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ryilM S IIB It EVERY » » P A \ MORNING— TERMS: TWO DOL.LA1I8 PEtt ANNUM, PAYABLE HALF YEARLY. G u m p s F A U i M , I t . Y . , E t t I D l ¥ , Y J E 1 J H U A liY 1 7 . IS C B L I A N E O U S . poking is taken from the New- r, written by Mr. iN. P. Willis, Ike title o f ‘’First Impressions of JNo.4.” PARIS, ns to me as if 1 were going month to recall m y departure ere, my memory is bo clouded rincidents. I* was awakened porning after I had written to servant, who brought me at e a cup o f coffee, and a t a- urbefore daylight we were rough the huge gates of the 'our \yay to Paris. The tvliole diligence-travelling amused ingtyy'Tlie construction of this beeffVten described; hut its ipaitnaenls, (at four xT'ffcrent |iU enormous size, ils'comfoil djmsiness, and. more than all, the of its postillions,\ struck me v o i k . i v — i ^ o . f n?! l n smnt snrring pla- thcny iinking down into the comfortable j had stood all my lile-tune a» they coiner of tbe cewpe, I slept almost vvi'.h- cto, and nnve lor ages, every stone aa out interruption till the next morning— it was laid in times of worm eaten Jii*. the best comment in the world on the lory, and looking 1° my eyes now as only cmfortable thing 1 have vet seen in ility did to thejeyes o f knights & dames France, a diligence. in the days of French chivalry. Hook ed a t the constantly occurring rilins of tlie old priories, and the magnificent & still used churches, and n»y blood ting led in My veins,-as 1 saw in the stepping stones at their doors cavities that the It is a pleasant thing in a foreign land to see the familiar face of the sun; and as he rose over a distant hill on the left, tains and looking -glasses and stone floors! There is no wearying a Freach Woman, and 1 pushed my modesty till 1 found a chamber to my taste—a ant shell, to be sure, but caipetcd—and bowing my polite housekeeper out, 1 tang for breakfast, and was at home in Paris! There are few bought with delightful than a 1 lilted the window o f the cmpe to let money that are more him in ,as 1 would open thc door to a French breakfast, If you take it your room* u appears in the shape J-V 'liynovel and diverting. X,his,.8j®*“ ]®n/'i ntioned performer o n the whip ice,‘ (the duly two aocomplish- be at all cultivates,) Tides one of tee wheel-horses, and drives the seven which are in advance* as ter in our country drives a herd of ind they travel very much in the iinner. There is leather enough 5 pf their clumsy harnesses, to sny rofthe postilion’s bools, to load ;n horse heavily, 1 never wit- such a , ludicrous absence of ' wee and tact as in the appoint- ind driving of horses in a dili- . It is so in every thing i» Franco. They do hot possess the q*inli- inilion. The story of tlio GS-ms- , who saw a bridge for the first •tid admired the ingenious ccono- »t placed it across the river, in- oflengthwho, is hardly an e-xag- ' n, daylight I found myself io the *;•(» single scat for three in tho front oodyof tho carriage, with win - before and at the sides,) with two tredand moustached companions, «ry polite, and: very unintelligible, suspected, b y the science with my neighbor on the left hummed matches of popular operas, that a professed singer, (a conjecture proved true,} and i t was equally , from the complexion of tho port- on the Top ofthe other, that his on was a liberal one—a conjee '\finch proved true also, as lie con himself a diplomat, tvhep iv« be better acquainted. For the first or more my attention was diyided ren the dim but beautiful outline of long-missed friend. lie soon reached a sandals o f monks,and the iron-shod feet heavy cloud, however, and my hopes of of knights in avinor a thousand years a- bright Weather when we should enter, go, had trodden und helped to wear, and the metropolis departed. It begun to tlie stone cross over tlie threshold, that rain againjhnd the postillion, after his hundreds of generations had gazed upon blue cotton frock was soaked through, and passed under. put on his great-coat over It-r-an econo By a fortunate chance the postillion my which is peculiarly Jbencb, and.fas'» but eouked and composed left ilie usunl rqjile a t B_aJJhca* »nd ptir- VvMch I observed in ever^Ttaccceding IM>1 how or of what. The colli sued what appeared to be a by-road postillion on the route. The hist peculiarly exquisite, sometfering through tlm grain fields am) vineyards ty-live miles to Paris are uninteresting! q--!* c different from any 1 ever tabtecAhu- I'or .twenty or nvcniy live miles. I can to the eye; and with my own plensant|luie; a,,d the jpcftle jxito, a slender only describe it as an uninterrupted| thoughts, linct as they were with the «uit beuveen bread and cake, is i diate anticipation, &.crisp and warm, a delightful accom pan- distance through the bosom of a valleyU n occasional laugh al the grotesque fig- mient. All this costs about one thud that must be one ofthe verv loveliest injures and eau'mairoR on tl.f» rnnd, I nindelaa much at of tv\o small vessels,one of coffee'.and £on.e of hot milk, two kinds of bread, with a thin, printed slice o f butter, and one oi two ofsome thirty dishes from wbicli you choose, the latter flavored enough io make one wish to bo always at break- I know bis. whenl that must be one ofthe very loveliest injures and equipages on tlie \road 1* made ja3 much as the beefsteaks and coffee in the world. Imagine one of such extent uayself passably contented till we enter-! America, al the same lime that you. are without a fence to break the broad ed the suburb of St. Denis, swells o f verdure, stretching up^froinl It is something to see the outside of n the winding and unenclosd road on ei- sepulchre for kings, and the old ntibey tlier side, to the apparent sky; the hou-|ql'Saint Denis nerds no association to waited upon with a civility that is worth three times 'he money. ; It still rained at noon, nnd finding that the ut-ual dinner hour tv as five, 1 took my ses occurring a t distai c es of miles, and! make a sight o f it worth many a mile of umbrella lor a walk. Inn strange city every one with its thatched roof covered I weary travel. 1 could not atop within 1 preler always to stroll aboatal hazard-, ult over with bright green moss, nnd its four miles of Paris however,aad*t con- \n3\'\''\s »nmn what is fine o r walls of inuvl interlaid through ull tlie j tented myself with running to get a crevices with clinging vines, the whole second view o f it in tho rain while the structure and its appurtenances fault- postillion breathed his horses. The lessly picturesque, and whan you have strongest association about it, old and conceived a valley that might have con-1 magnificent as it is, is lire fact, that Na te sited Raaselas,scatter o u r it here and poleoti repaired it after the revolution; there groups o f men, women, and chil-1 mid standing in probably thc finest point dren, the Normnn peasantry in theirj for its front view, my heart leaped to my drc89cs.of all colors, ns you sec them inhhroat as I fancied that Napoleon, with the prints—and if there is nay thing tlmt j bis mighty thoughts, Imd stood in that can better please thc eyts or make the! very .spot, possibly, und contemplated imagination more willing to fold up its I tbe glorious old pile before me as die iv ings and rest, my travels have not J place of his future repose, crosed it. I have recorded a vow tot After four miles more, over a broad walk through Normandy. I straight avenue, paved in the centre and As we approached Roilcn ihe Wad l^ged with trees, we arrived a tt h e ascended graduully, and a sharp turn St. Denis. 1 was exceeding struck brought us suddenly to tlio brow of a 'Vllh the grandeur of the gate os we steep lull, opposite another o f tlie same passed under, and referring to the guide height, and with the same abrupt de- book l find it was a tnumpltal arch e- scent, at the distance o f a mdo across, reeled to Louis the fourteenth, and the Between lay llouen. I hardly know one by whtch tlie kings ol France inva- bovv lo describe, for American e-yes, the j ribly enter. Tins also wmr restored y peculiar beauty of tins view; one of the Napoleon, with his infallible taste with raost exquisite, I am told, in all F r a n c e .N l changing its design; and it is smgu A town ut the loot ofa hill is common larhow every thing that great man enough in ourcoumry, but oHhe hun- touched became his own, for who. re ared* that answer Io this description, I members for whom it was raised while cannot name one that would afford a | '1C13 told who employed Ins great in- coming unawares upon what is fine o r curious, riiujliafknied descriptions io the guide-books profane the spirit of a place. 1 never look a t them till after I have lound the object, and then omjy for dates. The Rue Vivienne was crowded wuh people, as I emerged fromi the dark archway of tho hotel Vo pursue nxj ivaiiderings A walk ot this kind, by the way, shows one a great jleul o f novelty. In JFinnco there are no shop-nicn. N o matter what the article of trade— hats, boots, pic tures, books, jewelry, any thing and ev ery thing that genllemca buy—-you ore waited upon by girls, always lmadsonae, and always drcst in the height of Lho aiode. They rit on damask covur*( settees, behind thc counters; and when you enter, bow and rise to serve you, with a gracc& a m i l e of courtesy tbal would become a drawing rooim. Aaid this is universal. 1 “strolled on until I colored . n mar- row passage, penetrating a long line of buildings, it was thronged witln people, and passing in with the rest, 1 found myself unexpectedly in a scene lliftt e- isted individuals who seem to havfe de- ligliled inthe agitnlion of the fears of nannkind. fhe present productionii»..... by no means an original one. The su- • pel stit ions of past generations have of- ■ ten been inflamed by similar forewarn - i*igs; and the approach of a Comet', es- v peeially has afforded to croakers and fa natics a most eligible chance for the display of their frightful astrology. We have a long catalogue of these forebo dings and attempted delusions at hand, which we might transfer to our columns by way ofillustraiion; but,for the pres ent, will cite only the following, for which history furnishes indubitable ^vouchers:— . John Stoflcvus, a learned man, who flourished inthe 16thcenturv,in Suabia prdicted a terrible deluge in 1524, which alarmed all Europe. H e was seconded by the astrologers of tire* day, and all soi l o f expedients were contrived in o r der to evade the menace^, calamity,. __ People who dwelt near tho sea shore, sold thoir estate al a great loss. Inspec- lurs were sent to suhvey grounds - in tlio piOYince^ t0 which men and beasts might rcsoil to escape the inundation, and books were published pointing out the moat feasible mothods of avoiding me catastrophe. Tlie panic raged vio- lcntly jo France, .insomuch that iome icrsons grew distracted; some built high irdiesas a means of deliverance; ami* Am tol, a magistrate ofToulousc, ae- raiiy ereclni four high pillars with ,a boat on the summit, But the ohstiaatii Continuance o f dry weather chagrined 'he piophets amazingly. Nevertheless btotlums persisted in his perdition, the fulfilment of which he merely postponed to tlie year 1536. In the same century, a L u ithm n di vine foretold the l,end of the world,” which waste*happen in 1533. On the day appointed, while he w*s preaching, a_ sudden tempest arose, during Hie ra ging o f which his bearers remained.per fectly quiet, having all faith in the proph ecy. But n» the storm subsided, quite disappointed in their expectations, they' tore the preacher from ‘ his desk, and gave him a severe flagellation for his m ista k e , __________ ________ correct comparison. The nice and ex-|^e^ec^ in its repairs! L acssive cultivation of the gcounds in so) I entered Paris on Sunday at eleven mmirv hu ilu» «lmvTv nnnrnaeliimr olcl a country gives the landscape a com- o’clocik. I never should have rocogni- . , J J . $ PP “Iplexion essentially difiVrcnt from o u r s , zed the day. T h e shops were all o if there were another Mount Holyoke, pen, tlie artificers all a t work, the unui- for instance, oil the other side of the telJigiUie criers vociferating their wares Connecticut, thu situalion of North- anil the people in their working-uny aiupton would be very similar lo that of dresses \VVe wound through street al* ofthe dawn, and my nervousnesst h distressing want of skill in the Ion’s driving. The increasing and ir beauty ol the country, even un- e disadvantage of rain and the late attention idill- ,*ooii absorbed all my ver, and my involuntary ami fesstd exclamations of pleasure, so liouen; but, instead of the rural village, ter street, narrow and dark an d dirty, § e houses seen with my mind full o fthe •splendid views with its glimpses of while houses seenlwith my mind full o fth e •splendid views through rich and luxurious masses of of squares, and columns, and bridges, , i f , , iolinge, the mountain sides-above bro- Os I liad seen them in the piints, I could Will. r o c t o ,a m lsT .d d Bd will, Pari.. A Urn ilium pmivp.'Jniini. . li . i I I in ..n lls'= an('c nn,( unlo.icl.ed wiicsof ihe n a - brought us mlo a lnrg& court, tliot of into conversahon, .md * V t tivo forest, and thc fields below waging the Messagerie, thc place at which all P ' f i t r i i i t liu n u t r n ..n n .* <H « n r»iilnrfv rp in n c f l IrflV fillfiW HTfi S 6 l llOWTl O I) fllFlV fll* as once more inspic- ver-iavis|i anti lialf-subdiied Eden of fer-| ted, and, after a half-houris delay, I was ttiree ensuing hours very Mycoihpanion whs on from Lithuania, Iiaving bee the broad permitted to got inio aji.ic.-e, and drive tlie ol oeen m , 4«ifd M em lythe French couiuiittee wit h arms * . r . . ffioney /or Poland. lie was, 0 ^ ^ aspecin.cn of ull lolvin” foHh^dillfcdtvwiilTwhich ’tlieir ^osunh arc ;is trim as a girl’s fiow-11 may as well describe the Hofei d'& - L ramd j^gardem the grass c l o s e l y cut, and ofitrm g m Rue Vivienne, which, by the Illation of an. enthusiisric French- i a undorm urf co of ^rccn, 11 c etiges of j way, I take the libcrty^lthesauio^ n ^ I rarely have been beUer jdeascd fljie 8\ chance acnuaintaiieroi. I -l'ounii. jdic. li tile. Bffiroit#; w>y fits*/* tlie beat claim lie canid . On my interest, and I soon diacov— ’an answering recommendation If to him. e province of Normandy is^ccje ed for its picturesque beauty, but 3 - no conception before of the aillktv- 'picturesque o f an old country. 1 of s e t reg u larly w ith w illow s , to reco m m e n d to tny f r ien d s . I i i s b n -,111 In d s circled w ith t r e e s p ie c ise c e n t r e f o r th e co n v e n ie n c e o t T.i.i 11 j tiitf -i*-icij'arf ;'ofjsiB4rt';seein£r.-‘a<4w»i’--,-t^ wd...heing ,,.u vvith I n i r i i e s . s 1 n g f e n r c t r r t y op>|i0 siu*. G n t r g i i a t t t ^ - U i a t - b Q Q l C - ^rcen I street! 1 unrnn<r r Dl t thou-,! tut imfen- ced verdure lrom One lull toniio.hvr,and built up with antique sirucjlures 01 stoiie the whole looking, in the coup d'ail of distance, like somefatiiassftemodel of 0 town, with gothic liouscs or sand-paper, and meadows of silk velvet. You will lind thc size, population, &c. of Rouen in the guidebooks. As my ebeen a great scenery-hunleMn \j is to record impressions. 1 leave to consult lliose laconic chronicles, eye tvas neiv The massive, baUlo'iy°1| h(;-books of a lll0USond travellers, inted buildmKs ofthe small villages, a„ anch informal-ioi,- The Maid of Orleans was burnt here, as you know, 111 the fourteenth Genuit y . There is a -tatuc erect, d to tier memory, which did not see, fur it rained; and afier the tica, and liiy Is and forests. small passed through, ihelieavy gnlc-ways d winding avenues and antique struc- e ofthe distant and half-hidden chat- iux, the perfect cultivation, and, 1 0 singular appearance of a whole idscape without a fence or a stone. : absence of all that we define by 1 fott and neatness,” and the presence of 1 that we have se.eri in pictures Si, toad in bot>ks,but consider as the represea- lions and descriptions of ages gone liy ■all seemed t o ine irresistibly likes a team. I could not rub my hand/ over y eyes,' and realize myself. 1 coaid at believe that, within a month’* roy- 1 for it rained; usual stop of two houis, as the barome ter promised no change in tlie weather, and as I was anxious to be in Pari§, look my place in th^ night diligence. & kept on. . . . I amused myself till dark watching the streams that poured inio the broad ,,-v . i*. ,» ______ IbUth o f the postillion’s boots from eve hr nart o l his dress, and musing on. tn* fate of the poor Maid o f Orleans; ant itwrft of iwir«pe w i t vry pleaMitil qv Is6tt for ilii; half hour h otoJc' dinner,or. a rainy day. I wrnt there- at -tlie hi* stance of my friend tlie diplomat. The fia&'c slopped before an arched jassdge, and a fellow in livery, who had followed line from the Messagerie, (ptobably in tlie double character of porter and police agent, as my passport was yet to be demanded.) took tny trunk into a small office on thc left, over which Was written “ Concierge.” This person, who is a kind o f respectable door-keeper, addressed me in broken English, without waiting for the evi dence of my tongue that I was a for eigner, and, after inquiring • at what price 1 would have a room, introduced me to the landlady, who took me across a large court, ^thehouses are built round the yard always in France,) to the cor responding story o f ,tlie_ house. The room was quite pretty, with its looking- g l a s s e s and curtains, but there was 110 Carpet, and the fire place was ten feet deep. 1 asked to see another, and a- notber, and another? they were all cur- quully surprised and delighted me. was a spacious square enclosed by -one entire building. The area was laid out as a garden, planted with long nver»ucs of trees and beds 'of flowers, nnd in the centre n fountain was playing in the shape of a jhur-tk lis, with a 'J e t about forty feet in height. A snper-b eu-lou- nade rBn round the whole squ are, ma king a covered gallery of .the lower sto‘ ry, which was occupied by dliops o f the most splendid appearance, and ihronget through its long sheltered paves by thousmids ofgav promctradersr- It was the far-fanird Pnlaur Royal. E rcincm- bci‘r»cl the description I had heard o f its guinbling-liouses, and facilities for every vice, and lo.'lced with a new surprise On its Aladiliiilike niagtrificeaoc. Ihe hundreds uf beautitul pillars, ©trctehiug away from tlie rye in loog at*d distant perspective, the crowd ol cilrzeii^, am women, and officers in full uniform, pas sing and repassing with Frcrxch tivtli- ness and,politeness, the long »m«dows of plated glass glittering will* jfwelry, and bright with every thing to tempt tlie n . n e y , t . r » j i « l l Bo r . « ( n o l o p a c i n g h o t IV ! 1 f i n tho^-eolums^sStli^uT liiqr ils^icle^.'irjaticrs with n / a l l aa-dibie • above the trbad and voices of” (lie Iliuil- sands who walked'around it— m hq toilld look upon sucha scene and believe it what it is, the most corrupt spoi, prob ably, on the face o f the civilized ivork! f In tlio year 1761, two men at Colog ne having reported that they had Just ar rived from Damascus, were visited hy the Jesuits o f the former place, with whom they conversed in the Hebrew, Clmldaic, Greek,(ind Latin languages,— Tlidy came, ns they affirmed, by order o f Leaven to'call men to repentaiteej and stated themselves lo be prophets, ond oh I ij 700 years o f age. They predicted, among other things, the destruction of Constantinople in 1766; the inundation of till England in 1769; an earthquake throughout the Globe in 1770; the lall o f the sun, tnoori nnd stars in 1771; the conflagration o f .the whole earth in 1772; and, filially, the general judgment in 177S. W e believe they proceeded no farther in tlieir predictions. Countless sooth-sayors of (his des cription have at different periods en deavored to disturb thc peace of thc world by fvrtelling its sudden ruin.—- Among lliciu one George Boll, a reli gious enthusiast, about half u century since, pi eiunded to foresee the cud of the world; but having retracted before the trine arrived, people allowed (heir luars to subside, Lord Napier, the in genious ioventorof the logarithms, Buf fered himself to be affected by a similar delusion, and also foretold the end of the world at a certain date, which peri od, however he happened to outlive.— 'Illusion, tl.e mathematician, predicted, HuPtbc'dtr sfi ucriqnyuf actual advance o f the inflTetiiiiuiri at a period which he chanced fitpr*Tthrfc#i to survive. TH E COMET. Whatever may have been the object of the German wrilers in spccsulali ug on the approaching Comet—wlictl.er for the purpose of wontonly af<jusiiEg the lerrorsofnn ignorant popuiac-e, or thru’ motives still more dishonorable, w s pre lend hot fodecidr. But actuated hy .i.c singular sort of fancy, these sage journalists havo ventured lo predict the total destruction of the earth Siy its inev itable collilion with the eccentric wand erer. Others have seized on the terrible prophecy, arid in all the fecundity o f ima gination overloaded * with horror's and hypochondria, expatiated om the awful calnstropinvas though it were p e r f e c tl y consistent with tbe demonstrations o f astronimical science .— Courier Sf Jinq. In. all ages ol the irorld there have ox- Tliat the approaching Comet will a p pear ns foretold, is as certain as the oc- c.urrencc of any other phenomenon, tho future npperrance of which Jmay he in ferred from wlmt has passed. That its path will approach very near (from 13,- OOO to 14,000 leagues) lo ihat of the enrth, is also true. But then the fact is that thc earth and the comet themSelvei will not drmv nearer than wiiliin about 16;000,000 leagues of each other; lof while one is travelling towards the or bit o f (l.e other, the latter will have re ceded far enoughl to be entirely out of (be way o f miscbiet even Should their several tracks intersect each other; and in case they should happen at the /tunc moment (which cannot be) to arrive at those points in their respective orbit* nearest to cacl) other* the diiitirbnnpe reasonably to be apprehended, would only be momentary, and altogether too siight to become an object o f previous a- )arm. \
