The most ridiculous circumstance respecting Duelling, is, that the Man who has suffered the Injury must submit himself to the same Peril with him who inflicted it, so that the Punishment is entirely accidental, and as likely to fall upon the Innocent as the Guilty.
[25] So called by “The Oracle,” from the furious sacrifice of the comfort of the Interior of our Modern Houses to the paltry plaister patchwork of (what the Vulgar pronounce) “a pretty Elevation.” Aye!—pretty may be for part of a Palace—but as inconvenient as it is impertinent for a Private Dwelling.
[26] “The longer his Taile be, hee shall the better defend himself therewith in summer season from the flies; and therefore Cameranus doth not a little marvel at those which use to curtail their Horses.”—Blundevill on Horses, 1609. p. 13.
[27] The attentive and obliging Surveyor to the Board of Hackney Coaches in Essex Street, Strand.
The Hackney Coach Office is open from 10 till 3 o’Clock every day; and no person belonging to the Office is allowed to make any demand or charge for Expenses, or to receive any Fee or Gratuity, under any pretence whatever.
[28] “In Paris, Hackney Coaches are hired either by the course (à la course), i. e. as often as the vehicle is stopped, or by the hour (à l’heure). The fare is 30 sous (1s. 3d.) per course, whether it be a quarter of a Mile or three Miles; or two francs (1s. 8d.) for the first hour, and 30 sous (1s. 3d.) per hour afterwards.
“From midnight to 6 o’clock in the morning, the fare is doubled.
“These coaches are not obliged to carry more than four persons and a child, nor to take any heavy luggage.
“If the Coach be hired by Time, the first hour must be paid for, whether it is entirely occupied or not; but it is not necessary to pay for more of the second, or of any succeeding hour, than has actually elapsed.
“If a coach is engaged to go to the Theatres, or to any place of public amusement, it is customary to pay the coachman at the time of starting, in order to avoid delay at alighting.”—Planta’s Picture of Paris, 16mo. 1825, p. 408.