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,cycr with any other quarter of the world, is 

 cfteemed more than Imperial Tokai is in Great 

 Britain. Every individual of this truly refpec- 

 table afTemblage loaded us with carefles, and 

 fcemed to vie with each other in adls of kind- 

 jicfs towards us. 



We returned to the General's about four, 

 \vheii dinner was announced, and we were moft 

 fumptuoufly entertained ; we fat down, about 

 forty in numberp to a fplendid dinner of three 

 courfes, and an elegant defert ; but fuch is the 

 &y\c in which his Excellency lives. 



In the evening we were conducfled to the 

 quarters which had been provided for us. His 

 Excellency had already diflinguillied me, and 

 faid, as wc took leave, that as he was unable to 

 accommodate me jn his own houfe, he had di- 

 recled haU of his Adjutant-General's to be pre- 

 pared for me ; Lieutenant Drummond exprefled 

 a delire to be lodged with me ; when, finding 

 there was fufficient room, I requefted that a bed 

 might be prepared for him which was accord- 

 ingly done. Next morning the Lieutenant-Co- 

 lonel of engineers, who had a<fled as interpreter 

 the day before, came to my quarters to require 

 that I would accompany him to the General'^?. 

 In compliance with this rcqued I immediately 

 went, when, after fome convcrfation on various 

 fubjecis, his Excellency told me, that it would 



be 



