Wine is imported from foreign countries, and is dear. The port wine
which is usually drunk, and is the cheapest, is two shillings a
quart, retailed in taverns, and not much less than eighteen or
twenty pounds the hogshead, when purchased at the best hand; and as
to French wines, the duties are so high upon them that they are
double the price of the other at least. White wine is about the
same price as red port, and canary about a third dearer.

It is computed that there are in London some part of the year, when
the nobility and gentry are in town, 15,000 or 16,000 large horses
for draught, used in coaches, carts, or drays, besides some
thousands of saddle-horses; and yet is the town so well supplied
with hay, straw, and corn, that there is seldom any want of them.
Hay generally is not more than forty shillings the load, and from
twenty pence to two shillings the bushel is the usual price of oats.

The opportunity of passing from one part of the town to the other,
by coach, chair, or boat, is a very great convenience, especially in
the winter, or in very hot weather. A servant calls a coach or a
chair in any of the principal streets, which attends at a minute's
warning, and carries one to any part of the town, within a mile and
a half distance, for a shilling, but to a chair is paid one-third
more; the coaches also will wait for eighteenpence the first hour,
and a shilling every succeeding hour all day long; or you may hire a
coach and a pair of horses all day, in or out of town, for ten
shillings per day; there are coaches also that go to every village
almost about town, within four or five miles, in which a passenger
pays but one shilling, and in some but sixpence, for his passage
with other company.