enjoys a beautiful profpect of the Seine, and of the buildings on the oppofite fhore. The Garden is creffed at right angles by ong and fpecious wa ks. In the middle is a magnificent balon of an o&apon figure. and leveraj jer d'eau play in different parts. This. fmptuous place in difgraced by the re gular figures into which the pace be." tween the walks is divided. Diminu

circles, edged with ex, fou the different compartments * 2nd give a mean idea of the bo-fied Lore, to an admirer of Kent and Nature. There are a few flatues, fome of which are highly finished; fome, y Coufton, poffers great ment. Two of Le Pautre are very beautiful. The fubject of one is the story of Art and Perus, whẹp, the former prelents her dagger to the latter, and lays, Pare now dolet. The other is, neas, carrying his father, and leading Afcanius by the hand.

than in England;, but the custom of going abroad bare-headed, all the day, is unpleasant to a foreigner, who only fubmits to it when he walks out with the ladies. The bourgeois, or tradefmen, are good-looking people, very decently dreffed, and wear becoming wigs. The various dreffes of the regular and fecular clergy, fome of which appear Arangely grotefque, throw a curious diversity in the verwe hearts, quarts, triangles, and of a crowd of people A badine, or favitch, dangles in the band of the beau, whofe bare head is driffed with enormous curls, and a forestep. The women, in general, are below the middle fize of ours: they drefs nearly in the fame manner as the English +. The fimilarity appears more compete, fince they have adopted the English hát : this, however, they fometimes wear extremely fhortin tlie brim; and a bunch of high feathers on the top increases the difproportion. The common people are all in fhort facques, without hays, and without hats. The ladies, from the Queen, robed in her ftately appa rel, to the nocuinal charmer in the Palais-Royal, have their faces painted, or rather plastered, with colours fo different from the glow which Nature gives, that they feem defitous to make that decoration appear as a neceffery part of their drefs. The roles and h. lies of the village-fair, which affame a paler or a deeper hue, as the foftim preffion is made on the heart, that knows not how to deceive, would foon fade and wither on thofe cheeks, from which a long intercourfe with the world has banished the fweetcft flower of Nature the blush of modefty.

We firft vifred the celebrated Gar den des Tuileries, the favomite public walk. The front terrace is adjoining to the Palace, which on that fide extends 160 toifes in length, and is adorned with columns of the Ionic, Corinthian, and Comp fice order. The terrace along the road to Verfailles

*The revolutionary drel, à la Jacobine, is nearly in the ftyle of that defcribed by Mercier; in his LAm 2440 At prefent, à more decent dress is adopted.

+ Since the Revolution, the Parisian wo en have adopted the nakedness of the Grecian arms and neck; but they have for gotten the flowing and enveloping folds of drapery, which gave an air of modefty to the rest of the Grecian drets. The French fashion, it is hoped, will be confined to the flage in this country

The Palais at Louis Quinze DERË attracts our notice. In the mida e

ands the equeftrian fatue of that monarch, in bronze, crowned with lawtels, of a large majelic fize. The figure is habited in a Roman dreft, and exquifitely finished, in the true, tafte of antiquity. It was caft on the defign of Bouchardon, and finified by Pignalle. At the four angles of the pedeftal ap pear four hgues, in brenze, by the fane arti reprefenting Prudence, Juice Fortitude, and Peace, each characterized by its peculiar attributes.

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Two fides of the pedeftal reprefent

* At prefent, the garden is laid out in the departments of the French Republic. The defigner has not forgotten to annex. Belgium, and the whole country to the left of the Rhine. Here an Eglifhman cannot but figh at the recollection of the caufes which gave Flanders to the French. He cannot but lanfent, that the refforation of Ménarchy and order was not made the great object of the war, the conduct of which, in the words of Mr. Burke, has been one.continued eroe,”. He cannot blur recollect, that after the reduction of Vas lenciennes, &c. the combined forces might easily baye marched to Paris, had not the English and Hanoverian forces been oblige by our Cabinet to move towards Dunkirk, at a time when Lyons, Toulon, Marfelles, Bourdeaux, and all the Southern and Wes ern provinces of France were in rebellion against the Convention Such are the caufes to which the French Republic owes its progress and its establishment.

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the king, in balo relievo; in one, Handing, in a triumphant cars in the other, firing on trophies, and giving peace to the people. The other fides continuifcriptings, one of which is were infested:

Ludovico XV.
Optimo, Frincipi
Quod

Ad Schaldom, Mofam, Rhenum,
Var
Pacem armis
Pace

Snorum et Buropæ
Felicitatem,
Qualivin

The other fide aquants the publick,
that the haue was voted after that
pance, and exeated in 1763; perity
when the lau als could not be fuppofed
to-be placed around the manwch's
brows by the hand of Vibry. This
Bold: monument of mollern art, and
of the veneration of France for her
kings, is furrounded by a marble
bellofrade, and guarded twa centinel,
This precaution was probably taken to
prevent a repatron of the epigrams
and fatirical verfes which were pen
cified every night on the mal: the
fellowing has not yet been netde public:
Le voilà donc ces Monarque imbecille;
Ce fer conquérant des forêts,
Auffi loin du coeur de la ville.
Que de celui de fes fujets.

The Champs Elyfes, adjoining to the Place de Louis XV, confift of re gular rows of trees, interfected in every direction by a walk, and forming a loog vista on whatever lide the eye can turn itself; but the walks are all ftrait; and in fummer are rendered difagregable by the dift, and the want of a piece of water, which often gives a beauty to the most naked fcene, gives an idea very different from that which The claffical traveller has formed of the Elyfian Fields.

At the entrance food a weighing machine, which we could not, pals without a trial of weigly. This datained us for about three minutes; du aing which time, upwards of fifty-per Mons Acked around us, and others were running from every walk of thefe gardens. Such is the infatiable curro Gy of the Parifians.

We returned through the Palais

Alas! it was on the very fugt, here this statue flood, that the guillotine was erected,' on which periffed his fucceffor man, furely," more finned again than Anuing."

Royal, where I propofed to buy fome black cloth for a coat. In the fhopt of Paris, the master of the house appears merely as a fhopman, or courtaut; his wife does the honours of the places and with fuch a vivacity of perfuafion, that was enticed to purchase three times more goods than I originally in rended. Mr. A. too, was not proof again't the oratory of our fair dealer: and, after he had purchased several articles, he was obliged to make a precipitare retreat, that he might not havẹ a piece of filk forced upon him. The piece of filk was, however, brought to him next day; bat, unfortunately for the intereft of the house, it was brought by the hufband: he therefore had for titude enough to fend it back.

There are a Paris a few magafins de confiance, where a price is invariably fixed on the commodities; but the ge neral practice is, to afk a confiderable deal more than the real value: Hence arifes a general miktrust; and a Boglifh ran has reafon to dread a Parian fhopkeeper. A buyer, afraid of being cheated and laughed at, offers half the price demanded, and often is straid his offer will be readily accepted. As you walk on the Boulevards, you will bear the most folemn proteftations uttered by the feller, who perjures himfelf for the fate of a knife, or a fan. A map of Paris, for which we were asked, in one place 9 livres, we purchased in another for 4 livres 10 fous.

It is fuppofed, that the commercial treaty has had but little influence on the cloth of either nation. Very little English cloth is imported into France, except ftriped. Our kerfeymeres are ftil far fupchor to thofe of the French manufacture; confequently, a confi derable article of export. French black, deep blue, and fearlet broad from the nature of the alkali uled in cloths, excel the Engl.fh, probably the dye: but the cloth is better woven, and cheaper, in England. That which

bought at the Palais-Royal was the beft Peignon, and coft 33 livres an ell. Soon after the treaty was concluded, fame French cloth was brought to London, and fold for a guinea and the manufacturers of Gloucestershire in half a yard. It is a curious fact, that a few days' produced a cloth of the fame quality, to which they affixed theLouviers' mark, and fold it for a gui nea and a half a yard.

After dinner we went to the Italian * theatre