Karl, Grand Duke of Frankfurt, Royal Highness: In a Lecture at the Museum in Frankfurt

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the NOBLEST, MOST AMIABLE, MOST GRACIOUS, MOST HUMANE, MOST DISCERNING, MOST CHARITABLE, and—which outweighs everything—THE WISEST AND MOST LEARNED AMONG THE PRINCES OF OUR GLOBE, KARL, ARCHBISHOP, GRAND DUKE OF FRANKFURT, PRINCE PRIMATE OF THE RHINE CONFEDERATION, SOVEREIGN PRINCE OF ASCHAFFENBURG, FRANKFURT, FULDA, HANAU, etc. etc. Since I was most graciously invited to appear in Frankfurt by HIS MOST AUGUST PERSON in a handwritten, most gracious, and kind letter dated April 30th of this year, upon the sending of the large gold homage medal that this MOST SUBLIME GRAND DUKE has graciously deigned to honor me with; my very first thought, as an honorary member of the Museum in Frankfurt, to which I was admitted and appointed by a received diploma on October 10th of last year, was to appear at a meeting of the same,