A three weeks' scamper through the spas of Germany and Belgium : with an appendix on the nature and uses of mineral waters / by Erasmus Wilson.

  • Wilson, Erasmus, Sir, 1809-1884.
Date:
1858
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Credit: A three weeks' scamper through the spas of Germany and Belgium : with an appendix on the nature and uses of mineral waters / by Erasmus Wilson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    PASSPORTS. FOEEIGN OFFICE. S necessity, from which there is no exception.'^ So that, as tlie Doctor has no intention of being regarded by this one-eyed arbiter of honesty as a thief, vagabond, and suspected person,—-albeit, to be caught in the custom- house of Calais might warrant the two latter epithets,— he strides away down to the Foreign Office in his own city of London and Westminster, and complacently and poHtely asks for a passport. You must bring a letter of identity from your banker, sir,'^ replies the clerk of passports. But, sir,'' says the Doctor, I have already compKed with the first regulation of the Foreign Office, to apply in writing to Her Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and I now come in person to receive the passport. That is not sufficient. Doctor. If you refer to regulation 5, you will see that ' passports are granted to persons who are either known to the Secretary of State, or—' Well, sir,'' replies the Doctor, as a Fellow of the first scientific society of this country, the Eoyal Society, which ranks among its Members the Prince Consort, and most of the crowned heads of Eu- rope, I conceive that I am known, or at least ought to be known, to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. That is not sufficient. Doctor, replied the man in office; you must have a letter from your banker, But, sir, says I, suppose Charles Dickens, or my lamented friend Douglas Jerrold, had applied for a pass- port ; are they unknown to the Secretary of State for B 2