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in common justice bound, to believe that 
Jhis relation is faithful. But his remarks 
are usually common-place and shallow, 
and in many instances so utterly with- 
out foundation that it is evident he can 
have taken little pains to examine, and 
little time. to reflect. Every man, he 
says, travels safely in France, “ either 
that the police is better regulated than 
im England, or there are national dis- 
tinctions, and the French are not so dis- 
honest as we are. Is it that our dis- 
tresses are greater? Does liberty lead 
to licence? Is our education conducive 
to it? What makes this difference? All 
Arr. XXI. 
VOYAGES AND TRAVELS. 
Paris is acrowd, yet a pick-pocket isa -— 
phenomenon; burglaries are’ seldom 
committed, and we scarcely ever heard 
of a highwayman.” P. 7. Yet at this 
very time it was not safe to travel in the 
provinces without an armed escort. 
Again, we are told, “ there is not yet 
that ostentation and luxury of the nobili- 
ty which formerly insulted the misery of 
the people; there is no vain display of 
opulence.” Could Mr. King be igno- 
rant of the ostentation of opulence in the 
generals? of their unmanly luxury ?> of 
their Asiatic splendour as well as Asiatic 
‘vices? 
. may Be . . . 
The Stranger in France ; or, a Tour frm Devonshire to Paris ; illustrated 
hy Engravings in aqua tinta of Sketches, taken on the spot. By Joun Carr, Esg. Ato. 
pp. 261. 
THIS is an amusing narrative ; but 
during the.short breathing time of 
peace, we had so many trips and tours 
in France, that if there were nota good 
deal of sameness in the accounts which 
have been published of them, we should 
be justified in suspecting the accuracy 
of the observer, or the fidelity of his 
description. Mr.Carr sailed from South- 
ampton to Havre in a packet, which 
had on board a great number of emi- 
grants, who, in consequence of the de- 
cree which had recently passed in their 
favour, were returning to their beloved 
vatale solum. As the insolence and inde- 
licacy of custom-house officers are pro- 
verbial, it is but justice to those who 
searched the baggage of these anxious 
exiles to record, that they “ exercised a 
liberal gentleness, which gave but little 
trouble and no pain. They who brought 
nothing into a country but the recoliec- 
tion of their miseries,” is the remark 
-of Mr. Carr, “were not very likely to 
-earry much out of it but the remem- 
brunce of its generosity.” ‘Chey were 
also received on their own shores. with- 
out any violence or insult. 
Mr. Carr makes the same observation 
concerning the celebrated bridge of 
boats at Rouen, which we noticed in 
our review of Mr. Hughes’s ‘Tour 
(see p. $1), that it is clumsy, heavy, 
‘ inconvenient, and expensive : its repairs 
are estimated at about four hundred 
pounds a year. A handsome light stone 
structure ; with a centre arch covered 
with a drawbridge for the passage of 
vessels of considerable burden, or a 
lofiy fying iron, bridge, would be less 
expensive, and ‘Mr. Carr thinks, more 
safe and ornamental, 
The French revolution afforded num- 
berless examples of heroism and huma- 
nity in the female sex: the horrors of a 
dungeon before their eyes, and the fatal 
snap of the guillotine ever ‘startling 
upon their ear were insufficient to sub- 
due the courage which was inspired by 
affection. At Rouen, Mr. Carr dined 
at the table of Madame G y and sat 
next an elderly abbé who seemed to be 
much esteemed by every person pre- 
sent. 
** During the time of terrour (as the - 
French emphatically call the gloomy reign 
of Robespierre) the blood of this good man, 
who, from his wealth, piety, and’ munifi- - 
cence, possessed considerable influence in 
Rouen, was sought after with keen pursuit. 
Madame G was the saviour of his life, 
by concealing him, previous to her own im- 
prisonment, for two years, in different cel- 
lars, under her house, which she rendered 
as warmand as comfortable as circumstances, 
and the nature of the concealment would 
allow, In one of these cells of humane 
setrecy, this worthy man has often eaten his 
solitary and agitated meal, whilst the: sol- 
diers of the tyrant, who were quartered 
upon his protectress, were carousing in the 
kitchen immediately above him.” 
Such instances as these-are sunbeams 
in the storm, which cast a partial splen- — 
dour and give hopes of a returning calm. 
In the provinces, all criminal offences 
are tried before a tribunal composed of 
civil .and military judges. Mr. Carr 
attended the trial of a notorious offender, 
‘and speaks highly of the arrangements 
of the court: it is one of the peculiar 
characteristics of these courts, ‘that 
conviction is immediately followed by 
punishment, The trial of this unhappy 
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