CHAPTER IV.

Eccloo--Arrival at Ghent--Our Quarters there--My Host--My Quarters--Louis XVIII. and his Court--French Officers--Marshal Marmont--French Deserters--Ghent--Street Architecture--The Place D’Armes--Flemish Postilions--View from the Citadel--The Corn-Market--The Hôtel de Ville--Meat and Vegetable Markets--General Order and Cleanliness--A Suppressed Monastery--The Cathedral--A Royal Mass--Domestic Architecture--An Interior--Comfortable Quarters--Numbers of Priests--Costumes--Character of the People--Immorality--German and English Cavalry, 46