and the present duke was born there; the same thing was therefore said of him, and the same has equally been said of prince Augustus, the duke of Sussex, sixth son to the late king of England.

When the princess of Wales understood that her royal daughter was to be married to prince Leopold of Coburg, and that her presence was not desired at the nuptials, she declared her intention to divert her mind by a visit to the Greek isles, in the Archi pelago, early in the spring of 1816., Her first equerry, the chevalier Schiavini kept a very ample journal of her royal highness's travels, from which the following extracts have been made:

In December the princess of Wales paid a visit to the ex-empress Maria Louisa at Parma, and. remained some weeks at Milan.

On the 15th of February 1817, she paid a visit to the king of Sardinia, at Turin.

The unexpected arrival of the princess of Wales at Vienna on the 9th of April produced a general sensation, and embarrassed great numbers. She put up at the hotel called the Empress of Austria, having found nobody at home at the hotel of lord Stuart, where she wished to alight. Lord Stuart, the moment he heard of the intended arrival of the princess, set off, with all his family, to the country; a conduct which the princess as well as the Austrian public, took in very ill-part. The minister of the kingdom of Hanover (Alexander Count Har

denberg) followed his example. The court sent to her a chamberlain to wait upon her; and although she observed the strictest incognito, the princess paid a visit to the empress. The princess complained openly at her table, in very strong terms of lord Stuart; and declared " that she would inform her daughter of it, and would herself never forgive him for this behaviour."

Palestine and Jerusa

The princess of Wales went from Genoa to the island of Elba, and thence to Sicily, where she visited the principal towns. From Sicily she proceeded to Barbary, then to lem; she saw Carthage, Utica, Athens; she went to Malta; she admired the beautiful women of Milo in the Archipelago; she admired the Temple of Theseus at Athens, still almost entire; she mounted the tribune of Demosthenes and of Eschines; she examined all the famous ruins of the cherished city of Minerva; contemplated the tombs of Pericles and of Thrasibulus; regarded with a timid eye the Temple of the Furies where Edipus died: she visited the tomb of the celebrated Antiope the Amazon, wife to Theseus, and passing on to Corinth, examined the temple of Neptune; from thence she proceeded to Constantinople. She stopped at Pera ten days. Her royal highness received from the Grand Seignor presents valued at 45,000 piastres.

After passing the islands of Zia, Andros, Negropont, and the famous Tenedos, she landed at Troy to examine its last vestiges; she crossed the Sca

mander; saw the tower of Hero upon the Hellespont, passed on to Mitylene, and thence to Scio, where she saw the place that Homer occupied with his school. She next passed on to Samos, to Ephesus, to Cyprus, to St. Jean d'Acre, to Nazareth, after having seen Mount Carmel; to Jerusalem, where she admired the Holy Sepulchre and the Temple of Solomon, no converted into a mosque; afterwards she visited Bethlehem, the Mount of Olives, the river Jordan, Jaffa, and thence proceeded by Rhodes and Syracuse to Naples from thence to the now famous town of Pizzo, to Terracina, and to Rome. The palace of Trescati at Rome, was said to have been purchased for her royal highness, who had a long conference with the pope. On the 2d of July, 1817, the princess of Wales left Rome for Bologna, between which place and the villa of the Largo del Como her royal highness continued to reside.

Her reception on the part of the Barbary governments every where corresponded with her elevated rank, but she attracted the general homage much more by her personal qualities than the eminence of her station. With the assistance of several learned antiquarians, she made a colloction of precious remains of antiquity, sparing nothing in the pursuit of an object so noble and so useful.

Her royal highness, during the time that she was at Agosta, in Sicily, distributed every day

with her own hands, and through the hands of others, sums of money among the poor; at Tunis she obtained the liberty of several slaves, and paid the debts of one of them. She gave to the new academy at Athens five hundred of the pieces called colonnates, and she allows two hundred annually to the same academy, paid through the hands of the banker Scaramanzo, at Constantinople; all those who were in prison for debt at Athens were liberated by her, for which she paid seven hundred pieces into the hands of the governor, and she gave two hundred pieces to a poor and numerous Roman family resident in that city. At Constantinople, she gave a poor Frenchman two hundred colonnates, and distributed her benefits almost in every corner of that city. To the conventual fathers of Jerusalem, she gave five hundred pieces, and settled on them two hundred annually, to be received from the banker above-named. Finally she distributed at Rome two hundred pieces to the poor of that city.

Such acts of generosity in distant countries could not proceed from motives of ostentation; they must be the pure effusions of a benevolent heart, which has no other object but to satisfy itself; the persons, the places, and the time, sufficiently prove that those benefactions were given from those laudable motives by which the late philanthropist, Mr. Howard, was swayed; and we may still say that "Such things are."

CHAPTER XVIII.

Marriage of the Princess Charlotte to Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Her affection for and correspondence with her royal Mother-Lamented Death of the Princess Charlotte and her infant Son-Ill-natured remark of a Writer of the day-Distress of the Royal Mother when apprised of the mournful intelligence-Death of her Majesty-Observations.

EARLY in the year of 1816 arrangements were made for the marriage of the princess Charlotte to a prince of Saxe-Coburg, a captain in the Austrian service, and about 26 years of age. The royal nuptials took place on the 2d of May, and excited universal interest. The altar for the celebration of the ceremony was placed near one of the fire places in the crimson state-room. When every thing was ready, the lord Chamberlain gave notice to prince Leopold, who took his station in front of the altar to which the princess Charlotte was then led by the duke of Clarence. The prince regent took his place by the side of the illustrious pair. On the other side of the altar was the queen, for whom a chair of state was placed. On her right hand were the princesses Augusta, Elizabeth, and Mary, the duchess of York and princess Sophia of Glocester.