I am now settled in my new apartments, which are situated in the most centrical part of Paris. When you visit this capital, I would by all means, recommend to you, should you intend to remain here a few weeks, to get into private lodgings. I know of no article here so much augmented in price, within the last ten years, as the apartments in all the hotels. After looking at several of them in the _Rue de la Loi_, accompanied by a French friend, who was so obliging as to take on himself all the trouble of inquiry, while I remained a silent bystander, I had the curiosity to go to the _Hôtel d'Angleterre_, in the _Rue des Filles St. Thomas_, hot far from the _ci-devant Palais Royal_. The same apartments on the first floor of this hotel which I occupied in 1789, happened to be vacant. At that time I paid for them twelve louis d'or a month; the furniture was then new; it is now much the worse for nearly eleven years' wear; and the present landlord asked twenty-five louis a month, and even refused twenty-two, if taken for three months certain. The fact is, that all the landlords of ready-furnished hotels in Paris seem to be buoyed up with an idea that, on the peace, the English and foreigners of other nations will flock hither in such numbers as to enable them to reap a certain and plentiful harvest. Not but all lodgings are considerably increased in price, which is ascribed to the increase of taxes. To find private lodgings, you have only to cast your eye on the daily advertiser of Paris, called _Les Petites Affiches_. There I read a description of my present quarters, which are newly fitted up in every particular, and, I assure you, with no small degree of tasteful fancy. My landlady, who is a milliner, and, for aught I know, a very fashionable one, left not the smallest convenience to my conjecture, but explained the particular use of every hole and corner in the most significant manner, not even excepting the _boudoir_. This would be a most excellent situation for any one whose principal object was to practise speaking French; for, on the right hand of the _porte-cochère_ or gateway, (which, by the bye, is here reckoned an indispensable appendage to a proper lodging), is the _magazin des modes_, where my landlady presides over twenty damsels, many of whom, though assiduously occupied in making caps and bonnets, would, I am persuaded, find repartee for the most witty gallant. LETTER IV. _Paris, October 23, 1801._ Since my arrival, I have been so much engaged in paying and receiving visits, that I really have not yet been able to take even a hasty view of any of the grand sights introduced here since the revolution,