live on! adieu my only friend I have never been || d'hommes, il nous déshonore; il detruit nos resunjust towards thee! thou owest me that justice notwithstanding the desire of my heart to be so thou understandes me-embrace thy wife for

The people to whom we are going treat women in a different manner than we do; but in every country he who ravishes is a monster.

Pillage enriches only a few men, it dishonours us; it destroys our resources; it makes enemies of those people which it is our interest to retain as friends.

The first town we shall enter was built by Alexander. We shall at every step find remem. brances worthy of exciting the emulation of Frenchmen.

(Signed) BONAPARTE. By order of the General in Chief, the General pf Division, Chief of the General Officers, General of the Army,

ALEXANDER BERTHIER.

From the Press of the Naval Army, on board the Orient.

[Taken by Lord Nelson in the Mediterranean in 1798. It is printed on a single sheet on one side.]

It may not be thought incurious to quote here the following passage from Mercier's Tableau de Paris, written in 1788.

"The late Duke de Choiseul is the cause of our meeting with so many Corsicans in Paris, for it was he who ordered their country to be conquered. This capital, at a great distance from them, is become the centre of their hopes. Corsicans in Paris! nothing is more surprising; their conversation is extremely interesting; their national character appears hitherto to be indelible. Of all foreigners the Corsicans are those who most run counter to all our ideas,"

THE SECRETAIRE; OR, THE FINE LADY'S DAY.

me.

was waiting for you with impatience. I want to
go to the bath, and you may judge of my em-
barrassment, I have lost the key of my secre-
taire, and am without a sous. You will go with
me, won't you?"-" With great pleasure." We
accordingly went to the bath, Eliza for fashion's
sake, and I out of complaisance. On going away
a little memorandum of two Louis was handed to
"Is it possible," exclaimed I, "that you
can charge two Louis for two persons !"-" Yes,
Sir; 36 francs for the lady and 12 for yourself.
Madame was rubbed with essence of roses;
her bath was of perfumed paste of almonds."
"There are two Louis," said I, and rejoined my
fair bather. We breakfasted; this cost me no-
thing. After breakfast arrived M. Courbette,
professor of presentation, and salutation, and
teacher of dancing. I was permitted to be pre-
sent at the lesson, from which I not only learned
on which leg it is the fashion to support one's
self, the side figure that a lady should present,
which arm she ought to extend and which to
contract, but likewise heard a learned analysis of
the morality of the dance terre à terre. At length
M. Courbette was ready to retire, but the se-
cretaire could not be opened; I was therefore ob-
liged to advance two more Louis, one for the ex-
ercises of the body, the other for the lesson of
analysis. It was two o'clock, when some one
came and proposed to Eliza to go and see a
race in the Bois de Boulogne; an extraordinary
race to decide a wager between two women.
desire not of going to admire the two Amazons,
but of exhibiting herself prancing about on a
fine horse was irresistible; and as Eliza rides none

I HAD passed a few moments with Eliza, and this was a mark of very great favour; for Eliza is courted by all the richest, most amiable, and most gallant men in Paris, and I know many a coxcomb of the capital, who boasts knowing Eliza,|| and who has passed more than twenty evenings in her company, without venturing to speak to her, nay, even without daring to approach nearer than ten yards of her. I will not say that I had the art to please her who pleases every body; but by my attentions, my gaiety, and still more by my air of freedom and candor, I distinguished myself among the crowd of adorers who successively flattered and beset her, and more than once when twenty young men sought Eliza's company, Eliza appeared solicitous of mine. Conversing first on one subject and then on another, what I said to her probably became interesting. We both found an evening too short, and we agreed to spend a day together. What felicity! to be permitted to spend a whole day with Eliza! In the first place I was admitted into her house, and so is every one that wishes it; I had the privilege of seeing her house, and so has every one that desires it; the mansion of this Parisian was built by a modern architect, after an antique design brought from Naples, and taken among the ruins of Herculaneum from the relics of the house of a celebrated female at the court of Cæsar or Augustus. This house is a curiosity which can only be seen by means of tickets, and that at a time when the owner is absent. After having admired the portico, the private court, the hall, the saloon for company, I was at length ushered into the boudoir. "Ah! there you are," said Eliza, "I No. VI. Vol. I.

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but horses demanége it cost me three Louis for more than one hundred crowns; that is not dear; our two horses, and two for the servants. The this gentleman will pay you."-" But," rerace was charming. Never were the alleys of the joined Madame Germon, "I had forgotten the Bois de Boulogne paved by more superb steeds, || principal part of my business; I came for an unnever were they traversed by more rapid chariots, fortunate family in the Marais, which has made a or skimmed by more agile nymphs. On our re- little lottery of a Turkish shawl,-there it is; you turn from the race we found Madame Germon will remark, I dare say, these new palm branches; waiting for us in the antique boudoir. She had the ticket is only 50 francs." "The gentleman brought the first robe executed after a new pattern, will add 50 francs; and then run to bespeak me a but Eliza, fearful perhaps of tiring my patience box at the Bouffons, where an extraordinary conor exhausting my purse, made some objections. cert is given." This box cost me 54 francs more, "What a robe!" exclaimed Madame Germon; which made me say; "Ah! my dear Eliza, why " you know not what you refuse; it is in the did you lose the key of your secretaire?" You will pure Grecian style, which you know has again suppose, Mr. Editor, that I am giving you this come into fashion; never were people of Paris circumstantial account only to excite your pity for more thoroughly Grecian than at present. And lending and losing my money. No such thing; then what a colour!"-" Very beautiful indeed, Eliza paid me all that I had advanced the very it is lilac."" You suppose that it is the com- next day; but I wished to shew you that by addmen lilac such as every body wears: no such ing up the cost of a Chinese bath, a lesson in thing, it is hot-house lilac; that is all I have to French salutation, an English race, a Grecian say to you."" Ah! my dear friend only look robe, a Turkish shawl, and a box at the Italian at it; it is hot-house lilac, it is uncommonly beauopera, you may nearly ascertain the daily expentiful"-"What is the price, Madame Germon?" diture of a Parisian fine lady. "One hundred crowns, Madam." "What! no

THE WORLD AS IT IS.

It has long been remarked that this world is a what is astonishing, of more affection for each true comedy, and, divided into halves, recipro- other. They could not do without each other; cally laugh at each other. Though the ton of high |and could not see each other without quarrelling. life diffuses a kind of sameness over itself, which || One said black expressly because the other said has given rise to the idea that upper life is nothing white; if the former persisted that two and two but a masked ball, it is, nevertheless, in that are four, the latter would have said that it was a sphere alone men must be studied. ridiculous error, and he would not be made the dupe of the argument.

The art of contrast, as striking on the dramatic scene as in nature, shines in those scenes with all their lustre, and may readily be discriminated by an attentive observer; after having seen some excellent copies at the theatres, we have always been much gratified in the meeting of the originals in society. I do not know if that species of disposition is an eulogium on our hearts, but it exists, and most assuredly is the satyr of the world as it is.

One morning I called at one of their houses. He was in his study. "My good fellow," said he, as soon as he saw me, "I am one of the most fortunate of men in the world, look and you will see my chest has been robbed." "Yes,” I answered, "I perceive the lock has been forced, but I do not exactly discover what there is to excite such rejoicing." "How blind you are," he replied, rubbing his hands, and evincing I was acquainted some time since, and was,|| by all his actions the greatest joy, “don't you indeed, very intimate with two people, whose see that the thieves who robbed my chest have character, were extremely sympathetic. Perhaps not found the five hundred pounds that were even, and I must acknowledge it, the pleasure concealed in it? They have taken two hundred they procured me by their caprice inspired in me and fifty pounds from the chest, and have left much friendship for them; that infatuated ego-five hundred pounds in the secret drawer; was

tism penetrates itself every where, and we sometimes extol the people we have occasion for, to dissemble the necessity we have for their acquaintance.

However that may be, it is impossible to meet two persons of more opposite characters, and

there ever any thing so fortunate. Yes, my friend, I conceive myself the most fortunate man in the world; if they had discovered the secret drawer I should have been completely and inevitably ruined."

He was in the extacy of joy; he did not think