This was the year in which Beethoven allowed a mask to be taken, at the desire of Streicher, who wished to add his bust to those which already adorned his pianoforte warerooms. The bust was executed by Professor Klein, a pupil of the famous sculptor Fischer, and still adorns the hall for which it was designed. The effigy is the one which has been so often copied and is generally attributed to Dannhauser. That artist was born in 1805, and must have been indeed remarkably precocious, if Beethoven consented to have him, at the age of seven years, plaster his face with gypsum! In May, the son of the Corsican advocate Bonaparte held court at Dresden and received his father-in-law, Emperor Franz, Frederick William of Prussia, the princes of the Rheinbund, etc., etc. Before the end of June, he had crossed the Niemen with his half million of men on his fatal march to Moscow. As if from a presentiment and in the hope of the disastrous failure of the foolhardy invasion of Russia, Teplitz (that neutral ground, but central point of plot and agitation against the parvenu Emperor) became the scene of a virtual congress of imperial personages, or their representatives, accompanied by families, ministers and retinues. Ostensibly they met for health, recreation, social diversion; but views and opinions were exchanged and arrangements made for such concerted action as the result in Russia might render politic. Herr Aug. Rob. Hiekel, Magisterial Adjunct in Teplitz, has kindly communicated copious excerpts from the lists of arrivals that summer, from which these are selected, through the friendly mediation of Dr. Schebek of Prague, which is gratefully acknowledged: May 29. Emperor Franz, with a large retinue--Wrbna, Althaer, Kinsky, Zichy, etc., etc. June 4. Marie Louise, Empress of France and retinue; the Grand Duke of Würzburg and retinue. July 2. The Empress of Austria and household; the Duke Anton of Saxony, with wife and household. July 7. The Duke of Saxe-Weimar. July 14. The King of Saxony with wife and royal household. July 25. Prince Maximilian of Saxony with wife and royal household. August 11, 15. Prince Wittgenstein, Baron von Humboldt, and the Prince of Curland, in Prussian service, etc., etc. Passing from the royal and diplomatic circles, we note: April 19. Baroness von der Recke, with Demoiselle Meissner and Herr Tiedge. July 7. Herr Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer, of Vienna, lives in the Eiche, No. 62.[97] July 8. Herr Carl, Prince von Lichnowsky. July 15. Hr. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Grand Ducal Privy Councillor of Weimar, etc., etc., in the Gold. Schiff, No. 116. July 24. Herr Ludwig Baron von Arnim, landowner, with wife, then his sister-in-law, Frau v. Savigny, of Berlin. August 5. Hr. Joachim, Baron v. Muench-Bellinghausen. August 7. Hr. Clemens Brentano, ~Partikulier~ of Prague.