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Among thefe nob'e viftims of fidelity 
it is impoffible to pa/s over Sir Thomas 
Blount, and the Earl of Huntingdon, 
Richard’s natural brother.—I envy. not 
the feelings of the man who can read the 
account of their fufferings with dry eyes. 
Every {pecies of horrid barbarity and in- 
fulting cruelty produced neither weaknefs 
nor difmay. When Blount’s entrails were 
burning before his eyes, he only thanked 
God that he was born to die in the fervice 
of fuch a mafter as Richard ;—asd Hun- 
tingdon fuffered with equal firmnefs and 
refionation.- 
It is impoffible to communicate any 
idea of the interelt which a perufal of this 
manufcript mult excite in the breaft of the 
moft carelefs reader. Nothing appears 
by which its author can be difcovered ; 
but numerous circumftances prove him 
an eye-witnels of the principal f{cenes he 
records; and, that he fhared part of the 
fufferings of his royal mafter, which he 
fo pathetically laments, his narrative con- 
tains many convincing proofs. Such alfo 
appears to be the pinion of M. Gailliard, 
the able editor of this part of the work. 
The detail is continued in the language 
of an eye-witnefs, until the imprifon- 
_ment of Richard at Flint-caltle; and the 
author. was probably one of thofe friends 
who were torn from him at that cruel mo- 
ment, for, after relating the King’s com- 
plaints there, verbatim, ‘* becaufe he had 
heard them,” he fays; after which, ‘ of 
his aidigtions no one knew any thing but 
thofe who guarded him.” 
The manuicript concludes with ftating, 
that Henry the Fourth, the firtt King of 
England of the Houfe of Lancafter, re- 
mained in quiet poffeffion of the throne, 
(To be continued.) 
aE 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine, 
SIR, 
HE excellent Guide to Paris, lately 
publithed in London,* has been of 
great fervice to our countrymen, not only 
on the road, but ia that metropolis. 
It is ingular that it fhould at prefent 
be the befi Manuel de Paris. 
At Calais, both going and returning, 
I ftopped at Grandfire’s, who feems to 
identify himfelf with his guetts. The ex- 
pence of fhipping and unfhipping your 
carmage and baggage is about five gui- 
neas. Let no one tempt you to embark 
without a fair wind and a {mooth fea. 
When four perfons travel together, it 
_* See Guide to Paris, publifhed by Phil- 
Lips, St. Paul’s Chusch yard. 
A few Hints for Perfons travelling to France. 205. 
is not’only highly agreeable, but econo- 
mical, te take over a London-built coach; 
not as a fine fhew, but a uleful vehicle. 
I bought one in Long Acre for fomething 
under eighty pounds, which carried me 
to Dunkirk, Bruges, Ghent, Bruxelles, 
Mons, Valenciennes, Cambrai, and Pa- 
ris; afid from thence back again, without 
the expence of five fhillings for repairs, 
I was offered by the perfon from whom I 
hired my job coach at Paris, twenty 
guineas for my bargain. 
By the orders of the Bureau des Poftes, 
that are detailed in the poft-book (which 
may be had for three livres, ten fous) fix 
horfes are required for a coach carrying 
four people ; but at the. commencement 
of your journey, the poft-mafter will 
agree with you to furnith four horfes at 
the rate of payment for five, at thirty 
fous each horfe per poft. As a poit is very 
nearly five miles Englifh, you pay 150 
fous, equal to fix fhillings and three: pence, 
Englifh, for a pot, or fifteen pence Eng- 
lifh per mile, for five horfes. On the 
Dover -road you pay two’ fhillings and 
eight-pence for four—more than double. 
The whole expence of the journey from 
Paris (170 Englith miles) for four people, 
including food and lodging, was twenty 
pounds ; again, from Dover to London, 
(73 miles) fifteen guineas. 
With refpe& to cultom-officers, it is 
bet to leave your inn-keepers at Dover 
and Calais to manage for you. The 
officers are very civil, but the charges are 
very high; however, much ineffectual 
trouble and vexation is faved, by fubmit- 
ting to them without remonftrance.. This 
advice is not meant to be extended farther 
than to fea-ports. Every Englifhman in 
eafy circumitances feels it a duty to re- 
fit impofition, that may become a prece- 
dent, prejudicial to thofe who are not fo 
rich as himfelf. In general, thofe who 
conduét themfelves with civility, appear- 
ing neither in the character of Milord An- 
glais, nor as a perfon continually fu‘pi- 
cious of being cheated, will find travel- 
ling on the principal roads in France 
cheap and agreeable. In paying poftil- 
lions, it will be found convenient to have 
filver fufiicient for your journey in two 
bags, one containing pieces of fix livres, 
the other pieces of three livres, thirty | 
and fifteen fous, and twenty-four fous. 
With thefe pieces, without any cop- 
per, the amount of each poft may be 
made up, allowing to each poftillion dou- 
ble the fum rated in the poft-book. I 
wrapped up this money in a piece of pa- 
per before the end of each ftage, and I 
never met. with any complaint or diff- 
| culty. 
