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Ancient And Modern France.
ANCIENT AND MODERN FRANCE .
A FRAGMENT . — ' "Vl / " ^^ " ' t ! e Ies P fo these Gentlemen , as well as to v * Madam , ' replied a veteran Chevalier of St . Louis , who had lost an eye and a thi gh in the war of Hanover , ' in my opinion , France is not more to be likened to an immense Crucible " than to a grand Opera '— ' I am no hand at lossing over things butspeaking
g ; , as a soldier , I am free to s : iy , that France was , heretofore , as a monarchy , sometimes good , sometimes bad ; but , at present , what is it but a Bear-garden ? ' ' A Bear-garden ! ' exclaimed every tongue , both male and female . — ' Undoubtedly , Sir , you cannot be serious in what you say ? You are not , perhaps , aware , " that you blaspheme the republic ; should the Emperor * overhearyour assertions , he would
not fail to repeat them to his Bohemian gentleman , - ) - and you run no less a risque than that of transportation . ' _ ' Transportation here or there , what is it , ' said the old Officer ? ' 'Tis exile , I confess . I have but a few days to live , and I defy them to add , to the injuries they have done me . Yes , gentlemen , France is a Bear-garden : for they don ' t understand one anotherand
, every Frenchman seems desirous to command , and no one to obey . The young men are become so insolent , and the young ladies so But excuse ' me , Madam , this is not intended for you—The young women have broken through all restraint . —This Directory of ours is not competent to guide the ' helm—The Council of Five Hundred are
more like a gang of gladiators than any thing else !—Here you see intrigues , there crimes—rbut follies on every side . This by them is styled a republic—b y me a Bear-garden . After a period of six years , it might naturally have been expected that wisdom would at length be resorted to in regulating the destiny of France . —But to chance they still continue to look up—witness that lottery into which they have just drawn their legislatorsas formerlat the of Lottothey
, y game , drew ambit and temu . —Such a lottery was deemed immoral for the people ; but it is perfectly adapted to the senate . ' Our old Gentleman ' s head was just getting rather heated , when a Lady thought proper to interpose— ' France , an Opera , would be ' pretty tolerable , said she ; but France , a Crucible , would by no means suit me ; much less should I endure France a Bear-garden . —France
was a comely young man , whose lair forehead' fourteen centuries had not been able to wrinkle . Like Anacreon , he braided his hair with flower :, —His ' songs were enchanting , and from the calix of the rose he imbibed the most delicious intoxication . All on a sudden , a gloomy empiric , rising , I believe , from the grave of Gracchus , came and persuaded him to throw his golden gcbists into the seato let his
, hair grow strai ght and unadorned , and to break the bottles which contained a most luscious nectar . —He prevailed on him to swallow a strong jiviuor , which threw him into a fit of outrageous drunkenness . —The roses faded in his hair , the wrinkles ' of age soon began to furrow his brow ; he could no-longer attune his voice but to warlike
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Ancient And Modern France.
ANCIENT AND MODERN FRANCE .
A FRAGMENT . — ' "Vl / " ^^ " ' t ! e Ies P fo these Gentlemen , as well as to v * Madam , ' replied a veteran Chevalier of St . Louis , who had lost an eye and a thi gh in the war of Hanover , ' in my opinion , France is not more to be likened to an immense Crucible " than to a grand Opera '— ' I am no hand at lossing over things butspeaking
g ; , as a soldier , I am free to s : iy , that France was , heretofore , as a monarchy , sometimes good , sometimes bad ; but , at present , what is it but a Bear-garden ? ' ' A Bear-garden ! ' exclaimed every tongue , both male and female . — ' Undoubtedly , Sir , you cannot be serious in what you say ? You are not , perhaps , aware , " that you blaspheme the republic ; should the Emperor * overhearyour assertions , he would
not fail to repeat them to his Bohemian gentleman , - ) - and you run no less a risque than that of transportation . ' _ ' Transportation here or there , what is it , ' said the old Officer ? ' 'Tis exile , I confess . I have but a few days to live , and I defy them to add , to the injuries they have done me . Yes , gentlemen , France is a Bear-garden : for they don ' t understand one anotherand
, every Frenchman seems desirous to command , and no one to obey . The young men are become so insolent , and the young ladies so But excuse ' me , Madam , this is not intended for you—The young women have broken through all restraint . —This Directory of ours is not competent to guide the ' helm—The Council of Five Hundred are
more like a gang of gladiators than any thing else !—Here you see intrigues , there crimes—rbut follies on every side . This by them is styled a republic—b y me a Bear-garden . After a period of six years , it might naturally have been expected that wisdom would at length be resorted to in regulating the destiny of France . —But to chance they still continue to look up—witness that lottery into which they have just drawn their legislatorsas formerlat the of Lottothey
, y game , drew ambit and temu . —Such a lottery was deemed immoral for the people ; but it is perfectly adapted to the senate . ' Our old Gentleman ' s head was just getting rather heated , when a Lady thought proper to interpose— ' France , an Opera , would be ' pretty tolerable , said she ; but France , a Crucible , would by no means suit me ; much less should I endure France a Bear-garden . —France
was a comely young man , whose lair forehead' fourteen centuries had not been able to wrinkle . Like Anacreon , he braided his hair with flower :, —His ' songs were enchanting , and from the calix of the rose he imbibed the most delicious intoxication . All on a sudden , a gloomy empiric , rising , I believe , from the grave of Gracchus , came and persuaded him to throw his golden gcbists into the seato let his
, hair grow strai ght and unadorned , and to break the bottles which contained a most luscious nectar . —He prevailed on him to swallow a strong jiviuor , which threw him into a fit of outrageous drunkenness . —The roses faded in his hair , the wrinkles ' of age soon began to furrow his brow ; he could no-longer attune his voice but to warlike