The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1804-09-10 00:00:00

GRAND MAGAZINE IN HYDE PARK.

This building, which is in great forwardness, is
upon an entirely new eonstruaion, and promises to
be very beautiful. It is situate upon the right hand
bank of the:Serpentine River, within a few yards of
the wall ,of Kensiogton Garden. It will consist of
two solid arched vaults, the walls of which are four
feet thick. The mortar is a new sort of cement,
called stopping mortar. Each arch is seventeen
feet in the clear, and fourteen feet high ; the square
of the two arches will be fifty•two feet by dirty-finir.
The building will be surrounded by a yard 14 feet
wide, with a strong exterior wall. There are to be
two offices, a cooperage, and a guard room, divided
by a screen of stone columns, with a stone front
thirty feet in height. The floor of the Magazine
eiil be oak planks, dove-tailed, without nails.—
One hundred and fifty men are daily employed
upon this work. The builders are Messrs. Adams
and Robertson, who built the docks and ware-
houses for the West-India Company.

Lord MOIRA is on a visit to the Duke of ATHOL,
at Blair.
Lord CASTLEREAGH gave a grand dinner on
Saturday, to a large party of fashionables, at his
villa, at East Sheen.
Lord MELVILLE is on a visit to Mr. Purr at
Walmer-Castle.

We have authority to contradiet the paragraph,
which has appeared in several papers, of the mar-
riage of Lord EARDLEY to Miss CHI IDERQ.
The Dover correspondent of an eveeting piper
will lower the price of coals, as he can supply plenty
of firing.
The Countess of UXBRIDGE left town on Sa-
turday, to visit her daughter, Lady Gsitsies, at her
brentiful seat in Sussex.
The Hon. Mr. Dv r r sported yesterday, in Hyde
Park, his curious Arabian hunter. It is spotted
like a leopard upon a dark cream coloured ground.
Lord and Lady IIasELAGH are expt :led in town
this day from Grange, where they have been since
their nuptials.
Countess CONYNGH AM will leave town to-mor-
row to join her husband, the Earl CO, YNGHANI. at
Mount Charles, in the county of Donegal in Ireland.
Sir H. MILDX A Y has given up his elegant town
house in Stanhope-street.
General LUMLEY is locum tenens for the Earl of
ScAssosotGH, in his Lordship's elegant house in
Park-lane.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Gust:ernes
will set off in a few days from Weymouth, to visit
his son, Prince WILLI A st, now in Lancashire.
Mr. C raIRF of the Circus will have reason to be
in ;on, humour with his benefit, which is patronises.'
by the Duchess of DLVONSHIRE.
The Frerch sailors are great thierev. We hear
constantly of "their tiozeing a:1 along shore."
In the alphabet their are only four r;verv, viz, the
Wye, the Ex, the Dee, and the Ems, and yet they
are not all liquids.
The remains of Mrs. Armee were removed,
on Saturday, for interment, in the family vault at
Brocklesby, in Lincolnshire.
H a Royal highness Prince WILLIAM of Gi.ou-
eceise horoured the Liverpool Theatre with his
presence, last Wednesday. to see T4e Coweiorea Lo-
wers, and Rfloe;itg the End. Mr. Lcwis's Tom, and
Jerry Diddkr, and Mrs. GLOVER'S Phials, were
inimitable performances.
Mrs. MOUNTAIN performs her Lyric NJeel;ll at
Sheffield, this night, for the benefit of Mr. LANZA,
junursr.
This night week Mr. M'Cseaoy promises to ex-
hibit the fefast Roscius, at the Sheffield Theatre.
The Worcester Manager has nut been so fortunate;
his promise is for next season.
EMesY's benefit at the Liverpool Theatre was
on Friday night last ; BAR ET MORE'S will be this
night ; and Mrs. Gcovce's on Wednesday.
Pizarro must appear to great advantage upon so
grand a scene as the Opera House, which the taste
and judgment of Mr. BLLISTON have seleCted fo:. its
representation.
The Hon. E. PAGET is row on a visit at Gin-ban:-
bury, the seat of Lord Viscount GRIM:4I'ON, wink
his intended bride, the Hon. Miss GRIMSrON But: Pi-
, is hourly expeCted.
The Countess of CHARLIESIONT arrived in town
yesterday, at her house in Berkley-square.
The Bishop of KILDARE arrived in town on
Saturday, at the house of his sister, Lady Anise
Bteetano, in Berkley-square, from whence he set
out yesterday, for 'Winipole Hall, the scat of the
Earl of HARDWICKE, in Cambridgeshire.
Lord G. L. Gowen left town on Saturday, to
pay a farewell visit to the Duke of Besuroax, at
Blandford P..rk, near Woodstock.
The lion. Mrs. LiNDIAT gave yesterday an ele-
gant dinner, : t her beautiful villa at Hendon, to a
Torge patty, incruding Colonel Go SOON Lady M.
Po-nyrt, ecc.
In half (lieu, it is very elegant style at Paris to
wear ear-rings of a small gold ring, or per.dents
son,isting of three large brilliants in a string.
Has a Parisian etvgante a silk robe of hortexsia
colour? Very set II; but Madame is not complete,
tiniess it he trimmed all round with a trimming in
imitatirn of fur, made of cotton, half white, and half
rose colour. This is an entirely new invention.
The fashionable colour for the body of a carriage
at Paris is American gre, n, or rent d'eas (water
,grren) and creamed collie. In figure it is a globe.
Among the Toasts drank at the entertainment
given on Wednesday se'noight at Belfast, by the
Corporation of that town, to the Earl of HARD-
WICK E, were,
Th^ Ching Merchantmen, and the DANCI they 'hewed the
French.
Ntly ti7cne who cannot dipit a Kind, be obliged to swallow
ant•lrev•.i.
On Thursday se'nnight Sir Joists Nawroar,
Bart. was elegantly entertained in Dungarvon, by
the principal inhabitants and Elesftors of that bo-
rough.
Matlock is at present a scene of great gaiety ;
etyma seventy Gentlemen and Ladies dine daily at
tashionable ordinary, where there is a profusion
of Come.
it is said that Mr. 11:.:er, the antagonist of Lord
sw.roan, was on board one of the packets,
wi:ich svas lately captured, after a short engage-
ment with a l'rench privateer, in the West Indies.
It is rep: rtelf that Mr. 11. was killed in the action.