The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1824-09-02 00:00:00

riuximr.L. _ The repetition of the very splendid entertainments at these Gardens. lies literally exhausted all our epithets of ', eu logy. The anniversary of the battle of Waterloo — the King ss Birth-day, as well as those of his royal brothers, !Iv 1 Pekes of York and elartrice,—have been concentrated in a style of magnificence unequalled in any former season.! Each of these nights was, as it occurred, announced as, the vastest night of the se aeon ;" but to have recourse to die Greek superlative mode of expression, to characterise the entertainments of last evening, it was ,e,-renter than the greatest. The various devices and transparencies of all the former evenings were presented in one view, and Waterloo"—" The King, our Patron"—" Juvenile F e te," &c. in varie,:xted lamps, with tasteful aceompa airrients. shed " an unclouded blew of living light, ' which imparted a renewed and augmented splendor to this costly exhibition. Of the performances we have spoken so frequently, that we can only repeat our " oft-told tale" of commendation ; and embrace, in one sentiment of general praise , the tire-woricr—the onsmorsmas—the theatres, and the long catalogue of diversified aniewments which are here munitioned into; requisition, to induce our city folk to adept the poetic! plan of lengthening their days, by " stealing a few hones! from the night." Thirty thOusand additional lamps shed their lustre over the scene, which was thronged, from an early hour, with almost as brilliant and numerous an attend- ;tee of spectates as honoured the Gardens, and inconve- 1 ecr.ced firinselveq, by the excessive crowd and crash on the King's birth-night. The Ganders close this week :1 the fine weather probably may, in conformity with the! wishes of the public, and the interest of the proprietors, induce them to kecp the entertainments open a short time longer. If this is to be, however, our last gala, and fare well visit, we can only take our leave with the name sen timent of approbation and praise, as the enterprize, no velty, and variety of the amusements called upon us at the oyering of the a seen to express. The Marquis of Hertford, and several fashionable par ties, honoured the Gardens, and expressed themselves highly delighted with the many tasteful devices of the evening. R.I3ISGATE, AUGUST 31. Trumlay there was the greatest concourse of people socinblod here that ever was known (exeypt the day sa which his Majesty embarked from hence for his king dont of Ilanovt^r). Every inn and public-house continued crowded during the wfible of the day, and the principal streets were thronged till tnitlnfllit. The gnat attraction fir the temporary visitors to r, main, after seeing the first stone for the new church laid, was, to see the town illu minated, for the first time, with gas, which excited a con tainable degree of interest and curiosity. There arc no less than five all s of main pipes laid down for the purpose. A number of shops ware lighted with gas with very handsome fittings and ornaments, which con. dilerably attracted the attention of the promenaders. The lira from the pier of the Crescents, Paragon, &c. was most brilliant. The Duchess of Kent, the Princes' Feodore, and the Princess Vittoria, enjoy the sea-hreeze every morning, akut an hour and a half or two hours, on the sands. *The infant Prineers Vittoria Heirs on a donkey, which was nie s le fur a present by the Duke of York. The Royal Babes. has frequent evening parties to tea, music, &c. At the Chapel of Ease there was 271. collected for the, Royal Sea Bathing Infirmary. At the sermon preached at Margate on Sunday for the same Institution, 9.11. was col- Itettsl. The bathers have been extremely numerous slnce the hot weather has s, t in, so much so that the machine's were kept in use about two hours later than the usual time thisilay. The beat here today has keen two degrees afore AKA h: at. We hare a great variety of amusements. At the Marine Library there is a promenade and concert every tight, at whirl' the Alissta Dunn and others sing. Mr. Hart pre silks at the gram! pianoforte. There are public breakfasts st the Ratelagh Gardena, at which morning concerts tyke place by a numerous band. Mr. IVeippert plays concertos on the harp. There are also balls at this place, which are op n every evening. The .lrelthishrp of Canterbury leaves us to-morrow for Nettinghamsbire, on a visit to his Glace's brother. MUSKAT, FESTIVAL. . As the period of ibis grand entertainment approaches, it I timid be unpardonable in us not to bear our spontaneous bonny to the excellence of the arrangements made by tit eon:mince of Management, and the high promise they afford of such a treat 51$ was never befute presented to the lovas of music in this district, and has rarely been sur passed In the kingdom. Indeed, we learn from a gentle man on whose judgment we can place the most confident reliaece, that the band will he one of the most perfect that has ken hesr,l since the commemoration int;st. In point of numb:Jot it ions been quailed by no provincial mectiag except that at York last year, and the list includes a very rat proportion of the first-rate talent of the kingdom. The Choristers have been in regular training ; the a miler of relit arsals is increased to three eve ry w..ek ; and more titan one hundred performers were present on Fridsy last. Th; hills fer the morning performance,' are now printed, and certainly a finer selection of sacred innsie was never prforreed. That mcst sublime of all musical ccinposi t,ons, th^ Mete,ieh, will have the addition of the boo of Mcsart's 'ter enpaniments. The finest pieces are culled from bra,/ in Susannah, Judah, and the Crealiun ; tl:e..lLthan perfumed at the Coronation of the pres:nt likin- is iatriatteei! ; the well-merited compliment is paid , to Mr. Perry, of giving CDC of the Chorusses from the I ,1',14,1 the Relrantrge of the rich combination of talent. which Twist derelope the full beauties of every com resitimi ; a ,,, 1 it isjostly observed that the songs combine every ellarn. ter of whleh sacral music is susceptible, illus tael by tier• cat compositions of the first masters. The tneOwical rreparations arc meth nt in their way. Andrew's flail is fitting up for the occasion with great splenel. , r ; that fine and spacious edifice will be lighted si:11 gas, and the effect of the light will be most brilliant ; (rain jc eh column issue three brackets, containing eight bars outanu tits, each orEament having twenty separate 110 ts. Over the orchestra is suspended a Large chandelier, emte'n:ns.: ;o ; and the Committee have directed that anoth , 7r chand.-11,r shall be fixed over the Patrons' gal 1, ry. The orchestra is now completed, and a most stupen- Ls rtn:rture it is. There arc ten different platlnnns, en telling from pillar to pillar, and the wingsfor the choral Intl , ' arc r•mrly to the ceilings of the side aisles. 'The vie'llnen are now completing the side galleries for the c' ) "lvitn sad every mat in the hall will be Provided with a ! il4 l IPA C. vered with cloth. Nothing seems omitted whs!' can cehl to the splendor of the scene, the an a of the hsr,! an•l the comfort anti convenience of the audience, to tag the spectacle will unquestionably be cue of the u•s;.rnag:fctot ever beheld. ell nip ct to the attendance, we have not a moment's a rtkhrtwe a : we arc satisfied that it will be such as the a. We are assured that the number of d at private hcus:•l, and of lodgings already Ty west, whilst at the same time there is no one to be deterred from going by the fear of arc:, as, from the extraordinary increase of its pr• pared, the Committee have many sets still on their list, which may be obtained terms.—Bery Pus!. L - o.vi; - irEILEsi,Er. of a trat saction, supposed to refer to this Lvaig teen published in our paper, we deem irn to insert the following letter from Gang- Itlonilay:- 1)11Tolt OF G.VLIONANVS i7 . divposition. which now confines me to my of my bring made acquainted with the pare r 'ore of die 2.'kh inst. till yesterday, entitled • The Faux PAS it Naples.' If the initials I. It'. are to my cant', I have to declare the assertions therein a gross mis-stalemeat of flirts. t my lineation, nor do 1 eunsi lee it. under any etr coming, to entertain the public with affairs a twi n, I satisfy myself with this declaration. wit h maigh th , mnlmm or the public priitts into any nor s'o‘odil I have taken this notice of the above did it not inrolve the conduct of °therm. :IT. •mot, i i2l. " W. L. WELLESLEY. use tie la Pale." !er, (luring the last wo,I, has been very farour tarrov, rhich, in tliis part of the country, oini:e of abnittlinee.-314idafone Paper. NUR IFITII TUE ASHANTEES. (Concluded 'tidal yesterday's Paper.] i The expedition to Donquah, on the 20th of February, followed the murder of the sergeant, and was ore of the most gallant and ;successful tonawares we have had with the ermine ; for, although i the advanced guard, only amounting to about lON men, were en. ifiroged (the main body, under llajnr Chisholm, having been he.: , frayed, and led astray by a treacherous guide) the Ariliantees, ' amounting to neatly t. 410, and a large force of Falafel, were put. sued for r distance of eight miles, totally defeated, and signal i punishment administered in the death of four of their Chiefs, and !nearly 100 men. The superiority of the Ashantee mode of fighting over that of the Eamon was clearly dennonwrated by the different effect of their respeetiveKrir.g, the Ashsetees, front their steady aim, bringing down our men as every volley, while that of the Fantees, bsing directed too high, merely crowned us with leaves ; and it was quite as well that they Were not more skilful in the time of the ; musket at that time, as the parry of Asioninters, with the hOir of a stray shot now aril then from the ran tees, colon ived to kill and ~ wound serentymee out ef the 'handful oppos,tl to them. The ' report of this victory 'penal like wildfire through the country, and I before Sir Charles lett the tont, in the month of 3111 following, i he received the allegiance of most of the Felton., and of various , other oative tribes, who, desirous to rid themselves of the Ashantee i yoke, flocked from all quarters us his banner, which was combat'. cony termed and looked upon at that time an the statidard of liberty. • While such things were going on, and the must gigantic prepare tioos ;or war were everywhere in a state of forwardness, the King of Ashantee busied himself, by means of emissaries, in an anemia to . intimidate our allies. lie sent to one, advining him, sareasti-ally, to arm the fishes of the sea ; to another he intimated his Intention of carrying the terror of war into his country with such alarming sounds, that he would awake his father from the silt nt grave; anti to Sir Charles M'Carthy he stmt his compliments, with a threat of stain having his head as an ornament to the great war drum of Ashantee .!* Ile also acknowledged the monkr of the sergeant, ! and directed the messenger to Pay, he had seen the knife with which It was perpetrated. To the Femme, generally, he threatened ea. ! termination. Ile advised them to be on their gourd, for he could , talk MIT the white turn whenever he pleased, and then conic down upon them. He ridiculed their confidence in Slachatch ( I), who, ' he said, would betray them, tin Governor Torrainc had dome on a for. suer occasion. But all this trade no impression on the Fanrees. who now appeared inspired with a degree of confidence and cotton sintsm quite unusual to them. The Ashantee Monarch, therefore, ! beginning to think more seriously of the matter than lie was at first ; eh to do, and knowing that hie best troops were on a hazard. ' ems campaign in the (*repo country, at length s e nt a n entbassy to • Elmina, to offer the olive brar.ch to the British through them:ilium of the Dutch Governor. Sir Charles Ill•Carthy, on being apprised I by petit:nor Poohnsn of the arrival of this embas s y, an d o f t h e pa . 1 , .. one nature of their 'restage, tent up four gentlemen to receive it. 1 (These were ('aptain Laing, Ensign It'etherill, Mr. Williams, • Colonial Secretary, and AIL F. Swarxy, merchant.) Ilut, to their great surprise, t h ey found, on appearing in the Palaver.ltall, that i else tenor of the e was a thrust of vengeance on the people of Cape Coast, wgen ie rgey accused (perhaps with mare justice) of puironieg the maid of the new Governor against the King of Ashantee. They denied that Assai had sanctioned the murder of the sergeant, and laid the whole affair at the door of the Fantets, simm they accused of perfity of the blackest nature. This mes sage, so opposite to •hat hail been anticipated, not only mirpriscd the gernltmen front Cape Coast, but also seemed to strike with asto nishment the Dutch Governor himself, who declared, upon the honour of a Netherlander, that he had ur.derstood it differently yesterday; and, in proof of his assettion, called upon his linguist to explain the message, as interpreted to hint the (lay before. it was of such a 'valor:, that had it been deliotod, pacific arrange ments might Ince been entered into; but, as the Ashantees denied any knowledge of it, the conference was broken up, and matters stood cant fly as before. This occurrence took place about the be git.ning of /day. 11122, and Sir Charles 3l•Ciarthy, a few weeks at. terwards, left (*ape Coast, in the Cyrere sloop of war, en a tour of inspection to the Gambia and Sierra Leone; his instructions were soy concise—" To make as many allies as possible—to induce them to oppose any force the Ashanteez might seed towards the coast—hut to risk as little as possible in the way of military enter. prise till his return." About a fortnight after his depr.nitre (the 4th of June), a report was prevalent that a body of 2,000 Ashanteei hail crossed the lloosorn-era River, and were making their way to the Fenno country. It being of course deemed necessary to check their pro. grass ('sprain Laing was despatched with a few regulars, the An t unnbre militia, and a strong native force, to give them battle ; but as they regard on hearing of his approach, that officer directed his attention towards Ajuniacom the territory of a powerful na. tire King, wit., there were strung grounds of belief, intended to assist the Asttantres. Ilavirg arrived on the fOillillCS of his coon. try, which Is separated from Fat tee by tI9 River Anthem, a mes sage was scot to heti e I.lm to join in the general cause of free dom ; but as the invitation was not accepted, another messenger was despatched to acortaint him, Islet termally, that unless/rejoiced Mi white mow, the a:ioitc Pt... was& tae to hint (2) ; to which he n plied he was perfectly ready, and they might coon as soon as • they pleased. (In the morning after the receipt of this menage of defiance, orders acre given for the contoruction of a bridge acmes the Amiina, which, by the exertions of Messrs. lltitthinson and Swanzy ' Captains of :di/Via, was completed on the evening of the wont( day. It suns not a work of such magnitude as that which Cesar threw across the Rhitne, but it hind the eflict of inti. midating Aprils, who, perceiving that his riser alhireed him to protection. sent a friendly menace to Captain Laing, and joined him in great state next day, at the head of 1.509 men, well ap pointed with antra and ammunition. \Vail this force, amounting new to dim 1/.006 effective finlocks ' a theiiieSent was made through the Kingdom.' et Ajmer...in tow ards Eamononsa, the terri tory of Qmeshie — Arouncrodi, another Chief in alliance with the King of stshantee, who, her-tog of the approach of so large a force, fled from Ida country and took refuge at Coornassie. Everythiog after this bearing semblance of quietness, the army returned to quarters on the t'O'h of June, the various Chiefs, who had been long disunited, having sumo to one another to assemble instantly at any point the white men should command. Towards the end ofJuly archer disposition of making an Inroad upon the nonce country was manifested by the Ashantees, and it was judged expedient to tors an encampment about twenty-five Milli from the coast for the purpose of watching their tnotiims : the site of a deserted Fantee town, named Yammoinassie, was the too chosen, to which a few detachments of regulars and militia were marched on the 28th of the month, and were soon afterwards joined by the respective native chiefs with their troops, oinking in all a force of about 10.600 men. Another camp was formed at Jooluali, about fifteen miles its the rear of C f ape Coast, or the purpose of foiling the enemy in that quarter, it being reported that he WAS saki ig for the coast in two strong divisions of :20,000 mew each. Thesejudirious preparaniors had the effect of keeping them at bay or sonic time; indeed, it began to be believed that they lead again retired, when, on the evening of the 20th of August. an express from Ajtonocon reached tfanennenuassie with tidings of the Ashantee army being within 40 miles of Apple's capital, to which they were marching with all speed. Orders were immediately given for a march, and next morning at an early hour Captain ).wing quitted j Yancootnassie at the head o f a t o l era bly w e ll organized force of 1 regulars, militia, and natives, amounting in all to about :UM men, the remainder being left at die camp, under command of ('aptain Hutchinson, in CAse of a stratagem being intended by the Ashen. tees. On the afternoon of the 22d, the force from Vancomnawde reached AJornaton, which was found in a state of great alami and confusion; the sonnets painted and irespattered with chalk, making jiiische for sucerss, agreeably to the custom of their country; the tool armed, many of steam itt fantastic dresses, and ready time the expected cot flirt, the A thatnee army being then cmly twenty miles distant. As atom as the men, who had made a long and fatiguing march, were a little refreshed, advanced . partiea were seat out to watch and give intelligence of the enemy s motions, and Captain Laing, who knew their disinclination to midnight combats, made arrangements for continuing the march as soon as the moon (which rose at this time about 7 p.m.) should afford sufficient light to pre. vent confusion ; in this intention, however, he was foiled, as he could not by any arguments induce the native unorganized part of his force to more forward till the following morning, when a noe. tenger from the advance lmrirg brought intimitation that the enemy were in motion, no further time was to be lost. The whole force being speedily 'stumbled in the streets and avenues of A4n moron, order of morel) was arranged and the obeli; moved off with animated spirits in the following order:— First or Right Column (Appia) - Second Column (Appla and Venom) Third Celumn (Aeoona) . .. . . . 1,000 . . 1,000 /Vel 500 , Fourth Column (lie ( :d'art', Militia. and Agnes) . Fifth and Sixth Columns (Annantaboes and depen. dencies) - - I Joe Column of Resent in rear (Akunifees) 1,41.10 - Total . . . 8,3ti0 The first, second, third, filth, and sixth columns, advancod through the woods, the pioneers, with bill. and cutlasses, preparing the way. The fourth column, being leas accustomed to that mode of wariare, took the beaten path, which was rarely broad enough to admit of four deep. About nine a.m. a halt was made, in order to pr: rent confusion in the passage to the rear of an immense concourse ofold men, women, and children, flying before the .ishantees, whose rapid approach they represented by signs of the utinom alarm and trepid pointing in the direction where they were, and beating a quick motion with their feet. At two p.m. a few of the advance, who fen back upon the main betly, gave information of their being surprised and nearly annihi. lated by the Ashantees, who had already burnt one of Appia's towns, about three miles oft The ct lumns now were k. pt more compact, and moved forward with hss expedition, expecting every minute to rants in contact with the entmy ; but at four p.m. having reached the town In question, it was with surprise they found that he had made • retregratic movement, fearing some ambush. Ile was, nevertheless, fo llowed with caution, and at eight p.m., just as the moon had cleared the horizon, was sur prised in the town of }:ssecooma by the Mx columns , whic h speedily donning. charges!, and came up in fine style, without firing a shot. The Asitantees, who had been employed sacrificing the pri. goners whom they scrured in the morning, were seized with a rani; and merely discharging their pieces, without again attempting to load, fled from the town in the greatest confusion. It was late before the natives, sonic of whom had followed thr enemy, could be • The stilijnt of this threatening message was frequently ad verted to by the late Sir Charts. \clic, at the head of his troops at Jooquali, be rents rked in a jocular way to some officers, " that fellow savm nothing will satisfy Itini but my head," which created a laugh at the cameo of the sable Monarch, but Sir Charles, look ing seriously, replied, " You need not laugh, it might so happen." IM another ocra,iun, two days before the latal action of the 21st January, he said in an ironical manner to two Ashantee primmers who hail hem brought before him, " I hear your master want,' my jaw bone. for hi. big drum ; very well, I am going to give them to him tu.morrow." Alas! tru: tar prelietton. 1 recall:al ; and nearly morning before, by the marching of a picket, the mail was permitted to birousi.. The distressing scene wit nessed in this town was truly appalling, the bodies of the Plain meeting the eye in every direction, and here and there the scattered limbs of the victims taken in the morning (the sacrifice of some of whom the opportune arrival of th e tinny was in time t o prevent) • lay strewed about the ground, in the 11111 s, cateblis manner, while raw and then a raptured foe, or timid female, who had been unable to efri•ct her escape, was brought iii, and tremblingly beiteld the bleeding and mangled bodies, shirk but a Yew hours before they ;hrol assisted in nintihtting, and whine awful fate appeared to awatt them. On the following day, the 2Jth of August, the Ashanters 1 were pursued, and again sorprised in their camp in the act of pre.' 'paring their dinners; they lied itt the grntest perturbation, leaviog ' l bi.7:tind them guns, ammunition, clothing, small packages of gold I dust, theirilihr•he and (what was most aecrpoible to the troop., having, been without provisions for two days) their dinners. A. number of prisoners were adm taken and marched to Cape Coast 'Castle, Beyond this poiat the Faroees sloth! not advance; scouts 'were, therefore, sent after the enemy to watch him, hut as he made the hest of his len to the Ito:vim-I,ra, lipid crossed it the next day, a palaver was held at Esseroomet, when it was determined to de alloy the town, and distribute the respective fortes in the same manner as before the invasion; the Yancoomassie division of the army. therefore, marched on the 27th, atrosa the country to Man were (3), where they were nut by Captain Ilutchinson, with the remaining Fante•N that °Zee r having exlvareed in a most spi rited and ertriuibie manner, with a hope of cutting off the re treating enemy. In this state of quietness the country remained for several months. the Ashantees malting no further ineersiona,. and the Farness,' too irdolent to follow up the advantage gained I An attempt, bat without erect, was made to induce the Fan- 1 tees (4h in concert with the force at Jonquah, nndev the command of -Lieutenant King, R.N., to march towards the Assina, and either force them to fall back upon the Ashadters ' or induce them to embrace our rause, which they had of Late, through the medium of tu:ssengcra to Captain Laing, ,hewn some dill usition to do. te arri val of Ste Charlet lll.Carthy, en the Wei Nov. preceded • by a detachment of white troops from England, did not infuse that spirit albeit every one had anxiously looked fix. The Utiles hail fancied to themselves (upon what gmaind it is hand to say, for Sir Charles nn.er led them to expect It) (hat the , r great (inventor would have broug'it with hint a ship load of guns, with an over shelming hnt.t of white men ; and their disappointment may he conceived when he was seen to disembark from the l'oltnial schooner with ii.;!y two or three attendant.; chagrin sas to great, that they went en far as to speak of it openly, and they did ' not scruple to ticiiiisint Sir Charles, at Christmas, when he visited the ramp at Vancoomassie, that they were told he had arrived in a small canoe, and brought with him seven rims and a pistol ! Attain this period it was currently believed, among the white part of the population, that an attack would he made on Comnassie by ' Sir Chivies, anti the attempt ivas vitwed generally as one of no great difficulty, but of comparative v,rainty. Admitting, how ever, that the estruction of that capful was an easier matter than it was even conceived to be—admitting that the IttiLish arias had sot ceetleel in razing it to tbegrotpul, the resuit, in point of colonial interest and effect, would hat- been Atli eimparell with that which might have been derived from negotiation, at a period when we dud been ouccemful—ollic:n we could walk individually in per fect security ally where within fifty miles of the coast —and at a time when the King of Ashantee was meriticieg eight or ten virgins daily to induce his /ctitche to avert the destruction which appeared to stare hint In the face! ! ! Nothing could have been more favourable than the aspect of atietita at this moment, and the aulvantages likely to stile front a negotiation were pointed out to! Sir Charles 31•Carthy by an individual, whom it would be Mei. di' to mention here, as the general try was for war ; and, from the attention with which his Excellency received the suggestion, it is fully believed by the writer of this narrative, that he would have acceded to it, had his mind been made up to pursue any peticular line of procedure, before the reported arr.ch of an overwhelming fate ot Asharfece compelled him to decide upon opposing them. with what degree of success the public arc already sufficiently ac quainted. 011 The rattle by which Fir C. Nl•Carthy seas desi,gnatei Its aignitietaeion in the Ashatitte language is—cm•cr all. (2) The literal traneation. (.1) The distances and twain*s of these places ate not mentioned, as they may be seen by referring to the maps of 3lLasrs. Bowdich and Hutton. (4) They urged the necessity of waiting for more white men, and would upon no account advance without them. ...It this time, had there been a thousand regulars en the emit, there ran be little doubt but Coemasaie might have been taken, the arre‘y of the King being mostly absent from the rouLtly, and er.gaged in other wars. The retreat of his force from Esaccoonia canard him to recall the army from Crept', and with it be has obtained the recent successes, of which we are too well informed. FEMALE FASHION'S FOR SEPTEMBER, 132 i. tFroai La Alla Assembl:t.l WALSIXO Inargf. A dress of fine India muslin, ornamented with three flounces between each flounce is embroidered, in scarlet crewel, a row of the West Indian berry, known by the name of jumbel-beads. Full sleeves of muslin, el , lantly confined, all the way up the arm, with straps of cambrie richly embroidered. The dress is made partially high, and is fitted for an out-door slimmer draw, by hating two pelt rive capes, falling race over the other, trimmed at the edge with a full plaiting of very fine net : the corsage hat lace let in, in stripes downward. A broad pink math stn. red encircles the waist, with a small bow, and the - r ads dqiilistlatir brim:T.:jun Wm/ft' knee. A bonnet of Leghorn, is th.: village shape, trimmed slightly with broad pink ribbon, and a fine lace corneae underneath. fel low kid halt-Lots, and Limerick gloves. I s o .l . 7 riskin ,.. d . 1.44 :ms t?••.,,, if; r• t e..)7' . .! for stir en.ant chj .7 , ! . . , 415t 5 e)t r,...rumn:s Aa 3frotnt :a 'filth/nai l, h a , a ht., to hil .1(,.., n. TI) %it dtl feu lot fnttr r. Fa3hirmitt i i.• kid alpir tntainhi to be t 'Ai it is pa 4"3.4 a`mi Le nt t ransarii.ns b 'irg I,d th, --,ll 'udaili • itil-t3ty. lent ' d `• ":01,3a; Tfln w 3 4e f or iI its gives ev, 1 , 7 pro Erliiivo Dr cps. . . Bavarian rote of pink gms de Naples; the Bavarian front of the robe formed of puckered white REM, with the pucircrings, which are slight, confined downwards by nnrrow stripes conned of pink sight rouleaux : a broad plaiting of rich white blond, set on full, is earrlt-I all round the border, at the edge next the hem taking in the white satin apron part with the rest of the dress, arid giving a beautiful relief to the whole. The body Is of pink gros de Naples; with short sleeves of the same, ornamented with blond, and pink satin trefoils. The hair is adorned with pearls, a light menet of Hovers., and a gold ornamental comb placed backward. A gold neck:ace and chain of exquisite trorkimir.ship ornamented the neck of the lady of fashion, of whose dress our engraving is a jitc thai/a. ' leer her gloves were worn, also, Indian bars of gold, as bracekts. The shoes of pink satin. DONXIBROoK F.IIR. Yes, said the Lord Dlayor, " There be things that we must dream and dam, And execute ere thought be halt' awar.:.." It was resolved, and ere the sun hail set behind the western hill, an aid-dc-camp was despatched from his Lordship's head-quarters (Mr. Morrison's residence at Donnybrook), to desire that before rite o'clock there should not a vtstige remain, where but a few little hours before thentands of hearts, eagerly Lent on pleasure, ex panded themselves in a thousand different ways. " Con version to the Lord , :Mayor," bad been so frequently least's' during the week, and so frequently ejaculated by the Brookonian devotees, accompanying their libations of " mountain dew," and his Lordship having so often visited the fair and exhibitions, with which be expressed Isimaelf so exceedingly delighted, that it was currently reported during the week his Lordship had " cut the Saints," and numerous were the convivial assignations for yesterday (Sunday), after divine service, upan the faith of these senseless expectations. But though it is known his Lord ship was in a wavering mood during the early part of Sa tunlay, piety triumphed, and it was at length sagely de termined to be more conducive of religion and public goal, that Irishmen should discuss the grievances of Ireland, and the good likely to result from the Catholic Rent, in licensed whiskey shops, than that they should enjoy under canvass roofs, the exhilarating sensations occasioned by na tive planxty. The orders issued, the Commissariat were in attendance by the prescribed hour, and his Lordship, attended by Sheriff Perrin and his entire staff, quit his champagne, and sallied forth from his comfortable quarters to rout all those who were equally inclined to be comfortable in the :amp, and by ten o'clock the ruthless command was so punctu ally executed, that nought but the heavy luggage, and a few second-hand joints of cold meat, remained, and n o t a vcitige could be discovered of the once notorious " Dame street." Though the retreat was rapid, no accident or unpleasant occurrence took place, Eor have we heard of any during the fair, owing to the excellent arrangements of the police, under the command of Mr. Coodisson, Chief Peace Officer of College-street Police-office, and the unwearied art ntion of peace offisers 11PCartney and Robinson, of the Head office, the former of whom attended curing the entire week, and preserved the most admirable regularity amongst the charioteers. From the general expectation that the amusements would be continued on Sunday after Church hour, the shiners were reserved for that occasion, and consequently " the lirrok" was not numerously atterded on Saturday-, till towards night, when visitors went but to experience vexation and disappointment. Without meaning to retract a syllable of what we have hitherto advanced respecting the nnpolicy and unreason ableness of depriving the people of a ecnsiderable portion of their annual recreation, we readily admit, that the com ' fort and safety of the better classes of visitota were pro inoti d by the daily sup< rinundence of the Lord Mayor.— Dellis Freeman's Jourial. In an action for trespass on a free warren, brought at the I late York Assizes by Stephen Tempest, Esq. of Broughton hall, he produced a grant of Edward the First, in *per tet state of preservation. rnoporAts FOR SETTING FIRE TO .F4TERNOSTER ROW. Mom. the A r ea' Monthly Megezimej quas to diztiti nogas, non ease putasti; ;Neil dito mires case, sed case pint). " Young folks tali of what they arc doinr, old ones of what they have done, fools of what they wish to do unfortunately true, atel still more unfortunate titat I moat include myself in the : atter class; for here have I been wishing, during a whole rainy morning, to write a paper for the New Monthly, and threatening most fiercely to per form it the moment I coed it upon a subject. With thin, however, I still remain as unprovided as the Ex-em peror Iturhitle, or any of the ejected MAjeeies of Napo leon's family, most of whom haVe nevertheless been re cently wining and publishing, and I begin to think it per fectly unnecessary to make any such provision before one sits down to compose either an_ essay or book. Commit ting one's thoughts to paper - fltvourile phrase with many writers, who are merely tram cribing the thoughts of others, or evincing the total want or any such progeny of, the brain in theie own persons. Li' entry highwaymen of the former class sometimes wear a cr ape to prevent detec tion ; sometimes, as Sheridan says, they after and disfigure ' their plagiarisms to avoid discovery, h ec gip sies who dis gnise their stolen children to make limn pass for their own ; and he might Lave added that when they take hold of them by the wrong end, and drag them willy-nilly into the empty chambers of their brain, they arc like ('aen; who served the herd of Hercule* in the same way, that they might appear to have issued from his den, instead of having been purloined and fenced into it. Every body knows that cxtcmpores require a good deal of deliberation, but it is not sa generally understood that the insist profound writing is best executed when it Is en tirely unpremeditated. There are shoals of thoughts ; as of fish, which lie upon the surface ready to till our nets at the first haul ; while, if we sink our tackl e d ee p er we s h ou ld rots-11)1y ring up nothing but sand, and seaweed, or Rometifing even " vilior alga." Besides, we cennot plunge them so low without a good many leaden weights, danger ous accessories to a writer, who may be carried by them down to the waters of oblivion, which, as every body knows who has read Sadak and Kulasrztle, are not to be tasted without death. If one's own nonsense be not better than another man's sense, it is at least more original —no mean praise in this golden age of plagiarism. If Horace could exclaim against the servile crew of ini i tatots—l leavens ! how would he now ejaculate and apostrophise, when the human faculties re n:aining the same, and the field in which they are to be exercised unenlarged, the number of competitors is in creased a thousand foli, until the writers threaten to ex ceed the readers ! Well might Champfort assert that the greater portion of modern books have the air of being writ ten in the tnonting, with the assistance of those read on the previous afternoon. What are termed original cornmu nations are the liv.t pew combination from old materials, and our profound writers arc like mirrors which merely re flect the images of others. A pond is not the less shallow beeauie a mountain seems to be in v..rteel in its bosom, nor is the page the &Iry or the more powerful, because the literary giants of antiquity may be made to figure upon its surface. knew by heart. Could he have decompounded this irn rense niass of literature, and condensed it into its first elements, it is possible that all the generations of human . minds as well as of their bodies might be tray d back and limited to one original man and one original emutre. To a certain extent we are all in the melancholy situa tion of Magli a b e clii. We have an dat a crisis front I which we can only escape by sonic desperate expedient, • and as none seems more efrectual or practicable than that adopted by the provident Caliph Omar I would reaps-d -i fully submit to the publi c t h e propriety Of calling a general meeting—" To consider the wisdom, in the present alarm ing state of our literature, of a general book-combustion, to be commenced by setting fire to Paternoster-row." This would be attacking the enemy in his head-quarters : the public and private libraries might subsequently be piled up in Sinitlitit Id or other appointed ustrinee, and a day be proclaimed for their indiscriminate cremation. Heavy tines should he imposed for accreting a single volume, but u no evil could result from the conservation of such Looks as are never read, ft may be right t) make a special exeep tion in favour of the Roxburgh Club, the reprints of the Archaic*, lieliconia, and other collections of scarce nth hish. The author of this proposition, who knows the exact value of his production', would willingly thro* him i self into the fl`e (in print), like a second Curtius, for the goal of his ebuntry, an example which lie trusts woulil not be lost upon his brethren. After having suffered our lives to lie felicity for a reasonable time, we should then all start fair, re:id,rs as n e tt u Writers, to tojof a new youiTl of intellect, and luxuriate in the fresh bloom and May-day blossoming of to untrodden Parnassus. We should be like the Argonauts of the early world, Who encountered some enchanting tision or supernatural beauty at every step they took. Unhaunted by literary reminiscences, we should realise the averment that " men are hut children of a larger growth," and plunge into the pages of the poet with all the raciness and enthusiasm of our boyhood.. Make ready then, ye patriotic authors—fresent your works with alacrity —and hesitate not when the command is given—tofu! 11. ON SAUCES. IW AN AMATEUR GOURMAND. Sauces forint not onry an essential addition to most meets, but even make an important patt of them; they do not I alone vary the taste and form in which they arc presented to us, and in wart that relish which enables us to eat du: times as much as we could without them, but they form an attractive di coration, which may justly be compared to the finishing touch of the painter or the toilette of a beauty. The office of a good sauce is to flatter and excite the appe tite. If it be too mild it causes no sensation, and its objet is not obtained ; and if it be too pungent, it excoriates, in stead of gently stimulating the reate, in which the eqjly ment of a real epicure consists, and which an experienced and accotnplislsed . cook can alone produce. Mtzdieal men indeed ',renounce that all sauces are to be avoided, because they induce us to cat to repletion ; but what would they make of fish under such a prohibition, which every knows cannot be passed without sauce? Heide:, it would qu:te undermine the whole . system of modern cookery, re duce us toa diet of plain Toast and boiled, and condemn us. for the remainder of our lives, to the regimen of a family joint. If we are not forced, however, to refrain from 'the use of sauces till we see physicians refuse lobster with their turbot, swallow venison without jelly, take beef-steaks without oysters, or reject turtle and ragouts, we need be in no dread of being speedily comp elled to abstinence. A foreign Ambassad or , w h en its this country a few years ago, shrewdly remarked, that the English had twenty re ligions and only one sauce; but the everlasting ineliel butter, which then stied over our tables with undivided sway, has since been stripped of a great portion of its au thority, and only. reigns in the majesty of uncontrolled do minion among a few 'obstinate" and pertinacious disciples of the old regime. So great Meet! is the progress we have 'ately made in rubbing 'off our old-fashioned prejudices, aid in adoptiog the m or e scientific and enlightened cookery of our neighbours, that a detailed catalogue of savers, now naturalized in spite of the Alien Bill, would of itself fill a volume; for, according r) aii accurate computation, made one or two years ago. the nomenclature of sauces was founl to'comprehend ahont two hundred variciits, and we are daily making important additions to the number. • • Our present enormous mass of publication could never exist but that one half generates and supports the other. throwing out fresh props as it enlarges itself, like the sacred tree of India. One hook affords nourishment to fifty, or five hundred magazines and reviews, from which, in due time, some diligent gleaner coll e ct s mater i a l s f or a new work and a new host of Seviewers ; so that we keep fulfill ing the squirrel's circle , always going on and making a mighty clatter in our littl e case, but never advancing. It is so much easier to review books than to write them, to detect faults than to avoid them, to compare than to in vent, that it is probable the critical system will continue expending until it becomes a disease, a monstrous wen, which the body of our literature may for a certain term nourish and enlarge, but which nitiniately will, in the in tellectual, as in the human subject, finish by destroying its supp orter. It is ridieelous to expect originality ; presumptuous to claim it. iVhst ! has the world existed for six thousand yesisrand are Simpkins or Jinkitis to bit upon a bright thought which escaped the penetration of Socrates and Plato, aid every individual of those innumerable genera tiers, whoo_e_uts v te e f e ermenting ,and, cogitating 'since thidays of Xelim I ow and then, indeed, we may recover something that has been long lost, and of which we cannot ascertain the original owner, but we are no more its authors than we arc the corners of the shilling which we may accidentally pick up at ('haring-cress. Lke old clothes-men, our minds can only dabble in what our prede cessors have worn and thrown away • our rarest originali ties have once been common-p l aces, d er novelties were anti quities to our ancestors. We learn something that time has forgotten, and then demand a patent of invention and dis covery. The world is a round robin, ending where it be gins. Cities are built of the ruins of the ruins of cities, one generation of human bodies fattens the earth for the sustenance of the next, and their minds follow the same course ; yet cities, bodi.e, and minds are pretty much what they were three thousand years ago. Our mental stature is as unchangeable as our corporeal. In the early ages there were Titans in both, for men were measured after death by their exploits when living ; and when the sun of history and literature was only rising, a little hero Cr a diminutive mind might cast a very long shadow, and of course afford a very fallacious standard. In our nresent meridian days we are reduced to our proper level, and it Is nearly a permanent one. Time must laugh in his sleeve when he sees us strutting in our borrowed plumes, pique ing ourselves upon our stale originalities, and fancying our- A princely, magnificent, and entirely spontaneons mark ,elver very blight-eyed, because we have lost sight of old of attention has recently been shown by the higle-at per hnowledge so long, that when we stumble upon it we mis- sonage in the State, to the comforts of the widow of one of take it for new. the most distinguished Statesmen of modern times. This Thrice happy the author who lived soon after the Caliph high personage having heard that the wife of his old ft iced Omnar, when hooks were scarce, and nearly ail that cx- was not so easy in het circumstances as the widow of 53 isted were destroyed in the Alexandrian library! If any great a man should be, front his own private puree, and critic presumed to twit him with plagiarism, he would with all the delicacy peculiar to his rank and situation date him to prove his assertion, and in the impossibility of presented the Lady with a handsome and ample enmity. compliance assist upon his recalling it. Commentators In the reign of James I. and his successor, acce:•dirg to hare remarked that the reviewers of this period were more Burton, some of the aniurementa of our eitizers, and their than usually foul-mouthed, arising probebly from the ladies particularly, were derived from monkeys and a di great number who had been thus compelled to cot their minutive breed of doge • and those of winter arree from own words. Like the Gentiilastunte Bourgeois of Muliere, cards, tables and dice, shovel-beard, chess, the philoso who had been speaking prose all his life without dreaming i pher's game, small trunks, shuttleeack, billiards, tr. t.ric, of his cleverness, every writer of this enviable period i masks, singing, dancing, Yule games, frolic', j:sts, ri'd'es, became suddenly original without even suspecting the fact. ; catches, purposes, questions and commands, merry talc .; of To whom was le to be traced? The books that might ; kniglite errant, Queens, lovers, lords, 'sili c a, g i ants , convict him had warnied the Turki s h b a th s , b een con-I dwarfs, thieves, cheaters, witches, fairies, gcbli:l3, fria rs , vetted into smoke and vapour, and ascended into the skies ; Re. " Some men's whole delight," he also adds, "is to to rejoin their authors. No fear of his suffering the fate • take tobacco, and drink all day long in a tavern or alehouse, of the modern, who pathetically complained that tiliak- Ito discourse, sing, roar, jest, talk of a cock and hull over a speare had said all his good things before him. He stepped , pot, &c. or when three or four good companions meet. tell down into a field of literature, unplucked, unplouglted, !old stories by the fire-side, or in the sun, as old folks unttodden ; and whether he collected weeds, thistles, or I usually do, qua-apt ici memi n ere sena remembering , afresh flowers, every body was ready to exclaim, " 0 what a rare I and with pleasure, ancient matters, and such-like aeci posy !" Authors at that fortunate epoch were, like the dents as happened to them in their younger years." followers of Columbus, invading the New World, who Weseteem MISSIONARY Mum xe.—On Monday had nothing to do but to pick up the treasures beneath evening, at six o'clock, a very numerous and respectable their feet, until the poorest soldier became welched^ en- I meeting took place at the Wesleyan Chapel, George-strivt, riehed. The first literacy foragers soon robbed nature of Greenwich, in aid of the funds of the Wesleyan Si iesie every thing site had to offer, and we must either pilfer i Society for Christianiziag and Civilising the heather. . from them or pluck one another, unless we embrace the! f l oreign ('limes. The chair was taken by easy alternative which wine have chosen—that of being !Esq. of Woolwich. After the business of the meeting had unnatural. Though reason is exhaust e d, folly may st ill I b een opene d , much interesting information was cominuei be original— a hint which we moderns should most Sc-! cited by the following gentlemen, who were engaged to at riouely ',emend. Ile who wishes to confer a benefit upon' tend on this occasion, respecting the progress of I. hrt,:t:anity the existing generation should discover some process for in Heathen countries :—The Rev. Mr. Hewlett, S 'cretary ; accelerating oblivion. Instead of writing that they may the Rev. Mr. lnila, the Rev. Mr. Mason, the Rev. Mr. be read, men read that they may write; and as the peruse Morley, the Rev. Mr. Fox, Missionary, from Ceylon ; and ems have all seem to the same fountains, they seem to be; from several other gentlemen who addressed tfie me e tin g perpetually drinking the same beverage through different 'in the course of the evening, which did not terminate till diluters. Folks now-a-days write fasters than we can for- 1 nearly ten o'clock, when a liberal subscription was received get; nay, there are some who even scribble more rapidly, at the doors in furtherance of the objects of the institution. than we can read. To him who is f on d of b oo k s a good An old women, of the name of Boswell, the wife of a pen memory is the wand of Sancho Panza's physician, which; sioner in Greenwich Hoepital. sent, inclosed in a bag, to whisked away the taste of every thing that might beve the Chairman of the meeting, 960 farthinge, in aid of the been most grateful to his palate. IVho has not often ; Missionary cause, with a letter, expressing a wish that wished to forget some former feast of reason that he might every pereen would contribute, as she had done, to the ut enjoy a new banquet? , Who has not often envied youth, I most extent in their power, when the (lark and benighted Or even mature ignorance, when he secs them devouring! Heathen would then no longer have to lament the want of for tho first time Ike Quixote or Gil Bias? Maglialpechi a knowledge of the power and omnipotence of God! was not only conversant with the contents of every volume, Thieving of various kinds seems to be in active opera., in the immense library of which he was the guardian, but Lion in Launceston and its neighbourhood. On Friday could indicate its exact position amid th e nu merous shelves. ! bight a slaughter-house was entered and robbed of tit Reading was his sole delight, and yet lie was obliged to meat intended for the next day's market, and not only have abandon it because he could meet • with nothing new," the orchards and garders suffered depredation, but the and could no longer interest his head in that which h very cows have been milked in the fields. Were we to enter into all the niceties of these, and the manner of pretparirrg them, aro should find the topic so inexhaustible and irresistible, that we must avoid entering into the delectable maze, though we must give our readers the useful caution to be very wary in forming the contesion of sauces; for all family, matrimonial, illicit, political, com mercial, friendly, and equivocal connexions, arc not Ey half so dangerous as an ill-placed connexion of sauces. The art, indeed, of forming these is one of the greatest mysteries ie science, and its acquirement is the very acme of the culi nary art. Its elements, however, are simple, ecnsistirg chiefly of gravy or cream, and their object, like that of other connexions, is to cement the union of vat huts and often discOrdant qualities. As in a happy marria7,e, the interests, the temper, and the wishes of each must mutually yield to the other, in older to produce that harmony which forms the basis of connubial happiness and of social order; an, in a good ragout, the substance, the seasoning, and thy sauce, should all be blended in that exquisite ernicord which constitutes the foundation of good cookery, and of all rational enjoyment. In the management of tl:ie, how ever, the generality of cooks are lamentably deficient ; for, like many of their masters, they cheat us with fAlss ap pearar.cea, and give their sauces the semblance of richness by the aid of mere colouring matter, while they, in fact, pouts, neither flavour nor substance. qxur.ary Jj 191 f ir j I