"If you propose staying at Paris or Geneva, take such Clothes as you may require in society; but it will be well not to encumber yourself even with an extra Coat. If you intend taking Geneva or Berne, &c. on your return, the list already given is sufficient for a Journey of six weeks in the Mountains.

"Take no more English Money than will carry you to Paris. Take Herries' Bills of Exchange, as the safest and most advantageous means of bearing about your Credit, and take for them Napoleons, which are every where known and current."

We shall close this Chapter with an extract from our old friend" R. Twiss's HINTS TO TRAVELLERS"-who had more experience on this subject than most men, and has communicated it with his usual

good-humoured Candour:-R. T. was gifted with the rare and happy faculty of saying any Thing, to any Body, in such a droll manner, that it was impossible to be offended with him, however opposite the opinions which he chose to utter, might be to those entertained by the party with whom he conversed.

R. T. was an excellent Musician, and could not bear to hear any but good Music, and that well performed. As an instance of his Candour and his Humour, we state, that when a Lady asked him if her Children should play something on the Piano to him— he replied with one of those comical smiles of his, and in a certain purring tone, and with that peculiar naïveté which cannot be described, and cannot very easily be imagined :

offer - Exceedingly—but, if it is exactly the same thing to you, Madam, (shaking his head like a Chinese Mandarin, and making as profound a Bow as Sir Archy Macsarcasm himself could have done,) I had much rather Not!"

Our facetious friend never played at Cards, which he protested against as a Childish adventure.

We were visiting together one Evening, when the Master of the House invited R. T. to play at Whist—who immediately gave him one of his significant stares, and said, "No-No-pray, Sir, what have you seen me do since I came into this room so exceedingly silly, that you ask me to play at Cards"!!!

Our Friend Richard, after having informed us that he visited the greatest part of England, Scotland, Ireland, Holland, Flan

ders, France, Switzerland, Germany, Bohemia, Italy, Portugal, and Spain, and, including sixteen Sea Voyages, had journeyed about twenty-seven thousand Miles, which is two thousand more than the circumference of the Earth; thus sums up the Pro's and Con's respecting Travelling:

"For to whatever place discontented folks roam,

At last they'll be forced to say this of their HomeOur Friends are as true, and our Wives are as comely, And our Home is still Home, be it ever so Homely." C. Dibdin.

"After having attentively considered the advantages which may be acquired by Travelling, let us, on the other hand, reflect, that the more knowledge a man possesses, the less satisfaction he will find in his intercourse with the generality of Mankind, the majority being composed of Ignorant or

Vicious people; and that his Taste will be so refined by having contemplated the various beauties of Nature and Art, that most of those which will occur to him, during the course of a settled life, will appear trivial and insipid, and he will have little relish for the greater part of those things which are generally termed Pleasures.

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To conclude: if we suppose the judicious traveller to be an Englishman; when, after having visited Europe, he reflects on the different climates, productions, and governments, peculiar to the various nations; that some are parched by droughts which continue half the Year; that others appear as if situated under a dropping Sponge : others buried in Snow; subject to Earthquakes; exposed to the ravages of Volcanoes, or to irresistible Inundations; and others overrun by wild Beasts and ve