The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-04-01 00:00:00

EION.4DLE INTELLIGCNCE.

The DA* of York will have a grand dinner party on the 9th
inst. in the Rtstrle-yard, St. James's.
Viscount f'attetan entertained the Duke and Duchess of I.rvds
and a distinguished party at dinner yesterday, at his house ar
I.:purge-street, litutorer-syuarr.
The Earl of lharnley entertained the Directors of the "loch :le
Music and a large piety at dinner yesterday, at his house iu
I terk eley
Lewd Ellenborough will have a grand dinner party oa Satur&y,
at him seat, 1(061'11;1)ton.
Gent-ral Huss will entertain the Duke of York and a lats.(' pane
lof srottiogoished lictsanagirs at dial's.: this day, at Ilia
l'orthit;d:place.
Mrs. Benyon had a dinner party yesterday, at her house iu
flrosvenor-'.quire.
The Hight lion. R. Ryder had a large party at dinner yea:ealy,.
at his house in Grosvenor-street. . .

Sir Edmund and Mi.. If artopp have arrived at AVarren's
Regent-street, f}ran their %eat, Four Oaks, IVarwiek.hire.
Ittnarturm front the 11'aterloo Hotel, Jermyn•strecti-11
ColtitA Francis Russell, Mr Portsmouth; ffoa. Captain ti orgg
Itu.sell, R.N. for the Duke of Richmond's seat, Gootrtual,
sex ; and Br. Ilvlterden, for Bookham, Surrey.
Arrivals at Orator'''. Hotel, Albemarle-street:—James
gerald, Esq. &OM the l'outinent ; Lord and Lady Witliatli
tiiick. Dapartures front ditto:—Thomas Bonner, £3. Mr
Brighton ; and John Ittlietson. Esq. for fleltenbarn.
3.loljair aelvenotte hat arrived at the Pulteney Albemarle,
stvet, from a tour.
('Montl, 51rs., and 31 iv; MliregoT, left the St. Pettn!,•:rgti
/foul, I/over .aired, yesterday, for their seat, langlord Ha,
(Jurdoe. E.g. has arrived at Nerot's liotd, Clitrard.sneet.
I r fond-street, font Ins seat in Norfolk.
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ArrsralN at !Blake's Ilotcl, Jereoyneetreet :—The Earl of t*
ford nod land Acheson, from SOlfuli and T. W• S WU. ti Wl*
tif Mrs. and 3lias Steuart, from Sunning Dale. !leeks. I).Fm.
tures :--31e. and Mts. Spankie and family, for titer
Viumuleoitroct ; apd 3Jrs. and Miss Lister, for Burwell
Uncut:ll.ll;re.

Arrivals at tlatiopg's Hotcl, 0:foul-street :--Sir Henry and
Toady fitzberlacrs and Miss fitzberkert ; Mr. and Aiss. Haan',
flout a tour ; Air. and Mn. A. Houblon, from Knee ; and )lia.
Doane, from Chekcitham. Departures :—Hon. Air. and Airs.
Stapleton, for Tunbridge Was ; Mr. Mn. and the Dim., Cubic,
for Catfold, Norwich ; Colonel Wollaston, kw llutckloy P. N.
liolv.rts. Esl., for Esher; Mn. Brown, for Esher; 311 s.
and the Mitors }Anton, frr 'Wade°, Hunts 1 and J AMC% WiatO,
Esq., fur Clifton.

PARIS.

[FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, MARCH ?9.
I suppose, from my long silence, you began to conclude
that I was gone to the land of my fathers; but the truth
is, I have been spending souse tune among the ntliis of
acme, and of late have *tamely exchanged a word but
with ECHO, or a look but now and then with the classical
bust of a hem, or the statue of an artiet or a detni-;,rod.
I had a copy of the Eloqe de la Folic, by the renowned
Erasmus, in my travelling trunk, and a copy of Ilolisein's
Dome des Marta. These were my only intellectuals, and
they were an excellent comment on each ogee. I hare at
length returned to Paris, though not in the cemptrisori
much delighted with my resting-place. Sycophants set)
apostates multiply here without end; the reverse of Mr.
MALT it 8.6 doctrine moms to hold as to this visa. The
population, so far from being kept down by t meets of
subsistence, has ass inclination always to rise tar ober? Can
level. According to that great political economist, the
number of a people augments in *geometrical progreutca;
hut with this code there seems no principle of
Corruption, like capital, has a perpetual- tendency to posh
its way into new entrhvneals, and so it goes ou till every
branch is tilled with it.

The Chamber of Deputies, as yon will have. seen by
the French Papers, are all on the right side. It is truly
surprising with what apathy the Parisians appear to h.ive
surrendered their freedom. You would never suspect that
a revolution hail, within the last thirty years, shaken
France to its foundation, and turned the world of royalty
upside down. There is no trace left of that electrical
shock of sentiment and opinion which seemed to have
revered the human character, and to have recast BO-
ciety in a new tnonld. Monsieur le Comp& has re-ap-
pealed with all his pliancy of mind and flexibility of
muscle, cut the veteran Monsieur le 31orques recounts
his gallantries, as if nothing bad Lapp:mid in the in-
terval of half a century, to impair his enjoyment.
Never in the very meridian of NAPOLEON s supre-
macy were the corps of moueliards so numerous as at
present; they are a swarm of military locusts, which beset
your path in every directik-. ; spies likewise iusinuate
thema:lves everywhere, and exist in every shape, from
the Croix de Si. Louis to the Garcon Jerkier. This you
may well believe spreads distrust through every domestic
circle, and compels the more guarded to express their
thoughts rather in looks than in language. Report says,
and I have no reason to question it, that three thousand
individuals are annually arrested in Paris and the de-
partments, under various pretexts; and after suffering
from one to six months imprisonment, as the case may be,
without any public accusation, are at length: liberated,
without being brought to trial ; and with no other satin.
faction than heinginformed that no ground of charge csa
be proved against them. And yet the Parisians live oa,
after all,.smiling and shrugging, as if there were nothing se-
rious in this world; and should the ocean on a sudden
cease to flow, I do believe they would still live on in the
same way. A young Advocate has been itn.prisonrd in
La Foree six months, on the charge of having shouted
out " !" about the time of the famous at-
mutation : his period of confinement expires to-morrow.
CsSDINAL Di; ltroz says, he never could succeed is
making Anne of Austris understand the words n hies
publique." Her Austrian Highness has a long mein of lr-
Titimute relative:, to whose royal comprehension the phrase
is equally inexplicable. There is an hereditary dulness in
that respect, which seems to run in the family. One
would have thought that the present revolutionary state c
Europe was of itself enough to make the public good, alt
the policy of promoting it sufficiently intelligil,le ; bee
you cannot make this 'lndere:total even to the allitd Poten-
tates ; this hot,/ brotherhood would not believe in it. were
even the prophets to rise from the dead. Their mile-
cility is not to be surmounted. They are ui itli,•r to
be convinced by a demonstration nor a miracle. 'lle
ruin of Route, we may remember. was asia-nip:isli,d
by a trinenvitifte. The history of it mot:aims wai-
ter of momentous instruction to Europe. " II," rye
Hobbes, " a man be against philosophy, philosophy will
be against him." So likewise, if the rulers of a mit ien arc
ga
ainst freedom, freedom will be against them ; ant' is r
quirk a no spirit of prophecy to foretcl which, in the k ci,
will triwnph.
The weather here is drearytin the extreme. The fasii.,cn-
ables of Paris were disappointed of their accustom,
menade on Smiday. 'I he moaning was cold, be:
were occasional gleams of sunshine sufficient to tetaiii
haul tom abroad, when on a sudden the snow began Ao
heavily and in large flats, which in a dun time Li-ti
Gallic squadrons, and chased the comps for the rent e:
the day.

fatutin,s Count Ceorge Sta4;poole, aminst r..4•Lt;im
charge was a short time.agapriferreel fur cm htstabitt:. tit of
his nephew's property, whose CIISC wen stliutiged-berrr.: :1)0
(..ourt of Assize of Pr.ris, and which created a consitlirti';',-
sensation both here and in London, dial on Thnrsdav
at his hotel in Rue St. 11,,nuee, in the 93th year of b
Although we have not yet lset,;tin to .3fecadarrii:r,
plans are projected for the improvement of the freet•
among which may be number:xi tie proposal for wit"eT;tyi
1.1 Rite de Doe, opposite the Pont Reval, and
the Rue de Series. This is one of the hest extended ....tt•ti.
in Paris, but +tory ejectionable Lan its many 4;4.w-o:is..
't plan is now lying for puOlic inspection at the.. -
the loth Areimilie.,entent, 1%11..re any sti-zgesrioni 4Y'''
provement from sc;entifie men arc rec.:iced till the :'•
next, month, for the enlargement of tint street six I.'l, -1
faros it-proceeds in a straight line, ethical is frctu the tt-:.tv
/Oran/ to Let
Among other roads, the rota in ruin is
day ; hut the interested er neer! of the restored t
in theesuse of mi:intry thspotisin, must soon:2. er I.ttt.l • t:
brukcn up. Thing. cannot go on long in the
eaurse; bat in whtu it will end it were feat-WI to t;i4:!'t•
eta long as Louis the Eighteenth survive his intrtr.:'"s
there will be enough, perhaps, of that 4• proud
tl uleietwe' which ilutke so much rLy.
to keep the surface of atiiiirs.stootith ; but whenever too
afilieted Monarch is carted upon to give an accivalt
s ewardship, and to exchange his earthly
event, c'epetl upon it, will put a confect-racy ;:! t•
the strtaigth of' which, it
is
.110 W not -t`ilSV In
but the energy of svbieb, it will be 14‘I: still leas4:4 t`i
overcome.