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your civilities and attentions to make their 

 journey agreeable to tliem. Offering my anti- 

 cipations, I remain, brothers, yours truly, N. 

 M. Eothschild." 



It need not be said that the gentlemen thus 

 addressed most fully carried out the recom- 

 mendation it contained. Such, of course, was 

 to be expected; but it was really ludicrous 

 to see the effect that it produced on other 

 bankers in Germany. At first they abso- 

 lutely refused to receive the English money 

 which the party tendered ; but the very name 

 ^' Eothschild" opened their eyes on the instant, 

 and they became even troublesomely forward 

 in offering accommodation of every imaginable 

 kind. They went, with their brother-in-law, 

 Mr. Marx, in the Batavier to Eotterdam; and 

 then proceeded to Frankfort, where M. Eoths- 

 child put his box at the opera at their dispo- 

 sal, and gave them an English dinner of roast 

 beef, &c. every day, saying truly that they 

 would not see much of that when they got 



