PARIS. 
Next to this is the Hall of the Emperors, whofe ceiling 
is painted by Meynier, and reprefents the Earth receiving 
from the Emperors a code of law, dilated by Nature, 
Wifdom, and Juftice. In two tablets of bronze, by the 
fame artift, Trajan is feen planning the Roman roads, 
and eredling the aqueducts. The bas-reliefs at the angles 
are the Eridanus, the Tiber, the Nile, and the Rhine. 
This hall once contained the Minerva of Villetri, the 
Antinous, and Hercules, and the beautiful Tomb of the 
Mufes. 
The ceiling of the Hall of the Seafons was painted by 
Romanelli, and contains the hiftory of Apollo and Diana. 
Here was the celebrated Indian Bacchus, the Venus 
coming from the Bath, and the Ariadne, 1 'urnamed the 
Cleopatra. 
The Hall of Peace is decorated by eight antique pillars 
of granite, which formerly enriched the nave of the 
church of Aix-la-Chapelle. They were claimed by the 
Pruflians; but it was found that they could not be taken 
down without ferious injury, and fame ftatues were given 
in exchange. The three allegorical paintings depift the 
Arts, Peace, and Commerce. Here were the exquifite 
ftatues of Zeno, Demofthenes, Trajan, Phocion, Menan¬ 
der, and Pofidippus. 
The ceiling of the Hall of the Romans is painted by 
Romanelli, and exhibits Hiftory and Poetry celebrating 
the fuccefies of Bellona. Four other paintings reprefent 
the Deputies of the Senate offering the purple to Cincin- 
natus; the Rape of the Sabines ; the courage of Mutius 
Scaevola; and the Continence of Scipio. This hall con¬ 
tained many rare fpecimens of the antique. Among 
them were the Germanicus, the Ceres, the Marcus Junius 
Brutus, the expiring Gladiator, the Antinous of the 
Capitol, the fpotted Faun, the Tiberius, and the frag¬ 
ment of the coloflal ftatue of Hercules. 
The next apartment was called the Hall of the Laocoon, 
but now the Hall of the Centaur. Its ceiling contained 
the French Hercules conquering the fury of Party ; the 
Arts celebrating the Victories of France ; Study and 
Fame ; and a Group of Genii. It is here that the tra¬ 
veller perceives the full extent of the retribution with 
which France has been vifited. The inimitable and 
affefting Laocoon, the fafcinating Venus de Medicis, the 
finely-modelled Cincinnatus, the majeftic Jupiter, the 
fpirited Meleager, the exquifite Cupid and Pfyche, and 
the much-admired figure of the Youth extracting a thorn 
from his foot, are no longer to be feen. 
Four columns of red oriental granite, taken from the 
tomb of Charlemagne, adorn the Hall of Apollo. The 
Belvidere Apollo, the fublimeft fculpture that has efcaped 
the ravages of time, once occupied a confpicuous place 
in this hall. It was furrounded. by the Belvidere Anti- 
noiis, the Antinous of Egypt, the Ariadne of the Capitol, 
the Nurfe of Bacchus, the Com mod us Hercules, the 
Capitoline Juno, the Alexander Severus, the Alexander 
of the Capitol, the two Sphinxes, and the beautiful 
Candelabra. 
The ceiling of the Hall of Diana reprefents her im¬ 
ploring Jupiter to permit her to remain among the num¬ 
ber of the virgin goddeffes : it is the performance of Prod- 
lion.. The furrounding paintings defcribe different events 
in the life of that deity. There is alfo the Hall of the 
Candelabra, the Hall of the Tiber, Hall of the Gladiator, 
Hall of Pallas, Hall of Melpomene, Hall of Ills, and the 
Hall of the Caryatides. Every work of art was fwept 
from this beautiful hall. They have been replaced by a 
great variety of new fubje&s. 
This mufeum is open to the public on Saturday and 
Sunday, from ten o’clock until four; but ftudents and 
foreigners are daily admitted, on producing their pair- 
ports. 
In defcribing the public buildings of this city, we (hall 
ftudy contiguity rather than claffification. The Tuileries 
and Louvre Hand in the parilh of 
St. Germain VAuxerrois. —The church was built by 
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Childebert; and the ftatues of himfelf and of his queen 
are yet to be feen at the entrance. The portal is a fine 
fpecimen of Gothic architecture, by Perrault and le Brun. 
The bell of this church gave the iignal for the horrible 
maffacre of St. Bartholomew-. Before the Revolution, this 
church contained a collection of paintings and ftatues 
which almoft rivalled the nobleft mufeum in France. 
Moll of the French artifts lived in or near the Louvre. 
This was their parilh-church ; and a pleafing contention 
arofe among them who (liould contribute mod to its em- 
bellilhment: Jou venet, Coy pel, Le Brun, Louis Boulogne, 
Philippe de Champagne, Coyfevox, and Warin, were 
eager to place the moft valuable of their works in the 
choir, and around the altar, of this church. During the 
facrilegious period of the Revolution, thefe treafures were 
fcattered or deftroyed. Some of them are preferved in 
the Louvre. 
The Pont Royal, or Royal Bridge, is fituated oppofite 
the Tuileries, and was ereCted by Louis XIV. to replace 
that of wood, which the breaking-up of the ice in 1684. 
had carried away. It is reckoned one of the moft folid 
bridges in Paris; and, till the exiftence of the Pont 
Louis XVI. was the only one built acrofs the river, with¬ 
out taking advantage of the i(lands. It (lands on four 
piles, forming, with two abutments, five elliptical arches 
of a handfome fweep : the fpan of the centre-arch is yz 
feet, that of the two adjoining 66, and of the two outer 
ones 60. On each fide is a raifed pavement for foot- 
paffengers, and in the middle there is a fpace for four 
carriages abreaft. The north end of this bridge faces 
that wing of the palace of the Tuileries which is called 
the Pavilion de Flore. From the middle of this bridge 
the city is feen in a moft ftriking point of view. During 
the revolution, this bridge was chriftened Pont National; 
but its original name has been lately reftored. 
The Place Louis Quinze, or Square of Louis XV. fepa- 
rates the Tuileries from the Elyfian Fields. It is of an 
odiagonal form, furrounded by a foffe, guarded by a bal- 
luftrade of ftone, which is terminated by little pavilions 
in the form of pedeftals deftined to receive groups of 
figures. The centre of the Place Louis XV. exhibits one 
of the nobleft views in Paris. In front is the palace of the 
Tuileries, feen through the grand avenue. Behind is the 
triumphal arch and barriere de Neuilly, feen likewife 
through the perfpeCtive of a long avenue. On one fide 
the Rue Royale terminates with the new church of the 
Madelaine; and on the other fide, the eye, glancing over 
the new bridge de Louis Seize, refts on the noble colon¬ 
nade that forms the facade of the Palace of the Reprelen- 
tatives. An equeftrian ftatue of Louis XV. occupied the 
centre of the fquare. 
On the 30th of May, 1770, the marriage of Louis XVI. 
then Dauphin; was celebrated here, but the day of re¬ 
joicing was converted into one of fadnefs and defoliation. 
Through an overfight of the police, the ftreets leading to 
the place where the fireworks were exhibited were covered 
with heaps of Hones. Some carriages ran againft them in 
the dark, and broke down; they were left lying on the 
fpot; others were-overturned by them; the horfes took 
fright, and plunged among the concourfe of fpeClators on 
foot; who, urged by terror and alarm, pulhed and jollied 
one another in the dark: numbers fell, and were trampled 
to death. The (hrieks of the dying, the prancing of the 
affrighted horfes, the thieves who purpofely increafed the 
crowd that they might rob the richly-dreffed ladies of 
their jewels, all concurred to augment the horrible con- 
fufion. Whoever fell was loft; the terrified multitude 
rulhed over him, and he expired perhaps under the feet of 
thofe who were anxioufly leaking him, and would have 
facrificed their own lives to fave his. Ic was admitted, that 
upon this melancholy occafion 600 perfons loll their lives; 
but credible eye-witneffes declare, that the number of 
fufferers, killed or dreadfully maimed, was not left than 
1600. Next morning, half Paris was in mourning: almoft 
every family loft relatives and friends; all haltened to the 
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