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PARIS.
Russians , Austrians, Prussians , and Cos sacks *, were all mingled in a chaoticmass, without comfort, without regularity—dirty, ill-dressed, fatigued, hot, a'nd hur-ried. Extricating myself as quickly aspossible from this scene of confusion, Idrove to the hotel to which I was recom-mended. It was full, and accident tookme into an indifferent one, where themarble slabs, silk furniture, gilt tables andmirrors, but ill accorded with the filthybrick floors, and other uncomfortable ap-pearances. Such unfavorable ideas had Iof Paris at first sight, that nothing couldhave reconciled me to the thought of stay-ing a month there, but the delightful an-ticipation of viewing new scenes, contem-plating new characters, and forming myown opinions upon matters which hithertoI knew only by. report. At this timeit was full of interest. The entranceof a Sovereign, so long a stranger to hisnative land; the presence of the three il-lustrious monarchs who had achieved the