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of all the Foreign: French chef d'oeuvres /foreign in the world, & after raving with all the vehemence so immense a body is capable of, he quietly sits down to lunch, & it is said, (mind I do not vouch for the truth of it,) eats 800 oysters in order to get an appetite for dinner, The whole royal family is detested here &I am convinced they will remain no longer in France than the armies of the Allies. The Duke of Wellington will some day or other sway the sceptre of Henri IV, at least if I can judge from the sentiments the French themselves profess. I hope you will be able to decipher this, as it would be a pity that any part of so fine a composition should be lost.

Yours ever affly.

S F C