which a young girl of eighteen years of age fell a victim to the
    ignorance of the pilot.  The vessel made a false tack between Hode
    and Tancarville, and running upon a bank, was upset in an instant. 
    An English vessel once shared the same calamity.  A thick fog suddenly
    came on, when the sloop ran upon a bank near the Nez de Tancarville,
    and the crew had just time to throw themselves into the boat and
    escape destruction.  The next morning, so sudden and so decisive was
    the change wrought by the sand and current, that, of the sloop, there
    remained, at ebb-tide, only ten feet of her mast visible!  It appears
    that the Quillebois, owing to their detached situation, and their
    peculiar occupations, speak a very barbarous French.  They have a sort
    of sing-song method of pronunciation; and the g and j are
    strangely perverted by them.  Consult the memoir here referred to;
    which occupies forty octavo pages:  and which forms a sequel to a
    previous communication (in 1810) “upon the Topography and Medical
    properties of Quillebeuf and its adjacent parts.”  The author is M.
    Boismare.  His exordium is a specimen of the very worst possible taste
    in composition.  One would suppose it to be a prelude to an account of
    the discovery of another America!

[89] ["The Roman Circus (says M. Licquet) is now departmental property. 
    Many excavations have already taken place under the directions of
    Mons. Le Baron de Vanssay, the present Prefect of the Department.  The
    most happy results may be anticipated.  It was in a neighbouring
    property that an ANTIQUE BRONZE GILT STATUE, of the size of life, was
    lately found,” vol. i. 194.  Of this statue, Mr. Samuel Woodburn, (with
    that spirit of liberality and love of art which have uniformly
    characterised his purchases) became the Owner.  The sum advanced for it
    was very considerable; but, in one sense, Mr. W. may be said to have
    stood as the Representative of his country; for the French Government
    declining to give the Proprietor the sum which he asked, Mr. Woodburn
    purchased it—­solely with the view of depositing it, on the same terms
    of purchase, in a NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, of which the bequest of Mr.
    Payne Knight’s ancient bronzes and coins, and the purchase of Mr.
    Angerstein’s pictures, might be supposed to lay the foundation.

This statue was accordingly brought over to England, and freely exhibited to the curious admirers of ancient art.  It is the figure of an APOLLO—­the left arm, extended to hold the lyre, being mutilated.  A portion of the limbs is also mutilated; but the torso, head and legs, are entire:  and are, of their kind, of the highest class of art.  Overtures were made for its purchase by government.  The Trustees