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LETTER I. | Page | | Arrival at Falmouth.—Custom House.—Food of the English.—Noise and Bustle at the Inn | 1 | LETTER II. | Mode of Travelling.—Penryn.—Truro.—Dreariness of the Country.—Bodmin.—Earth-Coal the common Fuel.—Launceston.—Excellence of the Inns and Roads.—Okehampton.—Exeter | 8 | LETTER III. | Exeter Cathedral and public Walk.—Libraries.— Honiton.—Dangers of English Travelling, and Cruelty with which it is attended.—Axminster.—Bridport | 24 | LETTER IV. | Dorchester.—Gilbert Wakefield.—Inside of an English Church.—Attempt to rear Silk-worms.—Down-country.—Blandford.—Salisbury.—Execrable Alteration of the Cathedral.—Instance of public Impiety | 37 | LETTER V. | Old Sarum.—Country thinly peopled.—Basingstoke.—Ruins of a Catholic Chapel.—Waste Land near London.—Staines.—Iron Bridges.—Custom of exposing the dead Bodies of Criminals.—Hounslow Brentford.—Approach to London.—Arrival | 54 | LETTER VI. | Watchmen.—Noise in London Night and Morning.—An English Family.—Advice to Travellers | 65 | LETTER VII. | General Description of London.—Walk to the Palace.—Crowd in the Streets.—Shops.—Cathedral of St Paul.—Palace of the Prince of Wales.—Oddities in the Shop Windows | 72 | LETTER VIII. | Proclamation of Peace.—The English do not understand Pageantry.—Illumination.—M. Otto’s House.—Illuminations better managed at Rome | 85 | LETTER IX. | Execution of Governor Wall | 97 | LETTER X. | Martial Laws of England.—Limited Service advised.—Hints for Military Reform | 109 | LETTER XI. | Shopmen, why preferred to Women in England.—Division of London into the East and West Ends.—Low State of domestic Architecture.—Burlington-House | 119 | LETTER XII. | Causes of the Change of Ministry not generally understood.—Catholic Emancipation.—The Change acceptable to the Nation.—State of Parties.—Strength of the new Administration.—Its good Effects.—Popularity of Mr Addington | 127 | LETTER XIII. | Dress of the English without Variety.— Coal-heavers.—Post-men.—Art of knocking at the Door.—Inscriptions over the Shops.—Exhibitions in the Shop-windows.—Chimney-sweepers.—May-day.—These Sports originally religious | 137 | LETTER XIV. | Description of the Inside, and of the Furniture, of an English House | 149 | LETTER XV. | English Meals.—Clumsy Method of Butchery.—Lord Somerville.—Cruel Manner of killing certain Animals.—Luxuries of the Table.—Liquors | 164 | LETTER XVI. | Informers.—System upon which they act.—Anecdotes of their Rascality.—Evil of encouraging them.—English Character a Compound of Contradictions | 173 | LETTER XVII. | The Word Home said to be peculiar to the English.—Propri
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