CHAPTER. XII 



THE CROWN PRINCE 



Amor Patriae — Domestic Arrangement — Emery — A Kevolution — 

 — Education — A Swell Dragsman — Contrast — Leamington — A 

 Proposition — Warwick Castle — Stoneleigh Abbey and Kenil- 

 worth — An Agreeable Surprise — A New Start — Idle Hours — A 

 Country Walk — Gorhambury — A Pleasing Adventure — Sir 

 Harbottle Grimstone and Lord Bacon again — Reflections and a 

 Eeflection — An Invitation — The Consequences — A Scene at 

 South Mimms. 



If there be one feeling more common to our kind than 

 another, it is that of attachment to one's native place ; 

 and leaving it generally creates regret. This applies, 

 perhaps, as well to individuals and families as to nations ; 

 thouirh anions: the latter it is more remarkable, inasmuch 

 as it is strongly developed in the uncivilized portions of 

 our fellow-creatures. History and experience teaches us 

 this. 



The Esquimaux cannot be prevailed on to quit the 

 desolation of his frozen regions ; the Negro sighs for a 

 return to the pestiferous vapours of his tropical clime ; 

 and the Bedouin exults in the deadly blast of his arid 

 desert. The more polished members of the human family, 

 who boast of a superior knowledge of the great Author of 

 the Universe, and profess, if they do not practise, doctrines 

 deduced from His revealed will, have long enjoyed the 

 benefits of a social and commercial intercourse with each 



