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Jemnity of the Federation in 1790. The Champ de Mars 

 is now used for reviews of troops, and it also serves as the 

 race-ground of Paris. The Ecole Militaire is situate at the 

 upper end of the Field of Mars ; the Bridge of Jena, a 

 beautiful structure, at the lower. 



We returned homewards by the Alice des Veuves^ and 

 took a leisurely view of the Champs Ely sees, and their fine 

 trees. It is scarcely necessary to say, that the public 

 walks and grounds on this side of the capital appeared 

 to us worthy of a great and enlightened people ; they in- 

 deed deserve the epithets, often bestowed on them by the 

 natives, of superb and magnifique. At the Place Louis 

 XV. (so named from having formerly been ornamented 

 with an equestrian statue of that monarch) the places were 

 pointed out to us where the late King and Queen were se- 

 verally subjected to the guillotine. It has been proposed 

 to erect here a statue of Louis XVI., and to have his tes- 

 tament engraved on the pedestal ; but prudence seems to 

 dictate, that some few years more should be suffered to 

 elapse, before such a project be put in execution. 



Vilmorhts Nursery-Gardens. 



Sept. 25. — Vilmorin-Andrieux and Company being the 

 most distinguished seedsmen in Paris, we thought it right 

 to visit their nursery-gardens, at No. 39- Rue de Reuilly, 

 in the Fauxbourg St Antoine. 



The grounds are of considerable extent ; and we soon 

 perceived that they here cultivate very many kinds of flow- 

 ers for the sake of the seed, such as balsams, ipomcea, 

 French marigold, lupins, gilliflowers and China asters ; and 

 also some of the rare or more tender culinary herbs with 

 the same view, such as the different varieties of basil and 

 capsicum, the love-apple ; and, we may add, the Solatium 



