_The Crown of France_ is endangered in a similar fashion. It will be remembered that the stability of the government of Louis the Sixteenth received its first shock from the Duke of Orleans, who, imitating the factious conduct of the Prince of Wales at home, was in alliance with the enemies of the throne; in the case of the Duke, with the Revolutionary parties of France.
The royal French Stag is run down at Versailles. The Duke of Orleans, first Prince of the blood, is acting as whipper-in. He is dressed in a fantastic habit of _le sport_, a compromise between a French postilion and a huntsman; he is winding on his pack with _une corne de chasse_. The individuals constituting the aristocratic French pack are described below the print, the names giving some indication of the members of that Palais Royale clique of intriguers which wrought so much evil to the reigning branch. Certain members of the Orleans pack were destined to become notorious on the theatre of events which were then impending over France.
1. _Madame La C'tesse de Buffon._ 2. _Madme. La C'tesse de Blot._ 3. _Le Cte. de Touche._ 4. _Le Mqis. de Sillery._ 5. _Le Cte. de Vauban._ 6. _Le Bn. de Talleyrand_ (who, in the hunt, has seized the royal stag with his teeth). 7. _M. de Simon._
1790. _Philip Quarrel, the English Hermit, and Beau Fidelle, the mischievous She-Monkey, famous for her skill on the viol de gamba._--Philip Thicknesse, leaving his hermitage in the background (see _Public Characters_, 1806), is journeying along one mile from Bath; the ex-Governor of Languard Fort is in regimentals, but instead of a hat the artist has drawn a boar's head, the present of Lord Jersey, above that of the _Hermit_. More particular reference to this boar's head is made in the _Gentleman's Magazine_, 1761, pp. 34, 79.
Across Philip's back is slung his wooden gun;[37] under his left arm are held his writings, which gained him but equivocal fame; a bare axe, marked '_Gratitude_,' is in his right hand; the Duke of _Marlboro's pistols_ are in his belt; he has a _Subscription Scheme, Gunpowder_, as a cartouche-box, and his foot is resting on the _Vagrant Act_. Miss Ford (Mrs. Thicknesse), as _Beau Fidelle_, is following _Quarrel's_ wanderings; her _viol de gamba_ is strapped across her back.