The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1807-01-09 00:00:00

LOPE If E

A few Jay's since, a younw Genilernan arrived at
,t v's Hotel, in St. .lames's-street, and desired a
e,,ei ishnuld be diredeii to bring him some stock-
-ngs :o look at ; having selected what he wanted. he
siresl the hos,er to come at nine o'clock the tng-
e mou.ng, for payment ; before the hosier ar-
rived, a .. ai-e came to the door, into which his
ltsggag- • i pot ; aid he was o the eve of setting
off, %she:, i:re hosier appeared, and insisted on
hAvirg his money. The youth offered a draft,
xshicr wcii ant he accepted, and he was oblig-
ed so ci:-.^.7-ss urns if the son of an Irish Bishop,
wh.: L i•! ', t.uniii..rl on a trip to lomdon, on his way
to . -i! roma friends at Bath; that having given
irs twat- Coe slip, and being totally unacquainted
v•th viesxpences of a journey, his cash was exhaust-
sl. allike war at slut moment pennykss; from
C.ris disagreeable situat'on he was, howev r, relieved,
!y the arrival of two Gentlemen, who had pursued
t'e runaway !torn Leland ; and who, aster pgyiaz
Zia bills, couduOed Lim back.

ViSCOOnTett LOWTH It It it elected Lady Pero-
?lns of the Lying Inn Charity at Whitehaver,
the following Ladies, Ntrs. P. DIXON, Mrs. I,CW rn-
warm Mrs huts ( ilensin,oam), Mrs. rm.,
llis. JOTTPH DII.IN, Mrs. JOHN • TIWASD, Mrs.
ANTHONY' THOMPSON, and Mrs. Jossen Bft %rso, are
rpointed the Cenumttee tor the preacot year ; 84
poor women have been relieved during the 14IT
year.

The Bishop of r.q"iDON is at Bath, much indis-
posed, which vas the cause of his Lord.ihip not at-
tending the commemco anion of the festival of the
Epi-
phany, on Tuesday, at the Chrpel Royal.
Mr. HCLL, late of the Edinburgh Theatre, has
opened, in that city.. A Rigmarole Repository; to
►rush sea), the Canker of Care, and dislodge the
Cobwebs of Melancholy ;" which is attended by all
the votaries of Mirth.

The Duke of Gtouctsrea's Loyal Volunteers
rill dine togsther, in uniform, on Thursday next,
at the Thatched clause Tavern, St. Jam 'es-street,
to celebrate the birth-day of his Royal Highness.
Viscount COURTLN AT has purchased the late Tsai-
d^nce of the Duke of YORK, in Portman-square,
with its valuable furniture, for six thousand guineas.
Mrs. Pcwiev, ti-devant the lively Miss SIMMS,
of Covent-Garden Theatre, is performing at the
tics/castle-Theatre, with the greatest MI. On
Mon.:ay tat, she played Little P,d'e with the most
unbonnded applause ; as the cranial,' of All nierit,
she is compared to Mrs. JORDAN in that part.
The Right Hon. JOHN PHILPOT CustaAN, the
frist Master of the Rolls, attended below the bar
of Cie House of Lords, yesterday, during the fur-
ther hearing of the Irish cause, CHASSE-SY versa.
Lard Masan,. There were some other Irish
Brrristers present.
On Wednesday, his Grace the Duke of Nutt.
risuatiansirro and Family passed through New-
...sae on their road to London. The Duke, with
the approbation of His MaJesr v, has appointed Sir
if. E. Swassurtue, Bart. Vice-Lieotenant of the
comity in his Grace', Aasence; and also A tic Meat°
Re a, Esq. Mayor, for Newcastle-up,m-Tyrie
The remains of Mt. HASI.LV, WI Attorney, were
deposited yesterday morning in St Clcnient's Church-
7ard. The body lay for some days in state, at his
Chambers, in the New Inn, from which it was con-
veyed to the burial ground, a distance of afinut fifty
yards, in a hearse and six, followed by several
blowing coaches and tour.
AtTLSY'S PAVILION, NIA`CASTL STRCETp
StilAND.—From the uncommon strength and ex-
ec:leace of Entertainments this Evoning, we should
inl4;line this rheatrewill he as crowed as it has been
this Season ; it is composed of remarkably fine
mist beautiful Dance. in Forte AEh ;
the Grand Cavalry Military Pantomime, Ste. which
Pfece will be performed Tins and l'amorrow Even-
i'Ts for the last time this Season. On Morn ar
ars; a New 'Pantomime, from the pen of Mr.
Clumsy AX, will be produced, fur the first time, at
Theatre.

MANNERS OF PARTS.

(111101( A GERMAN PAPER.)

It is starcely fifteen years since the reign of the
National Convention and the popular Assemblies;
and, nevertheless, the same generation is still living
at Paris. He who then beheld that city, and now
sees it again, might daily weep over things at which
at that time he perhaps laughed, and laugh at others
over which he then wept. I recoiled, but too well,
the man with an expressive physiognomy, till in
stature, and with distended paunch, when he meets
me in the street, carrying a bandbox on his arm.
He is undoubtedly in the service of some milliner
or hairdresser. My resped for Time, that Deity who
so strangely governs human affairs, prevents me
from inquiring whether his present destiny depends
on the clmb or the needle. In the year 1792, he
was an orator, a leading man in one of the most ce-
lebrated fasiziourgo of Paris. Heaven forbid that
I should ever attempt to make him an ohjed of ridi-
cule ! Hr was then an honest man, not a seducer
of the people; his principl•ts were pure, notwith-
standing the corruption of the times ; be entertained
the utmost abhorrence of the atrocities 4 Marat and
Chaslier. He was once cbsrged witn important
commissions by the then in part incorrupt A.imi-.i-
stration. He was esteemed and employed uy a m..n
of honour, and of consequences and that man now
has a place in the Senate, and in the Legion of Ho-
nour. It is possible that the matt with the hand-
box may be t3O proud to make application at the
Luxembourg ; but, certainly, the man with the rib-
bon is of too noble a disposition to be offendad at
such a visit.

I enter a church, joist at the moment when high
mass is performing; the immaculate divine, who
is giving his benediction to the people, is known to
me ; I recoiled pertedly will that he wee once im-
pure, like many other men He abjured the oath
taken by the priesthood, married, begot children,
obtained a divorcz, and reconciled him,elf with
Heaven. Fortunately for him, the fruits of his
former aber-ation, dropped before they were
ripe ; the tree that bore them has long been trans-
planted into another field. This change is cer-
tainly for the better: those who once approved t:..e
violation of his vow, had no occasion, with their
former principles, for such an edifying er imple.
The marriage of priests may be permitted, it is
true, in all the regions of the globe ; hut it
was this, that, with other innovations in religion,
proved the bane of the revoluion. The blessing
which the man now dispenses, is certainly of greater
importance than the scandal which he then created.
His qmonSms wife likewise thinks the careues of
her present hushand more natural, because she re-
ceives them in Christian honour : in the former en-
dearments of his reverence, there was always some-
thing, which, in consequence of her education, she
considered as forbidden fruit. For this reason, the
most licentious Frenchwoman always pities a Pro-
testant parson, as a species of heathen ; and at the
mention of a parsow's *A, almost kills herself with
laughter.
I was addressed, yesterday, at the corner of the
street, by a man, whom I immediately recognised
as one of the best informed politicians of former
times. He was a newsman long before, and after
Robespierre; I recolleded that he had once sold me
diurnal prints, by hundreds. When I was desirous
of learning the secrets of the popular insurr dions.
that names of the principal persons in this or that as-
sembly of the people, the private measures adopted
with 'esp.& to bread, or to foreigners, I had nothing
to do but to apply in confidence to this man. .s You
are an honest fellow," he would reply, " though
you are a foreigner, and will not make a bad use of
what I tell you." On roost subjeis, he actually
was very well informed. I remember well, how
sensibly he spoke concerning the war in La Vendee ;
how, at the taking of Amsterdam, he had multi-
tudes of people about kim, to whom he was preach-
ing about happiness and tranquillity; and particu-
larly how, at the presentation of the Swedish Am-
bassador, M. de Steel, at the bar of the National
Convention, he said significantly to me : " This King
is to-day the first, perhaps he will once be the last
to acknowledge us." When I yesterday met again
with this man of former times, my ideas were na-
turally direded towards politics ; but to my first
question, as to his opinion of the present state of
things, he replied with a smile ; •' I give myself no
concern now abort those things; all my care now is
to get oats and hay for my horses, and a decent
coat to my back."—" Coachman," said some one,
who just then came up to us, "do you want a fare ?"
I looked iouni, and immediately discovered that
my former diplomatic revolutionary citizen; he,
who once knew mute than now a days a clef de dive.-
sioq in many an office for foreign affairs, had now
quitted the track of politics, and was ignorant even
of the secrets of those whom he drove about in his
if acre.

'Twenty yeas a&o U. populace here was styled

as tees tiul tea yc.trs *leer, it stAi in full possession
of it: tide—,be People; and now this portion of the
inhabitants of Paris are obliged to put up with the
somewhat hat:shier .qipellation of-41.1c lcwrr dories.
I never saw them as the ,artaite : whit they were
as the people, is known to every one. But if, in the
latter capacity, they were wretchedly governed, it
mistaken policy, thirteen years ago, now placed the
dagger in their hands, and now snatched it from
them ; hit, as Ihr layer classes, they are by far not
so meal, as the higher classes are arrogant. This
ex-people is industrious and peaceable ; looks hack,
without malignity, 4)2 the lost privileges of its revo
lutionary exaltation, and forgets its former sove-
reignty in the names of Austerlitz and Napoleon.—
l'he lower class no.v pay no taxes, unless they carry
on some business or trade ; it is well known that
the furniture, house, and watch-rates, are as good
AS abolished; and persons ahle to pay ground-rent
never belonged to this class. Their principal im-
posts are paid for their palate or for their hopes:
that is, for wine, or for lottery tickets. The fish-
wife has now no occasion to inquire concerning the
value of (resigned:, or the keeper of a chandler's shop
that of dooms. Then again, they are neither phy-
sically nor morally tsar ratorrr; that is, they nei-
ther envy the rich, nor do they appear in rags and
wasp-pointed caps. It was only at the early pe-
, riod: of the revolution that the young volunteer took
up arms in the caste of liberty ; afterwards, for
every efledive man in a corps, might be reckoned
one deserter; n.iw they are impelled by the more
powerful motive—honour. and that reaped for the
Cvmmissary of Police, and Sub- Prefed, which has
succeeded to the former anarchy The daughter
of the most common person has a new gown every
three or four months; in the times of liberty and
equality, she was assuredly not more chaste than at
present ; but neither libertinism nor industry would
then have procured her the daily 20 or 30 sols
which enable her logo to Tivoli. Eleven or twelve
years ago, when she WAS but a little girl, and was
crying nut for bread, with the savage hordes in the
hall of the Convention, she wore a ragged shift,
and at best a Linsey svoiAsey apron ; now she pa-
rades in the very same garden of the Thuilleries, in
a white robe, coloured shoes, and an embroidered
neck-handkerchief. She still belongs to the people
of' the lower class; but she no longer thinks of
bread, but of a treat of chocolate or ice-cream.

THE LATE MR. CHRIsTOPHER BROU'Ar.

On Tuesday evening last died, In the 64th year
of his age. Mr. Christopher Brown, of Oxford
Arms-passage, Warwick-lane; a gentleman well
' known among the Booksellers of the Metropolis, ot
the last, as well as the present generation. In early
lite he was placed in the house of Baldwin, ot Pater-
noster-row, wt•err he remained for seven years, and
acquired a knowledge of the hookselling business.
He then engaged himself to the late Mr. Longman,
as an assistant, and continued to serve him, with un-
swerving integrity and fidelity, during the lo.ig
period of SS years; and after that gentleman retired,
and relinquished the business in taviur ot his son,
the present Mr. Longman, Mr. Brown remained,
as an honourable fixture, in his place, for seven
years longer ; when, in a manner, and under eit-
cumstanees highly creditable to all parties, he was
iodated to retire to rest, from the fatigues of a long
life of labour and exertion, and to pass the evening
of his days in tranquillity. ft will be deemed no
trivial eulogiure, to say ot him, and it may be as-
serted with truth, that wherever he was known he
was respelled. As a servant, no man ever evinced
more integrity, or more solicitude to promote the
interest of his employer; as a friend. no one could
be mare sincere and faithful; and as a husband
an I father. no one more tender. indulgent, and
affationate.