“My friend, Mr. Temple, who is as obliging and as much my friend now he is secretary to _the_ great man as he was when he was a scrivening nobody in his garret, obtained audience for us directly. I need not detail--indeed I have not time--graciously received--count’s business done by a line--Temple ordered to write to Admiralty: Lord Oldborough seemed obliged to me for introducing the count--I saw he wished to have some private conversation with him--rose, and took my leave. Lord Oldborough paid me for my discretion on the spot by a kind look--a great deal from him--and following me to the door of the antechamber, ‘Mr. Percy, I cannot regret that you have followed your own independent professional course--I congratulate you upon your success--I have heard of it from many quarters, and always, believe me, with pleasure, on your father’s account, and on your own.’ “Next day I found on my table when I came from the courts, the count’s card--when I returned his visit, Commissioner Falconer was with him in close converse--confirmed by this in opinion that Lord Oldborough is sucking information--I mean, political secrets--out of the count. The commissioner could not, in common decency, help being ‘exceedingly sorry that he and Mrs. Falconer had seen so little of me of late,’ nor could he well avoid asking me to a concert, to which he invited the count, for the ensuing evening. As the count promised to go, so did I, on purpose to meet him. Adieu, dearest Caroline. “Most affectionately yours, “ALFRED PERCY.” To give an account of Mrs. Falconer’s concert in fashionable style, we should inform the public that Dr. Mudge for ever established his fame in “_Buds of Roses_;” and Miss La Grande was astonishing, absolutely astonishing, in “_Frenar vorrei le lagrime_”--quite in Catalani’s best manner; but Miss Georgiana Falconer was divine in “_O Giove omnipotente_,” and quite surpassed herself in “_Quanto O quanto è amor possente_,” in which Dr. Mudge was also capital: indeed it would be doing injustice to this gentleman’s powers not to acknowledge the universality of his genius.