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Clarke assisted me in looking out something from what I had 

 worn some years back, cap and all. (N.B. The latter of my 

 own making.) I must give you here a German saying, if 

 you do not know it, which is, " Einen jeden Narren gc/allt 

 seine eigene Cappef"* but I cannot say that I was much 

 pleased with mine, I have so very few grey hairs left, which, 

 however, I was told were much admired ! 



Mrs. C. left me with a promise of sending her chair and 

 servant at three-quarters past seven, and was waiting in an 

 ante-room for me to assist me in getting further, and, 

 indeed, the whole evening she did not withdraw her arm 

 from me till she had put me in my chair again, and the next 

 morning she was with me almost before I was out of bed. 

 The King, Princess of Riidolstadt, and one of the Princes of 

 Solms were among the company, and I did not come home 

 without receiving their notice. But I shall not venture on 

 such pranks again, I promise you ! , 



As I am writing this I see it will be my birthday, when I 

 shall be ninety-two years, if I live. My nephew's is the 

 7th, and he will be fifty, but for all that do not think him 

 to be an old man. His father was fifty-four when he first 

 saw the light 



The King of Prussia left magnificent presents among the 

 courtiers, and Generalin Halkett was here on Sunday, and 

 promised to bring me a snuff-box to look at, which the general 

 has received. I begged she would not, for the ladies wear 

 no pockets, and lose their purses, &c., as I daily hear by the 

 town crier. Their pocketkerchiefs they cany open in their 

 hands, which I think very indelicate ; I daresay it is not 

 the fashion in England 



.... I would not wish on any account to see either my 



* Every fool is pleased with his own cap. 



