Star.
London, England, 1824-08-27 00:00:00

THE TOILET OF -I ROMAN LADY.,

A woman of quality,.on lesvipg het bed, which she usually did
about ten or eleven o'cladt, repaired to her bath. After remain-
ing there for some time, where she was carefully rubbed with a
pumice-stone, she came forth to pats-isito the handset the counters.
These cosmetes were slaves, who possessed .many secrets fur pre.
set ving the skin and complexion, and who derived this name from
the Greek word Kilmer, which signifies beauty. The moment she
left the bath, a sort of cataplasm, invented by the Empress Poppaai
was• applied to her face, which she took off only ohm- she went
abroad, or on the arrival of a gimlet- pro that the poor husband
could never see his wife without her features being covered with
this mask, which she often replaced in the evening to preserve her
face throughout the night from the contact of the air.
As soou•as she had finished bee toilette, a slave removed it, and
bathed her face with a sponge steeped in asses milk, whilst another
endeavoured to give to the. skits all possible freshness by rubbing it,
according to Pliny, with the ashes.of snails, or of large ants, burnt
and bruised in salt, with honey in which the bees had been
smothered, with the fat of a pUllet mixed with unions, and lastly,
with the fat of a swan, to which they attributed the property of re-
moving wrinkles. Iler next care was to efface any red spots, with
a piece of woollen cloth, steeped in oil of roses, and to remove
freckles with a scraping of sheepskin, mixed with the honey of Cor-
sica, to which was sometimes added the powder of frankincense.
• This operation finished, a third slave approached, provided with
a pair of pincers, with which she mercilessly plucked even the mi-
nutest hairs from the face of her mistress.

This duty of the toilette over, that of the ti,eth
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When fresh water was found insufficien t to cleanse them, they were
rubbed w ith grated pumice-atone, or marble dust, a method still
employed. The use of moth-brushrs was known at that period;
it'd the coquettes of the time, like those of the present day, re-
placed the teeth they lost with false ones, which were fastened with
gold. To heal or prevent chaps in the lips, they rubbed them
with the inside of a sheep-skin, covered with a gall-nut ointment—
or, what was better still, with the ashes of a burnt mouse, mixed
with fennel root.

The teeth being cleaned, a third class of slaves appeared to co-
loot the eye-lashes, eye-brows, and hair, according to the age or
taste of the Lady.

Thu last part .of the operations of the toilette ended, a slave spread
a red pomade on the lips of ►er mistress to heighten their freshness
and bloom, whilst another presented a round mirror, ornamented
with precious stones, and held by a handle of mother-of pearl ;
which mirror, from the want of glass, was formed of a composition
of several metals, to which was given an exquisite polish. They were
sometimes so large as to reflect the person trom head to foot.

Firing at marks formed part of the amusement of a
certain class of people in 1709; and prises were offered of various
descriptions, particularly one at Islington of a pair of doe4kin
breeches, worth £3. The terms for the privilege of firing were a
subscription of Is. each by 60 men.

Matches at cricket were played for many years, on
Tuesdays' Thursdays, and Saturday,' at the Duke of Ormond's
Mead, in Lamb's Conduit Ileitis.

The following notice was issued in August, 1710,
" that a gold ring is to be danced for on the 31st aod a hat to
be played for at skittles the next day following, at the Green-gate,
Gray's-walk, near Lambeth Wells."

There was an established cockpit in Prescot-street,
Goodman's-fields, 1712 ; there the Gentlemen of the East enter-
tained themselves, while the Nobles and others of the West were
entertained by the edifying exhibition of the agility of their run-
ning footmen. The Duke of Grafton declared his man was un-
rivalled in speed ; and the Lord Cholniondeley betted hint 500 gui-
neas that his excelled even the unrivalled: accordingly the ground
Was prepared for a two-mile heat in Hyde Park ; the race was run,
cud one of Ow parties um vioter, but which, we are not informed.—
In the same month a curious brass gun was advertised to be shot
for at Holton: it was in the shape of a walking-cane, and might
be used as a gun or pistol; it contained a telescope, a dial on the
head, and a perpetual ahuanack.

On the Bth inst. a person in the parish of Martock,
Somerset, lost his pig, and after many inquiries was in-
formed that the animal had walked upw.irds of a mile
and entered the church during Divine Service. So
strange a guest rather alarmed the congregation, and
he was immediately driven out by the sexton. Nothing
daunted, the grunting lounger proceeded to a meeting-
house, a short distance from the church, and walked with
stately step up to the polpit, when he was observed by
one of his• master's servants, who drove him home.
Saturday, the 7histiat, Lard Kennedy, and James Cruick-
shank, Bag. of Langley Park, played six golf matches, of seven
bales each, oit Avererff's Limbs, • The latter -received consider-
able odds from his Ladlehips and woa flee out of the eta matches.

iricuriozi OF W AtidS,ZIARYY MAHER:

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CLONICEL. AUQPIT.b.. .
At ten o'clock this morning, • Winierts...and Darby
Maher,-convicted of the burning of the Shea; were taken
from the jail to be executed at Tubber, the scene of the
horrid grime. They were escorted by a troop tithe Sd
Dragoon Guards, from Caber, a large patty of mounted
police, and a party of the 58th Regiment. Wm. Maher,
who was attended by the Rev; Mr. Fogarty,-seemed, on
leaving the jail, to. be quite resigned .to his fate, and
beheld the awful preparations with apparent indiffer-
ence; he stepped into the chaise unassisted and with the
greatest alacrity. Darby Maher, who was attended by
the Rev. Mr. Brenan, quite unlike his companion, was
horror-struck at the bustle and appearance of the mili-
tary outside the jail. He was in an exhausted state, and.
was obliged to be assisted into the chaise. They were
both very young men.
A chaise, containing the executioner; who was masked,
and a police constable, followed the prisoners. The
Sub-sheriff, accompanied by Mr. Wilson, of the police,
and Mr. John Maher, of Tullamine, in a carriage, fol-
lowed in the rear. The procession altogether was so
solemn, the most perfect silence having prevailed, that,
it struck with awe the vast multitude assembled round
the jail, from an early hour, to witnessthe sad spectacle.
The Rev. Mr. Fogarty exhorted the spectators in Irish,
and seemed to make a deep impression. Immediately
afterwards the culprits were launched into eternity.
AUGUST 21.—Yesterday, pursuant to sentence, John
Kennedy underwent-the sentence of the law. Precisely
at one o'clock he made his appearance on the.platforrn„
attended by the Rev. Mr. Baldss in, whose exertions, to
bring the unfortunate man to a sense of his awful state,
were unremitting from sentence to execution---and im-
mediately addressed, to the following effect, the vast con-
course assembled to witness the melancholy scone: .
" I am guilty of the crime for which I am now about to suffer ;
I killed the map in a At of drunkenness, and no one el.e bad We'd,
act, or part in it. lam heartily sorry for it, and hope that my ex-
ample will warn you all to avoid bad company and drunkenness,
those vices that have brought me to this untimely end. I was stu-
pidly drunk when I committed the murder, and therefore hope Goo'
will have mercy on my soul. Nay be bless you all, and I beg your
prayers for my soul." • ,
The rope being adjusted, and the cap drawn over his
face, the unhappy Mali'S soul was launched into eter-
nity. After hanging the usual time, the body was cut
down, and conveyed to the County InGrmary, to be 11
anatomized, according to sentence.

A SLEEP WALLER.--ThUTSday, the 10th, at eleven
o'clock at night, a man without a coat or waistcoat, and
with a night-cap, but no hat, was, observed by the patrol
of Bankside to walk along the bank very sedately,
through a small passage between two piles of large
stone, where there is only room for. a middle.sized per-
son, and then to ascend the steps of theoele Southwark
Bridge, above forty in number. He then went to the
tollgate, paid the toll, and went through
.the piece of
machinery called a tell-;aloe;,, thence ,orer ,tile..s9uth-
wark Bridge. Not long afterwards the same person re,
turned over the bridge, and was accosted by the patrol
in the following manner:—" My friend, you are soon
returned ?'' " Yes ; after a long walk, sleep, and dream ;
and, if I had not fallen over some stones up in Queen-
street,'-Cheapside, I dare say. I should
:have gone to
Moor fields, for I dreamt a friend of mine was very ill,
and had sent for me to come directly to their-house in
Moorfields, to which I was on my journey." He did not
seem irritated, and informed the patrol that he had done
so once before. He then went home to his house in
Moss-alley, Bankside. His name is W. Simonds.
CORONER'S INQuasT.—Yesterday morning an Inquest
was hild at the Vauxhall Tap, Vataball, before Cum.
de/astir, Lsq. Coroner for Surrey, on view of the body
of a man whose.name was unknown.- Thomas Rose, of
the Vauxhall. Tap, deposed, that on Monday last,
,while
he was sitting by the window, he heard the noise of a
herse coming hy, and, on looking out, he saw a horse
in full gallop in the road, with a man on him ; in a few
seconds he. heard the cry of " Oh !" and on going, out
of doors, he saw the man lying on the ground, near .a
bar which,crosses the road; he was bleeding very much
at the head ; witness assisted in taking him up, and a
surgeon was sent for, who ordered him to be taken into
the tap: this was done, when the man's skull was dis-
covered to be dreadfully fractured. He died soon after.
Charles Pennington, of:Kennington-cross, deposed, that
his father was ;he owner of the horse on which the de-
ceased was riding; the deceased was in the witness's
father's employ ; he had stated his name to be .44 John
Horton;" but that has been ascertained not to be his
name. On Monday he and the witness went out each
on a horse and when they got to Vauxhall the deceased
stuck his heels into the horse's sides, which made him set
off at full gallop, and.when the witness came up be
found the deceased as before described. The horse on
which the deceased rode was a perfectly quiet one in
general.—The Jury returned a verdict of—Accidental
Death. Deodand on the horse Is..

Wednesday evening an Inquest was held at the Bar-
ley Mow, Mount-street, on the body of a respectable
young man, named Riches, who was drowne4 in the
Serpentine.— The Jury remarked, that the accidents
which had too frequently happened in the river, were
occasioned by the great quantity of holes at the bottom,
and the cold springs, which were equally dangerous,
and recommended that some representation should be
made, either to the Banger or the Secretary of State,
to remedy the evil.—The evidence proved that the de-
ceased came to the water very warm, and immediately
walked in, when .he disappeared.—The Jury returned
a verdict of Accidental Death..
An Inquest was held at the Fleece, Northampton-
street, Clerkenwell, on the body of Mary Chamberlain,
aged 40, who went to bed on Tuesday night in perfect
health, and was found dead by tbe,side of her husband
in the morning; also on the . body of R. Calvary, of
Sloane-street, who was• found the same morning, under
similar circumstances, by the side of his wife. Verdict
in both cases--Natural Death.

Sunday, the 15th instant, at the church of Drone,
Perthshire, just as the sacramental service was conclud-
ing, one of the joists of the east gallery partially gave,
way, when the people were thrown into indesetibable
perturbation ; and in the confusion to escape, suffered
no small injury, some in their persons, others in the de-
struction of their clothes.
Sir ROBERT WELBoLE had always very exact intelli-
gence of all that was passing at the Court of the Pre-
tender. When Alderman BARBER visited the Minister,
after his return from Rome, be asked him how his old
friend, the Pretender, did ? The Alderman was much
surprised. Sir ROBERT then related some minute par-
ticulars of a conversation which had taken place be-
tween them. " Well then, Jack," said Sir Rosner,
go and sin no more, lest a worse thing befall thee."