Gazette Of The United States

The most approved debates of the National Assembly are taken in Paris in a new and singular manner. Six persons are engaged in the performance. They sit round a circular table, and each, as a sentence is uttered, in his turn, writes one word out of six, giving a jog with the knee while occupied in writing the word which falls to his share; then counts the words that follow. one, two, three, four, five, six, and at the seventh the operation returns to him to be repeated. The result of their labour, collected in proper order, forms the complete speech in a more perfect manner, we are informed, than short-hand on any other contrivance, hitherto thought of, can effect it.