The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — 1804-08-25 (London, England)

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.  FROM THE FRESCII PAPERS.  PARIS. ♦OGVST 10.  A memorial has been presented to Government, in which it has been propmsed, that every French Citizen, every year, on thy. day of his rna. riage, or on the birth of a child, should be obliged, under a fine of fifty Lyres, to plant a tree in the neighbourhood of his residence; and that every parent, widow, widower, son, and daughter, on the day of the decease of their relatives or friends, are to plant trees on their graves, or not far distant from their places of burial. If this memorial was changed into a law, not only fuel would be cheaper, bat in ten years we should have timber enough to build both flotillas, and a fleet more powerful and nunwsous than that of England; and, instead of importing timber or planks from Russia, Sweden, and Denmark; we would have sufficient to provide Spain, Portugal, and Italy, with this necessary article.  During the month Messidor, between the 20th of June and 20th of July, no less than sixty-six persons committed suicides at Paris, of whom twentytwo were women. Eighteen drowned themselves, eig't hanged themselves, thirty poisoned themselves, and ten shot themselves. Among them, the most remarkable was Josephine Barre, in the Rue St. Dominique, who, in a fit of jealousy, poisoned ber lover, and afterwards herself ; but, apprehensive that the poison would have no effed, she shot herself through the heart. A letter upon the table explaiacd the cause of this rash art. She was just turneslof seventeen, and an only child of a rich wood merchant, who L is been mad ever since. Her mother died oleo:mirk -ns on the day of her daughter's suicide. Another suicide, Louis Deny. aged twenty-one, fill in love with his own sister; and his mother having discovered his incestuous passion, he poisoned them both, and afterwards hanged himself. In a fetter to the Prefeft of Police, he demanded to be buried in the same grave with his sister, which has hen consented to. She was not quite fitteen.—( 7,,vrinol de Paris.) According to rise registers of the Police, the common girls in this capital amount to 4-1,500, and liio9 kept mistresses are known to the Police.— Among those unfortunate persons, nearly one-thirl are divor:ed women, who, within some few years, have been married to several husbands. The former laws concerning divorces may therefore truly be called the laws of legal prostitution, and they have done more harm to the morals of the people, than all the horrid examples vices, and crimes, they have witnessed since the Revolution, and which our present beloved Emperor has put an end tn. According to our renewed civil code, it requires at least twelve months before an aft of divorce can be obtained.— (Id.) A beautiful printed work, called Mamie! It In Leg ea d'ilosen.mt, has made its appearance, and in a short time has gone through two editions. Mr. Thibaudet lately published a work, called " My Twenty Years Remembrances (Spentin) of Berlin," of which he presented a copy to the King of Prussia. In return, the Marquis Lucchisini, on the part of his Sovereign, delivered to him a beautiful gold sweff-box, with the pilture of His Majesty, set round with large diamonds.