The Sun.
London, England, 1825-10-25 00:00:00

W 0 M E N.

ARISTOTLI considered Women as a beautiful
and pleasing mistake of Nature. According to
this philosopher, Nature formed women only when
matter was not sufficiently perfect to arrive at
the production of a man. The learned Vossius
praises Cajetamus for having adopted this singu-
lar opinion, which he, moreover, explained by
means of what both those philosophers called
Universal Nature. They maintain that human
nature tends only to the production of males,
but as if this were always the case, there must be
an end of mankind, its efforts are counteracted by
an universal nature.

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In the Council of Macon, it was gravely de-
bated whether women could be considered as
human beings, and it was only after a long exa-
mination of this puzsling question that it was
decided in the affirmative.

The French proverb says, that a good woman,
a good mule, and a good goat, are three bad
animals.

Before the reign of Francis I. King of France,
women •f high rank, more especially when they
are young and handsome, never appeared at
Court. They sometimes, but seldom, went there
to pay their respects to the Queen ; their honour
consisted in living in the Go unt ry in the bosom of
their families.

From the time they are sixteen, till they have
passed their twentieth year, women are generally
good tempered : because their charms, and hopes
they rest upon them, keep them in good humour.
According to the best French historian, females
were very simply clad during the space of eight or
nine hundred years. Their hair was scarcely
curled, and their linen garments were plain, not
made of the finest materials. The gowns or tu-
nic fitted very close to the shape, and covered the
whole of the bosom to the throat. Widows were
dressed somewhat like Nuns. This modest
mode of dress lasted until the reign of Charles
VI. when the Ladies began to bare their shoul-
ders. Under the reign of Charles VII. they
wore, for the first time, ear-rings, bracelet., and
necklaces. Under Francis I. they made their
first appearance at Court, and during the reign of
the Valois Princes, they carried still farther
luxury and variety of dress, and had their bosom
so much uncovered that they were often censured
for it in sermons.

" I have always remarked," says the traveller
Limy-Ann, who died in the employ of the
African Society, " that women in all countries
are civil, obliging, tender, and humane. To a
woman, whether civilized or savage, I never ad-
dresssd myself in the language of decency and
friendship, without receiving a decent and friendly
answer. With men it has been often otherwise.

In wandering over the barren plains of inhospi-
table Denmark ; through honest Sweden, and
frozen Lapland ; rude and churlish Finland ;
unprincipled Russia, and the w ide spread regions
of the wandering Tartar, if hungry, dry, cold,
wet, or sick, the women have ever been friendly
to me, and uniformly so; and to add to this
virtue, so worthy the appellation of benevolence,
these actions have been performed in so free and
kind a manner, that if I was dry, I drank the
sweetest draught ; and if hungry, I ate the
coarsest morsel with a double relish."

Lunotsm REYIYED.—It is with extreme sorrow
that we have to announce the breaking of two stocking frames
at Ruddington, during the night of Sunday last, one of which
belonged, we understand, to a Alanufacturer of this town.—
(Nottingham Mercury.)

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A Goon SHOT.—In the beginning of last week,
a country lad, who ostensibly shoots nothing but crows, and
who never, of course, brings home a hare excepting when the
pussy jumps into his bag of his own accord, took down his gun,
which is a deuced good one, and went out to treat himself to an
hour or two's sport. In the course of his ramble he saw a good
many crows, that eat heather, and dwell in the moors; but
these of course he let alone. By and bye, however, he beheld
a very fine blackcock, so closely pursued by a feathered poacher
which some call a gled, and others a hawk, that it seemed on
the very point of being overtaken. " Well," thought our
sportsman, " if I could hit the gled and miss the moor-
cock, nobody, of course, could blame me for shooting without
either leave or licence" ; and with that he cocked his piece, and
only so far mistook his aim, that in place of one bird he killed
two. Yes, the pursued and pursuer fell dead at his feet ; the
first of which weighed upwards of four pounds, and the second
very near three. That, now, was a shot worth bragging of :
and the merit of the shooter is greatly enhanced, when we
consider that he was actuated by the humane motive of pre-
venting a hawk fro:neon:miffing murder.—(Dumfries Courier.)

INFALLIBLE REMEDY FOR THE DROPSY.-One
of the Paris Papers contains a letter from M.
LANGSDORFF, Consul General of the Emperor of
Russia to the Brazils, in which the Consul men-
tions a very important discovery, viz. an infallible
remedy for the dropsy. It is the root of a kind
of endive, called in that country by the name of
cainea. Some pounds of this root, it is staled,
have been sent to Russia, Berlin and England.
Dr. Koreff, who now enjoys at Paris the same
reputation he possesses in all Germany, but par-
ticularly at Berlin, his native place, has also re-
ceived a great quantity of this precious vegetable,
sufficient to divide among several physicians and
chymists, who will put it to the test of experi-
ence, and establish its efficacy. The cruel disease
which, it is hoped this plant will cure, is so fre-
quent Ind so obstinate, in spite of the means
hitherto employed, that such a discovery will be
of the greatest importance to humanity.

AUTUMNAL PEACH.—A fine specimen of the
autumnal peach was gathered in a Clergyman's
garden in the vicinity of Hereford, a few days
since, measnring eleven inches and a half in cir-
cumference, and weighing upwards of eleven
ounces. It is worthy of observation, that this
species of peach has not arrived at a state of
perfection for some years past, but the late sea-
son produced many of uncommon size, ..nd ex-
quisite flavour.

Mr. Alderman WATTS, of Bridgnorth, has now
in his possession a Pear of the extraordinary,
weight of '2l ounces, the produce of his own gar-
den, and which measures in circumference 15
nc the species is of the American Bergamot.
iThheefs;
fruit is thought to be at its finest flavour
when brought to table in the month of March.
The celebrated Embrey who gardens for Mr.
Watts, doubts not but by a certain Method, this
most exquisite and delicious Pear may be cul-
tivated to a size much greater than that above-
mentioned.