The Sun. — 1814-07-21 (London, England)

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 Englishman 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 inconveniency 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 place4hat 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 synoDymous 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 country, 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 hisancient 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 respect answers the purposes of our watchhotises 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 carried 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 decisive 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 appeared 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 disagreeable sight. • 'Moving about most erratically, as I put in rely Claim to do at the beginning of our correspondence, 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