. The journal of a British chaplain in Paris during the peace negotiations of 1801-2 from the unpublished ms.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. ine collectionof books once the Royal Library. On the firstfloor five large rooms contain 300000 one of these rooms is a great piece of rock-work composed I believe of Bronze dor. Itis surmounted by a Pegasus and many allegoricalfigures. On different parts of it are placed littlestatues of the French Poets. It is called LeParnasse Frangais. In another apartment ar
. The journal of a British chaplain in Paris during the peace negotiations of 1801-2 from the unpublished ms.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. ine collectionof books once the Royal Library. On the firstfloor five large rooms contain 300000 one of these rooms is a great piece of rock-work composed I believe of Bronze dor. Itis surmounted by a Pegasus and many allegoricalfigures. On different parts of it are placed littlestatues of the French Poets. It is called LeParnasse Frangais. In another apartment aretwo globes, which are 16 or 18 feet in gallery of formerly Cardinal Mazarinsand a room or two adjoining contain 80000 volsof in various languages. There is a finecabinet of medals, and a collection of antiquitieschiefly Egyptian. I could obtain no cataloguesof them. Another apartment is occupied by acollection of prints arranged in 5000 asked for one mentioned by Gilpin, a head ofour Saviour beautifully engraved in one spiralline, which begins at the tip of the nose and itwas produced in a minute. This establishmentis open to the public several days in every Decade. K^onseil. w^ /... ^{/j^ i/, yje.^
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