The most sensible advice which we have seen for an
age in print, is conveyed in a letter from Mr. HEATON DE CRESPIGNY to his father, in which he recommends him to come over to Paris, and listen to ROSSINI'S opera of Comte Ory, in preference to going to law with - Mr. LONG WELLESLEY in England. Having been required to return to England in order to give evidence in the suit, the writer says- " I shall be very sorry to increase my father's displeasure, but in this case I must be undutiful, and protest against returning to England. Really, with his evident mental infirmities, occasioned by two apoplectic fits and three paralytic strokes, that any body should recommend him to i enter upon a lawsuit, is to me extraordinary, and certainly not friendly towards him. He had much better rest contented with the opinion which his family and friends express of the affair : for my own part, I am un- shaken in my resolution, and am firmly determined not to cross the water for the purposes of your's and my family's invitation. My father had better come here and attend the performance of Rossini's beautiful opera of Comte Ory—it would, I am sure, recall to his mind many pleasing reminiscences of his early life, and do him much more good than law will in England."
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