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insanity. When any of his vassals approached him with the usual title of "My Lord," he made them down on their knees, and call him "My God." He is, of course, taken proper care of. Madame.de Beccaria will go through London to Scotland in a few weeks for the pious purpose of having all her father's writings translated there, but she is greatly distressed at not being able to speak a word of the language. She made me a present of her father's portrait, which I shall keep as a treasure as long as I have breath, and she assured me that the Italian work, entitled Saggio sopra la Politica e la Legislazione Romana, which the French translator had the impudence to declare was written by the Marquis, is not his work.

Kosciusko has disappointed my expectations. Perhaps, I judge of him too rashly, but if in two hours conversation with any man, upon the subjects most interesting to him, not a spark of extraordinary light is emitted, I think it is but fair to conclude that such a man is not fit to move out of the common circle. According to my way of thinking, the negro General Toussaint, is a divinity compared with him. But his valour and sufferings will always excite the syn

pathy, and the cause in which he struggled, the interest of mankind.

CON

CONCLUSION.

WE did not experience any difficulty in getting

out of Paris: I went to the office of the Minister Talleyrand with my passport, and was promised that it should be returned to me on the next day by twelve o'clock. It was returned with punctuality; and after having sent all our heavy luggage to the office of the Diligence, and laid in a stock of provisions for the journey, at eleven at night, we stepped into our chaise, and took our leave of Paris.

As it was my wish to gratify my companion with the sight of as much of France as our time would admit of, we did not return by the road we came, but shaped our course for Brussels. The account of that extensive tour would be too long for insertion here. I therefore close my narrative, with observing, that if the capital and its inhabitants have caused such disgust in my mind, as to preclude me from ever wishing to revisit them, the rest of France, though bowed down under the yoke of the most horrible despotism, presents objects of interest and sympathy. Throughout our travels in Flanders, we found that the moral influence of the Revolution had not wrought such pernicious effects, as

leave the carriage.

might have been expected. The people retained much of the civility, and engaging manners of former times; and until my second interview with - the brutal Mengaud at Calais, there was not one place from Senlis, which we did not feel a regret at leaving. The roads are inconceivably wretched; for a vast number of miles we were compelled to go at a foot pace, and sometimes they were so dangerous, that we found it necessary, even by the advice of our postilions, to Between Arras and the city of Lisle, there are ruts three feet deep; our traces were continually breaking and our horses falling down. It also became necessary often to have additional horses. The state of the country is every thing that an agriculturist could de-. sire. It was well cultivated and smiled with abundance. In some places, the people did not know the peace had been signed, for scarcely any English had passed their way. While getting out of the carriage, they once asked me with looks of inexpressible anxiety, whether I had brought them peace at last? On my answering them in the affirmative, they exclaimed, "Ah! but has the King of England signed it?"

Of my opinions concerning the present government of France, some judgment may be formed from the preceding letters. I purpose however to give the subject a more ample and D d serious

VOL. II.

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FINIS.

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