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were to arrive at this hour; and your person, your carriage, and your portmanteau, exactly answering the description I hold in my hand, you will permit me to have the honour of conducting you to Monsieur De Sartine.

The gentleman, astonished and alarmed at this interruption, and still more so at hearing the name of the Lieutenant of the Police mentioned, demanded to know what Monsieur De Sartine wanted with him; adding, at the same time, that he never had committed any offence against the laws, and that he could have right to interrupt or detain him.

The messenger declared himself perfectly ignorant of the cause of the detention: stating at the same time, that when he had conducted him to Mons. De Sartine, he should have executed his orders, which were merely ministerial.

After some further explanation the gentleman permitted the officer to conduct him accordingly. Monsieur De Sartine received him with great politeness; and after requesting him to be seated, to his great astonishment, he described his portmanteau; and told him the exact sum in bills and specie which he had brought with him to Paris, and where he was to lodge, his usual time of going to bed, and a number of other circumstances, which the gentleman had conceived could only be known to himself.-Mons. De Sartine having thus excited attention, put this extraordinary question to him-Sir, are you a man of courage?-The Gentleman, still more astonished at the singularity of such an interrogatory, demanded the reason why he put such a strange question, adding at the same time, no man ever doubted his courage. Monsieur De Sartine replied," Sir, you are to be robbed and murdered

this night!-If you are a man of courage, you must go to your hotel, and retire to rest at the usual hour: but be careful that you do not tall asleep; neither will it be proper for you to look under the bed, or into any of the closets which are in your bedchamber; (which he accurately described);-you must place your portmanteau in its usual situation, near your bed, and discover no suspicion :--Leave what remains to me.-If, however, you do not feel your courage sufficient to bear you out, I will procure a person who shall personate you, and go to bed in your stead."

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The Gentleman being convinced, in the course of the conversation, that Monsieur De Satine's intelligence was accurate in every particular, he refused to be personated, and formed an immediate resolu tion, literally, to follow the directions he had receiv ed he accordingly went to bed at his usual hour, which was eleven o'clock.-At half past twelve (the tine mentioned by Monsieur De Sartine), the door of the bed chamber burst open, and three men entered with a dark lantern, daggers and pistols.-The Gentleman, who of course was awake, perceived one of them to be his own servant.-They rifled his portmanteau; undisturbed, settled the plan of puting him to death. The Gentleman, hearing all this, and not knowing by what means he was to be rescued, it may naturally be supposed, was under great perturbation of mind during such an awful interval of suspense; when, at the moment the villains were preparing to commit the horrid deed, four Police Officers, acting under Mons. De Sartine's orders, who were concealed under the bed, and in the closet, rushed out and seized the offenders with the property in their possession, and in the act of preparing to commit the murder.

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The consequence was, that the perpetration of the attrocious deed was prevented, and sufficient evidence obtained to convict the offenders.-Monsieur De Sartine's intelligence enabled him to prevent this horrid offence of robbery and murder; which, but for the accuracy of the system, would probably have

been carried into execution. Ibid.

The Emperor Joseph the Second, having in the year 1787, formed and promulgated a new Code of Laws relative to criminal and civil offences, and having also established what he conceived to be the best System of Police in Europe, he could scarcely ever forgive the French Nation, in consequence of the accuracy nd intelligence of Mons. De Sartine having been found so much superior to his own; notwithstanding the immense pains he had bestowed upon that department of his government.

A very notorious offender, who was a subject of the Emperor, and who committed many atrocious acts of violence and depredation at Vienna, was traced to Paris by the Police established by his Majesty, who ordered his ambassador at the court of France to demand that this delinquent should be delivered up to public justice.

Mons. De Sartine acknowledged to the imperial ambassador, that the person he inquired after had been in Paris; that, if it would be any satisfaction, he could inform him where he had lodged, and the different gaming-tables, and other places of infamous resort, which he frequented while there; but that he was now gone.

. The ambassador, after stating the accuracy and correct mode by which the Police of Vienna was conducted, insisted that this offender must still be in Paris; otherwise the Emperor would not have commanded him to make such an application.

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Monsieur De Sartine smiled at the incredulity of the imperial minister, and made a reply to the following effect:

"Do me the honour, Sir, to inform the Emperor your master, that the person he looks for left Paris on the 10th day of the last month; and is now lodged in a back room looking into a garden in the third story of a house, number 93, in street, in his own capital of Vienna; where his Majesty will, by sending to the spot be sure to find him."

It was literally as the French Minister of Police had stated. The Emperor, to his astonishment, found the delinquent in the house and apartment described; but he was greatly mortified at this proof of the accuracy of the French police; which, in this instance, in point of intelligence even in Vienna, was discovered to be so much superior to his own.Ibid.

APPRENTICES.

The evil habits of masters are in a great degree the means of corrupting apprentices. No sooner does an apprentice advance towards the last year of his time than he thinks it incumbent upon him to follow the example of his master, by learning to smoke. This accomplishment acquired (according to his conception), he is a fit associate for those who frequent Public-houses. He resorts at first to those of a lower class, to avoid his master or his relations. There he meets with depraved company; while he conceives he is following only the example of those whose manners and habits he has been taught, by example, to initate, he is insensibly ensnared.Having arrived at the age of puberty, and meeting profligate females in those haunts of idleness, his passions become inflamed.-The force of evil exam

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ple overpowers him. He too becomes depraved. Money must be procured to administer to the new wants which are generated by depravity.--Aided by the facilities held out by old iron shops, he pilfers from his master to supply those wants, or associates himself with thieves, whose acquaintance he made in the progress of his seduction.

It is to be feared that much evil arises from the want of attention on the part of Masters among the superior classes of Tradesmen with respect to their apprentices, who too seldom consider the morals of their appentices as a matter in which they have any concern. It is even the practice to allow apprentices a certain sum of money weekly, for the purpose of enabling them to provide themselves out of doors, and to prevent the trouble of boarding them in the house. If it were possible for a master, after exerting all his ingenuity, to invent one mode more likely than another to ruin his apprentices, it is by adopting this plan. If he means to subject himself to great risques with respect to the security of his property, he will permit his apprentice, at the age of puberty when open to seduction, to be at large in this great town, where he is liable to be assailed by swindlers, cheats, and sharpers, who, availing themselves of the inexperience of youth, may corrupt the mind, and give it a wrong bias. The dangers arising from allowing apprentices to victual out of doors, extend much farther than masters are generally aware of and they who suffer it do great injury to themselves, and even great injustice to their apprentices whose morals they are virtually, at least, bound to preserve pure. This is not to be expected where apprentices are not under the eye of the master at meal-times. Their Sundays, in such cases, are their own, which they waste in idleness, not unseldom in water-parties on the River, where they are introduced into low and bad com

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