we landed--saluted, and even
assailed on all sides, with entreaties to come to certain hotels. We were
not long however in fixing our residence at the _Hotel d'Angleterre_, of
which the worthy Mons. De La Rue[21] is the landlord.

[17] [Mons. Licquet, my translator, thinks, that in using the word
"_Antiquaire_"--as appears in the previous edition of this work,
incorporated in the gallicised sentence of "_Voyage Bibliographique
Antiquaire_, &c."--I have committed an error; as the word
"_Archeologique_" ought, in his opinion, to have been adopted--and he
supposes that he best expresses my meaning by its adoption. Such a
correction may be better French; but "Archaeological" is not exactly
what is usually meant--in our language--by "Antiquarian."]

[18] This smart little vessel, of about 70 tons burden, considered to be
the fastest sailing packet from Dieppe, survived our voyage only about
eighteen months. Her end had nearly proved fatal to every soul on
board of her. In a dark night, in the month of September, when bound
for Dieppe, she was struck by a heavy London brig. The crew was with
difficulty saved--and the vessel went down within about twenty-five
minutes after the shock.

[19] The English are not permitted to bring their own vessels into
harbour--for obvious reasons.

[20] [This "scene" has been, in fact, subsequently depicted by. the
masterly pencil of J.M.W.TURNER, Esq. R. A: and the picture, in which
almost all the powers of that surprising Artist are concentrated, was
lately offered for sale by public auction. How it was suffered to be
_bought in_ for three hundred and eighty guineas, is at once a riddle
and a reproach to public taste.]

[21] [I learn that he is since DECEASED. Thus the very first chapter of
this second edition has to record an instance of the casualties and
mutabilities which the short space of ten years has effected. Mons. De
la Rue was a man of worth and of virtue.]

LETTER II.

DIEPPE. FISHERIES. STREETS. CHURCHES OF ST. JAQUES AND ST. REMY. DIVINE
WORSHIP. MILITARY MASS.

The town of Dieppe contains a population of about twenty-thousand
souls.[22] Of these, by much the greater _stationary_ part are females;
arising from one third at least of the males being constantly engaged in
the FISHERIES. As these fisheries are the main support of the inhabitants,
it is right that you should kn