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7431110. T. VIE !ANT'S TOWNSIIEND ANT) MISS BALI. AND SUPPER, GROsVrNOR SQUARE. On Wedntsday evening last this elegant enter tainment was attended by 500 of the first Rank and Fashion. The Ball-room, which fronts tf.e do feet long by 30 wide, was lighted up in the most superb style ; at one end of the room was a very fine mirror, which had a very happy effect. The door was chalked by letters. In the centre was an Im perial Crown, surrounded with plumes of the Prince's feathers, groups of dancing figures, musical de vices, etc. Sec. The Ball was openel at eleven o'clock by Lady C. Townshend and l lord A. liZAII• a'. ERK ' with "Lath Smihirlaid's Reel," and follow el by her sister Lady H. A. Toss Ind Sir G. WARREN. Supper was laid in three parlours. It consisted of every delicacy of the season'; the or naments and confectionary were under the direc tion of Mr. Gurvrta, and were extremely appro priate to the fair Hostess, as displayii , g a variety of emblems of innocence, and of the Lore and Graces At half past three the IYances continued to an early hour. 111, Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Dekrs--St. Alban i at.l Orleans. Nenesis"—Toweithentt, Abereorn. Earia—Rridg •water, Chonsell, Carrington, ?Anton, !Owl ne. Fteteseue, Harrington, Percy, Ilarcwirt, Digby, atid WestmoteLnd. IleJoists---Primrose, Spiney, Wentworth, Boyle, Cranlv, Lovrinhain, Grivoston, Forbes, Castlereagh, and Nimbi*. brook. lereb—Reauelork, H. Paulet, Arden, A. Colelrm, Villiers, Binning, Bruenbor Harewod, Somerville, St. Ilelen'4, L. Gwer, H. Sentinel, retie, Graves, Oftioliton, C 01.2, and Bay nLr~. Count Beaujolais. Stephens, C. Rishonp, W. hfilner, W. Keit, H. Dashwaod, and G. Aflleek. :ed and and Loftus. Maur Caider . Anson, 'Loftus, Acheson, Stopford, Fer- Capreins--liawthorne, Money, Sullivan, Woodford, Cot ton, Stephrtl, UNeil, Doyle, Brothertan, Lloyd, and Ship ley. liessn—Twa Lawrier, 'Dutton, Fane, Gre , :!te, B. Grverille, Forlvet, Cloy-r, A. Stanhope., 11.. y, i'llimston, ikon, Primrove, Ede-rt, Thelltsson, Dickson, M :Survivor, Pierrv point, Purcell, Baker, Meath, Caldwell, Rushout, Roberts, Nano, Collyer, lloaruliv, Curt, Methe.nt. Darenret, Le mon, Upton, Payne, Clitheroe, Jenki.o:tn, Laateellev, Cooper, Traver, Cartsph 11, Latouche, Role, Donen, Clowns, Bon aerie, Caventli4h, R. Walpole, Manrarts, Wok, A Upton, Caldwell, Baitot, Sheridan, P. Methuen, CA: ell, Piggy , iffy. dee, Remick, Kinnainl, T. Rtets4s, Caulfiv:ll, and `tort. Dtseartsca--BAton, St..tlban's, Beaufort, aud Nortbuinber lan3. an, Cooper. AfarrAitmews—Dover, Bub', SalisLury, Tx.rn)ke Dnwn shtirp, lleadfutt, and liertf. nl. Gosponses--Dow.kg:r Fort,-irup, SPften, rntte:rn., Wprwek, Liverp 11r..11.nwrer, INtoute-Edgmundr, -1, Hairtogton, Luston, Curium: Ann, Westmoreland, and Unbr•dirr. Sydney, Rentsrcrth, CAsCerragh, and Gfervrtl. Ladire--164. Parker, A Forteveue, H. Sulliran, C. Wattle rave, Benner& &nuelerk, F. Compton, C. Senketisoo, Wynne, Auckland, Arden, two Throw's, Cornea Hun singreeld, Caldwell, A. M. Stanhope, C. Rueshart, Grantham, M. Fitzroy, Brownlow, G. Cetil, Meteilk, Walsinghani, Dc Chffonl, L. Mani.err, Sa'toun, M. Taylrw, S. lane, F. roc!. Dudley and Word, Bevhopp, C. Grew'lle, M. Bentinek, G. Cavendish, Haftgerston, H. Leslie, Mack, Grevilk, Perth, Lynne'', and Shelly. Mistressee—Elierker, M. Townshend, Tane, Smith, !bye, Hall, Freenantle, Doreen, A Stanhope, Claw, Anson, Brown, WWlia,na, Thelluseven, Fitzroy, Cornwallis, Caldre,, M. Burgoyne, Loftus, Hai vey, Harcourt, Baker, Douglas, But ler, S Smith, Cun, Fitaherbert, Milner , Montague, ISTO thertort, Weddle, and Renvun. Messes—Cooke, thblow, Ellerken, Forteicue, Britton, Hare, Mawr, Doreen, Stanhope, Stephen., Crimson, An ew, Eden, Townshend, M. Burgoyne, Cornwallis, Vonaeh, Meath, Smith, Douglas, Cu,t, Dashwoorl, Beresturd, Downe, MilAntos, s.g, Townsbend, and Shelly. The Rorat FAMILY leave town this day for Windsor, where they will remain during the holi days. Yestesday morning, about nine o'clock, his MA.. Y and the Duke of Com osilLaNn, attended by General GwYNNT, Equerry in waiting, rode from the Qneen's House to Kew, where his MAJESIY walked a considerable time, inspefting the new house which is building, and other works catrying on time, and returned to town about three o'clock. About one o'clock, the Princess MART, attended by Lady Cass'.Est and Miss GOLDSWORTHY, took an airing in the neighbourhood of Chelsea, and re• turned through Hyde-park. Yesterday Mr. Hoauoust gave a grand enter. tainment at his house in Duke -street, Westminster. Among the company present were, the cEL tot the E‘cuEstura, Mr. Cour, Mr. WICK HAM, Mr. HUEY ADDINGTON, Lord GLENDLR. it, &c. &c. The Miss Asa svs gave a Concert at their house m PArk-lane, last Tuesday, to two hundred of the Nobil.ity. Miss ARRAMe, whose vocal powers are so well known, were assisted by Messrs. NEvii ald Bsartcat a 4. The music was principally their I.any's own compositicn. Prince Wi t clam fif G JCL EITER arrived at Co per.hagen on the 12th March. The Earl and Countess MOVNTNORICIS are at the British Hotel, in JeTTTI, n -street, for a few da) s. The Bishop of LoNtion much to his honour, is employed this season in the sacred duty of Confir mation t ant yesterday 1000 persons attended St. isuries's church for that solemn occasion. The lAA:ass has proved fatal to the Quads, as their ri-divitar patients being really ill, are obliged to have recourse to proper edsi e. Brulaas become very dual. The S!ock Ex change is the busies place of recreation at present. We read of the Press-gangs picking up value:Ale bands every night in the City. Who would sup pose that many of these valuable hands are 1'41.• prim It is strange they should have been all in the Sul at the Stock Ex..hange on Tuesday, considering what a Mau there %vas met dour at the Mansion- House. The p O e gern entitled " Mt Fair licit yr.," uhich was ex ell to be brought out soon at Cuvrut Gar den, will be put t.hht by obs Ball, who seems re solved not to give up an inc h of ground this season. Music. —The Assam% who are as much distin guished for their personal merits and relative attach ment as fur their musical abilities, are, it seems, going to present to the world some of those compo sitions with which they have so often gratified the fashionable circle of their private friends. Has MAJIST V, we understand, has condescended to be come the Pansies* of the work, which is to consist or Songs purposely written by the Hon. islr. Spen cer, M. Lewis. Mr. M. P. Among% s, and other 4 4:er.:1cmen of scel:-known poetical talen.s. r rittArßE. -a DiItAV.L AN Z. Their Majesties and four of the Princesses visited this 'theatre List night for the first time this season, to see the new hiatus ic,ll play of the Hero of the North, and the Devil to Pay. On entering the Theatres they were received with the most er.thasiastic accla mations, while the Band struck up, God Save iLe King, which was lost in a tumult of applausz. House overflowed at an early hour, and we never witnessed an audience of a more brilliant descrip den. The piece, which is replete with sentiments of loyalty, afforded the audience an happy opportu nity of displaying their feelings, and particularly in the scene where Gruravas discovers himself to the miners. In the scene also where the Princess arrests the arm of one of the soldiers of the castle, and ex claims, " Will you raise your arm. azainst your anointed King r' it produced a most striking effect. His Majesty was dressed in regimentals. The Queen was in white and silver, with a black tor: •in richly studded and bound with a bandeau of diamonds, with a very snraß black feather. The princesses were all in white and silver, with black turbans and bandeaus of diarniinds and white plumes, excepting the Princess Elizabeth, who wore also a bird of Paradise feather, and the Princess Sophia, who had a pink train. The Royal party seemed in good health and spirits, and highly pleased with the en tertainment. The pressure for places was beyond any thing we ever witnessed ; and as the free list was done away, the receipt of the night must be considerable. LONDON FASHIONS. FOR APRIL TWO I VENOM DRESSES. An evening dress of blue muslin ; the back toad !plain and very dry ; the fronts formed of a half square of the same muslin, whir h is Litened on each shoulder, drawn full across the bosom, and tied in a bow be fore; a fall tucker of the same und.:r it. The sleeves full, and drawa up in the middle with quilled or puffed ribbon: the tram very long, and trimmed round the bottom with the same as the sleeves ; the head ornamented with a silver net, open at the top to ailinit the hair in large cu:ls. White slows A wl;te cape dress over a ssrcenet slip, nude very low over the bn.om with a lice tut ker ; the sleeves drawn up with steel ornaments, and trimmed round the bottom with ribbon and steel; the bottooi of the train tri•ntned sa.th the same 15 the sleeves. Ihe hair dreas'd in the incat fashionable manner, and oniarnented with a gold band. FIVE HALF LF.VGTHS. Hat of white lace over pink satin; the hat turned up in font, tfi sinew a pink crape cap under it. I:fres.: of lAA!' mutlni. A lace cap over white Atin. liat.inerc!def of worked or etribrinderA tmtsl .n. eraw bmillet, with a dime cron e. Drzas of pliin ntu s in The head ornamented with a twist of muslin fastened on the right side, one end falltng over the right shoulder. Evening dress of rach-colourea taffety; the sleeves of white satin, with full epaulets the sau►e as the dress, drawn up and trimm-d with white ribbon. Turban of satin, ornamented with blue feathers fastened on the Lit and falling over the right. GENERAL OPSERVATIONS. The most fashionable colours are Wue, pink, and pea-green. Pebees are supersed.:d by fur tippets or white cloaks. Straw hats of vasiou. shapes, with douse crown:, are becoming general. Ornaments of gold, silver, or steel, are universally *errs In full dress. OTHER LONDON DRESSES. A vestal veil of unlrim white crape, trimmed with silver and white flowers, and the Lair in ringlet:, rather short on the fore head, and very tf•iii on the sides of the face. A yellow saiseoet die.% trimmed with silver, open on the left side, and tied with silver cord: and tac-eds ; lace handker chief in the inside of the dress, long lace slecses, bra:elets of `old and cameo's, the same rotted the neck. White shoes and gloves ; yellow fan and ridicule, ornament ed with saver spatlglts and tassels. WALKING DRESS. Banner of black lace, lined with pink ; a black lace cloak, with the same lining, with long *_eves; the cloak to fit the hipe in thy hick ; the front to hang loose from the neck in a point ; a quiting of wile Loce round the lower part of the cape. Carnbric-musEn dress, trimmed round the lyittorti with cieu!.lo wth fiat hems. Brown gloves and parasol; blicit I .lloroccu boots, laced with pink. PARMA N FASIIIOXS. Six days of fine weather have produced great changes in every part of the tridette. Several satin peliss..s have been al ready replaced Sy .•host perkale robes. Jackets trimmed with Lu e have, in some instances, succeeded to spencers trimmed with swans-down. Veils, even parasuis have re-appeared, and several dozen of cropped heads have .hewn themselves, Suppose the hair as short as in the cape of the neck and behind the care, long upon the crown of the head, and collected in a pyramidical bunch ur flat upon the forehead, ai.d you will have an id+ . • - i of the two new fashions of gimps. Hats, which are much enure eernmon than turbans, are it:mod up in fro! t, when they are of .1 round shape, or resemble a bow net, when they are üblung. The favourite c lours are rose, lilac barbel blue or jormiti!. We see several hats of the lager ea loui, wired with narrow blick yeket. We begin to c a white straw hats with the le4f turned ur, and trimmed with rose :Ab bott:. Yellow straws are very rare, have the leaf very narrow, IA are trimmed with white ribbons. Coloured ccstuses,crussed upon the back iii a double X, are sell worn. The :lecres of the white perkal • robes are long and full, without being puffed. According to the latest regulations for Schools and Universities in the Russian Empire, each of them is to have its Leaurers in Theology, its Library, Cabinet Collation, and liberty to publish a periodi cal work upon the progress made in the refinement of manners, morals, &c. A private letter, lately received from Paris, con tains the following anecdote :--" A circumstance occurred close by us, in Rue Monmatre, the corner of the I3oulvards. The master of a coffee-house died ; they of course sent for the undertakers to bury him, which they could not do for two days.— When they came to perform that sacred office, he was alive, well, and in his business : a fortunate escape for him ! 1 .1.17 • . SjaSSX ASSIZIL . . goltSilAM:. MA see 49. Illtrott tilt MON. Mg: p'STICE HEATH AVD A SPECIAL JtJgr. Tat KING b. HILL ',ARLEN*, ESQ. This was an Indictment on a statute (but too rarely enforced) the statute of the nth Ann, which punishes the offence of challenging, or provoking to fight, or assaulting or beating any person, on account V money ason at play, with two years imprisonment, and forfeiture of goods and chattels. The Defendant, a gentleman well known on the turf, was indieted on this statute at the Quarter Sessions, and the record was removed by certiorari into the Court of King's Bench. On Monday last Mr. Serjcant fits.? moved, on the part of the De fendant, to postpone the trial, on account of the absence of a material witness. The Learned Judge thought the affidavit insufficient ; however he con sented to postpone the trial till the Tuesday, when it came on. Mr. GURNEY opened the indictment, which charged, that one Samuel Emden having- won the sum of fifty pounds of the Defendant, by playing at dice ; the Defendant, on account of the money so won, assaulted and beat the said Samuel Emden. Mr. GA ate ow stated the case on the part of the prosecution, with his usual energy in causes of this nature. He inveighed against the consequences of that pernicious vice, gaming ; it was, he observed, clestrudive of the happiness and peace of Society, and not unfrequently attended with calamities which had been but faintly delineated by the pens of our most cekbrated dramatic writers and poets. It was a vice which, in a moment of mental intoxication, hurled its victim from the highest pinnacle of hu man happiness to the lowest abyss of misery and despair. It was a vice which at different peri ods had levelled the fortunes anil honours of the most opulent and splendid families, and urged men who, but from it% infatuation, might have dispensed felicity around the circle of their friends and relatives, to the commission of the most shocking crimes. It was therefore a clime, against which every well or dered State had been anxious to ems& lawsof the most penal operation. The laws provided by the legis lature of this country to suppress the pradice of illicit gaming, or those breaches of the peace which were but too often the consequences of it, required only the exertions of the virtuous part of the com munity, in order to produce that effect, with a view to which they were originally framed. Having made these general remarks, the Learned Counsel proceeded to state the fasts, wi.ich were briefly these. He said, that Mr. Emden, being at Brigh ton in the summer of 1801, was invited to phi? with Mr. Hill I)arley, the Defendant. He stated they played with dice at a game called ester and under :men. In the beginning of the play Mr. Emden lost considerably ; but after some time the run of luck changed in his favour ; and at the conclusion Mr. Emden, the Prosecutor, was a win ner of ,:bout fifty pounds from Mr. Darley the De fendant, and of thirty-five pounds of another gentle man why was of the party. The other gentleman immediately paid the money he had fairly lust, but so did not Mr. Darley ; on the contrary, he made an appointment with the Prosecutor to pay it in the evening; the evening came, and he was either un prepared or unwilling to discharge his debt of ho nour. He appointed the next morning, anal the next morning he deferred it to the succeeding even i ng . —ln the evening, Mr. Emden and another Gentle. man with him, called on Mr. Dailey, to demand pay ment of the money he had lost. Mr. Darley, ac tuated by that spirit whicit but too generally in fluences the minds of professed gamblers, wished to as oid paying the sum that had been won of him : he wanted Mr. Emden to commence a new course of play ; but this Mr. Emden positively declined, and pressed fur his money—The Defendant Mr. Darley absolutely refused to discharge the obliga tion the chance of the die had imposed upon him and being again pressed, he had recourse to th most unwarrantable and atrocious ads of violence' He beat the Prosecutor in the most unmercifu• manner, and terminated the outrage by Icickingi him down stairs. The Learned Counsel having thus stated the fasts, called upon the Jury, by their vcrdif, to make an example of a man who, having violated the statutes of the country, had dared to aggravate his offence, by so audacious a brea'cli of the public peace. He trusted, that the event of this day, would teach men who lived by the profession of gaming, that the law was not to be offended against with impunity—He hoped the penal conse quences of the charge imputed to the Defendant would not induce them to palliate his offence, or de ter them from delivering him over to that ,justice, within the scope and oper a tion o f which lie had brought himself; he was persuaded, that their ver dict would read an useful lesson to Society, and par ticularly to that part of it which consisted of men who, by the illegal praaice of gaming, preyed upon the rest of mankind, and, when the fortune of the die was against them, endeavoured to shelter them selves from the consequences, by an appeal to the law of arms, or by acts of brutal violence. The Prosecutor, and another Gentleman of the name of Maitland, proved the fadsprecisely as they were stated by Mr. Garrow. Mr. Serjcant BEST said he should, at the present season, decline entering upon any defelice of his Client, the Defendant. It was not in his poster to contradict the evidence on the cwt of the prosecu tion, in a way to produce any end}, with regard to the verdict of the Jury. But he had various topics which he should deem material hereafter to urge, when the Defendant should be brought up ter judgment. The Learned Judge informed the Jury that they had no alterative with respect to the verdict it was their duty to pronounce. The Jury immediately found the atendant gu by. The Assize terminated.—Many of the prisoners on the Crown Side were tried by Mr. Garruw. The Hon. Captain PAGET is app iinted to the command of the Eudyndou frigate at Portsmouth; and the Hon. Captain ELPHINSroNa ..ING, to the Egyptinuse, at Woolwich. Professor MALLET, at Geneva, has juste tblished a very interesting work, intitled, 4, Historic dt.t. Suisses ou Helvettans," &c. in which the history of Switzerland is brought down from the :emu , st times to the middle of last year, whets the rl Ell CONSUL of France began " to mediate with effeff," for the/urn:anent wrlfare of the HelvetiaaltepoLlic. ; - • I . • ;i• ;Wry FOREIGN lATELLICENCE. • EXTRACT OF A PLIVATE LETTER. texts, MARCO! 2C. The First Consul has postponed his journe, to Brussels. The most aCtive preparations are making in all the ports of the Republic. Forfait," fanner; f • Minister of Marine, is gone to superintend tho•r_ ; carrying on in Dunkirk, Nieuport, Ostend, & . In the mean time, the public opinion, if there can be said to be any public opinion in France, is :n favour of Peace. Bankruptcies are frequ,a. , and poverty and distress, which are already particularly in the capital, it is apprehended. wiA very much increase, in the event of hostilities taking place. The Consul has never, at any former period, felt so much the weight of his greatness. lie sva•. lately shut up for three days at St. Cloud, and 0.- dered no one but a Messenger to be admitted to him. Some days ago, every report was in favour of peace. It was said, that the English Minister had been five hours in conference with Bonaparte ; that twenty-one articles of discussion were treated of, and amicably arranged between diem, and that they afterwards ate a cold collation together. Bi t reports are now of a different complexion. Ever t thing again w..-.ars the aspeEL of war. It is sale, that the merchants, bankers, a2cl agents of the; place, who are in the habit of doing business with England, have received dire:tions from their con stituents to make up their accounts ; and all specu lation between the 'two countries is completely at a stand. The workmen, who were employed in re pairing the house which Lord Whitworth was to inhabit in the Rue Faubourg, St. Honor e, have been dismissed. The English, however, are not leaving Paris in great numbers; on the contrary, the pros peet of a rt7pture, together with the fine weather, seem W have, for the moment, brought- an additional number of them to %isit the capital of France. In the eleCtion of eandidales f..)r the Conservative Senate, it has been remarked, that a majority of votes, in the Eleetoral College of the Department of the Seine, have been Li favour of Albert de. Luines, (formerly Duke de Luines) and Pas tore, (a modai transported on the Nth Fruetidor,) although General Berthier had all the influence of the Government, and Lucien Bonaparte was Pte sident of the Eleetoral College. The number of conscript deserters, from the' Departments of the Republic, it is computed, amount to eight thousand—four thousand six hundred being the ascertained number from sixty-two of the De partments, in which the lists have been already made up. i ~ t•~ -~, MM•11... FROM THE. FRENCH PAPERS. PARIS, MARC* 243. Yesterday at ten o'clock in the morning. the hat brought by M. the Ablegat Doria, was transmitted by the First Consul to the Cardinals Dubelloy, Bois gelin, Cambaceres and Fesch. After mass these Cardinals were presented to the First Consul in his Cabinet, where were assembled the Consuls, the Mi nisters, the Senators, the Counsellors of State, the Presidents of the Legislative Body, and of the Tribu nate, the Military superior officers of the First Div .- sion and of Paris, the superior officers of the Con sular Guard. M. the Cardinal Dubelloy addressed the First Consul, in a speech of considerable length, in which he expressed the sentiments entertained by the Clergy for the restorer of morality and religion. The auditors were surprized at the memory of this venerable Prelate, in his 95th year. The First Consul after hearing them, convessed affectionately with the tour Cardinals. A deputation of twelve members of the Electoral Body of the department of the Seine, were then ad mitted to do &image to the First Consul. This de • putation, composed of great proprietors and persons of consummate knowledge in public business, ha.; at its head M. d'Harcour, its prolocutor. He thank ed the First Consul, in the name of the Electors, for the honoui ssiiich he had conferred upon the Elec toral Body, in giving it for its President his illustr:- oat Brother. The First Consul answered, that he valued very highly the example which the EleCtoral Body of the Seine had given by the wisdom of its eledions. Ha concluded his answer by this phrase : " My ambition has always been to obtain from all the French the sentiments which you have expressed in my favour, and my constant wish is to deserve them." After and before ►hese introduCtions, the First Consul passed in the Hall of audience, where were assent• bled in much greater number than upon any former Sunday, the Members t , f the first Authorities, and of the most distinguished soldiers. M. de S. tack no notice of the crowd that appeared yesterday at the Thuilleries. " What a difference," said he, " be tween this day, and this day six years I Behold men of property in the place of thapaax rcug:s and of bonnets. rouges—And how hasall this come ? Without violence, without exa.aion, not to fast, nor too slow, and following only the firm hand which holds :Al our destinies, which resists all abuses, and opens the way to every good. HAGUE ? MARCH 16: Government has confirmed the resolution of the Council of War, by which Citizen Hartsir.clt, why was destined for the c anmand of the j?atavata squadron in the Mediterranean, is appointed Vice- Admiral. All at once it has become doubtful wkw they, in the present circumstances, this squadron will set sail from our ports. The new dispositions of the British Government have redue'd our bank business to a sort of stag. nation. The funds fall, and there prevails every where in this country, a strt of stupor produced by the impre,sion made upon t!..- pubiic Mirk/ by the image of we cri:ic.d sit tatioa ir, which we s.io.,:d find ourselv,:s, if we were ..t once to destroy ', r A. . 10' - s-•. ~ .. . • p • wqr • \: I 1 t ./...,