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¬I found singularly graceful and accomplished-— he had been bred in the general world, the best school for princes, as for other men. — Fame also with her trumpet was sounding, almost at the same moment, the approach of another genera- tion of his royal house, and Morven, as if he had been read in Shakspeare, said he thought he saw the Genius of Armata holding up a glass " which shewed him many more." ¬I was received most graciously, and need not say how highly gratified I returned from a scene so interesting and so new. — I should like, indeed, to see how people would stare, and to hear what they would say, if the Man in the Moon were to be presented at St. James's or Carlton House — Yet what better was I in Armata, than that honourable gentleman would be here ; who, though the inhabitant of a long known and do- mestic planet, has never yet advanced to a higher distinction amongst us, than to have his portrait swinging upon a sign-post, as a notice that ale is to be sold. ¬Though ¬