"I like this place extremely, and am of opinion you would do so too: as to cheapness, I think 'tis impossible to find any part of Europe where both the laws and customs are so contrived purposely to avoid expenses of all sorts; and here is a universal liberty that is certainly one of the greatest _agrements_ in life.

We have foreign ambassadors from all parts of the world, who have all visited me.

I have received visits from many of the noble Venetian ladies; and upon the whole I am very much at my ease here.

If I was writing to Lady Sophia, I would tell her of the comedies and operas which are every night, at very low prices; but I believe even you will agree with me that they are ordered to be as convenient as possible, every mortal going in a mask, and consequently no trouble in dressing, or forms of any kind." So Lady Mary wrote to Lady Pomfret on October 10; and a few days later she supplemented the information in a letter to her husband: "I find myself very well here.

I am visited by the most considerable people of the town, and all the foreign ministers, who have most of them made great entertainments for me.