The Sun.
London, England, 1814-09-07 00:00:00

JOURNAL OF A TRIP TO PARIS.

'Though T enlargVd so much upon the 'Vr6neb
Stage in my last, I am 'yet unwilling to relinquish
the subject. It is not alone the everlasting jingle
of the rhyme, which in French Tragedy impresses
an English ear with the idea of burleique, but
the mode of laying the emphasis in delivering this
heroic poetry, 'adds to the grliting effect.
ds are pronounced Ili an entirely different
manner from common lire. All the emphases are
not only throWn .upon the ends of words, but also
ulron the terininations of verses, and thus the
•drawl of monotony is most disagreeably. and un-

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naturally perfected.
In Farce, and.l may say in Comedy, I think
the, French are generally more pure in their ac-
lion than our Players in England. The after-
piece of George Mindiff-(our Burnaby Brittle) was
excellently performed ; and 1 afterwards saw Co-
medy in the same Theatre, in which Comedians
of the names of Mictiop, ST. PRIX, and BAP-
TISTE, Mademoiselles EMILIE, CONTAT, DUPUIS,
and Others, sustained the characters with great
naivete, and with a degree of humour not offen-
sively broad. lam not sure, h-owever, that the Tian=
turn of grimlice on the outside of these' walls does
not serve, by contrast, to induce the opinion, that
the grimace within is less tainted' with buffoonery
than it is with some of those whom we esteem
our best children of the Buskin in London, There
• are no play-hills in the Parisian Theatres—a great
drawback on the pleasure of strangers, who are
ever desirous of knowing the names of those to
whom they ar indebted for artlliseinent. I also
urAiced that woinen do not inhitbit the pit in any
of their houses, as with us ; it presents invariably
a formidablea-spect of unenlivened male critics. In.
these desultory remarlis, 'I might have noticed
that the universal Frenth shrug, which is the
cornimin inheritance of Prince and Peasant, is very
illsuited to our ideas of dignity in Tragedy and
that neither in Tragedy nor Comedy is there any of
that appropriate aild,,,exqujsite bye-play which-not
unfrequently is the greatest merit of an English
Actor ;,....but it is now full time, to exit from the
Stage—

And whither, at this late hour, shall I lead you .?
To the Gaming Table in the Valais Royal, where

passions are more deeply excited by the
Kings and Queens of pasteboard than by the.
Rozal Sufferers in the Drama i No I have al-
ready said enough upon this hateful subject.
Home then, even to Conclude this short letter.
At the hour of midnight the streets are all quiet..
No incident interrupts the course of the peregri-
nator—h& may therefore apply_ the reflexions of
the evening to the sights of the day. I have tra-
versed one half of Paris ; inspected ,the excellent
institution of the Jae,din' des Plantes, 'emanating
from a BOURBON, and. exantifled the vain'-

glorious Temple of a short7lived Usurper's
pride. I have, chised the evening with wit-
nessing a.,Tragedy and. a Fared at the Theatre
Francais, as if it were iii mockery of the his-
tory:of France -for the last ;thirty years
France, whose tragical drama deluged the Stage
of Europe with blood, and filled the earth with
misery and Pain ; till at length the Farce came,
which, though too gilt'e and serious in its course,
has now closed with, universal applause.—Pon-
derink on these idle fancies, I reach my Hotel :
the bell brings forth the Swiss, a name it was dan-
gerous, often fatal, to bear daring the murders of
the Revolution, and was therefore exchanged fir
" the Porter ;" but 4e parler an Swisse" has, once
more, become, in these times of security, the
usual inscription over the Lodge of the Janus who

presides at almost every gate.
Before • bidding you good-night, permit me
to notice the very economical and pleasant lamp
which is familiar with. the bed-rooms
.of,Paris.
A thin piece of card, and a like slice of cork
pasted . together, forth a' neat round float,
through the centre of which is inserted a piece
of rush, (the. same as in rush-lights), about
half an inch in length. . This boogie is launched
upon about a couple of table-spoons' full of oil,
poured into a small tumbler of water, and ,beiwg
lighted affords a velYSteady and inoffensive light
;throughout the niglif, and is
,as cheap, sagreeable,
and simple as could well.be devised, It is there-
fore recommended to his country by . -

vIA-r()R.•

Frotn a Conflict paper :—Sunituonses, accord-
ing to -Mr. PtELE's Act, have been issued indi-
vidually to the Alagistrates of the county of Tip-
perary
requiring their attendance at' the'Court-
htiuse in Cashel, to take ,the state of the'country
into consideration ;
and surely no period Within-
the memory of any, YOin now living more iinperi-r
(lusty required the' 'hest consideration., and the
Iraniall.....descriptions of
most cordial unainimity;
honest and rational men, in checking the dread-
till spirit by which 'a part of tile. county is
sLiguiatised.