The Steam-Packet: A Tale of the River and the Ocean — page 323: what you’re looking at

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250 THE STEAM PACKET. HAVING BECOME A MONUMENT OF PEACE, BY THE RESTORATION OF THE BOURBONS TO THE THRONE, IT HAS BEEN FINISHED UNDER THE AUSPICES “OF - HIS MAJESTY LOUIS XVIII., | AND IS DEDICATED AS A REMEMBRANCE (ALWAYS DEAR TO FRENCHMEN ) OF HIS HAPPY RETURN TO THIS COUNTRY IN 1814. THE LAST STONE WAS PLACED 2D JULY, 1821, M. LE COMTE SIMEON, BEING MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR), BY M. LE BARON SIMEON, PREFECT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF THE PAS DE CALAIS. \ Z LABARRE, ARCHITECT. There are at Boulogne a museum, a picture gallery, a public library, a beautiful theatre, several places of amusement, and a ball and concert-rooms, &c. Altogether this town is, as we before said, one of the most eligible for a-French at chieeelece to which the English traveller could proceed. Our Luminaries landed with their band playing, their huge baraie expanded, and in military order, Captain Pentonville duly marshalling them three deep, and attending to the discipline of the ranks... It is needless to say that all the beauty and fashion—ugliness and vulgarity —rank and poverty—indeed, all classes of persons, English and French—residents and visitors, assembled upon the pier, gazed from their windows, or mustered in the streets, to witness the imposing and ~ unusual spectacle which suddenly burst upon the quiet town. The small boys seemed particularly to take a considerable interest in the progress of the cavalcade; and Captain Pentonville was more than once compelled to inflict condign chastisement upon the backs of those ill-behaved urchins who dared to insult, by laughing and point- ing at, the inimitable and truly expressive banner of the Honourable and Independent Order of Luminaries. At length the procession passed through the gateway of the Hotel d’Angleterre, where M. Foube the worthy landlord, had already provided dinner, he having received due warning, by letter, of the intended arrival of the illustrious travellers. As we have before alluded on more than one occasion tothe excel- lence of French dinners, we shall only upon this occasion observe that the repast was inferior to none hitherto served up at any other place visited by the Luminaries. The wines were excellent; and although the number of the company had a little diminished by the exile of the a 4 ‘ “J 7a com (@) iDooks. co