Star.
London, England, 1822-10-14 00:00:00

11718 rantings am NEWSPAPER.

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Ev man, when he awakes in t mornings “ 5
that fit: reﬂections st‘lggeﬂed by the P‘mg day
1, y", b“... if up: wholly obliterated, atleast unneeded
by sleep; .that new topics of conversation are want-
ing, and that.surpt‘ise is on tiptoe [or new calls g‘he
is unwilling to recur to thetosiness of the preceding
day because it has been exhausted; or ashamed to
rec&lect it, becau-e it has disappointed him. A fa-
mily thus not together would drink the cup of Lethe,
and eat the toast of taciturnity, were they not happily
relieved from torpor of thought and immobility of
tongue, by the entrance of a Newspaper. .
. It is possible, indeed, that the weather might fur-
nish a brief subject of debate, but the wind must blow
a hurricane, and the rain descend in torrents, to be
worth more than a moment’s conversation. When the
Net's-paper appears, however, all Europe is unitedsto
refresh the languid memory, to quicken the dull
thoughts, and to' give expedition to the communica-
tive tongue. No publication surely was ever so fer-
tile in sources of reﬂection to those who choose to
think, or of conversation to those who . prefer the
humble-r, though more noisy business of talking.—
Frrst, a long list of extensive amusements presents it-
self, fraught with every tempting inducement. Here
it is important to observe how a Play is cast, what
great Pei formers are concerned, and what Farce or
_ ntertainrhent is to follow; if a Concert or Opera,
what pieces are to he performed, and whether thel
divine Catalom' bears a part. From amusements}
there is a transition to works of charity, to subscrip-j
tions of names and sums of money for benevolent
purposes ; whether the an angement here bejudicious, ?
ornhether these ought not to precede amusements,
I shall not stop to inquire. Attentively observed,
Newspapers will be found very correct pictures of
the times, and ﬁery faithlul records of the transfer of
, property, whether by sale or fraud. .
l'hinted that the arran ment was apparently con-
fused. “'e see books ange pills, estates and lap-dogs,
perfumery and charity sermons, crowded together y
one of those accidents by- which we may suppose
Chaos would be produced. Here a diseonsolate
widow advertises that she carries on business as usual,
for the beneﬁt of her orphan family; and there a
Lady of quality offers live guineas for the recovery
of her lap-dog, which answers to the name of Cltloe.
A person wants to borrow £lOOO an undeniable seat-
rity; and a stable-keeper offers to sell a horse for
one hundred guineas on his own wont—Servants
want places, in which “ wages are no object ;" a
writer wants an apt reutice, where only-100 guineas
d" premium is. asked, and none given. Mr. B—
lost his pocket-book in coming out of the Play-house;
and Mrs. —— has eloped from her husband. who will
pay no debts of her contracting, “ as witness his (a)
mark." liutof all persons “ that on earth do dwell,"
the sick ﬁnd the greatest relief in Newspapers. Why
it is that disease should prevail, in‘ spite of the “ in-
fallible medicines" that are in a manner MM down
the throats of the sick, is astonishing. Do we not
ﬁnd that in some. ‘cases a single box of pills will ef-
fect a cure—and in others, -that the patient will be
relieved by the smell only ? Will not, these medicines
«i keep good in all climates ?" Is it not notorious that
they perform their cures “ without loss of time or
hindrance of business?” Why then do we hear of
the sick dying? Why are not our hospitals turned
into aims-houses, for decayed Physicians and Apo-
tliecaries who have no business? ‘

Nor is the information respectin the preservation
of the health less important than the cure of disease.
ll" we turn our eyes to the sale of houses and estates,
we shall ﬁnd that they are situated in counties re-
markablefor saluhrity' of air, the fertility of the soil,
and the purity of the water. charmingly. sheltered,
richly wooded, hill and dale, meadow and grove,
where the east wind is not permitted to chill. nor the
thunder to roll. These, if true, are chieﬂy calculated
{or persons who. can alien! to pay rather extrava-
gantlylfor the preservation of health; but this can he
no bbject with those who know that health is the
greatest of all blessings, and that in this way it may
be handed down to thelatest posterity.
Now when all' these subjects areiutroduced to the
breakfast table, what a copious source of conversation
{or the rest of the day, especially if any of these
should create a desire to he a bidder or a purchaser.
“that hopes, what! fears, what consultations! But
this is not necessary to the pleasure a Naupeper sf.
fords. A man may give a very able account of an
estate without the least desire of purchasing it; and
the whole family may dispute on the merit of an en-
tertainrnent, which not one of the party means to
partake of. It is possible to compassionate the dis-
tress of an orphan famil without contributing sis-
pence to their. relief, an! even toread the cures per-
formedby a.‘2.fstmous syrup" u ithout desiring totaste
a drop of-it. Conversation and action are diﬁ'erent
things, and“ a Newspaper furnishes the former, it is
dqing mush- '
POstetily, can only know that all the latenof the
alphabet, from Ad}. to X,Y.Z. have been eminent for
their benevplence in accommodating distressed per.
sons‘with‘surns of money “lying at their bankers;
from ﬁve to twenty thoumd pounds ;" and thus I}
close nay-meditationson theadvertiseuiqsts. 1 Mt
mention more indeed, but. as the Poetsays— 1
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Tech; for the toothless, ringlets tar shelhsld. ‘
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But yet, all these Would probably fail of their el'ect. \
mtheytheouly contentsofaNei-spaper. These;