and after crying very prettily, she exclaimed, "Oh, the
_barbare_, he has taken away my son--he has ruined my concert which I
had fixed for Thursday--we were to have had such music!--and Jule, my
son, was to have sung; but Jule is gone, perhaps to----_Oh, mon Dieu!
mon Dieu!_--and I had laid out three hundred pounds in repairing my
houses at Marseilles, and not one of them will now be let--and I had
engaged Cipre (a fiddler), for Thursday; and we should have been so
happy."--But this is a most extraordinary episode to introduce when
talking of the state of religion.

Some measures taken latterly by the King, seem to have been but ill
received by the French, and they then shewed how little attention they
were inclined to pay to religious restraints, which were at variance
with their interests and their pleasures: I allude to the shutting of
the theatres and the shops on Sunday. Perhaps, considering the nature of
their religion, and the long habit which had sanctioned the devoting of
this day to amusement, the measure was too hasty. Certain it is, that
neither this measure, nor the celebration of the death of Louis XVI. did
any good to the Bourbon cause. The last could not fail to awaken many
disagreeable feelings of remorse and of shame: It was a kind of
punishment to all who had in any way joined in that horrid event. At
Aix, the solemn ceremony was repeatedly interrupted by the noise of the
military. We remarked one man in particular, who continued laughing,
and beating his musket on the ground. On leaving the church, our
landlord told us, he was one of those who had led one of the Marseilles
bands at that time; and that there were in that small community, who had
assembled in church, more than five or six others of the same
description. How many of these men must there have been in all France
whose feelings, long laid asleep, were awakened by such a ceremony!

_ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE_.

NAPOLEON'S greatest ambition was to inter-meddle with everything in the
kingdom. With most of the changes which his restless spirit has
produced, the French have no great reason to be satisfied; but all
agree, that with regard to the administration of justice, and the
courts, for the trial of civil suits in France, the alterations which he
has introduced, have been ultimately of essential benefit to the
country. Previous to his accession to the government, the sources of
equity were universally contaminated, and the influence o