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visited and been visited by a Bishop. I have 
frequently partook of the delicious Hungarian 
wine (tokay], Prince Esterhazy's ; as also of 
Prince Schwartzenburgh's old hock, said to 
have been 73 years old ; and I was intimate 
with the brother-in-law of this last Ger- 
man nobleman. I have dined with a principal 
Hong merchant at Canton. I have sat next 
to the beautiful Madame Recamier, and 
Madame Carbanus, at the great dinner par- 
ties. I have written to the Prime Minister of 
England ; and have received the late Earl 
of Liverpool's answer, with his thanks, &c. 
I was at Paris when the allies were met 
there. I have visited and breakfasted with 
the late Warren Hastings, Esq., at his seat 
in Gloucestershire. I have had permission 
with a party of friends to hunt over his 
grounds. Entertained, &c. two or three days 
at the sporting lodge of an Earl, now a Mar- 
quis. I have made a crimson silk net for a 
certain fashionable Marchioness, which she 
actually wore at her next great party of five 
or six hundred persons. I have danced with 
the Countess Bertrand, i. e. Mademoiselle 
Fanny Dillon, before she married the Mar- 
