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FASHION. THE LADT MATURESS's ROUT. The LAD? MATOREss gave a Grand Ront last slight at the Mansion-house, which was attended by above 500 of the first Nobility and fashion of the west end of the town, the Aldermen, their fannies, and a number of the most respettable persons in the city. At nine o'clock the doors of the Egyptian Hall were thrown c[en, and her Ladyship being seated on a throne, the company were introduced to her. At ten o'clock theßan was opened by MissPatc e and the Swedish Charge de Atfairel. The LADY Ma voarss was most elegantly dressed, a white sarsnet body and train, very richly spangled with silver, and over it a most beautiful silver muslin robe, trimmed with lace. The Egyptian Hall was tilted up in the most superb stile, with prodigiotis fine mirrors, and lighted with the greatest taste ; over her Ladyship's vest was a very large star, sur mounted with the letters G. R. in variegated lamps, which had a very fine effea.—The French, Portu guese, and Dutch Ambassadors were present. The refreshments commenced at 12 o'clock, and were served till two. They were of the most exquisite kind, and under the direitiva of Messrs. Horns at.r, of Bishopsgate-street. DOWAGER LADY TENIPLETOWn BALL, PORT LAND-PLACE, On Monday evening last, was attended by about two hundred persons of fashion; the Ball com menced at ten o'clock, and was opened with the ce irbrated Reel, Sir David Hunter Bla , r. Lord Louvaine, hfits Upton, followed by Lord Tens ;.lt•tos u, Miss Wortlrr, L,:zd bitcharrit, Miss Riibiosaro, &c. At one o'clock the company were summoned to partake of an elegant supper, consisting of all the delicacies that the season could afford, which was served up on a most elegant service of porcelain china. In the front parlour were three large tables fur ninety persons; about seventy supped in the li brary and back parlour. The frames of each of the tables were superbly ornamented and decorated with various devices. At three o'clock the dance was resumed, and continued until break of day. In the company were, Dulca of Uri .ans. l'iscounts—F,tshanis, Sydney, Gosford, Falmouth. Lords—LLurainc,Auckland,Templetown,ll)e CIL/ford, Stan ley. General . ...I..ittart, Paget, Cole, Smith. Ca?teins—Ellgt, Huwell, Rowland. .41argois de Lima. Sloroe, E. Stratford, flammersley, Monk, Swelp, Angerstein, North, Crew, Neville, Pierre tent, C Locke Grintaton i lanington, Lavcelles. Murchsestesses—Dover, Bath, Downsbire, Salisbury, Hzad- fkbridge, liarrisigton,Liverpool,Lcitrim,Nlaiii- iteld, Kenmore. Vareottrite.4 Sidney. Ledree—Tatikerville, Thenn•s, Seabright, C. Cements, C Ro.e, W. Bentinck, C. Gres . .lle, C. flail, 'frittible ruen, Ben:tack, Mildmay, M. Taylor, D. King, Musgrave, A. A..bly, and C. &own. Biaresecs--Wright, E. Stratford, Marton Pitt, Cholawn.. loqrs.terai, Thellosson, Price, S p arrow. . dfism o .—:V ortley, Gibbs, Con:wall, Wdliartie, two Robin s ow, Markham, Wright, Eden, Enfield, M. Pitt, C. Pitt, Seabrigia, Locke, North, two Milner% Sparrow, Boscaeco. Mrs. METIIVEST's MUSIC. LOWER GROSVENOR STREET. This Lady, whose taste and elegance are the ad miration of the fashionable world, gAve on Monday evening hot a Concert, to the Amateurs of distinc tion in London, to the amount of '2OO ; among the Company we noticed, Prince Bartantlitsky. Pnrscri: t.e c aar l uc j a . Ihaars—Beaufort and aka's'. Wail Ab•ayno. Viarolitta—Valmouth and Govrwsl. Lerwr- , -Rmon, &tsar, Percival, Lerisoe Goner, H. Petty, Gr t.et, Ntett:rickx, and St. 'Woes. Bilk" of Durham. Sirs—L. Phipps, Ridley, W. Call, G. Beaumont, an I H. Hastrauod. Ciptania—Banat and Warne. Sicaser.—Mastlaikl, Penn, Smith, Ruariangh, Adam, R. Kerr, Citaa, Fitsinagh, Purr, Sturt, Vaughan, Andrews, Porrepoint, Rital.art, Berkeley, rgou, Dawkina, R. Moore, Wercebtat, Moth, &mites, P.Artalia, Baruett, Ward, G. 1/k -iwi, Swathe', Situ now, De Gray, Dickeus, Pctw, Sotharby, orld Lea Ducheo of II o..fort. . . - Z="" UN! lierrliponrstr --licactfort and Wellesl-v. l'earitiot.--ttuthes, Caernarvon, And Dartmouth. .arodattAras--Cranter, NvvrArk, (iosiord„ and 'Nelson. La.lam-1) King, BuSton, M. 'Taylor, 1 larmitons, C Leslie, Pe 1, We.l-ory, Dartou, Ilarrin;ton,Marshams. C. Rush art, W Neratitirk, RuPrry, Mildenav, A Ashley, Musgrave, Beauitiont Trimblott.wri, and Dartnell iiissrewes--(3:sodenough, Start, fast.ugh, Vaughan, P. Pierre nut, NIL 1 , Smith. R. Moore, 11. W i lli ams , Boone, hankes, Piatatri, Lee. Ds Gray, L. Brook:: Dickrois, Additirim, LI 44 Smith, Purcher, ItictaLdsou, F Smith, giffillgt ill as Gutting. Mawr-1V awn, Hussey, Emilie 9 Boston, Kerr, two Au cadies, ldroderzelt, North, Call L Adilingtou. Yesterday morning his MAJESTY, attended by General NIA NNE as rode in Windsor Park. About one o'clock, hid MAJESTY left Windsor in his tra velling c irriage, and arrived at the QUEEN'S house about trtlf-past three. Hc r MAJ EST y and the four Princesses left Wind sor soon after nine o'clock, and arrived at the QuEEtes house about twelve. In the evening their MAJESTIES had a Concert and a select party. Mr. PA PENDISH, her MAJESTY'S Page, entertained the Royal Party with a Concerto on the flute. This day his MA3EST Y will hold a Levee; in the evening their MAJESTIES and the Pa scessu will honour the Concert of Aaticnt Music with their presence, und.n the direaiun of the Earl of DAILY MOUTH. The Hon. Mr. MAUD, son to Lord HAWARDEV, I s goy/ on a visit to Mr. Ricnalll) BaIt%ELL in Ar lincrtreet, for a few weeks. C A LLOW' removed yesterday from Bennet street to Arlington-street. Sir J. Fa trietick has taken an elegant house for the remaindcr of :he season in Sackville-street. Earl of Roristv and Lord KINGSTON gave y,..sterday elegant dinners at their respedive houses. Countess of Roriirs' Rout, Upper Brcok-street, and Miss Anaanares Concert, in Park-lane, last night, were fashionably attended. the Hon. Mr. PLLH•Af, son of Lord Yaitao agt:ce, is so much recovered, as to walk ont, and, in a few days, it is the opinion of the faculty, he will be as *ell as ever. complaint was a pa ralytic stroke, which he received during his two years tour on the Continent. Far Mr. Nlooott - - - 1122 M:. a^rrori - - 1047 ■diar lI,ZW ~~: FESTINO-ROOMS, IiAIiOVER-SQiTARE. .. • These elegant Rooms were opened on Monday vening t fogy the first tithe these five years, wits a Concert; for the benefit of Mr. SA LOMON. They Were lighted in the first style, with superb lustres and chandeliers. These apartments have ever been considered as the best adapted rooms in England for a Concert. About eitlit o'clock the Rooms were crowded with company, comprising upwards of eight hundred persons of the first fashion in the me tropolis. The Prince of WALES attended as early as half-past seven, and appeared highly gratified with the entertainment. One of the richest musical treats of which we ever partook was a &maid on the grand piano -forte, with a Violin OHivto by Mr. SA t, omoN and Miss CHEESE. The vocal powers of Mr. BRAHAM and Mrs. HINDMARSH were never exerted to greater advantage, or attended with more brilliant efrea. The Terztrte, by Mrs. Hist. M A H3H I Si'mor VIGANONI, and Signor ROVEDINO, excited universal admiration and applause. But it is im possible to describe the sensations of delight and ap probation which followed the execution of a Concerto on the violoncello by Mr. tie LAM ALE. It perfealy elearified the audience, and the PRINCE himself publicly declared, that it was one of the first per formances he had ever had the pleasure of hearing. Yesterday the LOAD MAYOR, after inspeaing the Mealweighers' returns, ordered the price of bread to be raised half an assize, or a penny in the peck loaf, to commence to-morrow ; when the quartern loaf will he 9:d (wheaten)—and household 7:d. Yesterday morning was married, by special li cer.ce, at her fatlier's house, (Rieman° Ba a w ELL, Esq. in Arlington-street,) Miss Baawzi.z, to Mr. SAWBRIDGE, sem of the late Alderman S AWII IDGE. Mr. and Mrs. Bakwtt.t. gave the Lady away, and Miss BA RWLI. L, her sister, acted as bride's-maid.— After the marriage ceremony, the new-married couple set off in a chaise and four, with out-riders and favours, followed by two post-chaises, for the bride's father's seat at Stainford, Fssez. The Duke of DORSET sets off this day for Paris, to his mother the Duchess of Doesrr and Lord Witirworerir, under the care of Mr. HUNTER, the Messenger, who proceeds for Paris with Govern ment dispatches. The Marquis of Anacoares dinner, Grosvenor. square ; NlarchionesS of Aimee oßres rout, ditto; the Ladies TOWNSHEND'S rout, Grosvenor square; Mrs. WIDDLE'S grand dinner, Upper Brook -street; Mrs. Coxes rout, Hanover-square; Lord CARTS. FORT's dinner, Cumberland-place ; and Mri. Pi. ow nE :7 's rout, Devonshire-place, will attract the at teution of the fashionabie world this evening. COVENTRY ELECTION.-At the close of the poll on Monday, the numbers were— Mrs. SPENCER SMITH, sister-in-law of Sir SIDNEY S Nur tr, and Lady of Mr. SPENCER Ssturu, late Minister at Constantinople, passed through Franck fort on the 25th of this month, in company with her brother, on her way to Vienna. Letters from Constantinople, dated the 13th of February, announce that it was understood there, that the English had at that period entirely evacu ated Egypt. General Duloc arrived at Franckfort on the 16th of this month. After having exchanged his French carriage, for a German post-chaise, he Ltnninued his journey for Berlin, from whence he was expelled to return in a fortnight. Citizen Szoti a, officer of the staff, accompanies him. We learn from Berne, that two demi-brigades of French troops, stationed in Switzerland, have returned to Italy, and will be replaced by other troops from the interior of France. By order of his IM PERIAL. MAJESTY, the Bishoprics of Trent and Brixen, which were ceded to the House of Austria by the Convention of the ttith of December, will be incorporated with the Italian Tyrol. The ciiy of Antwerp is to ereft a durable mo nument, in order to transmit to posterity a me- morial of th.: epoch of the opening of the Scheldt, and of tie approaching visit of the F:asr CONSUL. A Club of Odd Fellow: was taken into custody at Portsmouth, one evening last week, upon a sup position that their meeting was of a political nature. No proof of this, however, being adduced before the Magistrates, they were discharged. The health of the Archduke CHALES is again gradually re-established since his late indisposition; he was able, on the tith, to aa as Grand Master of the Teutonic Order, at the solemn induaion of the Archduke Maximittas into that Order. The Dey of ALGIERS having received eighty thousand piastres from Spain, and considerable presents from Denmark, called Citiven 're A I sv I L I.E, Commissary .General of the French Republic, and said to him, " that the Ft nse Coes': t. alone had sent him nothing, and that France had always been ac customed to send him presents." 'Citizen TH A IN viLLt 'hewed him the article of the latter written to the FIRST CONSUL, and reported by Lice:tenant- General Hu tin, by which the Dey desisted from all pretensions to presents. This answer put the Dey in a great passion, and he proceeded to mz naces. This news having reached Paris, the Minister of Marine dispatched the frigates Le Corral:: and Le Rh's; for Algiers. Citizen GovitDON, Commandant of the Division, was charged to cratduft to France the Commissary General and his family, and inform the Der once more that war was declared, and that it was easy to know when and hots war commenced, but not so easy to ascertain when and how it would finish. The division affirm. ? is the course of Ventose, at Algiers. l'he Grandees and :lie_ perple of the Re gency ran in crowds to the the Ds v, to represent to him the misfortunes which threatened their country. The Day summoned the Commie sary General, and asked him what the frigates were come for; Citizen TRAINVILLI replied, that the Commandant had orders to convey him to France. " You will then," said the Day, " be at war with me."—" No, (replied Citizen Ta AINVILLE) but the FIRST CON St; L is too powerful to be your tributary." After some altercat;on ' the Dee added, "Let him pay nothing then—l wish to be at peace with him. —Write to him, that I desist from my demand. Every thing is terminated." The Commissary Ge neral has been re-condu.fbed with acclamations by the crowd, who had proceeded to the palace of the Dar, and manifeted the most lively desire of re maining at peace with France. lle remained at his post, and the frigates returned to Toulon. _ 02_ • • you x, PC3. 21. 'the HM►. Mr. Mnnrne arrived here the yesterday from Washington. fle is expeeted to embark immaJiatelv on his mission to trance and Spain, relative to New Orleans-. ~_•sr .. ,"M"M WASHINGTON. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. SI rTING o T:IE 10in irtlieumitY. Mr. Green, the Delegate from the Mississippi ter ritory, presented to the House of Representatives a resolution from the Legislative of that territory on the subje& of the shutting the port of New Orleans, together with a Memorial to Congress from the same body, in which it is stated that in addition to the shutting, of the port, the Intendant had recently issued a proclamation forbidding all intercourse be tween the Citizens of the United States and the subjeas of his Catholic Majesty. They wore re ferred to a Committee of the whole House on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. A Bill to preveht the importation of certain per sons from the French West Indies, was reported. FEBRUARY 11. Kama wished to know whether the report of the Committee on the discriminating and counter vailing duties would be proceeded upon this Session ? Mr. Smith replied, that as business of great pub lic consequence was pressing, he should mt pursti., the business this Session, and moved that the Com mittee upon the whole be discharged ; which was carried in the affirmative. The House then proceeded to the confultntial bu :inns, and the galleries were cleared. This subjeft was debated with closed doors, and the House also sat upon it on Monday. It is sup posed to relate to New Orleans. NIEW-VORgy BEL 17. By the Maria, arrived at Philadelphia from New Orleans, which she left the 1 ith January, we learn, that our Government dispatch-boat had reached that place, and that the Intendant, so far from relaxing or regarding the recommendation of the Chevalier 1)i Yrujo, to restore the right of deposit, • treated his interference with the utmost contempt, and per sisted in his conduet with unabated, vigour. It is further stated, that it was the universal opinion, at New Orleans, that the, Intendant was ;Laing from positive instruaions from his Court, which were considered as originating from France, and that both political parties at Nachez were for imme diate and energetic measures of redress. • The General Assembly of Virginia has entered into a resolution against the shutting of the port of New Orleans, which has passed both houses of the Legislature of that province. . The following is the Spanish order alluded to on the 10th of February, in the House of Representa tives : NACIIEZ GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY, Jax. 5, 1803. ti ACHEz, JAN. 3. ADVERTISEMENT. Undo the date of the 16th instant, the Intendant Ganega; - of " of the Provinces tells me, that the Citizens the United States can have no commerce with his Majesty's ;tibjeflii, they only having the free navigation of the river for 'the exporottion of the fruits and produce of their estalrliiituteirt to foreign coun tries, :aid the importation of what they may wart for them As such 1 charge you, •o far as respects you, to be zealous and vigiterts, with per 0.13.• care tnat the Inhabitants neither pur chase or sell any thing to the shipping, fist-bottomed boats, barges, or any other small vessels, that may go along the river destined for the hsnieneatt possessio is, or proceeding from them, and that they shall be informed of is, for their due coin plmice of the same. (Signed) CARLOS DE GRAND PREU." The foregoing is a translation from the original, directed to me by his Lordship Carlos de (,rand Preu, Colonel of the Royal Armies, and Governor of Bolon Rouge. J. O'CotiNOlt. Syndic of 4th Dist+ LI, Bohm Rouge, Dec. 27. Captain HAYLEY, arrived at New-York, on the 15th December, from-Cape Francois, states, that he sailed in company with a French 80 gun ship, com manded by Admiral ',Eros's., bound to Cape Ni cola Mole, and three 74's, bound for France, and the other two for'Port Republican. About a week before his departure, two 74's arrived at the Cape from Toulon, with 1500 troops ; a fleet of 15 sail, and 600 troops additional were expeaed. The ut most tranquillity prevailed in the neighbourhood of the Cape. No engagement had taken place for a considerable time, and the yellow fever had nearly subsided. In the House of Representatives, on the 12th Fe bruary, a Petition was presented from several Citi zens of New-York, stating, that in levelling the Navy Yard in that city, vast quantities of human bones, being the remains of the American prisoners who perished on board the British prison-ships, during the late war,had been dug up; that they had been colleB,-.4 and interred ; and praying Congress to cause a moirunent to be ereted to the memory of those brave but unfortunate men. Referred to a Committee. The amateurs of the turf are now thinking of Goodwood Races, which commence on the loth of next month. The Timer of yesterday asserts the following falsehood:—" A rumour prevails in some of the best-informed circles, that Lord CAMELFORD (who went to France last week) has been put under arrest at Paris by order: a the Fissr CONSUL." This al ledged rumour on in the Time:, and is still confined to the Timis. Should the FIRST Cs suL take the hint, the Times will no doubt boast the pri ority of its intelligence. Letters from the !lave of the 16th March staie . that a past of the troops of the gortison of Breda began their march to repair to Helvoet, and that a' battalion bad already arrived there, when the sail ing of the expedition for Louisiana WAS vnter manded. The troo2s at Helvoet were ordered into barracks to await further orders. Captain General Vicroft, his staff-major, and the persons pointed to the civil offices, still remain at that residence. General BEV,TH,Eft has departed for Dunkirk, fiom whence he will proceed to Tobago, in the quality of Captain-General. One of the principal ads of the new Administra tion of Zurich has been the abolition of the Censor ship of the Public Journals. The Euitors aloft:. are to oe responsible for the opinions contained in them ; and the President of the Commission, HENav Mus t cR, is authorized merely to insped 41 . the prottuc ti.zs printed in the Canton of Zurich.' 1 1 :,;~a municated hut to a chosen few, it Imlay perhaps af ford gratification to out readers to kttow, tat the first of-a scriestif leStnees has opened the prospea of more universal 'di.Tusien of this branch of ehilosc phy. Yesterelay Mr. Wilkinson, an eminent surgeon in Soho-squire, delivered at his house a leaure on Galvanism, in which he introduced a variety of teresting experiments, as to the defiagratiort;rf g.! silver, copper, and tin, and spewed the Thfluee of the galvanic fluid on the nerves and es various dead animals. • A very numerous and elegant co .es and gentlemen attended the leattre. one o'clock the Lecturer commenced, by ob , that he had it in contemplation, in 'a course of leaures, to enter into the theory and practice of the new dis covery in philosophy, which had obtained the name of Galvaninn. It was, he said, a discovery, which, as far as it had been investigated, promised to he of the most important and essential advantage to man kind. Galvanism was one of the most powerful agents ever found out by the ingenuity of man ; it' was a species of eledricity acting with irresistible impulse, not only on the nerves and muscles, but even on the bones of animals ; it was the effect of a principle, in metallic bodies, which had been disco vered by mere chance and accident—Not that he meant to infer it owed its rise to that sort of acci dent which would have rendered it discoverable by any person unhabituated to the researches of expe rimental philosophy. It might not be unentertain ing to give a brief account of the origin of this sci ence—lt was this : Galvani was a physician, who devoted much f his time and attention to philosophical experiments : it happened that his wife was taken ill, and was ad vised to have a dish of frogs. Several of those an:- 'mals were skinned, for the purpose of being dressed; the operation was performed by Mr. Galvani hini self, and it was done in a room in which there was an electrical apparatus ; during the time he had the point of his knife applied to one of the frogs, a gen tleman, who stood near him, happened to draw an elearical spark from the machine ; the professor im mediately observed an uncommon motion of the muscles of the frog ; the circumstance attraaed his notice, and led him to repeat the experiment ; he found, that if the eledric fluid was communicated to a person near him, while he held the point of Ms kntfe'over the animal , its nerves and muscles were visibly affected. The Lecturer here elucidated this part of the subject, by performing the experiment he had been describing : he turned an electric appa ratus, and communicated the fluid to a gentleman who stood by ; he then took a frog, which had been skinned some hours, and laying it en a plate, ap plied the part of a sharp instrument, such as sur geons use, to the frog—lmmediately its body and limbs appeared to v;brate, but in no very material degree. The Lecturer then proceeded to state, that this experiment had-urged the Professor Galvani to further inquiries ; the result of which proved, that there was an electric fluid pervading the nerves and muscles of animals, • which was capable of being ailed upon by metallic substances of almost evezy description—but the metals zinc, copper, and silver, were.discovered to.be the most active. Having ob tained his theory. he proceeded to put it in practice, and brought to perfedlon a series of experiments, which the Lecturer said he would in due order sub mit to his auditors. In acquittal of his promise, ha now commenced a variety of experiments, the exhi bition of which excited the wonder and admiration of all who beheld them. He took a half-crown, and a piece of metal of the same size, compounded of zinc and copper, and having washed the half-crown, and the plate of metal with muriatic acid, or a solua tion of common salt and water, he laid them both on the table. He then placed the head of the frog on the half-crown, and the lower extremities on the other metallic plate, and brought the two plates of metal in contact by the application of the points of a piece of copper wire to each. The cued of this simple process was surprising : the frog, which was extended over the two surfaces, appeared violently agitated, its whole frame shook, and every nerve seemed convulsed, it drew up its limbs, and then extended them, precisely as that animal does in the ad of swimming. The Compaity seemed highly satisfied with this wonderful proof of the power of Galvanism ; indeed the effect is not to be credited, except by those who witnessed it. The Lecturer then went on to state, that a philOsopher of the name of Volta, following up the system of Galvani, had invented what hal since been denominated the Voltaic pile, an inven tion which had been 'communicated to DI. Nichol son, Dr. Carlisle, and many other learned men is this country. The Lecturer described the nature of this invention and its effect, with no less success than the former experiments ; it consisted, of a number of plates formed of zinc on one side, and copper on the other, piled one upon another to the amount of about forty or fifty, with a piece of woollen cloth, moistened with the muriatic acid, placed between each. Upon a person's wetting his hands with tile acid, and applying the finger of one hand to the bottom of the pile, an. a finger of the other hand to the piece of metal on the .top, he immediately re ceived a shock, which we shall find some difficulty err describing : it was something like what we read ci the e3e6l prOduced by the touch of the torpedo the fluid seemed to be particularly attreded towards the knuckles and the join of the elbow ; the sensa tion w... eseiereely unpleasant, but it was nothing to what was produced by a subsequent experiment. The Lecturer took a fr.T, and 1 .'d the end of its toes immediately over the upper plate of the pile, in stantly the limbs began to move with more viulence than they had done before; the ani:nal was entirely . agitated, and the motion of its legs and thighs was as strong as if it had been *dually alive. The Lece turer then stated, that another professor, we believe of the name of Suva, lad written to Sir Joseph .B nks, iafirm:ng him he had invented a metallic battery,, by winch the effed of the Galvanic fluid might be considerably concentrated and encreased. air Joseph Bunks, with the assisaiece of other leata. men with whom be communicated, had succeeded to their ut:nost expeaatioes in con .ou!ling sucli a ; battery, and the Lecturer said he proposed - to she se the company the (Ca of it. 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