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I have been this morning with a Pole, who knows 

 a great deal of pictures, to see an immense salon, 

 opened yesterday at the Louvre, filled with the 

 choicest morceaux of the whole collection, of which 

 the small appendix to the catalogue gives you an 

 account. 



We see a good deal of an extremely pleasant 

 Italian family, whose name is Gallo. The Marquis 

 de Gallo is ambassador here from Naples, and his 

 wife a very accomplished woman. We have been 

 introduced to Lady Mount Cashel, who called on 

 us yesterday and invited us to a ball, the 1st Ger- 

 minal. We dined yesterday with the Rohans at 

 the Bagatelle, and passed the soiree with the Ho- 

 henzollerns, and have abundance of balls in view for 

 next week ; one of which is to be given by Derni- 

 doflf, the richest man in the Russian empire, and 

 who prides himself a little on his magnificence, 

 such as wearing a diamond of 19 carats for a shirt- 

 pin, &c, and is intended merely to astonish the 

 people here. His house and his wife's which ad- 

 joins it, and both of which are very immense and 

 fine, are to be laid open for the night. Adieu! You 

 will think our heads run only on dissipation. 



T. Talbot. 



From Sir Thomas Frankland. 



My dear Sir, Chichester, April 25, 1802. 



As you probably know the sad event of my en- 

 deavours last autumn, I shall only say that I am in 



