fentation of a French comic Opera, at Brux- 
elles. One of the fongs was at leaft treble 
entendre^ and in another, (a duetto between a 
man and woman) he made feveral attempts 
to put his hands in the girl's bofom. I be- 
lieve, this would hardly have been fuffered 
at Bartholomew-fair. 
The French have the reputation of a 
highly polifhed people. This reputation 
may be juft: neverthelefs they are indeli- 
cate y fo extremely indelicate, that, paradoxi- 
cal as it may feem, even their modeft wo- 
men are difguftingly immodeft. A modeft 
Englifhwoman is the moft modeft woman 
in the world. If the ftage be the juft cri- 
terion of the manners of a nation, we are, 
at this time, fuperior in point of public 
chaftity. 
The fweet fmeli that you perceive in Ttlla. 
this avenue proceeds from thefe tall 
trees, which are now in bloom. They 
are the Tiilia europaa. Lime-trees, of the 
Clafs and Order Polyandria Monadel- 
fhia: you will accordingly find, in the 
flower, many Jlamina and one piftillum. 
The corolla is pentapetalous and the 
calyx quinquepartite. The fpecies is 
u 3 dif- 
