SOCIAL, LITERARY, POLITICAL.

BY

HENRY LYTTON BULWER ESQ. M.P.

Nature and truth are the same every where, and reason shows them
every where alike. But the accidents and other causes, which give rise
and growth to opinions both in speculation and practice, are of infinite
variety.-Bolingbroke on the true Use of Retirement and Study.

Reverere conditores Deos, numina Deorum. Reverere gloriam veterem,
et hanc ipsam senectutem quæ in homine venerabilis, in urbibus sacra
est. Sit apud te honor antiquitati, sit ingentibus faeti, sit fabulis quoque,
nihil ex cujusquam dignitate, nihil ex libertate, nihil etiam ex jactatione
decerpseris.-Plinius Maximo Suo S.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

SECOND EDITION REVISED.

LONDON:

RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET.

(SUCCESSOR TO HENRY COLBURN.)

1834.

Ga 48/583

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

MUNCHEN

Wit

Gaiety and Frivolity

Crime

BOOK II.

HISTORICAL CHANGES.

Old Régime

Revolution of Eighty-nine

The Directory

The Consulate and the Empire

APPENDIX-Containing extracts from M. Cha-
brol's Reports as to the Population, &c. of
Paris, and extracts from Dr. Bowring's Re-
port as to the rate of Workmen's Wages,
&c. .

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DEDICATION

ΤΟ

B. G. KING, ESQ.

MY DEAR KING,

We have so few opportunities afforded us of testifying esteem, that I feel inexpressible gratification in thus being able to present you with this very unworthy token of the sentiments with which a long acquaintance has inspired me. Nor is this all-the present dedication is not only an ordinary tribute paid to friendshipit is a tribute paid to a friend whom I esteem as much for his public principle as his private worth. And, indeed, it is no small consolation, in thus entering upon a new career, to feel that whatever may be my fate as an author