Ordered passport for departure - in the morning called on Mr. Sengel - at the Archdukes library to take leave - passed thru the rooms of the emperors palace which is connected with the Archdukes by an arched corridor to see the old prince Metternich - but tho a holiday, the feast of St. Leopold - and the court at the imperial chapel - he was not there - much occupied with public affairs, seldom seen in public.

In the afternoon made a visit to the Signora Cerrito the popular danseuse, accompanied by Herr Ferdinand Herntschirsch - introduced myself as the friend of Ludlow and Smith the proprietor of the St. Louis and Mobile theatres - had no sooner mentioned America than the gracefull Cerrito expressed her utter dislike to all sea voyages - and as she gets some 8 or 10 thousand florins a season in Vienna - and is well paid in her summer engagements in London, it's hardly likely she will go to America - notwithstanding the fame of the great success of Fanny Ellsler.

She enquired of me if I had heard that Miss Ellsler was going to marry an American - a very good cap to the climax of American folly - Cerrito does not look as well as on the stage - her features are rather coarse & her voice masculine - altogether she is a handsome Neapolitan girl - very affable and agreeable in her manners - she speaks french, German, Italian, and a little English, is taking lessons on the piano forte - is accompanied by her mother & father who no doubt watch her closely - she will be in London the last week in April when I am to call on her at the theatre Italien Mr. H - got leave to call on her again.

ah mon ami, si ton amecon n'est pas d'or, tu n'attraperas rien