of their Father, by wielding his sceptre with a lenient hand, by encouraging-not repressing, the progress of mental culture; by usefully directing-not opposing, public opinion; and by conceding-not withholding, that liberty, which, while it constitutes the noblest privilege of the subject, forms the best safe-guard of the sovereign.

CONTENTS

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THE FIRST VOLUME

CHAPTER I.

Em-

Passports. Letters from British Minister.

barkation at Harwich. Arrival at Cuxhaven.

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Embarkation on the Elbe.

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Hamburgh.

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Hamburgh. — Govern-

ment, senate, colleges. -Ecclesiastical government.

Military establishments. - English factory.

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Borsen Halle.

Prisons. Churches.

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Convents.

Post-office. Population. Jews. Wine cel-

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lars. Regulations as to combustible articles. -

Stadt-house.-Town-hall. - Exchange.

Foundling Hospital. — Gymnasium. - Coffee-houses.

Marriages, births, and funerals. —

Markets. Dress of maid servants. Charitable in-

stitutions. Students' dress, and those of higher

classes. Beggars.—

Sunday. How

observed. Diversion of shooting at the bird. A

marriage described. Horrid devastation committed

by the French. Altona. Gardens. Taxes.

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CHAP. II.

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Leaving Hamburgh. Price of posting. Roads.—

Boitzenberg. -Dress of peasants. State of crops.

Lubthen. Woods. Prussia. Lenzen.

Perleberg. Storks.- Kletzke. - Chateaux. - Ku-

ritz. Fair. - Peasantry. Fehrbellin. - Travel-

ling machines. - Optical deception. - State of roads.

Henningsdorf. River Havel. Enormous

Remarks. Arrival at Berlin.

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stones.

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Berlin. Architecture. Fashionable promenade.

Brandenburg gate. - Public buildings. Statues of

Dessau and Elector Frederick. Palace. The

King's small palace. - Arsenal. Royal guard-

house. Blucher's statue.

King's

private habits. —Anniversary of the battle of Water-

loo. New theatre. - Academy of Arts.- Exchange.

-Museum. Churches.- University. - Royal li-

Facility

of admission to public institutions on the Continent.

-Mint. Prostitutes and beggars.

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Benevolent

institutions. Vaccination, &c. Population. -

Taxes. Police. Prisons.

come of the King and family. Revenues of the

state. Post-office. Orders of merit. - Hotels.

- Charlottenberg. - Tomb of the Queen. - King's

second marriage. - Gardens. Palace of Bellevue.

Departure. Roads. - Villages, &c. Freienwalde

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Royal château and gardens. - Zechder. — The

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Königsberg. Lake. — Hus-

Pyritz.Conflagration.-Lake.

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- Stargard. Lake. Nassau. - Naugard.

Plathe. Riga river. Château. -

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Peasantry.

Corlin. River Perante. Cöslin. Statue of Fre-

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derick William. - Supreme Tribunal. - View of

Baltic. Schlawe. Stolpe.-Launberg. Gottin-

Neustadt. Cloister.

Dantzic. Hotel.

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CHAP. V.

Dantzic. General remarks. Cathedral.

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"Last

Judgment," by Van Eyck. -Public buildings, &c.

Criminals. Jews. Poles. Fahrenheit.

Regulations of government as to post-houses and horses.

peace here. Anecdote of Queen of Prussia. - Pa-

lace. Church service. Profanation of the sabbath.

-Remarks. Memel. Departure. Immorsett.

-Russian frontiers. - Polangen. — Police. Strict

examination of luggage. - Difficulty as to passports.

Church and monuments described.

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Mode of yoking horses, and of calculating distances. —

Russian money.

- Dress of peasantry. Postilions.

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Fine scenery.— River Windau. — Arrest of Eng-

lish travellers. The Dwina. Mittau.

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occupied by Louis XVIII. — Departure.

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Palace

- Riga.

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Château. Society of Schwartzhaupter. Their

collection of plate. The reunion, or parliament-

house.-Cathedral. Cloister. Churches.

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Col-

lege. Military punishments. Police. — Singular

Wolves. - Rare species of insect.

vessels.

Agriculture and implements. - Stockelen - Valk. —

Uddern. Arrival at Dorpat.

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Dorpat. University.- Library. - Anatomical theatre.

- Observatory. - Female bricklayers. Town.

Harbour.Churches. - Departure. -Lake Peipus.

Chudleigh. -Gulf of Finland. - Narva. - Supersti-

tion. The Ivangorod. Stupendous fortress.-