The National Register. — London, England, 1808-12-04 00:00:00

DEC. 4. Feb. 7. Alexand er Arbutlinott and - Riehard Bracken, Phil vot-lanr, merchants, at one, at Guildhall. • Dec. IJ. John Peacock, Kingstoogupou-hull, merchant, at one, at Guildhall. Ih t% 24. Robert Williams, Oxford-street, straw-hat manu facturer, at ten, at Guildhall. Jan. 17. Hobert Pall, Mare:field, Sussex, collar-maker, at ten, at Guildhall, Jan. Joha Baby, tiarrow-Areet, Limehim , e, ship-chand ler, at test, ;a Guildhall. Jan. 7. Charles Chard, High-Holborn, chymist, at ten, at Dec. 24. Thomas Jordan Hookham, New Bond-street, book seller, at ten, at Guildhall. Dec. 6. Samuel Pears, John Wateon, John Watson, jun. and Jo,eph Watson, Bread-greet, warehouseman, at ten, at Thomas Crump, Westminster-road, tinman, at one, _ Ike. 24. at Guildhall. es CERTIFICATE. Dec. 21. John Catley, Harpers, Lancaster, cotton-manufacturers. ESTIIICITIES OF FASHION FOR DI:CROMER. THE recess of beauty, fashion, and elegance, from the micro mosmie metropolis, is now nearly expired ; whilst invention. guided by taste and accompanied by svmetry, stands on tiptoe to produce her chefs d'oeuvre to an admiring world. Midst such a crowd of goad eatirpana, the conductors of a periodical work, who ought to be the harbingers, as well as recorders, of the various changes of the motley goddess, can scarce find room to stalk in and "show the lions;" were we, iialeed, only called on to say what ought lo be, or were we even called on to specify all that has been, the task might be accomplished, but to bread is hat will be, midst the varied whims and caprices of the fashionable and eccentric arbiters of the mode, would be a tisk for tEdipus, Cassandra, or even the witch of Fodor ; a task, w hose cabalist ic obscurity is so appropriately entlilemalized by the Sphon.ces which decorate our bout/Ars, drawing-rooms, and ti monger. In the rapidit with which our fashions hate been adopted, and in the pautomisuic celerity with which ' tin hale been changed, Faia y I-as been obliged to ransack every region of the globe for variety. Our belles, in the coarse of a few short weeks. have been gi psies, %itches, Paissannes, Grecian statues, and Egyptian mummies ; in short, so alien has Variety herself been varied, that nothing is left for rasl • but a bizaria union of incongruities, to produce the harmony of cmarast ; or , by the whimsicality of contrast, to excite won der and surprise. To aid in this grand undertaking, the arts and sciences theinsel ses must he called in, and surely within! , can he more piede in this learned age, w best philosaphic klow ledv is not only supplied by wholesale in Albemarle-Street, and at the Surry Institution, hut even retailed, in small goats at the :I.lshing female jelUifilaieti of every degree, from Illarsaetith to the humble road-si;.e tWtti4oo, w hew " yonog Lies" are boarded and hcdtlicatcr!. The statuary's art has in deed 'wen exhausted, 'a it not so the sculptor's. Architecture supply Kil l a thaws:tad novelties ; thus the fair philosnpher may take 1 eisulel from the Cacyalidee. and glide into the skais room use half a %ammo, one half a pedcVal ; or she may adapt the Ilse iir:ler; to her pli•nioll4 awl pur-uits. The prude, of (AWE..., tt.ii pEt--eot the sober alikicsi, of the lassie the, chaste ant clegaut ivativa will re s ume the boric.; Ihe Imsolll dame, ho scorn., to dinch her glas-, with natural! s apt the l'us..an: 'l l le new imp ortltiou from the Moors and reils a ill :a first npimic in the ruslie, the coquette will be tlnlivositr, , and the title st siman of fashion will he carinthian! Mkt e pccs Mg this ue v da a a of science, we may just fib. cerve pasoua, that our early w inter fashions are as yet an ti sed ; but the oto-t senvonable, as researbliog the fallen leafs i• a Ititod , olue yellow adopted in ribbands mai other ornaments. mat which associates equally well w its the scarlet pelisse, and the dark blasts it mantle. In Mari' this colour is distinguished by la prince d'aignons," but as our fair dames e not of sip light a texture as the Parisian rlr hantc , , that name would here he ioapproanate. 'I he single wrap imitate, and the India 'has% I nave soil their votaries, Clough iWper,e4c.l iu Some de give, by a must whiutsical robe of dark Oro;, floorgiaa cloth, cut all in one length, but doubled at a this.i, aid thus tied tuffint the neck the w hich of course hang Acta are arnaineuted with a deep orange fringe, and the /oat taisentL4 is as elegant as it is Lica. In the head ores-, little vabets is yet t: shibited, except a skew Walla!' of twisted straw; but in TII lONAL REGISTER. 775 - _ full dress the hair is spurted with but little adveutitious aid from ornaments. The increase of cold, or the increase of modesty, havo: prompted our hitherto 'generous fair ones, once more to ado,4 concraltneut ; the dresses are now made to cover the bosoia., and are buttoned up tight round the neck, and so far sloped 4 If in front as to receive the addition of brilliant clap-, vv hill' reach •fr an the breast to the bottom of the robe and produce a strikicg effect. As Bond Street sports not vet its loungers, the niiireba ad.; -deg rtioiPs have produced hat little nuscll. ; steel greens acut blu's still preserve their ascendency, but in both ,e‘C`A, expected that black until the siring isiil be considered dress, In carriages, simplicity will he the urd..r of the dav ; the plain but elegant landau it all the rw, of n Devorishi re krona, or rich yellow with brass stumbling, ; this kitld of carriage is now much flatter on the hoop, will the • ireuhr swell o f tie:' poor nels and sides hying laid aside, it hangs will% much noire neat ne s, particularly as the harouche s..ats have beet; vs ita.:raw ; rhooNe tv a h.til with pletecore, foor o hen .1 olin %, as accustom: it to sit Clic ck by jowl with his voting mistress, or his sill one, tae natural distance was soon removed, aad its cousentiences have in more instances than one been exhi hi t:11 to the yvuild. Where fails, imitation may step to . , of cour:e smote oft ollishing bloods of the a hip an %loos to put Da 'some appearance of . usefulness, and to sheer their capability of serving govern ment in some way, have been sporting their nevi eqiiiptigna as mail coach sof out, but from the crash of pisnisels in the Ldp.- ware Road, n here those Jeltus were surristinil.ed by a stein;; of country carts , . the bumpkins not sopposiag them to lit' gellashetl hut really mail coachmen, it is supposed that time w him w ill drop, and that iuvention n ill again be at work fur the benefit of the Architects in Cie Acre. Of architectural ornament, the most brilliant specimen is a boudoir, in the Grecian style; this aparitnent is lictangulttr, four of the pannels are of, mirror, the others ornamented w Silt pllaitrci, embossed richly and relieved by gild*. Those parts of the walls not 'Ornamented, are coveted w ills a rich inavatrine blue velvet ; the titling is cos ered in eight rompartmeots cor responding with the sides, and decorated with antique palm ' bogs copked front the finest specimens of llercuituteum, unit iills centre farms a dome from %shirt, the apartment is liglitcd.— Ottomans are plaved in the reeeo•ei; nod iht• chains are “re cian with sttiffs - d backs and seats of velvet ; the wholv . forsnine a al,:ze of splendour, as elegant as unique. The gothic though e ploded (rola our his ildialAs is ho clker still 144 aea Cdrliildre ; we have heard a a " g otoic stale bell for ass infant" who in coarse • a fen 111411103 wrest have - gothic baits alai halls, or a gothic baby house ! It 01 . ..11. SOCILTY. Wednesday, behig St. Andre% . 4 Day, the 'loyal Foch.: v held their Aniiiye‘sary Meeting, at their apuithents 'U soinerset-place ; wh.li the President, the . lll4lit lion. ',ll - Banks, Bart. K. 1 3. in the nal lie Of the !l/C:Ct) , pH . - WV ed ihe (Jolt, Medal (eall..tt ! it Godfrey Cuple:,'si to :Villimo Henry, M. i). for his ' aritsai ript: r% communi cated to the : . .-uciety, and printed in toe Phibs.),,izie a ri.anviclionv. .Ifternards the Fociety proceeded to the clioice of ties Council ai,d Officers for the einaiiiig fear, when, on ert 'nen were elected of the Council : Of the Old Catilicil—The !tight lion. Sir J. flanks, Batt. K. B. ; Sir Charles Illagdon, liti!.; Ilcitry Ca“..di.h, i.-q• ; Hamparey Oavy, 1...,..-q.; John tiitlie, I.E. D.; Hight Ile; . l'earles Greville ; William Marsden. Et-q. : Itc. N e ., it Nloi.k. - line, I). 0.; Gear,;e Earl of Mortin.; Joan iti.noie, 1..-q. ; 11i Liam ;lode Wolla,tion , M. 0. Of the New Connell—Edward Ash, M. 1),; Frederick At:- 1 i .; il u il s i t i t l i l s g ß i . h a e m b tr a dllit ' i. it ; Illackhurile, L-q. ; Sawasol t:tio..- 1 enoligh; . I.ord 13i-hop at Carlit.ic ;'I Earl of Glielte,te , Henry Hugh Hoare, E-l. ; Sir Ilicllard Gil; H o are, B a it. ; .1 olloi Lunt Seise) ; %Vali:Lai tiothet,), req.; Sir or e fiiiiiii. i Stot.lev, Bart. .tud the Officers were, the Iti..;ht Hoe. Sir Joseph Kink , Bart. 13. B. Presitkat ; Will t,..1 Mar..deti, I:044. Treasure, i William Hyde Wollaston, M. U.; and Humphrey Davy . , 1:.;!qt. Secret:irks. Alters ards the Members of the society tuned tog alter as usual, at the Crust - nand .kuclior Imetii. appeared red that toe Inii"lng "enne- • 1 6. ' • - ~~ - 7,Trf '~y'' 'E M r h- 11, \lr. au- 1 . , ;art and Mo. pia- •I v c~, I w a , 131 wen- r, at $, at 7u, at t ten, 'e, at .el; Inger, ibeth, i t the M, :if