He said that he would take care that you should see what was best worth seeing before your departure.

He promises to give us a few breakfast-parties and dinner-parties, where you will meet as many as he can muster of the best set in town,--Rogers, Luttrell, Rice, Tom Moore, Sydney Smith, Grant, and other great wits and politicians.

I am quite delighted at this; both because you will, I am sure, be amused, and pleased, at a time when you ought to have your mind occupied, and because even to have mixed a little in a circle so brilliant will be of advantage to you in India.

You have neglected, and very rightly and sensibly, frivolous accomplishments; you have not been at places of fashionable diversion; and it is, therefore, the more desirable that you should appear among the dancing, pianoforte-playing, opera-going, damsels at Calcutta as one who has seen society better than any that they ever approached.

I hope that you will not disapprove of what I have done.