the quiet and unaffected manner in which this meritorious artist mentioned the approbation bestowed by CANOVA upon several of his performances.  He is very much superior indeed to Ohmacht; but comparisons have long been considered as uncourteous and invidious—­and so I will only add, that, if ever Dannecker visits England—­which he half threatens to do—­he shall be feted by a Commoner, and patronised by a Duke.  Meanwhile, you have here his Autograph for contemplation.

[Illustration:  Autograph of Dannecker]

[20] Afterwards Sir Alexander Allan, Bart.  I met him and Captain C * * *,
    of the Royal Navy, in their way to Inspruck.  But Sir Alexander (than
    whom, I believe a worthier or a braver man never entered the
    profession of which he was so distinguished an ornament) scarcely
    survived the excursion two years.

[21] The Queen of Wuertemberg survived the levee, above described, only a
    few months.  Her DEATH was in consequence of over-maternal anxiety
    about her children, who were ill with the measles.  The queen was
    suddenly called from her bed on a cold night in the month of January
    to the chamber where her children were seriously indisposed.  Forgetful
    of herself, of the hour, and of the season, she caught a severe cold: 
    a violent erysipelatous affection, terminating in apoplexy, was the
    fatal result—­and SHE, who, but a few short-lived months before, had
    shone as the brightest star in the hemisphere of her own court;—­who
    was the patroness of art;—­and of two or three national schools,
    building, when I was at Stuttgart, at her own expense—­was doomed to
    become the subject of general lamentation and woe.  She was admired,
    respected, and beloved.  It was pleasing, as it was quite natural, to
    see her (as I had often done) and the King, riding out in the same
    carriage, or phaeton, without any royal guard; and all ranks of people
    heartily disposed to pay them the homage of their respect.  In a letter
    from M. Le Bret, of the 8th of June 1819, I learnt that a magnificent
    chapel, built after the Grecian model, was to contain the monument to
    be erected to her memory.  Her funeral was attended by six hundred
    students from Tubingen, by torch light.

[22] For the sake of juxta-position, I will here mention the SEQUEL, as
    briefly as may be.  The “affair” was far from being at that time
    “settled.”  But, on reaching Manheim, about to recross the Rhine, on my
    return to Paris—­I found a long and circumstantial letter from my
    bibliographical correspondent at Stuttgart, which seemed to bring the
    matter to a final and desirable issue.  “So many thousand francs had
    been agreed upon—­there only wanted a well bound copy of the
    Bibliographical Decameron to boot:—­and the Virgils were to be