100 THE KOYAL INSTITUTION. [CHAP. II. 



But I know positively, and it is my greatest consolation, 

 that I shall be permitted to return quietly to my retreat at 

 Auteuil. 



Adieu, my dear Sally. I shall write to you again, I 

 think, before leaving Munich ; but you had better not write 

 me, lest I should be already set out on my return. 



My health is perfectly good, and I am very happy. All 

 my late sufferings are forgotten. I feel as if just relieved 

 from an insupportable weight. God be thanked for my 

 delivery! All your friends here have desired to be re- 

 membered to you. Adieu, my dear Sally ; make yourself 

 as comfortable and happy as you can, and be assured that 

 I have at length quite recovered my reason, and that I am 

 now persuaded that all that has happened to me has been 

 most fortunate for me. I am now a free man. 



Munich, October 24, 1810. 



You will perceive that this is the anniversary of my 

 marriage. I am happy to call it to mind, that I may 

 compare my present situation with the three and a half 

 horrible years I was living with that tyrannical, avari- 

 cious, unfeeling woman. You can have no idea, my dear 

 Sally, what I had to suffer during the last fourteen months 

 indeed, during the whole three years and a half I lived in 

 that house but the closing six months was a purgatory 

 sufficiently painful to do away the sins of a thousand years. 



The Prince Royal was married on the 12th, and we have 

 had continued fetes and rejoicings. The English Garden 

 is in high beauty ; no expense is spared upon it. I am 

 allowed to dine with the King pretty much as often as I 

 wish, but to-morrow I take leave of him, of Munich, and 

 the rest of my friends ; so you will soon, my dear Sally, 

 see me at Auteuil. 



In December 1811 his daughter arrived at Auteuil, 

 and found him in excellent health. She writes : 



