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fallen a victim to the murderous bullet. the soldiers had retired, the women of Toulon, allured by plunder, proceeded to the fatal spot. Mounted upon the bodies of the fallen, they stripped the dead and dying. The night was stormy. The moon, emerging from dark clouds, occasionally shed its pale lustre upon this horrible scene. When the

plunderers had abandoned their prey, during an interval of deep darkness, in the dead of the night, when' all was silent, unconscious of each other's intentions, the two citizens, who had escaped the general carnage, disencumbered themselves from the dead, under whom they were buried. Chilled and naked, in an agony of mind not to be described, they, at the same moment attempted to escape. In their agitation, they rushed against each other. Expressions of terror and surprize dropped from each of them. "Oh! God! it is my father!"— "My son! my son! my son !" exclaimed the other, clasping him in his arms. They were father and son, who had thus miraculously escaped, and met in this extraordinary manner.

The person from whom I received this account informed me, that he knew these gentlemen very well, and that they had been resettled in Toulon about two years.

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Cherbourg-Cherbourg is a poor and dirty town. After having heard so much of its costly works and fortifications for the protection of its harbour, my surprize was not little, upon finding the place so miserable. It is defended by three great forts, which are erected upon rocks in the

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The centre one is about three miles off from the shore, and is garrisoned by twelve hundred men. At a distance, this fort looks like a vast floating battery. Upon a line with it, but divided by a distance sufficient for the admission of shipping, commences the celebrated stupendous wall, which has been erected since the failure of the cones. It is just visible at low water. This surprizing work is six miles in length, and three hundred French feet in breadth, and is composed of massy stones and masonry, which have been sunk for the purpose, and which are now cemented, by sea-weed and their own weight and cohesion, into one immense mass of rock. Upon this wall a chain of forts is intended to be erected, as soon as the finances of government will admit of it. The expences which have already been incurred, in constructing this wonderful fabric, have, it is said, exceeded two millions sterling. These costly protective barriers can only be considered as so many monuments, erected by the French to the superior genius and prowess of the British navy.

Consular Procession. As I was passing one morning through the hall of the Thuilleries, the great door of the council chamber was opened, and the second and third Consuls, preceded and followed by their suite in full costume, marched with great pomp to business, to the roll of a drum. This singular procession from one part of the house to the other, had a ridiculous effect,

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and naturally reminded me of the fustian pageantry which upon the stage attends the entrances and exits of the kings and queens of the 'drama.

Tenth of August, 1792.-I have often been surprized to find the injuries which the cornice of the entrance and the capitals of the columns in the hall of the Thuilleries, have sustained from the ball of cannon, during the horrible massacre of the 10th of August, 1792, have never been repaired. Every vestige of that day of dismay and slaughter ought for ever to be effaced; instead of which, some labour has been exercised to perpetuate its remembrance. Under the largest chasms which have been made by the shot, is painted, in strong characters, that gloomy date.

In the evening of that day of devastation, from which France may date all her sufferings, a friend of mine went into the court-yard of the Thuilleries, where the review is now held, for the purpose of endeavouring to recognise, amongst the dead, any of his acquaintances. In the course of this shocking search, he declared to me, that he counted no less than eight hundred bodies of Swiss and French, who had perished in that frightful contest between an infatuated people and an irresolute sovereign. I will not dilate upon this painful subject, but dismiss it in the words of the holy and resigned descendant of Nahor:-"Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it; let

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darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it."

The Two Lovers.-Whilst I was at Paris, a lady of fortune, and her only daughter, an elegant and lovely young woman, resided in the Fauxbourg St. Germain. A young man of merit and accomplishments, but unaided by the powerful pretensions of suitable fortune, cherished a passion for the young lady, to whom he had frequent access, on account of his being distantly related to her. His affection was requited with return; and before the parent suspected the attachment, the lovers were solemnly engaged. The indications of pure love are generally too unguarded to escape the keen observing eye of a cold, mercenary mother. She charged her daughter with her fondness, and forbade her distracted lover the house. To close up every avenue of hope, she withdrew with her wretched child into Italy, where they remained for two years; at the expiration of which, the mother had arranged for her daughter a match more congenial to her own pride and avarice, with an elderly gentleman, who had considerable fortune and property in the vicinity of Bourdeaux. Every necessary preparation was made for this cruel union, which it was determined should be celebrated at Paris, to which city they returned for that purpose.

Two days before the marriage was intended to take place, the young lover, wrought up to frenzy by the intelligence of the approaching nuptials,

contrived, by bribing the porter, whilst the mother was at the opera with her intended son-in-law, to reach the room of the beloved being from whom he was about to be separated for ever. Emaciated by grief, she presented the mere spectre of what she was when he last left her. As soon as he entered the room, he fell senseless at her feet, from which state he was roused by the loud fits of her frightful maniac laughter. She stared upon him like one bewildered. He clasped her with one hand, and with the other drew from his pocket a vial, containing distilled laurel water: he pressed it to her lips, until she had swallowed half of its contents; the remainder he drank himself.

The drug of death soon began to operate.-Clasped in each other's arms, pale and expiring, they reviewed their hard fate, and in faint and lessening sentences, implored of the great God of mercy, that he would pardon them for what they had done, and that he would receive their spirits into his regions of eternal repose; that he would be pleased, in his divine goodness, to forgive the misjudging severity which had driven them to despair, and would support the unconscious author of it, under the heavy afflictions which their disastrous deaths would occasion.

They had scarcely finished their prayer, when they heard footsteps approaching the room.Madame R, who had been indisposed at the opera, returned hoine before its conclusion, with the intended bridegroom. The young man awoke as it were from his deadly drowsiness, and exert

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