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and paintings; there are, however, fome 
curious and valuable paintings ftill left. 
The middle part is applied to the accom- 
modation of from 1500 to 2000 invalids. 
The gardens and water-works are ne- 
glected, but not entirely abandoned; the 
hedges, for inftance, appeared to have 
been trimmed; but none of the jet’s d’eau 
were in a ftate fit for ufe. In the even- 
ing we defcended to the Petit Trianon, 
the favourite hermitage of the unfortu- 
nate Antoinette. ‘The houfe, ftripped of 
the glaffes and its principal decorations, 
is let along with the gardens for 250 louis 
a year, to an aubergifte: who makes his 
rent by balls, fétes, and illuminations, 
during the fummer. “Iwo hundred and 
fifty louis fer a houfe and a few acres of 
pleafure ground, ten miles from the capi- 
tal, is a pretty confiderable rent; and yet 
but a trifle compared with Fracati,‘at the 
corner of the Rue de la Loi, the rent of 
which, unfurnifhed, is 1250 louis. The 
houfe and gardens are opened to the pub- 
hic every evening from fix till one. They 
are handfomely illuminated, and a band 
of mufic is employed for the entertain- 
ment of the company. Yet no money is 
required for admiffion!! All the profits 
arife from the fale of ices, fyrop de grof- 
feille, and other refrefhments. 
TivolimThe gardens of Tivoli are 
opened once or twice each decade. The 
admiffion is two fhillings and fixpence. 
But the illuminations and fireworks are 
upon a meft magnificent feale. 
Seve Manufactory—I went one morn- 
ing to fee this celebrated manufactory. A 
few days before I was there a fale of all 
the old articles had been announced, in 
order to make way for a colle@tion of new 
patterns; in confequence of which they 
reduced the price one third. Inftead of 
250 or 260, the ufual complement, only 
60 workmen were then employed. Bu 
this article fluctuates with the political 
tide, and the price of china at Paris is 
almoft as accurate a criterion as the Tiers 
Confolide, of the queftion of peace and 
war. 
Price of provifions, and expence of living. 
At Paris, few things are cheap except 
bread, meat, and the common neceffaries 
of life. Meat is five-pence, and bread 
three halfpence a French pound (about 
eighteen ounces Englifh). Wine too is 
cheap. Houfe-rent is dear. Manufac- 
tures of all kinds, except china and filk, 
are dear. Iwas charged by a friend to 
buy fome lace and cambric; but, inde- 
pendent of the illegality of fuch merchan- 
dize, it is fo dear that I believe it might 
be bought almoft as cheap in London. 
A friend of mine at Paris fhewed me the 
eambric of his cravat, which he declared 
Objervations on the prefent State of France, 
[Jan. 1, 
coft him eighteen livres (fifteen fhillings) 
a yard, Fuel is very dear at Paris. I 
could not afcertain its abfolute price; but 
by comparing the coft of a certain num- 
ber of fires at Paris with that of the fame . 
number in London, I found that this ar- 
ticle is nearly one-third dearer there than 
it is in London, except during extraordi- 
nary feafons like the prefent. 
Coin.—I was much furprifed to find all 
traces of paper-money fo completely va- 
nifhed, that it was impoffible, even as a 
matter of curiofity, to procure an affignat. 
‘They are now as rare as Fuft’s bibles; 
and the original plate is placed in the Pub- 
lic Library amongit the antigues and curi- 
olities. ‘The currency confiits of Leuis’s, 
which bear a premium of a few fous (I 
believe four) ;—old filver pieces of” fix 
livres, ard pieces of five -francs, which 
they have centinued to coin for the laft 
three or four years; as well as pieces of 
thirty and fifteen fous, and fingle and 
double fous. 
Police——Upon this fubje@, 1 fhali con- 
fine myfelf to fuch remarks as may be ufe- 
ful to any cf my countrymen that may 
travel in France. The bufinefs of this de- 
partment of the ftate is fo complicated, 
and of fuch extent, that no ome need be 
furprifed to find fome delay and confufion 
in regard to paffperts. I would advife no 
man, particularly an Englifhman, to crofs 
the water without his paffport. I left fe- 
veral people at Calais, who had waited 
for their papers five, and fome fix weeks. 
When the pafiport is once obtained, all 
is fafe. If you pafs the frontiers, it will 
be examined at leaft a dozen times, as 
happened to me in travelling from Paris 
to Amiterdam. At Paris the inhabitants, 
as well as ftrangers, are obliged to carry 
their cards (a fort of paffport) with 
them; and if they are found after twelve 
o’clock at night without that egis, by 
any of the police officers, they will moft 
likely be cbliged to pass the night in the 
Bureau Centrale. This rigour, however, 
has its ufe. The itreets are perfe@ly fafe 
‘and quiet: at leaft 1 heard but of a fin- 
gle exception during my ftay in France, 
which, from the fenfation it caufed all 
over Paris, convinced me fuch examples 
were but rare. l!allude to the murder 
of D’Heritier, a member of the National 
Inflitute, who was cut acrofs the belly 
with a fabre, juit oppofite his own decor, 
but not robbed, his money and watch 
having been found upon him the next 
morning. 
(To be continued in our next.J 
