Juvenal has a humourous allusion to Lyons when he says in his 44th line of 1st Satyr: Ut " et sic palleat Aut Lugdunensem rhetor dicturus ad aram." (and turn pale like an orator about to speak in public at Lyons.) which alludes to a custom, instituted by Caligula, among the Lyonese, of a contest between orators, both in Greek, and Latin, when those who were worsted were compelled to reward those by whom they were surpassed; while, in certain cases, the vanquished orators might take the agreeable preference of being either thrashed, or ducked! At five the next morning we started for Paris, taking the route of Moulins, Montargis, and Fontainbleau, and accomplishing the journey in three days. At Paris neither the Louvre, nor the Luxem. bourg were to be seen; the former being closed in preparing for the Triennial Exhibition of the Arts, Produce, and Manufactures of France. The promenade of Longchamps was very brilliant, and the equipages most dashing, but my intention, during the very few days I staid at Paris, was rather to recruit after much fatigue than to explore new sights, or to revisit old ones. The only gallery of art I saw was that of a distinguished French professor, Regnault, who avows 396 Return to England. that his chief pleasure is the delineation of feminine beauty, and whose pictures are almost all of this character. The very large one at present occupying his time and study, represents Socrates between Vice and Virtue; and although I cannot, speaking impartially, admire all that Regnault paints, yet certainly he has here succeeded in depicting the most exquisite, and voluptuous female beauty, and which when courting man, as here she does, requires an almost more than mortal effort, or, at least, nothing less than the virtues of Socrates to fly from. Two, or three plays by night, and two, or three lounges by day, were all that, in my impatience to reach Old England, sufficed to fill the now idle hours; curiosity had been feasted; science had been gratified; distant wonders had been explored; and I looked upon all other, and nearer objects with that comparative listlessness, and indifference so natural to the human mind when engrossed by the one hope, and approaching certainty of reaching home after long absence. Thus feeling, I hurried to secure my place in the Calais Diligence, which journey, by the bye, occupies but about half the time it used before the late frequent passage of the English into France: I reached that port in thirty hours; crossed the channel next morning by the Rob Roy, Steam Packet, which effected the voyage in three hours and a quarter:-sprung joyfully upon my native land, the only land of liberty, and freedom; and in a very few hours reached the consummation of all my wishes :-Home. INDEX. Adrian's Mausoleum, i. 428—Villa, remains of, ii. 201. Alaric, siege of Rome by, i. 361. Alban Lake, ii. 215. Albano, ii. 44. Albany, Countess of, i. 272. Albulean Lake, ii. 199. Album at Montanvert, extracts from, i. 96. Alfieri, his tomb, i. 256. Alpes, Jardin des, i. 89. Amphitheatre, remains of, at Lucca, i. 207-Vespasian's, at Ancona, ii. 275-History, ib.-Trajan's Arch, ib.-Mole, 276 Angelo Michael, Alto Rilievo by, i. 182-his Tomb, 255-his Animals, their merits and value, i. 29-Anecdote of a Lion Anthony, St., singular festival of, ii. 225-his Sermon to Annibal, defeat of, at Thrasymene, ii. 260. Antiquities: Fæsulæ, i. 227-Bronzes, &c. in the gallery at |