Paris, foliciting, from the present government, from a total misconception of its nature, those remunerations which had been promised, but never realized his barbarous employers.

I need scarcely add, that although he had been in the capital several months, he had not been able to gain access to the minister's fecretary.

The time of terror was over the murderer's occupation was gone-the guillotine, with unfatiated hunger, after having gorged the food which was thrown to it, had devoured its feeder.

I must leave it to the ingenuity of my reader, to connect the obfervation with which I fhall clofe this chapter, with the preceding story, for I am only ena bled to do, by observing, that an impreffive inftance of the fubject of it, occurred immediately after my mind had been harrowed up, by the narrative which I have juft related.

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The married women of France feel no compunctions vifitings of confcience, in cherishing about them a circle of lovers, amongst whom their husbands are merely more favored than the reft. I hope I fhall not be confidered as an apologist, for an indulgence which, in France, excites no jealoufy in one, and no furprise amongst the many, when I declare, that I confidently believe, in most inftances, it commences, and guiltlessly terminates in the love of admiration. I know, and visited in Paris, a moft lovely and accom plished young woman, who had been married about

two years. She admitted the vifits of men, whom the knew were paffionately fond of her. Sometimes fhe received them in the prefence, and fometimes in the abfence of her hufband, as accident, not arrange ment, directed. They approached her with all the agitation and tendernefs of the most ardent lovers. Amongst the number, was a certain celebrated orator. This man was her abject flave. A glance from her expreffive eye raised him to the fummit of blifs, or rendered his nights fleeplefs. The complacent hufband of Madame G regarded thefe men as his moft beloved friends, becaufe they enlarged the hap pinefs of his wife ; and strange as it may appear, I believe that he had as little caufe to complain as Othello, and therefore never permitted his repofe to be difturbed by thofe fufpicions which preyed upon the vitals of the hapless Moor. The French Benedict might truly exclaim,

-Tis not to make me jealous, "To fay my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company, "Is free of speech, fings, play, and dances well; "Where virtue is, these are more virtuous ;

"Nor from my own weak merits will I draw

The smallest fear, or doubt of her revolt."

CHAP. XXI.

Picturefque and Mechanical Theatre-Filtrating and purifying Vafes.English Jacobins A Farewell. Meffagerie. Mal Maifon. Forest of Evreux Lower Normandy Caen. Hon. T. Erfeine. A Ball-The Keeper of the Sachrifty of Notre Dame, The two blind Beggars.-Ennui.-St. Lo.-Cherbourg-England.

I VISITED, one evening, a very beautiful exhibition, which I think worthy of being noticed; it was the picturesque and mechanical theatre. The company prefent were select and genteel. The room and ftage were upon a small scale; the former was very elegantly fitted up. The fpectacle confifted of fcenery and appropriate little moving figures. The firft fcene was a view of a wood in early morning, every object looked blue, fresh and dewy. The gradations of light, until the approach of meridian day, were admirably reprefented. Serpents were feen crawling in the grafs. A little fportsman entered with his fowling-piece, and imitated all the movements natural to his purfuit; a tiny wild duck rose from a lake, and flew before him. He pointed his gun, changed his fituation, pointed it again, and fired. The bird dropped; he threw it over his fhoulders, faftened to his gun, and retired. Waggons, drawn by horses about four inches high, paffed along; groups of peafantry followed, exquifitely imitating all the indications

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of life. Amongst feveral other fcenes was a beautiful yiew of the bay of Naples, and the great bridge; over which little horfes, with their riders, paffed in the various paces of walking, trotting and galloping. All the minutiae of nature were attended to. The ear was beguiled with the patting of the horses' hoofs upon the pavement; and fome of the little animals reared. and ran before the others. There were alfo fome charming little fea-pieces, in which the veffels failed with their heads towards the fpectators, and manœuvred in a furprising manner. The whole concluded with a ftorm and shipwreck. Sailors were feen floating in the water, then finking in the furge. One of them rofe again, and reached a rock. Boats put off to his relief, and perished in the attempt. The little figure was feen difplaying the greateft agonies. The ftorm fubfided; tiny perfons appeared upon the top of a projecting cliff, near a watch tower, and lowered a rope to the little fufferer below, which he caught, and after afcending to fome height by it, overwhelmed with fatigue, loft his hold. After recovering from the fall, he renewed his efforts, and at length reached the top in fafety, amidft the acclamations of the fpectators, who moved by this enchanting little illufion, took much intereft in the apparent diftrefs of the fcene.

Upon quitting the theatre, we found a real storm

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without. The lightning flamed upon us from every

quarter and was fucceeded by loud peals of thunder.

Whilft we were contemplating the tempeft from the

balcony of Madame S

a ball of fire fell very off

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near us, and filled the room with a fulphureous ftench. A fervant foon, afterwards entered, almost breathlefs to inform his miftrefs, Madame R, who was of party, that the fire-ball had pentrated her house, which was clofe adjoining, without having effected any injury. Madame R laughed hear

tily, and obferved, "Well, it is very droll that the "lightning should make fo free with my house when "I am not at home." This little fprightly remark difperfed the gloom which had overshadowed moft of the ladies prefent. All the large houfes in Paris are well protected against the perilous effect of electric fluid, by conductors, which are very judiciously dif * pofed.

An invention has lately made its appearance in Pa✨ris, which is as full of utility as it is of genius. A house has lately been opened for the fale of filtrating and purifying vafes, to which the ingenious conftructor has given the most elegant Etrufcan fhapes. They are capable of refining the moft fetid and corrupt water, by A procefs which, in its operation, lafts about four minutes. The principle is the fame as in nature. The foul water is thrown into the vafe, where it paffes through various strata of earth, which are compreffed into a series of little apartments, which retain its offenfive particles, and from which it iflues as clear and as sweet as rock water. This difcovery will prove of in