PALAIS ROYAL* 



fome good actors, and fome actrefTes that are at once 

 good and pretty and obliging, and their performances 

 are pleafing and very diversified. The fpedtators, how- 

 ever, will be both more brilliant and more numerous 

 when their new theatre is once opened, which is already 

 finifhed as far as the fhell ; and, for tafte in architec- 

 ture, in fpacioufnefs and conveniency, will far exceed 

 all the other theatres of the capital. The performances 

 of the petit s Comediens are entertaining enough in their 

 way, and draw off a multitude of people from the other 

 theatres. At leaffc, among .the large theatres, the 

 Theatre Italien is a great fuffererby the Palais Royal, as 

 it flands quite in the vicinity ; and it likwife contributes 

 not a little to the number of people that are either fettled 

 or collected about this quarter. 



Whoever vilits the Palais Royal mufr. be better 

 dreffed than is neceffary for the other public walks, as 

 there is always here a fafhionable and genteel company. 

 This prefents gradually a more coftly rtandard for the 

 exterior, as all that come here are eager to vie with one 

 another in drefs, and therefore run into greater expences, 

 which, but for this rivalfhip, would never be thought 

 of. Thus alfo the rtandard for all articles of confump- 

 tion rifes by degrees, as every thing by this means grows 

 dearer. People gradually habituate themfelves to greater 

 daily expences, as thinking that it is but proper ; and 

 thus the necefTaries of life are increafed and enhanced, 

 almoft imperceptibly ; or if it be perceived, yet if a 

 man be once entangled in the Palais royal, he mure, 

 pay, though unwillingly^ for the brilliancy that fur- 

 rounds him. 



Hence 



