MONTRI UL. I HAD once loft my portmanteau from behind my chaife, and twice got out in the rain, and one of the times up to the knees in dirt, to help the poftillion to tie it on, without being able to find out what was wanting-Nor was it till I got to Montriul, upon the landlord's afking me if I wanted not a fervant, that it occurred to me, that that was the very thing. A fervant! That I do moft fadly, quoth I-Because, Monfieur, said the landlord, there is a clever young fel low, low, who would be very proud of the honour to serve an Englishman.-But why an English one, more than any other? They are fo generous, faid the landlord-I'll be fhot if this is not a livre out of my pocket, quoth I to myself, this very night-But they have wherewithal to be fo, Monfieur, added he-Set down one livre more for that, quoth I-It was but last night, faid the landlord, qu'un my Lord Anglois prefentoit un ecu à la fille de chambre-Tant pis, pour MadamoiJelle Janatone, faid I. Now Janatone being the landlord's daughter, and the landlord fuppofing I was young in French, took the liberty to inform me, I should I not not have faid tant, pis but, lant mieux. Tant mieux, toujours, Monfieur, faid he, when there is any thing to be got tant pis, when there is nothing, It comes to the fame thing, faid I. Pardonnez moi, faid the landlord. I cannot take a fitter opportunity to obferve once for all, that tant pis and tant mieux being two of the great hinges in French converfation, a Aftranger would do well to fet himself right in the use of them, before he gets to Paris, A prompt French Marquis at our ambaffador's table demanded of Mr. H—, if he was H the poet ? No, No, faid H mildly-Tant pis, replied the Marquis. It is H the hiftorian, faid another—Tant mieux, faid the Marquis. And Mr. H, who is a man of an excellent heart, return'd thanks for both. When the landlord had fet me right in this matter, he called in La Fleur, which was the name of the young man he had fpoke of-faying only firft, That as for his talents, he would prefume to say nothing-Monfieur was the best judge what would fuit him; but for the fidelity of La Fleur, he would stand responsible in all he was worth. The |