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London, England, 1804-01-09 00:00:00

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Atbl sc the festivities. 'of this season, none have
hen wore conspicuous than an •elefrant and sui)eub
3,.
Entertainment, consisting of a Pall ard Supper given
by. the Gentlemen of. the neighbourhood of S vet
Oaks, at the Town-Hall on Monday last.
sinciotis iooins Were fitted up in a sifie of eleganci'•
and grandeur seldom excelled, and illutilinated'in-
Most.splendid mantiep. The most distinguished 01
the Nobility, &c. were,

.•Eirl:atid Countess of STAntop.r, with the flisci-
nating 'Madame LUKENFA, Earl CAMDEN,. Sir
RiquAit'oandliady 1-I,RDINci, and Miss SNP YD,
.13ELIIIiCHAM GRAHAM, Mr. COOKS (High-
heriff of the County), Colonel 'and: M.s. LAM.
ARD, Miss WATERMAN, Colonel and Mrs. Evs.
LYN, Major,MAYNE, Major and Mrs. MOTLEY,
MP. and the Miss WrwoA•rgs,-.Mrs. and the Miss
HARD iNGEs, i r. an'dloll. BEST, and their daugh-
ters. . • •

: Tim:company began to, assemble about half past
nine, and the
,clancing commenced at ten o'clock.
Major MAthE, and Lady HARDIN6E opened the
Ball, and abant.TB couple followed. _

The Ladies were principally dressed in white,
With many dianionds.' About one o'clock the sup.
pereroom was thrown-open, when not a delicacy
that the season could
.produce was wanting, nor
could the elegance and taste of the arrangement of
the stippet be surpaStedi "which was concluded by
the Stewardi;

Many appropriate Songs were sung after supper,
and aftqr resuming the .dancing, with great sprit;
the whale circle broke up highly gratified with the
ehtertainMeht of the evening'. •

THEOr ERA.--There was another rehearsal of
La Vergine del Sole, on Saturday last, at 'the King's
Theatre- RIG;HR, the new
,Tenor Singer, appeared
on• this occasion, and sung with great effett. His
voice is good, and much stronger than VIC ANON I's.
He evidently poisesses taste and judgment.
Sixt, we were sorry to find,' laboUrs under a severe
cold and hoarseness ; it was therefore impossible to
form a proper estimate of her vocal-p"ers. The
Music, as we have•said, is grand, and we hope it
will be found pleasing, when it is brought forward
with '" all the appliances and means to boot," which
may, give it due effed upon,tlfe ear. Vi GA-
rtoiNt speaks so little'Englishlthar much time was
lost in giving direilions to the-Orchestra, particu-
larly ds MORTELLARI, the Harpsichord Per-
former, is wholly u.naegnainted with our language.
This " loss of time and hindrance of btisines3" she ws
the necessity of having an Englishman ht the Harp-.
'sichord, 'as Mohr of the Band' are of this Coentry.
VYt c HS-YLL,- being of course present, veiy, .kindly
exerted himself inprornciting'harmor},l but an Eng_
lishman ought .to preside at' the HArp`iich.Ord, to
assist in preventing any moreaconfusion of 'the same
kind. • . . .

We are sorry: to learn that a- Lat3y of Fashion has
interfered to recommend another.
.Eareigner to Olt
Qfuun HO,U4E,
.because he happens to, be the
nephew of a domestic in her family, The Trus_
tte and the Conductors, ho'wever, though they
have apparently yielded to the intercession, 'have
resolved that it shall not finally succeed, and are
laudably determined to give a, preference to their
-countrymen, except incases of abialute neci;s3ity.
Drury 'Lane had a very numerous 'audienCe on
Saturday :last to The Wift. of Two Husbands- and
C'indirella, The former piece has, become very at-
traftive, and now it, is supported by Cinderella, the
Theatre goes on as' prosperously as it did when
assisted by the unrivalled talents of honest Carlo..
The superb entertainment of Cinderella is likely
even to be more produElive than Blue-beard. It is
a most magnificent and beautiful Spedacle, and
probably will render the present the most pro..
dudive season that ever the Theatre has ex-
perienced.__ _ _ _

The well-known taste of Mrs. CRESPIGNY was

never more conspicuously displayed than by the
'very elegant party she gave her young friends on
Twelfth Night. In an apartment decorated to re.
present a scene in Arcadia, on a throne of flowers
sat Master Wm. CRESPIGNY,
_dressed as Oberon,
and Miss Bosca.wEN as Titania;. King and Queen
of the Fairies, surrounded
_by' a, Jrain of Nymphs
and Shepherdesses. MIS.yREWIGNY, as an En.
chantress, and Mr. THOMAS, as an Enchanter,
opened the businesS of the evening in an appropriate
pjaingue, written by Mrs. CRESPIGNY, in which,
after some spirited altercati3n, they agreed to crown
the young King and Q,iteen, and invest them with
their pots er for the night. Oberon and Titania; on
one knee, then received their crowns, and the wands
of the Enchanters, who, after giving them a strif
charge to use their power only in the cause of `Tit.
tue, disappeared. An Address then followed trnin
the King and Queen ; after which, waving their
wands, they commanded different charaders to ap-
p, r before them, among which we noticed a group
of Witches, Macbeth, Ariel, a Female Captive,
Shepherds, Shepherdesses, &c. all admirably sup-
ported. In about an hour the King and Queen dis.
missed their Fairy Court, when the Company ad-
joutnel into the Ball-rooms, two of which were
opened for the dancing, which continued till sup-
per time. After supper there was some capital sing-
ing, and the Company did not separate till a late
hour, all highly gratified with the varied charms of
their evening's entertainment.
Mr. DANCE, the Architetl, lately had a severe
fall, as he was superintending some works at the
house of Sir FRANCIS BARING. We are glad,
however, to hear that the consequences are not so
had as they were reported to be among the numerous
friends of that Gentleman.

We may hope that the French will come to exe-
cution in this Country since the success of the Archer,
as many of them were taken by a SHER Trr•
Captain McKgtis, of the Shropshire Militia,
lately undertook to walk from the Angel Inn, at
Yarmouth, to the Angel Inn, Norwich, and back,
in twelve hours : the distance is forty-seven miles,
and he performed it with apparent ease in eleven
hours and a half.

The average price of Brown or MuscovaCo
Sugar, computed 1 rorn the returns made for the week
ending the 4th day of January 1804., is Far y.
four 61;W:flip and Eicgren Pence ligifpently fer
hunfir,:d weight.

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Fl Stl4l.cioas- inen wer2. On IllrednescLvir
• ing up here, sn't'exstri,ined befOre J.
DEN, Esq. the a u ceorr. they '6l
ther-i e)'ves Wils 'very- . Two 'of had
mo.:11 the appearaoCe of foreigneiS, alth t h the'
fariEnglislt: -They had 'cerise from 'Le cOitst
o-ft•or,foili, 'iv, they said to get yinent hire:
lust' the.l.teneral .that the)' ii:td.conse7ovei
in some of the Neutral Vessels to. IJ)at--par0...4..ti1d.
sod in contecrenee of the stria look.iins
kept there..llr.d mint.; hither with the -.iftten:ity, of
gettinx,, ofF i,n: some .sknvgling, Vessel. to
~,Eran.eet
possibly with inforinatio,u,„ One of them was sent
off to. Dover under an escgri: of Dra,oons.•
?. A,
others wet retnanded%ro'pris .; on_.and there is no
diubt but that Vessels Prus.,.ian colours come
out of the Port's of Bollarni, rri gain
gene of-.our prelifiratior, :1 in tooseqt is.tree' `orders
are given out along..the coot, io
landing from vessels of such desCriptioni'andtietain
them for. eicatrlinatiO. • •

Brigadier GenerAl MANI,TtN.G.i4NI hag been ap-
p inted to succeed Sir CHARLES GWEEt4' in !Le
command of the Militia at Dover,.and -Captain CA.
NIF RON, or the Rifle Regiment, his Major of Bii.
gade.

CO;N EX(M/INGE, JAN. 9.

This dly the Market is well • supplied with
Wheat ;. having many of last week's samples re-
Maining on hand, the. Trade is exceeding (hip, and
at ;:bout is. less price; Earley and Malt stll slowly,
and nearly as cur List; White Pease rather cheaper
Pearls at 45i. per quarte.:; in Beans but little
Terence ; good Old Ticks tigher,than our :'pricesl.
we have a full supply of Oats, hut they -are noted
at but,little variation; Flour. is in plenty, and
with difficulty fetches last prices.

.
'Wheat 3Ss a 45s a 53s od i Tick Beans *•-:' 305.,a 34s od
Fine ditto -54 s a 555. 6d t Oats -19 s a 2.“'a :3s 94
Rye - . - aSs a 3;3 od , 'i.)lancl ditto 24s a 25s of
parley - - 2os a 24s 6d Rape Seed - - 351 a 34i.
Malt - - - sos a 57s od , Flue Hour -45 s a sos (At
White Pease 3is a 42s oci Secomis - '.104 a 45S Oct
Beans - .- 34s a 3Ss cd - . .

„..
ECLIPSE.—The second Eclipse”: this;yeaP-
theSun, and is a
.rematkable one ; it happms
I 1,. in .the morning, visible in these parts of -11,e
Globe should the weather- prn-Ve favourable. 'lt is
the greatest Eclipse. of
,the St qt haireftrl
England for sixteen years.. tocome, and it will i)e
nine .years-'before' 'there will- be another near' str
grcat., And twelve:years:hefore there will he .one
large. This Eclipse will not be quite so &tams
that .v:rjs 1793, i.vhialt-'w-a the greatest ‘.Ve
had of the; Sun since:that remarkable one of Aprilll
1764. "" The 'EclipSe of the Sun in 1820 (sixteen
yests'herie), will be full' as g.reat as that was
hi-
-1764, .which. was nearly central in the Southern
Nits of this Kirigdoni._ 'ln, this.present Eclipse .the
Sun will b'e about three-quarters eclipsedinfthe
Southern-parts of Englant.“ bur, in --the .14rrtherrs.
parts '; of iour,lsland, it will -be:somewhat less. In
the Southe'rn parts of the EuropeaniContinent, and
in Africa, this will be a.yery great Eclipse, for in
the Kingdom of Algiers, on the Northern exttemiry
oft the Continent of Attica,lll rat. 36. No and long.
6. E. the Sun will be centrieJlly eclipsed at noon
day ; but all along the track of ceritral appearance,
it is somewhat doubtful whether the. Eclipse will be
total or, not ; there will be a small Anulus, or
ring of solar light, encompassing the Moon on
every side, the Sun's diameter exceeding that of the
Moon about 2z seconds. Hence it appears that this
will be great Eclipse in the South of France, in
Spain, in Portugal, and at Gibraltar, in particular
in-Italy, and in the Mediterranean Sea. At Lon-
don the Eclipse will be: observed to begin on the
right-hand, about 58 deg. from the Sun's lowerthost
point. •

13zginning
iddie
End
Duration - - - -
Digits eclipsed, S deg. 36 min.

. 11

The real Hammersmith f..7bost, to the satisfaßion
of the Inhabitants of that Town and Neighbourhood,
has at last been discovered. - The much lamented
sacrifice of poor the bricklayer, had
such a powerful effect, that last 'Thursday evening
an intermation was lodged before Mr. HILL, the
Magistrate, against a Housekeeper in the Town of
Hammersmith, of the none of Gralee-m, a Boot
and Shoemaker, who has,a wife and three children,
for going out at .night wrapped up in a blanket,
with a design to represew a Ghost ! Grahilm
‘vs consequently taken into custody, and exa-
tnined before the said Magistrate, who, doubtful
how to aet without advize in such a case, ha 3
taken bail for Graham's appearance. Graham, when
questioned by the Magistrate as to the cause of
his assuming such a frightful Being, said, that he
had done it in order to be revenged on the imperti.
nence of bis Apprentices, who had terrified his chil-
dren by telling them stories of Ghosts. He expeded
to check them of this disagreeable hens of their
minds to the prejudice ci his Children, by presenting
them, as they passed homewards, a figure of a
Ghost, which it seems, he managed very successfully.
GUILDHALL, JAN. 5.—Street
This day Lvilliazet Worrich and Thomas K7zight,
two householders in the parish of St. Dunstan's in
the West, being summoned (by Mr. MORGAN, one
of the Inquest of St. Bride's Parish, and a Member
of the-Society for the Suppression of Vice), before
the Sitting Alderman, for suffering, after admoni-
tion, their cocks to fight in the public street, to the
annoyance of the neighbourhood and passeergers, and
encouragement of cruelty to those animals. Atter a
short hearing they were both convided in costs,
and received an'admonitioe from the Alderman, not
to appear before hitn again, charged with a repeti-
tion of so inhuman a pradice. As this and similar
offences are punishable at the Quarter Sessions ;
by preNentment to the M,,gistrates a. nuisances, it
is hoped for the sake of humanity, and lessening the
cruelty to shoe and other ionoccnr aid retoffentrieg
creatures; the Public will in future take nuritc of
and brim to punishment ail such oireuders4,

ba.waiPawmi

irt,:u, 11:r LONDON GAZETTE, Jan. i 304.

At :he Court at Sr. James's, the 4th of January,
So+, Present, the Kt NG'S Most Excellent Ma-
jesty in Council.
This daythe Right Hon. Arthur Pager was, by
Hip Majesty's Command,. sworn of His Majesty's
Most-Hon. Privy Council, and took his place at the
Board accordingly.

Crown Office, January 7, 1804.
&UMBER. RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT

FAitLIAMENT.

BOROI: GIL OF DORCHESTER.--The lion. Cropley Ashley.

IV,r-Offce, yanuaty 7, 1304.

ed Regiment of Dragoon Guards, Owen Lindsay, Gent. to
be Assistant-Surgeon, vice. Edwards, promoted in the Ist
Light Infantry Battalion of the Line in Ireland.
4th Ditto, Captain George Richa d Golding, from the 8 tst
Foot, to be Captain of a Troop, vice DUclgson. deceased.
xst Regiment of Dragoons, Surgeon John Irwin, from the
24th FOot, to be Surgeon, vice Humphries, appointed
Surgeon to a Recruiting District.
Bth Regiment of Light Dragoons, Lieutenaht Warren White,
from the'63d Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Cleaver, who
exchanges.
16-th-DTito, ferries O'Meally., Gent. to be Assistant-Surgeon,
vice Veitch, who resigns.
Slat Ditto, Lieutenant Joshua- Gartside to be Captain of a
Troop, without purchase, vice Mangin, deceased. Cornet
A. NI. Lawson de Cardonell to be Lieutenant, vice Gart-
side. John Dexter, Gent. to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice
Buchanan, promoted in the 13th Battalion of Reserve.
.rst Regiment of Foot Guards.—To be Ensigns, without pur-
chase, Hon. James Stanhope. Henry Stables, Cent.
Colouitt, Gent. Henry Edmund ioddrell, Gent.- George,
Clutterbuck, Gent.
31 lbitto.-i-To be Ensigns, without purchase, Cornet Henry
P. -Boyce, from Half-pay of the eetie Light Dragoons.
Charles Fox Canning, Gent, N. Burton, Gent. Hon.
'Charles Gordon.
Ist Battalion of the Ist Regiment of Foot, Ensign Thomas
•AnJerson to b Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Nicholson,
promoted.
4th Reeititetit of root, Thomas Hunter Blair, Gent. to be
• Ens,gn, by purchase, vice Fletcher. promoted.
2th Ditto, Robert Watson Cordon, Gent. to be, Ensign, by
purchase, vice Dickenson, promoted.
gth Ditto, Frames Smyth, Gent to be Assistant= Surgeiin,
vii e fd•lntosl, promoted in the gad Forit.
;4th Ditto, Lieutenant Peter Simpson, from Half,pay of
tile 17th Foote to he Lieutenant.
Sp Ditto. -To be First Lieutenants, Second Lieutenant
i;eieree Bennett, without purchase, vice Hill, promoted.
Second Lieutenant Edward Merryman, vice Smith, pro-
moted in the 7th Battalion of Reserve. Second Lieutenant
William George Stainforth, by purchase, vice Kingsate,
promoted in the 2d West-India Regiment.
'To be Second Lieutenants—Richard Walker, Gent. vice
Stainforth. Edward Keane, Gent. vice Bennett. Robert
D. Pattison, Cent. vice Merryman.
24th R:giment of Foot, Surgeon Jonathan Featherstone,
from the rzth Battalion of Reserve, to be Surgeon, vice
Irwin, removed to the Ist Dragoons.
4ltth Ditto, Ensign William Brown to be Lieutenant, with.
out purchase.
9,7 th Ditto, John Scott, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Pell y, promoted.
29th Ditto, John Crook, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Skinner, promoted in the Newfoundland Fencibles.
34th Ditto, Captain James Bull, from the sgth Foot, to be
Captain of a Company, vice M‘Pherson, who exchanges.
36th Ditto, William Burke, gent. to be Ensign, by purChase,
vice Elliott, promoted in the 6zd Foot.
s3th Ditto, Lieutenant John Doherty, from _Half-pay of the
49th Foot, to be Lieutenant. Cornet ,Lambert Pepper,
from Half-pay of the late 2.4 th Dragoons, to be Ensign,
vice Fulton, promoted.
45th Ditto, Captain John Payne, from the 47th Foot, to be
Captalnof a Company, vice Nicolson, who exchanges.
46th Ditto, Lieutetiant.Geueral John Whyte, from the rst
West India Regiment, to he Colonel, vice Sir James H.
Craig,, appointed to the command of the 86th Regiment.
4th Ditto, Captain Peter Nicolson, froin the 45th Foot, to
be Captain of a Company, vice Payne, who exchanges.
52d.Ditto, Lieutenant-Colonel John Stewart (unattached) to
be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Veber, removed to the Nova
Scotia Fencibles. Captain William Wade. to be Major, by
purchase, -vice Stewart, promoted
59th Ditto, Captain Alexander r herson, from the 34th
Foot, to be Captain of a Company, vice Bull, who ex-
. -changes.
6otli Ditto, Captain Samuel Courteney, from Half-pay of
the Seth Foot, to be Captain, vice Burnell, who exchanges.
Serjeant-Major Deckner to be Adjutant, with the
Rank of Ensign, vice Murray, who resigns.
fist Ditto, Lieutenant Daniel Roberts to be Captain of a
Company, without purchase, vice Johnson, removed to the
-7th Foot.
Sea Ditto, Lieutenant Edward Cleaver, from thelth Light
Dragoons,' to be' Lieutenant, vice White, who exchanges.
72d Ditto, William Armstrong, Gent. to be Ensign, by pur-
chace, vice Fraser, promoted.
76th Ditto, Redmond Hinton Kelly, Gent. to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Covell, promoted in the 69th Foot.
'eeth Ditto, Alexander Maclean, Gent. to be Ensign, without
Jurchase, vice Donald. Campbell, promoted. ombadier
ames Brown, from the Royal Artillery, to be Adjutant,
with the Rank, of Ensign, vice Andrew Brown, promoted.
fist Ditto, Lieutertnit-Robert Moody to be Captain ot a Com-
pare", vice NPLarten;who retires. Ensign Cornelius Neale
to be Lienten.ant, without. purchase, vice Rogers, deceased.
William Smyth, Gent, to be Ensign, vice Neale.
54th Reginitia 'of7, foot, Ensign Alexander Nicholson to be
Lieutenant, by• purchase, v tee Clarkerprothoted.
56th Ditto, Lieutenant-General Sir 'lames Henry Craig,
Ke B. from the 46th Foot, to be Colonel, vice General
Crintield, deceased.
29th Ditto, Samuel Fergusson, Gent. to be Assistant-Sur-
geon, vice Steel, promoted in the ad Division of Militia
Light Infantry in Ireland.
'jzd Ditto, Lieutenant James Seaton, fiom the lath Foot, to
be Captain of a Company, without purchate.
95th Ditto, Samuel Bridge, Esq. on Half-pay as of
the Sad Regiment, to be Paymaster, vice lanes, appointed
District Paymaster.
Ist West India Regiment, Major-General Lord Charles H.
Somerset, from the Half-pay of the 4th Foot, to be Co_
lonel, vice Lieutenant-General Whyte, appointed to the
-Command of the 46th Foot,
Royal African Corps, Captain Richard Lloyd to be Major,
without purchase. Lieutenant John Kinglesley to be
Captain of a Company. Ensign George Palmer, front the
Half-pay of the late ed Irish Brigade, to, be- Ensign, vice
MiDerrnot, who exchanges. John Martyn, Gent. to be
Ensign, vice Odium, promoted.
ael Battalion of Reserve, Ensign Brinley Purefoy, from the
reth Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Lalor, who resigns.
William Alexander, Gent, to be Ensign, vice Fosberry,
who resigns.
ith Ditto, Lieutenant Arthur Gethin Coote, from the loth
Foot, to be Captain ef a Company, vice Shaw, whose Ap.
pointment does not take place. Lieutenant 'f ho. Jones,
toom the Royal Staff Corps, to be Captain of a Company.
Ensign Thomas Light to be Lieutenant. George Warren,
Gent. to he Ensign, vice Light.
-Bth Ditto, Lieutenant Musgrave Shawe, from the rzth Foot,
to be Captain of a Company, vice Eyre, removed to the
tst Foot.
aath Ditto, Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Hamilton,
from the Half-pay of the 7th West India Regiment, to be
Major, vice Hail, who exchanges. Assistant-Surgeon,
'Charles Waite, from the I.4th Light Dragoons, 'to be Sur-
poll, vice Featherstone, removed to the 24111 Foot.
Nova Scotia Fencibles, Lieutenant-Colonel. John. A. Vesey
from the sad F•out, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Roberts,
deceased.
. Canadian Fencibles, Lieutenant Alexander 11I'Queen, front
the Uall-pay Of the late !,2,ueen's Rangers, to he Lieutenant.
The King's Girman
To be Captains of Companies, with temporary Rank in the
Army—Lieutenant Augustus Baron Reitzenstein. Lieute-
nant Ernest Count Kieiniannseeee. Lieutenant Augustus
Du Plat.
l'o be Lieutenants—Ensign Hausman. Second 'Acute-
, leant Augustus Ruinann, with temporary Rank in the
Anus% Secoeil Lieutenant Detificring, with temporary
Reit!: in the Army.
fo Qt'arter-master— -- Stewart, Gent.
To he Surgeon—Surgeon Fr. Weberr.

To 13:. A ;itis Su; tal- Mate G. Ri4-411:2. Hos-
pital-Mat:: J. A. Rofnhc.lci.
.• 4th Royal Garrisrmt liettalion, Surgeon Marsden Hilton, from
the 17th Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Rogers, appointed Sur-
geon to the forces.