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F~ENCH' INNS AND POSTILLIONS. 13one not prepared for it, by the recoUection that these important personagesqualify themselves, by virtue ofthe royallivery, as the.servantsof the crown and not of the public; what is in reality the badge ofservitude, being by·them perverted into a commission of privilege toinsult an who come within their reach.This is, it is true, occasionallyseensoftened downand cooled by the proud indignant spirit of theFrench peasant, who perhaps may in his clay have carried a firelock,and has no reli'3h for their insolence.Considerable power is certainlygiven this corps by the regulations or ordonnance over those who committhemselves into th~ir hands; but this power, wherewith they are soendowed, they considerably overstep. '1'0 set this very ordonnance atdefiance, .to exchange their horses contrary to its regulations,' or theconsent oftravellers,to revile and abuse, nay even to exercise their tremendousthongs over the shoulders of a Croix de St. Louis, are outragestoo demonstrable to be doubted of; and if so, what hasa strangerin the country to hope? save to extricate himself out of their hands asspeedily as circumstances will permit.Rheims.-The celebrated cathedral of this city is an important objectto those scrutinizers into architecture who- have truetaste to admirethat delightful branch of it to whi~h our Anglo-Norman ancestorshavethe best claim for the. invention, Of at least adoption; for controversy.shall be .kept c1car of, ontbis subject.Chalons~-U pon the Mélrne, a river respectable by its length of'course: thé traveUer,'proceeding upby its bank, reaches.St.. Dizier,.andlat ils headLangres*.-Hellce a pelcson traversjng a summit level of France, de- ­corated wilh more woodland than first impressions would lead him to'i* Thç little..river Aire runs by this bold hill.On itisthe post-house at Bac sur d' Aire•.