[20] [This "scene" has been, in fact, subsequently depicted by. the
masterly pencil of J.M.W.TURNER, Esq. R. A: and the picture, in which
almost all the powers of that surprising Artist are concentrated, was
lately offered for sale by public auction. How it was suffered to be
_bought in_ for three hundred and eighty guineas, is at once a riddle
and a reproach to public taste.]

[21] [I learn that he is since DECEASED. Thus the very first chapter of
this second edition has to record an instance of the casualties and
mutabilities which the short space of ten years has effected. Mons. De
la Rue was a man of worth and of virtue.]




LETTER II.

DIEPPE. FISHERIES. STREETS. CHURCHES OF ST. JAQUES AND ST. REMY. DIVINE
WORSHIP. MILITARY MASS.


The town of Dieppe contains a population of about twenty-thousand
souls.[22] Of these, by much the greater _stationary_ part are females;
arising from one third at least of the males being constantly engaged in
the FISHERIES. As these fisheries are the main support of the inhabitants,
it is right that you should know something about them. The _herring_
fishery takes place twice a year: in August and October. The August fishery
is carried on along the shores of England and the North. From sixty to
eighty vessels, of from twenty-five to thirty tons burthen each, with about
fifteen men in each vessel, are usually employed. They are freighted with