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Meanwhile the remains of James wore escorted, in the chap.

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dusk of the evening, by a slender retinue to the Chapel of nirn -the English Benedictines at Paris, and deposited there inthe vain hope that, at some future time, they would be laidwith kingly pomp at Westminster among the graves of thePlantagenets and Tudors,

Three days after these humble obsecpiies Lewis visitedSaint Germains in form. On the morrow the visit was asTing!returned. The French Court was now at Yersailles; andthe Pretender was received there, in all points, as hisfather would have been, sate in his father’s arm chair,took, as his father had always done, the right hand ofthe great monarch, and wore the long violet colouredmantle which was by ancient usage the mourning garb ofthe Kings of France. There was on that day a great con-course of ambassadors and envoys; but one well knownfigure was wanting. Manchester had sent off to Loo in-telligence of the affront which had been offered to hiscountry and his master, had solicited instructions, andhad determined that, till these instructions should arrive,he would live in strict seclusion. lie did not think thathe should be justified in quitting his post without expressorders; but his earnest hope was that he should be directedto turn his back in contemptuous defiance on the Courtwhich had dared to treat England as a subject province.

As soon as the fault into which Lewis had been hurriedby pity, by the desire of applause, and by female influence