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and merriment. Owen relates that he translated 

 the Lord Mayor's speech, which was delivered in 

 English, to a young French lieutenant, who retailed 

 it to his friends, and they to the people, ' who re- 

 peated the sentences and screamed with delight/ 

 ' To find a worthy old alderman made a demigod 

 for the nonce was very rich ; but the furore and 

 crowding to see the plain gray-haired old gentle- 

 man has gone on increasing, and, say what they 

 will of our crowding to see our Queen, it is nothing 

 to compare with the clustering of all Paris about 

 the Lord Mayor as he walked from fountain to 

 fountain through Versailles yesterday ; Hussars 

 and Dragoons dismounted, with all their French 

 official energy, hardly able to keep away from the 

 honest man we once so dreadfully bullied about 

 Smithfield at our " Commission." ' 



On reaching Paris, the luggage was found to 

 have been left behind ; it gradually arrived in 

 course of the next two days, but one member 

 could not attend the Prefect of the Seine's 

 banquet in consequence, and Lord Ebrington 

 had to buy a new suit of clothes in order to be 

 present. 



Owen stayed at the Hotel Brighton, and by 

 some means or other his ticket for the fete at 

 St. Cloud given by the President of the Republic 

 to the Commissioners did not arrive, and he was 

 refused admittance. So he and C. T. Newton, 

 who was in the same predicament, climbed up a 



