In The Late Riots,
Which Even Yet Are Hardly Quite Subsided, And Which Are Still The
General Topic Of Conversation, More People Have Been Found Dead Near
Empty Brandy-Casks In The Streets, Than Were Killed By The Musket-
Balls Of Regiments That Were Called In.
As much as I have seen of
London within these two days, there are on the whole I think not
very many fine streets and very fine houses, but I met everywhere a
far greater number and handsomer people than one commonly meets in
Berlin.
It gives me much real pleasure when I walk from Charing
Cross up the Strand, past St. Paul's to the Royal Exchange, to meet
in the thickest crowd persons from the highest to the lowest ranks,
almost all well-looking people, and cleanly and neatly dressed. I
rarely see even a fellow with a wheel-barrow who has not a shirt on,
and that, too, such a one as shows it has been washed; nor even a
beggar without both a shirt and shoes and stockings. The English
are certainly distinguished for cleanliness.
It has a very uncommon appearance in this tumult of people, where
every one, with hasty and eager step, seems to be pursuing either
his business or his pleasure, and everywhere making his way through
the crowd, to observe, as you often may, people pushing one against
another, only perhaps to see a funeral pass. The English coffins
are made very economically, according to the exact form of the body;
they are flat, and broad at top; tapering gradually from the middle,
and drawing to a point at the feet, not very unlike the case of a
violin.
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