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your friendly opinion, corrections, and advice. Many 

 parts of it are but sketches, and many perhaps 

 wrong ; but I hope it will promote the study. Some 

 parts are new and original. I am about the Pro- 

 dromus Flora Grcecce. You would hardly think that 

 I can scarcely do more than ten or twelve species in 

 that work in a whole morning from ten o'clock till 

 three. 



I heard a curious anecdote today from indubi- 

 table authority. At the conference at Tilsit, the 

 King of Prussia, who, it seems, is a beau, had a pair 

 of long pantaloons. Buonaparte said, " If your 

 majesty puts on those yourself, it must be very 

 troublesome. Pray do you begin buttoning them 

 at the top or bottom?" He told the Queen, " he 

 was too old to be influenced by her beaux yeux ; " 

 which, it seems, the Emperor of Russia docs not 

 find so innocent. Adieu, my dear Sir. 



Believe me ever your affectionate 



J. E. Smith. 



Sir J. E>. Smith to Mr. Roscoe. 



Hall Place, near Maidenhead, June 12, 1810. 

 My dear Friend, 

 Tired with the bustle of town, — suffocated and 

 sleepless with the smoke and east wind, — I am come 

 here for a few days to breathe and sleep, and to 

 enjoy the society of some valuable old friends in 

 their antique spacious mansion, amid vast avenues 



