Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . ith, under a salute from the fort, the Comte dArtois, Charles Philippe, thebrother of Louis XVL, in exile, seeking a homeunder the roof of the royal race that had sooften intermarried with his family, and which in a natural link of the old alliance that used to existbetween Scotland and France. The count, with his sons the Due dAngoulemeand the Due de Berri, was a constant attender at thedrills of the Edinburgh Volunteers, in the meadowsor elsewhere, though he never got over a horror ofthe uniform tliey wore then—
Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . ith, under a salute from the fort, the Comte dArtois, Charles Philippe, thebrother of Louis XVL, in exile, seeking a homeunder the roof of the royal race that had sooften intermarried with his family, and which in a natural link of the old alliance that used to existbetween Scotland and France. The count, with his sons the Due dAngoulemeand the Due de Berri, was a constant attender at thedrills of the Edinburgh Volunteers, in the meadowsor elsewhere, though he never got over a horror ofthe uniform tliey wore then—blue, faced with red—which reminded him too sadly of the ferociousNational Guard of France. He always attended inhis old French uniform, with the order of on his left breast, just as we may see himin Kays Portraits. He was present at St. AnnesYard when, in 1797, the Shropshire Militia, underLord Clive—the first English regiment of militiathat ever entered Scotland—was reviewed by Gordon, the commander-in-chief Hdyrood.] THE COMTE DARTOIS. 77. < oz o o 78 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Htlj rood. The Edinburgh Herald of April, 1797, men-tions the departure from Holyrood of the DuedAngouleme for Hamburg, to join the army of thePrince of Conde, and remarks, We wish His High-ness a prosperous voyage, and we may add (thevalediction of his ancestor, Louis XIV., to theunfortunate James VII.), may we never see hisface again on the same errand ! The Comte dArtois visited Sweden in 1804,but was in Britain again in 1S06. His levees andballs tended in some degree to excite in the mindsof the inhabitants a faint idea of the days of otheryears, when the presence of its monarchs communi-cated splendour and animation to this ancientmetropolis, inspiring it with a proud consciousnessof the remote antiquity and hereditary independenceof the Scottish throne. His farewell address to the magistrates andpeople, dated from the palace 5th August, 1799, ispreserved among th
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