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A'couvt of the City cf Afovs. 



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known to grow oij^ rocks, though the ge- are chofen from ihofe who were in youtli 

 nerni Hpoe^rarce of the flowtr might be men oF celebrity at the fport, to decicJe be- 

 fim;kr to an incurious ohferver. twe^n the plivers ; they lucceflivcly ex- 

 Page 245 Mr- E. favs, " We fought in elude from' the conteft the communes who 

 vain for the n"n riefcri .t plant which is have been defeated in former challenges, 

 called afaleur pren, whofs fruit refembles till in tue enJ there remain two or tiiree 

 emcii, ard i^ faid to grow upon the top only tor the competition. The laft cftal- 



of Pennaen. We were iniu, r.-ed ihat con 

 tinual attenipss have been nntte to tranl- 

 plant it tr^m this elevated fiiuation with- 

 out effect. The laft attefr,;)t was maile 



lenge wns between the town of Mons and 

 the borough of Soignies ; the latter gained 

 the victory. I'he players who obtain thic 

 b nour for theirc immunity are entertain- 



by Lr,rd Bnlkfley : it was tranlplaiited ed by theii; fellow-citizens, who afTcmbie 



into his garden at Baron-Hill, but foon 

 dwindled and died." 



I have never heard or read of any Bri- 

 tiOi plant wh 'fe fruit ref'-mhles a ie'iion, 

 and fhould be glad to know fomething 

 more of (o great a curiofity 



t the CO tsfl, lead them off v/ith pomp, 

 and always conclude the day, alter the 

 manner uf Homei's heroes, with an enter- 

 t linment prot'acled to a late ho«r. 



J iie humane eftiblifliments of Mons 

 are, firit, a houfe of indulfry, which; 



In the extenfive reach of your Magazine, has not exi lied above eight days, and in 



I h 'pe an inquiry after fhelV very rare 'hat time, even in a week, cleircd the 



plants may attract the attrntion of Mr. 'own of eighty beggais. Every thing is 



iivans him(t;H, or fome botanili who will condiiiled on the moft advantageous plan, 



be kind enough, through the fame chan- '" a large houfe that was formerly a con- 



nel, to enligh'en me by communicatinc 

 fbme more latisfaftory information on the 

 fubjeff, and gratifying the curiofity of. 

 Sir, your obedient feivant, M. S, 



Sept. 6, 1805. 



v<-nt The poor of Mons are difficult to 

 be pleafed. Tiiere are (oandations wiiicli 

 place a great number of the idle in a con- 

 dition to live without hboiir. They 

 claimed a liberty to beg as a right ; and to 

 " m dilcover who were beggars, it has been 



For the Monthly Magnzine. found neceffary to permit them to beg. — 



An ACCOt/NT of MONS, from the TRA- Ontheday when the houfe of induffry was 

 VELS c/CAMUs. opened, all thci'e p-rmifiions were ar.nul- 



1"^HE two principal towns of Jemmape !<=<' ; tli« '■^w of the 241 h of Vendemiaire 

 are Mons and Tournay. Mons has againlf beggaiy was carried into execu- 

 fcarcely any manufafturers out a few fil- tio.-^, and beggary ha. difappeared. 

 verfmiths. Citizen Gauthier has fet up a The deler:ed children are very nume- 



manufafiure of knitted ftockings, the reus; 220 in the hnufe of reception ; 450 

 famples of which, at the exhibition of the in tl"= country. This delcrtion is no 

 progrefs of induifry in the eleventh year, more than a ninie ; it has nothing real in 

 merited a bronze medal. This prize •" 't- The parents who are tired of main- 

 brouaht his manvifafture into fafhion ; taining their children quit the town and 

 "and Gsuthier, from that date, has not leave their children in if. The neigh- 

 been able to anfwer the demands for it. touis lead ihem to the houfe of reception. 

 The library of ilie central i'chool has and declare that they aie delerted chil- 

 been eifabliflied in a church, in which tliey dren whole father and mother have left 

 have fitted up a fuperb hall. The books the town. The children are received.^ 

 . are valuable ; there are fome fcaice ones ; Two days after the parent* come back 

 'amcjng others, a magnifictnt copy of Pto- again ; and as the children have the lilier- 

 lemy, printed on vellum, at Venice, in ty of going out, tlie parents fee them as 

 I511, with coloured maps; and many often as they jiirlge' proper. To ihferi 

 /mall b'oks, in the firft agv of printing. means then, in tiut town, to place in the 

 In all the libraries there is a v.;ant of national hands to be gritiiitoufly boa.tled. 



modern books, of books of French lite 

 ratnrc, and of works that teach the know, 

 ledge of books. 



The celebration of the fift vintage h?8 

 given occ.ilion tor games, within a piepnr- 

 ed indofure. Different comm'inei chal- 

 l(Cnge each other to play at fives ; a great 



This abufe was long ag.i polcribeil.— 

 There is an old ordinance of the flicrifFs 

 of the town of Mors, in the year 1664, to 

 this rfFe(5f : — That, as it was found " tint 

 there were fathers and m''ihers fo iinn.Ttu. 

 ral as to dcl'ert their chi'dreii, and huf- 

 hands who had fo little affe6fion as to 



intereft is felt in thefe contells j judges leave their wives, under the hope that they 



would 



