The impious insinuation of the Latin lines, is the reason, I suppose, why they were omitted under the more modern impression of this fine print, and very middling French poetry superseding them. LETTER LIII. PARIS. If you do not use _Herreis_' bills, I recommend to you at _Paris_, a French, rather than an English banker; I have found the former more profitable, and most convenient. I had, ten years since, a letter of credit on _Sir John Lambert_, for £300, from _Mess. Hoares_. The _Knight_ thought proper, however, to refuse the payment of a twenty pound draft I gave upon him; though I had not drawn more than half my credit out of his hands. _Mons. Mary_, on whom I had a draft from the same respectable house, this year will not do _such things_; but on the contrary, be ready to serve and oblige strangers to the utmost of his power: he speaks and writes English very well, and will prove an agreeable and useful acquaintance to a stranger in _Paris_. His sister too, who lives with him, will be no less so to the female part of your family. His house is in _Rue Saint Sauveur_. The English bankers pay in silver, and it is necessary to take a wheel-barrow with you to bring it away; a small bag will do at the French bankers'. There is as much difference between the bankers of _London_ and bankers in _Paris_, as between a rotten apple and a sound one. You can hardly get a word from a London banker, but you are sure of getting your money; in _Paris_, you will get _words_ enough, and civil ones too. Remember, however, I am speaking only of the treatment I have experienced. There may be, and are, no doubt, English bankers at _Paris_ of great worth, and respectable characters. It is not reckoned very decent to frequent coffee-houses at _Paris_; but the politeness of _Monsieur_ and _Madame Felix, au caffe de Conti_, opposite the _Pont neuf_, and the English news-papers, render their house a pleasant circumstance to me; and it is by much the best, and best situated, of any in _Paris, au vois le monde_.