This day about ten a clock my Lord Paget set out from _Adrianople_, and began his journey homeward with a splendid equipage. First proceeded two _chiaushes_, and six _janisaries_; then the three flags of the _arms of England_, the _union_, and _St. George_, after these the gentlemen of the horse, with thirteen led horses; next the _agá_, appointed by the government to conduct his Excellency; who was followed by four coaches, each drawn by six horses, in the last of which rode his Excellency himself, and in the first some gentlemen, who accompanied him in this journey; namely, Count _Gylderstope_ of Sweden, Mr. George Montague, nephew to my Lord Hallifax, and his tutor Mr. _Gangain_. For conveniency of carriage, and accommodations of the journey, his Excellency was furnished with seventy one waggons, which were to attend him to the extreme bounds of the Turkish empire, at the sole charge of the Port. Tho this was but the least mark of esteem, which he received from thence; as it may be reasonably computed, that they presented him to the value of near twenty purses of money, since his last arrival at _Adrianople_, in the following particulars. For the fitting up of his palace in that city, five hundred dollars: for the cushions and other furniture of two _sophá_ rooms, six hundred: for a stately horse from the grand _vizír_, five hundred: for the rich furniture of the same, a thousand: for a sable vest at the same time, a thousand: for an horse and furniture from the _vizír kayá_, five hundred: for the like from the _reis effendi_, five hundred: for fifteen mules from the government, at about fifty dollars each, seven hundred and fifty: for seventy two horses from the same, at thirty dollars each, two thousand one hundred and sixty: and lastly for one hundred days _tain_, or _allowance_, from the Port, at the rate of fifty dollars a day, making five thousand. This day his Excellency and his retinue travel slowly about the space of fifteen miles, and about three a clock arrive at a small village called _Senigée_, where we find the waggons disposed in their several stations, the apartments of each company alloted, and three tents (tho not pitched this evening) ready for the service of his Excellency; which I here mention once for all, as being the constant method of each following _conáck_. April ix.