The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1803-04-01 00:00:00

PARMA N FASIIIOXS.

Six days of fine weather have produced great changes in
every part of the tridette. Several satin peliss..s have been al-
ready replaced Sy .•host perkale robes. Jackets trimmed with
Lu e have, in some instances, succeeded to spencers trimmed
with swans-down. Veils, even parasuis have re-appeared,
and several dozen of cropped heads have .hewn themselves,
Suppose the hair as short as in the cape of the neck
and behind the care, long upon the crown of the head, and
collected in a pyramidical bunch ur flat upon the forehead, ai.d
you will have an id+.•-i of the two new fashions of gimps. Hats,
which are much enure eernmon than turbans, are it:mod up in
fro! t, when they are of .1 round shape, or resemble a bow net,
when they are üblung. The favourite c lours are rose, lilac
barbel blue or jormiti!. We see several hats of the lager ea-
loui, wired with narrow blick yeket. We begin to c a white
straw hats with the le4f turned ur, and trimmed with rose :Ab-
bott:. Yellow straws are very rare, have the leaf very narrow,
IA are trimmed with white ribbons. Coloured ccstuses,crussed
upon the back iii a double X, are sell worn. The :lecres of
the white perkal • robes are long and full, without being
puffed.

According to the latest regulations for Schools
and Universities in the Russian Empire, each of them
is to have its Leaurers in Theology, its Library,
Cabinet Collation, and liberty to publish a periodi-
cal work upon the progress made in the refinement
of manners, morals, &c.

A private letter, lately received from Paris, con-
tains the following anecdote :--" A circumstance
occurred close by us, in Rue Monmatre, the corner
of the I3oulvards. The master of a coffee-house
died ; they of course sent for the undertakers to
bury him, which they could not do for two days.—
When they came to perform that sacred office,
he was alive, well, and in his business : a fortunate
escape for him !

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Tat KING b. HILL ',ARLEN*, ESQ.
This was an Indictment on a statute (but too
rarely enforced) the statute of the nth Ann, which
punishes the offence of challenging, or provoking to
fight, or assaulting or beating any person, on account
V money ason at play, with two years imprisonment,
and forfeiture of goods and chattels.
The Defendant, a gentleman well known on the
turf, was indieted on this statute at the Quarter
Sessions, and the record was removed by certiorari
into the Court of King's Bench. On Monday last
Mr. Serjcant fits.? moved, on the part of the De-
fendant, to postpone the trial, on account of the
absence of a material witness. The Learned Judge
thought the affidavit insufficient ; however he con-
sented to postpone the trial till the Tuesday, when
it came on.

Mr. GURNEY opened the indictment, which
charged, that one Samuel Emden having- won the
sum of fifty pounds of the Defendant, by playing at
dice ; the Defendant, on account of the money so won,
assaulted and beat the said Samuel Emden.
Mr. GA ate ow stated the case on the part of the
prosecution, with his usual energy in causes of this
nature. He inveighed against the consequences of
that pernicious vice, gaming ; it was, he observed,
clestrudive of the happiness and peace of Society,
and not unfrequently attended with calamities which
had been but faintly delineated by the pens of our
most cekbrated dramatic writers and poets. It was
a vice which, in a moment of mental intoxication,
hurled its victim from the highest pinnacle of hu-
man happiness to the lowest abyss of misery and
despair. It was a vice which at different peri-
ods had levelled the fortunes anil honours of the
most opulent and splendid families, and urged men
who, but from it% infatuation, might have dispensed
felicity around the circle of their friends and relatives,
to the commission of the most shocking crimes. It
was therefore a clime, against which every well or-
dered State had been anxious to ems& lawsof the most
penal operation. The laws provided by the legis-
lature of this country to suppress the pradice of
illicit gaming, or those breaches of the peace which
were but too often the consequences of it, required
only the exertions of the virtuous part of the com-
munity, in order to produce that effect, with a view
to which they were originally framed. Having
made these general remarks, the Learned Counsel
proceeded to state the fasts, wi.ich were briefly
these. He said, that Mr. Emden, being at Brigh-
ton in the summer of 1801, was invited to phi?
with Mr. Hill I)arley, the Defendant. He stated
they played with dice at a game called ester
and under :men. In the beginning of the play
Mr. Emden lost considerably ; but after some time
the run of luck changed in his favour ; and at the
conclusion Mr. Emden, the Prosecutor, was a win-
ner of ,:bout fifty pounds from Mr. Darley the De-
fendant, and of thirty-five pounds of another gentle-
man why was of the party. The other gentleman
immediately paid the money he had fairly lust, but
so did not Mr. Darley ; on the contrary, he made
an appointment with the Prosecutor to pay it in the
evening; the evening came, and he was either un-
prepared or unwilling to discharge his debt of ho-
nour. He appointed the next morning, anal the next
morning he deferred it to the succeeding evening.
—ln the evening, Mr. Emden and another Gentle.
man with him, called on Mr. Dailey, to demand pay-
ment of the money he had lost. Mr. Darley, ac-
tuated by that spirit whicit but too generally in-
fluences the minds of professed gamblers, wished
to as oid paying the sum that had been won of him :
he wanted Mr. Emden to commence a new course
of play ; but this Mr. Emden positively declined,
and pressed fur his money—The Defendant Mr.
Darley absolutely refused to discharge the obliga-
tion the chance of the die had imposed upon him
and being again pressed, he had recourse to th
most unwarrantable and atrocious ads of violence'
He beat the Prosecutor in the most unmercifu•
manner, and terminated the outrage by Icickingi
him down stairs.
The Learned Counsel having thus stated the
fasts, called upon the Jury, by their vcrdif, to
make an example of a man who, having violated
the statutes of the country, had dared to aggravate
his offence, by so audacious a brea'cli of the public
peace. He trusted, that the event of this day,
would teach men who lived by the profession of
gaming, that the law was not to be offended
against with impunity—He hoped the penal conse-
quences of the charge imputed to the Defendant
would not induce them to palliate his offence, or de-
ter them from delivering him over to that
,justice,
within the scope and operation of which lie had
brought himself; he was persuaded, that their ver-
dict would read an useful lesson to Society, and par-
ticularly to that part of it which consisted of men
who, by the illegal praaice of gaming, preyed upon
the rest of mankind, and, when the fortune of the
die was against them, endeavoured to shelter them-
selves from the consequences, by an appeal to the
law of arms, or by acts of brutal violence.
The Prosecutor, and another Gentleman of the
name of Maitland, proved the fadsprecisely as they
were stated by Mr. Garrow.
Mr. Serjcant BEST said he should, at the present
season, decline entering upon any defelice of his
Client, the Defendant. It was not in his poster to
contradict the evidence on the cwt of the prosecu-
tion, in a way to produce any end}, with regard to
the verdict of the Jury. But he had various topics
which he should deem material hereafter to urge,
when the Defendant should be brought up ter
judgment.
The Learned Judge informed the Jury that they
had no alterative with respect to the verdict it was
their duty to pronounce.
The Jury immediately found the atendant
gu by.
The Assize terminated.—Many of the prisoners
on the Crown Side were tried by Mr. Garruw.

The Hon. Captain PAGET is app iinted to the
command of the Eudyndou frigate at Portsmouth;
and the Hon. Captain ELPHINSroNa ..ING, to
the Egyptinuse, at Woolwich.
Professor MALLET, at Geneva, has juste tblished
a very interesting work, intitled, 4, Historic dt.t.
Suisses ou Helvettans," &c. in which the history of
Switzerland is brought down from the :emu, st
times to the middle of last year, whets the rl Ell
CONSUL of France began " to mediate with effeff,"
for the/urn:anent wrlfare of the HelvetiaaltepoLlic.

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