tg6 TRAVELLING MEMORANDUMS. June 15^ 



nice diflies, and very good wine — We difcovered' an 

 evident defign to impofe upon us as Englifliinen ; bu« 

 my hcneft friend Macgregor reftrained them -within 

 moderate bounds — We were well diverted with feme 

 circumftances which I fet down — Our landlord afTured 

 us we fhould have dinner on the table, dans une bonne 

 demi heur — After waiting an hour and an half, we called 

 — the waiter, fomewhat a wit, and very much a kuave, 

 affured us that dinner fhould be ferved in a minute ; 

 but he added pertly, itn^ minute ici ejl compose d' une 

 bonne quart d' heur. Our friend the Chevaiier had before 

 hand lo corrtdl:ly fixed the rates of every article in our 

 bill of entertainment, that the hoyfe had no extraordi- 

 nary advantage to expe£l— The niettled waiter, howe- 

 ver, tried to remedy this grievance, by whifpeiing to 

 •me that we might have a bottle of excellent Champaigne 

 — I demanded the price — To which he gave an evafive 

 anfwer — I then faid aloud, " AQc Monfieur le Cheva- 

 *' lier if we fhall have a bottle of Champaigne, with- 

 " out fettling the price." The anfwer was laconic and 

 decifive " Non," The lively waiter replied " Mon-. 

 " fieur, cela eji fort diflinBP So we had our enter- 

 tainment for a very moderate reckoning. When I paid 

 the bill, my friend defired me to give the waiter no 



more than 12 fous However, I gave him two livres, 



which he received very thankfully, and acknowledged 

 that he always had four times more from the Englifti 

 and Irifti, than from his own countrymen — There are 

 delightful walks at the Palais Royal, furrounded with 

 rich, at leaft fplendid IJiops, containing all forts of 

 •wares. It will be a monument to the memory of the 

 prefent Duke ©f Orleans, and a great revenue to his 

 family. Here I was condu6led one evening, to fee a 

 very Angular fpecies of dramatic entertainment, per- 

 formed by a company, called Les Petites comediens, 

 de Jon altejjeey the Duke's fon. The Royal Theatre 

 iias an exclufive right to exhibit plays — At this The- 

 atre they have fallen upon a very curious artifice \% 



