129; "Dresden, 25th February, 1770:" to his Sister in Scotland.] AND THEN SEEN HIM IN BERLIN, ON THE SAME OCCASION....

"Lord Marischal came to meet me at Sir Andrew's [Mitchell's, in Berlin, the last year of the brave Mitchell's life], where we passed five days together.

My visit to his country residence," as you already know, "was of three days; and I had reason to be convinced that it gave the old Don great pleasure.
He talked to me with the greatest openness and confidence of all the material incidents of his life; and hinted often that the honor of the Clan was now to be supported by our family, for all of whom he had the greatest esteem.

His taste, his ideas, and his manner of living, are a mixture of Aberdeenshire and the Kingdom of Valencia; and as he seeks to make no new friends, he seems to retain a strong, though silent, attachment for his old ones.

As to his political principles, I believe him the most sincere of converts" to Whiggery and Orthodoxy....