Peter Parley's visit to London - Tim And Angi

54 PETER PARLEY'S
" Preceded by a squadron of horse-guards,
whose gallant and warlike bearing excited
general admiration, came the carriages of
the foreign ministers resident in this country.
Even in the midst of so much bustle, Peter
Parley could not help moralizing on the singularity
of the scene. Here were the representatives
of every power on the face of the
globe gathered together in one harmonious
congregation; and the feelings to which
their passing thus in review, in a living
panorama as it were, gave rise were ,of the
most peculiar description. Here were all
separate
and rival interests for the moment
buried in oblivion, and people from the east,
from the west, and from the north, and from