LETTER VI. The _Louvre_ or _National Palace of Arts and Sciences_ described --_Old Louvre_--Horrors of St. Bartholomew's day--From this palace Charles IX fired on his own subjects--Additions successively made to it by different kings--_Bernini_, sent for by Lewis XIV, forwarded the foundation of the _New Louvre_, and returned to Italy--_Perrault_ produced the beautiful colonnade of the _Louvre_, the master-piece of French architecture--Anecdote of the Queen of England, relict of Charles I--Public exhibition of the productions of French Industry. LETTER VII. _Central Museum of the Arts_--_Gallery of Antiques_--Description of the different halls and of the most remarkable statues contained in them, with original observations by the learned connoisseur, _Visconti_. LETTER VIII. Description of the _Gallery of Antiques_, and of its _chefs-d'oeuvre_ of sculpture continued and terminated--Noble example set by the French in throwing open their museums and national establishments to public inspection--Liberal indulgence shewn to foreigners. LETTER IX. General A----y's breakfast--Montmartre--Prospect thence enjoyed --Theatres. LETTER X. Regulations of the Police to be observed by a stranger on his arrival in the French capital--Pieces represented at the _Théâtre Louvois_ --_Palais du gouvernement_ or Palace of the Tuileries described--It was constructed, by Catherine de Medicis, enlarged by Henry IV and Lewis XIII, and finished By Lewis XIV--The tenth of August, 1792, as pourtrayed by an actor in that memorable scene--Number of lives lost on the occasion--Sale of the furniture, the king's wardrobe, and other effects found in the palace--_Place du Carrousel_--Famous horses of gilt bronze brought from Venice and placed here--The fate of France suspended by a thread--Fall of _Robespiere_ and his adherents. LETTER XI. Massacre of the prisoners at Paris in September, 1792--Private ball --The French much improved in dancing--The waltz described--Dress of the women. LETTER XII. _Bonaparte_--Grand monthly parade--Agility of the First Consul in mounting his charger--Consular guards, a remarkably fine body of men --Horses of the French cavalry, sorry in appearance, but capable of enduring fatigue and privations. LETTER XIII. _Jardin des Tuileries_--This garden now kept in better order than under the monarchy--The newly-built house of _Véry_, the _restaurateur_--This quarter calls to mind the most remarkable events in the history of the revolution--_Place de la Concorde_--Its name is a strong contrast to the great number of victims here sacrificed --Execution of the King and Queen, _Philippe Égalité_, _Charlotte Corday_, Madame _Roland_, _Robespiere_, _cum multus aliis_ --Unexampled dispatch introduced in putting persons to death by means of the guillotine--_Guillotin_, the inventor or improver of this instrument, dies of grief--Little impression left on the mind of the spectators of these sanguinary scenes--Lord _Cornwallis_ arrives in Paris.