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ter dining at the table d'hote, where we met witli an Irish 

 hero of Waterloo, we walked towards the Court end of the 

 town ; and, on our way, ascending a magnificent flight of 

 stops, entered an ancient church, which we soon ascertain- 

 ed to be the celebrated one of St Gudula. Service was 

 now performing with great pomp ; but we had witnessed a 

 still more splendid ceremony of the kind at Ghent. We 

 ventured sufficiently near the pulpit, at this time unoccu- 

 pied, to have a complete view of it. It is composed of oak, 

 most richly carved ; the whole history of the expulsion of 

 our First Parents from the Garden of Eden by an angel 

 with a flaming sword, being represented in bass-relief. 



Leaving StGudule^we proceeded into The Park. Much 

 as we had heard this great square praised, it certainly sur- 

 passed in beauty and grandeur any idea we had formed. 

 The grandeur consists very much in the spaciousness of 

 the central area, and in the number and size of the limes, 

 elms, and walnuts, that shade the broad gravel-walks by 

 which it is intersected. These walks are appropriated to 

 pedestrians ; and at this time we felt them refreshingly 

 cool, our pocket-thermometer indicating 74° in the shade, 

 and 86° in the sun. The statues seemed to be well execu- 

 ted, and judiciously disposed : the Termini, considered as 

 ornaments in a public promenade, were new to us. The 

 fountain in which Peter, the young Czar of all the Russias, 

 accidentally soused himself, is mentioned by every tourist. 

 In the Pare is situate the Hotel de Bellevue, much fre- 

 quented by the fashionable English, who, to suit their 

 London habits, had here got the time for public dining re- 

 tarded by about three hours. In the fine walks which we 

 were now leisurely perambulating, were our military coun- 

 trymen assembled and marshalled on the portentous night 

 between the 15th and 16th June 1815, when the inconcei- 



