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SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY,

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HEY order, faid I, this matter better

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in France?

-You have been in

ance? faid my gentleman, turning quick upon me with the most civil triumph in the world.-Strange! quoth I, debating the matter with myself, that one and twenty miles failing, for 'tis abfolutely no further from Dover to Calais, fhould give a man thefe rights-I'll look into them: so giving up the argument-I went ftraight to my lodgings, put up half a dozen fhirts and a black pair of filk breeches the coat I have on, faid I, looking at the fleeve, will do, took a p place in the Dover ftage; and the packet failing at nine the next morning-by three I had got dot fat down to my dinner upon a tricaffee'd chicken

fo inconteftably in France, that had I died that night of an indigeftion, the whole world could not have suspended the effects of the * Droits d'Aubaine my fhirts, and black pair of filk breeches-portinanteau and all must have gone to the king of France-even the little picture which I have fo long worn, and fo often have told thee, Eliza, I would carry with me into my grave, would have been torn from my neck. Ungenerous!-to feize upon the wreck of an unwary paffenger, whom your fubjects had beckon❜d to their coaft-by heaven! SIRE it is not well done; and much does it grieve me, 'tis the monarch of a people fo civilized and courteous, and fo renown'd for fentiment and fine feelings, that I have to reafon with-

But I have fcarce fet foot in your domi

nions

Hoold

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CALAIS.

All the effects of ftrangers, Swiss and Scotch excepted, dying in France, are feized by virtue of this law, tho' the heir be upon the fpot-the profit of thefe contingencies being farm'd, there is no redrefs.