The National Register. — London, England, 1815-12-10 00:00:00

L 10. " Nothing," he says, " is more surprising than the formity of female dress. The wife of the country _ _ butcher, or labourer are all, like the same classes in London, ladies ; and the only difference, in the appeniance of these ladies and the Wives of London gentlemen, is not in favour of the latter as it con sists only in their greater slovenliness. The aukwardnesa of all, in dress and manner being the same, it would be wrong to expect tOodistineuish the ranks of society by ease or decorum of manners. English women in •,eneral, no matter of what description, are des, titnte of grace and taste ; and one may literally say, that no Eng lish woman has two left hands." So much for their appearance: their manners are touched with a still bolder pencil : Shoplifting is very much in fashion, as I have just said, bit more paelicularly amongst ladies of rank.. The shopkeepers of New Rond-street (the flue Vivienne of Paris) were formerly proud of visits from those ladies. which, however, they always paid for by the loss of goods, which the ladies carried off under their petticoats ; hot the shopkeepers consoled themselves for the loss by th 6. privi-' lege which they obtained of writing on their signs Milliner to my lady this or that.' Fhese are incontestible facts ! " Every one may remark, that in an English drawing-room,l about tea-time, the ladies are Lipsey (extre dEux tans), though they. are seldom seen to drink more than one little glass of wine at din ner. The opportunity for these ladies is, when they retire from the gentlemen. 'A mysterious temple is destined to the same bac chanal uses as the gentleman's dining-room ; agd the only ditlerenee is the liquor drank—the gentlemen drink Port, Madeira, Clafet, and Champaiene—the ladies drink only the best French brandy. " Young ladies are only admitted to this circle of sobriety aftet a sort of trial, and a certain age, namely, about 40 ; after which period terry English woman of rank or fashion gets drunk every night of her lite, under pretence of keeping the wind out of her stomach ! " The virtue of the English women is that of slaves ; it lasts just as long as the watchfulness of the beast to whom they may have been inarried.—p. 35. " The cause. of that general spirit of licentious intrigue, of in which g irls of all classes live in England, is to be found in the di ffi culty of marriages, and the manner in wihich those mar-' sieges arc undertaken. In France we have a proverb, that' a girl should wait till she is asked;' precisely. the contrary maxim pre, vail3 in England. Ate the young women live in a state of 'neon- , tinenee.; and neither the peasant, the squire, nor the Lord, has ever the least scruple in the choice of a wife from what may have occurred previously to marriage, " The least dissolute class of women in England are,• undoubt edly, trailing-women in great families, who speculate on marrying the young Lord, or some old rich gouty voluptuary, if they keep a k Led of character." 'We have, perhaps, ventured too far in oar quotations on this subject • but we assure our Readers solemnly, that we dare not even all ude to half the crimes that Gen. Pillet charges against all the women of England. Who that throws his eye ever so carelessly over this abominable publication but must regret to perceive that a work, so violating all morals and decency, should have been tolerated even in France; in France, the Royal Family and NObility of which are bound to ti•is country by the most sacred ties of private and national hoipi talily and friendship—in France, Whose boast it used to be, that her sons. were brave in the field, amiable in society, generous even, in their enmities, and chivalrously respectful to the softer sex. It who is the very reverse of this elm is a bad sign, that a wretch , racter, should dare to off(l.r such a work to the eyes of society. To say that the book is popular, would . be to attribute to France al most as great a laxity of morals as Gen. Pillet attributes to Eng land; for no modest eye can look on its pages without shame aud horror : and we cannot but lament the fate of the King of France, and tremble for the stability of his throne, when he rinds himself obliged to maintain such a stigmatised liar, a wretch so lost to all sense of truth, honour, and manhood, in the rank of Major-General of his army, alid as a night ( poi/ puelor ;) of the Royal and kb. minable Q; . der of St. Louis'! POLICE. as a depository. for goods intended for Sale by under the care of a young man who slept in On Thursday, evening the warehouse was locked up with two p4d lpeks, and the keys were conveyed to Mr. Vibe 'a horse, n Diana— lane. As six o'clock, the young man who usually slept in the ware house went there, and found the locks broken, and the cbior open. Hearing some steps within, he pulled the dpor to. and called for help. Upon this, a hackney coach, which stood a little waif above the premises was driven off. The person within the warehouse ;pow fastened himself in. A gentleman • having come to the young man's assistance, a crow-bar was sent for to force it open.. While waiting for this, the prisoner opened the door and attempted to eicape ;he was immediately seized however, and secured. On tearching the warehouse no (dime person was found; •but three pieces of Irish linen, three pieces of tombazeen, and two pieces of 'printed cotton were missed. The prisoner, it appears, is a noto rious house-breaker, and only very lately diScharged iron New gate, where he was under sentence of death for a burglary, in Bil leter-lane, hut escaped upon a point of law. There are several other charges against him, and he is known to be connected with a desperate gang. He is but a young man. He declined saying any thing In his defence, and was fully committed for trial at the present Sessions. r . MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. On Tuesday, Francis Harvey, an assistant, formerly tinder Mr. Greenwood, the painter of Drurr:Lane . Theatre, and residing in Tavistock-row, Covent-Garden, was tried for asiaulting MM - ia Stratford, his maid servant, under the failiriviiig cireumstztuce's : The prOsecutrix, a girl about 16, deposed, that being sent with a sixpence to buy some deg's meat, she obtained the latter upon credit, and with the sixpence purchased some food for herself ; the cause whereof she explained by stating, that she could not eat the meat allotted to her on the Sunday, it was in so putrid a condition ; and also because her mistress had said, that she should have no Other nourishment until size first ate the.meat she had refused. 04 the Wednesday following it wad discovered that the dog's meat KU obtained upon credit, and that she had bought food fur herielf ' with the sixpence ; wheretipon, at eight O'clock at night, when her • master, the defendant, caine home, he was made acqaainted thereof by his wife ; and he ordered the witness to go; up stairs to the gar. ret, where he himself unpinned her gown, made her take it off, and, upon her reflising to strip herself any more, he tore all the rest of !titer garments off, leaving nothing upon her but her shoes, stockings, and cap, and in that naked state, tied a cord about her wrists, which he fastened to a peg over her head, and then, with a large birch rod, beat her from her neck to her loins and thighs until the noose in the rope gave way, and she fell on the floor. Her cries were incessant; all the neighbours heard them, and they in. terfered.—The Jury found the defendant Guilty.—The Court de , ferred passing judgment until another day. At the above Sessions on Thursday, a curious and important air. peal was determined. John Nash, a pauper, had rented a house for more than twenty years, standing partly over a drain in the hamlets of Acton and Hammersmith; the greatest nicety was re, quired, as to which of the two he was now to become chargeable on. Messrs. Gurney and Adolphus displayed much ingenuity, the former for Acton. A model of the house was produced,fts well as one of the bed-rooms in which the pauper slept; the length of the bed was two feet nine inches and a halt atihe top, and three feet five inches and a half at the bottom, making the bed room six feet three. The room being in both parishes, the question was to which parish should he belong. The Court (Mr. Watson and Mr. Scrjeaut Sellon) preshming that the body, when stretched ant, would have ' it.s greater proportion in that part of the room which belonged to Acton, ordered the appeal to be allowed; thereby fixing the settle ment in Acton. THE NATIONA,Ie RsCOT.Tgli su the hideous 'Rai II by the prosecutors, a shoemaker, shoaker, Auction, iind was DE , GUILDHALL. DARING Ilunr,LAßY.—Yesterday John Turnwell, a well-known anti desperate character, was examined on a charge of breakiug an , l entering the Igarehouse of Messy. Mho - and: Co. Auctioneers, in Wood-street, Cheapside. Fri4m the testimony of the different vv itnesses, it appeared that the warehouse in trestlon was ocoried SATURDAY. PICKPOCICET.--Henry Pope was indicted for attempting to steal a silk handkerchief from the person of Llewellyn Lloyd, Esq. on the evening of the :e3th of November last. Mr. Lloyd stated, that as lie was accidentally passing through the Strand , on tho evening in question, he felt some person at his pocket, and on turning quickly round, he saw the prisoner in the act of withdrawing his hand. lie immediately seized him, and pushed him into a shop. The prisoner pretended to cry, and at last struck Mr. Lloyd in the face, and at ttmpred to escape. Mr. Lloyd, however, returned'thc compliment with interest, and finally secured - him. The prisoner, who is k well known character, was found gailty, and sentenced to six months imprisonment in the Howse of Correction,.