...lace being admitted behind the barriers to see the show, as they were at the first ball. . . . . Before supper, in a corner of the presence-chamber, I had an hour of most agreeable talk with Mad. de Luttichau , Prince John, Countess Bose, and Mad. de Blumner; a part of which was none the less piquant from being on the principle and feeling of loyalty, which I told them I supposed an American republican was...