... There were only three or four of his friends there, for Mad. de C—is ill. He talked a great deal, but was not so much excited—or, as the French call it, exalte— as he was at Mad. de Stael 's; and, if he was more reasonable in consequence, he was less amusing. His character, however, appeared more amiable to-night. He talked with good-nature and candor of the review in the Mercure t...