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with unabated fury, till after two o'clock in the morn- 

 ing. The next day it was curious to behold, from the 

 hand-bills that were ftuck up in all the corners of the 

 town, the number of watches, jewels, fnuff-boxes, and 

 handkerchiefs that had flown away in this patriotic ex- 

 plolion. 



The 26th. Before dinner, faunter to the Champs 

 JElifees ; behind which, at a chop-houfe I dined in the 

 Jardin Royal ; from thence back again to the town, in 

 the Varietes amufantes. 



The firft performance was a little piece, called Efopc 

 a la foire, not at all remarkable for plot or invention. 

 People of all conditions flock to JEfop, partly out 

 of curiofity, partly becaufe they love good advice ; and 

 he delivers them truths and maxims of conduct in art- 

 ful allegories and ingenious fables. 



The fecond piece was the Duke of Monmouth. It 

 was chiefly interefting on account of fome natural 

 fcenes, in which the duke on his flight becomes em- 

 bar raffed with a pretty country girl, her bridegroom 

 and her father. Monvei was too old for the part of the 

 duke ; but that circumftance was foon forgot. Here 

 likewife the paffages which had but a diftant and faint 

 allulion to the prefent political fermentation, were fu- 

 xioufly applauded. After them the paffages of mora- 

 lity and practical philofophy were mofl: approved. 



The 27th. By the bad weather that has uninter- 

 ruptedly continued all the time of my being here, it 

 has always been impoflible for me to go without fide of 

 the barriers of the city to draw a little frefli air. This 

 fatisfaction I have hitherto only been able to obtain in 

 gardens of the Tuilleries, of the Luxembourg pa- 

 lace, 



