“Th’ according music of a well-mix’d state.”
The prince is here a centre of union; an advantage, the want of which makes a democracy, which is so beautiful in theory, the very worst of all possible governments, except absolute monarchy, in practice.
I am called upon, my Lord, to go to the citadel, to see the going away of the ice; an object so new to me, that I cannot resist the curiosity I have to see it, though my going thither is attended with infinite difficulty.
Bell insists on accompanying me: I am afraid for her, but she will not be refused.
At our return, I will have the honor of writing again to your Lordship, by the gentleman who carries this to New York.
I have the honor to be, my Lord, Your Lordship’s, &c.
Wm. Fermor.
LETTER CXXIX.131.
To the Earl of ——.
Silleri, April 20, Evening.
We are returned, my Lord, from having seen an object as beautiful and magnificent in itself, as pleasing from the idea it gives of renewing once more our intercourse with Europe.