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nifhed the materials of this fhort and fad recital, was taken from the lips of the dying lover, who had scarcely finished it before he breathed his laft. Two days afterwards, the ftory was hawked about the streets.

From this painful narrative, in which the French impetuofity is strongly depicted, I must turn to men tion my visit to Mons. le G, who lives in the Rue Florentine, and is confidered to be one of the first architects in France; in which are many monuments of his taste and elegance. It is a curious circumstance that all artists exercife their talents more fuccessfully for their patrons than for themselves. Whether it is the hope of a more fubftantial reward than that of mere felf-complacency, which ufually excites the mind. to its happiesft exertions, I will not pretend to determine; but the point seems to be in fome degree fettled by the conduct of a celebrated Bath physician of whom it is related, that happening once to fuffer under a malady from which as his skill had frequently relieved others, he determined to prefcribe for himfelf. The recipe at firft had not the defired effect. The doctor: was furprised. At laft he recollected that he had not feed himself. Upon making this difcovery, he drew the ftrings of his purse, and with his left hand placed a guinea in his right, and then prescribed. The ftory concludes by informing its readers, that the pres fcription fucceeded, and the doctor recovered.-In adorning the front of his own hotel, Mons. le G

in my very humble opinion, has not exhibited his

accustomed powers. In a small confined court-yard he has attempted to give to a private dwelling the appearance of one of thofe vaft temples of which he became enamored when at Athens. The roof is fupported by two maffy fluted pilaftres, which in size are calculated to bear the burden of fome prodigious dome. The mufcular powers of Hercules feem to be here exercised in raifing a grafshopper from the ground. The genius of Mons. le G, unlike the world's charity, does not begin at home, but feems more dif pofed to display its most fuccessful energies abroad. His roof, however, contains fuch a monument of his goodness and generosity, that I must not pass it over. This distinguished architect is one of those unfortu nate beings who have been decreed to taste the bitternefs, very foon after the fweets of matrimony. Upon difcovering the infidelity of his lady who is very pretty and prepoffeffing, the diftracted husband immediately fought a divorce from the laws of his country. This affair happened a very fhort time before the revolution afforded unufual acceleration and facilities to the wishes of parties, who, under fimilar circumftances, wifhed to get rid of each other as foon as poffible. The then "law's delay" afforded fome cause of vexation to Mons. le G, who was deeply injured. Before his fuit had paffed through its laft forms, the father of his wife, who at the time of their marriage lived in great affluence, became a bankrupt. In the vortex of his failure, all the means of fupport

ing his family were fwallowed up. The generous le G——, disdaining to expofe to want and ignominy the woman who had once been dear to him, would proceed no farther. She is ftill his wife: fhe bears his name, is maintained by him, and in a feparate fuite of apartments lives under the fame roof with him. But Mons, and Madame le Ghave had no intercourfe whatever with each other for eleven years. If in the gallery or in the hall they meet by accident, they pafs without the interchange of a word. This painful and difficult arrangement has now loft a confiderable portion of its mifery, by having become fa miliar to the unfortunate couple.

In the valuable and curious cabinet of Mons. le G-, I found out, behind feveral other cafts, a buft of Robefpierre, which was taken of him, a fhort period before he fell. A tyrant whofe offences look white, contrafted with the deep delinquency of the oppreffor of France, is faid to be indebted more to his character, than to nature, for the reprefentation of that deformity of person which appears in Shakspeare's portrait of him, when he puts this foliloquy in his lips :

"I that am curtail'd of this fair proportion,

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History, enraged at the review of the infatiable crimes of Robefpierre, has already beftowed upon him a fanciful phyfiognomy, which fhe has compofed of features which rather correfpond with the ferocity of his foul, than with his real, countenance. From the ap pearance of this buft, which is an authentic refemblance of him, his face muft have been rather handfome. His features were fmall, and his countenance muft have ftrongly expreffed animation, penetration and fubtlety. This bust is a real curiofity. It is very likely that not another is now to be found. Mons. le G is permitted to preferve it, without reproach on account of his art. I can fafely fay he does not retain it from any emotions of veneration for the original. It is worthy of being placed between the heads of Caligula and Nero. Very near the refidence of Mons. le G is the houfe in which Robefpierre lodged. It is at the end of the Rue Florentine, in the Rue St. Honore, at a wax chandler's. This man is too much celebrated, not to render every thing which relates to him curious. The front windows of his former lodgings look towards the Place de la Concorde. On the right of which his prime minifter, the permanent guillotine, was quartered. Robef pierre, who, like the revolting angel, before the world's formation, appears to have preferred the fceptre of hell and chaos, to the allegiance of order and focial happinefs, will defcend to pofterity with no common attributes of diftinction and preeminence.

His mind was fully fuited to its labors, which, in the wide sphere of mifchief, required more genius to dis rect them than was beftowed upon the worst of the tyrants of Rome, and a fpirit of evil which, with its broad circumference" of guilt, was calculated to darken the difk of their lefs expanded enormity.

From Robefpierre's lodgings, curiofity led me to vifit the building in which the jacobin club held their Pandemonium. It is a noble edifice, and once belonged to the order of jacobins. Near this church ftands the beautiful fabric of the Corn Hall of Paris, defigned by monfieur Le Grand. The dome of the bank of England is in the same style, but inferior, in point of lightness and elegance. That of the Corn Hall resembles a vaft concavity of glafs. In this noble building the millers depofit their corn for fale. § Its deep and lofty arches and area, were nearly filled> with facks, containing that grain which is precious to all nations, but to none more than the French; to a Frenchman, bread is moft emphatically the ftaff of life. He confumes more of it at one meal than an Englishman does at four. In France, the little comes! parative quantity of bread which the English confume, I is confidered to form a part of their national charac ter. Before I left Paris, I was requested to vifit a very curious and interesting exhibition, the museum í of French monuments: for the reception of which,l the ancient convent of the monks of the order of lesH Petis Auguftines, is appropriated. This national in

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