Diss haus steht in Gottes Hand
      Wird zu deu freud’gen kindern gennant.

    which he translates thus: 

      Cette maison; dans la main de Dieu,
      S’appelle aux enfans bien joyeux.

It should seem, therefore, (continues Hermann) that this was one of the houses in which a public officer attended, to keep order, prevent quarrels, and exact municipal rights.  The book, in which the receipt of this tax was entered, existed during the time of the Revolution, and is thought to be yet in existence.  Hermann, vol. i. p. 156.

[227] See p. 401 ante.

[228] For the English metrical version I am indebted to “an old hand at
    these matters.”

[229] Since the publication of this Tour, I have received several pleasant
    and thoroughly friendly letters from the above excellent Individual: 
    and I could scarcely forgive myself if I omitted this opportunity of
    annexing his autograph:—­as a worthy companion to those which have
    preceded it.

    [Autograph:  Schweighaeuser]

[230] [Madame Francs, whose kind and liberal conduct towards me can never
    be forgotten, has now herself become the subject of a monumental
    effigy.  She DIED (as I learn) in the year 1826.]

END OF VOL.  II.

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