. Thackerayana;. wood,and there saw that great Captain at A Sentry whose name the rulers of the earth had so often trembled. It isremarkable that in his little account of the second funeral of Na-poleon, which he witnessed in Paris in 1840, no allusion to this factappears; but he himself has described it in one of his latest works. When I first saw England, he says, she was in mourning for theyoung Princess Charlotte,* the hope of the empire. I came from * The Princess Charlotte died Nov. 6, 1817. EARLY REMINISCENCES. India as a child, and our ship touched at an island on our way-home, where m
. Thackerayana;. wood,and there saw that great Captain at A Sentry whose name the rulers of the earth had so often trembled. It isremarkable that in his little account of the second funeral of Na-poleon, which he witnessed in Paris in 1840, no allusion to this factappears; but he himself has described it in one of his latest works. When I first saw England, he says, she was in mourning for theyoung Princess Charlotte,* the hope of the empire. I came from * The Princess Charlotte died Nov. 6, 1817. EARLY REMINISCENCES. India as a child, and our ship touched at an island on our way-home, where my black servant took me a long walk over rocksand hills, until we reached a garden where we saw a man walking. That is he ! cried the black man ; that is Bonaparte ! He eatsthree sheep every day, and all the children he can lay his handson ! With the same childish attendant, he adds, I rememberpeeping through the colonnade at Carlton House, and seeing theabode of the Prince Regent. I can yet see the guards pacing.
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