The two princes of Prussia, quartered in a village near Coblentz, had but one room, and slept on the floor.

The king of Prussia was welcomed on every bank of the Rhine by the salvos of his artillery.

In every town through which he passed the _emigres_, the population, and the troops, proclaimed him beforehand the preserver of Germany.

His name, written in letters of fire at the illuminations, was surrounded by this adulatory device, "_Vivat Villelmus, Francos deleat, jura regis restituat!"-- "Long live William, the exterminator of the French, the restorer of royalty._" XII.
Coblentz, a town situated on the confluence of the Moselle and the Rhine, in the states of the Elector of Treves, had become the capital of the French _emigres_.

A constantly increasing body of gentlemen, to the number of twenty-two thousand, assembled there, around the seven fugitive princes of the house of Bourbon.