1766 Comte de Verri ; Comte J. M. de Brubl 95 



land and Holland, establishing personal relations with the 

 mathematicians in these countries. At the dinner of the 

 Club (3ist August) he was the guest of Dr. Maty. 



Comte de Verri of Milan, economist and man of letters, 

 was an associate of Frisi, with whom and other friends he 

 got together a group of writers who began in 1764 to publish 

 a journal called // Caffe, consisting of essays after the model 

 of those in Addison's Spectator. He made the acquaintance 

 of Laurence Sterne and of Charles Fox. Finally he settled 

 in Rome. On the occasion when he dined with the Club 

 he was invited by Dr. Morton. 



Comte Jean Maurice de Briihl had been sent by Stanislaus 

 Augustus, formerly Count Poniatowski, now King of Poland, 

 as Ambassador to Paris and afterwards to London. Fond 

 of Astronomy, he improved some astronomical instruments. 

 He became a favourite in London Society. Lord Chester- 

 field, writing to his son on 26th February 1865 said : 

 " Count Briihl is much in fashion here ; I like him 

 mightily ; he has very much le ton de la bonne compagnie " ; 

 and two years later he could report : " Count Briihl is 

 either actually married or very soon to be so to Lady 

 Egremont. ... I am very glad of it, for he is a very- 

 pretty man." 1 



On October 2d a company of Russian notabilities were 

 entertained by the Club. They included M. Mousin Puschkin, 

 the Russian envoy, M. Schouwaloff, Chamberlain to the late 

 Empress of Russia, and Count Rasumouski, the President 

 of the Imperial Academy of Sciences. The same dinner was 

 attended by Benjamin Franklin, Henry Cavendish, Dr. 

 Watson, Dr. Heberden, Dr. Maty, Samuel Dyer and others. 



A month later Count Briihl again appeared on the invi- 

 tation of the President, and there were also present Count 

 Mneisnick senior, Count Mneisnick junior, M. Bertrand and 

 M. Michefisky. Among the English visitors mention may 



1 Chesterfield's Letters, vol. iv. pp. 397, 453. The Earl showed his power 

 of shrewd observation and inference, for a footnote to the passage above 

 cited states that the widow of the Earl of Egremont married Count Briihl 

 shortly after the date of his letter. 



