moreover, it was the spot to which such french intelligence as was most to be relied upon, came quickest. again: tellson's was a munificent house, and extended great liberality to old customers who had fallen from their high estate. again: those nobles who had seen the coming storm in time, and anticipating plunder or confiscation, had made provident remittances to tellson's, were always to be heard of there by their needy brethren. to which it must be added that every new-comer from france reported himself and his tidings at tellson's, almost as a matter of course. for such variety of reasons, tellson's was at that time, as to french intelligence, a kind of high exchange; and this was so well known to the public, and the inquiries made there were in consequence so numerous, that tellson's sometimes wrote the latest news out in a line or so and posted it in the bank windows, for all who ran through temple bar to read.