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we could get no supper till she came home ; and then 

 it was very bad. 



Get* 2. Walked with our laquais de place to pay 

 visits, having sent our letters. Only found Brown at 

 home, but overwhelmed with business. Dined at 

 Kouch's. Mr Merry, the Charge d' Affaires, in Lord 

 Eobert Fitzgerald's absence, called in the evening, 

 also Howden, who was croaking like an old frog, and 

 read more Hamburg failures from his note-book ; but 

 he joined in Merry's tune of its being 30 much the 

 better, as it must hurt the enemy. 



Oct. 3. Dined at LubelTs. Mitchell, the English 

 consul in Norway, was there a violent Ministerialist, 

 and great advocate for the late King of Sweden, of 

 whom he talked much. Said he was in a coffee- 

 house in Stockholm at the time of the revolution. 



Oct. 4. Saw Thorkelin, who behaved in a very 

 easy and agreeable manner to us, and showed us 

 every civility, taking us about to the college and 

 library. He is keeper of the archives, which he 

 showed us all over, and told me, at the same time, to 

 conceal it, as I was the first foreigner who had seen 

 them/"" There is a vast collection of treaties, well 

 arranged and preserved : the principal ones which I 

 looked over were those with Cromwell in 1651 

 Elizabeth Joseph II. Peter the Great ; the Dan- 



* Grim Jonnson Thorkelin, a celebrated Scandinavian archaeologist, 

 a native of Iceland. At the period of the visit he was well known in 

 society in Britain, having spent several years in this country pursuing 

 researches into the connection between the Scandinavian nations and 

 the British Islands. 



