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placency was somewhat tried. For five of these children 

 he found situations in Germany. He took the parents 

 and one of the children, a pretty little girl, with him to 

 England, in 1798, but found it necessary soon to send 

 them back to Germany. He engaged, in Aichner's 

 place, a capable young Englishman, named Roice, who, 

 being a carpenter, proved quite useful to him in im- 

 proving the house which he purchased at Brompton. 

 The German servants returned to Bavaria before the 

 daughter came to America. She thought they suffered 

 from homesickness, and, with an indirect reference to 

 her own feelings, she asked her father to read Cowper's 

 verses, 



" O solitude ! where are the charms," etc. 



Sarah adds that though her father was not received as 

 the Bavarian ambassador, he was honorably and heartily 

 welcomed by all classes of people. The Palmerstons 

 were his most intimate friends, and he was on terms of 

 the freest and most cordial relations with them. The 

 Count would seldom pass his Lordship's house, in 

 Hanover Square, without going in, and in the season 

 for it he made constant visits to the superb estate at 

 Broadlands. Lady Palmerston, as woman and house- 

 keeper, was the ideal of Miss Sarah's admiration. She 

 made her home so attractive to her guests that they did 

 not know how to leave it. " It was a kind of an en- 

 chanted castle, where there were regular reunions of the 

 first society, entertained with amusements and splendid 

 hospitality." Still, the daughter says, her father's posi- 

 tion in England was a <c let-down " from what it had 

 been in Bavaria, and he felt the change in the considera- 

 tion practised towards him. His house, at Brompton, 

 a few minutes' walk from Piccadilly, was " pretty," and 



