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servants at his lodgings whom he had assaulted and who 

 went about in bodily fear of him. Therefore the counsel 

 to whom he had applied very properly advised him to make 

 no further stir in the matter. 1 



Charles Etienne Louis Camus, another French mathe- 

 matician and astronomer who was one of the party on May 

 1 2th, was entertained thrice by the Club during this summer. 

 He and his companions at the dinners, Charles Duclos and 

 Ferdinand Berthoud, were elected into the Royal Society at 

 the beginning of the following year. 



The Dinner-register contains no record of changes in 

 the Regulations or demands for further supply. There are 

 indications, however, that while the bill of fare still con- 

 tinued to display mainly the solid and thoroughly English 

 dishes which had distinguished it from the first start of the 

 Club, traces of French influence in the cuisine begin to be 

 more distinctly perceptible. This may perhaps have arisen 

 out of compliment to the foreign and especially the French 

 guests. The Treasurer, however, gets rather mixed between 

 the two languages in drawing up his menu. He compensates 

 this yielding to foreign taste by having next year his fav- 

 ourite " plumb-pudding " at no less than forty-four dinners 

 out of the normal fifty- two. 



1 The appeal and the answer to it will be found in full in the Gentleman's 

 Magazine, xxxiii. p. 305. It is given also in the Annual Register (1763, 

 p. 166), with an editorial comment in reference to the recently liberated 

 French prisoners, that " thirty thousand of M. De La Conda mine's country- 

 men are gone home to refute the charge of barbarism against us." 



