The Sun.
London, England, 1826-08-10 00:00:00

SEDUCTION' IN FRANCE.

The late Master of the Rolls (decidedly one et' the mos,
eminent men who ever held office in the law), and the
Pre,tit Pettit of Winchester (not less eminent as a divine)
ara.lnvist: the only censpicuous persons of the present
age:Who have had the good sense to retire from the toils
arid profits of public situations with a grace that does them
honour ; while we see other persons, especially of the
seine two professions, adhering to office with a drivelliiig
pertinacity, -which at once offends good taste and decorum,
and is, at the SittYAC tithe, highlyincurious to those who
fall within the range of the department over which they
Preside,' 11/4!Vhat eon be
,more mortifyitqc than to see " se-
cond eltildisbnes" exhibited upon the Betel; or the
livr& and.Pceperties of nien, at the mercy' of melttvliose
growing infirmities sltow them to be incepable of hearing,
heeing,•or in any way, hotiving what they tire about? We
do not, wish to partieolari4,- or it • might be easily dote.
But this is the less necessary, As almost every one's obser-
vatiarteral experience cast fill up the' picture, of which we
only hint. the outline., But if there is not•geod sense or
enoughin such . persons to see ,their
AO are themselves untionseious of the sorry figures they
Yc}t „,,,A4. of the satires ithey: are passing on their ow it pre-
vious merits—surely it is time that the legislature stepped
in, ats the common guardians of the people, to put an end
to discrepancy and a disgrace too notorious and, too pal-
pable to be for it moment doubted or denied: We are fin
from undervaluing ;he wiSdoin Of age, nor do we wish to
see it prematinely laid aside and
•Ittst to the world ; but
;bete .ways by which it Reny lie rendered ser,-
vieeahle, both to 'the common Still k and to its possessors,
then itl labours beyond their bodily strength, or in calls
iiptm the mind, which it has :become itietlile to answer.—
It is due to the pest possessors of einitirmie Mid respectri,
bility themselves; that a stop should be put to their being
permitted 'to libel their own gone-by qualitiee, by. daily
and :hoprly proofs of their non-existence, And it is above
all things due to the national charaeter, and to the vital,
moat itnportant Anterests, of the people, •
that public lune-
tioniFies kluitildretire from active duties, as soon as na-
ture,' and 'the 'cairnram lot of litionutity, points' 'out ti.n evi-
' dent, decay in their-. intellectual,: or corporeal faculties.-
-ilAritiag Herald. r , -
There mount be a more absurd dogioa:(at.least as it is
usually applied), than that which is known by the' term
esgri!tla tirops, which generally man,: that a man is ex.!
pected' to adopt, billiCtlOlA, and: defend, all the fault
errors,• and defects, which were to be: found in the pro-
fession or fraternity to which he may happen to belong.
Thus the physician must' stand by.the. apothecary, the
roundel must Justify the attorttey, the judge mustdefend
'the Ctlnttisef, and the` Bishop Most be presumed to advocate
the cause even of Dr. Owen. There are no persons who
&tier' greater' advantages front this Ailly kind of feeling
than the higher class of attorneys; and who possess, there-
fore, tin alttioht uncontrolled privilege of charging and
doing as, they plea'. An application WWI Maderthe other
day to tax the bill tif one of those legal :Bashavei, and
though ;the charges were allowed on rill hands to IT enor-
mous, and in many respects unjustifiable, 'stteh was the
courtesy and the delicacy conceded to them, that it aetually
became a .;question vvliother„ parsons of Such " known
respectability" were amenable, to, ail kind of jurisdiction.
The, same is, mot./ or lens, the ceee.in every profession;
and though it is proverbial that two of a trade can never
agree,"...twobf-Cm learned profession are a vast de*i too po-
lite to„find fault with, touch, less to condemn each other,
exceptits Otca where their interest (lashes.. ;it a physi-
citin'hioc!by his ignerrance or hiablanders, brought u pita;
ent to death's door, the Learned Wen who is called in,
declare& that Dr. Rio-and-so hits done' ehrithing that was
i
perfectly right. Or if a wealthy neumhent, should be
found to desert every point of his sacred (11106, 'the Arch
deacon, who is called " the eye of BiShop," and not
unfrequeotly,the Diocesan himself, is the apologist for the
card-playing, horse-rating, anything..lint Christian Divines.
If thesebe,as we know they. ere, oolong the characteristics
of esprit de.coqw, our readers, wit• suspect, will agree with
us in reprobating its fully and its mischief; and though
liberal ;muds may naturally feel an ateiehment to those
adopting aintilar pursitits to their own, instead of ?iltlligiOrt.
turd defenilitigAlteir deviations' from rectitude, they will
consider their professiiitr either honoured or disgraced, in
propartiott as each nteniber of it act 3 Up to the standard. of
What AA'
Those. who areiever on the watch to find ineaits and
.
pretestii for propagating elarto and discontent, have nOW
begun to talk of petittomog the throne to convoke Pat,
liament as speedily its possible, in order that the Legbilti
three MM adopt such tnePllreS IA shalt put an end to the
existing ,distress. 17'14 104 lottg been a, stale trick nf fitc-
-6)11'5 pollee; 'whenever the cootie ofirrcnt>i 'has: involved
.any :0.4 „of the country iit temporarY The
,People are taught to call upon Pftdittrimut to deliver thin,
from. evils-, which . spring front causes altogether beyond
• the. controul of (Inverument ; ,of course the call t! it)) t t 1)0
obeyed ,—for Parliament cannot b
creat,c purWclr ,seTs.ftlttitCOn the,
'A- .TOSe
sinners Of superabundant gtMos,
cry---riot
-Vtiowiint' that they impose up on' he Legnilat tire
, h 1.,--ittscribe the iliac-
a I i
tifeto wilier! it s attoget er imeipta
telly Xll ;be Adminisiridieri to insensibility to the'
public cults Temporary
repharrassments are
converted into 601.111`,eS Of
taws of
h ,d `Frricatitticatl dissatisfaction ;
and I-rafts which p
frame 'of human society, are
tore, 114(1 DeCeilSarry
.
illiatiiith6.l4o-tinS of throoiing dieredit. low ?or
idstiicidon4;.' Pusaontentary ritiscussion ui of infintte st.
rice, and more cspeehdly in„ matters c9one Ctedwith
151stsiniutuerad. industry of the cottuto
genes Tiny etas ".train ,the precise, extent of
the existing -; ;Tajoyes, in rot* curds,
many 4416 , 4 14-

An affair which has excited more than one kind of in-
terest, and given rise to more reflections than one,' bay'
come before the Tribunal of :First:lnstance at Paris. The
following are the circumstances :—The Sieur Froid de
Fontaine, one of those aims who make :use of the, lei-
sure afforded them by being in garrison, to render them
selves more accomplished in the grad art of seduction,.
undertook to captivate the affections of the wife of the
Sieur Leroux, and Unhappily succeeded but too well. He
conceived at the time the project of:carrying her off from
her husband. The elopement of Madame Leroux was
fixed for the 24th of June, 1818.. It was agreed that
she should pretend to take a jpurney into the country for
the purpose of visiting her grandmother, and should betake
herselfto a private retreat,Whereafterwards the Sienr Frail
de Fontaine should join her. In order to baffle the first Search
'Of her husband, anti to avoid exciting his suspicions, she
wrote to him that her grandmother's servant not having come
to ceceiv her,sbe had taken up her residence wi tha lady other
acquaintance, and requested him to send her boxes RIO band-
boxes. She wrote at the same time to her grandmother,
to inform her that sbe was on a visit to one. of her
cou-
sin* and begged her not to contradict the story site bad
told her :husband. in a short time it became evident to
M. Leroux that his wife Was emleavouririo to conceal her-
Self from his knowledge. A month after, the SieurFrOid
de Fontaine set out also. Some indiscretion out his part
caused it to be, known. that be was gone to join her, and
beitig,poitsessed of tome property .in the department of
.Vosges, it was presumed that be had selected that part
of the country for her retreat.. An Uncle of Madame Lo-
roux filled one of the higher sittiationa in this department.
The deceased and forsaken* husband made him acquainted
With'the 'misconduct arid flight of his wife, and prevailed

him to use every means in his power to `recover

All the videsOurs of the mule were , at.firzt, without sue.
cess, hut'a singular chance at length gave him seine trace
of the faithless fugitive, who,- however, had art enough
to escape him. lie found, out that a lady and
an Officer' had qiiitted the house in which they
lived, at. his ; approach. lie • caused pursuit to be
made, and received' information that they• were
at the 'fete d'Or,'.and on the point of starting for
Nancy; .be arrived there and recognized ; his niece, who
was already in the diligeoce. Lip offered his hand to assist
her in descending, but she refused it, denying all know-
ledge of ,him. 1-Je renewed his' entreaties, but could oh'-
rain no ether antiVrer.- Il.e did all in his power to provoke
thellieer, who made' hitri no reply, and he was at. bolt ob.:
liked!th'ietireWithont. having brought hie niece to aeknow.
hialgebirri; or obtaining 101),trAplinittiort,frout her ravisher.
The wife of Leroux Went to Ntrucyitint;ohe runt stay
long there. 'lt wars had gout to P4riti.
lei the 'Mehl) Lero4 wi*Overvolicimed rvitic tails..
fortunes ; lie lost bilk uuytlter, ea `Catil&to Paris to ;afters
his grief, and \villa was ,ctilled his dishtmonr. I tele
he-learned - 'that his wife and M. de. Fontaine lived
in the Rue de POdeon us man and wife, and that site
had had a child. On further inquiry, •he found OW
a child had been baptized in his name. Lie now
elainied tt.separation,,and as disavowal Of le!..itimacy. Upon
this double deman&the tribunal was called upon to decide;
The female appeared to have sektiOivictiOui her errors,
end made no defetree:' M. Leltutp de Smu the adVoisate
of her hatband,' laid no tithe*: opponenu. than the guardian
ad hoc of the infant. M. Leloup de Semi argued thatothe
adultery :was azulliciently established hyc the facts
,of the
elopement, and complete separation of the wife from her
husband, and the entire ignorance of the hitter even of her
exiStenee ; and that the illegitimacy of the child followed
of:course. M. Dupont, oit the part of 'the infant, argued
at length that, in the Inv' phiee, the adultery had not been
siifficiently proved ; secondly, that the birth had not been
concealed ; and lastly, that the time appointed by law re-
qiiimite to 'establish the. illegitimacy of the infant had
elapsed. The Court,, after deliberating about 24 minutes,
4ereed that the plaintiff ahmild be admitted to prove by
evidence the facts laid before the tribunal, as in the event
of their being substantiated, he Would-be entitled to the
Sepirration prayed for, and to the•dileVeival of the infant's
-titimacy. . ; ;

POPU A T lON' EGY rr.—The iiumbe rof souls
iw ejitiPlated at 2,5 I 4,0001 of Which, perhaps, 200,000 are Copts,
2;190,008, ,Fellahs, and 1,400 tOreigners; The Copts are the
deiciiidiritiot the 'old EgyPtiins, rind live for the most part in
the cities; the Fellahs are a mixed rare of Arabians, Persians;
Sitiltdif end Egyptians, who live, in the country; and employ
themselves in trades and agriculture. The number of villages
;
Fgypt is 8,475, of which, nun half belanfi to Lower 'Egypt.
cairn had, in 1810, according to Latigliii, 263,700 inhabit:Zits ;
Mungin soya only 200,000, :ceCktining eight relearns, for taoh
house; and etatea the population of Ale*en at between
12,000
,and ,13,090,
I'ItOVIDENTIAL ESCAPE Of STEAM,vEsSEL.
—The new ateatn-packet, the Xing#towni ou her _way; to Wei.
ford List Wednesday week, had a most wonderful deliverance &Om
being consumed by fire in the middle of the night.—Some bottles,
containing vitriolic spititS, which were conveying hence to an
,apothecary residing at Wexford, having broken, the fluid ignited
tin coining into context with the outside of the steam-engine, and
some tea., and other packages which were near. immediately tofilt
tire, and tok it time the Appearanre was mtd awful to thosa who
Welt the speCtators of it; and not forsome -14shatula of
spirits being near the flames. .Every, esertinn which 'kill and
presente of mind could tuggest was made, and made with
'ass; :and: after a time the Ore,,Was ciimplete de
ly eatitigiaahei4
There Wno alarm n alarm on hoard, fortunately—tio'lecint result"ed;
as-might be expected from attehtui aedilent happening the night
the Mayer waaaltogether .cestial as to leave d!e pyi4esof
the. vessel and his 00'1st:tuts quite blamelco. The ship atew4d,,
in future it is to be hoped, pay pi oper attentimt to the StottAge
of goods, and lie instructed by what has taken pleec.—nubila
Correspondent. •
On Monday, a gentleman inpalgey, while, walk:-
ing in his garden, discovered a `number of young thrushes, which
had but lately abandoned their 'parental nest ; and were As yet
unable to protect therwselvert,hy flight. With a little trouble, he
11114Kfedeflin taking three of thcm,,and put them into a comnnalions
elige4,which he, platted in 'a window adjoining to the garden, 'and
I,%tti. to feed them with a Mixture 'of 'meal and water. The
ddattti,
sttracted,by tbot ill,
iin a short time appeared at' the
a winote
and *coed to solicit admi.do AA Satin in, the Winti"W al!ti
4()%:. of the ca pin_ snails!' was opened -4. :,nter,,d and emiuneneed feeding
t4to with tot' heel
and W 011073 whoil the, (ICUtlernatt o
leetrtl. taco hoWt,OPE Ild ' proemie'a onffi. fine:tett
!apply of this Mod of '1
jt,,mite:l , tt appeared that thetdam thd t;
Alma htr, 111. the I:veiling be opened the.wiodow,A.
aha was tilat,,oretngi
Land eater for - herself. • Early tint morning
il.vveriug ;Mout the holm, with something in
bar bill, the window
.i;,,;to to ot again ttrowit ow! when she le^,Clittre.4
I I 1. I, awl stilt Nuitilito. f. them, oohs} and'
with the great4.l4
,g1,;,;01:1 ludol 0)
is
situleitcd in the Higli-atrect,_ iti,te we t. 41.14 Ctot4. , •
Ott WethicAity. last, a apatririv,•
Apo
perfectly white,. was.
%uses of
shot by 4 gentleniau, at a ';age o u ortl f if '
~ near
the *de York.
watt!... .