"Indeed the whole world may be said to be like a house full of smoke, which "To live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery."-Hooker. "Yet freedom-yet thy banner, torn, but flying Milton. Baltimore: PUBLISHED BY EDWARD J. COALE. JOHN D. TOY, PRINTER. BETTISH DISTRICT OF MARYLAND, TO WIT: BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the twenty-third day of April, in the forty-seventh year of the independence of the United States of America, William C. Somerville, of the said District, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit: "Letters from Paris, on the causes and consequences of the French revolution By William C. Somerville. Indeed the whole world may be said to be like a house full of smoke, which, in such manner blinds the eyes, as it suffers not those within it, to see things as shey are.' Jeremy Taylor's Contemplations To live by one man's wil, became the cause of all men's misery.' Hooker.-'None cau love freedom heartily but good men; the rest love not freedom but license, which never hath more scope or indulgence than under syrants. Milton-Yet freedom-yet thy banner, torn, but flying streams like a thunder storm against the wind.' Byron." In eonformity with the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned;" and also to the Act, entitled, "An Act Supplementary to the Act, entitled, an Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching, historical and other prints." PHILIP MOORE, Clerk of the District of Maryland, Contents. LETTER I. On the Condition of France, from 1450, to the death of Louis XIII. 1642, page 69 On the Conduct of the Legislative Assembly in 1791 and On the National Convention-the Reign of Terror-the Reign 155 On the Fall of Napoleon and the Restoration of the Bourbons On the Character of the New Imperial Government of the On the second Invasion of France-conduct of Allies-severity On the first Law of Elections, and Law of Recruitment; Cha- racter of Richelieu's Administration in 1817 and 1818- On the Administration of Decazes in 1819. Abolition of the On the Prosperous Condition of France at the close of 1819- unfortunate election and expulsion of Gregoire-division of the Cabinet-Decazes' new Ministry-Death of the Duc |