L74o] To Horace Mann 13
n one note, and consequently will make a jumble, we must lettle our accounts when we meet. The Princess * arrived >n Sunday. The Prince and Princess of Santa Croce went ;o meet 'em, besides several English, and they came in at aigh Corso time with eight coaches and six, coaches and >air, chaises, etc. etc. I believe she put down the whole 2/orso to her own account; as a Mayor's wife that happened x> come into a country church as the belief was repeating; ahe thought they all bowed and curtsied to her, and declared ;hey were the best bred parish she had ever set foot into. Madame de Craon in half an hour's time was up to the ears n Roman Princesses and Dutchesses, and so for three lights. The Dutchess Salviati serves her. She and Lord Shrewsbury * are now in the very act of Tenebrae ; tis a delicious week for them. I had the honour of kneeling wdth her upon St. Peter's pavement yesterday to see the celicks.
I am much obliged to Lady P.3 for the honour she does me in thinking of medals; when I return to Florence, if [ have not bought them here, I will take those. I beg you tvill tell my Lady that I have been looking out for Pope's ;estoons (or testicles as Lord Mansel4 calls them) for her, but diver is so extremely scarce here, that I have not yet met with one with the head on it; but possibly before I leave Rome I may have better luck. My compliments to the foung ladies5.
I wrote you my sentiments by Mr. Williams6 about the sourier. Good night, child, I am in a violent hurry. Oh—
1 Princesse de Craon. 8 Prohahly John Williams, -who
z See note 2 on letter to Mann of had been secretary to Richard West's
Sept. 1741 (No. 41). father (see letter to West of April 16
8 Lady Pomfret—see note 6 on 1740, ad fln.), and -who after the
.etter to Conway of July 5,1740. death of the latter (1726) is said to
4 Thomas Mansell (d. 1744), second have carried on a liaison -with West's
Baron Mansell. mother, and eventually (after West's
6 Lady Pomfret's daughters, Lady death) to have married her. Sophia and Lady Charlotte Fermor.s Cambridge tutor), written, on Sept. 19 of this year. Whaley b,ad enclosed the following epigram ' To Lord Harvey on his Discourse on the Roman Senate' :—