The Sun.
London, England, 1823-01-02 00:00:00

FEMALE BEAUTY AND ORNAMENTS.

The Ladies in Japan gild their teeth ; and
those of the Indies paint them red. The pearl of teeth must be
dyed black to be beautiful in Guzurar. In Greenland the
women colour their faces with blue and yellow. However fresh
the complexion of a Muscovite may be, she would think herself
very ugly if she was not plastered over with paint. The
Chinese must have their fret as diminutive as those of the
she-goats ; and to render them thus, their youth is passed
in tortures. In ancient Persia, an aquiline nose was often
thought worthy of the crown; and if there was any compe.
tition between two princes, the people generally went by
this criterion of Majesty. In some countries, the mothers
break the noses of their children ; anti in others press the
head between two boards, that it may become square.-
-The modern Persians have a strong aversion to red hair: the
Turks, on the contrary, are warm admirers of it. The female
Hottentot receives from the hand of her lover, not silks nor
wreaths of flowers, but warm guts and reeking tripe, to dress
herself with enviable ornaments. In China, small round eyes
are liked; and the girls are continually plucking their eye.
brows that they may be thin and long. The Turkish women
dip a gold brush in the tincture of a black drug, which they
pass over their eye-brows. It is too visible by day, but looks
shining by night. They tinge their nails with a rose-colour.
An African beauty must have small eyes, thick lips, a large fiat
nose, and a skin beautifully black. The emperor of Monomotapa
would not change his amiable regress for the most brilliant
littropean beauty. .An ornament for the nose appears to
us perfectly unnecessary. The Peruvians, however, think
otherwise; and they hang on it a weighty ring, the thick.
ness of which is proportioned by the rank of their husbands.
—The custom of boring it, as our Ladies do their eats, is
very common in several nations. Through the perforation
are hung various materials ; such as green crystal, gold,
stones, a single and sometimes a great number of gold rings.
This is rather troublesome to them in blowing their noses;
and the fact is, some have informed us, that the
'lndian ladies never perform this very useful operation.._.
The female head-dress is carried in some countries to sin.
gular extravagance. The Chinese fair carries on her head
the figure of a certain bird. This bird is composed of copper,
or of gold, according to the quality of the person ; the
wings spread out, fall over the front of the head .dress, and
conceal the temples. The tail, long and open, forms a beautiful
tuft of feathers.—The beak covers the top of the nose ; the neck
is fastened to the body of the artificial animal by a spring, that
it may the more freely play, and tremble at the slightest mo-
tion. The extravagance of the Myantses is far more ridiculous
than the. above. They carry on their iteuls a slight board, rather
longer than a foot, and about six inches broad: with this they
cover their hair, and seal it with wax. They cannot lie down, nor
lean, without keeping the neck straight ; anti the country being
very woody, it is not uncommon to find them with their head-
. dress entangled in the trees. Whenever they comb their hair,
they puss an hour by the fire in melting the wax ; but this
' combing is only performed once or twice a-year. The inhabit.
ants of the land of Natal wear caps, or bonnets, from 6 to It)
. inches high, composed of the tat of oxen. They then gradually
anoint the bead with a purer grease, which mixing with the
hair, fastens these bonnets for their lives.—(Curlosities of
Literature.)

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MASONIC NOTICES FOR NEXT WEEK.
ENGLAND.
Monday, January 6, Lonox. Nos. 5,289. Quart3lo4
27, 39, 11/'
tt :
2'3,
Boys' School, at 7. 48
COUNTRY. Nos. 20, 64, 72, 102,1,
')0:' 3
019 °B7 111
191,
369, 372, 39, 423,- uut„
502, 503, 509, 832, 5,*
644. $9l.
-7, Lox now. N. 9 240, 281, Ala
COUNTRY. Nos. 21,. 127, HI, Igy
180, 184, 198, 20,;1;,rm.
397, 476, 507, 5„1.al
544, 551, 557, "Vir
Wednesday, 8, LONDON. NOS. 3, 11, 16,19, t f
79, 96, 237, 257,
353, 435. 04 , ,
COUNTRY. Nos. 159, 213, 215,
314, 344, 440, 44207
478, 647, (16 1.
Thursday, -9, Lownox. Nos. 6, 18, 194, 271,
301, 3.26, 338, 491 ti
COUNTRY. Nos. 118, 111, 153,
178, 269, 278,354
531, 540, 591.
Friday, 10, LoNnois. Nos. 108, 161, 275.
Cour:l'llY. Nos. 53, 282, 281
IRELAND.
Monday, Jan. 6, Coax. No. 317. •
Tuesday, -. 7, Coat;. NO. 71. 1.-zga
Wednesday, 8, Cana. Grand Pror. 10,wir
Munster.

Tuesday,

SOMERSETSIIIRE.
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A Provincial Grand Lodge of -the County of Sotnc.•••
held at Bridgwater on Tuesday se'nnight. The. Office
..4
Brethren of the different Lodges of the Provinces sesent°l7.4k,:
the Grand Jury Room of the Guildhall, at eleven e'sePr
The R. W. P. G. Master, C. K. K. TYXTE, Esq• ill;
ceeded to open the P. G. Lodge in ample form, and t°
the Officers for the ensuing year; after which, the Gregi'7i
rector of the Ceremonies formed the l'rocession, with a belliso:
music in front, and proceeded to church. Prayers
ndt
by the Rev. Brother BARKER, of Taunton ; and an ecice"7
sermon was delivered by the Rev. Brother FORTIS, of Slitt
The Procession then returned to the Lamb Inn, and iweti
to transact the business of the day, which being conclude& 7*:
Lodge was closed in due form, and with solemn prayer'
4 o'clock the Brethren returned to the Grand Jury-ronnh
82 persons sat down to an elegant dinner, the P. 0.31 bit'
the chair, supported by his Grand Officers and the telor7::,
Divines.

STOCKS

NF. o'cLocit.

India Stock ..................
India Bonds ............ 400
South Sea Stock ...........
Old Annuities ...............
Ex. .................. 5 $.l
Ditto Small .................
Bank for Act. ...............
India for Con. Acct. o'a
Cons. for Account.......

at this moment 55 to I. In the earlier part of
the morning a good deal of business was done
both in Spanish and New Scrip.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.
(Front the Courier Frangais, dated Dec. 31.)
After mass, the KING 'held a Council of Mi-
nisters in his Palace, which lasted an hour.
Count d'Escars died last night.

It appears certain that yesterday there was 'a
Council of Ministers at M. Lauriston's, in which
M. Chateaubrand assisted, and at which it was
decided that the present Ministry shall remain
in office until the meeting of the House, which is
fixed for the 28th of January.
We have received the Spanish Journals, by an
extraordinary conveyance, of the 15th and 24th
Dec. iln the first there is nothing of importance ;
in the second, as well as in the private letters,
we do not find any thing to justify the reports
which one of the evening Papers reported yester-
day, and which several of our Journals copied
this morning. At the departure of the courier
all remained quiet at Madrid.
Letters from Madrid state, that the communi-
cations between the Foreign Powers and our
Government are very active, nothing of which
has as yet transpired.
• PERPiGNAN, Dec. 21.—The snow has not
ceased falling since Thursday, which has ren-
dered the roads impassable.
PUYCERDA., DEC. 19.—We are now certain
that Fleyres and Valere, after having been
driven from Campredon and all its environs,
have taken refuge in France.

(Fran: the Gazette de France, Dec. 31.)

Amongst the persons spoken of who is to be
Ambassador to England, is that of the Duke de

Fitz James.

13AYONNE, DEC. 22.—General Torregos, with
3,000 men, coming from Pampeluna has struck
.terror into the Army of the Faith, which has
retreated on our frontiers ; but on their arrival
at Lombiers they received orders to march for
Arragon to join the remains of the army of Baron
D'Eroles.

O'Donne), abandoned by most of his men,
who have returned home again, has himself
quitted all the positions he occupied in Navarre,
dividing his few remaining troops into small
parties.

ILLYnic, DEC. 11.—Lord Strangford, Ambits.
sador to the Porte, arrived here from the Con.
gress. A report prevails that the Turkish General
is authorized to offer an armistice to the Greeks,

CHOURSCHID PACHA, the Turkish Comman-
tier, who, by his enterprising spirit, and the
vigour of his military operations, placed the
cause of the Greeks in such imminent peril that
nothing but the most devoted heroism, and the
blessing of the God of Battles on their arms,
could save them and their country from destruc-
tion, has lost his head, by order of the barbarian,
ungrateful, and murderous Government, which
he had so zealously and so skilfully served. We
yesterday stated that the private letters from
all parts of the Continent had become re-
markable for the increased confidence with
which their writers spoke of the cause of the
heroic Greeks. From the important details con-
tained in the Foreign Intelligence of our Paper
of this day, our Readers will see that the expec-
tations in favour of Greece are well founded.—
Nothing, surely, can exceed the distraction and
dismay of the Turks, or the undaunted resolu-
tion and inextinguishable energy with which their
self-emancipated subjects have sustained and re-
pelled the successive attacks of their formidable
and infuriated enemies. The secession of
hostilities during the winter will enable the
Greeks to consolidate their Government, to
secure the advantages which they have already
-gained, to improve their domestic resources, to
recruit their armed force, and, we sincerely hope,
to obtain the recognition of their independence,
and the succours which are( necessary for its
complete establishment, from that Power which
is the most able to effect their deliverauce from
the Turks, and which, at the same time, can
have no political motive for subjecting them to
another and scarcely less barbarous yoke. Greece,
-which has proved itself so formidable to the Otto-
man domination as an enemy, cannot but be
valuable to England as an ally, if England,
boldly disentangling herself from the insidious
policy of the Holy Alliance, will but in this case
adopt that course which is plainly pointed out to
her by a wise and generous Icy I' , bytldictates
po
of humanity, and the doctrines and precepts of
religion. That the Turkish Empire in Europe
cannot much longer exist, has become obvious
even to the most superficial observers. It has
been gradually declining, until it is now but the
shadow of its former greatness ; and that shadow
has only been preserved by the jealousies and op-
interests of other States. In a few years

more, however, it must- ba finally dissipated by
the effects. of internal' convulsions, if not re-
moved, by the fire of a Russian invasion. Nothing,
therefore, can prevent the annexation of Euro-
pean Turkey toltussia, but the erection of a new
Christian Empire on the ruins of the Mus-
sulsnan Tyranny. The Greeks, who have so
nobly struggled for their emancipation from
oppression, under all the disadvantages of an in-
surrectionary war and of an imperfectly con.
structed and unrecognized Government, will of
course display equal heroism ; with infinitely
greater resources and power, and with all the
advantages which, as an independent State,
she would reap from her alliances with the
other Powers of Europe, and particularly with
Great Britain, in resisting the dangerous en-
croachment of Russia, and in setting limits to
the territorial progression of that overgrown and
rapacious Empire. The Greeks would be more
deeply interested than any other European na-
tion in disconcerting the vast projects of Russia,
because they would be more immediately endan-
gered than any other people by their success.

FRENCH FUNDS.—DEC. 30.
Five per Cents.
Closed at B9 f. 10 c.
Dank Stock 1037 f. 50 c.

- -
Neapolitan Five per Cents.
Exchange on London—One Month 2n f. 43 c•
Three Months 25 f. 30 e.

Bayonne Papers to a recent date reached us
this morning ; they contain accounts of the pro.
ceedings of MINA, but they are not of a late date,
nor of great importance. MINA, in one of his
reports mentions the defeat of D'Eacn.Es, and
that he had seen '2,500 of the Insurgents lay down
their arms on the French territory into which he
had driven them.

The Nuremberg Gazelle contains some details
respecting the arrival of the Solon of 60 guns at
Bastin, from Marseilles, with a battalion of Ger-
man troops, consisting of 600 men, of whom 200
are for the artillery, all perfectly armed and
equipped. They have with them a good band of
music. The rnoney by which this battalion has
been fitted out was collected by subscriptions in
Gernuiny. Among, the subscribers is the King
of Wurtemberg, who gave 60,000 florins from his
privy purse. M. Bethman, the banker of Frank-
fort, subscribed 160 lonia d'or. The Swiss Can-
tons of Zurich, Berne, and Arau, have furnished
18 pieces of cannon and 3 mortars. This bat-
talion is to wait at Bastia, to be joined by 7 or
800 volunteers, commanded by a Colonel of
Ilesse Darmstadt, named Dittmar.
The following paragraph, from the Journal de
Paris of Monday last, contains seine explanation
respecting the proceedings instituted by the
Spanish Ambassador at Paris against the con-
tractors fur the loan to the Urgel Regency :---
" The Drapeau Blanc has stated that the Duke
de San-Lorenzo has proceeded against M. Casi-
mir Perrier for negotiating the paper of the Co.
lumbian Government for the profit of the insur-
gents. We can assert that this statement is des-
titute of foundation, and that no suit has been
instituted by his Excellency against M. Casimir
Perrier. It is true that the tribunals have re-
fused to recognize the Signature of the Duke of
San Lorenzo in the suit which his Excellency has
commenced against MM. Ouvrard and Rouge-
mont, on account of the loan for the Regency of
Urgel, until it shall be legally authenticated by
the French Ministry for Foreign Affairs ; but we
have good reason to believe that the Drapeau
Blanc's statement of the refusal of that Minister
to comply with this formality, without which the
Ambassador's signature cannot obtain a public
character before the Courts, is as little true as
that respecting the suit against M. Casimir
Perrier."—(Journal de Paris.)

Yesterday, being New Year's Day, the Duke
of YORK, agreeably to annual custom, left town
soon after twelve o'clock for Brighton) to dine
with the KING.

The Duke of SUSiEX was likely to have made
a fatal mistake a few days since at Bognor, by
taking a strong embrocation that was intended
for a fomentation; the mistake he discovered im-
mediately, and had recourse to swallowing a large
quantity of warm water, which had the effect of
bringing the whole off his stomach, and very soon
relieved him from the perilous dose ; he found no
other ill effects but temporary sickness. His
Royal Highness labours under an asmatic affec-
tion.—(Brighton Chronicle.)

We understand that the intelligence contained
in the Pilote of the 25th ult., on the authority of
letters from Rio of the Roth October, that Lord
COCHRANE had been invited to repair to Rio Ja-
neiro by the Revolutionary Government of Bra-
zil, turns out to be correct. An invitation was
at the same time given to every English Sea OM-
cer, on the terms of receiving a promotion of a
step above the grade he held in his own service.
To English sailors, the expence of their passage,
and 31. sterling of pay per month, were offered.
—(Morning Chronicle.)

From the will of Prince HARDENBERG it ap.
pears that his whole fortune amounts to about
700,000 dollars. His chief heirs are his two
children by his first marriage with the Countess
ltEvEN'rLow, viz. Count lIARDENRERG REVENT.
Low, and his sister Princess of PUCKLER MUSKAU.
His second (divorced) wife, who lives in Italy,
retains her annual allowance of 1,000 dollars,—
The Prince's third wife is to have a jointure of
1,000 dollars per annum, and the estate of
Gliencke, near Berlin, for her residence; she
will also, it is supposed, have a pension from the
State, in the same manner as Princess BLUCHER.
The Prince's nephew, the young Count HMI.
DENBERG, has, in estates, &c. a capital of 40,000
dollars. There are also considerable legacies to
private persons, and annuities to his servants.—
(German Paper.)