when, for no reasonable cause that can be assigned, he placed his
own single will in opposition to the necessities of France,
which, in order to purchase a peace become necessary to the
kingdom, was reduced to gratify Britain by prohibiting the
residence of Charles within any part of the French dominions. It
was in vain that France endeavoured to lessen the disgrace of
this step by making the most flattering offers, in hopes to
induce the prince of himself to anticipate this disagreeable
alternative, which, if seriously enforced, as it was likely to
be, he had no means whatever of resisting, by leaving the kingdom
as of his own free will. Inspired, however, by the spirit of
hereditary obstinacy, Charles preferred a useless resistance to a
dignified submission, and, by a series of idle bravadoes, laid
the French court under the necessity of arresting their late
ally, and sending him to close confinement in the Bastille, from
which he was afterwards sent out of the French dominions, much in
the manner in which a convict is transported to the place of his
destination.

In addition to these repeated instances of a rash and inflexible
temper, Dr. King also adds faults alleged to belong to the
prince's character, of a kind less consonant with his noble birth
and high pretensions. He is said by this author to have been
avaricious, or parsimonious at least, to such a degree of
meanness, as to fail, even when he had ample means, in relieving
the sufferers who had lost their fortune, and sacrificed all in
his ill-fated attempt. [The approach is thus expressed by Dr.
King, who brings the charge:--'But the most odious part of his
character is his love of money, a vice which I do not remember to
have been imputed by our historians to any of his ancestors, and