I Was So Provoked At This Extortion, That, Without Answering One Word, I Drove To Another Auberge, Where I Now Am, And Pay At The Rate Of Two-And-Thirty Livres A Day, For Which I Am Very Badly Lodged, And But Very Indifferently Entertained.

I mention these circumstances to give you an idea of the imposition to which strangers are subject in this country.

It must be owned, however, that in the article of eating, I might save half the money by going to the public ordinary; but this is a scheme of oeconomy, which (exclusive of other disagreeable circumstances) neither my own health, nor that of my wife permits me to embrace. My journey from Paris to Lyons, including the hire of the coach, and all expences on the road, has cost me, within a few shillings, forty loui'dores. From Paris our baggage (though not plombe) was not once examined till we arrived in this city, at the gate of which we were questioned by one of the searchers, who, being tipt with half a crown, allowed us to proceed without further enquiry,

I purposed to stay in Lyons until I should receive some letters I expected from London, to be forwarded by my banker at Paris: but the enormous expence of living in this manner has determined me to set out in a day or two for Montpellier, although that place is a good way out of the road to Nice. My reasons for taking that route I shall communicate in my next.

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