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or near it, the sentinel takes your hat, and you must pay 

 him five halfpence, else he keeps it, and you have no 

 remedy. As this is the sum the old fellow required, I 

 rather think he also had such a permission ; and in 

 such case I too would have had no crime to charge 

 him with. He added that there is a sort of revolu- 

 tionary spirit afloat at present, and it is probable the 

 old fellow is riding on the top of his commission. 

 We dined together, and went to the coffee-house to 

 see the Moniteur ; and waiting, a party of mounte- 

 banks entered, laid down a rug up the floor and played 

 their tricks upon the hard flags. Eight o'clock arrived, 

 and no Moniteur. I took my leave of him, went 

 home, had a good jorum of warm tea and went to 

 bed. 



" Wednesday, March 22nd. I sent at nine to the 

 post-office, and was again mortified to find neither letter 

 nor remittance from Paris. 



' ' June 5th. The Fountain Tavern, which had been 

 the resort of Excise tide-waiters as long as I could 

 remember, began to be pulled down, to make room 

 for a new building for the Excise, and the tavern was 

 removed to the opposite side, where the Commissioners 

 of the Excise had a house. 



et Thursday, June \&th. I set off this morning with 

 Mr. Eichard Peen on a tour to Town Mailing, passing 

 over Punish Hill, where a small cottage has this year 

 been built which commands the finest view in Kent. 

 The view embraced the winding Medway enclosed by 

 hills, contracting itself to Kochester, where the arches 

 of its bridge displayed across the river make a 

 striking point in the picture, over which appeared 

 Sheerness and the shipping, with the sea as an end- 



