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self any very just or distinct ideas as to how is to be procured. She is now, alas! gone to vy them her society; for she is very delightful s in low spirits; and as to any ridicule that t on her,' the charm of her superiority is, that de and its variety is such as to allow one to well as with her.

am again at the end of my paper, without you a word of news. I really next time vith the gazette. The Locks are well, and at Norbury. You will probably have heard 's strange marriage (I must call it so)

His conduct in the whole affair was e talked of having no heart to bestow, and hearts' going together; while he left poor to lament not having accepted this said , which was entirely at her disposal last marriage was at the Lady had two or three days before, and Lord At 8 o'clock in the morning, after this pair themselves set out for S

el out of humour with myself, dear, until ed you for your delightful letter of the like such letters? Can you doubt it? and write to me in a matter-of-fact way ? ! Your letter is a model which I beg to, and which I heartily wish I had any able to follow in my answer. But alas! , joined to very untoward circumstances, I (yet more than age) in reducing me to of-fact person, for which I am tired of have been in Italy-I have seen Genoa, y senses inebriated with orange flowers, e perfumes of the south-I have seen the lian sun, rising and setting in the MediI have gazed in endless soul-sufficing akes and mountains of Switzerland-I

remember (but too well) that such things were, and were most dear to me, though I know them to be all illusions.

"But this, you will say, is not the way in which you wish to have a letter filled from England, addressed to an English person at Rome. My matter-of-facticity may here for once be agreeable. But where to begin? Facts in this age are so crowded together, and drive one another on with such rapidity, that hardly any leave their due impression on one's mind-even on minds like mine, which have nothing to do but to look on. A letter, received to-day from Mrs. tells me you had heard of the ever-memorable battle of Waterloo on the 18th of June, and of what had happened at Paris, in consequence of it. Never was there in modern, nor I believe in ancient times, a battle so disputed, a victory so complete in itself, and so mighty in its consequences. "I am sorry to find you have not got Madame de Staël and her atmosphere near you, for a thousand reasons; amongst others, she would keep you au courant des événemens; for Rome (do not think me impertinent for saying so) is a corner of the world which is six months behind all the rest of it in news of every sort. How that degraded nation, France, is to get itself settled is yet a mystery. Degraded I call it, not for having lost a battle, or half a dozen battles, but for the unvarying want of faith and neglect of moral truth, common to all its rulers, of whatever party, and all the ruled, conquering or conquered. Oh! if ever a great moral lesson was exhibited to the world, of the necessity of truth to the existence of nations as much as to the wellbeing of individuals, it is in the wretched state to which France has reduced itself by universal falsehood. To talk of this nation or that, or of all Europe together, giving France slavery or liberty, is talking nonsense. Whatever her fate, she must give it herself; and it can never be any thing but a variety of wretchedness,' till both the governors, (whoever they may be) and the governed have seen the absolute necessity of keeping faith with one another.

"Lord Grantham arrived here yesterday, direct from

Paris, which he left only on the night of Wednesday last. He had gone over with his brother-in-law, Sir Lowry Cole, when he joined the army, after a honeymoon of one week only, with Lady Frances Harris, Lord Malmesbury's daughter. Lord Grantham entered Paris with the Duke of Wellington. It was done in the most modest and least offensive manner possibleno lace, no feathers, no flourish of trumpets. He took up his abode at a house in the corner of the Place de Louis XV, with English sentinels at his door, and English sentinels wherever there were English functionaries, but no where else. Lord Wellington promised the men, that he would pay them up all their arrears and one month's pay in advance, and that by turns every corps should be in Paris. This I think a very right attention and honour to troops that so fought. In the meantime they are behaving so perfectly well, that Lord Grantham says everybody is desirous to have the English within their houses; and the people say they are doux comme des demoiselles. 1 begin to be afraid that, like the jay in the fable, we shall all burst with national pride; for never, to be sure, did we stand half so high before. Of Mrs. -'s friend and favourite nothing was known at Paris when Lord Grantham left it. His name was never mentioned by any body or any party. This proves that there must be a secret understanding about him between the French leaders and those of the allies; otherwise he is as attainable at Rochefort, where he is said to have been for this last fortnight, as anywhere else.

"I find I have nearly covered over all my paper with talking about France-of which, by Madame de Staël's letter, you will know much more than myself. She has marvellous powers of exciting sentiments which she never felt. Not that she is false-far from it-I never knew a less affected mind; she shows herself to those who know her well, exactly what she is-though by no means exactly as she wishes to be thought. Her intellect, like her feelings has a much greater power of rousing that of others, than of enlightening and settling herself. But it is still a very superior intellect, and I should

The extraordinary event of poor Whitbread's death uld shock you, though you did not know him. The y Sunday evening before, he spent with me, and the en or eight men who were beside of the party, saw alteration in his spirits or his manner. I saw and oke to him, driving in Park Lane, between four and e o'clock of the very day before the deed was done, d made the same observation. But he had been at es in a dreadful state of depression during the last ee weeks; and the state of his skull when opened, octor Baillie told me, more than accounted for any acts violence; the bone was enlarged, and certain little culæ at the edge of it, pressed immediately on the ain; a disease, he says, which invariably occasioned e most violent irritation of mind. He had sworn Lady izabeth to take no notice of his altered state, either to r mother or Lord Grey; which hung so heavily on r mind afterwards, that she saw several times the shop of London on the subject. A better counsellor e could not have. Never did the death of any private lividual make so great a sensation in London; and ord Tavistock's mention of him in the House of Comons, made half the House in tears.

"Tell me when next you write, what you have heard the Princess of Wales. In London, it is as though ch a being had never existed. Things appear to be ing on smoothly at court; that is to say no fault is und with the Regent, he is heartily glad at the Prinss's absence. Did you ever hear a clear account of a ck and a bull story which reached England some onths ago, of Hownam's having challenged Ompteda, d of a servant having betrayed the Princess to the anoverian spy, given him false keys to her drawers, c.? I own I believe Ompteda is set to watch Her oyal Highness. Heavens! how mean must be the and that would undertake to occupy itself with such rty work. Princess Charlotte has decidedly and for

'incess Charlotte's bridegroom. I cannot help tender pity for one so young, and so lovely ble for her own sake, as this Princess, being 1 by her rank to marry from convenance. I hope emain true to her mother. But if that mother thing imprudent, her case is a lost one; and prudent as she! They say Prince Leopold is owards the Princess of Wales, and that for 1, Princess Charlotte inclines towards him. I may not be deceived, and that His Royal loes not make promises in order to win the r future Queen, which he may never intend He is after all but a petty Prince for the The British throne. I hear, however, he is which is more than the Prince of Orange is. "Yours, &c."

if it be indeed true, that Princess Charlotte Leopold. I think her heart was in favour of

; but I suppose such an alliance would een permitted; it would open the door to ate intrigues, and jealousies, if Royal pere permitted to marry private individuals or ve seen the Prince of Saxe Cobourg, and well-looking, but not noble in his air or and his expression was not to me pleasing; nd caché, his forehead low, and he never erson to whom he is speaking. But it is uch a determined disciple of Lavater as I ow_oneself to be prejudiced either for, or on by their countenance, which is after all eacherous guide. Nevertheless, I cannot ongly influenced by the impression a permy makes upon me; I would not disreall voice which warns me, as if instinccome, or bids me trust in others. e the Duchess of D

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