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Altho' I still hope & trust to see you some time in next week yet as I have a few leisure moments, I do not think I can employ them better than in dedicating them to you my dear Dot. I should have written to you more regularly, but for the last month we have been daily expecting to so off, & most deeply do I regret that we have been detained so long. Paris can boast but little variety in its amusements. We are not admitted into French society. Talleyrand's is the only house open to the English, & that only through the Duke's introduction, so that I have not learnt much of French manners. Lady Castlereagh's is the constant rendez-vous of all the underline best English /underline Society. By the best, I mean only that particular set whom she would invite to her suppers in London. This I think she carries too far for in St. James' Square, she is only a underline simple /underline Paraticuliere, here she is in a public situation, & as she fills the place of Ambassadress, & partakes of all the honors & dignities attached to it, she ought certainly to fulfill its duties, particuarly as government defrays all the expenses. The male part of her society are far better & more numerous than the female as it includes all the foreigners of any distinction in Paris & all the better class of our own officers & all the young men of rank in our army. She has had balls regularly once a fortnight & to them she invites all the decent England (I can assure you there are a great many here who do not come under that epithet.) At