‘My dear Mr. Rogers,—I hope this will find you pretty well. We have been here a short time now, and remain about ten days longer. I am afraid I have not much news to make my letter agreeable to you, but I hope to hear in return of you, and that will be a great pleasure to me. We found very few people left on our arrival here; very few English ever come here, but there are always a great many Poles and Hungarians. This year there is a poor Hungarian prisoner here, who is confined in the fortress at Olmutz, and has been allowed to come here to drink the waters; he returns to his fortress afterwards, and then he has still seven long years of captivity before him. His wife and children are in Hungary. He looks very sad and pale, but still, I believe, the Emperor has shown him great favour and kindness, for his was a case of desertion. I think after we leave this we shall go to spend a day or two with some friends we have in the Grand Duchy of Posen in Poland, but I will write to you again.
‘Lord Ely is much
better since he has been here, but he begins to get rather tired of this place.
Marienbad is very pretty, surrounded with large dark pine woods, so still and
fragrant; every one wishes to go now except the poor prisoner, and he will
regret the fresh breezes here, and his walks and comparative freedom, when he
is obliged to return to his fortress; he has two soldiers here, and one never
leaves him, and they relieve each other. A letter directed under cover to
Lord Augustus Loftus,
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‘Believe me ever yours very truly and sincerely,
