The Stranger in France: A Tour From Devonshire to Paris E-Book

John Carr

• Herausgeber: Bauer Books
• Kategorie: Für Kinder und Jugendliche
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Beschreibung

The little tour which gave birth to the following remarks, was taken
immediately after the exchange of the ratifications of a peace,
necessary, but not inglorious to my country, after a contest
unexampled in its cause, calamity, extension, vicissitudes and glory;
amidst a people who, under the influence of a political change,
hitherto unparallelled, were to be approached as an order of beings,
exhibiting a moral and political form before but little known to
themselves and to the world, in the abrupt removal of habits and
sentiments which had silently and uninterruptedly taken deep root
in the soil of ages.
During a separation of ten years, we have received very little account
of this extraordinary people, which could be relied upon. Dissimilar
sensations, excited by their principles and proceedings, ever partially
and irregularly known, have depicted unaccording representations
of them, and, in the sequel, have exhibited rather a high-coloured,
fanciful delineation, than a plain and faithful resemblance of the
original. Many are the persons who have been thus misled.
These fugitive sketches, in which an attempt is made to delineate,
just as they occurred, those scenes which, to my mind at least, were
new and interesting, were originally penned for the private perusal
of those whom I esteem; and by their persuasion they are now
offered to the public eye. Amongst them I must be permitted to
indulge in the pride and pleasure of enumerating William Hayley,
esq. a name familiar and dear to every elegant and polished mind.
Enlightened by his emendations, and supported by the cherishing
spirit of his approval, I approach, with a more subdued
apprehension, the tribunal of public opinion; and to my friends I
dedicate this humble result of a short relaxation from the duties of an
anxious and laborious profession. If, by submitting to their wishes, I
have erred, I have only to offer, that it is my first, and shall be my
last offence.

Totnes, August, 1802. John Carr.

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Table of contents

PREFACE.

The little tour which gave birth to the following remarks, was taken immediately after the exchange of the ratifications of a peace, necessary, but not inglorious to my country, after a contest unexampled in its cause, calamity, extension, vicissitudes and glory; amidst a people who, under the influence of a political change, hitherto unparallelled, were to be approached as an order of beings, exhibiting a moral and political form before but little known to themselves and to the world, in the abrupt removal of habits and sentiments which had silently and uninterruptedly taken deep root in the soil of ages.

During a separation of ten years, we have received very little account of this extraordinary people, which could be relied upon. Dissimilar sensations, excited by their principles and proceedings, ever partially and irregularly known, have depicted unaccording representations of them, and, in the sequel, have exhibited rather a high-coloured, fanciful delineation, than a plain and faithful resemblance of the original. Many are the persons who have been thus misled.

These fugitive sketches, in which an attempt is made to delineate, just as they occurred, those scenes which, to my mind at least, were new and interesting, were originally penned for the private perusal of those whom I esteem; and by their persuasion they are now offered to the public eye. Amongst them I must be permitted to indulge in the pride and pleasure of enumerating William Hayley, esq. a name familiar and dear to every elegant and polished mind. Enlightened by his emendations, and supported by the cherishing spirit of his approval, I approach, with a more subdued apprehension, the tribunal of public opinion; and to my friends I dedicate this humble result of a short relaxation from the duties of an anxious and laborious profession. If, by submitting to their wishes, I have erred, I have only to offer, that it is my first, and shall be my last offence.

Totnes, August, 1802. JOHN CARR.

The engravings which accompany this work, are of sketches made on the spot by an untutored pencil, and are introduced for the purpose of illustration only. CHAPTER I.

Torr Abbey.—Cap of Liberty.—Anecdote of English Prejudice.—Fire Ships.—Southampton River.—Netley Abbey. Our watermen gave us a curious description of this place, and amused us not a little with their ridiculous anacronisms. NOTES: [1] Rev. John Halford. CHAPTER II. Rafts. MONARCHICAL COINS. A sol is like our halfpenny, value one penny french, or a halfpenny english, twenty-four of these make an english shilling. A fifteen sols piece is half of the above and very convenient. A cinq centimes is worth a halfpenny and half a farthing english. The centimes are of the value of half farthings, five of which are equal to the last coin, they are very small and neat. Paris Diligence. NOTES: [2] The cruel imprisonment of la Fayette is alluded to. CHAPTER IV. This progress, however, is tedious and uncertain. We traced the desolating hand of the revolution as soon as we ascended the first hill. An old unsaleable cabriolet occupied the place of the altar; and the horses were very quietly eating their oats in the sacristy!! At the Bureau, we paid twelve livres and a half for our places and luggage from Havre to this town. NOTES: [3] Environs of a town, planted with stately trees. CHAPTER V. [4] Hôtel, in France, means either an inn, or private house of consequence. [5] The french feet are to the english as 1068 to 1000. [6] The ornaments of the churches of England experienced a similar fate from the commissioners of the Long Parliament, in 1643. CHAPTER VI. The G——s expected this visit, and, by an ingenious, and justified expedient, prevented their perdition from becoming decisive. Madame P—— was so much affected, that she could make no reply, and left the room. [7] Vide Sheridan’s oration against Hastings upon the Begum charge. CHAPTER VIII. The spirit of our immortal bard, awaking from the bosom of nature, seemed to exclaim— NOTES: [8] Restaurateur is now universally used instead of traiteur. CHAPTER IX. Though deep, yet clear, though gentle yet not dull: Strong without rage, without o’erflowing full. How inscrutable are the ways of destiny! Or, in the english habit which Dryden has given them, Pliny mentions this statue as the admiration of the age in which he flourished. This amiable gentleman possessed a countenance of great genius, and a mind full of intelligence. Madame O—— and her charming family, seemed wholly to occupy his heart and affections.

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