The Sun.
London, England, 1848-12-26 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, MONDAY.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness took their
accustomed early walk this morning; and the Prince
of Wales and the Royal Children walked in the Home
Park.

The Queen and Prince, and the Ladies and Gen-
tlemen of the Royal Household attended Divine ser-
vice, at eleven o'clock, in the private chapel in the
Castle. The Hon. and Rev. C. L. Courtenay per-
formed the service, and administered the Holy
Sacrament.

The Royal dinner party this day is expected to in-
clude her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent
and her Ladies in Waiting, Viscount Canning, the
Baron Stockmar, Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. Anson,
Colonel and the Hon. Mrs. Phipps, the Hon. and Rev.
C. L. Courtenay, Mr. Glover, and: Dr. Meyer.

REMARKABLE INCIDENTS CON-
NECTD WITH THE LIFE OF THE LATE
CHARLES THE TENTH, KING OF THE
FRENCH.
We understand that there is now in London an
English officer of high rank in the British army, who
is stated to have been an eye-witness to some most re-
markable passages in the life of the above monarch,
and which falling to the lot of one individual to see,
may be considered as most remarkable.
The officer in question, whom we then have under-
stood to have been an officer in the Royal Regiment
of Artillery, was stationed at Edinburgh Castle about
the year 1797 or 1798, at the time when Charles the
Tenth was then under the title of the Count d'Ar-
tois, in the Royal Sanctuary of Holyrood House, and
was frequently with the Counts and on terms of the
greatest intimacy with the latter. After a series of
years the Count was called upon to fill the throne of
his ancestors in France, at the time the above officer
happened to be in that country, and who saw the
monarch crowned at Rheims, and afterwards saw
him enter Paris in triumph and installed in the Palace
of the Tuilleries.
At the period of the Revolution of July, 1830, the
above officer happened to be in Paris, and was a wit-
ness to the events of that eventful time, while Charles
the Tenth was at the Palace of St. Cleud, and from
which he was driven by a body of men, we believe
under the orders of General TIP], who forced
the monarch to fly to the port of Cher-
bourg, where he embarked for England, and soon
afterwards found an asylum in his former residence of
Holyrood House. By a singular coincidence of
events, the officer alluded. to happened to be in
Edinburgh at the same time, and visited the ex-King
of the French, and in the same identical rooms of the
palace where he had seen the monarch a period of
nearly half a century before as the Count d'Artois.
It is a fact not generally known, that the people of
Paris on getting the better of the royal troops, never
reflected for one moment what flag or colours they
were to adopt, but oae of the insurgents, or whatever
they may be called, mounting to the top of
the turret of the Tuilleries, where the white flag
of the Bourbons was flying in order to tear it down,
found in the corner of the forest a bundle of rags, as
he conceived, tied up in a string, and which on open-
ing, he found to be a tricoloured flag, which was no
doubt left there in the time of the Emperor Napoleon,
and which the insurgent thought he might as well
hoist up in the place of the white flag he had torn
down. Ile did so, and the city of Paris saw with
amazement the flag of the Republic floating on the
summit of the palace of the Bourbons as if by en-
chantment, and Louis Philippe saw himself installed
, as Lieutenant-General of the Kingdom and then as
Citizen-King of the French, under the Republican,
or, more properly speaking, the Imperial flag, which
Nvas thus so singularly adopted, and which remains to
"t'hi's hour the flag of revolutionary France.
The last shot fired by the troops of Charles the
Tenth, on quitting the city of Paris to follow the