rs.

Yet in many important respects the Parisian multitude read a lesson to
ourselves. In their public places of resort, the French are wonderfully
decorous; and along the streets, no lady is insulted by the impudence of
either sex. You are sure to walk in peace, if you conduct yourself
peaceably. I had intended to say a word upon morals: and religion; but the
subject, while it is of the highest moment, is beyond the reach of a
traveller whose stay is necessarily short, and whose occupations, upon the
whole, have been confined rather among the dead than the living.

Farewell, therefore, to PARIS. I have purchased a very commodious
travelling carriage; to which a pair of post-horses will be attached in a
couple of days--and then, for upwards of three hundred miles of
journey--towards STRASBOURG! No schoolboy ever longed for a holiday more
ardently than I do for the relaxation which this journey will afford me. A
thousand hearty farewells!

[191] [The work is now perfect in 3 volumes.]

[192] [I here annex a fac-simile of his autograph from the foot of the
account for these drawings.]

[Illustration]

[193] Then, Louis XVIII.

[194] ["Sir T. Lawrence, who painted the portrait of the late Duke de
Richlieu, which was seen at the last exhibition, is undoubtedly of the
first class of British Portrait painters; but, according to Mr.
Dibdin's judgment, many artists would have preferred to have sided
with our Gerard." CRAPELET. vol. iv. 220. I confess I do not
understand this reasoning: nor perhaps will my readers.]

[195] [Here, Mons. Crapelet drily and pithily says, "Translated from the
English." What then? Can there be the smallest shadow of doubt about
the truth of the above assertion? None--with Posterity.]

[196] At Domremi, in Lorraine.

[197] When Desnoyers was over here, in 1819, he unequivocally expressed his
rapture about our antiquarian engravings--especially of Gothic
churches. Mr. Wild's _Lincoln Cathedral_ produced a succession of
ecstatic remarks. "When your fine engravings of this kind come over to
Paris we get little committees to sit upon them"--observed Desnoyers
to an engraver--who communicated the fact to the author.

[198] [The experience of ten years has confirmed THE TRUTH of the above
remark.]

[199] [Not so now! Mahogany, according to M. Crapelet, is every where at
Paris, and at the lowest prices.]

_LETTER XII._