Copy 1, Volume 1

Austria / By Peter Evan Turnbull.

  • Turnbull, Peter Evan, 1786-1852.
Date:
1840
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Austria / By Peter Evan Turnbull. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    120 kind and familiar in his address, polished hut easy in his manner, and gay in the midst of adversity. With him, was neither restraint nor melancholy; and, as he chatted familiarly of France and Spain and Eng¬ land, of the events of his own past life, and of the fortunes which he trusted might hereafter beam upon his house, I am willing to hope that he may have de¬ rived a momentary satisfaction from the visit of dis¬ interested respect thus paid to him by one, who, how¬ ever comparatively lowly in station, and however discordant from him in many important points of opinion, still retained a grateful remembrance of the kindnesses and hospitalities received within the walls of his palace, during the days of his royal domination. The French volatility, with which he passed rapidly from subject to subject, was sometimes tempered with a feeling, not mournful but pensive, with which he alluded to his own advanced age, and the doubtful expectations he entertained (for he seemed not wholly bereft of hope) of another restoration for himself. His anticipations in favour of his grandson were ex¬ pressed in more sanguine terms. He spoke of him with much affection; and said that the great object of himself and his family was to render the young prince worthy of any destinies that might await him. His favourable reception in England, and the atten¬ tions shown to him in Scotland, were subjects on which he evidently liked to enlarge, for he recurred to them more than once. He was full of anecdote as to the events of his residence at Holyrood, in the first