At Neuwied I Took Leave Of My Agreeable Fellow Travellers, As
They Intended To Remain There And I To Go On To Ehrenbreitstein.
An
opportunity presented itself the same afternoon of which I profited.
I met
with an Austrian Captain of Infantry and his lady at the inn where I
stopped who were going to Ehrenbreitstein in their caleche, and they were
so kind as to offer me a place in it. I found them both extremely
agreeable; both were from Austria proper. He had left the Austrian service
some time ago and had since entered into the Russian service; from that he
was lately transferred, together with the battalion to which he belonged,
into the service of Prussia and placed on the retired list of the latter
with a very small pension. He did not seem at all satisfied with this
arrangement. He had served in several campaigns against the French in
Germany, Italy and France, and was well conversant in French and Italian
litterature.
We stopped en passant at a maison de plaisance and superb English
garden belonging to the Duke of Nassau-Weilburg. The house is in the style
of a cottage orne, but very roomy and tastefully fitted up; but nothing
can be more diversified and picturesque than the manner in which the garden
is laid out. The ground being much broken favours this; and in one part of
it is a ravine or valley so romantic and savage, that you would fancy
yourself in Tinian or Juan Fernandez.
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