[OS CORRESPONDENCE. [1814. 



place, keep me out 'from morn to dewy eve' (only 

 that we have had no dew). 



" This house being full of company, my time, till 

 night was far advanced, has not been my own either 

 Saturday or yesterday, nevertheless I have, by an 

 exertion about midnight, contrived to send off the 

 volume, depicted and commented on, to a certain place, 

 on its way to which it (that is, the account of it) 

 now is. At first I had meant only to send the book 

 itself, with instructions and hints, to Jeffrey ; but I 

 changed my plan, and was unwilling to run any risks; 

 so, deviating from my rule of only handling general sub- 

 jects, and those but few, I have done the deed myself. 

 Expect, therefore, star ammaz~ato, and to cry out, 

 ' Save me from my friends ! ' ' : You must know I 

 more and more think of making a trip to Paris be- 

 fore Michaelmas term, and your diary has not dimin- 

 ished my ardour it had been growing. Since I was 

 in Italy, ten years ago, I have had a surfeit of sights 

 on me, so as never to care for anymore; but the 

 greatest surfeit wears off when the stomach is toler- 

 ably sound, and the banquet now in question is 

 extraordinary in more senses than one. Aware, then, 

 of the fickle nature of the Guinea, and suspecting him 

 to be again on the rise, I have actually taken the 

 precaution of making my banker remit a sum to Paris, 

 that I may not be spending at the rate of 15s. in the 

 pound when I go. 



" As I mean only to see galleries, I shall not trouble 

 any men of science (except perhaps the great mathema- 



* See in ' Edinburgh Review' for September 1814, art, xi., on " Paris 

 in Eighteen hundred and two and Eighteen hundred and fourteen. By 

 the Rev. AVilliarn Shepherd." 



