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arrived, we saw preparations making for illuminations, and 

 for a display of fire-works. This place formed the villa 

 and garden of M. Boutin, treasurer of the navy before the 

 Revolution. The grounds had evidently been laid out 

 with taste and at great expence ; terraces having been 

 formed, and some rising ground behind having been redu- 

 ced to regular slopes. The grounds are pretty extensive, 

 including perhaps ten or twelve acres within the walls. 

 They have inevitably suffered injury from the use to 

 which they are applied ; and, when thus viewed in the 

 day time, are certainly nowise superior to Vauxhall Gar- 

 dens at London. A few fine trees still remain ; and a 

 piece of water in the lower part of the garden, orna- 

 mented with a boat and pendant, have a pretty good effect. 

 On our leaving the gardens, we were offered pass-tickets, 

 and politely pressed by the door-keepers to return, it be- 

 ing held forth as an inducement to us, that dancing would 

 commence in two hours, and that the " tire de feu d'arti- 

 fice" would to-night be " ties superbe !." On our express- 

 ing ourselves satisfied with what we had already seen, and 

 making some observations on the trees of the place, it was 

 sagely enough whispered that we were certainly " pepi- 

 nieristes Anglois." 



The inhabitants, in their holiday dresses, were now be- 

 ginning to throng the Boulevards des Italiens ; and some 

 fellows were showing off legerdemain tricks to crowds of 

 surrounding admirers. But the people were orderly and 

 quiet, and we did not discover one instance of intoxication 

 in the course of a pretty long walk. 



In Paris, we may here remark, considerable facility is 

 afforded to strangers in finding their way, by the simple 

 expedient of painting the names of the streets which lead 

 to the Seine, in black ; and those which run parallel to it, 

 in red. 



