eyrand talk at seventy-eight. He opens the stores of his
memory and pours forth a stream on any subject connected with his
past life. Nothing seems to have escaped from that great treasury
of bygone events.

[5] [Mr. Greville had paid a visit with his father to the
little Court of Louis XVIII. at Hartwell about two
years before the Restoration, when he was eighteen
years of age. His narrative of this visit has been
printed in the fifth volume of the 'Miscellany of the
Philobiblon Society,' but it may not be inappropriately
inserted here.]

A VISIT TO HARTWELL.
April 14th, 1814.

I have often determined to commit to paper as much
as I can remember of my visit to Hartwell; and, as the
King is about to ascend the throne of his ancestors, it
is not uninteresting to recall to mind the particulars
of a visit paid to him while in exile and in poverty.
About two years ago my father and I went to
Hartwell by invitation of the King. We dressed at
Aylesbury, and proceeded to Hartwell in the afternoon.
We had previously taken a walk in the environs of the
town, and had met the Duchesse d'Angouleme on
horseback, accompanied by a Madame Choisi. At five
o'clock we set out to Hartwell. The house is large, but
in a dreary, disagreeable situation. The King had
completely altered the interior, having subdivided
almost all the apartments in order to lodge a greater
number of people. There were numerous outhouses, in
some of which small shops had been established by the
servants, interspersed with gardens, so that the place
resembled a little town.
Upon entering the house we were conducted by the
Duc de Grammont into the King's private apartment. He
received us most graciously and shook hands with both
of us. This apartment was exceedingly small, hardly
larger than a closet, and I remarked pictures of the
late King and Queen, Madame Elizabeth, and the Dauphin,
Louis XVII., hanging on the walls. The King had a
manner of swinging his body backwards and forwards,
which caused the most unpleasant sensations in that