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it was necessary — the tiers eiat were running mad — and wanted 

 some wholesome correction; — they want to establish a republic 

 — absurd! Pray, Sir, what did you fight for in America? To 

 establish a republic. What was so good for the Americans, is 

 it so bad for the French? Aye, damme! that is the way the 

 English want to be revenged. It is, to be sure, no bad oppor- 

 tunity. Can the English follow a better example? He then 

 made many inquiries about what we thought and said upon it in 

 England: and I may remark, that almost every person I meet 

 has the same idea — The English must be very well contented at 

 our confusion. They feel pretty pointedly what they deserve. — 

 \2\ miles. 



ID/A. To Ove.^ Pass Courtisseau, a small village, with a 

 great church; and though a good stream, not an idea of irri- 

 gation. Roofs of houses almost flat, with projecting eaves, 

 resembling those from Pau to Bayonne. At St. Menehoud a 

 dreadful tempest, after a burning day, with such a fall of rain 

 that I could hardly get to Monsieur I'Abbe Michel, to whom I 

 had a letter. When I found him, the incessant flashes of light- 

 ning would allow me no conversation ; for all the females of the 

 house came into the room for the abbe's protection, I suppose, 

 so I took leave. The vin de Champagne, which is 40 sous at 

 Rheims, is 3 livres at Chalons and here, and execrably bad; so 

 there is an end of my physic for the rheumatism. — 25 miles. 



nth. Pass Islets, a town (or rather collection of dirt and dung) 

 of new features, that seem to mark, with the faces of the people, 

 a country not French. — 25 miles. 



12th. Walking up a long hill, to ease my mare, I was joined 

 by a poor woman who complained of the times and that it was 

 a sad country; demanding her reasons, she said her husband 

 had but a morsel of land, one cow, and a poor little horse, yet 

 they had a. franchar (42 lb.) of wheat and three chickens to pay 

 as a quit-rent to one seigneur and four franchar of oats, one 

 chicken, and i sou to pay to another, besides very heavy failles 

 and other taxes. She had seven children, and the cow's milk 

 helped to make the soup. But why, instead of a horse, do not 

 you keep another cow? Oh, her husband could not carry his 

 produce so well without a horse; and asses are little used in the 

 country. It was said, at present, that something was to be done 

 by some great folks for such poor ones, but she did not know who 

 nor how, but God send us better, car les tailles et les droits fious 

 ecrase?tt. — This woman, at no great distance, might have been 



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