The King bestowed a good deal of time upon the specimens.

He admired them; but particularly those in gold.

He expressed his surprise at the state of some of the arts in Africa.

He sent them back on the same day on which he had examined them, and commissioned Mr.Necker to return me his thanks; and to say that he had been highly gratified with what he had seen; and, with respect to the Essay on the Impolicy of the Slave-trade, that he would read it with all the seriousness, which such a subject deserved.
My correspondence with the Comte de Mirabeau was now drawing near to its close.

I had sent him a letter every other day for a whole month, which contained from sixteen to twenty pages.