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ratioHv The concert was intended for tfie 
amufement of our koft, and not for ours ; and 
this was not the firft time that it had faluted 
the walls of his palace. This great man v^-a^ 
^accuftomed to be thus awaked every morn-* 
ing; and he retained, for the exprefs pur- 
pofe, fifteen Haves particularly fkilfd In mu-* 
Seal exeeutlon. 
Before we fet out on om return, we found 
our prince laying afide a part of his dignity. 
Perhaps he faw the effed that Ms grand airs had 
produced on me and my companion. He was 
afraid that at the Cape we ihould be difpofe J 
to amufe the town^s people at his expence ; and,, 
for a parting glafs, he prefented us with the 
choiceft produce of his cellar j the wine fo much 
celebrated in Europe, and which often leiids its 
Hame to the moft impudent counterfeits, which- 
are offered to us v/ith the highefl: oftentation. 
What 1 have faid of the difgufling and al>« 
liird pride of ths planters near the Gape, muft 
not be applied to them all indifcriminately. 
There are feme,, who, by 3ao means, deferve 
the reproach ; and in this rimnber I particu- 
larly include Becker, whofe houfe is the abode 
ef eafe and cordiality. No honeft ftrange^ 
