Mr. Leonhard, Who Has Translated Several Celebrated English Plays,
Such As "The School For Scandal," And Some Others, Lives Here As A
Private Person, Instructing Germans In English, And Englishmen In
German, With Great Ability.
He also it is who writes the articles
concerning England for the new Hamburgh newspaper, for which he is
paid a stated yearly stipend.
I may add also, that he is the master
of a German Freemasons' lodge in London, and representative of all
the German lodges in England - an employment of far more trouble than
profit to him, for all the world applies to him in all cases and
emergencies. I also was recommended to him from Hamburgh. He is a
very complaisant man, and has already shown me many civilities. He
repeats English poetry with great propriety, and speaks the language
nearly with the same facility as he does his mother language. He is
married to an amiable Englishwoman. I wish him all possible
happiness. And now let me tell you something of the so often
imitated, but perhaps inimitable
Vauxhall.
I yesterday visited Vauxhall for the first time. I had not far to
go from my lodgings, in the Adelphi Buildings, to Westminster
Bridge, where you always find a great number of boats on the Thames,
which are ready on the least signal to serve those who will pay them
a shilling or sixpence, or according to the distance.
From hence I went up the Thames to Vauxhall, and as I passed along I
saw Lambeth; and the venerable old palace belonging to the
archbishops of Canterbury lying on my left.
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