ve yet seen in painting or in engraving.

It is right however that you should know, that, in the Tribunal for the
determination of commercial causes, there sits a very respectable Bench of
Judges: among whom I recognised one that had perfectly the figure, air, and
countenance, of an Englishman. On enquiry of my guide, I found my
supposition verified. He _was_ an Englishman; but had been thirty years a
resident in _Rouen_. The judicial costume is appropriate in every respect;
but I could not help smiling, the other morning, upon meeting my friend the
judge, standing before the door of his house, in the open street--with a
hairy cap on--leisurely smoking his pipe--And wherein consisted the harm of
such a _delassement_?

[61] [I apprehend this custom to be prevalent in fortified towns:--as
Rouen _formerly_ was--and as I found such custom to obtain at the
present day, at Strasbourg. Mons. Licquet says that the allusion to
the curfew--or _couvre-feu_--as appears in the previous
edition--and which the reader well knows was established by the
Conqueror with us--was no particular badge of the slavery of the
English. It had been _previously_ established by William in NORMANDY.
Millot is referred to as the authority.]

[62] _the famous_ JEANNE D'ARC.] Goube, in the second volume of his
_Histoire du Duche de Normandie_, has devoted several spiritedly
written pages to an account of the trial and execution of this
heroine. Her history is pretty well known to the English--from
earliest youth. Goube says that her mode of death had been completely
prejudged; for that, previously to the sentence being passed, they
began to erect "a scaffold of plaster, so raised, that the flames
could not at first reach her--and she was in consequence consumed by a
slow fire: her tortures being long and horrible." Hume has been rather
too brief: but he judiciously observes that the conduct of the Duke of
Bedford "was equally barbarous and dishonourable." Indeed it were
difficult to pronounce which is entitled to the greatest
abhorrence--the imbecility of Charles VII. the baseness of John of
Luxembourg, or the treachery of the Regent Bedford?

The _identical_ spot on which she suffered is not now visible,
according to Millin; that place having been occupied by the late
_Marche des Veaux_. It was however not half a stone's throw from the
site of the presen