Thanks to your children of the Press,
She and the clerks of FRACASTór (1)
Will never make your realm the less,
If thither goes.... I'll not write
For that is now a word unfit

For polish'd tongue and ears refin'd,
In naked satire only writ,
And in delivery confin'd

To one black-liver'd Moorish fellow
Who chokes his lady with a pillow.
(As ST-E declares you tread the scene,
Your Majesty knows whom I mean.)

I say, assisted by the journals,
So many now pursue the game, (2)

her? Is there no law that will reach those who advertise to do the act? and those who publish such advertisements, which, with certain others (still suffered to remain) have been poisoning the souls of the poorer classes of women in this city, so long and so effectually?

(1) GIROLAMO FRACASTORO, a noble VERONESE of the sixteenth century, is the author, among other works, of a didactic poem entitled Syphilis, which the Italian critics hesitate not to compare with the most perfected work of VIRGIL's, to wit, the Georgics, finding in it the severity of LUCRETIUS united with the delicacy of MARO. From my own knowledge I cannot speak of it, though I possess a copy in the famous Italian version of Benini.

(2) It is impossible not to observe the rapid increase of vice in the female portion of this metropolis. The cheapness with which luxurious articles of dress may be purchased, and the false notion that our political equality has levelled all social distinctions, which induces the grisette and the servingmaid to ape the outward show of the rich and the idle, these circumstances, in addition to the absolute freedom which is permitted them by their parents, have

Avoiding only public shame,

That I should think that the Infernals

Would be at length compell'd to pass them,
Or else with better women class them.
This do their fathers and their brothers,
Their uncles, aunts, perhaps their mothers;
And the poor spouse, whose mantle covers
The fingerings of a hundred lovers,
Believes himself a happy fellow,

And is, if rightly thinks OTHELLO (1).
Lo! when the twilight's rosy heaven
To all things round Love's hue has given,
The seamstress with enticing mien,
The bloom and graces of sixteen,
Minces along the crowded streets,
And leers on every fop she meets.
And now, one, readier than the rest,
Has follow'd, join'd her and addrest.
At first she listens with disdain,
Or answers in the heroic vein,
But soon assumes a tone more bland
And cares not to withdraw her hand.
Then her young lip receives his kiss,
And every thing she has is his.

no doubt some share in producing this corruption, but it is chiefly owing to the dissemination of newspapers, where on one side the description and record of vice entices to the evil, which the other side disarms of all its terrors by the promise of a perfect and an easy impunity.

(1)" He that is robb'd, not knowing what is stolen,

Let him not know it, and he 's not robb'd at all," etc.

Othello, iii. 3.

Home goes the maid, with look demure,
As though she nurs'd no thoughts impure,-
Sees on her sire her lover's head,

And hears his voice while prayers are said.
No fears her modest breast alarm ;
The Press her guarantee from harm.
There against one mishap she 's mail'd ;
And for the rest, kind LоHMAN 's bail'd.

But soft! we are too young by far
To be what

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protests we are.

When last your Grace was in a pew,

You heard what was not strictly true. (1)

(1) One of our clergymen, of much repute for eloquence, chose in his sermon on the Death of the President, to brand us, the people of this country, as the most immoral people in the world.

What did the Reverend Doctor mean by this superlative? Are there more murders committed in this country than in IRELAND? Is there more adultery than in ENGLAND? more "simple fornication" than in SCOTLAND? Are FRENCHMEN less given to gaming and to wenching? SPANIARDS to highway robbery? ITALIANS to sodomy? GERMANS to gluttony and winebibbing? Are there fewer bastards in DENMARK? Is there more sobriety in SWEDEN and in LAPLAND? greater chastity in RUSSIA and in HOLLAND? less political convulsion in SWITZERLAND? less treachery, filth, and superstition in PORTUGAL? better Sabbath-keeping in BELGIUM? Do truant children have their bottoms flagellated with greater edification to their cerebral faculties in the public schools of PRUSSIA than in ours? In a word, is there less of vice, of folly, and of ignorance in any part of Christian EUROPE than with us? Nay, to confine ourselves to a single kingdom: - The Doctor spoke of our papers as filled with accounts of murders, etc., etc. Did he ever read the English journals while he was in ENGLAND? Are there not in their columns more horrors, more bestialities, crimes that we dare not even

For, on my soul, which shall not fall
To you as long as it is mine,

name here, and which I verily believe have never been thought of in this less sophisticated region, than offend the eye in those of ours? Perhaps they are made up by the accident-makers? perhaps they are exaggeration? Indeed! Have we no accidentmakers? Is lying, as a trade, the monopoly of English newsmen ? Besides, did the Reverend gentleman ever take notice, that of the murders, riots, housebreaking, pilfering, and the like, recorded here, nine tenths of the cases are decorated with the euphonious patronymics of the land of bogs, or are distinguished by the moral national designations of Englishman, German, and so on? And if he talks of people in high place, as I understand he did, was the collector of NEW YORK a person of higher station, or in better estimation than the Lord Chancellor of ENGLAND? Mr. SS -, a man of more refinement than the Right Honorable FRANCIS BACON, Baron Verulam, and Viscount St. Albans? Put it in the power of men to do wrong, and they will do wrong everywhere. It was the administrations of General JACKSON and Mr. VAN BUREN that made defaulters; and it was the venality of the English Court of Chancery that made a rogue of The wisest, greatest, meanest of mankind: and as there are fewer chances given to fraud, and less temptation held out to villany of every kind, in this world than in the old, we are necessarily better. Why, one beast like GEORGE IV., one fool and bigot like his father, will, at the head of a government, breed more evil than five hundred from among its subordinates. Let us hear no more of this cant from the pulpit; but, if we must talk of our people there, say what is a

* In a degree proportional to that of the laxity of their principles, or of the strength of their passions. Lord BACON would have been a cringing courtier, and an ungrateful sycophant in any court; and Collector S must have always been unscrupulous: but they would neither have plunged into such a depth of degradation, had they not been impelled by circumstances which favored and tempted dishonesty. We are told too that we do not punish public offences in this country. After a brief imprisonment in the Tower, the Chancellor had the rest of his sentence remitted, and was pensioned with £1800. Mr. S will not be rewarded if he come within the grasp of the U. S. Courts.

We are as yet, despite of all
The cant of tourist and divine,
As stainless as the driven snows,

Compar'd with what the Old World shows.
But, with the tide of emigration

That every honest man deplores,
Which floods us with a population

The washings of the Old World's shores;
And with the law once pass'd, to free
Misconduct, fraud, and villany,

From the few bars that yet restrain them ;(1)

God's truth; that we are destined one day, by the blessing of newspapers and steampackets, to become as rotten at the core as GREAT BRITAIN, FRANCE, and IRELAND, but that at present we are only specked and wormeaten at the blossom-end, and have the mortification to know ourselves otherwise sound and fragrant.

I do not object to a clergyman's stigmatizing us as wicked. We are so; and it is his vocation to let us know it, and to try to effect by the terror of "penal fire" what the satirist endeavours to bring about by the dread of ridicule and public odium. But let him keep to the windward of Truth, nor forget that there is a positive and a comparative state known to grammar, as well as a superlative.

(1) The Bankrupt Act now in contemplation, and called for by all the voices of the Press. Surely no greater encouragement could be extended to fraud or to misconduct than an act which entitles a man, by throwing up the small remains of property which his rashness or dishonesty have left, to be clear of all responsibility and to begin a new score; that is, if he can find any one to trust him; but the effect of such a law will be to destroy credit almost altogether for persons of character not established, and to render it difficult to be obtained even by better men. And this is the only reparation which I see for a manifest injustice, and the only cure for a rank evil. With credit as easy as it has been, the wildest speculations would be entered into, and no check put upon a spirit