Monfieur O affured me, on the word of a man

of honor, was correct.

His section in Paris was composed of one thousand three hundred persons, of rank and fortune, of whom only five had escaped the flaughter of the guillotine !!

Madame O and her charming family, feemed wholly to occupy his heart and affections.c

>He spoke of his lady with all the tender eulogium of a young lover. Their union was entirely from attachment, and had been refifted on the part of Madame O, when he first addreffed her, only because her fortune was humble, compared with his. He informed me, and I must not fupprefs the ftory, that in the time of blood, this amiable woman, who is remarkable for the delicacy of her mind, and for the beauty and majefty of her person, displayed a degree of coolness and courage, which, in the field of battle, would have covered the hero with laurels. One evening, a fhort period before the family left France, a party of thofe murderers, who were fent for by Robespierre, from the frontiers which divide France from Italy, and who were by that arch fiend employed in all the butcheries, and maffacres of Paris, entered the peaceful village of la Reine, in fearch of Monfieur O His lady faw them advancing, and anticipating their errand, had just time to give her husband intelligence of their approach, who left his chateau by a back door, and secreted himself in

the house of a neighbor. Madame O, with perfect compofure, went out to meet them, and received them in the most gracious maner. They fternly demanded Monfieur O, the informed them that he had left the country, and after engaging them in conversation, fhe conducted them into her drawing room, and regaled them with her beft wines, and made her fervants attend upon them with unufual deference and ceremony. Their appearance was altogether horrible, they wore leather aprons, which were sprinkled all over with blood, they had large horse pistols in their belts, and a dirk and fabre by their fides. Their looks were full of ferocity, and they spoke a harsh dissonant patois language. Over their cups, they talked about the bloody bufinefs of that day's occupation, in the courfe of which they drew out their dirks, and wiped from their handles, clots of blood and hair. Madame O fat with them, undismayed by their frightful deportment. After drinking several hottles of Champaign and Burgundy, thefe favages began to grow good humored, and feemed to be completely fascinated by the amiable and unembarraffed, and hofpitable behavior of their fair landlady. After caroufing till midnight, they preffed her to retire, obferving that they had been received fo handfomely that they were convinced Monfieur Ohad been mifreprefented, and was no enemy to the good caufe; they added that they found the wines excellent, and after drinking

two or three bottles more, they would leave the house, without caufing her any reason to regret their admiffion.

Madame O, with all the appearance of perfect tranquillity and confidence in their promifes, wished her unwelcome visitors a good night, and after vifititing her children in their rooms, the threw herself upon her bed, with a loaded piftol in each hand, and, overwhelmed with fuppreffed agony and agitation, fhe foundly flept till fhe was called by her fervants, two hours after thefe wretches had left the house. He related also another inftance of that refolution which is not unfrequently exhibited by women, when those generous affections, for which they are fo justly celebrated, are menaced with danger. A bout the fame period, two of the children of Monfieur O were in Paris at school: A rumor had reached him, that the teachers of the feminary in which they were placed, had offended the government, and were likely to be butchered, and that the carnage which was expected to take place, might, in its undistinguished fury, extend to the pupils. Immediately upon receiving this intelligence, Monfieur O ordered his carriage for the purpose of proceeding to town. Madame O implored him to permit her to accompany him; in vain did he befeech her to remain at home; the picture of danger which he painted, only rendered her more determined. She mounted the carriage and feated herfeif

by the fide of her husband. When they reached Paris, they were stopped in the middle of the ftreet St. Honoree, by the maffacre of a large number of prifoners, who had just been taken out of a church which had been converted into a prifon. Their ears were pierced with fcreams. Many of the miferable victims were cut down, clinging to the windows of their carriage. During the dreadful delays which they fuffered in paffing through this ftrest, Madame O discovered no fenfations of alarm, but ftedfaftly fixed her eyes upon the back of the coach box, to avoid, as much as poffible, obferving the butcheries which were perpetrating on each fide of her.

Had he been obferved to clofe her eyes, or to fet back in the carriage, fhe would have excited a fufpicion, which, no doubt, would have pro、 fatal to her. At length fhe reached the fchool which contained her children, where fhe found the rumor which they had received was without foundation; fhe calmly conducted them to the carriage, and dur ing their gloomy return through Paris, betrayed no emotions; but as foon as they had paffed the barrier, and were once more in fafety upon the road to their peaceful chateau, the exulting mother, in an agony of joy, preffed her children to her bofom, and in a ftate of mind wrought up to frenzy, arrived at her own house, in convulfions of ghaftly laughter. Monfieur O never fpoke of this charming woman, without exhibiting the frongeft emotions of regard.

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He faid, that in fickness she suffered no one to attend upon him but herself, that in all his afflictions the had supported him, and that the mitigated the deep melancholy which the fufferings of his country, and his own privations, had fixed upon him, by the welltimed fallies of her elegant fancy, or by the charms of her various accomplishments. We

I found myself a gainer in the article of delight, by leaving the gayeft metropolis that Europe can prefent to a traveller, for the fake of vifiting fuch a family.

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CHAPTER XIII.

Breakfaft-Warmth of French Expreffion.-Ruftic Eloquence. Curious Caufe affigned for the late extraordinary Froft.-Madame RPaul I.-Ti voli.-Frefcati.

IN the morning we breakfafted in the drawing room, in which the murderous myrmidons of Robefpierre had been regaled. It was beautifully fituated." Its windows looked into a grove which Monfieur

- had formed of valuable American fhrubs. His youngest daughter, a beautiful little girl, of about five years of age, rather haftily entered the room with a pair of tame wood pigeons in her hands, which, in her eagerness to bring to her father, fhe had too forcibly preffed, who very gently told her, it was cruel to hurt her little favoritas, more particularly as they