Rosalba's journal, and other papers . ing his guest,it became evident that looking to his relationswith Bonaparte, residence in Russia was no longerpracticable, and Louis XVIII consequently re-sumed his wanderings. In October he embarkedat Riga for Sweden, v/here Gustavus IV placed afrigate at his disposal. In this he sailed for was uninvited, and consequently not verywelcome. The British Government were tiredof the plotting of the refugees, and on reachingYarmouth he was officially informed that he mustgo to Holyrood, This, however, he firmly de-clined to do; and eventually, with P
Rosalba's journal, and other papers . ing his guest,it became evident that looking to his relationswith Bonaparte, residence in Russia was no longerpracticable, and Louis XVIII consequently re-sumed his wanderings. In October he embarkedat Riga for Sweden, v/here Gustavus IV placed afrigate at his disposal. In this he sailed for was uninvited, and consequently not verywelcome. The British Government were tiredof the plotting of the refugees, and on reachingYarmouth he was officially informed that he mustgo to Holyrood, This, however, he firmly de-clined to do; and eventually, with Pitts goodwill,an interim retreat was found for him at GosfieldHall in Essex, an old Tudor mansion which hadcome to the first Marquess of Buckingham withhis wife, Mary Nugent, the daughter of the LordClare to whom Goldsmith addressed the poem otthe Haunch of Venison. It was a roomy build-ing with a fine lake and park, in which latter thegrateful exiles erected a votive temple to theirhost. This they encircled with five oaks, the first. ;^ >• Q \ c« U« ^ >? UJ I> IS • U < }w• D ai ^^ i ^-V C ^^^^* ? J. l^5 a H ^^a ^ m ,^ W^ :2o O z i^l E & K^ JJ a ? ^. ?• ^^^ H ^/ ^} o o The Early Years of Madame Roy ale 187 planted by the Count de Lille, the second byhis wife, the third by his niece, and the othersby his two nephews, the Dukes of Angoulemeand Berry, all of whom were now gathered onthese hospitable shores. In April 1809, the little colony, mainly with aview to get nearer London, moved to HartwellHouse in Bucks, two miles from Aylesbury, onthe right hand of the road to Thame. This theyhired from the owner, the Rev. Sir George Lee,Bart., for an annual rental of ;^50O. AlthoughHartwell was spacious enough to be described asa place wherein misery might be tolerably com-fortable on j^24,ooo a year, ^ the accommodationwas necessarily inadequate for an establishmentof some 140 persons, which occasionally increasedto 200. The great pannelled rooms with thecarved cei
Size: 1236px × 2022px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthordobsonau, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, bookyear1915
