ireland.
+
+The minute I received, from Sally, by our dearest father's desire
+the last tidings I set out for Chelsea.  I was much Shocked by
+the news, long as it has been but natural to look
+
+Page 118
+
+forward to it. My better part spoke even before myself upon the
+propriety of my instant journey, and promised me a faithful
+nursing attendance during my absence.
+
+I went in a chaise, to lose no time - but the uncertainty how I
+might find my poor father made me arrive with a nervous seizure
+upon my voice that rendered it as husky as Mr. Rishton's.
+
+While I settled with the postilion, Sally, James, Charlotte, and
+Marianne, came to me. Esther and Charles had been there the
+preceding day ; they were sent to as soon as the event had
+happened. My dearest father received me with extreme kindness,
+but though far, far more calm and quiet than I could expect, he
+was much shaken, and often very faint. However, in the course of
+the evening, he suffered me to read to him various passages from
+various books, such as conversation introduced; and as his nature
+is as pure from affectation as from falsehood, encouraged in
+himself, as well as permitted in us, whatever could lead to
+cheerfulness.
+
+Let me not forget to record one thing that was truly generous in
+my poor mother's last voluntary exertions.  She charged Sally and
+her maid both not to call my father when she appeared to be
+dying; and not disturb him if her death should happen in the
+night, nor to let him hear it till he arose at his usual time. I
+feel sensibly the kindness of this sparing consideration.
+
+Yet not so would I be used! O never should I forgive the
+misjudged prudence that should rob me of one little instant of
+remaining life in one who was truly dear to me'; Nevertheless, I
+shall not be surprised to have his first shock succeeded by a
+sorrow it did not excite, and I fear he will require much
+watching and vigilance to be kept as well as I have quitted him.
+
+
+                      THE FRENCH EMIGRES AT NORBURY.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Mrs. Phillips.)
+Bookham, December 25, 1796.
+You will have heard that the Princesse d'Henin and M. de Lally
+have spent a few days at Norbury Park.  We went every evening
+regularly to meet them, and they yet contrive to grow higher and
+higher in our best opinions and affections; they force that last
+word; none other is adequate to such regard as they excite.
+Page 119
+
+M. de Lally read us a pleading for ‚migr‚s of all descriptions,
+to the people and government of France, for their re-instalment
+in their native land, that exceeds in eloquence, argument, taste,
+feeling, and every power of oratory and truth united, anything I
+ever remember to have read.  It is so affecting in many places,
+that I was almost ill from restraining My nearly convulsive
+emotions. My dear and honoured partner gives me, perhaps, an
+interest in such a subject beyond what is mere natural due and
+effect, therefore I cannot be sure such will be its universal
+success; yet I shall be nothing less than Surprised to live to
+see his statue erected in his own country, at the expense of his
+own restored exiles. 'Tis, indeed, a wonderful performance. And
+he was so easy, So gay, so unassuming, yet free from
+condescension, that I almost worshipped him. M. d'Arblay cut me
+off a bit of the coat in which he read his pleading, and I shall
+preserve it, labelled!
+
+The princess was all that was amiable and attractive, and she
+loves my Susanna so tenderly, that her voice was always caressing
+when she named her. She would go to Ireland, she repeatedly said,
+on purpose to see you, were her fortune less miserably cramped.
+The journey, voyage, time, difficulties, and ,sea-sickness, would
+be nothing for obstacles. You have made, there, that rare and
+exquisite acquisition-an ardent friend for life.
+
+
+                       DR. BURNEY'S DEPRESSED STATE.
+
+I have not heard very lately of my dearest father; all accounts
+speak of his being very much lower in spirits than When I left
+him. I sometimes am ready to return to him, for my whole heart
+yearns to devote itself to him - but the babe, and the babe's
+father--and there is no going en famille uninvited--and my dear
+father does not feel equal to making the invitation.
+
+One of the Tichfield dear girls seems to be constantly with
+Sally, to aid the passing hours, but Our poor father wants
+something more than cheerfulness and affection, though nothing
+without them could do; he wants some one to find out pursuits--to
+entice him into reading, by bringing books, or starting subjects;
+some one to lead him to talk of what he thinks, or to forget what
+he thinks of, by adroitly talking of what may catch other
+attention.  Even where deep sorrow is impossible, a gloomy void
+must rest in the total breaking up such a long and such a fast
+connexion.
+Page 120
+
+I must always grieve at your absence at such a period. our Esther
+has SO much to do in her own family, and fears so much the cold
+of Chelsea, that she can be only of day and occasional use, and
+it is nights and mornings that call for the confidential
+companion that might best revive him, He is more amiable, more
+himself, if possible, than ever. God long preserve him to bless
+us all!
+
+
+                     COVETOUS OF PERSONAL DISTINCTION.
+
+Your old acquaintance, Miss --, has been passing ten days in this
+neighbourhood. She is become very pleasingly formed in manners,
+wherever she wishes to oblige, and all her roughnesses and
+ruggednesses are worn off. I believe the mischief done by her
+education, and its wants, not cured, if curable au fond; but much
+amended to all, and apparently done away completely to many. What
+really rests is a habit of exclusively consulting just what she
+likes best, not what would be or prove best for others.  She
+thinks, indeed, but little of anything except with reference to
+herself, and what gives her an air, and will give her a
+character, for inconstancy, that is in fact the mere result of
+seeking her own gratification alike in meeting or avoiding her
+connexions.  If she saw this, she has understanding sufficient to
+work it out of her; but she weighs nothing sufficiently to dive
+into her own self.  She knows she is a very clever girl, and she
+is neither well contented with others, nor happy in herself, but
+where this is evidently acknowledged.
+
+We spent an evening together at Norbury Park ; she was shown all
+Mr. William's pictures and drawings. I knew her expectations of
+an attention she had no chance of exciting and therefore devoted
+myself to looking them over with her yet, though Mr. Locke
+himself led the way to see them, and explained several, and
+though Amelia addressed her with the utmost sweetness, and Mrs.
+Locke with perfect good breeding, I could not draw from her one
+word relative to the evening, or the family, except that she did
+not think she had heard Mr. William's voice once. A person so
+young, and with such good parts, that can take no pleasure but in
+personal distinction, which is all her visit can have wanted,
+will soon cut all real improvement short, by confining herself to
+such society alone as elevates herself. There she will always
+make a capital figure, for her conversation is sprightly and
+enter-
+Page 121
+
+taining, and her heart and principles are both good : she has
+many excellent qualities, and various resources in herself; but
+she is good enough to make me lament that she is not modest
+enough to be yet better.
+
+
+                 BABY D'ARBLAY AGAIN ; AND OTHER MATTERS.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Dr. Burney.)
+Bookham, NOV. 29, 1796.
+My little man waits for your lessons to get on in elocution: he
+has made no further advance but that of calling out, as he saw
+our two watches hung on two opposite hooks over the chamber
+chimney-piece, "Watch, papa,--watch, mamma;" so, though his first
+speech is English, the idiom is French. We agree this is to avoid
+any heartburning in his parents. He is at this moment so
+exquisitely enchanted with a little penny trumpet, and finding he
+can produce such harmony his own self, that he is blowing and
+laughing till he can hardly stand.  If you could see his little
+swelling cheeks you would not accuse yourself of a misnomer in
+calling him cherub. I try to impress him with an idea of pleasure
+in going to see grandpapa, but the short visit to Bookham is
+forgotten, and the permanent engraving remains, and all his
+concurrence consists in pointing up to the print over the
+chimney-piece, and giving it one of his concise little bows.
+
+Are not people a little revived in the political world by this
+unexampled honour paid to Mr. Pitt?(135)  Mr. Locke has
+subscribed 3000 pounds.
+
+How you rejoiced me by what you say of poor Mr. Burke for I had
+seen the paragraph of his death with most exceeding great
+concern.
+
+The Irish reports, are, I trust, exaggerated; few things come
+quite plainly from Hibernia: yet what a time, in all respects, to
+transport thither, as you too well term it, our beloved Susan!
+She writes serenely, and Norbury seems to
+
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+
+repay a world of sufferings : it is delightful to see her SO
+satisfied there, at least; but they have all, she says, got the
+brogue.
+
+Our building is to be resumed the 1st of March; it will then soon
+be done, as it is only of lath and plaster, and the roof and
+wood-work are already prepared.' My indefatigable superintendent
+goes every morning for two, three, or four hours to his field, to
+work at a sunk fence that 'IS to protect his garden from our cow.
+I have sent Mrs. Boscawen, through Miss Cambridge, a history of
+our plan. The dwelling is destined by M. d'Arblay to be called
+the Camilla cottage.
+
+(95) "Memoires of Dr. Burney," vol. iii. pp. 224-5.
+
+(96) "Memoirs of Dr. Burney," vol. iii., pp. 210-11.
+
+(97) In the "Memoirs of Dr. Burney" Madame d'Arblay writes that
+"Before the answer of Mr. Pitt to the memorial could be returned,
+the attempt upon Toulon proved abortive." Mr, Pitt must certainly
+have been in no hurry to reply; for the memorial was sent to him
+about the commencement of October, and Toulon was not evacuated
+by the English until the 18th of December.-ED.
+
+(98) A character in "Cecilia."-ED.
+
+(99) The well-known novelist.-ED.
+(100) The cottage which Fanny and her husband contemplated
+building, was not actually commenced until after the publication
+of "Camilla," in 1796.-ED.
+
+(101) The fund which Mrs. Crewe was exerting herself to raise for
+the benefit of the French emigrant clergy.-ED.
+
+(102) Mrs. Crewe had been urging Dr. Burney to engage his
+daughter to contribute, by her pen, to the relief of the emigrant
+clergy. Fanny accordingly wrote an "Address to the Ladies of
+Great Britain," in the form of a short pamphlet, which was
+published by Cadell, and which appears to have had the desired
+effect.-ED.
+
+(103) Alas for Dr. Burney's hopes! Toulon was successfully
+defended until the middle of December, when the vigorous measures
+of the besiegers, inspired by the genius Of Young Buonaparte,
+resulted in the complete triumph of the Republicans. On the 17th
+of December they carried by storm Fort Eguillette and the heights
+of Faron. From these positions their artillery commanded the
+harbour, and, further defence of the town being thereby rendered
+impracticable, its instant evacuation was resolved upon by the
+allies. An attempt to burn the French war-ships in the harbour,
+before abandoning the place, was only partially successful.  On
+the 18th and 19th the troops embarked. Vast numbers of fugitives
+were taken on board the retreating fleet, but a large proportion
+of the unfortunate Toulonnais remained, to experience the cruel
+vengeance of the Republicans-ED.
+
+(104) The execution of Marie Antoinette, October 16, 1793.-ED.
+
+(105) He was born on the 18th of December 1794.-ED.
+
+(106) Goldsmith has drawn the character of Richard Burke in
+"Retaliation," as follows:--
+
+"Here lies honest Richard, whose fate I must Sigh at;
+Alaq, that such frolic should now be so quiet!
+What spirits were his! what wit and what whim!
+Now breaking a jest, and now breaking a limb;
+Now wrangling and grumbling to keep up the ball;
+Now teasing and vexing, yet laughing at all.
+In short, so provoking a devil was Dick,
+That we wish'd him full ten times a day at old Nick,
+But, missing his mirth and agreeable vein,
+As often we wish'd to have Dick back again."-ED.
+
+(107) George Canning, who was not yet twenty-four years of age,
+had just entered Parliament as member for Newport. He had
+formerly been a Whig and an associate of Fox and Sheridan, but
+the excesses of the French ,Revolution appear to have driven him,
+as they had driven Burke and Windham, over to the opposite camp.
+He took his seat as a Tory and a supporter of Mr. Pitt, and a
+Tory he remained to the end of his days. Canning's maiden speech,
+to which Fanny refers, was delivered January 31, in a debate on
+the treaty between Great Britain and the King of Sardinia. By
+this treaty, which was signed April 25, 1793, it was agreed that
+the two contracting parties should make common cause in the war
+against the French Republic; that England should pay to the King
+of Sardinia an annual subsidy of 200,000 pounds, to enable him to
+maintain the war; and that England should not conclude peace
+without providing for the restoration to Sardinia of the
+territories which had been torn from it by the Republic. In the
+debate of January 31, 1794, Fox vigorously attacked the treaty,
+while Canning, who spoke later, defended it in an able and
+well-received maiden speech.-ED.
+
+(108) Talleyrand's intrigues had made him an object of suspicion
+to both parties.  He was detested by the royalists of the first
+emigration, had been d‚cr‚t‚ d'accusation by the Convention, and
+was regarded by the English government as a dangerous person.  In
+January 1794, he received an order from the government to quit
+England within five days, and he embarked in consequence, for the
+United States, February 3.-ED.
+
+(109) "London, 1794.-Madame,--Had it been possible I would have
+had the honour of seeing you this morning , but the utter
+impossibility of doing so has deprived me of the last pleasure
+that I might have had in Europe. Permit me, madame, to thank you
+again for all your kindness, and to ask a little place in your
+memory, and let me tell you, I shall never cease, while I live,
+to offer my vows for your welfare, and for that of the captain
+and your children. You will have a very zealous servant in
+America; I shall not return to Europe without coming to Surrey:
+everything of value to my intellect or my heart is there.
+
+"Kindly present my compliments to the captain."
+(110) "London, March 2, 1794. Farewell, my dear d'Arblay: I leave
+your country till the time when it will no longer be governed by
+the petty passions of men. Then I will return; not, indeed, to
+busy myself with public affairs, for I have long since abandoned
+them for ever; but to see the excellent inhabitants of Surrey. I
+hope to know enough English to understand Madame d'Arblay; for
+the next four months, I shall do nothing but study it: and, to
+acquaint myself with the beauties of the language, I take
+'Evelina' and 'Cecilia,' both for study and pleasure.  I wish
+You, my dear friend, all kinds of happiness, and you are in the
+way to fulfil all my wishes.
+
+"I do not know how long I shall remain in America. If there were
+a prospect of the re-establishment of reason and stability in our
+unhappy country, I should return; if Europe goes to pieces in the
+coming campaign, I will prepare a refuge in America for all our
+friends.
+
+"Farewell.  My respects to Madame d'Arblay and Mrs. Phillips.
+      I ask of you and I promise you a lifelong friendship."
+
+(The date at the head Of this letter Is evidently incorrect--
+probably a slip of the writer's.  Talleyrand embarked February
+3.-ED.
+
+(111) Lafayette's brilliant services in the cause of liberty had
+not secured him from the usual fate of moderate revolutionists at
+this period. In the early days of the Revolution, he was the hero
+of the French people; in 1792, denounced by RobespiŠrre and the
+jacobins, he was compelled to seek safety in flying from France.
+He escaped the guillotine, indeed, but fell into the hands of the
+Austrians, was cast into prison, and did not gain his liberty
+till September, 1797.-ED.
+
+(112) This was Dr. Burney's first meeting with Mrs. Piozzi since
+her marriage. It occurred at one of Salomon's celebrated
+concerts, where the doctor, with surprise, perceived Piozzi among
+the audience, not knowing that he had returned from Italy.  He
+entered into a cordial conversation with the Signor, and inquired
+after his wife. "Piozzi, turning round, pointed to a sofa, on
+which, to his infinite joy, Dr. Burney beheld Mrs. Thrale Piozzi,
+seated in the midst of her daughters, the four Miss Thrales,"
+those young ladies (at least, the three elder, for Cecilia had
+been abroad with Mr. and Mrs. Piozzi) having made up their minds
+by this time to accept the inevitable, and to be reconciled to
+their mother." See "Memoirs of Dr. Burney," vol. iii. p. 198.-ED.
+
+(113) Written after the Doctor's first visit to Bookham.
+
+(114) Name of a gardener in a drama of Fontenelle's.
+
+(115) The novel of "Camilla," then lately begun.
+
+(116) "Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Metastasio," a work
+which Dr. Burney was then engaged upon, and which was published
+in three Volumes, 8vo in 1796.-ED.
+
+(117) "Edwy and Elgiva," a tragedy by Madame d'Arblay.
+
+(118) Edmund Burke's only son, Richard, died August 2, 1794.-ED
+
+(119) "Edwy and Elgiva," produced by Sheridan at Drury-lane,
+March 21, 1795; it was acted but once, and never printed.-ED.
+
+(120) Warren Hastings was acquitted of all the charges, April 23,
+1795.
+
+(121) Both characters, to some extent, were true.  Goldsmith's
+portrait of Cumberland, though flattering, is not, we fancy,
+without a slight undercurrent of irony.  Here are the lines from
+"Retaliation."
+
+"Here Cumberland lies, having acted his parts,
+The Terence of England, the mender of hearts;
+A flattering painter, who made it his care
+To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.
+His gallants are all faultless, his women divine,
+And Comedy wonders at being so fine:
+Like a tragedy-queen he has dizen'd her out,
+Or rather like Tragedy giving a rout.
+His fools have their follies so lost in a crowd
+Of virtues and feelings, that Folly grows proud
+And coxcombs, alike in their failings atone:
+Adopting his portraits, are pleas'd with their own,
+Say, where has our poet this malady caught?
+Or wherefore his characters thus without fault?
+Say, was it that, mainly directing his view
+To find out men's virtues, and finding them few,
+Quite sick of pursuing each troublesome elf,
+He grew lazy at last, and drew from himself?"-ED.
+
+(122) The novels of Mrs. Radcliffe were now at the height of
+their popularity. "The Mysteries of Udolpho," perhaps the most
+powerful of her works, had recently been published, to the
+intense delight of all lovers of the thrilling and romantic.-ED.
+
+(123) The name was then "Ariella," changed afterwards to
+"Camilla."
+
+(124) Written during his embarrassments from the French
+Revolution, and answer to a letter expressing bitter
+disappointment from repeated losses.
+
+(125) M. de Narbonne, in reply, expressed, in lively terms, his
+gratitude for Madame d'Arblay's invitation, and his pleasure in
+receiving it. But he declined the proposal. He was not, he said,
+wholly without resources, or without hopes for the future, and
+circumstances made it desirable that he should reside at present
+near the French frontier.-ED.
+
+(126) Gainsborough Dupont, a nephew of the great Gainsborough.
+He was a portrait-painter of some merit, and an excellent mezzo-
+tint engraver.  some of his best plates were engraved after
+paintings by Gainsborough.  Mr Dupont died in 1797.-ED.
+
+(127) " The Birth of Love;" a poem: with engravings, from designs
+by her royal highness the Princess Elizabeth.
+
+(128) i.e., the Duke of York, second son of the king. He had been
+appointed field-marshal and commander-in-chief early in 1795.-ED.
+
+(129) The Duchess of York was daughter to the King of Prussia.-
+ED.
+
+ (130) Susan's little son, Norbury Phillips.-ED.
+
+(131) Rose Dale, Richmond, Surrey. This place was formerly the
+residence of the poet Thomson, and afterwards became the property
+of the Honourable Mrs. Boscawen.
+
+(132) The princess royal was married, May 18, 1797, to Frederick
+William, hereditary prince of Wurtemberg.-ED.
+
+(133) Editor and proprietor of the "Monthly Review."
+
+(134) The death of Dr. Burney's second wife.
+
+(135) Fanny alludes to the so-called "loyalty loan," proposed and
+carried by Mr Pitt, to meet the expenses of the war. "Pitt
+evinced his own Public spirit, when he relied on and appealed to
+the public spirit of the People. He announced a loan of
+18,000,000 pounds, at five per cent., to be taken at 112 pounds ,
+10 shillings, for every 100 pounds stock, and with an option to
+the proprietors to he paid off at par within two years after a
+treaty of peace."-(Stanhope's "Life of Pitt," vol. ii., P. 389.)
+The loan was taken up by the Public with extraordinary eagerness,
+5,000,000 pounds being subscribed on the first day of issue
+(December 1, 1796).-ED.                                        .'
+
+(136) They had commenced building the cottage in October. Fanny
+writes, November 29: "Our cottage building stops now, from the
+shortness of the days, till the beginning of March.  The
+foundation is laid, and it will then be run up with great speed.
+The well, at length, is finished, and it is a hundred and odd
+feet deep.  The water is said to be excellent, but M. d'Arblay
+has had it now stopped to prevent accidents from hazardous boys,
+who, when the field is empty of owners, will be amusing
+themselves there.  He has just completed his grand plantations;
+part of which are in evergreens, part in firewood for future
+time, and part in an orchard."-ED.
+
+
+
+Page 123
+                               SECTION 21.
+                                 (1797-8)
+
+"CAMILLA" COTTAGE. SUNDRY VISITS TO THE ROYAL FAMILY.
+
+[Fanny's pen portraits of the princesses are as fascinating as
+Gainsborough's paintings of them. Their truly amiable characters
+and sweet dispositions are nowhere more pleasantly illustrated
+than in the following section of the "Diary." A list of their
+names, with the dates of their births and deaths, may be useful
+to the reader.
+
+1. Charlotte, princess royal.   born 1767: Queen of Wirtemburg:
+died 1828.
+
+2. Augusta, Fanny's favourite, as she well deserved to be. Born
+1768 : never married : died 1840.
+
+3. Elizabeth, the artist of the family. Born 1770 : married the
+hereditary prince (afterwards, in 1820, Landgrave) of Hesse-
+Homburg in 18 18, and settled in Germany: died 1840.
+
+4. Mary. Born 1776 : married her cousin, William Frederick, Duke
+of Gloucester, in 1816: died 1857.
+
+5. Sophia, born 1777: died 1848.
+
+
+6. Amelia, born 1783. Her health first gave way in 1798 (see p.
+180): she died, unmarried, at Windsor, in 1810. A few days before
+her death she gave her poor blind, old father, a ring containing
+a scrap of her hair ; saying only, as she pressed it into his
+hand, "Remember me!"  The poor king's anguish brought on a fresh
+attack of insanity, from which he never recovered.-ED.]
+
+
+A DISAGREEABLE JOURNEY HoME.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Dr. Burney.)
+Bookham, January 3, '97.
+WAS extremely vexed at missing our uncertain post yesterday, and
+losing, unavoidably, another to-day, before I return my dearest
+father our united thanks for the kind and sweet fortnight passed
+under his roof. Our adventures in coming back were better adapted
+to our departure than our
+
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+
+arrival, for they were rather rueful.  One of the horses did not
+like his business, and wanted to be off, and we were stopped by
+his gambols continually , and, if I had not been a soldier's
+wife, I should have been terribly alarmed; but my soldier does
+not like to see himself disgraced in his other half, and so I was
+fain to keep up my courage, till, at length, after we had passed
+Fetcham, the frisky animal plunged till he fastened the shaft
+against a hedge, and then, little Betty beginning to scream, I
+inquired of the postilion if we had not better alight.  If it
+were not, he said, for the dirt, yes.  The dirt then was defied,
+and I prevailed, though with difficulty, upon my chieftain to
+consent to a general dismounting. And he then found it was not
+too soon, for the horse became inexorable to all menace, caress,
+chastisement, or harangue, and was obliged to be loosened.
+
+Meanwhile, Betty, Bab, and I trudged on, vainly looking back for
+our vehicle, till we reached our little home--a mile and a half.
+Here we found good fires, though not a morsel
+of food; this however, was soon procured, and our walking apparel
+changed for drier raiment; and I sent forth our nearest cottager,
+and a young butcher, and a boy, towards Fetcham, to aid the
+vehicle, or its contents, for my chevalier had stayed on account
+of our chattels: and about two hours after the chaise arrived,
+with one horse, and pushed by its hirer, while it was half
+dragged by its driver.  But all came safe; and we drank a dish of
+tea, and ate a mutton chop, and kissed our little darling, and
+forgot all else of our journey hut the pleasure we had had at
+Chelsea with my dearest father and dear Sally.
+
+And just now I received a letter from our Susanna, which tells me
+the invasion(137) has been made in a part of Ireland
+
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+
+where all is so loyal there can be no apprehension from any such
+attempt ; but she adds, that if it had happened in the north
+everything might have been feared.  Heaven send the invaders far
+from all the points of the Irish compass! and that's an Irish
+wish for expression, though not for meaning. All the intelligence
+she gathers is encouraging, with regard to the spirit and loyalty
+of all that surround her.  But Mr. Brabazon is in much uneasiness
+for his wife, whose situation is critical, and he hesitates
+whether or not to convey her to Dublin, as a place of more
+security than her own habitation. What a period this for the
+usual journey of our invaluable Susan!
+
+
+                     BURKE's FUNERAL AT BEACONSFIELD.
+
+(Dr. Burney to Madame d'Arblay.)
+Saturday Night, July 22, 1797.
+I was invited to poor Mr. Burke's funeral,(138) by Mrs. Crewe and
+two notes from Beaconsfield. Malone and I went to Bulstrode
+together in my car, this day sevennight, with two horses added to
+mine.  Mrs. Crewe had invited me thither when she went down
+first. We found the Duke of Portland there; and the Duke of
+Devonshire and Windham came to dinner. The chancellor and speaker
+of the House of Commons could not leave London till four o'clock,
+but arrived a little after seven.  We all set off together for
+Beaconsfield, where we found the rest of the pall-bearers--Lord
+Fitzwilliam, Lord Inchiquin, and Sir Gilbert Eliot, with Drs.
+King and Lawrence, Lord North, Dudley North, and many of the
+deceased's private friends, though by his repeated injunction the
+funeral was to be very private.  We had all hatbands, scarfs, and
+gloves; and he left a list to whom rings of remembrance are to be
+sent, among whom my name occurred, and a jeweller has been here
+for my measure.  I went back to Bulstrode, by invitation, with
+the two dukes, the chancellor, and speaker, Windham, Malone, and
+Secretary King. I ,stayed there till Sunday evening, and got home
+just before the dreadful storm. The duke was extremely civil and
+hospitable,--
+
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+
+pressed me much to stay longer and go with them, the chancellor,
+speaker, Windham, and Mrs. Crewe, to Pinn, to see the school,
+founded by Mr. Burke, for the male children of French emigrant
+nobles; but I could not with prudence stay, having a couple of
+ladies waiting for me in London, and two extra horses with me.
+
+So much for poor Mr. Burke, certainly one of the greatest men of
+the present century; and I think I might say the best orator and
+statesman of modern times. He had his passions and prejudices to
+which I did not subscribe - but I always admired his great
+abilities, friendship, and urbanity - and it would be ungrateful
+in you and me, to whom he was certainly partial, not to feel and
+lament his loss.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Dr. Burney.)
+Bookham, July 27, '97.
+I was surprised, and almost frightened, though at the same time
+gratified, to find you assisted in paying the last honours to Mr.
+Burke. How sincerely I sympathise in all you say of that truly
+great man! That his enemies say he was not perfect is nothing
+compared with his immense superiority over almost all those who
+are merely exempted from his peculiar defects.  That he was
+upright in heart, even where he acted wrong, I do truly believe;
+and that he asserted nothing he had not persuaded himself to be
+true, from Mr. Hastings's being the most rapacious of villains,
+to the king's being incurably insane. He was as generous as kind,
+and as liberal in his sentiments as he was luminous in intellect
+and extraordinary in abilities and eloquence.  Though free from
+all little vanity, high above envy, and glowing with zeal to
+exalt talents and merit in others, he had, I believe a
+consciousness of his own greatness, that shut out those
+occasional and useful self-doubts which keep our judgment in
+order, by calling our motives and our passions to account.
+
+
+                      DEATH OF M. D'ARBLAY'S BROTHER.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Dr. Burney.)
+Bookham, August 10, '97.
+You know, I believe, with what cruel impatience and uncertainty
+my dear companion has waited for some news Of his family ; no
+tidings, however, could be procure, nor has
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+
+ever heard from any part of it till last Saturday morning, when
+two letters arrived by the same post, with information of the
+death of his only brother.
+
+impossible as it has long been to look back to France without
+fears amounting even to expectation of horrors, he had never
+ceased cherishing hopes some favourable turn would, in the end,
+unite him with this last branch of his house; the shock,
+therefore, has been terribly severe, and has cast a gloom upon
+his mind and spirits which nothing but his kind anxiety to avoid
+involving mine can at present suppress. He is now the last of a
+family of seventeen, and not one relation of his own name now
+remains but his own little English son. His father was the only
+son of an only son, which drives all affinity on the paternal
+side into fourth and fifth kinsmen.
+
+On the maternal side, however, he has the happiness to hear that
+an uncle, who is inexpressibly dear to him, who was his guardian
+and best friend through life, still lives, and has been permitted
+to remain unmolested in his own house, at Joigny, where he is now
+in perfect health, save from rheumatic .attacks, which though
+painful are not dangerous.  A son, too, of this gentleman, who
+was placed as a commissaire-de-guerre by M. d'Arblay during the
+period of his belonging to the war committee, still holds the
+same situation, which is very lucrative, and which M. d'A. had
+concluded would have been withdrawn as soon as his own flight
+from France was known.
+
+The little property of which the late Chevalier d'Arblay died
+possessed, this same letter says, has been "vendu pour la
+nation,"(139) because his next heir was an ‚migr‚; though there
+is a little niece, Mlle. Girardin, daughter of an only sister,
+who is in France, and upon whom the succession was settled, if
+her uncles died without immediate heirs.
+
+Some little matter, however, what we know not, has been reserved
+by being bought in by this respectable uncle, who sends M.
+d'Arblay word he has saved him what he may yet live upon, if he
+can find means to return without personal risk, and who solicits
+to again see him with urgent fondness, in which he is joined by
+his aunt with as much warmth as if she, also, was his relation by
+blood, not alliance.
+
+The late chevalier, my M. d'A. says, was a man of the softest
+manners and most exalted honour ; and he was so tall and so thin,
+he was often nicknamed Don Quixote, but he was so completely
+aristocratic with regard to the Revolution,
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+
+at its very commencement, that M. d'A. has heard nothing yet with
+such unspeakable astonishment as the news that he died, near
+Spain, of his wounds from a battle in which he had fought for the
+Republic. "How strange," says M. d'A., "is our destiny! that that
+Republic which I quitted, determined to be rather an hewer of
+wood and drawer of water all my life than serve, he should die
+for." The secret history of this may some day come out, but it is
+now inexplicable, for the mere fact, without the smallest
+comment, is all that has reached us, In the period, indeed, in
+which M. d'A. left France, there were but three steps possible
+for those who had been bred to arms-flight, the guillotine, or
+fighting for the Republic, "The former this brother," M. d'A.
+says, "had not energy of character to undertake in the desperate
+manner in which he risked it himself, friendless and fortuneless,
+to live in exile as he could. The guillotine no one could elect;
+and the continuing in the service, though in a cause he detested,
+was, probably, his hard compulsion." . . .
+
+Our new habitation will very considerably indeed exceed our first
+intentions and expectations.  I suppose it has ever been so, and
+so ever must be ; for we sought as well as determined to keep
+within bounds, and M. d'A. still thinks he has done it - however,
+I am more aware of our tricks upon travellers than to enter into
+the same delusion.
+
+The pleasure, however, he has taken in this edifice is my first
+joy, for it has constantly shown me his heart has invariably held
+to those first feelings which, before our union, determined him
+upon settling in England. O! if you knew how he has been
+assailed, by temptations of every sort that either ambition, or
+interest, or friendship could dictate, to change his plan,-and
+how his heart sometimes yearns towards those he yet can love in
+his native soil, while his firmness still remains unshaken,-- you
+would not wonder I make light of even extravagance in a point
+that shows him thus fixed to make this object a part of the whole
+system of his future life.
+
+
+                        FROM CREWE HALL TO CHELSEA.
+
+(Dr. Burney to Madame d'Arblay.)
+Friday Night, September 13, 1797.
+My dear Fanny,-Where did I leave off?--hang me if I know!--I
+believe I told you, or all when with YOU, Of the Chester and
+Liverpool journey and voyage.  On Saturday
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+
+26th August, the day month from leaving London, M. le pr‚sident
+de Frondeville and I left Crewe Hall on our way back. The dear
+Mrs. Crewe kindly set us in our way as far as Etruria. We visited
+Trentham Hall, in Staffordshire, the famous seat of the Marquis
+of Stafford,--a very fine place--fine piece of water--fine
+hanging woods,--the valley of Tempe--and the river Trent running
+through the garden. Mrs C. introduced us to the marchioness, who
+did us the honour of showing us the house herself; it has lately
+been improved and enlarged by Wyatt:--fine pictures, library,
+etc.
+
+After a luncheon here, we went to Etruria, which I had never
+seen. Old Mr. Wedgwood is dead, and his son and successor not at
+home ; but we went to the pottery manufacture, and saw the whole
+process of forming the beautiful things which are dispersed all
+over the universe from this place. Mrs. C. offered to send you a
+little hand churn for your breakfast butter ; but I should have
+broke it to pieces, and durst not accept of it.  But if it would
+be of any use, when you have a cow, I will get you one at the
+Wedgwood ware-house in London. Here we parted.
+
+The president and I got to Lichfield by about ten o'clock that
+night. In the morning, before my companion was up, I strolled
+about the city with one of the waiters, in search of Frank
+Barber,' who I had been told lived there; but on ,inquiry I was
+told his residence was in a village three or four miles off.  I
+however soon found the house where dear Dr. Johnson was born, and
+his father's shop. The house is stuccoed, has five sash-windows
+in front, and pillars before it. It is the best house
+thereabouts, near St. Mary's Church, in a broad street, and is
+now a grocer's shop.
+
+I went next to the Garrick house, which has been lately repaired,
+stuccoed, enlarged, and sashed.  Peter Garrick, David's eldest
+brother, died about two years ago, leaving all his Possessions to
+the apothecary that had attended him. But the will was disputed
+and set aside not long since, it having appeared at a trial that
+the testator was insane at the time the will was made; so that
+Mrs. Doxie, Garrick's sister, a widow with a numerous family,
+recovered the house and -_30,000, She now lives in it with her
+family, and has been able to set up a carriage. The inhabitants
+of Lichfield were so pleased
+
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+
+with the decision of the court on the trial, that they
+illuminated the streets, and had public rejoicings on the
+occasion.
+
+After examining this house well, I tried to find the residence of
+Dr. James, inventor of the admirable fever powders, which have so
+often saved the life of our dear Susey, and others without
+number. But the ungrateful inhabitants knew nothing about him. .
+. .
+
+The cathedral, which has been lately thoroughly repaired
+internally, is the most complete and beautiful Gothic building I
+ever saw. The outside was trŠs mal trait‚ by the fanatics of the
+last century; but there are three beautiful spires still
+standing, and more than fifty whole-length figures of saints in
+their original niches. The choir is exquisitely beautiful. A fine
+new organ is erected, and was well played, and I never heard the
+cathedral service so well performed to that instrument only
+before. The services and anthems were middle-aged music, neither
+too old and dry, nor too modern and light ; the voices subdued,
+and exquisitely softened and sweetened by the building,
+
+While the lessons were reading, which I could not hear, I looked
+for monuments, and found a beautiful one to Garrick, and another
+just by it to Johnson; the former erected by Mrs. Garrick, who
+has been daily abused for not erecting one to her husband in
+Westminster Abbey ; but sure that was a debt due to him from the
+public, and that due from his widow best paid here.(141)
+Johnson's has been erected by his friends:--both are beautiful,
+and alike in every particular.
+
+There is a monument here to Johnson's first patron, Mr. Walmsley,
+whose amplitude of learning and copiousness of communication were
+such, that our revered friend said, "it might be doubted whether
+a day passed in which he had not some advantage from his
+friendship."  There is a monument likewise to Lady M. W. Montagu,
+and to the father of Mr. Addison, etc.
+
+We left Lichfield about two o'clock, and reached Daventry that
+night, stopping a little at Coventry to look at the great church
+and Peeping Tom. Next day got to St. Albans time enough to look
+'It the church and neighbouring ruins. Next morning breakfasted
+at Barnet, where my car met me, and got to Chelsea by three
+o'clock, leaving my agreeable compagnon de voyage, M. le
+pr‚sident, at his apartments in town. . . .
+
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+
+                            AT DR. HERSCHEL'S.
+
+(Dr. Burney to Madame d'Arblay.)
+Chelsea College, Thursday, September 28.
+My dear Fanny,--I read your letter pen in hand, and shall try to
+answer it by to-day's post.  But first let me tell you that it
+was very unlikely to find me at home, for on Tuesday I went to
+Lord Chesterfield's at Bailie's, and arrived there in very good
+time for a four o'clock dinner - when, behold ! I was informed by
+the porter that " both my lord and lady were in town, and did not
+return till Saturday ! " Lord Chesterfield had unexpectedly been
+obliged to go to town by indisposition.  Though I was asked to
+alight and take refreshment, I departed immediately, intending to
+dine and lie at Windsor, to be near Dr. Herschel, with whom a
+visit had been arranged by letter.  But as I was now at liberty
+to make that visit at any time of the day I pleased, I drove
+through Slough in my way to Windsor, in order to ask at Dr.
+Herschel's door when my visit would be least inconvenient to
+him--that night or next morning. The good soul was at dinner, but
+came to the door himself, to press me to alight immediately and
+partake of his family repast - and this he did so heartily that I
+could not resist.  I was introduced to the family at table, four
+ladies, and a little boy about the age and size of Martin.(142) I
+was quite shocked at seeing so many females: I expected (not
+knowing Herschel was married) only to have found Miss Herschel. .
+. . I expressed my concern and shame at disturbing them at this
+time of the day ; told my story, at which they were so cruel as
+to rejoice, and went so far as to say they rejoiced at the
+accident which had brought me there, and hoped I would send my
+carriage away, and take a bed with them. They were sorry they had
+no stables for my horses. I thought it necessary, You may, be
+sure, to faire la petite bouche, ,but in spite of my blushes I
+was obliged to submit to my trunk being taken in and the car sent
+to the inn just by. . . .
+
+Your health was drunk after dinner (put that int.) your pocket);
+and after much social conversation and a few hearty laughs, the
+ladies proposed to take a walk, in order, I believe, to leave
+Herschel and me together. We walked and talked
+
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+
+round his great telescopes till it grew damp and dusk, then
+retreated into his study to philosophise.  I had a string of
+questions ready to ask, and astronomical difficulties to solve,
+which, with looking at curious books and instruments, filled up
+the time charmingly till tea, which being drank with
+the ladies, we two retired again to the starry. Now having paved
+the way, we began to talk of my poetical plan, and he pressed me
+to read what I had done.(143)  Heaven help his head! my eight
+books, of from four hundred to eight hundred and twenty lines,
+would require two or three days to read.
+
+He made me unpack my trunk for my MS., from which I read him the
+titles of the chapters, and begged he would choose any book or
+character of a great astronomer he pleased.  "Oh, let us have the
+beginning." I read him the first eighteen or twenty lines of the
+exordium, and then said I rather wished to come to modern times -
+I was more certain of my ground in high antiquity than after the
+time of Copernicus, and began my eighth chapter, entirely on
+Newton and his system.  He gave me the greatest encouragement
+said repeatedly that I perfectly understood what I was writing'
+about - and only stopped me at two places: one was at a word too
+strong for what I had to describe, and the other at one too weak.
+The doctrine he allowed to be quite orthodox, concerning
+gravitation, refraction, reflection, optics, comets, magnitudes,
+distances, revolutions, etc., but made a discovery to me which,
+had I known sooner, would have overset me, and prevented my
+reading any part of my work: he said he had almost always had an
+aversion to poetry, which he regarded as the arrangement of fine
+words, without any useful meaning or adherence to truth; but
+that, when truth and science were united to these fine words, he
+liked poetry very well; and next morning, after breakfast, he
+made me read as much of another chapter on Descartes, etc., as
+the time would allow, as I had ordered my carriage at twelve.  I
+read, talked, asked questions, and looked at books and
+instruments, till near one, when I set off for Chelsea.
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+
+                      HOSPITALITY UNDER DIFFICULTIES.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Mrs. Francis.)
+Westhamble, November 16, 1797.
+Your letter was most welcome to me, my dearest Charlotte, and I
+am delighted Mr. Broome(144) and my dear father will so speedily
+meet.  If they steer clear of politics, there can be no doubt of
+their immediate exchange of regard and esteem. At all events, I
+depend upon Mr. B.'s forbearance of such subjects, if their
+opinions clash.  Pray let me hear how the interview went off.
+
+I need not say how I shall rejoice to see you again, nor how
+charmed we shall both be to make a nearer acquaintance with Mr.
+Broome; but, for heaven's sake, my dear girl, how are we to give
+him a dinner?--unless he will bring with him his poultry, for
+ours are not yet arrived from Bookham; and his fish, for ours are
+still at the bottom of some pond we know not where, and his spit,
+for our jack is yet without clue; and his kitchen grate, for ours
+waits for Count Rumford's(145) next pamphlet;--not to mention his
+table-linen;--and not to speak
+
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+
+of his knives and forks, some ten of our poor original twelve
+having been massacred in M. d'Arblay's first essays in the art of
+carpentering ;-and to say nothing of his large spoons, the silver
+of our plated ones having feloniously made off under cover of the
+whitening-brush--and not to talk of his cook, ours being not yet
+hired ;-and not to start the subject of wine, ours, by some odd
+accident, still remaining at the wine-merchant's! With all these
+impediments, however, to convivial hilarity, if he will eat a
+quarter of a joint of meat (his share, I mean), tied up by a
+packthread, and roasted by a log of wood on the bricks,--and
+declare no potatoes so good as those dug by M. d'Arblay out of
+our garden,--and protest our small beer gives the spirits of
+champagne,--and make no inquiries where we have deposited the
+hops he will conclude we have emptied out of our table-cloth,--
+and pronounce that bare walls are superior to tapestry,--and
+promise us the first sight of his epistle upon visiting a
+new-built cottage,--we shall be sincerely happy to receive him in
+our hermitage; where I hope to learn, for my dearest Charlotte's
+sake, to love him as much as, for his own I have very long
+admired him.
+
+
+                       WAR TAXES. "CAMILLA" COTTAGE.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Mrs. Phillips.)
+Westhamble, December, '97.
+The new threefold assessment of taxes has terrified us rather
+seriously ; though the necessity, and therefore justice, of them,
+we mutually feel.  My father thinks his own share will amount to
+eighty pounds a year ! We have, this very morning, decided upon
+parting with four of our new windows, --a great abatement of
+agr‚mens to ourselves, and of ornament to our appearance; and a
+still greater sacrifice to the amour Propre of my architect, who,
+indeed,--his fondness for his edifice considered,--does not ill
+deserve praise that the scheme had not his mere consent, but his
+own free proposition. . . .
+
+We quitted Bookham with one single regret--that of leaving our
+excellent neighbours the Cookes. . . .  we languished for the
+moment of removal with almost infantine fretfulness at every
+delay that distanced it; and when at last the grand day came, our
+final packings, with all their toil
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+
+and difficulties and labour and expense, were mere acts of
+pleasantry; so bewitched were we with the impending change, that,
+though from six o'clock to three we were hard at work, without a
+kettle to boil the breakfast, or a knife to cut bread for a
+luncheon, we missed nothing, wanted nothing, and were as
+insensible to fatigue as to hunger.
+
+M. d'Arblay set out on foot, loaded with remaining relics of
+things, to us precious, and Betty afterwards with a remnant of
+glass or two; the other maid had been sent two days before. I was
+forced to have a chaise for my Alex and me, and a few
+looking-glasses, a few folios, and not a few other oddments and
+then, with dearest Mr. Locke, our founder's portrait, and my
+little boy, off I set, and I would my dearest Susan could relate
+to me as delicious a journey.
+
+My mate, striding over hedge and ditch, arrived first, though he
+set out after' to welcome me to our new dwelling; and we entered
+our new best room, in which I found a glorious fire of wood, and
+a little bench, borrowed of one of the departing carpenters :
+nothing else.  We contrived to make room for each other, and Alex
+disdained all rest.  His spirits were so high upon finding two or
+three rooms totally free for his horse (alias any stick he can
+pick up) and himself, unencumbered by chairs and tables and
+such-like lumber, that he was as merry as a little Andrew and as
+wild as twenty colts. Here we unpacked a small basket containing
+three or four loaves, and, with a garden-knife, fell to work;
+some eggs had been procured from a neighbouring farm, and one
+saucepan had been brought.  We dined, therefore, exquisitely, and
+drank to our new possession from a glass of clear water out of
+our new well.
+
+At about eight o'clock our goods arrived. We had our bed put up
+in the middle of our room, to avoid risk of damp walls, and our
+Alex had his dear Willy's crib at our feet.
+
+We none of us caught cold. We had fire night and day in the
+maids' room, as well as Our own -or rather in my Susan's room;
+for we lent them that, their own having a little inconvenience
+against a fire, because it is built without a chimney. We
+Continued making fires all around us the first fortnight, and
+then found wood would be as bad as an apothecary's bill, so
+desisted; but we did not stop short so soon as to want the latter
+to succeed the former, or put our calculation to the proof.
+
+Our first week was devoted to unpacking, and exulting in Our
+completed plan.  To have no one thing at hand, nothing
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+
+to eat, nowhere to sit--all were trifles, rather, I think,
+amusing than incommodious. The house looked so clean, the
+distribution of the rooms and closets is so convenient, the
+prospect everywhere around is so gay and so lovely, and the park
+of dear Norbury is so close at hand, that we hardly knew how to
+require anything else for existence than the enjoyment of our own
+situation.
+
+At this period I received my summons. I believe I have already
+explained that I had applied to Miss Planta for advice whether my
+best chance of admission would be at Windsor, Kew, or London. I
+had a most kind letter of answer, importing my letter had been
+seen, and that her majesty would herself fix the time when she
+could admit me. This was a great happiness to me, and the fixture
+was for the Queen's house in town.
+
+
+                      VISITORS ARRIVE INOPPORTUNELY.
+
+The only drawback to the extreme satisfaction of such
+graciousness as allowing an appointment to secure me from a
+fruitless journey, as well as from impropriety and all fear of
+intrusion, was, that exactly at this period the Princess d'Henin
+and M. de Lally were expected at Norbury. I hardly could have
+regretted anything else, I was so delighted by my summons; but
+this I indeed lamented. They arrived to dinner on Thursday: I was
+involved in preparations, and unable to meet them, and my mate
+would not be persuaded to relinquish aiding me.
+
+The next morning, through mud, through mire, they came to our
+cottage.  The poor princess was forced to change shoes and
+stockings.  M. de Lally is more accustomed to such expeditions.
+Nothing could be more sweet than they both were, nor indeed, more
+grateful than I felt for my share in their kind exertion. The
+house was re-viewed all over, even the little pot au feu was
+opened by the princess, excessively curious to see our manner of
+living in its minute detail.
+
+I have not heard if your letter has been received by M. de Lally;
+but I knew not then you had written, and therefore did not
+inquire.  The princess talked of nothing so much as you, and with
+a softness of regard that quite melted me.  I always tell her
+warmly how you feel about her. M. de Lally was most melancholy
+about France; the last new and most alas! barbarous
+revolution(146) has disheartened all his hopes--alas!
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+
+whose can withstand it?  They made a long and kind visit, and in
+the afternoon we went to Norbury Park, where we remained till
+near eleven o'clock, and thought the time very short.
+
+Madame d'Henin related some of her adventures in this second
+flight from her terrible country, and told them with a spirit and
+a power of observation that would have made them interesting if a
+tale of old times ; but now, all that gives account of those
+events awakens the whole mind to attention.
+
+M. de Lally after tea read us a beginning of a new tragedy,
+composed upon an Irish story, but bearing allusion so palpable to
+the virtues and misfortunes of Louis XVI. that it had almost as
+strong an effect upon our passions and faculties as if it had
+borne the name of that good and unhappy prince. It is written
+with great pathos, noble sentiment, and most eloquent language.
+I parted from them with extreme reluctance-nay, vexation.
+
+
+                    ANOTHER VISIT TO THE ROYAL FAMILY.
+
+I set off for town early the next day, Saturday.
+My time was not yet fixed for my royal interview, but I had
+various preparations impossible to make in this dear, quiet,
+obscure cottage.  Mon ami could not accompany me, as we had still
+two men constantly at work, the house without being quite
+unfinished but I could not bear to leave his little
+representative, who, with Betty, was my companion to Chelsea.
+There I was expected, and Our dearest father came forth with open
+arms to welcome us.  He was in delightful spirits, the sweetest
+humour, and perfectly good looks and good health.  My little
+rogue soon engaged him in a romp, which conquered his rustic
+shyness, and they became the best friends in the world.
+
+Thursday morning I had a letter from Miss Planta, written with
+extreme warmth of kindness, and fixing the next day at eleven
+o'clock for my royal admission.
+
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+
+I went up-stairs to Miss Planta's room, where, while I waited for
+her to be called, the charming Princess Mary passed by, attended
+by Mrs. Cheveley. She recollected me and turned back, and came up
+to me with a fair hand graciously held out to me.  "How do you
+do, Madame d'Arblay?" she cried: "I am vastly glad to see you
+again and how does your little boy do?"
+
+I gave her a little account of the rogue, and she proceeded to
+inquire about my new cottage, and its actual state.  I entered
+into a long detail of its bare walls, and unfurnished sides, and
+the gambols of the little man unencumbered by cares of fractures
+from useless ornaments, that amused her good-humoured interest in
+my affairs very much , and she did not leave me till Miss Planta
+came to usher me to Princess Augusta.
+
+That kind princess received me with a smile so gay, and a look so
+pleased at my pleasure in again seeing her, that I quite
+regretted the etiquette which prevented a chaste embrace.  She
+was sitting at her toilette having her hair dressed.   The royal
+family were all going at night to the play.  She turned instantly
+from the glass to face me, and insisted upon my being seated
+immediately. She then wholly forgot her attire and ornaments and
+appearance, and consigned herself wholly to conversation, with
+that intelligent animation which marks her character.  She
+inquired immediately how my little boy did, and then with great
+sweetness after his father, and after my father.
+
+My first subject was the princess royal, and I accounted for not
+having left my hermitage in the hope of once more seeing her
+royal highness before her departure.  It would have been, I told
+her, so melancholy a pleasure to have come merely for a last
+view, that I could not bear to take my annual indulgence at a
+period which would make it leave a mournful impression upon my
+mind for a twelvemonth to come. The princess said she could enter
+into that, but said it as if she had been surprised I had not
+appeared.  She then gave ne some account of the ceremony ;(147)
+and when I told her I had heard that her royal highness the bride
+had never looked so lovely, she confirmed the praise warmly, but
+laughingly added, "'Twas the queen dressed her! You know what a
+figure she used to make of herself, with her odd manner Of
+
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+
+dressing herself; but mamma said, 'Now really, princess royal,
+this one time is the last, and I cannot suffer you to make such a
+quiz of yourself; so I will really have you dressed such a quiz
+of yourself, properly.' And indeed the queen was quite in the
+right, for everybody said she had never looked so well in her
+life."
+
+The word "quiz," you may depend, was never the queen's. I had
+great comfort, however, in gathering, from all that passed on
+that subject, that the royal family is persuaded this estimable
+princess is happy.  From what I know of her disposition I am led
+to believe the situation may make her so. She is born to preside,
+and that with equal softness and dignity; but she was here in
+utter subjection, for which she had neither spirits nor
+inclination.  She adored the king, honoured the queen, and loved
+her sisters, and had much kindness for her brothers ; but her
+style of life was not adapted to the royalty of her nature, any
+more than of her birth; and though she only wished for power to
+do good and to confer favours, she thought herself out of her
+place in not possessing it.
+
+I was particularly happy to learn from the Princess Augusta that
+she has already a favourite friend in her new Court, in one of
+the princesses of Wurtemberg, wife of a younger brother of the
+hereditary prince, and who is almost as a widow, from the prince,
+her husband, being constantly with the army.  This is a
+delightful circumstance, as her turn of mind, and taste, and
+,employments, accord singularly with those of our princess.
+
+I have no recollection of the order of our conversation, but will
+give you what morsels occur to me as they arise in my memory.
+
+The terrible mutiny occupied us some time.(148) She told me
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+
+many anecdotes that she had learnt in favour Of various sailors,
+declaring, with great animation, her security In their good
+hearts, however drawn aside by harder and more cunning heads, The
+sweetness with which she delights to get out of all that is
+forbidding in her rank is truly adorable. In speaking of a sailor
+on board the St. Fiorenzo, when the royal family made their
+excursion by sea from Weymouth, she said, "You must know this man
+was a great favourite of mine, for he had the most honest
+countenance you can conceive, and I have often talked with him,
+every time we have been at Weymouth, so that we were good
+friends; but I wanted now in particular to ask him concerning the
+mutiny, but I knew I should not get him to speak out while the
+king and queen and my sisters were by ; so I told Lady Charlotte
+Bellasyse to watch an opportunity when he was upon deck, and the
+rest were in the cabin, and then we went up to him and questioned
+him; and he quite answered my expectations, for, instead of
+taking any merit to himself from belonging to the St. Fiorenso,
+which was never in the mutiny, the good creature said he was sure
+there was not a sailor in the navy that was not sorry to have
+belonged to it, and would not have got out of it as readily as
+himself, if he had known but how."
+
+The Princess Elizabeth now entered, but she did not stay. She
+came to ask something of her sister relative to a little fˆte she
+was preparing, by way of a collation, in honour of the Princess
+Sophia, who was twenty this day. She made kind inquiries after my
+health, etc., and, being mistress of the birthday fˆte, hurried
+off, and I had not the pleasure to see her any more.
+
+I must be less minute, or I shall never have done.
+My charming Princess Augusta renewed the conversation.
+Admiral Duncan's noble victory(149) became the theme, but it was
+interrupted by the appearance of the lovely Princess Amelia, now
+become a model of grace, beauty and sweetness,
+
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+
+in their bud.  She gave me her hand with the softest expression
+of kindness, and almost immediately began questioning me
+concerning my little boy and with an air of interest the most
+captivating. But again Princess Augusta declined any
+interruptors: "You shall have Madame d'Arblay all to yourself, my
+dear, soon," she cried, laughingly; and, with a smile a little
+serious, the sweet Princess Amelia retreated.
+
+It would have been truly edifying to young ladies living in the
+great and public world to have assisted in my place at the
+toilette of this exquisite Princess Augusta. Her ease, amounting
+even to indifference, as to her ornaments and decoration, showed
+a mind so disengaged from vanity, so superior to personal
+appearance, that I could with difficulty forbear manifesting my
+admiration. She let the hair-dresser proceed upon her head
+without comment and without examination, just as if it was solely
+his affair ; and when the man, Robinson, humbly begged to know
+what ornaments he was to prepare the hair for, she said, "O,
+there are my feathers, and my gown is blue, so take what you
+think right." And when he begged she would say whether she would
+have any ribbons or other things mixed with the feathers and
+jewels, she said, "You understand all that best, Mr. Robinson,
+I'm sure; there are the things, so take just what you please."
+And after this she left him wholly to himself, never a moment
+interrupting her discourse or her attention with a single
+direction.
+
+
+                         INTERVIEW WITH THE QUEEN.
+
+Princess Augusta had just begun a very interesting account of an
+officer that had conducted himself singularly well in the mutiny,
+when Miss Planta came to summon me to the queen. I begged
+permission to return afterwards for my unfinished narrative, and
+then proceeded to the white closet.
+
+The queen was alone, seated at a table, and working. Miss Planta
+opened the door and retired without entering.  I felt a good deal
+affected by the sight of her Majesty again, so graciously
+accorded to my request ; but my first and instinctive feeling was
+nothing to what I experienced when, after my profoundly
+respectful reverence, I raised my eyes, and saw in hers a look of
+sensibility so expressive of regard, and so examining, so
+penetrating into mine, as to seem to convey, involuntarily, a
+regret I had quitted her.  This, at least, was the idea that
+struck me, from the species of look which met
+
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+
+me; and it touched me to the heart, and brought instantly, in
+defiance of all struggle, a flood of tears into my eyes.  I was
+some minutes recovering; and when I then entreated her
+forgiveness, and cleared up, the voice with which she Spoke, in
+hoping I was well, told me she had caught a little of my
+sensation, for it was by no means steady.  Indeed, at that
+moment, I longed to kneel and beseech her pardon for the
+displeasure I had felt in her long resistance of my resignation,
+for I think, now, it was from a real and truly honourable wish to
+attach me to her for ever.  But I then suffered too much from a
+situation so ill adapted to my choice and disposition, to do
+justice to her opposition, or to enjoy its honour to myself. Now
+that I am so singularly, alas! nearly singularly happy, though
+wholly from my perseverance in that resignation, I feel all I owe
+her, and I feel more and more grateful for every mark of her
+condescension, either recollected or renewed.
+
+She looked ill, pale, and harassed. The king was but just
+returned from his abortive visit to the Nore, and the inquietude
+she had sustained during that short separation, circumstanced
+many ways alarmingly, had evidently shaken her: I saw with much,
+with deep concern, her sunk eyes and spirits. I believe the sight
+of me raised not the latter.  Mrs. Schwellenberg had not long
+been dead, and I have some reason to think she would not have
+been sorry to have had me supply the vacancy; for I had immediate
+notice sent me of her death by Miss Planta, so written as to
+persuade me it was a letter by command. But not all my duty, all
+my gratitude, could urge me, even one short fleeting moment, to
+weigh any interest against the soothing serenity, the unfading
+felicity, of a hermitage such as mine.
+
+We spoke of poor Mrs. Schwelly,--and of her successor, Mlle.
+Backmeister,--and of mine, Mrs. Bremyere; and I could not but
+express my concern that her majesty had again been so
+unfortunate, for Mlle. Jacobi had just retired to Germany, ill
+and dissatisfied with everything in England. The Princess Augusta
+had recounted to me the whole narrative of her retirement, and
+its circumstances. The queen told me that the king had very
+handsomely taken care of her. But such frequent retirements are
+heavy weights upon the royal bounty.
+
+I felt almost guilty when the subject was started; but not from
+any reproach, any allusion,-not a word was dropped that had not
+kindness and goodness for its basis and its superstructure at
+once.
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+
+"How is your little boy?" was one of the earliest questions. "is
+he here?" she added.
+
+"O yes," I answered, misunderstanding her, "he is my shadow; I go
+nowhere without him."
+
+"But here, I mean?"
+
+"O no! ma'am, I did not dare presume--"
+
+I stopped, for her look said it would be no presumption. And Miss
+Planta had already desired me to bring him to her next time;
+which I suspect was by higher order than her own suggestion.
+
+She then inquired after my dear father, and so graciously, that I
+told her not only of his good health, but his occupations, his
+new work, a "Poetical History of Astronomy," and his
+consultations with Herschel.
+
+She permitted me to speak a good deal of the Princess of
+Wurtemberg, whom they still all call princess royal. She told me
+she had worked her wedding garment, and entirely, and the real
+labour it had proved, from her steadiness to have no help, well
+knowing that three stitches done by any other would make it
+immediately said it was none of it by herself. "As the bride of a
+widower," she continued, "I know she ought to be in white and
+gold ; but as the king's eldest daughter she had a right to white
+and silver, which she preferred."
+
+A little then we talked of the late great naval victory, and she
+said it was singularly encouraging to us that the three great
+victories at sea had been "against our three great enemies,
+successively : Lord Howe against the French, Lord St. Vincent
+against the Spaniards, and Lord Duncan against the Dutch."(150)
+
+She spoke very feelingly of the difficult situation of the Orange
+family, now in England, upon this battle; and she repeated me the
+contents of' a letter from the Princess of Orange, whose
+character she much extolled, upon the occasion,
+
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+
+to the Princess Elizabeth, saying she could not bear to be the
+only person in England to withhold her congratulations to the
+king upon such an occasion, when no one owed him such
+obligations; but all she had to regret was that the Dutch had not
+fought with, not against, the English, and that the defeat had
+not fallen upon those who ought to be their joint enemies. She
+admired and pitied, inexpressibly, this poor fugitive princess.
+
+I told her of a note my father had received from Lady Mary
+Duncan, in answer to his wishing her joy of her relation's
+prowess and success, in which he says, "Lady Mary has been, for
+some days past, like the rest of the nation drunk for joy." This
+led to more talk of this singular lady: and reciprocal stories of
+her oddities.
+
+She then deigned to inquire very particularly about our new
+cottage,-its size, its number of rooms, and its grounds. I told
+her, honestly, it was excessively comfortable, though unfinished
+and unfitted up, for that it had innumerable little contrivances
+and conveniences, just adapted to our particular use and taste,
+as M. d'Arblay had been its sole architect and surveyor. "Then I
+dare say," she answered, "it is very commodious, for there are no
+people understand enjoyable accommodations more than French
+gentleman, when they have the arranging them themselves."
+
+This was very kind, and encouraged me to talk a good deal of my
+partner, in his various works and employments ; and her manner of
+attention was even touchingly condescending, all circumstances
+considered.  And she then related to me the works of two French
+priests, to whom she has herself been so good as to commit the
+fitting up of one of her apartments at Frogmore.  And afterwards
+she gave me a description of what another French gentleman--
+elegantly and feelingly avoiding to say emigrant--had done in a
+room belonging to Mrs. Harcourt, at Sophia farm, where he had the
+sole superintendence of it, and has made it beautiful.
+When she asked about our field, I told her we hoped in time to
+buy it, as Mr. Locke had the extreme kindness to consent to part
+with it to us, when it should suit our convenience to purchase
+instead of renting it.  I thought I saw a look of peculiar
+satisfaction at this, that seemed to convey pleasure in the
+implication thence to be drawn, that England was our decided, not
+forced or eventual residence. And she led me on to many minute
+particulars of our situation and way of living, with a sweetness
+of interest I can never forget.
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+
+Nor even here stopped the sensations of gratitude and pleasure
+she thus awoke.  She spoke then of my beloved Susan ; asked if
+she were still in Ireland, and how the " pretty Norbury " did.
+   She then a little embarrassed me by an inquiry "why Major
+Phillips went to Ireland?" for my answer, that he was persuaded
+he should improve his estate by superintending the agriculture of
+it himself, seemed dissatisfactory; however, she pressed it no
+further.  But I cannot judge by what passed whether she concludes
+he is employed in a military way there, or whether she has heard
+that he has retired.  She seemed kindly pleased at all I had to
+relate of my dear Norbury, and I delighted to call him back to
+her remembrance.
+
+She talked a good deal of the Duchess of York, who continues the
+first favourite of the whole royal family.  She told me of her
+beautiful works, lamented her indifferent health, and expatiated
+upon her admirable distribution of her time and plan of life, and
+charming qualities and character.
+
+But what chiefly dwells upon me with pleasure is, that she spoke
+to me upon some subjects and persons that I know she would not
+for the world should be repeated, with just the same confidence,
+the same reliance upon my grateful discretion for her openness,
+that she honoured me with while she thought me established in her
+service for life.  I need not tell my Susan how this binds me
+more than ever to her.
+
+Very short to me seemed the time, though the whole conversation
+was serious, and her air thoughtful almost to sadness, when a
+page touched the door, and said something in German. The queen,
+who was then standing by the window, turned round to answer him,
+and then, with a sort of Congratulatory smile to me, said, "Now
+you will see what you don't expect--the king!"
+
+I could indeed not expect it, for he was at Blackheath at a
+review, and he was returned only to dress for the levee. . .
+
+
+                  THE KING AND HIS INFANT GRAND-DAUGHTER.
+
+The king related very pleasantly- a little anecdote of Lady --.
+"She brought the little Princess Charlotte,"(151) he said "to me
+just before the review.  'She hoped,' she said, 'I should not
+take it ill, for, having mentioned it to the child,
+
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+
+she built so upon it that she had thought of nothing else.' Now
+this," cried he, laughing heartily, "was pretty strong! How can
+she know what a child is thinking of before it can speak?"
+
+I was very happy at the fondness they both expressed for the
+little princess, "A sweet little creature," the king called her;
+"A most lovely child," the queen turned to me to add and the king
+said he had taken her upon his horse, and given her a little
+ride, before the regiment rode up to him.  "'TIS very odd," he
+added, "but she always knows me on horseback, and never else."
+"Yes," said the queen, "when his majesty comes to her on
+horseback, she claps her little bands, and endeavours to say
+'Gampa!' immediately."  I was much pleased that she is brought up
+to such simple and affectionate acknowledgment of relationship.
+
+The king then inquired about my father, and with a look of
+interest and kindness that regularly accompanies his mention of
+that most dear person. He asked after his health, his spirits,
+and his occupations, waiting for long answers to each inquiry,
+The queen anticipated my relation of his astronomic work, and he
+seemed much pleased with the design, as well as at hearing that
+his prot‚g‚ Dr. Herschel, had been consulted.
+
+I was then a little surprised by finding he had heard of
+"Clarentine."(152) He asked me, smilingly, some questions about
+it, and if it were true, what he suspected, that my young sister
+had a mind to do as I had done, and bring out a work in secret? I
+was very much pleased then when the queen said, "I have seen it,
+sir, and it is very pretty." . . .
+
+
+       ADMIRAL DUNCAN'S VICTORY. THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF
+ORANGE.
+
+I then, by her majesty's kind appointment, returned to my lovely
+and loved Princess Augusta.  Her hairdresser was just gone, and
+she was proceeding in equipping herself "If you can bear to see
+all this work," cried she, "pray come and sit with me, my dear
+Madame d'Arblay."
+
+Nothing could be more expeditious than her attiring herself,
+nothing more careless than her examination how it succeeded.  But
+judge my confusion and embarrassment, when, upon my saying I came
+to petition for the rest of the Story,
+
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+
+she had just begun, and her answering by inquiring what it was
+about, I could not tell! It had entirely escaped my memory; and
+though I sought every way I could suggest to recall it, I so
+entirely failed, that after her repeated demands, I was compelled
+honestly to own that the commotion I had been put in by my
+interview with their majesties had really driven it from my mind.
+
+She bore this with the true good humour of good sense but I was
+most excessively ashamed.
+
+She then resumed the reigning subject of the day, Admiral
+Duncan's victory and this led to speak again of the Orange
+family; but she checked what seemed occurring to her about them,
+till her wardrobe-woman had done and was -dismissed ; then,
+hurrying her away, while she sat down by me, putting on her long
+and superb diamond earrings herself, and without even turning
+towards a glass, she said, "I don't like much to talk of that
+family before the servants, for I am told they already think the
+king too good to them."
+
+The Princess of Orange is, I find, a great favourite with them
+all ; the Prince Frederick also, I believe, they like very much;
+but the prince himself, she said, " has never, in fact, had his
+education finished. He was married quite a ',-,'boy - but, being
+married, concluded himself a man, and not only turned off all his
+instructors, but thought it unnecessary to ask, or hear, counsel
+or advice of any one. He is like a fallow field,-that is, not of
+a soil that can't be improved ;:but one that has been left quite
+to itself, and therefore has no materials put in it for
+improvement."
+
+She then told me that she had hindered him, with great faculty,
+from going to a great dinner, given at the Mansion House. upon
+the victory of Admiral Duncan. It was not, she said, that he did
+not feel for his country in that defeat, but that he never
+weighed the impropriety of his public appearance upon an occasion
+of rejoicing at it, nor the Ill effect the history of his so
+doing would produce in Holland. She had the kindness of heart to
+take upon herself preventing him "for no one," says she, "that is
+about him dares ever speak to him, to give him any hint of
+advice; which is a great "Misfortune: to him, poor man, for it
+makes him never know what is said or thought of him." She related
+with a great deal of humour her arguments to dissuade him, and
+his naŒve manner of combating them. But though she conquered at
+last, she did not convince,
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+
+The Princess of Orange, she told me, had a most superior
+understanding and might guide him sensibly and honourably, but he
+was so jealous of being thought led by her counsel' that he never
+listened to it at all.  She gave me to understand that this
+unhappy princess had had a life of uninterrupted indulgence and
+prosperity till the late revolution - and that the suddenness of
+such adversity had rather soured her mind, which, had it met
+sorrow and evil by any gradations, would have been equal to
+bearing them even nobly - but so quick a transition from
+affluence, and power, and wealth, and grandeur, to a fugitive and
+dependent state, had almost overpowered her.
+
+A door was now opened from an inner apartment, where, I believe,
+was the grand collation for the Princess Sophia's birthday, and a
+tall thin young man appeared at it, peeping and staring, but not
+entering.
+
+"O! How do you do, Ernest?" cried the princess; "I hope you are
+well; only pray do shut the door."
+
+He did not obey, nor move, either forwards or backwards, but kept
+peering and peeping.  She called to him again, beseeching him to
+shut the door- but he was determined to first gratify his
+curiosity, and, when he had looked as long as he thought
+pleasant, he entered the apartment; but Princess Augusta, instead
+of receiving and welcoming him, only said, "Good-bye, my dear
+Ernest; I shall see you again at the play."
+
+He then marched on, finding himself so little desired, and only
+saying, "No, you won't; I hate the play."
+
+I had risen when I found it one of the princes, and with a motion
+of readiness to depart - but my dear princess would not let me.
+When we were alone again, "Ernest," she said, "has a very good
+heart; only he speaks without taking time to think." She then
+gave me an instance. The Orange family by some chance were all
+assembled with our royal family when the news of the great
+victory at sea arrived; or at least upon the same day.  "We were
+all," said she, " distressed for them upon SO trying an occasion
+and at supper we talked, of' course, Of every other subject; but
+Ernest, quite uneasy at the forbearance, said to me, 'You don't
+think I won't drink Duncan's health to-night?' 'Hush!' cried I.
+'That's very hard indeed!' said he, quite loud.  I saw the
+princess of
+
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+
+orange looking at him, and was sure she had heard him; I trod
+upon his foot, and made him turn to her.  She looked so
+disturbed, that he saw she had understood him, and he coloured
+very high. The Princess of Orange then said, 'I hope my being
+here will be no restraint upon anybody: I know what must be the
+subject of everybody's thoughts, and I beg I may not prevent its
+being so of their discourse.' Poor Ernest now was so sorry, he
+was ready to die, and the tears started into his eyes; and he
+would not have given his toast after this for all the world."
+
+
+                          SOME NOTABLE ACTRESSES.
+
+The play they were going to was "The Merchant of Venice," to see
+a new actress, just now much talked of--Miss Betterton; and the
+king, hearing she was extremely frightened at the thoughts of
+appearing before him, desired she might choose her own part for
+the first exhibition in his presence. She fixed upon Portia.
+
+In speaking of Miss Farren's marriage with the Earl of Derby, she
+displayed that sweet mind which her state and station has so
+wholly escaped sullying; for, far from expressing either horror,
+or resentment, or derision at an actress being elevated to the
+rank of second countess of England, she told me, with an air of
+satisfaction, that she was informed she had behaved extremely
+well since her marriage, and done many generous and charitable
+actions.
+
+She spoke with pleasure, too, of the high marriage made by
+another actress, Miss Wallis, who has preserved a spotless
+character, and is now the wife of a man of fortune and family Mr
+Campbell.
+
+In mentioning Mrs. Siddons, and her great and affecting powers,
+she much surprised me by intelligence that she had bought the
+proprietorship of Sadler's-wells.  I could not hear it without
+some amusement it seemed, I said, so extraordinary a
+combination--so degrading a one, indeed,-that of the first tragic
+actress, the living Melpomene, and something so burlesque as
+Sadler's-wells. She laughed, and said it offered her a very
+ludicrous image, for Mrs. Siddons and Sadler's-wells," said she,
+" seems to me as ill-fitted as the dish they call a toad in a
+hole which I never saw, but always think of with anger, -
+-putting a noble sirloin of beef into .1 ,'poor, Paltry
+batter-pudding!
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+
+                           THE DUKE OF CLARENCE.
+
+The door now again opened, and another royal personage put in his
+head - and upon the princess saying, "How d'ye do, William?" I
+recollected the Duke of Clarence.
+
+I rose, of course, and he made a civil bow to my curtsey The
+princess asked him about the House of Lords the preceding
+evening, where I found he had spoken very handsomely and
+generously in eulogium of Admiral Duncan. Finding he was inclined
+to stay, the princess said to me,
+
+"Madame d'Arblay, I beg you will sit down."
+
+"Pray, madam," said the duke, with a formal motion of his hand,
+"let me beg you to be seated."
+
+"You know--you recollect Madame d'Arblay, don't you, William ?"
+said the princess. He bowed civilly an affirmative, and then
+began talking to me of Chesington. How I grieved poor dear Kitty
+was gone! How great would have been her gratification to have
+heard that he mentioned her, and with an air of kindness, as if
+he had really entered into the solid goodness of her character.
+I was much Surprised and much pleased, yet not without some
+perplexity and some embarrassment, as his knowledge of the
+excellent Kitty was from her being the dupe of the mistress of
+his aide-de-camp.
+
+The princess, however, saved me any confusion beyond
+apprehension, for she asked not one question.  He moved on
+towards the next apartment, and we were again alone.
+
+She then talked to me a great deal of him, and gave me,
+admirably, his character.  She is very partial to him, but by no
+means blindly. He had very good parts, she said, but seldom did
+them justice.  "If he has something of high importance to do,"
+she continued, "he will exert himself to the utmost, and do it
+really well; but otherwise, he is so fond of his ease, he lets
+everything take its course.  He can just do a great deal or
+nothing.  However, I really think, if he takes pains, he may make
+something of a speaker by and by in the House."
+
+She related a visit he had made at Lady Mary Duncan's, at Hampton
+Court, upon hearing Admiral Duncan was there and told me the
+whole and most minute particulars of the battle, as they were
+repeated by his royal highness from the admiral's own account.
+But You will dispense with the martial detail from me.  "Lady
+Mary," cried she, "is much
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+
+enchanted with her gallant nephew. 'I used to look,' says she,
+'for honour and glory from my other side, the T--s ; but I
+receive it only from the Duncans ! As to the T-s, what good do
+they do their country?--why, they play all day at tennis, and
+learn with vast skill to notch and scotch and go one! And that's
+what their country gets from them!"'
+
+I thought now I should certainly be dismissed, for a page came to
+the door to announce that the Duke of York was arrived : but she
+only said, "Very well; pray shut the door," which seemed her
+gentle manner of having it understood she would not be disturbed,
+as she used the same words when messages were brought her from
+the Princesses Elizabeth and Mary.
+
+She spoke again of the Duchess of York with the same fondness as
+at Windsor.  "I told you before," she said, "I loved her like one
+of my own sisters, and I can tell you no more: and she knows it;
+for one day she was taken ill, and fainted, and we put her upon
+one of our beds, and got her everything we could think of
+ourselves, and let nobody else wait upon her ; and when she
+revived she said to my brother, 'These are my sisters--I am sure
+they are! they must be my own!"
+
+
+                      PRINCESS SOPHIA OF GLOUCESTER.
+
+Our next and last interruption, I think, was from a very gentle
+tap at the door, and a "May I come in?" from a soft voice, while
+the lock was turned, and a youthful and very lovely female put in
+her head.
+
+The princess immediately rose, and said, " "O yes," and held out
+her two hands to her; turning at the same time to me, and saying,
+"Princess Sophia."
+
+I found it was the Duke of Gloucester's(154) daughter.  She is
+very fat, with very fine eyes, a bright, even dazzling bloom,
+fine teeth, a beautiful skin, and a look of extreme modesty and
+sweetness. She curtseyed to me so distinguishingly, that I was
+almost confused by her condescension, fearing she 'Might imagine,
+from finding me seated with the Princess 'Augusta, and in such
+close conference, I was somebody.
+
+"You look so fine and so grand," cried she, examining the
+princess's attire, which was very superb in silver and diamonds,
+"that I am almost afraid to come near you!" Her own dress was
+perfectly simple, though remarkably elegant.
+
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+
+
+O!--I hate myself when so fine cried Princess Augusta; "I cannot
+bear it but there is no help--the people at the play always
+expect it."
+
+They then conversed a little while, both standing ; and then
+Princess Augusta said, "Give my love to the duke (meaning of
+Gloucester), "and I hope I shall see him bye and bye; and to
+William."(155) (meaning the duke's son). And this, which was not
+a positive request that she would prolong her visit, was
+understood; and the lovely cousin made her curtsey and retired.
+
+To me, again, she made another, so gravely low and civil, that I
+really blushed to receive it, from added fear of being mistaken.
+I accompanied her to the door, and shut it for her; and the
+moment she was out of the room, and out of sight of the Princess
+Augusta, she turned round to me, and with a smile of extreme
+Civility, and a voice very soft, said, "I am so happy to see
+you!--I have longed for it a great, great while--for I have read
+you with such delight and instruction, so often."
+
+I was very much surprised indeed; I expressed my sense of her
+goodness as well as I could; and she curtseyed again, and glided
+away.  "How infinitely gracious is all your royal highness's
+House to me!" cried I, as I returned to my charming princess; who
+again made me take my seat next her own, and again renewed her
+discourse.
+
+I stayed on with this delightful princess till near four o'clock,
+when she descended to dinner. I then accompanied her to the head
+of the stairs, saying, "I feel quite low that this is over! How I
+wish it might be repeated in half a year instead of a year!"
+
+"I'm sure, and so do I!"  were the last kind words she
+condescendingly uttered.
+
+I then made a little visit to Miss Planta, who was extremely
+friendly, and asked me why I should wait another year before I
+came.  I told her I had leave for an annual visit, and could not
+presume to encroach beyond such a permission. However, as she
+proposed my calling upon her when I happened to be in town, I
+begged her to take some opportunity to hint my wish of admission,
+if possible, more frequently.
+
+Very soon afterwards I had a letter from Miss Planta, saying she
+had mentioned to her majesty my regret of the
+
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+
+long intervals of annual admissions; and that her majesty had
+most graciously answered, "She should be very glad to see me
+whenever I came to town."
+
+
+               DIARY RESUMED: (Addressed to Mrs. Phillips.)
+
+                      INDIGNATION AGAINST TALLEYRAND.
+
+Westhamble, Jan. 18, 1798-I am very impatient to know
+if the invasion threat affects your part of Ireland. Our 'Oracle'
+is of opinion the French soldiers will not go to Ireland, though
+there flattered with much help, because they can expect but
+little advantage, after all the accounts spread by the Opposition
+of its starving condition ; but that they will come to England,
+though sure of contest, at least, because there they expect the
+very road to be paved with gold.
+
+Nevertheless, how I wish my heart's beloved here! to share with
+us at least the same fears, instead of the division of
+apprehension we must now mutually be tormented with. I own I am
+sometimes affrighted enough. These sanguine and sanguinary
+wretches will risk all for the smallest hope of plunder ; and
+Barras assures them they have only to enter England to be lords
+of wealth unbounded.
+
+But Talleyrand!--how like myself must you have felt at his
+conduct! indignant--amazed--ashamed! Our first prepossession
+against him was instinct--he conquered it by pains indefatigable
+to win us, and he succeeded astonishingly, for we became partial
+to him almost to fondness. The part he now acts against England
+may be justified, perhaps, by the spirit of revenge ; but the
+part he submits to perform of coadjutor with the worst of
+villains--with Barras--Rewbel--Merlin--marks some internal
+atrocity of character that disgusts as much as disappoints me.
+And now, a last stroke, which appears in yesterday's paper, gives
+the finishing hand to his portrait in my eyes. He has sent (and
+written) the letter which exhorts the King of Prussia to order
+the Duke of Brunswick to banish and drive from his dominions all
+the emigrants there in asylum --and among these are the
+Archbishop of Rennes (his uncle) and--his own mother!
+
+Poor M. de Narbonne! how will he be shocked and let down! where
+he now is we cannot conjecture: all emigrants are exiled from the
+Canton of Berne, where he resided; I feel extremely disturbed
+about him. If that wretch Talleyrand has
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+
+not given him some private Intimation to escape, and where to be
+safe, he must be a monster.
+
+
+                         THE D'ARBLAY MAISONNETTE.
+
+This very day, I thank God ! we paid the last of our work men.
+Our house now is our own fairly --that it is our own madly too
+you will all think, when I tell you the small remnant of our
+income that has outlived this payment.  However, if the
+Carmagnols do not seize our walls, we despair not of enjoying, in
+defiance of all straitness and strictness, our dear dwelling to
+our hearts' content.  But we are reducing our expenses and way of
+life, in order to go on, in a manner you would laugh to see,
+though almost cry to hear.  But I never forget Dr. Johnson's
+words.  When somebody said that a certain person "had no turn for
+economy," he answered, "Sir, you might as well say that he has no
+turn for honesty."
+
+We know nothing yet of our taxes-nothing- of our assessments; but
+we are of good courage, and so pleased with our maisonnette, we
+think nothing too dear for it, provided we can but exist in it. I
+should like much to know how you stand affected about the
+assessment, and about the invasion. O that all these public
+troubles would accelerate Your return! private blessings they
+would then, at least, prove. Ah, my Susan, how do I yearn for
+some little ray upon this subject!
+
+Charles and his family are at Bath, and Charlotte is gone to them
+for a fortnight. All accounts that reach me of all the house and
+race are well.  Mr. Locke gives us very-frequent peeps indeed,
+and looks with such benevolent pleasure at our dear cottage and
+its environs! and seems to say, "I brought all this to bear," and
+to feel happy in the noble trust he placed in our self-belief
+that he might venture to show that kind courage without which we
+could never have been united.  All this retrospection is
+expressed by his penetrating eyes it every visit.  He rarely
+alights ; but I frequently enter the phaeton, and take a
+conversation in an airing.  And when he comes without his
+precious Amelia, he indulges my Alex in being our third.
+
+
+               INTERVIEW WITH THE QUEEN AND THE PRINCESSES.
+
+And now I have to prepare another Court relation for MY dearest
+Susanna. I received on Wednesday morn a letter from our dearest
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+
+father, telling me he feared he should be forced to quit his
+Chelsea apartments, from a new arrangement among the officers,
+and wishing me to represent his difficulties, his books, health,
+time of life, and other circumstances, through Miss Planta, to
+the queen. M. d'Arblay and I both thought that, if I had any
+chance of being of the smallest use, it would be by endeavouring
+to obtain an audience-not by letter; and as the most remote hope
+of success was sufficient to urge -every exertion, we settled
+that I should set out instantly for Chelsea ; and a chaise,
+therefore, we sent for from Dorking, and I set off at noon. M.
+d'A. would not go, as we knew not what accommodation I might find
+; and I could not, uninvited and unexpected, take my little
+darling boy; so I went not merrily, though never more willingly.
+
+My dear father was at home, and, I could see, by no means
+surprised by my appearance, though he had not hinted at desiring
+it. Of course he was not very angry nor sorry, and we communed
+together upon his apprehensions, and settled our plan.  I was to
+endeavour to represent his case to the queen, in hopes it might
+reach his majesty, and procure some order in his favour.
+
+I wrote to Miss Planta, merely to say I was come to pass three
+days at Chelsea, and, presuming upon the gracious permission of
+her majesty, I ventured to make known my arrival, ,in the hope it
+might possibly procure me the honour of admittance. The next
+morning, Thursday, I had a note from Miss Planta, to say that she
+had the pleasure to acquaint ',.",me her majesty desired I would
+be at the Queen's house next day at ten o'clock.
+
+Miss Planta conducted me immediately, by order, to the Princess
+Elizabeth, who received me alone, and kept me tˆte-…-tˆte till I
+was summoned to the queen, which was near ,.an hour. She was all
+condescension and openness, and inquired into my way of life and
+plans, with a sort of kindness that I am sure belonged to a real
+wish to find them happy and prosperous. When I mentioned how much
+of our time was mutually given to books and writing, M. d'Arblay
+being as great a scribbler as myself, she good-naturedly
+exclaimed, "How fortunate he should have so much the same taste!"
+
+"It was that, in fact," I answered, "which united us for our
+acquaintance began, in intimacy, by reading French together, and
+writing themes, both French and English, for each other's
+correction."
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+
+"Pray," cried she, " if it is not impertinent, may I ask to what
+religion you shall bring up your son?"
+
+"The Protestant," I replied; telling her it was M. d'Arblay's own
+wish, since he was an Englishman born, he should be an Englishman
+bred,--with much more upon the subject that my Susan knows
+untold.
+
+She then inquired why M. d'Arblay was not naturalised. This was
+truly kind, for it looked like wishing our permanently fixing in
+this his adopted country.  I answered that he found he could not
+be naturalised as a catholic, which had made him relinquish the
+plan; for though he was firmly persuaded the real difference
+between the two religions was trifling, and such as even appeared
+to him, in the little he had had opportunity to examine, to be in
+favour of Protestantism, he could not bring himself to study the
+matter with a view of changing that seemed actuated by interest ;
+nor could I wish it, earnest as I was for his naturalisation.
+But he hoped, ere long, to be able to be naturalised as an
+Irishman, that clause of religion not being there insisted upon ,
+or else to become a denizen, which was next best, and which did
+not meddle with religion at all. She made me talk to her a great
+deal of my little boy, and my father, and M. d'Arblay; and when
+Miss Planta came to fetch me to her majesty, she desired to see
+me again before my departure.
+
+The queen was in her White closet, working at a round table, with
+the four remaining princesses, Augusta, Mary, Sophia, and Amelia.
+She received me most sweetly, and with a look of far better
+spirits than upon my last admission. She permitted me, in the
+most gracious manner, to inquire about the princess royal, now
+Duchess of WUrtemberg, and gave me an account of her that I hope
+is not flattered ; for it seemed happy, and such as reconciled
+them all to the separation.  When she deigned to inquire,-
+herself, after my dear father, you may be sure of the eagerness
+With which I seized the moment for relating his embarrassment and
+difficulties. She heard me with a benevolence that assured me,
+though she made no speech, my history would not be forgotten, nor
+remembered vainly. I was highly satisfied with her look and
+manner. The Princesses Mary and Amelia had a little opening
+between them , and when the queen was conversing with some lady
+who was teaching the Princess Sophia some work, they began a
+whispering conversation with me about my little
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+boy.  How tall is he?--how old is he?--Is he fat or thin?--is he
+like you or M. d'Arblay? etc.--with sweet vivacity of interest,-
+-the lovely Princess Amelia finishing her listening to my every
+answer with a "dear little thing!" that made me long to embrace
+her as I have done in her childhood. She is now full as tall as
+princess royal, and as much formed ; she looks seventeen, though
+only fourteen, but has an innocence, an Hebe blush, an air of
+modest candour, and a gentleness so caressingly inviting, of
+voice and eye, that I have seldom seen a more captivating young
+creature.
+
+Then they talked of my new house, and inquired about every room
+it contained; and then of our grounds, and they were mightily
+diverted with the mixtures of roses and cabbages, sweet briars,
+and potatoes, etc.
+
+The queen, catching the domestic theme, presently made inquiries
+herself, both as to the building and the child, asking, with
+respect to the latter, "Is he here?" as if she meant in the
+palace.  I told her I had come so unexpectedly myself upon my
+father's difficulties, that I had not this time brought my little
+shadow. I believed, however, I should fetch him, as, if I
+lengthened my stay, M. d'Arblay would come also. "To be sure!"
+she said, as if feeling the trio's full objections to separating.
+
+She asked if I had seen a play just come out, called "He's much
+to Blame;" and, on my negative, began to relate to me its plot
+and characters, and the representation and its effect ; and,
+warming herself by her own account and my attention, she
+presently entered into a very minute history of each act, and a
+criticism upon some incidents, with a spirit and judiciousness
+that were charming.  She is delightful in discourse when animated
+by her subject, and speaking to auditors with whom, neither from
+circumstance nor suspicion, she has restraint. But when, as
+occasionally she deigned to ask my opinion of the several actors
+she brought in review, I answered I had never seen them,--neither
+Mrs. Pope, Miss Betterton, Mr. Murray, etc.,--she really looked
+almost concerned.  She knows my fondness for the theatre, and I
+did not fear to say my inability to indulge it was almost my only
+regret in my hermit life.  "I, too," she graciously said, "prefer
+plays to all other amusements."
+
+By degrees all the princesses retired, except the Princess
+Augusta.  She then spoke more openly upon less public matters,-in
+particular upon the affair, then just recent, of the
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+Duke of Norfolk, who, you may have heard, had drunk, at the Whig
+Club, "To the majesty of the people," in consequence of which the
+king had erased his name from the privy council. His grace had
+been caricatured drinking from a silver tankard with the burnt
+bread still in flames touching his mouth, and exclaiming, "Pshaw!
+my toast has burnt my mouth."
+
+This led me to speak of his great brick house, which is our
+immediate vis-…-vis. And much then ensued upon Lady ----
+concerning whom she opened to me very completely, allowing all I
+said of her uncommon excellence as a mother, but adding, "Though
+she is certainly very clever, she thinks herself so a little too
+much, and instructs others at every word.  I was so tired with
+her beginning everything with 'I think,' that, at last, just as
+she said so, I stopped her, and cried., 'O, I know what you
+think, Lady ----!'  Really, one is obliged to be quite sharp with
+her to keep her In her place." . . .
+
+Lady C--, she had been informed, had a considerable sum in the
+French funds, which she endeavoured from time to time to recover,
+but upon her last effort, she had the following query put to her
+agent by order of the Directory: how much she would have deducted
+from the principal, as a contribution towards the loan raising
+for the army of England? If Lady C-- were not mother-in-law to a
+minister who sees the king almost daily, I should think this a
+made story.
+
+When, after about an hour and a half's audience, *she dismissed
+me, she most graciously asked my stay at Chelsea, and desired I
+would inform Miss Planta before I returned home. This gave me the
+most gratifying feeling, and much hope for my dearest father.
+
+
+                   ROYAL CONTRIBUTIONS TOWARDS THE WAR.
+
+Returning then, according to my permission, to Princess
+Elizabeth, she again took up her netting, and made me sit by her.
+We talked a good deal of the new-married daughter of Lady
+Templetown, and she was happy, she said, to hear from me that the
+ceremony was performed by her own favourite Bishop of Durham, for
+she was sure a blessing would attend his joining their hands. She
+asked me much of my little man, and told me several things of the
+Princess Charlotte, her niece, and our future queen; she seems
+very fond of her, and says 'tis a lovely child, and extremely
+like the Prince Of
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+Wales.  "She is just two years old," said she, "and speaks very
+prettily, though not plainly.  I flatter myself Aunt Liby, as she
+calls me, is a great favourite with her."
+
+My dearest Princess Augusta soon after came in, and, after
+staying a few minutes, and giving some message to her sister,
+said, "And when you leave Elizabeth, my dear Madame d'Arblay, I
+hope you'll come to me."
+
+This happened almost immediately, and I found her hurrying over
+the duty of her toilette, which she presently despatched, though
+she was going to a public concert of Ancient Music, and without
+scarcely once looking in the glass, from haste to have done, and
+from a freedom from vanity I never saw quite equalled in any
+young woman of any class. She then dismissed her hairdresser and
+wardrobe-woman, and made me sit by her.
+
+Almost immediately we began upon the voluntary contributions to
+the support of the war; and when I mentioned the queen's
+munificent donation of five thousand pounds a-year for its
+support, and my admiration of it, from my peculiar knowledge,
+through my long residence under the royal roof, of the many
+claims which her majesty's benevolence, as well as state, had
+raised upon her powers, she seemed much gratified by the justice
+I did her royal mother, and exclaimed eagerly "I do assure you,
+my dear Madame d'Arblay, people ought to know more how good the
+queen is, for they don't know it half."  And then she told me
+that she only by accident had learnt almost all that she knew of
+the queen's bounties.  "And the most I gathered," she continued,
+laughing, "was, to tell you the real truth, by my own
+impertinence - for when we were at Cheltenham, Lady Courtown (the
+queen's lady-in-waiting for the country) put her pocket-book down
+on the table, when I was alone with her, by some chance open at a
+page where mamma's name was written : so, not guessing at any
+secret commission, I took it up, and read-Given by her majesty's
+commands--so much, and so much, and so much. And I was quite
+surprised. However, Lady Courtown made me promise never to
+mention it to the queen ; so I never have.  But I long it should
+be known, for all that; though I would not take such a liberty as
+to spread it of my own judgment."
+
+I then mentioned my own difficulties formerly, when her Majesty,
+upon my ill state of health's urging my resigning the honour of
+belonging to the royal household, so graciously
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+settled upon me a pension, that I had been forbidden to name it.
+I had been quite distressed in not avowing what I so gratefully
+felt, and hearing questions and surmises and remarks I had no
+power to answer. She seemed instantly to comprehend that my
+silence might do wrong, on such an occasion, to the queen, for
+she smiled, and with great quickness cried, "O, I dare say you
+felt quite guilty in holding your tongue." And she was quite
+pleased with the permission afterwards granted me to be explicit.
+
+When I spoke of her own and her royal sisters' contributions, one
+hundred pounds per annum, she blushed, bat seemed ready to enter
+upon the subject, even confidentially, and related its whole
+history.  No one ever advised or named it to them, as they have
+none of them any separate establishment, but all hang upon the
+queen, from whose pin-money they are provided for till they
+marry, or have an household of their own granted by Parliament.
+"Yet we all longed to subscribe," cried she, "and thought it
+quite right, if other young ladies did, not to be left out.  But
+the difficulty was, how to do what would not be improper for us,
+and yet not to be generous at mamma's expense, for that would
+only have been unjust.  So we consulted some of our friends, and
+then fixed upon one hundred pounds a-piece; and when we asked the
+queen's leave, she was so good as to approve it.  So then we
+spoke to the king, and he said it was but little, but he wished
+particularly nobody should subscribe what would really distress
+them ; and that, if that was all we could conveniently do, and
+regularly continue, he approved it more than to have us make a
+greater exertion, and either bring ourselves into difficulties or
+not go on. But he was not at all angry."
+
+She then gave me the history of the contribution of her brothers.
+The Prince of Wales could not give in his name without the leave
+of his creditors.  "But Ernest," cried she, "gives three hundred
+pounds a-year, and that's a tenth of his income, for the king
+allows him three thousand pounds."
+
+All this leading to discourse upon loyalty, and then its
+contrast, democracy, she narrated to me at full length a lecture
+of Therwall's, which had been repeated to her by M. de
+GuiffardiŠre.  It was very curious from her mouth.  But she is
+candour in its whitest purity, wherever it is possible to display
+it, in discriminating between good and bad, and abstracting rays
+of light even from the darkest shades.  So she did even from
+Therwall.
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+She made me, as usual, talk of my little boy, and was much amused
+by hearing that, imitating what he heard from me, he called his
+father "mon ami," and tutoyed him, drinking his health at dinner,
+as his father does to me--"Š la sant‚."
+
+When at length the Princess Augusta gave me the bow of cong‚ she
+spoke of seeing me again soon: I said I should therefore lengthen
+my stay in town, and induce M. d'Arblay to come and bring my boy.
+
+"We shall see you then certainly," said she, smiling, "and do
+pray, my dear Madame d'Arblay, bring your little boy with you.
+And don't say anything to him," cried she, as I was departing;
+"let us see him quite natural."
+
+I understood her gracious, and let me say rational, desire, that
+the child should not be impressed with any awe of the royal
+presence.  I assured her I must obey, for he was so young, so
+wild, and so unused to present himself, except as a plaything,
+that it would not be even in my power to make him orderly. . . .
+
+My dear father was extremely pleased with what I had to tell him,
+and hurried me back to Westhamble, to provide myself with baggage
+for sojourning with him. My two Alexanders, you will believe,
+were now warmly invited to Chelsea, and we all returned thither
+together, accompanied by Betty Nurse.
+
+
+          INVITATION TO THE PLAY. MRS SCHWELLENBERG'S SUCCESSOR.
+
+I shall Complete my next Court visit before I enter upon aught
+else.  I received, very soon, a note from Madame Bremyere, who is
+my successor. [I have told you poor Mlle. Jacobi is returned to
+Germany, I think; and that her niece, La Bettina, is to marry a
+rich English merchant and settle in London.] This note says Mrs
+Bremyere has received the queen's commands to invite Madame
+d'Arblay to the play tomorrow night "-with her own desire I would
+drink coffee in her apartment before we went to the theatre.
+Could anything More sweetly mark the real kindness of the queen
+than this remembrance of my fondness for plays ?
+
+My dear father lent me his carriage, and I was now introduced to
+the successor of Mrs. Schwellenberg, Mlle. Bachmeister, a German,
+brought over by M. de Luc, who travelled to Germany to accompany
+her hither. I found she was the lady I had seen with the queen
+and princesses,
+
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+
+ing some work. Not having been to the so-long-known apartments
+since the death of Mrs. Schwellenberg, I knew not how they were
+arranged, and had concluded Madame Bremyere possessed those of
+Mrs. Schwellenberg. Thither, therefore, I went, and was received,
+to my great surprise, by this lady, who was equally surprised by
+my entrance, though without any doubt who I might be, from having
+seen me with the queen, and from knowing I was to join the
+play-party to my ci-devant box. I inquired if I had made any
+mistake, but though she could not say no, she would not suffer Me
+to rectify it, but sent to ask Madame Bremyere to meet me in her
+room.
+
+Mlle. Bachmeister is extremely genteel in her figure, though
+extremely plain in her face; her voice is gentle and penetrating;
+her manners are soft, yet dignified, and she appears to be both a
+feeling and a cultivated character.  I could not but lament such
+had not been the former possessor of an apartment I had so often
+entered with the most cruel antipathy. I liked her exceedingly;
+she is a marked gentlewoman in her whole deportment, though
+whether so from birth, education, or only mind, I am ignorant.
+
+Since she gave me so pleasant a prejudice in her favour, you will
+be sure our acquaintance began with some spirit. We talked much
+of the situation she filled; and I thought it my duty to cast the
+whole of my resignation of one so similar upon ill health. Mrs.
+Bremyere soon joined us, and we took up Miss Barbara Planta in
+our way to the theatre.
+
+When the king entered, followed by the queen and his lovely
+daughters, and the orchestra struck up " God save the king," and
+the people all called for the singers, who filled the stage to
+sing it, the emotion I was suddenly filled with so powerfully
+possessed me, that I wished I could, for a minute or two, have
+flown from the box, to have sobbed; I was so gratefully delighted
+at the sight before me, and so enraptured at the continued
+enthusiasm of the no longer volatile people for their worthy,
+revered sovereign, that I really suffered from the restraint I
+felt of being forced to behave decorously.
+
+The play was the "Heir at Law," by Colman the younger. I liked it
+extremely. It has a good deal of character, a happy plot, much
+interest in the under parts, and is combined, I think, by real
+genius, though open to innumerable partial criticisms.  I heard a
+gentleman's voice from the next box call softly to Miss Barbara
+Planta, "Who is that lady?" and
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+heard her answer my name, and him rejoin, "I thought so." I found
+it was Lord Aylesbury, who also has resigned, and was at the play
+only for the pleasure of sitting opposite his late royal
+mistress. . . .
+
+
+                  MADAME D'ARBLAY's LITTLE BOY AT COURT.
+
+About a week after this theatrical regale, I went to the Queen's
+house, to make known I had only a few more days to remain at
+Chelsea. I arrived just as the royal family had set out for
+Windsor; but Miss Bacbmeister, fortunately, had only ascended her
+coach to follow. I alighted, and went to tell my errand. Mrs.
+Bremyere, Mrs. Cheveley, and Miss Planta were her party. The
+latter promised to speak for me to the queen; but, gathering I
+had my little boy, in my father's carriage, she made me send for
+him.  They took him in, and loaded him with bonbons and
+admiration, and would have loaded him with caresses to boot, but
+the little wretch resisted that part of the entertainment. Upon
+their return from Windsor, you will not suppose me made very
+unhappy to receive the following billet:--
+
+March 8th, 1798.
+My dear friend,-The queen has commanded me to acquaint you that
+she desires you will be at the Queen's house on Thursday morning
+at ten o'clock, with your lovely boy. You are desired to come
+upstairs in Princess Elizabeth's apartments, and her majesty will
+send for you as soon as she can see you. Adieu! Yours most
+affectionately, M. Planta.
+
+A little before ten, you will easily believe, we were at the
+,Queen's house, and were immediately ushered into the apartment
+of the Princess Elizabeth, who, to show she expected my little
+man, had some playthings upon one of her many tables; for her
+royal highness has at least twenty in her principal room. The
+child, in a new muslin frock, sash, etc.' did not look to much
+disadvantage, and she examined him with the most good-humoured
+pleasure, and, finding him too shy to be seized, had the
+graciousness, as well as sense, to play round and court him by
+sportive wiles, instead of being offended at his insensibility to
+her royal notice.  She ran about the room, peeped at him through
+chairs, clapped her hands, half caught without touching him, and
+showed a skill
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+and a sweetness that made one almost sigh she should have no call
+for her maternal propensities.
+
+There came in presently Miss D-, a young lady about thirteen, who
+seems in some measure under the protection of her royal highness,
+who had rescued her poor injured and amiable mother, Lady D-,
+from extreme distress, into which she had been involved by her
+unworthy husband's connexion with the infamous Lady W-, who, more
+hardhearted than even bailiffs, had forced certain of those
+gentry, in an execution she had ordered in Sir H. D-'s house, to
+seize even all the children's playthings ! as well as their
+clothes, and that when Lady D-- had but just lain in, and was
+nearly dying! This charming princess, who had been particularly
+acquainted with Lady D- during her own illness at Kew Palace,
+where the queen permitted the intercourse, came forward upon this
+distress, and gave her a small independent house in the
+neighbourhood of Kew, with every advantage she could annex to it.
+But she is now lately no more, and, by the sort of reception
+given to her daughter, I fancy the princess transfers to her that
+kind benevolence the mother no longer wants.
+
+just then, Miss Planta came to summon us to the Princess Augusta.
+ She received me with her customary sweetness, and called the
+little boy to her. He went fearfully and cautiously, yet with a
+look of curiosity at the state of her head, and the operations of
+her friseur, that seemed to draw him on more powerfully than her
+commands. He would not, however, be touched, always flying to my
+side at the least attempt to take his hand. This would much have
+vexed me, if I had not seen the ready allowance she made for his
+retired life, and total want of use to the sight of anybody out
+of our family, except the Lockes, amongst whom I told her his
+peculiar preference for Amelia.  "Come then," cried she, "come
+hither, my dear, and tell me all about her,--is she very good to
+you?--do you like her very much?"
+
+He was now examining her fine carpet, and no answer was to be
+procured.  I would have apologised, but she would not let me.
+"'Tis so natural," she cried, '"that he should be more amused
+with those shapes and colours than with my stupid questions."
+
+Princess Mary now came in, and, earnestly looking at him,
+exclaimed, "He's beautiful!--what eyes!--do look at his eyes!"
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+"Come hither, my dear," again cried Princess Augusta,
+"come hither;" and, catching him to her for a Moment, and,
+holding up his hair. to lift up his face and made him look at
+her, she smiled very archly, and cried, "O ! horrid eyes!
+shocking eyes!--take them away!"
+
+Princess Elizabeth then entered, attended by a page, who was
+loaded With playthings which she had been sending for. You may
+suppose him caught now! He seized upon dogs, horses, chaise, a
+cobbler, a watchman, and all he could grasp but would not give
+his little person or cheeks, to my great confusion, for any of
+them.
+
+I was fain to call him a little savage, a wild deer, a creature
+just caught from the woods, and whatever could indicate his
+rustic life, and apprehension of new faces,--to prevent their
+being hurt ; and their excessive good nature helped all my
+excuses, nay, made them needless, except to myself. .
+
+Princess Elizabeth now began playing upon an organ she had
+brought him, which he flew to seize.  "Ay, do! that's right, my
+dear," cried Princess Augusta, stopping her ears at some
+discordant sounds; "take it to mon ami, to frighten the cats out
+of his garden."
+
+And now, last of all, came in Princess Amelia, and, strange to
+relate ! the child was instantly delighted with her!  She came
+first up to me, and, to my inexpressible surprise and
+enchantment, she gave me her sweet beautiful face to kiss!--an
+honour I had thought now for ever over, though she had so
+frequently gratified me with it formerly.  Still more touched,
+however, than astonished, I would have kissed her hand, but,
+withdrawing it, saying, "No, no,--you know I hate that!"  she
+again presented me her ruby lips, and with an expression of -such
+ingenuous sweetness and innocence as was truly captivating. She
+is and will be another Princess Augusta.
+
+She then turned to the child, and his eyes met hers with a look
+of the same pleasure that they were sought. She stooped down to
+take his unresisting hands, and, exclaiming "Dear little thing!"
+took him in her arms, to his own as obvious content as hers.
+
+"He likes her!" cried Princess Augusta, "a little rogue! see how
+he likes her!"
+
+"Dear little thing!"  with double the emphasis, repeated the
+young princess, now sitting down and taking him upon her knee;
+"and how does M. d'Arblay do?"
+
+The child now left all his new playthings, his admired
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+carpet, and his privilege of jumping from room to room, for the
+gentle pleasure of sitting in her lap and receiving her caresses.
+I could not be very angry, you will believe, yet I would have
+given the world I could have made him equally grateful to the
+Princess Augusta. This last charming personage, I now found, was
+going to Sit for her picture--I fancy to send to the Duchess of
+Wurtemberg.  She gave me leave to attend her with my bantling.
+The other princesses retired to dress for Court.
+
+It was with great difficulty I could part my little love from his
+grand collection of new playthings, all of which he had dragged
+into the painting-room, and wanted now to pull them down-stairs
+to the queen's apartment.  I persuaded him, however, to
+relinquish the design without a quarrel, by promising we would
+return for them.
+
+
+                      HIS PRESENTATION TO THE QUEEN.
+
+I was not a little anxious, you will believe, in this
+presentation of my unconsciously honoured rogue, who entered the
+White closet totally unimpressed with any awe, and only with a
+sensation of disappointment in not meeting again the gay young
+party, and variety of playthings, he had left above.  The queen,
+nevertheless, was all condescending indulgence, and had a Noah's
+ark ready displayed upon the table for him.
+
+But her look was serious and full of care, and, though perfectly
+gracious, none of her winning smiles brightened her countenance,
+and her voice was never cheerful.  I have since known that the
+Irish conspiracy with France was just then discovered, and
+O'Connor that very morning taken.(156) No wonder she should have
+felt a shock that pervaded her whole mind and manners! If we all
+are struck with horror at such developments of treason, danger,
+and guilt, what must they prove to the royal family, at whom they
+are
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+regularly aimed ? How my heart has ached for them in that
+horrible business!
+
+"And how does your papa do?" said the queen.
+
+"He's at Telsea," answered the child.
+
+"And how does grandDapa do?"
+
+"He's in the toach," he replied.
+
+"And what a pretty frock you've got on! who made it you, mamma,
+or little aunty?"
+
+The little boy now grew restless, and pulled me about, with a
+desire to change his situation. I was a good deal embarrassed, as
+I saw the queen meant to enter into conversation as usual; which
+I knew to be impossible, unless he had some entertainment to
+occupy him. She perceived this soon, and had the goodness
+immediately to open Noah's ark herself, which she had meant he
+should take away with him to examine and possess at once. But he
+was now soon in raptures : and, as the various animals were
+produced, looked with a delight that danced in all his features;
+and when any appeared of which he knew the name, he capered with
+joy; such as, "O! a tow [cow]!" But at the dog, he clapped his
+little hands, and running close to her Majesty; leant upon her
+lap, exclaiming, "O, it's bow wow!"
+
+"And do you know this, little man?" said the queen, showing him a
+cat.
+
+"Yes," cried he, again jumping as he leant upon her, "its name is
+talled pussey!"
+
+And at the appearance of Noah, in a green mantle, and leaning on
+a stick, he said, "At's (that's] the shepherd's boy!"
+
+The queen now inquired about my dear father, and heard all I had
+to say relative to his apartments, with an air of interest, yet
+not as if it was new to her.  I have great reason to believe the
+accommodation then arranging, and since settled, as to his
+continuance in the College, has been deeply influenced by some
+royal hint. . . .
+
+I imagined she had just heard of the marriage of Charlotte, for
+she inquired after my sister Frances, whom she never had
+mentioned before since I quitted my post. I was obliged briefly
+to relate the transaction, seeking to adorn it by stating Mr.
+Broome's being the author of "Simkin's Letters." She agreed in
+their uncommon wit and humour.
+
+My little rebel, meanwhile, finding his animals were not given
+into his own hands, but removed from their mischief, was
+struggling all this time to get at the Tunbridge-ware of
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+
+the queen's work-box, and, in defiance of all my efforts to
+prevent him, he seized one piece, which he called a hammer, and
+began violently knocking the table with it. I would fain have
+taken it away silently - but he resisted such grave authority,
+and so continually took it back, that the queen, to my great
+confusion, now gave it him. Soon, however, tired also of this, he
+ran away from me into the next room, which was their majesties'
+bedroom, and in which were all the jewels ready to take to St.
+James's, for the Court attire. I was excessively ashamed, and
+obliged to fetch him back in my arms, and there to keep him. "
+
+"Get down, little man," said the queen; "you are too heavy for
+your mamma."
+
+He took not the smallest notice of this admonition. The queen,
+accustomed to more implicit obedience, repeated it but he only
+nestled his little head in my neck, and worked' about his whole
+person, so that I with difficulty held him.
+
+The queen now imagined he did not know whom she meant, and said,
+" What does he call you? Has he any particular name for you?"
+
+He now lifted up his head, and, before I could answer, called
+out, in a fondling manner, "Mamma, mamma!"
+
+"O!" said she, smiling, "he knows who I mean!"
+
+His restlessness still interrupting all attention, in defiance of
+my earnest whispers for quietness, she now said, "Perhaps he is
+hungry?" and rang her bell, and ordered a page to bring some
+cakes.
+
+He took one with great pleasure, and was content to stand down to
+eat it. I asked him if he had nothing to say for it; he nodded
+his little head, and composedly answered, "Sanky, queen!" This
+could not help amusing her, nor me, neither, for I had no
+expectation of quite so succinct an answer.
+
+The carriages were now come for St. James's, and the Princesses
+Augusta and Elizabeth came into the apartment. The little monkey,
+in a fit of renewed lassitude after his cake, had flung himself
+on the floor, to repose at his ease.  He rose, however, upon
+their appearance, and the sweet Princess Augusta said to the
+queen, "He has been so good, up-stairs, mamma, that nothing could
+be better behaved."  I could have kissed her for this instinctive
+kindness, excited by a momentary view of my embarrassment at his
+little airs and liberties.
+
+The queen heard her with an air of approving, as well as
+understanding, her motive, and spoke to me with the utmost
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+
+condescension of him, though I cannot recollect how, for I was a
+good deal fidgeted lest he should come to some disgrace, by any
+actual mischief or positive rebellion.  I escaped pretty well,
+however, and they all left us with smiles and graciousness. . . .
+
+You will not be much surprised to hear that papa came to help us
+out of the coach, at* our return to Chelsea, eager to know how
+our little rebel had conducted himself, and how he had been
+received.  The sight of his playthings, you will believe, was not
+very disagreeable. The ark, watchman, and cobbler, I shall keep
+for him till he may himself judge their worth beyond their price.
+
+
+            MLLE. BACHMEISTER PRODUCES A FAVOURABLE IMPRESSION.
+
+I returned to the Queen's house in the afternoon to drink coffee
+with Mlle. Bachmeister, whom I found alone, and spent a half-hour
+with very pleasantly, though very seriously, for her character is
+grave and feeling, and I fear she is not happy. Afterwards we
+were joined by Madame Bremyere, who is far more cheerful.
+
+The play was called "Secrets Worth Knowing;" a new piece.  In the
+next box to ours sat Mrs. Ariana Egerton, the bed-chamber-woman
+to her majesty, who used so frequently to visit me at Windsor.
+She soon recollected me, though she protested I looked so
+considerably in better health, she took me for my own Younger
+sister - and we had a great deal of chat together, very amicable
+and cordial.  I so much respect her warm exertions for the
+emigrant ladies, that I addressed her with real pleasure, in
+pouring forth my praises for her kindness and benevolence.
+
+When we returned to the Queen's house my father's carriage was
+not arrived, and I was obliged to detain Mlle. Bachmeister in
+conversation for full half an hour, while I waited ; but it
+served to increase my good disposition to her.  She is really an
+interesting woman. Had she been in that place while I belonged to
+the queen, heaven knows if I had so struggled for deliverance ,
+for poor Mrs. Schwellenberg so wore, wasted, and tortured all my
+little leisure, that my time for repose was, in fact, my time of
+greatest labour.  So all is for the best!  I have escaped
+offending lastingly the royal mistress I love and honour, and-I
+live at Westhamble with my two precious Alexanders.
+
+(137) The most interesting account of the unfortunate expedition
+to Bantry Bay is to be found in Wolfe Tone's " Memoirs." Wolfe
+Tone, one of the leading members of the Irish Revolutionary
+party, had been for some time resident in Paris, engaged in
+negotiations with the Directory, with the view of obtaining
+French support for the Irish in their intended attempt to throw
+off the yoke of England.  About the middle of December, 1796, a
+large French fleet, under the Admiral Villaret-Joyeuse, sailed
+from Brest, having on board an army of f twenty-five thousand
+men, commanded by General Hoche, one of the ablest officers of
+the Republic.  Wolfe Tone accompanied the troops in the capacity
+of adjutant to the general, But the fleet was dispersed by
+storms.  The vessel which had General Hoche on board was obliged
+to put into the harbour of Rochelle, and comparatively few of the
+ships, with about six thousand troops on board, actually cast
+anchor in Bantry Bay. Even there, the wind was so 'Violent as to
+render landing impossible, and after a few days' delay the
+expedition returned to France.-ED.
+
+(138) Edmund Burke died, at his house at Beaconsfield, half an
+hour after midnight on the morning Of Sunday, July 9, 1797. He
+was buried, July 15, in the parish church of Beaconsfield.-ED.
+
+(139) Sold for the benefit of the nation.
+
+(140) Dr. Johnson's negro servant. Johnson left him a comfortable
+annuity, on which he retired to Lichfield. He died in the
+infirmary at Stafford, February 13, 1801.-ED.
+
+(141) The Garrick family resided in Lichfield. David Garrick was
+born in Hereford, but educated at Lichfield.-ED.
+
+ (142) Dr. Burney's little grandson, and the son of Captain James
+BAR Burney. after years, as readers of "Elia" will remember,
+Martin Burney was the friend of Charles Lamb.-ED.
+
+(143) Since the death of his second wife, Dr. Burney had been
+engaged upon a "historical and didactic poem on astronomy."  He
+had been urged to the undertaking by Fanny, who hoped that the
+interest of this new occupation might prove a relief to his
+sorrow.  Astronomy Was a favourite subject with Dr. Burney, and
+he made great progress with the poem, which was for years his
+favourite recreation.  At a later period, however, for some
+reason which his daughter never discovered, he relinquished the
+task and destroyed the manuscript.-ED.
+
+(144) Ralph Broome, who married Charlotte Francis in 1798, wasthe
+author of "The Letters of Simpkin the Second, poetic recorder of
+all the proceedings upon the trial of Warren Hastings, Esq., in
+Westminster Hall," published by Stockdale, 1789.  These letters,
+which had already appeared separately in "The World," form, as
+the title implies, a burlesque report of the trial, in rhymed
+verse.  The author is very severe upon the managers, and
+proportionately favourable to Mr.  Hastings. The letters are
+amusing and not without Wit, although in these respects "Simpkin
+the Second" falls decidedly short of "Simpkin the First," who is,
+of course, the Simple Simkin of Anstey's "New Bath Guide." upon
+which clever satire Broome had modelled his performance.-ED.
+
+(145) Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, was a very singular
+character--- a compound of experimental philosopher, practical
+philanthropist, soldier and statesman.  He was born at Woburn,
+Massachusetts, in 1753.  A Tory during the struggle for American
+independence, he embarked for England before the close of the
+war.  There he was well received by the government, but shortly
+afterwards he went to Bavaria, where he entered into the service
+of the Elector.  He soon attained a high reputation by the
+reforms which he introduced in various departments, and was
+created a Count of the Holy Roman Empire, by the title of Count
+Rumford. Among his principal achievements in Bavaria were the
+reforms which he brought about in the army, and the measures
+which he instituted for the relief of the poor and the
+suppression of beggary.  To Fanny, at present, Count Rumford was
+more interesting as the inventor of an improved Cooking range, by
+which the consumption of fuel was greatly reduced. See his "Life"
+by James Renwick, in Sparks'.s "Library of American Biography,"
+Boston, 1845.-ED.
+
+ (146) The insurrection of the 18th of Fructidor (September 4,
+1797).  In 1795, on the dissolution of the Convention, the
+government of France was entrusted to a Directory of five
+persons, assisted by two councils--the Council of Ancients, and
+the Council of Five hundred. In course of time, the reactionary,
+or anti-revolutionary, party obtained a large majority in the
+councils, which were thus involved in continual disputes with the
+Directory. The army supported the Directory, and on the 4th Of
+September a large body of troops surrounded the Tuileries, and
+arrested a number of the most obnoxious members of the councils;
+many of these Were afterwards--not guillotined, but transported
+to South America.-ED.
+(147) The marriage of the princess royal and the hereditary
+prince of Wurtemberg, May 18, 1797.-ED.
+(148) In April, 797, a serious mutiny broke out in the fleet at
+Spithead. The sailors demanded increased pay and better food.
+Their demands were finally conceded, and they returned to their
+duty, May 14.  A few days later, a still more alarming mutiny
+broke out in the fleet at the Nore.  The mutineers hoisted the
+red flag, May 23, and, being joined by vessels from other
+squadrons, found themselves presently masters of eleven ships of
+the line, and thirteen frigates.  With this powerful fleet they
+blocked the Thames, and put a stop to the river trade of London.
+Their demands were more extensive than those of the Spithead
+Mutineers, but government firmly refused further concessions, and
+in June the want of union and resolution among the men brought
+about the collapse of the mutiny.  Ship after ship deserted the
+red flag, until the last vessel was steered into Sheerness
+harbour, and given up to the authorities.  Several of the leaders
+were tried by court-martial and hanged ; the rest of the
+mutineers were pardoned.-ED.
+
+(149) The decisive victory gained by Admiral Duncan over the
+Dutch fleet, off Camperdown, October 11, 1797. in January, 1795,
+the French army under General Pichegru had conquered Holland with
+little difficulty, meeting, indeed, with much sympathy from the
+inhabitants. The Prince of Orange and his family were forced to
+take refuge in England and the representatives of the Dutch
+people immediately assembling, proclaimed Holland a republic,
+under the protection of France.  From that time Holland had been
+in alliance with France, and at war with England.  Duncan was
+rewarded for his victory with a pension and a peerage--Viscount
+Duncan of Camperdown henceforward.-ED.
+
+(150) Duncan's victory we have already noted. Lord Howe's was the
+great victory of June 1, 1794, over the French fleet commanded by
+Admiral Villaret-joyeuse.  It was in this battle that the Vengeur
+went down, out Of which incident Barrere manufactured, for the
+benefit of the French people, that rousing story of the disabled
+ship refusing to strike its colours, and sinking while every man
+of the crew, With his last breath, shouted "Vive la Republique!"
+Magnificent, had it not been pure fiction! Lord St. Vincent (then
+Admiral Jervis) gained a complete victory over the Spanish fleet
+off Cape St. Vincent, February 14, 1797. Spain, as well as
+Holland, was now in alliance with France: had made peace with
+France in 1795, and declared war against England in the following
+year. ,K Admiral Jervis received the title of Earl St. Vincent
+and a pension in consequence of his victory.-ED.
+
+(151) Only child of the Prince and Princess of Wales, born
+January 7, 1796.-ED.
+
+(152) A novel by Sarah Harriet Burney.-ED.
+
+(153) The Duke of Cumberland, afterward, King of Hanover; fifth
+son of George III.; born 1771, died 1851.-ED.
+
+(154) William Henry, Duke of Gloucester, and brother of George
+III.-ED.
+
+(155) William Frederick, afterwards Duke of Gloucester, and
+husband of the Princess Mary. He was born in 1776, and died in
+1836.-ED.
+
+(156) Arthur O'Connor, nephew and heir of Lord Longueville, was
+one of the Irish leaders, who took part in the negotiations
+between the Revolutionary party in Ireland and the French
+Directory.  He and two or three of his associates were arrested
+at Margate (February 28, 1798), where they were attempting to
+hire a boat to take them to France.  They were tried at Maidstone
+(May 21), and one of the party, on whom were found some
+compromising papers, including an address to the Directory, was
+convicted and hanged. O'Connor was acquitted, but immediately
+rearrested and detained in custody during the rising in Ireland.-
+ED.
+
+
+
+
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+                               (1798-1802.)
+
+
+VISITS TO OLD FRIENDS: WESTHAMBLE: DEATH OF MRS. PHILLIPS:
+SOJOURN IN FRANCE.
+
+[From the " Memoirs of Dr. Burney " we extract the following
+details respecting the death of Fanny's favourite sister, Susan
+Phillips.
+
+"Winter now was nearly at hand, and travelling seemed deeply
+dangerous, in her sickly state, for the enfeebled Susanna. Yet
+she herself, panting to receive again the blessing of her beloved
+father, concentrated every idea of recovery in her return. She
+declined, therefore, though with exquisite sensibility, the
+supplicating desire of this Editor [Madame d'Arblay] to join and
+to nurse her at Belcotton, her own cottage ; and persevered
+through every impediment in her efforts to reach the parental
+home. . . . Every obstacle, at length, being finally vanquished,
+the journey was resolved upon, and its preparations were made;--
+when a fearful new illness suddenly confined the helpless invalid
+to her bed. There she remained some weeks - after which, with the
+utmost difficulty, and by two long days' travelling, though for a
+distance of only twenty-six miles, she reached Dublin where,
+exhausted, emaciated, she was again forced to her bed ; there
+again to remain for nearly as long a new delay! " Every hour of
+separation became now to the Doctor Dr. Burney] an hour of grief,
+from the certainty that, the expedition once begun, it could be
+caused only by suffering malady, or expiring strength.
+
+"It was not till the very close of the year 1799, amidst deep
+snow, fierce frost, blighting winds, and darksome days, that,
+scarcely alive, his sinking Susanna was landed at Park Gate.
+There she was joined by her affectionate brother, Dr. Charles,
+who hastened to hail her arrival, that he might convey her in his
+own warm carriage to her heart-yearning father, her fondly
+impatient brethren, and the tenderest of friends. But he found
+her in no state to travel: further feeble,
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+
+drooping, wasted away, scarcely to be known, shrunk, nearly
+withered!--yet still with her fair mind in full possession of its
+clearest powers; still with all the native sweetness of her
+looks, manners, voice, and smiles; still with all her desire to
+please; her affecting patience of endurance; her touching
+sensibility for every species of attention; and all her
+unalterable loveliness of disposition, that sought to console for
+her own afflictions, to give comfort for her own sufferings!
+
+
+"During the space of a doubtful week, her kind brother Dr.
+Charles, awaited the happy moment when she might be able to move
+on. But on--save as a corpse,---she moved no more! *
+
+Gentle was her end! gentle as the whole tenor of her life but as
+sudden in its conclusion as it had been lingering in its
+approach."
+
+* She died at Park Gate, January 6, 1800, and was buried in
+Neston Churchyard, near Park Gate.-ED.
+
+The latter portion of the following section introduces the reader
+to new scenes and new acquaintances.  During the summer of 1801
+negotiations for peace between France and England were carried on
+in London, between lord Hawkesbury, on the part of the English
+government, and M. Otto, the French plenipotentiary. The
+preliminary treaty was signed in London, October 1, 1801, and
+ratified a few days later on the part of Napoleon Bonaparte, then
+First Consul, and de facto ruler of France, by a special envoy
+from Paris--General Lauriston. The definitive treaty, by which
+the details of mutual concessions, etc., were finally arranged,
+was signed at Amiens, March 25, 1802. In England the peace was
+received with rapture: General Lauriston was drawn in triumph in
+his carriage through the streets of London by the people. The
+"mutual concessions," however, showed a large balance in favour
+of France. As Sheridan observed, it was a peace of which every
+one was glad, but no one proud.
+
+The establishment of peace determined M. d'Arblay to revisit
+France, and to endeavour to obtain from the First Consul the
+half-pay pension to which his former services in the army had
+entitled him. In this project he was warmly encouraged by his old
+friend and comrade, General Lauriston, whom he had called upon in
+London, and who had received him with open arms. The result of
+his journey may be read in the following pages. His wife and son
+joined him in France, in April, 1802, with the intention of
+returning to England after a year's absence. But their return was
+prevented by the renewal of the war between the two countries in
+the following year, and ten years elapsed before Fanny saw again
+her father and her native country. Her first impressions of
+France are recorded in the " Diary" with very pleasant
+minuteness, but of her life during the greater part of these
+years of exile a few letters, Written at long intervals, give us
+all the information which we possess. -ED.)
+
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+
+                         A VISIT TO MRS. CHAFONE.
+
+March 1798.I have not told you of my renewed intercourse with
+Mrs. Chapone, who had repeatedly sent me kind wishes and
+messages, of her desire to see me again. She was unfortunately
+ill, and I was sent from her door without being named; but she
+sent me a kind note to Chelsea, which gave me very great
+pleasure.  Indeed, she had always behaved towards me with
+affection as well as kindness, and I owe to her the blessing of
+my first acquaintance with my dear Mrs., Delany.  It was Mrs.
+Chapone who took me to her first, whose kind account had made her
+desire to know me, and who always expressed the most generous
+pleasure in the intimacy she had brought about, though it soon
+took place of all that had preceded it with herself.  I wrote a
+very long answer, with a little history of our way of life, and
+traits of-M. d'Arblay, by which her quick discernment might judge
+both of that and my state of mind.
+
+When we came again to Chelsea at this period, our Esther desired,
+or was desired by Mrs. Chapone, to arrange a meeting.  I was
+really sorry I could not call upon her with my urchin; but I
+could only get conveyed to her one evening, when I went with our
+Esther, but was disappointed of M. d'Arblay, who had been obliged
+to go to Westhamble. This really mortified me, and vexed Mrs.
+Chapone.
+
+We found her alone, and she received me with the most open
+affection. Mrs. Chapone knew the day I could be with her too late
+to make any party, and would have been profuse in apologies if I
+had not truly declared I rejoiced in seeing her alone, Indeed, it
+would have been better If we had been so completely, for our
+dearest Esther knew but few of the old connexions concerning whom
+I wished to inquire and to talk, and she knew too much of all
+about myself and my situation of which Mrs. Chapone wished to ask
+and to hear.  I fear, therefore, she was tired, though she would
+not: say so, and though she looked and conducted herself with
+great sweetness..
+
+Mrs. Chapone spoke warmly of "Camilla," especially of Sir Hugh,
+but told me she had detected me in some Gallicisms,
+
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+
+and pointed some out.  She pressed me in a very flattering manner
+to write again ; and dear Hetty, forgetting our relationship's
+decency, seconded her so heartily you must have laughed to hear
+her hoping we could never furnish our house till I went again to
+the press. When Mrs. Chapone heard of my father's difficulties
+about Chelsea, and fears of removal, on account of his twenty
+thousand volumes,--"Twenty thousand volumes!" she repeated;
+"bless me! why, how can he so encumber himself? Why does he not
+burn half? for how much must be to spare that never can be worth
+his looking at from such a store! And can he want to keep them
+all? I should not have suspected Dr. Burney, of all men, of being
+such a Dr. Orkborne!"(157)......
+
+
+               MRS. BOSCAWEN, LADY STRANGE, AND MR. SEWARD.
+
+The few other visits which opportunity and inclination united for
+my making during our short and full fortnight were--
+
+To Mrs. Boscawen, whither we went all three, for I knew she
+wished to see our little one, whom I had in the coach with Betty,
+ready for a summons. Mrs. Boscawen was all herself,---that is,
+all elegance and good-breeding. Do you remember the verses on the
+blues which we attributed to Mr. Pepys?--
+
+Each art of conversation knowing,
+High-bred, elegant boscawen.
+
+To Miss Thrale's, where I also carried my little Alex.
+
+To Lady Strange(158) whom I had not seen for more years than I
+know how to count. She was at home, and alone, except for her
+young grandchild, another Bell Strange, daughter of James, who is
+lately returned from India, with a large fortune, is become
+member of Parliament, and has married, for his second wife, a
+niece of Secretary Dundas's. Lady Strange received me with great
+kindness, and, to my great surprise, knew me instantly.  I found
+her more serious and grave than formerly; I had not seen her
+since Sir
+
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+
+Robert's death, and many events of no enlivening nature; but I
+found, with great pleasure, that all her native fire and wit and
+intelligence were still within, though less voluntary and quick
+in flashing out, for every instant I stayed she grew brighter and
+nearer her true self.
+
+Her little grandchild is a delightful little creature, the very
+reverse of the other Bell(159) in appearance and disposition, for
+she is handsome and open and gay; but I hope, at the same time,
+her resemblance in character, as Bell is strictly principled and
+upright.
+
+Lady Strange inquired if I had any family, and, when she gathered
+I had a little one down-stairs in the carriage, desired to see
+it, for little Bell was wild in the request.  "But have nae
+mair!" cried she; "the times are bad and hard;--ha' nae mair! if
+you take my advice, you'll ha' nae mair! you've been vary
+discreet, and, faith, I commend you!"
+
+Little Bell had run down-stairs to hasten Betty and the child,
+and now, having seized him in her arms, she sprang into the room
+with him.  His surprise, her courage, her fondling, her little
+form, and her prettiness, had astonished him into consenting to
+her seizure ; but he sprang from her to me the moment they
+entered the drawing-room. I begged Lady Strange to give him her
+blessing. She looked at him with a strong and earnest expression
+of examining interest and pleasure, and then, with an arch smile,
+turning suddenly about to me, exclaimed, "Ah! faith and troth,
+you mun ha' some mair! if you can make 'em so pratty as this, you
+mun ha' some mair! sweet bairn! I gi' you my benediction! be a
+comfort to your papa and mamma! Ah, madam!" (with one of her deep
+sighs) "I must gi' my consent to your having some mair ! if you
+can make 'em so pratty as this, faith and troth, I mun let you
+have a girl!"
+
+I write all this without scruple to my dearest Susan, for
+prattiness like this little urchin's is not likely to spoil
+either him or ourselves by lasting. 'Tis a juvenile flower, yet
+one my Susan will again, I hope, view while still in its first
+bloom. . . .
+
+I was extremely pleased in having an interview again with my old,
+and I believe very faithful, friend Mr. Seward, whom I had not
+seen since my marriage, but Whom I had heard, through the Lockes,
+was indefatigable in inquiries and
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+
+expressions of good-will upon every occasion.  He had sent me his
+compilation of anecdotes of distinguished characters, and two
+little letters have passed between us upon them. I was unluckily
+engaged the morning he was at Chelsea, and obliged to quit him
+before we had quite overcome a little awkwardness which our long
+absence and my changed name had involuntarily produced at our
+first meeting; and I was really sorry, as I have always retained
+a true esteem for him, though his singularities and affectation
+of affectation always struck me.  But both those and his spirit
+of satire are mere quizziness 3 his mind is all solid benevolence
+and worth.
+
+
+                          A MYSTERIOUS BANK-NOTE.
+
+And now I must finish this Chelsea narrative, with its most
+singular, though brief, adventure.  One morning at breakfast, my
+father received a letter, which he opened, and found to be only a
+blank cover with a letter enclosed, directed "A Madame, Madame
+d'Arblay." This, upon opening, produced a little bank-note of
+five pounds, and these words:--
+
+"Madame d'Arblay need not have any scruple in accepting the
+enclosed trifle, as it is considered only as a small tribute of
+gratitude and kindness, so small, indeed, that every precaution
+has been taken to prevent the least chance of discovery ; and the
+person who sends it even will never know whether it was received
+or not. Dr. Burney is quite ignorant of it."
+
+This is written evidently in a feigned hand, and I have not the
+most remote idea whence it can come. But for the word gratitude I
+might have suggested many ; but, upon the whole, I am utterly
+unable to suggest any one creature upon earth likely to do such a
+thing. I might have thought of my adorable princess, but that it
+is so little a sum. Be it as it may, it is certainly done in
+great kindness, by some one who knows five pounds is not so small
+a matter to us as to most others ; and after vainly striving to
+find out or conjecture whence it came, we determined to devote it
+to our country. There's patriotism! we gave it in voluntary
+subscription for the war and it was very seasonable to us for
+this purpose.
+
+This magnificent patriotic donation was presented to the Bank of
+England by Mr. Angerstein, through Mr. Locke, and we have had
+thanks from the committee which made us blush. Many reasons have
+prevented my naming this anecdote, the principal of which were
+fears that, if it should
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+
+be known such a thing was made use of, and, as it chanced when we
+should otherwise have really been distressed how to
+come forward or hold back, any other friend might adopt the same
+method, which, gratefully as I feel the kindness that alone could
+have instigated it, has yet a depressing effect, and I would not
+have it become current.  Could I, or should I ever trace it, I
+must, in some mode or other, attempt retaliation.
+
+
+               THE NEW BROTHER-IN-LAW: A CORDIAL PROFESSOR.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Mrs. Phillips.)
+After sundry abortive proposals of our new brother-in-law, Mr.
+Broome, for our meeting, he and Charlotte finally came, with
+little Charlotte, to breakfast and spend a day with us. He has by
+no means the wit and humour and hilarity his "Simkin's Letters"
+prepare for; but the pen and the tongue are often unequally
+gifted.  He is said to be very learned, deeply skilled in
+languages, and general erudition and he is full of information
+upon most subjects that can be mentioned.  We talked of India,
+and he permitted me to ask what questions I pleased upon points
+and things of which I was glad to gather accounts from so able a
+traveller.
+
+Another family visit which took place this Summer gave us
+pleasure of a far more easy nature, because unmixed with watchful
+anxiety; this was from Charles and his son, who, by an
+appointment for which he begged our consent, brought with him
+also Mr. Professor Young, of Glasgow, a man whose learning sits
+upon him far lighter than Mr. Broome's ! Mr. Young has the
+bonhonlie of M. de Lally, with as much native humour as he has
+acquired erudition: he has a face that looks all honesty and
+kindness, and manners gentle and humble ; an enthusiasm for
+whatever he thinks excellent, whether in talents or character, in
+art or in nature; and is altogether a man it seems impossible to
+know, even for a day, and not to love and wish well.  This latter
+is probably the effect of his own cordial disposition to amity.
+He took to us, all three, so evidently and so warmly, and was so
+smitten with our little dwelling, its situation and simplicity,
+and so much struck with what he learned and saw of M. d'Arblay's
+cultivating literally his own grounds, and literally being his
+own gardener, after finding by conversation, what a use he had
+made of his earlier days In literary
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+
+attainments, that he seemed as if he thought himself brought to a
+vision of the golden age,---such was the appearance of his own
+sincere and upright mind in rejoicing to see happiness where
+there was palpably no luxury, no wealth. It was a most agreeable
+surprise to me to find such a man in Mr. Professor Young, as I
+had expected a sharp though amusing satirist, from his very comic
+but sarcastic imitation of Dr. Johnson's "Lives," in a criticism
+upon Gray's "Elegy."
+
+Charles was all kind affection, and delighted at our approbation
+of his friend, for the professor has been such many years, and
+very essentially formerly,-a circumstance Charles is now
+gratefully and warmly returning. It is an excellent part of
+Charles's character that he never forgets any kind office he has
+received.
+
+I learned from them that Mr. Rogers, author of the "Pleasures of
+Memory," that most sweet poem, had ridden round the lanes about
+our domain to view it, and stood--or made his horse stand,--at
+our gate a considerable time, to examine our Camilla cottage,--a
+name I am sorry to find Charles, or some one, had spread to him;
+and he honoured all with his good word. I should like to meet
+with him.
+
+
+                          PRECOCIOUS MASTER ALEX.
+
+Lady Rothes(160) constant in every manifestation of regard, came
+hither the first week of our establishment, and came three times
+to denials, when my gratitude forced open my doors. Her daughter,
+Lady Harriet, was with her: she is a pretty and pleasing young
+woman. Sir Lucas came another morning, bringing my old friend Mr.
+Pepys. Alex was in high spirits and amused them singularly. He
+had just taken to spelling; and every word he heard, of which he
+either knew or could guess the orthography, he instantly, in a
+little concise and steady manner, pronounced all the letters of,
+with a look of great but very grave satisfaction at his own
+performances, and a familiar nod at every word so conquered, as
+thus :--
+
+Mr. Pepys. You are a fine boy, indeed!
+
+Alex. B, o, y; boy. (Every letter articulated with strong, almost
+heroic emphasis.)
+
+Mr. P. And do you run about here in this pleasant place all day
+long?
+
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+
+Alex. D, a, y; day.
+
+
+Mr. P. And can you read your book, You Sweet little fellow?
+
+Alex. R, e, a, d; read. Etc.
+
+He was in such good looks that all this nonsense won
+nothing but admiration, and Mr. Pepys could attend to nothing
+else, but only charged me to let him alone.  "For mercy's sake,
+don't make him study," cried Sir Lucas also; "he is so well
+disposed that you must rather repress than advance him, or his
+health may pay the forfeit of his application."
+
+"O, leave him alone! cried Mr. Pepys: "take care only of his
+health and strength; never fear such a boy as that wanting
+learning."
+
+
+                              THE BARBAULDS.
+
+I was extremely surprised to be told by the maid a gentleman and
+lady had called at the door, who sent in a card and begged to
+know if I could admit them; and to see the names on the card were
+Mr. and Mrs. Barbauld.(161)  I had never seen them more than
+twice; the first time, by their own desire, Mrs. Chapone carried
+me to meet them at Mr. Burrows's: the other time, I think, was at
+Mrs. Chapone's. You must be sure I could not hesitate to receive,
+and receive with thankfulness, this civility from the authoress
+of the most useful books, next to Mrs. Trimmer's, that have been
+yet written for dear little children; though this with the world
+is probably her very secondary merit, her many pretty Poems, and
+particularly songs, being generally esteemed. But many more have
+written those as well, and not a few better; for children's books
+she began the new walk, which has since been so well cultivated,
+to the great information as well as utility of parents.
+
+Mr. Barbauld is a dissenting minister--an author also, but I am
+unacquainted with his works. They were in our little
+dining-parlour-the only one that has any chairs in it--and began
+apologies for their visit; but I interrupted and finished them
+with my thanks. She is much altered, but not for the worse to me,
+though she is for herself, since the flight of her youth, which
+is evident, has taken also with it a great portion of an almost
+set smile, which had an air of determined complacence and
+prepared acquiescence that seemed to result
+
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+
+from a sweetness which never risked being off guard. I remember
+Mrs. Chapone's saying to me, after our interview, "She is a very
+good young woman, as well as replete with talents; but why must
+one always smile so? It makes my poor jaws ache to look at her."
+
+We talked, of course, of that excellent lady ; and you will
+believe I did not quote her notions of smiling. The Burrows
+family, she told me,. was quite broken up; old Mrs. Amy alone
+remaining alive.  Her brother, Dr. Aiken,(162) with his family,
+were passing the summer at Dorking, on account of his ill-health,
+the air of that town having been recommended for his complaints.
+The Barbaulds were come to spend some time with him, and would
+not be so near without renewing their acquaintance. They had been
+walking in Norbury Park, which they admired very much; and Mrs.
+Barbauld very elegantly said, "If there was such a public officer
+as a legislator of taste, Mr. Locke ought to be chosen for it."
+
+They inquired much about M. d'Arblay, who was working in his
+garden, and would not be at the trouble of dressing to appear.
+They desired to see Alex, and I produced him ; and his
+orthographical feats were very well-timed here, for as soon as
+Mrs. Barbauld said, "What is your name, you pretty creature?" he
+sturdily answered "B, o, y; boy."
+
+Almost all our discourse was upon the Irish rebellion. Mr.
+Barbauld is a very little, diminutive figure, but well-bred and
+sensible.
+
+I borrowed her poems, afterwards, of Mr. Daniel, who chanced to
+have them, and have read them with much esteem of the piety and
+worth they exhibit, and real admiration of the last amongst them,
+which is an epistle to Mr. Wilberforce in favour of the
+demolition of the slave-trade, 1 'n which her energy seems to
+spring from the real spirit of virtue, suffering at the luxurious
+depravity which can tolerate, in a free land, so unjust, cruel,
+and abominable a traffic.
+
+We returned their visit together in a few days, at Dr. Aiken's
+lodgings, at Dorking, where, as she permitted M. d'Arblay to
+speak French, they had a very animated discourse upon buildings,
+French and English, each supporting those of their own country
+with great spirit, but my monsieur,
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+
+to own the truth, having greatly the advantage both in manner and
+argument. He was in spirits, and came forth with his best
+exertions. Dr. Aiken looks very sickly, but is said to be better:
+he has a good countenance.
+
+
+                     PRINCESS AMELIA AT JUNIPER HALL.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Mrs. Phillips.)
+Westhamble, 1798.
+And now, my beloved Susan, I will sketch my last Court history of
+this year.
+
+The Princess Amelia, who had been extremely ill since My last
+royal admittance, of some complaint in her knee which caused
+spasms the most dreadfully painful, was now returning from her
+sea-bathing at Worthing, and I heard from all around the
+neighbourhood that her royal highness was to rest and stop one
+night at juniper Hall, whither she was to be attended by Mr.
+Keate the surgeon, and by Sir Lucas Pepys, who was her physician
+at Worthing.
+
+I could not hear of her approaching so near our habitation, and
+sleeping within sight of us, and be contented without an effort
+to see her; yet I would not distress Lady Rothes by an
+application she would not know how either to refuse or grant,
+from the established etiquette of bringing no one into the
+presence of their royal highnesses but by the queen's permission.
+So infinitely sweet, however, that young love of a princess
+always is to me, that I gathered courage to address a petition to
+her majesty herself, through the medium of Miss Planta, for leave
+to pay my homage.-I will copy my answer, sent by return of post.
+..
+
+"My dear friend,-I have infinite pleasure in acquainting you that
+the queen has ordered me to say that you have her leave to see
+dear Princess Amelia, provided Sir Lucas Pepys and Dr. Keate
+permit it, etc."
+
+With so complete and honourable a credential, I now scrupled not
+to address a few lines to Lady Rothes, telling her My authority,
+to prevent any embarrassment, for entreating her leave to pay my
+devoirs to the young princess on Saturday morning,--the Friday I
+imagined she would arrive too fatigued to be seen.  I intimated
+also my wish to bring my boy, not to be presented unless
+demanded, but to be Put into some closet where he might be at
+hand in case of that
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+honour.  The sweet princess's excessive graciousness to him gave
+me courage for this request. Lady Rothes sent me a kind note
+which made me perfectly comfortable.
+
+It was the 1st of December, but a beautifully clear and fine day.
+I borrowed Mr. Locke's carriage. Sir Lucas came to us
+immediately, and ushered us to the breakfast-parlour, giving me
+the most cheering accounts of the recovery of the princess. Here
+I was received by Lady Rothes, who presented me to Lady Albinia
+Cumberland, widow of Cumberland the author's only son, and one of
+the ladies of the princesses. I found her a peculiarly pleasing
+woman, in voice, manner, look, and behaviour.
+
+This introduction over, I had the pleasure to shake hands with
+Miss Goldsworthy, whom I was very glad to see, and who was very
+cordial and kind; but who is become, alas! so dreadfully deaf,
+there is no conversing with her, but by talking for a whole house
+to hear every word ! With this infirmity, however, she is still
+in her first youth and brightness, compared with her brother,
+who, though I knew him of the party, is so dreadfully altered,
+that I with difficulty could venture to speak to him by the name
+of General Goldsworthy. He has had three or four more strokes of
+apoplexy since I saw him.  I fancy he had a strong consciousness
+of his alteration, for he seemed embarrassed and shy, and only
+bowed to me, at first, without speaking.  but I wore that off
+afterwards, by chatting over old stories with him.
+The princess breakfasted alone, attended by Mrs. Cheveley. When
+this general breakfast was over, Lady Albinia retired. But in a
+very few minutes she returned, and said, "Her royal highness
+desires to see Madame d'Arblay and her little boy."
+
+The princess was seated on a sofa, in a French gray riding-dress,
+with pink lapels, her beautiful and richly flowing and shining
+fair locks unornamented.  Her breakfast was still before her, and
+Mrs. Cheveley in waiting. Lady Albinia announced me, and she
+received me with the brightest smile, calling me up to her, and
+stopping my profound reverence, by pouting out her sweet ruby
+lips for me to kiss.
+
+She desired me to come and sit by her; but, ashamed of so much
+indulgence, I seemed not to hear her, and drew a chair at a
+little distance. "No, no," she cried, nodding, "come here; come
+and sit by me here, my dear Madame d'Arblay." I had then only to
+say 'twas my duty to obey her, and I seated myself on her sofa.
+Lady Albinia, whom she motioned
+
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+
+to sit, took an opposite chair, and Mrs. Cheveley, after we had
+spoken a few words together, retired.
+
+Her attention now was bestowed upon my Alex, who required not
+quite so much solicitation to take his part of the sofa.  He came
+jumping and skipping up to her royal highness, with such gay and
+merry antics, that it was impossible not to be diverted with so
+sudden a change from his composed and quiet behaviour in the
+other room. He seemed enchanted to see her again, and I was only
+alarmed lest he should skip upon her poor knee in his caressing
+agility.
+
+I bid him, in vain, however, repeat Ariel's "Come unto these
+yellow sands," which he can say very prettily; he began, and the
+princess, who knew it, prompted him to go on --but a fit of shame
+came suddenly across him-or of capriciousness-and he would not
+continue.
+
+
+Lady Albinia soon after left the room - and the princess, then,
+turning hastily and eagerly to me, said, "Now we are alone, do
+let me ask you one question, Madame d'Arblay. Are you--are
+you--[looking with strong expression to discover her answer]
+writing anything?"
+
+I could not help laughing, but replied in the negative.
+
+"Upon your honour?" she cried earnestly, and looking
+disappointed.  This was too hard an interrogatory for evasion;
+and I was forced to say--the truth--that I was about nothing I
+had yet fixed if or not I should ever finish, but that I was
+rarely without some project.  This seemed to satisfy and please
+her.
+
+I told her of my having seen the Duke of Clarence at Leatherhead
+fair.  "What, William?" she cried, surprised. This unaffected,
+natural way of naming her brothers and sisters is infinitely
+pleasing.  She took a miniature from her pocket, and said, "I
+must show you Meney's picture," meaning Princess Mary, whom she
+still calls Meney, because it was the name she gave her when
+unable to pronounce Mary--a time she knew I well remembered.  It
+was a very sweet miniature, and extremely like.  "Ah! what
+happiness," I cried, "your royal highness will feel, and give,
+upon returning to their majesties and their royal highnesses,
+after such an absence, and such sufferings!"  "O! yes!--I shall
+be SO glad!" she cried, and then Lady Albinia came in and
+whispered her it was time to admit Lady Rothes, who then entered
+with Lady Harriet and the Miss Leslies. When she was removing,
+painfully lifted from her seat
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+
+between Sir Lucas and Mr. Keate, she stopped to pay her
+compliments and thanks to Lady Rothes with a dignity and self-
+command extremely striking. .
+
+
+                           DEATH OF MR. SEWARD.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Mrs. Locke.)
+Westhamble, May 2, 1799.
+Poor Mr. Seward! I am indeed exceedingly concerned--nay,
+grieved--for his loss to us: to us I trust I may say; for I
+believe he was so substantially good a creature, that he has left
+no fear or regret merely for himself.  He fully expected his end
+was quickly approaching. I saw him at my father's at Chelsea, and
+he spent almost a whole morning with me in chatting of other
+times, as he called it ; for we travelled back to Streatham, Dr.
+Johnson, and the Thrales. But he told me he knew his disease
+incurable. Indeed he had passed a quarter of an hour in
+recovering breath, in a room with the servants, before he let me
+know he had mounted the college stairs. My father was not at
+home. He had thought himself immediately dying, he said, four
+days before, by certain sensations that he believed to be fatal,
+but he mentioned it with cheerfulness ; and though active in
+trying all means to lengthen life, declared himself perfectly
+calm in suspecting they would fail. TO give me a proof, he said
+he had been anxious to serve Mr. Wesley, the methodist musician,
+and he had recommended him to the patronage of the Hammersleys,
+and begged my father to meet him there to dinner; but as this was
+arranged, he was seized himself with a dangerous attack, which he
+believed to be mortal. And during this belief, "willing to have
+the business go on," said he, laughing, "and not miss me, I wrote
+a letter to a young lady, to tell her all I wished to be done
+upon the occasion, to serve Wesley, and to show him to advantage.
+I gave every direction I should have given in person, in a
+complete persuasion at the moment I should never hold a pen in my
+hand again."
+
+This letter, I found, was to Miss Hammersley.
+
+I had afterwards the pleasure of introducing M. d'Arblay to him,
+and it seemed a gratification to him to make the acquaintance. I
+knew he had been curious to see him, and he wrote my father word
+afterwards he had been much pleased.
+
+My father says he sat with him an hour the Saturday before he
+died - and though he thought him very ill, he was so little
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+
+aware his end was so rapidly approaching, that, like my dearest
+friend, he laments his loss as if by sudden death.
+
+I was sorry, too, to see in the newspapers, the expulsion of Mr.
+Barry from the Royal Academy. I suppose it is from some furious
+harangue.(163)  His passions have no restraint though I think
+extremely well of his heart, as well as of his understanding.
+
+
+                   DR. BURNEY AGAIN VISITS DR. HERSCHEL.
+
+(Dr. Burney to Madame d'Arblay.)
+Slough, Monday morning, July 22, 1799, in bed at Dr. Herschel's,
+half-past five, where I can neither sleep nor lie idle.
+
+My dear Fanny,-I believe I told you on Friday that I was going to
+finish the perusal of my astronomical verses to the great
+astronomer on Saturday.  Here I arrived at three o'clock,-
+-neither Dr. nor Mrs. H. at home. This was rather discouraging,
+but all was set to rights by the appearance of Miss Baldwin, a
+sweet, timid, amiable girl, Mrs. Herschel's niece. ....When we
+had conversed about ten minutes, in came two other sweet girls,
+the daughters of Dr. Parry of Bath, on a visit here.  More
+natural, obliging, charming girls I have seldom seen; and,
+moreover, very pretty.  We soon got acquainted. I found they were
+musical, and in other respects very well educated.  It being a
+quarter past four, and the lord and lady of the mansion not
+returned, Miss Baldwin would have dinner served, according to
+order, and an excellent dinner it was, and our chattation no
+disagreeable sauce.
+
+After an admirable dessert, I made the Misses Parry sing and
+play, and sang and played with them so delightfully, "you can't
+think!"
+
+Mr. and Mrs. H. did not return till between seven and eight ; but
+when they came, apologies for being out on pressing business,
+cordiality and kindness, could not be more liberally bestowed.
+
+After tea Dr. H. proposed that we two should retire into a quiet
+room, in order to resume the perusal of my work, in
+
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+
+which no progress had been made since last December. The evening
+was finished very cheerfully; and we went to our bowers not much
+out of humour with each other, or with the world.
+
+
+                         DR. BURNEY AND THE KING.
+
+We had settled a plan to go to the chapel at Windsor in' the
+morning, the king and royal family being there, and the town very
+full. Dr. H. and Mrs. H. stayed at home, and I was accompanied by
+the three Graces. Dr. Goodenough, the successor of Dr. Shepherd,
+as canon, preached. I had dined with him at Dr. Duval's. He is a
+very agreeable man, and passionately fond of music, with whom, as
+a professor, a critic, and an historian of the art; I seem to
+stand very high; but I could not hear a single sentence of his
+sermon, on account of the distance. After the service I got a
+glimpse of the good king, in his light-grey farmer-like morning
+Windsor uniform, in a great crowd, but could not even obtain that
+glance of the queen and princesses. The day was charming. The
+chapel is admirably repaired, beautified, and a new west window
+painted on glass. All was cheerfulness, gaiety, and good humour,
+such as the subjects of no other monarch, I believe, i on earth
+enjoy at present; and except return of creepings now and then,
+and a cough, I was as happy as the best.
+
+At dinner we all agreed to go to the Terrace,--Mr., Mrs., and
+Miss H., with their nice little boy, and the three young ladies.
+This plan we put in execution, and arrived on the Terrace a
+little after seven.  I never saw it more crowded or gay.  The
+park was almost full of happy people--farmers, servants, and
+tradespeople,--alt In Elysium.  Deer in the distance, and dears
+unnumbered near.  Here I met with everybody I wished and expected
+to see previous to the king's arrival in the part of the Terrace
+where I and my party were planted. .....
+
+Chelsea, Tuesday, three o'clock.
+Not a moment could I    get to write till now; and I am afraid of
+forgetting some part of my history, but I ought not, for the
+events of this visit are very memorable.
+
+When the king and queen, arm in arm, were approaching the place
+where the Herschel family and I had planted ourselves, one of the
+Misses Parry heard the queen say to his majesty, "There's Dr.
+Burney," when they instantly came to me, so smiling and gracious
+that I longed to throw myself at
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+their feet. "How do you, Dr. Burney?" said the king, "Why, you
+are grown fat and young."
+
+"Yes, indeed," said the queen; "I was very glad to hear from
+Madame d'Arblay how well you looked."
+
+"Why, you used to be as thin as Dr. Lind," says the king. Lind
+was then in sight--a mere lath; but these few words were
+accompanied with such Very gracious smiles, and seemingly
+affectionate good-humour--the whole royal family, except the
+Prince of Wales, standing by in the midst of a crowd of the first
+people in the kingdom for rank and office--that I was afterwards
+looked at as a sight. After this the king and queen hardly ever
+passed by me without a smile and a nod. The weather was charming;
+the park as full as the Terrace, the king having given permission
+to the farmers, tradesmen, and even livery servants, to be there
+during the time of his walking.
+
+Now I must tell you that Herschel proposed to me to go with him
+to the king's concert at night, he having permission to go when
+he chooses, his five nephews (Griesbachs) making a principal part
+of the band. "And," says he, "I know you will be welcome."  But I
+should not have presumed to believe this if his majesty had not
+formerly taken me into his concert-room himself from your
+apartments.  This circumstance, and the gracious notice with
+which I had been just honoured, emboldened me. A fine music-room
+in the Castle, next the Terrace, is now fitted up for his
+majesty's evening concerts, and an organ erected.  Part of the
+first act had been performed previous to our arrival.  There were
+none but the performers in the room, except the Duchesses of Kent
+and cumberland, with two or three general officers backwards. The
+king seldom goes into the music-room after the first act; and the
+second and part of the third were over before we saw anything of
+him, though we heard his majesty, the queen, and princesses
+talking in the next room. At length he came directly up to me and
+Herschel, and the first question his majesty asked me was,--"How
+does Astronomy go on?" I, pretending to suppose he knew nothing
+of my poem, said, "Dr. Herschel will better inform your majesty
+than I can." "Ay, ay," says the king, "but you are going to tell
+us something with your pen;" and moved his hand in a writing
+manner. "What--what--progress have you made?" "Sir, it is all
+finished, and all but the last of twelve books have been read to
+my friend Dr. Herschel." The king, then, looking at Herschel, as
+who would say, "How is it?"  "It
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+is a very capital work, sir," says H.  "I wonder how you find
+time?" said the king. "I make time, Sir."  "How, how?"  "I take
+it out of my sleep, sir."  When the considerate good king, "But
+you'll hurt your health. How long," he adds, "have you been at
+it?"  "Two or three years, at odd and stolen moments, Sir."
+"Well," said the king (as he had said to you before), "whatever
+you write, I am sure will be entertaining." I bowed most humbly,
+as ashamed of not deserving so flattering a speech. "I don't say
+it to flatter you," says the king; "if I did not think it, I
+would not say it."
+
+
+                 OVERWHELMED WITH THE ROYAL GRACIOUSNESS.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Dr. Burney.)
+"Fore George, a more excellent song than t'other!"
+Westhamble, July 25, '99.
+Why,  my dearest padre, your    subjects rise and rise,-till
+subjects, in fact, are no longer in question. I do not wonder you
+felt melted by the king's goodness. I am sure I did in its
+perusal. And the queen!-her naming me so immediately went to my
+heart.  Her speeches about me to Mrs. Locke in the drawing-room,
+her interest in my welfare, her deigning to say she had "never
+been amongst those who had blamed my marriage," though she lost
+by it my occasional attendances, and her remarking "I looked the
+picture of happiness," had warmed me to the most fervent
+gratitude, and the more because her saying she had never been
+amongst those who had blamed me shows there were people who had
+not failed to do me ill offices in her hearing; though probably,
+and I firmly believe, without any personal enmity, as I am
+unconscious of my having any owed me; but merely from a cruel
+malice with which many seize every opportunity, almost
+involuntarily, to do mischief and most especially to undermine at
+Court any one presumed to be in any favour.  And, still further,
+I thought her words conveyed a confirmation of what her conduct
+towards me in my new capacity always led me to conjecture,
+namely, that my guardian star had ordained it so that the real
+character and principles of my honoured and honourable mate had,
+by some happy chance, reached the royal ear "before the news of
+our union. The dear king's graciousness :to M. d'Arblay upon the
+Terrace, when the commander-in-chief, just then returned from the
+Continent, was by his side, made it impossible not to suggest
+this : and now, the queen's
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+again naming me so in, public puts it, in my conception, beyond
+doubt. My kindest father will be glad, I am sure, to have added
+to the great delight of his recital a strength to a notion I so
+much love to cherish.
+
+
+                               WAR RUMOURS.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Mrs. Phillips.)
+Aug. 14, '99.
+People here are very sanguine that Ireland is quiet, and will
+remain so; and that the combined fleets can never reach it. How
+are your own politics upon that point? Mine will take their
+colour, be it what it may. Our dear father is Visiting about,
+from Mr. Cox's to Mrs. Crewe, with whom be is now at Dover, where
+Mr. Crewe has some command. We are all in extreme disturbance
+here about the secret expedition. Nothing authentic is arrived
+from the first armament; and the second is all prepared for
+sailing. . . . Both officers and men are gathered from all
+quarters. - Heaven grant them speedy safety, and ultimate peace !
+God bless my own dearest Susan, and strengthen and restore her.
+Amen! Amen.
+
+
+                    ILLNESS AND DEATH OF MRS. PHILLIPS.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Dr. Burney.)
+Westhamble, October 1, '99.
+Whether gaily or sadly to usher what I have to say I know not,
+but your sensations, like mine, will I am sure be mixed. The
+major has now written to Mrs. Locke that he is anxious to have
+Susan return to England. She is "in an ill state of health," he
+says, and he wishes her to try her native air; but the revival of
+coming to you and among us all, and the tender care that will be
+taken of her, is likely to do much for her; therefore, if we get
+her but to this side the channel, the blessing is comparatively
+so great, that I shall feel truly thankful to heaven.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Mrs. Phillips.)
+Westhamble, December 10, '99.
+O my Susan, my heart's dear sister! with what bitter
+sorrow have I read this last account!  With us, with yourself,
+your children,-all,-you have trifled in respect to health, though
+in all things else you are honour and veracity personified;
+
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+
+but nothing had prepared me to think you in such a grave state as
+I now find you. Would to God I could get to you! If Mr. Keirnan
+thinks you had best pass the winter in Dublin, stay, and let me
+come to you. Venture nothing against his opinion, for mercy's
+sake! Fears for your health take place of all impatience to
+expedite your return; only go not back to Belcotton, where you
+cannot be under his direction, and are away from the physician he
+thinks of so highly.
+
+I shall write immediately to Charles about the carriage. I am
+sure of his answer beforehand,--so must you be. Act, therefore,
+with regard to the carriage, as if already it were arranged.  But
+I am well aware it must not set out till you Are well enough to
+nearly fix your day of sailing.  I say nearly, for we must always
+allow for accidents. I shall write to our dear father, and Etty,
+and James, and send to Norbury Park - but I shall wait till
+to-morrow, not to infect them with what I am infected.. . .
+
+O my Susan! that I could come to you! But all must depend on Mr.
+Keirnan's decision. If you can come to us with perfect safety,
+however slowly, I shall not dare add to your embarrassment of
+persons and package. Else Charles's carriage--O, what a
+temptation to air it for you all the way! Take no more large
+paper, that you may write with less fatigue, and, if possible,
+oftener;--to any one will suffice for all.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Doctor Burney.)
+9th January, 1800.
+My most dear padre,-My mate will say all,-so I can only offer up
+my earnest prayers I may soon be allowed the blessing--the only
+one I sigh for--of embracing my dearest Susan in your arms and
+under your roof. Amen. F. D'A.
+
+These were the last written lines of the last period--unsuspected
+as such--of my perfect happiness on earth; for they were stopped
+on the road by news that my heart's beloved sister, Susanna
+Elizabeth Phillips, had ceased to breathe.  The tenderest of
+husbands--the most feeling of human beings--had only reached
+Norbury Park, on his way to a believed meeting with that angel,
+when the fatal blow was struck; and he came back to West Hamble--
+to the dreadful task of revealing the irreparable loss which his
+own goodness, sweetness, patience, and sympathy could alone have
+made supported.
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+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Mrs. Locke.)
+9th January, 1800.
+"As a guardian angel!"--Yes, my dearest Fredy, as such in every
+interval of despondence I have looked up to the sky to see her,
+but my eyes cannot pierce through the thick atmosphere, and I can
+only represent her to me seated on a chair of sickness, her soft
+hand held partly out to me as I approach her; her softer eyes so
+greeting me as never welcome was expressed before; and a smile of
+heavenly expression speaking the tender gladness of her grateful
+soul that God at length should grant our re-union. From our
+earliest moments, my Fredy, when no misfortune happened to our
+dear family, we wanted nothing but each other. Joyfully as others
+were received by us--loved by us--all that was necessary to our
+happiness was fulfilled by our simple junction. This I remember
+with my first remembrance; nor do I recollect a single instance
+of being affected beyond a minute by any outward disappointment,
+if its result was leaving us together.
+
+She was the soul of my soul !-and 'tis wonderful to me, my
+dearest Fredy, that the first shock did not join them immediately
+by the flight of mine-but that over-that dreadful, harrowing,
+never-to be-forgotten moment of horror that made me wish to be
+mad--the ties that after that first endearing period have shared
+with her my heart, come to my aid. Yet I was long incredulous;
+and still sometimes I think it is not--and that she will come--
+and I paint her by my side--by my father's--in every room of
+these apartments, destined to have chequered the woes of her life
+with rays of comfort, joy, and affection.
+
+O, my Fredy ! not selfish is the affliction that repines her
+earthly course of sorrow was allowed no shade!--that at the
+instant soft peace and consolation awaited her she should breathe
+her last! You would understand all the hardship of resignation
+for me were you to read the joyful opening of her letter, on her
+landing, to my poor father, and her prayer at the end to be
+restored to him. O, my Fredy! could you indeed think of me--be
+alarmed for me on that dreadful day?---I can hardly make that
+enter my comprehension; but I thank you from my soul; for that is
+beyond any love I had thought possible, even from Your tender
+heart.
+
+Tell me you all keep well, and forgive me my distraction.  I
+write so fast I fear you can hardly read; but you will See
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+
+I am conversing with you, and that will show you how I turn to
+you for the comfort of your tenderness. Yes, you have all a loss,
+indeed!
+
+
+                        A PRINCESS'S CONDESCENSION.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Mrs. Locke).
+Greenwich, Friday, February, 1800.
+Here we are, my beloved friend. We came yesterday. All places to
+me are now less awful than my own so dear habitation. My royal
+interview took place on Wednesday. I was five hours with the
+royal family, three of them alone with the queen, whose
+graciousness and kind goodness I cannot express. And each of the
+princesses saw me with a sort of concern and interest I can never
+forget.  I did tolerably well, though not quite as steadily as I
+expected but with my own Princess Augusta I lost all command.
+She is still wrapt up, and just recovering from a fever herself-
+and she spoke to me in a tone--a voice so commiserating--I could
+not stand it--I was forced to stop short in my approach, and hide
+my face with my muff. She came up to me immediately, put her arm
+upon my shoulder, and kissed me--I shall never forget it.--How
+much more than thousands of words did a condescension so tender
+tell me her kind feelings!--She is one of the few beings in this
+world that can be, in the words of M. de Narbonne, "all that is
+douce and all that is sbirituelle,"--his words upon my lost
+darling!
+
+It is impossible more of comfort or gratification could be given
+than I received from them all.
+
+
+
+                        HORTICULTURAL MISFORTUNES.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Dr. Burney).
+Westhamble, March 22, 1800.
+Day after day I have meant to write to my dearest father 'but I
+have been unwell ever since our return, and that has not added to
+my being sprightly.  I have not once crossed 'the threshold since
+I re-entered the house till to-day, when Mr. and Mrs. Locke
+almost insisted upon taking me an airing. I am glad of it, for it
+has done me good, and broken a kind of spell that made me
+unwilling to stir.
+
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+
+M. d'Arblay has worked most laboriously in his garden but his
+misfortunes there, during our absence, might melt a heart of
+stone.  The horses of our next neighbouring farmer broke through
+our hedges, and have made a kind of bog of our mead ow, by
+scampering in it during the wet; the sheep followed, who have
+eaten up all our greens, every sprout and cabbage and lettuce,
+destined for the winter ; while the horses dug up our turnips and
+carrots; and the swine, pursuing such examples, have trod down
+all the young plants besides devouring whatever the others left
+of vegetables. Our potatoes, left, from our abrupt departure, in
+the ground, are all rotten or frostbitten, and utterly spoilt;
+and not a single thing has our whole ground produced us since we
+came home. A few dried carrots, which remain from the in-doors
+collection, are all we have to temper our viands..
+
+What think you of this for people who make it a rule to owe a
+third of their sustenance to the garden? Poor M, d'A.'s renewal
+of toil, to supply future times, is exemplary to behold, after
+such discouragement. But he works as if nothing had failed; such
+is his patience as well as industry.
+
+My Alex, I am sure you will be kindly glad to hear, is entirely
+well; and looks so blooming--no rose can be fresher.  I am
+encouraging back his spouting propensity, to fit him for his
+royal interview with the sweet and gay young princess who has
+demanded him, who will, I know, be diverted with his speeches and
+gestures.  We must present ourselves before Easter, as the Court
+then adjourns to Windsor for ten days. My gardener will not again
+leave his grounds to the fourfooted marauders; and our stay,
+therefore, will be the very shortest we can possibly make it ;
+for though we love retirement, we do not like solitude.
+
+I long for some further account of you, dearest: sir, and how you
+bear the mixture of business and company, of "fag and frolic," as
+Charlotte used to phrase it.
+
+Westhamble, April 27, 1800.
+My Alex improves in all that I can teach, and my gardener
+is laboriously recovering from his winter misfortunes. He is now
+raising a hillock by the gate, for a view of NorbUry Park from
+our grounds, and he has planted potatoes upon almost every spot
+where they can grow.  The dreadful price of provisions makes this
+our first attention.  The poor people about us complain they are
+nearly starved, and the children of the
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+
+journeymen of the tradesmen at Dorking come to our door to beg
+halfpence for a little bread.  What the occasion of such
+universal dearth can be we can form no notion, and have no
+information. The price of bread we can conceive from the bad
+harvest; but meat, butter, and shoes!---nay, all sorts of
+nourriture or clothing seem to rise in the same proportion, and
+without any adequate cause. The imputed one of the war does not
+appear to me sufficient, though the drawback from all by the
+income-tax is severely an underminer of comfort. What is become
+of the campaign? are both parties incapacitated from beginning?
+or is each waiting a happy moment to strike some definitive
+stroke? We are strangely in the dark about all that is going on,
+and unless you will have the compassion to write us some news, we
+may be kept so till Mr. Locke returns.
+
+
+                            A WITHDRAWN COMEDY.
+
+[Towards the close of the preceding year Dr. Charles Burney had
+placed in the hands of Mr. Harris, the manager of Covent
+Garden-theatre, a comedy by Madame d'Arblay, called "Love and
+Fashion."  Mr. Harris highly approved the piece, and early in the
+spring put it into rehearsal ; but Dr. Burney was seized with a
+panic concerning its success, and, to oblige him, his daughter
+and her husband withdrew it. The following letter announced their
+generous compliance with his wishes.]
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Doctor Burney.)
+Monday.
+I hasten to tell you, dearest sir, Mr. H. has at length listened
+to our petitions, and has returned me my poor ill-fated ---,
+wholly relinquishing all claim to it for this season. He has
+promised also to do his utmost, as far as his influence extends,
+to keep the newspapers totally silent in future. We demand,
+therefore, no contradictory paragraph, as the report must needs
+die when the reality no more exists. Nobody has believed it from
+the beginning, on account of the premature moment when it was
+advertised.
+
+This release gives me present repose, which, indeed, I much
+wanted; for to combat your, to me, unaccountable but most
+afflicting displeasure, in the midst of my own panics and
+disturbance, would have been ample punishment to me had I been
+guilty of a crime, in doing what I have all my life been
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+
+urged to, and all my life intended, --writing a comedy. Your
+goodness, your kindness, your regard for my fame, I know have
+caused both your trepidation, which doomed me to certain failure,
+and your displeasure that I ran, what you thought, a wanton risk.
+But it is not wanton, my dearest father. My imagination is not at
+my own control, or I would always have continued in the walk YOU
+approved.  The combinations for another long work did not occur
+to me; incidents and effects for a drama did. I 'thought the
+field more than open--inviting to me. The chance held out golden
+dreams.--The risk could be only our own; for, permit me to say,
+appear when it will, you will find nothing in the principles, the
+moral, or the language that will make you blush for me. A failure
+upon those points only, can bring disgrace; Upon mere cabal or
+want of dramatic powers, it can only cause disappointment.
+
+I hope, therefore, my dearest father, in thinking this over you
+will cease to nourish such terrors and disgust at an essay so
+natural, and rather say to yourself, with an internal smile,
+"After all, 'tis but like father like child; for to what walk do
+I confine myself? She took my example in writing--she takes it in
+ranging. Why then, after all, should I lock her up in one
+paddock, well as she has fed there, if she says she finds nothing
+more to nibble; while I find all the earth unequal to my
+ambition, and mount the skies to content it? Come on, then, poor
+Fan! the world has acknowledged you my offspring, and I will
+disencourage you no more. Leap the pales of your paddock--let us
+pursue our career; and, while you frisk from novel to comedy, I,
+quitting music and prose, will try a race with poetry and the
+stars."
+
+I am sure my dear father will not infer, from this appeal, I mean
+to parallel our works. No one more truly measures her own
+inferiority, which, with respect to yours, has always been my
+pride. I only mean to show, that if my muse loves a little
+variety, she has an hereditary claim to try it.
+
+
+                      M. D'ARBLAY's FRENCH PROPERTY.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Doctor Burney.)
+Westhamble, November 7, 1800.
+I think it very long not to hear at least of YOU, my dearest
+padre.  My tranquil and happy security, alas! has been
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+
+broken in upon by severe conflicts since I wrote to My dearest
+father last, which I would not communicate while yet pending, but
+must now briefly narrate. My partner, the truest of partners, has
+been erased from the list of emigrants nearly a year; and in that
+period has been much pressed and much blamed by his remaining
+friends in France, by every opportunity through which they could
+send to him, for not immediately returning, and seeing if
+anything could be yet saved from the wreck of his own and
+family's fortune ; but he held steady to his original purpose
+never to revisit his own country till it was at peace with this ;
+till a letter came from his beloved uncle himself, conveyed to
+him through Hambro', which shook all the firmness of his
+resolution, and has kept him, since its receipt, in a state of
+fermentation, from doubts and difficulties, and crossing wishes
+and interests, that has much affected his health as well as
+tranquillity.
+
+All, however, now, is at least decided; for a few days since he
+received a letter from M. Lajard, who is returned to Paris, with
+information from his uncle's eldest son, that some of his small
+property is yet unsold, to about the amount of 1000 pounds, and
+can still be saved from sequestration if he will immediately go
+over and claim it; or, if that is impossible, if he will send his
+procuration to his uncle, from some country not at war with
+France.
+
+This ended all his internal contest; and he is gone this very
+morning to town to procure a passport and a passage in some
+vessel bound to Holland.
+
+So unused are we to part, never yet for a week having been
+separated during the eight years of our union, that our first
+idea was going together, and taking our Alex; and certain I am
+nothing would do me such material and mental good as so complete
+a change of scene; but the great expense of the voyage and
+journey, and the inclement season for our little boy, at length
+finally settled us to pray only for a speedy meeting.  But I did
+not give it up till late last night, and am far from quite
+reconciled to relinquishing it even now.
+
+He has no intention to go to France, or he would make an effort
+to pass by Calais, which would delightfully shorten the passage;
+but he merely means to remain at the Hague while he sends over
+his procuration, and learns how soon he may hope to reap its
+fruits.
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+
+Westhamble, 16th December, 1800.
+He is returned, my dearest father, already! MY joy and surprise
+are so great I seem in a dream.  I have just this moment a letter
+from him, written at Gravesend. What he has been able to arrange
+as to his affairs, I know not ; and just now cannot care, so
+great is my thankfulness for his safety and return.  He waits in
+the river for his passport, and will, when he obtains it, hasten,
+I need not say, to Westhamble.
+
+
+                              HOME MATTERS.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Dr. Burney.)
+Westhamble, September i, 1801.
+A carpet we       have-though not yet spread, as the chimney is
+unfinished, and room incomplete. Charles brought us the tapis-so
+that, in fact, we have yet bought nothing for our best room--and
+meant,--for our own share--to buy a table . . . and if my dearest
+father will be so good--and so naughty at once, as to crown our
+salle d'audience with a gift we shall prize beyond all others, we
+can think only of a table.  Not a dining one, but a sort of table
+for a little work and a few books,--en ala--without which, a room
+looks always forlorn. I need not say how we shall love it ; and I
+must not say how we shall blush at it; and I cannot say how we
+feel obliged at it--for the room will then be complete in
+love-offerings.  Mr. Locke finished glazing or polishing his
+impression border for the chimney on Saturday.  It will be, I
+fear, his last work of that sort, his eyes, which are very
+longsighted, now beginning to fail and weaken at near objects.
+
+My Alex intends very soon, he says, to marry-and, not long since,
+with the gravest simplicity, he went up to Mr William Locke, who
+was here with his fair bride, and said, "How did you get that
+wife, William? because I want to get such a one--and I don't know
+which is the way." And he is now actually employed in fixing
+sticks and stones at convenient distances, upon a spot very near
+our own, where he means to raise a suitable structure for his
+residence, after his nuptials. You will not think he has suffered
+much time to be wasted before he has begun deliberating upon his
+conjugal establishment.
+
+We spent the greatest part of last week in visits at Norbury
+Park, to meet M. de Lally, whom I am very sorry you missed.
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+
+He is delightful in the country full of resources, of gaiety, of
+intelligence, of good humour and mingling powers of instruction.
+with entertainment.  He has read us several fragments of works of
+his own, admirable in eloquence, sense, and feeling - chiefly
+parts of tragedies, and all referring to subjects next his heart,
+and clearest in his head ; namely, the French Revolution and its
+calamities, and filial reverence and enthusiasm for injured
+parents.
+
+
+                      CONTEMPLATED JOURNEY To FRANCE.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Dr. Burney.)
+Westhamble, October 3, 1801.
+God avert mischief from this peace, my dearest father! For in our
+hermitage you may imagine, more readily than I can express, the
+hopes and happiness it excites.  M. d'Arblay now feels paid for
+his long forbearance, his kind patience, and compliance with my
+earnest wishes not to revisit his native land while we were at
+war with it. He can now go with honour as well as propriety - for
+every body, even the highest personages, will rather expect he
+should make the journey as a thing of course, than hear of it as
+a proposition for deliberation. He will now have his heart's
+desire granted, in again seeing his loved and respectable
+uncle,-and many relations, and more friends, and his own native
+town, as well as soil ; and he will have the delight of
+presenting to that uncle, and those friends, his little pet Alex.
+With all this gratification to one whose endurance of such a
+length of suspense, and repetition of disappointment, I have
+observed with gratitude, and felt with sympathy-must not I, too,
+find pleasure ? Though, on my side, many are the drawbacks - but
+I ought not, and must not, listen to them. We shall arrange our
+affairs with all the speed in our power, after the ratification
+is arrived, for saving the cold and windy weather; but the
+approach of winter is unlucky, as it will lengthen our stay, to
+avoid travelling and voyaging during its severity - unless,
+indeed, any internal movement, or the menace of any, should make
+frost and snow secondary fears, and induce us to scamper off.
+  But the present is a season less liable in all appearance to
+storms, than the seasons that may follow. Fates, joy, and
+pleasure, will probably for some months occupy the public in
+France - and it will not be till
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+
+those rejoicings are past, that they will set about weighing
+causes of new commotion, the rights of their governors, or the
+means, or desirability of changing them.  I would far rather go
+immediately, than six months hence.
+
+[The projected journey of Madame d'Arblay with her husband did
+not take place this year; the season being already advanced, and
+their little boy not strong enough to bear the fatigue of such an
+expedition. Monsieur d'Arblay went alone to France.]
+
+
+                     M. D'ARBLAY's ROUGH SEA PASSAGE.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Dr. Burney.)
+Westhamble, November 11, 1801.
+I did not purpose writing to my dearest father till my suspense
+and inquietude were happily removed by a letter from France; but
+as I find he is already anxious himself, I will now relate all I
+yet know of my dearest traveller's history. On Wednesday the 28th
+of October, he set off for Gravesend. A vessel, he was told, was
+ready for sailing,- and would set off the following day. He
+secured his passage, and took up his abode at an inn, whence he
+wrote me a very long letter, in full hope his next would be from
+his own country.  But Thursday came, and no sailing--though the
+wind was fair, and the weather then calm: he amused his
+disappointment as well as he could by visiting divers gardeners,
+and taking sundry lessons for rearing and managing asparagus.
+Friday, also, came-and still no sailing ! He was more and more
+vexed ; but had recourse then to a chemist, with whom he revised
+much of his early knowledge. Saturday followed--no sailing! and
+he found the people waited on and on, in hopes of more
+passengers, though never avowing their purpose, His patience was
+now nearly exhausted, and he went and made such vifs
+remonstrances that he almost startled the managers. They
+pretended the ballast was all they stayed for : he offered to aid
+that himself; and actually went to work, and never rested till
+the vessel was absolutely ready: orders, enfin, were given for
+sailing next morning, though he fears, with all his skill, and
+all his eloquence, and all his aiding, they were more owing to
+the arrival of four passengers than to his exertions. That night,
+October the 31st, he went on board; and November the 1st he set
+sail at five o'clock in the morning.
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+
+You know how high a wind arose on Sunday the 1st, and
+how dreadful a storm succeeded, lasting all night, all Monday,
+and all night again. How thankful, how grateful am I to have
+heard of his safety since so terrifying a period.  They got on,
+with infinite difficulty and danger, as far as Margate; they
+there took anchor, and my kind voyager got a letter for me sent
+on shore, "moyennant un schelling ."(164) To tell you my
+gratitude in knowing him safe after that tempest--no I cannot!
+Your warm affections, my dearest father, will easily paint to you
+my thankfulness.
+
+Next, they got on to Deal, and here anchored again, for the
+winds, though they abated on shore, kept violent and dangerous
+near the coast. Some of the passengers went on shore, and put two
+letters for me in the post, assuring me all was safe. These two
+passengers, who merely meant to dine on shore, and see the town,
+were left behind. The sea rose so high, no boat could put off to
+bring them back; and, though the captain hoisted a flag to
+announce he was sailing, there was no redress. They had not
+proceeded a league before the sea grew yet more rough and
+perilous, and the captain was forced to hoist a flag of distress.
+ Everything in the vessel was overset; my poor M. d'Arblay's
+provision-basket flung down, and its contents demolished; his
+bottle of wine broken by another toss, and violent fall, and he
+was nearly famished. The water now began to get into the ship,
+all hands were at work that could work, and he, my poor voyager,
+gave his whole noble strength to the pump, till he was so
+exhausted, so fatigued, so weakened, that with difficulty he
+could hold a pen to repeat that still--I might be tranquille, for
+all danger was again over. A pilot came out to them from Dover,
+for seven guineas, which the higher of the passengers subscribed
+for (and here poor M. d'A. was reckoned of that class], and the
+vessel was got into the port at Dover, and the pilot, moyennant
+un autre schelling, put me again a letter, with all these
+particulars, into the post.
+
+This was Thursday the 5th. The sea still so boisterous, the
+vessel was unable to cross the water.  The magistrates at Dover
+permitted the poor passengers all to land ; and M. d'Arblay wrote
+to me again, from the inn, after being regaled with an excellent
+dinner, of which he had been much in want.  Here they met again
+the two passengers lost at Deal, who, in hopes of this
+circumstance, had travelled post
+
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+
+from thence to Dover. Here, too, M. d'A. met the Duke de Duras,
+an hereditary officer of the crown, but who told him, since peace
+was made, and all hope seemed chased of a proper return to his
+country, he was going, incognito, to visit a beloved old mother,
+whom he had not seen for eleven years. "I have no passport," he
+said, "for France , but I mean to avow myself to the commissary
+at Calais, and tell him I know I am not erased, nor do I demand
+to be so. I only solicit an interview with a venerable parent.
+Send to Paris, to beg leave for it.  You may put me in Prison
+till the answer arrives; but, for mercy, for humanity's sake,
+suffer me to wait in France till then! guarded as you please!"
+This is his Purposed address--which my M. d'A. says he heard,
+avec les larmes aux yeux.(165)  I shall long to hear the event.
+
+On Friday, November 6th, M. d'A. wrote me two lines:"Nov. 6,
+1801.--,Je pars! the wind is excellent--au revoir."  This is
+dated ten o'clock in the morning. I have not had a word since.
+
+[in the original edition here follow three letters, in French,
+from M. d'Arblay to his wife. From these letters we translate the
+following extracts.-ED.
+
+"Paris.
+"I do not yet know positively when it will be possible for me to
+go to see my uncle. The settlement of my claim of half-pay is
+anything but advanced. . . . To-morrow morning I have an
+appointment with Du Taillis, aide-de-camp to Berthler (the French
+minister of war).  When I leave him, I hope to see Talleyrand;
+but what I most particularly desire is, not to depart without
+having at least a glimpse of the first Consul (Napoleon), that
+man so justly celebrated. . . . In reference to the obligation
+which we, formerly on the list of emigrants, have to him,
+Narbonne said to me to-day, 'He has set all our heads on our
+shoulders.'  I like this expression."
+
+" Paris, November 16, 1801.
+"La Tour Maubourg, one of the companions of General Lafayette,
+wished to marry his daughter to an emigrant whose name was not
+yet struck off the list. He obtained an interview with the first
+Consul, at which he entered into details on the matter, without
+attempting to conceal the objections which might be taken to the
+requested erasement of the young man's
+
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+
+name from the list of emigrants.  Bonaparte interrupted him and
+said, 'Is the young man agreeable to your daughter?'  'Yes,
+General.'-' 'Is he agreeable to you, M. de Maubourg?'  'Very much
+so, General.'--'Well then, the man whom you judge worthy to enter
+into such a family as yours, is surely worthy also to be a French
+citizen.'"
+
+"15th Frimaire (December 6), 1801.
+"According to all appearance, my dearest, I shall not obtain the
+settlement I ask for. Everybody says that nothing could be more
+just than my demand, but so many persons who have served all
+through the war are at present on half-pay, that I am desperately
+afraid it will be the same with my past services as with my
+property, and for the same reason-the impossibility of satisfying
+all demands, however well founded. Meanwhile, my dearest, it is
+impossible to conceal from ourselves that we have been living,
+for some years, with all our economy, on resources which are now
+either exhausted, or very nearly so. The greater part of our
+income [Fanny's pension] is anything but certain, yet what should
+we do if that were to fail us ? The moral of this discourse is,
+that while I am fit for something, it is my duty, as a husband
+and a father, to try what can be done to secure for us, if
+possible, an old age of absolute independence ; and for our
+little one a position which may prevent his being a burden to us.
+. . .
+
+". . . The consuls in England have not yet been nominated. The
+consulship in London will be well worth having, and perhaps,
+although there will be plenty of candidates, it might not be
+impossible for me to obtain it.  It is at least probable that I
+could get appointed to one of the sea-ports. . . .
+
+". . . Answer me at once, I beg of you. Think if this plan is
+opposed to any of your tastes; for you know there is only one
+possible happiness for me. Need I say more?")
+
+
+                SUGGESTED ABANDONMENT' OF CAMILLA COTTAGE.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to M. d'Arblay.)
+Westhamble, December 15, 1801.
+The relief, the consolation of your frequent letters I can never
+express, nor my grateful sense of your finding time for them,
+situated as you now are-, and yet that I have this moment read,
+of the 15 Frimaire, has made my heart ache
+
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+
+heavily.  Our hermitage is so dear to me-our book-room, 'so
+precious, and in its retirement, its beauty of prospect, form,
+convenience, and comforts, so impossible to replace, that I sigh,
+and deeply, in thinking of relinquishing it. Your happiness,
+however, is now all mine ; if deliberately therefore, you wish to
+try a new system, I will surely try it, with you, be it what it
+may. I will try any thing but what I try now--absence ! Think,
+however, well, mon tr…s cher ami, before you decide upon any
+occupation that robs you of being master of your own time,
+leisure, hours, gardening, scribbling, and reading.
+
+In the happiness you are now enjoying, while it Is SO new to you,
+you are perhaps unable to appreciate your own value of those six
+articles, which, except in moments of your bitter regret at the
+privation of your first friends and beloved country, have made
+your life so desirable. Weigh, weigh it well in the detail. I
+cannot write.
+
+Should you find the sum total preponderate in favour of your new
+scheme, I will say no more. All schemes will to me be preferable
+to seeing you again here, without the same fondness for the
+place, and way of life, that has made it to me what it has been.
+With regard to the necessity or urgency of the measure, I could
+say much that I cannot write. You know now I can live with you,
+and you know I am not without views, as well as hopes, of
+ameliorating our condition.
+
+I will fully discuss the subject with our oracle.(166) His
+kindness, his affection for you!  Yesterday, when I produced your
+letter, and the extracts from M. Necker, and was going to read
+some, he said, in that voice that is so penetratingly sweet, when
+he speaks from his heart--"I had rather hear one line of
+d'Arblay's than a volume of M. Necker's,"--yet at the same time
+begging to peruse the MS. when I could spare it. I wish you could
+have heard the tone in which he pronounced those words: it
+vibrated on my ears all day.
+
+I have spent near two hours upon this theme with our dearest
+oracle and his other half He is much affected by the idea of any
+change that may remove us from his daily sight; but, with his
+unvarying disinterestedness, says he thinks such a place would be
+fully acquitted by you.  If it is of consul here, in London, he
+is sure you would fill up all its functions even
+
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+
+admirably. I put the whole consideration into your own hands ,
+what, upon mature deliberation, you judge to be best, I will
+abide by.  Heaven guide and speed your determination!
+
+
+         M. D'ARBLAY'S PROPOSED RETIREMENT FROM MILITARY SERVICE.
+
+                                   1802.
+
+[The beginning of this year was attended with much anxiety to
+Madame d'Arblay.  Her husband, disappointed in the hopes
+suggested by his friends, of his receiving employment as French
+commercial consul in London, directed his efforts to obtaining
+his half-pay on the retired list of French officers. This was
+promised, on condition that he should previously serve at St.
+Domingo, where General Leclerc was then endeavouring to put down
+Toussaint's insurrection.  He accepted the appointment
+conditionally on his being allowed to retire as soon as that
+expedition should be ended.  This, he was told, was impossible,
+and he therefore hastened back to his family towards the end of
+January.
+
+In February, a despatch followed him from General Berthier, then
+minister at war, announcing that his appointment was made out,
+and on his own terms. 'To this M. d'Arblay wrote his acceptance,
+but repeated a stipulation he had before made, that while he was
+ready to fight against the enemies of the Republic, yet, should
+future events disturb the peace lately established between France
+and England, it was his unalterable determination never to take
+up arms against the British government. As this determination had
+already been signified by M. d'Arblay, he waited not to hear the
+result of its repetition, but set off again for Paris to receive
+orders, and proceed thence to St. Domingo.
+
+After a short time he was informed that his stipulation of never
+taking up arms against England could not be accepted, and that
+his military appointment was in consequence annulled. Having been
+required at the Alien office, on quitting England, to engage that
+he would not return for the space of one year, he now proposed
+that Madame d'Arblay, with her little boy, should join him in
+France:-and among the following letters will be found several in
+which she describes her first impressions on reaching that
+country, and the society to which she was introduced.]
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+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Miss Planta.)
+Camilla Cottage, Westhamble, February 11, 1802.
+A most unexpected, and, to me, severe event, draws from me now an
+account I had hoped to have reserved for a far happier
+communication, but which I must beg you to endeavour to seek some
+leisure moment for making known, with the utmost humility, to my
+royal mistress. . . .
+
+Upon the total failure of every effort M. d'Arblay could make to
+recover any part of his natural inheritance, he was advised by
+his friends to apply to the French government for half pay, upon
+the claims of his former military services.  He drew up a memoir,
+openly stating his attachment and loyalty to his late king, and
+appealing for this justice after undeserved proscription.  His
+right was admitted, but he was informed it could only be made
+good by his re-entering the army; and a proposal to that effect
+was sent him by Berthier, the minister of war.
+
+The disturbance of his mind at an offer which so many existing
+circumstances forbade his foreseeing, was indescribable.  He had
+purposed faithfully retiring to his hermitage, with his
+fellow-hermit, for the remainder of his life: and nothing upon
+earth could ever induce him to bear arms against the country
+which had given him asylum, as well as birth to his wife and
+child;--and yet a military spirit of honour, born and bred in
+him, made it repugnant to all his feelings to demand even
+retribution from the government of his own country, yet refuse to
+serve it.  Finally, therefore, he resolved to accept the offer
+conditionally--to accompany the expedition to St. Domingo, for
+the restoration of order in the French colonies, and then,
+restored thus to his rank in the army, to claim his retraite.
+This he declared to the minister of war, annexing a further
+clause of receiving his instructions immediately from the
+government.
+
+The minister's answer to this was, that these conditions were
+impossible. Relieved rather than resigned-though dejected to find
+himself thus thrown out of every promise of prosperity, M.
+d'Arblay hastened back to his cottage, to the inexpressible
+satisfaction of the- recluse he had left there.
+
+short, however, has been its duration !  A packet has just
+followed him, containing a letter from Berthier, to tell him that
+his appointment was made out according to his own demands ! and
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+
+enclosing another letter to the commander-in-chief, Leclerc, with
+the orders of government for employing him, delivered in terms,
+the most distinguished, of his professional character.
+
+All hesitation, therefore, now necessarily ends, and nothing
+remains for M. d'Arblay but acquiescence and despatch,-- while
+his best consolation is in the assurance he has universally
+received, that this expedition has the good wishes and sanction
+of England. And, to avert any misconception or misrepresentation,
+he has this day delivered to M. Otto(167) a letter, addressed
+immediately to the first Consul, acknowledging the flattering
+manner in which he has been called forth, but decidedly and
+clearly repeating what he had already declared to the war
+minister, that though he would faithfully fulfil the engagement
+into which he was entering, it was his unalterable resolution
+never to take up arms against the British government.
+
+I presume to hope this little detail may, at some convenient
+moment, meet her majesty's eyes-with every expression of my
+profoundest devotion.
+
+
+               M. D'ARBLAY's DISAPPOINTMENT.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to M. d'Arblay.)
+Westhamble, March 14, 1802.
+O my dearest friend,- Can the intelligence I have most
+desired come to me in a form that forbids my joy at it? What
+tumultuous sensations your letter of the 8th has raised!(168)
+Alas! that to relinquish this purpose should to you be as great
+unhappiness as to me was its suggestion!  I know not how to enter
+upon the subject--how to express a single feeling.  I fear to
+seem ungrateful to providence, or to you ungenerous.  I will
+only, therefore, say, that as all your motives have been the most
+strictly honourable, it is not possible they should not,
+ultimately, have justice done them by all.
+
+That I feel for your disappointment I need not tell you, when you
+find it has power to shake to its foundation what would else be
+the purest satisfaction of my soul.  Let us--let us hope fairer
+days will ensue and do not let the courage
+
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+
+which was so prompt to support you to St. Domingo fail you in
+remaining at Paris.
+
+What you say of the year's probation I knew not before.  Would
+you have me make any inquiry if it be irreversible?' I should
+think not ; and am most ready and eager to try by every means in
+my power, if you will authorize me.  If not, to follow you,
+whithersoever you will, is much less my duty than my delight !
+You have only to dictate whither, and how, and every doubt, every
+fear, every difficulty, will give way to my eager desire to bring
+your little boy to you. Would I not have left even Kin to have
+followed you and your fate even to St. Domingo? 'Tis well,
+however, you did not listen to me, for that poor little
+susceptible soul could not, as yet lose us both at once, and be
+preserved himself He has lived' so singularly alone with us, and
+for us, that he does not dream of any possible existence in which
+we should be both separated from him.
+
+But of him--our
+retreat--our books--our scribbling--our garden--our unique mode
+of life--I must not talk to you now, now that your mind,
+thoughts, views, and wishes are all distorted from themes of
+peace, domestic life, and literary pursuits; yet time, I hope,
+reflection, your natural philosophy of accommodating yourself to
+your fate, and your kindness for those who are wholly devoted to
+you, will bring you back to the love of those scenes, modes, and
+sentiments, which for upwards of eight years have sufficed for
+our mutual happiness.
+
+I had been negotiating for apartments at Twickenham, opposite
+Richmond, ever since you went, and on Friday I wrote to close
+with the engagement. This very morning I have two letters, full
+of delight at our approaching neighbourhood. Miss C.(169) herself
+writes in tears, she says, of joy, that I should be so near her,
+and that you should have wished it, and blesses you for your
+confidence in her warm friendship.         It is quite impossible
+to read of such affection and zeal and goodness with dry eyes. I
+am confounded how to disenchant her--- yet so generous and
+disinterested she is, that, however disappointed, she will be
+sure to rejoice for me in our re-union; for you, my dearest
+friend! ah! who can rejoice? Your mind was all made up to the
+return of its professional pursuits, and I am frightened out of
+all my own satisfaction by MY dread of the weight of this chagrin
+upon your spirits.  What
+
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+
+you can do to avert depression,, that cruel underminer of every
+faculty that makes life worth sustaining, I beseech you to call
+forth. Think how I have worked for fortitude since Feb. 11th.
+Alas! vainly I have tried what most I wished--my
+poor pen!--but now "occupe-toi pour r‚aliser l'esp‚rance."  Those
+words will operate like magic, I trust; and I will not close my
+eyes this night till I have committed to paper some opening to a
+new essay. Be good, then, and don't let me be as unhappy this way
+as I have been the other.  Direct always to me, Norbury Park,
+Dorking. Heaven bless--bless you
+
+[Here follows, in the original edition, another letter in French,
+from M. d'Arblay to his wife.  We translate the following
+passage.-ED.
+
+
+"At Ventose, year 10, (March 12, 1802).
+"You have doubtless communicated to our friends at Norbury Park,
+the letters which I have sent you.  Did I tell you that I sent a
+copy of those letters to M. de Lafayette?(170)  M. de Lafayette
+came at once to Paris, and requested an interview with Bonaparte,
+who granted it immediately. Addressing him, M. de Lafayette said,
+' I have come to speak to you of one of my friends and
+companions--d'Arblay.'  'I know that business,' said the first
+Consul, in a tone which expressed more good-will than I ventured
+to hope for, at least, more than I had been given reason to
+expect.  'I assure you,' said M. de Lafayette to me, the next
+day, 'you have some good friends with the first Consul, who had
+already spoken to him on your business.  He seemed to me, from
+the first instant, rather disposed in your favour than angry with
+you. . . . When I told him of your fear lest this business should
+have excited his displeasure, he replied positively, that it
+should do you no injury whatever, and that he would regard, in
+the step you had taken, only the husband of Cecilia.'
+
+"I hope you will not be very displeased at the way this business,
+which has caused me much vexation, has terminated. I think I may
+even add, in confidence, that I am, perhaps, not without a near
+prospect of getting my retiring pension. Come to me, then, my
+dearest.
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+
+            ON THE EVE OF MADAME D'ARBLAY'S JOURNEY To FRANCE.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Doctor Burney.)
+March 30, 1802.
+Now, indeed, my dearest father, I am in an excess of hurry not to
+be exceeded by even any of yours.  I have a letter from M.
+d'Arblay, to tell me he has already taken us an apartment, and he
+dates from the 5th of April, in Paris, where he has reasons for
+remaining some time, before we go to his good uncle, at Joigny.
+I am to take the little sweet child with me you saw here one day,
+Mlle. de Chavagnac, whose father, le Comte de Chavagnac, has
+desired her restoration. My kind Mrs: Locke is almost in
+affliction at parting with her though glad of an opportunity of
+sending her with friends the poor thing knows and loves. I fear,
+I have so very much to do here, that I shall have a very, very
+short enjoyment of my beloved father at Chelsea but I shall get
+there as soon as possible, and stay there to my last moment.
+I have a thousand things, and very curious ones, to tell you; but
+I must defer them for vive voix.  I am really bewildered and
+almost trembling with hurry, and with what I am going to
+undertake! Yet through all, i bless God every moment of my life
+that M. d'Arblay went not to that pestilential climate I do all--
+all I can to keep up my courage--or rather to make up; and when I
+feel faltering, I think of St Domingo! Every body that knows St
+Domingo now owns that he had hardly a chance for safety,
+independent of tempests in the voyage, and massacres in the
+mountains. May I but be able to console him for all he has
+sacrificed to my peace and happiness ! and no privation will be
+severe, so that at our stated period, Michaelmas twelvemonth, we
+return to my country, and to my dearest father, whom heaven bless
+and preserve, prays his dutiful, affectionate and grateful, and
+devoted daughter, F. d'A.
+
+
+
+                     DIARY: (Addressed to Dr. Burney).
+
+               IN FRANCE DURING THE PEACE AND SUBSEQUENTLY.
+
+April, 1802-I seize, at length, upon the largest paper I can
+procure, to begin to my beloved father some account of our
+journey, and if I am able, I mean to keep him a brief
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+
+journal of my proceedings during this destined year or eighteen
+months' separation,-secure of his kindest interest in all that I
+may have to relate, and certain he will be anxious to know how I
+go on in a strange land : 'tis my only way now of communicating
+with him, and I must draw from it one of my dearest worldly
+comforts, the hopes of seeing his loved hand with some return.
+
+April 15.-William and John conducted my little boy and me in
+excellent time to the inn in Piccadilly, where we met my kind
+Mrs. Locke and dear little Adrienne de Chavagnac.  The parting
+there was brief and hurried; and I set off on my grand
+expedition, with my two dear young charges, exactly at five
+o'clock. . . .
+
+Paris, April 15, 1802.-The book-keeper came to me eagerly, crying
+"vite, vite, madame, prenez votre place dans la diligence, car
+voici un Monsieur Anglais, qui surement va prendre la meileure!"
+En effet, ce Monsieur Anglais did not disappoint his
+expectations, or much raise mine - for he not only took the best
+place, but contrived to ameliorate it by the little scruple with
+which he made every other worse, from the unbridled expansion in
+which he indulged his dear person, by putting out his elbows
+against his next, and his knees and feet against his opposite
+neighbour. He seemed prepared to look upon all around-him with a
+sort of sulky haughtiness, pompously announcing himself as a
+commander of distinction who had long served at Gibraltar and
+various places, who had travelled thence through France, and from
+France to Italy, who was a native of Scotland, and -of proud,
+though unnamed genealogy '; and was now going to Paris purposely
+to behold the first Consul, to whom he meant to claim an
+introduction through Mr. Jackson. His burnt complexion, Scotch
+accent, large bony face and figure, and high and distant
+demeanour, made me easily conceive and believe him a highland
+chief. I never heard his name, but I think him a gentleman born,
+though not gently bred.
+  Page 210
+
+The next to mention is a Madame Raymond or Grammont, for I heard
+not distinctly which, who seemed very much a gentlewoman, and who
+was returning to France, too uncertain of the state of her
+affairs to know whether she might rest there or not. She had only
+one defect to prevent my taking much interest in her ; this was,
+not merely an avoidance, but a horror of being touched by either
+of my children ; who, poor little souls, restless and fatigued by
+the confinement they endured, both tried to fling themselves upon
+every passenger in turn ; and though by every one they were sent
+back to their sole prop, they were by no one repulsed with such
+hasty displeasure as by this old lady, who seemed as fearful of
+having the petticoat of her gown, which was stiff, round, and
+bulging, as if lined with parchment, deranged, as if she had been
+attired in a hoop for Court.
+
+The third person was a Madame Blaizeau, who seemed an exceeding
+good sort of a woman, gay, voluble, good humoured, and merry. All
+we had of amusement sprung from her sallies, which were uttered
+less from a desire of pleasing others, her very natural character
+having none of the high polish bestowed by the Graces, than from
+a jovial spirit of enjoyment which made them produce pleasure to
+herself. She soon and frankly acquainted us she had left France
+to be a governess to some young ladies before the Revolution, and
+under the patronage, as I think, of the Duke of Dorset - she had
+been courted, she told us, by an English gentleman farmer, but he
+would not change his religion for her, nor she for him, and so,
+when every thing was bought for her wedding, they broke off the
+connexion ; and she afterwards married a Frenchman. She had seen
+a portrait, set richly in diamonds, of the king, prepared for a
+present to the first Consul ; and described its superb ornaments
+and magnificence, in a way to leave no doubt of the fact.  She
+meant to stop at St. Denis, to inquire if her mother yet lived,
+having received no intelligence from or of her, these last ten
+eventful years !
+
+At Canterbury, while the horses were changed, my little ones and
+I went to the cathedral; but dared merely seize sufficient time
+to view the outside and enter the principal aisle.  I was glad
+even of that much, as its antique grandeur gave me a pleasure
+which I always love to cherish in the view of fine old
+cathedrals, those most permanent monuments Of what our ancestors
+thought reverence to God, as manifested in munificence to the
+place dedicated to his worship.
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+
+At Dover we had a kind of dinner-supper in one, and my
+little boy and girl and I retired immediately after it, took some
+tea in our chamber, and went to rest.
+
+April 16.-As we were not to sail till twelve, I had hoped to have
+seen the castle and Shakspeare's cliff, but most unfortunately it
+rained all the morning, and we were confined to the inn, except
+for the interlude of the custom-house, where, however, the
+examination was so slight, and made with such civility, that we
+had no other trouble with it than a wet walk and a few shillings.
+Our passports were examined; and we then ' went to the port, and,
+the sea being perfectly smooth, were lifted from the quay to the
+deck of our vessel with as little difficulty as we could have
+descended from a common chair to the ground.
+
+
+                            ARRIVAL AT CALAIS.
+
+The calm which caused our slow passage and our sickness, was now
+favourable, for it took us into the port of Calais so close and
+even with the quay, that we scarcely accepted even a hand to aid
+us from the vessel to the shore.
+
+The quay was lined with crowds of people, men, women, and
+children, and certain amphibious females, who might have passed
+for either sex, or anything else in the world, except what they
+really were, European women! Their men's hats, men's jackets, and
+men's shoes - their burnt skins, and most
+savage-looking petticoats, hardly reaching, nay, not reaching
+their knees, would have made me instantly believe any account I
+could have heard of their being just imported from the wilds of
+America.
+
+The vessel was presently filled with men, who, though dirty and
+mean, were so civil and gentle, that they could not displease,
+and who entered it so softly and quietly, that, neither hearing
+nor seeing their approach, it seemed as if they had availed
+themselves of some secret trap-doors through which they had
+mounted to fill the ship, without sound or bustle, in a single
+moment. When we were quitting it, however, this tranquillity as
+abruptly finished, for in an instant a part of them rushed round
+me, one demanding to carry
+Alex, another Adrienne, another seizing my ‚critoire, another my
+arm, and some one, I fear, my parasol, as I have never been able
+to find it since.
+
+We were informed we must not leave the ship till Monsieur
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+
+le commissaire arrived to carry us, I think, to the Municipality
+of Calais to show our passports. Monsieur le commisSaire in white
+with some red trappings, soon arrived, civilly hastening himself
+quite out of breath to save us from waiting' We then mounted the
+quay, and I followed the rest of the passengers, who all followed
+the commissary, accompanied by two men carrying the two children,
+and two more carrying one my ‚critoire, and the other insisting
+on conducting its owner. The quantity of people that surrounded
+and walked with us, surprised me ; and their decency, their
+silence their quietness astonished me.  To fear them was
+impossible: even in entering France with all the formed fears
+hanging upon its recent though past horrors. But on coming to the
+municipality, I was, I own, extremely ill at ease, when upon our
+gouvernante's desiring me to give the commissary my passport, as
+the rest of the passengers had done, and my answering it was in
+my ‚critoire, she exclaimed, "Vite! Vite! cherchez-le, ou vous
+serez arrˆt‚e!"(172)  You may be sure I was quick enough, or at
+least tried to be so, for my fingers presently trembled, and I
+could hardly put in the key.
+
+In the hall to which we now repaired, our passports were taken
+and deposited, and we had new ones drawn up and given us in their
+stead.  On quitting this place we were accosted by a new crowd,
+all however as gentle, though not as silent, as our first
+friends, who recommended various hotels to us, one begging we
+would go to Grandsire, another to Duroc, another to Meurice--and
+this last prevailed with the gouvernante, whom I regularly
+followed, not from preference, but from the singular horror my
+otherwise worthy and wellbred old lady manifested, when, by being
+approached by the children, her full round coats risked the
+danger of being modernised into the flimsy, falling drapery of
+the present day.
+
+At Meurice's our goods were entered, and we heard that they would
+be examined at the custom-house in the afternoon. We breakfasted,
+and the crowd of fees which were claimed by the captain, steward,
+sailors, carriers, and heaven knows who, besides, are
+inconceivable. I gave whatever they asked, from ignorance of what
+was due, and from fear of offending those of whose extent, still
+less of whose use, of power I could form no judgment.  I was the
+only one in this predicament; the rest refusing or disputing
+every demand.  They all, but us
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+
+Went out to walk - but I stayed to write to my dearest father, to
+Mrs. Locke, and my expecting mate.
+
+
+                   "GOD SAVE THE KING!" ON FRENCH SOIL.
+
+We were all three too much awake by the new scene to try for any
+repose, and the hotel windows sufficed for our amusement till
+dinner; and imagine, my dearest sir, how my repast was seasoned,
+when I tell you that, as soon as it began, a band "of music came
+to the window and struck up "God save the king."  I can never
+tell you what a pleased emotion was excited in my breast by this
+sound on a shore so lately hostile, and on which I have so many,
+so heartfelt motives for wishing peace and amity perpetual!
+
+
+                        A RAMBLE THROUGH THE TOWN.
+
+This over, we ventured out of the hotel to look at the street.
+The day was fine, the street was clean, two or three people who
+passed us, made way for the children as they skipped out of' my
+hands, and I saw such an unexpected appearance of quiet, order
+and civility, that, almost without knowing it, we strolled from
+the gate, and presently found ourselves in the market-place,
+which was completely full of sellers, and buyers, ,and booths,
+looking like a large English fair.
+
+The queer, gaudy jackets, always of a different colour from the
+petticoats of the women, and their immense wing-caps, which
+seemed made to double over their noses, but which all flew back
+so as to discover their ears, in which 1 regularly saw -large and
+generally drop gold ear-rings, were quite as diverting ...to
+myself as to Alex and Adrienne. Many of them, also, had gold
+necklaces chains, and crosses; but ear-rings all: even maids who
+were scrubbing or sweeping, ragged wretches bearing burdens on
+their heads or shoulders, old women selling fruit or other
+eatables, gipsy-looking creatures with children tied to their
+backs--all wore these long, broad, large, shining ear-rings.
+
+Beggars we saw not--no, not one, all the time we stayed or
+sauntered; and for civility and gentleness, the poorest and most
+ordinary persons we met or passed might be compared with the best
+dressed and best looking walkers in the streets of our
+metropolis, and still to the disadvantage of the latter. I cannot
+say how much this surprised me, as I had conceived a horrific
+idea of the populace of this country, imagining em all
+transformed into bloody monsters.
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+
+Another astonishment I experienced equally pleasing, though not
+equally important to my ease; I saw innumerable pretty women and
+lovely children, almost all of them extremely fair.  I had been
+taught to expect nothing but mahogany complexions and hideous
+features instantly on crossing the strait of Dover.  When this,
+however, was mentioned in our party afterwards, the Highlander
+exclaimed, "But Calais was in the hands of the English so many
+years, that the English -race there is not yet extinct."
+
+The perfect security in which I now saw we might wander about,
+induced us to walk over the whole town, and even extend our
+excursions to the ramparts surrounding it. It is now a very clean
+and pretty town, and so orderly that there was no more tumult or
+even noise in the market-place, where the people were so close
+together as to form a continual crowd, than in the by-streets
+leading to the country, where scarcely a passenger was to be
+seen.  This is certainly a remark which, I believe, could never
+be made in England.
+
+When we returned to the hotel, I found all my fellow travellers
+had been to the custom house!  I had quite forgotten, or rather
+neglected to inquire the hour for this formality, and was
+beginning to alarm myself lest I was out of rule, when a young
+man, a commissary, I heard, of the hotel, came to me and asked if
+I had anything contraband to the laws of the Republic. I answered
+as I had done before, and he readily undertook to go through the
+ceremony for me without my appearing.  I was so much frightened,
+and so happy not to be called upon personally, that I thought
+myself very cheaply off in his after-demand of a guinea and a
+half. I had two and a half to pay afterwards for additional
+luggage..
+
+We found reigning through Calais a general joy and satisfaction
+at the restoration of Dimanche and abolition of d‚cade.(173)  I
+had a good deal of conversation with the maid of the inn, a tall,
+fair, extremely pretty woman, and she talked much upon this
+subject, and the delight it occasioned, and the obligation all
+France was under to the premier Consul for restoring religion and
+worship.
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+
+              SUNDAY ON THE ROAD TO PARIS.
+
+Sunday, April 18. --We set off for Paris at five o'clock in the
+morning.  The country broad, flat, or' barrenly steep --Without
+trees, without buildings, and scarcely inhabited-- exhibited a
+change from the fertile fields, and beautiful woods ,band
+gardens, and civilisation of Kent, so sudden and unpleasant that
+I only lamented the fatigue of my position, which regularly
+impeded my making use of this chasm of 'pleasure and observation
+for repose. This part of France must certainly be the least
+frequented, for we rarely met a single carriage, and the
+villages, few and distant, seemed to have no intercourse with
+each other.  Dimanche, indeed, might occasion this stiffness, for
+we saw, at almost all the villages, neat and clean peasants going
+to or coming from mass, and seeming indescribably elated and
+happy by the public permission of divine worship on its
+originally appointed day.
+
+I was struck with the change in Madame Raymond, who joined us in
+the morning from another hotel. Her hoop was no more visible; her
+petticoats were as lank, or more so, than her neighbours'; and
+her distancing the children was not only at an end, but she
+prevented me from renewing any of my cautions to them, of not
+incommoding her - and when we were together a few moments, before
+we were joined by the rest, she told me, with a significant
+smile, not to tutor the children about her any more, as she only
+avoided them from having something of consequence to take care
+of, which was removed. I then saw she meant some English lace or
+muslin, which she had carried in a petticoat, and, since the
+customhouse examination was over, had now packed in her trunk.
+
+Poor lady! I fear this little merchandise was all her hope of
+succour on her arrival! She is amongst the emigrants who have
+twice or thrice returned, but not yet been able to rest in their
+own country.
+
+What most in the course of this journey struck me, was the
+satisfaction of all the country people, with whom I could
+converse at the restoration of the Dimanche; and the boasts they
+now ventured to make of having never kept the d‚cade, except
+during the dreadful reign of Robespierre, when not to oppose any
+of his severest decrees was insufficient for safety, ,"it was
+essential even to existence to observe them with every parade of
+the warmest approval.
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+
+The horrible stories from every one of that period of wanton as
+well as political cruelty, I must have judged exaggerated, either
+through the mist of fear or the heats of resentment but that,
+though the details had innumerable modifications' there was but
+one voice for the excess of barbarity.
+
+At a little hamlet near Clermont, where we rested some time, two
+good old women told us that this was the happiest day (twas
+Sunday) of their lives; that they had lost le bon Dieu for these
+last ten years, but that Bonaparte had now found him! In another
+cottage we were told the villagers had kept their own cur‚ all
+this time concealed, and though privately and with fright, they
+had thereby saved their souls through the whole of the bad times!
+And in another, some poor creatures said they were now content
+with their destiny, be it what it might, since they should be
+happy, at least, in the world to come - but that while denied
+going to mass, they had all their sufferings aggravated by
+knowing that they must lose their souls hereafter, besides all
+that they had to endure here!
+
+O my dearest father! that there can have existed wretches of such
+diabolical wickedness as to have snatched, torn, from the toiling
+indigent every ray even of future hope!  Various of these little
+conversations extremely touched me nor was I unmoved, though not
+with such painful emotion, on the sight of the Sunday night
+dance, in a little village through which we passed, where there
+seemed two or three hundred peasants engaged in that pastime all
+clean and very gaily dressed, yet all so decent and well behaved,
+that, but for the poor old fiddlers, we might have driven on, and
+not have perceived the rustic ball.
+
+Here ends the account of my journey, and if it has amused my
+dearest father, it will be a true delight to me to have scribbled
+it.  My next letter brings me to the capital, and to the only
+person who can console me for my always lamented absence from
+himself.
+
+
+                   ENGAGEMENTS, OCCUPATIONS, AND FATIGUE
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Miss Planta.)
+Paris, April 27, 1802.
+A week have I been here, my dear Miss Planta, so astonishingly
+engaged, so indispensably occupied, or so suffering from fatigue,
+that I have not been able till now to take up
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+
+pen, except to satisfy my dear father of our safe arrival.
+
+To give you some idea of these engagements, occupations, and
+fatigues, I must begin with the last. We were a whole long,
+languid day, a whole restless, painful night, upon the sea; my
+little Alex sick as death, suffering if possible yet more than
+myself, though I had not a moment of ease and comfort. My little
+Adrienne de Chavagnac was perfectly well all the time, singing
+and skipping about the cabin, and amusing every one by her
+innocent enjoyment of the novelty of the scene. . . .
+
+As to my occupations;-my little apartment to arrange, my trunks
+and baggage to unpack and place, my poor Adrienne to consign to
+her friends, my Alex to nurse from a threatening malady; letters
+to deliver, necessaries to buy; a femme de chambre to engage;
+and, most important of all! my own sumptuous wardrobe to refit,
+and my own poor exterior to reorganise! I see you smile,
+methinks, at this hint; but what smiles would brighten the
+countenance of a certain young lady called Miss Rose, who amused
+herself by anticipation, when I had last the honour of seeing
+her, with the changes I might have to undergo, could she have
+heard the exclamations which followed the examination of my
+attire: "This won't do! That YOU can never wear! This you can
+never be seen in! That would make you stared at as a curiosity!--
+Three petticoats! no one wears more than one!-- Stays? everybody
+has left off even corsets!--Shift sleeves? not a soul now wears
+even a chemise!" etc.  In short, I found all I possessed seemed
+so hideously old fashioned, or so comically rustic, that as soon
+as it was decreed I must make appearance in the grand monde,
+hopeless of success in exhibiting myself in the' costume
+Fran‡ais, I gave over the attempt, and ventured to come forth as
+a gothic Anglaise, who never heard of, or never heeded the
+reigning metamorphosis.
+
+As to my engagements;--when should I finish, should I tell all
+that have been made or proposed, even in the short space of a
+single week?  The civilities I have met with, contrary to all my
+expectations, have not more amazed me for myself, than gratified
+me for M. d'Arblay, who is keenly alive to the kind, I might say
+distinguished, reception I have been favoured with by those to
+whom my arrival is known.
+
+Your favourite hero is excessively popular at this moment from
+three successive grand events, all occurring within the
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+
+short time of my arrival,--the ratification of the treaty of
+peace--the restoration of Sunday, and Catholic worship--and the
+amnesty of the emigrants.  At the Opera buffa, the loge in which
+I sat was exactly opposite to that of the first Consul but he and
+his family are all at Malmaison.
+
+
+        DIARY RESUMED: (Addressed to Dr. Burney.)
+
+                          ARISTOCRATIC VISITORS.
+
+Paris, April 1, 1802.(174)-Almost immediately after my arrival in
+Paris, I was much surprised by a visit from the ci-devant Prince
+de Beauvau, madame his wife, and Mademoiselle de Mortemar her
+sister, all brought by Madame d'Henin. if gratified in the first
+instance by a politeness of attention so little my due and so
+completely beyond my expectations, how was my pleasure enhanced
+when I found they all three spoke English with the utmost ease
+and fluency, and how pleased also at the pleasure I was able to
+give them in reward of their civility, by a letter I had brought
+from Mrs. Harcourt, which was received with the warmest delight
+by Mademoiselle de Mortemar and a message from a young lady named
+Elizabeth, with the profoundest gratitude.
+
+April 24-This morning Madame d'Henin was so kind as to accompany
+us, in making our visit to Madame de Beauvau her niece, and
+Mademoiselle de Mortemar. We found them at home with M. de
+Beauvau, and they indulged me with the sight of their children,
+who are the most flourishing and healthy possible, and dressed
+and brought up with English plainness and simplicity. The visit
+was very pleasant, and Madame d'Henin made a party for us all to
+meet again the next day, and go to the Opera buffa.
+
+
+                     ANXIETY TO SEE THE FIRST CONSUL.
+
+I have heard much of the visit of Mrs. Damer and the Miss Berrys
+to Paris, and their difficulty to get introduced to the first
+Consul.(175) A lady here told us she had been called upon
+
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+
+by Miss Berry, who had complained with much energy upon this
+subject, saying, "We have been everywhere--seen everything--heard
+every body--beheld such sights! listened to such discourse!
+joined such society! and all to obtain his notice! Don't you
+think it very extraordinary that he should not himself desire to
+see Mrs. Damer?
+
+"Madame," replied the lady, "perhaps if you had done but half
+this, the first Consul might have desired to see you both."
+
+
+"But you don't imagine," answered she, laughing, "we came over
+from England to see you ci-devants ? We can see such as you at
+home!"
+
+She was gone before our arrival ; and, as I understand, succeeded
+at last in obtaining an introduction.  They were both, Mrs. Damer
+and Miss Berry, as I am told, very gay and agreeable, as well as
+enterprising, and extremely well r‚pandues.
+
+
+                           AT THE OPERA-BOUFFE.
+
+April 25.-I was not much better in the evening, but the party for
+the Opera buffa being formed by Madame d'Henin on my account, my
+going was indispensable. She had borrowed the loge of M. de
+Choiseul, which, being entailed upon the family … perp‚tuit‚, has
+in a most extraordinary manner continued unalienated through the
+whole course of massacres and proscriptions to the present day,
+when the right owner possesses it.  It is the largest and best
+box, except that which is opposite to it, in the theatre. . . .
+
+The opera was "Le Nozze di Dorina," by Sarti, and extremely
+pretty; though I wished it had been as new to M. C-- de P-- as to
+myself, for then he would not have divided my attention by
+obligingly singing every note with every performer.  In truth, I
+was still so far from recovered from the fatigue of my journey,
+that I was lulled to a drowsiness the most distressing before the
+end of the second act,                                '
+
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+
+which being but too obvious, Madame d'Henin and M. d'Arblay took
+me away before I risked a downright nap by waiting for the third.
+
+
+                 DIFFICULTIES RESPECTING MADAME DE STAEL.
+
+April 26-The assembly at Madame d'Henin's was one of the most
+select and agreeable at which I was ever present. Assembly,
+however, I ought not to call a meeting within the number of
+twenty. But I was uneasy for my poor Alex, and therefore stole
+away as soon as possible; not, however, till Madame de Tess‚ made
+a party for us for the following Thursday at her house, nor till
+I had held a private discourse with Mademoiselle de -- upon my
+embarrassment as to Madame de Stael, from the character she held
+in England; which embarrassment was not much lightened by her
+telling me it was not held more fair in France ! Yet, that
+everywhere the real evil is highly exaggerated by report, envy,
+and party-spirit, all allow.  She gives, however, great
+assemblies at which all Paris assist, and though not solicited or
+esteemed by her early friends and acquaintance, she is admired,
+and pitied, and received by them.  I would she were gone to
+Copet!(176)
+
+
+What most perplexed me at this period was the following note from
+Madame de Stael.
+
+"je voudrois vous t‚moigner mon empressement, madame, et je
+crains d'ˆtre indiscrette.  j'espŠre que vous aurez la bont‚ de
+me faire dire quand vous serez assez remise des fatigues de votre
+voyage pour que je puisse avoir l'honneur de vous voir sans vous
+importuner.
+"Ce 4 florial. (177)
+"Necker Stael de H."(178)
+
+How is it possible, when even the common civility of a card for
+her card is yet unreturned, that she can have brought herself
+thus to descend from her proud heights to solicit the
+
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+
+renewal of an acquaintance broken so abruptly in England, and so
+palpably shunned in France ? Is it that the regard she appeared
+to conceive for me in England was not only sincere but constant?
+If so, I must very much indeed regret a waste of kindness her
+character and conduct make it impossible for me to repay, even
+though, on this spot, I am assured all her misfortunes are
+aggravated, nay caricatured, by report, and that she exerts her
+utmost influence, and calls forth her best talents, upon every
+occasion which presents itself for serving those who have been
+her friends ; and that, notwithstanding circumstances and
+disunion, either in politics or morals, may have made them become
+her enemies. Her generosity is cited as truly singular upon this
+head, and I have heard histories of her returning, personally,
+good for evil that would do honour to any character living.
+
+After much deliberation and discussion, my French master composed
+the following answer:--
+
+\"Madame d'Arblay ne peut qu'ˆtre infiniment flatt‚e de l'extrŠme
+bont‚ de Madame la Comtesse de Stael.  Elle aura trŠs
+certainement l'honneur de se pr‚senter chez Madame de Stael
+aussit“t que possible."(179)
+
+Cooler than this it was not easy to write, and the ne peut
+qu'ˆtre is a tournure that is far enough from flattering.  I
+hope, however, it will prepare her for the frozen kind of
+intercourse which alone can have place between us.
+
+
+                           MADAME DE LAFAYETTE.
+
+As I wished much to see the parade, or review, which was to take
+place on the 5th, and is only once a month, we were forced to
+devote the preceding day to visits, as it was decreed in our
+council of etiquette that I could not appear in a place where I
+might be seen by those who had shown me the civility of beginning
+an acquaintance, till I had acknowledged my debt to them. . . . I
+was so thoroughly tired when I returned from all these visits,
+that I was forced to rest upon a bed for the remainder of the
+day, to my no small discomposure before the evening was closed;
+for, in a close cap, my feet in their native, undraperied state,
+hidden by a large, long, wrapping morning
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+gown, your daughter, my dearest sir, lay reclined on a bed when,
+rather late in the evening, I was told Madame d'Henin was in the
+salon. I was going to send in my excuses, while I rose to get
+ready for waiting upon her - but Alex flung open the door, and
+seeing where I was, and how fatigued, she insisted on my keeping
+still, and came to my bedside, and sat in friendly converse,
+listening to the history of my morning excursion, till a ring at
+the bell of our ante-room made me desire to have nobody admitted.
+Alex again, however, frisking about, prevented Pauline, my little
+femme de chambre, from hearing me, and she announced Madame de
+Lafayette!
+
+You may easily believe this name, and my present situation, put
+me into no small commotion. I was beseeching Madame d'Henin to go
+to the saloon with my apologies, when Alex, whose illness, though
+it has diminished his strength and his flesh, has left his
+spirits as wild as ever, called out to proclaim where I was, and
+while Madame Lafayette was gently moving on, flung the bedroom
+door wide open, saying, "Mamma is here! " Madame Lafayette,
+concluding, I suppose, that I received du monde in the French
+manner, immediately presented herself at the door, where I had no
+resource but to entreat Madame d'Henin, who is her intimate
+friend, to receive her, for I was wholly powerless, with my
+unsandaled feet, from rising. Madame d'Henin now brought her to
+my bedside, where nothing could have been more awkward than my
+situation : but that the real reverence I had conceived for her
+character and her virtues made the sight of so singular a person,
+her condescension in the visit, and her goodness, though lame, in
+mounting three pair of stairs, give me a sensation of pleasure,
+that by animating my spirits, endowed me with a courage that
+overcame all difficulties both of language and position, and
+enabled me to express my gratitude for her kindness and my
+respect for her person, with something far nearer to fluency and
+clearness than anything in speech I have yet attempted. My mind
+instantly presented her to me, torn from her beloved family, and
+thrown into the death-impending prison of Robespierre ; and then
+saved by his timely destruction from the scaffold, and then using
+her hardly-recovered liberty only by voluntarily sacrificing it
+to be immured with her husband in the dungeon of Olm�tz.(180)
+Various as may be the opinions of
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+
+the politics of M. de Lafayette, all Europe, I believe,'concur in
+admiration of the character and conduct of his virtuous and
+heroic wife. Indeed, nothing since my arrival has so sensibly
+gratified me, from without, as this visit.
+
+Madame Lafayette is the daughter of the ci-devant Duc d'Ayen, and
+consequently niece of Madame de Tess‚, the duke's sister. She was
+married to M. de Lafayette when she was only seventeen years of
+age. By some cold or mismanagement, and total want of exercise in
+the prison of Olm�tz, some humour has fallen into one of her
+ankles, that, though it does not make her absolutely lame, causes
+walking to be so painful and difficult to her that she moves as
+little as possible, and is always obliged to have a stool for her
+foot. She now resides with M. de Lafayette and their three
+children entirely in the country, at a chateau which has
+descended to her since the revolutionary horrors and therefore
+has not been confiscated, called "La Grange." They never come to
+Paris but upon business of positive necessity. She had arrived
+only this morning on a visit to her aunt, Madame de Tess‚, to
+make some preparations for the approaching marriage of her only
+son.
+
+Her youngest daughter, Mademoiselle de Lafayette, accompanied
+her. She is a blooming young creature of English fairness-as we
+English choose to say-with a bright native colour, and beautiful
+light hair ; otherwise with but indifferent features, and not
+handsome : yet her air, though modest even to the extreme that
+borders upon bashfulness, is distinguished, and speaks her to be
+both sensible and well brought up.
+
+Madame de Lafayette, also, is by no means handsome; but has eyes
+so expressive, so large, and so speaking, that it is not easy to
+criticise her other features, for it is almost impossible to look
+at them.  Her manner is calm and mild, yet noble. She is
+respected even by surrounding infidels for her genuine piety,
+which, in the true character of true religion, is severe only for
+herself, lenient and cheerful for all others.  I do not say this
+from what I could see in the hour she was so good as to pass with
+me, but from all I have heard.
+
+She warmly invited me to La Grange, and requested me to name an
+early day for passing some time there. I proposed
+
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+
+that it might be after the marriage had taken place,"as till then
+all foreign people or subjects might be obtrusive. She paused a
+moment, and then said, "AprŠs?--c'est vrai we could then more
+completely enjoy Madame d'Arblay' society; for we must now have
+continual interruptions, surrounded as we are by workmen, goods,
+chattels, and preparations; so that there would be a nail to
+hammer between almost every word; and yet, as we are going to
+Auvergne, after the ceremony, it will be so long before a meeting
+may be arranged, that I believe the less time lost the better."
+
+I know M. d'Arblay desired this acquaintance for me too earnestly
+to offer any opposition; and I was too much charmed with its
+opening to make any myself: it was therefore determined we should
+go the following week to La Grange.
+
+
+                      SIGHT-SEEING AT THE TuILERIES.
+
+May 5-Again a full day. M. d'Arblay had procured us three tickets
+for entering the apartments at the Tuileries to see the parade of
+General Hulin, now high in actual rank and service, but who had
+been a sous-officier under M. d'Arblay's command; our third
+ticket was for Madame d'Henin, who had never been to this sight--
+nor, indeed, more than twice to any spectacle since her return to
+France--till my arrival; but she is so obliging and good as to
+accept, nay to seek, every thing that can amuse, of which I can
+profit. We breakfasted with her early, and were appointed to join
+the party of M. le Prince de Beauvau, who had a general in his
+carriage, through whose aid and instructions we hoped to escape
+all difficulties.
+
+Accordingly the coach in which they went was desired to stop at
+Madame d'Henin's door, so as to let us get into our fiacre, and
+follow it straight. This was done, and our precursor stopped at
+the gate leading to the garden of the Tuileries. The De Beauvaus,
+Mademoiselle de Mortemar, and their attending general, alighted,
+and we followed their example and joined them, which was no
+sooner done than their general, at the sight of M. d'Arblay,
+suddenly drew back from conducting Madame de Beauvau, and flew up
+to him. They had been ancient camarades, but had not met since M.
+d'A.'s emigration.
+
+The crowd was great, but civil and well -dressed ; and we met
+with no impediment till we came to the great entrance. Alas, I
+had sad recollections of sad readings in mounting the
+
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+steps!  We had great difficulty, notwithstanding our tickets, in
+making our way--I mean Madame d'Henin and ourselves, for Madame
+de Beauvau and Mademoiselle de Mortemar having an officer in the
+existing military to aid them, were admitted and helped by all
+the attendants; and so forwarded that we wholly lost sight of
+them, till we arrived, long after, in the apartment destined for
+the exhibition. This, however, was so crowded that every place at
+the windows for seeing the parade was taken, and the row formed
+opposite to see the first Consul as he passes through the room to
+take horse, was so thick and threefold filled, that not a
+possibility existed of even a passing peep. Madame d'Henin would
+have retired, but as the whole scene was new and curious to me, I
+prevailed with her to stay, that I might view a little of the
+costume of the company; though I was sorry I detained her, when I
+saw her perturbed spirits from the recollections which, I am
+sure, pressed upon her on re-entering this palace : and that her
+sorrows were only subdued by her personal indignation, which was
+unconscious, but yet very prominent, to find herself included in
+the mass of the crowd in being refused all place and distinction,
+where, heretofore, she was amongst the first for every sort of
+courtesy.  Nothing of this, however, was said and you may believe
+my pity for her was equally unuttered.
+
+We seated ourselves now, hopeless of any other amusement than
+seeing the uniforms of the passing officers, and the light
+drapery of the stationary ladies, which, by the way, is not by
+any means so notorious nor so common as has been represented ; on
+the contrary, there are far more who are decent enough to attract
+no attention, than who are fashionable enough to call for it.
+
+During this interval M. d'Arblay found means, by a ticket lent
+him by M. de Narbonne, to enter the next apartment, and there to
+state our distress, not in vain, to General Hulin; and presently
+he returned, accompanied by this officer, who is, I fancy, at
+least seven feet high, and was dressed in one of the most showy
+uniforms I ever saw. M. d'Arblay introduced me to him. He
+expressed his pleasure in seeing the wife of his old comrade, and
+taking my hand, caused all the crowd to make way, and conducted
+me into the apartment adjoining to that where the first Consul
+receives the ambassadors, with a flourish of manners so fully
+displaying power as well as courtesy, that I felt as if in the
+hands of one of the seven champions who meant to mow down all
+before him, should
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+any impious elf dare dispute his right to give me liberty, or to
+show me honour.
+
+
+                         A GOOD PLACE IS SECURED,
+
+He put me into the first place in the apartment which was sacred
+to general officers, and as many ladies as could be accommodated
+in two rows only at the windows.  M. d'Arblay, under the sanction
+of his big friend, followed with Madame d'Henin , and we had the
+pleasure of rejoining Madame de Beauvau and Mademoiselle de
+Mortemar, who were at the same windows, through the exertions of
+General Songis.
+
+The scene now, with regard to all that was present, was
+splendidly gay and highly animating.  The room was full, but not
+crowded, with officers of rank in sumptuous rather than rich
+uniforms, and exhibiting a martial air that became their attire,
+which, however, generally speaking, was too gorgeous to be noble.
+Our window was that next to the consular apartment, in which
+Bonaparte was holding a levee, and it was close to the steps
+ascending to it; by which means we saw all the forms of the
+various exits and entrances, and had opportunity to examine every
+dress and every countenance that passed and repassed.  This was
+highly amusing, I might say historic, where the past history and
+the present office were known.
+
+Sundry footmen of the first Consul, in very fine liveries, were
+attending to bring or arrange chairs for whoever required them ;
+various peace-officers, superbly begilt, paraded occasionally up
+and down the chamber, to keep the ladies to their windows and the
+gentlemen to their ranks, so as to preserve the passage or lane
+through which the first Consul was to walk upon his entrance,
+clear and open; and several gentlemanlike looking persons, whom
+in former times I should have supposed pages of the back stairs,
+dressed in black, with gold chains hanging round their necks, and
+medallions pending from them, seemed to have the charge of the
+door itself, leading immediately to the audience chamber of the
+first Consul.
+
+
+                     M. D'ARPLAY'S MILITARY COMRADES.
+
+But what was most prominent in commanding notice, was the array
+of the aides-de-camp of Bonaparte, which was so
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+almost furiously striking, that all other vestments, even the
+most gaudy, appeared suddenly under a gloomy cloud when
+contrasted with its brightness. We were long viewing them before
+we could discover what they were to represent, my three lady
+companions being as new to this scene as myself; but afterwards
+M. d'Arblay starting forward to speak to one of them, brought him
+across the lane to me, and said "General Lauriston,"
+
+His kind and faithful friendship to M. d'Arblay, so amiably
+manifested upon his late splendid embassy to England, made me see
+him with great pleasure. It was of course but for a moment, as he
+was amongst those who had most business upon their hands. General
+d'Hennezel also came to me for a few minutes, and three or four
+others, whom M. d'Arblay named, but whom I have forgotten.
+Indeed, I was amazed at the number of old friends by whom he was
+recognised, and touched far more than I can express, to see him
+in his old coat and complete undress, accosted by his fine
+(former) brethren, in all their new and beautiful costume, with
+an eagerness of regard that, resulting from first impulse, proved
+their judgment, or rather knowledge of his merits, more forcibly
+than any professions, however warm, could have done. He was
+indeed, after the aides-de-camp, the most striking figure in the
+apartment, from contrasting as much with the general herd by
+being the plainest and worst dressed, as they did by being the
+gayest and most showy.
+
+General Lauriston is a very handsome man, and of a very pleasing
+and amiable countenance; and his manly air carried off the
+frippery of his trappings, so as to make them appear almost to
+advantage.
+
+
+                          ARRIVAL OF THE TROOPS.
+
+While this variety of attire, of carriage, and of physiognomy
+amused us in facing the passage prepared for the first Consul, we
+were occupied, whenever we turned round, by seeing from the
+window the garden of the Tuileries filling 'with troops.
+
+In the first row of females at the window where we stood, were
+three ladies who, by my speaking English with Mademoiselle de
+Mortemar and Madame de Beauvau, discovered .my country, and, as I
+have since heard, gathered my name; and here I blush to own how
+unlike was the result to what "One of this nation might have
+experienced from a similar
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+discovery in England; for the moment it was buzzed "C'est Une
+‚trangŠre, c'est une Anglaise," (181) every one tried to Place,
+to oblige, and to assist me, and yet no one looked curious, or
+stared at me. Ah, my dear padre, do you not a little fear, in a
+contrasted situation, no one would have tried to place oblige, or
+assist, yet every one would have looked curious, and stared?
+Well, there are virtues as well as defects of all classes, and
+John Bull can fight so good a battle for his share of the former,
+that he need not be utterly cast down in acknowledging now and
+then a few of the latter.
+
+
+                      AN IMPORTANT NEW ACQUAINTANCE.
+
+The best view from the window to see the marching forwards of the
+troops was now bestowed upon me, and I vainly offered it to the
+ladies of my own party, to whom the whole of the sight was as new
+as to myself. The three unknown ladies began conversing with me,
+and, after a little general-talk, one of them with sudden
+importance of manner, in a tone slow but energetic, said,
+
+"Avez-vous vu, madame, le premier Consul?"
+
+"Pas encore, madame."
+
+"C'est sans doute ce que vous souhaitez le plus, madame?"
+
+"Oui, madame."
+
+"Voulez-vous le voir parfaitement bien, et tout … fait … votre
+aise?"
+
+"je le d‚sire beaucoup, madame."(182)
+
+She then told me to keep my eyes constantly upon her, and not an
+instant lose sight of her movements; and to suffer no head, in
+the press that would ensue when the first Consul appeared, to
+intervene between us.  "Faites comme cela, madame," continued
+she; "et vous le verrez bien, bien; car," added she, solemnly,
+and putting her hand on her breast,--"moi--je vais lui
+parler!"(183)
+
+I thanked her very much, but it was difficult to express as
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+much satisfaction as she displayed herself. You may suppose,
+however, how curious I felt for such a conversation, and how
+scrupulously I followed her injunctions of watching her motions.
+A little squat good-humoured lady, with yellow flowers over a mob
+cap upon her hair - who had little sunken eyes, concise nose, and
+a mouth so extended by perpetual smiling, that, hardly leaving an
+inch for the cheek, it ran nearly into the ear, on my other side
+now demanded my attention also, and told me she came regularly
+every month to the great review, that she might always bring some
+friend who wanted to see it. I found by this she was a person of
+some power, some influence, at least, and not entirely averse to
+having it known. She was extremely civil to me - but as my other
+friend had promised me so singular a regale, I had not much
+voluntary time to spare for her , this, however, appeared to be
+no impediment to that she was so obliging as to determine to
+bestow upon me, and she talked satisfied with my acquiescence to
+her civility, till a sort of bustle just before us making me look
+a little sharp, she cried--
+
+"Vous le voyez, madame!"
+
+"Qui?" exclaimed I, "le premier Consul?"
+
+"Mais non!--pas encore--mais--ce--ce monsieur l…!"(184)
+
+
+                          MADAME, C'EST MON MArI.
+
+I looked at her to see whom I was to remark, and her eyes led me
+to a tall, large figure, with a broad gold-laced hat, who was
+clearing the lane which some of the company had infringed, with a
+stentorian voice, and an air and manner of such authority as a
+chief constable might exert in an English riot.
+
+"Oui, madame," I answered, not conceiving why I was to look at
+him; "je le vois, ce monsieur; il est bien grand."(185)
+
+"Oui, madame," replied she, with a yet widened smile, and a look
+of lively satisfaction; "il est bien grand!  Vous le voyez bien?"
+
+"O, fort bien!" cried I, quite at a loss what she meant me to
+understand, till at last, fixing first him, and then me, she
+expressively said--
+
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+"Madame, c'est mon mari!"(186)
+
+The grin now was distended to the very utmost limits of the
+stretched lips, and the complacency of her countenance forcibly
+said,. "What do you think of me now?" My countenance, however,
+was far more clever than my head, if it made her any answer.
+But, in the plenitude of her own admiration of a gentleman who
+seemed privileged to speak roughly, and push violently whoever,
+by a single inch, passed a given barrier, she imagined, I
+believe, that to belong to him entitled her to be considered as
+sharing his prowess ; she seemed even to be participating in the
+merits of his height and breadth, though be could easily have put
+her into his pocket.
+
+Not perceiving, as I imagine, all the delight of felicitation in
+my countenance that she had expected, her own fell, in a
+disappointed pause, into as much of length as its circular form
+would admit of; it recovered, however, in another minute its full
+merry rotundity, by conjecturing, as I have reason to think, that
+the niggardliness of my admiration was occasioned by my doubt of
+her assertions; for, looking at me with an expression that
+demanded my attention, she poked her head under the arm of a tall
+grenadier, stationed to guard our window, and trying to catch the
+eye of the object of her devotion, called out in an accent of
+tenderness, "M'ami! M'ami!"
+
+The surprise she required was now gratified in full, though what
+she concluded to be excited by her happiness, was simply the
+effect of so caressing a public address from so diminutive a
+little creature to so gigantic a big one. Three or four times the
+soft sound was repeated ere it reached the destined ear, through
+the hubbub created by his own loud and rough manner of calling to
+order; but, when at last he caught the gentle appellation, and
+looked down upon her, it was with an eyebrow so scowling, a mouth
+so pouting, and an air that so rudely said, "What the d-- do you
+want?" that I was almost afraid he would have taken her between
+his thumb and finger, and given her a shake.  However, be only
+grumbled out, "Qu'est-ce que c'est, donc?"(187)  A little at a
+loss what to say, she gently stammered, "M'ami,--le--le premier
+Consul, ne vient-il pas?"(188)  "Oui! oui!" was blustered in
+reply, with a look that completed the phrase by "you fool you!"
+though the voice left it unfinished.
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+Not disconcerted even yet, though rather abashed,, she
+turned to me with a pleased grin that showed her proud of his
+noble ferociousness, and said, "C'est mon mari, madame!" as if
+still fearful I was not fully convinced of the grandeur of her
+connexion.  "M'ami" having now cleared the passage by ranging all
+the company in two direct lines, the officers of highest rank
+were assembled, and went in a sort of procession into the inner
+apartment to the audience of the first Consul. During the time
+this lasted, some relaxation of discipline ensued, and the
+gentlemen from the opposite row ventured to approach and peep at
+the windows with the ladies; but as soon as the generals
+descended from the steps they had mounted, their short conference
+being over, "M'ami" again appeared,. to the inexpressible
+gratification of his loving little mate, again furiously hustled
+every one to his post; and the flags, next, as I think, were
+carried in procession to the inner apartment, but soon after
+brought back.
+
+
+                        ADVENT OF THE FIRST CONSUL.
+
+The Prince of Orange then passed us to enter the audience
+chamber, with a look so serious, an air so depressed, that I have
+not been at all surprised to hear he was that very night taken
+very ill.
+
+The last object for whom the way was cleared was the second
+Consul, CambacŠr‚s, who advanced with a stately and solemn pace,
+slow, regular, and consequential; dressed richly in scarlet and
+gold, and never looking to the right or left, but wearing a mien
+of fixed gravity and importance. He had several persons in his
+suite, who, I think, but am not sure, were ministers of state.
+
+At length the two human hedges were finally formed, the door of
+the audience chamber was thrown wide open with a commanding
+crash, and a vivacious officer-sentinel-or I know not what,
+nimbly descended the three steps into our apartment, and placing
+himself at the side of the door, with one hand spread as high as
+possible above his head, and the other extended horizontally,
+called out in a loud and authoritative voice, "Le premier
+Consul!"
+
+You will easily believe nothing more was necessary to obtain
+attention; not a soul either spoke or stirred as he and his suite
+passed along, which was so quickly that, had I not been placed so
+near the door, and had not all about
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+me facilitated my standing foremost, and being least crowd
+obstructed, I could hardly have seen him. As it was, I had a view
+so near, though so brief, of his face, as to be very much struck
+by it.  It is of a deeply impressive cast, pale even to
+sallowness, while not only in the eye but in every feature--care,
+thought, melancholy, and meditation are strongly marked, with so
+much of character, nay, genius, and so penetrating a seriousness,
+or rather sadness, as powerfully to sink into an observer's mind.
+
+Yet, though the busts and medallions I have seen are, in general,
+such good resemblances that I think I should have known him
+untold, he has by no means the look to be expected from
+Bonaparte, but rather that of a profoundly studious and
+contemplative man, who "o'er books consumes" not only the
+"midnight oil" but his own daily strength, "and wastes the puny
+body to decay" by abstruse speculation and theoretic plans or
+rather visions, ingenious but not practicable. But the look of
+the commander who heads his own army, who fights his own battles,
+who conquers every difficulty by personal exertion, who executes
+all he plans, who performs even all he suggests; whose ambition
+is of the most enterprising, and whose bravery is of the most
+daring cast:--this, which is the look to be expected from his
+situation, and the exploits which have led to it, the spectator
+watches for in vain.  The plainness, also, of his dress, so
+conspicuously contrasted by the finery of all around him,
+conspires forcibly with his countenance, so "sicklied o'er with
+the pale hue of thought," to give him far more the air of a
+student than a warrior.
+
+The intense attention with which I fixed him in this short but
+complete view made me entirely forget the lady who had promised
+me to hold him in conference.  When he had passed, however, she
+told me it was upon his return she should address him, as he was
+too much hurried to be talked with at the moment of going to the
+parade. I was glad to find my chance not over, and infinitely
+curious to know what was to follow.
+
+
+                           THE PARADE OF TROOPS.
+
+The review I shall attempt no description of. I have no knowledge
+of the subject, and no fondness for its object.  It was far more
+superb than anything I had ever beheld: but while all the pomp
+and circumstance of war animated others,
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+it only saddened me ; and all of past reflection, all of future
+dread, made the whole grandeur of the martial scene, and all the
+delusive seduction of martial music, fill my eyes frequently with
+tears, but not regale my poor muscles with one single smile.
+
+Bonaparte, mounting a beautiful and spirited white horse, closely
+encircled by his glittering aides-de-camp, and accompanied by his
+generals, rode round the ranks, holding his bridle indifferently
+in- either hand, and seeming utterly careless of the prancing,
+rearing, or other freaks of his horse, insomuch as to strike some
+who were near me with a notion of his being a bad horseman. I am
+the last to be a judge upon this subject, but as a remarker, he
+only appeared to me a man who knew so well he could manage the
+animal when he pleased, that he did not deem it worth his while
+to keep constantly in order what he knew, if urged or provoked,
+he could subdue in a moment.
+
+Precisely opposite to the window at which I was placed, the chief
+Consul stationed himself after making his round and thence he
+presented some swords of honour, spreading out one arm with an
+air and mien which changed his look from that of scholastic
+severity to one that was highly military and commanding. . . .
+
+
+
+                                 A SCENE.
+
+The review over, the chief Consul returned to the palace. The
+lines were again formed, and he re-entered our apartment with his
+suite. As soon as he approached our window, I observed my first
+acquaintance start a little forward.  I was now all attention to
+her performance of her promise; and just as he reached us she
+stretched out her hand to present him a petition!
+
+The enigma of the conference was now solved, and I laughed at my
+own wasted expectation. Lui parler, however, the lady certainly
+did; so far she kept her word; for when he had taken the scroll,
+and was passing on, she rushed out of the line, and planting
+herself immediately before him so as to prevent his walking on,
+screamed, rather than spoke, for her voice was shrill with
+impetuosity to be heard and terror of failure, "C'est pour mon
+fils! vous me l'avez promis!"(189)  The first Consul stopped and
+spoke; but not loud enough for me to hear his voice: while his
+aides-de-camp and the attending generals surrounding him more
+closely, all in a
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+breath rapidly said to the lady, "Votre nom, madame, votre
+nom!"(190) trying to disengage the Consul from her importunity,
+in which they succeeded, but not with much ease, as she seemed
+purposing to cling to him till she got his personal answer.  He
+faintly smiled as he passed on, but looked harassed and worn;
+while she, turning to me, with an exulting face and voice,
+exclaimed, "Je l'aurai! je l'aurai!" meaning what she had
+petitioned for--"car . . . tous ces g‚n‚raux m'ont demand‚s mon
+nom!" (191)  Could any inference be clearer?
+
+The moment the chief Consul had ascended the steps leading to the
+inner apartment, the gentlemen in black with ,gold chains gave a
+general hint that all the company must depart, as the ambassadors
+and the ministers were now summoned to their monthly public
+audience with the chief Consul.  The crowd, however, was so
+great, and Madame d'Henin was so much incommoded, and half ill, I
+fear, by internal suffering, that M. d'Arblay procured a pass for
+us by a private door down to a terrace leading to a quiet exit
+from the palace into the Tuileries garden.
+
+
+                 WITH M. D'ARBLAY'S RELATIVES AT JOIGNY.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Mrs. Burney.)(192)
+Paris, 1802.
+.....With the nearest relatives now existing of M. d'Arblay I am
+myself more pleased than I can tell you. We have spent a
+fortnight at joigny,(193) and found them all awaiting us with the
+most enthusiastic determination to receive with open arms and
+open heart the choice and the offspring of their returned exile.
+Their kindness has truly penetrated me; and the heads of the
+family, the uncle and the aunt, are so charming as well as so
+worthy, that I could have remained with them for months had not
+the way of life which their residence in a country town has
+forced them to adopt, been utterly at war with all that, to me,
+makes peace, and happiness, and cheerfulness, namely, the real
+domestic life of living with my own small but all-sufficient
+family. I have never loved a dissipated
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+                   life, which it is no virtue in me, therefore,
+to relinquish; but I now far less than ever can relish it, and
+know not how to enjoy anything away from home, except by distant
+intervals; and then with that real moderation, I am so far from
+being a misanthrope or sick of the world, that I have real
+pleasure in mixed society.  It is difficult, however, in the
+extreme, to be able to keep to such terms.  M. d'Arblay has so
+many friends, and an acquaintance so extensive, that the mere
+common decencies of established etiquettes demand, as yet, nearly
+all my time; and this has been a true fatigue both to my body and
+my spirits.
+
+M. d'Arblay is related, though very distantly, to a quarter of
+the town, and the other three-quarters are his friends or
+acquaintance; and all of them came, first, to see me; next, to
+know how I did after the journey; next, were all to be waited
+upon in return ; next, came to thank me for my visit; next, to
+know how the air of Joigny agreed with me - next, to make a
+little further acquaintance ; and, finally, to make a visit of
+cong‚. And yet all were so civil, so pleasant, and so pleased
+with my monsieur's return, that could I have lived three lives,
+so as to have had some respite, I could not have found fault for
+it was scarcely ever with the individual intruder, but with the
+continuance or repetition of interruption.
+
+
+                        SOME JOIGNY ACQUAINTANCES.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Miss Planta, for the queen and princesses.)
+Passy, December 19, 1802.
+.....Rarely, indeed, my dear Miss Planta, I have received more
+pleasure than from your last most truly welcome letter, with
+assurances so unspeakably seasonable.  I had it here at Passy the
+5th day after its date.  I thank you again and again, but oh! how
+I thank God!
+
+Permit me now to go back to Joigny, for the purpose of giving
+some account of two very interesting acquaintances we made there.
+The first was Colonel Louis Bonaparte,(194) youngest brother but
+one, (Jerome) of the first Consul.  His
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+regiment was quartered at joigny, where he happened to be upon
+our last arrival at that town, and where the first visit he made
+was to M. MBazille, the worthy maternal uncle of M. d'Arblay.  He
+is a young man of the most serious demeanour, a grave yet
+pleasing countenance, and the most reserved yet gentlest manners.
+ His conduct in the small town (for France) of joigny was not
+merely respectable, but exemplary; he would accept no distinction
+in consequence of his powerful connexions, but presented himself
+everywhere with the unassuming modesty of a young man who had no
+claims beyond what he might make by his own efforts and merits.
+He discouraged all gaming, to which the inhabitants are extremely
+prone, by always playing low himself; and he discountenanced
+parade, by never suffering his own servant to wait behind his
+chair where he dined.  He broke up early both from table and from
+play - was rigid in his attentions to his military duties, strict
+in the discipline of is officers as well as men, -and the first
+to lead the way in every decency and regularity.  When to this I
+add that his conversation is sensible, and well bred, yet
+uncommonly diffident, and that but twenty-three summers have yet
+rolled over his head, so much good sense, forbearance, and
+propriety, in a situation so open to flattery, ambition, or
+vanity, obtained, as they merited, high consideration and perfect
+good will.
+
+I had a good deal of conversation with him, for he came to sit by
+me both before and after his card-party wherever I had the
+pleasure to meet him ; and his quiet and amiable manners, and
+rational style of discourse, made him a great loss to our
+society, when he was summoned to Paris, upon the near approach of
+the event which gave him a son and heir. He was very kind to my
+little Alex, whom he never saw without embracing, and he treated
+M. d'Arblay with a marked distinction extremely gratifying to me.
+
+The second acquaintance to which I have alluded is a lady, Madame
+de Souza.(195)  She soon found the road to my good will and
+regard, for she told me that she, with another lady, had been
+fixed upon by M. del Campo, my old sea-visitor, for the high
+honour of aiding him in his reception of the first lady of our
+land and her lovely daughters, upon the grand fˆte which he gave
+upon the dearest and most memorable of occasions(196) and she
+spoke with such pleasure and gratitude of
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+the sweet condescension she then experienced, that she charmed
+and delighted me, and we struck up an intimacy without further
+delay. Our theme was always ready, and I only regretted that I
+could see her but seldom, as she lived two or three miles out of
+Joigny, at Cesy, in the small chƒteau of la ci-devant Princesse
+de Beaufremont, a lady with whom I had had the honour of making
+acquaintance in Paris, and who is one of those who suffered most
+during the horrors of the Revolution. At the dreadful period when
+all the rage was to burn the property and title-deeds of the rich
+and high-born, her noble chƒteau, one of the most considerable in
+France, was. utterly consumed, and all her papers; that no record
+of her genealogy might remain, were committed, with barbarous
+triumph, to the flames : yet was this, such is her unhappy fate,
+the least of her misfortunes ; her eldest daughter, a beautiful
+young creature, upon whom she doted, was in the chƒteau at this
+horrible period, and forced to make her escape with such alarm
+and precipitance, that she never recovered from the excess of her
+terror, which robbed her of her life before she was quite
+seventeen years of age !
+
+Around the small and modest chƒteau de Cesy, in which Madame de
+Beaufremont and her youngest and now only daughter, Madame de
+Listenois, at present reside, the grounds have been cultivated in
+the English style; and the walks, now shady, now open, now
+rising, now descending, with water, bridges, cascades, and
+groves, and occasional fine picturesque views from the banks of
+the Yonne, are all laid out with taste and pretty effects. We
+strolled over them with a large party, till we came to a little
+recess. Madame de Beaufremont then took me by the arm, and we
+separated from the company to enter it together, and she showed
+me an urn surrounded with cypress trees and weeping willows,
+watered by a clear, small, running rivulet, and dedicated to the
+memory of her first-born and early-lost lamented daughter. Poor
+lady! she seems entirely resigned to all the rest of her
+deprivations, but here the wound is incurable ! yet, this subject
+apart, she is cheerful, loves society, or rather social
+discourse, with a chosen few, and not only accepts with Pleasure
+whatever may enliven her, but exerts herself to contribute all
+that is in her power to the entertainment of others. She has
+still preserved enough from the wreck of her Possessions to live
+elegantly, though not splendidly; and her table is remarkably
+well served. She has a son-in-law, M.
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+
+de Listenois, whom I did not see; but her remaining daughter
+Madame de Listenois, is a very fine young woman. Madame de Souza
+has spent the whole summer with these ladies. She told me she
+liked England so very much, and was so happy during the six weeks
+she passed there, that she wept bitterly on quitting it.  She was
+received, she says, at Court in the most bewitching manner, and
+she delights in retracing her honours, and her sense of them.
+     She is still so very handsome, though sickly and suffering,
+that I imagine she must then have been exquisitely beautiful.  I
+am told, by a French officer who has served in Spain, M. de
+Meulan, that when she left that country she was reckoned the most
+celebrated beauty of Madrid.
+
+I had another new acquaintance at Joigny, also, in a lady who
+came from Auxerre, as she was pleased to say, to see me, Madame
+La Villheurnois, widow of M. La Villheurnois, who was amongst the
+unhappy objects d‚port‚s, by the order of the Directory, … la
+Guiane.(197)  As soon as the first civilities were over, she
+said, "Permettez, madame! connaisseZ-vous Sidney?"(198)  I could
+not doubt who she meant, though there is no avoiding a smile at
+this drolly concise way of naming a man by his nom de
+baptˆme.(199)  She was extremely surprised when I answered no;
+telling me she had concluded "que tout le monde en
+Angleterre"(200) must know Sidney!  Yes, I said, by character
+certainly ; but personally I had never the gratification of
+meeting with him. She told me she was intimately acquainted with
+him herself, from seeing him continually when he was confined in
+the Temple, as she attended there her "malheureux ‚poux,"(201)
+and she saw also, she said, "son valet et son jockey,"(202) whom
+she never suspected to be disguised emigrants, watching to aid
+his escape. "Surtout," she added, "comme le jockey avait des
+trous aux bas terribles,")203) which
+
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+
+induced her daughter to buy him a new pair of stockings for
+charity.  A gentleman who accompanied her to Joigny, her
+secretary, told me he had played at ball with Sidney every day
+for six months, while he also attended upon poor M. La
+Vilheurnois......
+
+
+                          THE INFLUENZA IN PARIS.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Dr. Burney.)
+Passy, March 23, 1803.
+I have been anxious to write since I received your last kind
+inquiries, my dearest padre; but so tedious has been my seizure,
+that I have not yet got from its wraps or confinements.  I feel,
+however, as if this were their last day, and that to-morrow would
+have the honour to see me abroad. I have had no fever, and no
+physician, and no important malady; but cold has fastened upon
+cold, so as utterly to imprison me. La gripe,(204) however, I
+escaped, so has Alex, and our maid and helpers--and M. d'Arblay,
+who caught it latterly in his excursions to Paris, had it so
+slightly that but for the fright attached to the seizure (which I
+thought would almost have demolished me at first, from the terror
+hanging on its very name at that fatal period) I should have
+deemed it a mere common cold.  It is now universally over, but
+the mischief it has done is grievously irreparable. . . . It was
+a disastrous and frightful time.  The streets of Paris were said
+to be as full of funerals as of cabriolets.  For my own part, I
+have not once been able to enter that capital since I left it at
+the end of October. But I cannot help attributing much of the
+mortality which prevailed in consequence of this slight disease,
+to the unwholesome air occasioned by the dreadful want of
+cleanliness in that city, which, but for the healthiness of the
+beautiful and delicious walks around it, i.e., the Boulevards,
+must surely have proved pestilential.  The air of our house at
+Passy is perfectly pure and sweet.
+
+M. d'Arblay is now making a last effort with respect to his
+retraite,(205) which has languished in adjournment above a year.
+He has put it into the hands of a faithful and most amiable
+friend, now in high esteem with the premier Consul, General
+Lauriston, who so kindly renewed an ancient friendship with his
+former camarade when he was on his splendid short embassy in
+England. If through him it should fail, I shall never think of it
+more.
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+
+                              RUMOURS OF WAR.
+
+(Madame dArblay to Mrs. Locke)
+NO- 54, Rue Basse, Passy, near Paris, April 30, 1803.
+How to write I know not, at a period so tremendous-nor yet how to
+be silent.  My dearest, dearest friends ! if the war indeed prove
+inevitable, what a heart-breaking position is ours!-to explain it
+fully would demand folios, and yet be never so well done as you,
+with a little consideration, can do it for us. Who better than
+Mr. Locke and his Fredy-who so well can comprehend, that, where
+one must be sacrificed, the other will be yet more to be pitied
+?-I will not go on-I will talk only of you, till our fate must be
+determined. And M. d'Arblay, who only in the wide world loves his
+paternal uncle as well (we always except ourselves at
+Westminster! how tenderly does he join in my every feeling! and
+how faithfully keep unimpaired all our best and happiest
+sympathies!
+
+May 2.--Better appearances in the political horizon now somewhat
+recruit my spirits, which have been quite indescribably tortured,
+rather than sunk, by the impossibility of any private arrangement
+for our mutual happiness in the dread event of war. God Almighty
+yet avert it! And should it fall to the lot of Lauriston to
+confirm the peace, what a guardian angel upon earth I shall deem
+him! How I wish he could meet with you! he is so elegant in his
+manners he would immediately give you pleasure; and his
+countenance is so true in announcing him amiable, that you might
+look at him with trust as well as satisfaction. . . .
+
+May 13--Ah, my dearest friends--what a melancholy end to my hopes
+and my letter.  I have just heard that Lord Whitworth(206) set
+off for Chantilly last night; war therefore seems inevitable; and
+my grief, I, who feel myself now of two countries, is far greater
+than I can wish to express. While posts are yet open, write to
+me, my beloved friend, and by Hamburg. I trust we may still and
+regularly correspond, long as the letters may be in travelling.
+As our letters never
+
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+
+treat but of our private concerns, health and welfare neither
+country can object to our intercourse.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Dr. Burney).
+Passy, May 6, 1803.
+if my dearest father has the smallest idea of the suspense and
+terror in which I have spent this last fortnight, from the daily
+menace of war, he will be glad, I am sure, of the respite allowed
+me-if no more--from a visit I have just received from Mrs. Huber,
+who assures me the Ambassador has postponed his setting off, and
+consented to send another courier.(207)  To say how I pray for
+his success would indeed be needless. I have hardly closed my
+eyes many nights past. My dearest father will easily conceive the
+varying conflicts of our minds, and how mutual are our
+sufferings. . . .
+
+We were buoyed up here for some days with the hope that General
+Lauriston was gone to England as plenipo, to end the dread
+contest without new effusion of blood: but Paris, like London,
+teems with hourly false reports, and this intelligence,
+unhappily, was of the number. The continued kindness and
+friendship of that gentleman for M. d'Arblay make me take a warm
+interest in whatever belongs to him. About ten days ago, when M.
+d'Arblay called upon him, relative to the affair so long
+impending of his retraite, he took his hand, and said "Fais-moi
+ton compliment!"(208)  You are sure how heartily M. d'Arblay
+would be ready to comply-"but "what," he demanded, "can be new to
+you of honours?"  "I have succeeded," he answered, "for you!--the
+first Consul has signed your m‚moire."  When such delicacy is
+joined to warm attachment, my dearest father will not wonder I
+should be touched by it. . . .
+
+M. d'Arblay has now something in his native country, where all
+other claims are vain, and all other expectations completely
+destroyed.  He had been flattered with recovering some portion,
+at least, of his landed property near Joigny; but those who have
+purchased it during his exile add such enormous and unaccountable
+charges to what they paid for it at that period, that it is
+become, to us, wholly unattainable.
+
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+
+                       " OUR LITTLE CELL AT PASSY."
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Dr. Burney.)
+Passy, April 11, 1804.
+We live in the most quiet, and, I think, enviable retired merit.
+Our house is larger than we require, but not a quarter furnished.
+Our view is extremely pretty from it, and always cheerful; we
+rarely go out, yet always are pleased to return. We have our
+books, our prate, and our boy--how, with all this, can we, or
+ought we to suffer ourselves to complain of our narrowed and
+narrowing income?  If we are still able to continue at Passy,
+endeared to me now beyond any other residence away from you all,
+by a friendship I have formed here with one of the sweetest women
+I have ever known, Madame de Maisonneuve, and to M. d'Arblay by
+similar sentiments for all her family, our philosophy will not be
+put to severer trials than it can sustain. And this engages us to
+bear a thousand small privations which we might, perhaps, escape,
+by shutting ourselves up in some spot more remote from the
+capital.  But as my deprivation of the society of my friends is
+what I most lament, so something that approaches nearest to what
+I have lost affords me the best reparation.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Dr. Burney.)
+Passy, May 29, 1808.
+Before I expected it, my promised opportunity for again writing
+to my most dear father is arrived.  I entirely forget whether,
+before the breaking out of the war stopt our correspondence, M.
+d'Arblay had already obtained his retraite: and, consequently,
+whether that is an event I have mentioned or not. Be that as it
+may, he now has it--it is 1500 livres, or 62 pounds, 10
+shillings. per annum. But all our resources from England ceasing
+with the peace, we had so little left from what we had brought
+over, and M. d'Arblay has found so nearly nothing remaining of
+his natural and hereditary claims in his own province, that he
+determined upon applying for some employment that might enable
+him to live with independence, how ever parsimoniously. This he
+has, with infinite difficulty, etc., at length obtained, and he
+is now a r‚dacteur in the civil department of les Bƒtimens,
+etc.(209) This is no sinecure. He
+
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+
+attends at his bureau from half-past nine to half-past four
+o'clock every day; and as we live so far off as Passy he is
+obliged to set off for his office between eight and nine, and
+does not return to his hermitage till past five.  However, what
+necessity has urged us to desire, and made him solicit, we must
+not, now acquired, name or think of with murmuring or regret. He
+has the happiness to be placed amongst extremely worthy people;
+and those who are his chefs in office treat him with every
+possible mark of consideration and feeling. We continue steady to
+our little cell at Passy, which is retired, quiet, and quite to
+ourselves, with a magnificent view of Paris from one side, and a
+beautiful one of the country on the other. It is
+unfurnished-indeed, unpapered, and every way unfinished; for our
+workmen, in the indispensable repairs which preceded our entering
+it, ran us up bills that compelled us to turn them adrift, and
+leave every thing at a stand, when three rooms only were made
+just habitable.
+
+
+                      THE PRINCE OF WALES EULOGIZED.
+
+(Dr. Burney to Madame d'Arblay.)
+July 12, 1805.
+. . . Your brother, Dr. Charles, and I have had the honour last
+Tuesday of dining with the Prince of Wales at Lord Melbourne's at
+the particular desire of H.R.H. He is so good-humoured and
+gracious to those against whom he has no party prejudice, that it
+is impossible not to be flattered by this politeness and
+condescension.  I was astonished to find him, amidst such
+constant dissipation, possessed of so much learning, wit,
+knowledge of books in general, discrimination of Character, as
+well as original humour. He quoted Homer to my son as readily as
+if the beauties of Dryden or Pope were under consideration. And
+as to music, he is an excellent critic; has an enlarged taste--
+admiring whatever is excellent in its kind, of whatever age or
+country the composers or performers may be; without, however,
+being insensible to the superior genius and learning necessary to
+some kinds of music more than others.
+
+The conversation was general and lively, in which several of the
+company, consisting of eighteen or twenty, took a share, till
+towards the heel of the evening, or rather the toe of the
+morning; for we did not rise from table till one
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+
+o'clock, when Lady Melbourne being returned from the opera with
+her daughters, coffee was ordered; during which H.R.H. took me
+outside and talked exclusively about music near half an hour, and
+as long with your brother concerning Greek literature. He is a
+most excellent mimic of well-known characters: had we been in the
+dark any one would have sworn that Dr. Parr and Kemble were in
+the room. Besides being possessed of a great fund of original
+humour, and good humour, he may with truth be said to have as
+much wit as Charles II., with much more learning--for his merry
+majesty could spell no better than the bourgeois gentilhomme.
+
+
+                            DR. BURNEY AT BATH.
+
+(Dr. Burney to Madame dArblay.)
+June 12, 1808.
+. . . Last autumn I had an alarming seizure In my left hand and,
+mine being pronounced a Bath case, on Christmas Eve I set out for
+that city, extremely weak and dispirited-put myself under the
+care of Dr. Parry, and after remaining there three months, I
+found my hand much more alive, and my general health considerably
+amended.
+
+During my invalidity at Bath I had an unexpected visit from your
+Streatham friend,(210) of whom I had lost sight for more than ten
+years. I saw very few people, but none of an evening nor of a
+morning, on the days my hand was pumped on. When her name was
+sent in I was much surprised, but desired she might be admitted;
+and I received her as an old friend with whom I had spent much
+time very happily, and never wished to quarrel.  She still looks
+well, but is grave, and candour itself; though still she says
+good things, and writes admirable notes and letters, I am told,
+to my granddaughters C. and M., of whom she is very fond. We
+shook hands very cordially, and avoided any allusion to our long
+separation and its cause; the Caro Sposo still lives, but is such
+an object from the gout that the account of his sufferings made
+me pity him sincerely; he wished, she told me, "to see his old
+and worthy friend," and, un beau matin, I could not refuse
+compliance with his wish.  She nurses him with great affection
+and tenderness, never goes out or has company when he is in pain.
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+
+                   AFFECTIONATE GREETINGS To DR. BURNEY.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Dr. Burney.)
+September, 1808.
+After being so long robbed of all means of writing to my beloved
+father, I seize, with nearly as much surprise as gratitude, a
+second opportunity of addressing him almost before the first can
+have brought my hand to his sight.  When will some occasion offer
+to bring me back-not my revenge, but my first and most coveted
+satisfaction ? With how much more spirit, also, should I write,
+if I knew what were received of what already I have scrawled !
+Volumes, however, must have been told you, of what in other times
+I should have written, by Maria. For myself, when once a reunion
+takes place, I can scarcely conceive which will be hardest
+worked, my talking faculties or my listening ones. O what
+millions of things I want to inquire and to know! The rising
+generation, me thinks, at least, might keep me some letters and
+packets ready for occasional conveyances.  I should be grateful
+beyond measure. M. d'Arblay writes--"how desired is, how happy
+shall be, the day, in which we shall receive your dearest
+blessing and embrace! Pray be so kind not to forget the mate
+always remembering your kindness for him and his. A thousand
+thousand loves to all."
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Dr. Burney.)
+No. 13, Rue d'Anjou, Paris, May 2, 1810.
+A happy May-day to my dearest father! Sweet-scented be the
+cowslips which approach his nostrils! lovely and rosy the
+milkmaids that greet his eyes, and animating as they are noisy
+the marrow-bones and cleavers that salute his ears! Dear, and
+even touching, are these anniversary recollections where distance
+and absence give them existence only in the memory! and, at this
+moment, to hear and see them I Would exchange all the Raphaels in
+our Museum, and the new and beautiful composition of Paesiello in
+the chapel.
+
+Could you but send me a little food for the hope now in private
+circulation that the new alliance of the Emperor(211) may perhaps
+extend to a general alliance of all Europe, Oh,
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+
+heaven! how would that brighten my faculties of enjoyment! I
+should run about to see all I have hitherto omitted to seek, with
+the ardent curiosity of a traveller newly arrived ; and I should
+hasten to review and consider all I have already beheld, with an
+alertness of vivacity that would draw information from every
+object I have as yet looked at with undiscerning tameness.  Oh,
+such a gleam of light would new-model or re-model me, and I
+should make you present to all my sights, and partake of all the
+wonders that surround me !
+
+Were not this cruel obscurity so darkening to my views, and so
+depressing to my spirits, I could tell my dearest father many
+things that might amuse him, and detail to him, in particular, my
+great and rare happiness in a point the most essential, after
+domestic comforts, to peace of mind and cheerfulness, namely, my
+good fortune in my adopted friends in this my adopted country.
+The society in which I mix, when I can prevail with myself to
+quit my yet dearer fireside, is all that can be wished, whether
+for wit, wisdom, intelligence, gaiety, or politeness.  The
+individuals with whom I chiefly mix, from being admired at first
+for their talents or amiability, are now sincerely loved for
+their kindness and goodness.  Could I write more frequently, or
+with more security that I write not to the winds and the waves, I
+would characterize the whole set to you, and try to make us yet
+shake hands in the same Party. . . .
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Dr. Burney.)
+No. 13, Rue d'Anjou, Paris, ce 16 Sept. 1810.
+Can I tell you, my dearest father!-oh, no! I can never tell
+you-the pleasure, the rapture with which I received your letter
+by Madame Solvyns. It had been so cruelly long since I had heard
+from you, so anxious and suffering a space since I had seen your
+handwriting, that, when at last it came, I might have seemed, to
+one who did not know me, rather penetrated by sudden affliction
+than by joy. But how different was all within to what appeared
+without! My partner-in-all received it at his bureau, and felt an
+impatience so unconquerable to communicate so extreme a pleasure
+that he quitted everything to hasten home; for he was incapable
+of going on with his business.  How satisfactory, also, is all
+the intelligence ! how gaily, with what spirit written ! . . .
+
+I do nothing of late but dream of seeing you, my most dear
+
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+
+father. I think I dream it wide awake, too; the desire is so
+strong that it pursues me night and day, and almost persuades me
+it has something in it of reality : and I do not choose to
+discourage even ideal happiness.
+
+
+
+                           DR. BURNEY's DIPLOMA.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Dr. Burney.)
+No. 13, Rue d'Anjou, 14th April, 1811.
+.....Have you received the letter in which I related that your
+diploma has been brought to me by the perpetual secretary of the
+class of the Fine Arts of the Institute of France?(212)  I shall
+not have it conveyed but by some very certain hand, and that,
+now, is most difficult to find. M. Le Breton has given me, also,
+a book of the list of your camarades, in which he has written
+your name.  He says it will be printed in next year's register.
+He has delivered to me, moreover, a medal, which is a mark of
+distinction reserved for peculiar honour to peculiar select
+personages. Do you suppose I do not often--often--often think who
+would like, and be fittest to be the bearer to you of these
+honours? . . .
+
+How kind was the collection of letters you made more precious by
+endorsing!  I beseech you to thank all my dear correspondents,
+and to bespeak their patience for answers, which shall arrive by
+every wind that I can make blow their way; but yet more, beseech
+their generous attention to my impatience for more, should the
+wind blow fair for me before it will let me hail them in return.
+Difficultly can they figure to themselves my joy--my emotion at
+receiving letters from such dates as they can give me!
+
+[During this year Madame d'Arblay's correspondence with her
+English connexions was interrupted not only by the difficulty of
+conveying letters, but also by a dangerous illness and the menace
+of a cancer, from which she could only be relieved by submitting
+to a painful and hazardous operation. The fortitude with which
+she bore this suffering, and her generous solicitude for Monsieur
+d'Arblay and those around her, excited the warmest sympathy in
+all who heard of her trial, and her French friends universally
+gave her the name of l'ange,(213) so touched were they by her
+tenderness and Magnanimity.]
+
+(157) " Dr. Orkborne" is the name of one of the characters in
+"Camilla," a pedantic scholar, who lives only in his books.-ED.
+
+(158) Widow of Sir Robert Strange, the celebrated engraver, and a
+very old friend of the Burney family. She was a Scotchwoman (her
+maiden name, Isabel Lumisden), and in her younger days an
+enthusiastic Jacobite.  She obliged her lover, Strange, to join
+the young Pretender in 1745, and afterwards married him against
+her father's wish.-ED.
+
+(159) "The other Bell" was the daughter of Sir Robert and Lady
+Strange.-ED.
+
+(160) Wife of Sir Lucas Pepys, the physician.-ED.
+
+(161) Anna Letitia Barbauld, the well-known author, and editor of
+Richardson's Correspondence, etc.-ED.
+
+ (162) John Aiken, M.D., brother to Mrs. Barbauld, and, like his
+sister, an author and editor. His "Evenings at Home" is still a
+well-known book: many of our readers will probably have pleasant
+reminiscences of it, connected with their childhood.-ED.
+
+(163) Barry had published a furious attack upon his
+fellow-Academicians in a "Letter to the Dilettanti Society."  He
+was already, owing chiefly to his own violent temper, on ill
+terms with nearly all of them, and the "Letter" prove(I to be the
+last straw. Various charges were drawn up against the Professor
+of Painting, and he was expelled forthwith from the Academy,
+without being permitted to speak in his own defence.
+
+(164) "By the help of a shilling."
+
+(165) "With tears in his eyes."
+
+(166) i.e., Mr. Locke.-ED.
+
+(167) The French minister in England.-ED.
+
+(168) A letter in which M. d'Arblay had acquainted his wife with
+the withdrawal of his commission in the French army, in
+consequence of his refusal, under any circumstances, to bear arms
+against England.-ED.
+(169) Miss Cambridge.-ED.
+
+(170) Lafayette was then living in retirement, with his wife and
+family, at is chateau of La Grange. -ED.
+
+(171) "Quick, quick, madam, take your seat in the diligence, for
+here is an English gentleman who is sure to take the best
+place!"--There is evidently some mistake here, in making the
+book-keeper in Piccadilly speak French and talk about the
+diligence. That the paragraph relates to Fanny's departure from
+London is evident from several passages in the text: the mention,
+later, of changing horses at Canterbury, the references to her
+fellow-travellers at Calais. The date to the above paragraph is
+also clearly wrong, as it will be seen that on the 18th of April
+they were still on the road to Paris.-ED.
+
+(172) "Quick! quick! look for it, or you will be arrested!"
+
+(173) in the new calendar adopted by the Republic in 1793, a
+division of the month into decades, or periods of ten days, was
+substituted for the old division into weeks.  Every tenth day
+(d‚cadi) was a day of rest, instead of every seventh day,
+(Sunday, Dimanche).  The months were of thirty days each, with
+five odd festival days (Sansculottades) in the year, and a sixth
+(Festival of the Revolution) in Leap Year.  Napoleon restored the
+Sunday in place of d‚cadi. The new calendar was discontinued
+altogether, January 1, 1806.-ED.
+
+          (174) The date is again wrong--probably a misprint for
+April 21.-ED.
+
+(175) Mrs. Damer, the sculptor, as an ardent Whig and supporter
+of Charles Fox, professed herself at this time an enthusiastic
+admirer of the first Consul. She had known jos‚phine de
+Beauharnais before her marriage with Napoleon, and, after the
+peace of Amiens, visited Paris on Jos‚phine's invitation.  She
+was there introduced to Napoleon, to whom she afterwards
+presented a bust of Charles Fox, executed by herself.  Mrs.
+Damer's companions on this excursion were Mary Berry, the author
+(born 1763-died 1852), and her younger sister, Agnes Berry. These
+two ladies were prodigious favourites with Horace Walpole, who
+called them his "twin wives," and was, it is said, even desirous,
+in his old age, Of marrying the elder Miss Berry.  One of his
+valued possessions was a marble bust of Mary Berry, the work of
+his kinswoman, Mrs. Damer.  At his death in 1797 he bequeathed to
+the Miss Berrys a house for their joint lives, besides a legacy
+Of 4000 pounds to each sister.  Mary Berry published an edition
+of her old admirer's works the year after his death.-ED.
+
+(176) The Swiss home of her father, 'M. Necker, on the shore of
+the lake, and some ten miles north of the town of Geneva.  Necker
+retired thither after his fall in 1790, and spent there, in
+retirement, the remaining years of his life. He died at Geneva,
+in April, 1804.-ED.
+
+
+(177) Madame de Stael's orthography is here preserved.
+
+"  I should like to prove to you my zeal, madam, and I am afraid
+of being indiscreet. I hope you will have the goodness to let me
+know when you are sufficiently recovered from the fatigue of your
+journey, that I might have the honour of seeing you without being
+tiresome to you."
+
+(178) The 4th Floria (April 23).
+
+(179) "Madame d'Arblay can only be infinitely flattered by the
+extreme goodness of Madame the Countess de Stael.  She will very
+certainly have the honour of calling upon Madame de Stael as soon
+as possible."
+(180) Madame de Lafayette was thrown into prison after the flight
+of her husband; released in February, 1795, more than six months
+after the death of Robespierre. She then journeyed to Austria,
+and obtained leave to share, with her two daughters, her
+husband's captivity at Olm�tz.  Lafayette was released in
+September, 1797; returned to France in 1800, Napoleon not
+forbidding, though not quite approving.  Madame de Lafayette's
+constitution was permanently impaired by the confinement which
+she suffered at Olm�tz. She died December 24, 1807.-ED.
+
+(181) "It's a foreigner, it's an Englishwoman."
+
+(182) "Have you seen the first Consul, madam?"
+
+"Not yet, madam."
+
+"It is doubtless what you most wish for, madam?"
+
+"Yes, madam."
+
+"Do you wish to have an excellent view of him, and to see him
+quite at your ease?"
+
+"I am particularly desirous of it, madam."
+
+(183) "Do thus, madam, and you will see him well, well; for I-am
+going to speak to him ! "
+
+(184) "You see him, madam!"
+
+"Whom?" exclaimed I, "the first Consul?"
+
+"Oh no!--not yet;--but--that--that gentleman!"
+
+(185) "yes, madam, I see that gentleman; he is very tall!"
+
+(186) "Madam, it is my husband!"
+
+(187)  "What is the matter?"
+
+(188) "M'ami, the--the first Consul, is he not coming?"
+
+(189) "'Tis for my son ! you promised it me!"
+
+ (190) "Your name, madam, your name!"
+
+(191) "I shall have it! I shall have it! for all those generals
+asked my name!"
+
+(192) Fanny's eldest sister, Esther, who married (1770) her
+cousin, Charles Rousseau Burney.-ED.
+
+(193) joigny was the birth-place of M. d'Arblay.-ED.
+
+(194) Louis Bonaparte was born in 1778, and, young as he was, had
+already served with distinction in the campaign in Italy.  He was
+subsequently king of Holland from 1806 to 1810, when that country
+was annexed by Napoleon to the French Empire.  He married
+Hortense de Beauharnais, daughter, by her first marriage, of
+Napoleon's wife, Josephine, and was the father of the Emperor
+Napoleon III.-ED.
+
+(195) Authoress of "AdŠle de Senange," etc.
+
+(196) On the king's recovery, in the spring of 1789.-ED.
+
+(197) Many of the leading members of the Councils of "Ancients"
+and of "Five Hundred " had been transported to Guiana after the
+coup d'‚tat of September 4, 1797.  See note (146) ante, p.
+136.-ED.
+
+(198) "Excuse me, madam ! do you know Sidney?  Sidney " is Sir
+Sidney Smith, whose gallant and successful defence of Acre
+against the French,, in the spring of 1799, obliged Napoleon to
+relinquish the invasion of Syria.-ED.
+
+(199) Christian name.
+
+(200) "Every one in England."
+
+(201) "Unfortunate husband."
+
+(202) "His valet and his jockey, (groom)."
+
+(203) "Especially as the jockey had terrible holes in his
+stockings."
+
+(204) The influenza.
+
+(205) Retiring pension.
+
+(206) The English ambassador in Paris. All hopes of a
+satisfactory termination to the dispute between the English and
+French governments being now at an end, Lord Whitworth was
+ordered to return to England, and left Paris May 12, 1803.  His
+return was followed by the recall of the French minister in
+London, and the declaration of war between the two countries.-ED.
+
+(207) The reader will have noticed that the date of this letter
+is earlier than that of the paragraph in the preceding letter, in
+which Fanny alludes to the departure of the Ambassador from
+Paris.-ED.
+
+(208) "Make me your compliments."
+
+(209) "Or, as we might say, a clerk in the department of works."-
+ED.
+
+(210) Mrs. Piozzi.-ED.
+
+(211) Napoleon was crowned Emperor of the French, November 19,
+1804.  His "new alliance" was his marriage, in the spring Of
+1810, with the archduchess Maria Louisa, daughter of the Emperor
+of Austria.  With this alliance in view he had been divorced from
+Jos‚phine at the close of the preceding year.-ED
+
+(212) Dr. Burney had been elected a corresponding member of this
+section of the Institute.-ED.
+
+(213) The angel.
+
+
+
+
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+                                SECTION 23.
+                                (1812-14.)
+
+                  MADAME D'ARBLAY AND HER SON IN ENGLAND,
+
+[At the commencement of the year 1814 was published "The
+Wanderer, or Female Difficulties," the fourth and last novel by
+the author of "Evelina," "Cecilia," and "Camilla."  The five
+volumes were sold for two guineas-double the price of
+"Camilla,"--and we gather from Madame d'Arblay's own statement
+that she received at least fifteen hundred pounds for the work.
+She informs us also that three thousand six hundred copies were
+sold during the first six months. This pecuniary profit, however,
+was the only advantage which she derived from the book.  It was
+severely treated by the critics ; its popularity,-- if it ever
+had any, for its large sale was probably due to the author's high
+reputation,--speedily declined; and the almost total oblivion
+into which it passed has remained unbroken to the present day.
+Yet "The Wanderer" was deserving of a better fate.  In many
+respects it is not inferior to any of Madame d'Arblay's earlier
+works. Its principal defect is one of literary style, and its
+style, though faulty and unequal, is by no means devoid of charm
+and impressiveness. The artless simplicity and freshness of
+"Evelina" render that work, her first novel, the most successful
+of all in point of style. In "Cecilia" the style shows more of
+conscious art, and is more laboured. In "Camilla" and "The
+Wanderer" it is at once more careless and more affected than in
+the earlier novels ; her English is at times slipshod, at times
+disfigured by attempts at fine writing. But, admitting all this,
+we must admit also that Fanny, even in "The Wanderer," proves
+herself mistress of what we may surely regard as the most
+essential part of style-its power of affecting the reader
+agreeably with the intentions of the author. She plays upon her
+reader's emotions with a sure touch; she excites or soothes him
+at her will; she arouses by turns his compassion, his mirth, his
+resentment, according as she strikes the keys of pathos, of
+humour, or of irony. A style which is capable of producing such
+effects is not rashly to be condemned on the score of occasional
+affectations and irregularities.
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+
+The question of style apart, we do not feel that "The Wanderer"
+shows the slightest decline in its author's powers. The plot is
+as ingeniously complicated as ever, the suspense as skilfully
+maintained; the characters seem to us as real as those in
+"Evelina," or "Cecilia," or in the "Diary" itself; the alternate
+pathos and satire of the book keep our attention ever on the
+alert. That it failed to win the suffrages of the public was
+certainly due to no demerit in the work. Many causes may have
+conspired against it. The public taste had long been debauched by
+novels of that nightmare school in which Mrs Radcliffe and "Monk"
+Lewis were the leaders. Moreover, in the very year in which "The
+Wanderer" was published, appeared the first of a series of works
+of fiction which, by their power and novelty, were to monopolise,
+for a time, the public attention and applause, and which were
+thereafter to secure for their author a high rank among the
+immortals of English literature. At the end of the fifth volume
+of "The Wanderer" were inserted a few leaves, containing a list
+of books recently published or "in the press;" and last on the
+list of the latter stands "Waverley, or 'Tis Sixty Years since."
+
+Like " Evelina," "The Wanderer" is inscribed in a touching
+dedication (this time, however, in prose, and with his name
+prefixed) to Fanny's beloved father. The dedication is dated
+March 14, 1814 : on the 12th of the following month Dr. Burney
+died at Chelsea College, in his eighty-seventh year.-ED.]
+
+             NARRATIVE OF MADAME D'ARBLAY'S JOURNEY TO LONDON.
+
+                    ANXIETY TO SEE FATHER AND FRIENDS.
+
+Dunkirk, 1812. There are few events of my life that I more regret
+not having committed to paper while they were fresher in my
+memory, than my police adventure at Dunkirk, the most fearful
+that I have ever experienced, though not, alas, the most
+afflicting, for terror, and even horror, are short of deep
+affliction; while they last they are, nevertheless, absorbers;
+but once past, whether ill or well, they are over, and from them,
+as from bodily pain, the animal spirits can rise uninjured: not
+so from that grief which has its source in irreInediable
+calamity; from that there is no rising, no relief, save in hopes
+of eternity: for here on earth all buoyancy of mind that Might
+produce the return of peace, is sunk for ever. I will
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+
+now, however, put down all that recurs to me of my first return
+home.
+
+In the year 1810, when I had been separated from my dear father,
+and country, and native friends, for eight years, my desire to
+again see them became so anxiously impatient that my tender
+companion proposed my passing over to England alone, to spend a
+month or two at Chelsea. Many females at that period, and amongst
+them the young Duchesse de Duras, had contrived to procure
+passports for a short similar excursion ; though no male was
+permitted, under any pretence, to quit France, save with the
+army.
+
+Reluctantly--with all my wishes in favour of the scheme,--yet
+most reluctantly, I accepted the generous offer; for never did I
+know happiness away from that companion, no, not even out of his
+sight! but still, I was consuming with solicitude to see my
+revered father--to be again in his kind arms, and receive his
+kind benediction.
+
+
+                        A MILD MINISTER OF POLICE.
+
+For this all was settled, and I had obtained my passport, which
+was brought to me without my even going to the police office, by
+the especial favour of M. Le Breton, the Secretaire Perp‚tuel …
+l'Institut.  The ever active services of M. de Narbonne aided
+this peculiar grant ; though, had not Bonaparte been abroad with
+his army at the time, neither the one nor the other would have
+ventured at so hardy a measure of assistance.  But whenever
+Bonaparte left Paris, there was always an immediate abatement of
+severity in the police; and Fouch‚, though he had borne a
+character dreadful beyond description in the earlier and most
+horrible times of the Revolution, was,'at this period, when
+minister of police, a man of the mildest manners, the most
+conciliatory conduct, and of the easiest access in Paris.  He had
+least the glare of the new imperial court of any one of its
+administration; he affected, indeed, all the simplicity of a
+plain Republican. I have often seen him strolling in the most
+shady and unfrequented parts of the "Elysian Fields," muffled up
+in a plain brown rocolo, and giving le bras to his wife, without
+suite or servant, merely taking the air, with the evident design
+of enjoying also an unmolested tˆte-…-tˆte.  On these occasions,
+though he was universally known, nobody approached him; and he
+seemed, himself, not to observe that any other person
+Page 251
+
+was in the walks. He was said to be remarkably agreeable in
+conversation, and his person was the best fashioned and most
+gentlemanly of any man I have happened to see, belonging to the
+government. Yet, such was the impression made upon me by the
+dreadful reports that were spread of his cruelty and ferocity at
+Lyons,(214) that I never saw him but I thrilled with horror. How
+great, therefore, was my obligation to M. de Narbonne and to M.
+Le Breton, for procuring me a passport, without my personal
+application to a man from whom I shrunk as from a monster.
+
+
+                         EMBARKATION INTERDICTED.
+
+I forget now for what spot the passport was nominated, perhaps
+for Canada, but certainly not for England and M. Le Breton, who
+brought it to me himself, assured me that no difficulty would be
+made for me either to go or to return, as I was known to have
+lived a life the most inoffensive to government, and perfectly
+free from all species of political intrigue, and as I should
+leave behind me such sacred hostages as my husband and my son.
+Thus armed, and thus authorized, I prepared, quietly and
+secretly, for my expedition, while my generous mate employed all
+his little leisure in discovering where and how I might embark -
+when, one morning, when I was bending over my trunk to press in
+its contents, I was abruptly broken in upon by M. de Boinville,
+who was in my secret, and who called upon me to stop! He had
+received certain, he said, though as yet unpublished information,
+that a universal embargo was laid upon every vessel, and that not
+a fishing-boat was permitted to quit the coast.  Confounded,
+affrighted, disappointed, and yet relieved, I submitted to the
+blow, and obeyed the injunction. M. de Boinville then revealed to
+me the new political changes that occasioned this measure, which
+he had learned from some confiding friends in office; but which I
+do not touch upon, as they are now in every history of those
+times.
+
+Page 252
+
+I pass on to my second attempt, in the year 1812.
+
+Disastrous was that interval !  All correspondence with England
+was prohibited under pain of death ! One letter only reached me,
+most unhappily, written with unreflecting abruptness, announcing,
+without preface, the death of the Princess Amelia, the new and
+total derangement of the king, and the death of Mr. Locke. Three
+such calamities overwhelmed me, overwhelmed us both, for Mr.
+Locke, my revered Mr. Locke, was as dear to my beloved partner as
+to myself. Poor Mrs. C concluded these tidings must have already
+arrived, but her fatal letter gave the first intelligence, and no
+other letter, at that period, found its way to me. She sent hers,
+I think, by some trusty returned prisoner. She little knew my
+then terrible situation ; hovering over my head was the stiletto
+of a surgeon for a menace of cancer yet, till that moment, hope
+of escape had always been held out to me by the Baron de Larrey--
+hope which, from the reading of that fatal letter, became
+extinct.
+
+
+                             A CHANGE OF PLAN.
+
+When I was sufficiently recovered for travelling, after a
+dreadful operation, my plan was resumed, but with an alteration
+which added infinitely to its interest, as well as to its
+importance. Bonaparte was now engaging in a new war, of which the
+aim and intention was no less than-the conquest of the world.
+This menaced a severity of conscription to which Alexander, who
+had now spent ten years in France, and was seventeen years of
+age, would soon become liable. His noble father had relinquished
+all his own hopes and emoluments in the military career, from the
+epoch that his king was separated from his country; though that
+career had been his peculiar choice, and was suited peculiarly to
+the energy of his character, the vigour of his constitution, his
+activity, his address, his bravery, his spirit of resource, never
+overset by difficulty nor wearied by fatigue---all which
+combination of military requisites--
+
+"The eye could in a moment reach,
+And read depicted in his martial air,"
+
+But his high honour, superior to his interest, superior to his
+inclination, and ruling his whole conduct with unremitting,
+unalienable constancy, impelled him to prefer the hard labour and
+obscure drudgery of working at a bureau of the minister
+Page 253
+
+of the interior, to any and every advantage or promotion that
+could be offered him in his own immediate and favourite line of
+life, when no longer compatible with his allegiance and loyalty.
+To see, therefore, his son bear arms in the very cause that had
+been his ruin--bear arms against the country which had given
+himself as well as his mother, birth, would indeed have been
+heart-breaking. We agreed, therefore, that Alexander should
+accompany me to England, where, I flattered myself, I might
+safely deposit him, while I returned to await, by the side of my
+husband, the issue of the war, in the fervent hope that it would
+prove our restoration to liberty and reunion.
+
+
+                         A NEW PASSPORT OBTAINED.
+
+My second passport was procured with much less facility than the
+first.  Fouch‚ was no longer minister of police, and, strange to
+tell, Fouch‚, who, till he became that minister, had been held in
+horror by all France-all Europe, conducted himself with such
+conciliatory mildness to all ranks of people .while in that
+office, evinced such an appearance of humanity, and exhibited
+such an undaunted spirit of justice in its execution, that at his
+dismission all Paris was in affliction and dismay ! Was this from
+the real merit he had shown in his police capacity? Or was it
+from a yet greater fear of malignant cruelty awakened by the very
+name of his successor, Savary, Duke of Rovigo?(215)
+
+Now, as before, the critical moment was seized by my friends to
+act for me when Bonaparte had left Paris to proceed towards the
+scene of his next destined enterprise;(216) and he was, I
+believe, already at Dresden when my application was ,made. My
+kind friend Madame de T-- here took the agency which M. de
+Narbonne could no longer sustain, as he was now attending the
+emperor, to whom he had been made aide-de-camp, and through her
+means, after many difficulties and delays, I obtained a licence
+of departure for myself and
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+
+for Alexander. For what place, nominally, my passport was
+assigned, I do not recollect; I think, for Newfoundland, but
+certainly for some part of the coast of America. Yet everybody at
+the police office saw and knew that England was my object. They
+connived, nevertheless, at the accomplishment of my wishes, with
+significant though taciturn consciousness.
+
+
+                          COMMISSIONS FOR LONDON.
+
+>From all the friends whom I dared trust with my secret
+expedition, I had commissions for London; though merely verbal,
+as I was cautioned to take no letters.  No one at that time could
+send any to England by the post. I was charged by sundry persons
+to write for them, and in their names, upon my arrival. Madame de
+Tracy begged me to discover the address of her sister-in-law,
+Madame de Civrac, who had emigrated into the wilds of Scotland,
+and of whom she anxiously wished for some intelligence. This
+occasioned my having a little correspondence with her, which I
+now remark because she is named as one of the principal dames de
+la soci‚t‚ by Madame de Genlis. Madame d'Astorre desired me to
+find out her father, M. le Comte de Cely, and to give him news of
+her and her children. This I did, and received from the old
+gentleman some visits, and many letters. Madame la Princesse de
+Chimay entrusted me with a petition--a verbal one, to the Prince
+of Wales, in favour of the Duc de Fitzjames, who, in losing his
+wife, had lost an English pension.  This I was to transmit to his
+royal highness by means of the Duchess dowager of Buccleugh - who
+was also entreated to make known the duke's situation to M.
+d'Escars, who was in the immediate service of Louis XVIII.; for
+M. d'Escars I had a sort of cipher from Madame de Chimay, to
+authenticate my account.
+
+
+                             DELAY AT DUNKIRK.
+
+Our journey--Alexander's and mine--from Paris to Dunkirk was sad,
+from the cruel separation which it exacted, and the fearful
+uncertainty of impending events ; though I was animated at times
+into the liveliest sensations, in the prospect of again beholding
+my father, my friends, and my country. General d'Arblay, through
+his assiduous researches, aided by those of M. de Boinville and
+some others, found that a vessel was preparing to sail from
+Dunkirk to Dover, under
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+
+American colours, and with American passports and licence and,
+after privately landing such of its passengers as meant but to
+cross the channel, to proceed to the western continents. M.
+d'Arblay found, at the same time, six or seven persons of his
+acquaintance who were to embark in this vessel.
+
+We all met, and severally visited at Dunkirk, where I was
+compelled, through the mismanagement and misconduct of the
+captain of the vessel, to spend the most painfully wearisome six
+weeks of my life, for they kept me alike from all that was
+dearest to me, either in France or in England, save my Alexander.
+I was twenty times on the point of returning to Paris; but
+whenever I made known that design, the captain promised to sail
+the next morning.  The truth is, he postponed the voyage from day
+to day and from week to week, in the hope of obtaining more
+passengers ; and, as the clandestine visit he meant to make. to
+Dover, in his way to America, was whispered about, reinforcements
+very frequently encouraged his cupidity.
+
+The ennui of having no positive occupation was now, for the first
+time, known to me; for though the first object of my active cares
+was with me, it was not as if that object had been a daughter,
+and always at my side ; it was a youth of seventeen, who, with my
+free consent, sought whatever entertainment the place could
+afford, to while away fatigue. He ran, therefore, wildly about at
+his pleasure, to the quay, the dockyard, the sea, the suburbs,
+the surrounding country - but chiefly, his time was spent in
+skipping to the " Mary Ann," our destined vessel, and seeing its
+preparations for departure. To stroll about the town, to call
+upon my fellow-sufferers, to visit the principal shops, and to
+talk with the good Dutch people while I made slight purchases,
+was all I could devise to do that required action.
+
+
+THE MS. OF "THE WANDERER."
+
+When I found our stay indefinitely protracted, it occurred to me
+that if I had the papers of a work which I had then in hand, they
+might afford me an occupation to while away my truly vapid and
+uninteresting leisure.  I wrote this idea to my partner in all--
+as M. de Talleyrand had called M. d'Arblay; and, with a spirit
+that was always in its first youth where any service was to be
+performed, he waited on M. de Saulnier at the police office, and
+made a request that my manuscripts
+Page 256
+
+might be sent after me, with a permission that I might also be
+allowed to carry them with me on board the ship. He durst not say
+to England, whither no vessel was supposed to sail; but he would
+not, to M. de Saulnier, who palpably connived at my plan and
+purpose, say America. M. de Saulnier made many inquiries relative
+to these papers; but on being assured, upon honour, that the work
+had nothing in it political, nor even national, nor possibly
+offensive to the government, he took the single word of M.
+d'Arblay, whose noble countenance and dauntless openness of
+manner were guarantees of sincerity that wanted neither seals nor
+bonds, and invested him with the power to send me what papers be
+pleased, without demanding to examine, or even to see them -a
+trust so confiding and so generous, that I have regretted a
+thousand times the want of means to acknowledge it according to
+its merit.
+
+This work was "The Wanderer, or Female Difficulties," of which
+nearly three volumes were finished.  They arrived, nevertheless,
+vainly for any purpose at Dunkirk; the disturbance of my
+suspensive -state incapacitating me for any composition, save of
+letters to my best friend, to whom I wrote, or dictated by
+Alexander, every day; and every day was only supported by the
+same kind diurnal return. But when, at length, we were summoned
+to the vessel, and our goods and chattels were conveyed to the
+custom-house, and when the little portmanteau was produced, and
+found to be filled with manuscripts, the police officer who
+opened it began a rant of indignation and amazement at a sight so
+unexpected and prohibited, that made him incapable to inquire or
+to hear the meaning of such a freight.  He sputtered at the
+mouth, and stamped with his feet, so forcibly and vociferously,
+that no endeavours of mine could induce him to stop his
+accusations of traitorous designs, till, tired of the attempt, I
+ceased both explanation and entreaty, and stood before him with
+calm taciturnity.  Wanting, then, the fresh fuel of interruption
+or opposition, his fire and fury evaporated into curiosity to
+know what I could offer.  Yet even then, though my account
+staggered his violence into some degree of civility, he evidently
+deemed it, from its very nature, incredible ; and this fourth
+child of my brain had undoubtedly been destroyed ere it was born,
+had I not had recourse to an English merchant, Mr. Gregory, long
+settled at Dunkirk, to whom,
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+
+happily, I had been recommended, as to a person capable, in any
+emergence, to afford me assistance; he undertook the
+responsibility ; and the letter of M. d'Arblay, containing the
+licence of M. de Saulnier, was then all-sufficient for my
+manuscripts and their embarkation.
+
+
+                       SPANISH PRISONERS AT DUNKIRK.
+
+The second event I have to relate I never even yet recollect
+without an inward shuddering. In our walks out of the town, on
+the borders of the ocean, after passing beyond the dockyard or
+wharf, we frequently met a large party of Spanish prisoners, well
+escorted by gendarmes, and either going to their hard destined
+labour, or returning from it for repast or repose.  I felt deeply
+interested by them, knowing they were men with and for whom our
+own English and the immortal Wellington were then fighting : and
+this interest induced me to walk on the bank by which they were
+paraded to and fro, as often as I could engage Alexander, from
+his other pursuits, to accompany me. Their appearance was highly
+in their favour, as well as their situation ; they had a look
+calmly intrepid, of concentrated resentment, yet unalterable
+patience, They were mostly strong-built and vigorous; of solemn,
+almost stately deportment, and with fine dark eyes, full of
+meaning, rolling around them as if in watchful expectation of
+insult; and in a short time they certainly caught from my
+countenance an air of sympathy, for they gave me, in return, as
+we passed one another, a glance that spoke grateful
+consciousness.  I followed them to the place of their labour ;
+though my short-sightedness would not let me distinguish what
+they were about, whether mending fortifications, dykes, banks,
+parapets, or what not: and I durst not use my glass, lest I
+should be suspected as a spy.  We only strolled about in their
+vicinity, as if merely visiting and viewing the sea.
+
+The weather -it was now August-was so intensely hot, the place
+was so completely without shade, and their work was so violent,
+that they changed hands every two hours, and those who were sent
+off to recruit were allowed to cast themselves upon the burnt and
+straw-like grass, to await their alternate summons.  This they
+did in small groups, but without venturing to solace their rest
+by any species of social intercourse. They were as taciturn with
+one another as with their keepers and taskmasters.
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+
+One among them there was who wore an air of superiority, ,grave
+and composed, yet decided, to which they all appeared to bow down
+with willing subserviency, though the distinction was only
+demonstrated by an air of profound respect whenever they
+approached or passed him, for discourse held they none. One
+morning, when I observed him seated at a greater distance than
+usual from his overseers, during his hour of release, I turned
+suddenly from my walk as if with a view to bend my way homewards,
+but contrived, while talking with Alexander and looking another
+way, to slant my steps close to where he sat surrounded by his
+mute adherents, and to drop a handful of small coin nearly under
+the elbow upon which, wearily, lie was reclining.  We proceeded
+with alertness, and talking together aloud; but Alexander
+perceived this apparent chief evidently moved by what I had done,
+though forbearing to touch the little offering, which, however,
+his companions immediately secured.
+
+After this I never met him that he did not make me a slight but
+expressive bow.  This encouraged me to repeat the poor little
+tribute of compassion, which I soon found he distributed, as far
+as it would go, to the whole set, by the kindly looks with which
+every one thenceforward greeted me upon every meeting. Yet he
+whom we supposed to be some chief, and who palpably discovered it
+was himself I meant to distinguish, never touched the money, nor
+examined what was taken up by the others, who, on their part,
+nevertheless seemed but to take charge of it in trust. We were
+now such good friends, that this became more than ever my
+favourite walk and these poor unhappy captives never saw me
+without brightening up into a vivacity of pleasure that was to me
+a real exhilaration.
+
+We had been at Dunkirk above five weeks, when one evening, having
+a letter of consequence to send to Paris, I begged Alexander to
+carry it to the post himself, and to deposit me upon the quay,
+and there to join me.  As the weather was very fine I stood near
+the sea, wistfully regarding the element on which depended all my
+present hopes and views. But presently my meditations were
+interrupted, and my thoughts diverted from mere self by the
+sudden entrance, in a large body, of my friends the Spanish
+prisoners, who all bore down to the very place where I was
+stationed, evidently recognising me, and eagerly showing that it
+was not without extreme satisfaction.  I saw their approach, in
+return, with lively
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+
+pleasure, for, the quay being, I suppose, a place of certain
+security, they were unencumbered by their usual turnkeys, the
+gendarmes, and this freedom, joined to their surprise at my
+sight, put them also off their guard, and they flocked round
+though not near me, and hailed me with smiles, bows, and hands
+put upon their breasts.  I now took courage to speak to them,
+partly in French, partly in English, for I found they understood
+a little of both those languages.  I inquired whence they came,
+and whether they knew General Wellington. They smiled and nodded
+at his name, and expressed infinite delight in finding I was
+English ; but though they all, by their head movements, entered
+into discourse, my friend the chief was the only one who
+attempted to answer me.
+
+When I first went to France, being continually embarrassed for
+terms, I used constantly to apply to M. d'Arblay for aid, till
+Madame de Tess‚ charged him to be quiet, saying that my looks
+filled up what my words left short, "de sorte que," she added,
+"nous la devinons;"(217)  this was the case between my Spaniards
+and myself, and we -devin-d one another so much to our mutual
+satisfaction, that while this was the converse the most to my
+taste of any I had had at Dunkirk, it was also, probably, most to
+theirs of any that had fallen to their lot since they had been
+torn from their native country.
+
+
+                    SURPRISED BY AN OFFICER OF POLICE.
+
+While this was going on I was privately drawing from my purse all
+that it contained of small money to distribute to my new friends
+- but at this same moment a sudden change in the countenance of
+the chief from looks of grateful feeling, to an expression of
+austerity, checked my purpose, and, sorry and alarmed lest he had
+taken offence, I hastily drew my empty hand from my reticule. I
+then saw that the change of expression was not simply to
+austerity from pleasure, but to consternation from serenity - and
+I perceived that it was not to me the altered visage was
+directed; the eye pointed beyond me, and over my head
+startled, I turned round, and what, then, was my own
+consternation when I beheld an officer of the police, in full
+gold trappings, furiously darting forward from a small house at
+the entrance upon the quay, which I afterwards learnt was his
+official dwelling.  When he came within two yards of us he stood
+still, mute and erect ; but with an air of menace, his eyes
+scowling first upon the chief,
+
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+
+then upon me, then upon the whole group, and then upon me again,
+with looks that seemed diving into some conspiracy.
+
+My alarm was extreme - my imprudence in conversing with these
+unhappy captives struck me at once with foreboding terror of ill
+consequences. I had, however, sufficient presence of mind to meet
+the eyes of my antagonist with a look that showed surprise,
+rather than apprehension at his wrath.
+
+This was not without some effect. Accustomed, probably, to
+scrutinize and to penetrate into secret plots, he might be an
+adept in distinguishing the fear of ill-treatment from the fear
+of detection. The latter I could certainly not manifest, as my
+compassion had shown no outward mark beyond a little charity -
+but the former I tried, vainly, perhaps, to subdue : for I well
+knew that pity towards a Spaniard would be deemed suspicious, at
+least, if not culpable.
+
+We were all silent, and all motionless ; but when the man, having
+fixed upon me his eyes with intention to petrify me, saw that I
+fixed him in return with an open though probably not very
+composed face, he-spoke, and with a voice of thunder,
+vociferating reproach, accusation, and condemnation all in one.
+His words I could not distinguish; they were so confused and
+rapid from rage.
+
+This violence, though it secretly affrighted me, I tried to meet
+with simple astonishment, making no sort of answer or
+interruption to his invectives.  When he observed my steadiness,
+and that he excited none of the humiliation of discovered guilt,
+he stopped short and, after a pause, gruffly said,--
+
+"Qui ˆtes-vous?"
+
+"Je me nomme d'Arblay."
+
+"Etes-vous mari‚e?"
+
+"Oui."
+
+"O– est votre mari?"
+
+"A Paris."
+
+"Qui est-il?"
+
+"Il travaille aux Bureaux de l'Int‚rieur."
+
+"Pourquoi le quittez-vous?"(218)
+
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+
+I was here sensibly embarrassed. I durst not avow I was
+going to England ; I could not assert I was really going to
+America.  I hesitated, and the sight of his eyes brightening up
+with the hope of mischief, abated my firmness ; and, while he
+seemed to be staring me through, I gave an account, very
+imperfect, indeed, and far from clear, though true, that I came
+to Dunkirk to embark on board the "Mary Ann" vessel.
+
+"Ah ha!" exclaimed he, "vous ˆtes Anglaise?"(219)
+
+Then, tossing back his head with an air of triumphant victory,
+"suivez-moi!"(220) he added, and walked away, fast and fierce,
+but looking back every minute to see that I followed.
+
+
+                    INTERROGATED AT THE POLICE OFFICE.
+
+Never can I forget the terror with which I was seized at this
+command; it could only be equalled by the evident consternation
+and sorrow that struck me, as I turned my head around to see
+where I was, in my poor chief and his group. Follow I did, though
+not less per force than if I had been dragged by chains. When I
+saw him arrive at the gate of the little dwelling I have
+mentioned, which I now perceived to belong to him officially, I
+impulsively, involuntarily stopped. To enter a police office, to
+be probably charged with planning some conspiracy with the
+enemies of the state, my poor Alexander away, and not knowing
+what must have become of me; my breath was gone; my power of
+movement ceased; my head, or understanding, seemed a chaos,
+bereft of every distinct or discriminating idea; and my feet, as
+if those of a statue, felt riveted to the ground, from a vague
+but overwhelming belief I was destined to incarceration in some
+dungeon, where I might sink ere I could make known my situation
+to my friends, while Alex, thus unaccountably abandoned, might be
+driven to despair, or become the prey to nameless mischiefs.
+
+Again the tiger vociferated a "suivez-moi!" but finding it no
+longer obeyed, he turned full round as he stood upon ]its
+threshold, and perceiving my motionless and speechless dismay,
+looked at me for two or three seconds in scornful, but
+investigating taciturnity. Then, putting his arms a-kimbo, he
+said, in lower, but more, taunting accents, "Vous ne le jugez
+donc pas … propos de me suivre?" (221)
+
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+
+This was followed by a sneering, sardonic grin that seemed
+anticipating the enjoyment of using compulsion. On, therefore, I
+again forced myself, and with tolerable composure I said, "Je
+n'ai rien, monsieur, je crois,… faire ici?"(222)
+
+"Nous verrons!"(223) he answered, bluffly, and led the way into a
+small hovel rather than parlour - and then haughtily seated
+himself at a table, on which were pen, ink, and paper, and, while
+I stood before him, began an interrogation, with the decided
+asperity of examining a detected criminal, of whom he was to draw
+up the proces verbal.
+
+When I perceived this, my every fear, feeling, nay, thought,
+concentrated in Alexander, to whom I had determined not to
+allude, while I had any hope of self-escape, to avoid for us both
+the greatest of all perils, that of an accusation of intending to
+evade the ensuing conscription, for which, though Alex was yet
+too young, he was fast advancing to be amenable.
+
+But now that I was enclosed from his sight, and there was danger
+every moment of his suddenly missing me, I felt that our only
+chance of safety must lie in my naming him before he should
+return.  With all the composure, therefore, that I could assume,
+I said that I was come to Dunkirk with my son to embark in the
+"Mary Ann," an American vessel, with a passport from M. de
+Saulnier, secretary to the Duke de Rovigo, minister of police.
+
+And what had I done with this son?
+
+I had sent him to the post-office with a letter for his father.
+
+At that instant I perceived Alexander wildly running past the
+window.
+
+This moment was critical.  I instantly cried, "Sir, there is my
+son!"
+
+The man rose, and went to the door, calling Out, "Jeune
+homme!"(224)
+
+Alex approached, and was questioned, and though much amazed, gave
+answers perfectly agreeing with mine.
+
+I now recovered my poor affrighted faculties, and calmly said
+that if he had any doubt of our veracity, I begged he would send
+for Mr. Gregory, who knew us well. This, a second time, was a
+most happy reference.  Mr. Gregory was of the highest
+respectability, and he was near at hand.  There could be no doubt
+of the authenticity f such an appeal.
+
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+
+The brow of my ferocious assailant was presently unbent. I seized
+the favourable omen to assure him, with apparent indifference,
+that I had no objection to being accompanied or preceded to the
+Hotel Sauvage, where I resided, nor to giving him the key of my
+portmanteau and portfolio, if it were possible I had excited any
+suspicion by merely speaking, from curiosity, to the Spanish
+prisoners.
+
+No, he answered, he would not disturb me; and then, having
+entered the name of Alexander by the side of mine, he let us
+depart.  Speechless was my joy, and speechless was the surprise
+of Alexander, and we walked home in utter silence.  Happily, this
+incident occurred but just before we set sail, for with it
+terminated my greatest solace at Dunkirk, the seeing and
+consoling those unhappy prisoners, and the regale of wandering by
+the sea-coast.
+
+
+                     THE "MARY ANN" CAPTURED OFF DEAL.
+
+Six weeks completely we consumed in wasteful weariness at
+Dunkirk; and our passage, when at last we set sail, was equally,
+in its proportion, toilsome and tedious.  Involved in a sickening
+calm, we could make no way, but lingered two days and two nights
+in this long-short passage.  The second night, indeed, might have
+been spared me, as it was spared to all my fellow voyagers. But
+when we cast anchor, I was so exhausted by the unremitting
+sufferings I had endured, that I was literally unable to rise
+from my hammock.
+
+Yet was there a circumstance capable to have aroused me from any
+torpidity, save the demolishing ravage of sea-sickness for
+scarcely were we at anchor, when Alex, capering up to the deck,
+descended with yet more velocity than he had mounted to exclaim,
+"Oh, maman! there are two British officers now upon deck."  But,
+finding that even this could not make me recover speech or
+motion, he ran back again to this new and delighting sight, and
+again returning 'cried out in a tone of rapture, "Maman, we are
+taken by the British! We are all captured by British officers!"
+
+Even in my immovable, and nearly insensible state, this juvenile
+ardour, excited by so new and strange an adventure, afforded me
+some amusement.  It did not, however, afford me strength, for I
+could not rise, though I heard that every other passenger was
+removed.  With difficulty, even next morning, I crawled upon the
+deck, and there I had been but a short time,
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+
+when Lieutenant Harford came on board to take possession of the
+vessel, not as French, but American booty, war having been
+declared against America the preceding week. Mr. Harford, hearing
+my name, most courteously  addressed me, with congratulations
+upon my safe arrival in England. These were words to rewaken all
+the happiest purposes of my expedition, and they recovered me
+from the nerveless, sinking state into which my exhaustion had
+cast me, as if by a miracle.  My father, my brothers, my sisters,
+and all my heart-dear friends, seemed rising to my view and
+springing to my embraces, with all the joy of renovating reunion.
+I thankfully accepted his obliging offer to carry me on shore in
+his own boat; but when I turned round, and called upon Alexander
+to follow us, Mr. Harford, assuming a commanding air, said, "No,
+madam, I cannot take that young man. No French person can come
+into my boat without a passport and permission from government."
+My air now a little corresponded with his own, as I answered, "He
+was born, Sir, in England!"
+
+"Oh!" cried he, " "that's quite another matter; come along, Sir!
+we'll all go together."
+
+I now found we were rowing to Deal, not Dover, to which town we
+had been destined by our engagement: but we had been captured, it
+seems, chemin fuisant, though so gently, and with such utter
+helplessness of opposition, that I had become a prisoner without
+any suspicion of my captivity.
+
+
+                        JOY ON ARRIVING IN ENGLAND.
+
+We had anchored about half a mile, I imagine, from the shore ;
+which I no sooner touched than, drawing away my arm from Mr.
+Harford, I took up on one knee, with irrepressible transport, the
+nearest bright pebble, to press to my lips in grateful joy at
+touching again the land of my nativity, after an absence, nearly
+hopeless, of more than twelve years.
+
+Of the happiness that ensued--my being again in the arms of my
+dearly loved father-in those of my dear surviving sisters--my
+brothers--my friends, some faint details yet remain in a few
+letters to my heart's confidant that he preserved: but they are
+truly faint, for my satisfaction was always damped in recording
+it to him who SO fondly wished to partake of it, and whose
+absence from that participation always rendered it incomplete.
+
+And, on one great source of renovated felicity, I did not
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+
+dare touch even by inference, even by allusion--that of finding
+my gracious royal mistress and her august daughters as cordial in
+their welcome, as trustingly confidential, and as amiably
+condescending, I had almost said affectionate, as if I had never
+departed from the royal roof under which, for five years, I had
+enjoyed their favour.  To have spoken of the royal family in
+letters sent to France under the reign of Bonaparte, might have
+brought destruction on him for whom I would a thousand times
+sooner have suffered it myself.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Mrs. Broome.)(225)
+Aug. 15, 1812.
+In a flutter of joy such as my tender Charlotte will feel in
+reading this, I write to her from England!  I can hardly believe
+it; I look around me in constant inquiry and doubt I speak French
+to every soul, and I whisper still if I utter a word that
+breathes private opinion. . . .
+
+We set off for Canterbury, where we slept, and on the 20th(226)
+proceeded towards Chelsea. While, upon some common, we stopped to
+water the horses, a gentleman on horseback passed us twice, and
+then, looking in, pronounced my name - and I saw it was Charles,
+dear Charles! who had been watching for us several hours and
+three nights following, through a mistake. Thence we proceeded to
+Chelsea, where we arrived at nine o'clock at night.  I was in a
+state almost breathless.  I could only demand to see my dear
+father alone: fortunately, he had had the same feeling, and had
+charged all the family to stay away, and all the world to be
+denied. I found him, therefore, in his library, by himself-but
+oh! my dearest, very much altered indeed--weak, weak and changed-
+-his head almost always hanging down, and his hearing most
+cruelly impaired. I was terribly affected, but most grateful to
+God for my arrival.  Our meeting, you may be sure, was very
+tender, though I roused myself as quickly as possible to be gay
+and cheering. He was extremely kind to Alex, and said, in a tone
+the most impressive, "I should have been very glad to have seen
+M. d'Arblay!"  In discourse, however, he reanimated, and was, at
+times, all himself. But he now admits scarcely a creature but of
+his family, and will only see for a short time even his children.
+He likes quietly reading, and lies
+
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+
+almost constantly upon the sofa, and will never eat but alone.
+What a change!
+
+
+                   YOUNG D'ARBLAY SECURES A SCHOLARSHIP.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Dr. Burney.)
+March 16, 1813.
+How will my kindest father rejoice for me! for my dear partner--
+for my boy!  The election is gained, and Alexander has obtained
+the Tancred scholarship.  He had all the votes: the opponent
+retired.  Sir D-- behaved handsomely, came forward, and
+speechified for us. Sir Francis Milman, who was chairman, led the
+way in the harangue.  Dr. Davy, our supporter, leader, inspirer,
+director, heart and head, patron and guide, spoke also.  Mr H--
+spoke, too; but nothing, they tell me, to our purpose, nor yet
+against it.  He gave a very long and elaborate history of a cause
+which he is to plead in the House of Lords, and which has not the
+smallest reference whatsoever to the case in point.  Dr. Davy
+told me, in recounting it, that he is convinced the good and wary
+lawyer thought this an opportunity not to be lost for rehearsing
+his cause, which would prevent loss of time to himself, or
+hindrance of business, except to his hearers : however, he gave
+us his vote. 'Tis a most glorious affair.
+
+
+                     THE QUEEN ALARMED BY A MAD WOMAN.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Dr. Burney.)
+May 11, 1813.
+My own inclination and intention kept in mind your charge, , my
+dearest sir, that as soon as I was able I would wait upon Lady
+Crewe;(227) fortunately, I found her at home, and in her best
+style, cordial as well as good-humoured, and abounding in acute
+and odd remarks.  I had also the good fortune to see my lord, who
+seems always pleasing, unaffected, and sensible, and to possess a
+share of innate modesty that no intercourse with the world, nor
+addition of years, can rob him of. I was much satisfied with my
+visit - but what I shall do for time, now once I have been
+launched from my couch, or sick chamber, I wot not.
+
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+
+What a terrible alarm is this which the poor tormented
+queen has again received!(228) I wrote my concern as soon as I
+heard of it, though I have not yet seen the printed account, my
+packet of papers reaching only to the very day before that event.
+My answer has been a most gracious summons to the Queen's house
+for to-morrow. Her majesty and two of the princesses come to town
+for four days. This robs me of my Chelsea visit for this week, as
+I keep always within call during the town residences, when I have
+royal notice of them, and, indeed, there is nothing I desire more
+than to see her majesty at this moment, and to be allowed to
+express what I have felt for her. My letter from Madame
+Beckersdorff says that such an alarm would have been frightful
+for anybody, but how much more peculiarly so for the queen, who
+has experienced such poignant horror from the effects of
+disordered intellects! who is always suffering from them, and so
+nearly a victim to the unremitting exercise of her duties upon
+that subject and these calls.
+
+I have had a visit this morning from Mrs. Piozzi, who is in town
+only for a few days upon business. She came while I was out - but
+I must undoubtedly make a second tour, after my royal four days
+are passed, in order to wait upon and thank her.
+
+I have been received more graciously than ever, if that be
+possible, by my dear and honoured queen and sweet Princesses
+Eliza and Mary. The queen has borne this alarm astonishingly,
+considering how great was the shock at the moment; but she has so
+high a character, that she will not suffer anything personal to
+sink her spirits, which she saves wholly for the calls upon them
+of others, and great and terrible have been those calls.  The
+beloved king is in the best state possible for his present
+melancholy situation; that is, wholly free from real bodily
+suffering, or imaginary mental misery, for he is persuaded that
+he is always conversing with angels.
+
+
+        WEATHER COMPLAINTS.  PROPOSED MEETING WITH LORD
+LANSDOWNE.
+(Madame d'Arblay to Dr. Burney.)
+Chenies-street, Alfred-place, May 23, 1813.
+Oh, how teased I am, my dearest padre, by this eternal unwalkable
+weather! Every morning rises so fairly, that at every noon I am
+preparing to quit my conjuring, and repair,
+
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+
+by your kind invitation, to prelude my promised chat by a repast
+with Sarah - when mizzling falls the rain, or hard raps the hail,
+and the day, for me, is involved in damps and dangers that fix me
+again to my dry, but solitary conjurations. I am so tired now of
+disappointments, that I must talk a little with my padre in their
+defiance, and in a manner now, thank God! out of their reach. Ah,
+how long will letters be any safer than meetings! The little
+world I see all give me hope and comfort from the posture of
+affairs but I am too deeply interested to dare be sanguine while
+in such suspense.
+
+Lady Crewe invited me to her party that she calls Noah's ark; but
+I cannot yet risk an evening, and a dressed one too. She then
+said she would make me a small party with the Miss Berrys, and
+for a morning; and now she has written to Charles to make
+interest with me to admit Lord Lansdowne, at his own earnest
+request!  I am quite non compos to know how I shall make my way
+through these honours, to my strength and re-establishment, for
+they clash with my private plan and adopted system of quiet.
+However, she says the meeting shall be in the country, at
+Brompton, and without fuss or ceremony.  Her kindness is
+inexpressible, therefore I have not courage to refuse her.  She
+has offered me her little residence at Brompton for my dwelling
+for a week or so, to restore me from all my influenzas : she may
+truly be called a faithful family friend. I hope dear Sarah and
+Fanny Raper will be of the party.  If they are, charge them, dear
+sir, to let me hear their voices, for I shall never find out
+their faces.
+
+What weather! what weather! when shall I get to Chelsea, and
+embrace again my beloved father?
+
+This free-born weather of our sea-girt isle of liberty is very
+incommodious to those who have neither carriages for wet feet,
+nor health for damp shoulders.  If the farmers, however, are
+contented, I must be patient. We may quarrel with all our wishes
+better than with our corn.
+
+Adieu, my most dear father, till the sun shines drier.
+
+
+
+         A YOUNG GIRL'S ENTRY TO LONDON SOCIETY. MADAME DE STAEL.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to a friend.)
+London, August 20, 1813-
+. . .Your charming girl, by what I can gather, has seen, upon the
+whole, a great deal of this vast town and its
+
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+
+splendours,--a little more might, perhaps, have been better, in
+making her, with a mind such as hers, regret it a little less.
+Merit of her sort can here be known with difficulty.  Dissipation
+is so hurried, so always in a bustle, that even amusement must be
+prominent, to be enjoyed. There is no time for development;
+nothing, therefore, is seen but what is conspicuous; and not much
+is heard but what is obstreperous. They who, in a short time, can
+make themselves known and admired now in London, must have their
+cupids, in Earl Dorset's phrase--
+
+Like blackguard boys,
+Who thrust their links full in your face.
+
+I had very much matter that I meant and wished to say to you upon
+this subject; but in brief--I do not myself think it a misfortune
+that your dear girl cannot move in a London round, away from your
+own wing: you have brought her up so well, and she seems so good,
+gentle, and contented, as well as accomplished, that I cannot
+wish her drawn into a vortex where she may be imbued with other
+ideas, views, and wishes than those that now constitute her
+happiness--and happiness! what ought to be held more sacred where
+it is innocent--what ought so little to risk any unnecessary or
+premature concussion? With all the deficiencies and imperfections
+of her present situation, which you bewail but which she does not
+find out, it is, alas! a million to one whether, even in
+attaining the advantages and society you wish for her, she will
+ever again, after any change, be as happy as she is at this
+moment. A mother whom she looks up to and doats upon--a sister
+whom she so fondly loves--how shall they be replaced?  The
+chances are all against her (though the world has, I know, such
+replacers), from their rarity.
+
+I am truly glad you had a gratification you so earnestly coveted,
+that of seeing Madame de Stael: your account of her was extremely
+interesting to me. As to myself, I have not seen her at all.
+Various causes have kept me in utter retirement; and, in truth,
+with respect to Madame de Stael, my situation is really
+embarrassing.  It is too long and difficult to write upon, nor do
+I recollect whether I ever communicated to you our original
+acquaintance, which, at first, was intimate.  I shall always,
+internally, be grateful for the partiality with which she sought
+me out upon her arrival in this country before my- marriage: and
+still, and far more, if she can forgive my dropping her, which I
+could not help
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+
+for none of my friends, at that time, would suffer me to keep up
+the intercourse!  I had messages, remonstrances, entreaties,
+representations, letters, and conferences, till I could resist no
+longer; though I had found her so charming, that I fought the
+hardest battle I dared fight against almost all my best
+connections. She is now received by all mankind;--but that,
+indeed, she always was--all womankind, I should say--with
+distinction and pleasure.  I wish much to see her "Essay on
+Suicide;" but it has not yet fallen in my way. When will the work
+come out for which she was, she says, chass‚e de la France?(229)
+Where did --- hear her a whole evening?  She is, indeed, most
+uncommonly entertaining, and animating as well as animated,
+almost beyond anybody, "Les M‚moires de Madame de Stael" I have
+read long ago, and with singular interest and eagerness.  They
+are so attaching, so evidently original and natural, that they
+stand very high, indeed, in reading that has given me most
+pleasure.  My boy has just left me for Greenwich.(230)  He goes
+in October to Cambridge; I wish to install him there myself.  My
+last letter from Paris gives me to the end of October to stay in
+England.
+
+
+                             ROGERS THE POET.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Dr. Burney.)
+August 24, 1813.
+.....I was delighted by meeting Lady Wellington, not long since,
+at Lady Templetown's.  Her very name electrified me with emotion.
+I dined at Mr. Rogers's, at his beautiful mansion in the Green
+Park, to meet Lady Crewe; and Mrs. Barbauld was also there, whom
+I had not seen many, many years, and alas, should not have known!
+Mr. Rogers was so considerate to my sauvagerie as to have no
+party, though Mr. Sheridan, he said, had expressed his great
+desire to meet again his old friend Madame d'Arblay!  Lady Crewe
+told me she certainly would not leave town without seeking
+
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+
+another chattery with her old friend, Dr. Burney, whom she always
+saw with fresh pleasure.
+
+
+                      INTERVIEW WITH MR. WILBERFORCE.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Dr. Burney.)
+Sandgate, Sept., 1813.
+Let me steal a moment to relate a singular gratification, and, in
+truth, a real and great honour I have had to rejoice in. You
+know, my padre, probably, that Marianne Francis was commissioned
+by Mr. Wilberforce(231) to bring about an acquaintance with your
+F. d'A., and that, though highly susceptible to such a desire, my
+usual shyness, or rather consciousness of inability to meet the
+expectations that must have made him seek me, induced my
+declining an interview. Eh bien--at church at Sandgate, the day
+after my arrival, I saw this justly celebrated man, and was
+introduced to him in the churchyard, after the service, by
+Charles.  The ramparts and martellos around us became naturally
+our theme, and Mr. Wilberforce proposed showing them to me. I
+readily accepted the offer, and Charles and Sarah, and Mrs.
+Wilberforce and Mrs. Barrett, went away in their several
+carriages, while Mr. Barrett alone remained, and Mr. Wilberforce
+gave me his arm, and, in short, we walked the round from one to
+five o'clock!  Four hours' of the best conversation I have,
+nearly, ever enjoyed.  He was anxious for a full and true account
+of Paris, and particularly of religion and infidelity, and of
+Bonaparte and the wars, and of all and everything that had
+occurred during my ten years' seclusion in France; and I had so
+much to communicate, and his drawing out and comments and
+episodes were all so judicious, so spirited, so full of
+information yet so unassuming, that my shyness all flew away and
+I felt to be his confidential friend, opening to him upon every
+occurrence and every sentiment, with the frankness that is
+usually won by years of intercourse.  I was really and truly
+delighted and enlightened by him; I desire nothing more
+
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+
+than to renew the acquaintance, and cultivate it to intimacy.
+But, alas! he was going away next morning.
+
+
+                  INTENDED PUBLICATION OF "THE WANDERER."
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Dr. Burney.)
+Richmond Hill, Oct. 12, 1813.
+My most dear padre will, I am sure, congratulate me that I have
+just had the heartfelt delight of a few lines from M. d'Arblay,
+dated September 5th.  I had not had any news since the 17th of
+August, and I had the melancholy apprehension upon my spirits
+that no more letters would be allowed to pass till the campaign
+was over.  It has been therefore one of the most welcome
+surprises I ever experienced. He tells me, also, that he is
+perfectly well, and quite acabl‚ with business.  This, for the
+instant, gives me nothing but joy; for, were he not essentially
+necessary in some department of civil labour and use, he would
+surely be included in some lev‚e en masse.  Every way, therefore,
+this letter gives me relief and pleasure.
+
+I have had, also, this morning, the great comfort to hear that my
+Alexander is " stout and well at Cambridge, where his kind uncle
+Charles still remains.
+
+I am indescribably occupied, and have been so ever since my
+return from Ramsgate, in giving more and more last touches to my
+work, about which I begin to grow very, anxious.  I am to receive
+merely 500 pounds upon delivery of the MS.  the two following 500
+by instalments from nine months to nine months, that is, in a
+year and a half from the day of publication. If all goes well,
+the whole will be 3000, but only at the end of the sale of eight
+thousand copies. Oh, my padre, if you approve the work, I shall
+have good hope.
+
+
+                   GENERAL D'ARBLAY'S WOUNDED COMRADES.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Mrs. Locke.)
+Dec. 16, 1813.
+Ah, my dearest friend, how is my poor cottage-how are my proofs--
+how is everything forced from my mind, except what necessity
+drives there, by this cruel stroke to my suffering partner! The
+world had power only in two instances to have given him quite so
+deadly a blow, dear to his heart of love as
+Page 273
+
+are some, nay, many others; but here--for M. de Narbonne, it was
+a passion of admiration, joined to a fondness of friendship, that
+were a part of himself.(232)  How he will bear it, and in our
+absence, perpetually occupies my thoughts.  And I have no means
+to hear from, or to write to him!--none, absolutely none!
+
+just before this wound was inflicted, I was already overwhelmed
+with grief for my poor Madame de Maisonneuve, A for M. d'Arblay
+himself, and for my own personal loss, in the death--premature
+and dreadful, nay, inhuman--of the noble, perfect brother of that
+Madame de Maisonneuve; General Latour Maubourg, a man who, like
+my own best friend was--is signalized among his comrades by the
+term of a vrai Chevalier Fran‡ais.  He was without a blot; and
+his life has been thrown away merely to prevent his being made a
+prisoner! He had received a horrible wound on the first of the
+tremendous battles of Leipzic, and on the second he suffered
+amputation; and immediately after was carried away to follow the
+retreating army! In such a condition, who can wonder to hear
+that, a very few miles from Leipzic, he expired?(233)
+
+
+                           DEATH OF DR. BURNEY.
+
+[In the beginning of the year 1814, Madame d'Arblay published her
+fourth work, "The Wanderer," and nearly at the same time peace
+was declared between France and England. Her satisfaction at an
+event so long wished for, was deeply saddened by the death of her
+father, Dr. Burney; whom she nursed and attended to the last
+moment with dutiful tenderness.
+
+Soon after the Restoration of the French royal family, Monsieur
+d'Arblay was placed by the Duke de Luxembourg in the French "
+gardes du corps."  He obtained leave of absence towards the close
+of the year, and came to England
+
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+
+for a few weeks ; after which Madame d'Arblay returned with him
+to Paris, leaving their son to pursue his studies at Cambridge.]
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Mrs. ----)
+March(234) 19, 1814.
+Be not uneasy for me, nay tender friend: my affliction is heavy,
+but not acute - my beloved father had been spared to us something
+beyond the verge of the prayer for his preservation, which you
+must have read, for already his sufferings had far surpassed his
+enjoyments.  I could not have wished him so to linger, though I
+indulged almost to the last hour a hope he might yet recover, and
+be restored to comfort.  I last of all gave him up, but never
+wished his duration such as I saw him on the last few days. Dear
+blessed parent! how blest am I that I came over to him while he
+was yet susceptible of pleasure--of happiness!  My best comfort
+in my grief, in his loss, is that I watched by his side the last
+night, and hovered over him two hours after he breathed no more;
+for though much suffering had preceded the last hours, they were
+so quiet, and the final exit was so soft, that I had not
+perceived it though I was sitting by his bedside, and would not
+believe when all around announced it.  I forced them to let me
+stay by him, and his revered form became stiff before I could
+persuade myself that he was gone hence for ever.
+
+Yet neither then nor now has there been any violence, anything to
+fear from my grief; his loss was too indubitably to be expected,
+he had been granted too long to our indulgence to allow any
+species of repining to mingle with my sorrow; and it is repining
+that makes sorrow too hard to bear with resignation.  Oh, I have
+known it!
+
+
+
+                      FAVOURABLE NEWS OF M. D'ARBLAY.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Mrs. Locke.)
+April 3, 1814.
+I hasten to impart to my kind and sympathising friend that I
+received-last night good tidings of my best friend of friends;
+they have been communicated to me, oddly enough, through the
+Alien office!  Mr. Reeves wrote them to my
+
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+
+reverend brother,(235) by the desire of an English lady now
+resident in Paris-Madame Solvyns (wife of a Frenchman), at the
+request of M. d'Arblay; they assure me of his perfect health...
+
+Nothing could be so well timed as this intelligence, for my
+inquietude was beginning to be doubly restless from the accession
+of time that has fallen to me by having got rid of all my proofs,
+etc.  it is only real and indispensable business that can force
+away attention from suspensive uneasiness. Another comfort of the
+very first magnitude, my sweet friend will truly, I know,
+participate in--my Alexander begins to listen to reason. He
+assures me he is now going on with very tolerable regularity; and
+I have given him, for this term, to soberize and methodize him a
+little, a private tutor ; and this tutor has won his heart by
+indulging him in his problem passion. They work together, he
+says, with a rapidity and eagerness that makes the hour of his
+lesson by far the most delightful portion of his day. And this
+tutor, he tells me, most generously gives him problems to work at
+in his absence: a favour for which every pupil, perchance, would
+not be equally grateful, but which Alexander, who loves problems
+algebraic as another boy loves a play or an opera, regards as the
+height of indulgence.
+
+
+                              "THE WANDERER."
+
+[Soon after the publication of " The Wanderer," Madame d'Arblay
+wrote as follows to a friend:--]
+
+I beseech you not to let your too ardent friendship disturb you
+about the reviews and critiques, and I quite supplicate you to
+leave their authors to their own severities or indulgence.  I
+have ever steadily refused all interference with public opinion
+or private criticism. I am told I have been very harshly treated
+; but I attribute it not to what alone would affect me, but which
+I trust I have not excited, personal enmity.  I attribute it to
+the false expectation, universally spread, that the book would be
+a picture of France, as well as to the astonishing ‚clat of a
+work in five volumes being all bespoken before it was published.
+The booksellers, erroneously and injudiciously concluding the
+sale would so go on, fixed the rapacious price of two guineas,
+which again damped the sale. But why say damped, when it is only
+their unreasonable expectations that are disappointed ? for they
+acknowledge that 3600 copies are positively sold and paid for in
+the first half year.  What must I be, if not far more than
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+
+contented?  I have not read or heard one of the criticisms; my
+mind has been wholly occupied by grief for the loss of my dearest
+father, or the inspection of his MSS., and my harassing situation
+relative to my own proceedings.  Why, then, make myself black
+bile to disturb me further? No; I will not look at a word till my
+spirits and time are calmed and quiet, and I can set about
+preparing a corrected edition.  I will then carefully read all -
+and then, the blow to immediate feelings being over, I can
+examine as well as read, impartially and with profit, both to my
+future surveyors and myself.
+
+MADAME D'ARBLAY'S PRESENTATION TO LOUIS XVIII AT GRILLON's HOTEL.
+
+1814.-While I was still under the almost first impression of
+grief for the loss of my dear and honoured father I received a
+letter from Windsor Castle, written by Madame Beckersdorff, at
+the command of her majesty, to desire I would take the necessary
+measures for being presented to son altesse royale Madame
+Duchesse d'Angoulˆme,l who was to have a Drawing-room in London,
+both for French and English, on the day preceding her departure
+for France.  The letter added, that I must waive all objections
+relative to my recent loss, as it would be improper, in the
+present state of things, that the wife of a general officer
+should not be presented; and, moreover, that I should be
+personally expected and well received, as I had been named to son
+altesse royale by the queen herself. In conclusion, I was charged
+not to mention this circumstance, from the applications or
+jealousies it might excite.
+
+To hesitate was out of the question - and to do honour to my
+noble absent partner, and in his name to receive honour, were
+precisely the two distinctions my kind father would most have
+enjoyed for me.
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+
+I had but two or three days for preparation. Lady Crewe
+most amiably came to me herself, and missing me in person, wrote
+me word she would lend me her carriage, to convey me from Chelsea
+to her house in Lower Grosvenor-street, and thence accompany me
+herself to the audience. When the morning arrived I set off with
+tolerable courage.
+
+Arrived, however, at Lady Crewe's, when I entered the room in
+which this dear and attached friend of my father received me, the
+heaviness of his loss proved quite overpowering to my spirits ;
+and in meeting the two hands of my hostess, I burst into tears
+and could not, for some time, listen to the remonstrances against
+unavailing grief with which she rather chid than soothed me.  But
+I could not contest the justice of what she uttered, though my
+grief was too fresh for its observance.  Sorrow, as my dearest
+father was wont to say, requires time, as well as wisdom and
+religion, to digest itself , and till that time is both accorded
+and well employed, the sense of its uselessness serves but to
+augment, not mitigate, its severity.
+
+Lady Crewe purposed taking this opportunity of paying her own
+respects, with her congratulations, to Madame la Duchesse
+d'Angoulˆme.  She had sent me a note from Madame de Gouvello,
+relative to the time, for presentation, which was to take place
+it Grillon's hotel in Albemarle-street.
+
+We went very early, to avoid a crowd. But Albemarle-street was
+already quite full, though quiet.  We entered the hotel without
+difficulty, Lady Crewe having previously demanded a private room
+of Grillon, who had once been cook to her lord.  This private
+room was at the back of the house, with a mere yard or common
+garden for its prospect. , Lady Crewe declared this was quite too
+stupid, and rang the bell for waiter after waiter, till she made
+M. Grillon come himself.  She then, in her singularly open and
+easy manner, told him to be so good as to order us a front room,
+where we might watch for the arrival of the royals, and be amused
+ourselves at the same time by seeing the entrances of the mayor,
+aldermen, and common councilmen, and other odd characters, who
+would be coming to pay their court to these French princes and
+princesses.
+
+M. Grillon gave a nod of acquiescence, and we were instantly
+shown to a front apartment just over the street door, which was
+fortunately supplied with a balcony.
+
+I should have been much entertained by all this, and
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+
+particularly with the originality, good humour, and intrepid yet
+intelligent odd fearlessness of all remark, or even consequence,
+which led Lady Crewe to both say and do exactly what she pleased,
+had my heart been lighter - but it was too heavy for pleasure;
+and the depth of my mourning, and the little, but sad time that
+was yet passed since it had become my gloomy garb, made me hold
+it a matter even of decency, as well as of feeling, to keep out
+of sight. I left Lady Crewe, therefore, to the full enjoyment of
+her odd figures, while I seated myself, solitarily, at the
+further end of the room.
+
+
+                            GRATTAN THE ORATOR.
+
+In an instant, however, she saw from the window some
+acquaintance, and beckoned them up. A gentleman, middle-aged, of
+a most pleasing appearance and address, immediately obeyed her
+summons, accompanied by a young man with a sensible look; and a
+young lady, pretty, gentle, and engaging, with languishing, soft
+eyes; though with a smile and an expression of countenance that
+showed an innate disposition to archness and sport.
+
+This uncommon trio I soon found to consist of the celebrated
+Irish orator, Mr. Grattan,(237) and his son and daughter. Lady
+Crewe welcomed them with all the alertness belonging to her
+thirst for amusement, and her delight in sharing it with those
+she thought capable of its participation.  This she had sought,
+but wholly missed in me; and could neither be angry nor
+disappointed, though she was a little vexed. She suffered me not,
+however, to remain long in my seclusion, but called me to the
+balcony, to witness the jolting out of their carriages of the
+aldermen and common councilmen, exhibiting, as she said, "Their
+fair round bodies with fat capon lined;" and wearing an air of
+proudly hospitable satisfaction, in visiting a king of France who
+had found an asylum in a street of the city of Westminster.
+
+The crowd, however, for they deserve a better name than
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+
+mob, interested my observation still more.  John Bull has seldom
+appeared to me to greater advantage.  I never saw him en masse
+behave with such impulsive propriety.  Enchanted to behold a king
+of France in his capital; conscious that le grand monarque was
+fully in his power; yet honestly enraptured to see that "The king
+would enjoy his own again," and enjoy it through the generous
+efforts of his rival, brave, noble old England; he yet seemed
+aware that it was fitting to subdue all exuberance of pleasure,
+which, else, might annoy, if not alarm, his regal guest.  He took
+care, therefore, that his delight should not amount to
+exultation; it was quiet and placid, though pleased and curious :
+I had almost said it was gentlemanlike.
+
+And nearly of the same colour, though from so inferior an
+incitement, were the looks and attention of the Grattans,
+particularly of the father, to the black mourner whom Lady Crewe
+called amongst them. My garb, or the newspapers, or both,
+explained the dejection I attempted not to repress, though I
+carefully forbade it any vent - and the finely speaking face of
+Mr. Grattan seemed investigating the physiognomy, while it
+commiserated the situation of the person brought thus before him.
+ His air had something foreign in it, from the vivacity that
+accompanied his politeness ; I should have taken him for a
+well-bred man of fashion of France. Good breeding, in England,
+amongst the men, is ordinarily stiff, reserved, or cold.  Among
+the exceptions to this stricture, how high stood Mr. Windham! and
+how high in gaiety with vivacity stood my own honoured father!
+Mr. Locke, who was elegance personified in his manners, was
+lively only in his own domestic or chosen circle.
+
+
+                        A DEMONSTRATIVE IRISH LADY,
+
+A new scene now both astonished and discomposed me. A lady,
+accompanied humbly by a gentleman, burst into the room with a
+noise, a self-sufficiency, and an assuming confidence of
+superiority, that would have proved highly offensive, had it not
+been egregiously ridiculous.  Her attire was as flaunting as her
+air and her manner; she was rouged and beribboned.  But English
+she was not - she was Irish, in its most flaunting and untamed
+nature, and possessed of so boisterous a spirit, that she
+appeared to be just caught from the woods---the bogs, I might
+rather say.
+
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+
+When she had poured forth a volley of words, with a fluency and
+loudness that stunned me, Lady Crewe, with a. smile that seemed
+to denote she intended to give her pleasure, presented me by name
+to Madame la Baronne de M--
+
+She made me a very haughty curtsey, and then, turning rudely
+away, looked reproachfully at Lady Crewe, and screamed out, " Oh,
+fie! fie, fie, fie!"  Lady Crewe, astonished and shocked, seemed
+struck speechless, and I stood still with my eyes wide open, and
+my mouth probably so also, from a sort of stupor, for I could
+annex no meaning nor even any idea to such behaviour. She made
+not, however, any scruple to develop her motives, for she
+vehemently inveighed against being introduced to such an
+acquaintance, squalling out, "She has writ against the ‚migr‚s!-
+-she has writ against the Great Cause! O fie! fie! fie!"
+
+When she had made these exclamations, and uttered these
+accusations, till the indulged vent to her rage began to cool it,
+she stopped of her own accord, and, finding no one spoke, looked
+as if she felt rather silly; while M. le Baron de M--, her very
+humble sposo, shrugged his shoulders. The pause was succeeded by
+an opening harangue from Lady Crewe, begun in a low and gentle
+voice, that seemed desirous to spare me what might appear an
+undue condescension, in taking any pains to clear me from so
+gross an attack. She gave, therefore, nearly in a whisper, a
+short character of me and of my conduct, of which I heard just
+enough to know that such was her theme; and then, more audibly,
+she proceeded to state, that far from writing against the
+emigrants, I had addressed an exhortation to all the ladies of
+Great Britain in their favour.
+
+"Oh, then," cried Madame de M--, "it was somebody else--it was
+somebody else!"
+
+And then she screamed out delightedly, "I'm so glad I spoke out,
+because of this explanation!--I'm so glad! never was so glad!"
+She now jumped about the room, quite crazily, protesting she
+never rejoiced so much at anything she had ever done in her life.
+But when she found her joy, like her assault, was all her own,
+she stopped short, astonished, I suppose, at my insensibility;
+and said to me, "How lucky I spoke out! the luckiest thing in the
+world! I'm so glad!  A'n't you? Because of this ‚claircissement."
+
+"If I had required any ‚claircissement," I drily began.
+
+"O, if it was not you, then," cried she, "'twas Charlotte Smith."
+Page 281
+
+Lady Crewe seemed quite ashamed that such a scene should
+pass where she presided, and Mr. Grattan quietly stole away.
+
+Not quietly, nor yet by stealth, but with evident disappointment
+that her energies were not more admired, Madame la Baronne now
+called upon her attendant sposo, and strode off herself.  I found
+she was a great heiress of Irish extraction and education, and
+that she had bestowed all her wealth upon this emigrant baron,
+who might easily merit it, when, besides his title, he gave her
+his patience and obsequiousness.
+
+
+                 INQUIRIES AFTER THE DUCHESS D'ANGOULEME.
+
+Some other friends of Lady Crewe now found her out, and she made
+eager inquiries amongst them relative to Madame la Duchesse
+d'Angoulˆme, but could gather no tidings. She heard, however,
+that there were great expectations of some arrivals down stairs,
+where two or three rooms were filled with company. She desired
+Mr. Grattan, junior, to descend into this crowd, and to find out
+where the duchess was to be seen, and when, and how.
+
+He obeyed. But, when he returned, what was the provocation of
+Lady Crewe, what my own disappointment, to hear that the duchess
+was not arrived, and was not expected ! She was at the house of
+Monsieur le Comte d'Artois, her father-in-law.
+
+"Then what are we come hither for?" exclaimed her ladyship:
+"expressly to be tired to death for no purpose!  Do pray, at
+least, Mr. Grattan, be so good as to see for my carriage, that we
+may go to the right house."
+
+Mr. Grattan was all compliance, and with a readiness so obliging
+and so well bred that I am sure he is his father's true son in
+manners, though there was no opportunity to discover whether the
+resemblance extended also to genius.  He was not, however,
+cheered when he brought word that neither carriage nor footman
+were to be found.
+
+Lady Crewe then said he must positively go down, and make the Duc
+de Duras tell us what to do. In a few minutes he was with us
+again, shrugging his shoulders at his ill success. The king,
+Louis XVIII.,(238) he said,
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+
+was expected, and M. le Duc was preparing to receive him, and not
+able to speak or listen to any one.
+
+Lady Crewe declared herself delighted by this information,
+because there would be an opportunity for having me presented to
+his majesty.  "Go to M. de Duras," she cried, "and tell him
+Madame d'Arblay wishes it."
+
+"For heaven's sake!" exclaimed I, "do no such thing! I have not
+the most distant thought of the kind!  It is Madame la Duchesse
+d'Angoulˆme alone that I--"
+
+"O, pho, pho!--it is still more essential to be done to the
+king--it is really important: so go, and tell the duke, Mr.
+Grattan, that Madame d'Arblay is here, and desires to be
+presented.  Tell him 'tis a thing quite indispensable."
+
+I stopped him again, and quite entreated that no such step might
+be taken, as I had no authority for presentation but to the
+duchess. However, Lady Crewe was only provoked at my
+backwardness, and charged Mr. Grattan not to heed me.  "Tell the
+duke," she cried, "that Madame d'Arblay is our Madame de Stael!
+tell him we are as proud of our Madame d'Arblay as he can be of
+his Madame de Stael."
+
+Off she sent him, and off I flew again to follow him and whether
+he was most amused or most teased by our opposing petitions, I
+know not - but he took the discreet side of not venturing again
+to return among us.
+
+
+
+                    PREPARATIONS FOR THE PRESENTATIONS.
+
+Poor Lady Crewe seemed to think I lost a place at Court, or
+perhaps a peerage, by my untamable shyness, and was quite vexed.
+Others came to her now, who said several rooms below were filled
+with expectant courtiers. Miss Grattan then earnestly requested
+me to descend with her, as a chaperon, that she might see
+something of what was going forwards.
+
+I could not refuse so natural a request, and down we went,
+seeking one of the common] crowded rooms, that we might not
+intrude where there was preparation or expectation relative to
+the king.
+
+And here, sauntering or grouping, meditating in silence or
+congratulating each other in coteries, or waiting with curiosity,
+or self-preparing for presentation with timidity, we found a
+multitude of folks in an almost unfurnished and quite unadorned
+apartment. The personages seemed fairly divided between the
+nation at home and the nation from abroad ;
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+
+the English and the French; each equally, though variously,
+occupied in expecting the extraordinary sight of a monarch thus
+wonderfully restored to his rank and his throne, after
+misfortunes that had seemed irremediable, and an exile that had
+appeared hopeless.
+
+Miss Grattan was saluted, en passant, by several acquaintances,
+and amongst them by the son-in-law of her dear country's viceroy
+Lord Whitworth, the young Duke of Dorset; and Lady Crewe herself,
+too tired to abide any longer in her appropriated apartment, now
+descended.
+
+We patrolled about, zig-zag, as we could; the crowd, though of
+very good company, having no chief or regulator, and therefore
+making no sort of avenue or arrangement for avoiding
+inconvenience.  There was neither going up nor coming down; we
+were all hustled together, without direction and without object,
+for nothing whatsoever was present to look at or to create any
+interest, and our expectations were merely kept awake by a belief
+that we should know in time when and where something or somebody
+was to be seen.
+
+For myself, however, I was much tormented during this interval
+from being named incessantly by Lady Crewe. My deep mourning, my
+recent heavy loss, and the absence and distance of my dear
+husband made me peculiarly wish to be unobserved. Peculiarly, I
+say; for never yet had the moment arrived in which to be marked
+had not been embarrassing and disconcerting to me, even when most
+flattering.
+
+A little hubbub soon after announced something new, and presently
+a whisper was buzzed around the room of the "Prince de Cond‚."
+His serene highness looked very much pleased--as no wonder--at
+the arrival of such a day; but he was so surrounded by all his
+countrymen who were of rank to claim his attention, that I could
+merely see that he was little and old, but very unassuming and
+polite. Amongst his courtiers were sundry of the French noblesse
+that were known to Lady Crewe and I heard her uniformly say to
+them, one after another, Here is Madame d'Arblay, who must be
+presented to the king.
+
+Quite frightened by an assertion so wide from my intentions, so
+unauthorised by any preparatory ceremonies, unknown to my
+husband, and not, like a presentation to the Duchesse
+d'Angoulˆme, encouraged by my queen, I felt as if guilty of
+taking liberty the most presumptuous, and with a forwardness and
+assurance the most foreign to my character. Yet to
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+
+control the zeal of Lady Crewe was painful from her earnestness,
+and appeared to be ungrateful to her kindness ; I therefore
+shrunk back, and presently suffered the crowd to press between us
+so as to find myself wholly separated from my party. This would
+have been ridiculous had I been more happy - but in my then state
+of affliction, it was necessary to my peace.
+
+
+                          ARRIVAL OF Louis XVIII.
+
+Quite to myself, how I smiled inwardly at my adroit cowardice,
+and was contemplating the surrounding masses of people, when a
+new and more mighty hubbub startled me, and presently I heard a
+buzzing whisper spread throughout the apartment of "The king!--le
+roi!"
+
+Alarmed at my strange situation, I now sought to decamp, meaning
+to wait for Lady Crewe up stairs : but to even approach the door
+was impossible. I turned back, therefore, to take a place by the
+window, that I might see his majesty alight from his carriage,
+but how great was my surprise when, just as I reached the top of
+the room, the king himself entered it at the bottom!
+
+I had not the smallest idea that this was the chamber of audience
+; it was so utterly unornamented.  But I now saw that a large
+fauteuil was being conveyed to the upper part, exactly where I
+stood, ready for his reception and repose.
+
+Placed thus singularly, by mere accident, and freed from my fears
+of being brought forward by Lady Crewe, I felt rejoiced in so
+fair an opportunity of beholding the king of my honoured husband,
+and planted myself immediately behind, though not near to his
+prepared seat ; and, as I was utterly unknown and must be utterly
+unsuspected, I indulged myself with a full examination. An avenue
+had instantly been cleared from the door to the chair, and the
+king moved along It slowly, slowly, slowly, rather dragging his
+large and weak limbs than walking; but his face was truly
+engaging; benignity was in every feature, and a smile beamed over
+them that showed thankfulness to providence in the happiness to
+which he was so suddenly arrived; with a courtesy, at the same
+time, to the spectators, who came to see and congratulate it, the
+most pleasing and cheering.
+
+The scene was replete with motives to grand reflections and to
+me, the devoted subject of another monarch, whose melancholy
+alienation of mind was a constant source to me of
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+
+sorrow, it was a scene for conflicting feelings and profound
+meditation.
+
+
+                      THE PRESENTATIONS TO THE KING.
+
+His majesty took his seat, with an air of mingled sweetness and
+dignity. I then, being immediately behind him, lost sight of his
+countenance, but saw that of every individual who approached to
+be presented. The Duc de Duras stood at his left hand, and was le
+grand maitre des c‚r‚monies; Madame de Gouvello stood at his
+right side; though whether in any capacity, or simply as a French
+lady known to him, I cannot tell. In a whisper, from that lady, I
+learned more fully the mistake of the hotel, the Duchesse
+d'Angoulˆme never having meant to quit that of her beaupŠre,
+Monsieur le Comte d'Artois, in South Audley-street.
+
+The presentations were short, and without much mark or
+likelihood. The men bowed low, and passed on; the ladies
+curtsied, and did the same. Those who were not known gave a card,
+I think, to the Duc de Duras, who named them; those of former
+acquaintance with his majesty simply made their obeisance.
+
+M. de Duras, who knew how much fatigue the king had to go
+through, hurried every one on, not only with speed but almost
+with ill-breeding, to my extreme astonishment. Yet the English,
+by express command of his majesty, had always the preference and
+always took place of the French ; which was an attention of the
+king in return for the asylum he had here found, that he seemed
+delighted to display,
+
+Early in this ceremony came forward Lady Crewe, who being known
+to the king from sundry previous meetings, was not named ; and
+only, after curtseying, reciprocated smiles with his majesty, and
+passed on.  But instead of then moving off, though the duke, who
+did not know her, waved his hand to hasten her away, she
+whispered, but loud enough for me to hear, "Voici Madame
+d'Arblay; il faut qu'elle soit pr‚sent‚e."(239)  She then went
+gaily off, without heeding me.
+
+The duke only bowed, but by a quick glance recognised me, and by
+another showed a pleased acquiescence in the demand.
+
+Retreat' now, was out of the question; but I so feared my
+position was wrong, that I was terribly disturbed, and felt hot
+and cold, and cold and hot, alternately, with excess of
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+
+embarrassment. I was roused, however, after hearing for so long a
+time nothing but French, by the sudden sound of English. An
+address, in that language, was read to his majesty, which was
+presented by the noblemen and gentlemen of the county of
+Buckingham, congratulatory upon his happy restoration, and filled
+with cordial thanks for the graciousness of his manners, and the
+benignity of his conduct, during his long residence amongst them;
+warmly proclaiming their participation in his joy, and their
+admiration of his virtues. The reader was colonel Nugent, a near
+relation of the present Duke of Buckingham. But, if the
+unexpected sound of these felicitations delivered in English,
+roused and struck me, how much greater arose my astonishment and
+delight when the French monarch, in an accent of the most
+condescending familiarity and pleasure, uttered his
+acknowledgments in English also-expressing his gratitude for all
+their attentions, his sense of their kind interest in his favour,
+and his eternal remembrance of the obligations he owed to the
+whole county of Buckinghamshire, for the asylum and consolations
+he had found in it during his trials and calamities! I wonder not
+that Colonel Nugent was so touched by this reply, as to be led to
+bend the knee, as to his own sovereign, when the king held out
+his hand - for I myself, though a mere outside auditress, was so
+moved, and so transported with surprise by the dear English
+language from his mouth, that I forgot at once all my fears, and
+dubitations, and, indeed, all myself, my poor little self, in my
+pride and exultation at such a moment for my noble country.(240)
+
+
+                       A FLATTERING ROYAL RECEPTION.
+
+Fortunately for me, the Duc de Duras made this the moment for my
+presentation, and, seizing my hand and drawing me suddenly from
+behind the chair to the royal presence, he said, " Sire, Madame
+d'Arblay." How singular a change, that what, but the instant
+before, would have overwhelmed me with diffidence and
+embarrassment,
+
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+
+now found me all courage and animation ! and when his majesty
+took my hand--or, rather, took hold of my fist--and said, in very
+pretty English, "I am very happy to see you," I felt such a glow
+of satisfaction, that involuntarily, I burst forth with its
+expression, incoherently, but delightedly and irresistibly,
+though I cannot remember how. He certainly was not displeased,
+for his smile was brightened and his manner was most flattering,
+as he repeated that he was very glad to see me, and added that he
+had known me, "though without sight, very long: for I have read
+you--and been charmed with your books--charmed and entertained.
+I have read them often, I know them very well indeed; and I have
+long wanted to know you!"
+
+
+I was extremely surprised,-and not only at these unexpected
+compliments, but equally that my presentation, far from seeming,
+as I had apprehended, strange, was met by a reception of the
+utmost encouragement.  When he stopped, and let go my hand, I
+curtsied respectfully, and was moving on ; but he again caught my
+fist, and, fixing me, with looks of strong though smiling
+investigation, he appeared archly desirous to read the lines of
+my face, as if to deduce from them the qualities of my mind. His
+manner, however, was so polite and so gentle that he did not at
+all discountenance me : and though he resumed the praise of my
+little works, he uttered the panegyric with a benignity so gay as
+well as flattering, that I felt enlivened, nay, elevated, with a
+joy that overcame mauvaise honte.
+
+The Duc de Duras, who had hurried on all others, seeing he had no
+chance to dismiss me with the same sans c‚r‚monie speed, now
+joined his voice to exalt my satisfaction, by saying, at the next
+pause, "et M. d'Arblay, sire, bon et brave, est un des plus
+devou‚s et fidŠles serviteurs de votre majest‚."(241)
+
+The king with a gracious little motion of his head, and with eyes
+of the most pleased benevolence, expressively said, "Je le
+Crois."(242)  And a third time he stopped my retiring curtsey, to
+take my hand.
+
+This last stroke gave me such delight, for my absent best ami,
+that I could not again attempt to speak. The king pressed my
+hand--wrist I should say, for it was that he grasped, and then
+saying, "Bon jour, madame la comtesse," let me go.
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+
+My eyes were suffused with tears, from mingled emotions I glided
+nimbly through the crowd to a corner at the other end of the
+room, where Lady Crewe joined me almost instantly, and with
+felicitations the most amiably cordial and lively.
+
+We then repaired to a side-board on which we contrived to seat
+ourselves, and Lady Crewe named to me the numerous personages of
+rank who passed on before us for presentation. But every time any
+one espied her and approached,, she named me also; an honour to
+which I was very averse. This I intimated, but to no purpose; she
+went on her own way. The curious stares this produced, in my
+embarrassed state of spirits, from recent grief, were really
+painful to sustain ; but when the seriousness of my
+representation forced her to see that I was truly in earnest in
+my desire to remain unnoticed, she was so much vexed, and even
+provoked, that she very gravely begged that, if such were the
+case, I would move a little farther from her; saying, "If one
+must be so ill-natured to people as not to name you, I had rather
+not seem to know who you are myself."
+
+
+                       AN IMPORTANT LETTER DELAYED.
+
+When, at length, her ladyship's chariot was announced, we drove
+to Great Cumberland-place, Lady Crewe being so kind as to convey
+me to Mrs. Angerstein. As Lady Crewe was too much in haste to
+alight, the sweet Amelia Angerstein came to the carriage to speak
+to her, and to make known that a letter had arrived from M. de la
+Chƒtre relative to my presentation, which, by a mistake of
+address, had not come in time for my reception.(244)
+
+This note dispelled all of astonishment that had enveloped with
+something like incredulity my own feelings and perceptions in my
+unexpected presentation and reception. The king himself had
+personally desired to bestow upon me this mark of royal favour.
+What difficulty, what embarrassment, what confusion should I have
+escaped, had not that provoking mistake which kept back my letter
+occurred
+
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+
+                      M. D'ARBLAY ARRIVES IN ENGLAND.
+
+Madame d"Arblay to Mrs. locke.)
+April 30, 1814.
+My own dearest friend must be the first, as she will be among the
+warmest, to participate in my happiness--M. d'Arblay is arrived.
+He came yesterday, quite unexpectedly as to the day, but not very
+much quicker than my secret hopes. He is extremely fatigued with
+all that has passed, yet well ; and all himself, i.e., all that
+is calculated to fill my heart with gratitude for my lot in life.
+How would my beloved father have rejoiced in his sight, and in
+these glorious new events!(245)
+
+
+                          A BRILLIANT ASSEMBLAGE.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to M. d'Arblay)
+June 18, 1814.
+Ah, mon ami! you are really, then, well?--really in Paris?--
+really without hurt or injury?  What I have suffered from a
+suspense that has no name from its misery shall now be buried in
+restored peace, and hope, and happiness.  With the most fervent
+thanks to providence that my terrors are removed, and that I have
+been tortured by only false apprehensions, I will try to banish
+from my mind all but the joy, and gratitude to heaven, that your
+safety and health inspire. Yet still, it is difficult to me to
+feel assured that all is well ! I have so long been the victim to
+fear and anguish, that my spirits cannot at once get back their
+equilibrium. . . .
+
+Hier j'ai quitt‚ ma retraite, trŠs volontiers, pour(246) indulge
+myself with the sight of the Emperor of Russia. How was I charmed
+with his pleasing, gentle, and so perfectly unassuming air,
+manner, and demeanour! I was extremely gratified, also, by seeing
+the King of Prussia, who interests us all here, by a look that
+still indicates his tender regret for the partner of his hopes,
+toils, and sufferings, but not of his victories and enjoyments.
+It was at the queen's palace I saw them by especial and most
+gracious permission. The Prussian princes, six in number, and the
+young prince of Mecklenburg, and the Duchess of Oldenbourg, were
+of the party. All our royal
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+
+dukes assisted, and the Princesses Augusta and Mary.  The
+Princess Charlotte looked quite beautiful.  She is wonderfully
+improved.  It was impossible not to be struck with her personal
+attractions, her youth, and splendour.  The Duchess of York
+looked amongst the happiest; the King of Prussia is her brother.
+
+
+               M. D'ARBLAY ENTERS Louis XVIII.'S BODY-GUARD.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Mrs. locke.)
+London, July, 1814.
+After a most painful suspense I have been at length relieved by a
+letter from Paris.  It is dated the 18th of June, and has been a
+fortnight on the road.  It is, he says, his fourth letter, and he
+had not then received one of the uneasy tribe of my own.
+
+The consul-generalship is, alas, entirely relinquished, and that
+by M. d'Arblay himself, who has been invited into the garde du
+corps by the Duc de Luxembourg, for his own company an invitation
+he deemed it wrong to resist at such a moment ; and he has since
+been named one of the officers of the garde du corps by the king,
+Louis XVIII., to whom he had taken the customary oath that very
+day--the 18th.
+
+The season, however, of danger over, and the throne and order
+steadily re-established, he will still, I trust and believe,
+retire to civil domestic life.  May it be speedily!  After twenty
+years' lying by, I cannot wish to see him re-enter a military
+career at sixty years of age, though still young in all his
+faculties and feelings, and in his capacity of being as useful to
+others as to himself. There is a time, however, when the poor
+machine, though still perfect in a calm, is unequal to a storm.
+Private life, then, should be sought while it yet may be enjoyed;
+and M. d'Arblay has resources for retirement the most delightful,
+both for himself and his friends. He is dreadfully worn and
+fatigued by the last year; and he began his active services at
+thirteen years of age.  He is now past sixty. Every propriety,
+therefore, will abet my wishes, when the king no longer requires
+around him his tried and faithful adherents.  And, indeed, I am
+by no means myself insensible to what is so highly gratifying to
+his feelings as this mark of distinction bien plus honorable,
+cependant,(247) as he adds, than lucrative. . . . . .
+
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+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Mrs. Locke.)
+August 9, 1814.
+The friends of M. d'A. in Paris are now preparing to claim for
+him his rank in the army, as he held it under Louis XVI., of
+mar‚chal de Camp; and as the Duc de Luxembourg will present, in
+person, the demand au roi, there is much reason to expect it will
+be granted.
+
+M. de Thuisy, who brought your letter from Adrienne, has given a
+flourishing account of M. d'A. in his new uniform, though the
+uniform itself, he says, is very ugly. But so sought is the
+company of the garde du corps du roi that the very privates, M.
+de T. says, are gentlemen. M. d'A. himself has only the place of
+sous-lieutenant; but it is of consequence sufficient, in that
+company, to be signed by the king, who had rejected two officers
+that had been named to him just before he gave his signature for
+M. d'A.
+
+August 24, 1814.
+M. d'Arblay has obtained his rank, and the kind king has dated it
+from the aera when the original brevet was signed by poor Louis
+XVI. in 1792.
+
+[Here follows, in the original edition, a long letter in French
+from M. d'Arblay to his wife, dated " Paris, August 3 0, 1814. "
+He records the enthusiasm manifested by the people of Paris on
+the arrival of the king and the Duchess of Angoulˆme, and the
+flattering reception given by the king to the Duke of Wellington.
+"After having testified his satisfaction at the sentiments which
+the duke had just expressed to him on the part of the prince
+regent, and told him that he infinitely desired to see the peace
+which had been so happily concluded, established on solid
+foundations, his majesty added, 'For that I shall have need of
+the powerful co-operation of his royal highness. The choice which
+he has made of you, sir, gives me hope of it. He honours me. . .
+. I am proud to see that the first ambassador sent to me by
+England is the justly celebrated Duke of Wellington."' M.
+d'Arblay counts with certainty upon his wife's joining him in
+November, and ventures upon the unlucky assertion that " the
+least doubt of the stability of the paternal government, which
+has been so miraculously restored to us, is no longer
+admissible."-ED.]
+
+(214) Lyons rebelled against the Republic in the summer of 1793:
+against Jacobinism, in the first instance, and guillotined its
+jacobin leader, Chalier; later it declared for the king. After a
+long siege and a heroic defence, Lyons surrendered to the
+Republicans, October 9, 1793, and Fouch‚ was one of the
+commissioners sent down by the Convention to execute vengeance on
+the unfortunate town. A terrible vengeance was taken.  "The
+Republic must march to liberty over corpses," said Fouch‚; and
+thousands of the inhabitants were shot or guillotined. -ED.
+
+(215) The reputed assassin of the Duc d'Enghien. ["Assassin" is
+surely an unnecessarily strong term. The seizure of the Duke
+d'Enghien on neutral soil was illegal and indefensible: but he
+was certainly guilty of conspiring against the government of his
+country.  He was arrested, by Napoleon's orders, in the
+electorate of Baden, in March, 1804; carried across the frontier,
+conveyed to Vincennes, tried by court-martial, condemned, and
+shot forthwith.-ED.]
+
+(216) The disastrous campaign in Russia. Napoleon left Paris on
+the 9th Of May, 1812.-ED.
+
+(217) "So that we divine her meaning."
+
+(218) "Who are you?
+
+"My name is d'Arblay."
+
+"Are you married?"
+
+"Yes."
+
+"Where is your husband?"
+
+"At Paris."
+
+"Who is he?"
+
+"He works in the Home Office."
+
+"Why are you leaving him?"
+
+(219) "You are English?"
+
+(220) "Follow me!"
+
+(221) "You do not think proper to follow me, then?"
+
+(222) "I have nothing to do here, sir, I believe."
+
+(223) "We shall see!"  "
+
+(224) "Young Man!"
+
+
+(225) Her sister Charlotte, formerly Mrs. Francis.-ED.
+
+(226) The 20th of August.-ED.
+
+(227) Mrs Crewe's husband, John Crewe of Crewe Hall, cheshire,
+had been created a peer by the title of Baron Crewe of Crewe, in
+1806.-ED.
+
+(228) An attempt to enter her apartment by a crazy woman.
+
+(229) " Hunted out of France." The work in question was Madame de
+Stael's book on Germany (De l'Allemagne), which had been printed
+at Paris, and of which the entire edition had been seized by the
+police before its publication, on the plea that it contained
+passages offensive to the government.  The authoress, moreover,
+was ordered to quit France, and joined her father at Coppet in
+Switzerland-ED.
+
+(230) No doubt, for his uncle's school.  Dr Charles Burney had
+left Hammersmith and established his school at Greenwich in
+1793.-ED.
+
+(231) William Wilberforce, the celebrated philanthropist, was
+born at Htill in 1759.  He devoted his life to the cause of the
+negro slaves; and to his exertions in Parliament were chiefly due
+the abolition of the slave trade in 1807, and the total abolition
+of slavery in the English colonies in 1833.  He died in the
+latter year, thanking God that he "had seen the day in which
+England was willing to give twenty millions sterling for the
+abolition of slavery."-ED.
+
+(232) Narbonne was appointed by Napoleon, during the campaign of
+1813, governor of the fortress of Torgau, on the Elbe.  He
+defended the place with great resolution, even after the emperor
+had been obliged to retreat beyond the Rhine, but unhappily took
+the fever, and died there, November 17, 1813.-ED.
+
+(233) This proved to be a false report. General Victor de Latour
+Maubourg suffered the amputation of a leg at Leipzic, where he
+fought bravely in the service of the Emperor Napoleon.  But he
+did not die of his wound, and we find him, in 1815, engaged in
+raising volunteers for the service of Louis XVIII.-ED.
+
+(234) Here is evidently a mistake as to the month: the date, no
+doubt, should be April 19.  Dr. Burney died on the 12th of April,
+1814.-ED.
+
+ (235) Dr. Charles Burney.-ED.
+
+(236) Marie Th‚rŠse Charlotte, Duchess of Angoulˆme, was the
+daughter of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.  She was born in
+1778, and, after the execution of her father and mother she was
+detained in captivity in Paris until December, 1795, when she was
+delivered up to the Austrians in exchange for certain French
+prisoners of war.  in 1799 she married her cousin, the Duke of
+Angoulˆme, son of Louis XVI's brother, the Count d'Artois,
+(afterwards Charles X. of France). On the return of Napoleon from
+Elba, the Duchess of Angoulˆme so distinguished herself by her
+exertions and the spirit which she displayed in the king's cause,
+that Napoleon said of her " she was the only man in her
+family."-ED.
+
+(237) Henry Grattan, the Irish statesman, orator, and patriot.
+Already one of the most distinguished members of the Irish
+Parliament, he vigorously opposed the legislative union of Great
+Britain and Ireland in 1800. He sat in the Imperial Parliament as
+member for Dublin from 1806 until his death in 1820, in his
+seventy-fourth year.  As an orator, Mr. Lecky writes of him, "He
+was almost unrivalled in crushing invective, in delineations of
+character, and in brief, keen arguments; carrying on a train of
+sustained reason he was not so happy."-ED.
+
+(238) Louis XVIII., formerly known as the Count of Provence, was
+the brother of the unfortunate Louis XVI.  "Louis XVII" was the
+title given by the royalists to the young son of Louis XVI., who
+died, a prisoner, in June, 1795, some two years after the
+execution of his father.-ED.
+
+(239) "There is Madame d'Arblay; she must be presented."
+
+(240) What a moment for her noble country, and what a subject for
+pride and exultation!  Were we not very sure of Fanny's
+sincerity, it were scarcely possible to read with patience such
+passages as this and others similarly extravagant.  Her common
+sense seems to take flight in the presence of royalty.-ED.
+
+(242) "And M. d'Arblay, Sire, good and brave, is one of your
+majesty's most devoted and faithful servants."
+
+(243) "I believe it."
+
+(244) This letter, addressed to Mrs. Angerstein, was to the
+effect that the Duchess of Angoulˆme would be very pleased to
+receive Madame d'Arblay, at 72 South Audley-street, between three
+and half-past three ; and that the king (Louis XVIII.) also
+desired to see her, and would receive between four and five.-ED.
+
+(245) M. d'Arblay returned to France in the following June. -ED.
+
+(246) Yesterday I left my retreat, very willingly, to-"
+
+(247) "Far more honorable, nevertheless---"
+
+
+
+
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+SECTION 24.
+                                  (1815)
+
+      MADAME D'ARBLAY AGAIN IN FRANCE: BONAPARTE'S ESCAPE FROM
+ELBA.
+
+
+
+(The two following sections contain Fanny's account of her
+adventures during the " Hundred Days " which elapsed between the
+return of Napoleon from Elba and his final downfall and
+abdication. This narrative may be recommended to the reader as an
+interesting supplement to the history of that period. The great
+events of the time, the triumphal progress of the emperor, the
+battles which decided his destiny and the fate of Europe, we hear
+of only at a distance, by rumour or chance intelligence ; but our
+author brings vividly before us, and with the authenticity of
+personal observation, the disturbed state of the country, the
+suspense, the alarms, the distress occasioned by the war.  To
+refresh our readers' memories, we give an epitome, as brief as
+possible, of the events to which Madame d'Arblay's narrative
+forms, as it were, a background.
+
+When Napoleon abdicated the imperial throne, in April, 1814, the
+allied powers consented by treaty to confer upon him the
+sovereignty of the island of Elba, with a revenue of two million
+francs. To Elba he was accordingly banished, but the revenue was
+never paid.  This disgraceful infringement of the treaty of
+Fontainebleau, joined to the accounts which he received of the
+state of public feeling in France, determined him to make the
+attempt to regain his lost empire. March 1, 1815, he landed at
+Cannes, with a few hundred men. He was everywhere received with
+the utmost enthusiasm.  The troops sent to oppose him joined his
+standard with shouts of "Vive l'empereur!"  March 20, he entered
+Paris in triumph, Louis XVIII having taken his departure the
+preceding evening, "amidst the tears and lamentations of several
+courtiers."(248)
+
+The congress of the allied powers at Vienna proclaimed the
+emperor an outlaw, not choosing to remember that the treaty which
+they accused him of breaking, had been first violated by
+themselves. To his offers of negotiation they replied not. The
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+
+English army under the Duke of Wellington, the Prussian under
+Prince Bl‹cher occupied Belgium; the Austrians and Russians were
+advancing in immense force towards the Rhine. Anxious to strike a
+blow before the arrival of the latter Napoleon left Paris for
+Belgium, June 12. His army amounted to about one hundred and
+twenty thousand men. On the 15th the fighting commenced, h and
+the advanced guard of the Prussians was driven back. On the 16th,
+Bl�cher was attacked at Ligny, and defeated with terrible loss;
+but Marshal Ney was unsuccessful in an attack upon the combined
+English and Belgian army at Quatre Bras. Sunday, June 18, was the
+day of the decisive battle of Waterloo. After the destruction of
+his army, Napoleon hastened to Paris, but all hope was at an end.
+He abdicated the throne for the second time, proceeded to
+Rochefort, and voluntarily surrendered himself to Captain
+Maitland, of the English seventy-four, Bellerophon.  He was
+conveyed to England, but was not permitted to land, and passed
+the few remaining years of his life a prisoner in the island of
+St. Helena.-ED.]
+
+
+                AN INTERVIEW WITH THE DUCHESS OF ANGOULEME.
+
+I come now to my audience with Madame, Duchesse d'Angoulˆme.(249)
+As I had missed, through a vexatious mistake, the honour she had
+herself intended me, of presentation in England, my own
+condescending royal mistress, Queen Charlotte, recommended my
+claiming its performance on my return to Paris.  M. d'Arblay then
+consulted with the Vicomte d'Agoult, his intimate early friend,
+how to repair in France my English deprivation. M. d'Agoult was
+‚cuyer to her royal highness, and high in her confidence and
+favour. He advised me simply to faire ma cour as the wife of a
+superior officer in the garde du corps du roi, at a public
+drawing-room; but the great exertion and publicity, joined to the
+expense Of such a presentation, made me averse, in all ways, to
+this proposal; and when M. d'Arblay protested I had not anything
+in view but to pay my respectful devoirs to her royal highness,
+M. d'Agoult undertook to make known my wish.  It soon proved that
+this alone was necessary for its success, for madame la duchesse
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+
+instantly recollected what had passed in England, and said she
+would name, with pleasure, the first moment in her power -
+expressing an impatience on her own part that an interview should
+not be delayed which had been desired by her majesty Queen
+Charlotte of England. . . .
+
+I have omitted to mention that on the Sunday preceding, the
+Duchess d'Angoulˆme, at Court, had deigned to tell my best friend
+that she was reading, and with great pleasure, Madame d'Arblay's
+last work. He expressed his gratification, and added that he
+hoped it was in English, as her altesse royale so well knew that
+language. No, she answered, it was the translation she read; the
+original she had not been able to procure. On this M. d'Arblay
+advised me to send a copy. I had none bound, but the set which
+had come back to me from my dear father. This, however, M. d'A.
+carried to the Vicomte d'Agoult, with a note from me in which,
+through the medium of M. d'Agoult, I supplicated leave from her
+royal highness to lay at her feet this only English set I
+possessed. In the most gracious manner possible, as the Vicomte
+told M. d'Arblay, her royal highness accepted the work, and
+deigned also to keep the billet.  She had already, unfortunately,
+finished the translation, but she declared her intention to read
+the original.
+
+Previously to my presentation, M. d'Arblay took me to the salon
+of the exhibition of pictures, to view a portrait of Madame
+d'Angoulˆme, that I might make some acquaintance with her face
+before the audience.  This portrait was deeply interesting, but
+deeply melancholy.
+
+
+                         ARRIVAL AT THE TUILERIES.
+
+All these precautions taken, I went, at the appointed hour and
+morning, about the end of February, 1815, to the palace of the
+Tuileries, escorted by the most indulgent of husbands we repaired
+instantly to the apartment of the Duchesse de Serrent, who
+received us with the utmost politeness; she gave us our lesson
+how to proceed, and then delivered us over to some page of her
+royal highness.
+
+We were next shown into a very large apartment. I communicated to
+the page a request that he would endeavour to make known to M. de
+Montmorency that I was arrived, and how much I wished to see him.
+In a minute or two came forth a tall, sturdy dame, who
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+
+immediately addressed me by my name, and spoke with an air, that
+demanded my returning her compliment. I could not, however,
+recollect her till she said she had formerly met me at the
+Princess d'Henin's. I then recognised the dowager Duchesse de
+Duras, whom, in fact, I had seen last at the Princesse de
+Chimay's, in the year 1812, just before my first return to
+England; and had received from her a commission to acquaint the
+royal family of France that her son, the duke, had kept aloof
+from all service under Bonaparte, though he had been named in the
+gazettes as having accepted the place of chamberlain to the then
+emperor. Yet such was the subjection, at that time, of all the
+old nobility to the despotic power of that mighty ruler, that M.
+de Duras had not dared to contradict the paragraph.
+
+She then said that her altesse royale was expecting me; and made
+a motion that I should pursue my way into the next room, M.
+d'Arblay no longer accompanying me. But before I disappeared she
+assured me that I should meet with a most gracious reception, for
+her altesse royale had declared she would see me with marked
+favour, if she saw no other English whatsoever; because Madame
+d'Arblay, she said, was the only English person who had been
+peculiarly recommended to her notice by the Queen of England.
+
+In the next, which was another very large apartment, I was
+received by a lady much younger and more agreeable than Madame de
+Duras, gaily and becomingly dressed, and wearing a smiling air
+with a sensible face.  I afterwards heard it was Madame de
+Choisy, who, a few years later, married the Vicomte d'Agoult.
+
+Madame de Choisy instantly began some compliments, but finding
+she only disconcerted me, she soon said she must not keep me
+back, and curtsied me on to another room, into which she shut me.
+
+
+                            A MISAPPREHENSION.
+
+I here imagined I was to find M. de Montmorency, but I saw only a
+lady, who stood at the upper end of the apartment, and slightly
+curtsied, but without moving or speaking. Concluding this to be
+another dame de la cour, from my internal persuasion that
+ultimately I was to be presented by M. de Montmorency, I
+approached her composedly, with a mere common inclination of the
+head, and looked wistfully forward to the further door. She
+inquired politely after my
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+
+health, expressing good-natured concern to hear it had been
+deranged, and adding that she was bien aise de me voir.](250)  I
+thanked her, with some expression of obligation to her civility,
+but almost without looking at her, from perturbation lest some
+mistake had intervened to prevent my introduction, as I still saw
+nothing of M. de Montmorency.
+
+She then asked me if I would not sit down, taking a seat at the
+same time herself. I readily complied; but was too much occupied
+with the ceremony I was awaiting to discourse, though she
+immediately began what was meant for a conversation. I hardly
+heard, or answered, so exclusively was my attention engaged in
+watching the door through which I was expecting a summons; till,
+at length, the following words rather surprised me (I must write
+them in English, for my greater ease, though they were spoken in
+French)--"I am quite sorry to have read your last charming work
+in French."
+
+My eyes now changed their direction from the door to her face, to
+which I hastily turned my head, as she added,--"Puis-je le garder
+le livre que vous m'avez envoy‚?"(251)
+
+
+                     A DISCOVERY AND A RECTIFICATION.
+
+Startled, as if awakened from a dream, I fixed her and perceived
+the same figure that I had seen at the salon.  I now felt sure I
+was already in the royal presence of the Duchesse d'Angoulˆme,
+with whom I had seated myself almost cheek by jowl, without the
+smallest suspicion of my situation.
+
+I really seemed thunderstruck. I had approached her with so
+little formality, I had received all her graciousness with so
+little apparent sense of her condescension, I had taken my seat,
+nearly unasked, so completely at my ease, and I had pronounced so
+unceremoniously the plain "vous," without softening it off with
+one single "altesse royale," that I had given her reason to think
+me either the most forward person in my nature, or the worst bred
+]In my education, existing.
+
+I was in a consternation and a confusion that robbed me of
+breath; and my first impulse was to abruptly arise, confess my
+error, and offer every respectful apology I could devise; but as
+my silence and strangeness produced silence, a pause ensued that
+gave me a moment for reflection, which represented
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+
+to me that son altesse royale might be seriously hurt, that
+nothing in her demeanour had announced her, rank; and such a
+discovery might lead to increased distance and reserve in her
+future conduct upon other extra audiences, that could not but be
+prejudicial to her popularity, which already was injured by an
+opinion extremely unjust, but very generally spread, of her
+haughtiness. It was better, therefore, to be quiet, and to let
+her suppose that embarrassment, and English awkwardness and
+mauvaise honte, had occasioned my unaccountable manners. I
+preserved, therefore, my taciturnity, till, tired of her own, she
+gently repeated, "Puis-je le garder, cette copie que vous m'avez
+envoy‚?" civilly adding that she should be happy to read it again
+when she had a little forgotten it, and had a little more time.
+
+I seized this fortunate moment to express my grateful
+acknowledgments for her goodness, with the most unaffected
+sincerity, yet scrupulously accompanied with all the due forms of
+profound respect.
+
+What she thought of so sudden a change of dialect I have no means
+of knowing ; hut I could not, for a long time afterwards, think
+of it myself with a grave countenance. From that time, however, I
+failed not to address her with appropriate reverence, though, as
+it was too late now to assume the distant homage pertaining, of
+course, to her very high rank, I insensibly suffered one
+irregularity to lead to, nay to excuse another; for I passed over
+all the etiquette d'usage, of never speaking but en r‚ponse; and
+animated myself to attempt to catch her attention, by conversing
+with fullness and spirit upon every subject she began, or led to
+; and even by starting subjects myself, when she was silent. This
+gave me an opportunity of mentioning many things that had
+happened in Paris during my long ten years' uninterrupted
+residence, which were evidently very interesting to her. Had she
+become grave, or inattentive, I should have drawn back _; but, on
+the contrary, she grew more and more ‚veill‚e, and her
+countenance was lighted up with the most encouraging approval.
+
+
+                 CONVERSATION ON MADAME D'ARBLAY's ESCAPE
+                        AND M. D'ARBLAY'S LOYALTY.
+
+She was curious, she said, to know how I got over to England in
+the year 1812, having been told that I had effected my escape by
+an extraordinary disguise.  I assured her that
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+
+I had not escaped at all; as so to have done must have endangered
+the generous husband and father, who permitted mine and his son's
+departure.  I had procured a passport for us both, which was
+registered in the ordinary manner, chez le ministre de police for
+foreign affairs; ches- one, I added, whose name I could not
+pronounce in her royal highness's hearing; but to whom I had not
+myself applied. She well knew I meant Savary, Duc de Rovigo,
+whose history with respect to the murdered Due d'Enghien has,
+since that period, been so variously related.  I was then
+embarrassed, for I had owed my passport to the request of Madame
+d'A., who was distantly connected with Savary, and who had
+obtained it to oblige a mutual friend ; I found, however, to my
+great relief, that the duchess possessed the same noble delicacy
+that renders all private intercourse with my own exemplary
+princesses as safe for others as it is honourable to myself; for
+she suffered me to pass by the names of my assistants, when I
+said they were friends who exerted themselves for me in
+consideration of my heavy grief, in an absence of ten years from
+a father whom I had left at the advanced age of seventy-five;
+joined to my terror lest my son should remain till he attained
+the period of the conscription, and be necessarily drawn into the
+military service of Bonaparte. And, indeed, these two points
+could alone, with all my eagerness to revisit my native land,
+have induced me to make the journey by a separation from my best
+friend.
+
+This led me to assume courage to recount some of the prominent
+parts of the conduct of M. d'Arblay during our ten years'
+confinement, rather than residence, in France ; I thought this
+necessary, lest our sojourn during the usurpation should be
+misunderstood.  I told her, in particular, of three high military
+appointments which he had declined.  The first was to be head of
+l'‚tat major of a regiment under a general whose name I cannot
+spell--in the army of Poland, a post of which the offer was
+procured for him by M. de Narbonne, then aide-de-camp to
+Bonaparte.  The second was an offer, through General Gassendi, of
+being Commander of Palma Nuova, whither M. d'A. might carry his
+wife and son, as he was to have the castle for his residence, and
+there was no war with Italy at that time. The third offer was a
+very high one: it was no less than the command of Cherbourg, as
+successor to M. le Comte de la Tour Maubourg, who was sent
+elsewhere, by still higher promotion. Steady, however,
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+
+invariably steady was M. d'Arblay never to serve against his
+liege sovereign, General Gassendi, one of the most zealous of his
+friends, contrived to cover up this dangerous rejection and M.
+d'Arblay continued In his humbler but far more' meritorious
+Office Of sous Chef to one of the bureaux de l,int‚rieur.
+
+I had now the pleasure to hear the princess say, "Il a aqi bien
+noblement."(252)  "For though he would take no part," I added, …
+la guerre, nor yet in the diplomatie, he could have no objection
+to making plans, arrangements, buildings, and so forth, of
+monuments, hospitals, and palaces; for at that period, palaces,
+like princes, were ‚lev‚s tous les jours."(253)
+
+She could not forbear smiling; and her smile, which is rare, is
+so peculiarly becoming, that it brightens her countenance into a
+look of youth and beauty.
+
+"But why," I cried, recollecting myself, "should I speak French,
+when your royal highness knows English so well?"
+
+"O, no!" cried she, shaking her head, "very bad!"
+
+>From that time, however, I spoke in my own tongue, and saw myself
+perfectly understood, though those two little words were the only
+English ones she uttered herself, replying always in French.
+
+"Le roi," she said, "se rapelle tr…s bien de vous avoir vu …
+Londres."(254)
+
+"O, je n'en doute nullement,"(255) I replied, rather naŒvely,
+"for there passed a scene that cannot be forgotten, and that
+surprised me into courage to come forward, after I had spent the
+whole morning in endeavouring to shrink backward. And I could not
+be sorry--for I felt that his majesty could not he offended at a
+vivacity which his own courtesy to England excited."
+
+The princess smiled, with a graciousness that assured me I had
+not mistaken the king's benevolence, of which she evidently
+partook.
+
+
+                THE PRINCE REGENT THE DUCHEss's FAVOURITE.
+
+The conversation then turned upon the royal family of England,
+and it was inexpressibly gratifying to me to hear her just
+appreciation of the virtues, the intellectual endowments, the '
+
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+
+sweetness of manner, and the striking grace of every one,
+according to their different character, that was mentioned. The
+prince regent, however, was evidently her favourite. The noble
+style in which he had treated her and all her family at his
+Carlton House fˆte, in the midst of their misfortunes, and while
+so much doubt hung against every chance of those misfortunes
+being ever reversed, did so much honour to his heart and proved
+so solacing to their woes and humiliation, that she could never
+revert to that public testimony of his esteem and goodwill
+without the most glowing gratitude.
+
+"O!" she cried, "il a ‚t‚ parfait!"(256)
+
+The Princesse Elise,(257) with whom she was in correspondence,
+seemed to stand next.  "C'est elle," she said, "qui fait les
+honneurs de la famille royale,(258) and with a charm the most
+enlivening and delightful."
+
+The conference was only broken up by a summons to the king's
+dinner. My audience, however, instead of a few minutes, for which
+the Duchesse de Duras had prepared me, was extended to
+three-quarters of an hour, by the watch of my kind husband, who
+waited, with some of his old friends whom he had joined in the
+palace, to take me home.
+
+The princess, as she left me to go down a long corridor to the
+dining apartment, took leave of me in a manner the most gracious,
+honouring me with a message to her majesty the queen of England,
+of her most respectful homage, and with her kind and affectionate
+remembrance to all the princesses, with warm assurances of her
+eternal attachment.  She then moved on, but again stopped when
+going, to utter some sentences most grateful to my ears, of her
+high devotion to the queen and deep sense of all her virtues. I
+little thought that this, my first, would prove also my last,
+meeting with this exemplary princess, whose worth, courage,
+fortitude, and piety are universally acknowledged, but whose
+powers of pleasing seem little known. After an opening such as
+this, how little could I foresee that this interview was to be a
+final one! . . . Alas! in a day or two after it had taken place,
+son altesse royale set out for Bordeaux. . . . And then followed
+the return of Bonaparte from Elba, and then the Hundred Days.
+
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+
+       NARRATIVE OF MADAME D'ARBLAY'S FLIGHT FROM PARIS TO
+BRUSSELS
+
+[The following Narrative was written some time after the events
+described took place.  It is judged better to print it in a
+connected form : a few of the letters written on the spot being
+subsequently given.]
+
+
+           PREVAILING INERTIA ON BONAPARTE'S RETURN FROM ELBA.
+
+I have no remembrance how I first heard of the return of
+Bonaparte from Elba.  Wonder at his temerity was the impression
+made by the news, but wonder unmixed with apprehension.  This
+inactivity of foresight was universal. A torpor indescribable, a
+species of stupor utterly indefinable, seemed to have enveloped
+the capital with a mist that was impervious. Everybody went about
+their affairs, made or received visits, met, and parted, without
+speaking, or, I suppose , thinking of this event as of a matter
+of any importance. My own participation in this improvident
+blindness is to myself incomprehensible. Ten years I had lived
+under the dominion of Bonaparte; I had been in habits of intimacy
+with many friends of those who most closely surrounded him; I was
+generously trusted, as one with whom information, while
+interesting and precious, would be inviolably safe-as one, in
+fact, whose honour was the honour of her spotless husband, and
+therefore invulnerable : well, therefore, by narrations the most
+authentic, and by documents the most indisputable, I knew the
+character of Bonaparte ; and marvellous beyond the reach of my
+comprehension is my participation in this inertia. . . .
+
+Thus familiar to his practices, thus initiated in his resources,
+thus aware of his gigantic ideas of his own destiny, how could I
+for a moment suppose he would re-visit France without a
+consciousness of success, founded upon some secret conviction
+that it was infallible, through measures previously arranged ? I
+can only conclude that my understanding, such as it is, was
+utterly tired out by a long harass of perpetual alarm and
+sleepless apprehension. Unmoved, therefore, I remained in the
+general apparent repose which, if it were as real in those with
+whom I mixed as in myself, I now deem a species of infatuation.
+Whether or not M. d'Arblay was involved in the general failure of
+foresight I have mentioned, I never now can ascertain. To spare
+me any evil tidings, and save me from
+
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+
+even the shadow of any unnecessary alarm, was the first and
+constant solicitude of his indulgent goodness.
+
+At this period he returned to Paris to settle various matters for
+our Senlis residence. We both now knew the event that so soon was
+to monopolize all thought and all interest throughout Europe: but
+we knew it without any change in our way of life; on the
+contrary, we even resumed our delightful airings in the Bois de
+Boulogne, whither the general drove me every morning in a light
+calŠche, of which he had possessed himself upon his entrance into
+the king's body-guard the preceding year.
+
+Brief, however, was this illusion, and fearful was the light by
+which its darkness was dispersed.  In a few days we hear that
+Bonaparte, whom we had concluded to be, of course, either stopped
+at landing and taken prisoner, or forced to save himself by
+flight, was, on the contrary, pursuing unimpeded his route to
+Lyons.
+
+>From this moment disguise, if any there had been, was over with
+the most open and frank of human beings, who never even
+transitorily practised it but to keep off evil, or its
+apprehension, from others. He communicated to me now his strong
+view of danger ; not alone that measures might be taken to secure
+my safety, but to spare me any sudden agitation. Alas! none was
+spared to himself! More clearly than any one he anticipated the
+impending tempest, and foreboded its devastating effects.  He
+spoke aloud and strenuously, with prophetic energy, to all with
+whom he was then officially associated but the greater part
+either despaired of resisting the torrent, or disbelieved its
+approach. What deeply interesting scenes crowd upon my
+remembrance, of his noble, his daring, but successless exertions!
+The king's body-guard immediately de service,(259) at that time,
+was the compagnie of the Prince de Poix, a man of the most
+heartfelt loyalty, but who had never served, and who was
+incapable of so great a command at so critical a juncture, from
+utter inexperience.
+
+
+          BONAPARTE'S ADVANCE: CONTEMPLATED MIGRATION FROM PARIS.
+
+At this opening of the famous Hundred Days it seemed to occur to
+no one that Bonaparte would make any attempt upon Paris.  It was
+calmly taken for granted he would
+
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+speedily escape back to Elba, or remain in the south a prisoner -
+and it was only amongst deep or restless politicians that any
+inquietude was manifested with respect to either of these
+results. Madame la Princesse d'Henin, indeed, whom I was in the
+habit of frequently meeting, had an air and Manner that announced
+perturbation ; but her impetuous spirit in politics kept her mind
+always in a state of energy upon public affairs.
+
+But when Bonaparte actually arrived at Lyons the face of affairs
+changed. Expectation was then awakened--consternation began to
+spread; and report went rapidly to her usual work, of now
+exciting nameless terror, and now allaying even reasonable
+apprehension.
+
+To me, every moment became more anxious.  I saw General d'Arblay
+imposing upon himself a severity of service for which he had no
+longer health or strength, and imposing it only the more rigidly
+from the fear that his then beginning weakness and infirmities
+should seem to plead for indulgence. it was thus that he insisted
+upon going through the double duty of artillery officer at the
+barracks, and of officier sup‚rieur in the king's body-guards at
+the Tuileries, The smallest representation to M. le Duc de
+Luxembourg, who had a true value for him, would have procured a
+substitute: but he would not hear me upon such a proposition; he
+would sooner, far, have died at his post, He now almost lived
+either at the Tuileries or at the barracks. I only saw him when
+business or military arrangements brought him home; but he kindly
+sent me billets to appease my suspense every two or three hours.
+
+The project upon Paris became at length obvious, yet its success
+was little feared, though the horrors of a civil war seemed
+inevitable. M. d'Arblay began to wish me away; he made various
+propositions for ensuring my safety; he even pressed me to depart
+for England to rejoin Alexander and my family: but I knew them to
+be in security, whilst my first earthly tie was exposed to every
+species of danger, and I besought him not to force me away. He
+was greatly distressed, but could not oppose my urgency. He
+procured me, however, a passport from M. le Comte de Jaucourt,
+his long attached friend, who was minister aux affaires
+‚trangŠres(260) ad interim, while Talleyrand Perigord was with
+the Congress at Vienna.
+
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+I received it most unwillingly: I could not endure to absent
+myself from the seat of government,-for I little divined how soon
+that government was to change its master. Nevertheless, the
+prudence of this preparatory measure soon became conspicuous, for
+the very following day I heard of nothing but purposed
+emigrations from Paris-retirement, concealment, embarrassments,
+and difficulties.  My sole personal joy was that my younger
+Alexander was far away, and safely lodged in the only country of
+safety.
+
+But, on the 17th, hope again revived. I received these words from
+my best friend, written on a scrap of paper torn from a parcel,
+and brought to me by his groom from the palace of the Tuileries,
+where their writer had passed the night mounting guard:--
+
+"Nous avons de meilleures nouvelles. Je ne puis entrer dans aucun
+d‚tail; mais sois tranquille, et aime bien qui t'aime
+uniquement.(261)  God bless you."
+
+This news hung upon the departure of Marshal Ney to meet
+Bonaparte and stop his progress, with the memorable words uttered
+publicly to the king, that he would bring him to Paris in an iron
+cage. The king at this time positively announced and protested
+that he would never abandon his throne nor quit his capital,
+Paris.
+
+Various of my friends called upon me this day, all believing the
+storm was blowing over. Madame Chastel and her two daughters were
+calm, but, nevertheless, resolved to visit a small terre(262)
+which they possessed, till the metropolis was free from all
+contradictory rumours. Madame de Cadignan preserved her
+imperturbable gaiety and carelessness, and said she should stay,
+happen what might ; for what mischief could befall a poor widow ?
+Her sportive smiles and laughing eyes displayed her security in
+the power of her charms. Madame de Maisonneuve was filled with
+apprehensions for her brothers, who were all in highly
+responsible situations, and determined to remain in Paris to be
+in the midst of them. The Princesse d'Henin came to me daily to
+communicate all the intelligence she gathered from the numerous
+friends and connections through whom she was furnished with
+supplies. Her own plans were incessantly changing, but her
+friendship knew no
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+alteration; and in every various modification of her intentions
+she always offered to include me in their execution, should my
+affairs reduce me, finally, to flight.
+
+Flight, however, was intolerable to my thoughts. I weighed it not
+as saving me from Bonaparte - I could consider it only as
+separating me from all to which my heart most dearly clung.
+Madame d'Henin was undecided whether to go to the north or to the
+south-to Bordeaux or to Brussels ; I could not, therefore, even
+give a direction to M. d'Arblay where I could receive any
+intelligence, and the body-guard of the king was held in utter
+suspense as to its destination. This, also, was unavoidable,
+since the king himself could only be guided by events.
+
+The next day, the 18th of March, all hope disappeared. From
+north, from south, from east, from west, alarm took the field,
+danger flashed its lightnings, and contention growled its
+thunders: yet in Paris there was no rising, no disturbance, no
+confusion--all was taciturn suspense, dark dismay, or sullen
+passiveness. The dread necessity which had reduced the king,
+Louis XVIII., to be placed on his throne by foreigners, would
+have annihilated all enthusiasm of loyalty, if any had been left
+by the long underminings of revolutionary principles.
+
+What a day was *this of gloomy solitude! Not a soul approached
+me, save, for a few moments, my active Madame d'Henin, who came
+to tell me she was preparing to depart, unless a successful
+battle should secure the capital from the conqueror. I now
+promised that if I should ultimately be compelled to fly my home,
+I would thankfully be of her party; and she grasped at this
+engagement with an eagerness that gave proof of her sincere and
+animated friendship. This intimation was balm to the heart of my
+dearest partner, and he wished the measure to be executed and
+expedited; but I besought him, as he valued my existence, not to
+force me away till every other resource was hopeless.
+
+
+                 GENERAL D'ARBLAY'S MILITARY PREPARATIONS.
+
+He passed the day almost wholly at the barracks. When he entered
+his dwelling, in the Rue de Miromenil, it was only upon military
+business, and from that he could spare me scarcely a second. He
+was shut up in his library with continual comers and goers; and
+though I durst not follow
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+him, I could not avoid gathering, from various circumstances,
+that he was now preparing to take the field, in full expectation
+of being sent out with his comrades of the guard, to check the
+rapid progress of the invader.  I knew this to be his earnest
+wish, as the only chance of saving the king and the throne; but
+he well knew it was my greatest dread, though I was always silent
+upon the subject, well aware that while his honour was dearer to
+him than his life, my own sense of duty was dearer to me also
+than mine. While he sought, therefore, to spare me the view of
+his arms and warlike equipage and habiliments, I felt his wisdom
+as well as his kindness, and tried to appear as if I had no
+suspicion of his proceedings, remaining almost wholly in my own
+room, to avoid any accidental surprise, and to avoid paining him
+with the sight of my anguish. I masked it as well as I could for
+the little instant he had from time to time to spare me; but
+before dinner he left me entirely, having to pass the night …
+cheval at the barracks, as he had done the preceding night at the
+Tuileries.
+
+The length of this afternoon, evening, and night was scarcely
+supportable : his broken health, his altered looks, his frequent
+sufferings, and diminished strength, all haunted me with terror,
+in the now advancing prospect of his taking the field. And where?
+And how? No one knew! Yet he was uncertain whether he could even
+see me once more the next day! . . .
+
+I come now to the detail of one of the most dreadful days of my
+existence, the 19th of March, 1815, the last which preceded the
+triumphant return of Bonaparte to the capital of France. Little,
+on its opening, did I imagine that return so near, or believe it
+would be brought about without even any attempted resistance.
+General d'Arblay, more in the way of immediate intelligence, and
+more able to judge of its result, was deeply affected by the most
+gloomy prognostics. He came home at about six in the morning,
+harassed, worn, almost wasted with fatigue, and yet more with a
+baleful view of all around him, and with a sense of wounded
+military honour in the inertia which seemed to paralyze all
+effort to save the king and his cause. He had spent two nights
+following armed on guard, one at the Tuileries, in his duty of
+garde du corps to the king; the other on duty as artillery
+captain at the barracks.  He went to bed for a few hours ; and
+then, after a wretched breakfast in which he
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+briefly narrated the state of things he had witnessed and his
+apprehensions, be conjured me, in the most solemn and earnest
+manner, to yield to the necessity of the times, and consent to
+quit Paris with Madame d'Henin, should she ultimately decide to
+depart. I could not, when I saw his sufferings, endure to augment
+them by any further opposition; but never was acquiescence so
+painful!  To lose even the knowledge whither he went, or the
+means of acquainting him whither I might go myself--to be
+deprived of the power to join him, should he be made prisoner--or
+to attend him, should he be wounded. . . .  I could not pronounce
+my consent; but he accepted it so decidedly in my silence, that
+he treated it as arranged, and hastened its confirmation by
+assuring me I had relieved his mind from a weight of care and
+distress nearly intolerable.  As the wife of an officer in the
+king's body-guard, in actual service, I might be seized, he
+thought, as a kind of hostage, and might probably fare all the
+worse for being also an Englishwoman.
+
+He then wrote a most touching note to the Princesse d'Henin,
+supplicating her generous friendship to take the charge not only
+of my safety, but of supporting and consoling me.
+
+After this, he hurried back to the Tuileries for orders,
+apparently more composed; and that alone enabled me to sustain my
+so nearly compulsory and so repugnant agreement. His return was
+speedy: he came, as he had departed, tolerably composed, for he
+had secured me a refuge, and he had received orders to prepare to
+march--to Melun, he concluded, to encounter Bonaparte, and to
+battle; for certain news had arrived of the invader's rapid
+approach. . . . at half-past two; at noon it was expected that
+the body-guard would be put in motion. Having told me this
+history, he could not spare me another moment till that which
+preceded his leaving home to join the Due de Luxembourg's
+company. He then came to me, with an air of assumed serenity, and
+again, in the most kindly, soothing terms, called upon me to give
+him an example of courage. I obeyed his injunction with my best
+ability-yet how dreadful was our parting!  We knelt together in
+short but fervent prayer to heaven for each other's preservation,
+and then separated.  At the door he turned back, and with a smile
+which, though forced, had inexpressible sweetness, he half gaily
+exclaimed, "Vive le roi!"  I instantly caught his wise
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+wish that we should part with apparent cheerfulness, and reechoed
+his words-and then he darted from my sight.
+
+This had passed in an ante-room ; but I then retired to my
+bedchamber, where, all effort over, I remained for some minutes
+abandoned to an affliction nearly allied to despair, though
+rescued from it by fervent devotion.
+
+But an idea then started into my mind that yet again I might
+behold him. I ran to a window which looked upon the inward
+court-yard. There, indeed, behold him I did, but oh, with what
+anguish ! just mounting his war-horse, a noble animal, of which
+he was singularly fond, but which at this moment I viewed with
+acutest terror, for it seemed loaded with pistols, and equipped
+completely for immediate service on the field of battle; while
+Deprez, the groom, prepared to mount another, and our cabriolet
+was filled with baggage and implements of war.
+
+I could not be surprised, since I knew the destination of the
+general ; but so carefully had he spared me the progress of his
+preparations, which he thought would be killing me by inches,
+that I had not the most distant idea he was thus armed and
+encircled with instruments of death-bayonets, lances, pistols,
+guns, sabres, daggers !-what horror assailed me at the sight! I
+had only so much sense and self-control left as to crawl softly
+and silently away, that I might not inflict upon him the
+suffering of beholding my distress - but when he had passed the
+windows, I opened them to look after him.  The street was empty -
+the gay constant gala of a Parisian Sunday was changed into
+fearful solitude : no sound was heard, but that of here and there
+some hurried footstep, on one hand hastening for a passport to
+secure safety by flight ; on the other, rushing abruptly from or
+to some concealment, to devise means of accelerating and hailing
+the entrance of the conqueror.  Well in tune with this air of an
+impending crisis, was my miserable mind, which from grief little
+short of torture sunk, at its view, into a state of morbid quiet,
+that seemed the produce of feelings totally exhausted.
+
+
+                  PREPARATIONS FOR FLIGHT: LEAVE-TAKINGS.
+
+Thus I continued, inert, helpless, motionless, till the Princesse
+d'Henin came into my apartment. Her first news was, that
+Bonaparte had already reached CompiŠgne, and that to-morrow, the
+20th of March, he might arrive in Paris, if the
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+army of the king stopped not his progress.  It was now necessary
+to make a prompt decision; my word was given, and I agreed to
+accompany her whithersoever she fixed to go. She was STILL
+hesitating; but it was settled I should join her in the evening,
+bag and baggage, and partake of her destination. . . .
+
+I was now sufficiently roused for action, and my first return to
+conscious understanding was a desire to call in and pay every
+bill that might be owing, as well as the rent of our apartments
+up to the present moment, that no pretence might be assumed from
+our absence for disposing of our goods, books, or property of any
+description. As we never had any avoidable debts, this was soon
+settled ; but the proprietor of the house was thunderstruck by
+the measure, saying, the king had reiterated his proclamation
+that he would not desert his capital.  I could only reply that
+the general was at his majesty's orders, and that my absence
+Would be short.  I then began collecting our small portion of
+plate, etc.; but while thus occupied, I received a message from
+Madame d'Henin, to tell me I must bring nothing but a small
+change of linen, and one band-box, as by the news she had just
+heard, she was convinced we should be back again in two or three
+days, and she charged me to be with her in an hour from that
+time. I did what she directed, and put what I most valued, that
+was not too large, into a hand-basket, made by some French
+prisoners in England, that had been given me by my beloved friend
+Mrs. Locke. I then swallowed, standing, my neglected dinner, and,
+with Madame Deprez, and my small allowance of baggage, I got into
+a fiacre, and drove to General Victor de la Tour Maubourg, to bid
+adieu to my dearest Madame de Maisonneuve, and her family.
+
+It was about nine o'clock at night, and very dark. I sent on
+Madame Deprez to the princess, and charged her not to return to
+summon me till the last moment. The distance was small.
+
+I found the -house of the Marquis Victor de la Tour Maubourg in a
+state of the most gloomy dismay. No portier was in the way, but
+the door of the porte CocHŠre was ajar, and I entered on foot, no
+fiacre being ever admitted into les cours des h“Tels. Officers
+and strangers were passing to and fro, some to receive, others to
+resign commissions, but all with quick steps, though in dead
+silence. Not a servant was in the way, and hardly any light; all
+seemed in disorder.
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+groped along till I came to the drawing-room, in which were
+several people, waiting for orders, or for an audience ; but in
+no communication with each other, for here, also, a dismal
+taciturnity prevailed, From my own disturbance, joined to my
+short-sightedness, I was some time ere I distinguished Madame
+Victor de la Tour Maubourg, and when at last I saw her, I
+ventured not to address or to approach her.  She was at a table,
+endeavouring to make some arrangement, or package, or
+examination, with papers and boxes before her, but deluged in
+tears, which flowed so fast that she appeared to have
+relinquished all effort to restrain them, And this was the more
+affecting to witness, as she is eminently equal and cheerful in
+her disposition.  I kept aloof, and am not certain that she even
+perceived me.  The general was in his own apartment, transacting
+military business of moment.  But no sooner was I espied by my
+dearest Madame de Maisonneuve, than I was in her kind arms. She
+took me apart to reveal to me that the advance of the late
+emperor was still more rapid than its report. All were quitting
+Paris, or resigning themselves to passive submission.  For
+herself, she meant to abide by whatever should be the destination
+of her darling brother Victor, who was now finishing a commission
+that no longer could be continued, of raising volunteers-for
+there was no longer any royal army for them to join ! Whether the
+king would make a stand at the Tuileries, as he had unhappily
+promised, or whether he would fly, was yet unknown ; but General
+Victor de Maubourg was now going to equip himself in full
+uniform, that he might wait upon his majesty in person, decidedly
+fixed to take his orders, be they what they might.
+
+With danger thus before him, in his mutilated state, having
+undergone an amputation of the leg and thigh on the field of
+battle, who can wonder at the desolation of Madame Victor when he
+resolved to sustain the risk of such an offer?  Presently, what
+was my emotion at the sudden and abrupt entrance into the room of
+an officer of the king's garde du corps! in the self-same uniform
+as that from which I had parted with such anguish in the morning!
+A transitory hope glanced like lightning upon my brain, with an
+idea that the body-guard was all at hand; but as evanescent as
+bright was the flash! The concentrated and mournful look of the
+officer assured me nothing genial was awaiting me - and when the
+next minute we recognized each other, I saw it was the Count
+Charles de la Tour Maubourg, the youngest brother of Madame de
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+Maisonneuve; and he then told me he had a note for me from M.
+d'Arblay.
+
+Did I breathe then? i think not! I grasped the paper in my hand,
+but a mist was before my eyes, and I could not read a word.
+Madame de Maisonneuve held a hurried conference with her brother,
+and then informed me that the body-guard was all. called out) the
+whole four companies, with their servants, equipage, arms and
+horses, to accompany and protect the king in his flight from
+Paris! But whither he would go, or with what intent, whether of
+battle or of escape, had not been announced. The Count Charles
+had obtained leave of absence for one hour to see his wife
+(Mademoiselle de Lafayette) and his children; but M. d'Arblay,
+who belonged to the artillery company, could not be spared even a
+moment. He had therefore seized a cover of a letter of M. de
+Bethizy, the commandant, to write me a few words.
+
+I now read them, and found--
+
+"Ma chŠre amie--Tout est perdu! je ne puis entrer dans aucun
+d‚tail--de grƒce, partez! le plut“t sera le mieux. A la vie et …
+la mort, A. D'A."(263)
+
+Scarcely had I read these lines, when I was told that Madame
+d'Henin had sent me a summons. I now could but embrace my Madame
+de Maisonneuve in silence, and depart. . . .
+
+
+                        ARISTOCRATIC IRRITABILITY.
+
+Arrived at Madame la Princesse d'Henin's, all was in a
+perturbation yet greater than what I had left, though not equally
+afflicting. Madame d'Henin was so little herself, that every
+moment presented a new view of things, and urged her impatiently,
+nay imperiously, to differ from whatever was offered.
+
+Now she saw instantly impending danger, and was for precipitate
+flight; now she saw fearless security, and determined not to move
+a step ; the next moment all was alarm again, and she wanted
+wings for speed - and the next, the smallest apprehension
+awakened derision and contempt. I, who had never yet seen her but
+all that was elegant, rational, and kind, was thunderstruck by
+this effect of threatening
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+evil upon her high and susceptible spirit. From manners of
+dignified serenity, she so lost all self-possession as to answer
+nearly with fury whatever was not acquiescent concurrence in her
+opinion: from sentiments of the most elevated nobleness she was
+urged, by every report that opposed her expectations, to the
+utterance of wishes and of assertions that owed their impulse to
+passion, and their foundation to prejudice ; and from having
+sought, with the most flattering partiality, to attach me to her
+party, she gave me the severe shock of intimating that my joining
+her confused all er measures.
+
+To change my plan now was impossible ; my husband and my best
+friends knew me to be with her, and could seek me, or bestow
+information upon me, in no other direction; I had given up my own
+home, and to return thither, or to stay any where in Paris, was
+to constitute myself a prisoner: nevertheless, it was equally a
+sorrow and a violence to my feelings to remain with her another
+moment after so astonishing a reproach. Displeasure at it,
+however, subsided, when I found that it proceeded neither from
+weakened regard, nor a wanton abuse of power, but from a mind
+absolutely disorganized.
+
+M. le Comte de Lally Tolendal, the Cicero of France, and most
+eloquent man of his day, and one of the most honourable, as well
+as most highly gifted, was, I now found, to be of our fugitive
+party.  He was her admiring and truly devoted friend, and by many
+believed to be privately married to her. I am myself of that
+opinion, and that the union, on account of prior and unhappy
+circumstances, was forborne to be avowed.  Certainly their mutual
+conduct warranted this conclusion. Nevertheless, his whole
+demeanour towards her announced the most profound respect as well
+as attachment ; and hers to him the deepest consideration, with a
+delight in his talents amounting to an adoration that met his for
+her noble mind and winning qualities.  She wanted, however,
+despotically to sway him ; and little as he might like the
+submission she required, he commonly yielded, to avoid, as I
+conceive, the dangerous conjectures to which dissension might
+make them liable.
+
+But at this moment, revolutionary terrors and conflicting
+sensations robbed each of them of that self-command which till
+now had regulated their public intercourse.  She, off all guard,
+let loose alike the anxious sensibility and the arbitrary
+impetuosity of her nature: he, occupied with too mighty a trouble
+to have time or care for his wonted watchful
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+attentions, heard alike her admonitions or lamentations with an
+air of angry, but silent displeasure ; or, when urged too
+pointedly for maintaining his taciturnity, retorted her
+reproaches or remarks with a vehemence that seemed the echo of
+her own. Yet in the midst of this unguarded contention, which had
+its secret incitement, I doubt not, from some cruelly opposing
+difference of feelings--of ideas upon the present momentous
+crisis, nothing could be more clear than that their attachment to
+each other, though it could not subdue their violent tempers,
+was, nevertheless, the predominant passion of their souls.
+
+
+                     THE COUNTESS D'AUCH'S COMPOSURE.
+
+The turbulence of these two animated characters upon this trying
+occasion was strongly contrasted by the placid suffering and
+feminine endurance of Madame la Comtesse d'Auch, the daughter and
+sole heiress and descendant of M. de Lally. Her husband, like
+mine, was in the body-guard of Louis XVIII., and going, or gone,
+no one knew whither, nor with what intent; her estate and
+property were all near Bordeaux, and her little children were
+with her at Paris.  The difficult task, in the great uncertainty
+of events, was now hers to decide, whether to seek the same
+refuge that her father and Madame Henin should resolve upon
+seeking, or whether to run every personal risk in trying to save
+her lands and fortune from confiscation, by traversing, with only
+her babies and servants, two or three hundred miles, to reach her
+chateau at Auch ere it might be seized by the conquering party.
+Quietly, and in total silence, she communed with herself, not
+mixing in the discourse, nor seeming to heed the disturbance
+around her; but, when at length applied to, her resolution, from
+her Own concentrated meditations, was fixedly taken, to preserve,
+if possible, by her exertions and courage, the property of her
+absent and beloved husband, for his hoped return and for her
+children. This steadiness and composure called not forth any
+imitation. M. de Lally breathed hard with absolute agony of
+internal debate; and Madame d'Henin now declared she was sure all
+would blow over in a false alarm, and that she would not hesitate
+any longer between Brussels and Bordeaux, but remain quietly in
+Paris, and merely sit up all night to be on the watch.
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+                   RUMOURS OF BONAPARTE'S NEAR APPROACH.
+
+M. de Lally determined to go now in person to the Tuileries, to
+procure such information as might decide his shattered and
+irresolute friend.  When he was gone, a total silence ensued.
+Madame d'Auch was absorbed in her fearful enterprise, and Madame
+d'Henin, finding no one opposed her (for my thoughts were with no
+one present), walked up and down the room, with hasty movement,
+as if performing some task. Various persons came and went,
+messengers, friends, or people upon business. She seized upon
+them all, impatiently demanding their news, and their opinions,
+but so volubly, at the same time, uttering her own, as to give
+them no time to reply, though as they left her, too much hurried
+themselves to wait her leisure for listening, she indignantly
+exclaimed against their stupidity and insensibility.
+
+But what a new and terrible commotion was raised in her mind, in
+that of Madame d'Auch, and in mine, upon receiving a pencil
+billet from M. de Lally, brought by a confidential servant, to
+announce that Bonaparte was within a few hours' march of Paris!
+He begged her to hasten off, and said he would follow in his
+cabriolet when he had made certain arrangements, and could gain
+some information as to the motions of the king.
+
+She now instantly ordered horses to her berlin,(264) which had
+long been loaded, and calling up all her people and dependants,
+was giving her orders with the utmost vivacity, when intelligence
+was brought her that no horses could now be had, the government
+having put them all in requisition. I was struck with horror. To
+be detained in Paris, the seat of impending conquest, and the
+destined capital of the conqueror--detained a helpless prisoner,
+where all would be darkly unknown to me, where Truth could find
+no entrance, Falsehood no detection--where no news could reach
+me, except news that was fatal--oh! what dire feelings were mine
+at this period!
+
+Madame d'Auch, who had taken her precautions, instantly though
+sadly, went away, to secure her own carriage, and preserve her
+little babies.
+
+
+                    DEPARTURE FROM PARIS AT NIGHT TIME.
+
+Madame d'Henin was now almost distracted, but this dreadful
+prospect of indefinite detention, with all the horrors
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+of captivity, lasted not long: Le Roy, her faithful domestic from
+his childhood, prevailed upon some stable friend to grant the use
+of his horses for one stage from Paris, and the berlin and four
+was at the porte cochŠre in another moment, The servants and
+dependants of Madame d'Henin accompanied her to the carriage in
+tears ; and all her fine qualities were now unmixed, as she took
+an affectionate leave of them, with a sweetness the most
+engaging, suffering the women to kiss her cheek, and smiling
+kindly on the men, who kissed her robe. Vivacity like hers
+creates alarm, but, in France, breeds no resentment ; and where,
+like hers, the character is eminently noble and generous, it is
+but considered as a mark of conscious rank, and augments rather
+than diminishes personal devotion.
+
+We now rushed into the carriage, averse, yet eager, between ten
+and eleven o'clock at night, 19th March, 1815. As Madame d'Henin
+had a passport for herself, et sa famille, we resolved to keep
+mine in reserve, in case of accidents or separation, and only to
+produce hers, while I should be included in its privileges. The
+decision for our route was for Brussels ; the femme de chambre of
+Madame d'Henin-within, and the valet, Le Roy, outside the
+carriage, alone accompanied us, with two postilions for the four
+horses. Madame d'Henin, greatly agitated, spoke from time to
+time, though rather in ejaculations upon our flight, its
+uncertainties and alarms, than with any view to conversation; but
+if she had any answer, it was of simple acquiescence from her
+good and gentle femme de chambre; as to me . . . I could not
+utter a word--my husband on his war-horse--his shattered state of
+health--his long disuse to military service, yet high-wrought
+sense of military honour--all these were before me.  I saw,
+heard, and was conscious of nothing else, till we arrived at Le
+Bourget,(265) a long, straggling, small town.  And here, Madame
+d'Henin meant to stop, or at least change horses.
+
+
+                           A HALT AT LE BOURGET.
+
+But all was still, and dark, and shut up. It was the dead of
+night, and no sort of alarm seemed to disturb the inhabitants
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+of the place.  We knocked at the first inn: but after waiting a
+quarter of an hour, some stable-man came Out to say there was not
+a room vacant. The same reply was with the same delay given us at
+two other inns; but, finally, we were more successful, though
+even then we could obtain only a single apartment, with three
+beds.  These we appropriated for Madame d'Henin, myself, and her
+maid; and the men-servants were obliged to content themselves
+with mattresses in the kitchen. The town, probably, was filled
+with fugitives from Paris.
+
+A supper was directly provided, but Madame d'Henin, who now again
+repented having hurried off, resolved upon sending her faithful
+Le Roy back to the metropolis, to discover whether it were
+positively true that the king had quitted it, He hired a horse,
+and we then endeavoured to repose . . . but oh, how far from me
+was all possibility of obtaining it!
+
+About three in the morning M. de Lally overtook us. His
+information was immediately conveyed to the Princesse d'Henin.
+It was gloomily affrighting.  The approach of Bonaparte was
+wholly unresisted; all bowed before, that did not spring forward
+to meet him.
+
+Le Roy returned about six in the morning. The king, and his
+guards, and his family, had all suddenly left Paris, but whither
+had not transpired.  He was preceded, encircled, and followed by
+his four companies of body-guards.
+
+Horror and distress at such a flight and such uncertainty were
+not mine only, though circumstances rendered mine the most
+poignant; but M. de Lally had a thousand fears for the excellent
+and loved husband of his daughter, M. le Comte d'Auch; and Madame
+d'Henin trembled, for herself and all her family, at the danger
+of the young Hombert La Tour du Pin.
+
+
+                           THE JOURNEY RESUMED.
+
+No longer easy to be so near Paris, we hastily prepared to get on
+for Brussels, our destined harbour. M. de Lally now accompanied
+us, followed by his valet in a cabriolet. Our journey commenced
+in almost total silence on all parts: the greatness of the change
+of government thus marvellously effecting, the impenetrable
+uncertainty of coming events, and our dreadful ignorance of the
+fate of those most precious to us, who were involved in the deeds
+and the consequences
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+of immediate action, filled every mind too awfully for speech and
+our sole apparent attention was to the passengers we overtook, or
+by whom we were overtaken.
+
+These were so few, that I think we could not count half a dozen
+on our way to Senlis, and those seemed absorbed in deadly thought
+and silence, neither looking at us, nor caring to encounter our
+looks.  The road, the fields, the hamlets, all appeared deserted.
+Desolate and lone was the universal air. I have since concluded
+that the people of these parts had separated into two divisions;
+one of which had hastily escaped, to save their lives and
+loyalty, while the other had hurried to the capital to greet the
+conqueror - for this was Sunday,(266) the 20th of March.
+
+Oh, what were my sensations on passing through Senlis Senlis, so
+lately fixed for my three months' abode with my general, during
+his being de service. When we stopped at a nearly empty inn,
+during the change of horses, I inquired after Madame Le Quint,
+and some other ladies who had been prepared to kindly receive
+me--but they were all gone! hastily they had quitted the town,
+which, like its environs, had an air of being generally
+abandoned.
+
+The desire of obtaining intelligence made Madame d'Henin most
+unwilling to continue a straightforward journey, that must
+separate her more and more from the scene of action. M. de Lally
+wished to see his friend the young Duc d'Orl‚ans,(267) who was at
+Peronne, with his sister and part of his family; and he was
+preparing to gratify this desire, when a discussion relative to
+the danger of some political misconstruction, the duke being at
+that time upon ill terms with Monsieur, Comte d'Artois,(268) made
+him relinquish his purpose. We wandered about, however, I hardly
+know where, save that we stopped from time to time at small
+hovels in which resided tenants of the Prince or of the Princess
+de Poix, who received Madame d'Henin with as much devotion of
+attachment as they could have done in the fullest splendour of
+her power to reward their kindness ; though with an entire
+familiarity of discourse that, had I been new to French Customs,
+would have seemed to me marks of total loss of respect. But after
+a ten years' unbroken residence in France,
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+I was too well initiated in the ways of the dependants Upon the
+great belonging to their own tenantry, to make a mistake so
+unjust to their characters.  We touched, as I think, at Noailles,
+at St. just, at Mouchy, and at Poix--but I am only sure we
+finished the day by arriving at Roy, where still the news of that
+day was unknown. What made it travel so slowly I cannot tell; but
+from utter dearth of all the intelligence by which we meant to be
+guided, we remained, languidly and helplessly, at Roy till the
+middle of the following Monday,(269) the 21st March.
+
+About that time some military entered the town and our inn. We
+durst not ask a single question, in our uncertainty to which side
+they belonged ; but the four horses were hastily ordered, since
+to decamp seemed what was most necessary. But Brussels was no
+longer the indisputable spot, as the servants Overheard some
+words that implied a belief that Louis XVIII. was quitting France
+to return to his old asylum, England.  It was determined,
+therefore, though not till after a tumultuous debate between the
+princess and M. de Lally, to go straight to Amiens, where the
+prefect, M. Lameth, was a former friend, if not connection, of
+the princess.
+
+We had now to travel by a cross-road, and a very bad one, and it
+was not till night that we arrived at the suburbs. It was here
+first we met with those difficulties that announced, by vigilance
+with disturbance, a kind of suspended government; for the
+officers of the police who demanded our passports were evidently
+at a loss whether to regard them as valid or not.  Their
+interrogatories, meanwhile, were endless; and, finally, they
+desired us, as it was so late and dark, to find ourselves a
+lodging in the suburbs, and not enter the city of Amiens till the
+next morning.
+
+Clouded as were alike our perceptions and our information, we
+could not but be aware of the danger of to-morrow, when our
+entrance might be of a sort to make our exit prohibited. Again
+followed a tumultuous debate, which ended in the hazardous
+resolve of appealing to the prefect and casting ourselves upon
+his protection. This appeal ended all inquisition : we were
+treated with deference, and accommodated in a decent room, while
+the passports of Madame d'Henin and of M. de Lally were forwarded
+to the prefecture. We remained here some time in the utmost
+stillness, no one pronouncing a word. We knew not who might
+listen, nor
+
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+with what ears !  But far from still was all within, because far
+from confident how the prefect might judge necessary to arrest,
+or to suffer our proceeding further. The answer was, at length,
+an order to the police officers to let us enter the city and be
+conducted to an hotel named by M. Lameth.
+
+
+                   A SUPPER AT AmIENS WITH THE PREFECT.
+
+We had an immensely long drive through the city of Amiens ere we
+came to the indicated hotel.  But here Madame d'Henin found a
+note that was delivered to her by the secretary of the
+prefecture, announcing the intention of the prefect to have the
+honour of waiting upon her; and when M. Lameth was announced, M.
+de Lally and I retired to our several chambers.
+
+Her tˆte-…-tˆte with him was very long, and ended in a summons to
+M. de Lally to make it a trio.  This interview was longer still,
+and my anxiety for the news with which it might terminate
+relative to the king, the body-guard, and our detention or
+progression, was acute. At length I also was summoned.
+
+Madame d'Henin came out to me upon the landing-place, hastily and
+confusedly, to say that the prefect did not judge proper to
+receive her at the prefecture, but that he would stay and sup
+with her, and that I was to pass for her premiŠre femme de
+chambre, as it would not be prudent to give in my name, though it
+had been made known to M. Lameth; but the wife of an officer so
+immediately in the service of the king must not be specified as
+the host of a prefect, if that prefect meant , to yield to the
+tide of a new government. Tide? Nay, torrent it was at this
+moment ; and any resistance that had not been previously
+organized, and with military force, must have been vain. I made,
+however, no inquiry. I was simply acquiescent; and, distantly
+following Madame d'Henin, remained at the end of the room while
+the servants and the waiters adjusted matters for supper.
+
+In a situation of such embarrassment I never before was placed. I
+knew not which way to look, nor what to do. Discovery at such a
+crisis might have been fatal, as far as might hang upon
+detention; and detention, which would rob me of all means of
+hearing of M. d'Arblay, should I gather what was his route, and
+be able to write to him, was death to my peace. I regretted I had
+not demanded to stay in
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+another room; but, in such heart-piercing moments, to be in the
+way of intelligence is the involuntary first movement.
+
+When all was arranged, and Madame d'Henin was seated M. de Lally
+set a chair for me, slightly bowing to me to take it. I complied,
+and supper began. I was helped, of course the last, and not once
+spoken to by any body. The repast' was not very gay, yet by no
+means dejected. The conversation was upon general topics, and M.
+de Lameth was entirely master of himself, seeming wholly without
+emotion.
+
+I was afterwards informed that news had just reached him, but not
+officially, that Bonaparte had returned to Paris. Having heard,
+therefore, nothing from the new government he was able to act as
+if there were none such, and he kindly obliged Madame d'Henin by
+giving her new passports, which should the conquest be confirmed,
+would be safer than passports from the ministers of Louis XVIII.
+at Paris. . . .
+
+M. Lameth could not, however, answer for retaining his powers,
+nor for what might be their modification even from hour to hour:
+he advised us, therefore, by no means to risk his being either
+replaced or restrained, but to get on as fast as possible with
+his passports while certain they were efficient. He thought it
+safer, also, to make a circuit than to go back again to the
+high-road we had quitted. Our design of following the king, whom
+we imagined gaining the sea-coast to embark for England, was
+rendered abortive from the number of contradictory accounts which
+had reached M. Lameth as to the route he had taken.  Brussels,
+therefore, became again our point of desire; but M. Lameth
+counselled us to proceed for the moment to Arras, where M. --- (I
+forget his name) would aid us either to proceed, or to change,
+according to circumstances, our destination.  Not an instant,
+however, was to be lost, lest M. Lameth should be forced himself
+to detain us.  Horses, therefore, he ordered for us, and a guide
+across the country for Arras.
+
+I learnt nothing of this till we re-entered our carriage. The
+servants and waiters never quitted the room, and the prefect had
+as much his own safety to guard
+ from ill construction or report as ours. Madame d'Henin, though
+rouged the whole time with confusion, never ventured to address a
+word to me. It was, indeed, more easy to be silent than to speak
+to me either with a tone of condescension or of command, and any
+other must have been suspicious. M. de
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+Lally was equally dumb, but active in holding out every plat to
+me, though always looking another way. M. Lameth eyed me with
+curiosity, but had no resource against surmise save that adopted
+by Madame d'Henin. However, he had the skill and the politeness
+to name, in the course of the repast, M. d'Arblay, as if
+accidentally, yet with an expression of respect and distinction,
+carefully, as he spoke, turning his eyes from mine, though it was
+the only time that, voluntarily, he would have met them.
+
+The horses being ready, M. Lameth took leave.
+
+
+
+                   RECEPTION AT THE PREFECTURE AT ARRAS.
+
+It was now about eleven at night. The road was of the roughest
+sort, and we were jerked up and down the ruts so as with
+difficulty to keep our seats : it was also very dark, and the
+drivers could not help frequently going out of their way, though
+the guide, groping on upon such occasions on foot, soon set them
+right.  It was every way a frightful night. Misery, both public
+and private, oppressed us all, and the fear of pursuit and
+captivity had the gloomy effect of causing general taciturnity ;
+so that no kind voice, nor social suggestion, diverted the sense
+of danger, or excited one of hope.
+
+At what hour we arrived at Arras on Wednesday, the 22nd March, I
+cannot tell; but we drove straight to the prefecture, a very
+considerable mansion, surrounded with spacious grounds and
+gardens, which to me, nevertheless, had a bleak, flat, and
+desolate air, though the sun was brightly shining. We stopped at
+the furthest of many gates on the high road, while madame sent in
+to M. -- (I forget his name) the note with which we had been
+favoured by M. Lameth.  The answer was a most courteous
+invitation of entrance, and the moment the carriage stopped at
+the great door of the portico, the prefect, M. -, hastened out to
+give Madame d'Henin le bras. He was an old soldier and in full
+uniform, and he came to us from a battalion drawn out in array on
+one side the park. Tall, and with still a goodly port, though
+with a face worn and weather-beaten, he had the air of a
+gentleman as well as of a general officer - and the open and
+hospitable smile with which he received the princess, while
+bareheaded and baldheaded he led her into his palace, diffused a
+welcome around that gave an involuntary cheeriness even to poor
+dejected me. How indescribably gifted is the human face Y
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+divine," in those who are invested with power, to transmit Or to
+blight comfort even by a glance!
+
+As Madame d'Henin demanded a private audience, I know not what
+passed; but I have reason to believe we were the first who
+brought news to Arras that approached to the truth of the actual
+position of Paris.  M. Lameth, for Political reasons, had as
+studiously avoided naming M. de Lally as myself in his note .-
+but M. de Lally was treated by the mistress of the house with the
+distinction due to a gentleman travelling with the princess ; and
+as to me, some of the younger branches of the family took me
+under their protection, and very kind they were, showing me the
+garden, library, and views of the surrounding country.
+
+
+                   A CHEERFUL DEJEUNER SOMEWHAT RUFFLED.
+
+Meanwhile, an elegant breakfast was prepared for a large company,
+a review having been ordered for that morning, and several
+general officers being invited by the prefect.  This repast had a
+cheerfulness that to me, an Englishwoman, was unaccountable and
+is indefinable. The king had been compelled to fly his capital ,
+no one knew where he was seeking shelter; no one knew whether he
+meant to resign his crown in hopeless inaction, or whether to
+contest it in sanguinary civil war.  Every family, therefore,
+with its every connection in the whole empire of the French, was
+involved in scenes upon which hung prosperity or adversity,
+reputation or disgrace, honour or captivity ; yet at such a
+crisis the large assembled family met with cheerfulness, the many
+guests were attended to with politeness, and the goodly fare of
+that medley of refreshments called a d‚jeuner in France was met
+with appetites as goodly as its incitements.
+
+This could not be from insensibility; the French are anything
+rather than insensible : it could not be from attachment to
+Bonaparte, the prefect loudly declaring his devotion to Louis
+XVIII.  I can only, therefore, attribute it to the long
+revolutionary state of the French mind, as well as nation, which
+had made it so familiar to insurrection, change, and incertitude,
+that they met it as a man meets some unpleasant business which he
+must unavoidably transact, and which, since he has no choice to
+get rid of, he resolves to get through to the best of his
+ability.
+
+We were still, however, smelling sweet flowers and regaled
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+with fine fruits, when this serenity was somewhat ruffled by the
+arrival of the commander of the forces which had been reviewed,
+or destined for review, I know not which. He took the prefect
+aside, and they were some time together. He then, only bowing to
+the ladies of the house, hastened off. The prefect told us the
+news that imperfectly arrived was very bad, but he hoped a stand
+would be made against any obstinate revolt ; and he resolved to
+assemble every officer and soldier belonging to his government,
+and to call upon each separately to take again, and solemnly, his
+oath of allegiance. . While preparing for this ceremony the
+commander again returned, and told him he had positive
+information that the. defection was spreading, and that whole
+troops and' companies were either sturdily waiting in inaction,
+or boldly marching on to meet the conqueror.
+
+
+                             A LOYAL PREFECT.
+
+Our table was now broken up, and we were wishing to depart ere
+official intimation from the capital might arrest our further
+progress - but our horses were still too tired, and no others
+were to be procured. We became again very uneasy, and uneasiness
+began to steal upon all around us.  The prefect was engaged in
+perpetual little groups of consultation, chiefly with general
+officers, who came and went with incessant bustle, and
+occasionally and anxiously were joined by persons of consequence
+of the vicinity.  The greater the danger appeared, the more
+intrepidly the brave old prefect declared his loyalty ; yet he
+was advised by all parties to give up his scheme till he knew
+whether the king himself 'made a stand in his own cause. $
+
+He yielded reluctantly; and when Madame d'Henin found his steady
+adhesion to his king, she came up to him and said, that, finding
+the firmness of his devotion to Louis XVIII., she was sure it
+would give him pleasure to know he had at that moment under his
+roof the wife of a general officer in the actual escort of his
+majesty.  He instantly came to me with a benevolent smile, and we
+had a conversation of deep Interest upon the present state of
+things.  I had the heartfelt satisfaction to find that my
+honoured husband was known to him, not alone by reputation, but
+personally; and to find that, and to hear his praise, has always
+been one and the same thing. Alas! those sounds on these sad ears
+vibrate no
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+more!.....At length, however, about noon, we set off, accompanied
+by the prefect and all his family to our carriage.
+
+
+                       EMBLEMS OF LOYALTY AT DOUAY.
+
+At Douay, we had the satisfaction to see still stronger outward
+marks of attachment to the king and his cause, for in every
+street through which we passed, the windows were decked with
+emblems of faithfulness to the Bourbon dynasty, white flags, or
+ribands, or, handkerchiefs. All, however, without commotion, all
+was a simple manifestation of respect, No insurrection was
+checked, for none had been excited - no mob was dispersed, for
+scarcely any one seemed to venture from his house.
+
+Our intention was to quit the French territory that night, and
+sleep in more security at Tournay ; but the roads became so bad,
+and our horses grew so tired, that it was already dark before we
+reached Orchies. M. de Lally went on from Douay in his cabriolet,
+to lighten our weight, as Madame d'Henin had a good deal of
+baggage. We were less at our ease, while thus perforce travelling
+slower, to find the roads, as we proceeded from Douay, become
+more peopled. Hitherto they had seemed nearly a blank. We now
+began, also, to be met, or to be overtaken, by small parties of
+troops. We naturally looked out with earnestness on each side, to
+discover to whom or to what they belonged : but the compliment of
+a similar curiosity on their part was all we gained. Sometimes
+they called out a "Vive--" but without finishing their wish; and
+we repeated--that is, we bowed to--the same hailing exclamation,
+without knowing or daring to inquire its purport.
+
+
+                     STATE OF UNCERTAINTY AT ORCHIES.
+
+At Orchies, where we arrived rather late in the evening, we first
+found decided marks of a revolutionary state of things. No orders
+were sent by either party. The king and his government were too
+imminently in personal danger to assert their rights, or retain
+their authority for directing the provinces; Bonaparte and his
+followers and supporters were too much engrossed by taking
+possession of the capital, and too uncertain of their success, to
+try a power which had as yet no basis, or risk a disobedience
+which they had no means to resent. The people, as far as we could
+see or learn
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+seemed passively waiting the event ; and the constituted
+authorities appeared to be self-suspended from their functions
+till the droit des plus fort(270) should ascertain who were their
+masters.  Nevertheless, while we waited at Orchies for horses,
+news arrived by straggling parties which, though only whispered,
+created evidently some disturbance - a sort of wondering
+expectation soon stared from face to face, asking by the eye what
+no one durst pronounce by the voice; what does all this portend?
+and for what ought we to prepare?
+
+
+                           A MISHAP ON THE ROAD.
+
+it was past eleven o'clock, and the night was dark and damp, ere
+we could get again into our carriages - but the increasing bustle
+warned us off, and a nocturnal journey had nothing to appal us
+equally with the danger of remaining. We eagerly, therefore, set
+off, but we were still in the suburbs of Orchies, when a call for
+help struck our ears, and the berlin stopped.  It was so dark, we
+could not at first discern what was the matter, but we soon found
+that the carriage of M. de Lally had broken down. Madame d'Henin
+darted out of the berlin with the activity of fifteen. Her maid
+accompanied her, and I eagerly followed.
+
+Neither M. de Lally nor his man had received any injury, but the
+cabriolet could no longer proceed without being repaired.  The
+groom was sent to discover the nearest blacksmith, who came soon
+to examine the mischief, and declared that it could not be
+remedied before daylight.  We were forced to submit the vehicle
+to his decree - but our distress what to do with ourselves was
+now very serious.  We knew there was no accommodation for us at
+the inn we had 'just quitted, but that of passing the night by
+the kitchen fire, exposed to all the hazards of suspicious
+observation upon our evident flight. To remain upon the high road
+stationary in our berlin might, at such a period, encompass us
+with dangers yet more serious.
+
+
+                        A KINDLY OFFER OF SHELTER.
+
+We were yet unresolved, when a light from the windows of a small
+house attracted our attention, and a door was opened, at which a
+gentlewoman somewhat more than elderly stood, with a candle in
+her hand, that lighted up a face full of
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+benevolence, in which was painted strong compassion on the view
+of our palpable distress. Her countenance encouraged us to
+approach her, and the smile with which she saw us come forward
+soon accelerated our advance; and when We reached her threshold,
+she waited neither for solicitation nor representation, but let
+us into her small dwelling without a single question, silently,
+as if fearful herself we might be observed, shutting the street
+door before she spoke.  She then lamented, as we must needs, she
+said, be cold and comfortless, that she had no fire, but added
+that she and her little maid were in bed and asleep, when the
+disturbance on the road had awakened her, and made her hasten up,
+to inquire if any one were hurt. We told as much of our Story as
+belonged to our immediate situation, and she then instantly,
+assured us we should be welcome to stay in her house till the
+cabriolet was repaired.
+
+Without waiting for our thanks, she then gave to each a chair,
+and fetched great plenty of fuel, with which she made an ample
+and most reviving fire, in a large stove that was placed in the
+middle of the room. She had bedding, she said, for two, and
+begged that, when we were warmed and comforted, we would decide
+which of us most wanted rest. We durst not, however, risk, at
+such a moment, either being separated or surprised; we entreated
+her, therefore, to let us remain together, and to retire herself
+to the repose her humanity had thus broken. But she would not
+leave us. She brought forth bread, butter, and cheese, with wine
+and some other beverage, and then made us each a large bowl of
+tea. And when we could no longer partake of her hospitable fare,
+she fetched us each a pillow, and a double chair, to rest our
+heads and our feet.
+
+
+                        ALARMED BY POLISH LANCERS.
+
+Thus cheered and refreshed, we blessed our kind hostess, and fell
+into something like a slumber, when we were suddenly roused by
+the sound of trumpets, and warlike instruments, and the trampling
+of many horses, coming from afar, but approaching with rapidity.
+We all started up alarmed, and presently the group, perceiving, I
+imagine, through the ill-closed shutters, some light, stopped
+before the house, and battered the door and the window, demanding
+admission. We hesitated whether to remain or endeavour to conceal
+ourselves
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+but our admirable hostess bid us be still, while, calm herself,
+she opened the street door, where she parleyed with the party,
+cheerfully and without any appearance of fear, and told them she
+had no room for their accommodation, because she had given up
+even her own bed to some relations who were travelling, she
+gained from them an applauding huzza and their departure. She
+then informed us they were Polish lancers, and that she believed
+they were advancing to scour the country in favour of Bonaparte.
+She expressed herself an open 'and ardent loyalist for the
+Bourbons, but said she had no safety except in submitting, like
+all around her, to the stronger powers.
+
+Again, by her persuasion, we sought to compose ourselves; but a
+second party soon startled us from our purpose, and from that
+time we made no similar attempt. I felt horrified at every blast
+of the trumpet, and the fear of being made prisoner, or pillaged,
+assailed me unremittingly.
+
+At about five o'clock in the morning our carriages were at the
+door. We blessed our benevolent hostess, took her name and
+address, that we might seek some means of manifesting our
+gratitude, and then quitted Orchies.  For the rest of our journey
+till we reached the frontiers, we were annoyed with incessant
+small military groups or horsemen; but though suspiciously
+regarded, we were not stopped. The fact is, the new government
+was not yet, in those parts, sufficiently organised to have been
+able to keep if they had been strong enough to detain us. But we
+had much difficulty to have our passports honoured for passing
+the frontiers ; and if they had not been so recently renewed at
+Amiens, I think it most probable our progress would have been
+impeded till new orders and officers were entitled to make us
+halt.
+
+
+                            ARRIVAL AT TOURNAY.
+
+Great, therefore, was our satisfaction when, through all these
+difficulties, we entered Tournay-where, being no longer in the
+lately restored kingdom of France, we considered ourselves to be
+escaped from the dominion of Bonaparte, and where we determined
+therefore to remain till we could guide our further proceedings
+by tidings of the plan and the position of Louis XVIII. We went
+to the most considerable inn, and all retired to rest which,
+after so much fatigue, mental and bodily, we required, and
+happily obtained.
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+
+The next day we had the melancholy satisfaction of hearing that
+Louis XVIII. also had safely passed the frontiers of his lost
+kingdom.  As we were less fearful, now, of making inquiries, M.
+de Lally soon learnt that his majesty had halted at Lille, where
+he was then waiting permission and directions for a place of
+retreat from the King of Holland, or the Netherlands. But no
+intelligence whatsoever could we gain relative to the
+body-guards, and my disturbance increased, every moment.
+
+There was far more commotion at Tournay than at any other town
+through which we passed; for as the people here were not under
+the French government, either old or new, they were not awed into
+waiting to know to which they should belong, in fearful
+passiveness : yet they had all the perplexity upon their minds of
+disquieting ignorance whether they were to be treated as friends
+or foes, since if Bonaparte prevailed they could not but expect
+to be joined again to his dominions. All the commotion,
+therefore, of divided interests and jarring opinions was awake,
+and in full operation upon the faculties and feelings of every
+Belgian at this critical moment.
+
+
+              FUTILE EFFORTS TO COMMUNICATE WITH M. D'ARBLAY.
+
+The horror of my suspense relative to the safety and the fate of
+Monsieur d'Arblay reduced my mind to a sort of chaos, that makes
+it impossible to recollect what was our abode at Tournay.  I can
+but relate my distress and my researches.
+
+My first thought was to send a letter to my general at Lille,
+which if he was there would inform him of my vicinity, and if
+not, might perhaps find its way to his destination. At all
+events, I resolved only to write what would be harmless should it
+fall even into the hands of the enemy.  I directed those few
+lines to M. le Chevalier d'Arblay, officier sup‚rieur du garde du
+corps de sa majest‚ Louis XVIII.
+But when I would have sent them to the post, I was informed there
+was no post then to Lille.
+
+I then sought for a messenger, but was told that Lille was
+inaccessible. The few letters that were permitted to enter it
+were placed in a basket, the handle of which was tied to a long
+cord, that was hooked up to the top of the walls, and thence
+descended to appointed magistrates.
+
+Vainly I made every effort in my power to avail myself Of this
+method, no one of my party, nor at the inn,,knew or
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+
+could indicate any means that promised success,
+or even a trial.  Worn at length by an anxiety I found
+insupportable, I took a resolution to go forth myself, stranger
+as I was to the place, and try to get my letter conveyed to the
+basket, however difficult or costly might be its carriage.
+Quite alone, therefore, I sallied forth, purposing to find, if
+possible, some sturdy boy who would be glad of such remuneration
+as I could offer, to pass over to Lille.
+
+Again, however, vain was every attempt.
+I entered all decent poor houses; sauntered to the suburbs, and
+entered sundry cottages; but no inquiry could procure either a
+man or a boy that would execute my commission. French was so
+generally known that I commonly made myself understood, though I
+only received a shake of the head, or a silent walking off, in
+return to my propositions.  But in the end, a lad told me he
+thought he had heard that Madame la Duchesse de St. Agnes had had
+some intercourse with Lille. Delighted, I desired him to show me
+the house she inhabited. We walked to it together, and I then
+said I would saunter near the spot while he entered, with my
+earnest petition to know whether madame could give me any tidings
+of the king's body-guard. He returned with an answer that madame
+would reply to a written note, but to nothing verbal. I bid the
+boy hie with me to the inn; but as I had no writing tackle, I
+sent him forward to procure me proper implements at the
+stationer's.
+
+How it happened I know not, but I missed the boy, whom I could
+never regain and I soon after lost my way myself.
+
+In much perplexity I was seeking information which way to steer,
+when a distant sound of a party of horse caught my attention. I
+stopped.  The sound approached nearer; the boys and idle people
+in the street ran forward to meet it, and presently were joined
+or followed by the more decent inhabitants. I had not the
+temerity to make one among them, yet my anxiety for news of any
+sort was too acute to permit me to retire. I stood therefore
+still, waiting for what might arrive, till I perceived some
+outriders galloping forward in the royal livery of France.
+Immediately after, a chariot and four with the arms of France
+followed, encircled by horsemen, and nearly enveloped by a
+continually increasing crowd, whence, from time to time, issued a
+feeble cry of "Vive le roi!" while two or three other carriages
+brought up the rear.  With difficulty now could I forbear
+plunging into the midst of them, for my big expectations painted
+to me Louis XVIII. arrived
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+
+at Tournay, and my bigger hopes pictured with him his loyal
+guard. They had soon however passed by, but their straggling
+followers showed me their route, which I pursued till I lost both
+sight and sound belonging to them.
+
+I then loitered for my errand boy, till I found myself, by some
+indications that helped my remembrance, near the spot whence I
+had started. . Glad, for safety's sake, to be so near my then
+home, though mourning my fruitless wandering, I hastened my
+footsteps; but what was my emotion on arriving within a few yards
+of the inn, to observe the royal carriage which had galloped past
+me, the horsemen, the royal livery and all the appearance that
+had awakened my dearest hopes' The crowd was dispersed, but the
+porter's lodge, or perhaps bookkeeper's, was filled with
+gentlemen, or officers in full uniform.  I hurried on, and
+hastily inquired who it was that had just arrived. My answer was,
+the Prince de Cond‚.
+
+A thousand projects now occurred to me for gaining intelligence
+from such high authority, but in the large courtyard I espied
+Madame d'Henin sauntering up and down, while holding by the arm
+of a gentleman I had never before seen. Anxious to avoid delay,
+and almost equally desirous to escape remonstrances on my
+enterprise, since I could listen only to my restless anxiety, I
+would have glided by unnoticed; but she called after me aloud,
+and I was compelled to approach her.  She was all astonishment at
+my courage in thus issuing forth alone, I knew not where nor
+whither, and declared that I was m‚connoissable; but I only
+answered by entreating her to inquire the names of some of the
+gentlemen just arrived, that I might judge whether any among them
+could give me the information for which I sighed.
+
+No sooner did I hear that M. le Comte de Viomenil was of the
+number, than, recollecting his recent appointment at Paris, in
+conjunction with Victor de Maubourg, to raise volunteers for the
+king, I decided upon seeking him. Madame d'Henin would have given
+me some counsel, but I could not hear her; as I hurried off,
+however, the gentleman whose arm she held offered me his
+assistance in a tone and with a look of so much benevolence, that
+I frankly accepted it, and we sallied in search of a person known
+to me only by name. My stranger friend now saved me every
+exertion, by making every inquiry and led me from corridor to
+corridor, above, below, and to almost every apartment, asking
+incessantly if M. le Comte de Viomenil was not in the inn.
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+
+At length we learned that M. de Viomenil was dining quite alone
+in an upper chamber.
+
+My kind-hearted conductor led me to the door of the room
+assigned, and then tapped at it; and on an answer of "entrez!" he
+let go my arm, and with a bow silently left me. I found M. de
+Viomenil at table : he said he could give no possible account of
+his majesty, save that he was at Gand, but that of the body-guard
+he knew positively nothing.
+
+
+                   INTERVIEWS WITH M. DE CHATEAUBRIAND.
+
+I afterwards learnt that my benevolent strange chevalier was no
+other than the celebrated M. de Chƒteaubriand.(271)  I saw
+nothing more of him, save for a moment, when, in passing by a
+small staircase that led to my chamber, a door was suddenly
+opened, whence Madame d'Henin put out her head to invite me to
+enter, when she presented me to him and to Madame de
+Chƒteaubriand, a very elegant woman, but of a cold, reserved
+demeanour.
+
+I expressed eagerly the pleasure I had experienced in seeing the
+author of " The Itinerary to Jerusalem," a work I had read in
+Paris with extraordinary interest and satisfaction ; but I
+believe the "G‚nie du Christianisme," and perhaps the "Atala,"
+were works so much more prized by that author as to make my
+compliment misplaced. However, I so much more enjoy the natural,
+pleasing, instructive, and simple, though ingenious style and
+matter of the " Itinerary " than I do the overpowering sort of
+heroic eloquence of those more popular performances, that the
+zest of dear hallowed truth would have been wanting had I not
+expressed my choice. The "Itinerary" is, indeed, one of the most
+agreeable books I know.
+
+M. de Ch‚teaubriand hung back, whether pleased or not,
+
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+
+with an air of gentlemanly serenity. I had opportunity for
+further effort : we left Tournay to proceed to Brussels, and
+heavy was my heart and my will to quit, thus in ignorance, the
+vicinity of Lille.
+
+At the town at which we stopped to dine which, I think, was Atot,
+we again met M. et Madame de Chƒteaubriand. This was a mutual
+satisfaction, and we agreed to have our meal in common. I now had
+more leisure, not of time alone, but of faculty, for doing
+justice to M. de Chateaubriand, whom I found amiable, unassuming,
+and, though somewhat spoilt by the egregious flattery to which he
+had been accustomed, wholly free from airs or impertinent
+selfconceit. Excessive praise seemed only to cause him excessive
+pleasure in himself, without leading to contempt or scorn of
+others.  He is by no means tall, and is rather thickset - but his
+features are good, his countenance is very fine, and his eyes are
+beautiful, alike from colour, shape, and expression ; while there
+is a striking benevolence in his look, tone of voice, and manner.
+
+Madame de Chƒteaubriand also gained ground by farther
+acquaintance. She was faded, but not pass‚e, and was still
+handsome, and of a most graceful carriage, though distant and
+uninviting. Her loftiness had in it something so pensive mixed
+with its haughtiness, that though it could not inspire
+confidence, it did not create displeasure.  She possessed also a
+claim to sympathy and respect in being the niece of M. de
+Malesherbes, that wise, tender, generous, noble defender of Louis
+XVI.
+
+The conversation during and after dinner was highly interesting.
+M. de Chƒteaubriand opened upon his situation with a trusting
+unreserve that impressed me with an opinion of the nobleness of
+his mind. Bonaparte had conceived against him, he said, a
+peculiar antipathy, for which various motives might be assigned:
+he enumerated them not, however, probably from the presence of
+his wife ; as his marriage with a niece of that martyr to the
+service of the murdered king, Louis XVI., I conclude to be at
+their head. The astonishing and almost boundless success of his
+works, since he was dissatisfied with his principles, and more
+than suspicious of his disaffection to the imperial government,
+must have augmented aversion by mixing with it some species of
+apprehension. I know not what were the first publications of M.
+de Chƒteaubriand, but they were in such high estimation
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+
+when first I heard him mentioned, that no author was more
+celebrated in France; when his "Martyres" came out, no other book
+was mentioned; and the famous critic Geoffroyq who guided the
+taste of Paris, kept it alive by criticisms of alternate praise
+and censure without end.  "Atala," the pastoral heroic romance,
+bewitched all the reading ladies into a sort of idolatry of its
+writer, and scarcely a page of it remained unadorned by some
+representation in painting. The enthusiasm, indeed, of the
+draughtsmen and of the fair sex seemed equally emulous to place
+the author and the work at the head of celebrity and the fashion.
+
+Of all this, of course, he spoke not - but he related the story
+of his persecution by Napoleon concerning his being elected a
+member of the French Institute.  I was in too much disturbance to
+be able to clearly listen to the narrative, but I perfectly
+recollect that the censor, to soften Napoleon, had sent back the
+manuscript to M. de Chƒteaubriand, with an intimation that no
+public discourse could be delivered that did not contain an ‚loge
+of the Emperor. M. de Chƒteaubriand complied with the ordinance;
+but whether the forced praise was too feeble, or whether the
+aversion was too insuperable, I know not : all that is certain
+is, that Napoleon, after repeated efforts from the Institute of
+reelection, positively refused to ratify that of M. de
+Chƒteaubriand.(272)
+
+Another time a cousin of this gentleman was reputed to be engaged
+In a conspiracy against the emperor. M. de Chƒteaubriand solemnly
+declared he disbelieved the charge; and, as his weight in public
+opinion was so great, he ventured to address a supplique to
+Napoleon in favour of his kinsman; but the answer which reached
+him the following day was an account of his execution !
+
+(248) Horne's"History of Napoleon."
+
+(249) This portion of the Diary is not dated, but the meeting
+with the Duchess of Angoulˆme must have taken place in January or
+February, 1815. Madame d'Arblay had joined her husband in France,
+her son remaining at Cambridge.-ED.
+
+(250) "Very glad to see me."
+
+(251) "May I keep the book you sent me?"
+
+(252) "He has acted very nobly."
+
+(253) Raised every day."
+
+(254) "The king recollects very well having seen you in London."
+
+(255) "O, I don't doubt it at all."
+
+(256) "He was perfect!"
+
+(257) Princess Elizabeth.
+
+(258) "'Tis she who does the honours of the royal family."
+
+(259) On duty.
+
+(260) Minister for foreign affairs.
+
+(261) "We have better news.  I can enter into no detail; but be
+calm, and love him who loves you alone.
+
+(262) Country estate.
+
+(263) "My dearest--All is lost! I cannot enter into
+details--pray, set out the sooner the better. Yours in life and
+death, A. d'A."
+
+(264) A large travelling-coach.-ED.
+
+(265) Le Bourget was the scene of some desperate fighting during
+the siege of Paris in 1870. It was surprised and captured from
+the Prussians before daybreak of October 28, by a French force
+commanded by General de Bellemare, but, after a gallant defence
+of two days, it was retaken by the Prussians. December 21, an
+attempt was made by the French to recapture Le Bourget, but
+without success.-ED.
+
+(266) Monday, the 20th, it should be-ED.
+
+(267) The son of Philippe Egalit‚, afterwards King Louis
+Philippe.-ED.
+
+(268) Brother of Louis XVIII., whom he succeeded under the title
+of Charles X.-ED.
+
+(269) Should be Tuesday-ED.
+
+(270) "Right of the strongest."
+
+(271) Fran‡ois Ren‚ de Chƒteaubriand was born at Saint Malo in
+1768 He visited the United States in 1789, and found, in the
+pathless forests of the new world, the scenery which he
+describes, with poetic fervour, in the pages of "Atala."  The
+news of the king's flight to Varennes brought him back to Europe.
+He married (1792) 'Mlle. de la Vigne-Buisson, joined the emigrant
+army which marched with Brunswick to conquer France, got wounded
+at Thionville, and retired to England. After the appointment of
+Bonaparte to the office of first Consul, Chƒteaubriand returned
+to France, and published his heroic- sentimental romance of
+"Atala." Its success with the public was great, and it was
+followed by "The Genius of Christianity," and other works.  Under
+the restored Bourbons, Chƒteaubriand filled high diplomatic
+posts.  This most sentimental of men of genius died in July,
+1848.-ED.
+
+(272) This occurred in the year 1811.-ED.
+
+
+
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+                                SECTION 25
+                                  (1815)
+
+
+               AT BRUSSELS: WATERLOO: REJOINS M.   D'ARBLAY.
+
+
+                           SOJOURN AT BRUSSELS.
+
+Arrived at Brussels, we drove immediately to the house in which
+dwelt Madame la Comtesse de Maurville.  That excellent person had
+lived many years in England an emigrant, and there earned a
+scanty maintenance by keeping a French school. She had now
+retired upon a very moderate pension, but was surrounded by
+intimate friends, who only suffered her to lodge at her own home.
+She received us in great dismay, fearing to lose her little all
+by these changes of government. I was quite ill on my arrival:
+excessive fatigue, affright, and watchfulness overwhelmed me.
+
+At Brussels all was quiet and tame. The Belgians had lost their
+original antipathy to Bonaparte, without having yet had time to
+acquire any warmth of interest for the Bourbons. Natively
+phlegmatic, they demand great causes or strong incitement to
+rouse them from that sort of passiveness that is the offspring of
+philosophy and timidity- philosophy, that teaches them to prize
+'the blessings of safety ; and timidity, that points out the
+dangers of enterprise.  In all I had to do with them I found them
+universally worthy, rational, and kind-hearted ; but Slow,
+sleepy, and uninteresting,
+
+in the sickroom to which I was immediately consigned, I met with
+every sort of kindness from Madame de Maurville, whom I had known
+intimately at Paris, and who had known and
+
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+
+appreciated my beloved, exemplary sister Phillips in London.
+Madame de Maurville was a woman that the Scotch would call
+long-headed; she was sagacious, penetrating, and gifted with
+strong humour. She saw readily the vices and follies of mankind,
+and laughed at them heartily, without troubling herself to grieve
+at them.  She was good herself, alike in heart and in conduct,
+and zealous to serve and oblige ; but with a turn to satire that
+made the defects of her neighbours rather afford her amusement
+than concern.
+'
+
+I was visited here by the highly accomplished Madame de la: Tour
+du Pin, wife to the favourite nephew of Madame d'Henin; a woman
+of as much courage as elegance, and who had met danger, toil, and
+difficulty in the Revolution with as much spirit, and nearly as
+much grace, as she had displayed in meeting universal admiration
+and homage at the court of Marie-Antoinette, of which she was one
+of the most brilliant latter ornaments. Her husband was at this
+time one of the French ministers at the Congress at Vienna;
+whence, as she learned a few days after my arrival at Brussels,
+he had been sent on an embassy of the deepest importance and
+risk, to La Vend‚e or Bordeaux. She bore the term of that
+suspense with an heroism that I greatly admired, for I well knew
+she adored her husband. M. la Tour du Pin had been a prefect of
+Brussels under Bonaparte, though never in favour, his internal
+loyalty to the Bourbons being well known.  But Bonaparte loved to
+attach great names and great characters to his government,
+conscious of their weight both at home and abroad, and he trusted
+in the address of that mental diving-machine, his secret police,
+for warding off any hazard he might run, from employing the
+adherents of his enemies. His greatly capacious, yet only
+half-formed mind, could have parried, as well as braved, every
+danger and all opposition, had not his inordinate ambition held
+him as arbitrarily under control as he himself held under control
+every other passion.
+
+Madame de Maurville soon found us a house, of which we took all
+but the ground floor: the entresol was mine, the first floor was
+Madame d'Henin's, and that above it was for M. de Lally. It was
+near the cathedral, and still in a prolongation of Madame de
+Maurville's street, la Rue de la Montagne.
+
+Nothing was known at Brussels, nothing at all, of the fate Of the
+body-guard, or of the final destination of Louis XVIII. How
+circumstances of such moment, nay, notoriety, could be kept from
+public knowledge, I can form no idea; but neither
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+
+in the private houses of persons of the first rank, in which,
+through Madame d'Henin, I visited, nor in any of the shops nor by
+any other sort of intercourse, either usual or accidental, could
+I gather any intelligence.
+
+Madame la Duchesse de Duras, ci-devant Mademoiselle Kersaint, who
+had visited me in Paris, and who was now in hasty emigration at
+Brussels, with her youngest daughter, Mademoiselle Clara de
+Duras, seemed sincerely moved by my distress, and wrote to
+various of her friends, who were emigrating within her reach, to
+make inquiry for me.  I visited her in a shabby hotel, where I
+found her without suite or equipage, but in perfect tranquillity
+at their loss, and not alone unmurmuring, but nearly indifferent
+to her privations; while Mademoiselle Clara ran up and down
+stairs on her mother's messages, and even brought in wood for the
+stove, with an alacrity and cheerfulness that seemed almost to
+enjoy the change to hardships from grandeur.  Indeed, to very
+young people, such reverses, for a certain time, appear as a
+frolic. Novelty, mere novelty, during the first youth, can
+scarcely be bought too dear.
+
+>From M. de la Feronaye, Madame de Duras procured me intelligence
+that the body-guard had been dispersed and disbanded by the Duc
+de Berry, on the frontiers of La Belgique they were left at
+liberty to remain in France, or to seek other asylums, as his
+majesty Louis XVIII. could not enter the kingdom of Holland with
+a military guard of his own. This news left me utterly in the
+dark which way to look for hope or information.  Madame de Duras,
+however, said she expected soon to see the Duc de Richelieu,
+whose tidings might be more precise.
+
+
+                      LETTERS FROM GENERAL D'ARBLAY.
+
+Ten wretched days passed on in this ignorance, from the
+19th to the 29th of March, 1815, when Madame de Maurville flew
+into my apartment, with all the celerity of fifteen, and all the
+ardour of twenty years of age, to put into my hands a letter from
+General d'Arblay, addressed to herself, to inquire whether she
+had any tidings to give him of my existence, and whether I had
+been heard of at Brussels, or was known to have travelled to
+Bordeaux, as Madame d'Henin, cousin to Madame de Maurville, had
+been uncertain, when M. d'Arblay left me in Paris, to which of
+those cities she should go.
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+
+The joy of that moment, Oh! the joy of that Moment that showed me
+again the handwriting that demonstrated the life and safety of
+all to which my earthly happiness clung, can never be expressed,
+and only by our meeting, when at last it took place, could be
+equalled.  It was dated "Ypres, 27 Mars."  I wrote directly
+thither, proposing to join him, if ", there were any impediment
+to his coming on to Brussels.  I had already written, at hazard,
+to almost every town in the Netherlands. The very next day,
+another letter from the same kind hand arrived to Madame la
+Duchesse d'Hurste.  This was succeeded by news that the king,
+Louis XVIII., had been followed to Gand by his body-guard.
+Thither, also, I expedited a letter, under cover to the Duc de
+Luxembourg, capitaine of the company to which M. d'Arblay
+belonged.
+
+I lived now in a hurry of delight that scarcely allowed me
+breathing-time, a delight that made me forget all my losses, my
+misfortunes-my papers, keepsakes, valuables of various sorts,
+with our goods, clothes, money-bonds, and endless et ceteras,
+left, as I had reason to fear, to seizure and confiscation upon
+the entry of the emperor into Paris-all, all was light, was
+nothing in the scale ; and I wrote to my Alexander, and my
+dearest friends, to rejoice in my joy, and that they had escaped
+my alarm.
+
+Next day, and again the next, came a letter from M. d'Arblay
+himself.  The first was from Ypres, the second was from Bruges,
+and brought by the post, as my beloved correspondent had been
+assured of my arrival at Brussels by the Duc de Luxembourg, at
+Ghistelle, near Ostend, which M. d'Arblay was slowly approaching
+on horseback, when he met the carriage of Louis XVIII., as it
+stopped for a relay of horses, and the duke, espying him,
+descended from the second carriage of the king's suite, to fly to
+and embrace him, with that lively friendship he has ever
+manifested towards him. Thence they agreed that the plan of
+embarkation should be renounced, and, instead of Ostend M.
+d'Arblay turned his horse's head towards Gand, where he had a
+rendezvous with the duke.
+
+There he remained, to renew the offer of his services to his
+king, and there he was most peculiarly distinguished by M. le Duc
+de Feltre (General Clarke), who was still occupying the Post
+assigned him on the restoration of Louis XVIII. of ministre de la
+guerre.(273)
+
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+
+Relieved now--or rather blest--I was no longer deaf to the
+kindness of those who sought to enliven my exile ; I not only
+visited Madame la Duchesse de Duras, but also cultivated an
+intercourse with the charming Madame de la Tour du Pin whom I was
+the more glad to find delightful from her being of English
+origin; a Mademoiselle Dillon, Whose family was transplanted into
+France under James II., and who was descended from a nobleman
+whose eminent accomplishments she inherited with his blood; the
+famous Lord Falkland, on whose tomb in Westminster Abbey is
+carved
+
+"Here lies the friend of Sir Philip Sidney."
+
+Her sister, Miss Fanny Dillon, had been married by Bonaparte to
+General Bertrand; and thus, while one of them' was an emigrant
+following the fortunes of the Bourbons, the other was soon after
+destined to accompany Bonaparte himself into exile. Le Colonel de
+Beaufort, also, a warm, early friend of General d'Arblay,
+belonging to the garrison of Metz or of Toul, I forget which, had
+married a lady of great wealth in La Belgique; a woman rather
+unhappy in her person, but possessed of a generous and feeling
+heart : and this she instantly demonstrated by seeking and
+cultivating an acquaintance with the wandering wife of her
+husband's early camarade. I found her so amiable, and so soothing
+in her commiseration during my distress, that I warmly returned
+the partiality she showed me.
+
+
+                       ARRIVAL OF GENERAL D'ARBLAY.
+
+Four days passed thus serenely, when, on that which completed a
+fortnight's absence from my best friend, the Duc de Duras came to
+convoy his wife to Gand, where he was himself in waiting upon
+Louis XVIII., and shortly afterwards M. de Chƒteaubriand was made
+a privy counsellor and settled there also. And within a day or
+two after this my door was opened by General d'Arblay!  Oh, how
+sweet was this meeting ! this blessed reunion!-- how perfect, how
+exquisite!
+
+Here I must be silent.
+
+General d'Arblay was only with me by the permission of the Duc de
+Luxembourg, and liable to receive orders daily to return to Gand
+; for I found to my speechless dismay, yet resistless
+approbation, that General d'Arblay had made a
+
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+decision as noble as it was dangerous, to refuse no call, to
+abstain from no effort, that might bring into movement his
+loyalty to his king and his cause, at this moment of calamity to
+both.  Yet such was the harassed, or rather broken state of his
+health, that his mental strength and unconquerable courage alone
+preserved the poor shattered frame from sinking into languor and
+inertion.
+
+About this time I saw the entry of the new king, William
+Frederick, of the new kingdom of the Netherlands.(274)  Tapestry,
+or branches of trees, were hung out at all the windows, or, in
+their failure, dirty carpets, old coats and cloaks, and even
+mats-a motley display of proud parade or vulgar poverty, that
+always, to me, made processions on the continent appear
+burlesque.
+
+
+                 A MISSION ENTRUSTED To GENERAL D'ARBLAY.
+
+On the 22nd of April opened a new source, though not an
+unexpected one, of inquietude, that preyed the more deeply upon
+my spirits from the necessity of concealing its torments. . . .
+The military call for M. d'Arblay arrived from Gand.  The summons
+was from M. le Comte de Roch. The immediate hope in which we
+indulged at this call was, that the mission to which it alluded
+need not necessarily separate us, but that I might accompany my
+honoured husband and remain at his quarters.  But, alas! he set
+out instantly for Gand . . . . .
+
+April 23rd brought me a letter: the mission was to Luxembourg.
+His adjoint was the Colonel Comte de Mazancourt, his aide-de-camp
+M. de Premorel, and also that gentleman's son. The plan was to
+collect and examine all the soldiers who were willing to return
+from the army of Bonaparte to that of Louis XVIII. Eleven other
+general officers were named to similar posts, all on frontier
+towns, for the better convenience of receiving the volunteers.
+On the 24th April M. d'Arblay again joined me revived by his
+natively martial spirit, and pleased to be employed!
+
+April 26, we left the Rue de La Montague, after, on my part,
+exactly a month's residence.  Our new apartments in
+
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+
+the March‚ aux Bois were au premier,(275) and commodious and
+pleasant. One drawing-room was appropriated solely by M. d'Arblay
+for his military friends or military business ; the other was
+mine.
+
+Here we spent together seventeen days; and not to harass my
+recollections, I will simply copy what I find in MY old
+memorandum-book, as it was written soon after those days were no
+more:--"Seventeen days I have passed with my best friend; and,
+alas ! passed them chiefly in suspense and gnawing inquietude,
+covered over with assumed composure . but they have terminated,
+Heaven be praised! with better views, with softer calm, and
+fairer hopes. Heaven realize them! I am much pleased with his
+companions. M. le Comte de Mazancourt, his adjoint, is a gay,
+spirited and spirituel young man, remarkably well bred, and
+gallantly fond of his profession. M. de Premorel, the
+aide-de-camp, is a man of solid worth and of delicate honour, and
+he is a descendant of Godefroy de Bouillon. To this must be
+added, that he is as poor as he is noble, and bears his penury
+with the gentlemanly sentiment of feeling it distinct from
+disgrace. He is married, and has ten or eleven children: he
+resides with a most deserving wife, a woman also of family, on a
+small farm, which he works at himself, and which repays him by
+its produce. For many days in the year, potatoes, he told me,
+were the only food they could afford for themselves or their
+offspring! But they eat them with the proud pleasure of
+independence and of honour and loyalty, such as befits their high
+origins, always to serve, or be served, in the line of their
+legal princes. As soon as Louis XVIII. was established on his
+throne, M. de Premorel made himself known to the Duc de
+Luxembourg, who placed him in his own company in the garde du
+corps, and put his son upon the supernumerary list. . . .."
+
+This young man is really charming. He has a native noblesse of
+air and manner, with a suavity as well as steadiness of serene
+politeness, that announce the Godefroy blood flowing With
+conscious dignity and inborn courage through his youthful veins.
+He is very young, but tall and handsome, and speaks of all his
+brothers and sisters as if already he were chef de famille, and
+bound to sustain and protect them.. I delighted to lead him to
+talk of them, and the conversation on that subject always
+brightened him into joy and loquacity. He named every one of them
+to me in particular repeatedly,
+
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+
+with a desire I should know them individually, and a warm hope I
+might one day verify his representations.
+
+This youth, Alphonse, and his father dined with us daily at this
+period. All the mornings were devoted to preparations for the
+ensuing expected campaign. When, however, all was prepared, and
+the word of command alone was waited for from the Mar‚chal Duc de
+Feltre, my dearest friend indulged in one morning's recreation,
+which proved as 'agreeable as anything at such a period could be
+to a mind oppressed like mine. He determined that we should visit
+the Palais de Lachen, which had been the dwelling assigned as the
+palace for the Empress Josephine by Bonaparte at the time of his
+divorce. My dearest husband drove me in his cabriolet, and the
+three gentlemen whom he invited to be of the party accompanied us
+on horseback. The drive, the day, the road, the views, our new
+horses-all were delightful, and procured me a short relaxation
+from the foresight of evil.
+
+The Palace of Lachen was at this moment wholly uninhabited, and
+shown to us by some common servant. It is situated in a delicious
+park d'Anglaise, and with a taste, a polish, and an elegance that
+clears it from the charge of frippery or gaudiness, though its
+ornaments and embellishments are all of the liveliest gaiety.
+There is in some of the apartments some Gobelin tapestry, of
+which there are here and there parts and details so exquisitely
+worked that I could have " hung over them enamoured."
+
+
+                   "RULE BRITANNIA!" IN THE ALLEE VERTE.
+
+Previously to this reviving excursion my dearest friend had
+driven me occasionally in the famous All‚e Verte, which the
+inhabitants of Brussels consider as the first promenade in the
+world; but it by no means answered to such praise in my eyes: it
+is certainly very pretty, but too regular, too monotonous, and
+too flat to be eminently beautiful, though from some parts the
+most distant from the city there are views of cottages and
+hamlets that afford great pleasure.
+
+Our last entertainment here was a concert in the public and fine
+room appropriated for music or dancing. The celebrated Madame
+Catalani had a benefit, at which the Queen of the Netherlands was
+present, not, however, in state, though not incognita; and the
+king of warriors, Marshal Lord Wellington, surrounded by his
+staff and all the officers
+
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+
+and first persons here, whether Belgians, Prussians, Hanoverians,
+or English.  I looked at Lord Wellington watchfully, and was
+charmed with every turn of his countenance, with his noble and
+singular physiognomy and his eagle eye. He was gay even to
+sportiveness all the evening, conversing with the officers around
+him. He never was seated, not even a moment, though I saw seats
+vacated to offer to him frequently. He seemed enthusiastically
+charmed with Catalani, ardently applauding whatsoever she sung,
+except the "Rule Britannia;: and there, with sagacious reserve,
+he listened in utter Silence. Who ordered it I know not, but he
+felt it was injudicious in every country but -our own to give out
+a chorus of "Rule, Britannia! Britannia, rule the waves!"
+
+And when an encore began to be vociferated from his officers, he
+instantly crushed it by a commanding air of disapprobation, and
+thus offered me an opportunity of seeing how magnificently he
+could quit his convivial familiarity for imperious' dominion when
+occasion might call for the transformation.
+
+
+                  GENERAL D'ARBLAY LEAVES FOR LUXEMBOURG.
+
+When the full order arrived from Gand, establishing the mission
+of M. d'Arblay at Luxembourg, he decided upon demanding an
+audience of the Duke of Wellington, with whom he thought it
+necessary to concert his measures.  The duke received him without
+difficulty, and they had a conference of some length, the result
+of which was that his grace promised to prepare Blucher, the
+great Prussian general, then actually at Luxembourg, for aiding
+the scheme. M. d'Arblay himself also wrote to Bl�cher; but before
+any answer could be returned, a new ordonnance from the Duc de
+Feltre directed M. d'Arblay to hasten to his post without delay.
+
+May 13, 1815.-My best friend left me to begin his campaign; left
+me, by melancholy chance, upon his birthday. I could not that day
+see a human being - I could but consecrate it to thoughts of him
+who had just quitted me yet who from me never was, never can be,
+mentally absent , and to our poor Alexander, thus inevitably, yet
+severely cast upon himself.
+
+
+                          AN EXCHANGE OF VISITS.
+
+The next day the gentle and feeling Madame de Beaufort spent the
+morning with me, using the most engaging efforts to
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+
+prevail with me to dine constantly at her table, and to accompany
+her in a short time to her villa. Without any charms, personal or
+even intellectual, to catch or fascinate, she seemed to have so
+much goodness of character, that I could not but try to attach
+myself to her, and accept her kindness as the "cordial drop" to
+make the cup of woe of my sad solitude go down; for Madame
+d'Henin, who, to equal sensibility, joined the finest
+understanding, was now so absorbed in politics that she had no
+time for any expansion of sympathy. She came, nevertheless, to
+see me in the evening, and to endeavour to draw me again into
+human life ! And her kind effort so far conquered me, that I
+called upon her the next day, and met Madame de Vaudreuil, for
+whom I had a still unexecuted commission from the Duchess dowager
+of Buccleuch, upon whom I had waited at the request of the
+princesse de Chimay, to entreat the interest of her grace with
+the prince regent, that the English pension accorded to the
+Duchess of Fitzjames might be continued to the duke, her husband,
+who remained a ruined widower with several children. I failed in
+my attempt, the natural answer being, that there was no
+possibility of granting a pension to a foreigner who resided in
+his own country while that country was at open war with the land
+whence he aspired at its obtention, a word I make for my passing
+convenience.
+
+I exchanged visits also with Madame de la Tour du Pin, the truly
+elegant, accomplished, and high-bred niece, by marriage, of
+Madame la Princesse d'Henin. Her husband, M. de la Tour du Pin,
+was at that time at Vienna, forming a part of the renowned
+Congress, by which he was sent to La Vend‚e; to announce there
+the resolution of the assembled sovereigns to declare Bonaparte
+an outlaw, in consequence of his having broken the conditions of
+his accepted abdication, And I was discovered and visited by M.
+le Comte de Boursac, one of the first officers of the
+establishment of the Prince de Cond‚, with whom he was then at
+Brussels; a man of worth and cultivation.  At Paris he visited us
+so often, that he took up the name at the door of "Le Voisin,"
+thinking it more safe to be so designated than to pronounce too
+frequently the name of a known adherent to the Bourbons. The good
+Madame de Maurville I saw often, and the family of the Boyds,
+with which my general had engaged me to quit Brussels, should
+Brussels become the seat of War,
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+
+                              THE FETE DIEU.
+
+Brussels in general was then inhabited by catholics, and catholic
+ceremonies were not unfrequent. In particular, la Fˆte Dieu was
+kept with much pomp, and a procession of priests paraded the
+streets, accompanied by images, pictures paintings, tapestry, and
+other insignia of outward and visible worship; and the windows
+were hung with carpets, and rugs, and mats, and almost with rags,
+to prove good will, at least, to what they deem a pious show.
+Ludicrous circumstances without end interrupted, or marred the
+procession, from frequent hard showers, during which the priests,
+decorated with splendid robes and petticoats, and ornaments the
+most gaudy, took sudden refuge at the doors of the houses by
+which they were passing, and great cloths, towels, or coarse
+canvas, were flung over the consecrated finery, and the relics
+were swaddled up in flannels, while dirt, splashes, running,
+scampering, and ludicrous wrappings up, broke at once and
+disfigured the procession.
+
+
+                     THE ECCENTRIC LADY CAROLINE LAMB.
+
+At Madame de la Tour du Pin's I kept the fˆte of Madame de
+Maurville, with a large and pleasant party; and I just missed
+meeting the famous Lady Caroline Lamb,(276) who had been there at
+dinner, and whom I saw, however, crossing the Place Royale, from
+Madame de la Tour du Pin's to the Grand Hotel ; dressed, Or
+rather not dressed, so as to excite universal attention, and
+authorise every boldness of staring, from the general to the
+lowest soldier, among the military groups then constantly
+parading the Place,-for she had one shoulder, half her back, and
+all her throat and neck, displayed as if at the call of some
+statuary for modelling a heathen goddess. A slight scarf hung
+over the other shoulder, and the rest Of the attire was of
+accordant lightness.  As her ladyship had
+
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+
+not then written, and was not, therefore, considered as one
+apart, from being known as an eccentric authoress, this conduct
+and demeanour excited something beyond surprise,
+
+and in an English lady provoked censure, if not derision, upon
+the whole English nation.
+
+
+                          A PROPOSED ROYAL CORPS.
+
+Monsieur le Duc de Luxembourg came to inform me that he was on
+the point of negotiating with the Duke of Wellington and Prince
+Bl�cher, upon raising a royal corps to accompany their army into
+France, should the expected battle lead to that result ; and he
+desired me to prepare M. d'Arblay, should such be the case, for a
+recall from TrŠves, that he might resume his post in the
+body-guards belonging to the Compagnie de Luxembourg. He spoke of
+my beloved in terms of such high consideration, and with
+expressions so amiable of regard and esteem, that he won my
+heart. He could by no means, he said, be again under active
+military orders, and consent to lose so distinguished an officer
+from his corps. I had formerly met the duke in Paris, at Madame
+de Laval's - and he bad honoured me with a visit chez moi
+immediately after my return from England: and in consequence of
+those meetings, and of his real friendship for M. d'Arblay, he
+now spoke to me with the unreserved trust due to a tried
+confidant in case of peril and urgency.  He stayed with me nearly
+two hours-for when once the heart ventured to open itself upon
+the circumstances, expectations, or apprehensions of. that
+eventful period, subjects, opinions, and feelings pressed forward
+with such eagerness for discussion, that those who upon such
+conditions met, found nothing so difficult as to separate.
+
+I wrote instantly to M. d'Arblay ; but the duke's plan proved
+abortive, as the Duke of Wellington and Prince Bl�cher refused
+all sanction to the junction of a French army With that of the
+allies. The thought, -perhaps-and perhaps Justly, that by
+entering France with natives against natives, they might excite a
+civil war, more difficult to conduct than that of only foreigners
+against foreigners.
+
+
+                             PAINFUL SUSPENSE.
+
+Suspense, during all this period, was frightfully mistress of
+'-,,the mind; nothing was known, everything was imagined.
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+
+The two great interests that were at war, the Bourbonists and
+Bonapartists, were divided and sub-divided into factions, or
+rather fractions, without end, and all that was kept invariably
+and on both sides alive was expectation. Wanderers, deserters or
+captives from France, arrived daily at Brussels, all with varying
+news of the state of that empire, and of the designs of Bonaparte
+amongst them. The Chevalier d'Argy made me a visit, to deliver me
+a letter from M. de Premorel, for M. d'Arblay. This gentleman was
+just escaped from Sedan in the disguise of a paysan, and assisted
+by a paysanne, belonging to his family. She conducted him through
+by-paths and thick forests, that she knew to be least frequented
+by the troops, police, or custom-house officers of *Bonaparte. He
+was going to offer his services to the king, Louis XVIII. I had
+much interesting public news from M. d'Argy : but I pass by all
+now except personal detail, as I write but for my nearest
+friends; and all that was then known of public occurrence has
+long been stale. . . .
+
+During this melancholy period when leisure, till now a delight,
+became a burthen to me, I could not call my faculties into any
+species of intellectual service; all was sunk, was annihilated in
+the overpowering predominance of anxiety for the coming event. I
+endured my suspense only by writing to or hearing from him who
+was its object. All my next dear connections were well. I heard
+from them satisfactorily, and I was also engaged in frequent
+correspondence with the Princess Elizabeth, whose letters are
+charming, not only from their vivacity, their frankness, and
+condescension, but from a peculiarity of manner, the result of
+having mixed little with the world, that, joined to great
+fertility of fancy, gives a something so singular and so genuine
+to her style of writing, as to render her letters desirable and
+interesting, independent of the sincere and most merited
+attachment which their gracious kindness inspires.
+
+
+                          INQUIETUDE AT BRUSSELS.
+
+I come now to busier scenes, and to my sojourn at Brussels during
+the opening of one of the most famous campaigns upon record ; and
+the battle of Waterloo, upon which, in great measure, hung the
+fate of Europe.
+
+Yet upon reflection, I will write no account of these great
+events, which have been detailed so many hundred times, and
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+
+so many hundred ways, as I have nothing new to offer upon them ;
+I will simply write the narrative of my own history at that awful
+period.
+
+I was awakened in the middle of the night by confused noises in
+the house, and running up and down stairs. I listened
+attentively, but heard no sound of voices, and soon all was
+quiet.  I then concluded the persons who resided in the
+apartments on the second floor, over my head, had returned home
+later and I tried to fall asleep again.
+
+I succeeded; but I was again awakened at about five o'clock in
+the morning Friday, 16th June, by the sound of a bugle in the
+March‚ aux Bois: I started up and opened the window. But I only
+perceived some straggling soldiers, hurrying in different
+directions, and saw lights gleaming from some of the chambers in
+the neighbourhood : all again was soon still, and my own dwelling
+in profound silence, and therefore I concluded there had been
+some disturbance in exchanging sentinels at the various posts,
+which was already appeased: and I retired once more to my pillow,
+and remained till my usual hour.
+
+I was finishing, however, a letter for my best friend, when my
+breakfast was brought in, at my then customary time of eight
+o'clock; and, as mistakes and delays and miscarriages of letters
+had caused me much unnecessary misery, I determined to put what I
+was then writing in the post myself, and set off with it the
+moment it was sealed.
+
+
+                          THE BLACK BRUNSWICKERS.
+
+In my way back from the post-office, my ears were alarmed by the
+sound of military music, and my eyes equally struck with the
+sight of a body of troops marching to its measured time. But I
+soon found that what I had supposed to be an occasionally passing
+troop, was a complete corps; infantry, cavalry artillery, bag and
+baggage, with all its officers in full uniform, and that uniform
+was black. This gloomy hue gave an air so mournful to the
+procession, that, knowing its destination for battle, I
+contemplated with an aching heart. On inquiry, I learned it was
+the army of Brunswick. How much deeper yet had been my heartache
+had I foreknown that nearly all those brave men, thus marching on
+in gallant though dark array, with their valiant royal chief(277)
+at their head,
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+
+the nephew of my own king, George III., were amongst the first
+destined victims to this dreadful contest, and that neither the
+chief, nor the greater part of his warlike associates, would
+within a few short hours, breathe again the vital air !
+
+My interrogations were answered with brevity, yet curiosity was
+all awake and all abroad; for the procession lasted some hours.
+Not a door but was open; not a threshold but was crowded, and not
+a window of the many-windowed gothic modern, frightful, handsome,
+quaint, disfigured, fantastic, or lofty mansions that diversify
+the large' market-place of Brussels, but was occupied by lookers
+on. Placidly, indeed, they saw the warriors pass : no kind
+greeting welcomed their arrival; no warm wishes followed them to
+combat. Neither, on the other hand, was there the slightest
+symptom of dissatisfaction ; yet even while standing thus in the
+midst of them, an unheeded, yet observant stranger, it was not
+possible for me to discern, with any solidity of conviction,
+whether the Belgians were, at heart, Bourbonists or Bonapartists.
+The Bonapartists, however, were in general the most open, for the
+opinion on both sides, alike with good will and with ill, was
+nearly universal that Bonaparte was invincible.
+
+
+                       THE OPENING OF THE CAMPAIGN.
+
+Still, I knew not, dreamt not, that the campaign was already
+opened - that Bonaparte had broken into La Belgique on the 15th,
+and had taken Charleroi; though it was news undoubtedly spread
+all over Brussels except to my lonely self. My own disposition,
+at this period, to silence and retirement, was too congenial with
+the taciturn habits of my hosts to be by them counteracted, and
+they suffered me, therefore, to return to my home as I had
+quitted it, with a mere usual and civil salutation ; while
+themselves and their house were evidently continuing their common
+avocations with their common composure. Surely our colloquial use
+of the word phlegm must be derived from the character of the
+Flemings.
+
+The important tidings now, however, burst upon me in sundry
+directions. The Princesse d'Henin, Colonel de Beaufort, Madame de
+Maurville, the Boyd family, all, with intelligence of the event,
+joined offers of service, and invitations to reside with them
+during this momentous contest, should I prefer such protection to
+remaining alone at such a crisis.
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+
+What a day of confusion and alarm did we all spend on the
+17th! In my heart the whole time was TrŠves!  TrŠves! TrŠves!
+That day, and June 18th, I passed in hearing the cannon! Good
+heaven! what indescribable horror to be so near the field of
+slaughter! such I call it, for the preparation to the ear by the
+tremendous sound was soon followed by its fullest effect, in the
+view of the wounded, the bleeding martyrs to the formidable
+contention that was soon to terminate the history of the war. And
+hardly more afflicting was this disabled return from the battle,
+than the sight of the continually pouring forth ready-armed and
+vigorous victims that marched past my windows to meet similar
+destruction.
+
+
+                      NEWS FROM THE FIELD OF BATTLE.
+
+Accounts from the field of battle arrived hourly; sometimes
+directly from the Duke of Wellington to Lady Charlotte Greville,
+and to some other ladies who had near relations in the combat,
+and which, by their means, were circulated in Brussels ; and at
+other times from such as conveyed those amongst the wounded
+Belgians, whose misfortunes were -inflicted near enough to the
+skirts of the spots of action, to allow of their being dragged
+away by their hovering countrymen to the city : the spots, I say,
+of action, for the far-famed battle of Waterloo was preceded by
+three days of partial engagements.
+
+During this period, I spent my whole time in seeking and passing
+from house to house of the associates of my distress, or
+receiving them in mine. Ten times, at least, I crossed over to
+Madame d'Henin, discussing plans and probabilities, and
+interchanging hopes and fears. I spent a considerable part of the
+morning with Madame de la Tour -du Pin, who was now returned from
+Gand, where Louis XVIII. supported his suspense and his danger
+with a coolness and equanimity which, when the ‚clat surrounding
+the glory of his daring and great opponent shall no longer by its
+overpowering resplendence keep all around it in the shade, will
+carry him down to posterity as the monarch precisely formed, by
+the patient good sense, the enlightened liberality, and the
+Immovable composure of his character, to meet the perilous
+perplexities of his situation, and, if he could not combat them
+with the vigour and genius of a hero, to sustain them at least
+with the dignity of a prince.
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+
+                      PROJECTS FOR QUITTING BRUSSELS,
+
+Madame d'Henin and Madame de la Tour du Pin projected retreating
+to Gand, should the approach of the enemy be unchecked ; to avail
+themselves of such protection as might be obtained from seeking
+it under the wing of Louis XVIII. M. de la Tour du Pin had, I
+believe, remained there with his majesty. M. de Lally and the
+Boyds inclined to Antwerp, where they might safely await the fate
+of Brussels, near enough for returning, should it weather the
+storm, yet within reach of vessels to waft them to the British
+shores should it be lost.
+
+Should this last be the fatal termination, I, Of course, had
+agreed to join the party of the voyage, and resolved to secure my
+passport, that, while I waited to the last moment, I might yet be
+prepared for a hasty retreat.  I applied for a passport to
+Colonel Jones, to whom the Duke of Wellington had deputed the
+military command of Brussels in his absence but he was unwilling
+to sanction an evacuation of Brussels, which he deemed premature.
+It was not, he said, for us, the English, to spread alarm, or
+prepare for an overthrow: he had not sent away his own wife or
+children, and he had no doubt but victory would repay his
+confidence.
+
+I was silenced, but not convinced ; the event was yet uncertain,
+and my stake was, with respect to earthly happiness, my
+existence. A compromise occurred to me, which suggested my
+dispensing with a new passport, and contenting myself with
+obtaining his signature to my old one, accorded by M. le
+Chevalier de Jaucourt. He could not refuse to sign it; and we
+then separated.  I promised him, nevertheless, that I would
+remain to the last extremity; and I meant no other. I was now
+better satisfied, though by no means at ease.
+
+Yet the motive of Colonel Jones was, that all should yield to the
+glory of the British arms and the Duke of Wellington. And I had
+the less right to be surprised, from the dreadful soldier's
+speech I had heard him utter when I first saw him, to the
+Princesse d'Henin: complaining of the length of time that was
+wasted in inaction, and of the inactivity and tameness of the
+Bourbons, he exclaimed, "We want blood, madam! what we want is
+blood!"
+
+
+CALMLY AWAITING THE RESULT,
+
+I found upon again going my rounds for information, that 'though
+news was arriving incessantly from the scene of action,
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+
+and with details always varying,, Bonaparte was always advancing.
+All the people of Brussels lived in the streets.  Doors seemed of
+no use, for they were never shut. The individuals, when they
+re-entered their houses, only resided at the windows : so that
+the whole population of the city seemed constantly in public
+view. Not only business as well as society was annihilated, but
+even every species of occupation. All of which we seemed capable
+was, to inquire or to relate, to speak or to hear. Yet no
+clamour, no wrangling, nor even debate was intermixed with either
+question or answer ; curiosity, though incessant, was serene ;
+the faces were all monotony, though the tidings were all variety.
+I could attribute this only to the length of time during which
+the inhabitants had been habituated to change both of masters and
+measures, and to their finding that, upon an average, they
+neither lost nor gained by such successive revolutions.  And to
+this must be joined their necessity of submitting, be it what it
+might, to the result.  This mental consciousness probably kept
+their passions in order, and crushed all the impulses by which
+hope or fear is excited. No love of liberty buoyed up resistance;
+no views of independence brightened their imagination; and they
+bore even suspense with the calm of apparent philosophy, and an
+exterior of placid indifference.
+
+The first intelligence Madame d'Henin now gave me was, that the
+Austrian minister extraordinary, M. le Comte de Vincent, had been
+wounded close by the side of the Duke of Wellington ; and that he
+was just brought back in a litter to her hotel.  As she was much
+acquainted with him, she desired me to accompany her in making
+her personal inquiries. No one now sent servants, cards, or
+messages, where there was any serious interest in a research.
+There was too much eagerness to bear delay, and ceremony and
+etiquette always fly from distress and from business.
+
+Le Comte de Vincent, we had the pleasure to hear, had been hurt
+only in the hand ; but this wound afterwards proved more serious
+than at first was apprehended, threatening for ,many weeks either
+gangrene or amputation. News, however, far more fatal struck our
+ears soon after : the gallant Duke of Brunswick was killed! and
+by a shot close also to the Duke of Wellington!
+
+The report now throughout Brussels was that the two Mighty
+chiefs, Bonaparte and Wellington, were almost constantly in view
+of each other.
+
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+
+                     FLIGHT To ANTWERP DETERMINED ON.
+
+But what a day was the next--June 18th--the greatest, perhaps, in
+its result, in the annals of Great Britain!
+
+My slumbers having been tranquillized by the close Of the
+17th, I was calmly reposing, when I was awakened by the sound of
+feet abruptly entering my drawing-room.  I started, and had but
+just time to see by my watch that it was only six o'clock, when a
+rapping at my bedroom door so quick as to announce as much
+trepidation as it excited, made me slip on a long kind of domino
+always, in those times, at hand, to keep me ready for
+encountering surprise, and demanded what was the matter? "Open
+your door! there is not a moment to lose! " was the answer, in
+the voice of Miss Ann Boyd. I obeyed, in great alarm, and saw
+that pretty and pleasing young woman, with her mother, Mrs. Boyd,
+who remembered having known and played with me when we were both
+children, and whom I had met with at Passy, after a lapse of more
+than forty years. They both eagerly told me that all their new
+hopes had been overthrown by better authenticated news, and that
+I must be with them by eight o'clock, to proceed to the wharf,
+and set sail for Antwerp, whence we sail on for England, should
+the taking of Brussels by Bonaparte endanger Antwerp also.
+
+To send off a few lines to the post, with my direction at
+Antwerp, to pack and to pay, was all that I could attempt, or
+even desire ; for I had not less time than appetite for thinking
+of breakfast.  My host and my maid carried my small package, and
+I arrived before eight in the Rue d'Assault.  We set off for the
+wharf on foot, not a fiacre or chaise being procurable. Mr. and
+Mrs. Boyd, five or six of their family, a governess, and I
+believe some servants, with bearers of our baggage, made our
+party. Though the distance was short, the walk was long, because
+rugged, dirty, and melancholy. Now and then we heard a growling
+noise, like distant thunder, but far more dreadful. When we had
+got about a third part of the way, a heavy rumbling sound made us
+stop to listen. It was approaching nearer and nearer, and we soon
+found that we were followed by innumerable carriages, and a
+multitude of persons.
+
+All was evidently military, but of so gloomy, taciturn, and
+forbidding a description, that when we were overtaken we had not
+courage to offer a question to any passer by.  Had
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+
+we been as certain that they belonged to the enemy as we felt
+convinced that, thus circumstanced, they must belong to our own
+interests, we could not have been awed more effectually into
+silent passiveness, so decisively repelling to inquiry was every
+aspect, In truth, at that period, when every other hour changed
+the current of expectation, no one could be inquisitive without
+the risk of passing for a spy, nor communicative without the
+hazard of being suspected as a traitor.
+
+Arrived at the wharf, Mr. Boyd pointed out to us our barge, which
+seemed fully ready for departure ; but the crowd already come and
+still coming so incommoded us, that Mr. Boyd desired we would
+enter a large inn, and wait till he could speak with the master,
+and arrange our luggage and places, We went, therefore, into a
+spacious room and ordered breakfast, when the room was entered by
+a body of military men of all sorts ; but we were suffered to
+keep our ground till Mr, Boyd came to inform us that we must all
+decamp!
+
+
+                             A CHECK MET WITH.
+
+Confounded, but without any interrogatory, we vacated the
+apartment, and Mr. Boyd conducted us not to the barge, not to the
+wharf, but to the road back to Brussels ; telling us, in an
+accent of depression, that he feared all was lost-that Bonaparte
+was advancing-that his point was decidedly Brussels-and that the
+Duke of Wellington had sent orders that all the magazines, the
+artillery, and the warlike stores of every description, and all
+the wounded, the maimed, and the sick, should be immediately
+removed to Antwerp. For this purpose he had issued directions
+that every barge, every boat should be seized for the use of the
+army, and that everything of value should be conveyed away, the
+hospitals emptied, and Brussels evacuated.
+
+If this intelligence filled us with the most fearful alarm, how
+much more affrighting still was the sound of cannon which next
+assailed our ears !  The dread reverberation became louder and
+louder as we proceeded. Every shot tolled to our imaginations the
+death of myriads; and the conviction that the destruction and
+devastation were so near us, with the probability that if all
+attempt at escape should prove abortive, we might be personally
+involved in the carnage, gave us sensations too awful for verbal
+expression; we could only gaze and tremble, listen and shudder.
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+
+Yet, strange to relate! on re-entering the city, all seemed quiet
+and tranquil as usual! and though it was in this imminent and
+immediate danger of being invested, and perhaps pillaged, I saw
+no outward mark of distress or disturbance, or even of hurry or
+curiosity.
+
+Having re-lodged us in the Rue d'Assault, Mr. Boyd tried to find
+some land carriage for our removal.  But not only every chaise
+had been taken, and every diligence secured, the cabriolets, the
+calŠches, nay, the waggons and the carts; and every species of
+caravan, had been seized for Military service. And, after the
+utmost efforts he could make, in every kind of way, he told us we
+must wait the chances of the day, for that there was no
+possibility of escape from Brussels either by land or water.
+
+Remedy there was none; nor had we any other resource; we were
+fain, therefore, quietly to submit. Mr. Boyd, however, assured me
+that, though no land carriage was likely to find horses during
+this furious contest, he had been promised the return of a barge
+for the next morning, if he and his party would be at the wharf
+by six o'clock. We all therefore agreed that, if we were spared
+any previous calamity, we would set out for the wharf at five
+o'clock, and I accepted their invitation to be with them in the
+evening, and spend the night at their house.  We then separated;
+I was anxious to get home, to watch the post, and to write to
+TrŠves.
+
+
+                        A CAPTURED FRENCH GENERAL.
+
+My reappearance produced no effect upon my hosts : they saw my
+return with the same placid civility that they had seen my
+departure.  But even apathy, or equanimity,--which shall I call
+it?--like theirs was now to be broken; I was seated at my bureau
+and writing, when a loud "hurrah!" reached my ears from some
+distance, while the daughter of my host, a girl of about
+eighteen, gently opening my door, said the fortune of the day had
+suddenly turned, and that Bonaparte was taken prisoner.  At the
+same      time the "hurrah!" came nearer. I flew to the window;
+my host and hostess came also, crying, "Bonaparte est pris! le
+voil…! le Voil…!"(278)
+
+I then saw, on a noble war-horse in full equipinent, a general in
+the splendid uniform of France but visibly disarmed, and,
+
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+
+to all appearance, tied to his horse, or, at least, held on, so
+as to disable him from making any effort to gallop it off, and
+surrounded, preceded, and followed by a. crew of roaring
+wretches, who seemed eager for the moment when he should be
+lodged where they had orders to conduct him, that they might
+unhorse, strip, pillage him, and divide the spoil.
+
+His high, feathered, glittering helmet he had pressed down as low
+as he could on his forehead, and I could not discern his face ;
+but I was instantly certain he was not Bonaparte, on finding the
+whole commotion produced by the rifling crew above mentioned,
+which, though it might be guided, probably, by some subaltern
+officer, who might have the captive in charge, had left the field
+of battle at a moment when none other could be spared, as all the
+attendant throng were evidently amongst the refuse of the army
+followers.
+
+I was afterwards informed that this unfortunate general was the
+Count Lobau. He met with singular consideration during his
+captivity in the Low Countries, having thence taken to himself a
+wife. That wife I had met when last in Paris, at a ball given by
+Madame la Princesse de Beauvau. She was quite young and extremely
+pretty, and the gayest of the gay, laughing, chatting the whole
+evening, chiefly with the fat and merry, good-humoured Duchesse
+de Feltre (Madame la Mar‚chale Clarke) - and her husband, high in
+office, in fame, and in favour, was then absent on some official
+duty.
+
+
+                            THE DEARTH OF NEWS.
+
+The dearth of any positive news from the field of battle, even in
+the heart of Brussels, at this crisis, when everything that was
+dear and valuable to either party was at stake, was at one
+instant nearly distracting in its torturing suspense to the wrung
+nerves, and at another insensibly blunted them into a kind of
+amalgamation with the Belgic philosophy. At certain houses, as
+well as at public offices, news, I doubt not, arrived; but no
+means were taken to - promulgate it - no gazettes, as in London,
+no bulletins, as in Paris, were cried about the streets ; we were
+all left at once to our conjectures and our destinies.
+
+The delusion of victory vanished into a merely passing advantage,
+as I gathered from the earnest researches into which it led me;
+and evil only met all ensuing investigation; retreat and defeat
+were the words in every mouth around me!
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+
+The Prussians, it was asserted, were completely vanquished on the
+15th, and the English on the 16th, while on the day just passed,
+the 17th, a day of continual fighting and bloodshed, drawn
+battles on both sides left each party Proclaiming what neither
+party could prove--success.
+
+It was Sunday ; but church service was out of the question though
+never were prayers more frequent, more fervent, Form, indeed,
+they could not have, nor union, while constantly expecting the
+enemy with fire and sword at the gates, Who could enter a place
+of worship, at the risk of making it a scene of slaughter? But
+who, also, in circumstances so awful, could require the
+exhortation of a priest or the example of a congregation, to
+stimulate devotion? No! in those fearful exigencies, where, in
+the full vigour of health, strength, and life's freshest
+resources, we seem destined to abruptly quit this mortal coil, we
+need no spur--all is spontaneous; and the soul is unshackled.
+
+
+                       RUMOURS OF THE FRENCH COMING.
+
+Not above a quarter of an hour had I been restored to my sole
+occupation of solace, before I was again interrupted and startled
+; but not as on the preceding occasion by riotous shouts ; the
+sound was a howl, violent, loud, affrighting, and issuing from
+many voices. I ran to the window, and saw the March‚ aux Bois
+suddenly filling with a populace, pouring in from all its
+avenues, and hurrying on rapidly, and yet as if unconscious in
+what direction; while women with children in their arms, or
+clinging to their clothes, ran screaming out of doors - and
+cries, though not a word was ejaculated, filled the air, and from
+every house, I saw windows closing, and shutters fastening ; all
+this, though long in writing, was presented to my eyes in a
+single moment, and was followed in another by a burst into my
+apartment, to announce that the French were come!
+
+I know not even who made this declaration; my head was out of the
+window, and the person who made it scarcely entered the room and
+was gone.
+
+ How terrific was this moment ! My perilous situation urged me to
+instant flight; and, without waiting to speak to the people of
+the house, I crammed my papers and money into a basket, and
+throwing on a shawl and bonnet, I flew down stairs and out of
+doors.
+
+My intention was to go to the Boyds, to partake, as I had
+engaged, their fate , but the crowd were all issuing from the
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+
+way I must have turned to have gained the Rue d'Assault, and I
+thought, therefore, I might be safer with Madame de Maurville,
+who, also, not being English, might be less obnoxious to the
+Bonapartists. To the Rue de la Montagne I hurried, in
+consequence, my steps crossing and crossed by an affrighted
+multitude ; but I reached it in safety, and she received me with
+an hospitable welcome. I found her calm, and her good humour
+undisturbed. Inured to revolutions, under which she had smarted
+so as she could smart no more, from the loss of all those who had
+been the first objects of her solicitude, a husband and three
+sons! she was now hardened in her feelings upon public events,
+though her excellent heart was still affectionate and zealous for
+the private misfortunes of the individuals whom she loved.
+
+What a dreadful day did I pass! dreadful in the midst of its
+glory! for it was not during those operations that sent details
+partially to our ears that we could judge of the positive state
+of affairs, or build upon any permanency of success. Yet here I
+soon recovered from all alarm for personal safety, and lost the
+horrible apprehension of being in the midst of a city that was
+taken, sword in hand, by an enemy-an apprehension that, while it
+lasted, robbed me of breath, chilled my blood, and gave me a
+shuddering ague that even now in fancy returns as I seek to
+commit it to paper.
+
+
+                       FRENCH PRISONERS BROUGHT IN.
+
+The alerte(279) which had produced this effect, I afterwards
+learnt, though not till the next day, was utterly false ; but
+whether it had been produced by mistake or by deceit I never
+knew. The French, indeed, were coming; but not triumphantly .,
+they were prisoners, surprised and taken suddenly, ,and brought
+in, being disarmed, by an escort ; and, as they were numerous,
+and their French uniform was discernible from afar, the almost
+universal belief at Brussels that Bonaparte was invincible, might
+perhaps, without any intended deception, have raised the report
+that they were advancing as conquerors.
+
+
+                             NEWS OF WATERLOO.
+
+I attempt no description of this day, the grandeur of which was
+unknown, or unbelieved, in Brussels till it had taken its
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+
+flight, and could only be named as time past. The Duke of
+Wellington and Prince Bl�cher were too mightily engaged in
+meriting fame to spare an instant for either claiming or
+proclaiming it.
+
+I was fain, therefore, to content myself with the intelligence
+that reached Madame de Maurville fortuitously. The crowds in the
+streets, the turbulence, the inquietude, the bustle the noise,
+the cries, the almost yells, kept up a perpetual expectation of
+annoyance. The door was never opened, but I felt myself pale and
+chill with fear of some sanguinary attack or military surprise.
+It is true that as Brussels was not fortified and could, in
+itself, offer no resistance, it could neither b' besieged nor
+taken by storm ; but I felt certain that the Duke of Wellington
+would combat for it inch by inch, and that in a conflict between
+life and death, every means would be resorted to that could be
+suggested by desperation.
+
+Madame de Maurville now told me that an English commissary was
+just arrived from the army, who had assured her that the tide of
+success was completely turned to the side of the Allies.  She
+offered to conduct me to his apartment, which was in the same
+hotel as her own, and in which he was writing and transacting
+business gravely assuring me, and I really believe, herself, that
+he could not but be rejoiced to give me, in person, every
+particular I could wish to hear. I deemed it, however, but
+prudent not to put his politeness to a test so severe.
+
+Urgent, nevertheless, to give me pleasure, and not easily set
+aside from following her own conceptions, she declared she would
+go down stairs, and inform Mr. Saumarez that she had a
+countrywoman of his in her room, whom he would be charmed to
+oblige.  I tried vainly to stop her; good humour, vivacity,
+curiosity, and zeal were all against my efforts; she went, and to
+my great surprise returned escorted by Mr. Saumarez himself.  His
+narration was all triumphant and his account of the Duke of
+Wellington might almost have seemed an exaggerated panegyric if
+it had painted some warrior in a chivalresque romance. . . . I
+could not but be proud of this account: independent from its
+glory; my revived imagination hung the blessed laurels of peace.
+
+But though Hope was all alive, Ease and Serenity were not her
+companions: Mr. Saumarez could not disguise that there was still
+much to do, and consequently to apprehend; and he had never, he
+said, amongst the many he had viewed, seen a field
+
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+
+of battle in such excessive disorder.  Military carriages of all
+sorts, and' multitudes of groups unemployed, occupied spaces that
+ought to have been left for manoeuvring or observation. I
+attribute this to the various nations who bore arms on that great
+day in their own manner; though the towering generalissimo of all
+cleared the ground, and dispersed what was unnecessary at every
+moment that was not absorbed by the fight.
+
+When the night of this memorable day arrived, I took leave of
+Madame de Maurville to join the Boyds, according to my
+engagement: for though all accounts confirmed the victory of the
+Duke of Wellington, we had so little idea of its result, that we
+still imagined the four days already spent in the work of carnage
+must be followed by as many more, before the dreadful conflict
+could terminate.
+
+Madame de Maurville lent me her servant, with whom I now made my
+way tolerably well, for though the crowd remained, it was no
+longer turbulent. A general knowledge of general success to the
+Allies was everywhere spread ; curiosity therefore began to be
+satisfied, and inquietude to be removed. The concourse were
+composedly--for no composure is like that of the Flemings-
+-listening to details of the day in tranquil groups, and I had no
+interruption to my walk but from my own anxiety to catch, as I
+could, some part of the relations. As all these have since been
+published, I omit them, though the interest with which I heard
+them was, at the moment, intense.
+
+Three or four shocking sights intervened during my passage, of
+officers of high rank, either English or Belge, and either dying
+or dead, extended upon biers, carried by soldiers. The view of
+their gay and costly attire, with the conviction of their
+suffering, or fatal state, joined to the profound silence of
+their bearers and attendants, was truly saddening ; and if my
+reflections were morally dejecting, what, oh what were my
+personal feelings and fears, in the utter uncertainty whether
+this victory were more than a passing triumph! In one place we
+were entirely stopped by a group that had gathered round a horse,
+of which a British soldier was examining one of the knees. The
+animal was a tall war-horse, and one of the noblest of his
+species.  The soldier was enumerating to his hearers its high
+qualities, and exultingly acquainting them it was his own
+property, as he had taken it, if I understood right, from the
+fields He produced also a very fine ring, which was all he had
+taken
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+
+of spoil, Yet this man gravely added that pillage had been
+forbidden by the commander-in-chief!
+
+I found the Boyds still firm for departure. The news of the
+victory of the day, gained by the Duke of Wellington and Prince
+Bl�cher, had raised the highest delight; but further intelligence
+had just reached them that the enemy, since the great battle, was
+working to turn the right wing of the Duke of Wellington, who was
+in the most imminent danger; and that the capture of Brussels was
+expected to take place the next morning, as everything indicated
+that Brussels was the point at which Bonaparte aimed, to retrieve
+his recent defeat. Mr. Boyd used every possible exertion to
+procure chaises or diligence, or any sort of land conveyance, for
+Antwerp, but every horse was under military requisition - even
+the horses of the farmers, of the nobility and gentry, and of
+travellers, The hope of water-carriage was all that remained. We
+were to set off so early, that we agreed not to retire to rest.
+
+
+                   THE VICTORY DECLARED TO BE COMPLETE.
+
+A gentleman, however, of their acquaintance, presently burst into
+the room with assurances that the enemy was flying in all
+directions, his better news reanimated my courage for Brussels
+and my trust in the Duke of Wellington; and when the Boyd family
+summoned me the next morning at four or five o'clock to set off
+with them for Antwerp, I permitted my repugnance to quitting the
+only spot where I could receive letters from TrŠves to conquer
+every obstacle, and begged them to excuse my changed purpose.
+They wondered at my temerity, and probably blamed it ; but there
+was no time for discussion, and we separated.
+
+It was not till Tuesday, the 20th, I had certain and satisfactory
+assurances how complete was the victory.  At the house of Madame
+de Maurville I heard confirmed and detailed the matchless triumph
+of the matchless Wellington, interspersed with descriptions of
+scenes of slaughter on the field of battle to freeze the blood,
+and tales of woe amongst mourning survivors in Brussels to rend
+the heart. While listening with speechless avidity to these
+relations, we were joined by M. de la Tour du Pin, who is a
+cousin of Madame de Maurville, and who said the Duke of
+Wellington had galloped to Brussels from Wavre to see the Prince
+of Orange and inquire in person after his wounds. Prince
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+
+Bl�cher was in close pursuit of Bonaparte, who was totally
+defeated, his baggage all taken, even his private equipage and
+personals, and who was a fugitive himself, and in disguise! The
+duke considered the battle to be so decisive, that while prince
+Bl�cher was posting after the remnant of the Bonapartian army, he
+determined to follow himself as convoy to Louis XVIII.; and he
+told M. de la Tour du Pin and the Duke de Fitzjames, whom he met
+at the palace of the King of Holland, to acquaint their king with
+this his proposal, and to beg his majesty to set forward without
+delay to join him for its execution. The Duke de Fitzjames was
+gone already to Gand with his commission.
+
+How daring a plan was this, while the internal state of France
+was so little known, while les places fortes(280) were all
+occupied, and while the corps of Grouchy was still intact, and
+the hidden and possible resources of Bonaparte were unfathomed!
+
+The event, however, demonstrated that the Duke of Wellington had
+judged with as much quickness of perception as intrepidity of
+valour.
+
+'Twas to Tournay he had desired that the King of France would
+repair.
+
+
+                      THE WOUNDED AND THE PRISONERS.
+
+The duke now ordered that the hospitals, invalids, magazines,
+etc., should all be stationed at Brussels, which he regarded as
+saved from invasion and completely secure. It is not near the
+scene of battle that war, even with victory, wears an aspect of
+felicity-no, not even in the midst of its highest resplendence of
+glory.  A more terrific or afflicting sojourn than that of
+Brussels at this period can hardly be imagined. The universal
+voice declared that so sanguinary a battle as that which was
+fought almost in its neighbourhood, and quite within its hearing,
+never yet had spread the plains with slaughter; and though
+exultation cannot ever have been prouder, nor satisfaction more
+complete, in the brilliancy of success, all my senses were
+shocked in viewing the effects of its attainment. For more than a
+week from this time I never approached my window but to witness
+sights of wretchedness. Maimed, wounded, bleeding, mutilated,
+tortured victims of this exterminating contest passed by every
+minute: the fainting, the sick, the dying and the dead, on
+brancards,(281) In carts, in waggons, succeeded one another
+without intermission. There
+
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+
+seemed to be a whole and a large army of disabled or lifeless
+soldiers! All that was intermingled with them bore an aspect of
+still more poignant horror ; for the Bonapartian Prisoners who
+were now poured into the city by hundreds, had a mien of such
+ferocious desperation, where they were marched on, uninjured,
+from having been taken by surprise or overpowered by numbers - or
+faces of such anguish, where they were drawn on in open vehicles,
+the helpless victims of gushing wounds or horrible dislocations,
+that to see them without commiseration for their sufferings, or
+admiration for the heroic, however misled enthusiasm, to which
+they Were martyrs, must have demanded an apathy dead to all
+feeling but what is personal, or a rancour too ungenerous to
+yield even to the view of defeat.
+
+Both the one set and the other of these unhappy warriors endured
+their calamities with haughty forbearance of complaint, The
+maimed and lacerated, while their ghastly visages spoke torture
+and death, bit their own clothes, perhaps their flesh ! to save
+the loud utterance of their groans; while those of their comrades
+who had escaped these corporeal inflictions seemed to be smitten
+with something between remorse and madness that they had not
+forced themselves on to destruction ere thus they were exhibited
+in dreadful parade through the streets of that city they had been
+sent forth to conquer.  Others of these wretched prisoners had,
+to me, as I first saw them, the air of the lowest and most
+disgusting of jacobins, in dirty tattered vestments of all sorts
+and colours, or soiled carters' frocks; but disgust was soon
+turned to pity, when I afterwards learnt that these shabby
+accoutrements had been cast over them by their conquerors after
+despoiling them of their own.
+
+Everybody was wandering from home; all Brussels seemed living in
+the streets. The danger to the city, which had imprisoned all its
+inhabitants except the rabble or the military, once completely
+passed, the pride of feeling and showing their freedom seemed to
+stimulate their curiosity in seeking details on what had passed
+and was passing.  But neither the pride nor the joy of victory
+was anywhere of an exulting nature.  London and Paris render all
+other places that I, at least, have dwelt in, tame and insipid.
+Bulletins in a few shop-windows alone announced to the general
+public that the Allies had vanquished and that Bonaparte was a
+fugitive.
+
+I met at the embassy an old English officer who gave me
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+
+most interesting and curious information, assuring me that in the
+carriage of Bonaparte, which had been seized, there were
+proclamations ready printed, and even dated from the palace of
+Lachen, announcing the downfall of the Allies and the triumph of
+Bonaparte ! But no satisfaction could make me hear without deadly
+dismay and shuddering his description of the field of battle.
+Piles of dead!--Heaps, masses, hills of dead bestrewed the
+plains!
+
+I met also Colonel Jones; so exulting in success! so eager to
+remind me of his assurances that all was safe!  And I was much
+interested in a narration made to me by a wounded soldier, who
+was seated in the courtyard of the embassy. He had been taken
+prisoner after he was severely wounded, on the morning of the
+18th, and forced into a wood with many others, where he had been
+very roughly used, and stripped of his coat, waistcoat, and even
+his shoes ; but as the fortune of the day began to turn, there
+was no one left to watch him, and he crawled on all-fours till he
+got out of the wood, and was found by some of his roving
+comrades.
+
+Thousands, I believe I may say without exaggeration, were
+employed voluntarily at this time in Brussels in dressing wounds
+and attending the sick beds of the wounded. Humanity could be
+carried no further ; for not alone the Belgians and English were
+thus nursed and assisted, nor yet the Allies, but the prisoners
+also ; and this, notwithstanding the greatest apprehensions being
+prevalent that the sufferers, from their multitude, would bring
+pestilence into the heart of the city.
+
+The immense quantity of English, Belgians, and Allies, who were
+first, of course, conveyed to the hospitals and prepared houses
+of Brussels, required so much time for carriage and placing, that
+although the carts, waggons, and every attainable or seizable
+vehicle were unremittingly in motion-now coming, now returning to
+the field of battle for more,- it was nearly a week, or at least
+five or six days, ere the unhappy wounded prisoners, who were
+necessarily last served, could be accommodated. And though I was
+assured that medical and surgical aid was administered to them
+wherever it was possible, the blood that dried upon their skins
+and their garments, joined to the dreadful sores occasioned by
+this neglect, produced an effect so pestiferous, that, at every
+new entry, eau de Cologne, or vinegar, was resorted to by every
+inhabitant, even amongst the shopkeepers, even amongst the
+commonest persons, for averting the menaced contagion.
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+
+Even the churches were turned into hospitals, and every house in
+Brussels was ordered to receive or find an asylum for some of the
+sick.
+
+The Boyds were eminently good in nursing, dressing wounds, making
+slops, and administering comfort amongst the maimed, whether
+friend or foe. Madame d'Henin sent her servants, and money, and
+cordials to all the French that came within her reach ; Madame de
+la Tour du Pin was munificent in the same attentions; and Madame
+de Maurville never passed by an opportunity of doing good. M. de
+Beaufort, being far the richest of my friends at this place, was
+not spared; he had officers and others quartered upon him without
+mercy.
+
+We were all at work more or less in making lint. For me, I was
+about amongst the wounded half the day, the British, s'entend!
+The rising in France for the honour of the nation now, and for
+its safety in independence hereafter, was brilliant and
+delightful, spreading in some directions from La Manche to La
+M‚diterran‚e: the focus of loyalty was Bordeaux. The king left
+Gand the 22nd. All Alost, etc., surrounded followed, or preceded
+him. The noble Bl�cher entered France at Mortes le Chƒteau.
+
+
+              HOSTILITIES AT AN END: TE DEUM FOR THE VICTORY,
+
+It was not till June 26th that the blessed news reached me of the
+cessation of hostilities. Colonel Beaufort was the first who
+brought me this intelligence, smiling kindly himself at the
+smiles he excited. Next came la Princesse d'Henin, escorted by my
+and her highly valued M, de Lally Tolendal. With open arms that
+dear princess reciprocated congratulations. Madame de Maurville
+next followed, always cordial where she could either give or
+behold happiness. The Boyds hurried to me in a body to wish and
+be wished joy. And last, but only in time, not in kindness, came
+Madame la Vicomtesse de Laval, mother to the justly honoured
+philanthropist, or, as others--but not I--call him, bigot, M.
+Mathieu de Montmorency, who, at this moment, is M. le Duc de
+Montmorency.
+
+Brussels now, which had seemed for so many days, from the
+unremitting passage of maimed, dying, or dead, a mere out-door
+hospital, revived, or, rather, was invigorated to something above
+its native state ; for from uninteresting tameness it became
+elevated to spirit, consequence, and vivacity.
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+
+On the following Sunday I had the gratification of hearing, at
+the Protestant chapel, the Te Deum for the grand victory, in
+presence of the King and Queen of the Low Countries--or Holland,
+and of the Dowager Princess of Orange, and the young warrior her
+grandson. This prince looked so ill, so meagre, so weak, from his
+half-cured wounds, that to appear on this occasion seemed
+another, and perhaps not less dangerous effort of heroism, added
+to those which had so recently distinguished him in the field.
+What enthusiasm would such an exertion, with his pallid
+appearance, have excited in London or Paris ! even here, a little
+gentle huzza greeted him from his carriage to the chapel - and
+for the same short passage, back again. After which, he drove off
+as tranquilly as any common gentleman might have driven away, to
+return to his home and his family dinner.
+
+About the middle of July-but I am not clear of the date -the news
+was assured and confirmed of the brilliant reenthronement of
+Louis XVIII., and that Bonaparte had ,surrendered to the English.
+Brussels now became an assemblage of all nations, from the
+rapturous enthusiasm that pervaded all to view the field of
+battle, the famous Waterloo, and gather upon the spot ,,details
+of the immortal victory of Wellington.
+
+
+                             MATERNAL ADVICE.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to her son.)
+April 26, 1815.
+At length, my long expecting eyes meet again your hand-writing,
+after a breach of correspondence that I can never 'recollect
+without pain. Revive it not in my mind by any repetition, and I
+will dismiss it from all future power of tormenting me, by
+considering it only as a dream of other times. Cry "Done!" my
+Alex, and I will skip over the subject, not perhaps as lightly,
+but as swiftly as you skip over the hills of Norbury Park. I
+delight to think of the good and pleasure that sojourn may do
+you; though easily, too easily, I conceive the melancholy
+reflections that were awakened by the sight of our dear, dear
+cottage; yet your expressions upon its view lose much of their
+effect by being Overstrained, recherch‚s, and designing to be
+pathetic.  We never touch others, my dear Alex, where we study to
+show we -,are touched ourselves.  I beg you, when you write to
+me,
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+
+to let your pen paint your thoughts as they rise, not as you seek
+or labour to embellish them. I remember you once wrote me a
+letter so very fine from Cambridge, that, if it had not made me
+laugh, it would certainly have made me sick. Be natural, my dear
+boy, and you will be sure to please Your mother without wasting
+your time.
+
+Let us know what you have received, what you have spent, what you
+may have still unpaid, and what you yet want. But for this last
+article, we both desire you will not wait our permission to draw
+upon your aunt, whom we shall empower to draw upon Mr. Hoare in
+our names. We know you to have no wanton extravagances, and no
+idle vanity, we give you, therefore, dear Alex, carte blanche to
+apply to your aunt, only consulting with her, and begging her
+kind, maternal advice to help your inexperience in regulating
+your expenses. She knows the difference that must be made between
+our fortune and that of Clement - but she knows our affection for
+our boy, and our confidence in his honour and probity, and will
+treat him with as much kindness, though not with equal luxury.
+
+Your father charges you never to be without your purse, and never
+to let it be empty. Your aunt will counsel you about your
+clothes.  About your books we trust to yourself. And pray don't
+forget, when you make sleeping visits, to recompense the trouble
+you must unavoidably give to servants. And if you join any party
+to any public place, make a point to pay for yourself.  It will
+be far better to go seldom, and with that gentlemanly spirit,
+than often, with the air of a hanger-on. How infinitely
+hospitable has been your uncle James! But hospitality is his
+characteristic. We had only insisted upon your regularity at
+chapel and at lectures, and we hear of your attention to them
+comparatively, and we are fixed to be contented en attendant.
+Don't lose courage, dear, dear Alex , the second place is the
+nearest to the first.  I love you with all my heart and soul! . .
+.
+
+
+                          ABOUT THE GREAT BATTLE.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to General d'Arblay.)
+Monday, June 19, 1815-
+The sitting up all night, however little merrily, made me, I know
+not how, seem to have lived a day longer than real time, for I
+thought to-day the 20th when I finished my letter of this
+morning.  I have now, therefore, to rectify that Mistake,
+
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+
+and tell you that there is, therefore, no chasm in the known
+history of the Duke of Wellington. But, to my infinite regret,
+with all the great, nay marvellous feats he has performed, he is
+less, not more, in public favour, from not being approved, or
+rather, I think, comprehended, in the opening of this tremendous
+business.  As I am sure the subject must be of deeper interest to
+you than any other, at such an instant, I will tell you all I
+know-all I have heard and gathered, for I know nothing, and add
+my own consequent conjectures, as soon as I have first acquainted
+you that I separated from the Boyds at about half past seven in
+the morning, too much satisfied with the news of Lord
+Wellington's victory to endure to distance myself still further
+from all I love most upon earth. They, therefore, still alarmed,
+went to Antwerp, and I am again at the little bureau, upon which
+my dearest ami has sometimes written in the March‚ aux Bois.
+
+The first news the Duke of Wellington was known to receive of the
+invasion of les Pays Bas was at a ball at the Duchess of
+Richmond's. He would not break up the party, more than half of
+which was formed of his officers, nor suffer any interruption.
+Some time after, however, he went out, and when he returned
+distributed cards of orders to the several commanding officers.
+But he stayed to supper - after which fifty red-coats retired
+abruptly. Not so the duke--and he is now much--
+
+Ah, mon ami, two letters arrive at the same instant, that curtail
+all subjects but what belong to themselves.  Nous allons
+commencer!--Heaven preserve and prosper the beloved partner of my
+soul. I dare enter upon nothing; I can only say the first of the
+two letters, written before the order of commencer was issued, is
+one of the fullest and dearest I have in my possession; and I
+shall read and re-read its interesting contents with heart-felt
+pleasure.
+
+Tell, tell me, my beloved ami, where, when you would have me
+remove? I will not ask how--I will find that out. To be nearer to
+you--to hear more frequently--oh, what a solace!
+
+The maimed, wounded, bleeding, fainting, arrive still every
+minute. There seems a whole, and a large army of mutilated
+Soldiers. Jerome is said to be killed, and Vandamme to have lost
+both legs.(282)  Our loss is yet incalculable.
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+
+Every creature that was movable is gone to Antwerp, or England,
+but myself - but my intense desire not to lose ground or time in
+my letters made me linger to the last, and now, thank heaven, all
+danger here is at an end, and all fugitives are returning.
+
+The imperial guard is almost annihilated. They fought like
+demons. Napoleon cried out continually to them, the prisoners
+say, "A Bruxelles, mes enfans! … Bruxelles! … Bruxelles!"  They
+were reported one day to be actually arrived here.  I never saw,
+never, indeed, felt such consternation. Not only money, jewels,
+and valuables of pecuniary sorts were shut up, but babies from
+the arms of their terrified mothers and nurses.  I flew out
+myself, to take refuge in the apartments of Madame de Maurville,
+and I never witnessed such horror and desolation.
+
+I have left this for a word at the last minute, This is
+Wednesday, June 21st.... Mr Kirkpatrick tells me Murat is dead of
+his wounds;(283) Vandamme lost his two thighs, and is dead also;
+Jerome died of a cannon-ball at once. Poor M, de Vincent, the
+Austrian, has a ball still in his arm, which they cannot extract,
+Lord Fitzroy Somerset has an arm shot off; Lord Uxbridge a leg.
+Col. Hamilton is killed. Lobau is here a prisoner. I shall
+continue to write all the
+
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+
+particulars I can gather. It has been the most bloody battle that
+ever was fought, and the victory the most entire.
+
+
+                   AN ACCIDENT BEFALLS GENERAL D'ARBLAY.
+
+on the 19th of July, 1815, during the ever memorable Hundred
+Days, I was writing to my best friend, when I received a visit
+from la Princesse d'Henin and Colonel de Beaufort, who entered
+the room with a sort of precipitancy and confusion that
+immediately struck me as the effect of evil tidings which they
+came to communicate. My ideas instantly flew to the expectation
+of new public disaster, when Madame d'Henin faintly pronounced
+the name of M. d'Arblay. Alarmed, I turned from one to the other
+in speechless trepidation, dreading to ask, while dying to know
+what awaited me. Madame d'Henin then said, that M. de Beaufort
+had received a letter from M. d'Arblay: and I listened with
+subdued, yet increasing terror, while they acquainted me that M.
+d'Arblay had received on the calf of his leg a furious kick from
+a wild horse, which had occasioned so bad a wound as to confine
+him to his bed - and that he wished M. de Beaufort to procure me
+some travelling guide, that I might join 'him as soon as it would
+be possible with safety and convenience.
+
+But what was my agony when I saw that the letter was not in his
+own band! I conjured them to leave me, and let me read it alone.
+They offered, the one to find me a clever femme de chambre, the
+other to inquire for a guide to aid me to set out, if able, the
+next day; but I rather know this from recollection than from
+having understood them at the time: I only entreated their
+absence; and having consented to their return in a few hours, I
+forced them away.
+
+No sooner were they gone, than, calming my spirits by earnest and
+devout prayer, which alone supports my mind, and even preserves
+my senses, in deep calamity, I ran over the letter, which was
+dated the fourth day after the wound, and acknowledged that three
+incisions had been made in the leg unnecessarily by an ignorant
+surgeon, which had so aggravated the danger, as well as the
+suffering, that he was now in bed, not only from the pain of the
+lacerated limb, but also from a nervous fever! and that no hope
+was held Out to him of quitting it in less than a fortnight or
+three weeks.
+
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+
+         MADAME D'ARBLAY'S DIFFICULTIES IN REJOINING HER HUSBAND.
+
+I determined not to wait, though the poor sufferer himself had
+charged that I should, either for the femme de chambe of Madame
+d'Henin or the guide of M. de Beaufort, which they could not
+quite promise even for the next day; and to me the next hour
+seemed the delay of an age.  I went, therefore to order a chaise
+at six on the road to Luxembourg. The' answer was, that no horses
+were to be had!
+
+Almost distracted, I flew myself to the inn; but the answer was
+repeated! The route to Luxembourg, they told me, was infested
+with straggling parties, first, from the wandering army of
+Grouchy, now rendered pillagers from want of food ; and next,
+from the pursuing army of the Prussians, who made themselves
+pillagers also through the rights of conquest. To travel in a
+chaise would be impracticable, they assured me, without a guard.
+
+I now resolved upon travelling in the diligence, and desired to
+secure a place in that for TrŠves. There was none to that city !
+
+"And what is the nearest town to TrŠves, whence I might go on in
+a chaise?"
+
+"Luxembourg."
+
+I bespoke a place, but was told that the diligence had set off
+the very day before, and that none other would go for six days,
+as it only quitted Brussels once a week.
+
+My friend the Baroness de Spagen next told me that, if travel I
+would, I had but to go by LiŠge, which, though not a direct, was
+the only safe road; that then she would put me under the
+protection of her brother-in-law, the Comte de Spagen, who was
+himself proceeding to that city by the ensuing night- coach.
+
+I accepted this kindness with rapture.  I flew myself to the
+book-keeper I had so abruptly quitted, and instantly secured a
+place in the LiŠge diligence for night; and I was taking leave of
+my hosts, a Brussels fiacre being at the door, laden with my
+little luggage, when I was told that Le Roi, the confidential
+servant of Madame d'Henin, besought to speak a word to me from
+his mistress. He told me that the Princesse 'was quite miserable
+at my hazardous plan, which she had gathered from Madame de la
+Tour du Pin, and that she
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+
+supplicated me to postpone my purpose only till the next day,
+when I should have some one of trust to accompany me.
+
+I assured him that nothing now could make me risk
+procrastination, but begged him to still the fears of the
+excellent Princesse by acquainting her I should be under the
+protection of the Comte de Spagen.
+
+arrived at the inn after this last unprepared-for impediment,
+three or four minutes too late ! What was the fermentation of my
+mind at this news! A whole week I must wait for the next
+diligence, and even then lose the aid and countenance of le Comte
+de Spagen.
+
+Le Roi, who, through some short cut of footpaths and alleys, had
+got to the inn before me, earnestly pressed me, in the style of
+the confidential old servants of the French nobility, to go and
+compose myself chez la princesse. Even my host and hostess had
+pursued to wish me again good-bye, and now expressed their warm
+hopes I should return to them. But the book-keeper alone spoke a
+language to snatch me from despair, by saying my fiacre might
+perhaps catch the diligence two miles off, in the All‚e Verte,
+where it commonly stopped for fresh passengers or parcels.
+
+Eagerly I promised the coachman a reward if he could
+succeed, and off he drove. The diligence was at the appointed
+place, and that instant ready to proceed ! I rushed into it with
+trepidation of hurry, and when more composed, I was eager to find
+out which of my fellow- travellers might be the Comte de Spagen;
+but I dared risk no question. I sat wholly silent. We arrived at
+LiŠge about nine in the morning I now advanced to the
+book-keeper, and made inquiries about the Comte de Spagen.
+
+He had arrived in the earlier coach, and was gone on in some
+other to his estates.
+
+As calmly as was in my power, I then declared my purpose to go to
+TrŠves, and begged to be put on my way.
+
+I was come wrong, the book-keeper answered; the road was by
+Luxembourg.
+
+And how was I to get thither?
+
+By Brussels, he said, and a week hence, the diligence having set
+off the day before.
+
+Alas, I well knew that! and entreated some other means to forward
+me to TrŠves,
+
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+
+He replied that he knew of none from Li…ge; but that if I would
+go to Aix, I might there, perhaps, though it was out of the road,
+hear of some conveyance; but he asserted it was utterly
+impossible I could leave Li…ge without a passport from the
+Prussian police-office, where I should only and surely be
+detained if I had not one to show from whence I came. This
+happily, reminded me of the one I had from M. de jaucourt' in
+Paris, and which was fortunately, though accidentally, in my
+hand-basket.
+
+Arrived at Aix, I earnestly inquired for a conveyance to TrŠves;
+none existed! nor could I hear of any at all, save a diligence to
+juliers, which was to set out at four o'clock the next morning.
+To lose thus a whole day, and even then to go only more north
+instead of south, almost cast me into despair. But redress there
+was none, and I was forced to secure myself a place to juliers,
+whence, I was told, I might get on.
+
+At any more tranquil period I should have seized this interval
+for visiting the famous old cathedral and the tomb of
+Charlemagne; but now I thought not of them; I did not even
+recollect that Aix-la-Chapelle had been the capital of that
+emperor. I merely saw the town through a misty, mizzling rain,
+and that the road all around it was sandy and heavy, or that all
+was discoloured by my own disturbed view.
+
+I laid down, in a scarcely furnished apartment, without
+undressing. I suffered no shutter or curtain to be closed, lest i
+should lose my vehicle ; and such was my anxiety, that at three
+o'clock, by my own watch, I descended to inquire if we were not
+to set off.  I wandered about by the twilight of a season that is
+never quite dark, but met no one.  I returned to my chamber, but,
+always in terror of being forgotten, descended again in a quarter
+of an hour, though still without success. An hour, says Dr.
+Johnson, may be tedious, but it cannot be long : four o'clock at
+last struck, and I ran into a vehicle then ready in the courtyard
+of the auberge.(284)
+
+I found myself alone, which, at first, was a great relief to my
+mind, that was overburthened with care and apprehension, and glad
+of utter silence. Ere long, however, I found it fed my
+melancholy, which it was my business rather to combat and I was
+not, therefore, sorry when a poor woman with a child was admitted
+from the outside through the charity of the coachman, as the rain
+grew heavier.
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+
+At juliers we stopped at a rather large inn, at the head of an
+immensely long market-place. It was nearly empty, except where
+occupied by straggling soldiers, poor, lame, or infirm labourers,
+women, and children.  The universal war of the Continent left
+scarcely a man unmaimed to be seen in civil life. The women who
+met my eyes were all fat, with very round and very brown faces.
+Most of them were barefooted, nay, barelegged, and had on odd
+small caps, very close round their visages.  The better sort, I
+fancy, at that critical time, had hidden themselves or fled the
+town.
+
+We entered Cologne through an avenue, said to be seven miles in
+length, of lime-trees. It was evening, but very light, and
+Cologne had a striking appearance, from its magnitude and from
+its profusion of steeples.  The better sort of houses were white
+and looked neat, though in an old-fashioned style, and
+elaborately ornamented.  But, between the ravages of time and of
+war, the greater part of them seemed crumbling away, if not
+tumbling down.
+
+
+                     A FRIENDLY RECEPTION AT COLOGNE.
+
+But while I expected to be driven on to some auberge, a police
+officer, in a Prussian uniform, came to the coach-door, and
+demanded our passports. My companion made herself known as a
+native, and was let out directly.  The officer, having cast his
+eye over my passport, put his head through the window of the
+carriage, and, in a low whisper, asked me whether I were French?
+
+French by marriage, though English by birth, I hardly knew which
+to call myself; I said, however, "Oui."  He then, in a voice yet
+more subdued, gave me to understand that he could serve me.  I
+caught at his offer, and told him I earnestly desired to go
+straight to TrŠves, to a wounded friend.  He would do for me what
+he could, he answered, for he was French himself, though employed
+by the Prussians.  He would carry my passport for me to the
+magistrate of the place and get it signed without my having any
+further trouble though only, he feared, to Bonn, or, at farthest,
+to Coblenz, whence I might probably proceed unmolested. He knew
+also, and could recommend me to a most respectable lady and
+gentleman, both French, and under the Prussian hard gripe, where
+I might spend the evening en famille, and be spared entering any
+auberge.
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+He conducted me, in silence, passing through the cloisters to a
+house not far distant, and very retired in its appearance'.
+Arrived at a door at which he knocked or rang, he still spoke not
+a word, but when an old man came to open it, in a shabby dress,
+but with a good and lively face, be gave him some directions in
+German and in a whisper, and then entrusted with my passport, he
+bowed to me and hurried away.
+
+The old man led me to a very large room, scarcely at all
+furnished. He pulled out of a niche a sort of ebony armchair,
+very tottering and worn, and said he would call madame, for whom
+he also placed a fauteuil, at the head of an immense and clumsy
+table. I was then joined by an elderly gentlewoman, who was led
+in ceremoniously by a gentleman still more elderly.  The latter
+made me three profound obeisances, which I returned with due
+imitation, while the lady approached me with good breeding, and
+begged me to take my seat.
+
+The old man then, who I found was their domestic, served the tea.
+ I know not whether this was their general custom, or a
+compliment to a stranger. But when we had all taken some, they
+opened into a little conversation.  It was I, indeed, who began
+by apologising for my intrusion, and expressing at the same time
+my great relief in being spared going to an auberge, alone as I
+was; but I assured them that the gentleman who had brought me to
+their dwelling had acted entirely by his own uninfluenced
+authority.
+
+They smiled or rather tried to smile, for melancholy was seated
+on their countenances in its most fixed colours and they told me
+that person was their best friend, and lost no opportunity to
+offer them succour or comfort.  He had let them know my
+situation, and had desired they would welcome and cheer me.
+Welcome me, the lady added in French, they did gladly, since I
+was in distress; but they had little power to cheer me, involved
+as they were themselves in the depths of sorrow.
+
+Sympathy of compassion soon led to sympathy of confidence; and
+when they heard to whom I belonged, and the nature of my terrible
+haste, they related their own sad history. Death, misfortune, and
+oppression had all laid on them their iron hands ; they had lost
+their sons while forcibly fighting for a usurpation which they
+abhorred; they had lost their property by emigration; and they
+had been treated with
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+
+equal harshness by the revolutionists because they were suspected
+of loyalty, and by the royalists because their children had
+served in the armies of the revolutionists.  They were now living
+nearly in penury, and owed their safety and peace solely to the
+protection of the officer who had brought me to them.
+
+With communications such as these, time passed so little heavily,
+however sadly, that we were ill-disposed to separate; and eleven
+o'clock struck, as we sat over their economical but well served
+and well cooked little supper, ere the idea of retiring was
+mentioned. They then begged me to go to rest, as I must be at the
+diligence for Coblenz by four o'clock the next morning.
+
+To another large room, nearly empty except the old, high, and
+narrow bed, the domestic now conducted me, promising to call me
+at half-past three o'clock in the morning, and to attend me to
+the diligence.  I did not dare undress; I tied my watch, which
+was a small repeater, round my wrist, and laid down in my
+clothes-but to strike my watch, and to pray for my beloved
+invalid, and my safe restoration to him, filled up, without, I
+believe, three minutes of repose, the interval to my conductor's
+return.
+
+At half-past three we set out, after I had safely deposited all I
+durst spare, where my disinterested, but most poor host would
+inevitably find my little offering, which, if presented to him,
+he would probably have refused. I never heard his name, which he
+seemed studious to hold back; but I have reason to think he was
+of the ancient provincial noblesse.  His manners, and those of
+his wife, had an antique etiquette in them that can only accord
+with that idea.
+
+The walk was immensely long; it was through the scraggy and hilly
+streets I have mentioned, and I really thought it endless. The
+good domestic carried my luggage. The height of the houses made
+the light merely not darkness ; we met not a creature; and the
+painful pavement and barred windows, and fear of being too late,
+made the walk still more dreary.
+
+I was but just in time; the diligence was already drawn out of
+the inn-yard, and some friends of the passengers were taking
+leave. I eagerly secured my place - and never so much regretted
+the paucity of my purse as in my inability to recompense as I
+wished the excellent domestic whom I now quitted.
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+
+                    FROM COLOGNE TO COBLENZ AND TREVES.
+
+I found myself now in much better society than I had yet been,
+consisting of two gentlemen, evidently of good education, and a
+lady. They were all, German, and spoke only that language one to
+another, though they addressed me in French as often as my
+absorption in my own ruminations gave any opening for their
+civility.
+
+And this was soon the case, by my hearing them speak of the Rhine
+; my thoughts were so little geographical that it had not
+occurred to me that Cologne was upon that river - I had not,
+therefore, looked for or perceived it the preceding evening: but
+upon my now starting at the sound of its name and expressing my
+Strong -curiosity to behold it, they all began to watch for the
+first point upon which it became clearly visible, and all five
+with one voice called out presently after, "Ah, le voil…!"(285)
+But imagination had raised expectations that the Rhine, at this
+part of its stream, would by no means answer. It seemed neither
+so wide, so deep, so rapid, nor so grand as my mind had depicted
+it nor yet were its waters so white or bright as to suit my ideas
+of its fame. At last my heart became better tuned. I was now on
+my right road; no longer travelling zig-zag, and as I could
+procure any means to get on, but in the straight road, by
+Coblenz, to the city which contained the object of all my
+solicitude.
+
+And then it was that my eyes opened to the beauties of nature;
+then it was that the far-famed Rhine found justice in those poor
+little eyes, which hitherto, from mental preoccupation, or from
+expectations too high raised, had refused a cordial tribute to
+its eminent beauty, unless indeed its banks, till after Bonn, are
+of inferior loveliness.  Certain it is, that from this time till
+my arrival at Coblenz, I thought myself in regions of
+enchantment.
+
+>From Coblenz to TrŠves I was two days travelling, though it might
+with ease have been accomplished in less than half that time. We
+no longer journeyed in any diligence that may be compared with
+one of France or of England, but in a queer German carriage,
+resembling something mixed of a coach, a chaise, and a cart.
+
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+
+                      MEETING WITH GENERAL D'ARBLAY.
+
+At TrŠves, at length, on Monday evening, the 24th of July, 1815,
+I arrived in a tremor of joy and terror indescribable. But my
+first care was to avoid hazarding any mischief from surprise; and
+my first measure was to obtain some intelligence previously to
+risking an interview. It was now six days since any tidings had
+reached me. My own last act in leaving Brussels had been to write
+a few lines to M. de Premorel, my General's aide-de-camp, to
+announce my journey, and prepare him for my arrival.
+
+I now wrote a few lines to the valet of Monsieur d'Arblay, and
+desired he would come instantly to the inn for the baggage of
+Madame d'Arblay, who was then on the road. Hardly five minutes
+elapsed ere Fran‡ois, running like a race-horse, though in
+himself a staid and composed German, appeared before me. How I
+shook at his sight with terrific suspense ! The good-natured
+creature relieved me instantly though with a relief that struck
+at my heart with a pang of agony--for he said that the danger was
+over, and that both the surgeons said so.
+
+He was safe, I thanked God ! but danger, positive danger had
+existed!  Faint I felt, though in a tumult of grateful
+sensations: I took his arm, for my tottering feet would hardly
+support me; and M. de Premorel, hastening to meet me at the
+street-door, told me that the general was certain I was already
+at TrŠves; I therefore permitted myself to enter his apartment at
+once.
+
+Dreadfully suffering, but still mentally occupied by the duties
+of his profession, I found him. Three wounds had been inflicted
+on his leg by the kick of a wild horse, which he had bought at
+TrŠves, with intent to train to military service. He was felled
+by them to the ground. Yet, had he been skilfully attended, he
+might have been completely cured!  But all the best surgeons,
+throughout every district, had been seized upon for the armies :
+and the ignorant hands into which he fell aggravated the evil, by
+incisions hazardous, unnecessary, and torturing.
+
+
+                  WAITING FOR LEAVE TO RETURN To FRANCE.
+
+The adjoint of M. d'Arblay, M. le Comte de Mazancourt, had been
+sent to Paris by M. d'Arblay, to demand leave and
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+
+passports for returning to France, the battle and peace of
+Waterloo having ended the purpose for which he had been appointed
+by Louis XVIII., through the orders of the Mar‚chal Duc de
+Feltre, minister at war, to raise recruits from the faithful who
+wished to quit the usurper.
+
+My poor sufferer had been quartered upon M. Nell, a gentleman of
+TrŠves; but there was no room for me at M. Nell's, and I was
+obliged-most reluctantly-to be conducted to an hotel at some
+distance. But the next day M. d'Arblay entered into an agreement
+with Madame de la Grange, a lady of condition who resided at
+TrŠves, to admit me to eat and lodge at her house, upon the
+picnic plan, of paying the overplus of that expense I should
+cause her, with a proper consideration, not mentioned, but added
+by my dear general, for my apartment and incidental matters. This
+sort of plan, since their ruin by the Revolution, had become so
+common as to be called fashionable amongst the aristocratic
+noblesse, who were too much impoverished to receive their friends
+under their roofs but by community of fortune during their
+junction. Every morning after breakfast one of the family
+conducted me back to M. Nell's, where I remained till the hour of
+dinner, when M. Godefroy de Premorel commonly gave me le bras for
+returning, and Fran‡ois watched for me at the end of the repast.
+This was to me a cruel arrangement, forcing my so frequent
+absences; but I had no choice.
+
+It was not till after reiterated applications by letter, and by
+MM. de Mazancourt and Premorel in person, that my poor general
+could obtain his letters of recall; though the re-establishment
+of Louis XVIII. on his throne made the mission on the frontiers
+null, and though the hapless and helpless state of health of M.
+d'Arblay would have rendered him incapable of continuing to
+fulfil its duties if any yet were left to perform. The mighty
+change of affairs so completely occupied men's minds, as well as
+their hands, that they could work only for themselves and the
+present : the absent were utterly forgotten. The Duc de
+Luxembourg, however, at length interfered, and procured
+passports, with the ceremonies of recall.
+
+
+                           DEPARTURE FOR PARIS.
+
+On the morning of our departure from TrŠves, all the families of
+Nell and La Grange filled the courtyard, and surrounded the
+little carriage in which we set out, with others,
+
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+
+unknown to me, but acquainted with the general, and lamenting to
+lose sight of him-as who that ever knew him failed doing? M. de
+Mazancourt and the De Premorels had preceded us. The difficulty
+of placing the poor wounded leg was great and grievous, and our
+journey was anything but gay; the cure, alas, was so much worse
+than incomplete! The spirits of the poor worn invalid were sunk,
+and, like his bodily strength, exhausted; it was so new to him to
+be helpless, and so melancholy ! After being always the most
+active, the most enterprising, the most ingenious in difficulty
+and mischance, and the most vivacious in conquering evils, and
+combating accidents;-to find himself thus suddenly bereft not
+only of his powers to serve and oblige all around him, but even
+of all means of aiding and sufficing to himself, was profoundly
+dejecting ; nor, to his patriot-heart, was this all: far
+otherwise. We re-entered France by the permission of foreigners,
+and could only re-enter at all by passports of all the Allies!
+It seemed as if all Europe had freer egress to that country than
+its natives!
+
+Yet no one more rejoiced in the victory of Waterloo--no one was
+more elated by the prospect of its glorious results: for the
+restoration of the monarchy he was most willing to shed the last
+drop of his blood. But not such was the manner in which he had
+hoped to see it take place ; he had hoped it would have been more
+spontaneous, and the work of the French themselves to overthrow
+the usurpation.  He felt, therefore, severely shocked, when, at
+the gates of Thionville, upon demanding admittance by giving his
+name, his military rank, and his personal passport, he was
+disregarded and unheard by a Prussian sub-officer--a Prussian to
+repulse a French general, in the immediate service of his king,
+from entering France! His choler rose, in defiance of sickness
+and infirmity; but neither indignation nor representation were of
+any avail, till he condescended to search his portefeuille for a
+passport of All the Allies, which the Duc de Luxembourg had
+wisely forwarded to TrŠves, joined to that of the minister at
+war. Yet the Prussian was not to blame,. save for his uncourteous
+manners : the King of France was only such, at that moment,
+through Bl�cher and Wellington.
+
+Three or four days, I think, we passed at Metz, where the general
+put himself Into the hands of a surgeon of eminence, who did what
+was now to be done to rectify the gross mismanagement at TrŠves.
+
+   In this time I saw all that was most
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+
+worth remark in the old and famous city of Metz. But it looked
+drear and abandoned- as everywhere during my journey.  Nothing
+was yet restored, for confidence was wanting in the state of
+things. Wellington and Bl�cher, the lords of the ascendant,
+seemed alone gifted with the Power of foreseeing, as they had
+been instrumentally of regulating, events.
+
+
+                  A CHANCE VIEW OF THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA.
+
+Not long after, I forget exactly where, we came under new yet
+still foreign masters--the Russians ; who kept Posts, like
+sentinels, along the high road, at stated distances. They were
+gentle and well-behaved, in a manner and to a degree that was
+really almost edifying. On the plains of Chalons there was a
+grand Russian encampment. We stopped half a day for rest at some
+small place in its neighbourhood and I walked about, guarded by
+the good Fran‡ois, to view it. But, on surveying a large old
+house, which attracted my notice by a group of Russian officers
+that I observed near its entrance, how was I struck on being told
+by Fran‡ois, that the Emperor of all the Russias was at that
+moment its inhabitant! At the entrance of the little gate that
+opened the palisade stood a lady with two or three gentlemen.
+There was no crowd, and no party of guards, nor any sign of
+caution or parade of grandeur, around this royally honoured
+dwelling. And, in a few minutes, the door was quietly opened and
+the emperor came out, in an undress uniform, wearing no stars nor
+orders, and with an air of gay good humour, and unassuming ease.
+There was something in his whole appearance of hilarity, freedom,
+youthfulness, and total absence of all thought of state and
+power, that would have led me much sooner to suppose him a jocund
+young Lubin, or country esquire, than an emperor, warrior, or a
+statesman.
+
+The lady curtsied low, and her gentlemen bowed profoundly as he
+reached the group.  He instantly recognised them, and seemed
+enchanted at their sight.  A sprightly conversation ensued, in
+which he addressed himself chiefly to the lady, who seemed
+accustomed to his notice, yet to receive it with a species of
+rapture.  The gentlemen also had the easy address of conscious
+welcome to inspirit them, and I never followed up a conversation
+I could not hear, with more certainty of its being agreeable to
+all parties. They all spoke French, and I was restrained only by
+my own sense of propriety from advancing
+
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+
+within hearing 'of every word; for no sentinel, nor guard of any
+kind, interfered to keep the few lookers on at a distance;
+
+This discourse over, be gallantly touched his bat and leaped into
+his open carriage, attended by a Russian officer, and was out of
+sight in a moment. How far more happy, disengaged, and to his
+advantage, was this view of his imperial majesty, than that which
+I had had the year before in England, where the crowds that
+surrounded, and the pressure of unrestrained curiosity and
+forwardness, certainly embarrassed, if they did not actually
+displease him!
+
+
+                       ENGLISH TROOPS IN OCCUPATION.
+
+At Meaux I left again my captive companion for a quarter of an
+hour to visit the cathedral of the sublimely eloquent Bossuet.
+In happier moments I should not have rested Without discovering
+and tracing the house, the chamber, the library, the study, the
+garden which had been as it were sanctified by his virtues, his
+piety, his learning, and his genius and oh, how eagerly, if not a
+captive, would my noble-minded companion have been my conductor!
+
+A new change again of military control soon followed, at which I
+grieved for my beloved companion. I almost felt ashamed to look
+at him, though my heart involuntarily, irresistibly palpitated
+with emotions which had little, indeed, in unison with either
+grief or shame; for the sentinels, the guards, the camps, became
+English.
+
+All converse between us now stopped involuntarily, and as if by
+tacit agreement. M. d'Arblay was too sincere a loyalist to be
+sorry, yet too high-spirited a freeman to be satisfied. I could
+devise nothing; to say that might not cause some painful
+discussion or afflicting retrospection, and we travelled many
+miles in pensive silence-each nevertheless intensely observant of
+the astonishing new scene presented to our view, on re-entering
+the capital of France, to see the vision of Henry V. revived, and
+Paris in the hands of the English!
+
+I must not omit to mention that notwithstanding this complete
+victory over Bonaparte, the whole of the peasantry and common
+people, converse with them when or where or how I might during
+our route, with one accord avowed themselves utterly incredulous
+of his defeat. They all believed he
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+
+had only given way in order that he might come forward with new
+forces to extirpate all opposers, and exalt himself on their
+ashes to permanent dominion.
+
+
+                      LEAVETAKING: M. DE TALLEYRAND.
+
+On the eve of setting out for England, I went round to all I
+could reach of my intimate acquaintance, to make--as it has
+proved--a last farewell!  M. de Talleyrand came in to Madame de
+Laval's drawing-room during my visit of leavetaking. He was named
+upon entering; but there is no chance he could recollect me, as I
+had not seen him since the first month or two after my marriage,
+when he accompanied M. de Narbonne and M. de Beaumetz to our
+cottage at Bookham. I could not forbear whispering to Madame de
+Laval, how many souvenirs his sight awakened! M. de Narbonne was
+gone, who made so much of our social felicity during the period
+of our former acquaintance; and Mr. Locke was gone, who made its
+highest intellectual delight; and Madame de Stael,(286) who gave
+it a zest of wit, deep thinking, and light speaking, of almost
+unexampled entertainment; and my beloved sister Phillips, whose
+sweetness, intelligence, grace, and sensibility won every heart:
+these were gone, who all, during the sprightly period in which I
+was known to M. Talleyrand, had almost always made our society.
+Ah! what parties were those! how select, how refined though
+sportive, how investigatingly sagacious though invariably
+well-bred!
+
+Madame de Laval sighed deeply, without answering me, but I left
+M. de Talleyrand to Madame la Duchesse de Luynes, and a sister of
+A le Duc de Luxembourg, and another lady or two, while I engaged
+my truly amiable hostess, till I rose to depart: and then, in
+passing the chair of M. de Talleyrand, who gravely and silently,
+but politely, rose and bowed, I said, "M. de Talleyrand m'a
+oubli: mais on n'oublie pas M. de Talleyrand."(287)  I left the
+room with quickness, but saw a movement of surprise by no means
+unpleasant break over the habitual placidity, the nearly
+imperturbable composure of his made-up countenance.
+
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+
+our journey was eventless, yet sad; sad, not solely, though
+chiefly, from the continued sufferings of my wounded companion,
+but sad also, that I quitted so many dear friends, who had
+wrought themselves, by innumerable kindnesses, into my
+affections, and who knew not, for we could not bring ourselves to
+utter words that must have reciprocated so much pain, that our
+intended future residence was England. The most tender and
+generous of fathers had taken this difficult resolution for the
+sake of his son, whose earnest wish had been repeatedly expressed
+for permission to establish himself in the land of his birth.
+That my wishes led to the same point, there could be no doubt,
+and powerfully did they weigh with the most disinterested and
+most indulgent of husbands. All that could be suggested to
+compromise what was jarring in our feelings, so as to save all
+parties from murmuring or regret, was the plan of a yearly
+journey to France.
+
+(273) Minister of war.
+
+(274) About the close of the year 1813, when Napoleon's star was
+setting, and his enemies were pressing hard upon him, the Dutch
+threw off the yoke of France, recalled the Prince of Orange, and
+proclaimed him at Amsterdam King of the United Netherlands, by
+the title of William I.-ED.
+
+(275) On the first floor.
+
+(276) Lady Caroline Lamb (born in 1785) was the wife of the Hon.
+William Lamb, afterwards Lord Melbourne and prime minister of
+England. A year or two before Fanny saw her, she was violently in
+love with Lord Byron: "absolutely besieged him," Rogers said.
+Byron was not unwilling to be besieged, though he presently grew
+tired of the lady, and broke off their correspondence, to her
+great distress, with an insulting and rather heartless letter.
+But it was more than a mere flirtation on Lady Caroline's part.
+She fainted away on meeting Byron's funeral (1824); "her mind
+became more affected; she was separated from her husband and died
+26 January, 1828, generously cared for by him to the last."(Dict.
+of National Biography.)  She was the author of two or three
+novel.-ED.
+
+(277) Son of the Duke of Brunswick who invaded France in 1792,
+and who died in 1806 of the wounds which he received in the
+battle of Jena.  His son was killed at Quatre Bras, June 16,
+1815.-ED.
+
+(278) "Bonaparte is taken! there he is!"
+
+(279) Alarm.
+
+(280) Fortresses.
+
+(281) Litters.
+
+(282) Both reports were false.  Jerome Bonaparte, Napoleon's
+youngest brother, formerly King of Westphalia, was wounded in the
+groin at Quatre Bras, two days before the battle of Waterloo.
+His wound, however, was not so severe as to prevent him from
+serving at Waterloo, and, after the flight of the Emperor to
+Paris, Jerome remained to conduct the retreat and rally the
+fugitives. General Vandamme was not at Waterloo at all, nor was
+he wounded. He was attached to the army commanded by Marshal
+Grouchy, and was engaged in a useless conflict with the Prussian
+rear-guard at Wavres on the day of the decisive battle.-ED.
+
+(283) Another false rumour. Murat was in France during the whole
+of the Waterloo campaign. This distinguished soldier had married
+Caroline Bonaparte, the youngest sister of Napoleon, by whom he
+was made King of Naples. In December, 1813, Murat was ungrateful
+enough to join the allied powers against the Emperor, but, after
+Napoleon's return from Elba, he threw himself into the war with
+characteristic precipitation. Marching from Naples with an army
+of 50,000 men, he occupied Rome and Florence, but was soon after
+totally defeated by the Austrians, and escaped with difficulty to
+France. The Emperor refused to see him. After the final
+abdication of Napoleon, Murat made a desperate attempt, with a
+handful of men, to regain his kingdom of Naples.  He was taken
+prisoner, tried by a military commission, condemned to death, and
+immediately shot. At St. Helena Napoleon said of him, "It was his
+fate to ruin us every way; once by declaring against us, and
+again by unadvisedly taking our part."-ED.
+
+(284) Inn.
+
+(285) "Ah! there it is!"
+
+(286) This was a misapprehension. Madame de Stael died at Paris,
+July 14, 1817. The above narrative was written at a period some
+years later than that of the events to which it relates, and
+hence, in all probability, the mistake arose.-ED.
+
+(287) "M. de Talleyrand has forgotten me; but one does not forget
+M. de Talleyrand."
+
+
+
+
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+                               SECTION 26.
+                                 (1815-8)
+
+
+       AT BATH AND ILFRACOMBE: GENERAL D'ARBLAY'S ILLNESS AND
+DEATH.
+
+
+                            ARRIVAL IN ENGLAND.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Mrs. Locke and Mrs. Angerstein.)
+Dover, Oct. 18, 1815.
+Last night, my ever dear friends, we arrived once more in old
+England.
+
+I write this to send the moment I land in London.  I cannot boast
+of our health, our looks, our strength, but I hope we may recover
+a part of all when our direful fatigues, mental and corporeal,
+cease to utterly weigh upon and wear us.
+
+We shall winter in Bath. The waters of PlombiŠres have been
+recommended to my poor boiteux,(288) but he has obtained a cong‚
+that allows this change.  Besides his present utter incapacity
+for military service, he is now unavoidably on the retraite(289
+list, and the King of France permits his coming over, not alone
+without difficulty, but with wishing him a good journey, through
+the Duc de Luxembourg, his captain in the gardes du corps.
+
+Adieu, dearest both--Almost I embrace you in dating from Dover.
+Had you my letter from TrŠves? I suspect not, for my melancholy
+new history would have brought your kind condolence: or,
+otherwise, that missed me.  Our letters were almost all
+intercepted by the Prussians while we were
+
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+
+there. Not one answer arrived to us from Paris, save by private
+hands. . . .
+
+December 24, 1815. My heart has been almost torn asunder, of
+late, by the dreadful losses which the newspapers have
+communicated to me, of the two dearest friends(290) of my absent
+partner ; both sacrificed in the late sanguinary conflicts.  It
+has been with difficulty I have forborne attempting to return to
+him ; but a winter voyage might risk giving him another loss. The
+death of one of these so untimely departed favourites, how will
+Madame de Stael support? Pray tell me if you hear any thing of
+her, and what. . . .
+
+[With the year 1816 a new section of Madame d'Arblay's
+correspondence may be said to commence in her letters to her son,
+the late Rev. A. d'Arblay, who was then pursuing his studies at
+Caius college, Cambridge. It has been thought advisable to be
+more sparing in publication from this, than from the earlier
+portions of Madame d'Arblay's correspondence.  Without, however,
+a few of these letters to her son, "the child of many hopes,"
+this picture of her mind, with all its tenderness, playfulness,
+and sound sense, would scarcely be complete.]
+
+
+                ALEXANDER D'ARBLAY: SOME OLD BATH FRIENDS.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Mrs. Locke)
+Bath, February 15, 1816.
+Incredible is the time I have lost without giving in that claim
+which has never been given in vain for news of my own ,dear
+friend - but I have been-though not ill, so continually unwell,
+and though not, as so recently, in disordered and disorganizing
+difficulties, yet so incessantly occupied with small, but
+indispensable occupations, that the post hour has always gone by
+to-day to be waited for to-morrow. Yet my heart has never been
+satisfied-I don't mean with itself, for with that it can never
+quarrel on this subject,-but with my pen-my slack, worn,
+irregular, fugitive, fatigued, yet ever faithful, though never
+punctual pen.  My dearest friend forgives, I know, even that; but
+her known and unvarying lenity is the very cause I cannot forgive
+it myself.
+
+We have had our Alexander for six weeks; he left us three
+\
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+
+days ago, and I won't tell my dear friend whether or not we miss
+him. He is precisely such as he was--as inartificial in his
+character, as irregular in his studies.  He cannot bring himself
+to conquer his disgust of the routine of labour at Cambridge; and
+while he energetically argues upon the innocence of a preference
+to his own early practice,(291) which he vindicates, I believe
+unanswerably, with regard to its real superiority, he is
+insensible, at least forgetful, of all that can be urged of the
+mischiefs to his prospects in life that must result from his not
+conquering his inclinations,"- I have nearly lost all hope of his
+taking the high degree A judged to him by general expectation at
+the University, from the promise of his opening.
+
+Of old friends here, I have found stationary, Mrs. Holroyd, and
+Mrs. Frances. and Harriet Bowdler. Mrs. Holroyd still gives
+parties, and tempted me to hear a little medley music, as she
+called it. Mrs. F. Bowdler lives on Lansdowne-crescent, and
+scarcely ever comes down the hill.  Mrs. Harriet I have missed,
+though we have repeatedly sought a meeting on both sides ; but
+she left Bath for some excursion soon after my arrival.  Another
+new resident here will excite, I am sure, a more animated
+interest ' Mrs. Piozzi.
+
+The Bishop of Salisbury, my old friend, found me out, and came to
+make me a long and most amiable visit, which was preceded by Mrs.
+I-, and we all spent an evening with them very sociably and
+pleasantly.
+
+
+                FRENCH AFFAIRS. GENERAL D'ARBLAY'S HEALTH.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to her Son.)
+Bath, Friday, April 2, 1816.
+......The Oppositionists, and all their friends, have now a dread
+of France, and bend their way to Italy.  But the example now
+given at Paris, in the affair of Messrs. Wilson and Co.(292) that
+Englishmen are as amenable to the laws and customs of the
+countries which they inhabit, as foreigners while in England are
+to ours, will make them more careful, both in spirit and conduct,
+than heretofore they have deemed it necessary to be, all over the
+globe.  It is a general opinion
+
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+that there will be a great emigration this summer, because John
+Bull longs to see something beyond the limited circumference of
+his birthright - but that foreign nations will be now so watchful
+of his proceedings, so jealous of his correspondence, and so
+easily offended by his declamation or epigrams, that he will be
+glad to return here, where liberty, when not abused, allows a
+real and free exercise of true independence of mind, speech, and
+conduct, such as no other part of the world affords.
+
+I am truly happy not to be at Paris at such a juncture ; for
+opinions must be cruelly divided, and society almost out of the
+question.  Our letters all confess that scarcely one family is
+d'acord even with itself.  The overstraining royalists make
+moderate men appear jacobins. The good king must be torn to
+pieces between his own disposition to clemency, and the vehemence
+of his partisans against risking any more a general amnesty.
+All that consoles me for the length of time required for the cure
+of your padre's leg is the consequence, in its keeping off his
+purposed visit.  A cold has forced him to relinquish the pump
+till to-day, when he is gone to make another essay.  He is so
+popular in Bath, that he is visited here by everybody that can
+make any pretext for calling.  I have this moment been
+interrupted by a letter to invite me with my " bewitching husband
+" to a villa near Prior Park. He is not insensible to the
+kindness he meets with - au contraire, it adds greatly to his
+contentment in the steadiness of a certain young sprig that is
+inducing him here to plant his final choux; and the more, as we
+find that, as far as that sprig has been seen here, he, also, has
+left so favourable an impression, that we are continually desired
+to introduce him, on his next arrival, wherever we go.
+
+Your kind father, upon your last opening of "All here is well,"
+instantly ran down stairs, with a hop, skip, and a jump, and
+agreed to secure our pretty lodgings for a year.
+
+
+             THE ESCAPE OF LAVALETTE. THE STREATHAM PORTRAITS.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to her Son.)
+Bath, April 30, 1816.
+The three chevaliers have all been condemned as culpable of
+aiding a state-criminal to escape, but not accused of any
+conspiracy against the French government.  They
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+are therefore, sentenced merely to three months'
+imprisonment.(293) Certainly, if their logic were irrefutable,
+and if the treaty of Paris included the royal pardon with the
+amnesty accorded by the allied generals, then, to save those who
+ought not to have been tried would have been meritorious rather
+than illegal; but the king had no share in that treaty, which
+could only hold good in a military sense, of security from
+military prosecution or punishment from the Allies. These Allies,
+however, did not call themselves conquerors, nor take Paris, nor
+judge the Parisians ; but so far as belonged to a capitulation,
+meant, on both sides, to save the capital and its inhabitants
+from pillage and the sword.  Once restored to its rightful
+monarch, all foreign interference was at an end. Having been
+seated on the throne by the nation, and having never abdicated,
+though he had been chased by rebellion from his kingdom, he had
+never forfeited his privilege to judge which of his subjects were
+still included in his original amnesty, and which had incurred
+the penalty or chances of being tried by the laws of the land -
+and by them, not by royal decree, condemned or acquitted.
+
+A false idea seems encouraged by all the king's enemies, that his
+amnesty ought to have secured pardon to the condemned: the
+amnesty could only act up to the period when it was granted and
+accepted; it could have nothing to do with after-offences.
+
+I am grieved to lose my respect and esteem for a character I had
+considered so heroical as that of Sir R. Wilson: but to find,
+through his intercepted correspondence, that the persecution
+
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+
+of the Protestants was to be asserted, true or false, to blacken
+the reigning dynasty. . . to find this truly diabolic idea
+presented to him by a brother of whom he speaks as the partner of
+all his thoughts, etc., has consumed every spark of favour in
+which he was held throughout the whole nation, except, perhaps,
+in those whom party will make deaf and blind for ever to what
+opposes their own views and schemes. I do not envy Lord Grey for
+being a third in such an intercourse, an intercourse teeming with
+inventive plots and wishes for new revolutions !
+
+Your uncle has bought the picture of my dearest father at
+Streatham.(294)  I am truly rejoiced it will come into our
+family, since the collection for which it was painted is broken
+up. Your uncle has also bought the Garrick, which was one of the
+most agreeable and delightful of the set.  To what recollections,
+at once painful and pleasing, does this sale give birth!  In the
+library, in which those pictures were hung, we always
+breakfasted; and there I have had as many precious conversations
+with the great and good Dr. Johnson as there are days in the
+year.  Dr. Johnson sold the highest of all! 'tis an honour to our
+age, that!--360 pounds! My dear father would have been mounted
+higher, but that his son Charles was there to bid for himself,
+and, everybody must have seen, was resolved to have it.  There
+was besides, I doubt not, a feeling for his lineal claim and
+pious desire.
+
+
+                        REGARDING HUSBAND AND SON.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to a Friend.)
+Bath, August 17, 1816.
+I have been in a state of much uncertainty and disturbance since
+I wrote last with respect to one of the dearest possible
+interests of life, the maternal: the uncertainty, however, for
+this epoch is over, and I will hasten to communicate to you its
+result, that I may demand further and frequent accounts of your
+own plans, and of their execution or change, success
+
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+
+or failure. All that concerns you, must to me always be near and
+dear.
+
+General d'Arblay is gone to France, and here at Bath rest sa
+femme et son fils.(295)  There was no adjusting the excursion but
+by separation. Alexander would have been wilder than ever for his
+French mathematics in re-visiting Paris ; and, till his degree is
+taken, we must not contribute to lowering it by feasting his
+opposing pursuits with fresh nourishment, M. d'Arblay
+nevertheless could by no means forego his intention which a
+thousand circumstances led him to consider as right' He could
+not, indeed, feel himself perfectly … sa place without paying his
+devoirs to his king, notwithstanding he has been put by his
+majesty himself, not by his own desire, en retraite. The
+exigencies of the treasury demand this, for all who are not young
+enough for vigorous active service; but his wounded leg prevented
+his returning thanks sooner for the promotion with which the king
+finished and recompensed his services;(296) and therefore he
+deems it indispensable to present himself at the foot of the
+throne for that purpose now that he is able to "bear his body
+more seemly" (like Audrey) in the royal presence.  He hopes also
+to arrange for receiving here his half-pay, when sickness or
+affairs or accident may prevent his crossing the Channel. Choice
+and happiness will, to his last breath, carry him annually to
+France ; for, not to separate us from his son, or in the bud of
+life, to force that son's inclination in fixing his place or mode
+of residence, alone decides his not fixing there his own last
+staff. But Alexander, young as he left that country, has seen
+enough of it to be aware that no line is open there to ambition
+or importance, but the military, most especially for the son of
+an officer so known and marked for his military character: and I
+need not tell you that, with my feelings and sentiments, to see
+him wield a sword that could only lead him to renown by being
+drawn against the country of his birth and of mine, would
+demolish my heart, and probably my head; and, to believe in any
+war in which England and France will not be rivals, is to
+entertain Arcadian hopes, fit only for shepherds and
+shepherdesses of the drama.
+
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+
+                            MATERNAL ANXIETIES.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to General d'Arblay.)
+Bath, October 28th, 1816.
+Certainement, et trŠs certainement, mon bien cher ami, your
+beautiful strictures upon la connoissance et l'usage du monde
+would have given "un autre cours … mes id‚es"(297) were the
+object of our joint solicitude less singular; but our Alexander,
+mon ami, dear as he is to us, and big as are my hopes pour
+l'avenir,(298) our Alexander is far different from what you were
+at his age.  More innocent, I grant, and therefore highly
+estimable, and worthy of our utmost care, and worthy of the whole
+heart of her to whom he shall permanently attach himself. But O,
+how far less aimable! He even piques himself upon the difference,
+as if that difference were to his advantage. He is a medley of
+good qualities and of faults the most extraordinary and the most
+indescribable.  Enfin, except in years, in poetry, and in
+mathematics, il n'est encore qu'un enfant.(299)
+
+Were he so only as to la connoissance, et mˆme l'usage du monde,
+I should immediately subscribe to the whole of your really
+admirable dissertation upon the subject in the letter now before
+me, for I should then sympathise in your idea that a lovely young
+companion might mould him to her own excellence, and polish him
+to our wishes; but O, nous n'en sommes pas l…!(300) When he is
+wholly at his ease, as he is at present, with his mother, and as
+he would soon inevitably be with his wife, he is so uncouth, so
+negligent, and absent, that his frightened partner would either
+leave him in despair to himself, or, by reiterated attempts to
+reason with him, lose her bridal power, and raise the most
+dangerous dissensions.  He exults rather than blushes in
+considering himself ignorant of all that belongs to common life,
+and of everything that is deemed useful.  Even in mathematics he
+disdains whatever is not abstract and simply theoretical.
+"Trouble I hate" he calls his motto. You will easily conceive
+that there are moments, nay, days, in which he is more
+reasonable; I should else be
+
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+
+hopeless : nor will he ever dare hold such language to you. but
+it is not less the expression of his general mind.  Sometimes,
+too, he wishes for wealth, but it is only that he might be
+supine.  Poor youth ! he little sees 'how soon he would then
+become poor ! Yet, while thus open to every dupery and
+professedly without any sense of order, he is so fearful of
+ridicule, that a smile from his wife at any absurdity would fill
+him with the most gloomy indignation. It does so now from his
+mother.
+
+A wife, I foresee you will reply, young and beautiful, sera bien
+autre chose; mais je crois que vous Vous trompez:(301) a
+mistress, a bride,--oui! a mistress and a bride would see him her
+devoted slave ; but in the year following year, when ardent
+novelty is passed away, a mother loved as I am may form much
+judgment what will be the lot of the wife, always allowing for
+the attractions of reconciliation which belong exclusively to the
+marriage state, where it is happy.
+
+Nevertheless, I am completely of your opinion, that a good and
+lovely wife will ultimately soften his asperity, and give him a
+new taste for existence, by opening to him new sources of
+felicity, and exciting, as you justly suggest, new emulation to
+improvement, when he is wise enough to know how to appreciate, to
+treat, and to preserve such a treasure.  But will four months fit
+him for beginning such a trial? Think of her, mon ami, as well as
+of him. The "responsibility" in this case would be yours for
+both, and exquisite would be your agony should either of them be
+unhappy. A darling daughter-an only child, nursed in the lap of
+soft prosperity, sole object of tenderness and of happiness to
+both her parents. rich, well-born, stranger to all care, and
+unused to any control; beautiful as a little angel, and (be very
+sure) not unconscious she is born to be adored ; endowed with
+talents to create admiration, independently of the ‚clat of her
+personal charms, and indulged from her cradle in every wish,
+every fantaisie.--Will such a young creature as this be happy
+with our Alexander after her bridal supremacy, when the ecstasy
+of his first transports are on the wane? That a beauty such as
+you describe might bring him, even from a first interview, to her
+feet, notwithstanding all his present prejudices against a French
+wife, I think probable enough, though he now thinks his taste in
+beauty different from yours; for he has never, he says, been
+struck but by a commanding air.  All beauty,
+
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+
+however, soon finds its own way to the heart. But could any
+permanent amendment ensue, from working upon his errors only
+through his passions? Is it not to be feared that as they, the
+passions, subside, the errors would all peep up again ? And she,
+who so prudently has already rejected a nearly accepted
+pr‚tendant for his want of order!!!(302)  (poor Alexander!) how
+will she be content to be a monitress, where she will find
+everything in useful life to teach, and nothing in return to
+learn? And even if he endure the perpetual tutoring, will not she
+sicken of her victories ere he wearies of his defeats?
+
+And will Alexander be fit or willing to live under the eye, which
+he will regard as living under the subjection, of his wife's
+relations? In this country there is no notion of that mode of
+married life -, and our proud Alexander, the more he may want
+counsel and guidance, will the more haughtily, from fearing to
+pass for a baby, resent them.  Let me add, that nothing can be
+less surprising than that he should have fixed his own
+expectation of welfare in England. Recollect, mon ami, it is now
+nearly three years ago since you gave him, in a solemn and
+beautiful letter, his choice between Cambridge and la compagnie
+de -Luxembourg, into which you had entered him saying that your
+position exacted that you should take your son back to serve, or
+not at all.  You have certainly kept his definite answer, from
+which he has never wavered. And again, only at your last
+departure, this August, you told us positively that you could not
+take your son to France at twenty-one years of age with any
+honour or propriety but to enter him in the army. I would else,
+you know, have shut myself up with him in some cottage au lys,
+merely for the great pleasure of accompanying you.
+
+Alexander, therefore, now annexes an idea of degradation to a
+residence non-military in France. He would deem himself humbled
+by the civil place at which you hint, even if you could bring
+him, which I doubt above all, to submit to its duties.  He
+regards himself, from peculiar circumstances, as an established
+Englishman (though born of a French father), with your own full
+consent, nay, by your own conditions. I by no means believe he
+will ever settle out of England, though he delights to think of
+travelling.
+
+And such, mon ami, appeared to be your own sentiments
+
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+
+when we parted, though they are changed now, or overpowered by
+the new view that is presented to you of domestic felicity, for
+Alexander.  I have written thus fully, and after the best
+meditation in my power, according to your desire ; an(] every
+reflection and observation upon the subject, and upon Alexander,
+unites in making me wish, with the whole Of my judgment and
+feeling at once, to keep back, not to forward, any matrimonial
+connection, for years, not months, unless month,,; first produce
+the change to his advantage that I dare only expect from years.
+
+
+ADVANTAGES OF BATH: YOUNG D'ARBLAY's DECREE.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Mrs. Locke.)
+Bath, November 10, 1816.
+I wish to live at Bath, wish it devoutly ; for at Bath we shall
+live, or no longer in England. London will only do for those who
+have two houses, and of the real country I may say the same; for
+a cottage, now Monsieur d'Arblay cannot, as heretofore, brave all
+the seasons, to work, and embellish his wintry hours, by
+embellishing anticipatingly his garden, would be too lonely, in
+so small a family, for the long evenings of cold and severe
+weather; and would lose us Alexander half the year, as we could
+neither expect nor wish to see him begin life as a recluse from
+the world.  Bath, therefore, as it eminently agrees with us all,
+is, in England, the only place for us, since here, all the year
+round, there is always town at command, and always the country
+for prospect, exercise, and delight.
+
+Therefore, my dear friend, not a word but in favour of Bath, if
+you love me. Our own finishing finale will soon take root here,
+or yonder; for Alex will take his degree in January, and then,
+his mind at liberty, and his faculties in their full capacity for
+meditating upon his lot in life, he will come to a decision what
+mountain he shall climb, upon which to fix his staff; for all
+that relates to worldly prosperity will to him be up-hill toil,
+and labour. Never did I see in youth a mind so quiet, so
+philosophic, in mundane matters, with a temper so eager, so
+impetuous, so burningly alive to subjects of science and
+literature.  The Tancred scholarship is still in suspense. The
+vice-chancellor is our earnest friend, as well as our faithful
+Dr. Davy, but the trustees have come to no determination - and
+Alex is my companion-or rather, I am Alex's
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+
+flapper-till the learned doctors can agree.  At all events, he
+will not come out in Physic; we shall rather enter him at another
+college, with all the concomitant expenses, than let him, from
+any economy, begin his public career under false colours. When he
+entered this institution, I had not any notion of this
+difficulty; I was ignorant there would be any objection against
+his turning which way he pleased when the time for taking the
+degree should arrive.
+
+I am now in almost daily hope of the return of my voyager. His
+last letter tells me to direct no more to Paris.
+
+[After this time General d'Arblay made frequent journeys to
+Paris.]
+
+
+                  PLAYFUL REPROACHES AND SOBER COUNSEL.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to her Son.)
+Bath, Friday, April 25, 1817.
+Why, what a rogue you are! four days in town! As there can be no
+scholarship--h‚las! it matters not; but who knew that
+circumstance when they played truant? Can you tell me that, hey!
+Mr Cantab? Why, you dish me as if I were no more worth than Paley
+or Newton, or such like worthies!
+
+Your dear padre is very considerably better, surtout in looks,
+but by no means re-established ; for cold air--too much exertion-
+-too little--and all sorts of nourishment or beverage that are
+not precisely adapted to the present state of the poor shattered
+frame, produce instant pain, uneasiness, restlessness, and
+suffering. Such, however, is the common condition of
+convalescence, and therefore I observe it with much more concern
+than surprise - and Mr. Hay assures me all is as well as can
+possibly be expected after so long and irksome an illness.
+
+"The scholarship is at an end--
+So much for that!"
+
+pretty cool, my friend!
+
+Will it make you double your diligence for what is not at an end?
+hey, mon petit monsieur?
+
+But I am sorry for your disappointment in the affair you mention,
+my dear Alex : though your affections were not so far engaged,
+methinks, but that your amour propre(303) is still more
+bless‚(304) than your heart! hey? However, 'tis a real loss,
+
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+
+though little more than of an ideal friend, at present.  But no
+idea is so flattering and so sweet, as that which opens to
+expectation a treasure of such a sort.  I am really, therefore,
+sorry for you, my dear Alex.
+
+Your determination to give way to no sudden impulse in future is
+quite right.  Nothing is so pleasant as giving way to impulse;
+nothing so hazardous.
+
+But this history must double your value for Messrs. Jones
+Musgrave, Jacobs, Ebden, Theobald, and Whewell. "Cling to those
+who cling to you!" said the immortal Johnson to your mother, when
+she uttered something that seemed fastidious relative to a person
+whose partiality she did not prize.
+
+Your padre was prevailed upon to go to the play.  We were both
+very well pleased with H. Payne in certain parts; in some
+instances I even thought him excellent, especially in the
+natural, gentlemanly, and pensive tones in which he went through
+the gravedigger's and other scenes of the last act. But, for the
+soliloquies, and the grand conference with the mother! oh, there,
+Garrick rose up to my remembrance with an ‚clat of perfection
+that mocks all approach of approbation for a successor.
+
+But you, M. Keanite, permit a little hint against those looks
+that convey your resentment.  They may lead to results that may
+be unpleasant.  It is best to avoid displaying a susceptibility
+that shows the regret all on your own side ! Let the matter die
+away as though it had never been. Assume your cool air; your "so
+much for that!" but do not mark a d‚pit that will rather flatter
+than vex. At first, it was well ; you gave way to Nature and to
+truth, and made apparent you had been sincere : but there, for
+your dignity's sake, let all drop ; and be civil as well as cool,
+if you would keep the upper hand.
+
+
+                      PREPARATIONS FOR LEAVING BATH.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to General d'Arblay.)
+1817.
+.....June 18.-I made a morning visit to Mrs. Piozzi, whom I found
+with +Dr. Minchin, an informed, sensible physician.  She was
+strange, as usual, at first; but animated, as usual, afterwards.
+The sisters, Mrs. Frances and Mrs Harriet Bowdler, called upon
+me, and were admitted, for I heard their names in time; and we
+had much good old talk),
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+
+that is, Frances and I; for Harriet is ever prim and demure and
+nearly mute before her elder sister.
+
+June 25.-Fixing the last day of the month for my journey, I set
+seriously to work to hasten my preparations. What a business it
+was! You have no conception how difficult, nor how laborious, it
+is to place so many books, such a quantity of linen, such a
+wardrobe, and such a mass of curiosities, in so small a compass.
+How fagged and fatigued I retired to rest every night, you may
+imagine. Alex vigorously carried heavy loads at a time from the
+study to the garret, but only where he might combine and arrange
+and order all for himself. However, he was tolerably useful for
+great luggages.
+
+June 26.-We spent the afternoon at Larkhall place, to meet there
+Maria and Sophy. My dear sister(305) was all spirit and vivacity.
+Mr. Burney, all tranquil enjoyment--peace, rest, leisure, books,
+music, drawing, and walking fill up his
+serene days, and repay the long toils of his meritorious life.
+And my sister, who happily foresees neither sickness nor ennui,
+is the spirit and spring of the party.
+
+June 28.-I devoted all day to leave-taking visits, for so many
+houses were opened, and claimed long confabulations, from their
+rarity, that I had not finished my little round till past ten
+o'clock at night. Yet of these hosts, Mrs. Frances Bowdler, Mrs.
+Piozzi, Mrs. Morgan, and Mrs. Andr‚ were out. Two of the three
+latter ladies are now in France, and they have written word, that
+the distress in their province exceeds all they have left in this
+country! Madame do Sourches has written a similar melancholy
+account; and Mrs. Holroyd, who received my longest call this
+morning, read me a letter from Lady B. with words yet stronger of
+the sufferings in the Low Countries! O baleful effects of "Bella,
+horrida bella!" I sat an hour also with Mrs. Harriet Bowdler, in
+sober chat and old histories. She has not--il s'en faut--the
+exhilaration and entertainment of her clever sister; but there is
+all the soft repose of good sense, good humour, urbanity, and
+kindness. One cannot do better than to cultivate with both; for
+if, after the spirited Frances, the gentle Harriet seems dull,
+one may at least say that after the kind Harriet, the satirical
+Frances seems alarming.
+
+But my longest visit was to the excellent Mrs. Ogle, who is the
+oldest acquaintance with whom I have any present connection in
+the world. It was at her house I first saw Mrs,
+
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+
+Chapone, who was her relation; I visited her, with my dear
+father, my mother-in-law, and my sisters ; though from
+circumstances we lost sight of each other, and met no more till I
+had that happy encounter with her at Cheltenham, when I brought
+her to the good and dear king.  My respect for her age, her
+virtues, and this old connection, induced me to stay with her
+till it was too late to present myself elsewhere. I merely
+therefore called at the door of Madame de Sommery to inquire
+whether they Could receive me sans c‚remonie for half an hour in
+the evening. This was agreed to , and Alex accompanied or rather
+preceded me to Madame de Sommery, who had her two jolies
+daughters, Stephanie and Pulch‚rie, at work by her side, the
+tea-table spread … l'Anglaise, and four of your th‚ƒtre(306)I
+upon the table, with Alex just beginning "Lido" as I entered. I
+was never so pleased with them before, though they have always
+charmed me; but in this private, comfortable style they were all
+ten times more easy, engaging, and lively than I had ever yet
+seen them.
+
+
+                         INSTALLED AT ILFRACOMBE.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to General d'Arblay.)
+Ilfracombe, Devonshire, June 31,(sic) 1817.
+. . .This very day of our arrival, before Alex had had time to
+search out Mr. Jacob, somebody called out to him in the street,
+"Ah, d'Arblay!" who proved to be his man. They strolled about the
+town, and then Jacob desired to be brought to me. Unluckily, I
+was unpacking, and denied. He has appointed Alex for a lesson
+to-morrow. May he put him a little en train!
+
+July 5.--I must now give you some account of this place. We are
+lodged on the harbour. The mistress of our apartments is widow to
+some master of a vessel that traded at Ilfracombe, with Ireland
+chiefly.  She has three or four children: the eldest, but twelve
+years old, is the servant of the lodgers, and as adroit as if she
+were thirty.  Our situation is a very amusing one; for the quay
+is narrow, and there are vessels just on its level, so close that
+even children walk into them all day long. When the sea is up,
+the scene is gay, busy, and interesting; but on its ebb the sands
+here are not
+
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+
+clean and inviting, but dark and muddy, and the contrary of
+odoriferous.  But the entrance and departure of vessels, the
+lading, unlading, and the management of ships and boats, offer
+constantly something new to an eye accustomed only to land views
+and occupations.
+
+
+                         A CAPTURED SPANISH SHIP.
+
+But chiefly I wish for you for the amusement you would find from
+a Spanish vessel, which is close to the quay, immediately
+opposite to our apartments, and on a level with the parlour of
+the house.  It has been brought in under suspicion of piracy, or
+smuggling, or aiding the slave trade.  What the circumstances of
+the accusation are I know not - but the captain is to be tried at
+Exeter on the ensuing western circuit. Meantime, his goods are
+all sequestered, and he has himself dismissed all his sailors and
+crew to rejoin him when the trial is over. He is upon his parole,
+and has liberty to go whithersoever he will; but he makes no use
+of the permission, as he chooses not to leave his cargo solely
+under the inspection of the excisemen and custom officers here,
+who have everything under lock and key and seal. He is a
+good-looking man, and, while not condemned, all are willing to
+take his word for his innocence. Should that be proved, what
+compensation will be sufficient for repairing his confinement? He
+has retained with him only his physician, his own servant his
+cook, and a boy, with another lad, who is an American. I see him
+all day long, walking his quarter-deck, and ruminating upon his
+situation, with an air of philosophy that shows strong character.
+His physician, who is called here the " doctor," and is very
+popular, is his interpreter; he speaks English and French, has a
+spirited, handsome face, and manners the most courteous, though
+with a look darkly shrewd and Spanish.
+
+
+                        THE SPANISH CAPTAIN'S COOK.
+
+But the person who would most entertain you is the cook, who
+appears the man of most weight in the little coterie ; for he
+lets no one interfere with his manoeuvres.  All is performed for
+the table in full sight, a paˆle(307) being lighted with a
+burning fierce fire upon the deck, where he officiates. He wears
+a complete white dress, and has a pail of water by his side, in
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+
+which he washes everything he dresses, and his Own hand, to boot,
+with great attention. He begins his pot au feu soon after seven
+every morning, and I watch the operation from my window; it is
+entirely French, except that he puts in more meat, and has it
+cut, apparently, into pounds; for I see it all carved into square
+morsels, seemingly of that weight, which he inserts bit by bit,
+with whole bowls, delicately cleaned, washed and prepared, of
+cabbages, chicory, turnips, carrots celery, and small herbs. Then
+some thick slices of ship ham and another bowl of onions and
+garlic; salt by a handful, and pepper by a wooden spoon full.
+This is left for many hours; and in the interval he prepares a
+porridge of potatoes well mashed, and barley well boiled, with
+some other ingredient that, when it is poured into a pan, bubbles
+up like a syllabub. But before he begins, he employs the two lads
+to wash all the ship.
+
+To see all this is the poor captain's only diversion ; but the
+cook never heeds him while at his professional operations; he
+even motions to him to get out of the way if he approaches too
+near, and is so intent upon his grand business that he shakes his
+head without answering, when the captain speaks to him, with an
+air that says, "Are you crazy to try to take off my attention?"
+And when the doctor, who often advances to make some observation,
+and to look on, tries to be heard, he waves his hand in disdain,
+to silence him. Yet, when all is done, and he has taken off his
+white dress, he becomes all obsequiousness, respectfully standing
+out of the way, or diligently flying forward to execute any
+command.
+
+
+                            SHIPS IN DISTRESS.
+
+July 6.-Alex and I went to church this morning, and heard a
+tolerable sermon.  In the evening there was a storm, that towards
+night grew tremendous. The woman of the house called us to see
+two ships in distress.  We went to the top of the house for a
+view of the sea, which was indeed frightful. One ship was
+endeavouring to gain the harbour; the other, to steer further
+into the main ocean ; but both appeared to be nearly swamped by
+the violence of the winds and waves. People mounted to the
+lighthouse with lights ; for at this season the lantern is not
+illuminated ; and a boat was sent out to endeavour to assist, and
+take any spare hands or passengers, if such there were, from the
+vessel ; but the sea was so boisterous
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+
+that they could not reach the ship, and were nearly lost in the
+attempt. Alex ran up to the lighthouse, to see what was doing ;
+but was glad to return, as he could with difficulty keep his
+feet, and was on the point of being lifted off them down the
+precipice into the sea. I never was so horrified as when, from
+the top of the house, I perceived his danger. Thank God, he felt
+it in time, and came back in safety. It requires use to sustain
+the feet in such a hurricane, upon a rock perpendicularly
+standing in the ocean.
+
+
+                          YOUNG D'ARBLAY's TUTOR.
+
+July 7.-We have heard that one of the vessels got off; but no
+tidings whatsoever have been received of the other.  It is
+suspected to be a passage vessel from Bristol to Ireland.  I have
+had Mr. Jacob to tea; I could not yet arrange a dinner, and he
+was impatient for an introduction. I like him extremely: he has
+everything in his favour that can be imagined ; sound judgment
+without positiveness, brilliant talents without conceit,
+authority with gentleness, and consummate knowledge of science
+with modesty. What a blessing that such a character should
+preside over these inexperienced youths !  Mr. Jacob has aided us
+to remove. Time is a plaything to the diligent and obliging,
+though a thief to the idle and capricious ; the first find it, in
+the midst of every obstacle, for what they wish, while the latter
+lose it, though surrounded by every resource, for all that they
+want.  I had such success that I now write from my new dwelling,
+which I will describe to-morrow.
+
+July 9.-Quelle joie! this morning I receive a welcome to my new
+habitation, to make it cheer me from the beginning. 'Tis begun
+June 28th, and finished July 2nd. How … propos is what I had just
+written of time in the hands of the diligent and obliging! yet
+how it is you can bestow so much upon me is my admiration.
+
+I have not mentioned a letter I have received from Mrs. Frances
+Bowdler. She tells me of the marriage of Miss---- to a Prussian
+gentleman, and expresses some vexation at it, but adds, "Perhaps
+I ought not to say this to you," meaning on account of the
+objection to a foreigner; and then elegantly adds, "but one
+person's having gained the great prize in the lottery does not
+warrant another to throw his whole wealth into the wheel." Not
+very bad English that?
+
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+
+                      GENERAL D'ARBLAY'S ILL-HEALTH.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Mrs. Broome.)
+Ilfracombe, Post Office, July 23, 1817.
+.....I have letters very frequently from Paris, all assuring me
+M. d'A. is re-establishing upon the whole; yet all letting me
+see, by collateral accounts, anecdotes, or expressions, that he
+is constantly in the hands of his physician, and that a
+difficulty of breathing attacks him from time to time, as it did
+before his journey: with a lassitude, a weakness, and a
+restlessness which make him there, as here they made him since
+his illness, unfit for company, and incapable, but by starts and
+for moments to have any enjoyment of mixed society! I do not
+therefore, feel comfortable about him, though, thank heaven, not
+alarmed. And at all events I am glad he tries the change of air.
+Change of scene also was advised for him by all * but he is too
+kind to find that beneficial when we are separated; and he writes
+me frequent avowals of seizures of dejection and sadness that
+reduce him to a state of great suffering. The parting, while he
+was in a situation so discouraging, was very cruel but Alexander
+had, and has, no chance of taking a tolerable degree without a
+friend constantly at hand to remind him of the passage of time.
+He never thinks of it: every day seems a day by itself, which he
+may fill up at pleasure, but which opens to him no prospect of
+the day that will succeed!  So little reflection on the future,
+with so good capacity for judging the present, were never before
+united.
+
+
+                        PARTICULARS OF ILFRACOMBE.
+
+We are very well lodged for pleasantness, and for excellent
+people. We have a constant view of the sea from our drawing room,
+which is large and handsome - our bedrooms also are good; but our
+minor accommodations, our attendance, dinner equipage, cooking,
+etc., would very ill have contented my general had he been here.
+   The best men, the most moderate and temperate, are difficult,
+nay, dainty, compared with women. When he comes, if I am so happy
+as to see him return while we are here, I must endeavour to
+ameliorate these matters.
+Ilfracombe is a long, narrow town, consisting of only one regular
+street, though here and there small groups of houses hang upon
+its skirts, and it is not destitute of lanes and alleys.
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+
+The town part or side Is ugly, ill paved and ill looking: but the
+backs of the habitations offer, on one side the street, prospects
+of fine hills, and on the other, noble openings to the sea. The
+town is built upon a declivity, of which the church is at the
+summit, and the harbour makes the termination.  It was in the
+harbour, that is upon the quay, that we were at first lodged ;
+and our apartments were by no means without interest or
+amusement; but just as we were comfortably settled in them, we
+were told the ebbs and flows, etc., of the tides left
+occasionally, or brought, odours not the most salubrious.  To
+this representation I thought it right to yield so implicitly,
+that I sought a new abode, and changed my quarters instantly.
+
+
+YOUNG D'ARBLAY's AVERSION TO STUDY.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to General d'Arblay.)
+Friday, September 12, 1817.
+I have so much to say to my dearest friend, that I open my new
+sheet at the moment of finishing the old one, though I shall not
+send it for a week - and let me begin by quieting your poor
+nerves relative to La Chapelle, in assuring you I neglect no
+possible means to follow, substantially and effectually, your
+injunctions, though I dare not tell him that you would never
+pardon the smallest infraction of our new treaty. He is not
+capable, mon ami, of an exactitude of that undeviating character.
+To force further solemn promises from so forgetful, so
+unreflecting, yet so undesigning and well-meaning a young
+creature, is to plunge him and ourselves into the culpability of
+which we accuse him.  To attempt in that manner to couper
+court,(308) etc., instead of frightening him into right, would
+harden him into desperation. His disgust to his forced study is
+still so vehement, that it requires all I can devise of
+exhortation, persuasion, menace, and soothing, tour … tour, to
+deter him from relinquishing all effort! The times, mon ami, are
+"out of joint:" we must not by exigeance precipitate him to his
+ruin, but try patiently and prudently, every possible means, to
+rescue him from the effects of his own wilful blindness and
+unthinking, idle eccentricity. If we succeed, how will he bless
+us when his maturer judgment opens his eyes to the evils he will
+have escaped! but if we fail why should we lie down and die
+because he
+
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+
+might have obtained fame and riches, yet obstinately preferred
+obscurity with a mere competence? Put not Your recovery and your
+happiness upon such a cast! My own struggles to support the
+disappointment for which I am forced to prepare myself, in the
+midst of all my persevering, unremitting efforts to avert it, are
+sufficiently severe ; but the manner in which I see your
+agitation threaten your health, makes his failure but secondary
+to my apprehensions! Oh, mon ami, ought we not rather to unite in
+comforting each other by sustaining ourselves? Should we not have
+done so mutually, if the contagious fever at Cambridge had
+carried him off? And what is the mortification of a bad degree
+and a lessened ambition, with all the mundane humiliation
+belonging to it, compared with the total earthly loss of so dear
+an object, who may be good and happy in a small circle, if he
+misses, by his own fault, mounting into a larger?  Take courage,
+my dearest ami, and relieve me from the double crush that else
+may wholly destroy mine. Let us both, while we yet venture to
+hope for the best, prepare for the worst.  Nothing on my part
+shall be wanting to save this blow; but should his perversity
+make it inevitable, we must unite our utmost strength, not alone
+to console each other, but to snatch from that "sombre
+d‚couragement"(309) you so well foresee, the wilful, but ever
+fondly-loved dupe of his own insouciance. . . .(310)
+
+
+              A VISIT FROM THE FIRST CHESS PLAYER IN ENGLAND.
+
+And now to lighter matters. I hope I have gained a smile from you
+by my disclosure that I lost my journal time for my usual
+post-day by successive dissipation ? What will you have
+conjectured ?  That I have consented at last to listen to Mr.
+Jacob's recommendation for going to the Ilfracombe ball, and
+danced a fandango with him! or waltzed, au moins! or that I have
+complied with his desire of going to the cricket-ground, just
+arranged by the Cantabs and some officers who are here, in
+subscribing three guineas for the use of a field? Vous n'ˆtes
+pas;(311) for though I should like, in itself, to see a
+cricket-match, in a field which Mr. Jacob says is beautifully
+situated, and where the Bishop of Ossory and his lady, Mrs.
+Fowler, go frequently, as two of their sons are amongst the
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+
+players; yet, as Jacob evidently thinks our poor Alexander ought
+not to spare time for being of the party, I cannot bear to quit
+my watchful place by his side, and go thither without him.
+
+Mais--Vous vous rendez, n'est-ce-pas?(312)  Eh bien--to go back
+to Sept. 2nd. Alexander and I were nearly finishing our evening,
+tea being over, and nine o'clock having struck, while he was
+reading the "Spiritual Quixote"(313) for a little relaxation;
+when Miss Elizabeth Ramsay came to tell me that a gentleman was
+just arrived at Ilfracombe who begged leave to wait upon me, if I
+would admit him; and she gave me a card with the name of Mr.
+Bowdler. Of course I complied, and Alexander was wild with joy at
+the thought of such an interview, as Mr. Bowdler is acknowledged
+the first chess-player in England, and was the only man, when
+Philidor was here, who had the honour of a drawn battle with him:
+a thing that Philidor has recorded by printing the whole of the
+game in his treatise on chess. I was not glad to bring back his
+ideas to that fascination, yet could not be sorry he should have
+so great a pleasure.
+
+Mr. Bowdler presented himself very quickly, though not till he
+had made a toilette of great dress, such as would have suited the
+finest evening assembly at Bath. He was always a man of much
+cultivation, and a searcher of the bas bleus(314) all his life.
+He is brother to our two Mrs. Bowdlers, and was now come to
+escort Mrs. Frances from his house in Wales, where she has spent
+the summer, to Ilfracombe.  I had formerly met this gentleman
+very often, at bleu parties, and once at a breakfast at his own
+house, given in honour of Mrs. Frances, where I met Sophy
+Streatfield, then a great beauty and a famous Greek scholar, of
+whom the " Literary Herald says:--
+
+"Lovely Streatfield's ivory neck,
+Nose and notions … la Grecque."
+
+He was extremely civil to Alex, whom he had longed, he said, to
+see, and Alex listened to every word that dropped from him, as if
+it would teach some high move at chess.
+
+We had much talk of old times. We had not met since we parted in
+St. James's-place, in the last illness of my dear Mrs.
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+
+Delany, whom he then attended as a physician. He stayed till past
+ten, having left his sister at the hotel, too tired with a sea
+passage to come out, or to receive chez elle.  But he entreated
+me to dine with them next day, the only day he should spend at
+Ilfracombe, with such excess of earnestness and Alex seconded the
+request with so many "Oh, mamma's!" that he overpowered all
+refusal, assuring me it could not interfere with my Bath
+measures, as it was a dinner, pour ainsi dire,(315) on the road,
+for he and his sister were forced to dine at the hotel. He also
+declared, in a melancholy tone  that he might probably never see
+me more, unless I made a tour of Wales, as -he began to feel
+himself too old for the exertion of a sea voyage.
+
+The next morning, immediately after breakfast, I waited upon my
+old friend and namesake, Fanny Bowdler, and sat with her two
+hours tˆte-…-tˆte, for her brother was unwell, and she is
+admirable in close dialogue. I had hardly got home ere she
+followed me, and stayed till it was time to dress for dinner;
+when again we met, and only parted for our downy pillows. Her
+strong sense, keen observation, and travelled intelligence and
+anecdotes, made the day, thus devoted to her, from ten in the
+morning to ten at night, pass off with great spirit and
+liveliness: but Alex, oh! he was in Elysium. Mr. Bowdler took a
+great fancy to him, and indulged his ardent wish of a chess talk
+to the full; satisfying him in many difficult points, and going
+over with him his own famous game with Philidore - and, in short,
+delivering himself over to that favourite subject with him
+entirely.  It will not, however, be mischievous, for Mr.
+Bowdler's own enthusiasm is over, and he has now left the game
+quite off, not having played it once these seven years.
+
+
+
+                           THE DIARY CONTINUED.
+
+                 A COAST RAMBLE IN SEARCH OF CURIOSITIES.
+
+The term for Alexander's studies with Mr. Jacob was just
+finishing, and a few days only remained ere the party was. to be
+dispersed, when I determined upon devoting a morning to the
+search of such curiosities as the coast produced. . I marched
+forth, attended only by M. d'Arblay's favourite little dog,
+Diane, with a large silk bag to see what I could
+
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+
+find that I might deem indigenous, as a local offering to the
+collection of my general, who was daily increasing his
+mineralogical stores, under the skilful direction of his friend,
+-the celebrated naturalist, M. de Bournon.
+
+I began my perambulation by visiting the promontory called "the
+Capstan"--or rather attempting that visit; for after mounting to
+nearly its height, by a circuitous path from the town, by which
+alone the ascent is possible, the side of the promontory being a
+mere precipice overlooking the ocean, a sudden gust of wind
+dashed so violently against us, that in the danger of being blown
+into the sea, I dropped on the turf at full length, and saw Diane
+do the same, with her four paws spread as widely as possible, to
+flatten her body more completely to the ground.
+
+This opening to my expedition thus briefly set aside, I repaired
+to the coast, where there are pebbles, at least, in great beauty
+as well as abundance. The coast of Ilfracombe is broken by rocks,
+which bear evident marks of being fragments of some one immense
+rock, which, undermined by the billows in successive storms, has
+been cast in all directions in its fall. We went down to the edge
+of the sea, which was clear, smooth, and immovable as a lake, the
+wind having subsided into a calm so quiet, that I could not tell
+whether the tide were in or out.  Not a creature was in sight;
+but presently a lady descended, with a book in her hand, and
+passed on before us to the right, evidently to read alone.
+Satisfied by this circumstance that the tide was going out, and
+all was safe, I began my search, and soon accumulated a
+collection of beautiful pebbles, each of which seemed to merit
+being set in a ring.
+
+The pleasure they afforded me insensibly drew me on to the
+entrance of the Wildersmouth, which is the name given to a series
+of recesses formed by the rocks, and semicircular, open at the
+bottom to the sea, and only to be entered from the sands at low
+tide.  I coasted two or three of them, augmenting my spoil as I
+proceeded; and perceiving the lady I have- already mentioned
+composedly engaged with her book, I hurried past to visit the
+last recess, whither I had never yet ventured.  I found it a sort
+of chamber, though with no roof but a clear blue sky. The top was
+a portly mountain, rough, steep and barren - the left side was
+equally mountainous, but consisting of layers of a sort of slate,
+intermixed with moss ; the right side was the elevated Capstan,
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+
+which here was perpendicular; and at the bottom were ,the sands,
+by which I entered it, terminated by the ocean. The whole was
+altogether strikingly picturesque, wild and original. There was
+not one trace of art, or even of any previous entrance into it of
+man.  I could almost imagine myself its first human inmate.
+
+My eye was presently caught by the appearance, near the top, of a
+cavern, at the foot of which I perceived something of so
+brilliant a whiteness that, in hopes of a treasure for my bag, I
+hastened to the spot. What had attracted me proved to be the
+jawbone and teeth of some animal. Various rudely curious things
+at the mouth of the cavern invited investigation; Diane, however,
+brushed forward, and was soon out of sight, but while I was
+busily culling, hoarding, or rejecting whatever struck my fancy,
+she returned with an air so piteous, and a whine so unusual,
+that, concluding she pined to return to a little puppy of a week
+old that she was then rearing, I determined to hasten; but still
+went on with my search, till the excess of her distress leading
+her to pull me by the gown, moved me to take her home; but when I
+descended, for this recess was on a slant, how was I confounded
+to find the sands at the bottom, opening to the recess, whence I
+had entered this marine chamber, were covered by the waves;
+though so gentle had been their motion, and so calm was the sea,
+that their approach had not caught my ear.  I hastily remounted,
+hoping to find some outlet at the top by which I might escape,
+but there was none.  This was not pleasant but still I was not
+frightened, not conceiving or believing that I could be
+completely enclosed: the less, as I recollected, in my passage to
+the cavern, having had a glimpse of the lady who was reading in
+the neighbouring recess.  I hastily scrambled to the spot to look
+for her, and entreat her assistance ; but how was I then startled
+to find that she was gone, and that her recess, which was on less
+elevated ground than mine, was fast filling with water!
+
+
+                        CAUGHT BY THE RISING TIDE.
+
+I now rushed down to the sea, determined to risk a wet jerkin, by
+wading through a wave or two, to secure myself from being shut up
+in this unfrequented place : but the time was past! The weather
+suddenly changed, the lake was gone, and billows mounted one
+after the other, as if with enraged
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+
+pursuit of what they could seize and swallow. I eagerly ran up
+and down, from side to side, and examined every nook and corner,
+every projection and hollow, to find any sort of opening through
+which I could pass-but there was none.
+
+Diane looked scared; she whined, she prowled about - her dismay
+was evident, and filled me with compassion-but I could not
+interrupt my affrighted search to console her. Soon after,
+however, she discovered a hole in the rock at the upper part,
+which seemed to lead to the higher sands.  She got through it,
+and then turned round to bark, as triumphing in her success, and
+calling upon me to share its fruits. But in vain !-the hollow was
+too small for my passage save of my head, and I could only have
+remained in it as if standing in the pillory.  I still,
+therefore, continued my own perambulation, but I made a motion to
+my poor Diane to go, deeming it cruel to detain her from her
+little one.  Yet I heard her howl as if reduced to despair, that
+I would not join her. Anon, however, she was silent--I looked
+after her, but she had disappeared.
+
+This was an alarming moment. Alone, without the smallest aid, or
+any knowledge how high the sea might mount, or what was the
+extent of my danger, I looked up wistfully at Capstan, and
+perceived the iron salmon; but this angle of that promontory was
+so steep as to be utterly impracticable for climbing by human
+feet; and its height was such as nearly to make me giddy in
+considering it from so close a point of view.  I went from it,
+therefore, to the much less elevated and less perpendicular rock
+opposite; but there all that was not slate, which crumbled in my
+hands, was moss, from which they glided. There was no hold
+whatsoever for the feet.
+
+"I ran therefore to the top, where a large rock, by reaching from
+the upper part of this slated one to Capstan, formed the chamber
+in which I was thus unexpectedly immured. But this was so rough,
+pointed, sharp, and steep that I could scarcely touch it. The
+hole through which Diane had crept was at an accidentally thin
+part, and too small to afford a passage to anything bigger than
+her little self.
+
+The rising storm, however, brought forward the billows with
+augmented noise and violence; and my wild asylum lessened every
+moment. Now, indeed, I comprehended the fulness of my danger. If
+a wave once reached my feet, while coming upon me with the
+tumultuous vehemence of this storm, I had
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+
+nothing I could hold by to sustain me from becoming its prey and
+must inevitably be carried away into the ocean.
+
+
+                    EFFORTS TO REACH A PLACE OF SAFETY.
+
+I darted about in search of some place of safety, rapidly, and
+all eye; till at length I espied a small tuft of grass on the
+pinnacle of the highest of the small rocks that were scattered
+about my prison; for such now appeared my fearful dwelling-place.
+
+This happily pointed out to me a spot that the waves had never
+yet attained; for all around bore marks of the visits. To reach
+that tuft would be safety, and I made the attempt with eagerness
+; but the obstacles I encountered were terrible. The roughness of
+the rock tore my clothes - its sharp points cut, now my feet, and
+now my fingers - and the distances from each other of the holes
+by which I could gain any footing for my ascent, increased the
+difficulty.  I gained, however, nearly a quarter of the height,
+but I could climb no further and then found myself on a ledge
+where it was possible to sit down - and I have rarely found a
+little repose more seasonable.  But it was not more sweet than
+short : for in a few minutes a sudden gust of wind raised the
+waves to a frightful height, whence their foam reached the base
+of my place of refuge, and threatened to attain soon the spot to
+which I had ascended. I now saw a positive necessity to mount yet
+higher, co–te qui co–te, and, little as I had thought it
+possible, the pressing danger gave me both means and fortitude to
+accomplish it: but with so much hardship that I have ever since
+marvelled at my success. My hands were wounded, my knees were
+bruised, and my feet were cut for I could only scramble up by
+clinging to the rock on all fours.
+
+When I had reached to about two-thirds of the height of my rock,
+I could climb no further. All above was so sharp and so
+perpendicular that neither hand nor foot could touch it without
+being wounded. My head, however, was nearly on a level with the
+tuft of grass, and my elevation from the sands was very
+considerable.  I hoped, therefore, I was safe from being washed
+away by the waves; but I could only hope; I had no means to
+ascertain my situation; and hope as I might, it was as painful as
+it was hazardous. The tuft to which I had aimed to rise, and
+which, had I succeeded, would have been security, was a mere
+point, as unattainable as it was unique,
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+
+not another blade of grass being anywhere discernible.  I was
+rejoiced, however, to have reached a spot where there was
+sufficient breadth to place one foot at least without cutting it,
+though the other was poised on such unfriendly ground that it
+could bear no part in sustaining me. Before me was an immense
+slab, chiefly of slate, but it was too slanting to serve for a
+seat-and seat I had none. My only prop, therefore, was holding by
+the slab, where it was of a convenient height for my hands. This
+support, besides affording me a little rest, saved me from
+becoming giddy, and enabled me from time to time to alternate the
+toil of my feet.
+
+
+                           A SIGNAL OF DISTRESS.
+
+Glad was I, at least, that my perilous clambering had finished by
+bringing me to a place where I might remain still ; for with
+affright, fatigue, and exertion I was almost exhausted. The wind
+was now abated, and the sea so calm, that I could not be sure
+whether the tide was still coming in. To ascertain this was
+deeply necessary for my tranquillity, that I might form some idea
+what would be the length of my torment.  I fixed my eyes,
+therefore, upon two rocks that stood near the sea entrance into
+my recess, almost close to the promontory, from which they had
+probably been severed by successive storms. As they were always
+in the sea I could easily make my calculation by observing
+whether they seemed to lengthen or shorten. With my near-sighted
+glass I watched them ; and great was my consternation when,
+little by little, I lost sight of them. I now looked wistfully
+onward to the main ocean, in the hope of espying some vessel, or
+fishing-boat, with intention of spreading and waving my parasol,
+in signal of distress, should any one come in sight. But nothing
+appeared. All was vacant and vast ! I was wholly alone-wholly
+isolated. I feared to turn my head lest I should become giddy,
+and lose my balance.
+
+
+                               LITTLE DIANE.
+
+In this terrible state, painful, dangerous, and, more than all,
+solitary, who could paint my joy, when suddenly, reentering by
+the aperture in the rock through which she had quitted me, I
+perceived my dear little Diane ! For the instant I felt as if
+restored to safety-I no longer seemed
+
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+
+abandoned.  She soon leaped across the flat stones and the sands
+which separated us, but how great was the difficulty to make her
+climb as I had climbed! Twenty times she advanced only to retreat
+from the sharp points of the rock, till ultimately she picked
+herself out a passage by help of the slate, and got upon the
+enormous table, of which the upper part was my support ; but the
+slant was such, that as fast as she ascended she slipped down,
+and we were both, I believe almost hopeless of the desired
+junction, when, catching at a favourable moment that had advanced
+her paws within my reach, I contrived to hook her collar by the
+curved end of my parasol and help her forward. This I did with
+one hand, and as quick as lightning, dragging her over the slab
+and dropping her at my feet, whence she soon nestled herself in a
+sort of niche of slate, in a situation much softer than mine, but
+in a hollow that for me was impracticable. I hastily recovered my
+hold, which I marvel now that I had the temerity to let go; but
+to have at my side my dear little faithful Diane was a comfort
+which no one not planted, and for a term that seemed indefinite,
+in so unknown-a solitude, can conceive.  What cries of joy the
+poor little thing uttered when thus safely lodged! and with what
+tenderness I sought to make her sensible of my gratitude for her
+return !
+
+I was now, compared with all that had preceded, in Paradise : so
+enchanted did I -feel at no longer considering myself as if alone
+in the world. O, well I can conceive the interest excited in the
+French prisoner by a spider, even a spider! Total absence of all.
+of animation in a place of confinement, of which the term is
+unknown, where volition is set aside, and where captivity is the
+work of the elements, casts the fancy into a state of solemn awe,
+of fearful expectation, which I have not words to describe; while
+the higher mind, mastering at times that fancy, seeks resignation
+from the very sublimity of that terrific vacuity whence all seems
+exiled, but self: seeks, and finds it in the almost Visible
+security of the omnipresence of God.
+
+To see after my kind little companion was an occupation that for
+awhile kept me from seeing after myself, but when I had done what
+I could towards giving her comfort and assistance, I again looked
+before me, and saw the waters at the base of my rock of refuge,
+still gradually rising on, while both my rocks of mark were
+completely swallowed up!
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+
+                          the INCREASING DANGER,
+
+My next alarm was one that explained that of Diane when she came
+back so scared from the cavern ; for the waves, probably from
+some subterraneous passage, now forced their way through that
+cavern, threatening inundation to even the highest part of my
+chamber. This was horrific. I could no longer even speak to
+Diane; my eyes were riveted upon this unexpected gulf, and in a
+few moments an immense breaker attacked my rock, and, impeded by
+its height from going straight forward, was dashed in two
+directions, and foamed onward against each side.
+
+I did not breathe--I felt faint--I felt even sea-sick.  On, then,
+with added violence came two wide-spreading waves, and, being
+parted by my rock, completely encompassed it, meeting each other
+on the further and upper ground.  I now gave up my whole soul to
+prayer for myself and for my Alexander, and that I might
+mercifully be spared this watery grave, or be endowed with
+courage and faith for meeting it with firmness.
+
+The next waves reached to the uppermost end of my chamber, which
+was now all sea, save the small rock upon which I was mounted!
+How I might have been subdued by a situation so awful at once,
+and so helpless, if left to unmixed contemplation, I know not --
+had I not been still called into active service in sustaining my
+poor Diane. No sooner were we thus encompassed than she was
+seized with a dismay that filled me with pity. She trembled
+violently, and rising and looking down at the dreadful sight of
+sea, sea, sea all around, and sea still to the utmost extent of
+the view beyond, she turned up her face to me, as if appealing
+for protection and when I spoke to her with kindness, she crept
+forward to my feet, and was instantly taken with a shivering fit.
+
+I could neither sit nor kneel to offer her any comfort, but I
+dropped down as children do when they play at hunt the slipper,
+for so only could I loose my hold of the slab without falling,
+and I then stroked and caressed her in as fondling a way as if
+she had been a child; and I recovered her from her ague-fit by
+rubbing her head and back with my shawl.  She then looked up at
+me somewhat composed, though still piteous and forlorn, and
+licked my hands with gratitude.
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+
+                     THE LAST WAVE OF THE RISING TIDE.
+
+While this passed the sea had gained considerably in height, and,
+a few minutes afterwards all the horrors of a tempest seemed
+impending. The wind roared around me, pushing on the waves with a
+frothy velocity that, to a bystander, not to an inmate amidst
+them, would have been beautiful.  It whistled with shrill and
+varying tones from the numberless crevices in the three immense
+rocky mountains by whose semicircular adhesion I was thus immured
+- and it burst forth at times in squalls, reverberating from
+height to height or chasm to chasm, as if "the big-mouthed
+thunder"
+
+"Were bellowing through the vast and boundless deep."
+
+A wave, at length, more stupendous than any which had preceded
+it, dashed against my rock as if enraged at an interception of
+its progress, and rushed on to the extremity of this savage
+chamber, with foaming impetuosity. This moment I believed to be
+my last of mortality ! but a moment only it was ; for scarcely
+had I time, with all the rapidity of concentrated thought, to
+recommend myself, my husband, and my poor Alexander, humbly but
+fervently to the mercy of the Almighty, when the celestial joy
+broke in upon me of perceiving that this wave, which had bounded
+forward with such fury, was the last of the rising tide !  In its
+rebound, it forced back with it, for an instant, the whole body
+of water that was lodged nearest to the upper extremity of my
+recess, and the transporting sight was granted me of an opening
+to the sands but they were covered again the next instant, and as
+no other breaker made a similar opening, I was still, for a
+considerable length of time, in the same situation: but I lost
+hope no more.  The tide was turned: it could rise therefore no
+higher; the danger was over of so unheard-of an end; of vanishing
+no one knew how or where--of leaving to my kind, deploring
+friends an unremitting uncertainty of my fate--of my
+re-appearance or dissolution. I now wanted nothing but time, and
+caution, to effect my deliverance.
+
+The threat of the tempest, also, was over ; the air grew as
+serene as my mind, the sea far more calm, the sun beautifully
+tinged the west, and its setting upon the ocean was resplendent.
+By remembrance, however, alone, I speak of its glory, not from
+any pleasure I then experienced in its sight: it told
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+
+me of the waning day; and the anxiety I had now dismissed for
+myself redoubled for my poor Alexander. . . .
+
+With my bag of curiosities I made a cushion for Diane, which,
+however little luxurious, was softness itself compared with her
+then resting-place. She, also, could take no repose, but from
+this period I made her tolerably happy, by caresses and continual
+attentions.
+
+But no sooner had the beams of the sun vanished from the broad
+horizon, than a small, gentle rain began to fall, and the light
+as well as brightness of the day became obscured by darkling
+clouds.
+
+This greatly alarmed me, in defiance of my joy and my philosophy;
+for I dreaded being surprised by the night in this isolated
+situation.  I was supported, however, by perceiving that the sea
+was clearly retrograding, and beholding, little by little, the
+dry ground across the higher extremity of my apartment.  How did
+I bless the sight ! the sands and clods of sea-mire were more
+beautiful to my eyes than the rarest mosaic pavement of
+antiquity.  Nevertheless, the return was so gradual, that I
+foresaw I had still many hours to remain a prisoner.
+
+
+                            ARRIVAL OF SUCCOUR.
+
+The night came on--there was no moon - but the sea, by its
+extreme whiteness, afforded some degree of pale light, when
+suddenly I thought I perceived something in the air. Affrighted,
+I looked around me but nothing was visible; yet in another moment
+something like a shadow flitted before my eyes. I tried to fix
+it, but could not develop any form : something black was all I
+could make out; it seemed in quick motion, for I caught and lost
+it alternately, as if it was a shadow reflected by the waters.
+
+I looked up at Capstan: nothing was there, but the now hardly
+discernible Iron salmon.  I then looked at the opposite side. . .
+. ah, gracious heaven, what were my sensations to perceive two
+human figures!  Small they looked, as in a picture, from their
+distance, the height of the rock, and the obscurity of the night;
+but not less certainly from their outline, human figures.  I
+trembled--I could not breathe--in another minute I was espied,
+for a voice loud, but unknown to my ears, called out "Holloa!" I
+unhesitatingly answered, "I am safe!"
+
+"Thank God!" was the eager reply, in a voice hardly
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+
+articulate, "Oh, thank God!" but not in a Voice unknown though
+convulsed with agitation--it was the voice of my dear son! Oh
+what a quick transition from every direful apprehension to' joy
+and delight! yet knowing his precipitancy, and fearing a rash
+descent to join me, in ignorance of the steepness and dangers of
+the precipice which parted us, I called out with all the energy
+in my power to conjure him to await patiently, as I would myself,
+the entire going down of the tide.
+
+He readily gave me this promise, though still in sounds almost
+inarticulate. I was then indeed in heaven while upon earth.
+
+Another form then appeared, while Alex and the first companion
+retired. This form, from a gleam of light on her dress, I soon
+saw to be female. She called out to me that Mr. Alexander and his
+friend were gone to call for a boat to come round for me by sea.
+The very thought made me shudder, acquainted as I now was with
+the nature of my recess, where, though the remaining sea looked
+as smooth as the waters of a lake, I well knew it was but a
+surface covering pointed fragments of rock, against which a boat
+must have been overset or stranded. Loudly, therefore, as I could
+raise my voice, I called upon my informant to fly after them, and
+say I was decided to wait till the tide was down. She replied
+that she would not leave me alone for the world.
+
+The youths, however, soon returned to the top of the mountain,
+accompanied by a mariner, who had dissuaded them from their
+dangerous enterprise.  I cheerfully repeated that I was safe, and
+begged reciprocated patience. They now wandered about on the
+heights, one of them always keeping in view.
+
+Meanwhile, I had now the pleasure to descend to the sort of
+halfway-house which I had first hoped would serve for my refuge.
+The difficulty was by no means so arduous to come down as to
+mount, especially as, the waters being no longer so high as my
+rock, there was no apprehension of destruction should my footing
+fail me.
+
+Some time after I descried a fourth figure on the summit, bearing
+a lantern.  This greatly rejoiced me, for the twilight now was
+grown so obscure that I had felt much troubled how I might at
+last grope my way in the dark out of this terrible Wildersmouth.
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+
+They all now, from the distance and the dimness, looked like
+spectres : we spoke no more, the effort being extremely
+fatiguing.  I observed, however, with great satisfaction, an
+increase of figures, so that the border of the precipice seemed
+covered with people. This assurance that if any accident
+happened, there would be succour at hand, relieved many a fresh
+starting anxiety.
+
+Not long after, the sea wholly disappeared, and the man with the
+lantern, who was an old sailor, descended the precipice on the
+further part, by a way known to him ; and placing the lantern
+where it might give him light, yet allow him the help of both his
+hands, he was coming to me almost on all fours - when Diane
+leaped to the bottom of the rock, and began a barking so loud and
+violent that the seaman stopped short, and I had the utmost
+difficulty to appease my little dog, and prevail with her,
+between threats and cajolements, to suffer his approach. . . .
+
+                      MEETING BETWEEN MOTHER AND SON.
+
+My son no sooner perceived that the seaman had found footing,
+though all was still too watery and unstable for me to quit my
+rock, than he darted forward by the way thus pointed out, and
+clambering, or rather leaping up to me, he was presently in my
+arms. Neither of us could think or care about the surrounding
+spectators-we seemed restored to each other, almost miraculously,
+from destruction and death. Neither of us could utter a word, but
+both, I doubt not, were equally occupied in returning the most
+ardent thanks to heaven.
+
+Alexander had run wildly about in every direction; visited hill,
+dale, cliff, by-paths, and public roads, to make and instigate
+inquiry-but of the Wildersmouth he thought not, and never, I
+believe, had heard; and as it was then a mere part of the sea,
+from the height of the tide, the notion or remembrance of it
+occurred to no one. Mr. Jacob, his coolheaded and excellent
+hearted friend, was most unfortunately at Barnstaple, but he at
+length thought of Mr. John Le Fevre, a young man who was
+eminently at the head of the Ilfracombe students, and had
+resisted going to the ball at Barnstaple, not to lose an hour of
+his time. Recollecting this, Alex went to his dwelling, and
+bursting into his apartment, called out, "My mother is missing!"
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+
+The generous youth, seeing the tumult of soul in which he was
+addressed, shut up his bureau without a word, and hurried off
+with his distressed comrade, giving up for that benevolent
+purpose the precious time he had refused himself to spare for a
+moment's recreation.
+
+Fortunately, providentially, Mr. Le Fevre recollected
+Wildersmouth, and that one of his friends had narrowly escaped
+destruction by a surprise there of the sea.  He no sooner named
+this than he and Alexander contrived to climb up the rock
+opposite to Capstan, whence they looked down upon my recess.  At
+first they could discern nothing, save one small rock uncovered
+by the sea : but at length, as my head moved, Le Fevre saw
+something like a shadow--he then called out, "Holloa!" etc.  To
+Mr. Le Fevre, therefore, I probably owe my life.
+
+Two days after, I visited the spot of my captivity, but it had
+entirely changed its appearance.  A storm of equinoctial violence
+had broken off its pyramidal height, and the drift of sand and
+gravel, and fragments of rocks, had given a new face to the whole
+recess.  I sent for the seaman to ascertain the very spot: this
+he did; but told me that a similar change took place commonly
+twice a year - and added, very calmly, that two days later I
+could not have been saved from the waves.
+
+
+                   GENERAL D'ARBLAY'S RETURN TO ENGLAND.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to a Friend.)
+Bath, November 9, 1817.
+Can I still hope, my dear friend, for that patient partiality
+which will await my tardy answer ere it judges my irksome
+silence?  Your letter Of Sept. 27th I found upon my table when I
+returned, the 5th of October, from Ilfracombe.  I returned, with
+Alexander, to meet General d'A. from Paris. You will be sorry, I
+am very sure, and probably greatly surprised, to hear that he
+came in a state to occupy every faculty of my mind and thoughts--
+altered--thin--weak--depressed--full of pain--and disappointed in
+every expectation of every sort that had urged his excursion!
+
+I thank God the fever that confined him to his bed for three days
+is over, and he yesterday went down stairs and his repose now is
+the most serene and reviving. The fever, Mr. Hay assured me, was
+merely symptomatic ; not of inflammation
+
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+
+or any species of danger, but the effect of his
+sufferings. Alas! that is heavy and severe enough, but still,
+where fever comes, 'tis of the sort the least cruel, because no
+ways alarming.
+
+
+Nov. 15-I never go out, nor admit any one within - nor shall I,
+till a more favourable turn will let me listen to his earnest
+exhortations that I should do both.  Mr. Hay gives me strong
+hopes that that will soon arrive, and then I shall not vex him by
+persevering in this seclusion: you know and can judge how little
+this part of my course costs me, for to quit the side of those we
+prize when they are in pain, would be a thousand times greater
+sacrifice than any other privation.
+
+
+                      THE PRINCESS CHARLOTTE'S DEATH.
+
+You are very right as to Lady Murray, not only, of course, I am
+honoured by her desire of intercourse, but it can never be as a
+new acquaintance I can see the daughter of Lord and Lady
+Mulgrave. I have been frequently in the company of the former,
+who was a man of the gayest wit in society I almost ever knew. He
+spread mirth around him by his sprightly ideas and sallies, and
+his own laugh was as hearty and frank as that he excited in
+others ; and his accomplished and attaching wife was one of the
+sweetest creatures in the world.  Alas ! how often this late
+tragedy in the unfortunate royal family has called her to my
+remembrance!(316) She, however, left the living consolation of a
+lovely babe to her disconsolate survivor ;-the poor Prince
+Leopold loses in one blow mother and child.
+
+The royal visit here has been a scene of emotion:--first of joy
+and pleasure, next of grief and disappointment. The queen I
+thought looked well till this sudden and unexpected blow; after
+which, for the mournful day she remained, she admitted no one to
+her presence, but most graciously sent me a message to console
+me.  She wrote instantly, with her own hand, to Prince
+Leopold-that prince who must seem to have had a vision of
+celestial happiness, so perfect it was, so exalted, and so
+transitory.  The poor Princess Charlotte's passion for him had
+absorbed her, yet was so well placed as only to form her to
+excellence, and it had so completely won his return, that like
+herself he coveted
+
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+
+her alone...... Princess Elizabeth is much altered personally, to
+my great concern; but her manners, and amiability, and talents, I
+think more pleasing and more attaching than ever, How delighted I
+was at their arrival !
+
+
+                    THE QUEEN AND PRINCESSES AT BATH.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to her Son.)
+Bath, November 9, 1817.
+We have here spent nearly a week in a manner the most
+extraordinary, beginning with hope and pleasure, proceeding to
+fear and pain, and ending in disappointment and grief.
+
+The joy exhibited on Monday, when her majesty and her royal
+highness arrived, was really ecstatic ; the illumination was
+universal. The public offices were splendid; so were the
+tradespeople's who had promises or hopes of employment; the
+nobles and gentles were modestly gay, and the poor eagerly put
+forth their mite.  But all was flattering, because voluntary.
+Nothing was induced by power, or forced by mobs. All was left to
+individual choice. Your padre and I patrolled the principal
+streets, and were quite touched by the universality of the homage
+paid to the virtues and merit of our venerable queen, upon this
+her first progress through any part of her domains by herself.
+Hitherto she has only accompanied the poor king, as at Weymouth
+and Cheltenham, Worcester and Exeter, Plymouth and Portsmouth,
+etc. ; or the prince regent, as at Brighthelmstone. But here,
+called by her health, she came as principal, and in her own
+character of rank and consequence. And, as Mr. Hay told me, the
+inhabitants of Bath were all even vehement to let her see the
+light in which they held her individual self, after so many years
+witnessing her exemplary conduct and distinguished merit. ::She
+was very sensible to this tribute; but much affected, nay,
+dejected, in receiving it, at the beginning; from coming without
+the king where the poor king had always meant himself to bring
+her - but just as he had arranged for the excursion, and even had
+three houses taken for him in the Royal-crescent, he was
+afflicted by blindness.  He would not then come; for what, he
+said, was a beautiful city to him who could not look at it? This
+was continually in the remembrance of the queen during the
+honours of her reception ; but she had recovered from the
+melancholy recollection, and was
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+
+cheering herself by the cheers of all the inhabitants, when the
+first news arrived of the illness of the Princess Charlotte.
+At that moment she was having her diamonds placed on her head for
+the reception of the mayor and corporation of Bath, with an
+address upon the honour done to their city, and upon their hopes
+from the salutary spring she came to quaff.  Her first thought
+was to issue orders for deferring this ceremony but when she
+considered that all the members of the municipality must be
+assembled, and that the great dinner they had prepared to give to
+the Duke of Clarence could only be postponed at an enormous and
+useless expense, she composed her spirits, finished her regal
+decorations, and admitted the citizens of Bath, who were highly
+gratified by her condescension, and struck by her splendour,
+which was the same as she appeared in on the greatest occasions
+in the capital.  The Princess Elizabeth was also a blaze of
+jewels. And our good little Mayor (not four feet high) and
+aldermen and common councilmen were all transported.
+
+
+              NEWS ARRIVES OF THE PRINCESS CHARLOTTE'S DEATH.
+
+The Duke of Clarence accepted their invitation, and was joined by
+the Marquis of Bath and all the queen's suite.  But the dinner
+was broken up. The duke received an express with the terrible
+tidings: he rose from table, and struck his forehead as he read
+them, and then hurried out of the assembly with inexpressible
+trepidation and dismay. The queen also was at table when the same
+express arrived, though only with the princess and her own party:
+all were dispersed in a moment, and she shut herself up,
+admitting no one but her royal highness. She would have left Bath
+the next morning; but her physician, Sir Henry Halford, said it
+would be extremely dangerous that she should travel so far, in
+her state of health, just in the first perturbation of
+affliction.  She would see no one but her suite all day, and set
+out the next for Windsor Castle, to spend the time previous to
+the last melancholy rites, in the bosom of her family.
+
+All Bath wore a face of mourning. The transition from gaiety and
+exultation was really awful. What an extinction of youth and
+happiness ! The poor Princess Charlotte had never known a
+moment's suffering since her marriage. Her lot seemed perfect.
+Prince Leopold is, indeed, to be pitied.
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+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Mrs. Broome.)
+Bath, November 25, 1817.
+.....We are all here impressed with the misfortunes of the royal
+house, and chiefly with the deadly blow inflicted on the perfect
+conjugal happiness of the first young couple in the kingdom. The
+first couple not young bad already received a blow yet, perhaps,
+more frightful : for to have, yet lose-to keep, yet never to
+enjoy the being we most prize, is surely yet more torturing than
+to yield at once to the stroke which we know awaits us, and by
+which, at last, we must necessarily and indispensably fall.  The
+queen supports herself with the calm and serenity belonging to
+one inured to misfortune, and submissive to Providence.  The
+Princess Elizabeth has native spirits that resist all woe after
+the first shock, though she is full of kindness, goodness, and
+zeal for right action.
+
+
+        AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE. SERIOUS ILLNESS OF GENERAL D'ARBLAY.
+
+(Mrs. Piozzi to Madame d'Arblay.)
+Bath, Thursday, February 26, 1818.
+I had company in the room when Lady K-'s note arrived, desiring I
+would send you some papers of hers by the person who should bring
+it. I had offered a conveyance to London by some friends of my
+own, but she preferred their passing through your hands.  Accept
+my truest wishes for the restoration of complete peace to a mind
+which has been SO long and so justly admired, loved, and praised
+by, Dear madam,--Your ever faithful, H. L. P.
+Who attends the general? and why do you think him SO very bad?
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Mrs. Piozzi.)
+Bath, February 26, 1818.
+There is no situation in which a kind remembrance from you, my
+dear madam, would not awaken me to some pleasure; but my poor
+sufferer was so very ill when your note came, that it was not
+possible for me to answer it.  That I think him so very bad, is
+that I see him perpetually in pain
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+
+nearly insupportable ; yet I am assured it is local and
+unattended with danger while followed up with constant care and
+caution.  This supports my spirits, which bear me and enable me
+to help him through a malady of anguish and difficulty. It is a
+year this very month since he has been in the hands of Mr. Hay as
+a regular patient. Mr. Hay was recommended to us by Mrs. Locke
+and Mrs. Angerstein, whom he attends as physician, from their
+high opinion of his skill and discernment. But, alas ! all has
+failed here ; and we have called in Mr. Tudor, as the case
+terminates in being one that demands a surgeon.  Mr. Tudor gives
+me every comfort in prospect, but prepares me for long suffering,
+and slow, slow recovery.
+
+Shall I apologise for this wordy explanation? No - you will see
+by it with what readiness I am happy, to believe that our
+interest in each other must ever be reciprocal.
+
+Lady K- by no means intended to give me the charge of the papers;
+she only thought they might procure some passing amusement to my
+invalid. I must, on the contrary, hope you will permit me to
+return them you, in a few days, for such conveyance as you may
+deem safe; I am now out of the way of seeking any.
+
+I hope you were a little glad that my son has been among the high
+Wranglers.
+
+          NARRATIVE OF THE ILLNESS AND DEATH OF GENERAL D'ARBLAY.
+
+                THE GENERAL'S FIRST ATTACK: DELUSIVE HOPES.
+
+Bolton Street, Berkeley Square.
+It is now the 17th of November, 1819. A year and a half have
+passed since I was blessed with the sight of my beloved husband.
+I can devise no means to soothe my lonely woe, so likely of
+success as devoting my evening solitude to recollections of his
+excellences, and of every occurrence of his latter days, till I
+bring myself up to the radiant serenity of their end. I think it
+will be like passing with him, with him himself, a few poor
+fleeting but dearly-cherished moments. I will call back the
+history of my beloved husband's last illness. Ever present as it
+is to me, it will be a relief to set it down.
+
+In Paris, in the autumn Of 1817, he was first attacked with
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+
+the deadly evil by which he was finally consumed. I suspected not
+his danger. He had left me in June, in the happy but most
+delusive persuasion that the journey and his native air would
+complete his recovery from the jaundice, which had attacked him
+in February, 1817. Far from ameliorating, his health went on
+daily declining. His letters, which at first were the delight and
+support of my existence, became disappointing, dejecting,
+afflicting.  I sighed for his return ! I believed. he was trying
+experiments that hindered his recovery; and, indeed, I am
+persuaded he precipitated the evil by continual changes of
+system. At length his letters became so comfortless, that I
+almost expired with desire to join him - but he positively
+forbade my quitting our Alexander, who was preparing for his
+grand examination at Cambridge.
+
+On the opening of October, 1817, Alex and I returned from
+Ilfracombe to Bath to meet our best friend.  He arrived soon
+after, attended by his favourite medical man, Mr. Hay, whom he
+had met in Paris. We found him extremely altered-not in mind,
+temper, faculties--oh, no!--but in looks and strength: thin and
+weakened so as to be fatigued by the smallest exertion.  He
+tried, however, to revive; we sought to renew our walks, but his
+strength was insufficient.  He purchased a garden in the Crescent
+fields, and worked in it, but came home always the worse for the
+effort.  His spirits were no longer in their state of native
+genial cheerfulness : he could still be awakened to gaiety, but
+gaiety was no longer innate, instinctive with him.
+
+
+                 GENERAL D'ARBLAY PRESENTED TO THE QUEEN.
+
+In this month, October, 1817, I had a letter from the Princess
+Elizabeth, to inform me that her majesty and herself were coming
+to pass four weeks in Bath. The queen's stay was short, abruptly
+and sadly broken up by the death of the Princess Charlotte.  In
+twenty-four hours after the evil tidings, they hastened to
+Windsor to meet the prince regent and almost immediately after
+the funeral, the queen and princess returned, accompanied by the
+Duke of Clarence. I saw them continually, and never passed a day
+without calling at the royal abode by the queen's express
+permission ; and during the whole period of their stay, my
+invalid appeared to be stationary in his health.  I never quitted
+him save for this royal visit, and that only of a morning.
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+
+He had always purposed being presented to her majesty in
+the pump-room, and the queen herself deigned to say "she should
+be very glad to see the general." Ill he was! suffering,
+emaciated, enfeebled!  But he had always spirit awake to every
+call; and just before Christmas, 1817, we went together, between
+seven and eight o'clock in the morning, in chairs, to the
+pump-room. I thought I had never seen him look to such advantage.
+His fine brow so open, his noble countenance so expressive, his
+features so formed for a painter's pencil! This, too, was the
+last time he ever wore his military honours--his three orders of
+"St. Louis," "the Legion of Honour," and "Du Lys," or "De la
+FidŠlit‚;" decorations which singularly became him, from his
+strikingly martial port and character.
+
+The queen was brought to the circle in her sedan-chair, and led
+to the seat prepared for her by her vice-chamberlain, making a
+gracious general bow to the assembly as she passed. Dr. Gibbs and
+Mr. Tudor waited upon her with the Bath water, and she conversed
+with them, and the mayor and aldermen, and her own people, for
+some time. After this she rose to make her round with a grace
+indescribable, and, to those who never witnessed it,
+inconceivable ; for it was such as to carry off age, infirmity,
+sickness, diminutive stature and to give her, in defiance of such
+disadvantages, a power of charming that rarely has been equalled.
+Her face had a variety of expression that made her features soon
+seem agreeable; the intonations of her voice so accorded with her
+words, her language was so impressive, and her manner so engaging
+and encouraging, that it was not possible to be the object of her
+attention without being both struck with her uncommon abilities
+and fascinated by their exertion.
+
+Such was the effect which she produced upon General d'Arblay, to
+whom she soon turned. Highly sensible to the honour of her
+distinction, he forgot his pains in his desire to manifest his
+gratitude;--and his own smiles--how winning they became! Her
+majesty spoke of Bath, of Windsor, of the Continent; and while
+addressing him, her eyes turned to meet mine with a look that
+said, "Now I know I am making you happy!"  She asked me, archly,
+whether I was not fatigued by coming to the pump-room so early?
+and said, "Madame d'Arblay thinks I have never seen you before !
+but she is mistaken, for I peeped at you through the window as
+you passed to the Terrace at Windsor." Alas! the queen no
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+
+sooner ceased to address him than the pains he had suppressed
+became intolerable, and he retreated from the circle and sank
+upon a bench near the wall - he could stand no longer, and we
+returned home to spend the rest of the day in bodily misery.
+
+
+                            GLOOMY FOREBODINGS.
+
+Very soon after the opening of this fatal year 1818, expressions
+dropped from my beloved of his belief of his approaching end :
+they would have broken my heart, had not an incredulity --now my
+eternal wonder,--kept me in a constant persuasion that he was
+hypochondriac, and tormented with false apprehensions.
+Fortunate, merciful as wonderful, was that incredulity, which,
+blinding me to my coming woe, enabled me to support my courage by
+my hopes, and helped me to sustain his own. In his occasional
+mournful prophecies, which I always rallied off and refused to
+listen to, he uttered frequently the kind words, "Et jamais je
+n'ai tant aim‚ la vie! Jamais, jamais, la vie ne m'a ‚t‚ plus
+chŠre!"(317)  How sweet to me were those words, which I thought-
+-alas, how delusively--would soothe and invigorate recovery!
+
+The vivacity with which I exerted all the means in my power to
+fly from every evil prognostic, he was often struck with, and
+never angrily; on the contrary, he would exclaim, "Comme j'admire
+ton courage!"(318) while his own, on the observation, always
+revived.  "My courage?" I always answered, "What courage? Am I
+not doing what I most desire upon earth--remaining by your side?
+When you are not well, the whole universe is to me, there!"
+
+Soon after, nevertheless, recurring to the mournful idea ever
+uppermost, he said, with a serenity the most beautiful, "Je
+voudrois que nous causassions sur tout cela avec
+calme,---doucement,--cheerfully mˆme(319) as of a future voyage--
+as of a subject of discussion--simply to exchange our ideas and
+talk them over."
+
+Alas, alas ! how do I now regret that I seconded not this
+project, so fitted for all pious Christian minds, whether their
+pilgrimage be of shorter or longer duration.  But I saw him
+
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+
+I, oh, how ill!  I felt myself well ; it was, therefore, apparent
+who must be the survivor in case of sunderment; and, therefore,
+all power of generalizing the subject was over. And much and
+ardently as I should have rejoiced in treating such a theme when
+he was well, or on his recovery, I had no power to sustain it
+thus situated.  I could only attend his sick couch; I could only
+'live by fostering hopes of his revival, and seeking to make them
+reciprocal.
+
+
+During this interval a letter from my affectionate sister
+Charlotte suggested our taking further advice to aid Mr. Hay,
+since the malady was so unyielding. /On January the 24th Mr.
+Tudor came, but after an interview and examination, his looks
+were even forbidding. Mr. Hay had lost his air of satisfaction
+and complacency, Mr. Tudor merely inquired whether he should come
+again? "Oh, yes, yes, yes!" I cried, and they retired together.
+And rapidly I flew, not alone from hearing, but from forming any
+opinion, and took refuge by the side of my beloved, whom I sought
+to console and revive.  And this very day, as I have since found,
+he began his Diary for the year.  It contains these words:--
+
+"Jamais je n'ai tant aim‚ la vie que je suis en si grand danger
+de perdre; malgr‚ que je n'aye point de fiŠvre, ni le moindre mal
+… la tˆte; et que j'aye non seulement l'esprit libre, mais le
+coeur d'un contentement Parfait.  La volont‚ de Dieu soit faite!
+J'attends pour ce soir ou demain le resultat d'une
+consultation."(320)
+
+
+
+              PRESENTS FROM THE QUEEN AND PRINCEss ELIZABETH.
+
+On this same day Madame de Soyres brought me a packet from her
+majesty, and another from the Princess Elizabeth. The kind and
+gracious princess sent me a pair of silver camp candlesticks,
+with peculiar contrivances which she wrote me word might amuse
+the general as a military man, while they might be employed by
+myself to light my evening researches among the MSS. of my dear
+father, which she wished me to collect and to preface by a
+memoir.
+
+Her mother's offering was in the same spirit of benevolence - it
+was a collection of all the volumes of "L'Hermite de
+
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+
+la Chauss‚e d'Antin," with Chalmers's Astronomical Sermons, and
+Drake's two quartos on Shakespeare; joined to a small work of
+deeper personal interest to me than them all, which was a book of
+prayers suited to various circumstances, and printed at her
+majesty's own press at Frogmore. In this she had condescended to
+write my name, accompanied by words of peculiar kindness. My poor
+ami looked over every title-page with delight, feeling as I did
+myself that the gift was still more meant for him than for me--or
+rather, doubly, trebly for me in being calculated to be pleasing
+to him!--he was to me the soul of all pleasure on earth.
+
+What words of kindness do I find, and now for the first time
+read, in his Diary dated 2nd February! After speaking--h‚las,
+h‚las!--"de ses douleurs inouies," (321) he adds, "Quelle ‚trange
+maladie! et quelle position que la mienne! il en est une,
+peutˆtre plus ficheuse encore, c'est celle de ma malheureuse
+compagne; avec quelle tendresse elle me soigne! et avec quel
+courage elle supporte ce qu'elle a … souffrir! Je ne puis que
+r‚p‚ter, La volont‚ de Dieu soit faite!"(322)
+
+Alas! the last words he wrote in February were most melancholy:--
+"20 F‚vrier, Je sens que je m'afaiblis horriblement--je ne crois
+pas que ceci puisse ˆtre encore bien long.(323) ChŠre Fanny, cher
+Alex! God bless you! and unite us for ever, Amen!"
+
+Oh my beloved!
+ Delight, pride, and happiness of my heart! May heaven in its
+mercy hear this prayer! . . .
+
+
+
+                THE GENERAL RECEIVES THE VISIT OF A PRIEST.
+
+In March he revived a little, and Mr. Tudor no longer denied me
+hope; on the 18th Alex came to our arms and gratulations on his
+fellowship; which gave to his dearest father a delight the most
+touching.
+
+I have no Diary in his honoured hand to guide my narrative in
+April; a few words only he ever wrote more, and these, after
+speaking of his sufferings, end with "Pazienza!
+
+"
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+
+Pazienza!"--such was his last written expression! 'Tis on the 5th
+of April. . . .
+
+On the 3rd of May he reaped, I humbly trust, the fair fruit of
+that faith and patience he so pathetically implored and so
+beautifully practised.
+
+At this critical period in April I was called down one day to
+Madame la Marquise de S-, who urged me to summon a priest of the
+Roman catholic persuasion to my precious sufferer.  I was greatly
+disturbed every way; I felt in shuddering the danger she
+apprehended, and resisted its belief; yet I trembled lest I
+should be doing wrong. I was a protestant, and had no faith in
+confession to man. I had long had reason to believe that my
+beloved partner was a protestant, also, in his heart ; but he had
+a horror of apostasy, and therefore, as he told me, would not
+investigate the differences of the two religions; he had besides
+a tie which to his honour and character was potent and
+persuasive; he had taken an oath to keep the catholic faith when
+he received his Croix de St. Louis, which was at a period when
+the preference of the simplicity of protestantism was not
+apparent to him.  All this made me personally easy for him, yet,
+as this was not known, and as nothing definite had ever passed
+between us upon this delicate subject, I felt that he apparently
+belonged still to the Roman catholic church; and after many
+painful struggles I thought it my absolute duty to let him judge
+for himself, even at the risk of inspiring the alarm I so much
+sought to save him! . . . I compelled myself therefore to tell
+him the wish of Madame de S-, that he should see a priest.  "Eh
+bien," he cried, gently yet readily, "je ne m'y oppose pas.
+Qu'en penses tu?" I begged to leave such a decision wholly to
+himself.
+
+Never shall I forget the heavenly composure with which my beloved
+partner heard me announce that the priest, Dr. Elloi, was come.
+Cheerfully as I urged myself to name him, still he could but
+regard the visit as an invitation to make his last preparations
+for quitting mortal life. With a calm the most gentle and
+genuine, he said he had better be left alone with him, and they
+remained together, I believe, three hours. I was deeply disturbed
+that my poor patient should be so long without sustenance or
+medicine - but I durst not intrude, though anxiously I kept at
+hand in case of any sudden summons. When, at length, the priest
+re-appeared, I found
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+
+my dearest invalid as placid as before this ceremony, though
+fully convinced it was meant as the annunciation of his expected
+and approaching departure.
+
+
+                     THE LAST SACRAMENT ADMINISTERED.
+
+Dr. Elloi now came not only every day, but almost every hour of
+the day, to obtain another interview; but my beloved, though
+pleased that the meeting had taken place, expressed no desire for
+its repetition.  I was cruelly distressed ; the fear of doing
+wrong has been always the leading principle of my internal
+guidance, and here I felt incompetent to judge what was right.
+Overpowered, therefore, by my own inability to settle that point,
+and my terror lest I should mistake it, I ceased to resist ; and
+Dr. Elloi, while my patient was sleeping from opium, glided into
+his chamber, and knelt down by the bedside with his prayer book
+in his hand. Two hours this lasted; but when the doctor informed
+me he had obtained the general's promise that he should
+administer to him the last sacrament, the preparations were made
+accordingly, and I only entreated leave to be present.
+
+This solemn communion, at which I have never in our own church
+attended with unmoistened eyes, was administered the same
+evening. The dear invalid was in bed: his head raised with
+difficulty, he went through this ceremony with spirits calm, and
+a countenance and voice of holy composure.
+
+
+                       FAREWELL WORDS OF COUNSEL.
+
+Thenceforth he talked openly, and almost solely, of his
+approaching dissolution, and prepared for it by much silent
+mental prayer.  He also poured forth his soul in counsel for
+Alexander and myself. I now dared no longer oppose to him my
+hopes of his recovery - the season was too awful.  I heard him
+only with deluges of long-restrained tears, and his generous
+spirit seemed better satisfied in thinking me now --awakened to a
+sense of his danger, as preparatory for supporting its
+consequence.
+
+"Parle de moi." He said, afterwards, "Parle--et souvent. Surtout
+Ò Alexandre; qu'il ne m'oublie pas!"(325)
+
+"Je ne parlerai pas d'autre chose!"(326) I answered . . . and
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+
+I felt his tender purpose. He knew how I forbore ever to speak of
+my lost darling sister, and he thought the constraint injurious
+both to my health and spirits : he wished to change my mode with
+regard to himself by an injunction of his own. "Nous ne parlerons
+pas d'autre chose!" I added, "mon ami!--mon ami!--je ne survivrai
+que pour cela!"(327) He looked pleased, and with a calm that
+taught me to repress my too great emotion.
+
+He then asked for Alexander, embraced him warmly, and half
+raising himself with a strength that had seemed extinct but the
+day before, he took a hand of Alexander and one of mine, and
+putting them together between both his own, he tenderly pressed
+them, exclaiming, "How happy I am! I fear I am too happy!"
+
+Kindest of human hearts! His happiness was in seeing us together
+ere he left us his fear was lest he should too keenly regret the
+quitting us!
+
+At this time he saw for a few minutes my dear sister Esther and
+her Maria, who had always been a great favourite with him. When
+they retired, he called upon me to bow my knees as he dropped
+upon his own, that he might receive, he said, my benediction, and
+that we might fervently and solemnly join in prayer to Almighty
+God for each other. He then consigned himself to uninterrupted
+meditation : he told me not to utter one word to him, even of
+reply, beyond the most laconic necessity. He desired that when I
+brought him his medicine or nutriment, I would give it without
+speech and instantly retire; and take care that no human being
+addressed or approached him.  This awful command lasted unbroken
+during the rest of the evening, the whole of the night, and
+nearly the following day. So concentrated in himself he desired
+to be!--yet always as free from irritation as from despondence--
+always gentle and kind even when taciturn, and even when in
+torture.
+
+When the term of his meditative seclusion seemed to be over, I
+found him speaking with Alexander, and pouring into the bosom of
+his weeping son the balm of parental counsel and comfort.  I
+received at this time a letter from my affectionate sister
+Charlotte, pressing for leave to come and aid me to nurse my
+dearest invalid. He took the letter and pressed it to his lips,
+saying, "Je l'aime bien; dis le lui. Et
+
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+
+elle M'aime."(328) But I felt that she could do me no good. We
+had a nurse whose skill made her services a real blessing ; and
+for myself, woe, such as he believed approaching, surpassed all
+aid but from prayer and from heaven--lonely meditation.
+
+When the morning dawned, he ordered Payne to open the shutters
+and to undraw the curtains.  The prospect from the windows facing
+his bed was picturesque, lively, lovely: he looked at it with a
+bright smile of admiration, and cast his arm over his noble brow,
+as if hailing one more return of day' and light, and life with
+those he loved.  But when, in the course of the day, something
+broke from me of my reverence at his heavenly resignation,
+"R‚sign‚?" he repeated, with a melancholy half smile; "mais comme
+‡ah!" and then in a voice of tenderness the most touching, he
+added, "Te quitter!"  I dare not, even yet, hang upon my emotion
+at those words!
+
+That night passed in tolerable tranquillity, and without alarm,
+his pulse still always equal and good, though smaller. On Sunday,
+the fatal 3rd of May, my patient was still cheerful, and slept
+often, but not long.  This circumstance was delightful to my
+observation, and kept off the least suspicion that my misery
+could be so near.
+
+
+                             THE END ARRIVES.
+
+My pen lingers now!-reluctant to finish the little that remains.
+
+About noon, gently awaking from a slumber, he called to me for
+some beverage, but was weaker than usual, and could not hold the
+cup. I moistened his lips with a spoon several times. He looked
+at me with sweetness inexpressible, and pathetically said, "Qui?"
+He stopped, but I saw he meant "Who shall return this for you?" I
+instantly answered to his obvious and most touching meaning, by a
+cheerful exclamation of "You! my dearest ami! You yourself! You
+shall recover, and take your revenge."  He smiled, but shut his
+eyes in silence. After this, he bent forward, as he was supported
+nearly upright by pillows in his bed, and taking my hand, and
+holding it between both his own, he impressively said, "Je ne
+sais si
+
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+
+ce sera le dernier mot--mais ce sera la derniŠre pens‚e--notre
+r‚union!"(329)  Oh, words the most precious that ever the
+tenderest of husbands left for balm to the lacerated heart of a
+surviving wife! I fastened my lips on his loved hands, but spoke
+not. It was not then that those words were my blessing! They
+awed--they thrilled--more than they solaced me. How little knew I
+then that he should speak to me no more !
+
+Towards evening I sat watching in my arm-chair, and Alex remained
+constantly with me. His sleep was so calm, that an hour passed in
+which I indulged the hope that a favourable crisis was arriving;
+that a turn would take place by which his vital powers would be
+restored; but when the hour was succeeded by another hour, when I
+saw a universal stillness in the whole frame, such as seemed to
+stagnate all around, I began to be strangely moved.  "Alex!" I
+whispered, "this sleep is critical! a crisis arrives! Pray God--
+Almighty God!--that it be fav--." I could not proceed.
+Alex looked aghast, but firm. I sent him to call Payne. I
+intimated to her my opinion that this sleep was important, but
+kept a composure astonishing, for when no one would give me
+encouragement, I compelled myself to appear not to want it, to
+deter them from giving me despair. Another hour passed of
+concentrated feelings, of breathless dread.
+
+His face had still its unruffled serenity, but methought the
+hands were turning cold; I covered them - -I watched over the
+head of my beloved; I took new flannel to roll over his feet; the
+stillness grew more awful; the skin became colder.
+
+Alex, my dear Alex, proposed calling in Mr. Tudor, and ran off
+for him.
+
+I leant over him now with sal volatile to his temple, his
+forehead, the palms of his hands, but I had no courage to feel
+his pulse, to touch his lips.
+
+Mr. Tudor came - he put his hand upon the heart, the noblest of
+hearts, and pronounced that all was over!
+
+How I bore this is still marvellous to me!  I had always believed
+such a sentence would at once have killed me. But his sight--the
+sight of his stillness, kept me from distraction! Sacred he
+appeared, and his stillness I thought should be mine, and be
+inviolable.
+
+I suffered certainly a partial derangement, for I cannot to this
+moment recollect anything that now succeeded, with truth
+
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+
+or consistency; my memory paints things that were necessarily
+real, joined to others that could not possibly have happened, yet
+so amalgamates the whole together as to render it impossible for
+me to separate truth from indefinable, unaccountable fiction.
+
+Even to this instant I always see the room itself charged with a
+medley of silent and strange figures grouped against the wall
+just opposite to me, Mr. Tudor, methought, was come to drag me by
+force away; and in this persuasion, which was false, I remember
+supplicating him to grant me but one hour, telling him I had
+solemnly engaged myself to pass it in watching. . . .
+
+But why go back to my grief? Even yet, at times, it seems as
+fresh as ever, and at all times weighs on me with a feeling that
+seems stagnating the springs of life. But for Alexander ,our
+Alexander!--I think I could hardly have survived. His tender
+sympathy, with his claims to my love, and the solemn injunctions
+given me to preserve for him, and devote to him, my remnant of
+life--these, through the Divine mercy, sustained me.
+
+May that mercy, with its best blessings, daily increase his
+resemblance to his noble father.
+
+March 20, 1820.
+(288) M. d'Arblay, who was, it appears, still lame (boiteux) from
+the kick which he had received from a horse.-ED,
+
+(289) Half-pay.
+
+(290) The Comte de Narbonne and Comte F. de la Tour Maubourg.
+
+(291) He had studied mathematics in Paris according to the
+analytical method, instead of the geometrical, which was at that
+time exclusively taught at Cambridge.
+
+(292) See infra, p. 387-8.-ED.
+
+(293) It is not without pain that we find Fanny, in this letter
+defending the harsh treatment accorded by the Bourbon king to
+Lavalette and others of the partisans of the emperor. Lavalette
+had served Napoleon both as soldier and diplomatist.  At the
+restoration of the Bourbons in 1814 he retired from public life,
+but on the return of Napoleon he again entered the service of his
+old master.  He was arrested after the downfall of the emperor,
+tried for treason, and condemned to death. His wife implored the
+king's mercy in vain, Lavalette was confined in the Conciergerie,
+and December 21, 1815, was the day fixed for his execution. The
+evening before that day his wife visited him in the prison.  He
+exchanged clothes with her, and thus disguised, succeeded in
+making his escape. His safety was secured by three English
+gentlemen, one of whom, Sir Robert Wilson, conveyed Lavalette, in
+the disguise of an English officer, across the Belgian frontier.
+For this generous act the three Englishmen were tried in Paris,
+and sentenced, each, to three months' imprisonment.-ED.
+(294) At the sale of the collection, formed by Mr. Thrale, of
+portraits of his distinguished friends, painted by one of the
+most distinguished of them-Sir Joshua Reynolds.  The collection
+comprised portraits of Johnson, Burke, Dr. Burney, Reynolds, etc.
+  Reynolds painted two portraits of Johnson for Mr. Thrale. That
+referred to by Fanny is probably the magnificent portrait painted
+about 1773, and now in the National Gallery, for which Thrale
+paid thirty-five guineas.-ED.
+
+(295) "His wife and son."
+
+(296) M.  d'Arblay had been promoted by Louis XVIII. to the rank
+of Lieutenant-General.-ED.
+
+(297) "Certainly, and very certainly, my dearest, your beautiful
+strictures upon the knowledge and the customs of the world would
+have given another current to my ideas."
+
+(298) "For the future."
+
+(299) "He is still but a child."
+
+(300) "That is not our case."
+(301) "Will be quite another thing; but I think you are
+mistaken."
+
+(302) This paragon of perfection, then, was an actual person,
+whom General d'Arblay was thinking of as a wife for his son!-ED.
+
+(303) Self-love.
+
+(304) Wounded.
+(305) Esther Burney.-ED.
+
+(306) Volumes of plays.-ED.
+
+(307) Stove.
+
+(308) "Make short work."
+
+(309) "Gloomy discouragement."
+
+(310) "Apathy."
+
+(311) "You are quite mistaken."
+
+(312) "You give it up, don't you?"
+
+(313) An interesting and humorous novel by the Rev. Richard
+Graves, the friend of Shenstone.-ED.
+
+(314)  Blue stockings.
+
+(315) "So to speak."
+
+(316) The Princess Charlotte, only child of the prince and
+princess of Wales, was married at the age of twenty (May 2, 1816)
+to Prince Leopold of SaxeCoburg. On the 5th of November, 1817,
+she was delivered of a still-born child, and died a few hours
+later.-ED.
+(317) "I have never loved life so much! Never, never has life
+been dearer to me!"
+
+(318) "How I admire your courage!"
+
+(319) "I should like us to talk of all that with calmness,--
+mildly,--even cheerfully."
+
+(320) "Never have I so much loved life as now that I am in so
+great danger of losing it ; notwithstanding that I have no fever,
+nor is my head in the least affected ; and not only is my mine]
+clear, but my heart perfectly at ease. God's will be done! I
+await the result of a consultation this evening or to-morrow."
+
+(321) "Of his unheard-of sufferings."
+
+(322) "What a strange malady! and what a position is mine! there
+is one perhaps more grievous yet, that of my unhappy companion--
+with what tenderness she cares for me! and with what courage she
+bears what she has to suffer! I can only repeat, God's will be
+done!"
+
+(323) "February 20. I feel that I am getting horribly weak--I do
+not think this can last much longer."
+(324) "Well, I have no objection. What do you think of it?"
+
+(325) "Speak of me! Speak--and often. Especially to Alexander;
+that he may not forget me!"
+
+(326) "I shall speak of nothing else!"
+
+(327) "We shall speak of nothing else! my dear!--my dear!--I
+shall survive only for that!"
+
+(328) "I love her well; tell her so. And she loves me."
+
+(329) "I do not know if this will be my last word--but it will be
+my last thought--our reunion."
+
+
+
+
+Page 435
+                               SECTION 27.
+                                 (1818-40)
+
+
+           YEARS OF WIDOWHOOD. DEATH OF MADAME D'ARBLAY'S SON.
+                              HER OWN DEATH.
+
+
+                    (Extracts from Pocket-book Diary.)
+
+
+                           MOURNFUL REFLECTIONS.
+
+May 17, 1818.
+This melancholy second Sunday since My
+irreparable loss I ventured to church.  I hoped it might calm my
+mind and subject it to its new state--its lost--lost happiness.
+But I suffered inexpressibly; I sunk on my knees, and could
+scarcely contain my sorrows--scarcely rise any more! but I
+prayed--fervently--and I am glad I made the trial, however
+severe. Oh mon ami! mon tendre ami! if you looked down!  if that
+be permitted, how benignly will you wish my participation in your
+blessed relief!
+
+Sunday, May 31.-This was the fourth Sunday passed since I have
+seen and heard and been blessed with the presence of my angel
+husband. Oh loved and honoured daily more and more! Yet how can
+that be?  No!  even now, in this cruel hour of regret and
+mourning it cannot be! for love and honour could rise no higher
+than mine have risen long, long since, in my happiest days.
+
+June 3.-This day, this 3rd of June, completes a calendar month
+since I lost the beloved object of all my tenderest affections,
+and all my views and hopes and even ideas of happiness on earth.
+. . .
+
+June 7.-The fifth sad Sunday this of earthly separation! oh
+heavy, heavy parting! I went again to church. I think
+
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+
+it right, and I find it rather consolatory-rather only, for the
+effort against sudden risings of violent grief at peculiar
+passages almost destroys me; and no prayers do me the service I
+receive from those I continually offer up in our apartment by the
+side of the bed on which he breathed forth his last blessing. Oh
+words for ever dear! for ever balsamic! "Je ne sais si ce sera le
+dernier mot--mais ce sera bien la derniŠre pens‚e--notre
+r‚union."
+
+
+                    VISITS RECEIVED AND LETTERS PENNED.
+
+June 18.-My oldest friend to my knowledge living, Mrs. Frances
+Bowdler, made a point of admission this morning, and stayed with
+me two hours. She was friendly and good, and is ever sensible and
+deeply clever.  Could I enjoy any society, she would enliven and
+enlighten it, but I now can only enjoy sympathy!--sympathy and
+pity!
+
+Alex and I had both letters from M. de Lafayette.
+
+
+June 23.-To-day I have written my first letter since my
+annihilated happiness-to my tenderly sympathising Charlotte. I
+covet a junction with that dear and partial sister for ending
+together our latter days.  I hope we shall bring it to bear.
+
+With Alex read part of St. Luke.
+
+June 29.-To-day I sent a letter, long in writing and painfully
+finished, to my own dear Madame de Maisonneuve. She will be glad
+to see my hand, grieved as she will be at what it has written.
+
+With Alex read part of St. Luke.
+
+June 30-I wrote--with many sad struggles--to Madame Beckersdorff,
+my respectful devoirs to her majesty, with the melancholy apology
+for my silence during the royal nuptials of the Dukes of
+Clarence, Kent, and Cambridge; and upon the departure of dear
+Princess Eliza,' and upon her majesty's so frequent and alarming
+attacks of ill health.
+
+With Alex read the Acts of the Apostles. . . .
+
+July 8.-I have given to Alex the decision of where we shall
+dwell. Unhappy myself everywhere, why not leave unshackled his
+dawning life? To quit Bath--unhappy Bath!--he had long desired:
+and, finally, he has fixed his choice in the very capital itself.
+I cannot hesitate to oblige him.
+
+August 28.-My admirable old friend, Mrs. Frances
+Page 437
+
+Bowdler, spent the afternoon with me. Probably we shall meet no
+more but judiciously, as suits her enlightened understanding, and
+kindly, as accords with her long partiality,- she forbore any
+hint on that point.  Yet her eyes swam in tears, not ordinary to
+her, when she bade me adieu.
+
+August 30.-The seventeenth week's sun rises on my deplorable
+change!  A very kind, cordial, brotherly letter arrives from my
+dear James.  An idea of comfort begins to steal its way to my
+mind, in renewing my intercourse with this worthy brother, who
+feels for me, I see, with sincerity and affection.
+
+Sept. 5.-A letter from dowager Lady Harcourt, on the visibly
+approaching dissolution of my dear honoured royal mistress !
+written by desire of my beloved Princess Mary, Duchess of
+Gloucester, to save me the shock of surprise, added to that of
+grief.
+
+Sunday, Sept. 6.-A fresh renewal to me of woe is every returning
+week ! The eighteenth this of the dread solitude of my heart ;
+and miserably, has it passed, augmenting sorrow weighing it in
+the approaching loss of my dear queen!
+
+Again I took the Sacrament at the Octagon, probably for the last
+time. Oh, how earnest were my prayers for re-union in a purer
+world! Prayers were offered for a person lying dangerously ill. I
+thought of the queen, and prayed for her fervently.
+
+Sunday, Sept. 27-This day, the twenty-first Sunday of my
+bereavement, Alexander, I trust, is ordained a deacon of the
+Church of England. Heaven propitiate his entrance! I wrote to the
+good Bishop of Salisbury to beseech his pious wishes on this
+opening of clerical life.
+
+
+                       REMOVAL FROM BATH TO LONDON.
+
+Sept. 28.-Still my preparations to depart from Bath take up all
+of time that grief does not seize irresistibly; for, oh! what
+anguish overwhelms my soul in quitting the place where last he
+saw and blessed me!--the room, the spot on which so softly, so
+holily, yet so tenderly, he embraced me and breathed his last!
+
+Sept. 30.-This morning I left Bath with feelings of profound
+affliction - yet, reflecting that hope was ever open-- that
+future union may repay this laceration--oh, that my torn soul
+could more look forward with sacred aspiration! Then better would
+it support its weight of woe.
+Page 438
+
+My dear James received me with tender pity; so did his good wife,
+son, and daughter.
+
+Oct. 6.-My dear Alexander left me this morning for Cambridge. How
+shall I do, thus parted from both!  My kind brother, and his
+worthy house, have softened off the day much; yet I sigh for
+seclusion--my mind labours under the weight of assumed
+sociability.
+
+Oct. 8. I came this evening to my new and probably last dwelling,
+No. 11, Bolton-street, Piccadilly. My kind James conducted me.
+Oh, how heavy is my forlorn heart ! I have made myself very busy
+all day ; so only could I have supported this first opening to my
+baleful desolation !  No adored husband!  No beloved son !  But
+the latter is only at Cambridge. Ah! let me struggle to think
+more of the other, the first, the chief, as also only removed
+from my sight by a transitory journey!
+
+Oct. 14.-Wrote to my--erst--dearest friend, Mrs. Piozzi. I can
+never forget my long love for her, and many obligations to her
+friendship, strangely as she had been estranged since her
+marriage.
+
+Oct. 30.-A letter from my loved Madame de Maisonneuve, full of
+feeling, sense, sweetness, information to beguile me back to
+life, and of sympathy to open my sad heart to friendship.
+
+Nov. 7.-A visit from the excellent Harriet Bowdler, who gave me
+an hour of precious society, mingling her commiserating sympathy
+with hints sage and right of the duty of revival from every
+stroke of heaven.
+
+Oh, my God, Saviour! To thee may I turn more and more.
+
+
+
+            DEATH OF THE QUEEN: SKETCH OF HER CHARACTER.(331)
+
+Nov. 17-This day, at one o'clock, breathed her last the
+inestimable Queen of England.(332) Heaven rest and bless her
+soul!
+
+Her understanding was of the best sort ; for while it endued her
+with powers to form a judgment of all around her, it pointed out
+to her the fallibility of appearances, and thence kept her always
+open to conviction where she had been led by circumstances into
+mistake.
+
+>From the time of my first entrance into her household her manner
+to me was most kind and encouraging, for she had
+
+Page 439
+
+formed her previous opinion from the partial accounts of my
+beloved Mrs. Delany.  She saw that, impressed with real respect
+for her character, and never-failing remembrance of her rank, she
+might honour me with confidence without an apprehension of
+imprudence, invite openness without incurring freedom, and
+manifest kindness without danger of encroachment. . . .
+
+When I was alone with her she discarded all royal constraint, all
+stiffness, all formality, all pedantry of grandeur, to lead me to
+speak to her with openness and ease; but any inquiries which she
+made in our tˆte-…-tˆtes never awakened an idea of prying into
+affairs, diving into secrets, discovering views, intentions, or
+latent wishes, or amuses. No,. she was above all such minor
+resources for attaining intelligence; what she desired to know
+she asked openly, though cautiously if of grave matters, and
+playfully if of mere news or chit-chat, but always beginning
+with, "If there is any reason I should not be told, or any that
+you should not tell, don't answer me." Nor were these words of
+course, they were spoken with such visible sincerity, that I have
+availed myself of them fearlessly, though never without regret,
+as it was a delight to me to be explicit and confidential in
+return for her condescension.  But whenever she saw a question
+painful, or that it occasioned even hesitation, she promptly and
+generously started some other subject.
+
+Dec. 2.-The queen, the excellent exemplary queen, was this day
+interred in the vault of her royal husband's ancestors,(133) to
+moulder like his subjects, bodily into dust; but mentally, not
+so! She will live in the memory of those who knew her best, and
+be set up as an example even by those who only after her death
+know, or at least acknowledge her virtues.
+
+I heard an admirable sermon on her departure and her character
+from Mr. Repton in St. James's church. I wept the whole time, as
+much from gratitude and tenderness to hear her thus appreciated
+as from grief at her loss--to me a most heavy one! for she was
+faithfully, truly, and solidly attached to me, as I to her.
+
+Dec. 12.-A letter from the Duchess of Gloucester,(134) to My
+equal gratification and surprise. She has deigned to answer my
+poor condolence the very moment, as she says, that she
+
+Page 440
+
+received it.  Touched to the heart, but no longer with pleasure
+in any emotion, I wept abundantly.
+
+
+                    MADAME D'ARBLAY'S SON IS ORDAINED.
+
+Sunday, April 11, 1818.-This morning my dearest Alexander was
+ordained a priest by the Bishop of Chester in St. James's church.
+I went thither with my good Eliz. Ramsay, and from the gallery
+witnessed the ceremony. Fifty-two were ordained at the same time.
+I fervently pray to God that my son may meet this his decided
+calling with a disposition and conduct to sanction its choice !
+and with virtues to merit his noble father's name and exemplary
+character! Amen Amen!
+
+
+                       WITH some ROYAL HIGHNESSES.
+
+July 15-A message from H. R. H. Princess Augusta, with whom I
+passed a morning as nearly delightful as any, now, can be! She
+played and sang to me airs of her own composing-unconscious,
+medley reminiscences, but very pretty, and prettily executed. I
+met the Duke of York, who greeted me most graciously- saying, as
+if with regret, how long it was since he had seen me.
+
+In coming away, I met, in the corridor, my sweet Duchess of
+Gloucester, who engaged me for next Sunday to herself.
+
+July 26.-Her royal highness presented me to the duke, whom I
+found well-bred, Polite, easy, unassuming, and amiable; kind, not
+condescending.
+
+
+                              QUEEN CAROLINE.
+
+(Madame d"Arblay to Mrs. Locke.)
+Wednesday, June 7, 1820. . . .
+All London now is wild about the newly arrived royal
+traveller.(135) As she is in this neighbourhood, our part of the
+Page 441
+
+town is surprised and startled every other hour by the arrival of
+some new group of the curious rushing on to see her and her
+'squire the alderman, at their balcony. Her 'squire, also, now
+never comes forth unattended by a vociferous shouting multitude.
+I suppose Augusta, who resides still nearer to the dame and the
+'squire of dames, is recreated in this lively way yet more
+forcibly.
+
+The 15th of this month is to be kept as king's birthday at Court.
+Orders have been issued to the princesses to that effect, and to
+tell them they must appear entirely out of mourning.  They had
+already made up dresses for half mourning, of white and black.  I
+should not marvel if the royal traveller should choose to enter
+the apartments, and offer her congratulations upon the festival.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Mrs. Locke.)
+Elliot Vale, London, August 15, 1820.
+How long it seems--"Seems, madam! nay, it is!
+since I have heard from my most loved friend!--I have had,
+Page 442
+
+however, I thank heaven, news of her, and cheering news, though I
+have lost sight of both her dear daughters. . . .
+
+We are all, and of all classes, all opinions, all ages, and all
+parties, absolutely absorbed by the expectation of Thursday. The
+queen has passed the bottom of our street twice this afternoon in
+an open carriage, with Lady Ann(336) and Alderman Wood!-How very
+inconceivable that among so many adherents, she can find that
+only esquire!-And why she should have any, in her own carriage
+and in London, it is not easy to say.  There is a universal alarm
+for Thursday.(337)  the letter to the king breathes battle direct
+to both Houses of Parliament as much as to his majesty. Mr.
+Wilberforce is called upon, and looked up to, as the only man in
+the dominions to whom an arbitration should belong.  Lord John
+Russell positively asserts that it is not with Lord Castlereagh
+and the ministers that conciliation or non-conciliation hangs,
+but with Mr. Wilberforce and his circle. If I dared hope such was
+the case, how much less should I be troubled by the expectance
+awakened for to-morrow--it is now Wednesday that I finish my poor
+shabby billet. Tremendous is the general alarm at this moment for
+the accused turns accuser, public and avowed, of King, Lords, and
+Commons, declaring she will submit to no award of any of them.
+What would she say should evidence be imperfect or wanting, and
+they should acquit her?
+
+It is, however, open war, and very dreadful, She really invokes a
+revolution in every paragraph of her letter to her sovereign and
+lord and husband.  I know not what sort of conjugal rule will be
+looked for by the hitherto lords and masters of the world, if
+this conduct is abetted by them. . . .
+
+The heroine passed by the bottom of our street yesterday, in full
+pomp and surrounded with shouters and vociferous admirers. She
+now dresses superbly every day, and has always six horses and an
+open carriage. She seems to think now she has no chance but from
+insurrection, and therefore all her harangues invite it. Oh Dr.
+Parr!--how my poor brother would have blushed for him! he makes
+those orations
+Page 443
+
+with the aid of Cobbett!--and the council, I suppose. Of course,
+like Croaker in "The Good-natured Man" I must finish with "I wish
+we may all be well this day three months!"
+
+
+                 GOSSIP FROM AN OLD FRIEND, AND THE REPLY.
+
+(From Mrs. Piozzi to Madame d'Arblay.)
+Bath, October 20.
+It was very gratifying, dear madam, to find myself so kindly
+remembered, and with all my heart I thank you for your letter. My
+family are gone to Sandgate for the purpose of bathing in the
+sea, this wonderfully beautiful October ; and were you not
+detained in London by such a son as I hear you are happy in, I
+should wish you there too, Apropos to October, I have not your
+father's admirable verses upon that month ; those upon June, I
+saw when last in Wales could you get me the others ? it would be
+such a favour and you used to like them best.
+
+How changed is the taste of verse, prose, and painting since le
+bon vieux temps, dear madam! Nothing attracts us but what
+terrifies, and is within--if within--a hair's breadth of positive
+disgust. The picture of Death on his Pale Horse, however, is very
+grand certainly-and some of the strange things they write remind
+me of Squoire Richard's visit to the Tower Menagerie, when he
+says "Odd, they are pure grim devils,"--particularly a wild and
+hideous tale called Frankenstein.  Do you ever see any of the
+friends we used to live among? Mrs. Lambert is yet alive, and in
+prosperous circumstances ; and Fell, the bookseller in
+Bond-street, told me a fortnight or three weeks ago, that Miss
+Streatfield lives where she did in his neighbourhood,--
+Clifford-street, S. S. still.
+
+Old Jacob and his red night-cap are the only live creatures, as
+an Irishman would say, that come about me of those you remember,
+and death alone will part us,-he and I both lived longer with Mr.
+Piozzi than we had done with Mr. Thrale.
+
+Archdeacon Thomas is, I think, the only friend you and I have now
+quite in common : he gets well ; and if there was hope of his
+getting clear from entanglement, he would be young again,-he is a
+valuable mortal.
+
+Adieu! Leisure for men of business, you know, and business for
+men of leisure, would cure many complaints.
+Page 444
+Once more, farewell ! and accept my thanks for your good-natured
+recollection of poor H. L. P.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay. to Mrs. Piozzi-)
+Bolton-street, December 15, 1820.
+Now at last, dear madam, with a real pen I venture to answer your
+kind acceptance of my Bath leave-taking address, of a date I
+would wish you to forget-but the letter is before me, and has no
+other word I should like to relinquish. But more of grief at the
+consequence of my silence, namely your own, hangs upon the
+circumstance than shame, for i have been so every way
+unwell,-unhinged, shattered, and unfitted for any correspondence
+that could have a chance of reciprocating pleasure, that perhaps
+I ought rather to demand your thanks than your pardon for this
+delay. I will demand, however, which you please, so you will but
+tell me which you will grant, for then I shall hear from you
+again.
+
+I must, nevertheless, mention, that my first intention, upon
+reading the letter with which you favoured me, was to forward to
+you the verses on October, of my dear father, which you honoured
+with so much approbation .- but I have never been able to find
+them, unless you mean the ode, written in that month, on the
+anniversary of his marriage with my mother-in-law, beginning:--
+
+Hail, eldest offspring of the circling year,
+October! bountiful, benign, and clear,
+Whose gentle reign, from all excesses free,
+Gave birth to Stella--happiness to me."
+
+If it be this, I will copy it out with the greatest alacrity, for
+the first opportunity of conveyance.
+
+So here, again, like the dun of a dinner card, I entitle myself
+to subjoin "An answer is required." . . .
+
+You inquire if I ever see any of the friends we used to live
+amongst :-almost none; but I may resume some of those old ties
+this winter, from the ardent desire of my son.  I have, till very
+lately, been so utterly incapable to enjoy society, that I have
+held it as much kindness to others as to myself, to keep wholly
+out of its way. I am now, in. health, much better, and
+consequently more able to control the murmuring propensities that
+were alienating me from the purposes of life while yet
+living,-this letter, indeed, will show that I am
+Page 445
+*
+restored to the wish, at least, of solace, and that the native
+cheerfulness of my temperament is opening from the weight of
+sadness by which I had long believed it utterly demolished. But
+Time, " uncalled, unheeded, unawares, "-works as secretly upon
+our spirits as upon our years, and gives us as little foresight
+into what we can endure, as into how long we shall exist. . . .
+
+
+                               MORE Gossip.
+
+(From Mrs. Piozzi to Madame d'Arblay.)
+Penzance, Thursday, January 18, 1821.
+Dear Madame d'Arblay was very considerate in giving me something
+to answer, for something original to say would be difficult to
+find at Penzance; but your letter has no date, and I am not sure
+that Bolton-street is sufficient.  Poor Mrs. Byron, who used to
+inhabit it, would have enjoyed her grandson's(338) reputation,
+would not she? had it pleased God to lengthen her life like that
+of Mrs. Lambart, who died only last week, but a few days short of
+her expected centenary-as did Fontenelle. You are truly
+fortunate, dear madam, so was your father, in leaving those
+behind who knew and could appreciate your merits--every scrap
+will properly be valued--but those verses belong not to the
+October I meant. . . .
+
+Mrs. Bourdois and her sisters--all true Burneys--will be angry I
+don't live wholly at Bath, and their society would prove a strong
+temptation; but Bath is too much for me, who am now unwilling to
+encounter either crowds or solitude: I feared neither for
+three-score years of my life, and earnestly now join my too
+disinterested solicitations to those of your son, that you will
+no longer bury your charming talents in seclusion.  Sorrow, as
+Dr. Johnson said, is the mere rust of the soul.  Activity will
+cleanse and brighten it.
+
+You recollect the --'s; Fanny married Sir Something --, and is a
+widowed mother. The young man, of whom high expectations were
+formed, took to the gaming table, forged for 5000 pounds, and was
+saved out of prison by the dexterity of his servant:--a complete
+coup de th‚ƒtre.  That I call sorrow scarce possible to be borne.
+You saw the story in the newspapers, but possibly were not aware
+who was the sufferer.
+
+Will it amuse you to hear that "fine Mr. Daniel," as you
+
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+
+used to call my showy butler, died an object of disgust and
+horror, whilst old Jacob, with whose red nightcap you comically
+threatened the gay dandy--lived till the other day, and dying,
+left 800 pounds behind him! Such stuff is this world made of!
+
+The literary world is to me terra incognita, far more deserving
+of the name (now Parry and Ross are returned) than any part of
+the polar region; but the first voyage amused me most and when I
+had seen red snow, and heard of men who wanted our sailors to
+fly, because they perceived they could swim, I really thought it
+time to lie down and die; but one cannot die when one will, so I
+have hung half on, half off, society this last half year; and
+begin 1821 by thanking dear Madame d'Arblay for her good-natured
+recollection of poor H. L. Piozzi.
+
+
+
+          ILL-HEALTH OF THE REV. A. D'ARBLAY.  DR. BURNEY'S MSS.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Mrs. Piozzi.)
+Bolton-street, Berkeley-square, Feb. 6, 1821.
+You would be repaid, dear madam, if I still, as I believe, know
+you, for the great kindness of your prompt answer, had you
+witnessed the satisfaction with which it was received ; even at a
+time of new and dreadful solicitude; for my son returned from
+Cambridge unwell, and in a few days after his arrival at home was
+seized with a feverish cold which threatened to fasten upon the
+whole system of his existence, not with immediate danger, but
+with a perspective to leave but small openings to any future view
+of health, strength, or longevity. I will not dwell upon this
+period, but briefly say, it seems passed over. He is now, I thank
+heaven, daily reviving, and from looking like-not a walking, but
+a creeping spectre, he is gaining force, spirit, and flesh
+visibly, and almost hour by hour; still, however, he requires the
+utmost attention, and the more from the extreme insouciance, from
+being always absorbed in some mental combinations, with which he
+utterly neglects himself. I am therefore wholly devoted to
+watching him.
+
+I am quite vexed not to find the right October. However, I do not
+yet despair, for in the multitude of MSS. that have fallen to my
+mournfully surviving lot to select, or destroy, etc., chaos seems
+come again; and though I have worked at them during the last year
+so as to obtain a little light, it is scarcely
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+
+more than darkness visible. To all the vast mass left to my
+direction by my dear father, who burnt nothing, not even an
+invitation to dinner, are added not merely those that devolved to
+me by fatal necessity in 1818, but also all the papers possessed
+from her childhood to her decease of that sister you so well,
+dear madam, know to have been my heart's earliest darling. When
+on this pile are heaped the countless hoards which my own now
+long life has gathered together, of my personal property, such as
+it is, and the correspondence of my family and my friends, and
+innumerable incidental windfalls, the whole forms a body that
+might make a bonfire to illuminate me nearly from hence to
+Penzance. And such a bonfire might perhaps be not only the
+shortest, but the wisest way to dispose of such materials. This
+enormous accumulation has been chiefly owing to a long unsettled
+home, joined to a mind too deeply occupied by immediate affairs
+and feelings to have the intellect at liberty for retrospective
+investigations. . . .
+
+
+                         A LAST GOSSIPING LETTER.
+
+(From Mrs. Piozzi to Madame d'Arblay.)
+Sion Row, Clifton, near Bristol, March 15, 1821.
+I feel quite happy in being able to reply to dear Madame
+d'Arblay's good-natured inquiries, from this, the living world.
+Such we cannot term Penzance--not with propriety--much like Omai,
+who said to you, "No mutton there, missee, no fine coach, no
+clock upon the stairs," etc.; but en revanche here is no Land's
+End, no submarine mine of Botallock! What a wonderful thing is
+that extensive cavern ! stretching out half a mile forward under
+the roaring ocean, from whence 'tis protected only by a slight
+covering, a crust of rock, which, if by any accident exploded,
+
+"Would let in light on Pluto's dire abodes,
+Abhorr'd by men, and dreadful ev'n to Gods."
+
+Plutus, however, not Pluto, is professed proprietor - 'tis an
+immense vacuity filled with the vapours of tin and copper,
+belonging to Lord Falmouth and a company of miners, where sixty
+human beings work night and day, and hear the waves over their
+heads , sometimes regularly beating the Cornish cliffs, sometimes
+tossing the terrified mariner upon the inhospitable shore; where
+shipwreck is, even in these civilized days, considered as a
+Godsend.
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+
+I am glad I saw it, and that I shall see it no more. You would
+not know poor Streatham Park. I have been forced to dismantle and
+forsake it; the expenses of the present time treble those of the
+moments you remember; and since giving up my Welsh estate, my
+income is greatly diminished. I fancy this will be my last
+residence in this world, meaning Clifton, not Sion Row, where I
+only live till my house in the Crescent is ready for me. A high
+situation is become necessary to my breath, and this air will
+agree with me better than Bath did.
+
+You ask how the Pitches family went on. Jane married a rough man,
+quarter-master to a marching regiment, and brought him three
+sons: the first a prodigy of science, wit, and manners; he died
+early: the second I know nothing of: the third, a model of grace
+and beauty, married the Duke of Marlborough's sister. Peggy is
+Countess Coventry, you know, and has a numerous progeny. Emily is
+wife to Mr. Jolliffe, M.P. for some place, I forget what.
+Penelope married Sir John Sheffield, but died before he came to
+the title. I dined with them all last time I was in London, at
+Coventry House. Poor old Davies's departure grieved me, so did
+that of good Mr. Embry; au reste, the village of Streatham is
+full of rich inhabitants, the common much the worse for being so
+spotted about with houses, and the possibility of avoiding
+constant intercourse with their inhabitants (as in Mr. Thrale's
+time) wholly lost!.....
+
+
+                           DEATH OF MRS. PIOZZI.
+
+May, 1821.--I have lost now, just lost, my once most dear,
+intimate, and admired friend, Mrs. Thrale Piozzi,(339) who
+preserved her fine faculties, her imagination, her intelligence,
+her powers of allusion and citation, her extraordinary memory,
+and her almost unexampled vivacity, to the last of her existence.
+She was in her eighty-second year, and yet owed not her death to
+age nor to natural decay, but to the effects of a fall in a
+journey from Penzance to Clifton. On her eightieth birthday she
+gave a great ball, concert, and supper, in the public rooms at
+Bath, to upwards of two hundred persons, and the ball she opened
+herself.  She was, in truth, a most wonderful character for
+talents and eccentricity, for wit, genius, generosity, spirit,
+and powers of entertainment.
+Page 449
+
+                MRS. PIOZZI COMPARED WITH MADAME DE STAEL.
+
+She had a great deal both of good and not good, in common with
+Madame de Stael Holstein. They had the same sort of highly
+superior intellect, the same depth of learning, the same general
+acquaintance with science, the same ardent love of literature,
+the same thirst for universal knowledge, and the same buoyant
+animal spirits, such as neither sickness, sorrow, nor even
+terror, could subdue. Their conversation was equally luminous,
+from the sources of their own fertile minds, and from their
+splendid acquisitions from the works and acquirements of others.
+Both were zealous to serve, liberal to bestow, and graceful to
+oblige; and both were truly highminded in prizing and praising
+whatever was admirable that came in their way.
+
+Neither of them was delicate nor polished, though each was
+flattering and caressing; but both had a fund inexhaustible of
+good humour, and of sportive gaiety, that made their intercourse
+with those they wished to please attractive, instructive, and
+delightful and though not either of them had the smallest
+real malevolence in their compositions, neither of them could
+ever withstand the pleasure of uttering a repartee, let it wound
+whom it might, even though each would serve the very person they
+goaded with all the means in their power. Both were kind,
+charitable, and munificent, and therefore beloved; both were
+sarcastic, careless, and daring, and therefore feared. The
+morality of Madame de Stael was by far the most faulty, but so
+was the society to which she belonged so were the general manners
+of those by whom she was encircled.
+
+
+                               SISTER HETTY.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Mrs. Burney.)
+October 21, 1821.
+"Your mind," my dearest Esther, was always equal to literary
+pursuits, though your time seems only now to let you enjoy them.
+I have often thought that had our excellent and extraordinary own
+mother been allowed longer life, she would have contrived to make
+you sensible of this sooner. I do not mean in a common way, for
+that has never failed, but in one striking and distinguished ;
+for she very early indeed began to form your taste for reading,
+and delighted
+
+Page 450
+
+to find time, amidst all her cares, to guide you to the best
+authors, and to read them with you, commenting and pointing out
+passages worthy to be learned by heart.
+
+I perfectly recollect, child as I was, and never of the party,
+this part of your education.  At that very juvenile period, the
+difference even of months makes a marked distinction in bestowing
+and receiving instruction. I, also, was so peculiarly backward,
+that even our Susan stood before me; she could read when I knew
+not my letters. But though so sluggish to learn, I was always
+observant: do you remember Mr. Seaton's denominating me, at
+fifteen, "the silent, observant Miss Fanny"?  Well I recollect
+your reading with our dear mother all Pope's works and Pitt's
+"AEneid." I recollect, also, your spouting passages from Pope,
+that I learned from hearing you recite them before--many years
+before I read them myself. But after you lost, so young, that
+incomparable guide, you had none left. Our dear -father was
+always abroad, usefully or ornamentally; and, after giving you a
+year in Paris with the best masters that could be procured, you
+came home at fifteen or sixteen to be exclusively occupied by
+musical studies, save for the interludes that were
+
+"Sacred to dress and beauty's pleasing cares:"
+
+for so well you played, and so lovely you looked, that admiration
+followed alike your fingers and your smiles : and the pianoforte
+and the world divided your first youth, which, had that exemplary
+guide been spared us, I am fully persuaded would have left some
+further testimony of its passage than barely my old journals,
+written to myself, which celebrate your wit and talents as highly
+as your beauty. And I judge I was not mistaken, by all in which
+you have had opportunity to show your mental faculties, i.e. your
+letters, which have always been strikingly good and agreeable,
+and evidently unstudied.
+
+When Alex comes home I will try to get "Crabbe," and try to hear
+it with pleasure.  The two lines you have quoted are very
+touching.
+
+Thus much, my dear Etty, i wrote on the day I received your last;
+but . . . .
+
+November.-I write now from Eliot Vale, under the kind and elegant
+roof of sweet Mrs. Locke, who charges me with her most
+affectionate remembrances. Perhaps I may meet here with your
+favourite Crabbe: as I subscribe to no library, I know not how
+else I shall get at him. I thank you a
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+
+thousand times for the good bulletin of your health, my dearest
+Esther; and I know how kindly you will reciprocate my
+satisfaction when I tell you mine is inconceivably ameliorated,
+moyennant great and watchful care: and Alex keeps me to that with
+the high hand of peremptory insistence, according to the taste of
+the times for the "rising generation" expects just as much
+obedience to orders as they withhold. If you were to hear the
+young gentleman delivering to me his lectures on health, and
+dilating upon air, exercise, social intercourse, and gay spirits,
+you would be forced to seek a magnifying glass to believe that
+your eyes did not deceive you, but that it was really your nephew
+haranguing his mother. However, we must pass by the exhorting
+impetuosity, in favour of the zealous anxiety that fires it up in
+his animated breast.
+
+
+                   OFFICIAL DUTIES TEMPORARILY RESUMED.
+
+I was kept in town by a particular circumstance--I might say,
+like the play-bills, by particular desire; for it was a fair
+royal personage who condescended to ask me to remit my visit to
+Eliot Vale, that I might attend her sittings for her picture, her
+two ladies being at that time absent on cong‚. You may believe
+how much I was gratified, because you know my sincere and truly
+warm attachment for all those gracious personages; but you may be
+surprised Your poor sister could now be pitched upon, where so
+much choice must always be at hand, for whiling away the
+tediousness of what she, the princess, calls the odious
+occupation of sitting still for this exhibition - but the fact
+is, I was able to fulfil her views better than most people could,
+in defiance of my altered spirits and depressed faculties, by
+having recourse simply to my memory in relating things I saw, or
+heard, or did, during the long ten years, and the eventful--added
+one year more, that I spent abroad.  Only to name Bonaparte in
+any positive trait that I had witnessed or known, was sufficient
+to make her open her fine eyes in a manner extremely advantageous
+to the painter.
+
+
+                 THE Rev. A. D'ARBLAY NAMED LENT PREACHER.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Mrs. Burney.)
+February 29, 1823.
+.....Thanks for that kind jump of joy for the success of Alex at
+Lee, and for my hopes from St. Paul's. You ask who
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+
+named him preacher for the 5th Sunday in Lent: How could I omit
+telling you 'twas the Bishop of London himself? -This has been
+brought about by a detail too long for paper, but it is chiefly
+to my faithful old friends Bishop Fisher of Salisbury and the
+Archdeacon of Middlesex that we owe this mark of attention; for
+Alex has never been presented to the Bishop of London.
+
+
+                 MADAME D'ARBLAY'S HEALTH AND OCCUPATION.
+
+You still ask about my health, etc. I thought the good result
+would have sufficed ; but thus stands the detail : I was packing
+up a board of papers to carry with me to Richmond, many months
+now ago, and employed above an hour, bending my head over the
+trunk, and on my knees -when, upon meaning to rise, I was seized
+with a giddiness, a glare of sparks before my eyes, and a
+torturing pain on one side of my head, that nearly disabled me
+from quitting my posture, and that was followed, when at last I
+rose, by an inability to stand or walk.
+
+My second threat of seizure was at Eliot Vale, while Alex was at
+Tunbridge.  I have been suddenly taken a third time, in the
+middle of the night, with a seizure as if a hundred windmills
+were turning round in my head: in short,-I had now recourse to
+serious medical help, and, to come to the sum total, I am now so
+much better that I believe myself to be merely in the common road
+of such gentle, gradual decay as, I humbly trust, I have been
+prepared to meet with highest hope, though with deepest awe--for
+now many years back.
+
+The chief changes, or reforms, from which I reap benefit are,
+1st. Totally renouncing for the evenings all revision or
+indulgence in poring over those letters and papers whose contents
+come nearest to my heart, and work upon its bleeding regrets.
+Next, transferring-to the evening, as far as is in my power, all
+of sociality, with Alex, or my few remaining friends, or the few
+he will present to me of new ones. 3rd. Constantly going out
+every day-either in brisk walks in the morning, or in brisk
+jumbles in the carriage of one of my three friends who send for
+me, to a tˆte-…-tˆte tea converse. 4th. Strict attention to diet.
+. . .
+
+I ought to have told you the medical sentence upon which I act.
+These were the words--"You have a head over-worked, and a heart
+over-loaded."  This produces a disposition to
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+
+fulness in both that causes stagnation, etc., with a consequent
+want of circulation at the extremities, that keeps them cold and
+aching. Knowing this, I now act upon it as warily as I am able.
+
+The worst of all is, that I have lost, totally lost, my pleasure
+in reading! except when Alex is my lecturer, for whose sake my
+faculties are still alive to what--erst! gave them their greatest
+delight.  But alone; I have no longer that resource; I have
+scarcely looked over a single sentence, but some word of it
+brings to my mind some mournful recollection, or acute regret,
+and takes from one all attention--my eyes thence glance vainly
+over pages that awaken no ideas.--This is melancholy in the
+extreme; yet I have tried every species of writing and writer--
+but all pass by me mechanically, instead Of instructing or
+entertaining me intellectually.  But for this sad deprivation of
+my original taste, my evenings might always be pleasing and
+reviving--but alas!
+
+
+                         DESTROYED CORRESPONDENCE.
+
+(Madame d'Arblay to Mrs. Burney.)
+August, 1823.
+What an interesting letter is this last, my truly dear Hetty 'tis
+a real sister's letter, and such a one as I am at this time
+frequently looking over of old times! For the rest of my life I
+shall take charge' and save my own executor the discretionary
+labours that with myself are almost endless ; for I now regularly
+destroy all letters that either may eventually do mischief,
+however clever, or that contain nothing of instruction or
+entertainment, however innocent.  This, which I announce to all
+my correspondents who write confidentially, occasions my
+receiving letters that are real conversations.  Were I younger I
+should consent to this condition with great reluctance-or perhaps
+resist it : but such innumerable papers, letters, documents, and
+memorandums have now passed through my hands, and, for reasons
+prudent, or kind, or conscientious, have been committed to the
+flames, that I should hold it wrong to make over to any other
+judgment than My Own, the danger or the innoxiousness of any and
+every manuscript that has been cast into my power.  To you,
+therefore, I may now safely copy a charge delivered to me by UP
+our dear vehement Mr. Crisp, at the opening of my juvenile
+Page 454
+
+correspondence with him,--"Harkee, you little monkey!--dash away
+whatever comes uppermost; if you stop to consider either what you
+say, or what may be said of you, I would not ,give one fig for
+your letters."--How little, in those days, did either he or I
+fear, or even dream of the press! What became of letters, jadis,
+I know not; but they were certainly both written and received
+with as little fear as wit.  Now every body seems -obliged to
+take as much care of their writing desks as of their trinkets or
+purses,-for thieves be abroad of more descriptions than belong to
+the penniless pilferers.
+
+
+                  THE PRINCESS AND THE REV. A. D'ARBLAY.
+
+(Madame dArblay to Mrs. locke.)
+11 Bolton-street, Nov. 1824.
+Now then for a more cheerful winding-up. I came from Camden Town
+very unwillingly,--but Alex was called to Cambridge to an audit,
+and so I took that opportunity to make a break-up. But the day
+before I quitted it I received the highest resident honour that
+can be bestowed upon me--namely, a visit from one of my dear and
+condescending princesses. She came by appointment,-yet her
+entrance was so quick that Alex had not time to save
+himself.-However, she took the incident not only without
+displeasure but with apparent satisfaction, saying she was very
+glad to renew her acquaintance with him. She had not seen him
+since the time of his spouting, "The spacious firmament on
+high"--"Ye shepherds so cheerful and gay," etc.,--all of which
+she remembers hearing. Ah--I have never recollected till this
+instant that I ought to have gone to her the next day !-how
+shocking!--and now that I have the consciousness, I can do
+nothing, for I am lame from a little accident.--Well!--she is all
+goodness-and far more prone to forgive than I, I trust, am to
+offend.
+
+
+                      A VISIT FROM SIR WALTER SCOTT.
+
+Although Madame d'Arblay's intercourse with society was now
+usually confined to that of her relations and of old and
+established friends, she yet greeted with admiration and pleasure
+Sir Walter Scott, who was brought to her by Mr. Rogers. Sir
+Walter, in his Diary for Nov. 18th, 1826, thus
+Page 455
+
+describes the visit:--"I have been introduced to Madame d'Arblay,
+the celebrated authoress of 'Evelina' and 'Cecilia,' an elderly
+lady with no remains of personal beauty, but with a simple and
+gentle manner, and pleasing expression of countenance, and
+apparently quick feelings. She told me she had wished to see two
+persons-myself, of course, being one, the other, George Canning.
+This was really a compliment to be pleased with--a nice little
+handsome pat of butter made up by a neat-handed Phillis of a
+dairy-maid, instead of the grease fit only for cartwheels which
+one is dosed with by the pound.
+
+"I trust I shall see this lady again."
+
+
+
+                          MEMOIRS OF DR. BURNEY.
+
+>From the year 1828 to 1832 Madame d'Arblay was chiefly occupied
+in preparing for the press the Memoirs of her father; and on
+their publication, she had the pleasure to receive letters from
+Dr. Jebb, Bishop of Limerick, and from Mr. Southey, the poet.
+
+Among the less favourable criticisms of her work, the Only one
+which gave Madame d'Arblay serious pain was an attack (in a
+periodical publication) upon her veracity--a quality which, in
+her, Dr. Johnson repeatedly said "he had never found failing,"
+and for which she had been through life trusted, honoured, and
+emulated.
+
+
+                  DEATHS OF HESTER BURNEY AND MRS. LOCKE.
+                              (1835 to 1838.)
+
+Madame d'Arblay's letters were now very few. - A complaint in one
+of her eyes, which was expected to terminate in a cataract, made
+both reading and writing difficult to her.  The number of her
+correspondents had also been painfully lessened by the death of
+her eldest sister, Mrs. Burney, and that of her beloved friend,
+Mrs. Locke ; and she had sympathised with other branches of her
+family in many similar afflictions, for she retained in a
+peculiar degree not only her intellectual powers, but the warn)
+and generous affections of her youth.
+
+"Though now her eightieth year was past," she took her wonted and
+vivid interest in the concerns, the joys, and sorrows of those
+she loved.
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+
+                      DEATH OF THE REV. A. D'ARBLAY.
+
+At this time her son formed an attachment which promised to
+secure his happiness, and to gild his mother's remaining days
+with affection and peace : and at the close of the year 1836 he
+was nominated minister of Ely chapel, which afforded her
+considerable satisfaction.  But her joy was mournfully
+short-lived.  That building, having been shut for some years, was
+damp and ill-aired. The Rev. Mr. d'Arblay began officiating there
+in winter, and during the first days of his ministry he caught
+the influenza, which became so serious an illness as to require
+the attendance of two physicians. Dr. Holland and Dr. Kingston
+exerted their united skill with the kindest interest; but their
+patient, never robust, was unable to cope with the malady, and on
+the 19th of January, 1837, in three weeks from his first seizure,
+the death of this beloved son threw Madame d'Arblay again into
+the depths of affliction. Yet she bore this desolating stroke
+with religious submission, receiving kindly every effort made to
+console her, and confining chiefly to her own private memoranda
+the most poignant expressions of her anguish and regret, as also
+of the deeply religious trust by which she was supported.
+
+The following paragraph is taken from her private notebook:--
+
+ "1837.-On the opening of this most mournful--most earthly
+hopeless, of any and of all the years yet commenced of my long
+career! Yet, humbly I bless my God and Saviour, not hopeless; but
+full of gently-beaming hopes, countless and fraught with
+aspirations of the time that may succeed to the dread infliction
+of this last irreparable privation, and bereavement of my darling
+loved, and most touchingly loving, dear, soul--dear Alex."
+
+
+               DEATH OF MADAME D'ARBLAY'S SISTER CHARLOTTE.
+
+Much as Madame d'Arblay had been tried by the severest penalty of
+lengthened days, the loss of those who were dearest to her, *one
+more such sorrow remained in her cup of life. Her gentle and
+tender sister Charlotte, many years younger than herself, was to
+precede her in that eternal world for which they were both
+preparing; and in the autumn of the year 1838, a short illness
+terminated in the removal of that beloved sister.
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+
+                   ILLNESS AND DEATH OF MADAME D'ARBLAY.
+                                (1839-40.)
+
+Madame d'Arblay's long and exemplary life was now drawing to a
+close; her debility increased, her sight and hearing nearly
+failed her; but in these afflictions she was enabled to look
+upwards with increasing faith and resignation. In a letter on the
+5th of March, 1839, she wrote the following paragraph,(340) which
+was perhaps the last ever traced by her pen :--
+
+"March 5, 1839.
+"Ah, my dearest! how changed, changed I am, since the irreparable
+loss of your beloved mother! that last original tie to native
+original affections! . . .
+
+"Wednesday.-I broke off, and an incapable unwillingness seized my
+pen; but I hear you are not well, and I hasten--if that be a word
+I can ever use again--to make personal Inquiry how you are.
+
+"I have been very ill, very little apparently, but with nights of
+consuming restlessness and tears.  I have now called in Dr.
+Holland, who understands me marvellously, and I am now much as
+usual; no, not that--still tormented by nights without repose--
+but better.
+
+"My spirits have been dreadfully saddened of late by whole days-
+-nay weeks--of helplessness for any employment.  They have but
+just revived. How merciful a reprieve! How merciful IS ALL we
+know! The ways of Heaven are not dark and intricate, but unknown
+and unimagined till the great teacher, Death, develops them."
+
+In November, 1839, Madame d'Arblay was attacked by an illness
+which showed itself at first in sleepless nights and nervous
+imaginations.  Spectral illusions, such as Dr. Abercrombie has
+described, formed part of her disorder; and though after a time
+Dr. Holland's skill removed these nervous impressions, yet her
+debility and cough increased, accompanied by constant fever.  For
+several weeks hopes of her recovery were entertained; her
+patience assisted the remedies of her kind physician , and the
+amiable young friend, " who was to her as a daughter," watched
+over her with unremitting care and attention but she became more
+and more feeble,
+
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+
+and her mind wandered ; though at times every day she was
+composed and collected, and then given up to silent prayer, with
+her hands clasped and eyes uplifted.
+
+During the earlier part of her illness she had listened with
+comfort to some portions of St. John's Gospel, but she now said
+to her niece, "I would ask you to read to me, but I could not
+understand one word--not a syllable! but I thank God my mind has
+not waited till this time."
+
+At another moment she charged the same person with affectionate
+farewells and blessings to several friends, and with thanks for
+all their kindness to her. Soon after she said, "I have had some
+sleep." "That is well," was the reply; "you wanted rest." "I
+shall have it soon, my dear," she answered emphatically: and
+thus, aware that death was approaching, in peace with all the
+world, and in holy trust and reliance on her Redeemer, she
+breathed her last on the 6th of January, 1840 ; the anniversary
+of that day she had long consecrated to prayer, and to the memory
+of her beloved sister Susanna.
+
+(330) Her departure for Germany with her husband, the Prince of
+Hesse-Homburg, to whom she had been recently married.-ED. '
+
+
+(331) From a Memorandum book of Madame d'Arblays.
+
+(332) Queen Charlotte died at the palace at Kew, in the
+seventy-fifth year of her age, after an illness of six
+months.-ED.
+(133) At Windsor.-ED.
+
+(134)  The Princess Mary, who had married her cousin, the Duke of
+Gloucester.-ED.
+
+(135) Queen Caroline. George IV. was now king, George III. having
+died January 29, 1820. A brief account of the life of Queen
+Caroline may be of assistance to the reader.  Her father was the
+Duke of Brunswick: her mother a sister of George II.  She was
+born in 1768, and married her cousin, the Prince of Wales, in
+April, 1795, A speedy estrangement followed, brought about by the
+prince's intrigues, especially with Lady Jersey; and, after the
+birth of their daughter, the Princess Charlotte, a total
+separation took place.  In 1806 a charge of adultery was brought
+against the Princess of Wales.  The charge was declared
+disproved, but colour had been given to it by the undoubted
+levity and imprudence of her conduct.     In 1813 she went
+abroad, and spent several years in travelling on the continent.
+Her behaviour during this period gave rise to fresh charges, from
+which she has never been entirely cleared. She returned to
+England, June 6, 1820, came to London, and took up her residence
+in South Audley-street, at the house of her friend, Alderman
+Wood, one of the members of Parliament for the city of London.
+Shortly before her return, the king's ministers had proposed to
+settle upon her an annuity of -/'50,000 for life, subject to the
+conditions of her continuing to reside abroad, and refraining
+from assuming the title of queen. This proposal she instantly
+rejected.  She was received in England by the people with
+unbounded enthusiasm, to which the general discontent then
+prevailing questionless contributed.  A secret committee of the
+House of Lords, appointed to examine the charges against the
+queen, having made their report, the government brought in a bill
+to deprive her of the title of queen, and to dissolve the
+marriage.  She was defended by counsel before the House of Lords,
+her leading advocate being Mr. (afterwards Lord) Brougham, The
+Motion for the third reading of the bill passed (November 10) by
+a small majority, but the bill was immediately afterwards
+abandoned by the government.  This proceeding was generally
+considered as tantamount to an acquittal, and was celebrated by
+illuminations and the voting of congratulatory addresses in all
+parts of the country.  Queen Caroline did not long enjoy her
+triumph.  She presented herself at Westminster Abbey on the
+occasion of the king's coronation, July 19, 1821, but was refused
+admission.  Less than three weeks later she was dead.-ED.
+
+(336) Lady Ann Hamilton, who had formerly belonged to Queen
+Caroline's household, and had joined her in France, shortly
+before her return to England.-ED.
+
+(337) Thursday, August 17, was the day on which the queen's trial
+commenced before the House of Lords.-ED.
+
+(338) Lord Byron, the poet.-ED.
+
+(339) Mrs. Piozzi died at Clifton, May 2, 1821, having survived
+her second husband about twelve years.-ED.
+
+ (340) To her niece Mrs. Barrett.
+
+
+
+
+                                   INDEX
+Addington, Dr., attends the king, ii. 262.
+Agujari, Lucrezia, vocalist, i. 162.
+Aiken, John, M.D., iii. 179.
+Akenside, his "Pleasures of Imagination" discussed, ii. 193.
+Alexander I. of Russia, iii. 289, 380.
+Allen, Mrs. S., marries Dr. Burney, i, xviii.
+Althorpe, Lord, i. 176,
+Amelia, Princess, her childish ways and sports, 1. 349, 420, 437;
+     her birthday, 364; 439, 442; ii. 34, 72, 75, 303, 309, 4o6;
+     her AFFECtion for Fanny, 434; iii. 108, 138, 140, 156, 165;
+     at Juniper Hall, 180.
+Amiens, Fanny's supper at, iii. 319.
+Ancaster, Duchess of, i. 350 355, 361, 365, 379, 385, 387,
+     391, 393-4, 396; ii. 10, 39, 85.
+Andrews, Miles, ii. 32.
+Angouleme, Duchess d', in London, iii. 276, 281, 291-3;
+     conversation with Fanny, 295.
+ Anstey, Christopher, "Evelina" attributed to, i. xxv, 63.
+Anstruther, Mr. M.P., ii. 97, 145, 345, 352.
+Antwerp, projected flight to, iii. 352.
+Arblay, general Alex. d', acount of, i. xliv;
+     at Juniper Hall, iii. 14, 28-9, 31, 33, 35, 40, 42, 43, 45;
+     he and Fanny in love, 48, 50, 53, 55, 59, 62;
+     named to Fanny, 67; 68, 74;
+     his pursuits, 75, 85;
+     at Windsor, 99, 102, 105-6;
+     noticed by George     III., 109;
+     plans Camilla Cottage, 115, 122-3, 154;
+     his brother's death, 126; 135, 155-6, 171, 192;
+     his French property, 194;
+     goes to France, 198;
+     his military appointment, 203-7;
+     in Paris, 224-5;
+     his old comrades, 227;
+     his relatives, 234;
+     his pension and property, 241-2; 255, 272, 287;
+     returns to France, 289;
+     enters Louis XVIII's bodyguard, 290;
+     reinstated as maréchal de Camp, 291;
+     his loyalty, 298;
+     on the eve of the Hundred Days, 304-8, 311;
+     reaches Belgium, 337;
+     his mission to Luxemburg, 339, 342;
+     his audience with Wellington, 342;
+     his accident, 369;
+     joined by Fanny at Treves, 370-7;
+     returns to England, 383-5;
+     his affairs and plans, 390;
+     his failing health, 07, 400, 418, 422-3;
+     presented to the queen, 424-6;
+     gradually sinking, 426, 428-32;
+     his death, 433.
+Arblay, Rev. Alexander d', iii. 82, 97, 121, 138, 143, 156-7;
+     at Court, 163;
+     presented to the queen, 167;
+     his precocity,      177, 182, 192, 196;
+     goes to France, 209;
+     at Dunkirk, 252;
+     returns to England, 263;
+     secures a scholarship, 266, 270;
+     at Cambridge, 272, 275, 293;
+     maternal advice to, 365;
+     his waywardness and prospects, 386, 390-6;
+     his tutor, 401;
+     his aversion to study, 403;
+     his alarm for his mother,  415-8;
+     at his father's death-bed, 430-3;
+     at Cambridge, 436;
+     ordained, 437, 440;
+     in ill-health, 446;
+     named Lent preacher, 451;
+     with one Of the princesses, 454;
+     his death, 456.
+Arblay, Madame d' (Frances Burney),
+     announces her marriage, iii. 67-70;
+     loses her stepmother, 71;
+          her tragedy, "Edwy and Elgiva," 72, 90-4;
+     her novel, "Camilla," 72, 89, 95-6, 98-112;
+     birth of her  son, 85;
+     meets Mrs. Piozzi, 88;
+     presents "Camilla" to royalty, 99-112;
+     relative success of her novels, 114;
+     her Camilla Cottage, 115, 122-3;
+     her opinion of Burke, 126;
+     visits the queen, 141;
+     chats with the princesses, 138-40, 140, 153-4;
+     indignant with Talleyrand, 153;
+     her little boy at Court, 163;
+     visits old friends, 172;
+     with Princess Amelia, 180-3;
+     her withdrawn comedy, "Love and Fashion," 193;
+     her anxiety for her husband, 205-7;
+     goes to France, 208;
+     to Paris, 215;
+     her life there, 216;
+     snubs Mdme. deStael, 220;
+     at the Tuileries, 224;
+     sees Napoleon, 232;
+     at Joigny, 234;
+     at Passy and Paris, 240-7;
+     her dangerous illness, 247, 252;
+     her adventure at Dunkirk, 249;
+     her return to England, 263;
+     regrets Mdme. de Stael, 269;
+     meets S. Rogers, 270;
+     Wilberforce, 271;
+     publishes "The Wanderer," 272-3-5;
+     loses her father, 273-4;
+     is presented to Louis XVIII., 276;
+     joined by her husband, 289;
+     returns to France, 292;
+     meets Duchess d'Angouleme, 293;
+     her flight from Paris, 301, 308-27;
+     her efforts to communicate with her husband, 328;
+     converses  with Chateaubriand, 330-3;
+     arrives at Brussels, 334;
+     receives news of d'Arblay, 336-7, 338;
+     her projected flight to Antwerp, 352;
+     joins her husband at Treves, 370-7;
+     returns to France, 378;
+     her bon mot to Talleyrand, 382;
+     return to England, 383;
+     at Bath, 385;
+     Ilfracombe, 398, 402;
+     is caught by the rising tide, 4o6-18;
+     at Bath, 418, 422-37;
+     her husband's illness, 423;
+     his death, 432;
+     her years of widowhood, 434;
+     her son ordained, 440;
+     her correspondence with Madame PiOzzi, 443-8;
+     her health and occupations, 452;
+     is visited by Sir Walter Scott,  454;
+     issues the "Memoirs of Dr. Burney," 455;
+     her son's death, 456;
+     her illness and death, 458.
+Argand, Aimé, i. 405.
+Argy, Chevalier d', iii. 346.
+Arras, Fanny at, iii. 321.
+Arundel, Lord, i. 198.
+Auch, Countess d', iii. 313.
+Augusta, Princess, i. 339, 342, 360, 362;
+     her birthday, 365, 375, 385, 387, 409, 439-40; ii. 9, 10;
+     teased by Turbulent, 26; 32, 34-5, 50, 75, 155, 164, 2o6,
+     242, 270, 310, 347, 490; iii. 104, 107-8, 138, 146, 156-9,
+     164, 440.
+Aylesbury, Lord, ii. 332, 400; iii. 163.
+Aylsham, Fanny at, iii. 37.
+
+Bachmeister, Mlle., successor to Mrs. Schwellenberg, iii. 142,
+     162, 163.
+Baker, Sir George, M.D., attends the king, ii. 222-3, 231-2,
+     234-5, 250, 263.
+Banks, Sir Joseph, ii. 140-1.
+Bantry Bay Expedition, iii. 124.
+Barbauld, Mr. and Mrs. (the authoress), iii. 178.
+Barber, Frank, Johnson's negro, i. 287; iii. 129.
+Barclay & Perkins, origin of, i. 203.
+Baretti, Joseph, at Dr. Burney's, i. xvi;
+     admires "Evelina," xxvii, 83;
+     teases Charlotte Burney, 302;
+     his wager, 302, 305;
+attacks Mrs. Piozzi, ii. 167, 176;
+tried for murder, 176.
+Barrett, Mrs., i. xi; iii. 457.
+
+Barrington, Lord, at Dr. Burney's, i. Xvii.
+Barry, Mr., R. A., at Dr. Burney's, i. xvi;
+     expelled the Academy, iii. 184.
+Bate, Henry, Rev., of the Morning Post and Herald, i. 164.
+Bath, Fanny at, i. 165-197 423-9; iii. 385-98, 418, 422-37
+     Queen Charlotte at, iii. 420.
+Bath, Marquis an(l Marchioness of, ii. 330 ;
+     their family, 331.
+Bath Easton, i. 174, 189.
+Batt, Mr., ii. 83, 433.
+Battiscombe (royal apothecary), i. 293, 446 ; ii. 231, 233.
+Beauclerk, Topham and Lady Di., i. 154, 231-2.                    Beauffiremont, Princess de, iii. 237.
+Beaufort, Duke of, ii. 291.
+Beauvau, Prince and Princess de, iii. 218, 224-5.
+Berry, Agnes and Mary, iii. 219.
+Bertie, Lady Charlotte, lady of the bedchamber, i. 365, 385,
+390-3; ii. 39.
+Betterton, Miss, actress, iii. 149, 157.
+Bewley, Mr., and Johnson's hearthbroom, i. xvi.
+Birch, Selina, a prodigy, i. 150-3.
+Black Brunswickers, the, iii. 347.
+Blakeney, General, his disposition and conversation, i. 158-164.
+Blandford, Marquis of, i. 387.
+Blenheim, royal visit to, i. 397.
+Bligh, Captain (afterwards Admiral), ii, 350, 358.
+Blucher, Marshal, iii. 342, 345, 358, 364.
+Bolt Court, Johnson's home at, i. 95-7, 258, 283-8.
+Bonaparte, Jerome, iii. 367.
+Bonaparte, Louis, iii. 235.
+Bonaparte,        Napoleon,       and M. d'Arblay, i., x1v;
+     bon mot of, iii. 200;
+     and d'Arblay, 207;
+     at the Tuileries, 231;
+     returns from Elba, 301, 314;
+     persecutes Chateaubriand, 333;
+     his last campaign, 293, 351, 353, 363, 365.
+Bookham, Fanny at, iii, 75, et seq.
+Boscawen, Hon. Mrs., ii. 83, 291 iii. 98, 100, 133, 173.
+Boswell, James, i. 234-5, 319;
+     his "Life of Dr. Johnson," ii. 377, 400-2;
+     his mimicry of Johnson, 432.
+Bouchier, Captain, i. 179-80, 185-9.
+Bouffiers-Rouvrel, Countess de, ii. 368.
+Bourget, Le, Fanny's halt at, iii. 315.
+Bowdler, Harriet, i. 190-1; iii. 386.
+Bowdlers, the, i. 194; ii. 424; iii. 386, 396, 401;
+     the first chess-player in England, 405, 406.
+Boyd, Mr. and Mrs., at Brussels, iii. 343, 352-3, 360.
+Boydell, Alderman, ii. 464.
+Bremyere, Mrs., iii. 142, 161.
+Brighthelmstone (Brighton), Fanny at, i. 112, 133-7, 153-64, 197,
+236-9-48.
+Brisvane, Captain, i. 185-8.
+Broglie, Marshal de, iii. 16;
+     Madame de, iii. 16, 29, 39.
+Broome, Ralph, author of "Simkins' Letters," iii. 133, 167, 176.
+Broome, Mrs., see Burney, Charlotte.
+Brown, Fanny, an untidy flirt, i. 85-6, 138-9.
+Bruce, James, the traveller, i. xvii; ii. 330.
+Brudenell, Miss, ii. 126.
+Brunswick, army of, iii. 347;
+     Duke of, his death, 347, 351.
+Brussels, Fanny at, iii. 334;
+     "Rule Britannia" at, 341-2;
+     Fete-Dieu at, 344;
+     the inquietude at, 346;
+     plans for quitting, 350;
+     aspect of, before and after Waterloo, 351-65.
+Bryant, Jacob, i. 402; his eccentric talk, ii. 22-3, 31, 72, 349,
+     405.
+Budé, General, i. 353, 355, 358, 365-6, 416-7, 421, 427, 440-1,
+444; ii. 36, 47, 51, 213, 218, 224, 226, 228-9, 245, 341.
+Bulkley, Lord, ii. 347.
+Buller, Dean, ii. 321.
+Bunbury, Henry W., ii. 51, 59, 140, 190-1, 195;
+     Mrs. (Goldsmith's "Little Comedy"), i. 111.
+Burgoyne, General, ii. 120.
+Burke, Edmund, praises "Evelina", i. xxvi, 94;
+     slighted by Fanny, xxxvii;
+     introduced to Fanny, 230;
+     on "Cecilia," 232, 252-4;
+     on Fanny's Court appointment, 290;
+/    at the Hastings trial, ii. 92-3, 110, 112, 117;
+     his speech against Hastings, 121, 128, 134;
+     at the trial, 125-7, 129-30, 138, 145, 147, 345, 352, 355,
+     359-61, 363-4, 392, 438, 440, 445, 452;
+     on the Regency Bill, 351;
+     on the French Revolution, 371, 377;
+     on Fanny's treatment at Court, 429;
+     Reynolds's legacy to, 444;
+     at Mrs. Crewe's with Fanny, 457-63;
+     on Fox, 459;
+     on Windham, 460;
+     subscribes for "Camilla," iii. 73;
+     his death and funeral, 125.
+Burke, Mrs. Edmund, i. 252, ii. 457, 461.
+Burke, Richard, son of Edmund, i.  254, 259; ii. 101, 121, 456;
+     iii. 44, 89.
+Burke, Richard, brother of Edmund, i. 229; ii. 101, 121, 457;
+     iii. 82.
+Burke, William, i. 115-9.
+Burney, Charles, Mus. Doc., his early life, marriage, position,
+     and friends, i. xiii-xvii;
+     his second marriage, xviii;
+     authorises the publication of "Evelina," xxiv;
+     peruses it, xxv, 65-8;
+     appointed organist at Chelsea, xxxvii;
+     takes Fanny to Streatham, 75;
+     visits Reynolds, 115;
+     meets Murpby, 129;
+     visits Mrs. Paradise, 224;
+     dines with Reynolds, 228;
+     Visits Chesington, 233;
+     chides Mrs. Thrale, 237;
+     distressed at Crisp's death, 271;
+     at Johnson's deathbed and funeral, 285-8;
+     is commended by the queen, 295;
+     misses a Court appointment, 323-6;
+     is delighted at Fanny's appointment, xxxiii, 329;
+     takes her to Windsor, 333;
+     alluded to, 370, 415;
+     his verses on the queen's birthday, ii. 9;
+     is incensed at Fanny's condition, 65;
+     is lampooned in the Probationary Odes, 145;
+George III's opinion of him, 291-2;
+     mentioned, 356;
+     his views respecting Fanny's resignation, 366, 368-70, 374,
+     376-7, 380, 386-7 [See also i. xli-ii];
+     takes her home, 411;
+     chats with Burke, 429;
+     with Fanny, 430-32;
+     meets the Burkes at Mrs. Crewe's, 456-62;
+     Fox at the Literary Club, iii, 44;
+     objects to Mdme. de Stael, 51;
+     to Fanny's marriage, 65;
+     loses his second wife, 71, 117-9;
+     meets the Piozzis, 88;
+     his "Life of Metastasio," 89, 92, 103;
+     attends Burke's funeral, 125;
+     visits Etruria and Lichfield, 128;
+     visits Herschel, 131, 184;
+     his poetical history of astronomy, 143;
+     his Chelsea apartments, 155, 165;
+     his books, 173;
+     converses with George III, 185, 193;
+     dines with the Prince of Wales, 243;
+     visits Bath, 244;
+     elected a member of the French Institute, 247;
+     is greatly aged, 265;
+     his death, 249, 273;
+     his portrait by Reynolds, 389;
+     his papers, 447;
+     his memoirs, 455.
+Burney, Mrs., née Allen, wife of above, I. 60;
+     visits Lowndes with Fanny, 79;
+     dresses badly, 86;
+     visits Reynolds, 113;
+     her death, iii. 71, 117.
+Burney, Rev. Charles, D.D., his birth and library, i. 60;
+     attends Johnson's funeral, 288;
+     at the Hastings trial, ii. 95, 100, 103, 391;
+     mentioned, 375, 411; ii. 171;
+     dines with the Prince of Wales, 243;
+     meets Fanny on her return from France, 265;
+     his school, 270, 272;
+     buys his father's portrait, 389.
+Burney, Charles Rousseau ("Mr. Burney"),
+     his parentage and mariiage, i. 59;
+     toasts the author of "Evelina," 72;
+     referred to, iii. 397.
+Burney,    Charlotte Anne (Mrs. Francis, afterwards Broome),
+     account of, i. 60;
+     describes her father's perusal of "Evelina," 65-7, 198, 224;
+     fragments of her journal, 254;
+     teased by Baretti, 302; 415; ii. 102, 108, 145;
+     at the Hastings trial, 345, 375; iii. 17;
+     marries Ralph Broome, 133, 167;
+     her death, 456.
+Burney, Edward, Fanny's cousin, artist, i. 60, 61, 233.
+Burney, Esther ("Hetty"), birth and marriage, i. 59;
+     and "Evelina," 64; ii. 350, 356; iii. 17, 397, 449, 455.
+Burney, Frances (Madame d'Arblay),
+     Macaulay's acount of:--
+     her birth and education, i. xiv-v;
+     surroundings, xvii;
+     appearance and opportunities, xviii;
+     her Writings, first attempts, xviii;
+     her Diary and Letters, xix, xxiii;
+     "Evelina," xxiii-vii;
+     "The Witlings," xxviii;
+     "Cecilia,"    xxix;
+     "Camilla," "Edwy and Elgiva," x1v;
+     "The Wanderers," and the "Memoirs of Dr. Burney," xlvi;
+     qualities and blemishes of her writings, xlvii-lvii;
+     her detractors and admirers, xxvi-vii;
+     her presentation to George III. and Queen Charlotte, xxx;
+     her appointment and life at Court, xxxi-v;
+     her account of the royal visit to Oxford, xxxv;
+     of the trial of Warren Hastings, xxxvi;
+     of George III's illness, xxxviii;
+     her last years at Court, illness and resignation, xxxix;
+     her trip through the south-west of England, visit to juniper
+     Hall, and marriage with General d'Ar.blay, xliv;
+     her departure for France, x1v;
+     return to England and death, xlvi.
+     Diary and Letters:--
+     Her account of "Evelina," i. 61-74;
+     visits the Thrales and meets Dr. Johnson and Seward, 75-8;
+     interviews Lowndes, 79;
+     is confused by the praise of Johnson and others, 83-91;
+     meets Sir Joshua Reynolds, 92-5;
+     Mrs. Montagu, 100;
+     husbands    suggested for her, 106;
+     is kissed by Johnson, 109;
+     visited by Dr. Francklin, 112;
+     visits Reynolds, 113;
+     meets R. B. Sheridan and his Wife, 123;
+     meets Arthur Murphy,             129;
+     purposes writing a play ("The Witlings"), 129, 133;
+     at Brighton, 133;
+     at Streatham, 137;
+     sends "The Witlings" to Crisp, 145;
+     her views of its fate, 146;
+     visits Tunbridge Wells, 149;
+     Brighton, 153, 236, 239, 248;
+     is badly treated by the Cumberlands, 155;
+     visits Bath, 165;
+     her letters on the Gordon riots, 193;
+     leaves Bath, 197;
+     at Streatham, 203;
+     attends Mrs. Paradise's rout, 224;
+     meets Edmund Burke and Gibbon, 228;
+     sits for her portrait, 233
+     her account of General Paoli, 234-5;
+     of Miss Monckton's assembly, 248;
+     at Mrs. Walsingham's, 256;
+     meets Mrs. Siddons, 257;
+     visits Johnson, 258;
+     is Praised by Soames Jenyns, 261-2;
+     loses her friend Crisp, 270-1;
+     visits the Cambridges, 273-5;
+her friendship for Mrs. Locke, 277;
+     her views on Mrs. Thrale's second marriage, 278-9;
+     at Norbury with the Lockes, 280;
+     her stormy interview with Lady F., 282;
+     her last chat with Johnson, 283;
+     her account of his death, 285;
+     her visits to Mrs. Delany, 265-70, 292;
+     hides from the queen, 297;
+     her first interview with the king and queen, 298;
+     discusses literary matters with the king and queen, 316-21;
+     is presented at Court, 322;
+     is appointed a keeper of the robes, 327-32;
+     her arrival and reception at Windsor, 333-8;
+     looks on at the queen's toilet, 339;
+     is visited by Court officials, 340;
+     her daily routine, 345;
+     prepares the queen's snuff, 348, 361;
+     accompanies the Court to Kew, 349;
+     is visited by Mrs. Warren Hastings, 352;
+     on familiar terms with the princesses, 353;
+     her account of an attempt against the king, 355;
+     her bitter experience of Mrs. Schwellenberg begins, 359;
+     is kissed by Princess Amelia, 365;
+     is promised a gown from the queen, 368;
+     defends Mrs. Hastings, 371;
+     visits Nuneham and Oxford with the Court, 373;
+     worries and difficulties of the excursion, 374, 382, 390,
+     393-4;
+     her duties at Windsor and Kew, 399;
+     reads to the queen, 403;
+     repines at her Position, 403;
+     discusses Mdme. de Genlis, 4o5;
+     meets W. Herschel, 408, 444;
+     cannot ask: a guest to dinner, 413;
+     invites a wrong guest, 417
+     receives a lilac tabby from the queen, 421;
+     is entrusted with the queen's jewels, 422;
+     her tea-table worries, 425;
+     obtains a holiday, 433   ;
+     her verses on "The Greatcoat," 424, 434;
+     romps with Princess Amelia, 437;
+     is too late to attend on the queen, 438;
+     her present to Princess Augusta, 440;
+     is taken ill, 445;
+     in a predicament at St. James's, ii. 10-15;
+     is worried by Turbulent, 16, 24-31, 47, 54, 57, 82, 214-5;
+     is complimented in an epilogue, 32;
+     is disappointed With Mrs. Siddons, 52;
+     her resignation rumoured, 62;
+     is persecuted by Mrs. Schwellenberg, 65;
+     receives a gift from the queen, 72;
+     discusses Johnson and Mrs. Thrale, 74;
+     among her old friends, 82, 85;
+     attends the Warren Hastings trial, 95-136, 143-9, 345-6,
+     352-5, 357-65, 370-3,
+     389-95, 437-47, 452, 455;
+     at Egham races, 151;
+     at Cheltenham with the Court, 154-9;
+     her flirtation with Fairly, 159-61, 165, 168-9, 174, 177-87,
+     193-5, 197-9, 200-3, 204-6;
+     meets Seward, 167, 170;
+     meets Robert Raikes at Gloucester, 171;
+     visits Tewkesbury, 191;
+     is visited by Richard Burney, 192;
+     is attacked with influenza, 195;
+     visits Worcester, 199;
+     is at Windsor again, 207;
+     is twitted about Canon Shepherd, 209, 217;
+     her introduction to Lalande, 210;
+     is eyed curiously by the Prince of Wales, 211;
+     is plagued by Mrs. Schwellenberg, 215-8;
+begins to write "Edwy and Elgiva," 222;
+     converses with George III. at the outset of his illness,
+     225-6;
+     her anxiety      for him and the queen, 230-2;
+     attends the public prayers for      his recovery, 250;
+     is comforted      by Pepys's prognostics, 251;
+     leaves for Kew, 265-6;
+     reports to the queen on the king's health, 270;
+     is chased by the king in Kew Gardens; is kissed by him, 289;
+     his strange talk to her, 290-2;
+     her meetings with Fairly during the king's illness, 237,
+     239, 242, 244, 246, 248, 251, 253-64, 271,
+     275,   277,    279,   281,   297-8;
+     Fairly's visits remarked on by the queen, 280, 282;
+     Mrs. Schwellenberg's treatment of her during the king's
+     illness, 246, 272-5, 295;
+     sees the king recovered, 298-9, 300;
+     her verses on his recovery, 303;
+     her parting from Fairly, 303-4;
+     meets Miss Fuzilier, 304;
+     at Lyndhurst, 310;
+     Southampton, 312;
+     Weymouth, 313;
+     Exeter and Saltram, 321;
+     Plymouth, 323;
+     Mount Edgecumbe, 327;
+     meets Fairly again, 329;
+     at Longleat, 330;
+     Tottenham Court, 332;
+     Windsor, 333;
+     hears rumours of Fairly's marriage, 334, 340;
+     in the crush at Covent Garden, 335;
+     visited by Mrs. Fairly, 344, 373;
+     reads Colman's plays to the queen, 347, 350;
+     meets Madame PiOzzi, 355;
+her servant Columb, 367;
+     meets James Boswell, 377;
+     is mentioned in his "Johnson," 401;
+     helps the queen to write verses, 388;
+     her desire to resign, 366, 368-70, 374-6, 379, 389;
+     close of her Court duties, 401;
+     her successor and pension, 403;
+     her leave-takings, 4o5-8;
+     travels through the south-west of England, 410;
+     meets Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, 426-9;
+     and Bishop Percy, 428;
+     her literary recreation, 430;
+     on Reynolds's blindness, 431;
+     attends the queen, 434-7;
+     chats with her and the king, 448;
+     compliments the king on his birthday, 453;
+     with the Burkes at Mrs. Crewe's, 456;
+     visits Caen Wood, 464;
+     her adventure at the Shakespeare gallery, 465;
+     is invited to Arthur Young's, 468;
+     stays there, iii. 17;
+     at Aylsham, 37;
+     Norbury Park, 43;
+     meets Madame de Stael and other émigrés of juniper Hall,
+     44-61;
+     falls in love with d'Arblay, 48, 59, 64;
+     marries him, 67 (see Arblay, Madame d').
+Burney, James (afterwards Admiral), his birth, voyages, marriage,
+     and death, i. 59, 168, 173, 200;
+     at Chesington, 436;
+     at the Hastings trial, ii. 120, 122, 125, 129-39, 357-8,
+     438;
+     his interview with the Earl of Chatham, 370;
+     wants a ship, 356;
+     mentioned, 350, 411; iii. 60.
+Burney, Mrs. James, i. 436.
+Burney,   Richard, Fanny's uncle, i. 60.
+Burney,   Richard, Fanny's cousin, i. 60;
+     "Evelina" read to, 62;
+     visits Fanny at Cheltenham, ii. 192.
+Burney,  Richard Thomas, i. 60.
+Burney, Sarah Harriet ("Sally"), i. 60, 65, 333; ii. 357, 391,
+     411; iii. 17, 24, 72, 146.
+Burney, Susanna Elizabeth (Mrs. Phillips), her birth, marriage,
+     and death, i. 60; 62-6, 65, 224, 270, 278, 280, 344, 403,
+     411, 415;
+     her acquaintance with the emigres of juniper Hall, iii. 17,
+     28-38, 54, 56-61, 64;
+     leaves for Ireland, 71, 121, 124;
+     her death, 170, 188-91.
+Bute, Lady, ii. 69-70.
+Byron, Augusta, i. 169, 179, 181,
+     185-8;
+     Captain George, 169, 173;
+     Mrs., i. 169; ii. 424; iii. 445.
+
+Caen-Wood, ii. 464-'
+Cagliostro, Count, i. 411.
+Calais, description of, iii.       211.
+Calvert, Dr., i. 92-3.
+Cambaceres, iii. 231.
+Cambridge, Rev. George Owen, i. 258-9, 261-4, 273, 275.
+Cambridge, Miss, i. 327-30, 347; ii. 223, 271, 304, 344, 375,
+     411.
+Cambridge, Richard Owen, i. 258-9, 261-2, 273-5, 326; ii. 16, 83.
+"Camilla," Madame d'Arblay's novel, i. x1v;
+     Macaulay on, li-lv;
+     iii. 72, 89, 95-6, 98-102, 107-12, 114;
+     reviewed, 116.
+Camilla Cottage, iii. 115, 122-3, 135, 154, 157.
+Campbell, Lady Augusta, ii. 85.
+Camperdown, Duncan's victory off, iii. 140-3, 147-50.
+Campo, Signor del, ii. 36, 47.
+Canning, George, iii. 82-3.
+Carmichael, Miss, Johnson's              Poll, i. 96-7.
+Caroline of Brunswick (Queen), iii. 440-3;
+Carter, Elizabeth, ii. 83, 279.
+Cator, Mr., i. 210-13, 221.
+Cavendish, Ladies Georgiana and Harriet, ii. 425-6.
+"Cecilia," Fanny's novel;
+     price paid for, i. Xxiv, 254;
+     its production, xxviii-ix, 202, 228;
+     Macaulay's estimate of, xxxii, l-lv;
+     praised by Burke, 232-3;
+     extolled by the "old wits," 251-4;
+     eulogised by Soames jenyns, 261-3;
+     discussed at Mrs. Delany's, 268-76; ii. 32, 176; iii. 114.
+Chamier, Anthony, M.P., i. 148
+Chapman, Dr., Vice- Chancellor at Oxford, ii. 386-7.
+Chapone, Mrs. (Hester Mulso), account Of, i. 265-70, 288; ii. 83,
+     321; iii. 172, 398.
+Charlotte,             Princess,
+     anecdotes of, iii. 145, 159, 290;
+     her death, 419, 421.
+Charlotte, Queen, Macaulay's account of, i. xxx-xxxii;
+     in favour of Warren Hastings, xxxviii;
+     her treatment of Fanny, xl, xli, xliii;
+     generosity to Mrs. Delany, 291;
+     inquisitive about Fanny, 294-5;
+     meets her, 304-13;
+     her disposition and manners, 314;
+     chats about Mdme. de Genlis, Goethe, Klopstock, Milton,
+     Wickliffe, and Roman Catholic superstitions, 319-21;
+     on         the Terrace at Windsor, 325;
+     aPpoints Fanny a keeper of                her robes, 327-32;
+     receives her at Windsor, 335;
+     ceremonial in her dressing-room, 339;
+     Fanny's routine with, 345-8;
+     er snuff, 348-9, 361;
+     at a Drawing-room, 350, 369;
+     at Kew, 351;
+     her pet dog, 353;
+     distressed by the attempt against the king, 355, 357-61,
+     367;
+     promises Fanny a gown, 368;
+     visits Nuneham, 374;
+     Oxford, 385-95;
+     Blenheim, 397;
+     Fanny as her reader, 403;
+     advises her concerning Mdme. de Genlis, 407; 416, 419, 420,
+     422;
+     praised by Fanny, 424;
+     cautions Fanny, 432;
+     tired          of her gewgaws, grants Fanny a holiday, 433;
+     receives some verses from her, 424, 434;
+     rebukes her, 439; 440, 442, 446
+     Dr. Burney's verses for, ii. 10; 22;
+     at the play, 31;
+     on the king's birthday, 33;
+     with the Polignacs, 39;
+     with the Duke of York, 49; 52, 85;
+     with the Prince of Wales, 61, 63;
+     her New Year gift to Fanny, 72;
+     remarks on Dr. Johnson, 77-8;
+     interested in the Hastings trial, 95, 119, 345, 361, 390-1,
+     395, 448;
+     chats about Lady Hawke's novel, 150;
+     visits Cheltenham, 155-7;
+     her rooms there, 163;
+     her selfishness, 181;
+     remarks on Fairly, 185-7;
+visits Worcester, 199;
+     on Fairly, 200, 205-6;
+     returns to Windsor, 206;
+     her Wit, 216;
+     during the king's illness, 224-31, 234-6, 238-40, 242, 244,
+     246, 248-50, 252, 257-8,
+     262-3;
+     at Kew with the king, 265, 269, 272, 276;
+     remarks on Fairly's visits to Fanny, 280, 282, 285;
+     her birthday, 281, 361; 292, 295
+     walks out with the king, 297-8; 300, 302;
+     orders illuminations for the king's recovery, 303;
+     holds a Drawing-room, 304;
+     her poultry, 305;
+     visits Lyndhurst, 310;
+     Weymouth, 313, 315, 320-1, 323;
+     Longleat, 330-3;
+     on Fairly, 335;
+     at the play, 335, 342;
+     employs Fanny as reader, 347, 350;
+     her treatment of Fanny, 366, 379- 89, 390, 401-2;
+     her gift to Lord Harcourt, 388;
+     grants Fanny a pension, 403-4, 405;
+     takes leave of her, 408-9;
+     attended by Fanny, 434-7;
+     chats with Fanny, 447, 454-5;
+     Fanny presents "Camilla: to, iii. 99, 103;
+     gives Fanny fifty guineas, 106;
+     has interviews with her, 141, 154;
+     her bounties, 159;
+     alarmed by a mad woman, 266, 278;
+     visits Bath, 420;
+     receives General d'Arblay, 425;
+     her presents to Fanny, 427;
+     her approaching dissolution, 437;
+     her death, 438-9.
+Chateaubriand, F. R. de, iii. 330-3, 338;
+     his wife, 331-2.
+Chatham, Pitt, Earl of, i. xx; ii. 321;
+     receives James Burney, 370.
+Chatre, Marchioness de la, iii. 10, 28, 35, 39, 53;
+     Marquis de la, iii. 39.
+Chavagnac, Adrienne de, iii. 208.
+Cheltenham, royal visit to, ii. 154;
+     the wells at, 164;
+     the walks at, 173.
+Chesington, residence of S. Crisp, i. xxii, 60;
+     Fanny at, 64-75, 200, 233, 266, 270-1, 433 ; iii. 61-5.
+Chester, Porteus, Bishop of, his sermons, i. 313;
+     his preferment, ii. 82.
+Chesterfield, Earl of, ii. 317, 346.
+Cheveley, Mrs., i. 416, 439; ii. 36, 72.
+Chimay, Princess de, iii. 254.
+Cholmondeley, Mrs., admires "Evelina," i. xxvii, 68, 94;
+     meets Fanny, 114-20;
+     her entertainment, 120-6;
+Cholmondeley, Mr., i. 114;
+     Fanny, i. 114-
+Claremont, Lady, ii. 97.
+Clarence, Duke of, see William, Prince.
+Clarges, Sir Thomas, i. 344.
+Clayton, Lady Louisa, i. 325, 342.
+Clerk, Mr., apothecary, ii. 195.
+Clerke, Sir Philip Jennings, i. 127-8, 137-9, 194, 204-5; ii.
+     312.
+Clive, Kitty, i- 317.
+Collumpton Church, ii. 421.
+Colman, George, at Dr. Burney's, i. xvi;
+     his comedies, ii. 347-50.
+Cologne, iii. 373.
+Columb, Jacob, ii. 367.
+Condé, prince de, iii. 283, 329-30.
+Conway, General, ii. 23.
+Cooke, Kitty, i. 60, 108, 200, 233,
+     435; iii. 63.
+Cork, Lord, i. 228-9.
+Cotton, Captain, i. 173.
+Court (the), life of an attendant at, i. xxxi, xxxiv;
+     monotony of, Xxxv;
+     Fanny's treatment         at, xl-xliii ; 289-90;
+     presentations at, 322-3;
+at Windsor, 333-49, 352-66, 400-47;
+     at Kew, 349, 366, 422
+     at St. james's, 308, 350, 360.
+     royal birthdays at, 364
+     visits Nuneham, 374-85, 396;
+Oxford, 385-95;
+     Blenheim, 397;
+     equerries at, 429;
+     routine at, 443;
+     at St james's, ii. 9-15, 33-5, 62, 65, 85;
+     at Windsor, 16-31, 35-53, 55-61, 72-81 ;
+     at Kew, 50;
+     at the play, 32;
+     New Year's day at, 72;
+     visits Cheltenham, 155;
+     Worcester, 199;
+     during the king's illness, at Windsor, 222-264;
+     at Kew, 265-303;
+     at Windsor, 303;
+     in the New Forest, 311;
+     at Weymouth, 313-21, 329;
+     at Exeter    and     Saltram,     322-3;
+     Longleat, 330;
+     Tottenham Court, 332;
+     Windsor, 333, 340, 373, 401;
+     Kew, 407;
+     St. james's, 304, 335, 345-73, 382, 396, 408.
+at Windsor, iii. 99-112, 185-7.
+     Courtenay, Lord, ii, 420.
+Courtown, Lord, i. 366 ; ii. 155, 159, 162, 164, 165, 191, 199,
+     314, 323, 399;
+     Lady, ii. 191, 263, 265, 274, 322; iii. 159,
+Coussmaker, Miss, i. 67.
+Coventry, Lady, and Crisp's "Virginia," i. xx-i.
+Crawford, Mr., ii. 51.
+Crewe, John, first Lord, iii. 266;
+     Mrs., later Lady, i. 121; ii. 129-30, 138-9, 411, 456-68;
+     iii. 73, 75, 77, 125-6, 129, 266-8, 277-88.
+Crisp, Anne, i. 26.
+Crisp, Samuel, his    appearance and acquirements, i.      xix;
+     his "Virginia," xx, xxi;
+     his misanthropy, xxii;
+     his regard for Fanny; he condemns           "The Witlings,"
+     xxviii, 145-7;
+     "Evelina" read to him, 64;
+     he guesses the author, 70-1;
+     learns the truth, 74-5;
+     alluded to, 200, 233;
+     his death, xxix, 238, 270-1;
+     his remarks on letter writing, iii. 452.
+Critics, Macaulay on the, i. xix.
+Croker, J. W., twits Fanny, i. xxvi.
+Crutchley, Mr., M.P., chats with Fanny, 1.        106-8, 201-23;
+     at the Hastings trial, ii. 101-2, 114, 122;
+     at Egham races, 151.
+Cumberland, Richard, i. xxvi, 121, 156-8, 315-6; iii. 91-4;
+     Mrs., i. 154-6;
+     Richard, the younger, i. 155-7.
+Cumberland, Ernest, Duke of, ii. 98; iii. 160.
+Cumberland, Lady Albinia, iii. 181.
+Cure, Mr., i. 154-5.
+
+Damer, Hon. Mrs., ii. 328; iii. 218.
+D'Arblay, see Arblay.
+Davenant, Mr. and Mrs., i. 208-9.
+Delany, Dr., i. xxx, 264.
+Delany, Mrs., account of,             i. xxx, 64;
+
+     reads "Cecilia," 252-3;
+     Fanny's first Visit to, 265-70;
+     royal generosity to, 290;
+     visited by George III. and Queen Charlotte, 293;
+     her intercourse with Fanny and the royal family, 324,
+329-30, 334-44, 351-2, 355, 358-9,
+     363-6, 374, 401, 4o6, 416, 420,
+     422, 426-7, 439, 441-2; ii. 21,
+     32, 53, 61, 69, 72, 94;
+     her death, 141-3;
+     her marriage at Longleat, 330;
+     judged by Burke, 460.
+Delap, Rev. John, D.D., i. 139, 141, 150, 157, 160-1.
+Delawarr, Earl, ii. 321.
+Desmoulins, Mrs., Johnson's "De Mullin," i. 95-6, 258.
+Devonshire, Duke of, i. 248; ii. 410, 426-8; iii. 125;
+     Georgiana, Duchess of, i. 2 15 ; ii. 410, 426-8.
+Dewes, Bernard, i. 295, 298-9, 440.
+"Diary and Letters of Madame d'Arblay," original edition, i. xi,
+     xii, Xlv;
+     origin of the, xiv, xxxiv.
+Dickens, Mrs., i. 154.
+Digby, Colonel, Hon. Stephen, see Fairly.
+Dillon, Mdlle. iii. 338.
+Dobson, Mrs., authoress, i. 170.
+Dorset, Duke of, i. 121, 309.
+Douai, royalists at, iii. 324.
+Douglas, Archibald, ii. 222-3.
+Douglas, Captain, R.N., ii. 316, 337.
+Douglas, Dr., i. 445.
+Douglas, Lady Frances, ii, 222.
+D'Oyley, Sir John and Lady, ii. 169, 173-4.
+Drake, Sir Francis (royal steward), i. 363; ii. 420.
+Dudley, Sir H. Bate, see Bate.
+Dumouriez, General, iii. 54.
+Duncan, Admiral, his victory off Camperdown, iii. 140-3, 147-50.
+Duncannon, Lady, ii. 424.
+Dundas, Mr. (Sir David), ii. 375.
+Dunkirk, Fanny's adventure at, iii, 249;
+     Spanish prisoners at, 257.
+Duras, Dowager Duchess de, iii. 295.
+Duras, Duchess de, iii- 336;
+     Duke de, iii. 281-7,
+
+"Early Diary of Frances Burney," i. xv.
+"Edwy and Elgiva," Fanny's tragedy, i. xiv; ii, 222, 349; iii.
+     72, 90.
+Effingham, Lady, lady of the bed-chamber, i. 343, 351-2, 361,
+     439; ii. 8, 222, 225, 227.
+Egerton, Mrs Ariana, iii. 69.
+Egham races, Fanny at, ii. 151.
+Elizabeth, Princess ; her illness, i. 296-315;
+     her intercourse with Fanny, 339, 355, 362, 365 374, 377-8,
+          385, 387, 423; ii. 10, 34-5, 39, 155, 164, 201, 205,
+     211,
+     296, 347, 404, 409, 436, 447, 454; iii. 100, 108;
+     her marriage, 122 ; 140, 155, 158, 165, 266, 300, 346,
+     420-2, 427, 436.
+Ellenborough, Lord (Mr. Law), at the Hastings trial, ii. 437,
+     439-41, 443-
+Elliot, Sir Gilbert, ii. 97, 100, 118; iii. 80, 125.
+Embry, Mr., i. 109-10.
+Emigrés, French, at juniper Hall, i. xliv; iii. 11, 13, 15,
+     28-61.
+Erskine, Hon. Thomas, and Mrs. Siddons, i. 257;
+     his egotism, his wife, ii. 462-4.
+"Evelina," Fanny's novel ; its publication, i. xxiv, 59, 61-2;
+     its success, xxv, 115;
+     its admirers, Nxvi;
+     its style, liii, liv;
+     Macaulay's estimate of, lvi;
+     attributed to Anstey, 63;
+     read to Crisp, 64-5;
+     by Dr. Burney, 66-7;
+     by Reynolds, 78;
+     by Burke, 101;
+     praised by Dr. Burney, Mrs. Cholmondeley, and Mrs. Thrale,
+     68-72;
+     by Dr. Johnson, 71, 73, 76, 103;
+     by Crisp, 74-5;
+     by Seward, 77;
+     by Sheridan, 124;
+     Fanny's copy of, 69;
+     price paid for the NIS., 69;
+     Reynolds sits up reading, 78;
+     praised to Dr. Lort, 90-1;
+     curiosity respecting its author, 92-5, 224-8;
+     Cumberland's jealousy of, 158;
+     quoted, 165;
+     a child's enquiries about, 191-2;
+     Paoli's View Of, 234;
+     Windham's      remarks      on,    ii. 144;
+     Baretti on, 176;
+     its sale, iii. 114.
+Exeter, royal visit to, ii. 321.
+
+Fairly, Colonel (Hon. Stephen Digby), i. xxxix;
+     ii. attacks Mrs. Warren Hastings, 371;
+     at Nuneham, with Fanny, 380, 383;
+     at Oxford, 385, 390, 395-7;
+     embroiled with Mrs. Schwellenberg, 400;
+     looks melancholy, 445;
+     loses his first wife, ii. 53;
+     at Windsor, 75;
+     his conversation, 78;
+     likely to marry Miss Fuzilier, 126, 153, 177; 139;
+     with Fanny, 154;
+     at Cheltenham, 155, 158-9;
+     his téte-a-téte with Fanny, 159-61 ; 162 ;
+     talks, reads, and flirts with her, 165-8, 170, 174, 177-87,
+     193, 197, 199;
+     ill with the gout, 171, 173;
+     criticises the princes,   189;
+     takes leave of Fanny, 200-3;
+     his note to her, 204;
+     discussed by his brother equerries, 213;
+     with the Gunnings, 224;
+     at   Windsor during George III.'s illness, 228, 233, 236-7,
+     239-40;
+     soothes the king, 241;
+     on familiar terms with Fanny, 242-4-6-8;
+     his remarks on the prayers for the king, 249;
+     is anxious about the queen, 251;
+     his intercourse with Fanny, 253-62, 264;
+     arrives at Kew, 267;
+     is concerned for the princesses, 271-2;
+     disliked by Mrs. Schwellenberg, 275-7;
+     with Fanny, 277, 279, 281;
+     the queen remarks on his visits, 280-2;
+     search for him, 285; 293-4;
+     meets Windham, 297-8;
+     takes leave of Fanny, 303-4
+     at Weymouth, 329;
+     his marriage is rumoured, 334, 340;
+     his strange wedding to Miss Fuzilier, 342-4;
+     meets Fanny again, iii. 111.
+Fairly, Mrs., ii. 344, 373; see also Fuzilier.
+Farnham, ii. 411.
+Farren, Miss, actresw, ii. 32; iii. 149.
+Fauconberg Hall, ii. 155, 157;
+     Lord, ii. 155.
+"Female Quixote, The," by Charlotte Lenox, i. lvi.
+Ferrars, Lady De, i. 243-4;
+     Lord De, i. 243.
+Ferry, Mr., i. 178-9.
+Fielding, Henry, Dr. Johnson on, i. 91.
+Fielding, Sir John, i. 192-3.
+Fielding, Mrs. (woman of the bedchamber), i. 341-2, 351, 366; ii.
+     10, 304.
+Finch, Lady Charlotte (governess to the princesses), i. 341-2,
+     355-6; ii. 184, 252, 259, 265, 270, 274, 286.
+Finch, Miss, i- 06.
+Fisher, Canon, i. 338, 366, 427,
+     436-7; ii. 72, 75-6, 212-3, 342,
+     406; iii. 99, 120.
+Fisher, Kitty, and Dr. Johnson, i. 89.
+Fisher, Mrs., ii. 72, 75; iii. 110.
+Fite, Madame de la, at Norbury Park, i. 280-1, 311-2;
+     her intercourse with Fanny at Windsor, 337, 342, 355, 405-6,
+     409-16, 440 ; ii. 35, 405, 451.
+Fitzherbert, Mrs., ii. 320.
+Flint, Bet, and Johnson, i. 87,8.
+Foster, Lady Elizabeth, ii- 410, 427-8.
+Fouche, iii. 250.
+Fox, Charles James, at the Hastings trial, ii. 92, 93, 97, 125,
+     127-8, 134-5, 361, 392, 441;
+     and the regency bill, 221;
+     Burke on, 459, 463;
+     and the execution of Louis xvi, iii. 44.
+France, revolution in, iii. 11, 42-4;
+     Fanny goes to, 203;
+     leaves, 263;
+     returns    to,   292-327,      378,83;
+     foreign occupation Of, 379-81.
+Francis, Clement, marries Charlotte Burney, i. 332 ; ii. 109,
+     123, 145, 345, 375, 380-1; iii. 38.
+Francis, Mrs., see Burney, Charlotte.
+Francis, Mr. (Sir Philip), ii. 89, 109, 346.
+Francklin, Rev. Th., D. D., admires "Evelina," i. xxvii;
+     interviews Fanny, 112.
+French Clergy Fund, the, iii. 77, 78.
+French, Miss, Burke's niece, ii. 457, 461;
+Fuller, Captain, and his soldiers, i. 135, 136, 137.
+Fuller, Mr. Rose, at Streatham, i. 92, 109, 139;
+     his conversation, 148, 153.
+Fuzilier, Miss (Charlotte Gunning), ii. 126, 153, 177, 224, 255,
+     304, 340, 342-4, see Fairly, Mrs.
+
+ Gabrielli, Signora, at Dr. Burney's, i. xvii.
+Gage, Sir Thomas, ii. 450; iii. 23.
+Galway, Dowager Lady, i. 248, 254.
+Gaud (Ghent), Louis xviii. at, iii. 337, 349.
+Garrick, David, at Dr. Burney's, i. xvi;
+     his connection with Crisp's "Virginia," xx, xxi;
+     his love of flattery, 122; 317;
+     reads "Lethe" to a royal audience, 349;
+     his relatives, his monument at Lichfield, iii. 129.
+Garrick, Mrs., ii. 82, 432.
+Garth, Major, ii- 374.
+Gast, Mrs. Sophia, Crisp's sister, i. 60, 71, 169, 233, 266; ii.
+     207.
+Genlis, Madame de, Fanny's acquaintance with, i. 316;
+     her strictures on the English stage, 318 ;
+     Queen Charlotte on her writings, 319;
+her position discussed, 405-8;
+     in England as Mdme. Brulard, 449; iii. 22-4, 26-7.
+George III, his generosity to Mrs. Delany, i. 265, 291 ;
+     visits her incog, 293;
+     is inquisitive about Fanny, 294;
+     his first interview with her, XXX, 298;
+     his health, constitution,    and    diet,    299 ;
+     questions Fanny about her writings, 301-4;
+     is anxious she should  continue writing, 310;
+     his views on sermons, 313;
+     his demeanour and character, 314, 318-9;
+     takes tea at Mrs. Delany's, etiquette, 314-5;
+     his opinions of Lord George Sackville, Voltaire, and
+Rousseau, 316;
+     of plays and players, 317;
+     on the Terrace at Windsor, 325-6;
+     in the queen's dressing-room,     339;
+     at Kew, 349-51;
+     an attempt on his life, 355-61;
+     is cheered at Little Kew, 367;
+     visits Nuneham, Oxford, and Blenheim, 373-98;
+      protects Herschel, 408, 420;
+     his equerries and his barley-water, 431 ;
+     with his favourite daughter, Amelia, 437;
+     visits Fanny during her illness, 446;
+     converses with jacob Bryant, ii. 23;
+     at the play, 31;
+     his birthday, 33;
+     plays backgammon, 37;
+     with the Polignacs,  39;
+     is joyful at the Duke of York's return, 49;
+     criticises Goldsworthy's collar, 84;
+     is amused by a caricature, 140;
+     goes to Cheltenham, 155;
+     his rooms there, 163;
+     visits Cirencester, 171;
+     Tewkesbury, 174;
+     is solicitous about Fairly, 181-2, 186, 187-8;
+     lodges the Duke of York in a portable wooden house, 190;
+     has Fanny prescribed for, 196;
+     visits Worcester, 199;
+     returns to Windsor, 206;
+     his illness, 220;
+     is in an uncertain state, 222-4;
+     his want of sleep, 294-6;
+     progress of his illness, 226-8;
+     first outburst of delirium, 228;
+     delirious, 232;
+     refuses to see Dr. Warren, 234;
+     his night watchers, 238;
+     is soothed by Mr. Fairly, 240;
+     public prayers for, 248;
+     is much worse, 250;
+          certainty of his recovery, 251;
+     his charter, 254, 256;
+     reports upon his Condition,    257;
+     requires stricter management, 259;
+     is removed to Kew, 261, 265-6;
+     state of his health, 268, 272, 273;
+     takes his first walk, 274;
+     his varying condition, 276-7;
+     is treated by Dr. Willis, 274, 278;
+     on the queen's birthday, 281;
+     chases Fanny in Kew Gardens, 287-92;
+     his gradual amendment, 294-8;
+     is completely restored, 299;
+     inquires after Fanny, 300;
+     illuminations on his recovery, 303;
+     his reception in the New Forest, 310;
+     at LyDdhurst, 311;
+     at Salisbury, Dorchester,         Weymouth, 313;
+     his sea baths, 314-6;
+     his amusements at and excursions from Weymouth, 316-21;
+     at Exeter and Saltram, 322-3;
+     again at Weymouth, 329;
+     at Longleat, 330;
+     at Tottenham Court, 332;
+     returns to Windsor, 333;
+     at Covent Garden Theatre, 335-40;
+     is interested in the Hastings trial, 395. 456 ;
+     his birthday, 395, 399;
+     reads Boswell's "Johnson," 401-2;
+     takes leave of Fanny, 409;
+     meets her again; 436;
+     chats with her, 448-9, 453-6;
+     "Camilla" presented to him, iii. 100, 106-7;
+     notices M. d'Arblay, 110;
+     remarks on "Camilla," 111;
+     chats with Fanny, 145;
+     with Dr. Burney, 185-7;
+     is again mad; 252, 267;
+     his death, 440.
+Ghent, see Gand.
+Gibbon eulogises Fanny, i. xxvi;
+     meets her, 228-32;
+     reads "Cecilia," 254;
+     falls into the Thames, 275;
+     admires Lady Elizabeth Foster, ii. 428.
+Girardin, Alexandre de, iii. 34.
+Glastonbury Abbey, ii. 421.
+Gloucester,  Fanny at, ii. 171.
+Gloucester,  Dr. Halifax, bishop of, ii. 173.
+Gloucester, Princess Sophia of, iii. 151.
+Gloucester,    William       Frederick, Duke of,   iii. 151.
+Gloucester, William Henry, Duke of, ii. 98, 311 ; iii. 151.
+Goethe, his   "Sorrows of Werther," i. xxxi, 320.
+Goldsmith, Dr., his "Good-Natured man" and "The Rambler," i.
+     83-4;
+     his love for Mary Horneck, 111;
+     his blundering ways, 232.
+Goldsworthy, Colonel          (equerry), his character and
+humour, i. 421;
+     is offended with Fanny, 427;
+     his duties and discomforts, 429-31; 440;
+     his remarks on the Court concerts, 444; ii- 17;
+     character and humour, 36-7;
+     derides Col. Manners, 40-2;
+     his huge coat collar, 84;
+     at Worcester, 199 213
+     his breach of etiquette, 216, 218;
+     during George III.s illness, 228-9, 231, 233, 235, 239, 261,
+     268;
+     at Weymouth, 320, 323, 407.
+Goldsworthy, Miss (governess to the princesses), i. 2o2, 342,
+     365, 421; ii. 32, 231-5, 238-9, 240, 246, 252, 266; 270,
+     396, 406-7, 434.
+Gomme, Miss, Court attendant, ii. 34, 95, too, 270, 283, 295,
+     342, 405, 434 ; iii. 105.
+Gordon, Lord George, i. 192-5-7, 411;
+     riots, i. 165, 192-9.
+Grafton, Duke of, iii. 27.
+Grattan, Henry, iii. 278, 281.
+Gregory, Miss, i. 100-3; ii. 424.
+Grenville, General, ii. 50, 218, 407.                             Greville, Colonel, equerry, see Wellbred.
+Greville, Fulk, patron ofDr. Burney, i. xiii.
+Grey, Mr., afterwards Earl, at the Hastings trial, ii. 93, 97;
+     and Reform, 463;
+     alluded to, iii. 389.
+Grub Street, Fanny's proposed visit to, i. 199.
+Guibert, M., iii. 56.
+Guiche, Countess de, ii. 39.
+Guiffardiere, Rev. C. de, see "Turbulent."
+Gunning, Charlotte, see Fuzilier.
+Gunning, Sir Robt., ii. 126, 224, 342.
+Gwatkin, Mr., i. 92, 119; ii. 444.
+Gwynn, Colonel (king's equerry), ii- 45, 47, 51, 155, 158-9, 162,
+     165, 173, 191, 247, 317, 407 ;
+     Mrs., see Horneck, Mary.
+
+Haggerdorn, Mrs., keeper of the queen's      robes,   succeeded
+          by Fanny, i. 329-31; ii. 24, 153.
+Hagget, Rev. Mr., i. 379, 383, 385, 390, 396-8.
+Hales, Lady, on "Evelina," i. 67.
+Halifax, Dr.,   ii. 173.
+Hamilton , "Single speech," i. 164.
+Hamilton, Sir William, ii. 38.
+Hamilton,      Lady Ann, iii. 442.
+Hamilton,      Mrs., of Chesington, i. 60, 200,     233 ; iii.
+     63.
+Hampden,       Mrs., i. 250.
+Harcourt, Earl of, i. 122-3, 373-4, 379, 385, 387-8, 390, 400;
+     ii. 185, 191, 388, 399;
+     Countess of, i. 373, 377, 382, 385, 390, 393-4 ii. 185, 191.
+Harcourt, General, i. 380, 383, 385, 390; ii. 39, 244, 268;
+     Mrs., i. 396; ii. 39, 281.
+Harrington, Dr., i. 171-8, 195.
+Harrington, Rev. Henry, i. 171-2, 177.
+Harris, James, i. 198; ii. 355-8.
+Hartington, Marquis of, ii. 426.
+Hastings, Warren, Fanny's opinions of, i. xxxvii;
+     Queen Charlotte and, xxxviii;
+     meets Fanny, 326;
+          his marriage, 327;
+     the storm gathering round, ii. 44;
+     résumé of his career, impeachment, trial, 86-94;
+     Fanny's account of his trial, 95-139, 143-9, 345-6, 352-5,
+     357-65,
+     370-3, 389-95, 437-47, 452,455-6;
+
+     meets Windham, 373;
+     is acquitted, iii. 92.
+Hastings, Mrs. Warren, account of, i. 327;
+     visits Fanny, 352;
+     is defended by her, 371, 372;
+     mischief making about, 400;
+     her money, ii. 92;
+     her eccentricities, 451.
+Hawke, Lady, i. 225-8; ii. 150.
+Hawkesworth, i. xvi.
+Hawkins, Mr., surgeon of the royal household, ii. 235, 252, 260,
+     276.
+Hawkins the, ii. 200.
+Hayes, Mrs., i. 443.
+Heberden, Dr., king's physician, ii. 38, 226, 232, 234, 250;
+     Mrs.      and Miss, i. 360; ii. 39.
+Henderson, John, actor, i. 317.
+Henin, Princess d', iii, 56, 119, 136, 218-9, 222, 304-5, 307;
+     her flight from Paris with Fanny, 311, 313-25, 330;
+     at Brussels, 335, 343, 349, 304, 369, 370.
+Herschel, Miss, her comet, i. 409; ii. 58; iii. 131.
+Herschel, Dr. (afterwards Sir W.), his telescope, i. 408-9, 445;
+     discussed, ii. 37, 38, 40, 58;
+     visited by Dr. Burney, iii. 131, 184-7.
+Hoole, John, i. 259, 285.
+Horneck, Catherine (Mrs Bunbury), "Little Comedy," i. 111; ii.
+     51.
+Horneck, Mary (Mrs. Gwynn), the Jessamy Bride, i. 111, 114; ii.
+     45, 140, 317, 319;
+Mrs., i. 111, 114.
+Howard, Lady Frances, i- 343-4, 352, 439 ; ii. 222.
+Howard, Sir George, i. 344, 352 ii. 222.
+Howe, Lord, and the I"Vengeur," iii. 143.
+Huddisford, Mr., his libel on Fanny, i. 113, 119.
+Hulin, General, iii. 224-5.
+Humphries, Miss, i. 62-3.
+Hundred Days, the, iii. 292-3.
+Huntingdon, i. 176, 180.
+Hurd, Bishop of Worcester, ii. 143, 199.
+
+Ilfracombe, Fanny at, iii. 398;
+     her adventure at, 405-18.
+Illness of George III., ii. 221-99.
+Imhoff, Madame, marries Warren Hastings, i. 327.
+Impey, Sir Elijah, ii. 89, 118.
+Inchiquin, Lord, iii. 125.
+
+Jacobi, Mdlle., Fanny's successor, ii. 403-9, 434, 447; iii. 102,
+     106, 109, 142.
+jaucourt, M. de, iii. 14, 29-32, 80.
+jenyns, Soame, praises "Cecilia," i. 261-3.
+jerningham, his verses, i. xxvii.
+Jervis, Admiral, iii. 143.
+Johnson, Commodore, i. 168.
+Johnson, Samuel, LL. D., his friend- ship for Dr. Burney, i. xvi;
+     his opinion of "Evelina," xxvi;
+     his last message to Fanny, xxix;
+     assists her with "Cecilia," lii-lv;
+     "Evelina" read to him, 71, 73;
+meets Fanny, 77;
+tails at Langton, 81;
+praises "Evelina," 83, 90, 103;
+     abuses the Scotch, 84-5;
+     criticises Mrs. Burney's dress, 86;
+     his stories of Bet Flint and Mrs. Pinkethman, 87-8;
+     his household, 95;
+     his opinion of Mrs. Montagu, 97-9;
+     his compliments and bitter sayings, 104-6;
+     kisses Fanny, 109;
+     disputes with Sir P. J. Clerke, 128-9;
+     advises Fanny respecting her play, 130-2;
+     his account of the Gordon riots, 192;
+     offers to take Fanny to Grub Street, 199;
+     is appointed Thrale's executor,    202;
+     intercedes for Mauritius Lowe, 209;
+     his "Life of Lord Lyttelton," 211-3;
+     his sportive moods, 215;
+     at Brighton, 238;
+     on Gray and Pope, 240-1;
+     his bluster at Lord de Ferrars, 243;
+     is held in general dread, 247
+     attends Miss Monckton's assembly, 250-5;
+     his inmates at Bolt Court, 258;
+     is attacked by paralysis, 272;
+     his failing health, 283;
+     his death, 285-8;
+     his letters to Mrs. Thrale, ii. 74;
+     his intercourse with Windham, 103, 136-8;
+     his life by Boswell, 377, 400;
+     his monument at Lichfield, iii. 129;
+     his portrait by Reynolds, 389;
+     his view of sorrow, 445.
+Joigny, Fanny at, iii. 234.
+Jones, Colonel, commander at Brussels, iii. 350, 363.
+Jordan, Mrs., ii. 79; in "The Country Girl," 185, 190.
+juniper Hall, French émigré's at, i. xliv; iii. 11, 13, 15, 28,
+     61.
+
+
+Kaye, Captain, a beau, i. 245-6.
+ Kenyon, Lord, ii. 393.
+Kew Palace, the Court at, i. 349-51, 367, 422; ii. 50-4;
+     during the king's illness, 265-303;
+     gardens of, Fanny chased by George III., 287;
+     Fanny's farewell to, 407.
+Klopstock, his "Messiah," i. x1xi, 320.
+
+L'AEKEN, palace of, iii. 341.
+Ladd, Sir John, i. 107;
+     Lady, i. 92, 109.
+Lafayette. Marquis de, iii, 12, 14, 29, 31, 86, 207, 426;
+     Marchioness de, iii. 221;
+     Mdlle. de, iii. 223.
+Lalande, J. J. de, ii. 208-11.
+Lally-Tolendol, Count de, iii. 13;
+     his tragedy, 54;
+     at Norbury, 118, 136;
+     his qualities, 196-7;
+     his flight from France, 312-4, 316-25, 328, 364, 369.
+Lamb, Lady Caroline, iii, 344.
+Lamballe, Princess de, ii. 50.
+Lameth, iii. 16, 319-20.
+Langton, Bennet, admires "Evelina," i. xxvii;
+     his children and affairs, 81-2;
+     at Johnson's deathbed, 286-8;
+     his wife, ii. 83;
+     mimics Johnson, 453.
+Lansdowne, Lord, his connection with Waller and Pope, i. xxx;
+     iii. 260.
+Latour-Maubourg, Victor de, iii. 273, 309.
+Lauriston, General, iii. 171, 227, 241.
+Lavalette, Marquis de, his escape, iii. 386-8.
+Law, Mr., ii. 437, 439-41, 443.
+Lawrence, Sir Thomas, his precocity, i. 167.
+Lenox, Charlotte, her novel, "The Female Quixote," i. lvi;
+     Johnson on, ii. 401.
+Lever, Sir Ashton, ii. 319.
+Levett, Robert, at Dr. johnson's, i. 96.
+Liancourt, Duke de, iii. 13, 18-22, 24-8, 37.
+Lindsay, Lady Anne, i. 144.
+Linley, Eliza Anne, married to Sheridan, i. 111-12, 344 [see
+     Sheridan, Mrs.].
+Linley,      Miss,     sister    to    Mrs. Sheridan, i. 121.
+Literary Club, The, meeting at, iii. 44.
+Lobau, Count, iii- 355.
+Locke, Mr. and Mrs.,         of Norbury Park, i. 277, 280-2, 312,
+     344, 411; ii. 299, 305; iii. 16, 39,
+     59, 76, 81, 115, 120, 144, 154,
+     202, 252, 279, 384-5, 394, 441,
+     450, 455;
+     William, son of, his artistic talent, i. 312-3 ; ii. 60,
+     141.
+London, Porteus, Bishop of, ii. 82.
+Long, Dudley, ii. 97.
+Longleat, the Court at, ii. 330;
+     paintings at, 331.
+Lort, Michael, D.D., and "Evelina," i. 89, 90.
+Loughborough, Lord, ii. 462.
+Louis xvi, his trial and execution, iii. 42-4, 48, 53-4.
+Louis xviii., his levee at Grillon's, 276;
+     Fanny presented to, 284-8;
+     his reception in Paris, 291, 310, 318;
+     reaches Ghent, 337, 349;
+     leaves for France, 364-5.
+"Love and Fashion," Fanny's comedy, iii. 193.
+Lowe, Mauritius, painter, i. 209.
+Lowndes, J., publishes "Evelina," i. xxiv, xxv, 59, 61, 69, 75;
+     is interviewed by Fanny, 79.
+Luc, M. de, i. 443; ii. 9,        40, 48, 65-8, 70, 243-4, 262,
+     320, 391,      393, 396, 403, 435-6;
+     Mrs de, i- 353, 363 ; ii. 405.
+Lucan, Lady, and Mrs. Siddons, i. 257-8.
+Lulworth Castle, The Court at, ii. 318;
+     Fanny at, 320.
+Luxembourg, Duke de,         iii. 345.
+Luxemburg, M. d'Arblay's mission to, iii. 339.
+Lyndhurst, the king at, ii. 311.
+Lyme, Fanny at, ii. 418.
+
+MacBean, Johnson's amanuensis, i. 96.
+Macartney, Earl, ii. 456.
+Macburneys, The, i., xiii.
+Malesherbes, M. de, iii. 48, 54,
+Malouet, iii. 37.
+Manners,
+colonel, afterwards General (equerry), his eccentric sayings, ii.
+     36-8;
+     his singing, 40-2;
+     plagues Mrs. Schwellenberg, 42;
+     his election beating, 213;
+     alluded to, 152, 257;
+     mystifies Mrs. Scbwellenberg, 305;
+     as an M.P., 351;
+     mentioned, 393, 407; iii. 110-2.
+Mansfield, Lord, i. 192-3; ii. 464.
+Markham, Archbishop, ii. 105.
+Marlborough, Duke of, is colour-blind, i. 307;
+     at Oxford, 386-7-9;
+     Duchess of, 386-9.
+Marlborough, Sarah, Duchess of, anecdote of, i. 169.
+Mary, Princess, i. 353-4, 365; ii. 34, 39, 296, 396, 4o6, 434;
+     iii. 138, 164, 266, 437-9, 440.
+Maurville, Mdme. de, iii. 334, 338, 348, 358, 364.
+Mazancourt, Count de, iii. 339-40, 377.
+Melbourne, Lord, iii. 243, 344.
+Menage, Countess de, ii. 413.
+"Memoirs of Dr. Burney,"'i. xxiii, lv, 234; iii. 455.
+"Metastasio, Life of," Dr. Burney's, iii. 89, 92, 103.
+Metcalf, Philip, M.P., i. 244-5, 250.
+Mhaughendorf, Miss, i- 375-7, 381.
+Mickleham, Fanny at, iii. 46, 49, 50, 52;
+     her marriage at, 67, 71.
+Miller, Sir John, i. 174, 180, 190, 221.
+ Miller, Lady, "The Lady of the Vase," i. xxvii, 74-5, 180, 189,
+     221; ii. 424.
+Milton Abbey, ii. 417.
+Mithoff, Rev. Mr., i. 418-20.
+Molloy, Capt., R.N., ii. 324-7.
+Molyneux, Sir F., ii. 98.
+Monckton, Hon. Miss (afterwards Countess of Cork), meets Fanny,
+     i. 248;
+     her assembly, 249-56, 257; ii. 102-3.
+Monmoulin, Mdlle., i. 365; ii. 34, 270, 282, 295-6, 342.
+Montagu, Duke of, i. 365, 440.
+Montagu, Elizabeth, née Robinson,
+     her writings, conversation, and disposition, i. 97-8;
+     Johnson's opinion of, 99;
+     meets Fanny, 100-3;
+     her opinion of Johnson's "Life of Lord Lyttelton," 210;
+     praises "Cecilia," 251-2;
+     Frances Reynolds's letter to, 260;
+     mentioned, ii. 82, 424, 432, 450.
+Montagu, Frederick, M.P., ii. 97, 291.
+Montmorency, Viscount de, iii. 14, 28, 39, 53, 80.
+Mordaunt, Lord, i. 134.
+More, Hannah, her flattery, i. 122, 185.
+Mornington, Lady, ii. 338.
+Mortemart, Mdlle. de, iii. 218, 224.
+Mount Edgecumbe, Lordand Lady, i. xvii ; ii. 323, 327.
+Mount Edgecumbe, Fanny at, ii. 327.
+Mountmorres, Lord, ii. 336-9.
+Mulgrave, Lord, i. xvii, 168, 172-4-6; ii. 83, 150;
+     Lady, ii. 83, 150.
+Mulso, Hester, see Chapone.
+Murat,   iii. 368.
+Murphy, Arthur, offers to assist Fanny Burney in writing a play,
+     i. xxviii, 130-1, 133, 134.
+Murray, Lady, iii. 419.
+Musgrave, Mr., i. 221.
+Musters, Mrs., a beauty, i.      154.
+
+Napoleon, see Bonaparte,
+Narbonne, Count de, in England, i. xliv; iii. 29-30, 35-7, 40,
+     43, 45, 52, 54, 57, 82, 97;
+     in France, 253;
+     his death,       273.
+Necker, M., iii. 36, 47, 52, 220,
+Netherlands, King and Queen of the, iii. 339, 365.
+Newcastle, Duke of, ii. 96.
+New Forest, the king's reception            in the, ii. 310.
+Ney, Marshal, and his iron cage for Napoleon, iii. 304.
+Nicholson, Margaret, her attempt against the king, i. 355-61,
+     367.
+Nore, the, mutiny at, iii. 139.
+Norfolk, Duke of, iii. 158.
+North, Colonel, ii. 97.
+North, Lord, ii, 392.
+Nugent, Colonel, reads an address to Louis XVIII., iii. 286.
+Nuneham, royal visits to, i. 374-85, 396 ; ii- 156.
+
+O'Connor, Arthur, iii. 166.
+Ogle, Mrs., ii. 187-8; iii. 397.
+Omai, at Dr. Burney's, i. xvii.
+Orange, Prince (William 1. of Holland) and Princess of, iii. 147,
+          231, 339, 365.
+Orange, Prince of (William II. of Holland), iii, 365.
+Ord, Mrs., a "blue stocking," i. 259, 261-3, 333-4; ii. 82, 150,
+     370, 378, 410-29.
+Orford, Lord, ii. 434-5.
+"Original Love Letters," ii. 170, 182.
+O'Riley, Miss, a flirt, i. 205.
+Orleans, Mdlle d', ii. 449-50; iii. 23.
+Orloff, Count, at Dr. Burney's, i. xvii.
+Otaheite, rubbing noses at, iii. 60.
+Owen, Miss, i. 13-5.
+Oxford, royal visits to, i. xxxv-vi, 385-95; ii. 156.
+
+Pacchierotti, Gasparo, vocalist, i. XVii, 121, 224, 263-4; ii.
+     356.
+Paine, Thomas, in Suffolk, ii. 450.
+Palmer, Miss, and "Evelina," i. 92-5;
+     at Reynolds's, 113-20, 228-9, 256;
+     at Cheltenham, ii. 169, 173-4, 411, 431;
+     inherits from Reynolds, marries Lord Inchiquin, 444.
+Palmerston, Lord, i. 115-20.
+Pamela, Mdme. de Genlis's, ii. 449; iii. 23.
+Paoli, General Pasquale, pays homage to Fanny, i. xxvii;
+     her account OF, 23-5.
+Paradise, Mr. and Mrs., i. 224-8.
+Paris, Fanny in, iii. 215;
+     a parade in presence of the first Consul, 224 ;
+     the influenza in, 239;
+     on Napoleon's return from Elba, 305;
+     Fanny's flight from, 308 et seq.;
+     her return to, 378.                                          Paston Letters," the, ii. 21-2, 150.
+Payne and Cadell, publish "Cecilia," i. 254.
+Pembroke, Elizabeth, Countess of, i- 135-6, 178.
+Pepys, Lucas, Dr., afterwards Sir, i. 239; ii. 83, 126;
+     attends the king, 250-3, 262-4, 276, 284, 287; 432 ; iii.
+     177, 180.
+Pepys, W. W., afterwards Sir, i. 148, 210-3, 239-41        ii.
+     82; iii. 177.
+Percy,  Bishop, ii. 428; iii. 44.
+Perkins, Mr., i. 197.
+Philidor, iii. 405.
+Phillips, Captain Molesworth, i. 60, 224, 231 ; ii. 357, 437;
+     iii. 31, 35, 59, 71, 113;
+     Mrs., see Burney, Susanna.
+Pinkethman, Mrs. and Dr. Johnson, i. 88.
+Piozzi, Signor, marries Mrs. Thrale, i. 236-8, 278-9 ; iii. 88.
+Piozzi, Mrs. (Thrale), leaves England, i. 237;
+     is gay and happy, 288 ;
+     publishes her correspondence with Johnson, ii. 74-8, 101;
+     is attacked by Baretti, ii. 167, 176;
+     meets Fanny, 355;
+     Dr. Burney, iii. 88;
+     at Bath, 386, 396-7, 422;
+     letters from, 443-5-7;
+     her death, 448;
+     compared with Mdme. de Stael, 449.
+Pitt, William, and the Regency bill, i, XXXi., ii. 220-1;
+     and the  Hastings trial, ii. 93, 108, 135;
+     at Windsor, 263;
+     D'Arblay's application to, iii. 74;
+     his "loyalty loan," 121.
+Planta, Miss, English teacher and attendant to the princesses;
+     her intercourse with Fanny, i. 291, 349-51, 361, 365,
+374-87, 390-8, 415, 437, 443, 446 ; ii. 18, 30-3, 46, 65-9,
+     85, 139, 155-9, 161-8, 170, 180-5, 189-94, 200-1, 218, 224,
+     228, 242, 246, 262, 266-9, 283, 312-4-6, 322-3, 327-9,
+     335-8, 405, 434; iii. 99, 142, 155, 163.
+Plymouth dockyard, ii. 323.
+Polier, Colonel, a gourmand, i. 336, 340, 345.
+Polignac, Duke and Duchess de, at Windsor, ii. 39;
+     the duchess and the Diamond Necklace scandal, ibid.
+Port, Miss, account of, i. 293;
+     at Mrs. Delany'S, 293, 298, 300;
+     serves tea to George III., 315, 318;
+     her intercourse with Fanny, 337-8, 342, 401, 418, 427, 440;
+     ii. 36, 39, 40, 46, 49, 141-2, 150, 184-6, 192.
+Porteus, Dr., Bishop of Chester, i. 313 ; ii. 82.
+Portland, Duchess of, née Harley, inquires after "Cecilia," i.
+     251, 253;
+     meets Fanny, 267-70;
+     her death, 290;
+     Duke of, iii. 125.
+Powderham Castle, ii. 420.
+Prémorel, M. de, iii. 340, 346, 377-8.
+Price, Major, equerry to George III, i. 338, 344, 352, 355, 358,
+     363-6, 371, 380, 383-7, 390, 396-7, 400, 416, 421; ii, 17,
+     45, 176,       203, 206, 341, 346, 436.
+Princes, the, see    Cumberland, Gloucester, Dukes of, Wales,
+     Prince of, William, Prince (Duke of Clarence), and York,
+     Duke of.
+Princess Royal, Charlotte (Queen of Wiirtemburg), i. 339, 348,
+     354, 358, 365, 375, 377-8, 385, 387, 416, 420, 422-3; ii.
+     10, 35, 199, 216, 266, 340, 347, 409, 447; iii. 104, 107;
+     is presented to her fiancé, 115; 122;
+     her marriage, 138-9.
+Princesses, the, i- 353, 357, 365, 377, 389, 394; ii. 33, 224,
+     236, 265, 269-70, 271-2, 409, 455;
+     their births, marriages, deaths, iii. 123; 451, 454;
+     see also Amelia;     Augusta,         Elizabeth, Mary,
+     Princess      Royal,       and Sophia.
+"Probationary Odes," the, ii. 145.
+Prussia, King of, iii. 289.
+
+Quatre Bras, battle of, iii. 347, 351.
+Queen, the, see Charlotte, Queen.
+
+Raikes, Robert, founder of Sunday schools, ii. 171-3.
+Ramsden, Colonel, equerry, ii. 36-7, 407.
+Regency bill, the, i. xxxix; ii. 220-1, 271, 276, 296-9.
+Regent, Prince, see Wales.
+Revolution, the French, résumé of the principal events of, from
+     September 1791 to March 1793, iii. 11-5;
+     the capture of the Bastille, 18;
+     the invasion of the Tuileries, 19;
+     the Duke de Liancourt's efforts at Rouen, 19-22;
+     decrees against the emigres, 33;
+     trial and execution of Louis XVI., 42-4, 48;
+     sieges of Dunk-irk and Toulon, 73-4, 78;
+     the insurrection of the 18th Fructidor, 136;
+     the "Vengeur" legend, 143;
+     the peace of Amiens, 171;
+     the revolutionary calendar, 214.
+Reynolds, Mrs. Frances, i. 78, 199, 260.
+Reynolds, Sir Joshua, at Dr. Burney's, i. xvi;
+     reads "Evelina," 78;
+     his meeting and intercourse with Fanny, 92-5, 106, 113, 123,
+     125-6;
+     is derided by Blakeney, 160;
+     his opinion of Lawrence, 167;
+     his picture of Beattie, 184;
+     introduces Fanny to Burke and Gibbon, 228-32;
+     with Fanny at Miss Monckton's, 29-6, 259-60, 272; ii. 82;
+     at the Hastings trial, 100;
+     his failing eyesight, 333, 377, 411, 431-2;
+     his death, his disposition of his fortune, 444 ;
+     his paintings at Streatham, iii. 389.
+Rhamus, Mr., ii. 11, 13.
+Rhine, scenery of the, iii, 377.
+Richmond, Reynolds's dinner         party at, i. 228.
+Richmond, Duke of,            ii.  321;
+     Duchess of, her ball at Brussels, iii. 367.
+Riggs, Mrs., i. 174, 189.
+Roberts, Dr., provost of Eton, i. 401, 440.
+Roche, Mdme. de la, authoress, i. 409-16.
+Rochefoucault, Duke de la, iii. 22.
+Rogers, Samuel, iii. 177, 270, 454.
+Rothes, Lady, ii. 432; iii. 177, 180.
+Rousseau, J. J., George III. on, i. xxx, 316.
+Rovigo, Duke de, iii. 253.
+Royal, Princess, see Princess.
+Rumford, Count, iii. 133.
+Russia, Alexander 1. of, iii. 289.
+Rutland, Mary Isabella, Duchess of, i. 215.
+
+Sackville, Lord George, R. Cumberland and George III. on, i.
+     315-6.
+St. Asaph's, Bishop of, 1, 229.
+St. James's Palace, Court drawingrooms at, i. 308, 350, 369 ; ii.
+     9-15, 33-5, 65-6, 85, 304, 335;
+     the Court at, 345-73, 382, 396, 408 ;
+     attempt against George III. outside, i. 356.
+St. just, de, iii. 35.
+St. Vincent, Lord, iii. 143.
+Salisbury, i. 197;
+     Bishop of, i. 338; iii. 386, 437;
+     Marquis of, ii. 292, 399.
+Saltram, the Court at, ii. 323.
+Sandwich, Earl of, i. xvii.
+Savile, Sir George, i. 193.
+Saxe-Gotha, Duke of, i. 344.
+Saye and Sele, Lady, i. 225-8; ii. 151;
+     Lord, i. 227-8.
+Schwellenberg, -,Mrs., keeper of the queen's robes,
+     Fanny's life with, i. xxxiv, X1, x1ii, 290;
+     knows Mrs. Hastings, 327-8;
+     Fanny is introduced to her, 331-2, 335-40, 344-53, 355, 358;
+     Fanny's bitter experience of her begins, 359 ; 360;
+     invites herself to supper, 363
+     falls ill, 366;
+     offers Fanny a gown from the queen, 367;
+     in a Pet, 371; 373-4;
+     makes mischief about Mrs. Hastings, 400;
+     her tyranny, 404; 4113-5, 418-20
+     again ill, 421-2, 425; ii. 35;
+     teased by the equerries, 42-6;
+     suspicious of Turbulent, 46, 52, 56;
+     her tyrannical ways, 62, 65-8;
+     her capriciousness, 68-71      72;
+     does Fanny a favour, 74-7;
+     extremely ill, 84, 139;
+     returns to Windsor, 152;
+     Fanny's nickname for, 157;
+     twits Fanny about marriage, 209, 217;
+     rails at her, 215-6;
+     angry with Goldsworthy, 217;
+     again ill, 218;
+     during the king's illness, 246-7, 253, 269, 271;
+     her cruelty to Fanny, 272-4;
+     her aversion for Fairly' 275; 282-3;
+     George III. on her conduct, 290;
+     accuses Fanny of visiting gentlemen, 295;
+     in a temper, 301-2;
+     is mystified, 304;
+     rails at Fairly, 341;
+     with Fanny, 347, 378-9, 381, 384-7;
+     at Prince William's drinking bout, 396-8;
+     is kissed by him, 400;
+     her severity, 4o6;
+     takes leave of Fanny, 407;
+     with her again, 434-7;
+     is all civility, 447;
+     her death, iii. 142.
+Scott, Major, ii. 92, 105, 108.
+Scott, Sir Walter, iii- 454-5.
+"Seduction," a play, ii. 32.
+Selwyn, Mr., banker, i. 161-7.
+Sercey, Henriette de, ii. 449-50; iii. 23.
+Seward, William, i. xxvii;
+     his meetings with Fanny, 77-8, 89, 90, 109-10;
+     and Sophy Streatfield, 132, 137, 142, 144-5;
+     his ennui and suggested play, 142-4, 212-5, 218-22, 272;
+     meets Fanny at Cheltenham, ii. 167, 170, 173; 411 ; iii.
+     174;
+     his death, 183.
+Shakespeare, George III.'s opinions of, i. xxx, 318;
+     gallery, the, ii. 464.
+Shelley, Lady, i. 242.
+Shenstone, William, i.     212.
+Shepherd, Dr. A., ii. 55,        208-11, 217.
+Sherborne Castle, ii. 319, 330.
+Sheridan, R. B., eulogises Fanny, i. xxvi;
+     marries Miss Linley, 111-2, 344;
+     meets Fanny, 123, 145;
+     Mrs. Thrale's bon mot on, 223;
+     at the Hastings trial, ii. 93, 139, 438.
+Sheridan, Mrs., née Linley,
+     her beauty, talents, marriage, i. 111-2;
+     meets Fanny, 121, 344.
+Shipley, Georgiana, i. 229.
+Siddons, Mrs., meets Fanny, i. 257 ;
+     praised by George III., 321;
+     disappointing on near acquaintance, ii. 52; 317-9;
+     buys Sadler-,' Wells, iii. 149.
+Sidmouth, ii. 419.
+Sleepe, Esther, mother of Fanny Burney,
+     her marriage and death, i. xiv;
+     Mr., i. 199.
+Smelt, Mr.,  Court official, i. 166, 324, 327-31, 437-9, 443-5;
+     ii. 9, 15, 19, 20-2, 50, 83, 241, 243-4, 273, 276-7, 293,
+     297, 300, 303;
+     Mrs., i. 437-8, 440; ii. 241.
+Smith, Mr. Thrale's Cousin, i. 106-7.
+Smith, Charlotte, iii. 75.
+Sophia, Princess, and Mr. Webb's nose, 1. 311; 353, 365; ii. 34,
+     211, 309, 406, 434, 455; iii. 140,
+     156.
+Sophia of Gloucester, Princess, see Gloucester.
+Southwell, Lord, i. 209.
+Souza, Mdme. de, iii. 236-8.
+Spanish prisoners at Dunkirk, iii. 259;
+     ship captured, 399.
+Spencer, Countess, i.       359; ii. 424-9; iii. 92;
+     Earl, 424-7;
+     the Ladies, i. 386-7-9; ii.   23.
+Stael, Madame de, in England, i. xliv, iii. 14, 32;
+     her   first letters in English, 45;
+     Fanny's admiration for, 46-8, 50;
+     Dr. Burney's disapproval of, 51;
+     defended by Fanny, 52, 55-61       80;
+     snubbed by Fanny, 220;
+     regretted by her, 269, 382;
+     compared with Mrs. Thrale, 449;
+     M. de, iii. 47.
+Stainsforth, Mrs., ii. 399.
+Stanhope, Mr., ii. 396.
+Stonehenge, ii. 417.
+Stormont, Lord, ii. 446.
+Strange, Sir Robert and Lady, iii. 173;
+     Mary Bruce, i. 288.
+Streatfield, Mrs., i. 149-50;
+     Sophia, the weeping beauty, i. 132-3, 137-42, 144-5, 149-53,
+     219-21, 283; ii. 450; Iii. 405.
+Streatham, the Thrales' residence at, i. xxvi;
+     Fanny at, 75-8, 80, 110, 127-33, 137-49, 203-23;
+     the paintings at, iii. 389;
+     dismantled and forsaken, 448.
+Stuart, Lady, Louisa, ii. 69-70.
+Sunday schools established, ii. 171.
+Sydney, Lady, ii. 317.
+
+Talleyrand-PérigGord, Charles Maurice de, at juniper Hall, i.
+     xliv; iii. 14, 39;
+     is found charming, 50; 53, 55;
+     his letters of adieu, 83;
+     Fanny indignant with, 153;
+     her bon mot to, 382.
+Tallien, iii. 47.
+Taylor, Michael Angelo, ii. 97, 145, 452.
+Templetown, Lord and Lady, ii. 151.
+Tewkesbury, Fanny at, ii. 191.
+Thackeray, Mrs., ii. 69.
+Thielky, Mrs., i. 340, 345-6, 353, 374, 381-2.
+Thrale, Mr., "Evelina" read to, i. 71;
+     his character and acquirements, 75; 82, 86, 89, 90, 92, 96,
+     127-8, 132-4, 149, 153, 166, 168, 194-7;
+     his death, 200-3.
+Thrale, Mrs., hears about "Evelina," i. xxv,
+     her character and disposition, xxvi;
+     her second marriage, xxix
+     admires "Evelina," 68, 71-2;
+     advises Fanny to write for the stage, 74, 129-31;
+     her kindness to Fanny, 76, 80;
+     praises "Evelina" to Dr. Lort, 90-1;
+     to Mrs. Montagu, 102-5;
+     makes sport with Reynolds, 92-5;
+     converses with Johnson, 95-7;
+     her opinions of him, 104-6;
+     suggests some husbands for Fanny, 106-8;
+     mentioned, 109-10;
+     at Brighton with Fanny, 133, 136, 149, 339-48;
+     with Sophy Streatfield, 132, 137-42;
+     meets the Cumberlands, 156-8;
+     converses with Blakeney, 159-63;
+     at Bath with Fanny, 165-97;
+     loses her husband, 200-3;
+     banters Crutchley, 216-9;
+     her opinion of Mrs. Siddons, 257;
+     alluded to, 258, 262, 265;
+     her fascination and Wit, 277;
+     marries PiOzzi, 236-8. See Piozzi, Mrs.
+Thrale, Hester[" Queenie "], i. 75, 76, 92, 93, 101, 102, 133,
+     149, 157, 203, 206-8, 224, 240, 243,
+     284;
+     Susan, i. 133, 240.
+Thurlow, Lord Chancellor, ii. 99, 104, 263.
+Tottenham Court, royal visit to, ii. 332;
+     paintings at, 332-3.
+Toulon, siege of, iii. 73-4, 76, 78, 90.
+Tour du Pin, M. and Mdme. de la, iii. 335, 343, 349-50, 364.
+Tournai, Fanny arrives at, iii. 327.
+Travell, Beau, i. 76.
+Treves, Fanny's journey to, iii. 370-8.
+Tryon, Miss, ii. 304.
+Tucker, Dean, ii. 173.
+Tuileries, the, invaded, iii. 19;
+     Bonaparte at, 224;
+     Duchess d'Angouleme at, 294.
+Tunbridge, Fanny at, i. 112, 149.
+Turbulent, Mr. (Rev. C. de Guiffardi6re), account Of, i. 436;
+     on Court routine, 443-4;
+     introduces Wellbred to Fanny, ii. 16-21, 22;
+     Worries Fanny, 24;
+     teases Princess Augusta, 26-8;
+     meets with a rebuff, 28-31;
+     with the queen, 35;
+     Mrs, Schwellenberg suspicious of, 46;
+     annoys Fanny, 47-8;
+     troublesome again, 54, 56-8;
+     condemns himself, 80, 140-1;
+     his troublesome pleasantries, 151-2, 208;
+     rails at Fanny, 214-5;
+     greatly altered, 222;
+     during the king's illness, 244, 341, 400, 403.
+Turner, Sir G. P., i. 227.
+Twining, Rev. T., i. xvi.
+
+Valletort, Lord, ii. 327-9.
+Vandamme, General, iii. 368.
+"Vengeur," legend of the, iii. 143,
+Vernon, the Misses, i. 379, 383-7, 393, 396-8.
+Vesey, Mrs., a bluestocking, i. 98, 122, 277. 373 ; ii. 97.
+Victoire, Madame, daughter of Louis XV., iii. 36-7.
+Villiers, Hon. George,      ii. 305, 307, 321.
+Vincent, Count de, iii.     351.
+Voltaire, George III. on, i. xxx, 316.
+
+Waldegrave, Lady Caroline, i. 340; ii, 238, 322;
+     Lady Elizabeth, i. 340, 365; ii. 39, 230-1, 233, 235, 238,
+     240, 246, 252, 259, 265-6, 275, 322.
+Wales, Prince of (George IV.), i. 360;
+     his good heart but suspicious conduct, 373;
+     his mother's anxiety regarding him, 432;
+     on bad terms with the king, ii. 10;
+     with the Polignacs, 39;
+     reconciled with his father, 40;
+     With the Duke of York at Windsor, 49-51;
+     with the queen, 61, 64;
+     at the Hastings trial, 98;
+     his animal spirits, 189;
+     eyes Fanny curiously, 211;
+     and the Regency bill, 221;
+     at Windsor during the king's illness, 228, 235, 237, 239-41,
+     242-5, 263-4;
+     goes to Kew, 266;
+     at the play, 436; iii. 160;
+     eulogised by Dr. Burney, 243;
+     by the Duchess d'Angouleme, 299;
+     his matrimonial troubles, 440-1.
+Wallace, Mr., attorney-general, i. 205.
+Waller, Edmund, ii. 204.
+Wallis, Miss, iii. i49.
+Walpole, Horace, "Evelina" attributed to, i. 79;
+     chats with Fanny, ii. 85, 411; iii. 219. See Orford.
+Walsingham,           Mrs.,      entertains Fanny, i. 256-7, 307;
+     Lord, ii. 126.
+"Wanderer, The," Mme. d'Arblay's novel, i. Xlvi, lv; iii. 248-9,
+     255, 272-3-5.
+Warren, Dr., ii. 224-5, 245, 280;
+     Lady, her tale of a dowry hunter, i. 242.
+Warton,    Dr. Joseph, i. 123, 401-2, 422 ; ii. 32 1.
+Waterloo, battle of, iii, 357-68.
+Webb, Mr., his huge nose, i. 311.
+Wedderburn, Alex., see Loughborough.
+Wellbred (Greville), Colonel, king's equerry,
+     introduced to Fanny, ii. 16-21;
+     disposition, 36-8;
+     derides Manners, 40-2, 43-4;
+     Fanny's opinion of, 78-9;
+     his powers of sight, 84, 139, 151-2;
+     accompanies George III. to Kew, 268, 285, 291.
+Wellesley, Lady Anne, ii. 338.
+Wellington, Duke of, iii. 291;
+     at Brussels, 341-2, 345, 355
+     at Waterloo, 360-7.
+Wells Cathedral, ii.      422.
+Wells, Mrs., actress, ii. 318, 464-8.
+West, Benjamin,        R.A., ii. 35.
+Wesley, Charles,       i. 344; iii. 183.
+Weston, Miss, i.      179-80.
+Weymouth, the          Court at, ii. 313
+     Lady, i. 291 ; ii- 39, 155, 157, 162, 164, 185.
+     See Bath, Marchioness of.
+Whalley, Mr. and Mrs., i. 171-5, 180.
+Whitworth, Lord, iii. 240.
+Wieland, i. 409-10, 412.
+Wilberforce, W., iii. 271, 442.
+Wilkes, John, ii. 339.
+William, Prince, Duke of Clarence, ii. 98, 189, 308;
+     his partiality for champagne, 395-400; 436, 454; iii- 150,
+     421, 436.
+Williams, Anna, and " Evelina," i. 75;
+     Johnson's account of, 95;
+     befriended by Mrs. Montagu, 98, 258.
+Willis,    Dr., senior, attends the king,  ii. 274, 276-9, 290-1,
+     293, 296,   298;
+     Dr. John, ii. 274, 278-9, 287, 291;
+     Rev. Thos., ii. 277, 278-9, 335, 346.
+Wilton, ii. 417;
+     Lord Grey de, ii. 291.''
+Winchester, ii. 413-7.
+Windham, William, M.P., eulogises Fanny        xxvi ;
+     at the Hastings trial, ii.      102-119, 120-1, 123, 130-8,
+     144-9, 352-5, 357-65, 370-3, 390, 393, 438-43, 444-6, 447,
+     452;
+     portrayed by Fairly, 297-8;
+     urges that Fanny should resign, 376;
+     judged by Burke, 460; 463; iii. 38;
+     at the            Literary Club, 44;
+     at Burke's funeral, 125;
+     his good breeding, 279.
+Windsor, Fanny at, i.           )2-326, 331, 333;
+     the Court at,         19-49, 352-66, 400-447; ii.
+     16-31, 35-53, 55-61, 72-81, 139, 207; '
+
+     during the king's illness, 222-64; 333, 340, 347, 373, 401;
+     iii. 99-112, 185-7.
+"Witlings, The," Fanny's comedy,
+     Macaulay's account of, xviii;
+     praised by Arthur Murphy, 133;
+     its fate, 145-9.
+Worcester, royal Visit to, ii. 109.
+Wurtembvirg, Prince of, iii.             115, 156.
+Wycherley, W, ii. 460.
+Wynn, Sir Watkin, ii. 291.
+W---, Miss, a young infidel, i. 180-4, 190-1; ii. 191.
+
+York, Archbishop Markham of, ii. 105.
+York, Duchess of, ii. 436, 454; Iii. 111-2, 145.
+York, Frederick, Duke of, mentioned, i. 401, 417;
+     returns to England,   49-51, 59, 63;
+     with the queen, 85;
+     at the Hastings trial, 98;
+     his animal spirits, 189;
+     at Cheltenham, 190;
+     at Windsor during the king's illness, 226, 237;
+     his father's favourite, 241, 242, 246, 251;
+     his wife, 436;
+     at the siege of Dunkirk, iii. 73;
+     commander-in-chief, 11-2.
+Young, Arthur, ii. 449;
+     invites Fanny to Bradfield, 468;
+     with the Duke de Liancourt, iii. 17-28;
+     Mrs., ii, 449;
+     Mary, ii. 449.
+Young, Profesor , iii. 176.
+
+TURNBULL AND SPEARS, PRINTERS, EDINBURGH,
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