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LONDON F..i..);1101, 7 4 FOR rfartc tt. - f ves rttC DaessEa.—A routul (trot of yellow silk or mus:in ; t . back made plain, and very luw on the shoulders, with a s n ill frill of white lace at the bottom of the back. rlain sii.fires, of white satin, with full yellow epaulets, trimmed with A dress of blue muslin, made low and full over the bosom ; a half-handkerchief, of patent net or lace, fastened on the 4,llou:dem, and drawn full over the bosom. Full sleeves, of white satin or sarsuet. Pe4rl necklace. An embroidered flandlcerchief, twisted round the head, with one end falling over the right shoulder. A blue leathef, fixed on the right side, spas to fall over the left side. MORNING Dsesses.—A round dress, of white muslin, the back made full : long sleeves, with lace twisted round from the shoulder to the wrist. White tippet. Bonnet of white silk, trimmed and tied under the chin with a white silk hand kerchief; the bonnet turned up in Lout, and lined with coque licot. A short dress, of white muslin, trimmest all round with a wreath of white crape and heads. Plain short sleeves, of worked muilin, trimmed round the bottom with puffing; of ribbon. Petticoat with a lung train, trimmed round the bottom, the same as the sleeves. The hair dressed long and full over the face, and ornamented with a wreath to correspond with the dress. OLNERtL CWAIVATIONS.—tarc,Inna haunt :chiefs, of various culomi, and with gold and silver trimminv, are touch worn as turbans. A straw bonnet, with a high dome cr.men, called the St. Cloud, has just he?ti introduced. Pearl nmktaces are much worn. The prevailing colours are blue regen, and The Prince of WALES sent a donation of 100 guineas to the Marine Society, on Thursday, by the hands of SIDNEY SMITH. His Royal Higline:s was pleased to say, that he should contribute this sum annually. This being St. David's Day, the Society of An cient Britons—the benevolent Patrons of the Welch Chality School, will attend Divine Service, at St. James's Church in Piccadilly; where prayers will be vead, in the Ancient British Language, by the Rev. THOMAS AL BAN, and a Sermon will be delivered in English, by the Bishop of OXFORD; after which the Society will dine together, at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, in the Strand. The Somerset-House Club dined yesterday at the Freemasons' Tavern, Sir LIONEL DARREL in the Chair. Among the company present we noticed the Earls of MOIRA, MOUNTNORRIS, and KING STON, Sir JOHN GORDON, Sir JOHN EASIER, and several other persons of distindion. The Chairman gave the health of Earl MOIRA, which was drank with those marks of respat which always accom pany the mention of his name. His Lordship re turned thanks in an elegant speech. Several excel lent songs were sung in the course of the evenin:-.. Captain HARMAN, son of the worthy Baronet, Sir ,A:NDREW HARION, sets off this day for Plymouth, to take the command of a 71, lying off that har bour, which is to be stationed for five years in the West-Indies. . Lord WODEFIOUSE and family arrived in town last week, at his Lordship's house in Upper Brook street, from his seat at Kemberloy, near Wyndham, Norfolk. Sir huts GttAttam left town yesterday, for Salt-hill. where he will remain till Thursday next. The Hon. Major liirt.xte arrived on Sunday last, at 11LAKE's Hotel, Jermyn-street, from Ire land. _ _ Yesterday morning the fifth general Rehearsal of the Concert of Ancient Mus►c, took place at the Concert Room of the Opera House. Mrs. N GTOti did not attend. Her songs were not allotted to any other performer. It is supposed she will not be able to attend on Wednesday. The se leaion under the direction of the Earl of CREST E.R.• Y lELD did credit to his taste. _ . The Earl and Countess of YARMOUTH arrived last Week, at their house in Piccadilly, from Paris. STottAcr: and BRAHAM are going t 3 sing at Cambridge. BoLL A is re-engaged for the King's Theatre', and is expeeted shortly in London, where her talents are much wanted. _ _ _ Sir Ric ii A R D MUSCRAVE is constant and uniform in his opposition to Gordon's History of the Irish Rebellion. Sir RICHARD very naturally gives the preference to his own, which he would impose upon the world as the very essence of truth, candour, and impartiality. The DEAN of CH nu-rem:lto.' left town last night for Oxford, where it is expeeed he will remain for a few weeks. • Lady NEWARK, and the three I-ton. Mr. PIER nr.- POINTS, have been confined with a severe cold at their house in Portman-square, for some time. Lord HENRY FITZGERALD has returned to his former residence in Stratford Place. _ Prince Ben►artxsKv has taken up his residence for the season, in Great Marylebone-street. The Copper Mine in " The Hero of the North," is likely to prove a Altar of Wealth to the treasury of Drury-lane Theatre. The splendour of the dresses, -and the piEtitresque and magnificent scenery, have ezcited a considerable share of public notice. !is Majesty the Egreson of RUSSIA has given a recent proof of his truly Imperial munificence in rewarding literary merit, and extending his patron age to distant climates. Being perfettly conversant with the English language, and having received a copy of that splendid work, " Pallas's Travels through the Southern Provinces of the Russian Em pire,"- ALKYANDER I. condescended to direct His Excellency Count WoaoNzow, tare Russian Am bassador at this Court, to testify his gracious ap probation of the performance ; and at the same time to confer on the Translator a further mark of his Imperial favour, by sending him a ring superbly enriched with numerous diamonds, of great value, And of exquisite workmanship.—We learn from the publishers, that Pallas's Travels are translated by Dr. WILL tea, the author of " Lectures on Diet and Reginien,i' " Domestic Encyclopaedia," and aeveral other medical and philosophical works. He is, we understand, at present engaged in the second or concluding volume of the Travels above alludeel to ; which will be completed in the course of a few weeks. The Et4I'LItOR or Russia has also presented Mr. Foasvt a, Author of " A Treatise on Fruit and Forest 'f fees," with a valuable diamond ring, as a testimony of his high approbaticat of that work. LETTERS ON THE FT EACH ST4GE. LETTER THE FOURTH. The Italian Opera here it exaetly the same as your Opera, except that they have no Ballet. Vi- onaoNl, while here, was by much their best singer; and they are now so ill provided with performers, that their amorous swains are given to a woman. The next and last Theatre of sufficient re.,peda bility to deserve, particular mention, is the Theatre de Feydeau ; and were the pleasure I have derived from either to determine the rank of its merit, this would have a decided pre-cminence.The entertainment here is really delightful. It consists solely of Comic Operas in French, which are in general very pretty little produaions—sometimes highly interesting, and sometimes abounding in the most laughable equi vogue. It has several excellent singers, who are, for the most part, equally as good adors. Among the men, ELt.tviou is the first in favour with the public. He has a very sweet, clear voice, and exe cutes with the most finished precision and delicacy. His ading, too, is charming ; he combines with a very handsome person, and the must elegant man ner, a pleasing vein of natural and easy humour. Madame ST. AU BIN, among the women, may be si milarly charaacrised, except as to person: her figure is short and not elegant ; and her face, though plea sant and interesting, is not handsome; but she is a fascinating aaress ; and, in charaaers of mingled gaiety and sensibility, her style is a good deal like that of Mrs. J o an I have met with nothing in London similar to the species of entertainment I have found at this Thea tre. There is aje ne eyais quoi in the French manner, which throws a charm into this sort of Drama, not, I think, attainable by the genius of our nation. Mr. COBB'S House to be Sold, I am told, is very flat and insipid ; Maison a Vendre at this Theatre, in which ELL Eviou has the principal chara&er, (a Poet in French) is uncommonly diverting ; but allowing of the absence of this je ne synis quoi, both in the writing and acting, I foresaw its change of effeEt in its Eng lish transformation. I saw a little one-aft piece here, called Adolphe et Clare, in which the hero and he roine were played by EL L EVIOU and Mad. Sr. Au- II:N, which affected me much more than any thing I have seen of legitimate Tragedy at the Theatre Francois ; but this too would obviously be spoiled by an English translation, and English acting. There arc one or two other theatres, who murder regular dramas ; and the rest, as I told you before, are chiefly composed of artist-jack-puddings. At one of them I saw a specimen of a very odd, hetero geneous species of entertainment. A Harlequin, and Clown with long sleeves, were the principal charaflers ; but it was a piece of dialogue, and these gentlemen were distinguished for none of those manual drolleries pra&ised in a pantomime— , Harlequin was merely an adventrous and in triguing lover, and Monsieur Cille, the Clown, who was his rival, was a Bookseller in a very respectable way, only famons for his jests and his wick.!dness. Some of the burlettas at these inferior theatres are diverting enough, and they have a particular talent at them. They have lately burlesqued Pizarro, (in French Pizarre) under the title of Bizarre. I was reproached lately with the propensity of our Dramatists, uniformly, to exhibit the French charaacr on our Stage in a ridiculous and contemp tible light; and persuaded, at the same time, of the very liberal manner, on the contrary, in which the English charaeter was treated by the French poets. Unluckily for the candour of these complainants, in the next comedy I saw, (Le Premier Vemi) an Eng lish Postillion was the most :16tive personage—and a very sad rogue they had made of him. The English accent, by the way, was very well hit off. Dramatic writers are more plentiful here than in London, but the bad ones do not prosper so well. The Parisians arc, perhaps, candid critics, but not indulgent. 1 hey are not so easily surfeited of what they deem a good thing as you are: genius, there fore, here loses no respe6t from its antiquity, and nonsense gains none from its novelty. A new co medy lately, at the Theatre Louvois, was irreco verably damned at the end of the second aft; aad, I am told, that a new actor will not unfrequently meet with as untimely an interruption to his career. The theatres teem with novelty, but the chances are more than equal against the success of a new piece ; and, if it does succeed, it can only take rotation with old fa7ourites, and never solely engrosses pub lic attention. The titles of Phidre, Andrumaque, Rudogune, Le Cid,Turtile, Malade Imaginaire, &c. were, perhaps, never more abundant in their play-bills than at this day. I fancy I can add nothing on this subjeft that you can be interested to know. What I have said, par ticularly in my comparative allusions, you will al low me, I think, to have said conscientiously, I sinking the Englishman in the Citizen of the World. A vessel arrived at Gibraltar upon the 29th, last from Malta, after a passage of thirty-three days ; the Master states, that seven days before •he left Malta, twenty sail of transports, and some men of war, sailed from that place for Alexandria. to bring away the remainder of the troops from that cotuw7• SPO T 14VG Ev 7 .LL \-.; I.* (fßo'kt TIM ToRK t!ERALD ) SFORTS ON TILE Ivor. ns, FALCUNEIL'II HALL. Colonel TIIORN`rox having conducted his whole .s'iorting apparatus to Falconer's Hall, on Fri jay se'nnight a stag was turned out for the enter tainment of a numerous assemblage of sports men.—After running a circuit of eight miles, he wits taken in a plantation of Major Torun At, at Grange, and from the severity of the chace, he died .shortly after. Oh Monday a public breakfast was given by the Coloi at his house to 200 horesemen, after which a stag of a larger size than the former, was turned net. A more beautiful run was never known. The horn of the huntsman, sounding in the valleys, had a fine effect. On Tuesday the sports were repeated. On Wednesday another stag was turned out, to about 300 horsemen. After running about a mile, he returned to the house, and leaping over a spiked I gate, went off in a most imperial style over the high welds for ten miles, followed by the whole pack ; he then ran down for eight miles, and was taken in a drain. The magnificem spread of horsemen over the Mills, and the beauty of the scenery, formed a mot delightful . spalacle.. Colonel Thornton kept open house during the w:iole week. A wolf had beer. brought from France, but the farmers were apprehen , :ive, that if he . were hunted he might escape, and do great in;ury among the flocks, in consequence of which he was not turned otkt The best hounds were blue whelps. Never wit.' seen a finer field of horses. • filormitr AGRICUEIURAL REPORT, FOR FEBRUARY, 1803. The mild . and gentle manner in whirls the severe frosts of the beginning of the present mo.ith have disappeared, has • completely dissipated the apprehensions of tli , s farmer, in re sre.xt to the danger of the young wheat crops. In the midland and all the ntore southern districts, tli injuries that have been sustained, even in the later-sown crops, have, its general, been hut trifling. Anil in the northern parts of the island they have in very few itiitances been of a serious nature. On the whole, it may now be stated, that fur a great number of years past, there has scarcelOcen a season so highly favour able for the various purposes of the farmer, as the present, especially when taken from the 14-limnig of August, in the preceding year, to the conclusion of this month Tlvt prices of grain still continues somewhat on the decline ; and from the large quantities on hand, it may he reasonably presumed that th?y must be still more reduced before the con clusion of the next month. Wheat averages, throughout England and Wales, 5Gs. Rd.—..barley, 245. 1 td.—and oats, 18s. 11(1. In most of the northern parts of the kingdom, the markets continue to be fully supplied, and the sales of grain have been mostly made at reduced rates. Though the frosts, during the more early parts of the month, have considerably retarded the operations of the plough, many of the other proces.es of husbandry have been performed with great convenience. Much manure, in different places, has been carried out upon the aralde, as well as the grass lauds. The fences have likewise been well made and repaired in many situations. Notwithstanding, the abundance of winter-keep, for cattle, the prices of fat .tuck continue to keep up. In timithfseli, beef retches from 4s 10d. to Gs. 4d. and mutton from ss. SA. to 6s. Bd. per stone. The severity of the late season has had the erect of advan cing the prices of hay in some degree. Kentish hops—.bags sell from 51. to 71. and pockets from 101. to 121. GALVANISM. • From the late important and striking experinients in Galvanism, it appears, 1. That, taking the cessa tion of excitability to the Galvanic stimulus as the criterion of life, the heart is not tile uithnum, but theprimurn, moriens ; fur, while the muscles of the limbs were excited to strong contra lions, for even several hours after apparent death, the heart was utterly incapable of being excited to aCtion, either by applying the extremity of the metallic arc to the snrface or to the interior of this organ. 2. That the lungs were equally inexcitable as the heart. 3. Not only were the muscles, but the skin and cel lular membrane, excited by the Galvanic stimulus. 4. The contradions of the muscles were excited by the metallic arc, applied t 6 the nerves supplying the muscles ; but the nerves themselves were not :dat ed. 3. The raating up of the arm was produced, as if by volition, by the Galvanic stimulus. G. A milky or coagulated matter was formed by repeated contradions of the muscle in contad with the cop per wire. 7. When the parts ceased to give out motion, the motion was renewed, with augmented force, by wetting them with a solution of sal-ammo niac. In attempting to restore suspended animation by means of the Galvanic stimulus, it is recommended that oxygen gaz should at the same time be applied to the lungs. Mr. Cuthbertcon has construded an instrument by which the Galvanic fhtid may be applied effectu ally, for any length of time, without manual assist ance, and will, without doubt, hereafter, be as commonly used as our present electrical machines. In comparing eleEtricity with Galvanism, it must be observed, that the former atfts by its intensity, ;:nd the latter by its quantity : that the former is sothet;mes intense enough to strike a man down, and yet not in quantity suicient to melt a small w ire ; but the latter will melt Metals, and yet scarcely produce a shock. - - . • Yesterday morning arrived a mail from Jamaica, brouglit to Falmouth by the Prince:: Elizabeib packet in 39 days. Accounts had reached Madras from the Coast of Malabar, before the Leopard sailed, of an adion having taken place, thirteen coss from Indor, be tween the troops of Jutswurcr RAO HOLKAR and Dow LUT Row tic 'Not A, when the latter was forced back upon his capital, with the loss of the principal part of his battering train. General PEtittori was obliged to make a precipitate retreat, the army of HOLKA ahaving received the expeded reinforcements from the Peishwa. Mrs. Curia, mother of the Countess Of FAH N -11 AM, died on Sunday last, at Lord FA RNH AM'S hunk, in Grafton-street, Bond-street. The Cou;ier de Londres says, 46 The Court of Jersey having summoned before it the editors of the Gazettes of that Island for haring inserted in their newspapers observations and reflections injurious to the French Government, they de fended themselves, by showing that the articles had been extraaed from the English newspapers. The Court enjoined them for the future not to insert any thing which could tend to disturb the good under• stan•ling which reigns between the inhabitants of Jersey, and those of countries with which his Ma jisily is at peace." on ' I LAW 11:1-1';1.1.1k,:.WCE. COURT OF KING'S BI•:NCI1, GUILDHALL. Before Lord ELI.OIIIOROUGH. LEAD!, Esq. V. rtiv. This was an aftion against the Defendant for so negligently driving his carriage, that it ran against the Plaintiff's curricle, and overturned it, by which the Plaintiff was materially hurt. The circum stances are not worth detailing. The accident hap pened in November last, on a very dark evening. It appeared there was no blame whatever:imputable to the Defendant; accordingly the Plaintiff vas non suited. WIFFIN I'. BROWN. This WaS an aflion of slander ; it was imputed to the Defendant, that he had said the Plaintiff en couraged journeymen silk-weavers to rob their em ployers, that he might purchase the stolen propel v. The slander, however, appeared to be theresult k...t A low public-house quarrel, and therefore Lord F.l - dire&ed the Plaintiff to be nonaiited. 9.Y, R; .gA .0. . -....aid/ib"...- COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Fitz. 23. Before Lord ALVANLEY, and a - Special jury. RICHARD: W. cnoWDER. This was an ae.ion to recover a compensation in damages, for an injury sustained, by negligence and V.-ant of skill on the part of the Defendant. The present cause was important, as it involved in some doubt the chara&er of a professional Gen tleman, whose abilities are well known to the pub -Ik. It appeared that the Plaintiff, who is a poor man employed in a stocking-manufaCtory, had been afTMed with a suppression of urine, in which situa tion he applied to the Defendant (who is an eminent ;iurgeon in Boswell -court, Cat ey-street) for relief. lie was received into the surgery, and underwent an operation: which was judged to be most neces sary to eradicate the diso:-der. The operation was, however, perfcrmed in a manner that occasioned the unfortunate patient to feel a degree of torture beyond the pain commonly arising from such a pro ceeding, . From the statement df Mr. Berjeant COCK LE, who opened the cause, the Defem:ant was intoxicated at the time the Plaintiff was under his hands, and in that situation was trying the experiments of a French surgeon named Dcss'Aux, had projected a rule of practice in the case of removing obstruEflons in the urinary passages, that was but seldom followed by professional men in England. The patient was reduced to such a state, by the effect of frequently applying the instrument made use of, that he be came so weak through loss of blood, as to be unable to go home to his abode; he had expressed every sensation of pain during the Defendant's behaviour, and at last had considered his life in such danger as to declare that he would alarm the house, if he was not suffered to go to his l(dgings. On this assertion a coach was called, and the Defendant and his pupil went with the Plaintiff to his abode in Brooks-market. When they arrived, the poor man was ordered to bed, and the further operation was again performed ; also a bleeding took place in the patient's left-hand, which he at first objected to, alledging that the De fendant was not in a tit condition to use the instrument. While in the chamber, the Defendant was observed to be mach intoxicated ; he fell against a table, and overturned a quantity of laudanum which had Leen brought for his patient. The plain tiff; from that time, round himself grow worse from the treatment he had experienced, therefore applied to another Surgeon, who afforded him assistance. The next visit the Defendant made, he observed a medicine standing on the table which he had not sent ; on which he appeared much exasperated, and demanded the Plaintiff's motive for applying to ano ther Surgeon ; he was told, that the rough treat ment he had administered had occasioned a fresh application 3 on which he went away, and was heard to exclaim, Ido nit value what a poor man like you can do to hurt me." The Plaintiff some time after got better, but, to the present day, is un able to work for his living. Mr. Serjeant BEs r contended, in behalf of the Defendant, that the whole of the instruetions which had been laid. before his learned friend, Mr. Serjeant Cockle, upon the present case, were mere inventions, formed to impose upon his client, whose couduCt had: been highly humane and generous ; he had visited the Plaintiff's wretched abode ; he had afforded him the assistance he was in need of, and had been demanded no return : the present action was, therefore, a most wicked and ungratefUl return for that assistance which had been imparted: No man of science would be found to afford assist ance to the poor and distressed in the habitations of misery, if, after they have given relief, they are to be brought into a Court of Justice for the purpose of having their pockets picked, their reputation de;- troyed, and only for affording that assistance which humanity had dictated. It was then proved, by the testimony of several . • - . , Surgeons, that the Defendant had taken the rebus lar means for the cure of his patient. Mr. Scrjeant COCKLE replied on the part of the Plaintiff, and argued that his Client had received an injury that nothing but considerable damage: could remedy. Lord ALVAN Lkv summed up the evidence, and left it for the Jury to determine, whether the De fendant had by want of skill or Inattention injured the Plaintiff, or whether proper and regular practice had been enforced with intention to restore health to his patient. The Jury t;:ere of the latter belief, and returned a verdkt for the Defendant. POLICE. M ftt Ns' on-H ty r..—Yesterday two men, named Taylor and Wilson, were charged, before the Lord Mayor, with stealing a loaf of sugar from Coxe's quay, 'Thames-street. The sugar was found in the possession of the prisoner Wilson, who said in his defence, that he had received it from Taylor.—This, however, Taylor denied, and said, that he saw Wilson take it.—They were both committed to Bridewell, for the present, and his Lordship or dered them to be passed to their respective parishes. Peter Burtzer was charged, by a patrole of Cheap-ward, who had clete&ed him, in company with two other men, in the a& of cutting the leaden pipe, &c. from the church in the Old Jewry. He produced some of the pipe, a small s.tw, and some iron, which he found near the spot where the pri soner was apprehended. He was committed for further examination on a future day, when several persons in the City, who have been robbed of their leaden pipes in a similar manntry are expate4,l tv attend. M S~ jp, . iiwy