ual to threepence.

VIENNA.

My first notes in Vienna must undoubtedly be devoted to the police. As
Hannibal and I arrived at the guard-house of the Tabor Linie, or barrier,
we were ordered by the sentinel to halt and hand over our papers; and,
upon doing so, received a slip of very little better than sugar paper in
return, with printed directions in German, French, and Italian,
commanding our attendance at the chief police office within twenty-four
hours. We knew better than to disobey. On the following morning we
presented ourselves and handed in our tickets, when mine was returned to
me with the words: "Three days' residence," written on the back.

"And should I not obtain employment in three days?" I inquired. "Then
you must leave Vienna."

Hannibal was permitted greater licence, being a native of one of the
states of the Bund; but both he and his fellow-townsmen of Lubeck were
taken into fictitious employment, in order to obtain the necessary
residence-card. Alcibiade, as a Frenchman, and, moreover, as being still
possessed of a certain amount of hard cash, was also more leniently dealt
with. Not having found work on the fourth day I waited again upon the
police, and was at first peremptorily ordered to depart; but, upon
explaining that I had friends in the city, a further stay of fourteen
days was promised, on the production of a written recommendation. On the
following day, through the friendship of our Viennese companion of the
road, I found work at a small shop-keeper's in the suburb of Maria-hilf.
Mark the routine. From my new employer I received a written attestation
of my engagement; with this I waited upon the police commissioner of the
district for his signature, and thence to the magistrate of the suburb to
obtain the authority of his name to the act. This done, I was in a
position to face the head police authorities in the city, and they, to my
astonishment, doled out a six weeks' permission of residence only, and
charged me a gulden, two shillings, for the document. I pleaded my
position as a workman, but was answered that my passport was that of a
merchant. This was disproved by every entry on its broad sheet, more
especially by a written description by the magistrate of Perleberg,
Prussia. All remonstrances were, however, in vain: while unemployed they
had dealt with me as a workman without resources; now that I was under
engagement, they taxed me like a proprietor. Alcibiade at