8 from Tsabellato Albert. ay 
far as regarded himself ; but with diminifhed splen- 
dor, on account of the unsteady meannefs and dupli- 
city of the prince, his employer. — 
The embafsies, the military transactions, and the 
private anecdotes of this-truly great man, would fill 
several volumes if they were all collected together; 
and altogether would form a monument highly ho- 
nourable to the memory of a man, who, in innume- 
rable trying situations, was always found to act with 
an integrity, .a coolnefs, an intrepidity, and a’Chris- 
tian disposition of mind, that never admitted of even 
an imputation of blame. During the varied tran- 
sactions that occurred in those turbulent times, he 
espoused different sides, as circumstances «seemed to 
point out as proper ; but never «was suspected to 
vary from mean or interested motives, and there- 
fore he continued to be respected by all. He was 
upon the whole, one of the greatest characters as 2 
soldier and negociator, that ever Britain produced. 
.FROMISABELLA TO ALBERT, LETTER III. 
Dear BROTHER, 
‘I wave now got a new piece of information to com- 
municate to you, that I cannot defer one moment. 
‘[ expect in a fhort time to be able to write to you 
like a philesopher.—But I must not waste my paper 
with idle observations;—I have more to say than 
will fill it all; so I must write small! small !—just 
as if I were to write the Lord’s prayer in the size of 
a fhilling. 
We hada visit yesterday from Mrs Bruhl, a most ex- 
traordinary woman !—She hasso much life,—so much 
