Europe for the injuries which were inflicted in most parts of it, by the
French, so long the willing instruments of Buonaparte's tyranny, had
been incomplete.

Alexander's entry into Paris was haired as a liberation from that
despotism, which its inhabitants, had not themselves the energy to shake
off, and which they had acquiesced in or abetted for so many successive
years.

That Alexander should have triumphed over Buonaparte, was fortunate
for the _liberty_ of _France_, but it was also indispensable to the
_peace of Europe_.

The establishment of M. Delacroix, Rue Croix-des Petits Augustins, to
remedy the defect of nature by a gymnastic process, is unique in France.
I shall give the prospectus a place here; and feeling my inability to
_do it justice_, shall not attempt to translate it.

"Dans la Rue des "Vieux Augustin" est l'etablissement de _M.
Delacroix_ Mecanicien Bandagiste Gymnastique pour redresser les
defauts de la nature, particulierement chez les femmes. On y
remarque _Le Mat_ qui est une Colonne en forme de Mat, autour
duquel se trouvent des echellons servant a monter pour developer
les hanches et la poitrine; _les Colonnes_ ou piliers, exercice
servant a mettre le corps droit. Le _Balancier_ sert a redresser la
Colonne vertebrale ou epine du dos. Les _Barilles_ pour redresser
la tete les epaules et les hanches. Le _Balancoir_ est pour
maintenir la tete et les reins droits quand on est assise. Le puits
la _balle_ et la _manivelle_ pour donner de la force a une epaule
faible. _L'Echelle_ pour redresser les epaules. Le _Cheval_ pour
apprendre a y monter, et tenir le corps dans un etat naturel.
Le _Jube_ pour redresser la tete et donner des graces; les _Plombs_
pour apprendre a marcher avec grace. Le _Fauteuil_ pour lever un
cote de la poitrine qui seroit plus bas que l'autre; le soufflet
pour donner un exercise regulier a toutes les parties du corps.

Ce mecanicien habile fait des mains dont les doigts ont les
mouvements naturels; et son establissement est l'unique en France."

To judge, from this description, it should seem as if those to whom
nature has not been propitious, or those who have been deprived by
accident of a limb, are culpably negligent if they do not apply at an
institution which professes to remedy some of the most desperate
calamities incident to human nature. With what probability of suc