Letter from Hugh Elliot, Regensburg, to an unidentified recipient, 1774 December 19 : autograph manuscript signed.

Thanking his correspondent for his letter of October 25th; writing that he is glad to be stationed in Regensburg, "as I am convinced that there is no other means of acquiring a knowledge of the Empire than attending to the transactions at the Diet;" mentioning that he spent the autumn at the court in Munich; describing in detail "hunting in the German stile," which he says is "exceedingly entertaining, on account of its prodigious solemnity;" referring to a spiked punch bowl and its effects on loosening tongues ("if there had been another tumbler full of Punch in the bowl, I should have learnt every circumstance relative to the French subsidy"); saying that he used to live on an island in the Danube, "but of late the waters are so out that I have been obliged to quit my house;" mentioning that he will return to Munich for the 1st of January; adding "I hope the american business is not so serious as publick accounts make it. But at all events I cannot think that if a rebellion should really ensue that they will be able to stand on campaign against regular forces;" sending his respects to Mr. Frazer.