Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1831-08-18

=" MS opihiOu, tuat the present french GOV
eminent IS OF despotic character, is proved
by the following extract from the Courier
franeais." OF the 18th June last
The King having arrived at Metz, at S
T NJ, the Constituted Authorities were pre-
sented TO him Mayor, introduced at the
head OF the couRcil, read a discourse, which
had been agreed upon by the Council the e
vening before.
Officers of. the National Guard were
then presented by the Mayor Mr.. Woir-
hsye, captain Of the first company of the
first battalion, had been appointed to read
an address to the King, in the name of the
National aIuard. When he began to read the
address the King paid the mos marked at
tenton until the moment when he came TO
these word Among those laws, that which
VIII exercise the greatest influence over the
future destlnIes Of France, is the one which
shall organize the second branch of the legis
iatve power, Uhe peerage) The almost
unanimous wish of our city is'-Here the
King took the paper from the hands of Nj
W olrbaye, and said, 1T is enough: the Ma
tiorlot Guard should not busy iissf 10Th poll
ties 1t is not their business; they have no
right to efer any advice
an Wolrhaye replied Sire, we do not
presume to offer advice; we merely express
wish
"The King replied, The National Guard
has no right to have any wish on the subject:
dellberatIon is forbidden to them; desire TO
hear no more about it
at was, Of course, impossible to insist
The officers retired We abstain from ex
pressing the reflections which crowd upon us.
at the recital of fact as new as il is unex-
pected.
So much for French liberty When the
militia, the "bone and snewn of the country
are commanded not to think, or if they do,
ito commune with their own hearts, and be
silent
Marriage of Foreigners IN France A cir.
cular has been addressed by the Minister Of
Justice to the local authorities in France, sta
ting that The laws Of several neighboring
countries forbid natives for marrying abroad
without an authority from their own govern
ment, and that French women having mar
ried such persons, on going to their hus-
bands countries, their marriages were de
clared in valid and their children illegi,mate
The French Government. therefore deter
mines to require of every foreigner, who
the authorities Of his birth place, or last resi-
dence in bis country, stating that there is 40
obstacle to his contracting marriage inFrance e.
Lore of Dress Man is in no haste to be
venerable At present, II seems as If there
were 10 occasion TO become so. People die
as usual. but it is not the fashion to grow old
Formerly, men subsided and settled down in
TO respectable old age at forty, as they did
into a beb wig. and brown coat and waist
coat Of certain cut. The father of fami
" no longer pretended TO pass for a gay young
fellow, after he had children grown up; and
women dwindled by regular and willing gra-
datians, into mother and grandnothers,
transferring their charms and pretensons to
blooming posteri:y; but these things are ne,
yer thought oil now DAYS. A matron Of
sixty fiaunts it in La Belle Assemblies dress
es for Hav!" aui certainly VI. Stuitz never
inquiries into the grand cllmacteIic OF his Gus
toners Dress levels all ages as well as all
ranks -Whittaker's Monthly alag.
Influence Of the Character Of Servants upon
Children i am convinced thatthe most care
full and fastidious education Of children must
he very much Influenced by the character of
the servants Ii is impossible that they should
not he much in each others company. And,
besides the services by which the servants
engage the affections of the child, their minds
are much more upon level with his They
are but species Of grown up children -
Hence, be finds sympathy which he seeks
in vain in the refined and cultivated mind OF
bis parent There he meets with his own
curiosity, minuteness of observation, love OF
detail, eagerness for wonders, simplicity Of
thought and plainess of expression, which
win his confidence and attachment, at the
time that their comparatively great exper
ence and their bodily advantages exact de
ference Let the scholar and the rustic tell
story to child: the former will soon be o.
bligea to yield the palm TO his less accom-
plished rival Hence, the child IS contlnu
ally imbihing the ssrvant'snctons, and hangs
upon his lips II gives us glorious idea of
Gods economy when we find the care or
neglect Of the minds Of our servants reward
ed or visited in the minds Of our children,
and are aware that not only what we have
sown in the one we shall reap in the other:
The servant. in many respects. forms most
important medium betv cen the parent, and
child delivering TO it, in form suited to its
capacities ITO which the parent, especially
the father, often finds it most difficult to des-
cend) what he received in a form adapted to
ripper years.-Rectory Of pslehead
The Mosque Of CORDOBA This structure is
Indeed noble monument of antiquity. The
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