The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1808-10-27 00:00:00

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INDIA. •
MADRAS, FEB. 3, IGO.
ACeOtlitte fin Bombay state; that Sir Ilatford
Jones hos arrived on the frontiers of Persia. being
one misition,to that Court, as Envoy and Pienipu-
teatiary from Hot Britannic !Nlajesty.
•••iattaivata—Liesitiossas.Cutprel Herr, 22d Dogwood.;
• Liettieuaut.culunel Dayia,,,AitsittLiratenant-colosiet
!AU t Bajos Scutt, At}iN. It. j Captaut Warbarton, 2,1
B 15Ih VC—Captain Little, 3.1 R.—Captain Paisley,
7th R.—Lieutenant Biseett, OM R. ; Lieutenant W
Staab, M. E. It; Liesteaaat ti. Maltby, tialt R.; &dent.
laterite; Lieutenant bleat, 93d .Dregoona; Ewan Trent,
Jot B. 7th ; Surgeon Pcott, let Ital. Attillery ; Assistant
Surfena Siwpaun ; Cadet Clarity Addison; Mr. W. R.
Drraittrat,—(Thlutiel CoAter ; Captain Pritteffon,
teA Dragoons ; Licateaaiit Jam Matisse, Foil Adjutant.
• Front Bengal we tears that& tke Aurora,. Captain
Glass, and two ur three other ships, huvearnved at
Calcutta, from China, betwteis the 7th and Lith
instant. r.ll-:: lett Marao-the end of Novetutter,
cud iniug no neon cf iziattieulur interest.
Fite Mudeste frigate, the Ilon. Captain Elliott,
Bengal, hail safely arrived ut China, prevtous
t . departiire of the ships above mentioned.
~e Mode:lie, at the date of the present ac-
e9.li,rs, was preparing to return to India. by that

remittniax% were expected to l.c ship-
J, to the extent of nearly- a niillinn sterling.—
file frigate, it was believed, would lease China
about the end of Deeeniher.
The fate of the English seaman, detained in
China, us a hostage, on account of the homicide of
a Chinese, in the early part of the season, in uu
Orin with some English builurs was out derided
at the date of our present accounts. The man was
still 4letaicied, to await the thud adjustment of the

The Mandarins had erigogerl, while the English
511race/zees acre at Mai ao, that the Crintinal
Court at Canton would be content with passing
the sentence usually dennanced against Foreigu-
ers guilty of lesser offences, namely, expulsion
from China ; cr. as the Correspondent of The
Mirror terms. it, Banishment ro his :Vetere Coun-
try. This issue oldie affair was ferrous* time ex-
pected.
On the Sttpracargo returning ae usual from Ma-
cao to Canton, ditficulties were started, and the
subject was teken Itith the apparance of much
0,14.. silty the Mandarins, who proposed that
sheald• be brought to trial. On the
- ii."7lPrinber, the Chief Blatidarin "of the.''Court
' of ;Justice etme out of the city in great staip, and
purmally required of the Supracarners,, atat the
I.liorituge should be delivered up for null,
To this proposition, Mr. Roberts, the chief Sit-
,prorate), gate a peremptory negative, though
*conveyed in polite terms. The I%iiiirdarin reported
proceedings to the Viceroy, who, on hearing of the
t refusal to give up the titan for trial, affected an air
rot sialtinness; and menaced the English trade
with some obstruction. At this crisis, the Norferti,
fripts .attired at Alacao. The Mandarins con-
ceived ter Shiva!, at this juncture, to forebode no
hope of success toi their design of intimidation ;
sad a report was bawl", circulated, at the same
time, that the frigate came fee the egprecstipurp&c:
of claiming the British subject. Tlie Mandarins
now began to lower their tone ; cad signified to the
bupnwargoes that it was understood no further.
notice would be taken of toe matter ; and Mr. Ro-
berts gave notice that the man, pursuant to the
prosnifted sceteoce of the. Chinese Court, would
embark for England with the first fleet.
The leading Mandarins at 'Canton appear to
hare employed the affair as.aninstrument to extort
large sotto of money, pert/candy front,Alloug
the Security Alerchant of the,rirepreas.lnaliaman,
with whose crew the affray happened. illouttuoa
had already paid to thc.e rapacious Ministers of
corruptiosi, upward* I.f one lac and twenty thou..
band dotter's. The Supracargoes were of opinion.
that the matter would occasion no further trouble.
The homeward-bound Company's ships ware
completing their cargoes at Wharuyiwt, at the date
of the latest le. ters. The price of opium, iii China,
is stated at 1.00 dollars a chest.
Bengal CUtiUll, 14 7 tale per pes-ul.
A brig, under Portuguese colours, was seized by
the libdeste frigate, in November, near the Type,
in consequence of certain inforinutiurt that she was
Spar:firth property. It was doubtful whether she
would be toittleittlird at China, or sent to Bombay,
for thud *bode:taring.
The Nancy grab, from Calcutta, arrived at
Mauve% the middle of November.

miI:T:4IIY '2l.
• 31ACQU ERA Dr.
On Tuesday reeliitt4, it grand inusgiv.raile wits
given by din. I takes, which wan rural numerously
arid splendidly attended.—The characters wen!
many and exero4.lt-•-snd tlw whole scene exhibit-
ed that gaiety, gond-tnim.,ur, • merriment, awl
playfulners, which cannot faillto render this specie%
cif .mttertnninent at mice pny.ular, ;ile4.;ng, and es-
hdirating, dirri.,g; the cool season in India.
The 4:arils of Invitation speritilYl eight o'clock,
as the hour of asiwintsline, and slimily after the
Company Iregan to «war the morns,• where they
were received by :this., 4111 LS, unmasked. lie-
fore the hour of ten, the house was literally crowd-
ed, and a more picturesque and motley assemblage
cannot easily be conceited.
Among the characters we were able to discover,
the following were prominent. 51stly other's, hos-
e er, of equal merit, eluded our search.
/rehab—rty Me. Flahts,re-........t.he satire emdieme en
t.eutely well ems etwed—the importssity fiw PM ploy Writ vv'
prrlllea, and the native brussiiity mild etteution to .lichee,
b str—sre ealiout, buarver, do tuna ample just'. e
to sat. that the Smiuks i'..hisied loW
witesece him the rooms, att.'. a Chubdas, uf.cr hi,. gelling in,
was os the poiut of tuxtLoi• hlto not, until the civil ake was
iiberorered.
Meandasen Priarso—Mrs. Ihtleymple —A moat 'legalist
aad appeuriate dress—die ellaxneter estivisely well sap.
purled, at. attended fleeing the erenine by • ifraiwbaa•,,
who found a most able rerresentative Captain Noble. •
Nieolsue' sod Slow Iltarrosebsei•
the national sd.hee. well expressed—and the charactisii
supported with the peculiar (sae And elegance shuck ditto-
iguisb that t.uuatry.
.1 llarataker—Culaael Agoew oho handled his seu,,aa
soas to give the greatest satisfoe'tion Cu thaw who Flood hi
seed of his turtling was announced to tire
r•Nlic,lty the f.tilu chug band-hill
Carmel, Ladies' and Geutlemeo's Staydnaker,from Paris,
ban tine honour to inform the Fashionable World, that he
boa taken the Preuii.s, lately urn 'Tied by ileyiu-s
Imo • and Shapely, wheee be intelids to carry UN the bo.i.
Sege et his Pivheleiya, a all Cl. tuaselses, ea the sudilers

f.aphocA Inincip!,r of the art; and will he
happy to Hired Cum...uses of either Sex, at the shurt,..t
Notice.
" Corset 14 had the happier.' to nietrore and fit, in the
National Matieens. moire of the fiticit models of societal
art: be has alio unproved the opportunity affordesi by his
box residrice ie Paris, to practise on tliv finest forms of
rooderir fitters ; and he is cuoldoot the" hkelnalt glee the
fullest iiiittufactitni to any Lad/ who way JO iii.a the ho-
nour to confide the arcaugout sta of her 'tiara to his pro.
fmdonal taertione.

".comet has invented a variety of elasticities, to give to
the febrile brut that pleasing fuhipas of cn,!,,ur winch Na-
ture sometimes denies, and awe *climate too frequently
intplied: • He has also contrived,. by the application of
plc machinery, to compress exuberant plumpness into the
most elegant and fashionable embonpoint.
" Patent spring Direreer, which pr.iducc a decided sera.
ration, with no uneasiness to the breast ;,(41.eeirmits, moulded
on the dicdicren Irmo, and &a tonic, carzfully modelled
horn the very bpposite beauties of the renur aux belles
Perws, with or without flag; application of the cir.stic pricel.
pie, may be had at the shortest notice and Corset under-
takes to St them with secrecy and dispitch.
Geritiemen of improt cable liguriw may he accommo-
dated with' *boulders of auy breadth—with a proper faint ss
Oiiest, end with rakes of the most *peeved dimensions.
M niter), Characters, desirous of the reputation, hut unwilling
torisk the danger, of wounds, may be dirnisiwil with stiff
joints of any kind, and slings for susprildide them iu the
most interesting mane.—Cerser bad the honour to scree is
this line many Offwere of flank and rishioit whose Regi-
ments seised in Egypt, its Calabria, in the North of Europe
and in South America • and cast appeal to them for his Isar.
inc acteilsttietty iMt Kenner.
"Nit. (Vol lull no connection with Mr. Cnoefttl."
. .

intone% Ainiew stherwards assumed the character of am
~/./s.harir., v. hieh he supported with meat justice during
the rentaii:der of the ewe, remanent.
! Semporite—,Miss and Mips Amelie t'asamujor—most elm
emit dresses, easily, however, recognised, from the uncom-
mon i•xeellenee and great taste displayed in the Italian Meta
with which they delighted the eouspeny.,
A Ilwase-hhail—Mr. J. Balfonr—an excellent imitation of
that hustling occupation, attentive to the duties of the cham-
ber, and ever mindful of the interest of her employer.
A French Abilities, Lady Steamer, at, Enespalsm.l during the
evening by a French !lair-dresser, pirsoodied by Coluriel
Teemed.
A Mar:dark -Oh. Ord, with an invistant Mandarin, in
nearly the amine dress-m-74in Fraser, extremely interesting,
and the meanie of the Chiume well preserved.
/Nava—The Ephinian Goddess was uever represented
with more elegance or propriety, than by Mis. Greenway,
Mrs. Marsh, and Miss Jane Casumsjor.
Aiwa, was equally well reprevented by Mr. Thomas Harris.
A (`Tier, in the bands of Mr. Harlow, and M. William
Mackenzie, kr pt the Company in a roar of langhter•-•The
Sate rtf !Figs was a happy thought, nn.l the horses at the
Meuse, and several other of their prudectioss, excited the
risible ,fsgulties of their hearers.
..I {eflerare Giekurbrresel, albs Gahegan—A very excellent
mask: and hot tufty cognisable, but shortly laid aside for
thatuf s Savoyard,
A Hifiehlarel Cher, Lieutenant Matlikessie oPthe Rental
Fatriblisliment—A most •tal deem, supported in a Ulla.
'IV at; le. We never haring sees a Isere correct
ineirtrarn, either in dress at masiter, of the stational elm-
rat iel .
!tame, 15 Mr. Wallace, as usual, rise of the best masks is
Hie gimp.
Nuns, Mrs. Irving and Mae Hellbent's, who perambu-
lated the Rooms with all the sanctity mid devotion that the
:must taloned Catholic could have wished.
Alien„ curd Ai, Legacy, by Capt. Troubeiffge end Captain
vat, of the Royal :Navy, ancorainenly well peifurnied.
' . A Ilarley+.+, by Liedlenant Wood—.la Invalid (Weer, by
Lieut. Couper--.1 Yarkrliirenkre, by Mr. Hale, of the 2NI
Craebour—.l Devil, by Mr. sleste--.4 Jew, by Mr. Caulfield
—A Covilrinian, by Mr. Moore--A Gardener, by Mr Grant-
-4 .f•or Notary., by Mr. Roo oith—t 1. or, by Mr. Wynne,
and a Stew, by Mr. Locker, were noticeable front the great
rpirit they exhibited in their different characters, and the
bustk• they kept up during the eutertainineat.
' • .1 Paton, Rajah, Mr. lii ore. A most splendid dress, sup-
. potted with great dignity, and highly descriptive of native
grandeur and cossespence
.d Xpartish Lady, Slim Williams. A most elegant dress,
happily -fancied and gracefully displayed.
A QAek Theerfee, by Colonel Hare, and a Friar, by Colonel
Osiris, hedsevery support the ebora:am were capable of re-
. etkiolt.
I'Lltifile the cud of the entertainment Mrs.
o.iipt nittle her appearance as a Sabena, in one
of the most rich and elegant dresses ever displayed.
'The character wiis Supported with much judgment,
:end added greatly to the splendour of the scene.
.4S.;hitiese, Tailors, Barbers, Old Clothesmcn,
.4.4,9, Chimney-sweepers, l'ietnen, Newsmen,
Blind riddlers,Minnelukes,l'ersians,Aralis,Faines,
Nurses, &c. completed the circle, which alsouuded
with cheerfulness, mirth, and hilarity.
The supper tables were laid in a spacious room
erected fur the purpose, and fitted up with the
greatest tsiste and splendour. The tables were co.
vet'sl with every luxury, unil the scene was most
; enchanting and gay. The company afar supper
I returned to the Ball-room, which was not deserted
uutil the morning gun gars the signal to depart.—
' Piedras Gaseitl./