New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-07-12
Eceentrioitles of an English Envoy.

Under date of the 9th Of June. correspondent of
the Philadelphia Bulletin writes the following letter
from Florence
Florence has had small excitement since wrote
you, in the appearance and rapid disappearance of
Mr.. Howard, the newly-appointed English Minister
He has been for the past twelve or fifteen years. Sec
retary OF Legation OF Paris comfortable well paid
sort of situation, but which, it appears he or his
friends thought he had filed long enough. So when
Pamerston was obliged to walk the plank he was
sent here by the Derbytes to take the place of Lord
Normandy, who, poor fellow, has to leave ES 900 a
year, and little to do for GS 900 year. and nothing
to do at all.
Well, Mr.. Howard arrived here on Saturday with
seVentysix cases Of plate and such necessities Of
diplomacy, some dozen horses, and servants accord
ingly. On Sunday he visits the Marquis Who being
an old friend, and Hospitality inclined says: Howard
come dine with at the Villa, and We II arrange our
affairs comfortably So Howard dimes with him. and
dimes we'll he is not dYspeptiC which he don't look.
and then the affairs are all arranged by the ms
taking the house and furniture of the Out at a
ridiculous bargain of course and together they con-
cert letter to the AutOcrat of all the TusCanies re-
qnestng the honor OF an early interview to present
credentials, etc.
The Autoerat, though he generally looks slow. and
inclined to go to sleep in standing attitude on this
occasion was pleased to be very quick and wide
awake probably because he was eninyiDQ himself
ally thought that, coming to Florence in such hot
weather, TO say go0dby to one Englisbman and how
ye do to another, was great bore, and the sooner
over the better So he appointed the next day but
one. generally known as Tuesday.
Now, as the new Minister was the ambassador of
lady king, it necessary that the Grand Duchess
should have her fngerin the pie So all her chamber
maids-I beg their pardon her chamberlains-Were
sent for, and the whole of the highly embroidered
officers of the court then taking their ease at the
sundry seaside inns of this extensive empire were
ordered to be in attendance at the palace of the late
Pitt, at O'Clock precisely.
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breakfast which he took alone, and in a very bad
temper, and which consisted principally of soda
water, he stroed to the embassy, where the Secre-
tary and the attaches bowed down before him, and
showed him every attention and civity, and the
books. Mr.. H. remarked, .Ah! those are the
bOOksl" aud after moment of deep thought said
cheerfuly, " Well, good morning to you,n and left.
The same afternoon he delighted the Cascne by his
presence, accompanied by other peg-tops of good
family, and his cOmpatri0s told people that that was
MIR. Howard, the new Minister, and people said
/" Oh, that is Mr.. Howard, the new Mnistr, is it
really z! He Is going to be presented to the Grand
Duke tomorrow Z" Is he, though. really? How
extraordinary p And so on, indefinitely.
After indulgng in ehaff for an hour with his
friends and admirers, Mr. Howard drove back to his
tabernacle, and concluded that he was bored fright.
laily oGred that Florence was not place where an
Ango.Parisian of fifteen years standing could pos
shly exist for more than three days and that he
would ineontnently decamp next moTning-Whioh
he actually did, leaving note for his friend, the
Marquis requesting blm 70 send the seventy-slX
cases horses servants etc. by the fast train to Paris
and to mention to the Duke and Duchess that he
very sorry that Florence disagreed with him to such
extent that he obliged to quit without having
the pleasure OF making their acquaintance
Imagine the discontinue of his eountrymen, and
! the rage of the reigning powers. Now is not this q
pretty way to bully poor little Tuscany? If Mr..
Dallas had behaved so at the Court of st. James, or
Sir Anybody else had cut up such shines at Washing.
ton, what would have been the result? Tuscany has
to take it living down y like the iEprS in
Colonel Scragg's Conversion and Mr. Howard
won't be reprimanded not a bit of it. What repri-
mand the blood of the Howards! What an absurd
idea Why, his brother is Earl of Carlisle Yiceroy
The man was really i'll of course be was. Florence
is notoriously bad climate aud the unfortunate iu-
valid must be provided for in healty and agreeably
way, and so he will be.