discourse, more worthy of a raving Jesuit than of a Protestant minister, was deservedly scouted by the inhabitants of Lausanne; but this did not hinder poor Mlle Michaud from being much affected at the opprobrious tirade directed against a set of men, among whom her father bore a conspicuous part, and who acted from patriotic motives.  I must not omit to state that in this discourse M. Levade interwove some hyperbolical compliments towards the young Prince of Sweden, who attended the service that morning.  He told him that the eyes of all Europe were fixed upon him, and that Providence had him under his especial care.

Now the following is the character of M. Levade.[72] He is a time-serving, meddling priest, and a most flagrant adulator of the powers that be.  He thinks that by declaiming against the French Revolution, and against Voltaire and Rousseau, that he will get into favor with the great people who pass thro’ Lausanne, with the French and English Government adherents, and with the great Tory families of England.  No considerable personage ever passes through Lausanne, but Mr Levade is the first to make him a visit; and no rich or noble English family arrives with whom he does not ingratiate himself, and he is not sparing of his adulations.  This mode of procedure has been a very profitable concern to him, as he has received a vast number of presents, and several valuable legacies, besides securing a number of pupils among the English families, that come or that have been here.  He is in short a thorough parasite and time server, in every sense of the word.  This adulation of the Bourbon family in his sermon, besides the meanness of it, was highly misplaced, coming from the mouth of a Protestant minister, and somebody exclaimed on leaving the Church:  “Que doit-on penser d’un ministre protestant du Canton de Vaud, qui prodigue des louanges a une famille qui a ete l’ennemie acharnee de l’Elise reformee, et qui a persecute les protestants d’une maniere si atroce?” But Mr Levade (tho’ to the honor of the clergymen of the Canton de Vaud he is singular among them), yet he has many persons who perfectly resemble him among the members of the Church of England, and who are as eager to support despotism and to crush liberty as any disciple of Loyola or any Janissary of the Grand Signor.  The other Protestant ministers of this Canton were highly indignant at this sermon; in fact, it was the first time in this city that the House of God had been profaned by the introduction of political subjects into a religious discourse.  This sermon was the common topic of conversation for many days after.

CHAMBERY, 2d August.

I left Lausanne for Geneva on 28 July.  I stopped at Nyon to pay a visit to Mme Duthon, with whom I became acquainted at Paris.  I dined with her and passed a most agreeable day.  Her talents are of the first order, and she is as great an enthusiast for the German language and litterature as myself, besides being well versed in Italian.  She had a female relation with her.  We took a boat after dinner to navigate the lake, and we visited the Chateau and domains of Joseph Napoleon.  The next day I proceeded to Geneva.