many high mountains on it. All these Master of Arts.—Mr. John Anthony Cra- Church. CAMBRIDGE. THE FINE ARTS. MR. TURNERELLI'S BUSTS OF THE ture, a tribute to the dead, a consolation to the living, and an example to posterity. We have been led to these remarks from observing the number of memorials which the untimely decease of the Princess Charlotte has exacted from the Arts, and the all ranks and classes of the people. The powerful effect which they have produced on windows of the print-shops have ever since crowds, gazing on the various portraits by that lamented event been surrounded by Mr. John Wither Awdry, of Christ Church. Hayter, Dawe, Chalons, Meyer, and others, Mr. Frederick De Chair, of Oriel College. ing the most moral reflections on the instaexpressing the deepest sympathy, and utterwere seven or eight kinds of palm trees, Ebden, late Fellow of Caius College, is ap- elastic vigour of youth and splendour of The Rev. James Collett bility of life and grandeur, since that gay figure, which they see before them in all the which in their form and beauty are far superior to ours, as one may indeed say of all pointed Junior Tutor of Trinity Hall, in the nuptial ornament, promising length of happy the trees, herbs, and fruits there. One finds place of the Rev. Thomas Smart Hughes. days, is even within the span of time which there also pine trees of extraordinary beauty; has elapsed from when it first met the eye, very extensive plains and meadows; birds transformed into the saddest of all the meof the most various species; honey of all mentos of felicity nipped in the very bloskinds of taste; metals of all kinds, except soming, and of greatness levelled with the iron. On the island, which as I have said, dust. Earthly annihilation is now all, if I named Hispania, were the highest trees. One of the most grateful labours of the nothing can be all, of what that lightsome The land and the woods of great extent, the Fine Arts, and one more cultivated and es-and joyous figure but yesterday faintly remeadows very fertile and extremely well teemed in this country than in any other, presented. adapted to agriculture, and pasture, or to because in this country the social affections There is about to be produced to the public, the erection of buildings. The convenience are more strongly and generally cherished of the sea-ports of this island and the num- than elsewhere, is the continuation of the however, one, as we conceive, of the most ble to those who have not seen them. The sphere of their actual presence, and beyond beautiful of the works of art, to perpetuate ber of fertilising rivers, must seem incredi- remembrance of beloved objects, out of the appropriate, as it is, from its material, the most lasting, and from its execution the most trees, pastures, and fruits, are very different the precinct of their mortal existence, by the remembrance of the departed Princess. from those in the island of Joanna. It is multiplying their image on canvas or in We allude to a Bust of Her Royal Highness, also rich in various kinds of spices, gold and marble. Portraiture is only undervalued by by Mr. Turnerelli. The original, of the life metals. In this island and all the others those who have never felt the consolation of size, is well known, from having been exhibitwhich I saw, or of which I have otherwise weeping before the likeness of what was ed at Somerset-House, under the now cheerobtained any knowledge, the inhabitants of most dear," and has been lost for ever less appellation of "Nuptial Bust," which both sexes go naked, as nature made them, When even the most indifferent things which the artist chose to give it, from the remarkexcept some women, who wore a leaf or a have belonged to those we regret, acquire able circumstance of the Princess having kind of cotton covering, which they them- an adventitious sacredness, and are wor-finished her sittings by devoting several selves prepare for this purpose and fasten shipped as holy relicshours to him on the morning of her marriageabout the hips. All these people, as I have day. This single incident would impart a said, are wholly destitute of all kinds of strong interest to the Bust, had it no other iron. They are without arms, of the use of recommendation; but when we can add, which they are entirely ignorant; and indeed how much more is the wounded spirit sooth-which we do from having anxiously examinthey would be ill calculated to make use of ed by the melancholy contemplation of the ed it, that the likeness is admirably faithful, them, not on account of bodily defects, for very lineaments and forms so happily imi-and the scientific treatment of the design full they are all well made, but because they are tated, which in the original were the fond-of merit, taste and judgment go hand-inexcessively shy and timid. The only arms est of the soul's delights! Thus it is that the hand with sensibility in sanction and approwhich they possess are canes dried in the wildest savages attach a high value to their sun, at one end of which they fasten a kind rude and shapeless carvings, and that the From this production a bust of the halfof spear-head of dried wood, which they most civilized nations almost adore the size has been copied, and, we have no hesitahave pointed. Even of these they seldom masterpieces of art, associated as they are tion in pronouncing, forms one of the most venture to make use. For it happened that with all that is ennobling in human nature, elegant and delightful specimens of art if I sent two or three of my people into the and touching to the best human passions. which has been lately seen in England. The villages, to open an intercourse with the in- The poet tells us a solemn truth when, in likeness is preserved, we had almost said habitants, a whole troop of Indians came the shape of questions, he points out the in- increased in fidelity. The head is nobly out; but as soon as they saw that my people placed, and has all that commanding air approached, they all ran away, the children which was conspicuous in the original. The forsaking the parents and the parents the exquisite symmetry of the neck, and the fullchildren without hesitation. Nor was this ness of the bosom, contribute greatly to the caused by any act of violence on our part; for I anxiously took care that they should by general beauty of the design, which is further improved by a skilful disposition of the no means be offended: on the contrary, Or flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death? slight drapery which invests the lower parts. among every people, where I landed, or which I could bring to have any intercourse Assuredly not; and he that looks for impos- Upon the whole, we have rarely been called with me, I distributed in abundance what-sibilities, must lay his account with meeting on to deliver an opinion respecting any work ever I had, for example, cloth, or various disappointments: but if we limit our expec- of art, so simple and unpresuming as this other things, and took nothing from them in tations to such solace as reason warrants, is, where we could justly praise so much, then shall we find, in "urn" and "bust," both the subject and its execution. It was return. But these islanders were by nature much that is desirable in the three chief noticed in our biographical sketch of the extremely timid, even when they knew that points of view in which such subjects can Princess, (Literary Gazette, 15th Nov.) that they were in safety. be considered an honour to the past, a" she frequently spoke of Queen Elizabeth comfort to the present, a precept to the fu- as the model for a British Queen; and it has (To be concluded in our next.) -Postquam Iliacas vestes notumque cubile efficiency of such monuments as we now hold Can storied urn or animated bust Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust, bation. OR Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Politics, &c. NO. XLV. REVIEW OF NEW BOOKS. SATURDAY, NOV. 29, 1817. Silent with upturned eyes unbreathing crowds And flushed with transport, or benumbed with fear, AEROSTATION. A Narrative of the Aerial Voyage of Mr. WINDHAM SAD- Watch, as it rises, the diminished sphere. LER, across the Irish Channel, from And now the fleeting rack obtrudes between. -Now less and less-and now a speck is seen; Portobello Barracks, in the neighbour-The calm philosopher in ether sails, hood of Dublin, on Tuesday, July 22d, 1817. To which is annexed, a Chart of the Channel, shewing his course and place of descent. 8vo. pp. 25. Views broader stars and breathes in purer gales; Sees at his feet the forky lightnings glow, We do not think this extraordinary And hears innocuous thunders roar below. voyage has received enough of public Inheriting, as it should seem, the cool attention. The renewal of the Habeas intrepidity of his father, and unmoved PRICE 1s. of the terrene were caught through the rolling masses of vapour, the reports of guns were heard, and the balloon now descending as rapidly as it had risen, a few minutes past 2 o'clock it was found to be perpendicular over the hill of Howth, so that very small progress indeed had been made during the forty-five minutes which had already elapsed. Not discouraged, Mr. S. threw out about 40lb. of ballast, again ascended, passed over Howth to the right of Ire land's Eye, and kept in the same direc W. N. W. and was borne, at within 14 minutes to 3, completely clear of the eastern extremity of the hill. reached a second current of air from the was more matters, about the period it was perform-tion, Mr. Windham Sadler chose a more Corpus Suspension and other political by the perils of his preceding expedition till 25 minutes after 2, when he ed, were the wonders of the day; and auspicious season; and all the requisite an excursion singularly curious to science preparations being made, ascended from was passed over as silently and rapidly Portobello Barracks near Dublin, at 20 as the young æronaut himself passed minutes past 1 o'clock p. m. on Tuesday We now follow his own narrative: over the Channel. We deem it worthy a the 22d of July last. The balloon, the My elevation was at this time about niche in our Temple. It may be remembered that Mr. Sadler, but its specific dimensions are not men-veloped in a snow shower, the effect of which, narrative says, was comparatively small, two miles and a half, the Thermometer standing at 38, when, on a sudden, I was ensenior, made a similar attempt in Octo- tioned. The design being to cross the as the sun-beam glanced on the descending ber, 1812; and though it was believed Channel as directly and quickly as pos-flakes, was brillant beyond description; it at the time he might have made the coast sible, it was prudently determined by the was, however, but of short duration, and of Cumberland or Scotland, yet in his æronaut to keep as entirely in the lower speedily clearing away, I again enjoyed a endeavour to steer a course for Lanca-regions of the air as he could, thereby serene atmosphere, and distinctly traced the shire, the winter night overtook him, and avoiding the loss of time in ascending towards Drogheda and Newry, and on the indented coast from the North of Dublin, having dropped into the sea, he was and descending, as well as the expendi- southward, that rounding from Bray Head providentially rescued by a fishing vessel ture of gas. The ascent was fine, with towards Wexford. from a watery grave. The narrative of a light wind from the W. S. W. which in this bold adventure, published soon after, a few minutes raised the traveller to a and attractive prospect, none In the midst, however, of the varied is extremely interesting, though written height, whence the glorious landscape anxiously looked for than the WELSH COAST, in a style of inflation, not out of unison below was visible in all the sublime the immediate object of my destination, and with a balloon story. It is perhaps the variety of land and sea, hill and valley, cations, as at five minutes past three, I caught at length this was added to my other gratififault of these narratives that they do not city and hamlet, together with winding the first glimpse of the lofty mountain tops enter sufficiently into the minute philoso- coast and promontories, and, in particu- of the PRINCIPALITY-my anxiety being rephical detail of natural appearances, and lar, the Wicklow mountains, forming al- moved, and my spirits raised by the view, I of the indications given by the instru- together a panorama, of the grandeur of now partook of some refreshment, and ments with which the car is furnished: which we may imagine something, but here, although at no very great altitude, that they are rather descriptive than must take an aerial voyage fully to com- perceived a phenomenon, which I had never scientific. It may indeed be fairly urged prehend. in their defence, that the object of the glimpse: a congregation of vaporous that as the sun shone upon the car, the parts This was, however, but a before observed, and which affected me even to a degree of extreme uneasiness, namely, attempts was not atmospheric or other clouds soon obscured the voyager from of my body immediately exposed to its inexperiments, but simply to try, by the every eye, and all the world from his fluence were warm, almost to oppression, use of gas and ballast, to fall in with, and while the extremities endured the contrary take advantage of currents of air, so skil- The sensation of cold on entering this sensation of the most rigorous cold. The fully as to be wafted to a proposed desti-cloud caused Mr. S. to put on some ad- thermometer, in the shade, stood at 37, but nation In the latter case this was fully ditional clothing; and finding, from the exposed to the sun it rose to 75. accomplished, and its accomplishment distension of the balloon, that his elevaforms an era in the annals of aerostation more surprising than that of de Rozier, which the poet so beautifully paints : So on the cloudless air the intrepid Gaul Launched the vast concave of his floating ball. Journeying on high, the silken castle glides, Bright as a meteor through the azure tides; O'er towns, and towers, and temples, wins its way, Or mounts sublime and gilds the vault of day. eye. tion was greater than he intended, he the object of my destination full in view, my Having refreshed myself, and holding chief care was now to make the course as direct as possible, and for that purpose to keep the balloon steadily in the current of air which was rapidly wafting me to the coast of Wales, and that apparently to the southward of Holyhead; to effect this, I permitting small portions of the former to therefore frequently used the counteracting powers of the gas and ballast, at intervals escape, or casting over a part of the latter, that ventured near him—but when the light | kind. In private life, Mr. De Luc was much tizen." "I demand justice for your innocent and unfortunate fellow subject at the bar, and may you have for it a more lasting reward than the perishable crown which Rome gave Mr. De Luc has left, (says the Times news to him who saved in battle the life of a ci-paper, which has published a biography of Mr. De Luc, since the above was prepared,) to deplore their heavy loss, a son, now resident at Geneva, and a daughter, whose best praise is, that she has proved herself in every respect worthy of such a father, and the intensity of whose grief can be mitigated only by the cheering recollection of her tender assiduities to her venerable parent. Mr. De Luc has published a number of works connected with natural and sacred history. The following is the most perfect I list we can make out. Researches into the Modifications of the At mosphere, or Theory of Barometers and Ther mometers. 2 vols. 4to. 1772. Travels to the Mountains of Faucigny, in Sa- Narrative of several Excursions among the Letters, physical and moral, upon Mountains, Letters on some parts of Switzerland. 8vo. New Ideas on Meteorology. 2 vols. 8vo. 1787. 8vo. 1798. Letter to the Jewish Authors of a Memoir Bacon as he is. Letters on Christianity, addressed to M. Teller. 1801. Principles of Theology, &c. in answer to Dr. Teller's essay entitled "La plus ancienne Théodicée." 8vo. 1803. Correspondence between Teller and De Luc, 1803. fluides expansibles, précédée de deux Mémoires Introduction à la Physique Terrestre par les sur la nouvelle théorie chimique considérée sous différents points de vue. 8vo. 2 vol. 1813. Elementary Treatise upon the Electro-galvanic fluid. 8vo. 2 vols. Observations upon a work entitled, "Lithologie Atmosphérique." Annunciation of a work by J. A. Heimarus, upon the formation of the Globe. 8vo. Besides these works in French, Mr. De Luc has published in English: Geological Travels in the North of Europe. 8vo. 1810. Geological Travels in England. 2 vols. 8vo. 1811. Geological Travels in France, Switzerland, and Germany. 2 vols. 8vo. 1813. An Elementary Treatise on Geology, from the French MS. of J. A. De Luc, by the Rev. H. F. A. Delafitte, 8vo. 1809. Mr. De Luc also published essays in the Philosophical Transactions, and in the journals of other learned societies. SKETCHES OF SOCIETY. PARISIAN MANNERS. A FURNISHED HOTEL. "Dans cent ans, le monde subsistera encore en son entier; ce sera le même théâtre et les mêmes décorations: ce ne seront plus les mêmes acteurs." La Bruyere. Our capital doubtless possesses many brilliant advantages. But, as good and evil are always mingled together in this nether world, even Paris, as a place of residence, has its serious inconveniences. I shall not attempt to analyse them all, but will merely draw the attention of my readers to one of the thousand vexations to which the inhabitants of ancient Lutetia are exposed. JEAN ANDRE DE LUC, F.R.S. On the 8th instant, at his house in Park Street, Windsor, died J. A. De Luc, a Fellow of the Royal Society, at the patriarchal age of ninety years. This celebrated physician and venerable philosopher was born at Geneva, in 1726-7. He became professor of philosophy and geology at Gottingen; but being nominated to some literary office by our gracious Queen, he relinquished his German appointments, and settled in England. Besides his academic honours in this country, he was member of several foreign learned bodies; and corresponded with a number of the most distinguished scholars in Europe. Few individuals stand higher for the useful nature of their pursuits, nor many for the zeal and talent with which they have applied themselves to the acquisition of knowledge, important to their fellow creatures in this world and the world to come. M. de Luc devoted his long life to the study of geology and meteorology, with the view to explain the structure and composition of the earth; and, like the immortal Newton, his philosophical investigations only led him to the firmer conviction of the truth of the Holy Scriptures, which he defended with enthusiasm against the daring innovations of false principles, and insidious attacks of modern illumination. Not satisfied with researches in the best scientific publications extant, M. de Luc travelled over the greatest part of the Continent, to verify by experience and examination the Many streets in Paris bear the same name; opinions which the perusal of the highest 'It is well known that Bayle, Boerhaave, and this gives rise to everlasting blunders. But authorities induced him to adopt. He thus various other writers, who devoted their lives it likewise happens, that several furnished added experiment to theory; and it must to a profound study of nature, are of opinion hotels have adopted the same sign; and, as be acknowledged, to his honour, that the that the centre of the earth contains a mass of the distance between the one and the other science of geology, which has in our days lava, in a state of perpetual fusion; and some is frequently considerable, what useless trouassumed a rank apportioned to its value, is philosophers, from the influence which this in- ble and irreparable waste of time must redeeply indebted to his inquiries and disco-ternal heat may be supposed to exercise over sult to him who is misled by the similarity veries. His labours were incessant, and vegetation and the formation of minerals, have of denominations? learned men of all nations, as well as states-styled this ocean of flame a second sun. Various observations tend to support this men, and even sovereigns, were proud to render every assistance in his pursuits, to a have scarcely any power ten feet beneath the idea. In the first place, the rays of the sun person so beneficially and worthily employ-surface of the earth; every thing below that ed. His laudable anxiety to demonstrate depth is subject to one invariable temperature, the authenticity of the sacred writings, led namely, 48 degrees. Secondly, M. De Luc, him to the diligent analysis of the primitive who, on the 5th of June, 1778, during very fine organization of the globe, and the convul-weather, descended the mines of Hartz, to the sions which it has experienced. He has, by this course, been enabled to adduce many strong facts in corroboration of the Mosaic history; and all his works are of a tendency eminently moral and religious. For several years past, the infirmities of old age confined him to his apartments; but his mind continued active and vigorous till within nal fire, suppose that the waters of the sea are init the hypothesis of the existence of an intervery short period of his decease. His fa- continually filtered through their sandy bed; vorite pursuits occupied him to the end of and that, by coming in contact with this subhis career; and it may truly be said that he terranean furnace, they produce an agitation died at his post, arranging the observations in the liquefied matter which gives rise to vol-teur of the interesting or the ridiculous in he had made for the improvement of man-canic eruptions. a Substance (précis) of the Philosophy of Bacon. Abridgment of Principles and Facts concerning Cosmology and Geology. 8vo. 1802. depth of 1359 feet, found the air somewhat In the mines of Hungary, which are 500 fa when the workmen descend lower than 180 feet. (Morinus, de Locis subterraneis. Those who ad I happened last year to be charged with a commission to a certain Baron de Flattin, who left the country in the hope of making his fortune in the capital. I had been informed that he lodged at the Hotel de S.... in the Rue de Richelieu. From the precision of the address, I of course concluded that I should experience no difficulty in finding him. I called at the Hotel de Ș.... and, to my astonishment, the porter informed me that no Baron de Flattin was there, and that no such person had ever lodged in the house. A furnished hotel is without doubt one of the most amusing subjects of observation. The whimsical variety of persons, faces, humors, languages, occupations, and baggage, all under the same roof, present an inexhaustible fund of entertainment to the ama human character. out his information. tion. "The apartment on the opposite side of the staircase is engaged by a lady who came to Paris for her pleasure, and who fell sick the day after her arrival. The good lady will return home as soon as her health permits, after having seen the capital-from her chamber window. So much for her pleasure jaunt. I was led into this reflexion, on seeing a stopped before the door of the hotel. A house who presented the most distant trait tall thin gentleman in black descend the lady jumped out with a degree of precipi- of resemblance to the Baron. staircase with slow solemnity. His eyes tancy and agitation, which was readily ac- "The first floor," said she, "is occupied were carefully and consequentially fixed upon counted for by the accident she had so for- by a merchant from Lyons, who came to a little letter, bearing the ministerial seal. tunately escaped. Her appearance present- Paris on business. In some country-towns, I immediately recognized one of those ren-ed none of the formality of the gentleman however, all business is transacted at the dez-vous which expert petitioners so easily who had just departed; she was wrapped in theatre, and M. D- has not yet laid aside obtain, and which they regard as matters a loose pelisse, and a long English veil his provincial habits. He has chosen the of the most weighty importance. From the served at once to shield her countenance pit of the Opera as the centre of his comself-complacent smile of the serious-looking from the rays of the sun and the gaze of mercial relations. I suspect he has turned gentleman at the Hotel de S...., he was impertinent curiosity. She hastily entered his residence in Paris to a profitable account; evidently unaccustomed to receive favors of the hotel, and, without turning her head, for he at first intended to remain here only this kind. The master of the hotel told me half whispered to the porter...." The Colo- a week, and we have been honoured with that he had but lately arrived from the coun-nel"-being his relation, no doubt. From his company for the last three months. He try; but I could have guessed as much with the gracefulness of her deportment, the elas-is an extremely civil man, a friend to good ticity of her figure, the melodiousness of her order and good manners, and never fails to From the manner in which I gazed on this voice, which I was certain could only belong give us intimation when invitations oblige eccentric figure, the host probably thought to a young and pretty woman, and above all him to be out late. Two years ago, his lady I had mistaken his lodger for the Baron the turn of a pretty little foot, the only occupied the same apartments for about six whom I had come in quest of, and he pro- charm which the prudish coquetry of Ma- months, and we expect her here again whenceeded to give me the following whimsical dame.... permitted her to display; I could ever her husband returns to Lyons. account of him. "He is," said he, "one of not help congratulating the family of the those miserable beings for whom misfortune Colonel on possessing so charming a relashows a particular affection. He enjoyed an unimportant place in his province, which Having again assured me that the Baron he lost through the officious interference of de Flattin had never been a resident in the a friend who became his successor. He at Hotel de S...., the host referred me to his least expected to retire on a pension; but, wife, who he said kept an exact register of unluckily, he wanted eighteen days of the travellers, and could therefore furnish me necessary term of service. With a scanty with more correct information on the sub- "On the second floor we have an Englishsupply of cash, and heavily laden with let-ject of my enquiry. man"-" Your husband has already deters of recommendation, he set out for the Madame P.... who was some years scribed him to me"-" His neighbour is a capital, where his only acquaintance was a younger than her husband, was an agreea- country lawyer, who came to Paris to learn fellow collegian, whom he had not seen for ble-looking brunette; but fearing lest her the art of public speaking. Next to him is forty years, and who has not shown himself embonpoint might indiscreetly betray her age, a young lady, an extremely interesting creavery anxious to renew the intimacy which she endeavoured to maintain her pretensions ture, who possesses the most brilliant accomformerly subsisted between them. His whole to youth by imitating the follies of child-plishments and an amiable disposition. She time is occupied in making visits and pre- hood. Her dress was at least thirty years is an orphan. A young man, the captain of senting memorials to men in office, so that younger than she was. I asked for the Ba- a hussar regiment, who belongs to a distinsince his arrival in Paris, he has never laid ron de Flattin. "The Baron de Flattin?"guished family, has already lent her his aside his full dress suit of black and gilt repeated a man who was adjusting his cra- name, and intends shortly to give her his shoe-buckles. He has derived no advan-vat before a looking-glass, and whom I had hand. They are the prettiest couple you tage from his recommendations, except two not before perceived, "No such person has ever set eyes on-and their marriage will be fits of indigestion, and an appointment, lodged in this house during the three years be the first that was ever celebrated in my which he missed, from having received the notification a day too late. In spite of all his "No.6, on the third story is occupied by a baulks, he still entertains hopes of ultimate Colonel of Dragoons: he came to Paris for success, and frequently reminds me of exthe recovery of his health, and never stirs amples which, I confess, are not calculated out, except in the evening: he cannot, howto discourage him. On arriving here, he ever, reasonably complain of ennui during hired an expensive suite of apartments on I have since learned that this man con- the day time; for he receives more visitors the second floor, but knowing the state of stitutes a portion of the household furniture; than all the rest of the lodgers in the house. his finances, I prevailed on him to resign in which quality he had previously belonged In No. 7, is an old lady, who is suing for a them to a rich English tradesman, to whom to two different hotel-keepers. Valentin divorce, under pretence that she can no a six months' residence in Paris had been Dorcey, who was once a gentleman, both longer live with a man to whom she has prescribed as a cure for the spleen. This by education and fortune, still retains some been married for forty-two years. No. 8, is Englishman has lodged here about four remnants of the polished manners which he at present vacant. A melancholy event days. He is a man who spends a consider-acquired in the days of his prosperity, lately took place in this hotel. You shall able portion of his fortune in fits of passion. although reduced to the necessity of paying hear it. A young gentleman, the son of a I have known him pay two or three large for his board and lodging by complaisance rich farmer in the neighbourhood of Angou sums of money for the mere gratification of and bon-mots. He has travelled through lême, lately came to reside here. His family being ill-humoured." every part of France, and maintains a cor- had sent him to Paris to finish his educa that I have resided in it." Without waiting house. At this moment the ceremonious gentle- respondence with several distinguished in- tion. The unfortunate young man, who was man again passed by; he bowed to the host, dividuals in the principal cities of the king- a slave to a fatal passion for gaming, one who kindly furnished him with an opportu- dom. He keeps a correct list of the depar- evening lost a considerable sum of money nity of letting us know that the minister ture and arrival of travellers whom he brings at play, and, in a fit of phrenzy, committed expected him at eleven o'clock precisely; as lodgers to the Hotel de S.... It costs suicide! This business has proved a serious and, as if fearing that we had not perfectly him nothing to preserve the good graces of loss to us," added Madame P.... with a sigh, understood him, he, in a loud tone, ordered Madame, except a few delicate civilities-" for I have never yet had the heart to lodge the driver of a fiacre which was standing at writing a periodical sonnet on her birth-day, any body in the apartment." the door, to proceed speedily to His Excel- &c. lency's the Minister ...... The fiacre drove off, and in its hurry nearly upset a buggy which at that moment Madame P... good-naturedly gave me the following description of her lodgers, to prove that there was no individual in her The dear M. Dorcey" now entered, preceded by a porter bearing a trunk, and with a young man leaning on his arm. "This," said he," is the son of my old and respected |