164 LETTER OF MR. JOSHUA HILL. 
and with a count, a baron, an ambassador, a 
minister (ordinary and extraordinary), and have 
travelled with one for some weeks. I have dined 
with a Charge (T Affaires, and lived with consuls, 
&c. I have visited and conversed with ' Bed 
Jacket,' the great Indian warrior : I have visited 
and been visited by a Bishop. I have frequently 
partook of the delicious Hungarian wine (tolmy), 
Prince Esterhazy's; as also of Prince Schwart- 
zenburgh's old hock, said to have been 73 years 
old; and I was intimate with the brother-in-law 
of this last German 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 Eng- 
land ; and have received the late Earl of Liver- 
pool'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 Marquis. 
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 Ber- 
trand, i.e. Mademoiselle Fanny Dillon, before 
she married the Marshal. I was at Napoleon's 
coronation. I have been invited to the Lord 
Mayor's and to the dinner of an Alderman of 
London." 
Happily, the Hill dynasty was not destined 
