appearance, and had ample leisure to survey the portraits of the marshals of France, with which the apartment is decorated, as well as with paintings representing many of Buonaparte’s victories.  His Majesty appeared to be in excellent health, and received with much affability several papers which were handed to him, and which he gave to a gentleman in waiting.  He was greeted repeatedly by cries of Vive le Roi! and there is no doubt that by far the most respectable portion of the French sincerely wish him prosperity.  I trust they may prove sufficiently strong to keep under those, who I fear are at least as numerous a class, and who have not learned, by the experience of so many years of confusion, to value the blessings of tranquillity when they have at last obtained it, attended with the advantages of a mild government.

I believe it is agreed by all that the King has a good heart.  His regard for England, which has done so much for his family, is highly to his honour; and I hear he testifies it upon all occasions.  Lately, at a consultation of his physicians, one of them having said he feared a long residence in a damp climate, had contributed to increase the attacks of the gout, the King interrupted him by saying, “Ah!  Monsieur P——­, ne dites pas du mal d’Angleterre.”  The conduct of his Majesty, since his restoration to the crown of his ancestors, proves him not to be deficient in either ability or resolution; and there perhaps never was a period which called for a greater exertion of both than the present.  The other day Paris was thrown into considerable alarm by the arrival of intelligence from Nevers, that the garrison there had declared for Buonaparte.  In consequence every precaution was resorted to on the part of government, and the guards in Paris were doubled; but happily nothing occurred to disturb the public tranquillity.  The number of discontented spirits which the Revolution has left afloat, and which it would not require any very considerable share of artifice to raise against any government, will require for a long time the exertion of the utmost vigilance on the part of the present administration.  Louis might have been addressed with propriety, on his arrival in France, in the admonitory words of Galba to Piso: 

     “Imperaturus es hominibus, qui nec totam servitutem pati possunt
     nec totam libertatem.”

On my departure from the Tuilleries my friend conducted me to a famous glass manufactory, where I saw several mirrors of very large dimensions, and also a staircase of glass, which had a splendid effect, and was the first thing of the kind I had ever seen.  The balustrades were of glass, supported by steel, and had a particularly handsome appearance.  The number of theatres in Paris have of late years much increased, and amount at present to eight or ten.  The Opera Italien is justly celebrated as the best in Europe; but I received more entertainment at the Theatre Francois,