The Works of George W. M. Reynolds — page 197: what you’re looking at

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180 THE COURT OF LONDON in the memorial sent to his Imperial Majesty that the immediate release of the aforesaid Jocelyn Loftus was ordained.”’ Thus was it that at the commencement of May our hero recovered his freedom, and in the sincerest manner did he express his gratitude to the governor for such kindnesses as he had experienced at his hands. He at once took a post-chaise and proceeded to Chambery in the Piedmontese dominions, and here he learned that the Princess of Wales with her suite was residing at a beautiful villa in the neigh- bourhood of Geneva. But ere he pursued his journey, Jocelyn wrote a long letter to Louisa, explaining to her everything that had taken place, — how he had been im- prisoned at Grenoble, and the circumstances under which he had penned all his correspondence with her and had received her rephes. He also poured forth in an enthusi-— astic strain his declarations of unvarying affection, for he felt that he could now give free vent to his feelings in that respect without the risk of having his letters read by stranger eyes. He also said that he was at present on his way to Geneva to see the princess, and he hoped that in a very short time he should be enabled to return to England and conduct his beloved Louisa to the altar. He also wrote a letter to Lady Sackville, with the contents of which we are not, however, at this period of our narrative, supposed to be acquainted. Having passed the night at Chambery, Jocelyn started at an early hour on the ensuing morning for Geneva, and as he was borne in the post-chaise along one of. those splendid roads for which all the provinces of Savoy and Piedmont are famous, he weighed in his mind the course that he ought to adopt in fulfilling the mission with which he had charged himself toward the injured wife of the prince regent. If she were still surrounded by the spies and agents of the conspirators, as he had every. reason to suspect, 1t would | perhaps be difficult for him to obtain access to her; and if the three Misses Owen still formed a part of her household, they would not merely do all they could to prevent her Royal Highness from granting him an audience, but might even have recourse to representations calculated to blacken his character. He knew how completely her Royal Highness had been under the supervision of the spies and enemies Eomichbooks,. Go