Of
some sort of happiness melancholy is a characteristic, and I think these
were a solemn pair, and died rather early.
THE HISTORY OF THE NEXT FRENCH REVOLUTION.
[FROM A FORTHCOMING HISTORY OF EUROPE.]
CHAPTER I.
It is seldom that the historian has to record events more singular than
those which occurred during this year, when the Crown of France was
battled for by no less than four pretenders, with equal claims, merits,
bravery, and popularity. First in the list we place--His Royal Highness
Louis Anthony Frederick Samuel Anna Maria, Duke of Brittany, and son
of Louis XVI. The unhappy Prince, when a prisoner with his unfortunate
parents in the Temple, was enabled to escape from that place of
confinement, hidden (for the treatment of the ruffians who guarded
him had caused the young Prince to dwindle down astonishingly) in the
cocked-hat of the Representative, Roederer. It is well known that,
in the troublous revolutionary times, cocked-hats were worn of a
considerable size.
He passed a considerable part of his life in Germany; was confined there
for thirty years in the dungeons of Spielberg; and, escaping thence
to England, was, under pretence of debt, but in reality from political
hatred, imprisoned there also in the Tower of London.
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