Near the ’Change is a shop where, for a penny or even a halfpenny only, you may read as many newspapers as you will.  There are always a number of people about these shops, who run over the paper as they stand, pay their halfpenny, and then go on.

Near the ’Change there is a little steeple with a set of bells which have a charming tone, but they only chime one or two lively tunes, though in this part of the City you constantly hear bells ringing in your ears.

It has struck me that in London there is no occasion for any elementary works or prints, for the instruction of children.  One need only lead them into the City, and show them the things themselves as they really are.  For here it is contrived, as much as possible, to place in view for the public inspection every production of art, and every effort of industry.  Paintings, mechanisms, curiosities of all kinds, are here exhibited in the large and light shop windows, in the most advantageous manner; nor are spectators wanting, who here and there, in the middle of the street, stand still to observe any curious performance.  Such a street seemed to me to resemble a well regulated cabinet of curiosities.

But the squares, where the finest houses are, disdain and reject all such shows and ornaments, which are adapted only to shopkeepers’ houses.  The squares, moreover, are not nearly so crowded or so populous as the streets and the other parts of the city.  There is nearly as much difference between these squares and the Strand in London, in point of population and bustle, as there is between Millbank and Fredericksstadt in Berlin.

I do not at present recollect anything further, my dear friend, worth your attention, which I can now write to you, except that everything is ready for our departure to-morrow.  I paid Captain Hilkes, with whom I came over from Hambro’, four guineas for my passage and my board in the cabin.  But Captain Braunschweig, with whom I am to return, charges me five guineas; because provisions, he says, are dearer in London than at Hambro’.  I now have related to you all my adventures and all my history from the time that I took leave of you in the street, my voyage hither with Captain Hilkes excepted.  Of this, all that I think it necessary to mention is, that, to my great dissatisfaction, it lasted a fortnight, and three days I was sea-sick.  Of my voyage back I will give you a personal account.  And now remember me to Biester, and farewell till I see you again.

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