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terious. Our friends, the quidnuncs, will, however, see that Louis-Phi- 

 lippe has been transacting business on his own account, and not on that 

 of the little Duke of Bourdeaux. He has been strengthening his foreign 

 alliances ; and if his career has not been quite so splendid as many have 

 desired, at all events barring an occasional shot it has been tolerably 

 secure. The papers found with the Duchess de Berri, are, some of 

 them, pleasant specimens of the Holy Alliance school. On from the 

 Prince Royal of Prussia, affords us a clear idea of what may be expected 

 in future from that promising scion of legitimacy. Nothing, at this 

 moment, would be greater source of delight to him, than the death of 

 his father. " Give me joy," said the Frenchman, whose woe-begone 

 countenance appeared suddenly lighted up with smiles <e mafemme cst 

 morte." Then would he be able to gratify his senseless and criminal 

 ambition, by having a tilt at the French. The heart of this hero, that 

 is to be, is captivated by the shaggy cossacks of the Don. He cannot 

 picture to himself any thing more noble, unless it be his own pigeon- 

 breasted, be-stuffed and be-whiskered monsters. He will never be 

 happy till he has seen a French soldier, and heard a shot fired at a 

 distance and seen service, by riding about on a long-tailed horse. As 

 to the other correspondent of the Duchess, the heroic Don, his prowess 

 has been manifested before Oporto ; but his letter gives promise of 

 ability in other departments besides that of war. It contains a feasible 

 plan for swindling the public out of a loan, in conjunction with the 

 exiled family of France ; but, fortunately, they quarrelled about the 

 lion's share, and so the favour was not pressed. Poor Chateaubriand 

 has gone stark mad, that he cannot have an opportunity of making him- 

 self popular about the affairs of the Duchess. No man deserves to be 

 talked of more than he no opportunity does he ever omit to gain a 

 little addition to his notoriety. Nothing would delight him more than 

 his being arraigned for high treason, simply from the fame likely to 

 accrue from the splendid oration he might have occasion to make the 

 verses he would compose or the romance for which it might furnish a 

 subject. Notwithstanding such knight-errants, France is still safe ; it 

 stands where it did, and is likely there to remain. Instead of combating 

 giants, these gentry will find their antagonists, on which they built their 

 fame, to be nothing but windmills. They will be sorely buffetted in 

 the encounter, and be laughed at for their pains ! 



BRIGHTON BUFFOONERIES. A short time since, a spiritual farce was 

 enacted at Brighton, worthy of the best days of Roman Catholic jug- 

 glery. The inhabitants were ordered by their clerical masters, to shut 

 up shop, and forthwith rush to thanksgiving for what? That the 

 town of Brighton had had the good fortune to escape the cholera ! 

 which they were pleased to interpret as a special act of Providence in 

 their behalf! We have seldom heard of a pleasanter specimen of pre- 

 sumption. In the name of Heaven, wherein does the exclusive claim of 

 the Brighton people exist to such an interposition ? Is it that " all her 

 sons are brave, and her daughters virtuous?" That we will take our 

 oath they are not. Is it in the superior sanctity of her clergy ? Like 

 Lord Eldon, we doubt. Perhaps it is in the superiority of her potted 

 shrimps ? Enough of this ; it is time to have done with such solemn 

 waggery. The church does not seem to be in the best odour ; and such 

 displays as these are not likely to raise its reputation. True piety needs 



