Hure, muft fopn Ihut up, as one never fees any great 

 number of people there. The other two, Bouyiiliers 

 and La Barriere, are rivals to each other ; buf the 

 balance very confpicuoufly inclines to the latter. 



The hpufe of -the reftauratear Bouvilliers is extremely 

 well fittted up. His two principal dining-rooms are on 

 the flrfc ftory, ornamented with elegant paper hangings 

 In the chinefe and arabefque tafte $ and are lighted in 

 the evenings with globular lamps. The tables are of 

 the finefl: fort of acajou-wood ; the bar, where the 

 landlady lits as it were enthroned, is of marble ; the 

 chairs are in a good tajte, the linen, table-cloths and 

 napkins, are very fine and always clean ; the vefTeis for 

 drinking not lefs fo, the plates, forks, and fpoons, and 

 the handles of the knives of lilver, the dimes of hand- 

 fome frone ware : in fhort, the whole exterior is ele- 

 gant and fafhionable. The company is genteel, and 

 for the moll part is made up of young perfons of good 

 circumftances and behaviour, who are juft entering the 

 world, travellers, monied men, fuperannuated officers, 

 and the like. There are tables for one, two, three, to 

 fix perfons ; fo that it is always at your option whether 

 you will dine alone or in company. You have-likewife 

 the choice of more than a hundred dimes, of above 

 twenty forts of defert, upwards of twenty kinds of 

 wine, and more than twenty fpecies of liqueurs. 



Notwithftanding all this, the number of the fre- 

 quenters of this reftaurateur is daily on the decline ; 

 and I mufl tell you what I take to be the caufes of it. 

 The wine is tepid when it comes to table, and requires 

 to be firft cooled with ice, whichis brought in a wood- 

 den bowl : this is inconvenient, as it obliges one to 



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