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 lioufe claims' — This, I believe, is moderate,efpecially as 

 J was affured that a large cafe of Englifti knives and forks 

 would be liable to forffeiture, if the ciillom-houfe officers 

 were rigorous — In this and other poi-nts, 1 think I can 

 ■jierccive fyniptoms of conciliating meafures with 

 France. — The qnaintnefs of Sterne's wit (which has 

 many admirers) ftruck me forcibly when I again con- 

 verfed with the Capuchin-^This inn is not only mag- 

 nificent, but commodious, and remarkably well ferved 

 It well merits the encomiums bellowed on it by tra- 

 vellers — Mr. DeiTein appears to me a fenfible, confide- 

 rate, unaffefted man — He is very attentive and fer- 

 viceable to travelltrs who delire to converfe with him, 

 ;md I tliink, wifely, leaves travellers who exprtfs no 

 fucli defire, to their own difcretiort — I thought myfelf 

 much obliged to him for his kind fervice, and good ad- 

 vice in feveral particulars — He aided me to fettle with 

 tlie cullom-houfe — He gave me French money for my 

 Engliih guineas, ac the bcft rate of exchange — He ad- 

 vifed me to keep my Kngliib crowns and half crowns, 

 as they have a profitable currency in all parts of Frfince 

 — He explained to me, that by the king's ordinance, if 

 I kept the pole of my carriage, I mull employ four 

 liorfes ; but that by quitting it, three would ferve, 

 which proved a confiderr.ble faving in the courfe of my 

 long journeys through France. 



On the loth, I fet oi;t for Paris, and proceeded no 

 farther that day, than to the poll houfe at Boulogne — 

 T had good entertainment, below the common rates in 

 E,ngl:ind — Five livres for two bottles of very good 

 Burgundy — Four livres for dinner to two perfons, and 

 three for my lodgings — Here fome Britilb gentlemen, 

 by reconiniendation troiTi friends at London, waited on 

 me, and offered me many civilities, which my ftate of 

 health obliged me to decline — So, on the nth I pro- 

 ceeded toMontreuil, and lodged at the Court of France 

 ir.n, Tvhere my entertainment was elegant, and my bill 



