The Sun.
London, England, 1802-09-22 00:00:00

the•Cuisthe was indittrent, and the Wines
very bad; and excessively dear. To anjr one who
' remembers Paris in the days of Yore, the contrast
is Striking, and tinfavourable:;--ihe tirimnity
the place is destroyed, the vigilance of-the Police
unpleasantly increased, Sentinefs and a Military
tone preyail every where; if on a softie froM a
public place, you happen to lose your party, or mis-
take the door of their exit, you are not likely to
regain them, for the sentinel bars your re-entrance,
and. without being military, your- ears. are COll.
assailed by etn,ne passe pas on
//entre pas id." .

The talk of the day, or " le son 'ire'Gerieral
ANp oss t's carriages prepared fut.llia nihas434 the
Treaty of Commerce, the heavy Taxes, TIVIr.-Yox's
dinners with the FIRST CONSUL, and the new
Opera of Tamerlane, by WINTER, the celebrated
German Composer, whose versatility of talent em-
braces,. it seems, German, Fr:nch, Italian, and pro-
bably English style of composition.
Having thus given you an idea of coming to this
pike, a little sketch of residence at it, it is but
just to give you some hints as to the mode of get-
ting away from it. I should have mentioned, that
on arriving it is necessary to shew yourself at the
PrefeCture de la Police, there to deposit your Passport,
and to receive in return a Departmental Licenc'e
This is easy`..—bur, alas ! when 'you wish to depart,
the Police seems to unite with your Aubergiste,,k
the general wish to retain you. A Peti-riOn is to,bei,,
presented to the PrefeCt for permission to have a
Passport ; this, countersigned at the Bureau .des
Passports, is to be forwarded, 4nd you then have ve•to
hunt down the precious document, from the Prefec.:
ture to the Bureau du Ministre; to the BUrea WEn:.
registrenient, to the Secretariat General, to the
Ministre de Police, back to the Prefetture, -where
it is finally signed and sealed. . During this pere",
grination, the mistakes made by the. Clerkf,. the
variety of formulae, the occasional mistakes of lan-

guage,. or want of precise comprehension on the
part of Strangers,. frequently sends you backwards
and forwards four or five times to the same place,
so that'you can seldom obtain this ,Passport under
two or three days; 4tid where the Parties '4llv* not
been well conversant with the FreiielillopSagWitlie
prorraetion, has. been as far as -eight oricen:d4,,, to
the great joy of the Maitre d'Hotel, who
~.being.
sure that you will stay no longer than yoti must,.
makes as much of you as he cein-,—and-without this
Passport, no horae from the Post, no' carriages to
be hired—in short;.yonare more fixed than a Sta_.
tue in a Square, for thy have been found very
inoveable commodities. •

The excessive heat of the weather has absolutely
parched the, leavgs'on the trees, destroyed all the
verdure, and completely dried • the giapes on the
vine in many of the wine Countries, so that the
produce in that article is estimated at yn -excee-ding
IoW crop. Sgeculators think that this "circumstance
may retard the Treaty of Commerce ; as the great
trade to France, is expelled to resule from the
Wines, it mill be useless if they have none to furnish.