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London, England, 1808-01-02 00:00:00

FASNIOAS.

The filtering article is furnished by ■ r.rni Lady of on•
questtmlatme ta,te, and wits fi vie orfcle of testnort and
Ittpv,y. 9einC deeply ',ousted tot. all the mystews
the toilet, she has ittonatied, from time W time, • similar

Mrs. Toots has for some time reigned unri-
valled in the fashionable world,aud had the supreme
dire tion of raps, bonnets, leathers. flowers. and
tinsel. She bas dressed and undressed our ladies
just as she pleased ; now loading them with velvet
and wadding, now turning them adrift upon the
world, to run shivering through the streets wilt
scarcely a covering to their backs ; and now
obliging them to drag a long tram at the .r heels, like
the tail of a paper kite. Her despotic sway, howe-
ver, threatens to be limited. A dangerous :lea' has
sprung up in the person of Madame BOUCIIARD, an
intrepid little woman, fresh from the head-quarters
1 of fashion and folly, and who has burst like a
second Bo AAAAAA a upon the fashionable world.
Mrs. Toot', notwithstanding, 'seems determined
1 to dispute her ground bravely, for the honour of
Old England. The Ladies have begun to arrange
themselves under the banner of one or other of these
horoines, and every thing portends open war.—
Madame Boucn alto marches gallantly to the field,
flourishing a flaming red robe for a standard,
.• flouting the skies ;" and Mrs. Toots, no ways
dismayed, sallies out under cover of a forest ot ar-
tificial flowers, like Ma i.coi.ss's host. Both parties
possess great merit. and both deserve the el/dory .
Mrs. Toots charges the highest, bat Madame
BOVCII•ID makes the lowest cut tesy. Madame
Boucnaari is a little short Lady—nor is there any
hope of her growing any larger 1 but then she is
perledly genteel—and so is Mrs. Toots. Mrs.
Toots lives in --..-, and Madame BOUGH Aso
in ---; but Madame atones for the inferi-
ority of her stand, by making two curtseys to Mrs.
Toote's one, and talking I. rench like an angel.
Mrs. Toots is the best looking—but Madame lieu-
curiae, wears a most bewitching little scrubby wig.
Mrs. Toot' is the Idlest—bat Madame Simmers's')
has the longest nose.—Mrs. Toot a is fond of roast
beef—but Madame is loyal in her adherence to
onions: in short, so equally are the merits ot the
two ladies balanced, that there is no judge's which
will 44 kick the beam." It however seems to be the
prevailing opinion, that Madame Soucu• en will
carry the day, because she wears a wig, has a long
nose, talks French, loves onions, and does not charge
above ten times as much for a thing as it is
worth.
Under the direllion of these High Priestesses of
the beau-monde, the following is the fashionable
morning stress for walking.
If the weather be very and, a thin muslin gown. es frock
is men advisable, because it agrees with the season, being
pmfeelly rel. The neck, arms, and particularly the elbows
bare, in order that they may be agreeably painted and mot-
tled by Mr. John frost, nose.painter unseal, of the colour
of Castle soap. Shoes el kid, the thinnest that can persibly
be procuredi--as they land to promote colds and mike a lady
look interesting—(i a. gi ors ) Pie one silk Mod:togs, visit
lace mocks, Mesh-coloured are most faihionable, as they have
the appearance of bare legs—m.l4p being all the rage. The
stockings candessly bespattered with mud, to agree with the
gown, which should be bordered about th,at inches deep with
the most fashionable coloured mud that can be foam': the
lathe, permuted to bold op their tia I us, alter they base swept
tee or three streets, in order to show the Mucks' of their
stockings. The shawl, scarlet, crimson, Same. mange, sal-
mon, or any other combustible or brimstone colour, thrown
over one shoulder like an Indian blanket, with rine end
dragging on the ground.
N.il. li tit, ladies hare notated dual at hand, a red peter
lost iurti,l over the shoulders, worahido juntas well. Due is
calLsil Laing aimed • its ire/ola.

A 1. -1 t 1,11

LOSS OF THE ANSON FRIGATE

It is with great ..or,ovr we publish the folldsiifig
letter, which we received this morning, from Hel-
stone, containing an account of the loss of His Ma-
jesty's frigate Anson, Captain Lydiard
ig HELITONE. DEC. $B.

" I take the earliest opportunity of giving you an
account, hasty as it is, to save to-night's post, of the
loss of the Anson frigate, on the Bar Sand, two mats
and a half south-west of this town. She sailed, all
well, on Thursday, the 24th, front Falmouth—just
got on the French coast, and was driven off by a S. W.
wind; endeavoured to weather the Lizard, but
could not ; and after being embaycd, and lost every
anchor, came in before the gale. Captain Lydiard
and the Fir►t Lieutenant arc both lost—wheiher any
other Office:mare lost I cannot rightly learn. From
the irregularity of the arrival of the crew, no mus-
ter can yet be made. Report says, 150 are atis•
sing. A person just come from the wreck, says,
she is in shivers."

THE COMET.

ittrAST, DEC. 20.

The Comet, which it was thought by slme,
would have disappeared at the back of liereder.
has moved at leist 50 degrees farther, and is still
visible, with a magnifying power of 10. It ap-
pears a round whitish spot, without a coma,
scarcely di,tioguisliable from that milkiness. which
composes the 4iatoty where it is now situated. Its
place on the 24th inst. at 12 p. m. was about 4 de-
greet beyond Alpha Cyoi, in a direttion towards
its apparent motion has decreased, both in
right asceniion and declination, but more in the
lathy than the former,

Manor-Hoate, Hayes, Middlesex,
Dee. di, 18(1.
Ma, Entroa —The error of the general intelli-
gens% that the Comet has disappeared, induces me
to inform your numerous Readers, that it may be
still readily seen with a good op'era glass, in the tail
of the Sawa ; it is within the circle of perpetual
apparition, and never sets ; and I saw it on Sunday
last with various telescopes, and again last night,
near the stars Nu and li, in the constellation
(Ifitists. I am, Sir, your obedient Servant,
H. Watcta.

The Margaretra, Gutless, from Lierponl, was
all well. in Congn Kiser, Attica, on the 12th

September.
i 4e iretsiaaa's Journal, a Dablin paper, alluding
to the story of a rotes Bull having been sent to
it And. And an account ut it given by Onetor
Mos Lamthe Titular Bishop of Cork. says, ••sys h.v •
it from unquestionable authority. that Dolor Mc v-
AN, the titular Bishop of Cork, bas not been bn
Et gland for years—of course
•Etor Mar L AN bad never any interview or in-
.

telCOUtfre WWI his Grace the Duke 01 PORT LAN D.....
nor has

•o Dr. Moor t. AN had any epistolary eommnnica•
Lion with bis Grace—in fine, we repeat
•• The whole story, tram the beginning to the end,
it mahout the shighttst foundation."

We are happy to have it in our power to an-
nounce, that the old prove' b. Chanty begins at bone,
it so tar eartied into effeifl, that the Gentlemen of
the Sheriffs' prison are about to perform a dramatic

entertainroeul for the benefit of their distressed fel-
low debtors. From the benevolent intention, we
have no doubt of the performance being weli at-
tended•—(Deb. Paper.)
FeJr' having been entertained for the safety of
the Frieashbo, Rusted. DIINNI.Q. master, which
sailed from Monte Video. for London, on the llth
of August last. under convoy, of which she lost
sight on the 18th ; we hare now the pleasure to
state, that she was safe in Rio Janeiro on the 12th
of aftober, as a letter has been received from her

master, on board, dated at that pit on the day
above stated.

In consequence of His M•Jrsrv's order for all
military rank to cease in the barrack department,
Mr. (heretofore Lieutenant-Colonel) M.Keitzia.
will be no longer eligible to hold the situation of
Seoretary to the Royal Military College. as the
rules of that establishment will not admit of any
but a military man filling it.
The regiment of the Old Buffs has completed its

second battalion to one thousand strong, through
the exertions of Colonel Bussusv, in procuring •c-
-lunteers from this militia; it has, in consequence,
received orders to embark with the hr t expedi-
tion.

Game is so plentiful on Sir M. M. T es's ma-
nors in Yorkbhire, that the Baronet has been, and is
continuing, to treat his plumpers at the late Eleaion
for the city of York, upwards of 310. with a hare
each. 'this, however, is not *folic without being
ti,,Onred with a party spirit, as each hare has a
ticket tied with blue ribbon, and on one sidt is
written when killed, on the other, the foolish Ind

insignificant sentence--/Ve Papery.
Last week, the two companies of Kilmarnock
Volunteer Infantry. commanded by Captain
Paaees, unanimously agreed to allow a propor-
tion of their pay. for the relief of the Socie•y of
that place. for procuring substitutes for we Mi-
litia.

A young gentleman of the name of WeNrn cut
his throat, yesterday, at the New Human's Coffee
House, Covent Garden. He had just art ived from
Liverpool, and ordered his trunks into a bed-charn-
bar, when he followed them into the room and com-
mitted the shocking aa.—The wound was dreadful,
the wind-pipe and throat beit.g cut quits through.
He expired immediately.
The composition of Morley Mend; Mires infinite
credit on SA mosasor. Leader moil Composer at the
Seas Persil. Th. Overture is zlbw and beautiful,
and the introdoaoty movement, on the rising of the
curtain, whew morning gradually breaks on the
scene, end the monkeys appear recovering from
their midnight slumbers, is the most pleasing we
ever heard. The warbling of the °thee flutes, ac-
companied by the stringed instroments. Pasuseato
has the ere& of birds singing and chirping at the
peep of day, and form a kind of wild melody truly
novel. The Pathetic Ballad, written by Mi..
SCOTT. is sweetly set, and charmingly sung by lit-
tle Duaoussat, in the chataaer of the
Negro. In tea, the whole of the music is so diver-
sified, and well adapted to the various intetestily in-
cidents in the Ballet, that it must delight the nayst
scientific ear.

r • sow-staaet.
DUELLING.
Oa Thursday., about eleven o'clocka Mr. Nam*
the sitting Magistrate, received priVatE information
that Captain Campbell and Captairt Herbert, of
the East India Company's service were to fight a
duel, at twelve o'clock, that day, on Wimbledon
Common, near Jerry Aber:Acme.: gibbet ; in come+
(pence Of which, Mr. NAltel is,ued his warrant
against the parties, and dispatched Adkins, in •
post.chaise to apprehend them, attended bop
T. Jones, one of the patrole. They proceeded to
the spot with all possible speed, where tiley arrived
soon. after twelve o'clock, but the parties were not
there, aver could Adkins learn that any gentlemen
had been there for the purpose of fighting a duel ;
he went to the Bald-face Stag Inn, about half a
mile distant from the spot, and inquired of the
landlord, who informed hind that he had seen
three gendernen in a chaise go on the Heath, fol-
lowed by two on horseback ; they remained a little
more than a quarter of as hoer, and then returned;
the chaise went towards Kingston, and the horse-
men took the road ter London : a man in the inn
said he heard the report of a piatol, while the gen.
'denten were on the Heath, and concluded they had
been to fight a duel. This, however, did not satisfy '
Adkins, and he proceeded on to the Robin Hood
sad Lkde John Inn, and made inquiries of the
landlord, and while they were conversiog, the Rev.
Mr. Butcher, of %Vend:worth, an adtive Magistrate
for the county of Finney, rode up on horseback, who
was likewise in purser' of- she duellists, awd said he
bad received private informed°a of their int-oatioa
to fight on the spot where Sir Francis Burdett
and Mr. Paull did, en Coomb's Warren ; the
Magistrate and Officer accerdin4ly joined in their
pursuit ; the Magistrate took the road, and the
Officer went through the wood. Immediately after
the Officer got upon the Warren, be heard the re- •
port of two p:stors, which convinced him it was t'as
duellists, but could not see any buoy. As soon as
Mr. Butcher came up, he spurred his horse, and
set off, with great speed, towards the spot M-!Cre the
reports came from, an ihe s s,n m-t a pos.-eliai.ea
with three gentlemen in it, who proved .o be s.lapt.
Herbert, and Mr. Simpson, of the lourrunitsw, his
second, and Mr. George Cann-y, a surgeon, f
Feathersto•te-buildings. The OtiLer suit p d due
chaise, and told the gentlemen he had • warrant -
against tnena for a breach of the peace, and they
were his prisoners. The gentlemen hesitated some
time, but at length very properly surrendri et. to
tto Officer's autoority. "tbey Oren drove to the
Robin Hood and Little John lan, at Kingston-
tiottom, where Adkins left the gentlemen in
the custody of Mr. Butcher, and went In per-
suit of the other party ; in a abort time he
met a chaise and tour, with Captain Campbell
and his arcon.l. Mr. George West Barnes, of
.:
Limmer's Hotel. 'the Officer told them his bu-
siness, and they went to the Robin Hood and Little
Jiro Inn, and the, proceeded to London, and in
the evening, they were taken before Mr. Gaga A as,
when it appeared, that Captains Campbell and tier.
heft had Ought a duels whenAdk;ns beard the repeal -•
tit the pistols, without either party receiving any
injury, and on the interference of the seconds the
parties, were reconciled. Mr. Graham, however,
did no: think this sofficiene, cod had the.
their seconds, and the Surgeons to bail, themselves
in COOL cadh, aid two sureties us 1001. each. The
cause of dispute was, as is generally the case, a fe-
male, which
smelt place on Wednesday Agin, at a
bail.

omo•toto-Novsg.
nonfat Young was charged betore the Loge
M• OR with stoleotly assAuttmg J "4 b
about 14 or 1S rests of age. io Grace-hut...-sire is
on Thursday evening, isetweeo elitit and nut*
o'clock.

It appeared, that as 'Young was passicg through
Grace:hurcS-sweet, with • load on his earl,
complainant. Pope, rushed against him by accia
dent, and ran off. Young I.itt down hie
and followed him. He overtook Pope at iht
Church, where he pinioned him with his k et
against the wall, and struck him a chrsperste
blovi in the eye, as the latter was t6.lcasLisn. g
to shun it by crouchiag. A gentleman of the name
of Run heard the bny, Pope, scream, and went to
the place. His eye was quite closed, waif bleedirg
very fast. Young attempted to run away, wh
Mr. Run laid hold of his collar, and called to stye*
Pal persons to assist in securing him. When the
persons so tailed interfered. Young became relrac•
tiny, and struck a man of the name of Ber.
ridge, who, teturned the blow, and they fought
three or tour rounds. Young was taken to the
Compter, where he gave charge of Berridge, who
was detained there all night. The boy, Pope, went
to a surgeon, who examined his eye, and who gave
it at his opinion, that Pope must have been sit u.k
with some slurp insuun:ent, as he was cut in two
places, ene along the eye-blow, and ti.e ("thee
straight down the forehead.

Y'o.ung, in his defence, said, Pope ran against
him designedly, and afterwards began to laugh st -
him, which vexed him very much, and lie ran after
him. Pope, in stooping, hit his head against
Young's fist. He denied having any thing .n his
band at the time.
The Loan Mayon ordered him to find bait, and
in default thercol, to be committed to take bis trial
at the Sessions.

A General Court-Martial commenced on Wed.
madly. for the trial of the Paymaster of a Regi-
ment of Dragocns, for having oVerdrawo the Re.
giment :1 Agent to a very considerable amount.
'I he Judges have met. and determintd the re.
saved point of law on the case of Mr. Ballot* the
bankrupt : it will be delivered Is the prismer ay the
Judge presiding at the approaching Sessions at tbe
Old Bailey. _ _ _

'That useful hints are frequently conveyed by fa-
bulous history is universally acknowledged. We
learn from it, that FOrtillb•el Temples were parties-
larly crowded at the commencement of every new
year, under an impression that her earliest vnt tries
would thereby pin her smiles throughout the year.
What a seasonable bust at the present moment t
when the wealth-giving Dame aria soon have to Er
stow above 330,0001. in I. State and eat/ Los-
Wks, wtuals are now depending !

LAW INTALLIGENCE.

DOCTOR'. COMMONS.

WILL I. InoWN MIL(..

ort Saturday last came on, before Sir WILLIAM
Kunst. Judge of the Prerogative Court of Canter-
-David Mill, 4Ape. late of Matlborougb-bul ildings.
Bath. The eauie had been long depending between
tie deceased's brother, John Mill, Esq. of North.
side, Furfarskire, opposing these papers, and Dr.
Brown Mild. of Bath, contending fur their validity.
A number of witnesses were examined on both
sides ; the question being, whether nr not the late
Mr. Mill had sufficient capacity to ;rake the codicils,
by which a considerable benefit was given to Dr.
Browo Mill, who some years ago. at the testator's
particular request, relinquished his praftice, as a
Physician at Bath, and went to live With the Tes-
tator, and attend him in town, being very infirm,
nud subjent to violint attacks of apoplexy. It was
lieoved, that in IL 2, 1)r. Brown, at the express de-
sire of the deceased, took the name pnd arms of
Mill, .and at this period one of the codicils was
:cuted, by which the Testator made him joint
Laecutor,•and residuary Legatee, along with his
brother; who lived in Scotland.
The subscribing witnesses .to the codicils in dis-
rate were eminent medical characters, and respe9a-
tile gentlemen of the law, by whom these papers
were prepared. They all spoke to the indubitable
capacity of the deceased, and their evidence was
must fully corroborated by many of the deceased's
old friends, gentlemen of the first respe9ability, who
proved that Dr. Brown had aided with the most un-
remitting care and attachment to his friend Mr.
hiip ; and that the latter often expressed how much
he was indebted on that accourit,tat that Dr. Brown
had been the means of prolonging his life for several
years. This evidence was only met by four ser-
vants, who had lived in the family, and who swore
most positively that their Master had never been el
sound mind since the end of the year 1799 ; but the
teatimouy on the other side completely outweighed
and discredited theirs, and Use codicils were cons.-
qaently all established.
Itt the course of the trial, prrels were adduced, by
Dr. Brown Mill, vs shew that he had been very in-
strionetual in effenling a reconciliation between the
Testator and his brother (the party in this cause),
with whom he had been at warfare for many years,
but to whom, event. ally, he left a principal part of
his fortune, and made bon an executor. This hap-
pened subsequently to the time of Dr. Brawn Mill's
loin to live with the deceased.