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get your plan put in execution? At the age when young 
people of fafhion do the physical world and the beau- 
monde the honour to beget and produce sens and daugh- 
ters, they, theillustrious parents, are too busy with the duties 
ofa court, of the ridotto, the opera, the card table; and the 
pleasures of social intercourse, to have any leisure for su- 
‘perintendins the education of children ; so that they wisely 
make use of the noble privilege of peerage to decide the 
merits of the question 4y proxy, without heating or attend- 
ing to the arguments. 
A party always comes in the way to prevent them from 
attending to the nursery 
-. Vive la jeunefse ! Vive la joye! Vive le beaumonde ! 
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A squib from the American Gazette. 
AN APPEAL FROM THE LEGS TO THE HEAD. 
FOR A MORE EQUAL PARTICIPATION OF RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES. 
Sheweth, 
Tuat the legs coming into the world at the same time, 
and often before the head, the latter cannot, in point of 
birth, claim any greater privilege than the former. 
That the legs have been always of the utmost importance 
and utility to the bead, conducting it to and from ali 
‘places of businefs, profit, and pleasure, and were the first 
who razsed it to its present exalied station. < 
That in armies, the legs have been occasionally found 2 
“grand specific against gunfhot wounds, bruises, dislocations, 
and even death itself, by running away with the headto a 
place of safety ; witnefs a laté great example, where the 
legs, by the wonderful and almost unprecedented powers of 
their swifinefs, saved little fhort of four thousand magna- 
nimous, freeborn Frenchmen. 
That in many particular clafses of life, the legs actuali iva 
“and Lona 4de, support the head alteigedine as in couriers 
