The Wilmingtonian., 1823-10-23

pations. Loves and Graces, Veneses off,
all sizes and ages. wood nymphs and s
water nymphs, emerging from the Champs,| !
Elysees, the bains Chinois, and from ALL
the other baths, gar dens and groves of the
Metropolis, float along in all directions ;ll
whilst fauns and satyrs, and followers OF
Mars, are not wanting to make up the
group. Here faded or over-blown Flora
reclines in barouche, there Pomona ex-
poets the fruits of her desire de plaire, the
amatory offer, or the need of admiration,
to requite her for showing so many attrac-
|tions to the dazzled eye. On one side the
lily catching peasant grins delight-on ano-
|ther the starting stranger excites the
smiles of the old stager, playing off some
borrowed character for his own benefit ;|
and all his underlying masks, speaklng|
features, and familiar habits.
In London a prevalence Of grave faces
and an air of business mingle strongly
with the idle, or pleasurable crowd; but
here all seems like the scenic representa-
ton of an eventful drama, filled with in
cdent intrigue, and agreeable surprise.
rhen how delightful the fancy dresses are
how promoted are all charms-how i'm
proved all allurements-how disguised al
ldefects-how few dull dominos lawyers,
priests, grave senitors and the like. If
such pass, they are unobserved, and spec
IDLY quit the gay haunt. How many, in
the true spirit of masquerade, assume the
characters foreign to their own. A young
female peasant, in the habit Of the pays dp
Can, razcs around with an air OF timid
wonder, and the look of rosy health, who
never quilted her native Paris, and whose
face is as we'll known to the hacknled lib
ertine, as the sun-dial of the Paias Royal,
round which so many idlcrs gather when
meridian ray is powerful enough to set oil
the little cannon. A disconsolate widow
|creates deep interest by the story OF
|her husbands death AT champ d'bonnpur,
liz the heart of neighbourng youth, seat
led near Tortoni's, on the hired chair, tho
lin reality, she never was married, and
knows a. little of honor's path, as OF the
never existing General of her imagination
4 flirting Galatea dashes along with her
laquipage and servants; the latter, with
black cockades in their hats, explanatory
10! her being under the protection OF an En-
.lish military man of high rank. Here j.
Ia modest looking tra1es-woman, who un'
oIushingy trades in the errors OF her ssS
there all MISUNDERSTANDING housemal'
lwhU rises at twelve at noon, and goes t,
her couch at two in the morning., whose
works are works OF darkness-whose wa
r.. are the price of transgression.
In the other sex there are as many artl
|icial characters and parts-high dressed
IGentemen, who live ON simples; boy
ESCAPED from the counter, with the con
tents of the till in their pockets, wearing
Mameluke or Tarter tr0wsers; fixed spur.
land movable mustachns and who play th'
miltair, and talk of campaigns to womeI
and children and stripping Foreigners
but cautiously steer clear of the half pa,
OF various garbs, aud of the numei ID
spies of the police. These youths are ha
bited sometimes in the morning as il dress
led for dinner sometimes in an limitation
lof English uudress, and sometimes eve
decorated by ribband which never had
cross pendant to il.
The iargon and acting of these perfor
mers are as various as their exterior. Al
|fected French, broken English, silver.
|+oltness persuasive tone, the adventurer'
t'ale of marvel and the many quacks, ant
mountebanks farrago of high sounding
nunsense, may in turn be observed. On
fellow, remember, in most ilorid dis
course announced, from car drawn b
Two milk white steeds, that he sold tea
|dry-goods. and medicines; whilst his tw
companions played on the French horr
But the highest attempt was vagabont
in an old scarlet and guild uniform, who's
talents were innumerable; he could Gu
cards and CORES with equal dexterity; tel
fortunes, draw teeth, take stains out
silk, shave, dress hair, and play the violir
land as to his medicines, their number an
properties were infinite and he sold ther
= at the lowest possible rate, merely froI
his humanity to mankind he had varlet
Of devices to set otth drugs, but the mos
!; appropriate would have been the old Latl
one,-" Hc venditur emeticum, cathal
Iticum narrocticum, ct omne quod exit i
um, preter remedlum.'
We have been long enough upon tn
Boulevards, and shall only mention on
more character, an elderly man, wh
brought to my mind very serious re1ee
be, tions which may, at future period, com
,dlin their turn