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full-sized octavo volume printed in Florence, chiefly if not wholly
in English, the greatest part if not all of it in verse, and some of it set to
Musick. The names of the Authors are opposite the Title-page: 150 copies printed
off, but none sold. I heard at different times a few extracts from it
in all which the ball of mutual compliment was bandied about ithout mercy: but
as it seemed to me the poetry by no means bad for thos love poetry which
unhappily is not my case. I laid diverse plots for getting a copy to deposit
in a library to which I am much obliged: but Time, the grand frustrator
of plots would not permit me to bring any of them to maturity. From what
cause I know not, even Sir Horace did not get so much as a single copy. I
saw his poor Ex-Majesty, and a pleasing young woman with him, his lately
acknowledged natural daughter, the Dutchess or as some call her Countess of
Albany; the latter title she is said to have from a King whose titles are
of rather better currency than her Father's, the King of France. I saw not
the Grand-Duke nor any of his family; they were not at Florence. I am sorry
to say, neither did I see Lady Craven: I had a pretence for accosting her, &
accordingly pursued her to two places but in vain. Every body knows she is
accompanied in her travels by a Mr Vernon, an officer, I believe he is, in
the Spanish service: a gentleman who paid them a morning visit told me
he was received in a bed chamber in which was an unmade bed, provided
with two pillows and other articles in pairs.

I arrived at this place on Tuesday 20th inst: set off for Florence the next
day; got to that capital by midnight and set off on my return about the same hour on
Saturday. The three days I staid there I lived, lodging excepted, at Sir Horace Mann's. of

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Date_1	1785-09-27	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	540	Main Headings
Folio number	203	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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