POSTAGE OF ENGLISH NEWSPAPERS IN FRANCE.
TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR.
Ste—In a late number of the Spectator, one of your foreign correspondents complains of hieing charged five sous for the postage of your paper. I imme- diately wrote to a friend of mine to wIdon I send it, at Grenoble ; and find he is only charged four centimes. I therefore think your correspondent must have made sonic mistake; which, as it is your interest to correct, I have troubled you with these few lines. Your constant Reader, T. P. [We incline to agree with this correspondent, that there has been "some mistake ''—if not on the part of our former correspondent, at least on that of the French Post-office with which he had to deal. On making inquiry at the General Post-office in St Martin's-le-Grand, we received every civility of expla- nation, and an assurance, which we credit, that the proper postage of the Spec- tator in France is only feta centimes—something less than a halfeenny.—Emej
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