And then there is worthy Doctor Guillotin, Bailly likewise, time-honored historian of astronomy, and the Abbé Sieyès, cold, but elastic, wiry, instinct with the pride of logic, passionless, or with but one passion, that of self-conceit.

" The ministers of Sainte Guillotin are robed and ready.

Some of them, indeed, might have been spared; but as a graphic illustration of the petty thievery of Paris, the following extract bears great merit:] I do not think that amongst the readers of these Memoirs one will be found who, even by chance, has set foot at Guillotin's.

some one will exclaim, "Guillotin!" Ce savant médecin Que l'amour du prochain Fit mourir de chagrin.

"You are mistaken; we all know the celebrated doctor, who ;" but the Guillotin of whom I am speaking is an unsophisticated adulterer of wines, whose establishment, well known to the most degraded classes of robbers, is situate opposite to the Cloaque Desnoyers, which the raff of the Barriere call the drawing-room of la Courtille.

At Guillotin's he will not come off so well, particularly if his toggery be over spruce, and his pouch has chink in it.

If they drink at Guillotin's they eat also, and the mysteries of the kitchen of this place of delights are well worthy of being known.

The little father Guillotin has no butcher, but he has a purveyor; and in his brass stewpans, the verdigris of which never poisons, the dead horse is transformed into beef a-la-mode; the thighs of the dead dogs found in Rue Guénegaud become legs of mutton from the salt-marshes; and the magic of a piquant sauce gives to the staggering bob (dead born veal) of the cow-feeder the appetizing look of that of Pontoise.

* Father Guillotin consumed generally more oil than cotton, but I can, nevertheless, affirm, that, in my time, some banquets have been spread at his cabaret, which, subtracting the liquids, could not have cost more at the café Riche, or at Grignon's.

It can scarcely be believed that in the centre of civilization, there can exist a den so hideous as the cave of Guillotin; it must be seen, as I have seen it, to be believed.

Guillotin, a physician of Paris, and member of the Constituent Assembly.

Guillotin, a physician of Paris, and member of the Constituent Assembly.

GUILLOTINE, a beheading-machine invented by a Dr. Guillotin, and recommended by him to the National Convention, which adopted it; "with my machine, Messieurs, I whisk off your head in a twinkling, and you have no pain;" it was anticipated by the Maiden in Scotland.