iate with the English, and look upon them with any feeling but good
will. With regard to servants, they are invariably badly served,
although they pay two or three times the wages that are paid by the
inhabitants, who, in most places, have made it a rule never to take a
domestic that has once lived in an English family; the consequence is
that those engaged by the English are of the worst description, a sort
of _pariahs_ among the community, who extort and cheat their employers
without mercy. If not permitted so to do, they leave them at a minutes
warning; and you cannot go to any foreign colony of English people
without listening to very justified tirades of the villany of the
servants. Upon the same principle, there are few places abroad where
the tradespeople have not two prices; one for the English, and the other
for the inhabitants.

I was in company with an English lady of title, who gave me a very
amusing instance of the insolence of the Belgian servants. She had a
large family to bring up on a limited income, and had taken up her abode
at Brussels. It should be observed that the Belgians treat their
servants like dogs, and yet it is only with the Belgians that they will
behave well. This lady, finding her expenses very much exceeding her
means, so soon as she had been some time in the country, attempted a
reformation. Inquiring of some Belgian families with whom she was
acquainted what were the just proportions allowed by them to their
servants, she attempted by degrees to introduce the same system. The
first article of wasteful expenditure was bread, and she put them upon
an allowance. The morning after she was awoke with a loud hammering in
the saloon below, the reason of which she could not comprehend; but on
going down to breakfast she found one of the long loaves made in the
country nailed up with tenpenny nails over the mantelpiece. She sent to
inquire who had done it, and one of the servants immediately replied
that she had nailed it there that my lady might see that the bread did
not go too fast.

There is another point on which the English abroad have long complained,
and with great justice,--which is, that in every litigation or petty
dispute which may appear before a smaller or more important tribunal,
from the Juge de Paix to the Cour de Cassation, the verdict invariably
is given against them. I never _heard_ an instance to the contrary,
although there may have been some. In no case can