The Sun.
London, England, 1801-12-31 00:00:00

FRENCIt THEATRICALS

THE prolific genius of the French Dramatists
manifests itself in some new-produCtions every week.
The return of Peace will afford us the opportunity,
of occasionally noticing those ephemeral produc-
tions. Among the latest is a new piece, which, if the
accounts in the French Papers are cotrea, may, very
fairly be put in competition with same of our own
modern Dramatic Pratte-lions. This piece is called
An Inn at Calais. At this Inn are assembled the
following personages : Gascon, who is going to
establish a ,Theatre in England : it Parisian,
.who
comes down to meet- his, Niece on her arrival from
London: the Niece herself: the young Lady's Lover;
and an Englishman, also.inlove with the young Lady,
and who .etas followed her from England. - The
English Man forms a plan for carrying off the Lady,
and bribes the Gascon to assist him : but, by a mis-
take, the Landlady is carried • off in her stead.,—
SuCh is the Piece, which is stated to have been re-
ceived with a mixture of applause and'censitie.
" This Piece," says the French t Editor, " will
Undoubtedly please the Englislll Who always de-
scribe the French, on their ThreatreS2 as. true Gas--
cons."

Another Piece has also made its appearance dur-
ing the last decade at the Theatre Fejdratt. It is
entitled,Plutarcb, and is rather of an amusingde-
kription. It seems however "to afford but a slight"
foundation even fora single att. A young Officer,
who is over head and eats in love, requests some
pecuniary assistance of a rich uncle, by means. of
which he hopes to render himself more worthy of
the woman of his heart : to this application the
uncle makes thiS laconic reply—" !read Plu
tarch," at the same time presenting him with a
copy. The
_young man, who cannot conceive
that the perusal of a Greek author quid prove any
resource to him, not only negleded the advice, but
sold all his books, including even !haat-di. The.
Valet disposes of the whole to a person whom he'
takes for broker, but who, in fae., proves to be
the uncle. -The Plutarch, which was given to the
nephew, sealed" up, was in fact alone, worth a thou-
sand crowns. At length, the uncle and the nephew
have an interview : and after many ironical .and
humourous refiedions on the tasty of yOung men
for reading, he gives him to understandhat the
book in question contained a note for 6000 francs,
and a consent to his wished-for marriage. The
benevolent uncle pardons him, and unites theloVers.
—He gives, at the same time, a thousand crowns to
the valet,- who, perceiving the gout of-the old man
for ancient authorS, presents him with a Cicero,--4
observing, at the same time, that he. ewr.s not the
first great man who had made the fortune of a fool.

POLICE OF POYS.' -;'.;>\
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WE extract from the ''etr&-tte de Fran ce,'.he'iM,7
lowing observations,' wi ( ichf,slew the state of the
Metropolis of the French\' Rep Alic
it is too well known\ of - ' `at
Paris conceals more than onf

of offenders inured to crimL 1b
used every ordinary means, have had recourse to
profound cOmbinations, against whieh it is difficult
to guard.. The details which might be. published
upon this subjea wc,iild appe'ar as curious as terrible,
but .we fear to injure, by too much precipitation,
those vast plans forthed by the Police, who, in'order
to attack the Tree instead of the .ranches, have
been, careful to unite in their hands an infinity of
Particulars, which may , serve to lead them to the
point they aim at. They must, for the present, lithit
themselves to inform the Inhabitants of Paris, as
wellas,Foreigners, that they ought to mistrust the
rendezvous whiCh may
,happen to fall "to their lot in
houses of which, they are' ignorant, the letters that
are sent to them, and the seducing propositions that
may be made to them. Many persons, and recently
a jeweller, of the street St. Denis, have fallen into
similar snares, and have not yet made their appear_
ante.---Perhaps those unfortunate persons who are
daily adVertised in the posting bills; have fallen in
the same way. At least it is certain, that for some
time many individuals have disappeared from society„
and withdrawn themselves from those with whom
they have lived, with Out _any cause being known
for their or of any evil having befallen
them.

" These considerations. Will suffice to keep. the
People on their guard against every species of corn-
mancatiOri with any per Son Whom ,they do not
know, against offers of. service,_ and specious pro-
positions : against any correspondence with certain
women, who, under pretence of wishing to chuse
metichandize.or jewels, desire those articles to be
sent to them at their own. houseS ; and against a
multitude of other circumstances which, to make
them appear natural, more dangers must be stated.
" If any thing in shorr, is eapable'of ensuring the
safety of the Inhabitants of Paris, and the great
number of Foreigner& who resort to the Capital, it
is the activity of a Police, as ingenious in their
conceptions as indefatigable in their researches ;
whose efforts are incessantly direaed against' every
species of crime, and every kind of immorality by,
which Society is infested. Their zeal and their in-
telligenee are without bounds, and every means
are resorted to by them to disconcert the most
itigeriinus offenders ; but in order that the'malefac-
tor may fall into those snares which are placed.
around him, he must' remain ignorant of the taaics
and superiority of his enemy."

The Barwick, Steward, from Demerara for Lon.
don, has parted her cables in the Downs, cut away
all her masts to prevent her driving on the Goodwin
Sands, a:id is gone.to Ramsgate with the assistance
of the Deal boats.

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