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Row, pA- TOUR •OP INQUIRY ' VPIRO U G ?RANCE =AND

'ITALY. ,BY EDMUND "-SPENCER, ESQ..)
The -next morning. at Capes., while breakfasting with
our gallant friends. the waiter announced a French-lady,
the CorantesitieL--e, an elegant, ladylike, woman,
Who, ,eithough somewhat past thee= of love andentrance,
might-still hetermed pretty. -She-stated that the object
of her visit-was to petition for a-place in our carriage as
far asilßorne,atal another on theoutside forlrer servant,
offering to pay her share of the expenses. Sheapalogised,
in thepolitestananner, for the .intrusion, by saying, that
beinpunprotecteci, she trusted the unsettled ,stateof the
ennr- might be pleaded as an excuse for theliberty she
antriken ; adding, that she knew by plasm herself
ltinder the protection of Engliehmen---a name sennuyaaous
'ith MI that waehrave and honourable—her safetywould
°e inoured.
Who could r&et such a Battering speech ? `,Mpfeiend,
ivliorepwe termed the philosopher of BostonAooked at
b,s ore
the poet of NeW.Tark, and both-cest a
laheaerireggianceon their En,.-;.-Egh brEther ; and Presuming
Feelings agreed with mine, and that denial tvas in'.
"sacible, we made our wishes and convenience submit,
tba
~,,,„ngh,-with-shame I confess it, veay reluctandy,-to our
imitantp7.
~ The eircurastanee would have been too trifling-to re-
,,"3l'il,were it not illustrative of the social character of the
ip-e!4,47,-and theyrotectine cart with which a traveller is
Rnmneel on every aide by the secret, agents of this,most
IsPiciangovernment. Before we itted the hotel., a
kind f , ICI'
h r'end, placed in my of
a slip of paperein wei—ch
be cautioned me toheware of the !ad.?, as he knew, her to
Jesuit of themostdangerons women in Italy—a perfect
vin.petticoats--a spy of the .police, and that her aer-
alit veasfin all probability, a 'iciest.
_.ln addition to her, personal charins,,and great amiability
°lll n.iarmers, our fair Jesuit, as a linguist, was admirably
She 9 ified to carry on :.any political intrigue with success.
spoke-the Italian language almosto-with theflueuo3Fuf
native ;,.she also knew the English,
Suflaciently,well to converse. German, and Stvanil6
As may be supposeil, it required a great deal of acting
Oa my part to Ingstify so clever a woman. I succeeded,
however in drawing from her an admission that she was
engaged, with other pious French ladies of high rank., in
endeavouring,,to, convert the English aristocracy, while
tr_avellinte.on the continent, to the Ronian Catholic faith.
reason
leer representations might be relied an, and I have no
ceoason to doubt them, she was on terms of intimacy and
rrerlionded with several of our great Roman Catholic
families. in,England ancbireland
. ale spoke most affeo-
;°.liantely.of her dear Lord and Lady Fielding, of those
:_ Ipi g 'lights awho had seen the error of their ways, and
1 'nmbraced treason faith--alitessrs. Newstian,,.Wilberforce,
Planriing--•and statedhow instrumental she had been
me heir conversion, •This,avith her allusiens toanany other
parsorls of distinguished rank in England, suspected to be
I.verine iti theirabelief of the doctrines of theizßeformed
.1-:!iurch, affording additional confirmation to the opinion
4 had long entertained, that a widely-spread, organised
e_nnspiracy exist-7,111 e object of which is to undermine the
vrotestant faith of-England.
~What the object-of our fainconntess could have been in
-runs unceremoniously introducing herself to our. society,
:_could not discover. The two American gentlemen I
:"livened with poke no other language than their own,
iePt a little French; she could not therefore suppose
meln to be politicalannissaries. "Perhaps, in the'llrst in-
tlince, she concluded from my name that I was thatgreat
'apostle of modern Romanism, 'Father Ignatius, on &pit-
timage to Rome. ,Or it may be that, as French .irnagi-
Irktion often sees anorethan the reality, her suspicions in-
tiled me with same.oharacter to which I was a stranger
'''Clt revolutionary agent travelling under a false na.me„oril
74Cw not what. However this may he, our amiable fel-
0w traveller must have been speedily.convinced that .nei-
j!ir his Majesty the King of the Two Sicilies, nor his
,t,',.1,,.4e5s the Pope, had arviiiing te,fear from the Drops-
•W;;;',l4intt propensities of her fellow travellers ; and if she
tivae,ea_elliv desirous of readin in any seasonable
too shZetdiatance we travelledeach day must have been
of anticialt° itent her wishes-; there were a hundred objects
the gro— -41t° be visited ha a country where every inch of
journey,
11,nteresting. Consequentl after two days'
pressions of ~,,ee, us adieu at St, Agatha, with many ex-
and we once;;o4sude on her side., and of reg-aet on ours ;
to our feelings. :..n.expressed our thoughts, and gave vent
Old England. • w
II
-"e were breathing the free air of dear
THE COURT.—j
eirele of guests 'at Wind esty is entertaining a large
IN Duchess of Nein
si°lll3ed• Yesterday her ours. , amongst whom are the Duke
sue Perpose
Eofn ptric On Friday Macbeth was per-
-siesty a Privy Council for
.7iaaties in
44anoashire a king for the high-sheriffs for all the
ill and and Wales, with the exception of
A ,-e and Carnymil.
AI3INET CO
4'areim_Offi LINt4L was held on Saturday, at the
cello,. ti Office The Earl of
Of Ne'weLv ilitike of Aberdeen, the Lord Chan-
ArgYa Lord John Russell, the Duke
l:, Lord Palmeraton, Sir James Graham, Mr.
altiaatinecite'd., Lord Granville, and Sir William Moleasvorth
I,_ t tare
Tu
EARL or BEAURRAMP has left property to
sic mount of
1,4
~. 41Pivards of £700,000.
te t 01,T. JANE PRANCER BICKERSTETU, only (laugh-
r (If the I es, . ate Lord Langdale, succeeds to the family
alL'-glorten_lorn.
wer.efords hire of the late Earl of Oxford and
tZtukei, a no died without issue on the 19th ult.
vre..tre, Lord President of the Council, gave
Itlittrand dinner on ueaday to the Cabinet Ministers and
ue great officers of state of the Queen's ousehold, for the
blirpose of setng the roll,of sheriffs fort he present year.
h MAMMA. "MY dear ,knds out of you Frederick, do, pray, take your
all our
In—Frederick. " Cannot
uo it mamma, depaorcr•
ets,oftunrdialn at Cambridge wear their
ilends •th i iLL
1. in e r
Inge by taking mine out l" couldn't disgrace the col-

DEFINITION OP _
A
A dentist here makes teeth of bone
For those whom Fate has left without;
And finds provision for his own
By pulling other people's out !
THE MINNESOTA PIONEER relates how a singer dis-
ocated Lis jiw in attempting to sing " high B." He,
Cat
sot the school for which he was contending with
Zattli,lal.isinging-tnaster,.wh.o did not attempt that note,
the 'lu dislocate Ills Jaw, Thus music progresses in
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