The Sun.
London, England, 1804-01-05 00:00:00

CLASSICAL GALLANTRY.

The following account of a new speCiii of Amorous
Refinement; as praAised, by a Gentleman at Paris,
is related As a fart in a-Tour through Frante :
'" Mr. B— had made it a rule to gratify his
five senses to the highest degree-of,..enjoyment of,
which they were susceptible.' An exquisite-mi.*,
perfumed apartments, the charms of music and paint-
ing ; in a word, every thing most enchanting that
nature, assisted by art, could produce, successively
flattered his sight, his taste, his smell, his hearing,
and his feeling. •
" In a superb saloon, whither he condufled me,"
says this gentleman, " were six young beauties,
dressed in an extraordinary manner, whose persons,
at firsr sight, did not appear unknown to Me : it
struck me that I had seen their faces more titan
once, and I was.accordingly,going to address them, -
when Mr. at my mistake, ex-
plained to me the cause of it. I have in my
amours' said be, '.a particular fancy. The choicest
beauty of Citcasiia would have no merit in my
eyes_, did she not resemble the.portrait of some wo-
man celebrated in past ages : and while lovers set
great value on a miniature which faithfully-exhibits
the features of their mistress, Pesteem mine wily
in propprtion to' their resemblance to ancient
portraits.

" Conformably to this idea,' continued Ml.
13-, I have caused the intendant of my plea-
sures to travel all over Europe, with seled portraits,
or engravings, copied from the originals. He has
succeeded in his researchei, as you see, since you
have conceived that you recognised these ladies. on
whom you have never before set your eyes, but
whose likenesses you may; undoubtedly, have met
with. Their- dress must have contributed to your
mistake: they all wear 'the 'attire of- the personage
they represent ; for I wish their whole person to he
piduresque. By these means I have ;ravelled hack
-several centuries, and am in pOsseision of beauties
whom time had placed at a 'great distance.'
" Supper was served up. M. seated
himself between Mary Queen of Scots, and Anne
Builein. I placed myself opposite to him," con-
cludes the gentleman, " having beside me Ninon de
I'Enclos, and Gabrielle d'Estrees. We also had the

company of the fair Rosamond and Nell Gwynn • but
at the head of the table was a vacant elbow.chair,
surmounted by a canopy, and destined for Cleopatra,
who was coming from Egypt, and of whose arrival
Mr. B was in hourly expectation."

A Private Letter from Paris, dated the rzth of
last says,—" Surely you have not been
duped by the article in the Moviteir,relatilie to the
Loan made by the Hanseatic Towns to our Hero.
You cannot believe that the Contribution which he
has exafied from those Independent States was bor-
rowed by 'the Hanoverian States for .the reliif of the
Hanoverian people : you cannot suppose that the
advances were made on the security: of the personal
or patrimonial property of the KING 04 ENGLAND !
But most probably you have thought.,
.in ,common
with the rest of Europe, that ButtArARTE has COM.
yelled the Hanse Towns to purchase a few -months
Neutrality ; and, with the multitude, irdu may have
thought, that the man, who- attempted to justify
such a robbery, by holding it out as a Loan nego-
tiated by the Government of a Province which he
has invaded, and still holds in military subjeelion,
must have given an incontrovertible proof of his in.
sanity.

_ .
" It is howeVer proper you should be aware, and
for the purpose of causing it to transpire, that the
sum extorted from the Hanse Towns by toitA.
PARTE is not- three Millions, as set forth in the Mo.
niteur, but Monies,.• exceeding four Millions tuna
hundred thousand MARCS : that this stun, alledged
to be borrowed fOr the relief of the people of Han..
over, has been entirely forwarded to Paris : that in
point of faa, the Hanse Towns have received an
acquittance for Only tbr te Millions, and that the
whole has been lodged in the private coffers of
BBiiArAttrt.

'I". You may rest assured of the truth of this
statement. With resped to, a Mortgage of the
Personal Property of firs BRITANNZe MAJESTY,
you ought at this time to be aware of the pUblic.
Declaration made by:the Senate of liainbtirgh.Land
also of BEaTaiER'S Declaration, and,of.the Official
Note' of REINHARD, 'which latter contain assur-
ances to the Senate, that their. Master would not
make peace unless the KING of E.'N2L4No should
engage to liquidate the Debt incurred by the FIRST,_
CONSUL--for 'the Relief of the Pe,oisli of Hanover
Sime persons indeed assert, that • the Ft4s.r. Cott-
suL has transmitted 200,000 francs to Gen. MoR.
TIER., and half that stml to BERTHIEIt„ am not
able exactly to state what part of the money
.has
been allotted to those. holloiirtiMe Agents of the
FIR.ST CONSUL, all I can truly say is, that. it is
not imagined that BONAPARTE will be obliged to
pay very dear for, a secret of this nature. We al/
know that not one sous of the Contributions levied
by our First Magistrate upon our Allies, the con.
quered Countries, or those occupied by his Troops,
or of those unable tot dely..his menaces, has found
iti way into the,public Treasury. By all these we
have been relieved just as. much as the people of
Hanover !"

. Monday morning, between twelve and one
o'clock, as Mr. JohnHiscox, butcher, of Whitchurelll
was returning from Bristol, he was .stopped on
a short distance from the turnpike,
by a genteel dressed man mountedton a bay horse,
%btu) fired a pistol, and wounded him severely- in
the head. .It -is. supposed Mr. H. made resistance,
as he was found lying on the road, with his chop-
per in his hand and a long knife by his side, About
two hours afterwards he was brought_to the Bristol
Infirmary, where remains insensible, and- in
ri.d-angerous state..

Tim; same evening a market cart was attacked,
ettpased by the same person, who fired through
the tilt, :when one of the shots went through the
womati's'hat ; fortunately some persons coming iii.
view, priVented him from committing further :de.
predation.