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r PARISIAN FASHIONS. 'pMimaked ball stands preeminent in the nit of elegan amusements. Formerly the rest of the work. were She Venetians for the improved species of ...a, but r., , vr Para surpasses Venice in this branch of man.ifacture. The rr...sk of Fully is charming, of rirgiie, innc.cetice itself. Our Nun have a look of resignation truly divine, and our likrre.ses are slut best natured looking beings in the wo-Id. 'rue atti- Rules of the masked ball may be traced in r mry other amuse ment. A man of fasinon mounted upo s hi; liorse, mue. tura out his toes, and raise his shoulders as if he WAS go - i ng to cut a eras; caper (entre:liar). As to masks, few eLgaiites of p?..t seventeen can be said to be without than.' Viewers have advanced in repute with the approac it aim:tuner. An elegance, even is undress, wears a large bouquc: of &wets. lu common it is worn so the front of the bosom, but in fall dress at the side. Diadems of antiques and pearls, ace the prevailing ornaments of be-ad-dresses in hair. The tc-hens are oblong. Some of them envelope the hair so as that not a sitiglJ ringlet can be seen. Others are I:yen on the crown, and leave not milt' the tomb, but a large bunch of th e Lair legible. Turbans of scarlet velvet, or of tinseiled materials of .Rose, sky Blue, and White, are the moat faxhionable. in seem of the. most brilliant circles, we lately noticed bunches of violets upon the hats, and white feathers inclining forward very tall, but few in number The hair which was lately con tele is a go4den net, k new adorned nimbly with flowers. Yesterday morning His MAJESTY walked in the Queen's Garden. About twelve o'clock His MAJESTY gave au diences to the LORD CAANCELLOR and Mr. AD DINGTON. Yesterday, about one o'clock, Her MAJESTY, and {he PRINCLSSES took an airing on the King's-road. Yesterday the Dukes of CVMIERLAND and CA NI 11100t dined with Her MAJESTY. Yesterday, at two o'clock, the RUSCI AN AM. USSADOR had an audience of Lord Hawittsauar, at his office its Downing-street. Count Woaormow, the Russian Ambassador, and family, are now among the numerous fashionable visitors, at South-End. Apartments have been taken for the Princess of WA cu and suite. The hiacess CHAR Lorre is daily expeaed. Yesterday morning Sir J. Bates had an interview with Mr. ADDINGTON, at his house is Downing oreet. The Prince of WALE% has appointed the Rev. PETER H•ssOND, of St. John's College, Cambridge, one of His Royal Highness's Chaplains in Ordinary. Lord Citarstter arrived, on Thursday, at Pta- ROT'S Hotel in Brook -street, from Heynes House. Dowager Lady MIDDI troy has arrived at her bocse in Portman-square from Middleton, Tam e...AL Lord gr. JOHN, J. F. Gwyn, Esq. Mrs. Matsu, and W. HA Nana sr, Esq. are among the recent ar riy.!s at Bath. The first at of Mr. TILINEY'S administration was to turn away Mr. Tr.ttrr. He is now obliged to /rot er himself. The Duchess of &WORD'S cradle, for her first born, divides the conversation of the fashionable with Lhe sew Cabinet. Seven bally-linen !oases were candidates for the order to make them, bat her Grace chose that of ft:v.esr. Lady SA KAN Fatte's weildit.g clothes, it is said, will exceed in spler.dour and ex pence even those of the Duchess of Ruri. Atm, which were at the time consi.ined the first order of the day. . . The presesst season is much more produlive of anarriages than Christmas—so trail it is, that May is the Mother of Love. A great crowd was aura/fed on Thursdiy to St. Gaoloc's church, Hanover-square, by a report that Lady SARAN Fittec was caper:red upon an Ily a:le/nal visit. The Cabinet-Maier, say, they never met with so lard a job as the present. The materials are not only error- grimed, but so brath. they threaten to .plit and fly, every moment. Siselfaeter and IP :/*T'SU are not in such repute at Paris as they wereoformerly. Bomar ArtlE sloes nut wish his daces should tee too well. _ Mr. PITT, it is said, has recommended a broad ieltemed Administration.—llator L RES t.:E, the Marquis of BecaiNcitast, and Earl Tax, Le will certainly be ix. When the Duke of &WI( lEtl was ordered to fall upon his knees to receive the fatal fit e, he answered, w A Price of our house never fell upon his knees, but before his Goo." Mrs. GA I. isms, ei-droant Miss Goucn, of Covent- Garden Theatre, proposes to take her leave of the Dublin 1 heatre, with a benefit on the Bth inst. Next to diamonds and pearls, coral is the favour ite ornament of the Parisian fair. The most fashionable Parisian combs have square back', edged with four stripes of gold. The fashionable watches are large and RAC. The gold and silver fringe in Powderham Castle, it is said, would burn for more than Mr. GoDSst L's demand. _ - - _ Romances have ceased to be fashionable in Paris. ate now the order of the &ay. Mr. H. JOUIISTOX mustered his forces last night at Drury-lane with his &ilk horn, to the raw of se veral hundred pounds. A new Opera, entitled Ti Ror• It PrGp.rnintr, %Ls brought out on Thussd4y night, for Pile benefit of Signora Giantess, at the King's Theatre, in the Haymarket. The girls are beginning to set their caps once MOTO at Mr. Parr. The Ladies all ceased to die for him, when he went out of office. The stone expedition is intended to pare the way for a grand attack upon Boulogne . The Dutch excuse themselves for their maws* in the plan for the invasion of I-I+o4nd, by saving, they are under the coeunsand ustluense of Win ter. On Wednesdaytnight the house of Mrs. Sron Aar Portman-place, Eigeware-road, was broke open and robbed of various articles. On 1 hursdav several matches, made by the of ficers stationed at Canterbury, were run for on Barham Downs. In the evening there was a grand garrison ball, given by the military, at the assent kly Rooms, is that City. The tri.els for the annual 101. were run for at OM Wives Leese, on Monday last, which were •von by a Serjeant of the Derby, aad a young woman of •Thrt:wky. FROM THE MONITEUR. CONSERVATIVE SENATE. MESSAGE OF Till FIRST CONSUL TO Till CONSERVATIVE SENA Printed by order of the Senate. Saint Cloud, April 18, 12th Year of the Repub4e, lON•PARTL, FIRST CONSUL OF THE REPUBLIC, TO THE CONSERVATIVE SENATE. " SENATORS, " The Senator, Jot.eph Bonaparte, Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour, has expressed to me his desire to partake of the ;et-Hs of the Army encamped at Boulogne, in order that he may share in its glory. " I have judged it would be for the interest of the state, and that the Senate would see with plea sure, that the Senator Joseph Bonaparte, after hay. ing rendered important services to the Republic, by the solidity of his counsels in grave and difficult circumstances ; by the knowledge, ability, and wisdom he displayed in the successive negotiations of the Treaty of Morfontaiae, which terminated our differences with the United States of America ; of that of Luneville, which restored peace to the Continent; and again, of that of Amiens, which re established peace between France and England ; that he shriuld be permitted to contribute to the ven geance which the French people have sworn for the violation of that latter treaty, and should be placed in a situation to acquire new titles to the esteem of the nation. " Having served under my eyes, in the rally cam paigns of the war, and having given proofs of his courage, and his disposition to the trade of war, in the rank of Chief of Battalion, I have appointed him Colonel-Commandant of the 4th Regiment of the Line, one of the most distinguished corps of the army, and which is to be mentioned as one of those which, always placed in posts of the greatest dan ger, have never lost their colours, and have very often decided the day. " I desire, therefore, that the Senate will consent to the request which the Senator Joseph Bonaparte will make, for leave to be absent frum its delibera tions during the time in which the occupations of war will detain him with the army. (Signed) " BONAP•ItTE. " By the First Consul, the Secretary of State, (Signed) "H. B. MARET." mats, APRIL 18. GENERAL MARMONT, COMMANDER Is CHIEF OP THE CAMP Of UTRECHT, TO THE FIRST CONSUL. Head Quaders a& Utrecht, April " CITIZEN FIRST CONSUL, " t have the honour to inform you ; that four large English boats, full of troops, on the 11th, attacked titv frigate Le Meal-Mann, stationed at the 'Axel ; the crews were taken from Punch. The contest was neither long nor doubtful; two boats were sunk The two others escaped, but with the loss of hail their peoplt. This was really .in aa of folly which cost the English dear. They lost above 100 men. The frigate Le Mud Merin sustained no loss. The English, probably, reckoned upon surprising her. A fine English frigate of 40 guns, took fire in the Road of Bellerose. Half of the crew perished. The other half escaped to shore. Thi was one of the finest frigates in the fleet of Lord Nelson. (MonMeur.) APRIL 24. The new appointed members of the Senate are Citizens St. Suzanne, Beauharnais, Delannoy, and St. Martin de Lt Motte. The Senate have also given hi a list of candidates for the remaining va cancies. They write from Marseilles, that Admiral La touche had been seen off that port on the 9th instant, with four ships of the line, four frigates, and three brigs. Foie per cents. 31 francs 51 cents. lIIJULOGSZ, AralL 17. At seven this morning, the wind blowing E.N.E. very fresh, the Admiral ordere.l the vessels in the Road to return. 'The part of the flotilla moored in the roads of Ambieteuse and Vimereux entered the port of Boulogne. The left of the line at moor ing, had orders at two P. M. to sail to Etaples. One prame, and fifteen gun-boats, forming this di vision, had a brisk engagement with six of the enemy's frigates. We have not lost a single man The top-mast of the prams was carried away, and two of the gan-boats received each a cannon ball. Prom the shore it was perceived that a great num ber of our balls struck the frigates, and that the bowsprit of one was destroyed by a shell. The enemy veered and took to flight. The flotilla returned to this port, with the excep tion of a division of gun-boats, which the Admiral thought proper to leave in the road during the night. The weather becoming stormy, he afterwards or dered these also to return to harbour. The enemy's :qu..dron has disappeared, and regained the Eng lish coast. Our soldiers exercise in the sea service every day. They manage the oar, and handle the ropes and sails, as well as the most experienced sailors. And why should they not do so Our guasboau are not mere d.fficult to manage than the Roman p,allies ; and it is well knows, that the Roman legions were as dextrous in fighting un the water as on the shore. Thus, this expedition, announced witk such po.op •by the 1Tn s l;s11, and which was thought of such conseimence as to counterbalance the evils of an embargo, has disappeared in smoke. Few spectacles can be more interesting than that of small vessels, drawn up as line, in the open sea, iu face of immense ships. It is, as some Englishmen have well expressed it, the combat of David :rah Goliath The English ships dare us to the combat ; but as we advance they retire. We have not harbours, they say, near their coasts, to contain a sufficient quantity of vessels fur invasion ; but Bonaparte has said to his soldiers, " Make harbours ;" aad, instead of one, they have made four. To hear them !.peak, we should suppose it required years to build vessels for the invasion ; and in less than six months we have sufficient to convey '200,000 men. To listen to them, it was impossible to coiled these vessels on any pcint, and we have seen them navigate at pleasure— from the mouth of the Garonne, to the Scheldt, the movements have been incessant, and the engagements daily. We have sees► our flying artillery and troops patrole our shores, and carry aid to our batteries. Each assembling of our vessels has been made with out loss. At present, the English say that we cannot break through their squadrons. When the signal shall be given, they will sec, but they will only see for once, that this impossibility is no more such than all the others. And when once our battalions are formed, and our standards unfolded, in the bosom of England, we shall see what can be effected by this nest of manufacturers, shopkeepers, and brokers! ROT TE RD AOll, APRIL 10. Letters from the Cape of Good Hope state, that the English army in Ceylon, reduced to 300 men, shut up in a citadel, is surrounded there by $OOO na tive troops. They seemed disposed at the Cape to attempt to possess themselves of that island, with the consent and assistance of the islanders. They meant to use in this expedition some heavy ships, richly laden, arrived from Batavia, but which the war prevented from continuing their voyage for Holland ; the cargoes had been landed. We have also learned, by the same letters, that the Batavian Rear-Admiral Dicker, commanding two ships of the line, having been informed, at the Isle of Rhe, of the renewal of hostilities, had joined Rear-Admi ral Linois. FROM THE HAMBURLiti MAIL. P• 0.111, Aram 18. Last night the Minister of the War Department, Alexander Berthier, left this capital fur the coast.— It is believed that he is going to inspeO the camps formed from Boulogne to Ostend. Affairs detain yet the First Consul here, otherwise before this time he would have headed his brave army, waiting with so much impatience to add to its former laurels by conquests in Lugland. 11A0Vt, APRIL 21. A private letter from Paris says, that the French Govec =eat has sent a Message to the Senate, con cerning the hereditary dignity of the Chief of the Republic. We are assured, that the first acct of Eo• naparte, in his new rank, will be to pardon Moreau, who probably, when tried, will be found guilty; then he will be respired instead of executed, upon condi tion of retiring to the Isle of France, where his wife has the greatest part of her property, Those who pretend to know Moreau's cbaraaer, say, that he will willingly, and with gratitude, subscribe to these conditions. He has now obtained permission to see his young son every day. Madame Moreau has not yet been permitted to visit her husband, who is day and night guarded by two tens gnomes. MADIID, ♦►RSL 5. Our Government has ordered all persons, not housekeepers, both Spaniards and foreigners, who cannot prove that business obliges them to reside here, to leave tliis capital within thirty days. Court Gana—To preserve this useful work from extinftion, and to rescue an indefatigable ser vant of the public and his nurnerotu family from all the horrors of distress. we are proud to find that Sir Rom. Humus and Co. Bankers, St. James's. street, have kindly condt-wended to receive the sub scriptions of the fashionable world. P. llorte's certificate is signed, ant: be hopes he will soon be released from prison. He Les, for these few days past, availed himself of the Day-rules to come nut, in order to make some arrangements with his assignees, so as to prevent the sale of the print ing nsaterials of Vie Caere cad City G.side. The assurances of his warmest gratitude are due to the under-name) benefattors, w ho se examples he trusts will be followed by the liberal encouragers of all his past exertions. L s. d. T lrstshughtit,24. 1 1 0 Mat 1114..agiss 1 1 0 Cw. Purls,. SA. II 0 4, .1. Clanks, Esq. 010 A • 0 7 0 At Mr. 11H , aasimetes, Rod gleetvies. A Gentli.A.r, . I 0 0 Ls N*o4 1 10 6 Don ,ti.ns rectsved. L r d. I Al Sir R H - rrres all Cu. D. , cnetaafDevossiu.• r $ 0 0 Ab. . . • . . 1 0 0 At the Cuurt Gude ° c*. Mrs. Davison, Esq. 3 5 0 A Lady. . . . 1 0 0 Ld. D 2 2 0 Jena Cl.llO-ot2. Esq. 2 U 0 Mr. Cle.nro!l, 1 0 11151.C.Ciamtt,, 0 10 I LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, Mar 4. LORD VISCOVHT COURTENLY C. OODSALE. The Loan CH ASC r. ma this morning delivered his opinion upon the motion for an injunetion made in this cause, to prevent the Sheriff of Devonshire from proceeding to sale ender an execution levied at the suit of the Defendant, upon the furniture, plate, !sc. of Lord Courteney, in Powderham Castle ; the particulars of which were fully stated in THE BRITISH Peen and 'fun Groin of Thursday. His Lordship began by ob.erving, " that a Court of Equity might interfere by injunCtion, if this case was founded in any imposition upon the weakness of a thoughtless young Nobleman ; but if this de mand has arisen from mere compliance with orders, however extravagant, I know no principle upon which this Court has ever afted, by which I am au thorised to say that the Defendant ought to be pre vented from immediately having the full benefit of this execution ; and that his account shall, ten years after it has been contracted, be now submitted to a Jury to investigate the reasonableness or the exor bitance of these charges. Some of them are cer tainly such as would astonish must men ; but the Defendant has positively sworn, and for the present purpose I must take his answer as true, that the most exquisite materials alone were used, that the most eminent artists alone were employed, and that g ild and silver were lavished in profusion, all by the immediate and positive dirthions of Lord Cour. teney ; and he also same' that his charges are all fair and reasonable. In the present stage of this cause, therefore, Lord Courteney can have no right to say, and indeed this bill does not charge it, that these charges are exorbitant and unreasonable. "The first pan of the transaCtion immediately un der consideration, commences by Lord Courteney't giving a bond to the Defendant for 8,500 I. and this ivas evidently without any settlement or examin ation of accounts. This bond bentg put into the hands of Pybus and Co. the Defendant's bankers; upon the first instalment becoming due, they de mand payment of it from Lord Courteney ; and. after some delay, 4,0001. is paid. It has been said that this bond was placed with Pybus and Co. for the very purpose of extorting the money ; and it bay have been so, for tradesmen, from apprehen sions of losing a customer, very frequently do ne gociate these son of securities, in order that they may excuse themselves from any harsh conduit, by saying that it is out of their hands. A proposal it then made by Mr. Lee, the Solicitor of Lord Cour teney, that t he Defendant should take the bond out of the hands of Pybus and Cu. and give further time for payment of the rem ii.ider ; in which case Lord Courteney was to execute a new bond for 70001. which would nearly amount to the babas, of the account. *fo this the Defendant sect upon the debt's bearing interest ; in which case promised to allow eighteen months credit. But here a difficulty arises what eighteen months' credos means. Is it to be taken from the commencement, or the conclusion of the year ? If the former, then the accounts are right. fur he was merely allowed six months from Christmas ; but if the true interpres cation of this expression is, that the Plaintiff shall have eighteen months' clear credit from the expira tion of the current year, or from the time when each article is furnished, then they are wrong." Mr. Rossi LLY.-0 Many of the articles were fur nished in °Globes and December of the year." Mr. Le A c n.—" There could 'at nurnisunierstands ing between the parties at the time; for Mr. God. tall sent in the account with the interest charged in this manner ; and Mr. Lee, in ane of Us letters. clearly recognises this mode of charging the interest." Loan Ceases'. son.—to Passing over this point for the present, it is clear that this bond for 7,0001. was intended as nothing more than a security liable to an account, and it is quite plain that up to this time, there is nothing to prevent the Court's looking into these bills ; nor can the Defendant complain of this, for it was his own bargain with Mr. Lee, that the investigation of the accounts should be de ferred until some future time. But the question is. Do the subsequent transaCtions for ever close the question of quantum merait. If a person has been feeding the improvident extravagance and capricious taste of a young man, the Court would certainly feel an anxiety, that the reasonableness of his bills should be thoroughly investigated before a Jury, but in a commercial country like this, the point must not be pressed too far. The Court must consider the hard ship of calling upon a tradesman, ten years after these perishable articles of taste and fashion are thrown aside, and the artists who construEled them are in their graves, to make out to the satisfaction of ' a Jury the real value of each particular material, and the fairness of the charges. " Not a syllable passes between theparties concern ing these accounts until the first instalment on this bond becomes due. Mr. Godsall then presses for the payment ; and to be sure, upon every principle of justice, he was intitled to rimed the payment of the first instalment, as there could be no doubt, how ever much the t.ccount might be reduced. that that would be due. A good deal of correspondence then takes place between Mr. Lee and him ; due former proposing that turther time should be given, and the latter at length consenting, solely upon the ground of his account being closed and settled. He makes this an express stipulation. and asks Mr. Lee's opinion whether he would be sale in 'accepting thi; security ; telling him that the sum was it tecial importance to his family. • Lord Courteney was at this time in possession of all the bulls, and he refers them to his steward, Mr. James, for tzarina ation • who makes deduCtions to t he A .1 , ) , 011t of 1 ' , MIL and t hen Mr. Lee himself returns the bills to the Defendant, who crmserrts to the desluditim, which makes the clear balance 8,270 1. 7s. 9d. •Godsali evidently bad no other idea in his mind tban that this was a final settlement of his account, and be therefore accepts a new bond for the exaft amount of his demand, by which the payment is postponed until the year 1799. If Lord Courteney err Mr. Lee conceived there was any deduftion to be made at a future time, why was a bond given for the ma amount as settled by James; and why did they permit the for g interval, from the execution of the bond to the period of payment in 1799, to pass over without any ii.terrnecliate application, Of a murmur of cearplaint ? Nothing but a d-ad silence prevails ;innl the year 1799, when Mr. Godsall ex . pees to receive pal of Lis zOOOcY ; all this time