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however, are peculiar to North 
Africa; nothing similar having 
been remarked on the coast of 
Guinea, and still less on that of 
Congo and Angola. Mr. Max- 
well also states in a letter to Mr. 
Park, that he had made inquiries 
of a great number of negroes 
who had come down the Congo 
from great distances; but that 
he could never hear of any. Ma- 
hometan priests having visited 
the countries on the banks of that 
river. Supposing the Niger really 
to flow through the centre of 
Africa, and to discharge itself 
any where into the Atlantic, it is 
reasonable to believe that some of 
the Mahometan colonists would 
long since have established them- 
selves on the banks of that river, 
and penetrated to the shores of 
the ocean. 
RECLAMATIONS FROM THE MOU- 
SEUM OF THE LOUVRE. 
(From Miss Williams’s Narrative 
of the Events in France), 
The period was now arrived 
when a new storm no less hor- 
riblethan unforeseen brooded over 
Paris. It appears that the allied 
powers, amidst those rapid and 
brilliant successes, which in the 
year 1814 had rendered them 
masters of the capital, had not 
overlooked the chefs-d’ceuvre of 
art which had been wrested from 
their respective countries by the 
right of conquest. 
The allied sovereigns, when 
they visited the Gallery of the 
Louvre, beheld pictures and sta- 
tues once their own, and saw 
them noted in the preface of the 
catalogues, sold at the door, as 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1815. 
the fruit of French victories. 
The Prussians had not failed to 
observe that pictures which had 
decorated the bed-chamber of their 
beautiful and lamented queen were 
then placed in the royal apart- 
ments of the palace of St. Cloud. 
There was also a statue in the 
Museum which was known by 
the name of the Ganymede of 
Sans Souci. This statue was of 
bronze, and of the most beautiful 
workmanship,; it was no less per- 
fect than the Belvidere Apollo, 
and held that reputation in the 
north. It was erroneously called 
a Ganymede, the pose of the arms 
leading to this mistake, but it isa 
Gladiator giving thanks to the 
gods for a victory just obtained. 
The Prussians demanded, in 
1814, the restoration of this 
statue, of twopieces by Correggio 
and the pictures of St. Cloud, 
which had been taken from the 
apartment of their queen. 
The restitution of these objects 
became the subject of a most fas- 
tidious negociation between M. 
Blacas and theministersof Austria 
and Prussia. It had been agreed 
at the peace of Paris, that nothing 
should be touched that was then 
exhibited in the Museum, and 
M. Blacas wished to. extend this 
article to all the paintings in the 
royal palaces. The negociation 
failed. Paris preserved its statues 
and pictures, and the Prussians 
their regrets at not having re- 
gained the trophies stripped from 
their queen’s apartments. 
The allied armies, in 1815, 
again crowned the hills around 
Paris, and again a capitulation 
was asked and granted. The Pro- 
visionary Government demanded 
that the Museum should remain 
