The deposed monarch and his despairing household stood upon the deck of the vessel as it was towed by a steamer out of the harbor. As the sails were unfurled, and filled with a favoring breeze, they sadly watched the receding shores of France. There was no parting salute. It was a funereal scene. Even the most ardent Loyalists could not raise a cheer. A few hours' sail conveyed the silent, melancholy court to England, and thence to Scotland, where an asylum was found in the ancient palace of Holyrood, immortalized as the scene of the sufferings of Mary Queen of Scots. Thus fell the throne of Charles X. CHAPTER VIII. THE STRUGGLES OF DIPLOMACY. 1830 Birth of the Duke of Bordeaux, now called Count de Chambord.--Henry V. and the Regency.--Strength of the Republicans.--Arguments of the Orleanists.--Embarrassment of Louis Philippe.--Indecision.--The pressure of events.--Interview between the baron and the banker.--Plan of the Legitimists.--Anxiety of Lafayette.--Danger of anarchy.--Orleanist proclamation.--Activity of the Legitimists.--Attempts at compromise.--Fears of the Orleanists.--Singular interview.--Agitation of the ducal family.--Strange crisis of affairs.--Appalling rumor.--The ultra Democrats.--The demand for a plebiscite.--Tumultuous scenes.--Resolutions passed by the Republicans.--Arrogance of the Polytechnic pupils.--Increasing anxiety and peril.--The panic.--Two imperialists.--Testimony of Louis Blanc.--The Empire.--The mob at Neuilly.--The duke visits Paris.--Scene in the Palais Royal.--Advice of Talleyrand.--Proclamation of Louis Philippe. Upon the sudden overthrow of the throne of Charles X. by a revolution in the streets of Paris, four parties appeared, struggling for the crown. Charles, as he fled with his court in terror from France, threw back a decree of abdication in favor of his grandson, the Count de Chambord, then entitled the Duke de Bordeaux. This child, who still lives, was then about ten years old. The birth of this child, whom the Legitimists call Henry V., and whom they regard as the legitimate heir to the ancient throne of the Bourbons, was hailed with rejoicing throughout France. It is recorded that quite a dramatic scene occurred at his birth. His grandfather, Charles X., hastened to the chamber, and, seizing the new-born babe in his arms, exclaimed, with delight, "Here is a fine Duke de Bordeaux! He is born for us all!" He then gave the child a few drops of the wine of Pau, with which tradition says that the aged father of Jeanne d'Albret anointed the lips of her child, Henry IV., before the babe was allowed to place his mouth to his mother's breast. The heroic mother of the young duke, the Duchess de Berri, whose subsequent fate was so deplorable, said to the king, the father of her departed husband, "Sire, I wish I knew the song of Jeanne d'Albret, that every thing might be done here as at the birth of Henry IV."