 On the other hand, the doctor with great warmth
alledged, that those officers ought to suffer death, or banishment at least, for
having plundered the people in this manner, which was so impudent and barefaced,
as plainly to prove they were certain of escaping with impunity, and that they
were old offenders in the same degree of delinquency. He said, that the greatest
man in Athens would have been condemned to perpetual exile, and seen his estate
confiscated for public use, had he dared in such a licentious manner to violate
the rights of a fellowcitizen: and as for the little affronts to which a man may
be subject, from the petulance of the multitude, he looked upon them as glorious
indications of liberty, which ought not to be repressed, and would at any time
rejoice to find himself overthrown in a kennel by the insolence of a son of
freedom, even though the fall should cost him a limb: adding, by way of
illustration, that the greatest pleasure he ever enjoyed, was in seeing a
dustman wilfully overturn a gentleman's coach, in which two ladies were bruised,
even to the danger of their lives. Pallet, shocked at the extravagance of this
declaration, »If that be the case, (said he) I wish you may see every bone in
your body broke, by the first carman you meet in the streets of London.«
    This argument being discussed, and the reckoning discharged without any
deduction, although the landlord, in stating the articles, had an eye to the
loss he had sustained by his own countrymen, they departed from Arras, and
arrived in safety at Lisle, about two o'clock in the afternoon.
    They had scarce taken possession of their lodgings, in a large hotel on the
Grande Place, when the inn-keeper gave them to understand, that he kept an
ordinary below, which was frequented by several English gentlemen who resided in
town, and that dinner was then upon the table. Peregrine, who seized all
opportunities of observing new characters, persuaded his company to dine in
public; and they were accordingly conducted to the place, where they found a
mixture of Scotch and Dutch officers, who had come from Holland to learn their
exercises at the academy, and some gentlemen in the French service, who were
upon garison-dutý in the citadel. Among these last was a person about the age of
fifty, of a remarkably genteel air and polite address, dignified with a Maltese
cross, and distinguished by the particular veneration of all those who knew him.
When he understood that Pickle and his friends were travellers
