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Monseigneur had been out at a little supper last night, where the

Comedy and the Grand Opera were charmingly represented.

Monseigneur was out at a little supper most nights, with

fascinating company. So polite and so impressible was

Monseigneur, that the Comedy and the Grand Opera had far more

influence with him in the tiresome articles of state affairs and

state secrets, than the needs of all France. A happy circumstance

for France, as the like always is for all countries similarly

favoured!--always was for England (by way of example), in the

regretted days of the merry Stuart who sold it.