He is a specimen of a military man of which England may well be proud.
The Ducs de Talleyrand and Dino, the Marquis de Mornay, the Marquis de Dreux-Breze, and Count Charles de Mornay, dined here yesterday.

The Marquis de Breze is a clever man, and his conversation is highly interesting.

Well-informed and sensible, he has directed much of his attention to politics without being, as is too often the case with politicians, wholly engrossed by them.

He appears to me to be a man likely to distinguish himself in public life.
There could not be found two individuals more dissimilar, or more formed for furnishing specimens of the noblemen of _la Vieille Cour_ and the present time, than the Duc de Talleyrand and the Marquis de Dreux-Breze.

The Duc, well-dressed and well-bred, but offering in his toilette and in his manners irrefragable evidence that both have been studied, and his conversation bearing that high polish and urbanity which, if not always characteristics of talent, conceal the absence of it, represents _l'ancien regime_, when _les grands seigneurs_ were more desirous to serve _les belles dames_ than their country, and more anxious to be distinguished in the _salons_ of the Faubourg St.-Germain than in the _Chambre de Parlement_.
The Marquis de Dreux-Breze, well-dressed and well-bred, too, appears not to have studied either his toilette or his manners; and, though by no means deficient in polite attention to women, seems to believe that there are higher and more praiseworthy pursuits than that of thinking only how to please them, and bestows more thought on the _Chambre des Pairs_ than on the _salons a la mode_.
One is a passive and ornamental member of society, the other a useful and active politician, I have remarked that the Frenchmen of high birth of the present time all seem disposed to take pains in fitting themselves for the duties of their station.