...eft a note asking us to send to her palazzo any assistance we are disposed to give. . . . . In the evening I met her at the Austrian Ambassador's, blazing with diamonds such as I have not seen out of Saxony , and little looking as if she had been begging all day, and receiving sums, as she told me, as low as half a paul. This morning I went to carry my little contribution, and was shown by her directly ...