The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-08-02 00:00:00

PAAMAN •ALL DRESS.

i'rocit of spite figured gauze over a white sap slip, w-
omanised with two sows of crape tcessus•ds Pine ; the boat
urnsuteuted by a broad lace; t►e body sad sleeves of white
satin sod crape ; the sleeves slashed a-PEsparale. The hair
full dressed, with two loasidsoss of pearls isteratiogled os
the summit with large faY•blowa roses. Necklace formed
of Iwo rows of °virtual pmts. While crape faa finagled
with silver. While kid ;dippers, sad white kid gloves.

Fur walking, or for the carriage, peliaora and 'pesters of
rus-de.Napks or Wham natio, are likely to be wine in fa.
Sour.

Anseept the newly-invested halals tree of the &Dry hied,
for the awcient English tesfente, called the Digby atetique
fiat ; it as of black satin, trimmed with ruby satin ribbse,
with a pointed crown. Carriage bats are of white 'atilt
with white feathers, ur of spotted silk with red sad white
ruses ; another carriage hat is of wive silk of the Jose rose.
culotte, with white feathers: transparent net bonnets are
elan inesels in vogue fur the eseriage sad public walks, and
sae severally ornamented with beeches of roses. Walking
bats nod Internet' are of fine Lesiva'. ; sad are sometimes
crimped with harvest sosepys.

The dresses are chid!), of fine muslin; cambric for mons.
log dresses, trod India muslin for half.dress; t►e former are
of the wrap kind: the frmks for half•dress are made partially
high, and have a broad besilloai kind of tuck round the
bust, through which boaritiond luck is run a coloured rib-
bon : and the Imig sleeve turns back at the baud with a
twinged satin cuff of the same colour as the ribbon. Sum.
amr ball dresses are of white gauze with coloured sprigs;
I,be sleeves abort, slashed at the top drEspagnole, and she
points fastened with an elegant hied of negligence to other
rims turned back from the sad of the abort sleeve. A
myrrh bordering of narrow striped gauge I. bias, with
broad quilliop of ps lace, finishes Ibis dress.

be sew beaddremes consist of sus half -deem eisrasffe of
ors, with a Henri Quafre crown of white satin, finished by
a 6o•quet of • full.bluisn June rose, lilies of the vaky, and
preys t. The Parisian cap u-la.Paysawwe is muds in request
at our summ. r (brains; it is of fine ad and while satiny
srAli • tassel of white beads on the left side: • quilling of
Wood mat the face finishes this simple bead-dress. Fur
recolug.dress, the Elsincue cap of white satin and i•e ad
is • very elegant hrsd•dresa; and when crowned with a
plume of ostrich feathers differs but little Irons t►e Capers.
balm bat.

GLIINAAVON.—In consequence of a polite inti-
mation from a Lady of rank, generally supposed
to be the Authoress of Weissman, the Proprietors of the
Hovel Coburn Throb e have, at her request, withdrawn the
bnehly popular and intertstirg raelo.drama takes from that
mutt, although sot up in • superior style, with au little etc-
pease; bat frum another quarter wholly unconnected (they
are happy to And) with that Lady, • bribe of 100/. has been
rent in an anonymons letter, to suppress the same. It is
the Jetirriniiaatiun of the Proprietors, that sinless the

parties shall disclose their reasons for having offered the
bribe, that the Nadu drama will be produced iv the course
of a few days.

Its Excellency the Algerine Envoy was expected
yesterday at Portsmouth, to embark in the Myrsai•
don. O. Captain LEEKS, on his return to Algiers.
Four Officers of his suite had arrived. The Myr-
midon is expected to sad about Thursday.
The present contest for Wiltshire is the severest
ever known in that county. It is not supposed that
t'.o electors will remain Impelled at the close of the
contest on Wednesday next. The number of elec-
tors resident in London is estimated at about 80.

Last week, a young man of Lincoln, upon ex-
aniMing the model of the French guillotine in Ma.
dame Tusssun's collection, wished practically to
prove the power of this fatal iiistrument, and caused
line to be made upon a small scale for the purpose
or cutting off the heads of fowls, &c. On Thursday
an experiment was made upon a couple of ducks.
A youth. servant iu the house, was executioner. but
IRA being very dexterous in his oliceElte'bed the
fore huger of his left hand cut off. and another
wounded to the bone. He is now in the hospital.