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felt highly gratified with our morning's entertainment. M. 

 Aubert Du Petit-Thouars is a classical scholar, a gentleman 

 of extensive general information, and an excellent botanist. 

 He and his brother Aristide were sent in search of the un- 

 fortunate Peyrouse ; but while they were still at the Cape 

 of Good Hope on their outward voyage, they received the 

 news of the dethronement and violent death of the King, 

 and the progress of the revolutionary flame. They there- 

 fore confined themselves to excursions through the three 

 southern isles of Africa, the botany of which they carefully 

 examined. After the lapse of ten years, and after losing 

 his brother, Aubert returned to Paris, when Buonaparte 

 had effected the restoration of order and calm. But it is 

 easy to see that he is, and always has been, a warm-hearted 

 Bourbon royalist. He thinks boldly for himself on all sub- 

 jects, whether political or physiological, and expresses free- 

 ly what he thinks. It is natural, therefore, that he should 

 have met with some opposition ; and it would, perhaps, be 

 too much to suppose that his opposers must be always in 

 the wrong. 



Paris Fruit-Mai~ket in August, compared with that of 

 London. 



Having, in 1821, visited Paris at a somewhat earlier sea- 

 son of the year than in 1817, it may not be amiss to sub- 

 join a few notices regarding the state of the Paris fruit and 

 vegetable market in the month of August, and to compare 

 it generally with Covent Garden at the same period. The 

 latter, however, I saw nearly a fortnight earlier, but under 

 peculiar circumstances. The coronation of George the 

 Fourth (19th July 1821) caused a glut of fruit in the Lon- 

 don market, such ns had never been remembered. Having 

 reached London a few days after the coronation, I was still 

 in time to see large quantities of the fruit, which had not 



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