Lives of the last four princesses of the royal house of Stuart

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august mother, to whom they pay the most tender and
dutiful attention. To these precious ones of hers, who
are adorned with the virtues of their father, it is her care
to inculcate sentiments of gratitude towards the illustrious
protector, who in a foreign land, by a thousand friendly
cares, mitigates the hardships of their adverse destiny.
We will now," continues the sprightly old wit, " speak of
our beauties, those stars of St. Germains who are always
cruel and disdainful. Winter is drawing to an end,
and they are beginning to prepare their nets against the
spring. They have repaired, washed, and spread out all the
delicate laces of which their cornettes are composed, to
bleach in your garden. All the bushes there are covered
with them, like so many spiders' webs. They are putting
all their fallals in order, and in the mean time, plunged
in sweet reveries, they permit the designs to sleep on
their tapestry frames."
Hamilton describes the royal brother and sister, as
possessing great personal attractions. " The figure of our
young King," pursues he, " might be chosen by a painter
for the model of the god of love, if such a deity dared be
represented in the saintly court of St. Germains. As for
the Princess, her hair is very beautiful, and of the love-
liest tint of brown. Her complexion reminds us of the
most delicate tints of the fairest flowers of spring ; she
has her brother's features in a softer mould, and her
mother's eyes." In another description of her, he says
of the Princess : " She has the plumpness one adores in a
divinity of sixteen, with the freshness of an Aurora ; and
if anything more can be said, it is on the roundness and
whiteness of her arms."
The portrait of a beautiful nameless Princess, in the
costume of the beginning of the eighteenth century, in
the guard chamber at Hampton Court, will readily be