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The Doric order is applicable where united strength and grandeur are required.

The Ionic is eligible for porticoes, frontispieces, entrances to houses, &c.

The Corinthian is fit where magnificent elegance is desired; the number of antique examples of this order proves the delight the ancients felt in beholding it.

The example of the Doric order is taken from the temple of Theseus, at Athens, erected ten years after the battle of Salamis.

That of the Ionic is similar to those of the temple of Fortuna Virilis at Rome.

The example of the Corinthian is from the portico of the Pantheon at Rome. I. R. A.

A SUNDAY AT BOULOGNE.

IT has been the fashion for some years past, for travellers to write tours, in which they profess themselves to be in pursuit of certain objects, to the exclusion, in a great measure, of every other. For example, one person gives us

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botanical tour; another a musical tour; another fills his volume of adventures with all things relating to commerce; another looks for nothing but Roman antiquities; and a fourth gives his readers a very learned and exact detail of the various beds of granite and quartz, of argil and limestone, of gypsum and argillaceous schistus.

I am not about to condemn the humours and caprices of my fellow-travellers; every man who adds to the stock of real knowledge is no doubt, in some way or other, promoting the good of his fellow-creatures; all that I have to request is, that the same indulgence which I extend to others may be extended to me, and if my whim may be thought somewhat singular by some persons, I trust that others will look upon it with favor, when assured that, as far as human infirmity will permit, I shall not allow it to lead me into an exaggeration of facts.

But without further preamble I shall proceed to state, that though a traveller, I am neither a musician, a merchant, or an antiquarian; that I value the flowers of the field only as they are evidences of the divine love of Him, who has made them more beautiful than Solomon in all his glory; and that I never contemplate the broken strata exhibited on the sides of the mountains, in any other light than as wonderful evidences of the truth of sacred history; but that I am a great observer of human manners, and especially as they are more or less affected by religious feelings; and that it is my particular caprice in a journey I am making on the continent, to observe how the Lord's-day is spent in the various towns in which I have happened to pass that day, for our party makes a point of never moving on a Sunday. My first observations were made in the town of Boulogne sur Mer, a town well known by many of our countrymen, and which can hardly be called French, inasmuch as more well-dressed English persons are seen in the streets than those of the other nation. This town of Boulogne is so well known to the English, that it would be out of place to give a long description of it; I shall merely say that it is a very ancient town, and consists of a fort situated on a hill, being connected by a long steep street with the lower town, which lies upon the shores of the sea, and is like other maritime places.

The most remarkable feature in the fort is an ancient tower, belonging to the Hotel de Ville, where, as it is said, the renowned Godfrey de Boulogne, of the house of Bouillon in Flanders, and son of Eustace and Ida, King and Queen of Jerusalem, commenced his adventurous life. The first Sunday which I spent on the continent was in this town, in a principal hotel, near the theatre. I was sufficiently aware of my situation, to feel that the bells which sounded during the early morning from the different towers and steeples were not for me; they therefore produced no further effect upon me, than to remind me of what was then passing in my dear native country, so lately left, where, as we trust, these iron tongues would on that day call many of the children of God to his service, But proceeding to meet my family in the room in which we breakfasted, and which

opened upon the street, I was unable to hear their greetings by reason of the stunning sound of drums, accompanied with the clearer notes of the clarionet, hautboy, and other martial instruments. On enquiring the meaning of this, I was informed by the waiter, that this day being Sunday, was the day appointed for the grand parade of the national guard, a description of soldiers equivalent in some measure to our yeomanry in England; and I was also pressed by the same person to take my place among the spectators; in the mean time the military parade had passed away, and the clangor of martial music had died on the ear. The person who spoke to me was a fine boy, perhaps of fifteen. and his accent, for he addressed me in English, was perfectly pure.

"You are English," I answered, "and yet you recommend me to employ my Sunday in a way so totally different to that in which it was observed by the christians of old, of whom it was said, 'They met on the Lord's day.'

The boy looked at me, and made me no answer; on which I questioned him respecting his parents, and present situation, and found that he was the descendant of a respectable family in Kent, but reduced so far as to be actually a waiter in an hotel.

"And have you so far forgotten your native land,” I said, "as not to know that there is a day especially devoted to the service of God;" and I earnestly besought him to remember the faith of his father's house, though in a strange land. He was affected with the interest thus taken in him by a stranger, and with tears in his eyes he confessed, that he saw and heard nothing but evil in the place where he then was-that he never entered a place of worship—that he never read the scriptures— and oh! sad to say, that the worst examples were given him by his own countrymen, several of whom, he said, had sat up gambling all that night, and were only just retired to their apartments, (not to rest, we may be assured, but perhaps to sleep off the exhaustion produced by their dreadful orgies):— and it was the business of this poor orphan to attend the assemblies of these midnight robbers, and to obey their calls, and fill those cups which added fuel to their already excited passions. He had been a year in this situation, and no one of all the many English who had visited the hotel, had spoken a

word of christian kindness to him, till I was led to do so, from seeing in him a remarkable resemblance to a dear relation.

The child was touched-strongly touched by my address, and received several little religious books which I gave him with much delight. May it not be hoped that the Father of mercies has purposes of kindness for this poor lost one? The conversation which I was led to hold with this boy is on recollection as a ray of light shed on that dark day. But to proceed with my history of that day. When we had breakfasted, we inquired for the Protestant churches, and being directed to a certain street, we set out at the hour appointed. In our passage we observed that all the shops were open, and no further distinction remarkable between that and any other day, than that the streets were fuller, and the people better dressed. Women were walking in groups, with gay top-knots set in their caps of lace or muslin, gaudy shawls, and aprons of silk. Men lounging at every corner of the street, being ready to follow and mark a stranger as he passed. Every window was open, for it was summer time, and the daughters of superior families had their necks stretched out from the upper ranges. Here and there, in a niche of some dirty wall, were forsaken and dusty images of the Virgin, sometimes decorated with a garland, as faded as the superstition which elevated this blessed among women to a crown to which she herself had never aspired, viz. the sovereignty of heaven, and sometimes being, like the charity-box in the painting of Hogarth, thickly involved with the web of the spider; neither could it be seen, that any one individual from amongst the gay crowd ever stopped before these idols to make a single genuflection, or to pronounce a single Ave Maria. A few old women, and now and then, though rarely, a younger one or two, appeared among the other passers by, having their livre d'ordre, or mass books, in their hands, proceeding towards the churches, to be present at a mass, and thus, to obtain a merit which might be set in the balance with the offences of the past week. Such, alas! we fear, is the idea of even the most devout among the papists; but, certain it is, that, if any are saved from the nominal members of the Romish church, and we do trust that God has his own amongst these, as amongst every other denomination of

christians, sooner or later, such persons must be brought to renounce the covenant of works, and to accept salvation by the Saviour only.

So we passed on, and coming to the door of the Protestant church, we found it closed. We had been misdirected as to time, and the doors were shut; further information we could not obtain the neighbours knew nothing about it; it was a matter of no importance-there might be another service during the day, or there might not-there had been one already, or there had not. What was to be done?-but we remembered the promise, a promise so sweet to the traveller, whether his path may lead him through the trackless ocean in the wide region of the solitary south, or over the sandy desert in the burning torrid zone, or amid the tents of the proud mussulman and foul idolater, namely, "where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst," and returning to our apartment we spent an hour in seeking Him, in whom are all our fresh springs; and after having dined, and made enquiries anew, we once more set out in search of the Protestant assembly. Those only, who have been in foreign and infidel lands, can have an idea how sweet the very name of Protestant or Christian is to the ears of those who love their Lord, and those perhaps only, who have been in such situations can conceive how bitter it is, where a hope of heaven, of a sweet word of divine consolation, has been excited, to meet only with cold dull morality, or at best a garbled statement of christian doctrine. But I will add no moresuffice it to say, that we left the Protestant church, and as the evening was fine, we turned under the shade of many trees, and descended into certain narrow lanes, leading into a valley of great natural beauty, though owing nothing to the hand of man, or to the delicacy of those who frequented them, speaking as we went on of the state of the country as it regarded the people we were with, and bitterly lamenting the offences of our countrymen. Is it merely for convenience or amusement, we said, that we, who have every facility for knowing the truth, to whom the bible has been an open book for ages past, visit this foreign land, to eat of its fruits, enjoy the sunshine, and partake of its pleasures; and do we never consider, that in thus

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