246 TRAVErXING MEMORANDUMS. June 22, 

 ' iliall pny you ; — but be fure I rtiall hereafter avoid 

 '♦ your houfe, — and report your behaviour to other tra- 

 *' vellcrs." — 1 he woman readily reltridled her bill to 

 twenty-four fous, equal to one fhilling fterling, and 

 received it thankfully. — By the fame argument at 

 the Lion d'or, Effone, I reduced an extravagant bill, 

 uo lefs than lix livres, — which made it reafonable, — 

 and the balance was alfo thankful'y received. — Indeed, 

 on fiich occasions, the experience and honefiy of my 

 foreign fervant have been materially ufeful.— He gene- 

 rally fettles my bill before I enter the inn— but when 

 this precaution has been omitted, I never fail to re- 

 form an unreafonable bill, in the above method I put 



up all night at the Prince de Conde, Dijon, — capital of 

 Burgundy — It has a very agreeable iituation, and thriv- 

 ing appearance, — populous and cleanly — The prince 

 has a handfonie palace here, — and there is a large fine 



building for an academy of fciences Near this city, 



there is a fmall territory, the prince's property, which 

 produces the wine called Romans, of much fuperior 

 quality and flavour to any other Burgundy — The great 

 iamily of Conde had long been in ufe to engrofs all this 

 excellent wine ; and what could be fpared from their 

 own hofpitality, the}' gave in prefents moitly to the 

 king of France, and other fovereign princes. — This 

 prince of Conde finding meafures of economy very ne- 

 ceffary from the ftaie of his fmances, among others, 

 had ordered this pr.ccious wine to be faved for feveral 

 years pad ; — aad a large quantity of it was lately fold 

 to the merchants at Paris, of which my friends pur- 

 chafed a confiderable Ihare, at fuch a price, that they 

 fatisfied ine, it could not be fold in retail at London, 

 under the rate of one guinea per bottle — After repeat- 

 edly tailing it, I exprefled regret, that I could not, 

 without apparent extravagance, take any wine at fuch a 



price They very obligingly agreed to let lut have a 



hamper of nine dozen, without profit — This parcel flood 

 ;ne at the rate of nearly nine livres per bottle, prime 



