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had many anecdotes to relate of former times.* It 

 must be added that nothing we heard of Gustavus 

 III. tended to raise our opinion of him in any respect, 

 but for his talents. His public conduct is well known; 

 but he had left a very indifferent impression in soci- 

 ety of his private and personal character. 



This was the opinion of others, as well as ours, of 

 whom he mentioned Edward Daniel Clarke, and his 

 pupil Cripps. They came to Stockholm while we were 

 there on their Scandinavian tour, which they extended 

 to Greece ; and Clarke has published a full account 

 of it.t We became acquainted with one who proved 

 another author of ' Travels ' some years after Acerbi 

 who with his friend Beletti had come from the Mi- 

 lanese, and was afterwards in Marescalchi's mission 

 to Paris. He amused us with an account of a famous 

 clairvoyante who had operated upon his friend and 

 him with different results. When the question was 

 put to Beletti, " Doit - on aimer sa patrie ? " he 

 answered, " Quand on en a une," which Acerbi said 

 was clairvoyante' s power, not only in getting an 

 answer from one in a trance, but such an answer was 

 above his friend's capacity in his natural state. Lom- 

 bardy at that time was neither Austrian nor French. 

 Napoleon only two years after made Melzi vice-pre- 

 fect before he assumed the iron crown himself. 



The country between Stockholm and Ekolsund is 

 rocky and woody some lakes; and the road lies 



* See above. 



t To be found in the six volumes of ' Travels in various Countries of 

 Europe, Asia, and Africa,' well known as Clarke's Travels. 



