A few nights since I also went to the theatre to see Platoff, the _hetman_ (chief) of the Cossacks.

He has also a very fine countenance, a high and broad forehead, dark complexion, and dark hair.

He is tall and well-made, as I think the Cossacks are generally.

He was very much applauded by a crowded house, the most part collected to see him." The following letter is from Washington Allston written in Bristol, on July 5, 1814:-- MY DEAR SIR,--I received your last on Saturday and should have answered your first letter but for two reasons.
First, that I had nothing to say; which, I think, metaphysicians allow to be the most natural as well as the most powerful cause of silence.
Second, that, if I had had anything to say, the daily expectation which I entertained of seeing you allowed no confidence in the hope that you would hear what I had to say should I have said it.
I thank you for your solicitude, and can assure you that both Mrs.
Allston and myself are in every respect better than when we left London.
Mr.King received me, as I wished, with undiminished kindness, and was greatly pleased with the pictures.

He has not, however, seen the large one, which, to my agreeable surprise, I have been solicited from various quarters to exhibit, and that, too, without my having given the least intimation of such a design.