text:  If a French novel describe two or three swindlers assuming the garb of members of the old Parliament of Paris in execution of their design is this an attack on the Parliament of Paris? Is the "Beaux' Stratagem" an attack on our army and peerage? The argument however may be retorted; for had a Frenchman been the author of the story it is more than probable that he would have introduced some attack upon the Inquisition and quite certain that the characters brought forward would have deviated from the strict propriety they now preserve