and our Hero, with his Attendants, arrive in safety at Harwich.

Being joined by their fellow-travellers in the morning, they made a
tour to all the remarkable places in this celebrated village: saw the
foundry, the Stadthouse, the Spinhuys, Vauxhall, and Count Bentinck's
gardens; and in the evening went to the French comedy, which was
directed by a noted harlequin, who had found means to flatter the Dutch
taste so effectually, that they extolled him as the greatest actor that
ever appeared in the province of Holland. This famous company did not
represent regular theatrical pieces, but only a sort of impromptus,
in which this noted player always performed the greatest part of the
entertainment. Among other sallies of wit that escaped him, there was
one circumstance so remarkably adapted to the disposition and genius of
his audience, that it were a pity to pass it over in silence. A windmill
being exhibited on the scene, harlequin, after having surveyed it
with curiosity and admiration, asks one of the millers the use of that
machine; and being told that it was a windmill, observes, with some
concern, that as there was not the least breath of wind, he could not
have the pleasure of seeing it turn round. Urged by this consideration,
he puts himself into the attitude of a person wrapt in profound
meditation; and, having continued a few seconds in this posture, runs
to the miller with great eagerness and joy, and, telling him that he
had found an expedient to make his mill work; very fairly unbuttons his
breeches. Then presenting his posteriors to the sails of the machine,
certain explosions are immediately heard, and the arms of the mill
begin to turn round, to the infinite satisfaction of the spectators, who
approve the joke with loud peals of applause.

Our travellers stayed a few days at the Hague, during which the young
gentleman waited on the British ambassador, to whom he was recommended
by his excellency at Paris, and lost about thirty guineas at billiards
to a French adventurer, who decoyed him into the snare by keeping up his
game. Then they departed in a post-waggon for Amsterdam, being provided
with letters of introduction to an English merchant residing in that
city, under whose auspices they visited everything worth seeing,
and among other excursions, went to see a Dutch tragedy acted, an
entertainment which, of all others, had the strangest effect upon the
organs of our hero; the dress of their chief person