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Rh just of age, with £30,000 a year, kept open house in grand style, and was expecting his future mother-in-law and bride. Lady and Frances Crofton, so that the marriage might take place at Paris.

Miss Berry, with her friend Mrs. Damer, the amateur sculptress, found the north of France more prosperous, the south less so, than before the Revolution. She met at Paris in March 1802 Lord Henry Petty, the statesman who as Marquis of Lansdowne lived till 1863; Sir Charles Blagden, a writer on music and natural philosophy; the Dowager Duchess of Cumberland, and Mrs. Cosway, the artist, who introduced her to Bonaparte's mother. Mrs. Cosway illustrated a work on France by John Griffiths, and she was induced by Cardinal Fesch to open a school in Paris, but it did not succeed. Miss Berry was also presented to Bonaparte and Josephine. In the autumn she was back in Paris, and met Lady Foster, sister to Lord Bristol and future Duchess of Devonshire, concerning whom there were such strange reports. She did not see France again till 1816, but Mrs. Damer, who in 1802 promised Bonaparte a bust of Fox, fulfilled her pledge on May-day 1815, the Emperor presenting her in return with a splendid snuff-box bearing his portrait set in diamonds. Miss Linwood went over to exhibit her art needlework. The Duchess of Gordon gave great entertainments in Paris in 1802, and her daughter, the future Duchess of