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told us to go, and that if the Due made any objec- 

 tion the Baron must bear the blame. So we went 

 and were introduced to the Due. He is a great, fat 

 man, but goes bustling about and talks to every one. 

 We go to court next Thursday, and we who have 

 not got uniforms are obliged to go in a dress like a 

 Quaker's — all black with a sword and cocked hat. 

 There are immense lots of English here, viz., Pres- 

 ton, McFarlane, Miller, Horrocks, Tomline (who 

 were at Eton) ; two Hopes and Mr. Sproat, their 

 tutor ; another Miller and Mr. Halley, their (Miller's) 

 tutor, who I know was an acquaintance of Miss 

 Applebee's. 



" I think I wrote to you last from Brussels the 

 day I could not go to Waterloo. We passed over 

 the field the next day in the diligence. The conductor 

 had been a French soldier and was wounded there, 

 so he told us all about it. We have been at Cologne, 

 or Koeln as the Germans call it, and came along the 

 banks of the Rhine. They are very fine and must 

 be beautiful when green in summer, but not anything 

 wonderful, I think. There are immense rocky hills 

 covered with firs and copse on each side and vine- 

 yards between them and the river. It has been a 

 hard frost here and there has been some snow, but 

 to-day I am sorry to say it is a thaw. Sir James 

 and Lady Hamilton are here. You may recollect 

 them at Leamington. We have got a young Ger- 

 man clod to clean our shoes and brush docs and be 

 generally useful. He can't sprechcn anything but 

 Deutch, so we hold telegraphic communications, and 



