Alfred de Rosann — page 188: what you’re looking at

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ALFRED DE ROSANN. 179 to take an active part in the civil conflict. Mr. Clayton entertained the same suspicions ; but he af- fected a certainty, which he did not feel, that our hero would not interfere in the disordered state of affairs. At the request of his niece, he accordingly wrote the following note to De Rosann :— “ My dear Alfred, “Jy have wronged you, and have at length discovered my error. Forgive me, my friend—and believe that the tale must have been very specious to have so grossly misled me. I hope to see you here as speedily as possible, ‘“‘ Yours, affectionately, “ July 29th, 1830. : WiLiiAM Crayton.” This laconic epistle was not despatched to Meu- rice’s Hotel until the following morning ; as no one could be found to venture into the streets until a pro- clamation, signed by General Lafayette, publicly declared that the strife was concluded, and that the citizens of Paris might ventureabroad in perfectsafety. Three days were thus sufficient for. an incensed people to cast off their chains, and hurl a tyrant from his throne. The rash king, when it was too late, in vain sent messengers to the chiefs of the revolutionary body : no compromise could be made with a monarch who had violated the liberties of his subjects, and had drawn upon himself by his own misdeeds a righteous doom. Exiled from his native land, abandoned by the numerous dependants he had lately seen humbling their heads to his august presence, the royal wanderer left his regal halls at St. Cloud, and fruitlessly deplored the follies that had deprived him of a crown he might have worn in peace. The dynasty of the Bourbons was thus overthrown—the tri-coloured banner waved on every house—the news of this great and sudden blow was quickly spread over the face of the country —and till the end of time must the Genius of France, as she turns the pages of her favourite nation’s annals, point to the one on which are recorded the glorious events of the 27th, 28th, and 29th of July, 1830. Gomicbooks (€)