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Arod olimmer & ebambus colleg ha a obateg Abbé Sieyes. Confular Procession to the Council Chamat ber 10th of Aug, 1792. Celerity of Mons. Fauche's Police Information.-The two Lovers Cabinet of Mons. le Grand-Self-prefcribing Phyfician. Buft of Robespierre.-His Lodgings-Corn Hall-Mufeum of French Monuments.-Revolutionary Agent. -Lovers of Married Women.

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A NEAT remark was made upon the abbè Sieyes, to whofe prolific mind the revolution and all its changes have been imputed. This extraordinary man has a noble house in the Champs Elisées, and is faid to have the best cook in Paris. As a party in which I was, were paffing his hotel, a near relation of the abbè who happened to be with us, commented upon the great fervices which the cloistered fabricator of conftitutions had afforded to France, and adverted to his house and establishment as an unfuitable reward for Eus his labors. A gentleman, who was intimate with the abbè, but was no great admirer of his morals, faid, "I "think, my dear madam, the abbè ought to be very "well fatisfied with his destiny; and I would advise "him to live as long as he can in the Champs Elifees; "for when he fhall happen to experience that myfterious tranfition to which we are all haftening, I. "think the chances will be againft his finding good "accommodations in any other Elyfium."

As I was palling one morning through the hall of the Thuilleries, the great door of the council chamber was opened, and the fecond and third confuls, preceded and followed by their fuit in full coftume, marched with great pomp to bufinefs, to the roll of a drum. This fingular proceffion from one part of the houfe to the other, had a ridiculous effect, and naturally reminded me of the fuftian pageantry which, upon the stage, attends the entries and exits of the kings and queens of the drama, noltron bed avotas svod

I have often been furprifed to find that the injuries which the cornice of the entrance, and the capitals of the columns in the hall of the Thuilleries, have fuf tained from the ball of cannon, during the horrible maffacre of the 10th of August 1792, have never been £ repaired. Every veftige of that day of difmay and? flaughter ought for ever to be effaced; instead of which, fome labour has been exercised to perpetuate its remembrance. Under the largest chasms which have been made by the shot is painted, in strong characters, that gloomy date. ef se zone TolidW

In the evening of that day of devaftation, from which France may date all her fufferings, a friend of ¤ mine went into the court-yard of the Thuilleries, where the review is now held, for the purpose of " endeavoring to recognize, amongst the dead any of hisaacquaintance. In the courfe of this fhocking fearch, he declared to me, that he counted no lefss than eight hundred bodies of Swifs and French, who

had perifhed in that frightful contest between infuri-: ated people, and an irrefolute fovereign, I will not dilate upon this painful fubject, but difmifs it in the words of the holy and refigned defcendant of Nahor, "Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light fhine upon it; let. darkness and the fhadow of death, ftain it, let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it."

I have before had occafion to notice the promptitude and activity of the French police, under the pentrating eye of Monfieur Fouche. No one can efcape the viglance of this man and his emiffaries. An em➡ } / igrant of refpectability affured me, that when he and a friend of his waited upon him for their paffports to... enable them to quit Paris for the fouth of France, he furprised them by relating to them the names of the towns, the streets, and of the people with whom they had lodged, at various times during their emigration in England.

Whilft I was at Paris, an affair happened very near the hotel in which I lodged, which in its fequel displayed that high fpirit and sensibility which appear to wi form the prefiding features in the French character, tea, which may be attributed all the exceffes which have ftained, and all the glory which has embellifhed ite A lady of fortune, and her only daughter, an elegant and lovely young woman, refiding in the Fauxbourg St. Germain. A young man of merit and accomplish

ments, but unaided by the powerful pretenfions of fuitable fortune, cherished a paffion for the young lady, to whom he had frequent accefs, on account of his being diftantly related to her. His affection was requited with return; and before the parent fufpectected the attachment, the lovers were folemnly engaged. The indications of pure love are generally too unguarded to efcape the keen, observing eye of a cold mercenary mother. She charged her daughter with her fondnefs, and forbade her distracted lover the houfel To close up every avenue of hope, fhe withdrew with her wretched child into Italy, where they remained for two years at the expiration of which, the mother had arranged for her daughter a match more congenial to her own pride and avarice, with an elderly gentleman, who had confiderable fortune and property in the vicinity of Bourdeaux. Every neceffary preparation was made for this cruel union, which it was determined fhould be celebrated in Paris, to which city they returned for that purpose. Two days before the marriage was intended to take place, the young lover, wrought up to frenzy by the intelligence of the approaching nuptials, contriv ed, by bribing the porter whilft the mother was at the opera with her intended fon-in-law, to reach the room of the beloved being from whom he was about to be feparated for ever. Emaciated by grief, fhe prefented the mere spectre of what he was when he laft left her. As foon as he entered the room, he fell

fefelefs at her feet, from which ftate he was roufed by the loud fits of her frightful maniac laughter. She ftared upon him, like one bewildered. He clafped her with one hand, and with the other drew from his pocket a vial containing double diftilled laurel water : he preffed it to her lips, ntil fhe had fwallowed half of its contents; the remainder he drank himself. The drug of death foon began to operate.-Clasped in each other's arms pale and expiring, they reviewed their hard fate, and, in faint and leffening fentences, implored of the God of mercy, that he would pardon them for what they had done, and that he would receive their fpirits into his regions of eternal repofe; that he would be pleafed, in his divine goodnefs, to forgive the misjudging feverity which had driven them to defpair, and would fupport the unconscious author of it, under the heavy afflictions which their difaftrous deaths would occafion. They had fcarcely finished their prayer, when they heard footsteps approaching the room. Madame R, who had been indifpofed at the opera, returned home before the conclufion, with the intended bridegroom. The young man awoke, as it were, from his deadly drowfinefs, and, exerting his laft ftrength, pulled from his breaft a dagger, ftabbed the expiring being, upon whom he doated to the heart; and, falling upon her body, gave himfelf feveral mortal wounds. The door opened; the frantic mother appeared. All the house was in an inftant alarmed; and the fatal explanation which fur

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