£90 
paffeport pour venir de Calais a Paris. 
Cette demande concernant le Miniitre de 
la Police Générale, je la lui ai tranfmife. 
Sil vous accorde, comme je Vefpere, )’au- 
torization que vous demandez, je donne- 
yai des ordres a votre arivée a Paris, 
pour que les bibliotheques et les mufées 
vous foient ouvertes. 
Je vous falue. 
L. BonaPARTE, 
A Monfieur......... Anglois 
a Calais, Dept. du Pas de Calais. 
Notwithftanding this aufpicious in- 
tance of republican breeding, I was 
detained three weeks at Calais, without 
hearing from Citizen Fouché, to whom 
{ addreffed two letters: but as Mr. 5 
an Englifhman, was under the neceflity 
of taking a gens d’armes with him to 
Paris, owing to fome informality in his 
pefiport, I defired the commiffary would 
erant me leave to accompany him. We 
were accordingly both configned to the 
care of the gens @’armes, who was charged 
to prefent ws.to the minifter of police. 
The road from Calais to Paris is tolerably 
good.——We were much ftruck with the 
appearance of cultivation, and an abun- 
dant harveft on each fide of us all the 
way. I donot recolled& a fingle uncul- 
tivated fpot. The people of Amiens 
amufed us with a ludicrous example of 
their with for peace. As we pafied 
through that populous town, a confider- 
able crowd was bufied in preparing a 
plot of ground, in the middle of the city, 
for a column in honour of peace, and this 
only five or fix days after the victory of 
Marengo had been announced. 
At Chantilly we ftopped an hour to 
view the ftables, which are entire, and 
the remains of the chateau, which has 
been fold.to an individual for its value 
in raw materials, and is confequently 
configned to deftruction. The fkeleton 
was ftanding when we were there. On 
the 29th of June, I was left by my con- 
ductor at the office of Citizen Fouché, 
minifter of police, and in the courfe of 
a few hours obtained permiffion to re- 
fide in Paris for two months, with 
the power to prolong my ftay from time 
to time. It was here that I was firlt 
taught 

—— veras audire ac reddere voces, 
by the following notice, which I after- 
wards found in all the public offices, ex- 
cept that of the minifter for foreign af- 
fairs, “Ici on shonore du nom de ci- 
toyen.” 
Paris.—In attempting to defcribe this 
capital of the civilifed globe, I lament 
my inability to inftitute a contraft be- 
tween its prefent and its paft {plendour, 
\ 
Obfervations on the prefent State of Frances 
{Jan. ly 
A traveller who had feen it before the 
revolution, might doubtlefs enrich his 
obfervations by many curious and in- 
terefting comparifons. I faw it then for 
the firft time, and I believe I may fay 
that the effect of its firft impreffion was 
heightened by the humble expectations 
which I had formed of it from the par- 
tial reprefentations of my countrymen in 
former times. They did well to confine 
the comparifon to the refpective ftreets 
of the two capitals; and to fet againit 
the fplendour of Paris the uniform neat- 
nefs and convenience of London. With 
regard to public buildings, they ufually © 
maintain a difcreet filence; it is, there- 
fore, no wonder if my hopes and ex~- 
pectations, upon a firit view of Paris, 
were not very elevated. 

Urbem hanc Melibeee, putavi 
Stultus ego huic noftrz fimilem 
Sic canibus catulos fimiles, fic matribus 
heedos 
Noram, fic parvis componere magna fole« 
bam. 
Verum hec tantum‘alias inter caput ex 
tulit urbes, ; 
Quantum lenta folent inter viburna cu- 
prefii. 
Thuillerics=—The palace of the Thuil- 

“ Jeries is allotted by the three-confuls, and 
is divided accordingly. Upon the dome 
in the centre is infcribed im large golden 
letters “ Republique Francaife,” above 
which there is a clock, divided according 
to the numeration now in vogue, namely, 
into decimal inftead of duodecimal parts. 
The fecond conful, Cambacéres, refided, 
during my ftay at Paris, at a large houfe 
in the Carouzel, until his allotment in the 
Thuilleries was prepared for his recep- 
tion. ‘Tho apartments in general are in 
the fame itate as, I underftand, they were 
formerly; the gardens, on the contrary, 
confiderably improved. They are kept in 
the moit exact order, and are decorated 
with the choiceft fpecimens of ancient and 
modern {culpture, befides hundreds of the 
fineft orange trees. 
Every evening whilft the weather per- 
mits, they are filled with the people of 
Paris. On the fiith of every decade, when 
the Firft Conful reviews his troops in 
the court before the palace, the windows 
and apartments are crowded at an early 
hour. At twelve, Bonaparte and his ftaif 
defcend the grand ftair-cafe, and employ 
about half an hour in the review, or, to 
{peak more properly, the parade. I was 
frequently tempted by the gaiety and 
brilliancy of the fcene, to attend this fo- 
lemnity in honour of the God+of War: 
and upon thefe occafions { was always 
defirous of indulging in fome phyfiogno- 
monical. 
