[4] A foreign artist much patronized by the Prince Regent.
[5] The name of a popular country-dance.
[6] "Carleton House will exhibit a complete facsimile in respect to interior ornament, to what it did at the last Fête. The same splendid draperies," etc.—Morning Post.
[7] Mr. Walsh Porter, to whose taste was left the furnishing of the rooms of Carletone House.
[8] The salt-cellars on the Prince's own table were in the form of an Ass with panniers.
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APPENDIX.
LETTER IV. PAGE 584.
Among the papers, enclosed in Dr. Duigenan's Letter, was found an Heroic Epistle in Latin verse, from Pope Joan to her Lover, of which, as it is rather a curious document, I shall venture to give some account. This female Pontiff was a native of England, (or, according to others of Germany,) who at an early age disguised herself in male attire and followed her lover, a young ecclesiastic, to Athens where she studied with such effect that upon her arrival at Rome she was thought worthy of being raised to the Pontificate. This Epistle is addressed to her Lover (whom she had elevated to the dignity of Cardinal), soon after the fatal accouchement, by which her Fallibility was betrayed.
She begins by reminding him tenderly of the time, when they were together at Athens—when, as she says,