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gogue is very large; and it being theirsabbath, we had an opportunity of seeingit to perfection. It appeared more like anassembly of merchants who met on busi-ness, than of men who relinquished theconcerns of this world to provide for thoseof a better.

The Stadt -house or Palais Royal is verymagnificent, both in its exterior architec-ture, and its interior decorations. Thegrand saloon is of immense dimensions,richly hung with crimson silk, and velvet,and lighted by a profusion of elegantchandeliers. The apartments are all upona large scale, and very numerous. In theupper part is a collection of paintings,many of them modern, and containing no-thing remarkable. In the evening wemade a party to the French theatre, which,like most of those on the continent, is veryindifferent, but the acting was tolerablygood. The town being so crowded, andthe streets in general narrow, and withoutcanals, has not that airy and cleanly ap-pearance which characterizes most of the