The Climate Here In Winter Is A Dry Cold, Which
Is Much More Salubrious And Agreeable To Me Than The Changeable, Humid
Climate Of Great Britain, Where, Though The Cold Is Not So Great, It Is
Much More Severely Felt.
[126] Tacitus, Germania, C, VIII.
- ED.
[127] Martin Sherlock (d. 1797), author of Lettres d'un voyageur anglais,
which were published in Paris 1779 and, the year after, in London.
[128] Matthew Gregory Lewis, 1775-1818, published Ambrosio or the Monk in
1795. - ED.
CHAPTER XVIII
MARCH-APRIL 1819
Journey from Dresden to Leipzig - The University of Leipzig - Liberal
spirit - The English disliked in Saxony - The English Government hostile to
liberty - Journey to Frankfort - From Frankfort to Metz and Paris - A.F.
Lemaitre - Bon voyage to the Allies - Return to England.
I left Dresden on the 2nd March, 1819. A Landkutsche conveyed me as far
as Leipzig in a day and half, stopping the first night at Oschaly, where
there is a good inn. At Leipzig I put up at the Hotel de Baviere and
remained five days. Leipzig is a fine old Gothic city. It is, as everybody
knows, famous for its University and its Fair, which is held twice a year,
in spring and in autumn, and which is the greatest mart for books perhaps
in the world. The University of Leipzig and indeed all the Universities of
Germany are in bad repute among the Obscuranten and eteignoirs of the
day, on account of the liberal ideas professed by the teachers and
scholars.
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