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P.iR13.".11V KISRXY Tie r. gn of LongiLhamp n passed ; spletid d arc tiurneriat I her 3 than i 4 former years and the &rises lirPs superb Strew hats, white robes, with long full wai.ts, and buttnnel tin the hock, trimmed with cod re ; coloured Itasel. kerchief., with corner. Itaweitir uridus the hrytmas ; tuffs, with a double tit triple tow full iouisid the neck, griped ribbous etch i 4 the ilre-s you meet at every step. The straw hats, in oiwurient of their shape and cut, are of twenty ditferent kinds• The 'oust remarkable are those with !‘ilk lupine. the led was h.arreow, •sul near), rural all round; tine the on the contrary, broad, e...cept upon the twuk, tutu, 11 up, sod trimmed with a brouil ribbuti, thickly plaited, of lilac, mote, or white. The fashion of striped rihNont is commencing They used to be eAl'ed the Scotch ribbons--they are no v, tiLlsms ale FOlNfid. The flowers used in drys, art those of the stavm, such as hyacinth, kwtquil, lilac. We have alumni nu fancy dower. exi:•!pt asseurs. The number of turbans diminish:s. We 4144.1Ve arrumg the new licaddre.s ss white crape bonnets !terser ta esti' 1641114 in satin spnliiiin, the renter of which O wither-of-pea& A bantlema in plat ni norther-ofitesrl, ctrl wreaths of pearl, conStituto a part of thew he.sl-dres.es. 1)...rk green taffeta, rose, jonquil, or white, is cut Mtn endive to trim the Mg.• of the hats. We also we trimmings of use ieta‘c., with wreath of Idly of the valley. Square fillaWl• are flu Isnilk...r the 101 l shawls, worn pendant from the ilea, are it Lavuur. POETRY. tmpßosirrt , .. That Gracie of the Great Nation, The 3fonittar, intlignaist eries, In time of P114CL.....CAP1 TULA? SON ! ! The very name of Treaty dies. John Bull, who is not very prone To cast at others the firit stone, Repl there, cause for nlushing ; In time of Pa scs.---Thc Stgazof FLosanto ' ' ! EUGENIO Yesterday miming, about ten o'clock, his MA its rv, attended by Generals MANNERS and Gwvtois, and other persons of rank, rode to the tight of Ascot Heath. On the arrival of his MA ]isr v, the Earl of SAND Witt( gave direaions for the Royal deer to he turned out of the cart for the day's diversion, and in the course of the run, which continued for several hours, afforded sonic excellent sport. Her MAJESTY and the Princess MARI', atten,leJ by Ladies HARCOVRT and Ca A SLEY, took an airing to Pro more • her Majesty walked in the gardens ; the Princess 4ARV, not having recovered sufficient strength since her indisposition to take such exercise, a small chaise was provided for her Royal Highness, in which she was drawn round the pleasure-grounds fo7 a considerable time. _ The Princesses AUOUST A and ELIZA BETH, at tended by the Marchioness BATH and Daughter, took an airing in a sociable, by Winktield Ham and Cumberland Lodge, and returned home through Old Windsor. _ _ _ The Princesses SortrlA and Am r I.IA, attended by Sir W. and Lady PA T I, took an airing on horse back, in Windsor Great Park. Yesterday the Duke of Yokt: arrived at Windsor, On a visit to their MAJESTIES. On Wednesday evening the Earl of MANSFTEI.n gave an elegant Ball and Supper to about forty of Jtis select friends, now passing the holidays at his Lordship's seat, at Caen Wood : the Bill was opened at ten o'clock to the tune of Sir Day d Huy ar Blair, by Mr. CHVRC LL and Lady CAT IlLit iNt HARMS, followed by Lord Cole M Ikfirkliam CAptAsti Upteet Lady e t itzt.a,rut. Colonel Renwir M'. C. Markham. We noticed also, among the dancers, Liqd Fiteharrie eo'reiel P1111)13, %Iro Mr. Murray., of Werl3nd Cald. Markham. At twelve o'clock an elegant Supper was served up, and the company did not retire till a late hour. Ti Lord MoNsom and family will return from Burton, Lincolnshire, to his Lordship's house in Seymour-street, May-fair. The Earl and Countess of Dcw ay will return, on Monday, from the Oaks, which has been, during the holidays, a scene of much elegant festivity : the company consisted of Lord OssuLsTox, Mrs. WALKER, of maNquerade celebrity, Lady C. HORN av, Lady SI •tii.r.y, Mr. and the two Miss Iloivisys„ Mr. BugsLrtAt.i., &c. Lady MELVILLE left town on Wednesday for Cheltenham, where her Ladyship will remain for a few weeks, for the benefit of her health. The Hon. Mr. DuFI will sport in a few days a new German Landau, built entirely on a new plan. The Earl of Guisoow left town yesterday fur Tunbridge Wells. Captai❑ FLLTCHER, the owner of . Megranti, it is said, comes off 70001. mmu by this New•nrtrkrt -----'- - meeting. The Duke of 111:n FORD arrived in town yesterday fr.im Bvigliton, and the Earl of Casiosns from the Wilderness Report says that Colonel 0— won at the New market races of Captain F—, the small sum of two thousand pounds, the first day, the second day he doubled his bet and won the prize. The Lord Bishop of LONI'ON arrived v^sterday, about ten o'clock, at Enfield, where he proceeded to confirm a great number of young persons of both sexes. Upwards of thirty private carriages, drove into the town, which was amazingly crowded with beauty and fashion on the occasion. The late Duke of Blftlesawdr ra's house in Cleveland-row. now Earl Gowza's, is to and in many alterations, that it is not expeEt..d tr e r i t ready to receive his Lordship's family these two rears. The hack part next the Park is pulling Clown, and the range of starling is cleared away. On the suite where the stables stood, a magnificent bouse will be built 80 feet in front and 100 deep, with two bow windows, upon the plan of Lord GREW/ I L Les late residence. It is intended that the rew building shall form a wing to the present house, and front the Park. They are to be conneaed by a superb gallery to contain his Lordship's paintings ; which, joined to those lately begaeathed him, will form the most valuable private collecctiod in 1 . ...- rope. The suite of rooms to r_teive company, are • calculated to accommodate 40'..)0 persons. : • r. the EUITO the ARIL al PR:;.i.S. " ilfeteittg. " Stu.;--The iiise,tion a the frdlowing Artiel your P.tper, will extreniely tth;ige, your very obedient Ser‘ant, " C. Loma" " 1311,1 of s.•ivice are Ittily making by the Volunteer Corps in 0304 ..1 Cora. Kritain, and, we un- Al, it is th:. wish of Gioi‘iirnent, that those who are clii lksied again to eiir.4l tiosomielv.si, will •itgnifr their intentions ai sin e.Lly as AA it now h obvious at this ju:ieiure, that Cos,• measii.es wail smears a twofold purpo.e, that of enabling G.ive.iimelt t.a conliiiiie the "weretit Anuamelit without atm mooing t'ie riozolar eatahlishrtitlit ; and of Convincing the French toatiosi (OA we are sinanimouv in our 4,pport of riur‘e riled., whirls Vliiii.tersarenow employed in 3A4.`i ring. Among ))))))) emu. 1,01.. r( we have to Aim , •• the otf•rs us tli • Couoty of Kent only Gravesend, Northfleer, Rochester, Tunbridge, and Crauhro k " like following East Indianien, homeward hound, tinder convoy of the Romer", of 510 wits, and the Redalau frigat have artived in Plymouth sound : erre+, Ca aria Don.ford. LTA Chafhtte. 'aptAin Patte•otnn. David Sron, C.iptain Jones ; and Aro , son, Cupt. M.trjorihmik, from China: Iterip', Capt. Cornine, from Cain and Bay. They had a very ine passage, and had no idea or a rupture likely to take plate with France till their arrival oil' Plymouth. A letter from Dinan, of the Gth, says , t Siic of the English ships that were ordered back some time ago to England, are returned to Cuncalle. This event, though of small importance in itself, has caused muchy at Sr. Malo, because it proves that the English Government has !clued those almost hostile measures v - hich they adopted List month. Forty-one vessels are now fitting out at the port of Hult for the Greenland whale fisheries, of the ensuing season. This is five more than the num ber employed in that trade front that port in the preceding year. Venice will, it is said, be declare.: a free port, al though there is much opposition to such a measure from the merchants of Trieste, who conceive that it will be highly injurious to their interests. Several commercial men, however, in the Austrian domini ons, think that it would be still more advantageous to re-establish the Canal and Port of Aquileiurrr, which would contain 700 vessels ; kit the expence attendant upon the execution of such a plan forms a very serious objeaion. Private accounts from Paris, received yesterday, furnish the ground-work of a most extraordinary speculation respeaing the objea of RONA P ART C'S Visit to the ei-devant Netherlands, which, it is said, is to proclaim the intcit-rity and union of the ancient Belgium, part of which now forms the B:tavian Republic, and .part has lately been attached to France. The whole to be denominated the Belgic Republic, and Antwerp to be declared the scat of the Executive Government, which it is even guessed will be placed in the trusty hands of one of the bro thers of Bom A PANTE 1 Upon a reference to the Treaty of Peace: between France and Holland, we find trance is authorized to place a garrison in Flushing at any time, in war or peace, with the design, we presume, of securing the tree navigation of the Scheldt. We know that such a permission confers the real !sovereignty ; but the placing a town in a state of siege, is a civil as well as a military as ; it is an aft not authorised by the Treaty alluded to, and one which should have sprung from the Dutch Government alone. So lucrative was the Government of Gibraltar previous to his Royal Highness's taking the com mand, that we know, front undoubted authority, that General O'H Ati A, during the few years he was Governor there, realized about seventy thousand pounds. Major-General Sir CHARLES ACC:ILL has re ceived orders to proceed immediately to Ireland, in order to take upon him a chief command in the sou thern district of that kiagdom. General MI VItICK has arrived in Clonmell, to take upon him the cltief command of that distria. General Vieron and the other French Officers of note, who were to sail with the expedition for Louisiana, have thought proper to sell their stock for the voyage, and this at a considerable loss.— This transaction took place last Thursday at Rot terdam. The flag of Admiral HARTSINCK was flying last Saturday on board a thirty-two gun frigate in Helvoct Road, waiting for a favourable wind. It was thought his orders were for the Me diterranean. _ _ The new Bill for regulating the holding of farms and residence of spiritual persons on their benefices, is expeEted to meet with considerable opposition in the House of Commons, as it is thought, that by encreasing the powers, it would greatly augment the influence of Bishops in elelions, the clergy forming so powerful a part of tl:e. magistracy and freeholders of the different countie:. The parochial accounts of deaths within the bills of mortality, are at present considered as very in accurate, as they inak; no mention of the great numbers annually interred in the burial grounds of WLsrLEv, WHITFIELD, Lady Hum - It:coos, &c. which ure not parochial. Though if true, it would be a matter cf very little importance ; yet we understand that the story in some of the newspapers, that the dog which occa sioned the late unfortunate duel, has, been the con stant companion of Captain MACNAM AR A, during his illness, is perfatly unfounded. The maritime expedition fitting ant at Peters burgh, at the expellee of the Company of American Merchants, is to proceed from the Cape of Good Hope to Kanitschatka, and has for its obje& to esta- Mish an exchange between the produaiuns of oiberia and those of China. The troops of the tine in the vicinity of Portsmouth, are daily exercised in the use of field-pieces, under the inspetclion of otNcers of attillery ; and go trough their different evolutions and firings of the pieces of artillery with the greatest correaness and exactitude. Mr. LEwts, we understand, is to retain the ma nagement of Covent Garden Theatre, by special agreement, as long as he pleases. To his assiduity and judgment the Theatre is indeed much indebted, and we hope he will long possess the health and good spirits which have enabled him to render so much service to the property, and so much pleasure to the Public. The chief Proprietor of C.vent Garden theatre, as soon as he had settled matters with Mr. Kt:34131.E, sent immediately to COOK E, to let him know that his interest should not suffer by the new arrange ment of the property, nor his feelings be wounded by any future allotment of charters. ..~ r 1...~~~s , 1) ÜBLIN. T 1 le following is a copy of a cifeitiai• letter, ad dressed to the Commanding Officers of the respec tive Corps of Yeomanry on the present crisis :•—• March :A, Mt. " I am directed by the Lord Lieutenant to acquaint you that, in th • pte,viot itoqttre of affair, it i. pirrictilarly 01". Airahle the Yeomanry of Ireland dooms' be prepared for any emergency. " Ili% Excellency is fully convinced, from the loyalty and public spirit which have been a nwdy so generally manifested by the Yeomanry, that they will again mot cheer uhly conic forward, if their servie-s >huuld he required, with the same teal by which they were actuated during the late war. " The Cono under your command may be assured, that if it should b necessary to equip them completely for service, no exertion will be wanting on the part of Government fur that purpose. I have the honour, &c. " E. IL LITTLEHALES." We arc now enabled to state, upon good autho rity, that the alarm excited by his MAJESTY'S Mes sage to Parliament, was very far from being with out a substantial foundation. All the official com munications made to our Ministers uniformly assert the immense warlike preparations making for some time in the ports of France, in which Flanders is to be included, and in those of Holland. These were and arc of such a nature as could nit be destined for colonial purposes. It may, perhaps, be true that there are no more than three or four ships of the line ready equipped, in many of these ports; hut there are as many hundred flat-bottomed armed boats, which could - never have been destined to make long voyages fur which they were every way unsuite Portrait of Mary qr Putttristrr.]" She is an ex tremely interesting woman, with a good figure and animated face, though not a perfect beauty ; but there is something about her that would have awed even a savage from injuring, and would make every thing civilized delight in protecting her." Bu AIiAM is engaged for the Serious Opera next season; the sum mentioned i 800 guineas. &rep- RACE is engaged fur the Comic`llPpera—but it is un derstood that both of them arr_to play occasionally at Covent-garden Theatre. A gentleman of Rotherhaa, we are informed, and who is now doing business for Government,. has just completed a perpetual wheel—the object of this most valuable invention it to do away the ne cessity of fire aad water, inlbe working of mills and engines. rhe jewellery in the celebrated three-dropped oiarnond ear-rings of the late unfortunate Queen of FIlA,;(71: is thus divided :—Her Royal Highness the Princess of WALLS possesses the tops, and the largest pair of drips ; Sir WILLIAM MANNI tts is the proprietor of the second pair, and Lord Butoa t- BANE the third. The Ayrshire Militia, are commanded by Sir amp HUNTLIL &mu. This Comm.uuler will lead the French a daises. Wednesday last was launcli"d at Mr. HART'S yard, in Ulverstone, A fine cutter-rigged sloop, of fifty tons burthen, called the Ilfigium Pitt, the pro perty of Sir .louN LEGAte, who is going out in her to visit different parts of Italy for health and amusement. The news of the marriage of Lord MoNrco- MER V, son of the Earl of Floi.iwroig, to Lady MA RV MONTGOMERY, diffused in the town of Ea glesham a general and lively joy. On the morning of Tuesday last, a large company of his Lordship's tenants assembled on horseback, in order to proceed for Eglinton Castle. They were conduCied out of the village by a number of the principal inhabitants, with music and banners displayed. In the evening, all classes of the people most ardently concurred in manifesting their joy. Tuesday last WILLIAM LEECE, of Lancaster, innkeeper, was convklcd before the Mayor, in the penalty cf five pounds, for refusing to receive and furnish JAMES PRICE, a sick soldier belonging to the ‘2d regiment of Dragoon Guards ; he having been legally billetted upon him. The 'largest pc r.:ity was infliaed, on account of LEECE turning the soldier out of the housc at eleven o'clock zt night. It is said that the FIRST Cossut, dissatisfied with the manner in which many of the finest dramatic pieces are represented, has expressly forbad that Moline should be longer abandoned to the pre sent performers. By accounts from the Continent, Lady WALLACE died lately at Munich. She was sister to the Duchess of Go !MON. There is a silly story in one of the Paris papers, that Mr. Mu RPHY, our excellent dramatic writer, has been granted a pension of two hundred pounds a-year, to prevent his publishing a poem in honour of BONAPARTE. At Newmarket Races, on Tuesday, Tuntful beat Al by several yards. Mr. W ATSON'S Goaler beat Mr. WILSON'S Sophia across the flat, for ;:uti guineas. Mr. DAwsoN's Quiz, which won on Monday, ran again yesterday against five fresh horses for the Oat lands Stakes, and beat them all easily. Duke of Gsarrozes Penelope and Sir FRANCIS ST ANDisit's Dlubury ; across the fiat, for 200 gui neas. Penelope won by a neck. Mr. AstErr, Assistant ('ashler at the Bank, is the person to whom we have alluded as having been taken into custody for an extraordinary deficiency in his accounts. Defalcations to the amount of two hun dred and eighty-eight thousand and sixty pounds are said to have been committed ; and the great object of the examinations has been to brinq out the applica tion of this immense sum. About 80,0061. worth of the bills have been restored to the Bank by the person in whose hands they were lodged for sego. elation. Mr. A. lived in lodgings, was a single man, and in a very tittexpensive way. He was engaged in some Lead Works in Wales, but to no even; and as yet no trace has been made of this enormous sum. It is not true that any Mr. Cum ELL was con cerned in buying or selling the bill, upon which the discovery was made by Mr. Buil. There was not a banking-house in Condon that would have hesitated to trust Mr. A. with their Government Securities to any amount on the very morning of his arrest ! Mr. A. has, as yet, made no disclonn . es. He was advised by his Solicitors not to ansv ex interroga tories. Mr. BRuouE WATsON remanded him to the Poultry Conipter until Saturday next, by which time he expressed a hope that he might be able, and disposed, to rtnder an account of tie Funds, sus pe:led to be widuirawn from the strong rooms of the Bank. Ile is not, th...ref qv, fully commitsedfor trial, as stated in some of the payer s. I -. .. • . s• • • .11. - . • FOnEIGN INTELLIORATE. FROM THE FRENCH PAPERS. COMTANTINOPir, MARCH. 4. General Brune, Ambassador from the French Re public to the Sublime Porte, arrived at Constanti nople on the 6th of January. He caused his arrival to he notified to the Porte by Citizen Parandier, First Secretafy of Legation. 'lie Prince Scarlata Calli machi, First Dragoman of the Porte, introduced him successively to the Minister of the Interior, thft Grand Vizier, the Reys Effendi, and the Capu'rt Pacha, to whom he notified the arrival of the Am bassador in the following terms : " I have the honour to announce to your Excel lency (or Highness) the arrival at Constantinople of General Brune, nominated, by the first Coos's: Bonaparte, Ambassador from the French Republic to the Ottoman Porte. The rank which General Brune holds in the State, the services he has pei formed at the head of armies, and in the conduct of public affairs, must convince the Porte of the im portance which the French Government attaches to this mission. The Ainbassador charges me pArti:- cularly to testify to your Excellency (or !lig:mess) the high consideration he entertains for the Porte, and how much he is convinced of its being his duty to display, in the relations betwixt the two countries, that frank and amicable confidence, so useful to the interests of France and the Ottoman Empire." The different Ministers discovered the greatest sa tisfaction at this discourse. They felt all the interest which the First Consul Bonaparte took in the re establishment of that ancient and firm friendship. which formerly existed betw.tzn the two empires. They regretted that the festivals of Ramazan and /3airam should delay the audience of the Ambassa dor of the French Republic. Citizen Parandier WAS received by the Ministers with the utmost distinc tion ; they made him sit down, beside them, and re galed him with cofFeee, sherbet, ani perfume. The first public audience to the Grand Vizier was fixed fur the 14th of February, and the follow ing was the order of the procession ; The Janissary gu:trd of honour ranged in mu files, cot/unaided by the Colonel of the regiment. Tne escort og- Aniss.tries attached to tfie service of the Amixtandor. 'fwelve led horses, and twelve Tchoadars. Twenty.four I'clioadars on foot, marching in two lines. The various servants and inferior officers connect ed with the embassy. The Commissaries of Commercial Relations ors hors back. The public and private Secretaries on horseback. The First Secretary of Legation, Citizen Paran dier, carrying the Ambassador's credentials in a port folio richly ornamented with gold. He was also on horseback, having on his right the Scharux Barbi. In ordinary embassies this officer of the Porte took the right of the Ambassador. At the audience of Ge neral Aubert l)ubayet, it was agreed, that after the reception he should retire and come up to the two other audiences by another way. On this occasion he preceded the English Ambassador, placing him self by the side of the First Secretary of Legation. The Ambassador. His private Secretary. The Commander of the frigate La Serene. The First Drogman of France. The Ambassador's First Aid-de-Camp. His Second Aid-de-Camp. His Third Aid-de-Camp. A Chief of Battalion of the Artillery. Two Officers of a frigate. The Ambassador's Almoner. The Superior of St. Anthony. The Superior of St. Dominique. The Ambassador's Equerry. Two Guards of Honour. The Ambassador's Intendant. The two Commercial Consuls. . `"`~. .:ic':~ A Body of French Merchants. As soon as he reached the Porte, the Ambassa dor landed at the foot of the stairs which led to the palace of the Vizier, where Prince Callimachi, accompanied by several officers of distinction. came to receive him, and conducted him, witl:- out stopping, through the apartments where tla- Ambass,idots usually wait. The Ambas,adt entered the grand saloon of the Divan at tl:e same time as the Grand Vizier entered at an cppo site door. After reciprocal salutations, the Grand Vizier seated himself on his sopha, and the Am bassador placed himself opposite to him, in :tn. armed chair prepared for the purpose. The Keys Effendi, and several other Ministers, stood on the right hand of the Vizier : the Ambas sador then delivered the following speech, which was immediately afterwards interpreted by Prince Callimachi : " The most Great, most Powerful, and most Mag nanimous First Consul of the French Republic, Bonaparte, has sent me to the Sublime Porte. cloathed with the character of Ambassador. I. come, agreeably to custom, to present to your Highness the letters by which I am invested iwitlt that eminent chara.eter. Under the auspices of 3. treaty which renews the former alliance, and. through the happy disposition of your Highness's sentiments, the whole of my condnd will tend, and. I trust, succeed in drawing closer the ties which im perious circumstances had loosened, hut which Ottomans and the French are accustomed to los.k upon as the pledge of their mutual prosperity. •hie genies of the maganinious First Consul, the glory which he prides iii of maintaining the peace et: the world, the splendour of his innumerable victories, the peaceful pustule of the Powers heretofore our enemies, the weight which the French Republic• throws into the balance of the destinies of Europe. are so many pledges of the stability, as well as of the importance of our engagements. Your Hii;l:- ness is well aware that France is the true friend and the nrural ally of the Ottoman Empire ; that ter frankness, generosity, and greatness, the two na tions have no equals in the world ; that the dearest interests attach them to one another. I deem my self peculiarly happy in having been chosen to ke-.•p up this union ; and i consider the honourab:e post in which I am placed at the sublime Porte, as the most glorious reward of my I alsours in the field. I feel great pleasure in finding in the depository of the confidence of his Highness the zitiltan Salm 111. a Grand Vizier, a warrior hero, whose politeness and %%is. dom will .smomth the difficulties of my new career. I offer him my congratulations on the peace, t. r , 14. I