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part. The streets are filled with rubbish. Every 

 other house is building, and scaffolding is as common 

 as walls. The consequence of this has been that few 

 have sufficient capital to build. Lodging is extremely 

 scarce. Mr Merry could find none at first by any 

 means, and even yet has got very miserable rooms in 

 which he is not settled. There are several table 

 d'hdtes, but only two of any reputation. Bouch's 

 we found to be a mere scramble, and frequented by 

 indifferent people. Lubell's is more select and regular, 

 being in the nature of a private dinner, at which the 

 landlord and his family appear ; but the eating was 

 bad. There is also a club, or private society of 

 merchants and others, which we were not present at. 

 The palace is a noble building, though at present 

 nothing but the walls remain in the quadrangle ; the 

 inside is burnt or pulled down in consequence of the 

 fire, which seemed to have attacked one side chiefly, 

 as there the freestone facing is completely torn off 

 from the brick of which the walls are built. The 

 great quadrangle is five stories high (including the 

 small ones between), and twenty-five windows in 

 front. On each side is a circular sweep, and each 

 sweep terminates in a circular wing, the whole ending 

 in a noble gateway to which an elegant bridge and 

 street leads. The wings or sweeps have ninety 

 windows in the row ! The ornaments, which in 

 general remain entire, are handsome. The style of 

 architecture mixed chiefly Ionic. In the rooms of 

 the quadrangle poor families live, having built huts 



