However, This Is A Consideration That Ought Not To
Interfere With The Other Advantages That Would Accrue To Both
Kingdoms From Such A Convenience.
If there was a bridge over the
Var, and a post-road made from Nice to Genoa, I am very confident
that all those strangers who now pass the Alps in their way to
and from Italy, would choose this road as infinitely more safe,
commodious, and agreeable.
This would also be the case with all
those who hire felucas from Marseilles or Antibes, and expose
themselves to the dangers and inconveniences of travelling by sea
in an open boat.
In the afternoon we arrived at Nice, where we found Mr. M - e, the
English gentleman whom I had seen at Boulogne, and advised to
come hither. He had followed my advice, and reached Nice about a
month before my arrival, with his lady, child, and an old
gouvernante. He had travelled with his own post-chaise and
horses, and is now lodged just without one of the gates of the
city, in the house of the count de V - n, for which he pays five
loui'dores a month. I could hire one much better in the
neighbourhood of London, for the same money. Unless you will
submit to this extortion, and hire a whole house for a length of
time, you will find no ready-furnished lodgings at Nice. After
having stewed a week in a paltry inn, I have taken a ground floor
for ten months at the rate of four hundred livres a year, that is
twenty pounds sterling, for the Piedmontese livre is about an
English shilling.
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