cousin, Lord Alexander Gordon, who resided in the same hotel, told me his mother, her Grace of Gordon
, requested he would introduce my
Poetical
Lordship to her
Highness
, as she had bought my volume, admired it exceedingly, in common with the rest of the fashionable world, and wished to claim her relationship with the author. I was unluckily engaged on an excursion for some days afterwards; and, as the Duchess was on the eve of departing for Scotland, I have postponed my introduction till the winter, when I shall favour the lady,
whose taste I shall not dispute
, with my most sublime and edifying conversation. She is now in the Highlands, and Alexander took his departure, a few days ago, for the same
blessed