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MS. MONTAGUE EuNcan'firs BALL, AAktr•
ST3FET.

On Friday evening last this I.ady gave a Ball
and B..pper to above 1.)00 of the fashionable world.
The ! )farm appropriated for the ball-mon), being
the front and back parlour, were chalked in the fo
lowing manner, •is.—ln the centre an Imperial
crown, and on each side a ball Pen, with dancing
figures, musical instruments, &c. and at the lower
end we observed a star, with festoons, tee. in varie-
gated lamps. The ball was opened at eleven o'clock
By Lord DLPPLIN and Miss Boacovia, to tL•e
c‘ilebrated tune of .2. Ka* Red, followed by

Capt. Flemori-.4 LAdy C. Jenkinsan
Mr. I'.llst,ll.b.on L...dy S. Yana
Lard Forbei I.idy C Paget

LuntTe

Lady M. Paget, &c. &e.

The company sat down about half-past twelve
o'clock to a cold collation, served up in the front
drawing-room. It consisted of sandwiches, tarts,
.&c. At two o'clock the dance was resumed, and
was continued with spirit, until morning was ftr
advanced. Among the fashionables present were—
rar4—Stanhape, Mountnorris, Nfacclescse!l, and Aboyne.
ficauiolois, and D Front.
—Grinistun, Fnrh4,, and Famottth.
loorJs--Wallientrharn, P.,tslet' Bradfuni, RrAybmok, Ran-
. diffe, Grenville, Levason, Lcutshati, Dupphn, (;races, %V.
and C Itnniact:.

Sirr—T. Leittimil, R. Capon, .I.llarrincon, F. ll:wkins,
M. Ridkv,and 11V

(,corral Thc.nitim.
Golowle-1). Cannßey, Rob-rts, I(oll, and Ltun
Caphirka--ILarvey, Flemming, kinr, and Ilorliarri.
Mese, skind, Baker, F. Dani,ls, Wil!.raltams, A. bo-
wen, Lu•bington, A. Thoniton, Hales, B. Paget, Wi.stern,
Hens=, king, Ilav, Pneoi, Courtenay. Wow), GIMIftII,
ktett, Tuwer, Ml's, 11;bersow,Thellusson, T. Thellunan, Pat-
strati!, Pipe, Neville, Town•liend, Abdey, Andrews, Jenkinz
son, Dtlredll Piarre;.i.rint, and Pcrcy. •
Cesu.stnes;—Forttscue, Ikirlgewater, Liverpool, Mountnortig,
llacclaifield, Harcourt, Chinning, Uxbridge, Westmoreland,
4:4snaarivii, 31KI TAnkerrti c.

and G-,sford.

Ladmo--E. Foremen', L. Harie.y, Lawington, Perth, A.
L. Stunderi.„ Fikiiboonigh, C. Jinkinson, Lushington, F.
Sunimmszt, W.Jce, R. Butight-n, lt,Wilun LiVoid, Bayning,
Rent, Tanker/int., M. Parke., Harr'.ogton, C. and M. Pag t,
Ridley, S. Vane, two Towi.silencis, two Mershanis, Bost°
Arnhem, W. B;..ntinek, A. mid M. Belinttr, and M. Fell-
gambe.
Niarrsies--Baker, Beni, Steer, Conyers, \Vilbuliams,
Thompson, I)orien, MJLa, We.,t, K. Thornton, Knee, Slostyti,
Fitzhugh, Cieevey, Smith, Mont.iguc; Stroud, Bciiyon,
Brown, RuSerts,Duary North, Webb, Thai:non, Cotton,
Hotham, and Stin

Madam e
31taare--Ey-g, Stour, Harvey, Conyers, Wilbraham.% Thom p•
am, Peashall, l~gb. Lo•hintou, Ruhr. Rirhakilk,
Wake, Boughton, Grimnon, Ibbetsno, two Tounshends,
lent, tit.llrr, Antonini, Colcin.u% Dewitt, Payne, LockLut,
Slurry, Rksiley, Bu.carcu, and Lk vkaon Gov. cr.

Yesterday morning his MAJESTY, attended by
General GssYNNV, Equerry in waiting, rode to the
right of Ascot-Heath Race-ground, and there
ailet the Earl Of SANDWICH and a number of gen-
tlemen sportsmen. At half past ten o'clock the
Royal Deer was turned out of the cart for the day's
diversion, and the weather proving fine, the sport
wail as good as any Hunt this season has afforded.
Her isIAJLSTY and her Royal Highness the Prin-
cess Aucisr a, attended by Lady CAROLINE DOL..
M.Za, and other attendants, walked to Frogmore,
where her MAJLSTY and the Princess amused them-
selves in the ganienc during tho morning{.
Her Royal Highness the Princess ELIZABETH,
attended by Mrs. 10RAX, took an airing in a phae-
ton in the Great Park, accompanied by their Royal
Highnesses the Princesses SOPHIA and AAIELIA on
horseback.

Yesterday about one o'clock the Princess MAIN
1:001C an airing in the neighbourhood of Fulham.
This morning their MAJtsrits are expeaed at
the Queen's House from Windsor.

Yesterday morning three Messengers arrived at
Windsor wi.h dispatches from Ministers.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the
Treasury, which did not break up till four o'clock;
Aso a Council of the Board of Trade was held at
the Cockpit. which was not over till tire o'clock.
Last night Mrs. FREEMASTLE gave an elegant
Rout at her house in Stanhope-street, which was at-
attended by all the fashionables now in town.

Mrs. WEDDLE'S Mubic, Upper Brook-street, and
the Countess of Po i:TAMOUT H's Rout, Lincoln's-Inn
field's, were very fashionably attended.
Sir G. ►SHEE gives a grand dinner, this day, at
his house in Berkeley-square, to a mica party of
fiends.
Sir IV. EAGLE Wm. BY gave a dinner on Monday
last, at his house in Argyle-street ; and in the even-
lag Lady WEL' v had a soled party of friends.
Contrary to the usual custom, Mr. MOOIIE, the
successful candidate for Coventry, desirous that the
people might resume their labours, had the chairing
deferred to the day immediately after his ele:tion,
;..nd although but a few hours were allowel to pre-
pare, the procession was attended by many thou-
sands. Mr. Moose and his friends afterwards ad-
jaurned to the Castle Inn.
The Duke of RICHMOND arrived at Brighton on
the fret of April, but his Grace did not go upon a
1-2,l's errand. 4
Sir R. HEAVE and Sir W. Gs ARV have taken up
their residence in Jerrryn-street, for the season.
The Miss C &NE s took possession on Saturday
last of their rit:w house in Tenterden-street.

Yesterday the Right Hon. Lord HirrentNson,
after being made free of the Worshipful Company
of Salters, proceeded to Guildhall, accompanied by
Sir Joii Es.mr.s, knt. and the Master, Wardens,
and Court of Assistants of the CemFrany, to be ad-
mitted to the Freedom of the City of London, voted
him by th,: Corporation, for his eminent services in
preserving the important colony of Egypt to its an-
cient possessors. Mr.. Coe:gaga Lam, in a very
handsome speech, communicated to his Lordship the
lesolution of the Court- of Common Council, when
he was sworn into the Freedom of the City, and afi-
terwards presented with a sword of one hundred
guineas value ; and his Lordship returned the •fol-
towing answer :

" Mr. Craatetretertr—i have received many honours from
my Sovereign and my country, Out prise none more highly
than the asa.kef rte;iect which I bays, through you, received
tido day from the first commercial City in the itorld 1 still
cherish a hope that Peace may continue; but should the am-
bition of a peel enemy again sac us up to take arm•, to pro-
test every thing that m dear to us, I trust l shall ever be reedy.
to dm bargee the duties of any iituason I may ►e entrusted
with, and prove myself not entirely unao:thy the favour. be-
stowed on ina by my Sovereign, and particularly by this great
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The ingenious and learned Professot Zif this
Science, whose interesting le&ires we have nide:-
Toured to convey an idea cf, yesterday renewed his
discourse and experiments. He observed, that he
h id unveiled some of the properties of Galean!sens
and shown in whet manner they diifered from those
'of Electricity, and in whet they coincided with
that power. Galvanism, like Eledricity, required
the same conductor and non-conduaors; and, per-
ha s, might ultimately be found, that it was a sort
of rimy, the modification of which constituted
a distind principle.
By Elearicity every part was'at once acted upon:
not so by Galvanism; its action was slow, and only
a small distance from the point of contaa.--After
a variety of experiments, for the purpose of ehewing
the comparative powers and properties of Galvan-
ism and Eledricitv, he remarked, their effects, with
regard to eeimated matter, were extremely unlike.
Galvanism, in this resped, had a specific action en
the muscular and nervous system; by the applica-
tion of this principle, that action was induced which
threw the muscles and nerves into a state of active
animation, by its powerful stimulus. The decapi-
tated part of an animal evinced proof of a living
principle. He stated, that the result of the enquiries
on this astonishing science, proved the very great
importance which might be expected to be derived
from the application of it, in cases of suspended ani-
mation, where there was no corporeal derangement,
but where the component parts of the body were
competent to the performance of their respective
animal functions. it should be his province, in the
course of this and subsequent lectures, to trace its
effect in restoring animation, suspended in conse-
quence of drowning, or being exposed to an atmos-
phere where the pure air was excluded.
in the present lecture he should, preparatory to
other and more importan- experiments, show the ef-
fect of Galvanism on the muscles of animals, after
they had remained suspended a considerable time
in atmospheres, supposed to be instantaneously de-
struCtive of the vital principle. He observed, that
in cases of hanging or drowning, the cads upon
the animal economy were perfedly similar; when-
ever the communication of pure air was with-
held, death, or at least apparent death, soon ensued.
Dance it had been the object of medical men to re-
store animation, so suspended, by means of exciting
muscular motion. Galvanism afforded this happy
medium ; for, upon applying it, it had been found
every mode of the human frame, exposed to its in-
fluence, was instantly put into a violent state of agi-
tation.
To determine the truth of his theory, with regard
to the power of Galvanism on the muscles, in cases
of animation suspended by an impure atmosphere,
he should immerse the limbs of a frog in different
gases, such as the carbonic acid gas, the hydrogene
gas, the oxygen gas, and nitrous gas. The
Ledurer accordinely, by the proper chemical 7-0-
cess, first filled the receiver with the carbonic Acid
gas, and suspended in it the limb of a frog, which
had recently before been taken off the animal ; he
left them to the operation of the impure atmosphere,
during the space of twenty-five minutes. He re-
marked, that the carbonic acid gas was one, the
effea of which soonest destroyed life, and, as had
been supposed, every principle of animation ; but
the truth of this supposition, he should disprove, by
the experiment he was about to exhibit.
The Lecturer having taken out the frog, after it
had been so immersed, and applied the galvanic
fluid to it, the effect was nearly as strong as that
produced upon it before its immersion. The infe-
rence of the experiment, he said, was this ; that
many persons, who had become victims to the in-
fluence of carbonic nitrous, or other noxious and
life-destroying vapours, might, by the means of
Galvanism, have been recovered. Though life
apparently seemed destroyed by the operation
of a carbonic atmosphere, yet it was evident from
this experiment there still remained an irritability of
the nerves, and a muscular vibration, which Gal-
vanism was capable of arousing into action. If the
carbonic acid had destroyed that muscular anima-
tion, it would have been in vain to have applied the
galvanic stimulus; but as it was evident, it did not
destroy it, so it was equally evident, that animation
suspended by vicious atmospheres, might, by the
application of Galvanism, be resuscitated. He re-
peated the same kind of experiment upon the limbs
of the frog, immersed in the hydrogene gas, and the
nitrous acid gas ; and, lastly, by suspending them
in inflammable air, which, he observed, Wr.s of the
most deleterious and deadly nature of any, and had
been supposed to cause instant death. I his notion,
which had been taken up by some of the most learn-
ed men, was now entirely disproved; for it had been
ascertained, that animals which had respired oxygen
air were capable of being revivified by the irresist-
Me impulse of the galvanic fluid.
The Leeturer having made these important ex-
periments, and accompanied. them with observations
stilt more important, as they held out the certain
hope of those casualtieswhich haVe heretofore affect-
ed human life being counteraded, proceeded, for the
instruaion of such of the company as had not at-
tended his former ledures, to repeat some of the ex-
periments we have already described in our pre-
ceding papers. He brought in the head of an ox,
which had been cut off from the animal about half
an hour before, and placed it in the middle of his
tremendous and powerful battery. Whether it was
owing to the muscles of this animal being larger
and stronger than those of the animals on which he
had before made his experiments, we will not pre--
stone to determine ; it is our province only to state
to our readers what was the effed produced. The
died was ten times greater than had heen produced
by the former experimentse Upon applying it piece
of the Galvanic metal to the mouth, and another to
the external part of the cesophagus, the whole head
was thrown into the most convulsed motions ; it al-
most produced a sensation of terror to see the enor-
mous head of such an animal thrown into such vio-
lent and strong agitations ; its motions absolutely
shook the table on which it was placed ; it exhibited
all the symptoms of that animal when in its enraged
state ; its nostrils seemed inflated, its eyes glared,
the pulsations of the muscles of the temple were
beyond conception violent, and imagination almost
conceived that these incredible phenomena would
have been succeeded by a dreAdtul roar; so pow-
erful was the agency of the fluid upon all the mus-
cles at the same time. One oldie company, a gen-
tleman, whose name we know not, but who had re-
peatedly in the course of the lecture put a variety of
Iquestions to the ingenious Professor, asked bins

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whether similer,e.Taas were pmducel by the
plication of the stimulus to entire animals ;
they were dead ?. The Leaurer answered in
nffirmative, and informed him of the result .
an eipetimeat upon a dead horse. He stated,
that by the simple application of the galvanic -
tali, ow. at the head and the other at the extremith:s
of that animal, and bringing the two pieces of mer
in contea by a wire, it immediately began to kir'
tee most violent manner,so as to render it dangere is
to those who stood near it, and not even the force
of two strong men could counteraa the action of
the dead beast. Tlie Lecturer now applied his sti-
mulus to the tongue of the ox, having previously
drawn it from the head, and fastened it to the table
by driving through it the ends of a large pair of
compasses. Upon applying the metal to the nerve
communicating with the tongue, the head made
many and repeated efforts to draw its. tongue back
into the mouth, and at last succeeded in violently
jerking the compasses out of the t:tble.
When these surprising experiments were con.
eluded, the Lecturer proceeded to shew the corn-
plrative power of Galvanism and Electricity, by
suspending a spiral piece of bell wire in a receiver
tillA with oxygen gas, or inflammable air. The
wire was set fire w ; and certainly no eellibition of
the pyrotectical art ever gratified in a greater de-
gree as beholders. A vivid flame run up the wire,
consuming it as it went, and sendirg forth sparks
resembling those in that species of fire-works called
a flower-pot. The globules which fell from the de-
composed wire, on the china plate on which the re-
ceiver was placed, were of such intense heat, that
they melted the enentel, and forced their way
through the plate
Such were tho experiments which accompanied
this day's leaure. The Leeturer said, it should be
his objett, in his next lecture, to prove the power of
the Galvanic principle in the restoration of animals
which had been drowned.
The company &parted, highly gratified with the
experiments they had witnessed, end the informa-
tion they had received.
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LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF CHANCERY.
LINCOLN'S-INN HALL, APRIL 5.
In a Cause Petition, brought by the London
Dock Ccenpany, praying that certain sums of
money aaached to their concerns might be paid
into this Conn, the LORD CHANCEL Loa took occa-
s:on ea observe, that it had for some time past
been the custom of persons engaged in undertakings
of more than ordinary magnitude, to m ike similar
petitions, and that the praaice increased every day,
and became troublesome. If, however, it was ne-
cessary such applicatier,s should be continued, his
Lordship did not see why the Court of Exchequer
should not also be addressed in common with the
Court of Chancery, or the parties might apply to
the Accomptant General of the Bank, who would
be ever ready to transaa their business, without
making the smallest objeCtion.

POLICr.

MANSION-HOUSE.
Yesterday Elizabeth Levy, and another woman,
cha'ged on Monday last with having attempted to
destroy a new-born infant, were again brought up
for examination before the Lord Mayor. In addition
to the former evidence geveu upon this charge, a
woman, named Sarah Isaacs, carne forward, and
stated that .he knew the prisoner Levy and her
daughter ; also of her having formerly had two chil-
dren, which were both conveyed away in a manner
that left room for a suspicion, that she had de-
stroyed them; from the impression that such had
been her former conduit, the witness, with others in
the neighbourhood, agreed to watch her pro-
ceedings, having learnt, that on Sunday last, after
Miss Levy had been delivered of a child, in the
most private manner, without even the assistance of
a midwife, or any person that would have been ne-
cessary upon such an occasion. It was late in the
evening, when she was observed to come out from
the house, with the . infant in her apron, with
which she proceeded to a sewer, and was stooping
down, apparently with an intention to make away
with it, but was prevented by a boy. Ihe witness
had often asked the prisoner about her two former
children, and had been told, that they were both
taken care of by their father, Mr. Norman.
Nofrnan was calkd ; he said he was an exciseman,
and he had known Miss Levy seven years ; he had
lived with her the greater part of that time, andhe
believed the child which was the subjed of the pre-
sent inquiry to be his, as were the other two, of
which suspicions were entertained ; one of them he
said, died a week after its birth, and the other in
about.a month. FL:denied having had any knowledge
of the birth of the infant found with the prisoner
when he was with her, which was on last Saturday
night • he then gave her a two pound note, and had
not been at the house since. Two persons, how-
ever, proved their having seen him at the house on
Sunday afternoon.
His Lordship said, that the charge brought
against the prisoners appeared to bear evident marks
of foundation: it was apparently the most horrid
transadion that had ever been brought before him,
and he was determined to make every enquiry into
the cause of the death of the two children above-
mentioned. He therefore ordered the prisoners to
be re-committed for further examination.
Yesterday the Master and Vs ardens of the Bakers'
Company waited upon the Loan Mavoe, at the
Mansion House, to set the Assize of Bread ; his
Lordship having examined the hlealwcighers' Re-
turns, ordered the Assize to be continued the same
as last week, viz. 91, Wheaten, and 7: Household
Quartern Loaf.
To-morrow the LORD MAYOR will hold aCourt
of Common Council in the Chamber of the Guild-
hall, for the dispatch of business, and to declare the
vacancy of the Office of Comptroller of the City.
Mr. WI 1. 1.1 WOODFAI,L is again r. candidate.
for the Office of City Remembrancer. The success
of so able, intelligent and deserving an individual,
would doubtless give pleasure to the public at large,
as well as to a numerous train of private friends.
A letter from Rotterdam, dated March 24., says :
" Notwithstanding the hostile demonstrations and
preparations making in all the ports of England, the
expedition equipping at the mouth oldie Meuse for
Louisiana does not stand still. The embarkation of
French. troops for that colony proceeds, and early in
April they may all be on board the transports ; every
thing indicates, that the expedition will sail immedi-
ately afterwards."

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