74 4uguft 1749. 



its walls half a one; for though the laft was 

 quite ready, however, it had not yet been 

 confirmed by the pope. In the firft they 

 do not receive every girl that offers her- 

 felf ; for their parents muft pay about five 

 hundred ecus, or crowns, for them. Some 

 indeed are admitted for three hundred ecus, 

 but they are obliged to ferve thofe who 

 pay more than they. No poor girls are 

 taken in. 



THE king has ereded a hofpital for fick 

 foldiers here. The fick perfon there is pro- 

 vided withevery thinghe wants, and theking 

 pays twelve fols every day for his ftay, at- 

 tendance, &c. The furgeons are paid by the 

 king. When an officer is brought to thk 

 hofpital, who is fallen fick in the fervice of 

 the crown, he receives victuals and attend- 

 ance gratis : but if he has got a ficknefs in 

 the execution of his private concerns, and 

 comes to be cured here, he muft pay it out 

 of his own purle. When there is room 

 enough in the hofpital, they likewife take 

 in fome of the fick inhabitants of the town 

 and country. They have the medicines, and 

 the attendance of the furgeons, gratis, but 

 muft pay twelve fols per day for meat, &c. 



EVERY Friday is a market-day, when the 

 country people come to the town with pro- 

 vifions, and thofe who want them muft 



fupply 



