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Deuxponts, and Hesse Homburg: the latter is related to the Duke of Portland. I saw the celebrated Opera at Manheim, where all Germany is assembled, to the number of five thousand; and, tho' I am not brilliant in my dress, I had the honor of the first compliments from the Electress, upon her coming into the theatre. It is a fine court for a younger brother. You live with the Elector, and attend all his diversions gratis: his orchestra is extremely fine; and the decorations of his stage are as much superior to those of London, as these latter are to the Siege of Troy, which we saw some years since at York. If I am allow'd to pursue the plan I have laid down for my return to England next year, have promised to pay my respects once more to the Elector, in my road from Hanover to Paris. There is but one thing at that court which I could wish to change: none under the rank of Counts and Barons wait upon you at table; and I should give a dirty plate with much more unconcern to John. From Strasburg I made an excursion into Lorraine, to visit old King Stanislaus, and see this beautiful city, which is much beyond any town I have hitherto seen. I passed my birth-day in a most princely style: I spent the whole of it with the king, who received me with great cordiality, and talked with me some hours, with the utmost attention. He is eighty-six; his understanding as perfect as ever; his voice clear and strong; and

his hearing better than I have mine. He is the father of his court; and, after all the sports of fortune which he has experienced, is, I may venture to say, one of the happiest sovereigns upon earth. At parting, he shook me very heartily by the hand, and told me that he was sorry to lose me so soon. Such circumstances I may be allow'd to mention, without vanity, to such correspondents. I go from hence thro' Switzerland to Turin: from thence I shall make another excursion with Mr. Durell and Earle, to the south of France, and return to pass the winter in Italy.-That is my chief object; and I see that part of France at present, as I can do it more advantageously with the gentlemen I mentioned; and chiefly because, if I am at liberty to pursue my plan, I shall have nothing but Paris and its environs to see in my return; and my road will then be direct. If you are curious to know something more of Stanislaus, you will have a very just character of him connected with that singular one of Charles the Twelfth, written by Voltaire; whom I hope to wait upon in a few days. It may be a matter of some curiosity to you, to annex a list of the towns we have seen; and none of them, I hope, without minute observation. I will write to Lady Kaye from Geneva-I long to reach that reservoir of my English correspondence. Hitherto I have had but one letter from York, and one from Mr. Eden from Oxford: it was impossible for me

to receive any more. You will remember me in the kindest manner to my aunts, and believe me, Dear MADAM,

Your obedient and affectionate nephew,

R. KAYE.

In Holland; the Brill, Rotterdam, Delft, the Hague, Leyden, Haarlem, Amsterdam.-North Holland; Utrecht,Zyst, Bergen-op-Zoom.-In Flanders; Antwerp, Ghent, Bruges, Courtrai, Lisle, Tournay, Mons, Brussels, Tervueren, Liege.-In Germany; Aixla-Chapelle, Cologne, Dusseldorff, Bonn, Coblentz, Mentz, Frankfort, Hanau, Darmstadt, Mannheim, Schweitsingen, Heidelberg, Bruchsal, Dourlach, Radstadt, Strasburg. In Lorraine; Luneville, Nancy, Commercy; in all 1600 English miles.

LETTER CLXX.

Mr. Kaye to Mr. R. Richardson.

GENEVA, September 4th, 1763.

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I have little to say of my transactions, since I wrote to my aunt, except that I have pass'd from Nancy hither thro' a country, if possible, more romantic than the Banks of the Rhine; a kind of view that pleases the imagination far beyond a

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cultivated tract of ground, tho', upon a serious reflection, the latter must certainly be preferable. As I am, however, not much interested in the riches of Switzerland, I may be allow'd to enjoy its Rocks, its Mountains, and the Silver Firs in which it abounds. Basil, Berne, Lausanne, I have seen, and came from the last place, about thirty miles, along the lake of Geneva. Here are several English Lords-Northampton, Abington, Mountstewart, and John Sackville; the Duke of Gordon, Mr. Bagot Mordaunt, Sir Roger Mostyn, Mr. Ponsonby, &c. &c. We go from hence on Wednesday or Thursday, down the Rhine, thro' the South of France; and, after seeing Toulon, Marseilles, Montpelier, and Nismes, I shall go, I believe, by Genoa, or perhaps by Chambéry, to Turin, Milan, Florence, and Rome: there I shall take up my abode at least a couple of months, and make an excursion to Naples, which is only two days' distance, for another. These Swiss are a very honest set of people. I verily believe, the impositions which we suffered in Holland, would have defray'd our expences thro' Switzerland.

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A Swiss bill-Soupe, a hare, three pigeons, a turtle-dove, potatoes, biscuits, almonds, plumbs, pears, three bottles of wine, for three Gentlemen and two servants and lodgings, five shillings: but we have paid for it in other places.

LETTER CLXXI.

Rev. John Watson to Mr. R. Richardson.

DEAR SIR,

RIPPONDEN, September 30th, 1763.

I thought the best way of answering your request about the names of modern Antiquaries, was to send you a list of such as belong to the Society of London. It is not indeed the last printed one, but the foreigners since elected are, 1, Princeps eminentiss., D' Cardinalis Alexander Albani, Romæ ; 2, Ds Emilius Altieri, Princeps de Viano, Roma; 3, Ds Baldani, Præsul, Secretar. Sacr. Congregat. Aquar., et Clementis XIII. ab intimo Cubiculo, Roma; 4, Ds Carolus Rinald. Berch, Reg. Sueciæ a Consil., et Reg. Acad. Scient. Upsal. Soc.; 5, Ds Johan. Steph. Bernard, M.D. Amstelodam.; 6, Ds Hen. Florez, Præses Theolog. in Acad. Alcal. et Exprovinc. Castil.; 7, Ds Johan. Alexand. Genevois, Helvetius, R.S.S.; 8, Ds Johan. Jhre, Reg. Sueciæ a Consil., Eques Ord. Polar., Præses Acad. Scient. Upsal., Prof. Hist., et Reg. Scient. Acad. Holm. Soc.; 9, Ds Vincent. Martinelli, Etruscus, D.L.L.; 10, Ds Tubervillus Needham, F.R.S. Romæ.; 11, Ludovicus Julius, Dux Nivernensis et Donziensis, Par Galliæ, &c. R.S.S., et Acad. Gall.