To Him Succeeded A Third,
So That It Cost Me Six Shillings, Which I Willingly Paid, Because It
Would Have Cost Me Still More At The Custom House.
By the side of the Thames were several porters, one of whom took my
huge heavy trunk on his shoulders with astonishing ease, and carried
it till I met a hackney coach.
This I hired for two shillings,
immediately put the trunk into it, accompanying it myself without
paying anything extra for my own seat. This is a great advantage in
the English hackney coaches, that you are allowed to take with you
whatever you please, for you thus save at least one half of what you
must pay to a porter, and besides go with it yourself, and are
better accommodated. The observations and the expressions of the
common people here have often struck me as peculiar. They are
generally laconic, but always much in earnest and significant. When
I came home, my landlady kindly recommended it to the coachman not
to ask more than was just, as I was a foreigner; to which he
answered, "Nay, if he were not a foreigner I should not overcharge
him."
My letters of recommendation to a merchant here, which I could not
bring with me on account of my hasty departure from Hamburgh, are
also arrived. These have saved me a great deal of trouble in the
changing of my money. I can now take my German money back to
Germany, and when I return thither myself, refund to the
correspondent of the merchant here the sum which he here pays me in
English money.
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