perbly caparisoned, gallops along the Ranks-divides them to the right and left-or stops their rapid evolutions to distinguish a Fellow-Soldier of the Army of the Alps, the Apennines, or the Pyrenees-of the Rhine, or of the Nile, by presenting him with a sword of honour which creates the Mercenary, for life, the rampart of his person, or the instrument of his will.

A few days since this hopeful Son of the Church, catolique, apostolique, et Romaine, absolved, by the Genius of Victory, from every sin, was received by the Constitutional Clergy at the great door of Notre Dame, and conducted to a throne, opposite to that of the Bishop, or Archbishop, of Paris: for I do not recollect whether it has been judged consistent with

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the policy of state to re-create the Metropolitan Order of the Priesthood, though the obligation of celibacy has not been thought materially to controvert the equal privileges of Les Citoyens de La République Française. Here the Commander in Chief assisted at High Mass, and heard with devout attention a political Sermon pronounced by the ci-devant Archbishop of Aix-the same accommodating Prelate who, twenty years before, had congratulated Lewis XVI. upon his accession to the Throne of his Ancestors.

Instead of dining constantly at home we frequently take a morning walk along the Seine, through the range of gardens before described, and dine at a Traiteur's, in the Elysian Fields, where any thing you order is served up in five minutes.

After

After dinner we stroll into the country, or as we are grave, or gay, we amuse ourselves for an hour or two in the Picture Gallery-or contemplate, with humbling sensations, the monuments preserved from Revolutionary fury in the Cloisters of the Augustines.

Sometimes we perambulate the circling Boulevards to the Jardin des Plantessometimes we engage a Chariot to drive to Vincennes or St. Denis-and sometimes we take a boat to St. Cloud.

When we were here before, a silver key would open the Ducal Palace: but now it is fitting up for the residence of the new Sovereign-for whose state the Pavilion of Mal Maison has become too confined.

The

The next step forward will take the First Consul to Versailles: as the retrograde motions of the Revolution brought his Royal Predecessor from Versailles to St. Cloud-and from St. Cloud-to the Prisons of the Temple.

We miss some agreeable Companions, with whom we before visited these interesting scenes; and to-morrow-satisfied with Paris, we set out in a Post Chariot, for the Pas de Calais.

LETTER XXIX.

Journey from Paris to London, across the Straits of Dover.

THE

London, June 10th. 1802.

HE Fellow that brought the Chaise from the Remise (just long enough after the time appointed to give the Post Boy a claim upon us for delay) tied our Trunk between the fore-wheels, so well that it should soon shake itself loose, and create a quarrel with the next Post Boy, conscientiously charged me two crowns for the rope, and when I referred to the Landlord against the barefaced imposition-he was quite ignorant of the value-according to the

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