Star.
London, England, 1804-08-14 00:00:00

FRANCS.
ititgUrr s.
This feafon is the ettmearnival for the Bataviint.
Their lairs, called Kermetes are now as much tot
forted to by the fortunate and gay, as our balls and
inafquerades in January. Nothing is heard 'of but
daucing, gambling, and playing ; and the grave
baffaliter *mkt-, glean once-in the year an effort to
finite at fomething cite bin at the light of his ducats.
Dote gallantry is a curious fpeilacle for a French-
man*, and more fo fur a Parinam His there omit,
alter dining by his fide at an ordinary, and drinking
aft for Oak with him. is obliged to keep him com-
pany stand after the defftrts when he lights his ripe,
and perfumes veer completely with,tobacco. He af-
terwards cooks her round the fair, and makes her
(on* prefentt, or pay.s foe Come thews. as rope-dan-
eers, mountebanks. fee. He then treats her with Come
tweetmosts, gingerbread, atm and fo goes home ; or.
date Rime tea, or coffee, and in drinking it by the
pie of hitinfeParable, involves her again in a cloud
of fesoke, as the pipe is continually in his mouth.—
Ile (rhinos fpcaks, becaufe a Dutchman is as (paring
of his words as of his money; he only flares at his
corimenlcia; Wks' to what ate. fags, and with a Gs-
leant nod approves or difapproves of it. This
pantomime continues for an hour, and then he ad-
urns, to the Theatre, if any, or to the puppet thews,
*Malin Holland are as nnmerous as abfurd and in-
delicate. During the Copper he sets the fame part as
during the dinner, and after fmoaking half a dozen
qf pipes, adjourns to the bed-room with the fame
gravity and tang-froid by the fide of his milkers, at
be would go to church with his mother. We think,
in Prance, that the Spaniards and Italians are the
afly jealous.people in Europe; when, however, the
rations of a Dutchthan are, with tome difficulty,
once let agoing. he certainly is the molt jealous of
alYeaisturkana though his exterior thews no violence,
the behaviour and iteps of his wife and snakes are
more watched by him than they would be by the
read fufpicious inhabitant upon the other fide of the
Alps or of the Pyrenees. His pleafures are, how-
ever; more fertual ; and when the honey moon is
over, he again prefers his pork and his pipe to
himmile, who •feltiom fails to confole herfelf foe.
the phlegm of her hatband with fount tbaritable,
lively Frenchman. Thee obfervatiou were made
let-month during the fair at Utrecht. end have fusee
bees confirmed by what has been teen by oar cons:
hymen in other places. Even is Zealand. at the fair.
at Adiddlettarghe the& Muria Good good.-.I 44.
ape! Fetssedie.• 1.. • ' ••• "'“
is reported, that Curernment Weeds ne.naiiko
the number of gambli-houfes at Paris; 'as/ within
ha week, of twenty-eve fah:idea, sienna were
traced to kites' experienced at gaming-tables. In.
And
,of fizty-two, as they *ow are in and near tbe
Adak Royal there are, in fame, to be only thirty;
and Wind Of permitting pants to play fo low ae
three foss or fife thus (three-halfpence, or two-peswe
ballpoint), at It Roulet, or at Biribi, no left fuse
**tenon y bout (ten-pence) will be accepted. This
Is to prevent the pour from ruining themlel ves.as many
mechanics and day labourers lest their. little all in
thek dens,, and afterwards, in defpair, threw them-
felves into the river or from their garret windows
into the deceit. One perion of this deleription, be-
fore hi •threw himleif from a firth limey kit week,
celled out (event' links to the people walking in the
emu St. Dominique to be upon their. uard ; he fell,
honewerolpon a Mameluke, who did not hear' or um
*edam' him, and killed him upon the (pot, without
say other injury to hinifelf than breaking an arm.—
He was immediately taken to the hofpitalHotel Dieu,
but is now, by the order Of the Prete& of the Police,
confined in the Bieetre.
Betides Venris, Garde', Talma, Manuel. Picard,
Dug izoe, Henry, Martin, fie other dancers, or ca•
pita dims, are laid to have been appointed members
.of the Legion vet Honour. -
The dasiieweia, of both fetes, teems rather to in-
creak than to de/teak with the warm weather. Sixty
balls were adverited for Lift Sunday. and for to.
morrow 'fixty-fiz are announced. Any perfon walk-
ing in the Ll)fian Fields, or on the Bouleverts, may
be convinces' that thefe temples of pleafure are not
without ootthippers. Betides thefe, in our walks
lull Sunday, we counted no lets than twenty-two
gardens, not advertifed, where there was fiddling and
dancing. Indeed, this pleafure is tempting. beeaufe
it is very cheap. For a bottle of beer, which cons
fix fees, and two fiat to the fidler a Inofband and
wile, with their children, may amide themlelves from
three o'clock in the afternoon, to eleven o'clock at
• night. As this exereife both diverts the mind and
ttrengthcns the body, and Sunday is the only day in
the week, which the moll numerous elates of people
can difpote of, without injury to themfelves or to the
Mate, govettonent encourages, as much as poffible,
thefe innocent amufernents on that day. In the Gar-
den of Chaumiere, upon the &demi serf, we ob-
ferved in the fame quadrille, lag Sunday. four genera-
tions, the gteatgrandfite dancing with his great gran{
daughter, and the great grand mama with her great
grandlon. It was a fatisfallion impoffible to expreie,
to fee pet fons of fo diftant ages, all enjoying the same
pkafutes for the indent, not remembering pall mif-
fortunes, nor apprehending future ones. the grave
teemed equally diftant from the girl of to, and lions
her great grand mama of Da; from the boy who had
not leen three lunres, and from the great grandfire
teaching neatly fouraeore. In another quadrille
danced lour love's with their miiireifes. There again
was nothing oblerved but an emulation who Inotile
m,.11 enjoy the present moment. Not an idea of the
pall or rime to come clouded their thoughts ; in few
word.—" they were pet kely happy."- Let thole
lamented by avarice or atnbi frequent thee pla-
ces on a Sunday, they will be cord of their rile paf-
Guns, if they are not inc ilrnble.—( Le Ciloyen Francoir. )
On the 17111 irttaot, was celebrated, at Verona, the
beatification f litter Veronique Giuliani, late lope-
eine of the coovent of Capuchins of St. Claire. The
mi,ado performed by this female Saint are, accoi d-
ing to 'he legend of the f whin!, very name, ous, and
amount to uovcards of dace hundred. Lately, the
wife of a vine mer ham, whole favourite Saint the al-
way s had been, erre! ienced the effects of her pt aye's
and potent., by being delivered at once of three
fly" y i,c,t1.11) boys, alter a man iage of eighteen
years. dit•iil which the never before had a child.—
Her hsaba,ssi, in gratitude, has prefented hs saint
int a itch diamond crofs, and there is no: a *lc or