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London, England, 1822-10-15 00:00:00

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TRIBUNAL o'9 CORRECTIONAL POL!“ :
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M. Miehelot, the Editor of the Mim‘r, was accused
of having, by two articles published therein on the '
17th and 28th of August, insulted the person yd the ‘
King, and outraged the Religion of the State.
The ﬁrst of these articles is entitled, “ Paris in 5889; ‘
aDream." The author supposes that America is be- .
come the centre of civilization, and that Europe is
only one vast solitude covered with ruins. Hecrosses,
the ocean to visit these remains, the sad evidences of
departed greatness, and following the winding course
of the Seine, arrivesat the ruins of Paris. The author
then' proceeds in the following manner :—“ Here at
every turning the most learned antiquarian of our
arty favoured us with a profound dissertation. ' 81:-
hold,’ he exclaimed, ' the scite of a magnificent edi-
ﬁee, which was called the Palais 1103:], because it
was the residence of a the Monarch. ere you may
.see what was once the Louvre. The origin of this
.name is unknown, but, by analogy, I an induced to
afﬁrm, that Louvre was only the translation of the
Latin word lupanirt—louoerie, ..a place for'wolves-i-
The Louvre, therefore, was the abode of wild beasts,
which the Kings kept conﬁned there in great iron
cages, to be exhibited on certain days as a spectacle
to the people, etc. There,’ continued our oracle, ‘ via
the bed of repose, the buryingvgroundof the g
citizens ;it was called the Champs Elyse“. ear
the ardens of the Kin are the foundations of a
building which was calleg the Menagerie. Rfenagerl'c
is a word derived from the Gothic mange, which sig-
niﬁes husbandry, or economy. The [Menagerie was
the treasury of the State. This building was the res
ceptacle for the money which was raised by taxes,and
it also served for the residence of. a Magistrate, who
was appointed to regulate the ﬁnances of the State.
This person. who was necessarily a good husbandntan,
was entitled the Minister of Finance.’ Here a loud
Voice in the street awakened me. The Paris of 5889
vanished, and the Paris of 1821 appeared before me.
‘1 recollected my dream, and my faith in antiquarian
studies received a shock. What is there in this Science?
I exclaimed—‘ All that we know of Athens and of ‘
Rome may be as chimerical as what I learned of l’aris
in my dream.”

The second article was entitled “ Travelling
Shows," and consists principally of an extract Of a
letter written from Dieppe in the following terms :
“ You must remember to have seen at St. Cloud,
certain tents in which monkies, learned dogs, and
other lul'eiinmena, are sheun to such persons as feel
interested in these matters. Walking on the port the
other day with some friends, I proposed that we
should enter a tent of this kind to see what animals
it contained. We approached one. and hbard the crier,
with a trumpet in his hand, calling to the people,
and, with the voice of a Stentor,.announcing that the
show would commence immediately, and that it
would be still more Wonderful than any that had be-
fore been exhibited. ' Wall? in,’ said he. We rushed
‘in, and obtained the front seat without caringor the
price, which, however, was full sixpence. , e‘cur-
rain was soon drawn up, and I saw all the family of
Punch transformed into Jews, Pharisees, and magi-
cians. The character of Judas was admirable ; how-
ever, everybody seemed to be of opinion that it was
common, and might be met with every day. Herod,
with a doctor's cap on his head, interpreted very
badly, and discovered in the least actions of our
SAVtoun sumcient cause for his cruciﬁxion. Pontius
Pilate washed his hands of the business with an aim
the most becoming and indiferent imaginable. ‘
“ The shew, according to the annoéuncement, ﬁnished
with the Resurrection. The spectators retired cracking"
a thousand jokes upon the puppets changed into Jews
,and Romans, and l for a moment imagined myself
carried back to that remote period of which Boileau
speaks. when an ignorant troop of strollers repre-
sented mysteries on temporary scafoldings—
“ R sottement aelee eta Ia simplicite,
“ Jouait lee calms, laVierge, er Dieu par piete !"
The author concludes by some reﬂections on the
abuse of this kind of spectacle, and expressed adesire
.to have it abolished. .

The Kin 's Advocate. after a minute criticism of
the above ﬂagrant» called for the condemnation of
M. Michelot, e acknowled ed author of the articles,
and the responsible editor a? the Mimir.
M. Chair d'Est Ange defended the accused. Be
contended that the object of the author in the article
entitled " Paris in 5839." ‘was merely to shew the
uncertainty of what were called antiquarian disco-
veries. The imaginary antiquary of the author, like
all others of his class, referred in every case to ety-
..rnology, and in consequence fell into the most absurd
errors, as was evinced by the observations upon the
menagerie. The Learned Advocate; however; quoted
several authors to prove that his client was 'correct
with respect to the etymology «of the word Loam.
That person. only, he said, ought to be considered
guilty who had brought such an article before a ’u-
dicial tribunal, and by wishing it tobe suppésed that
the XinF could be compared with fermions animals,
had rea ly insulted the majesty of the‘thronew Pau-
in to the second article charged as libe‘lloua, M.-
Cliais d'Est Ange ofered to [Ernie that the scanda-
lons spectacle described by the author was really ex-
hibited. He contended that!» article was merely
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Isis our w! task; to. Male most violent
gale that, healeny ever saw-the efects
of whichhave been nonfatal to mgr: Table
Bay. .It hadheenutecedently’ ' " that the}
northwest gales,~although a: Mend bringing‘
into the bay a tremendous n ’in swell, yet
that they lost much «Maximum
of their duration; this remarkhis not menu“ in
the present unfortunate instaace. 9n , magma:
18th, it~was a new moon; the weather changed sud-
denly with it; it hadheen unashahly ﬁne for several
days. but Friday morning was ushered in with cloud
and rain, and with every appearance or a gale coming
on; the weather. however, continhed in thesame state
during the whole of that day; (he'following day,
'Satur ay, the gale was very severe; in the afternoon,
the ship Royal George, Captain Bownrrclt, last from
Van Dieman's Land, went onshore close to hem
at night, tlrebrig-Adriatic, Cape-ll Burnt,
the same fate, as did the coasting schooner Good
Intent. The barometer was as low as‘29. 50. at two
o’clock on Sunday morning 3 the violence of the wind
was then excessive; and at day-light on Monday
'mornin the four following brigs were lying on the
beach, getu'een Craig’s Tower and the Cast e. viz.—
Olive Branch,-Captatn-KINU:Sun, Captain Mullins
Lavinia, Captain Rams; and Leander, Captain
Mrnnuro’u. Most'rortunatcly not many lives were
lost; but we_have to lament Captain Mtantarox, of
the Leander, who was drowned by the upsetting of
the boat in which. he had left the wrecked brigl—
William Brown, sshnsan, of the Leander, met a ike
fate, as did James Graham, scaman, of the brig‘
_ Adriatic. The ship John Palmer drove very close to‘
shore, but fortunately brought u'pz and is as present
safe. The followin brigs rode the whole of Monday
at single anchor, although the weather was scarcely
more moderate, vim—Brougham, Marianne, Nelson,
and Blues. The hrigs Arethusa, Travis, and Ante-
lOpe kept their ground. The gale abated somewhat
on T uesday, but it blew again with astonishihg vio-
lence in the night between Tuesday and Wednesday,
when rain tel in torrents. As much damage has
been done on the shore as in the bay ; many stores
in Cape Town have fallenjtr, numbers of houses am
seriously injured, and in the vicinity of town the in‘
jury individuals have sustained is to a very great ex-
tent: the number of houses and stores seriously da-
maged amount to 69. From Wynberg to Cape Town,
there are scarcely any premises which have not" suf-
fered, and some most seriously.