in smoke, and a lanthorn to be useful to him should he be inclined to look after his vanished Crown." The Illuminations were general throughout the Country, and one transparency at Aberdeen (April 14th) deserves notice. It was in the window of a Stocking Manufacturer, and represented a Dutch woman fitting herself with a comfortable worsted stocking, exclaiming, "Thank God! Aberdeen hose again." LOUIS _le desiré_ was laid up with gout at Hartwell in Buckinghamshire, and did not hurry himself to enter into his kingdom. It had to be done, however, and, moreover, he had to face a public reception in London on the 20th of April. The Prince Regent, and many of the Nobility, met him at the Abercorn Arms at Stanmore: his postillions being clad in white, with white hats, and white cockades. This fancy for exhibiting white, in honour of the colour of the Bourbon flag, took odd expression, for some people exhibited sheets, and even pillow cases were requisitioned. All the nobility and gentry of that part of Middlesex, and, indeed, almost all who could muster a horse, went a mile or so from Stanmore to meet the King, and accompany him; nay, there were even the regulation fools, who took the horses out of his Carriage, and drew him in what they called _triumph_ to the Abercorn Arms, where the poor old gouty King was lifted out, and tottered to the Inn, where the Regent awaited him. No longer the Comte de Lisle, he was now Louis the Eighteenth, the _desiré_ of his people, and a very important person. They waited at the Inn until the procession was formed, and then they set out in the following order, at twenty minutes past three:-- One hundred Gentlemen on horseback. Horse Trumpeters in their splendid gold lace dresses. A numerous party of the Royal Horse Guards. Six Royal Carriages, beautiful bays to each, the servants with white Cockades. An outrider to each Carriage. A party of the Royal Horse Guards. _1st Carriage._ The great Officers of the French Crown; the Dukes d'Havre and de Grammont, Captains of his Majesty's Guards; Count de Blacas, Grand Master of the Wardrobe; and Chevalier de Riviere, his Majesty's first Equerry. _2nd Carriage._ The King of France, the Prince Regent, the Duchesse d'Angoulême, the Prince de Condé. _3rd Carriage._ The Duc de Bourbon. _4th Carriage._ The Duchesse d'Angoulême's Ladies of Honour. _5th Carriage._ Equerries of his Majesty. _6th Carriage._ Other Officers of the Royal Household. An Officer of the Royal Horse Guards rode at each window, and a numerous party of Horse closed the procession. They proceeded at a slow trot till they came to Kilburn, when they commenced a walking pace, and a groom to the head of each horse was added.