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• Our beloved Paris has recently improved, in an
extrawdinary degree. in twin:it morality, without,
however, losing the smallest portion of its intcrnal
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depravity.
With testae& to elma marriages, the lawyers and
' .. - • divorce-mongers find scarcely any employment; for
~ . . the jostices of the peace treat a husband or a wife.
. •::en they first bring their complaints before them,
too much in the style of moral censors; and besides
this, they d'ter the parties, by drawing a terrible
pidure of the eXpence., chicane, and lung delay, of
law proceedings. Ihe complainants take the mat.
ter once more jam consideration; and, rather than
make the scandal still more public, agree to an
apparent reconciliation, that they may condud
themselves the more shamelessly in private. A sim-
ple wife, who is informed by same malicious gossip
of the dancing hall where her husband spends the
Sunday evening with an acquaintance, as it is
termed, and, in the first imFulse of her passion,
Marries to the spot, and overwhelms the loving
. pair with her scolding and complaints—such a wo-
man is greatly to blame : out of resped to public
decency, she should have kept the matter private ;
she should have reeolieded, that her Lind lord and
master takes only one &Imlay M the whole month
for himself, and that he passes the three others in
her company ; at any rate. she should not have
IT made any n We about seat a tr:fie. When the wo-
men gots to the Magistrate, he does not tzll her
that she is wrong with regard to the principal point,
but he finds fault with t!:e form ; he siys, that in
.'. such cases, people ought not to cut off their nose
to be revenged of their face; that is, confirm their
shame by witnesses. The confessor will exhort her
to reconciliation, at least for.ihe sale of her children,
that they may not be made acquainted with their
father's faults. Hence it is extremely easy to con-
ceive, why a jealous husband, at Paris, has almost
every body against hits ; and why, out of resped to
good murals, he ought to give himself very little
concern about those of his wife. The most import-
ant defy is not to refrein front sin, but to conceal it.
• In the relations between parents and children, a
sim•lar system prevails. The law renders it ex-
tremely difficult. and almost impossible, to marry
contest,- to the will of petters. The law, however,
has not prohibited the procreation of children ; and
it is quite sufficient, if it be not obvious to the public
eye, whether the young progeny are legitimate or
illegitimate, and if they do not come into the world
►efore the face of their parents. There is no viola-
tion of morals, as long as the children have not
polluted the patismal habitation. Thus, in spite
of the difficulty of marrying without the coo-
seat of parents, it is the more easy to form
an illegitimate canneftion ; and a regular house.
keeping betweea persons, the eldest of whom
is frequently not eighteen, is the more corn-
row These connedions deprive the parents of not
the smallest portion of their former resped ; the
children are not aging against their consent, as long
as that consent has neither been deminded nor re-
- With • such establitlir

fused. _ many parents, , an ment
is a dsis:rable objet ; it relieves them from the bur-
den of a dowry ; the two young people maintain
themselves ; say. they have perhaps been sent away
at the of 13 or 14, from their fathers' hous:s. in
order to procure their own subsicence. The grand
nr4her then speaks publicly, and withont rescrve,
not indeed of her grand-children, bot she calls them
children of her sor, who is nit married : the la•Ser.
whose daughter lives in th:s Lind of illegal union,
calls her companion, not her hlshand, but :ter man.
Sila a .'.male obtains abess:ction without any diA-
salty, and she 111- nnthir:; to reproach heisell with


an account of the children ; priest; bark-zed all
die off'pritig of Christians; it is :sot every body that
can pay the marriage-fees, but few are to poor ascot
to be able to scrape together those of a christening.
The magnitude of the city, the multitudes in every
quarter, and even in every house, prevent what
would, strictly speaking, constitute the immoral side
of the business in Mai: that is, nobody takes any
notice et the affair ; and, when a child comas jaw
the world, every one supposes that it has a father,
and he who fetched Ole midwife p isses among the
neighbours not only for the person who ailually
begot the child, but likewise for as good a husband
as the best of them.
In, the more licentious pleasures, of every descrip-
tion, there is no occasion to pay attention to any
thing but to keep up appearances. A handsome
woman, who dresses better than her circumstances
would admit, and on that account justly incurs sus-
picion, is not an object of censure, as Ion: as she
manages her matters with decorum. Nay, what is
still more remarkable, a pretty woman, of the
middling class, who is neither rich nor advan-
tageously married, has not even the right to condo&
herself virtuously. If she complain of the hard-
ness of the times, she is called a simpleton, nr a
stupid creature. who does not know how to observe
exterior de;orum ; she is repr-gclleJ with the mean-
ness of her dress, and i; told to her (ace, that in an
age in which men kn sur how to do i.aszice to tl.e
sex, a woman must he a doss: right toot, or a
haughty prude, not to prnfit by ciumrrstancez. T' us,
a lady who has a natural propens;ty to ;I..sip-emit,
may gratify it with the utmo;t decency ; she is the
more amiable, the more she possesses the talent of
passing certain limits with case ; she has sl much the
more understanding and wit, the more delicate are
the traces in which her deriatiins are discovered ;
th;t is, the more capable she is of living in a hijs
style, and in that portion of the higher class c.f s•-
citty, which values itself not on purity, but on re_
finetnaent of manners. With respeet to a husband
he is oat considered a lewd man, unless he ahso-
!lately neglect his wife. On the sontrary, if he un-
derstand the secret of preserving his domestic
bonear, at the same time that he is wallowing
in every species of debaucher!, his repti:Atian
does not suffer. The language of morally like-
wise comes to his assistance, and he is m Ist repeft-
fully entitled a man of the world. If a rude woggle
should indulge in any animadvers:ons upon him, it
is silenced with this answer: '' Arid what ti-n, it
the man has many cot:mations e" any one has a
propensity to gluttony, he soh:n.6l; to the j0u.,241
At Gamow& ; he lays the last number of t: cn t.is
wviting table, and, ia this manner, passes for aman
of genius. with al! the Seas: eprati Lf whom he is
vi.ited ; though, in feet, he is gathingt,more than a
;el 'Sprit rtirgiwri. or, in ether words, one of the •e
debauchers who make their belly tneW god. The
topers have likewise joined the new corps of rver.
naolf. The word gewinandsie is a kind of hon 'm-
anic standard to which people swear alirgience, in
order to erjoy the prr.teaion of a resp.!fed corps,
and to be enabled to cheat, in a fashionable manner,
that antiquated virtue--Temparam:e.

In the toilette it is still less dirlcult to n 2.4.: ex-
ternal appearance pats for the demonstration of in-
ternal truih. When A lad) goes abroad, she is care-
fully muffled tip to the very chin; as she passes
through the whole street of her quarter, she will
mike no al•eration in her dress; nay, even at the
Theatre, where she meets her usual acquaintances,
she will, at most, reran% e the pin which fastened her
shawl close round her neck, a hand's breadth le.wer.
Rut, in the hall of the ANlLfis CosOrpr, where she is
less observed, or in a pleasure-garden, where she
ventures to dine with a friend; or in the garden of
Frescati, the light muslin is soon execrated as an in.
tolerable burden, and that beauty, which, in r.sodern
times, has won the prize from a regular face, is
submitted to the judgment of connoisseurs v:ho no
longer estimate a wriman by her celestial features,
but by her charming terrestrial subtance. In general,
the fitness of a dress is judged not from its decency,
but from the finenee; of the staff; and, of two fe-
males, ooe of whom ettfers her clothes to bang na-
turally, while the other draws ber woven w:vi, as ale
of the Anzients terms it, quite tight behind her,
with her hand, and appears, at a distance, like a soul
desirous of escaping from its earthly tabernacle, the
first is considered as aleorr.:nably sluttish and C Aft,
less.

In the :lurch, it Lis new come to such a paws
that a certain coqu.try is thought to be mentalism
in the sight of God; bat the Almighty appears to
have conferre:i the delicate gift of drevsing in a very
fasrnatirtz, ilrrer.t manner, to but a few
elth. Tne ;nest: rnai:- me of them as a Lind of
angle ; s. hen these arils.), dis:ribure ehe consecrated
bread, and, at the same time, held out the box of
rhristian benevolence, the blessing of Heaven never
fails to ar-e.rnpvey it ; the looks of the fair suitor
penetrate to the heart, asid then to the purse, of the
yrofhrtte

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1714 E BRlrhSli PittSS.

LONDON,
TUESDAY, SE/TENSER

We hare received New York Papers to the ft.h
last, but they contain no news of any Liter!st. The
actrlittal of Y. OaGOCN. Esq. upon the c!:arke of
assisting to fit out MIR Ko A's esrdition ; and the
other news respe.ting MIR A %DA, which they con•
twin, were given in this Paper, nn the 3d instant,
trim American Journals, to the Si of August, which
we received on the prneding d.iy.

The Negotiation between this Country and France
appears to be in WI a&ivity. Another Blesseser,
dispatewd,subsectuent to the departure of Mr. PA.R.
PONS, arrived at Deal at eleven o'clock oit Saturday
night. After a visit to the l'orr-Admiral. was
put on board a fast-sailing vessel, which got under
weigh inamcdiately for

We announced, yesterday, the arrival of the
Auckland packet, CAW. Scurvi.et, at Falm -nth,
on Thursday, with a Mail lrom Lishnns in eleven
days. It has broug!it a letter, carted Vigo, (4th but,
an 'strait from wbicli says :
" A brig has just arrirei here, dispatched by the
Governor of tha Carl ACC.IS, with the intelligence of
Miss an a hazing effe.ft:d a lauding in the Bay of
Tri,te, with a farce of nzar 4333 men. A Courier
was immediately dispatzh:d to lkladriJ with the
news."

The alarm occasioned at Lisbon by the arrival of
Earl ST. VIPICR.T and his squadron in the 'nous,
and the semsatimi nm-ing the merchants. particularly
the British merchants. -.etre so r,crinus, that some
Houses talked of embarking their property. And go-
ing to England.

We have received some German Papers of a re-
cent date. and French and Date!) to the 64a in-
suet. From the former we have extrafted a pic-
ture of t e present state of morals in Psi;s, contain-
ing truths, not likely to be divulged by the press of
Fiance or Holland Indeed it is idle to expeEl any
ltiferm dim in the latter. the suppression of which
could answer any purpose of policy. Even upon
those occasions where any article of importance is
allowed to appear in a ptiblie print, the disclosure is
equally dangerous and deceitful, as the silence ob-
served in others. The intelligence is given for the
purpose for which the ca:idle is held out ta the bird
at midnight, to dazzle, to fascinate, and &hale
The arrival of the Maltese Knight, G2CISHOWIMV,
at Paris, on the SO:h lass, wial dispatches, an-
nouncing the refusal of the ::raperor ALex
to ratify the Treaty signed by M. D'Ouset a, is nut
mentioned in any of the French Rams. It is known
in every pert of the world, to which the speed of
c.,iiiiers could carry the intelligence, within the time
that has since elapsed. It is known at Berlin and at
Vien a ; but the goad people of France have not
been yet suffered to taste the forbidden fruit
In the same course of utter blindness, and more
than Egyptian darkness, a veil is thronn over
the Ir•litant successes of the British troops in Ca-
labria ; and although the accounts from Nantes
come .sown to the 17th, being above a fortnight
subsequent ro the surrender of Cotrone, we find
bet one short paragraols cf the military opera-
tions in Calabria, in that interval ; and jhat sn
vague a d indtstint% no satisfactory inference is de-
dacible from i'. Upon the preparations of Prus-
sia, the French Papers ;re as silent as they are
upon the enbijei of the Russian Treaty. The Me-

'wise, it is true, a"ntroncris, without aay nommen:,
that all the differences netween Prussia and Sweden
have been aiki istel; hut, for this extraordinary in•
stance of it. cern municative habits, it is nut entitled to
eredlt tram the public. or censure from the Go-
vernment of France. The f.s could not be longer con.
cealed. Ithat been anro.:nced before its appearance in
the Moßitear, in the German, Prussian. and Swedish
Papers. The Gottenou gh Dial, arrived yesterday,
brings intelligence to eat effeft, under the date of
August £3. so that the secrecy of the Aboitrise of
September. bas not. it, the communication," moult-
ed a single featker." Vor the suppression, however.
c: much interesting intelligence, the good people
of Paris are compensated by a detail of J snow
' Bortair•ars's su,:cersful cru:se and fortunate
escape. With screa ships of the line, one
of them cif SO guns. he challenged Admiral
Coco t. A "it, with tour. one of them of 64 guns, to
crud cornhat, and he has captured prizes to the
amount of .20 miiiilnt• By these SO millions, how-
ever, must be understood herr,. and peen then it will
APP=ar a Gasconade. as the ships of the Q iebec
get, the I.•rincip4l, if not ail the captores, were
chirfly laden •ivith masts There is also ar.,.ther
piece' of news in the M.-stew. for the ruhlica-
Lion which, it can claim Out little merit. Hav-
ing no 14 ships, co!,n;es. nor commerce," the pro-
duce of sae country remains un ar.l depu.

tAtjoni 1114 bten 62:4 tc to N E trim s'i
the corn as well as the wine province, tei
;resent to him that the accumulated liarre•t!
two years are now upon hand, and the e is yl
demand either fct corn or wine ; and that ro
less the Government will accept payment of a,
slinks, in bal. the Proprietors of the lands 44
vineyards, can no limner provide either the torsi
Lori
or indite taxes. Those doptstations are annonnce)
in the Mimi/fur. There is a manauirr, too, in e;,c,
latinn, that Fouonc, the Minister of P.oiice, has yen.
tisred to lay befare his :440.er a report of the rrRI
state of France. This state of the wine and c•••i
provinces in France, was pleVi.lisly well known to
the people of that country. We Lave more than Dote
declared it, upon the authority of our prirate Zrth
rnin,ications.

Sunday afternoon /,,ord G• E,VII. Lit aftlfra
Windsor, and had an atidience of ti,t M jt;T ter
about An I.i•or. In the evening hit Lardthip tvAlk:4,
on the Terrace with. the Royal FAmi:v.

Yesterday morning t like of Y.; K transallki
busines's s;iih His MasEsT V for a consider Able
I be lijana. Ptiacti.r., from Dubiin. for Lc•nr!ns
has put into St. Ives, with four feet w.tier in ;lc
Itoht.
The Planar transport, Capt. Baoso!, t-as drives
by the current close to the French tc.lt, 4,4
captured ; but the wounded soldiers, from ne Little
of Maids, were sent for Messitos.

The eid,e, CLFM EN TSON, arrived at Liverpse!,
sailed from Virginia on thel: I Angus:; ands„:,,
days afler fell in with five French line cf bank
ships. •
The Court.martiel which was ordered to s;!fv:
:tic trial of the soldiers implicated in the uof
nate occurrence at Tullamore, some time
opened wo forma yesterday 2:1 I preceeo
rd, on tie following day, with the trials of the ac.
cused.
The eolunteerirl from the second hattell,ml rr
the lire, in Ireland, for general service, which nu
to have terminated on 'Tuesday. the 2Gth ult. it
extended to the I ti;I: instant. The eolunteetiog
front the Militia commenced on Wednesday last
The following is an Extra& from tl.:e Prirce ri
Walesls Island Government Gomel .'e, Of Much 1,
1806:
••
Account* have been received in !owe, by the
China Bret, that two Russian men of war, on a
voyage of discovery, last from Ja-, an. had touched
in China, for provisions and refresihrnats ; that the
Viceroy of Canton had charged :hem with double
du:ies, which they had obk.fted to, ,:relaring,
they were ready to pay what was cu'lcmary by nt`al
nations. and no more. The ma::er has heen
feried to the Emperor, at firkin, and the Itassiara
wait tile result."
We are extremely concerned to state, that '3l
consectence of the exaftione of Tythe Proftnr., a
body of people *tiling themszlees Thrasher, of T.
Proctors' Corn, have appeared in the hitint:J
peaceable counties of Mayo, Slegp. and Leitrim.—
Their depredations have been tontine.' to tbe Ctl•
leaars of Tythcs, and their undetliogs, and the rt.
s is aslgned by those unfortunate people for s
condua is, that from the unprecedented rise O. he
Tythe demanded horn whit was formerly paid. !e
profit or their crops centres almost emit ely wit!: :•*
Pro&or. Threatening leters, signed et,
Tnea4eraave beets sent to persons grow;ng
oats, insisting, under severe pains, to lease t;r:
Tythe in kind on tlsc fields, and by no means to Fai
money.
Lielneriant Colonel PAT A:CK MlLtot, ecTr.r.- •
ins; the second battalion of the 78th Forst, skis: .1
se gallantly distinguished himself in the espedl.,
to Calabria, is second son of Dort ALE)
of Gearties, Sher 4, and Lieutenant Colonel
mandant of the thr.e battalions of nos. -shire Vol.?
teem lie was tort Major of the Cape of C
Flope, during the latter part c.f last war.

The Irish hsea found a faithful steward in
JoaluNswrose. Having discharged his duty i 3
Parliament, instead of flying to Bath, fir any cth•r
place of toOlic amusement, he has returned to hi
constituents, in order' to consult their faun ir.
west.

VASSALL, Of the 18th Reginald, I
nominated Zrevot-Colonel-Commandant of Ca7l

Town and the Castle. with the allowances e!
Brigadier General. Breve:44.km Ross, of tee re:"
regiment, is his adir.g Brigade-Nlajor. •
It is with satisfaftiou we learn, that the Cons:7 r
Norfolk, i t gratitude and affettion to the rierr • !'
its dear departed Natson, has deternrned to r
its column of commemoration at the native ry•
the Hero's birth. Burnham Thorpe. It is sr
of ieniark here, that, within a mile or two of i
ham Thorpe. stands the obscure village of
Thorpe, a village of Are( hones, or rather rf:
.orris o.dv, each of prodiiced, firm to-:2-1.•
village lite, iti individual Admiral. This aarciiot
very important to cur naval atolls. is minute
narrated in a little lively woik,entiskj. "Err"."
erektPla II Mt. Ls {'wood, a Nave Chaplains en
we believe. a native of Norfolk 'The three Coe
thorpe Admirals became Flag.Offscers of mach r
'town Sir Csiassrevaisa Minus, Sir Jews Nit
Iveutron, and Sir Ctootiestay SUCVLL. N
has to toast her Naval Heroes of sem. te. icz
' and immedi..te etlebrily. Sir Enwiao
L"rd NiLSOlei Captain at the Nile ; as l th" '
rule and gallant Cilium:4ore of the tirito.s::
slnufroos Captain HOSTS. the ekos
both natives of that County.
A letter from Liverpool, dated Sew!. si, • •
His Royal Higimess the Prince of \V 4'."
honouring the Lail et Des
Knowsley ; though the partici:far
is not yet ascertained, it !..0 been sad_ : ••• ••
until the 17th or this viral. In t.• 1.1( •
we ass lleirpr• to find that prap,irati....s
in this town to receive the Heir Apparent
ner suitable to his exalted rank :1•.4 i.l;•.•r It;
Town Hill is to be most sple:•rriny art' a:
and it is capeacd s.hc wl,alc t •-•fa sill '
the examp:e. freedom of th•e r.
offered to His Royal Highrwis h) 11., 2.!

rats, and the bununr fits ccn..•:.
'kited at In en:cruins.xia. •