PICTURE OF VERDUN, OR THE English detained in Fance; THEIR ARRESTATION---DETENTION AT FONTAINBLEAU AND FROM THE PORTFOLIO OF A DETENU. Omnibus idem animus sceleratá excedere terrâ, IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: PRINTED FOR T. HOOKHAM, Jun. and E. T. HOOKHAM, Old Bond Street. Silerarian Commin. 10-4-35 30948 21262 DETENU. In order to distinguish him from the lawful prisoner of war, the traveller detained in France is throughout this work constantly stiled a Detenu. The word indeed has not as yet been naturalised; but the French, when they by their persecutions and other enormities obliged the most respectable part of their nation to emigrate, introduced the word Emigré into all foreign languages; and it is honorable to us, that we have no word of English growth to express a guest, arrested against the laws of hospitality, and the customs of civilised nations. PICTURE OF VERDUN, &c. &c. THE French used to value themselves on their hospitality as well as on their politeness. The stranger was at home at Paris, and the Palais Royal was the coffee-house of Europe. Every nation, whatever might be the state of politics, passed before one there as in a magic lantern; and not only in the accounts which they gave of themselves, but in those given by foreigners, their loyalty toward their guests was deservedly praised. A work published at Paris since the detention of the English contains the following anecdote. VOL. I. |