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rilit or a fupper. They are the laft of all the beings 

 that are awake in the Palais royal. A trumpet founds 

 twice, and the iron gates to the avenues are fhut. A 

 fudden death enfues. 



I have already told you, that the walks are kept well- 

 rolled, hard and folid. After a heavy rain of three 

 days the walking here is good. But if the gravel be 

 fomewhat foft, the crowd retire beneath the arcades; 

 and here it is fometimes troublefome to get on ; the 

 paflage is often quite ftopt, and one is obliged to turn 

 about, or make a little circuit without the arcades, in 

 order to find a fmall opening in the throng. 



In hot weather the allees are fprinkled three times a 

 day with the machine I defcribed to you on a former 

 occalion. So that one is never incommoded by the 

 dull even when the gardens are the fulleft. ; 



Ever fince the twelfth of July, war has even taken her 

 abode in this fairy-fcene, and has often been the caufe 

 of terrible revolutions in the brilliant objects it con- 

 tains. No mouchard has been difYeeted, that did not 

 find his tormentors here ; no head cut off that has not 

 here been expofed on a bloody pike ; no cannon taken 

 that has not been drawn in triumph through the walks. 

 All the fhows and proceffions on account of the fur- 

 Tender of the Baftille, and the giving liberty to the na- 

 tion, were here to be feen ; all news, whether lad or 

 joyful, were here proclaimed, with clamours and trum- 

 pets. Cannons were here fired, the patrols went about 

 with their thundering drums, bold and rafh refolutions 

 were here taken ; men's minds were here inflamed and 

 kept in heat; all the horrors of fury, and, rage and 

 defpair and terror and amazement, mewed themfelves 



here 



