je vois mes
revolutions." The younger Bourbon of the Orleans branch had learned part
of the lesson of government (of which even the most intelligent of that
race seem destined never to learn the whole) in democratic America and
democratic Switzerland. Perhaps it was in these two essentially
_bourgeois_ countries that he learned the only virtues that
distinguished him as the _Roi Bourgeois, par excellence_.

HEATON PARK, September 18, 1830.
MY DEAR MRS. JAMESON,

Were it not that I should be ashamed to look you in the face when
we meet, which I hope will now be soon, I should be much tempted to
defer thanking you for your last kind letter until that period, for
I am at this moment in the bustle of three departures. My mother
arrived in Manchester this morning, whence my aunt Dall starts
to-night for Buckinghamshire, and my father to-morrow morning at
seven o'clock for London, and at eight my mother and myself start
for Liverpool. I am most anxious to be there for the opening of the
railroad, which takes place on Wednesday. I act in Manchester on
Friday, and after that we shall spend some days with Lord and Lady
W----, at their seat near there; and then I return to London to
begin my winter campaign, when I hope to see you less oppressed
with anxiety and vexation than you were when we parted there. And
now, what shall I say to you? My life for the last three weeks has
been so hurried and busy that, while I have matter for many long
letters, I have hardly time for condensation; you know what Madame
de Sevigne says, "Si j'avais eu plus de temps, je t'aurais ecrit
moins longuement." I have been sight-seeing and acting for the last
month, and the first occupation is really the more exhausting of
the two. I will give you a _carte_, and when we meet you shall call
upon me for a detail of any or all of its contents.

I have seen the fine, picturesque old town of Chester; I have seen
Liverpool, its docks, its cemetery, its railway, on which I was
flown away with by a steam-engine, at the rate of five and thirty
miles an hour; I have seen Manchester, power-looms,
spinning-jennies, cotton factories, etc.; I have stayed at the
pleasant modern mansion of Heaton; I have visited Hopwood Hall,
built in the reign of Edward the First, and still retaining it