It is now decided that we go to England! Two
years ago I should have returned there with gladness,
but now!—I dread it. How changed will
all appear without him whose ever-watchful affection
anticipated every wish, and realised every hope!
I ought to feel pleased at leaving Paris, where the
heaviest trial of my life has occurred, but here
I have now learned to get inured to the privation
of his society, while in England I shall have again
to acquire the hard lesson of resignation.
November, 1830.—This is the last
entry I shall make in my journal in Paris, for to-morrow
we depart for England.
I have passed the day in taking leave of those dear
to me, and my spirits have failed under the effort.
Some of them I shall probably never again behold.
The dear and excellent Madame Craufurd is among those
about whom I entertain the most melancholy presentiments,
because at her advanced age I can hardly hope to find
her, should I again return to France. She referred
to this to-day with streaming eyes, and brought many
a tear to mine by the sadness of her anticipations.
The Duc and Duchess de Guiche I shall soon see in
England, on their route to Edinburgh, to join tho
exiled family at Holyrood, for they are determined
not to forsake them in adversity.
Adieu a Paris! two years and a half ago I entered
you with gladness, and the future looked bright; I
leave you with altered feelings, for the present is
cheerless and the future clouded.
* * * *
*
[1: Now Baron d’Haussey.]
[2: The hermitage was lent him by Madame d’Epinay,
to whom his subsequent ingratitude forms a dark page
in her Memoires.]
[3: The present Lord Abinger.]
[4: Now Lord Glenelg.]
[5: Now Lord Francis Egerton.]
[6: Now Madame Emile de Girardin.]
[7: “Where thou beholdest Genius,
There thou beholdest, too,
the martyr’s crown.”]
[8: The present Earl of Cadogan.]
[9: The Duc de Guiche, being premier menin
to the Dauphin, used, according to custom, the arms
and liveries of that prince.]
[10: Now Marechal.]
NISMES.
Antiquities of this City—The Hotel du Midi—Articles
of
Merchandise—History of the Maison Carree—Work
of Poldo d’Albenas—The
Building described—Origin of it—Now
used as a Museum—Monument to
Marcus Attius—Cardinal Alberoni—Barbarous
Project—Removal of
Antiquities—The Amphitheatre described—Charles
Martel—Excellent
Precaution in Roman Theatres—Inscription—Officious
Cicerone—Gate of
Augustus—La Tour-Magne—Excavations—Fine
Fountain—Temple of
Diana—Brevity of Human Life, 1.
