If you see Mr. R., tell him Mr. Fulmer has bought him two pictures; one of Ten Years, the other of Old Beans; I am no judge, but they are very black, and shine beautifully--they are considered shift doovers in these parts. VII. FURTHER ADVENTURES AT PARIS. Paris, March 15, 1824. MY DEAR BULL,--I believe I shall soon have to announce that Mr. Fulmer has led my Lavy to the halter--but I am unwilling to be too sanguinary; should that happen, however, we shall extend our tower, and proceed to the Pay de Veau and finally to Room, where Mr. Fulmer is to explain all the antics, what you so well know are collected there. We have been to-day to see the Hotel de Veal, so called, I believe, from being situated in the Calf-market; it is now styled the Place de Grave, because all the malefactors who are decimated by the gulleting (an instrument so called from its cutting the sufferer's throat) are buried there. We crossed over the Pont Neuf, in order to go again to see the Mass. As we went along, I purchased two beautiful sieve jars, with covers, on purpose to keep Popery in. I believe I forgot to say that we went one morning to an expedition of pictures at the Looksombre palace, so called from its dull situation. It was very fine: one particularly struck my fancy. It was Phœbe offering Hector to the Gods. There was another of Morpheus charming the Beasts, which was extremely moving; there was also a beautiful portrait of a lady, and Mr. Fulmer said she was in excellent keeping. I did not, of course, ask who she was, and I wonder how they can admit likenesses of that class of people into such a place. Mr. Fulmer shewed me a large picture, painted by David, which is wonderfully fresh, considering its vast age. I knew David was the greatest musician of his time, but I did not know that he was a painter into the bargain. These genuses are always gifted creturs. We have been to the Jardin des Plantes, or place for wild beasts, where we saw some lepers and tygers--and two birds called carraways, from India; there is also an oliphant, which contradicts the absurd story that these animals carry their trunks about with them--this great creature had nothing but a long snout, which made him look to me as if his tail had been misplaced--it was intended by Bonypart to put the statute of one of these animals up, for a fountain on the Bullwards, indeed the impediment is already constructed. I was very much delighted with the place Louis Quinzy--so called from his having died of a sore throat--the Admiralty is situated here, with a dollygraph on the top--Mr. Fulmer introduced me to one of the officers in the naval department, who was a very favourable specimen of the French moreen.