

1796. 1 
this moment writing upon a fpare trunk 
for want of a table. | I am therefore dri- 
yen to faunfer aout with the reft of the 
party; but inftead of the fine clumps‘o 
. trees, and waving fields of corn I hav 
been accuftomed to have before my ey 
I fee nothing but a naked beach, almof 
withour a tree, ex cpofed by turns to the 
cura eaftern blaft, and the glare of 
fun, and covered with a fand 
Lr ly eink ul to the ea to the 
fest. e Ocean is indeed an object of 



{peakable grandeur; but la it has 
een comtemplated in a ftorm and in a 
calm, w e have feen the fun rife 
eut of om and ver its 

extended furface, its ariety 
ed; and the eye bee « mo require the 
fofter and more intereiting fcengs of 
e Hi tape nature. My famalyihas 
Yes been perfuaded’ feveral 7m 
Joy er fea ftill more, by 


a little failing yparty ; but: 4 
nately, Northanyptonthire has: not fat 
forded them any opportunity of becom- 
» ing feafoned failors,” thefe «parties of 
pleafure are always attended’ with the 
moft dreadful Aarts This likewife 
Jam told is very good) for the contti- 
@ stution; it may be fo for aught 1 kmow, 
but I confefs I am apt co. ee 
taking an emetic at home would be equal- 
ly apy, 3 rand I am fure it’ would — 
be m more decent, Nor can I help Imagi- 
ning he my voungef daughter’ s lo 
has been lefs Puicops, fince «he 
ee her in the “Sndélicdte firua- 
fion of a fhi rp cabin a lave endeavoured 
toamufe myfelf w 1e companys ‘but 
without much fuccefs; it confi fis Or. Va 
few ve reat people, who make a fet 
by i d think they are en= 
titled: , by the freedom of a watering place, 
to induige themielves in all manner of 
folfonner : ‘as; and a ee is a motley 
group of fha a i clerks, 



# miftre (fies, 
| women. if se. ; 
nice in my, choice Of, acquaiataree, eps 
cially i ay family; but ‘the greater 
conneétions here gare _ fac h 
4 fhould be afhamed to acknowledge 
“any where elfe, and. thes fey we have 
feen above Surieloee will equally dif- 
claim us when we meet in town-next 
; gvinter. As to the. fettled ihabitanrs 



‘the place, ail who do not get by u ne 
view us with didi ke, becaule we rai 
the price of provilions; and thofe who 
ilo: which, in Ane wayor cther, cempre- 
sheads,all: tlie lower cials, have loft every 
— Etace | of ruraldiumpli ieity, and arg’ y tried 
Reivbasce 
On Watering bhai 




tite any impofition where all were 





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in all the arts of low cunning and chi- 
cane. Thef Tpirit of ¢ eae and Tapa~ 
city is no where fo confpicuous as in 
lodgin¢-houfes. ~ At our feat in the coun 
ry, Our demeitic concerns went on as = 
ock-wopk$ a quarter of an hour ina 
Be fettled the bills, and few tradef. 
men wilhed, and none dared, to prac- 
known, 
and the comfequence OF eee ee 
behaviour mutt have been their be ing 
marked, for life, for encoui ragement or 
for diftruft. But here the continual fuc- 
tuation of company taxes away all re- 
gard to char racicr; the moft refpedtable 
and ancieat families have no influence 
aay farther than as they icatter théir 
y cath, and neither seaccade nor 
refpeét are felt where there is no bend 
of mutual attdchiment, befid¢es the ne- 
day. I fhould be 
ceilities of the pees 
had on! ly to ‘contend Ww. he 


& 
happy if we 
this {pirit during our prefeat /excurfion:- 
but the effet it has us: pon fervants is 
moit pernicious. Our family ufed to be 
emarkable for having its dometties crow 
giey wi ifs férvice, but this éx dition 
nas already corr: upted them 5 * we 
have this cvening parted with, and the 
jie have learned fo much of the tricks 
their ftation, that we fha 
ed to difcharge them as” as we 
“return #home. ?In the country, J had 
beea aceuftomed to do geod to the poor ; 
are eharivic here tao 5 we have 
crazy poet- 
efs, a. rattle for the fupport t a fharp- 
er, wh pales unde r the nile of a 
German™ Count, and a benefit play for 
a gentleman on board the Hulks« Uné 
fortunately, ‘to balance thefe various 
expences, this place, which happens’ to 
bea great refort cf {mugelers, affords 
daily opportunities of making dar, 
We drink {poiled teas; under the idea 
of ti nei being cheap, aad the little room 
we have is made lefs by the reception 
of cargoesof i india tatetys, hawl-muflins, 
and real schintzes. All my authority 
here woule be exerted im vain; for, 7 
do not Know whether you know it’ or 
no, the buy ying of: a bargain is 2 
temptation fe ch if is not ta eRe? nature 
of any woman to refit Eam in hopes 
a wever the butinefs: tay Receive { fome 
little check A rom an -ineident Wiliga 
happened Ps lietle tre  fincé: an “ach 
quaintance of cur’s recurming from Mar 
gate, h had his S carriage feibed® by the C A 
tom-houfe officers, on account of a piec 
of ilk, which one of his female coufins, 
without his Knesy ledge, had itowed in it’ 
and 







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