. The journal of a British chaplain in Paris during the peace negotiations of 1801-2 from the unpublished ms. of the Revd. Dawson Warren, M. A., unofficially attached to the diplomatic mission of Mr. Francis James Jackson. ird of its valuebefore it was restored to her, because the name ofone of her three grandsons was inserted in the listof emigrants. At the return of Emigrants when their nameswere duly erased from the lists of proscription, itwas at first usual to restore to them such parts oftheir property as might remain in the hands ofGovernment particularly forest lands which werenever so
. The journal of a British chaplain in Paris during the peace negotiations of 1801-2 from the unpublished ms. of the Revd. Dawson Warren, M. A., unofficially attached to the diplomatic mission of Mr. Francis James Jackson. ird of its valuebefore it was restored to her, because the name ofone of her three grandsons was inserted in the listof emigrants. At the return of Emigrants when their nameswere duly erased from the lists of proscription, itwas at first usual to restore to them such parts oftheir property as might remain in the hands ofGovernment particularly forest lands which werenever sold but called National Domains. Anedict has passed within the last six months tostop all restitution. Frenchmen seem to have no idea of the natureeither of Liberty or of Justice, that is of their realprinciples. One of them who considered such lawsas I have just mentioned as nothing extraordinaryor unreasonable, was struck with horror at thesight of the stamp in my hat, for which as I toldhim, I had been compelled to pay two shillings ;and he exclaimed with great vehemence Ou estvotre Liberte tant vantee ? His indignationmust have proceeded from some misapprehensionwhich I could not rectify, for my explanation that. D < <U •J w C-i <o HO o 0^ MY PARIS JOURNAL 55 the English People laid that tax upon themselvesby their own representatives in Parliament did notsatisfy him in the least, but he congratulated him-self upon living in a land of Freedom and Justice. After hearing the conclusion of the WidowsTrial we went into the Hall where the unfortunateQueen of France Marie Antoinette was arraignedand condemned. A Statue of the Genius of theRepublic with a spear and Cap of Liberty is placedat one end, while seats for the Judges and Benchesfor the Counsel etc occupy the other. This is nowused as the Court of Criminal Justice. The Palaisde Justice is a handsome Building, formerly aRoyal Palace, but had been used for a long timeeither by the Parliaments of Paris or by some o
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