The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1804-08-09 00:00:00

•RAIVALS AT HOTWELLS.

Mr. O'Connor, Mrs. Villiers, Miss Percy, Mr Johnsen, Mr.
Koos,!swarth, Mr. and Mrs. Sharpe, Mrs. Ransfurd, Sts,
Lindsay, Mr. and Mrs. CUIT,, I Min Corry% Mai Fraser,,
M,ss Chapman, Miss fraud, Miss Browne. Mr. and Me.
&c. dec.

Yesterday morning, His Mai kvrv, and the Prin-
cesses So/MIA and AMELIA, with their mull At-
tendants. took an airing on horseback in Windsor
Park. Her 144.uzsry and the other Pstkcscsu
took an airing in a sociable, on the Maidenhead
Road.

His Royal Highness the Duke of KEN, Hi
Windsor oil Tuesday afternoor.
A report was circulated. ye terday, of the
death of Lord GARDNER, but no cr a.t was at-
Liched t., it.

On tr'.day last died at his house at the Blackrock,
near Dublin, Niro HEN as. C•vss .s4rt.
to Baroness WA T 1:10 ARK, and Leber ti shir
tehs of MOUNTNOILIII9 and Lady ICI L.:Ai% •
At his house, in Dublin, last ' • I

of DUARr, in the county of K. kenny. liis . .
ship marled ANNE, eldeA . i r
Of ALTAMONT, and sister to the pitscut Li
of SLIGO. _ _ _

On Thursday the Right Hon Joan Fosyse ar-
rived at Donagladee, in the north of Ireland, from
Portpat: ick.
liiteami, the celebrated singer, arrived in Belfast
on 'Tuesday last, on his way to Dublin.
Cro,ws, lyres, crowns, and diadenis, continue the
prevailing ornamenta in the head.dress of a Parisian
rk
Bi•itent, the author of La Filer:Ai Repiia, has,
to the great regret of all Paris, thrown away some
of his finest music upon a bad poem, imitled
and Pasgain.
Thepetiti-meitres are as fickle as the women of
Paris. Swords in silver and vermillion were lately
the universal fashion; irsw they wear steel swords,
and steel shoe-buckles, usstead of silver.
Mr. rawcarr was tn close, his engagement at
the Liverpool Theatre, lass night, in the chArafters
of Jack Junk, Frank Toppi;..And SKr:, in Tke
lancyer, for his own benefit.
Miss HARE, daughter of the late Member for
Knaretborough, has arrived at Leeds within these
few days, and gives a most flattering account of the
gaities of Paris.
A London seedsman, wlio had furnished a large
quantity of seeds for Madame Bomar s r r s's bota-
nical establishments, and had frequently applied,
in vain, for payment, was lately advised to wad in
his bill addressed to 4, the Emperor of the. Feiss u.
He did so, and was isomodiately paid; ito proud
was the little Corsiesinqo nave his title recognised
by an Englitb srrchrian.

The Roof°, George, besides plenty of other am-
munition, had a large quantity of gaut-pruder tea on
board, which, no doubt, made her conailet shot to
rattle about the ears of Rear-Admiral Linos&

M. GRASALT now conduels the orchestra of the
Theatre Lorovis, instead of M. Racial. GILASS&T
is considered the first violin in Paris.
The swimming schools at Paris, we are told by a
Paris writer, are conduCted with great delicacy and
decorum. There are distina schouis for the boys
and girls.
The Italian fashion of introducieg into an old
.opera, on"reenwt, that do not belong to it. begins ta
take in France.
The I lereford Music Meeting will boast the un-
rivalled powers of Mrs. BILIMUTON.
Brighton was so crowded with company dutin;
the races, that a great number of spur: in gentlemen
were obliged to seek lodgings at Ruttingdean, I luve,
and other adjacent places.
The Tontine Subscription for building Pali:is
Rooms and a New Thean e, in Sw.:nsc-a, rapidly
increases. The list has very recently been honotned
with the names of Lord VENNON, and T. ‘ViND-
A Ms EA. M. P. for Glamorganshire.
Messrs. SWIISDAL and Hoc asioost have opened a
Theatre at Newent, In Glotmestershire, which has
been very fully attended, and greatly encouraged,
by the first families in the neighbourhood.
The Melo-Drawe is all the rage at Paris. The
following. new We-Drawn were in reli.earsal
n.
the 15th last—Coesse la Clemency de Frelerzel II
&die Is Belle Mdasaise I Dismeaaia»,; and k Mot:
ToooSath.
A Parisian Bear wears his shoes eight dam I*
coat three weeks, and his hat a month. His haft,
tailor, and shoemaker, then take them back
one-third of the prime cost, and supply him se
new. The fashion thins changes at least twelve tie,
a year. Should a sudden revolutioa take place.
takes on extra, for which he pays an extraoidinat.
price.
Friday se'nnight, Colonel Svcrs, and the Office•
of the Birstall and Batley Volunteers, gave an eleger
ball at Birstall, which was attended by all the bunt
and fashion of the neighbout hood.
The places of public amusement in Nornich
crowded almost every evening during the ass
week. At the Theatre several new Comedies svi•
brought forward, in which Mr. Suirsi, a Peferm
of great professional merit, made his first apy
ance. At Natoli's garden, on Wednesday sr •
ing and evening, there were 4(XX) per.ons pn
and at the Assembly, the same evening, about '
fashionables of the city and county.

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