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Metternich should accept the Presidency,* pour mettre 

 la societe en bonne odeur a Eome, ou elle passe pour 

 Bunso-heretique. 



9. A letter from the Duchess de Dino, now Duchess 

 de Talleyrand. She has now been created Duchess of 

 Sagan. 



10, 11. Two more cheerful notes from the King. 

 Le Seehund (seal) , a letter recommending a somewhat 

 coarse Danish sea captain, who offered to carry Natural 

 Philosophers round the world for 2,500 thalers apiece 

 rather dear. Nothing came of it. Le seigneur Cados, 

 Ministre Secretaire d'Etat of the watchmaking Due de 

 Normandie, who wrote to the Crown Prince to com- 

 plain of the unbecoming manner in which he had been 

 treated in the " State Gazette." 



12. Brunei, the hero of the Tunnel. 



13. A letter from Sir John Herschel, full of flattery. 



14. M. de Balzac. 



15. Sir Eobert Peel. I had received a. letter from 

 Oxford, telling me that the first botanist in Europe, 

 Eobert Brown, was suddenly plunged into great pecu- 

 niary embarrassment, and that Peel would, at my 

 request, procure for him one of the only four small pen- 

 sions which Parliament voted for scientific men. I 

 succeeded. 



16. Madame Eecamier. I am sure you have 

 already got several of her letters. 



17. A nice letter from Prince Metternich, to be 

 added to the mass you already possess of his. 



18. The great American historian, Prescott. What 

 I in my careless conceit destroy, is saved in your hands. 

 I conjure you, my dear friend, to let nobody know that 



* Of the Archaeological Society in Eome. TR. 



