— 7 ’ _ 
726 Original Anecdotes—Condé. . «Louis XVTIL. . oD? Artcis. fOa. 
court of St. James’s, astheir ambaffador, 
but he. has fclcited in theic name, al- 
though hitherto but with little effe&. 
The laf&t fum delivered him, on behalf 
of the once {plendid houfe of Bourbon, 
is faid to have amounted to lefs than one 
half year of his own income, before the 
revolution ! 
While the fon aéts eccafionally ina di- 
plomatic capacity here, the father, 
Princt Louis Josery DE BouRBON- 
CONDE, 
A warrior grown grey under arms, is 
at the head ot a body of emigrantson the 
borders of Swifferland.. Thefe have at 
different times been fubfidized by the 
coalefced courts, and are faid to be at 
this moment in the pay of England. Of 
all the en'gmas of the prefent day, the 
ercateft, perhaps, is, the refufal to allow 
thefe men to fight their own battles ! 
The Prench xodlef have repeatedly foli- 
cited to enter their native country, {word 
in hand, and have been threatened with 
ehaftifement for perfevering in this with! 
THE sol-pisanT Layis XVIII 
(For fo he muft be ftyled, until he is ac- 
knowledged by fome one eourt of Europe, 
atcording to diplomatic etiquette) was 
Known, before the.revolution, by the 
name and titles of Louis Staniflaus Xavier, 
Comte de Provence, and Monfieur. 
He is now in his 42d year, and his 
eonfort, a princefs of Sardinia, in her 
43d. 
. During the late reign, he participated 
but little im either the intrigues or the 
@cbaucheries-of the-court. His brother, 
Louts XVI, attached himfelf tothe fud 
of charts, while he addi€ed himfelf to 
bovks—their conforts were fond of far 
different amufements ! 
it mufi not be omitted, that at an 
early period of his life, he difcovered a 
tafie for poetry; and’ as he has aétually 
written iome very pretty verfes, he may at 
leaf claim to be admitted into the cata- 
logue of “ royal and noble.authors.” 
' Previoufly to the fight to Varennes, 
hoth the king and his brother were 
greatly refpeéied, and the buik of the 
people relied implicitly on their reite- 
rated eaths and protedtations to remain 
in France, fome of which were pre- 
ferred voluntarily, and, indeed, unex- 
pectedly. Luckily for Moxfeur (if it 
really may be called fo) while Louis 
took the road for Montmedy, he purfued 
that which led towards Mons, and’ ef- 
seeped. Like ‘our Charles: IJ, after the 

. 
battle of Worcefter, he has fince led 2 
wandering life, fubfifted on the preca- 
rious bounty of his friends, and been 
fo reduced, as almoft to excite the humi- 
Hating pity of his enemies. -From Ve- 
rona he was lately difmiffed, with an un- 
courteous precipiHtancy, by the fenate of 
Venice, a body that, by means of its 
policy, has been able to maintain its 
power undiminifhed amidit the mnova- 
tions of ages. His brother, ~~ 
CHARLES Purtrp ComTE D'ArTo!Is, 
Once the moft ‘gay, gaudy, fluttering, 
accomplifhed, iuxurious, and expenfiye 
prince in Europe, has at jemgth found 
an afylum in the ancient palace of.the 
Scottifh kings : and that nation now re- 
pays to the Bourbons, at Holyrood-houfe, 
what the Stuarts were indebted to them, 
in point of hofpitality, at St. Germain’s. 
His reception, however, owing perhaps 
to the /atitude of the place, is very cold; 
and the iil furnifhed and ill lighted apart-. 
ments at Edinburgh muff recal, from the 
very contraft, the iuperbly decorated halls 
of Verfailles. : 
The Count d’Artois, or Monfeur as he 
now ftyles himfelf, was beloyed-by the 
courtiers, but execrated by. the people, 
for to his extravagance they attributed, 
(perhaps -unjuftly) great part of their 
mifery. Certain it is, that Calonne was 
reproached with having fupplied both 
him and the queen with immenfe fums of 
money; and fome of the immenfe deficit 
has been referred to that fource ! 
Were it not for our attachment to the 
laws, it might be painful to recolleé& that, 
im cur own time, a king* has been im- 
mured within one of our Englifh gaols, 
and that, at this very day, a prince of 
the moft powerful houfe in Europe is, 
actually confined fix days of the week 
within the purlieus of a Scotch abbey. 
The count’s eftablifhment is far from 
being f{plendid. The apartments were 
fitted up under the direction of the ba- 
rons of the Exchequer ; who, it muft be 
acknowledged, have difplayed no incli+ 
nation to encourage a wafteful expendi- 
ture—the candles, which ere faid to be 
tallow, are adminiftered fo fparingly, as 
to produce ‘§ darknefs vifible’ rather 
than light; and it is well known that his 
royal highnefs dines, daily, with his own 
officers, at a fide table. This is, no 
doubt, a mortifying fituation to a branch: 
of a family proverbially proud; but a 
more expenfive eftablifhment would be. 
neceflarily deemed an injuftice towards 
* Theodore, - 
the 
