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stupendous fortifications through which wepassed, ditch after ditch, rampart succeed-ing rampart, and mounds of earth sur-mounted by pallisadoes, defended the ap-proach to the walls in every direction, uponwhich were six hundred pieces of cannonmounted in various parts.

Passing along a fine open street, called thePlace de Mer, we stopped at Le GrandLaboureur, and, 1 believe, were almost thefirst Englishmen who had entered, for thepopulace w ould not allow us to retain thewhite cockade which we wore, nor eventhe orange one which accompanied it; notseeming quite reconciled to the new systemof things, although delighted at the ideaof once more obtaining a free intercoursewith the English . The basins here aremagnificent, and fully competent to holdforty sail of the line. The arsenal andall the public works are upon a grandscale, and great improvements were goingon by order of Napoleon , whose publicworks in this, and in every part of the* ex-tensive country which he governed, were