In a year at farthest, my dear Baron, I shall have the pleasure of returning to you and to my country. An event, which will complete my pupil's happiness, is now my only delay. The Princess's pregnancy is announced, and the Prince, in the hopes of a son, is already busied in the choice of a Governor. I have recommended to him a book little known, (intitled a Treatise on the Education of Princes destined to a Throne, by Mons. de Bassedow, translated from the German by Mons. de B***.) This Work is well worthy of notice, and makes essential remarks on the choice of a Governor, among which are the following: ‘The King named for Governor to the young Prince, Polyprates, a distinguished Nobleman. It was not high birth, nor military and political abilities, that determined this choice. For, said he, the most experienced politician, the sagest civilian, may not have the necessary qualifications for educating a young Prince. Therefore the young Agatacrator was intrusted to Polyprates, as he had assiduously attended to the bringing up of his own children who excelled in prudence and learning all their cotemporaries … Three years before he placed them under the tutor he had appointed, he made him qualify himself for that employment by reading the most approved Works on the subject, by consulting those who had succeeded best in their Plans of Education, and by making trials with poor people's children, which would at the same time give him opportunities of practising acts of benevolence. Polyprates had also procured servants, from whose conversation no harm could arise to the children. The intended tutor was directed to appoint them to their places about other children, that they might know how to conduct themselves about his own … Without such a Governor, said the King, and a most scrupulous choice of all the Prince's attendants, it is impossible his education can be perfect. Neither trouble nor expence should be spared to seek, even in foreign countries, proper persons, and to prepare them by a well regulated course of experience.’