The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-02-11 00:00:00

FASHIONA OLE INTkLLIGENCE.

Lady Smith entertained a distinguished patty at dinner on 3100-
day, at her house in Piccadilly.
The lion. Agar Ellis, M. P. will have a grand dinner on Fri-
day, at his house in Spring flanlens.
Mrs. Tighe will have a dinner and evening party this day, at
her house in St..latnes's-plare.
John Wcyland. Esq. had a dinner party yesterday, a• his house
in Cork-street, Bond-street.
The Duke of Grafton has left town fur his seat, Wakefield
lAidge, Stony Stratford.

11:-411 Riven left town yesterday, for Ina seat, flare Park, New.
market.

11'ilbrahani Egerton, E,.q. 31. P. arrived yesterday, at his house
in St..larnea'a Square, from hi. seat, Tatum Park, 'hexhire.
John Calvert, Esq. M. P. hw. arrived at his bowie in Upper
Win-yule-street, from his seat, Albury llall, Itishops' Storttord,
Hens.

Lord Suffield has arrived at his house in Park-place, from his
lest, Gunton Ilall, Norfolk.

The Hun. ('apt. Frederick Spencer, left town yesterday, for
Chatham.

J. l'recrey, E•q M. P. has arrived at his house in Vork-atrcet,
from Northumberland.

FAq. has arrived at Fenton's hotel, St. James's-
street, from Ireland.

Col. Ti.tes left flould's lintel, Jermyn-street, yesterday, for
Iferts.

Arrivals at Jordan's lintel, St. Jamen's-strce :--.sir Thomas
M'inningron, Hart. 31. I'., from M'oreentershir • ; 31r.. Mrs. and
the Misses Evans. from their seat near Cheltenham ; John Taylor,
Esq. from Worcester : —1 kipartures, lien. and Mrs. Slade, and Miss
Dawson. for Suffiilk; T. Gooch, Esq. M.l'. for his seat in SOWS:
Mr. and Mrs. 31oriand, and Mrs. Ilenry 3lorland, tne their seat
in Kent; Mr. !lodges, fur his seat in Kent ; Smith Marriott, Esq.
for his sear in E.sex.

Col. Edwards left lake's Hotel, Jennyn-street, yesterday, for
Herts.

The Bishop of Limerick has arrived at his house, in Curton-
street, from Ireland.
Captain Mills. R.N. has left town for Portsmouth.
Arrivals at Fladong's Hotel, Hs:ford-street :—lieneral Moly-
Deux, from Cheltenham; Edward Prothertie„ Esq. from Bristol;
Mr. and Miss l'ywien. front Narborough, Norfolk; Capt. Fox,
R.N. from a tour: Nicholas, Esq. from a tour; John Hodgson,
Esq. from Chigwell; Peers, Esq. from a tour. 11cpartures—
Mr. and Mrs. Broughton and family ; IMuhigny, Esq. on a
tour; Lady St. Lawrence. to Hampstead ; the Rev. T. Nash,
to Brighton; P. N. Roberta, Esq. to Esher; the 11ev. 11. Gordon,
to 11'uotistook; and the Hon. Mrs. Green, to Sudbury.

PARIS.

IFICOM OUR CoItRESPONDENT.]

PARIS, FEB. B.
The Carnival has commenced at Paris. The
de n,,ureaul,:s grin with masks, and the tuagazins display
a countless variety of dominos and grotesque dresses. This
world is but one great masquerade, in which all play their
parts of folly and deception, until the curtain drops, and
there is an end of the drama. The Parisi*" are allowed
this year ir whole mouth to amuse their evenings at masked
balls, which are announced in every quarter of this light
land lively metropolis. At these comical meetings it fre-
quently happens that discoveries arc made which might
furnish a subject for the tragic muse. But the general
masking of the rarsailk is restricted to the three days pre-
ceding Ash Wednesday. A short compensation this for
the scanty portion of liberty that is doled out to them for
the rest of the year !
. . . _

On Sunday night last, the shop of M. Megret, watch-
maker, in the Rue Royale, St. Martin, was broke open, and
the thieves, who were adepts in their vocations, succeeded
in getting clear off with watches, seals, chains, &c. to the
amount of W,nno francs. The police are on the alert, and
every exertion is making to discover the depredators; as the
watches are numbered and have the makers' names, it is
hoped the search will be ultimately successful.
All who have visited Paris are aware that mid-day is
announced at the Valais lksal on sassy days by the report
of a small cannon, the priming of which is ignited by
means of a lens, which concentrates the solar rays on the
centre of the touch-hole. Yesterday the morning was very
tine. the sun shot forth his beams, and an immense crowd
of liadmils, that class of simpletons which in London you
call ( 'ockiecus' were asaembled to adjust their watches, when
the splendid luminary, on a sudden, covered his face with
a cloud, and the brazen Monitor, sleeping on his post, gave
no e::plosive warning, as was expected, in the ear of old
Time, to the great vexation of the gaping throng, who ex-
pressed their disappointment in terms as bitter as if their
future fate hung within a nail's breadth of the meridian.
You arc all mightily act, I perceive. on emancipating the
negrocs, and are preparing, though not with much wisdom
or moderation, to abolish the slave trade. The Saints are
playing a deeper game than the generality of people seem
to be aware of. I would ask Mr. Wilberforce whether the
West India colonies ever exhibited anything like such a
trandior of human brings as TwoNi EZ ET WAOKANII• have
recently monied ? for such is the barbarous title of an
advertisement which appeared the other day in one of the
Ft-anti:Mel Journals, which gives notice to the public, that
the pulars seigneue ies of 'l'wonicz and Yt'rokanka, situ-
ated in Austria, are to be disposed of by lottery. The
principal prize consists of the first of these seignories, near
Lemberg, in Gallicia, containing a population of 2,000
persons, who are to lee delivered over, hand and pot, to the
possessor of lhrhrteennte ticket. The subjects of the se io-
tie uric of Wrokanka are less numerous. The price of the
tickets is twenty francs each ; the drawing is fixed for
the loth of June next; and subscriptions received by
Messrs. Reiganhum, at Franch:prt-sue-lc-Mein. In this
enlightened age such lowliest are publicly announced and
publicly drawn ! No doubt it will be thought advis-
able to ship oft' a cargo of missionaries to this land of pro-
mise, to convert the lottery-office keepers to the true faith.
It is infinitely a safer and better field for their labours than
Jamaica or Rarbadoes, and offers at least quite as good a
harvest. Their spiritual sickles, if put in lustily among
these tares, might do wonders. An eminent French
preacher of the last century has affirmed, in a panegyrical
sermon on XA VI vs, that this Apostle of the Pope spread
the light of the Goapel through more than three thousand
leagues of country, and subjected no less than fifty-two
kingdoms to the true faith ! If any one had asked of this
pious Orator, where is that country? and where are those
kingdoms? he would have been puzzled for an answer.
The emit' • us zealots with which this age abounds, have
left much deeper traces of conquest than of conversion in
the course of their labours ; and a much wore fruitful
crop of pride, intolerance, violence, and faction, than of
any good seed which they professedly went forth to culti-
vate. The West Indian proprietors seem to be pretty well
on their guard against these sort of spiritual ambassadors,
land they are in the right ; they have good reason.
I have just opened a letter from Dole, in the late pro-
vince of Franche Comte, which relates a melancholy act
of suicide which took place there last week, in the house
of the person by whom the letter is written. A young man
of very handsome person and of very distinguished talents,
but of a strongly pensive turn of mind, appeared, on re-
turning from a long walk, which he had taken, to be
greatly dejecteel, and entering his apartments, he after a i
short time took up a pen and began a letter to his sister in
these words:—" My Love, I AM tired of life,"—(Ma Cheer,
je seas las de lee vie). Ile wrote no further, but retired to
his bed-room, where, placing a fowling-piece to his mouth,
he literally blew his head to pieces. My friend instantly
ran up stairs on hearing the report of a gun, and was u
hastily followed by the mother antd two sisters of the un-
fortunate youth, whose horror and anguish it were• a vain
attempt to describe. No cause whatever can be assigned
for this dreadful act.

It is reported that the two divisions of the French army,
which was left on the frontiers, have returned into Spain,
and that a new corps of reserve is forming.

By the last advices from Zante, we learn that Lord By..
ron has several literary and military gentlemen near him,
who are rendering g►eat services to the Greeks. llis Lord-
ship, however, supports them entirely from his own purse.
It is his intention to establish one or two newspapers in
the most populous parts of Greece.
The case of Smith, the Alissionary, who was recently
tried by a Court-martial at Demerara, still remains under
the consideration of Government. _ _ _

Although there hu been some misapprehension of what
the Minister said respecting the tliteesnauaree of Lotteries., when
he brought in the last Lottery Bill, he certainly announced offici-
ally that Government did not intend to apply to Parliament for
another; this some People miseonstrned,and imagined the Lottery
then ensuing would be the Last, whereat the 10,iklif Tickets now
on Sale formed Put of those allowed by the previous Year's Ac:.
But this is the last Part, and it seems, from the eagerness with
which People buy, they arc fully aware of the few opportimitie,
which remain, and a brisk Sale would probably have occurred with
one of the usual Schemes, but when we consider the irresistible at-
traction of SEVEN 410,000 Prima which Mr. SiVEW NIGHT has
introduced, being more than tioul.le the number in the last, it would
really be surprising if there was hut a brisk sale.