good forba i scarti,"-. --a Ven to prove Peable to reato iing of e Hon. Augusta Leigh. Tue, March 2017. USTA,--I have rad a fever which nting. It was first slow, and wept away. I got well without a v.Mark it odd for me who am so fed ension, though bad enou, 2x, and rared to, e one who was sent „: Segati en ppose, and so I got well. one upon me some time ago, but I etter to say nothing to you till I recovered Itolimes. Ty the way, owing to me's, he had ct my air in his so sell as Blake). I usired him to lim do so, or see that he has done spint in a letter if he es, unless sing, for tro miniatores for you: one the view of be kee which you like, and the 1 rent, but leth in my usual dios; and as they are ti ly ones so done, I hope you will Car is an Italian na aed Piqani, reckoned very Good: he made a me for ones of the Vicer y Eugone. I w' send or b them. them. The you at lose me with Le Marn's Marg de message y complia cat! to se Tic′′ mão 23. 12; however 1817.] R. B. HOPPNER. 83 Believe me (in total ignorance of "P.P." of which I really know nothing), Yours ever very truly and affect", B. 639.-To John Murray. Venice, March 25, 1817. DEAR SIR,-Your letter and enclosure are safe; but "English gentlemen" are very rare-at least in Venice. I doubt whether there are at present any, save the Consul1 and vice-Consul, with neither of whom I have 1. Richard Belgrave Hoppner (1786-1872), second son of John Hoppner, R.A. (1758–1810), originally intended to be an artist, and studied painting. In 1801, as a guest of the admiral, he was present at the Battle of Copenhagen. From a sketch made off the coast of Holland as he was going out, he painted a picture called Sea View and Shipping, formerly in the possession of Sir J. Leicester. He was also present at the British blockade of Cadiz in January, 1805. In 1813 he published a translation from the German of A. J. von Krusenstern's Voyage round the World in the Years 1803-1806. Hoppner was appointed English Consul at Venice in October, 1814. Samuel Rogers, writing, January 29, 1809, to Moore (Memoirs, etc., vol. viii. pp. 70, 71), mentions that Hoppner had been sent to him by Gifford to consult him on the foundation of the Quarterly Review, and to endeavour to secure for the new periodical the services of Moore. Shelley speaks of Mrs. Hoppner as "a "most agreeable and amiable lady" (Letter to Mrs. Shelley, August 23, 1818, Prose Works, ed. H. Buxton Forman, vol. iv. p. 33). Again, he says that the Hoppners are the "most amiable people I ever knew. Do you know that they have put off a "journey of pleasure solely that they might devote themselves to "this affair, and all with so much ease, delicacy, tenderness! They "are much attached to each other, and have a nice little boy, seven "months old. Mr. Hoppner paints beautifully: and this excur"sion, which he has just put off, was an expedition to the Julian "Alps, in the neighbourhood, for the sake of sketching, to procure "winter employment. He has only a fortnight's leisure, and he has "sacrificed two days to strangers whom he never saw before. Mrs. "Hoppner has hazel eyes and sweet looks-rather Maryish” (Dowden's Life of Shelley, vol. ii. p. 227). In another letter, to Peacock, October 8, 1818 (Prose Works, vol. iv. p. 39), Shelley writes, "We "made a very delightful acquaintance there with a Mr. and Mrs. "Hoppner, the gentleman an Englishman, and the lady a Swissesse, "mild and beautiful, and unprejudiced in the best sense of the . |