The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — 1804-08-18 (London, England)

INT!LUGINCL  FROM THE FRENCH PAPERS.  PARIS, AV6. 2. Yesterday, about three o'clock in the afternoon.  a young man, about 25 years of age, threw himself  from the Poit-etekr into the Seine. Boats immediately went in search of him, and brought him on shore. A sargeon, M. Nicolle, was passing over t the bridge when this accident happened, and immediately offered his easistance, by which, after halt an hour's labour, he was restored to lift:. He refused to tell his name, or the cause of th,s aa of despair. p 'The Police Commissary ordered him therefore to continue in the Corps de Garde. Half an hour Le' fore, another person was taken out of the water, but all efforts to restore him to life were in vain. A& 1 of suicide unfortunately increase to an astonishing • degree. i One of those impudent women, Qui, gnutant thin le crime une tranquille paix, Ont su se faire us front qui ne roi.git jiinais, presented herself last Sunday in the gat den of f./yaes de B3asr6us, and shocked the whole assembly by the indecency of her dress. She was turned out. • Else was accompanied catra mums by ail the young ' men present, and the buntings of the people put sued her to the other side of the Elysian Fields. We t have indeed no right to despair of the return of mo. milky, wheel this sort of police is enforced by the young men themselves.—(yearioal de Paris.)  Our Parisian Cockneys are always the same ; always inconsistent and inconsiderate. While some .ef them, excited by a disappointed lover, turned out from the E'4,su Barroom, a young elegant woman, because, under a thin muslin petticoat, she wore nothing but &ski-coloured pantaloons, made strait, se as to shew net beautiful shape ; in the Garden of 1 Paphos, other Cockneys eatried in triumph an old I preplan*. whose bosom was uncovered, and who, under a short muslin gown. wore a yet shorter ehe anise. with a border of large Brussels lace, without other petticoats or pantaloons. But her admirers• were net only young men, or confined to the Gnaw of Paphos, because we observed, during this scandalous procession, on the Boulevert, men nearer threescore than forty, all applauding and emulating who should be most forward to worship this idol of Baal. If the Government are anxious (and we know they are) to preserve what little remains of amorality among us, a severe vigilance of our police could not be better employed than in our public  ma.ks and gar.leris.—(/..., Caeyen Freereit.) It is not true, that M. Mercier, the member of the National institute, has announced his against the sun. On the contrary, he in•sids im! -inediately to attack it, and overthrow it from its insmosoalsie throne. He announces that he has alre id in the press a work, which will m eke this planet (ashy eterpa'ear) tura pale; that this work shall I e printed cs ems eosin, and that, with the assistance of this artillery, the walls of the Observatory, which be calls the Bastile of Sciences, shall fall to the dust. Ha will not, says he, amuse himself in any attack as the great bastions; a small issue, or bitac't, .s oaly necessary, and the despotism of this planet shall be humbled. if not annihilated.—(Lc J•erliel sfe Poil: On the 4th ult. some workmen employed in cutting turf at Finer les Mar:liicanes, in the Department of the North, found at the depth of one yard a great '4t-bottomed boat, which they succeeded in raising entire above the earth. The Prefect, informed of this discovery, sent M. Bottin to ezamine it. The length of the boat was thirty-six feet and a half, and its breadth in the middle two feet eight inches. What makes this discovery very curious is, that this boat has been male hollow from ore single tree, in the madam of the canoes of the savages. A seat crossed it near the helm. The only iron found was a nail through the head of the rudder. As the tad has beta dug to the depth of nine or ten feet, gad the boat was under the turf in.- yard or three feet, is a kind of bed of shells, a grew uverthrow of onr globe gas bees reqoired to bur/ it in this manner. The boat was, besides, so rotten, that it fell to pieces a soma as tou:LeJ, after being exposed to :he air for / MOW time. The wc.oil was as black as ebony. -• his the environs of Mende, chief town in the 4• Jeri/new of Leziere, a terrible storm. on the 27th nit. caused an inundation and considerable losses to =any communes. By the great quantity of hail that fell, the earth continued for twenty-four hours to look as if coverei with snow. The river Lot welled greatly and overflowed its ba iks, and its Muddy seater had upon the fish the effect of p,iemu liVisen the storm was over. the inhabitants of one single village took, without difTrctilty, five quintals of trout, which had almost lost life or w re 'faint. Atter being put into fish ponds of char water. they, howeve-. soon rtv- vered. In the gazette of Atteshargl, ;$ an article lion Venice, in which is mentioned fans, that oi a short time some great changes wol take pace the Papal territory, which. in pot,, wial be g',•••to intionoity to the King of oard..iia. Cudinal  h.