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minds of those by whom it was composed. and over
whose happiness she watched with parental solicitude.
Her Majesty's annual visit to this romantic and secluded
spot was anticipated by all ranks with impatience, and
hailed with loyalty and delight, as the signal for re-
suming those innocent festivities, in which the entire
populace took an eager part. and, in the presence g f
their august Patroness, revived the ancient games of the
country—while the victors in these were rewarded by
suitable prizes, instituted and distributed by her Majesty
in person.
Having repeatedly felt the salutary effects of a sum-
mer residence here, her Majesty bad thereby acquired
a strong local attachment for the spot. It is a bingo-
larly romantic hamlet, situated on the border of the
• Black Forest, skirted by feudal and monastic ruins, and
presenting an endless succession of all those picturesque
beauties which arrest and fix the attention of the natu.
ralist or the painter. and to a refined and contemplative
mind, give free scope for the indulgence of the best
feelings of which the human heart is susceptible. it was
here, too, in an antique and extensive palace, overhung
by hills of pine, traversed by a mountain stream, and
commanding objects of unceasing interest, that her
Majesty was in the habit of receiving annual visits from
some member of her august family.
On the day of her Majesty's leaving this place on her
return to Louisburg, in the month of August, it was
*the uniform and affecting custom of the peasantrf and
other!, to assemble on the morning of tier departure, to
testify their strong attachment to their Royal and be-
loved mistress, by twining the pannels of her carriage'
aid all its appendages with wreaths of evergreen and
the choicest flowers of the place and season, as the silent
but expressive votive offering for her return.
The same ceremony was observed as the several
cartiagerof her Majesty's suite left in succession; and
at every halt in bet progress. fair hands continued to
offer symbolic flowers, till the balls of Louisburg rang
• once more with the Royal welcome. It is hardly two,
Months since this beautiful and affecting ceremony took
place for the last time! But now, alas! the scene is
sadly reversed: the mournful pageant is announced at
every gate—the mourners have arranged themselves in
weeds—and the hands that so lately offered flowers, are
now twining the cypress wreath!
Could a well regulated life prolong or insure its
duration, the lamented object of a nation's sorrow might
still have lived to receive and to communicate happi-
ness; but, alas! the race is nut to the swift, nor the
battle to the strong, nor lengthened days to those whose
life has been a blessing to mankind.
The mode of life pursued by her Majesty was inva-
riable and systematic. During the summer she bad
usually concluded her morning toilet by six, often
much earlier. She appeared in public at one o'clock,
when she received the homage of her Court. arid
that of the strangers, or functionaries, who had the
entree to her table, and, followed by whom, she
shortly after proceeded to the banquet room. After
dinner she adjourned to the drawing room, where,
after an interchange of compliments, &c. she gene-
rally retired to her private apartment, learns% her
guests at their own free disposal ; or, when the
weather invited, she took an airing in some of the
beautiful avenues in the neighbouring forests. At five
o'clock tea was announced; music, vocal and instru-
mental, or other domestic pastimes, occasionally an
opera—followed, and filed up the space bet.veen tea
and supper. This latter meal was announced at nine
o'clock, during which an admirable band continued to
play the select and popular airs of Germany. and oc-
casionally introducing the Royal Anthem of England.
and other patriotic airs, with great feeling and effect.
By ten o'clock, or a little after, the repast bad finished;
her Majesty had received the salutation of the night,
and the Of and Ladies of the Court retired to their
several apartments through the long and shadowy cor-
ridors. This daily practice of domestic order and ar-
rangement reminded one forcibly of the excellent and
similar habits GI our forefathers during the reign of
Queen Elizabeth—habits which have been so impns-
dently infringed upon, though not without their forfeit,
by the less salutary discipline of modern times.
As the activity of her Majesty's mind was incessant,
so were her hands seldom without some adequate sub-
ject for the display of her refined and cultivated taste,or
the exercise of that laudable industry, which to her had
become delightful from long habit, and of which inn*•
merable traces remain. to excite our admiration, and to
be treasured as the fin. st or n salmis of the Royal palace.
In this her Majesty sought not pastime alone—she had a
higher object in view. She sought to inculcate a mos
important le.son, and to recommend it to those around
by her own personal example, viz. that in the proper
distribution of our time, and in the wise employment of
our faculties, the great secret of human happiness is to
be found ; and that instead of pursuing pleasure as an
occupation, we should find, on the contrary, that it is
from prudent occupation alone that we can secure last-
ing pleasure and satisfaction.
The nat-iral affability of her Majesty's disposition ;
the enviable talent of relieving the restraint, and en-
livening the conversation which her presence might
have been supposed to impose, or to check, made a pre.
,entation to the Court of Louisburg an object of the
first importance to every distinguished traveller who
sojourned in these parts. Few days during the summer
but some illustrious family or individual were presented
by the resident Ambassador, and took their place at her
hospitable table. Or these, the majority were the public
functionaries or the for daughters of that beloved coun-
try. the laud of her birth, and the proud inheritance of
bet Royal Brother. On these, and the cherished re-
membrance of her early days, her mind and conversa-
tidn dwelt with peculiar delight, while the sentiments
she expressed were well becoming a daughter of that
illustrious dynasty from which she sprung, and of that
crown • and kingdom of which she had become the
pride and the ornament.
To those who have had the happiness to sojourn
within the Royal precincts of Louisburg, to partake of
its hospitality, and mingle in its polished circle, the re-
membrance or such hours must long remain in vivid
retrospect; they will confess, that for once they hare
beheld the highest dignity associated with the gentlest
heart and the most generous dispositions, and that a con-
ciliatory smile may subdue more hearts than the sword.
But henceforth, alas I at Louisburg or Dienach, there
will be no ear to receivethe homage of our respect and
loyahy ; no hand to beckon or welcome us to that ban-
quet-hall, where so long had presided the Princess Royal
of England—the sister of our beloved Sovereign !
There we shall only find a shrine and a sepulchre, where
we may drop the tear of mingled sorrow and exult-Ilion
over the hallowed urn r f “ the daughter of our people,'
the good and lamented Queen I
• Her name, embalmed by those exalted virtues which
added so much lustre to her life and her reign, will
find a passport -to the love and veneration of posterity I
The days of her life wereim/y 'so many acts of ben&
licence. She supported she aged and patronised the
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