The Prince of Wales in Canada and the United States.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1861 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXII. THE VOYAGE HOME. Reception at Portland--Embarkation for the Voyage Home--A Winter Voyage across the Atlantic--Stormy Weather--Delay in reaching England--Home at Last---Conclusion. I Have little more to add to the long record of The Prince's Tour, save his arrival and embarkation at Portland; and having followed His Royal Highness throughout unto this last, a few words more will suffice to bring to a conclusion my narrative of this most remarkable Progress of the Prince of Wales. The good citizens of Portland were, on the whole, rather disappointed that the Prince could make no formal visit to their town, and that it was merely used, in fact, as a port for embarkation. It is only doing justice to their hospitality to state that they left no effort untried which could induce His Royal Highness to extend this part of the programme into a more lengthened visit, and in the hope that they might be successful they had arranged a little series of excursions and fetes for their illustrious visitor, which by dint of early rising and late travelling might possibly have been got through in a week. But the fiat had gone forth that the Prince would embark on the 20th of October, and so, as on every other occasion of this long and varied tour, the programme was adhered to, to the ARRIVAL AT PORTLAND. 423 day, the hour, and the minute. It must have heen almost a painful office for those intrusted to carry out these arrangements on the route to have to refuse these continual kind offers of respect and welcome which were pressed upon the royal party at every town through which they passed. They were refused, however; had they not been, the Prince could scarcely have got through his tour in less than twelve months. So Portland, like the rest, had to remain c...