2/S TOUR THROUGH HOLLAND. [1804. 



villas in various forms and sizes. Our dinner, cold 

 fowl, bread, and wine, as is the custom ; women 

 drinking tea the whole way. We were forty in all, 

 besides those on the roofs. Passed Maarsen, a neat 

 clean village, inhabited -chiefly by Jews ; only one 

 horse all the way ; stopped twice, once to drink a cup 

 of tea and light pipe. Arrived here at 8.30 with 

 the usual precision of the country, and found a most 

 comfortable hotel, the Castle of Antwerp. 



The French troops treat the people here with great 

 harshness, and are detested by all ranks, ages, and 

 sexes. There are fourteen French generals under 

 Marmont, the gendral-en-chef. One of them said to 

 him that Utrecht had suffered nothing since the 

 Ee volution, and that it ought to pay now. The 

 general, therefore, seized some of the best houses for 

 quarters for his etat-major. The municipality remon- 

 strated, and were driven out with contempt. Since 

 that, the French have done as they pleased in the town. 



I saw to-day (Aug. 14) a pamphlet, published at 

 Utrecht in 1802, to prove that it is the part of a 

 good citizen to undertake any office that might be 

 offered him, whether lie likes the Government or not. 

 It has had some effect. Previously none but the 

 scum could be found for the public departments. 



The rent of land is from twenty to forty florins 

 the Dutch arpent. Very bad land at ten to fifteen. 

 An instance of fifteen per cent for money vested in 

 land is quite rare ; seldom more than five ; average 

 two to four. Since the Revolution, land has risen in 



