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RETURN OF TRANQUILLITY. CHAP. XXIY.

gold and silver utensils and ornaments, but theapprehensions of the rest of Europe from the am-bitious tendency of France communicated littlefeeling of security to the continental kingdoms.It was not till the fall of the empire and the esta-blishment of general tranquillity that the coinwhich had been borrowed from the plate was inany great measure restored to its former use.

It would be anticipating the subject of a futurechapter to do more than remark that the establish-ment of the peace of 1815, and the state of generalsecurity and tranquillity which followed it, havetogether had the effect of withdrawing from coinand applying to luxury much of the preciousmetals.