1) FOREIGN ASSOCIATION. ever assimilated with French manners. It is to. be feared, that with French habits, French principles may be im- ported. French alliances are contracted, as almost every newspaper records ; and an innovation which had hitherto been firmly resisted, a French theatre is esta- blished. We are losing our national. character. The deterioration is by many thought already visible. In a few years, if things proceed in their, present course, or rather with increasingvelocity-which is always the case with downward ten- dencies - the strong and discriminating features of the English heart and mind will be obliterated, and we shall be lost " in the undistinguished mass. In the mean time let us take warning from the consideration, that the first stage of decline is the beginning of dis- solution. Whatever has beginn already to decay, is not far from perishing. This contagious intercourse hag been too pro- bably the cause of the recent multiplica- tion ofthose great Sundayentertainments,
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