202 
Vingts; du-Roule; de Scipion; des Vieil- 
fards.’ If one compares this ht with 
that of the theatres, it will be found light 
in the balance: of thefe latter IT have juft 
reckoned twenty-four! But when did you 
hear of a Frenchman’s having exhaufted his 
ftock of good fpirits? A fpectacle is meat 
and drink to him, and why do you with 
to deprive him of it? ‘I fhould like to be 
in the South of France during the vintage: 
how the hale youth and nimble- footed 
girls muft bound upon the plain at that 
joyous feafon, if they cannot keep them- 
‘felves quiet and withim doors even in De- 
cember! It was on Sunday-afternoon as 
we changed horfes at Breteuil, that a knot 
of lads and laffes, all decked in their clean 
Sunday-clothes, were romping on a green 
which rifes by the road-fide, as full of 
fport and fpirits as if it had been May! 
For feven or eight fucceffive hours had we 
been cramped together in our voitute, and 
how it hzppened that we did not all get 
out and join this frolicful circle, I know 
not; I am fure we fhould have enjoyed it. 
Perhaps we had pre-determined to fleep 
at Beauvais, and pre-determinations are 
not to be argued againt. 
The police at Paris is faid to be re- 
markably good ; under the Monarchy you 
know it was conduéted with aftonifhing 
‘ativity and acutenefs: in one refpedct, 
however, its prefent fuperiority will be 
univerfally acknowledged. ‘The ftreets of 
Paris are, generally {peaking, very nar- 
row, andare moreover deftitute of that ac- 
commodation which one would think fhould 
be even more neceflary here than in London 
where they are wider—the accommodation 
of adifferent pavement for foot-paflengers. 
It is a faét too;well known to be difputed, 
that the coachman of a /eigueur made no 
{cruple in driving the long axle of his car- 
riage againft any unfortunate pedeftrian 
who charced to be in his way, and often- 
times in mere mifchief would rattle his 
wheels in among a crowd, and, enjoy the 
confufion. Many and ferious accidents 
muft neceflarily have: refulted from this 
fcandalous privilege, for fuch it really 
was, and in the courle of the year too 
many perfons were killed by the exercife 
of it. . This noble privilege of breaking 
other people’s bones is now abolifhed: 
every horfe, in every carriage, whether it 
_be awotture, cabriolet, or facre, is obliged 
to have a fmall bell fufpended under his 
threat, fo give timely warning of his ap- 
proach: this republican regulation is 
doubtlefs attended with confiderable fecu- 
rivry. As to highway-robberies one hears 
nothing about them; it i$ prefumptive, 
Ona Paffage in Virgil's Zintid. 
[April 1, 
therefore, that they are not very frequently 
committed. And yet the temptations 
mutt be as ftrong here as they are in the 
environs of London, and, all other things 
equal, the chance of detection lefs, for 
notes are unknown here, and cath cannot 
be fworn to. We have feen no paper- 
money fince we left England: an affignat 
is quite a curiofity—-a Queen Anne’s far- 
thing—but every rofe has its thorn, you 
know, and here cafh is an incumbrance ! 
- Silver appears to be more plentiful than 
gold, anda man who goes to a banker for 
fifty pounds has.a fort of fhot-bag filled 
with coin, which he will probably either 
give to a fervant to carry for him, or hire 
a voiture and drive home with it himfelf, 
The exchange is very much again Eng- 
land—-at Calais we loft nearly nine per 
cent. and here we Jofe, [ think, fome- 
what more than eight and a quarter; this 
is a ferious addition to the expence of tra- 
Velling. Theonly gold coin that we have 
feen are Louis-d’ors, fome of which I un- 
derftand have been ftruck fince the revo- 
lution: the other current coins are douzes 
livge-pieces, fix-livre-pieces (both bear- 
ing the flamp of Louis XVI.) trente-fous- 
pieces, fix-jiards, ‘quarter-liards, deux- 
liards, and centimes. A centime is the 
hundredth part of a livre, which latter is 
nominal: a livre (or franc) being ten- 
pence (Englifh), a centime is confequently 
the fifth part of a halfpenny. ‘The cur- 
rency of fuch an infignificant coin is the 
moit indifputable evidence in the world 
that things are cheap in France: of what 
ufe would a centime be in England ?— 
what would it purchafe? Not thanks from 
a beggar! 
(To be continued in our next.) 
‘Errata in the former Letters.—Page 98, 
col. r, line 35, infert my before natale folum. 
—Page 98, col. 1, line 40, for unfiring’d 
read unfiringed—Page 99, col. 2, line 26, 
for fortifications read fortification. —Page 102, 
col. r, line $8, for effec? read effort —Page 
103, col. 1, line 50, for one read be. 
i 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, <p fuas 
USTICE tothe memory of my much- 
oJ “lamented friend, Mr. Wakefield, 
obliges me to notice, that in his edition 
of Virgil (which is come into my poffef: 
fion within thefe ten day) he has antici- 
pated me in reforming the punétuation of 
Virg. 4En. V.372. To him therefore 
let the whole praife of the correétion be 
given. Habeat fecum fervetque fepulcra. 
I am not ignorant that Aulus Gellius, lib. 
v. cap, 8, of his Noct. Attic. explains the 
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