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FLUID EXTIt AC I' a SARSAPARILLA.
In this Preparation see concentrated all the =e-
dition! Properties of the Ssraaparills Root, even to •
perfect saisrstion of the Newsiness with which it is pre-
pared. To such Permute, therefore, who, from various
mimes, would experiesee greet i•coavenieuce, or with whom
it would be stir Hy impossible to prepare the Decoction, the
Fluid Emmet, virlskli passe►ses the advastages of portability,
sod of keeping is may climate, will be fussed • most
desirable movie of employing this such-esteemed nvedicire.
The Diseases is which it has proved most besencial are
those of the Skin, each as Scorbutic Affections, Eruptive
Diseases, Secondary Symptoms, Sic. arisiug from • diseased
mate of the System at large. It may be taken either alone,
or combined with Water, readeriug it of the same strength
as the Dementia.

The Fluid Extract of Sarsaparilla may be bad either i■
a simple or compound mate, of alreres. BUTLER, ilia
original Preps,,,,, No. 4, Clsespaide, and YIN Regeniddrerl,
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"Butlers' Fluid Extract of Sarsaparilla."

What affectatino end ignorance do they not dis-
play who affect to despise London ! for it a walk
affectatiou that can lead any torment the superiority
of the country. Londou it toe mighty an object to
be sineewel" contemned, erawik the abuse lactoolosol
upon it is therefore nothing more than mere cant.
The country is very well iu ite way ; and they who
!prefer to do so, may " babble shout green fields"
as much as they list: Let them keep their cattle
arid desk pastures to themselves ; let them exclu-
sively move in the °borscht', uniformity, and utsi.
(inlay of their rotatory existences ; let them movie
the exhibitions, pleasures, and decorations that
give to life a inure exalted character ; let them pre-
ati isolated to a social state of being; —but let
them not affect to despise that for which they have
no relish. "Is not this fine ?" said Joiniten to
Boswell, in Greenwich Park. "Yet," replied the
parasite, knowing what reply was expected —" yeti
hut not Kissel to Fleet-street."—" You ate
right, Sir," said Johnson; and he was right. In
London all that can contribute to condors and
elegance, all that can embellish hie and heighten
the pleasure of existence, is to be found um greater
perfection ti►an in the country. lie who has known
London a little time, and then leaves it to reside in
the country, feels that he makes a great sacrifice.
Filthy streets and a murky atmosphere, lung rows
of dingy holism and clamorous cries heard there
upon every side, are to be classed among those
drawbacks which occur in every state and situation
in life. But the intellectual advantages of London
are incomparable ; it affords a union of a higher or-
der of tined than can be found elsewhere. The
middling shopkeeper of London is far superior to
the fox-hunting country squire in intelligence,
though the ►quire is considered in society a grade
above the shopkeeper in rank. Go into the little
country town or village and mark the narrowness
of feeling, the scandal, and backbiting that exists
there. %Vete it not for the gentry that reside pert
of the year in London, and carry back and diffuse
around their country 'evidences some little of the
manners and polish of London, added to the news-
papers from thence (for country newspapers have
neither novelty, life, nor iudepeadeace, with a few
exceptions, and are mere canvass,. stoat excite aad
keep up a spirit of ingots', besides giving mfieress.
hots, the inhabitants of the country would be all
downright boors to the Loudocierr. From London
has flowed in a continued stream over the king-
dom, all its refinement and information ; it is from
thence that the farthest corners of the land have
been fertilized at litter or remoter periods, and try
London is the current still kept up.
There is a fashion lately come in of praising the
country at the expense oh Loudon, and comparing
meadows, hedgerows, corn-fields, • and blue skies,
with brick walls, a foggy atmosphere, and sooty
streets ; as if London had wallow more to display
in the arena of dispute on this subject. The advo-
cates of the country bring all their strength into the
field—and whit is that all but a few things pleasing
to the eye ?—while London has a vast reserve to
bring forward, and in modern warfare the reserve is
the hope of the battle. Art, science, literature,
fashion—all the stores of intellect—all that is truly
noble and great. concentrate in London. It is a
vast storehouse for the urinal, perpetually iiscreating
its contents, and delivering them to the multitude.
In die country the mind degenerates ; its know.
ledge of what is moving on the great stage of life
gets more and more confined, and it rapidly dimi-
nishes its stock of idea, : while in London the entire
Of human life, in all its shifting variety of forms
and inexhaustible combinations, is united in one
focus.

" How great the mystery ! let others sing
The circling year, and promise of the opting,
The suanswer's glory, apd the rich repose
Of aniernm, and the elater'a silvery snows :
Man through the changing *eerie let me pursues
Himself how laundrette is his changes too ;
Nut man the sullen savage in his den,
But men called forth in fellowship with men."

What is • country life but a mere tepetitinn of
the same things—a very round-aboot--the "!abater
of labeler i• mane rolebilis cerim r. if man be
placed upon the earth to perform high duties, he
eauuot fulfil them by gazing upon luxuriant foli-
age, or betiding over the reflection of his own image
io a trout-stre 0000 . He must live in a congregation
of his species, witch their pursuits, mingle in their
amusements, listen to their complaints, and even
indulge in their vanities.
The advocates for • country life contend strongly
for the superior moral excellence of country people.
This, however, is not a tenable po.ition ; there to a
greater aggregate of virtue in London than in au
equal population in the country. Besides, country
people are more shy in their vices, and are apt to
conceal those which a Londoner would commit, at
least without such hypocrisy. In the country men
are often virtuous from ("relit% no temptation to be
otherwise ; wink its London, the man ol virtue,
surrounded by snares, yet invulnerable to ten.pts.
non, exhibits the moral character in much higher
perfection. The muddily of the countryman often
arise, out of blind custom, or the fear of drt.ctiou
in evil ; while that of the Londoner must originate
more in principle. It is trite that among great mita.
Mations of men the greatest extremes will always
be found ; but there is a sort of liberality even in
the vices of London which those of the contitry do
not exhibit :—the profligacy of the country is also
courser than that of the town, sod it is equally
abandoned.

As to the simplicity. rural love. unsophisticated
manners. and primitive innocency of country life, if
they exist beyond the gilded ludo that eucit.le. the
poet's dream, or b•coud the vision.') field

" Beneath as aged oak Lae&lla ties
Gomm alma het couch, her canopy the skies.
From sonmatie shrubs the roguish gale
Meals young perfumes, sad safe. them throagh the vale.
The youth timed seats, sad skill'd is rustic lays,
Fast by IH r side his morass desesat plays.
Herds lOW, fid4 Its bleat, pies chatter, stream,
Asti the fall chorus dies adoato the stream."
The London chambermaid, or the smirking wait.
mg-woman of my lady, are far before the rustic in
neatness of dress, elegance of appearance, Hood intel-
ligence. What is there captivating in the drabs of
• farmer's kitchen, or the Pastorals of his turnip.
field ? A cottage and cottage love may sound well
in a tale, and way be very pretty things to hang
poetical associations upon; but I hate hogsties. and
smoky peat II es are, to my seeming. a bad substi-
tute for Wallsesid and Russel's Main, blazing
through the polish of a London grate.
Then, as to rural spurts, what an animal is a fox-
hooter ; yelling, like an Indian savage, after an un-
An'llailmle animal, that be pursues over hedge and
divh, fur twelve successive hour., with a regiment
of yelping curs; and finishing his day's diversion
with a drunken debauch ! That statue-like bring
the angler, also, who stands a whole day among wit
flags to be repaid with a •' glorious .isibble," the
very image of wriproductive population, of stagnant
bodily !sod intellectual power►! A walk in Hyde
Park. a Thames aster-party, a visit to Vauxhall, o►
to the theatre, are superior pleasures, giving
and communicating social delight. The good
health enjoyed by that portion of the city's popu-
lation which is not confuted to labours directly
prejudicial to being, sheers that the violence of
country exercise is not essential to good health.
Men live to as great an age in Loudon as in the re-
motest villages of the country. I would not he
thought to disparage the beauties of nature; on.
the contrary, I think they are very delightful in
their way ; but

—"The loveliest pooped' way be sees
Till half their beautit s fade."
We cannot look at a green field for ever, and I al.
ways feel in ■ stale of widowhood when I am long
among them. lam isolated, and become melan-
choly and dull; nor do I recover until I fiud my-
self again on
"The 'steel shady side of Pallioalli"

or watching " the full tide of human existence"
rolling its triple current at Charing cross. If we
must see trees. we have them in the Parks ; and
our rooms are filled with exotic plAnts, to which
both " Perse and Ind" have contributed their
share. London, excellent as it is. cannot give
every thing. we cannot hove town and country sox;
but we have almonacks to inform us how the year
passes on, and if we do not choose to consult
these

" Set efts iv e c►ies lbe rwaacres chance prepare,
Aud smart the uterthly progress of the year:—
Hark ! how Ike Witte with treble voters nag,
Tu the buiestrome product of °reap:off."

In the country, it is true, a matt may be intellee-
tuAlly busy. flaring first stored his mind in London,
he may go into the country and rest quiet till he
has cbgeiaell, like a gorged serpent, what he has
swallowed ; but cannot he do this as wall in Lon-
don The seclusion of a chamber in the Temple,
or a back room op two pair of stairs iu a peaceable
street, has the advantage of • viriiiity to life and
bustle, and to the lively scenes of fashion, without
going filly mile, to relax among them. There are
hermits iu London, who, for twenty years together,
have scarcely looked out of their front doors, and
have had little reason to complain of interruption.

The charities of life are no where exhibited to ouch
perfection as in London : there they go hand in
hand with the refinements of luxury. There is
snore good dime in London in the space of • year,
and done, too, from praiseworthy motives. than in
•II the pert of the kingdom besides in double that
space of time. While the country housewife is
doling out •r farthings to the poor," the town Isdy
is giving away pounds, and that, too, where the
value of money is most sensibly experienced. Close
living sod hoarding use the bane of benevolence ;
the prodigal is always charitable, the miser cruel ;
generosity is most rife where all is on the largest
scale, and the mod, accustomed to contemplate
things of magnitude, scorns to be little ouly in its
measures of beneficence. Thus great good is done
in London with far less effort than accompanies the
microcosmic charities of the country.
To the disciple of literature, London is the great
focus of enjoyment. TI e student may, us before
oh I, go into she country to digest what he has
taken of mullet:tool food, het he can enjoy the
feast uo where but there. Men and books in all
possible variety may he there contemplated, and
that kuosledgi acquired a Inch alone leads to lite-

vary excellence. The greatest mete the schools
have sent forth were unknoviu to the public until
they lied unlearned much of what they had learned
in them, discarded the stiffeiesa of iietlaotte
and caught. olthost by intuition, thus he owledge
which London and its society affords, remodelling
also their opinions before they could attain c le
Many who were only thought dunces at Os'end sir
Cambridge, or were scarcely noticed for plea
there, have been drawn forth by the inspiring rtlrrt
of London, and attained immortal eminence. Thus
London has matriculated all is her more liberal
circle. mad without her genial power many a man,
now greet, would bare remained .4 unknowing and
unknown." Her institutions, libraries. lector...
museum.. her booksellers' shops, and rendezrobt
of talented men, are advsistages which the country
cannot Ward, and must ever confer upon her the
pre-eminence in the ryes of literary meth In the
country, except among the better class of persons,
the ignorance of the people respecting all that they
do not see, and even some part of what they do, is
surprising. In London every class is comparatively
wise. Burke said, that one of the best speakers
and plain sensible men he had ever heard was a
journeyman carpenter, at a debating society which
he had himself attended in London.
A onion is more independent in London than he
can ever be in the country. He may utter his opi.
Moos 'in the public coffer-rooth without fearing the
revenge of the parson. the attorney, or the excise-
man, those tyrant. of the village. in case he pre-
sume to oppose their dicta in matters of religion or
politics. In London, people mind their own affairs,
and are liberal and tolerant towards ouch as differ
from them in opinion. the sure sign of superior
mental cultivation. Scandal is not propagated
there, as it is in the country, fur the actions sod
conduct of next-door-neighbours raise little curio.
city. London is adapted to all pursuit•. and every
man finds his own followed op to a pitch of excel-
lence of which he had little idea till he witnessed it.
The politicise' may there Study politics, mid observe
the nor of the most discriminating multitude
in the *odd; the merchant find himself in the first
of commercial cities; the lover of the drama in the
best field for dramatic excellence ; the man of
pleasure in the best scene of enjoyment ; the philo-
sopher on the spot where every subject for obser-
vation is congregated, upou which he may meditate
undisturbed ; and the philanthropist at the place of
all others where there is the widest field for the
exercise of his benevolence. Cell all these things
he ►aid of the' country ? Shades of Juhusou and of
De Steel! names not easily forgotten. how wis.ly
ye preferred the advantages of city life I The
" literary colossus" has left testimonies to his con-
viction of the superiority of Loud, n not easily USTY..
turned. Dail to thee, mighty city of Cockaigne !
they who impudently jeer thee, whether the iosidi-
diens fry .of northern libeller.. or the ill-judging
race who assert the superiority over thee ut spring
hedge-rows, green.mant led pools,mtid cottages mode
for poverty and love, cawing rookeries, village Cin•
derellas, Curydons, utirophisticate
Deltas, pickle-making aunt.,
" Demurest of the tabby kind?"
fox-hunting 'miniver, rural parsons, "much be-
mused in beer," mitt the whole race of thy traducers
—may they, one and all, be condemned to slumber
1•or ever in the rust of dulness, and die fottened in
the sties which tln•y hare erected for themselves
in the " bulbs" of their own " ignorance." Whilst
thy empire. dark-brown Augusts, shall extend
on every hood, sell over thouauoila of additional
population. Highgate imil Hamprtead, Greenwich
and Deptford, shall ere long be donne:dialed with
ante; and even Richmond Dill be within thy yie-
csit. on which thou ma}st erect thy capitol. so that
the city of the seven hill. can no more he said to
have outrhune titre in extent thou iu freshness of
glory !

MR. BoWkING.

SOOLOCISS-StIII7IIER. TUESDAY, Oct. 24.

Strict orders have bet!, i.botd by the French
Government to the Dimaniers at Calais to search
every person who lauds minutely. It is prennueil
troy the investigation which they bestow upon the
papers which they And i.i baggitg., thin they have
instructions to seize any tenet directed to Luis-
peqed character.

-
. 4 WRDNEID.T, OCT. 43. OMR O'CLOCZ. •
I have been favoured with some important info,-
ostlers relative to Mr. Buwring by Mr. Hutchin-
son's-who has behaved in the twist gentlemanly.
manner towards that tndividu.l. Mr. Husehinsois
has been indefatigable in endeavouring to obtains •
relssation in the prison discipline, awl thinugh bins
the Prucureur do Rol tows thewn every possible at-
tention. Some Greek hooks, lent by Mr. Hutchin-
son, were allowed to be Cent to Mr. Bowriatg. but
not • newspaper of any kiwi, or a sealed letter.
either from or to that getitlentan. I have had the
satisfaction of perusing a letter from Sir Chairlea
Stuart to at distingttiolied chancier here, in which
he says, that " from the numerous and very
spectable applications mole to him in favour of
Mr. Bowrisig, he wag highly interested its his ft. -
half, and would use every exertion its hie pow.r.'•
Sir Charles has behaved in the must Is.deitesast.•st
and honourable manner in this affair. Ills coualu.
will refltct honour upon the British charade..

IWO O'CLOCK.

I have been admitted In Mr. Booting, betogte
first Englishman to whom he has i.pukeu for twelve
days, Mr. littit:lmt.ort haying seen him only for a
few minutes when first ortest.d. At a late hour
last night a new interrogatory of four pages arrived
in Boulogne, with orders from the French Govern-
tritest that the secret should be taken off whets Mr.
B. ha.' maswerell the goestiolm. lie was examined
this morning. One of the questions, Mr. Boariug
tells me, ran neat fy thus :—'• Did sot Fabrier apply
to you for fonds to precut, the release of the con—
:presto's recently executed, and did re not corm
to France for that purpose ?" Ambit). r : Were
or '•eel connected is this way wish the families qf