The apartments, which must have been once enchanting, now prefent nothing but gaping beams, -broken ceilings, and fhattered cafements. The wainf cots of its little cabinets, exhibit only a tablet, upon which are rudely penciled, the motly initials, love verfes, and memorandums of its various vifitors.

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The fhade of the ivy, which, upon all occafions, feems deftined to perform the laft offices to the departing monuments of human ingenuity, has here. exercifedits gloomy function. Whilft we were roving about, we were obliged to take refuge from a thunderftorm, in what appeared to us a mere barn; Lupon our entering it, we found it to be an elegant lit*tle ball room, much disfigured, and greened over by 9 damp and neglect. In other parts of this petit Parvadis, arencaves of artificial rock, which have been - formed at an immenfe expenfe, in which were formerly beds of moss, and through which clear ftreams of water glided, Belvidere temples, and scattered cottages, each differing from its neighbor in character, but all according in tafte and beauty. The opera houfe, which ftands alone, is a miniature of the fplen

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The fylvan ball room, is an oblong fquare, lined with beautiful treillages, furmounted with yafes of flowers. The top is open. When the queen gave Eher balls here, the ground was covered by a temporary flooring, and the whole was brilliantly lighted.

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As we paffed by the palace, we faw, in the queen's little library, feveral perfons walking..

Could the enchanting beauty of Austria, and the once incenfed idol of the gay, and the gallant, arise from her untimely tomb, and behold her moft facred receffes of delight, thus rudely exposed, and converted into scenes of low, and holiday feftivity, the temples which the defigned, defaced, their ftatues, overthrown, her walks overgrown and entangled, the clear mirror of the winding lake, upon the placid furface of which once shown the reflected form of the Belvidere, and the retreats of elegant tafte covered with the reedy greenness of the ftanding pool, and all the fairy fabric of her graceful fancy, thus diffolving in decay; the devoted hapless Marie would add another figh to the many which her aching heart has already heaved!

It would be a very defirable thing if Bonaparte would make this his country palace inftead of St. Cloud. Upon our return, as we approached Paris, the illuminated bridges of the Seine locked very beautiful, and we were much pleased with fome fireworks, which had a fingular effect upon the water.

In the evening, we had fome mufic at Monfieur S's, where we were joined by general Marefcot, a brave and diftinguished officer, much effeemed by Bonaparte. He informed us, that he was on the point of fetting out to view and report the condition of all the maritime fortifications in the republic." You "must go with me as my aide-de camp," faid the general to Mademoifelle D- "I am not fierce

"enough for a foldier," replied the fair one, with a bewitching smile. "Well then," obferved the funbrown general, "fhould the war ever be renewed, "you shall attend me to charm away its calamities."

Madame S like a true French mother, was delighted with the little compliment, and prefenting her fnuff box to the gallant Marefcot, fie faid, "thank you, my dear general, the brave always think "generously of the fair.???

Bonaparte's Talents in Finance.-Garrick and the Madman.-Palace of the Confervative Senate.-Process of transferring Oil Paintings from Wood to Canvas. -The Dinner Knife.-Commodities.-Hall of the National Convention. The Minifter Talleyrand's Levee

THE firft conful is faid to add to his other extraordinary powers, an acute and comprehenfive knowledge of finance. Monfieur S informed me, that whenever he waited upon him in his official capacity, with the national accounts, he displayed an ac

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He exhibits the fame talents in philofophy, and in matters which are foreign to thofe vaft objects of pub lic employ, which have raifed him to his prefent

neight of glory, and which in general preclude thes fubordinate enjoyment of elegant study,bonario caqual

Thofe acquirements, which providence in its wifeq dom has thinly fcattered amongst mankind, and which o feldom ripen to full maturity, although cherished by d the most propitious advantages, and by the unrepofing labours of a long, and blissful existence, fpread their rich abundance, in the May morning of life, before im, this extraordinary being, who in the commencement of that very revolution, upon the ruins of which he has ftepped to furpreme authority, was a beardlefs ftripling.

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our converfation, one evening, at Madame Si by a natural tranfition, embraced a review of the won-?? derful talents, which have at various times adorned the leffer drama of the theatre. Madame S made fome judicious remarks upon the French players of diftinction, to all of whom the imputed a manner, and enunciation which have been imbibed in a fchool, in which nature has not been permitted to prefideas Their tragedy, fhe faid, was inflated with too much pomp, and their elegant comedy fuffered by too volatile an airinefs. She bestowed upon our immortal Garrick, the most decided preference, and superiority to any actor whom the had ever feen. The opportunity which the had of judging his powers, was short, and fingular, but fully enabled her to form a decifived opinion. When Garrick vifited Paris for the laft

time, he was juft married. This celebrated actor had letters of introduction to Monfieur S At a large party which Monfieur S formed for the purpose of doing honour to his undistinguished visitor, he exhibited several specimens of his unrivalled talents. Amongst others, he represented in dumb fhow, by the wonderful powers of his expreffive countenance,.. the feelings of a father, who, in looking over a lofty. balcony with his only child in his arms, by accident dropped it. The difafter drove the unhappy parent mad. Garrick had vifited him in his cell; where the miferable maniac was accustomed, feveral times in the courfe of the day, to exhibit all thofe looks and attitudes which he had difplayed at the balcony.* Ona fudden, he would bend himself forward, as if looking from a window into the street, with his arms folded, as if they embraced a child, then he would start back, and appear as if he had loft fomething, fearch the room round and round, run again forward, as to the railing of a window, look down, and beat his forehead as if he had beheld his infant bleeding, and breathlefs upon the pavement. Garrick's imitation was exquifite. The feelings of his beholders were wrought up to horror. The tears, and confternation of a gay fashionable French party, were applaufes more flatter

The caufe which induced Garrick to visit this un happy person, was, it is faid, to render the reprefentation of his King Lear more perfect