'A tout prendre,' I must do this pretty young fellow the justice to say that he was not at all a bad copy of higher originals. Perhaps I was bribed into this favourable opinion by his talking much at dinner about the great Göthe, and praising his '_Fost_;' both of whom (Göthe and _Fost_) Lord Byron has brought into fashion in England. _Fost_ seemed to please him, particularly on account of what he conceived to be its atheistical tendency, for he had, as he informed us, spent half his life in Paris, and avowed himself an 'esprit fort.' The following day, after all breakfasting together, we rode with the ladies in the park, which contained nothing remarkable except a canal of stagnant and slimy water, which had cost five thousand pounds in the digging;--an expense better spared. The fruit-gardens and hot-houses were admirable: the latter, a hobby of the proprietor, were heated by steam on a very ingenious plan of his own, and the heat increased or diminished at pleasure by simply turning a cock. Three-and-twenty different sorts of pines,--above which, pendent from the glass roof, hung gigantic purple grapes,--fill these spacious, elegant houses; and in the fruit-garden we admired pears on the wall seven inches in length, sixteen in circumference, and of an excellent flavour. Several of the gentlemen went hunting; but we preferred the society at home. The gay amusing B---- was become the favourite of the ladies, and was evidently greatly regretted by them when the post-chaise arrived at one o'clock in the morning to take us back to Newmarket. I must confess that we took rather a laughing review of some things that struck us as ridiculous, though I was really ashamed that we were such genuine B---- 's[15] as to make ourselves merry at the expense of our host and his company, instead of feeling hearty gratitude for our hospitable reception. But now-a-days the world is spoiled; and besides, hospitality which springs from ostentation cannot expect the same hearty requital as that which is the offspring of the heart. Probably we guests fared no better in the house we had just quitted. At the races the next morning we saw the young ladies again, betted gloves with them till we lost, and delighted them with some Paris ones. We declined a second invitation, as we were engaged to a gentleman's dinner, and Count B---- was going to a fox-hunt at Melton. I shall leave Newmarket too, and continue my letter in London. _Epping-place, Oct. 20th._ I have travelled as far as I wished, and must pass the night here, as the inspection of two parks has fully occupied my day.