A NARRATIVE OF THE EVENTS WHICH HAVE TAKEN PLACE IN FRANC E, FROM THE LANDING OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, ON THE 1ST OF MARCH, 1815, TILL THE RESTORATION OF LOUIS XVIII. WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE PRESENT STATE OF SOCIETY BY HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS. LONDON: PRINTED FOR JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET. LETTER I. Paris, April, 1815. ' MY DEAR SIR,. Ir in the list of moral maxims, any thing had been left unsaid upon the evil of procrastination, this would be a fit occasion to add something to the stock of luminous observations made on that subject since the beginning of time. But why have you furnished me with a sad example of the truth of these precepts? Why, when the English hastened in multitudes to Paris, have you delayed your journey from week to week, till it can no longer be accomplished? Although divided from each other by a geographical space of only a few short leagues, leagues, at what an immeasurable distance were the two countries which we inhabit separated by the ascendancy of that Implacable Will, which had placed a bar-l rier between the nations more insurmount-s able than the wall of China ! You will easily believe that I saw with pleasure the arrival once more of those groups of travellers who speak my native language,s who remind me of the scenes of early life, { who conjure up up those images of the past which no heart recals v heart recals without emotion, "breathe a second spring," and which breath But amidst those successive crowds, why have I not seen the friend of my youth ? ; Why have your chan have your chariot-wheels tarried, till I can no longer urge you to come, alhough I believe you would incur no per DUB sonal danger by so doing? Our re-instal led emperor is extremely mortified at the precipitation with which the English yisi robufozo tors |