his wife) were collated to respectable situations in her household.

Towards the end of October the Princess arrived at Rome, where she was visited by the Ex-King and Queen of Spain, and the Queen of Etruria with her children. On the 2d of November she had an audience of the Pope, who received her with the greatest affability, and with all the respect due to her rank. The same day her Royal Highness visited the Vatican, the Prince Canino, and the workmanship of the celebrated Canova. The Prince Canino, on the 3d, gave a brilliant fête to her Royal Highness. On the 9th of November the Princess of Wales arrived at Naples, and was received with distinguished honor. The King went to meet her, and these illustrious personages entered the city about five in the afternoon, in the King's carriage, amidst loud acclamations. A guard of honor from the royal guard was stationed at the Princéss's residence. On the 17th the King of Naples visited the school of Mars Diversa, where his Majesty waited the arrival of her Royal Highness. The King invited her to a collation, which she accepted, and about four o'clock these illustrious personages took their road to the capital. Princess sat in the King's carriage on his right hand; all the inhabitants of the road, from Aversa to Naples, preceding them, and hailing their monarch and their royal visitor with loud and long-continued acclamations. Her Royal Highness remained some time at Naples, honored and esteemed by all who knew her.

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Her Royal Highness remained at Naples until the following March. In January she gave a grand entertainment, the principal feature of which was a masked ball, in which her Royal Highness appeared, attired as the Genius of History, and crowned the bust of King Joachim. Scarcely had her Royal Highness commenced her continental travels, when, by a strange coincidence of circumstances, she lost almost all the English in her suite.

Lady Charlotte Lindsay, at the instance of her brother (Lord Glenbervie) left the Princess of Wales at Leghorn, hay

ing remained with her Royal Highness only 24 days. Lady Elizabeth Forbes took her departure at even an earlier period. Sir William Gell was compelled to forego the honor of attending upon the Princess, in the capacity of chamberlain, in consequence of a severe fit of the gout, and his colleague, the honorable Keppel Craven, was obliged to visit Germany on family affairs, and, in order to meet his mother, the Margravine of Anspach; Captain Hess was recalled to join his regiment; M. St. Leger went no further than Brunswick. Subsequently, however, the Princess wrote to him to join her at Genoa, at the same time offering the post of maid of honor to his daughter: he, however, declined the honor, alleging ill health as the reason. Her Royal Highness then made a similar proposal to Sir Humphrey and Lady Davy, who also declined to accept it. Mr. Rose (brother of the English minister at Berlin) was next applied to; but he refused on the plea of illhealth; as did also Mr. Davenport, and Mr. Hartop (cousin of Mr. Brougham.)

From Naples her Royal Highness went towards Rome, remaining on the way three days at Civita Vecchia: she then passed on to Genoa, where she met with Lady Glenbervie and her Lord; but they could not be prevailed upon to accept of situations in her suite. The Clorinde frigate brought Lady Charlotte Campbell and her daughter to Genoa; to the latter the same proposition was made, with similar success.

From Genoa, May 15, accompanied by Bergami, still in the capacity of a courier, her Royal Highness returned to Milan, on board the Clorinde, where she was joined by Lady Charlotte Campbell, who remained with her a few weeks, during which term she paid her own expenses, and kept a separate table.

It was now that her Royal Highness received into her service, as a lady of honor, the Countess of Oldi, sister to Bergami, who filled the situation previously occupied by Lady Lindsay.

Her Royal Highness did not remain long at Milan; she soon set out for Venice. In August, 1815, she visited Mount

St. Gothard; thence she proceeded to the Borromeo Islands. Her Majesty next proceeded to Balanzoni, at which place Bergami was admitted, for the first time, to a seat at her Royal Highness's table. She afterwards went to Lugano.

Her Royal Highness at length purchased an elegant villa of the Countess of Pino, upon the banks of the lake of Como, situated only a short distance from the town of that name. The country around this pleasant casino is varied and beautiful. The house looked directly on the lake, and the garden, which was most tastefully laid out, contributed much to the beauty of the scene. Her Royal Highness had an avenue of trees, planted at her own expense, of nearly two miles in length, reaching from Como to her palace. Here she fixed her residence for a time, occasionally making excursions to other places.

Her Royal Highness remained at Villa D'Este until November, 1815, on the 15th of which month she embarked, with her suite, on board H. M. ship Leviathan, Captain Briggs, for Palermo. Her Royal Highness remained on board until the 26th November; having visited Elba, and arrived at Palermo on that day, where she went to court, accompanied by Bergami, now elevated from the rank of courier to that of chamberlain. From thence she went to Messina, where she remained several weeks. On 6th January, 1816, her Royal Highness embarked on board the Clorinde frigate, (the vessel which had previously carried her from Civita Vecchia to Genoa,) for Syracuse. On this occasion the respectable commander of the vessel, Captain Pechel, who, but a short time before, had been accustomed to see Bergami act in the capacity of a menial servant, very properly refused to associate himself at the same table with her Royal Highness' new chamberlain, and remonstrated with her accordingly. After taking two days to consider of it, she finally declined the table and society of Captain Pechel. On the 30th of the month her Royal Highness arrived at Syracuse, and thence proceeded to Catania, and afterwards to Augusta in Sicily. During her stay at Catania the Princess of Wales

obtained for Bergami the title of Knight of Malta, and on her arrival at Augusta, that of Baron della Francina. At the latter place her Royal Highness honored her chamberlain with her portrait, taken in a Turkish dress.

From Augusta the Princess of Wales set sail, with her suite, for Tunis in Africa, in a polacre, hired for the purpose. In this vessel her Royal Highness sailed from Tunis to Utica. On April 16th, 1816, she arrived at Latona.

From Africa the Princess of Wales sailed to Athens, where she arrived on 22d April, 1816, having remained one day at Malta. After visiting some of the Grecian Islands, she proceeded from Athens to Constantinople, and thence to Ephesus.

At Jerusalem, where her Royal Highness had a picture painted of herself and suite, (in which she was represented as riding upon an ass, in imitation, it may be presumed, of the Great Author of Christianity,) she instituted a new order of knighthood, entitled the order of St. Caroline, of which she constituted Bergami the grand master.

At Jaffa, the Princess of Wales embarked on board the polacre. On this voyage, the weather being remarkably sultry, her Royal Highness had a tent fitted up for herself and her chamberlain on deck, under which they reposed at night, without the presence of any other person, for several weeks. This circumstance formed an important feature of the subsequent trial of her Royal Highness, on her return to this country, to claim her rights and privileges as a queen.

In September, 1816, her Royal Highness once more took up her residence at Villa d'Este, on the lake of Como. Some time after her return she purchased a splendid seat, which she presented to her chamberlain. It was subsequently designated the Villa Bergami.

In February, 1817, her Royal Highness made a tour in Germany. Passing through Inspruck, she arrived at Carlsrhue, where she remained a short time. After this the Princess pursued her way to Tivoli: she returned through Milan to the Villa d'Este, whence, after staying a short time, her Royal

Highness pässed on to Rome. Here she resided, with her suite, at the Rupinella Pallace, a house which formerly belonged to one of Buonaparte's family; but soon after took up her abode at a house called the Villa Branchi. From the latter place, in August, the Princess returned once more to Milan. About this time she visited the Barona, in January, 1817, for the purpose of proceeding to Trieste.

On 9th August, 1817, the Princess of Wales arrived at Pesaro, where she made a temporary sojourn. On her return to the Villa d'Este, she made several excursions to various parts of Italy. Of this estate, however, her Royal Highness subsequently disposed, and proceeded to Pesaro, a town in Italy, situated about 130 miles from Rome, where she possessed some property.

Her Royal Highness, during the period of her sojourn at Augusta in Sicily, distributed, daily, money among the poor people. At Tunis, she obtained the liberty of several slaves, and paid the debts of one of them. She gave to the new academy at Athens five hundred of the pieces called colonnates, and she allowed two hundred annually to the same academy, paid into the hands of the banker, Scaramanzo, at Constantinople. All who were in prison for debt were liberated by her, for which she paid seven hundred pieces into the hands of the governor and she gave two hundred pieces to a poor and numerous Roman family resident in that city. To the conventual fathers of Jerusalem she gave five hundred pieces, and settled on them two hundred annually, to be received from the banker already mentioned; finally, she distributed at Rome two hundred pieces to the poor of that city.

This account of her Royal Highness's benefactions, which we have a sincere pleasure in recording, is extracted from a pamphlet purporting to have been written by an English traveller, entitled "Anecdotes of the Princess of Wales." We trust that the above statements are somewhat more authentic than the general details of this traveller would seem to be: we are at least willing to believe them so.

Of much of the period of her Royal Highness's protracted