Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-06-04

PORTRAIT OF DANDr.--An amusing book, lately pub
ished, entitled q Yuss," containing description of
and incidents and society in Syria and the East
written by fellow ownsmap Mr.. ]. Ross BROWNE
whose interesting letters to the National Inelgencer
year two ago. readers will remember with pleasure
contained the following portrait of exquisite of fashion
and folly designed however rather depict the type Of
class than the likeness of real and particular in
dividua:
"When first saw him he the way from Flo
10 Milan in quest Of pair of pantaloons Of par
tcular style No man in Europe understood cutting
cept Pantaett- There fit in Pantaett that made
him indispensable He had tried the Partisan tailors bu
they deficient in the knees 1t his intention
proceed at from Milan to Leipsic for boots the
Germans the only people who brought boots to per-
fction and decidedly the best be had at Leipsc
He expected TO be obliged to Paris for shirts
there set in the collars Of the Partisan shirt that
suited him. His medicines he always purchased in Lon
dom his cigars he forced to import from Havana
his Lataka tobacco he compelled purchase himself
in Smyrna, and this partly the occasion Of his pre-
sent visit As to wines, it to undertake
to drink any but the pure he
rally bottled the Rhine every summer in order
avoid imposition His winters he spent chiefly in Spain
it the only country where good cream to be had
but the coffee Inferior and he sometimes had
the Pyrenees for want Of good cup of coffee.
No mode OF travelling suited him exactly; in fact he
dsliked travelling Riding he hated because it olted
him; walking because it tired him the snow because
it cold the sun, because IL was warm Rome be-
Il
because IT was dusty. by the way, l dsked Athens
myself chiefly on that account; Bimby right there
But II was impossible for him to live in America again
What could any Of taste do there No pictures no
ruins, society, opera, classical associations
nothing at ALL except business and all sorts OF business
he despsed II ridiculous well as n vulgar way
Of spending life In fact the only decent people he had
met with we're the French might contrive to exist
awhile in Paris Not that be approved altogether of the
Freaeh language; it wanted depth and richness the
only Ia = worthy man Of was the Sanscrit
As he gGited himself in boots at Lepsic he
was going perfect himself in Snnscrit at University
Of Berlin after which be hoped to recover the 81 Of
hard study by tour through Bavaria which was the
only country the face Of the earth where the beer was
TT to drink"
This extract from Fusef" press in New York
has given personal application to- by representing it as
''se"sSs ~ Sfs' Ahn truthful descrintiop of
certain gentleman of New York, now, we oeffeSu ~
Pmis and whose has suffered the gross injustice Of
being publicly coupled with it the original Of the por-
tr We therefore copy the extract at the request Of
the author for the purpose Of adding also request
that the picture not intended for the gentleman
named and referred TO by the New York presses Mr.
Browne the author that gentleman in his fe
and knew nothing Of him which would justify such pic
ture, and had him not in mind when it was penned.