With Respect To My Health, About Which You So Kindly Enquire, I
Have Nothing New To Communicate.
I had reason to think that my
bathing in the sea at Boulogne produced a good effect, in
strengthening my relaxed fibres.
You know how subject I was to
colds in England; that I could not stir abroad after sun-set, nor
expose myself to the smallest damp, nor walk till the least
moisture appeared on my skin, without being laid up for ten days
or a fortnight. At Paris, however, I went out every day, with my
hat under my arm, though the weather was wet and cold: I walked
in the garden at Versailles even after it was dark, with my head
uncovered, on a cold evening, when the ground was far from being
dry: nay, at Marli, I sauntered above a mile through damp alleys,
and wet grass: and from none of these risques did I feel the
least inconvenience.
In one of our excursions we visited the manufacture for
porcelain, which the king of France has established at the
village of St. Cloud, on the road to Versailles, and which is,
indeed, a noble monument of his munificence. It is a very large
building, both commodious and magnificent, where a great number
of artists are employed, and where this elegant superfluity is
carried to as great perfection as it ever was at Dresden. Yet,
after all, I know not whether the porcelain made at Chelsea may
not vie with the productions either of Dresden, or St. Cloud.
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