A FALSE VIEW.
"We record the following triflingcircumstance, on account of the singular example it offers of the occasional habits of females in high life in other countries. La Marquise de Louie' (sister of Don Miguel) and the Countess de Villa Flor (her sister-in-law) having come to Paris a short time ago from Sceaux (where they are residing) in an open carriage, and finding themselves rather too late for their dinner at home, instead of returning, went into a public restaurant in the Rue Neuve-des.petit-Champs to dine! They left their carriage waiting at the door; and when they returned, they discovered that two valuable shawls had been stolen from the carriage. The robbers have since been detected, and the shawls recovered.—Conceive a Princess of the blood-royal, and a Countess, sister-in-law to a reigning Sovereign, leaving their carriage at the door of Anderton's Coffeehouse in Fleet Street (for there is no first or even second or third-rate restaurant in the Rue Neuve- des-petits-Champs), and calling for a cut of roast-mutton I—They would peril their reputations at any rate, if they did not loose their shawls."—Court
Journal. •
Our contemporary might have recorded the above trifling circum- stance with a juster object than exemplifying for disparagement the occasional habits of females in high life in other countries. He might have instanced it to show the superiority of morals and manners in France, where two unprotected women of rank may go into a house Of refreshment of the second or third clap without fear of insult or peril to their reputations or their property. The anecdote only shows that men are better behaved in France than in England, and that ladies are aware of the security against impertinence at- tending a general diffusion of politeness. That is surely not the most moral country where trifling circumstances are most perilous to female reputation.
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