DECORUMS OF HIGH LIFE.
MR. CHOKER is en authority in all that concerns the comme i/faut of high life : his criticisms on Boswell's Johnson are expressed with the confidence of a habitue whose tact and discrimination are uni- versally admitted. Such a one is "the glass of fashion and the mould of form" at which novices ought to dress themselves. None of his sayings or doings ought to pass unnoticed, for the most trivial may be pregnant with instruction. This is in an especial manner the case with the practical lesson he read to the public in the course of his evidence on the trial of NrcHorrs Sums& "I know,' said Mr. CROKER, "a Frenchwoman of the name of Bourelle. I have dined with her at the Marquis's table at Dor- chester House. She appeared to me to be more a nurse than any- thing else." And again—" I was in the carriage with the Marquis when he was going abroad in June last. The carriage drove to Clarges Street ; and upon my asking what he was going there for, be said it was to take up Felicite Bourelle. I said I could not think of remaining in the carriage with that person ; and accordingly immediately got out." The moral of the tale seems to be, that for the sake of a good dinner you may hush delicate scruples and asso- ciate with persons whose company no less important a conelderauan could induce you to tolerate ; that " l'Amphytrion oh 1 on dine" has a right to exact greater sacrifices of taste than he who merely gives you a ride in his carriage.
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