Letter 2388

Cadogan informs Sloane that he has been in Berlin for a week and will be leaving for Vienna on Thursday. If Sloane has any business he wants Cadogan to do for him in Paris he is to write to him in Vienna. He describes Berlin as ‘a large town, the streets broad, strait and well built. The Kings Palace is a noble structure […] without any garden’. The curiosities in the Palace are not comparable to Sloane’s collection. The ‘late King of Prussia’ was fond of his city and its amenities, which the current monarch passes on to his soldiers. Cadogan is enjoying himself in Berlin, and is regularly invited to ‘dine with the King; either at Court, or elswhere. The entertainment on these occasions are magnificent’. Charles Cadogan (1685-1776), 2nd Baron Cadogan was the younger brother of William Cadogan, Earl Cadogan, who was an army officer and diplomat. Charles was an army officer, elected MP for Reading in 1716, and married Sir Hans Sloane’s daughter Elizabeth in 1717 (James Falkner, Cadogan, William, Earl Cadogan (1671/21726), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/4310, accessed 15 July 2013]).