nicipality knew their own interest, and the maison de ville was fitted up for his reception. He however, the year following, took up his abode in the citadel.

LODGINGS.

NOT only the price of every article of food and raiment was increased, often doubled since the arrival of the English, but lodgings were now let for a larger price by the month than before they had produced by the year. Several families gave ten louis a month for a house, or for a floor in a large hotel; and the prisoners were not permitted to change their lodging without the consent of the general. This enabled our military tipstaff to favor or to vent his spite against any inhabitant of

the place. Should he have any quarrel with a house-holder, the detenu received an order to seek for lodgings elsewhere. Captain Elrington (a detenu), and Mr. Halford of the navy (a prisoner of war), were lodged very much to their satisfaction, in a house which overlooked the Bishop's garden and the adjacent country, and enjoyed one of the finest views in the town; when unexpectedly they received an order from the general Wirion to quit their lodgings. They answered, that they preferred it to any in the town.-To no purpose.-Stat pro ratione voluntas. Much against their will, they were obliged to comply, though for a length of time they could not discover the motive of the order.

In no country in Europe is treachery reduced to so perfect a system as in France. Their landlord, named Varennes, was a police officer, and the general

at first allowed him twelve livres a day to be a spy over the English; but the man was worthy to serve his employer, and is probably before this time a member of the Legion of Honor; for he not only took the general's money, but secretly became the government spy over the general.-Set a thief to catch a thief. Unluckily, he, according to the vulgar proverb, had caught the wrong sow by the ear. One of the general's friends in the police office at Paris sent him the letter, in which Varennes had criticised him without mercy. The general sent for him, and dissembling his rage with all the selfcommand of a Bow-street officer, informed him that some secret enemy had been endeavoring to do him an ill office, and told him, that he relied upon his sagacity and honor (for, like Peachem and Locket, they had always this word in their mouth) to discover who this

base back-biter was.

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tended to give loose to his indignation, that any one could be base enough to traduce so upright a character; and after many encomiums on his patron's integrity and other merits, promised to exert himself to discover the lurking villain. The general opens a drawer, and without further comment gives him the letter in his own hand-writing. Varennes retired covered with confusion, and the two lodgers were ordered to quit his house. The pitiful spite of the general would not allow him his share in the plunder of the English.

APPEL, OR ROLL-CALL.

ONE of the impositions was the rollcall, to which the English were at first obliged to submit once a day. They

were ordered to appear at the maison de ville, and write their names in a book. Should they miss the appel, they were fined half-a-crown. The indignation of people of distinction may be conceived, at the indignity of appearing like so many culprits before the gendarmes, who sat there with all the importance of Bow-street officers. When the hour was expired, they without losing a moment hurried to the lodgings of the defaulters to collect the fines.

At the same time that the detenus, who had no military rank, whatever might have been their connexions and line of life at home, would only have received three halfpence, and half-apound of bread from the French government, on which they might have starved, had they not been assisted by the charitable contributions of their countrymen; they were ordered to pay