generally relieved by loose irregular curls, flowing || her not to have that insatiable fondness for orna over them, or by ringlets falling from the crown of the head, on the left side, below the ear. The hair is now much ornamented, and innumerable articles for this purpose are offered at the shrine of taste and fashion; amidst which the small bunch of silver grapes, and gold hop-flower, placed in front of the hair as a diadem, attracts me the most; I enclose one of each, being determined that you shall reign the Queen of Truro Rents, Balls, and Belles. Perhaps I should not be thus good-natured were I, as formerly, your neighbour; but who cares for a rival at a distance? Pray tell your brother (if one dare speak on the flippant subject of dress to mex) that he must lay aside his odious black Brutus, that scarce any gentleman appears in public without powder; and that he must not wear the frills of his shirt plaited. That he may see Miss Sparks to her chair, pick up her fan if it falls, pay her a few old school compliments, and run to her assistance in a case of extremity; for the apathetical negligence, and affected indifference which has distinguished polished men for some few years back, is now on the decline. I must not conclude my epistle without telling you that the stuff gowns, which a whim of cousin Mary's brought into being, in the early part of the winter, are now to be seen in every street, lane, and avenue. Don't wear your crimson gown (which I used to call the attic counterpane) in any genteel party, they are here considered very canailish, and are, in truth, but the refuse of last winter. I think, dear Julia. I have now emptied my budget of intelligence; but just let me whisper you by way of Gazette Extraordinary, that it is so much the fashion to look pale, that very fine rouge may be purchased at half-a-crown per pot; and first rates use a sort of lotion, to promote that interesting and sickly shade of the Jily, which has of late subdued the rose. Oh what a world of extremes is a world of fashion! Adieu, ma belle amie! need my pen assure you that I am now and ever, your faithful and attached ELIZA. ADVERTISEMENT FOR A WIFE. WRITTEN IN THE STYLE OF THE SPECTATOR. THE most general fault among women is coquetry; it would make me despise them, if it were possible to despise what one loves. I would then wish my wife, without being divested of that desire of pleasing which embellishes the sex, to have nothing of the coquette. The desire of appearing well dressed is not preeisely coquetry; but I would, however, wish No. XIV. Vol. II. ments so common in our days. How inexpressibly interesting they appear in a simple, yet elegant undress. Fair ladies, when you send me your portraits, paint yourselves thus. Shall I require that my wife should be pretty? It is now that my hand trembles.-Well, upon reflection, let her be pretty. What I call a pretty woman, is she whose countenance announces a mixture of wit and sensibility; whose air is mild and prepossessing, joined with an animated and playful physiognomy; she who in all her words and actions displays a certain grace which may be felt but cannot be described. I do not wish for a celebrated beauty; it would be tco much for me to have all the men my enemies. She must be neither too tall, nor too short; it gives them an apperance of solemnity, which I do not like. Brown or fair, the bark is of little consequence. I would not have her a wit, giving a decisive opinion upon every subject; much less would I have her a learned woman. Madame Dacier would have driven me mad; I would as soon marry Sanmaisens, or Cassaubon; neither have I forgotten that in the time of Martial, women committed errors in their writings. Education, however, is of too much importance to our happiness in life, for me to wish my wife to be deficient in it. I would then require that her mind be cultivated; that she have some knowledge of great events that are passed, and that she be disposed to take some interest in those that pass during her time. I do not require that she should have read Vopiscus or Ducange; but I would not like her to take Fredegonde for a Roman, or Cornelia for a Greek. To marry a woman without education is to link oneself, while living to a corpse: J'y veux un autre point, C'est de l'esprit ; car les sote maiment point. By wit, I mean that facility of saying agreeable things which entwine us, by awaking in our minds several ideas or several sensations. For this a chaste taste is necessary. She must be modest and even rather diffident: I could not support those brazen looks which appear to rival men in confidence. Let her be inodest and chaste, without however resembling those dragons of prudery, who take up arms against what they ought not to know. I would wish her to have an affectionate heart, and an obliging disposition; without the one, there can be no happiness in the marriage state, and, without the other, it may be compared to assisting at a banquet without being invited. With respect to age, I wish her to be neither under eighteen, nor above thirty-five. Younger P than this, she would be too inex; erienced; older, she would be too knowing. I would not have an old woman, one must tickle her to make her laugh, and I have lost that custom. With respect to fortune, she must have at least a hundred and fifty pounds a year. It will be thought perhaps, that I require too much; but I cannot help it. 1, however, declare that there are some things which might induce me to change a little, and this reflection has determined me to ask for the portrait of all those who have any pretensions to become my beloved consort. The above letter having run through the world, many answers were made to it; but the only one preserved, is the following: SIR, I am about four feet eight inches high, rather inclined to embonpoint; my shoulders are low an i broad, my figure tolerably well made and proportioned, at least I am told so; my face is long, my forehead high, my hair not absolutely flowing in silken curls, my eye-brows bushy, my eyes of a light hazel, rather large than small, rather long than round; a lively countenance; my nose Father broad, my mouth wide, my lips rather thick, but rosy; my teeth white, but not quite regular, my complexion pale, with a few red To-es which appear now and then. You will probably say this debut is not made to please. I allow, Sir, that in this description there is nothing pretty, but I give it as it is. The remainder of the portrait is equally just. My fortune is limited, having only the hope of one day enjoying about a hundred a year; my education has not been very brilliant, consequently my mind is little cultivated, but I believe it to be just; my disposition is gay, hasty, and frank; my imagination lively, my heart good, my ideas rather singular, but my conduct uniform, giving way to circumstances, and readily conforming my disposition to that of those with whom I live. I possess much sensibility, and I am easily affected; I am a stranger to deception, and only say what I think; I hate no one, few people amuse me, no one tires me; I delight in rendering service, and am always willing, without appearing to hurry myself, and nothing discourages me when my object is to oblige. 1 have little value for money, and know how to manage it, but never regret spending it. I am neat by choice, without being elegant; fond of order, principally in essential things, for I am sometimes deficient in it in trifies. I am fond of society though I live alone; my employments compensate me for every thing. I shun, when I have it in my power, what is called the great world. My predominant tastes are music, painting, writing, the various works of my sex, the Her Imperial Majesty, Concert to his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, of a Grand Duchess. At Atherstone-Hall, Warwickshire, the Right Hon. Lady Grey, of a son. At Dublin, her Grace the Duchess of Bedford, of a son. The Countess of Loudon and Moira, of a son and heir, which died the following day. In Grosvenor-square, the Duchess of Montrose, of a son.-This child, although not the heir apparent to the family estates, becomes enentitled to considerable property, by the bequest of a near relative. At his house, in Harley-street, the Lady of the Hon. General Sir Arthur Wellesley, of a son and heir. The Lady of Colonel Beaumont, of BrettonHall, near Barnsley, of a son, at his house, in Portman-square. In Welbeck-street, the Lady of Colonel F. Dillon, of a daughter. In Dublin, the Hon. Mrs. Clinton, of a daughter. The Lady of the Earl of Enniskillen, of a son and heir. At the house of the Rev. Dr. Holland, in, Gower-street, the Honourable Mrs. Holland, of a daughter. At Kentish Town, the Lady of Colonel Symes, M. P. of a daughter. MARRIED. At St. George's Church, Hanover-square, Sir David Fleming, Bart. of the county of Cumberland, to Miss Fleming, daughter and sole heiress of the late Sir Michael Le Fleming, Bart. of Rydall-Hail, in Westmoreland, and grand-daughter of Thomas Howard, the late Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire. The Hon. and Rev. Edward Taylor, brother to the Marquis of Headfort, to Miss St. Leger, eldest daughter of Colonel St. Leger, and niece to Viscount Doneraile. At Barham Court, the seat of the Right Hon. Lord Barham, William Henry Hoare, Esq. eldest son of Henry Hoare, Esq. to Miss Noel, eldest daughter of Gerard Noel Noel, Esq. of Exton Park, Rutlandshire, and grand-daughter of Lord Barham. The ceremony was performed in Teston Church, by the Rev. Gerard Noel, the Lady's brother; after the ceremony, the happy pair set out for Mitcham Grove. At St. James's Church, by special licence, the Right Hon. Lord Bagot, to the Right Hon. Lady Louisa Legge, eldest daughter of the Earl of Dartmouth. The ceremony was performed by the Hon. and Rev. the Dean of Windsor. The Rev. J. J. Hume, Rector of West Kingston, Wilts, to Miss Lydia Lane, youngest daughter of the late Thomas Lane, Esq. of Grittleton-house, in the same county. At Wotton-under-Edge, Granville Hastings Wheeler, Esq. to Miss Jane Tattersall. At Wolterton, in Norfolk, the Hon. and Rev. William Wodehouse, to Miss Hussey, eldest daughter of Thomas Hussey, Esq. of Galtrim, in Ireland. At Stoke Newington, the Rev. William Parker, M. A. of Christ's College, Cambridge, to Miss Ann Gaskin, daughter of the Rev. Dr. Gaskin, Rector of that parish. At Castle M'Garratt, in the county of Mayo, in Ireland, by special licence, the Hon. Henry Augustus Dillon, to Miss Browne, eldest daughter of D. G. Browne, Esq. of the same place. Capt. Hale, of the Royal North Gloucester Militia, to Lady Theodosia Bourke, sister of the Earl of Mayo. At Farnborough, in Warwickshire, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Bart. to Miss Holbech, eldest daughter of William Holbech, Esq. At Manchester, James Bellairs, Esq. of Derby, banker, to Miss Peel, eldest daughter of Laurence Peel, Esq. of Ardwick Green, and niece of Sir Robert Peel, Bart. M. P. At South Shields, Mr. James Dempster, grocer, to Miss Mary Bruce, of North Shields, after a courtship of more than 20 years. DIED. | and brave Capt. Henry Blackwood, the confidential friend of the most illustrious Lord Nelson, especially in the glorious battle of Trafalgar. She is succeeded in her fortune and title by her eldest son, the Hon. Sir James Blackwood, now Lord Dufferin and Claneboye. General Paoli, at a very advanced age, at his house near the Edgeware Road-famous for the part he took in the affairs of Corsica, in the reign of Louis the Fifteenth, and the godfather of Bonaparte. Near Wooler, in Northumberland, aged 70, Sir Patrick Claud Ewins, Bart. who formerly married Signora Centuci, a Neapolitan lady, by whom he had issue an only son, born at Eagie Hall Somersetshire; this son marrying without his father's consent, the latter formed the resolution, and did dispose of all his estates, and invested the whole produce therof in the public funds, and withdrew into very humble retirement about 40 years since, leaving his son (since deceased) the scanty pittance of 401. a year, and whom he never afterwards could be prevailed upon to be reconcil ed to, or see. At Great Yarmouth, the Lady of Admiral Edgar. The Lady of Wyndham Knatchbull, Esq. of Russell-place, and sister of Sir Edward Knatchbull, Bart. At Oxon, near Tadcaster, Yorkshire, in her 101st year, Mrs. Siddall.-She retained all her faculties till the hour of her death. Miles Southern Branthwayt, Esq. of Taverham, in the county of Norfolk. At Southborough, near Tunbridge, Lieute nant-Colonel James Howell, aged 61. In Ireland, aged 75, the Rev. John Lever, only brother of the late Sir Ashton Lever, and father of Darcy Lever, Esq. Adjutant of the Leeds Volunteers. At his seat at Hampstead-Hall, George Birch, Esq. one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the county of Stafford. At her brother's house, in Bloomsbury-square, Miss Smith, sister of Sir Nash Grose, aged 74. At Brent Bridge, on the Edgeware Road, Mr. George Bell, who prophesied the destruction of London more than 40 years ago, and who made so remarkable an appearance when giving his evidence, during a late Sessions at the Old Bailey. At Edmonton, the wife of Mr. Brigg, solicitor. The death of this lady was occasioned by an At her house in Hinde-street, Manchester-accident, from which so lamentable a result was square, the Right Hon. Broness Dufferin and Claneboye, of Down, Ireland Her Ladyship died at the age of 80 years, leaving issue five sons and four daughters, all married, and by them 15 grand-children. She was mother of the gallant not to be apprehended.-A few weeks since, in adjusting a skewer used in trussing a pheasant, she perforated her thumb, and the bird being in a slight degree tainted, an inflammation ensued, which terminated in her death, At Belfast, Ireland, Mrs. White, of the Belfast Theatre. A woman of most exemplary conduct and meekness of disposition, which gained and secured her the love and esteem of all who knew her-She was one of the infant pupils of the celebrated Garrick, and her father (a Mr. Simpson, of Aberdeen, in Scotland, where Mr. White has left several near relations, of the most respectable families), was Mr. G.'s assistant and most particular friend. At Clifton, Lady Hesketh, widow of Sir T. Hesketh, Bart. of Rufford Hall, Lancashire.— This was the lady to whom so many of the letters of the poet Cowper are addressed. At Bath, Mr. Long, the Gentleman whom Foote introduced in the character of Mr. Flint, in his Comedy of The Maid of Bath.—He died worth more than 200,0001. the bulk of which he has left to Miss Long, the only daughter of Sir James Tilney Long, just entered her 17th year, and who before this windfall was the richest heiress in the united kingdom. At his house, in Park-street, Grosvenor-square, aged 88, Henry Sutherland, one of the Pages of the Presence to her Majesty. At his house, at Shepperton, Fletcher Read, Esq. of pugilistic memory.-After spending a convivial evening with his "chosen few," he was At Chelsea, Samuel Wyatt, Esq. the cele- found in his bed a lifeless corpse. brated architect. At Dresden, aged 74, M. John Christopher At Chastleton, in the county of Oxford, in the Adelung, Counsellor and principal Librarian to 85th year of her age, Mrs Ann Hancock. the Elector of Saxony-He was one of the most At Putney, Mrs. Shields, aged 81, the wife of industrious and learned of the German Literati. Mr. Robert Shields, of that place. In Dublin, of a violent fever, William Preston, Esq. Barrister at Law. He was a Gentleman of mild and benevolent manners; an excellent classic scholar; his works, as a poet, are well known and admired for their elegant taste and refined feeling. At his house, at Laytonstone, in the 75th year || of his age, Charles Lincoln, Esq. late Deputy of the Ward of Aldgate, and many years a Member of the Corporation of this city, and Governor of Christ's and St. Thomas's Hospitals. At Rippon, in Yorkshire, Mr. Jefferson, Comedian, the friend, cotemporary, and exact prototype of the immortal Garrick. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Numerons enquiries huving been made after the author of our valuable article on Singing (Vol. I. No. 8, and 10), we think it necessary to acquaint our Readers, that it is our rule not to give the name of any author who has not signed it himself; but that we can recommend a lady who teaches singing At Southborough, near Tunbridge, Lieute- according to the principles laid down in the said nant-Colonel James Howell, aged 61. At Llanbrarach, the hospitable mansion of his ancestors for 840 years, Thomas Thomas, Esq. a Justice of the Peace, and one of the Deputy Lieutenants for the county of Glamorgan. At her house, in Bath, Mrs. Smith, mother of Mrs. Fitzherbert. article. Mr. W 's paper shall have a place in our next. Many poetical favours are omitted in consequence of the length of the poem of Palestine. Letters on Botany in our next. London: Printed by and for J. BELL, Southampton-street, Strand. |
