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that they really have paid the full Vahie for their
acquisitions; and if they could not prove it, which
few ears; restore to &Tering humanity, what
avidity, if net cruelty, has too long enjoyed. The
Hospital and the College of Sens were sold to the
same person for 500,000 livres in assignats, which,
in cash, amounted not to 50 louis (501.), though the
buildings of the latter alone cost the Jesuits, in
1766, 1,200,000 livres (50,0001.). The college of
Harcourt here sold for 200,000 Byres in assignats,
which made then 2ti louis (ea) in cash; and the
bookseller who bought it, receives now in rents, for
the lodgings he letts nut of this extensive building,
15,000 livres (6831.),though he occupies a third him-
self, for his family and for his warehouses. The hotel
of the Bishop at Metz, and the hospital connected
with it, were sold together for the same sum in assig.
nats, worth the same sum in cash, and are changed
into one of the principal inns at Metz, where the pur-
chaser has made a great fortune. We could mention
numerous others, who could have no more reason to
complain, were Government to oblige them to restore
to the poor what is due to the poor, and which our
humane and charitable ancestors intended for the
instruction, consolation, and relief of the poor.—
Such a generous a& on the part of our generous Em-
peror would increase future donators.We have heard
of many persons in affluence, who, for fear of the in-
steialio of human s, dispose of their superfl sities
to strangers, who thank them, rather than to be-
queathe them to national institutions, which, at some
distant period, may again be called national property.
This would not he the CAW, were the former put-
chasers of hospitals, asvla, colleges, &c co n-
manded to make a restoration.— tweet des De.
.frnseurs.)

The labours for the ceremony of the coronation
are carried on with the greatest aftivity ; workmen
are now pulling down the Chapter of Notre Dame,
and several houses contiguous to that old edifice,
which concealed the Lam the Metropolitan church,
and obstruaed the striking view of a piece of archi•
teeture remarkable for its boldness and antiquity.
From the Parvis to the Port de la Cite, a very large
circular apace is to be opened, capable of containing
the different military corps, and a part of the retinue
which cannot be present at the interior ceremonies
of the coronation. Similar demoli:ions will enlarge
the Place de Parvis, as far as the new portal of the
Hotel Dieu, and will continue it as far as the
A rchevcche.

Workmen are labouring with the same celerity on
the inside of the church of Notre Dame; rows ef
benches are rising iu every past of it. '1 he large
iron railing of the choir, and the tw•o altars, w:licit
were on the right and left, have disappeared. The
entrance i ~to the c.usir is enlarged. Alcoves are
established in it, on which the Members of the prin
cipal Orc:era of the Empire will be seated ; they
are raised above the stalls in such a manner, that
these m..ster-pieces of sculpture will suffer no
injury.

Gre: `reparation are making a-la-Greve in the
C.harro-de-Man for the fetes of the coronation. An
imme..se wooden hall is construaing in the Pace de
Greve.