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DOMESTIC MANNERS OF THE PRUSSIANS.

such as Jefferson, Washington, Lafayette, Rush, Adams,Bolivar, &c. &c.; the whole encircling Benjamin Franklin,who is holding up a printed sheet in the midst of the group.A third subject shows the principal anti-slavery advocates,as Wilberforce, Clarkson, Condorcet, &c, hugging slaves andbreaking their chains, with the press again forming the centralobject: while the fourth and last design portrays Sir WilliamJones, Duperon, Anquetil, " Rah-maoum Roy," &c. &c, dis-tributing tracts to the Chinese and Indians, and with the pressonce more constituting the centre of the design.

The statue of Kleber is in the "Place" of that name, andon the pedestal is the following inscription :■—•

TO KLEBER.

HIS BROTHEKS IN ARMS, HIS EELLOW-CITIZENS,

AND THE COUNTRY GENERALLY,

(HAVE ERECTED THIS MONUMENT,)

1840.

ALTEN KIRCHEN, 19 JUNE, 1796.

HELIOPOLIS, 20 MARCH, 1800.

This figure is in bronze, and Stands in a half-defiantattitude, with one hand on the sword-hilt at its hip and theother grasping a roll of paper. It is dressed in top-boots,crumply neckcloth, body-coat, and knee-breeches, with a cloakhanging on one Shoulder, and no hat on the head. Thoughwhy the bronze tops and leathers should have been given andthe beaver omitted (especially when it was thought necessaryto add a cloak to complete the Walking costume), we cannotpossibly divine. Surely, if it were a nice regard to thepicturesque that made the artist omit the hat from the outdoordress, the same lively sense of the beautiful migbt have in-duced him to have applied an ideal " jack" to the metal top-boots (not to speak of the bronze "smalls")—since such