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deliverance of Europe ; the late presenceof a despot—all conspired to confuse theimagination. At every step the most in-teresting reflections were excited by theobjects which presented themselves. Mag-nificent edifices begun by Napoleon andleft unfinished “ naked subjects to theweeping winds,” monuments of a glorypast! Churches celebrated for revolu-tionary fury, and bridges for sanguinarymurders. On all sides may be traced thehideous features of despotism. The dissi-pation, the shews and spectacles in whichthe people take so much delight, are butfutile efforts to forget their degradation:every-where is there an appearance ofgilded slavery—dancing gaiety—and splen-did melancholy.
After brushing off the dust of.the jour-ney, 1 contented myself the first evening' v 'th taking a ramble in that epitome ofthe metropolis, the Palais Roy ale , andfrom thence through the delightful gardensof the Thuilleri es back to my hotel, whereI amply made up for the lack of two nights’n