jostled by draymen and porters, and reviled in the
most opprobrious terms by the watermen of London, where he had once lost
his bag and a considerable quantity of hair, which had been cut off
by some rascal in his passage through Ludgate, during the Lord Mayor's
procession. On the other hand, the doctor with great warmth alleged,
that those officers ought to suffer death, or banishment at least, for
having plundered the people in this manner, which was so impudent
and barefaced, as plainly to prove they were certain of escaping
with impunity, and that they were old offenders in the same degree of
delinquency. He said, that the greatest man in Athens would have been
condemned to perpetual exile, and seen his estate confiscated for public
use, had he dared in such a licentious manner to violate the rights of
a fellow-citizen; and as for the little affronts to which a man may
be subject from the petulance of the multitude, he looked upon them as
glorious indications of liberty, which ought not to be repressed, and
would at any time rejoice to find himself overthrown in a kennel by the
insolence of a son of freedom, even though the fall should cost him a
limb; adding, by way of illustration, that the greatest pleasure he ever
enjoyed was in seeing a dustman wilfully overturn a gentleman's coach,
in which two ladies were bruised, even to the danger of their lives.
Pallet, shocked at the extravagance of this declaration, "If that be the
case," said he, "I wish you may see every bone in your body broke by the
first carman you meet in the streets of London."

This argument being discussed, and the reckoning discharged without any
deduction, although the landlord, in stating the articles, had an eye
to the loss he had sustained by his own countrymen, they departed
from Arras, and arrived in safety at Lisle, about two o'clock in the
afternoon.

They had scarce taken possession of their lodgings, in a large hotel in
the Grande Place, when the innkeeper gave them to understand, that
he kept an ordinary below, which was frequented by several English
gentlemen who resided in town, and that dinner was then set upon
the table. Peregrine, who seized all opportunities of observing new
characters, persuaded his company to dine in public; and they were
accordingly conducted to the place, where they found a mixture of Scotch
and Dutch officers, who had come from Holland to learn their exercises
at the academy, and some gentlemen in the Fre