The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-01-14 00:00:00

ROUSE LESS POOR.

The residue of the funds that were collected about four
,years since, fur affording nightly shelter to the numerous
outcasts that are seen waniks ing about the metropolis it a
state of wretchedness, we are happy to state, have, since
the present inclement season, been again appropriated to
the benevolent purposes for which they were intended.
The Committee of Management were deprived of the ex-
tensive receptacle in llonduras-street. Old-street, occupied
as the Refuge last winter, in consequence of the proprietor
having disposed of the premises to his better advantage;
and they have therefore been on the constant look-out for
a suitable building for sheltering these wretched individua's
during the present winter. Their exertions have at
length proved successful, u they have engaged at a
vast expense the spacious warehouses of Mr. Holt,
in Grub-street, Cripplegate, for the purpose. These
premises are situated at the end of Grub-stret•t,
in Fore-street, and were formerly occupied as warehouses
for Manchester goods that arrived by the different waggons.
They are extremely spacious, and well calculated for the
purpose they are intended for. Since they have been in the
possession of the committee (which is formed by the same
benevolent gentlemen who acted four years ago, when the
Refuge was in London-wall), a number of carpenters and
other workmen have been, and are still, employed in
making the Refuge more commodious and comfortable fur
the wretched inmates, to whom it will doubtless afford
consolation to know, that it• the present cold weather con-
tinues, the receptacle will be olk•ned for them to sleep in
on Friday or Saturday next. The iiremises (Pickard's
brewery), in Wapping, which wi re opened last winter,
will he also open this, for the admission of sailors and other
houseless individuals about the east end of the metropolis.

AVe are informed that another secephye is about to be
opened in the neighbourhood of St. Gdk s.

FEM.4LF BEAUTY.

The women of the Continent, and more especially of the
islands of Greece, are extremely beautiful; it would 'in-
deed be astonishing if these descendants of the Greeks
were not so, since the women of all their colonies, as Na-
ples, Sicily, &c., are still remarked for it. The large and
expended eye was, perhaps, the most distinguishing feature
of the Greeks, and it is still to be found among their de-
scendants.

The women of Turkey possess considerable beauty;,
they paint their eyebrows black, as did the Greeks.
The women of Arabia are not destitute of beauty in their
youth, but they have the custom, in common with many
barbarous nations, of disfiguring themselves by rude out-
lines traced upon the skin, a custom which doubtless
originated amongst those savages, who, being naked, and
without any other ornament, adopted this one. The
women of the East are applauded for their beauty by
almost every traveller. lieloe assures us that there are no
women there, even of the lowest class, who have not the
fresh tint of the rose on a skin which is white, distended.
smooth, and soft as velvet; • circumstance perhaps arising
from their frequent use of the bath. The custom of the
Sishometans of purchasing the most beautiful women they
can find, has doubtless also contributed to their beauty.
Ilence the Persians, who were formerly a deformed race,
have now become, especially in their great cities, as 'spa-
hen, as beautiful as the Europeans.
The Tchercassians, Mingreiians, Eacliemirians, and
Georgians, are famed for their beauty. Hence in Turkey
it is not permitted to Jews or to Christians to purchase
' thew beautiful women: this is said more especially of the
liachemirians, who are reserved fur the Faithful. These
women are brought as slaves to Constantinople, .snd there
sold while young, and hence scattered all over Turkey, in
order to serve in the Ilarem, or produce children for their
masters_ From the account which has been given us of
them by the female Christians of this country who have
visited them, and from the small number of those whom
the practice of physic has afforded us an opportunity to see,
it appears that they have European features: almost all are
fair, with (lark hair; wine have flaxen, or light brown
hair ; all are finely proportioned when they are young,
hut they generally acquire, through repose, good living,
and the frequent use of the bath, an em-/ion 'POW which
j constitutes the delight of the Turks, and which, severthe-
less, exceed tho.linaits of beautiful proportion.
Very 'bawd@ women are to be found in India:
such arc those of Lahore and 13enares. Although
their Complexion is a yellowish brown, the ex-
pression of their features is extremely soft and possesses
great vivacity, and their figure is elegantly and delicately
formed. The yellow women of Golconda and of Viupore,
fare still sought for in Asia.

The IVOI''II,CII of Barbary are many of them beautiful.
Those of the mountains of the Atlas arc sufficiently fair,
but those who live in the towns, sheltered from the rays of
the sun, are of a whiteness so pure that they would eclipse
the greater number of our European women.
The women of Egypt are of short stature ; Juvenal says
of them, "In Mem" erusitg tegjorent papillum."
Among them an excessive cm-bun-v.4ld is esteemed a
great beauty ; and in order to effect et they cat immode-
rately of the must nourishing food, live in a state of the
greatest indolence, and make excessive use of relaxing
baths.
The Negresses have also their beauty and their value:
some of them, when young, having a nose straight, t.r
almost aquiline (though this is by no means necessary to
Ethiopic beauty), have also a figure which would not dis-
grace an European, the lips in many instanees projecting
but slightly, the advancement of the cheeks being scarcely
apparent, and the bosom being accurately placed.—Jteth-
cal Adviser.

Cute von Exam—John, Duke.of Bourbonnois, pub-
lished a declaration in 1414, " That he would go over to
England with sixteen knights, and there tight to extremity
in order to avoid idkness, and to merit the good graces
of the fair lady whose humble servant he was."
FUENI'II Ct. u'Anw rs.—No person was admitted into
the regiment of genil'annes who hail not fought at haAt
one duel, or if he had not, he must take a solemn oath that
he would tight one before the end of a twelve-month. This
horrid custom continued until the reign of Louis XIV.