The Sun.
London, England, 1819-06-24 00:00:00

THE SUN.

110 LEM QUISPICZBE FALSUhI AUDZAT

LONDON,
THURSDAY," JUNE 24, 1819.

We received this morning the Paris Pima of
Monday last, The following. are extracts :

" Yatt,ts, JUNE 21.—Yesterday the King, after

bearing mass in his apartments, transacted husi-

ness with the Keeper of the Seals, His Majesty
_ *lso received the Ministers, Ambassadors, Grand

Dignitarie!, &c. &e. Marshals Outflow, Mac-
donald, Victor, &c. breakfasted with the King.
" A Courier Extraordinary arrived yesterday

7.„3norning from Rome.
" A very considerable district in the Cantcn of
Zurich was desolated on the Eth inst. by a dread-
ful hail•storm-; the hailstones were of the size of
a‘,Aput, and some of them as large as a small apple.
In fifteen minutes all the prospect of a beauti-
ful harvest was at an end : corn, vines, pulse,
every thing, was destroyed. The soil was
utirely denuded, and the trees,mutilated and de.

spoiled of theirieaves, presented nottling but the
aspect of winter.. A great !limber of animals
were killed in the Gelds, and the birds fell dead
from the trees 5 several men also were wounded,
one of them mortally.
" The report of the French Consul at Smyrna
having been recalled with reference to the affair'
of Gene'ral Savary, is unfounded. AL Felix de
Lieaujour, who holds that office, has been some
tide at Paris, and was not- at Smyrna when the
affair alluded to took place;
" The Duke de Richelieu is said, to be expected,
immediately at Paris.
" Accounts from Genoa state, that several sea-
men belonging to vessels which had arrived from
England had been unexpectedly arrested. This
Hffair had exciied a great sensation, and various
motives were assigned for the measure."

Q,:ebec Papers to•Ge 221 of May, arrived this
inoming.

HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY, LOWER CANADA, APRIL 19.

Leave vemt given to bring in a Bill to improve
the Navigation between the Provinces of Upper
and Lower Canada, and the said Bill was read
for the first and second time and committed.

The Chairman of the Committee, to whom was
referred the Artielei of Impeachment against the
Llooourable Mr. Justice BEDAtio, reported that
the Committee, after having considered the Articles
referred and the evidence in support thereof, is
of opinion that the said Charges are altogether
unfounded. The said Report was referred to a
Committee of the whole On Thursday.
MONTREAL, MAY 14 —We lean) there are
about 70 souls, mostly Canadians, preparing to
set out ft om this place on the 25th inst. for Lord
SELKIRR'6 Settlement, on the raver Rouge. The
num* of eettlers,, even at this time, it is said,
amount to about .500. An in-elligent Canadian,
in easy eircutnltanCes, with whom we conversed,
and who goes thither with the before-mentioned
settlers,' with all his family, says he passed a
winter there, when engaged in the fur trade, and
reports it to be a fertile country, and a climate
mods milder than that of Canada. Thus there
is every appearance that this Colony, in the
course of time, will become populous and flou-
rishing.
The Swift steam-boat is intended to make a
voyage, early in the summer, from Buff,llo, on
Lake Erie, to Michilimakcnac, for the conveyance
of company. The trip has so near a resemblance
to the famous Argonautic Expedition, in the
heroic ages of Greece, that expectation is quite
alive on the subject.

The Earl of LIVkRPOOL, with hit-Usual solicitude
to give all proper information to, the Public; in order
to prevent all mistakes, took the opportunity last
night of explaining more fully what he had said a
few nights ago on the subject of any future Loan
that might be deemed necessary. His Lordship
then distinctly stated that no future Loan would
be required if the Peace should continue, except
to provide for five millions next year, for the par-
pose of making good the ten millions yvhich the
Committees of both Houses of Parliament had• re-
commended to be repaid by the Goverument to
the Bank.—The Noble Lord also gave another
satisfactory piece. of information in answer to
Lord HOLLAND, who asked if there was any in-
tention of repealing 'the Act making Bank Notes
a sufficient tender in certain cases. The Noble
Earl declared that there was no such intention.—
The convenience of Paper Currency, supported
by the known solidity of the Bank, and under
the vigilant eye of Government, is so great, that
no doubts should remain upon a subject so irate=
resting to a Mercantile Community.

HAYmAnKr.T.—The Drury-Lane Troop at Ibis
place proceed posperonsly. The Mountain.eers was
represented last night before a numerous audience.
RAE performed Octavian wilh a rate of ability
which he had no opportunity of displaying in the
vast area of Drury-Lane Theatre, awl ptoved that
the nearer his efforts are examined, the wore will
they he approved. The dramatic Sketch of Sylves-
ter Dagger:road followed, in which.t he same person
who pertSrmed the part lately at Drury-Lane
assumed it again last night. There was no want
of diverting eccentricity, and close imitation of
other Performers. But mimicry begins to pall,
and will he disgusting, if applied to natural de-
fects or tinfortonate deprivations. The farce of Ad
the World's a Stage, enabled MuNneN to aifurd
111;41) treat to the audience in the ludicrous part of
Diggory.
Mr. EmAsTON, it seems, had been recently in
treaty for purchasing the Haymatket Theatre,
since the abdication of Mr. CoLMAN, but the or-
gociation had not been attended with success. It
is now stated, that he has actually entered. into
an agreement to form the management of Drury-
lane Theatre at the annual rent of ten thousand
pounds for fourteen years." If sot according to
report, this adjustment will lead to the st-ee9sloti
of Mr. KEAN trout that Theatre, and his probable
trip to America.
Yesterday the Duchess of Yotir. visited Prince
LEoPoLD at Marlborough-house. Ills Royal fligh-
tless conducted the Royal Duebess over the spa-
cious mansion house, and afterwards through (11P
extensive gut:to and 1t °MAI.

FOR THI; SUN.

ARISTOCRATICAL EXAMPLE.

Me. EDITOR—These rait--awful times. The
spirit of Revolution is abrgad, and who can tell
where kw mischiefs Much dependi on
the upper classes of Society. While thestilidille
and lower ranks suffer severe privations and most
deplorable distress, and see their superiors revel-
liug luxury and licentiousness, the latter must
expect to be viewed with detestation, and they are
rapidly preparing their own ruin. The profli
gacy which too much prevailed among the higher
tanks in France contributed, a great degree,
to precipitate the Revolution which spread misery
over that country, shook the whole political fa-
bric of Europe, and will be felt in its conse-
quences as tong as the existence of secietv. The
Register- of Fashion Which your Paper daily in-
serts may be gratifying to many of your lighter
Readers, but must excite feelings of envy and
mortification among those who, instead of tasting
the luxuries of li!e, are denied its mere necessa-
ries. The Sabbath ought to be aPpropriated
devotion in the day, and to serious contemplations
in the evening ; but it we pass through any parts
of what is called the Fashionable End. of the Town,
what do we see but streets so 'thronged with the
vehicles of osteoktetioes pride, that those for or-
dinary convenieuce can with difficulty proceed.
The windows of the Affluent appear in loxutions
splendor, and every thing denoting an toter for-,
gettulness of the day is glaringly obvioue. The
streets are more frequented on a Sunday night
than on any other, and, consequently, the iudeeent.
aspect of unreflecting gaiety which I have no-
ticed, is more likely to incur the censure of peo-
ple in general, and to excite their contempt and
holignation against those who appear to be their
superiors in wealth only, but their inferiors in
good sense and the proper decorums of life. For
many years a certain Countess has been distin-
guished for pre-eminence in the career of expen-
sive folly, and will prolfably expire amidst the
sickening odour of her perfnmes'and the noxious
heat of her tapers. Her example long ago spread
profaneness and dissipation over the Fashionable
World, and she has had too many followers, who
have brought comparative indigence on their fa-
milks. But it is not generally known that there
has lately existed, an imitative profligacy which
shocks all decency, and even demands.the rigiotr
of sumptuary laws. Whenever a grand partphas
been given in an evening by some constrictions
.character in the upper reeks of life, a similar treat
has tak,n place a few nights alter at a Tavern,
the company consisting merely of the higher or-
der, if I may use such a term, of Women of the
Town, the younger branches of Nobility, and
what are stiled Men of Fashion. Several
of these profligate festivals have been recently
held, the most costly luxuries are profusely pro-
vided, and though the invitation is given by 'some
distinguished Luis of the day, en each occasion
her Keeper, or Protector, as the delicate language
of the day stiles these abandoned Libertines, has
paid
.the expence, and conseqeently prepared the
way for his own ruin. Some of these. Festivals,
as I have before stated; have been lately•given ;
and to spread the contagion of licentiousness and
dissipation, Visitors were admitted upon paving
a large price for a tiLket, and nothing butescenes
of wantonness might be expected of course to
ensue. This is no invention, Mr. Editor, tligtigh
perhaps I shall be considered a-s a canting Metho-
dist, or one of what the seditious tootimmoral
Writers of the day stile Saints and Hypocrites; be-
cause they hold in, reverence Religion, Virtue, and
Good Order. Can such a state of things last ?
No—if the upper ranks of Society do not'attend
to the Signs of the Times, they will poll down de-
struction upon theMselves and the Country. Let
them set a good example=—let them, instead of
wasting their thousands upon luxury, appropriate
some of them to- the relief of Distress. The ge-
neral hotly of the People are chiefly sehject to the
heavy, but, unavoidable, pressure of taxes, and
without reflecting on the ,necessary expenses of
Government, they arc too apt to look with envy
and hatred on those who, possessieg affluence,
must least feel the weight of those taxes. It is
said, and perhaps with too much truth, that,
Ministers are ana.ions to-revive a Paopeoery Tax
as most likely to relieve the Country, and to ope-
rate chieflyam those wttio
.are best able to bear it,
but that theYare afraidtto propose the renewal of
such an equitable impost„ lest 'they should lose
many of their? SiVpapbrtets i_o..,hotlf Houses of Par-
lianient,; If this:-be a' feet., we-have to lament the
' Want of, aech energy, &Innen., and •wi3ilorne 83
'would secure tb."Miitisterr thse''Tdo'nfidenee of the
Notion, and if therwere deserted in Parliament,
rite Deserters would be branded with the can
tempt of tbe—CouTiery. I should- anticip.at e the
rejection of this letter it Iliad not seen e spirit of
independence in your et-deniers; which thews,ithat
though you are the decided advocate and strea.mos
friend of Government, yet that you so act be-
cause you believe that Ministers ate really anxious
for the welfare of the Country.
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