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have been splendid specimens of ornithological 

 casting. The p]umage now is tattered and sorely 

 weather-beaten. Unless some restoring hand come 

 shortly to their aid, in the course of a few years 

 more, they will be totally disabled from keeping 

 company with their renowned chief. 



One would hope, upon a retrospection of the 

 past, that the good people of Aix-la-Chapelle, have 

 had quite enough of fraternising with rapacious 

 foreigners ; whose proferred liberty ended in posi- 

 tive slavery ; and whose boasted equality, turned 

 out to be nothing but a shadow, when brought 

 in contact with the economy of civilised life. 



Times are now mending at Aix-la-Chapelle. 

 Enormous operations are carrying on at the cathe- 

 dral; and equally so at the town hall. Let us 

 hope, that King Charles and both his eagles will 

 soon experience a first-rate repairer's scientific touch ; 

 to which they are so justly entitled, on account of 

 their beauty, their utility and their evident 

 antiquity. In passing through the market-place, 

 where fruit and legumes were exposed every day 

 in superabundance, I would spend an hour at this 

 truly royal fountain. It is beautiful even in its 

 ruins. 



The regency having abolished all public gam- 

 bling, I find, that the grand saloon, where late the 



