1801.] 
few refpeftable merchants are feenat them 
in the middle of the day. 
Befides the ufual walk on the ramparts, 
there ‘is the Fun fern Steig (Ang. the 
Young Maidens’ Walk), which is plant- 
ed with trees, and on one fide has a hand- 
fome row of houfes; it is fituated nearly 
at one extremity of the city, on a fine piece 
of water, called the Inner Alfter, which is 
- here: very broad, and forms a refervoir: 
this walk runs up towards that part of the 
-ramparts in which is the Dam-thor; the 
Englifhcall itthe Ladies-walk. It is very 
much frequented by the younger part of 
the beau-monde, and is, in fine weather, 
really a pleafant promenade. ‘There are 
feveral tea-drinking houfés in the neigh- 
bourhood of the city, which arereforted 
to in fummer every Sunday evening, by 
the trades- people and theirfamilies; dancing 
is allowed at thefe houfes, and this amufe- 
ment is the principal one of this clafs of 
people: I wifh it were in my power to 
fay, that the amufements of the higher 
claffes are as innocent—but of thefe I fhall 
prefently have occafion to {peak. 
The markets in Hamburg are well fup- 
plied with butcher’s meat, poultry, butter, 
eggs, and vegetables, and in fummer with 
fifh, which, particularly turbot, may then 
be bought very cheap. Beef and mutton 
are nearly as good as in England, but veal 
and pork are very inferior ;, meat is fold 
by the pound, which is, about feventeen 
ounces Eneldh (ico Hamburg pounds 
‘ weighing 107 Englifh pounds nearly). 
‘The price of meat, and of provifions in 
general, except fith, was always high; 
but fince this has been fo muchthe refort of 
the emigrants from France, every article of 
this kind has become exorbitantly dear. 
‘The bread, both white and brown, or rather 
black, is unadulterated ; the Germans al- 
mott without exception prefer the latter ; 
the white bread is moftly eaten by the 
French and Englifh. Fruit is not plenti- 
ful, except ftrawberries and cherries ; the. 
apples ufed here are {carce, this fruit being 
chiefly imported from France. In Altona, 
_ all the neceffaries of life are much cheaper 
than they are here. 
This city is not particularly diftinguith- 
ed for its manufactories, except for that of 
_ refined fugar, in which the Hamburgers 
' certainly excel: there are a great number 
of fugar-houfes, and the fugar-bakers’ 
journeymen are eftimated at feven or eight 
thoufand. There are feveral breweries ; 
the beer is light and good for prefent ule, 
but it will not keep. 
The great commerce of this city is fo 
well known that it needs no deicription, 
Skeich of “fourney from Copenhagen to Eamburg. 
+ 
905 
I fhall therefore only make a remark on - 
the charaéter of thofe through whofe hands 
it pafles, The minds of every clafs of 
men, and of almoft every individual of the 
different claffes, from the burgomatter to 
the loweit barrow-man, feem to be ab- 
forbed in gain. The old maxim of ‘* Get 
money” &c. appears here to be completely 
exemplified, and the provifo of ** Get it 
honettly, if you can,’’ is feldom brought to 
their recollection; for the affociation of 
their ideas is fuch, that it generally leads 
them to the ewd, without allowing them 
to be very fcrupulous about the means by 
which it may be attained. In fad, (as 
has betn well obferved), <* body and foul, 
mufcles and heart, are equally fhrivelled- up 
by a thirft of gain, and the charaéter of 
the man icems to. be completely loft in that 
of the Hamburger*.”” 
If my information be correét, the exe- 
cutive and legiflative government of this 
city is compofed of a pretor, four burgo- - 
mafters, four fyndics, twenty-four burgh- 
ers, and four fecretaries, but the latterare 
only recorders of the aéts of government. 
All the offices, except that of the praetor, 
are for life : he is chofen yearly ; his office 
is nearly fimilar to that of the Lord Mayor 
of London. Of the twenty-four burghers 
or fenators, twelve are graduates, and 
twelve are merchants—Dytch Kaufmanns3 
this title, which would be treated with the 
greateft conternpt only twenty miles from 
Hamburg, is here one of the highett that a 
man canhavef.. . ai 
The inhabitants are reckoned at 
740,000, but this number fluctuates ; be- 
fore the French Revolution, it did not ex- 
ceed 100,000: fince that period, crowds 
of emigrants have fixed their abode 
here, and the commerce of the city has 
been extended to an unparalleled degree. 
One caufe which operates in favour of the 
population of Hamburg is the eafe with 
which a foreigner may be made a burgher: 
A EN 
* See Mary Wollitonecraft’s admirable 
¢¢ Letters written during a fhort Refidence in 
Sweden, Norway, and Denmark.” 
+ In Germany, and in the northern parts 
of the Continent, every man, whatever his 
fituation may be, has a title prefixed to his 
name, the refpectable appellation of gentlemany 
fo much ufed (and fometimes fo much abufed) 
in England, is here unknown. 
here the Baron 
»the Profeffeur 
the Agent , the Kaufmann » the 
Advocat , &c.. &c. and if his title be 
not known, S. T. (Sa/va Titula) is prefixed 
to the addrefs of a letter, &c. This latter mode 
is chiefly ufed in Deamark and Sweden. : 
: for 
Every man is _ 
