Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

Recent Anecdote of the Emperor.

THE Emperor some time since travelling before his retinue, as is his usual way, attended only by a single aid-de-camp, arrived very late at the house of an Englishman, who kept a publick-house somewhere in the Austrian Netherlands. The man having his house pretty full, it being Fair time, and not knowing who his guests were, appointed them to sleep in the out house, which they very readily complied with, after drinking a bottle of indifferent wine, and eating a few slices of ham and biscuit. In the morning they paid their bill, which amounted only to three shillings and six pence, English, and rode off. A few hours after, several of his suit came to enquire after him, when the publican, understanding who he had for his guests, seemed very uneasy-- "Psha man! never mind this affair (said one of the attendants) Joseph is used to such adventures--he will think no more of it."--"Aye, that may be (replied the landlord) but by G-- I shall never forget the circumstance of having an Emperor in my house, and letting him off for three and six pence."