The Sun.
London, England, 1814-07-21 00:00:00

JOURNAL OF A 'TRIP TO PARIS.

(No: X IX.)

A stranger finds considerable difticritti

ti iring his, way about ,Paris from various causes,
' thdttgh. it is but justice to the people to say., tliat
they not only shot a readiness, hut an anxiety, to
give all the inrorthation possible to set you right. •
One of the difficulties- which .pntiles an English-
man at first is, however, very readily surmounted;
it arises otit of the mode of numbering the houses,
which is not done consecutively all along,one side
ctf
a-street as in LoudOrt, but,. if I may use the
transVerseiy, or zigzag, that is, No. lon
the right hand, and,NO. 2 on.the left, and so on
with 3,4, 5,6, to the end. But the chief incon-
veniency in this respect is found in the names of.
the streets themselves. These have undergone
several mutations : there are the ancient mthres,
the revolutionary names, theimperial names, and,
last of all, the new alteration at this moment
back again to the Royal Bourbon Nomenclature.
Now, though.,a Parisian Citizen may know very
well, for example, that the Place Louis Quiuze,
the Place de la Revolution, and the Place
de la Concorde, are one and the same place-
4hat the 'Rae Napoleon and the Rue de Loniis
le Grand' are tlie same street—that the 'Place
des Vosges (so finely fortified by 13UONAPARTE) is
'rci-decant Place Royale (never fortified -by a
King of France)---,that the PlaceDessaix. is syno-
Dymous to the Plac, Dauphine—that .the Palais
Bourbon' is also the Palais du Corps Legislatif—
and a thou Sand Other- changes of-this kind, the
variety of appellations indifferently given are very
troublesome to those unacquainted by custom
with this confusion of opposite names.'
In my last, I noticed all the Bridged' upon the
Seine, but there are still a number of objeets.on,
. and adjoining the River, which deserve a travel=
ler's attention. Qne of the cargoes floating on
the Seine, in the greatest quantity, is of a kind
little seen upon the Thames, viz. charcoal ; of
which htindreds of great lighters, enlarged with
wickerwork sides, are moored off every bridge
and bank. On the Pont Neuf, the .Statue of
nENRI I.V. Which once adorned it, had been

thrown •down during the tempestuous times
through which France has passed ; and,BuowA.
rARTE, ever identifying himself with the coun-
try, had made extensive preparations for erecting
a Military Obelisk to the honour of the French
'arms, or,: in Other words, to his own ambitious
glory. This design, however, in turn, gives Way
to the happy course which events have recently
taken, and HEN'ni IV. is to be restored to his
commanding station on the centre arch of hisan-
cient edifice. Passing a little way np the-river,
I observed a small building liked neat Porter's
-Lodge,—it was open, and many persons going in
and coming out. Curiosity made me one of-their
number, and I was a. good deaL shocked with the
•sight which presented itself to, me on -entering.7—
This building is called the Monte, and in one re-
spect answers the purposes of our watch-
hotises and bone-houses ; for it is the universal
depository of all dead bodies' found unowned
about this populous city. It is, therefore; a very
nieful, though a very'disgusting place. The

corpses are eicposed during three days, at the
end of which time, if they- have not been
recognized, and taken away by the relatives
or friendS of the deceased, they are car-
ried off by the Police, and buried in, the common
burying-ground with very little ceremony. There
were three bodies lying to be claimed at the time
saw the Morne-7-on.e, a very pov,werful-looking
man, who bad been drowned ; another, who had
cut his throat ; and the third without any deci-
sive proofs of the manner in which he came by
bis,death. They were, as the custom is; exposed
naked, with a small covering over their middle,
on inclined fratues:Of wood, which 'stood witkin
an iron railing ; their clothes being hung up on
pegs over their heads. The drowned man ap-
peared from his habiliments to be a Russian gre-:.
nadier—the Suicide was a most horrible looking
object. I was glad to hurry out of the place,.knd
wanted a little Tau -de vie to . restore my nerves,
which' were shaken by this unexpected and dis-
agreeable sight. •
'Moving about most erratically, as I put in rely
Claim to do at the beginning of our correspond-
ence, 1 take leave to transport you front this
gloomy abode to the Opera Condone, which I
visited after dining at VEaY's, in the Palais Royal.
This Theatre is situated in the Rut F6ydeau, and
is somewhat more a-kin (though superior),-to the
summer anrusenrents at the Lyceum, than to ally
other of our London Theatres. It is devcited .to
represesntations of, common life 'in Operas, of
which the music is not surpassed,' eithei
position 'or execution, by any public place
in PariS. There is nothing tragic in its

pieces, nor 'any thing more serious .than