The Morning Post for July 8, 1811

Advertisements for Public Entertainments

VAUXHALL–Under the Patronage of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent.--This present EVENING, July 8 will be a SPLENDID RURAL FETE, with a GRAND EXHIBITION OF FIREWORKS–Admission 3s 6d.--Doors open at Seven, and the Concert begins at Eight o’clock.--The Public are respectfully informed, the Exhibition of the Cascade takes place invariably at Ten o’clock, and the Fire-works at Half-past Eleven, throughout the season.

RANELAGH, Millbank.--By particular desire, will be given TOMORROW, the Grandest FETE and Exhibition of FIRE-WORKS of the season. Doors open at Seven and Concert begin at Eight o’clock–Admission 2s. 6d.

THE BRITISH GALLERY, PALL-MALL–This Gallery for the EXHIBITION and SALE of the WORKS OF BRITISH ARTISTS will CLOSE on SATURDAY, the 20th of July–Admittance 1s.--Catalogue 6d. By Order, VALENTINE GREEN, A.R.A. Keeper.

The Exhibitors and Purchasers are requested to send for their Pictures on Tuesday, the 23d, and following day.

CADIZ.--A view of that highly interesting CITY is now OPEN at Barker’s Panorama, Strand, near Surrey-street, including the Towns of Rota, Port St. Mary, Porto Real, Medina Sidonia, the Isle of Leon &c.--A View of the Isle of Scilly is also open.

THE NEW THEATRE.--A great number of the Nobility and Gentry having expressed a wish to see the PLAN of the NEW THEATRE, are informed that it is lying at Mr. Chapopell’s Music Shop, 124, Bond-street, and may be seen any time between the hours of eleven and five o’clock.

News Items.

UNPLEASANT MISTAKE. (MADAME CATALANI)

On Tuesday last, after the Installation at Cambridge, Madame CATALANI was under the necessity of proceeding by the cross-roads to Bath, where she had promised to be on the Thursday following, to sing for the benefit of the English Prisoners in France. After reaching the spot, about one hundred miles from Cambridge, where the road divides, one branch leading to Bath, and the other to Cheltenham, the postillion having entered the latter, requested to know if he was right, and was answered by Madame Catalani who did not clearly understand him, “Yes,” upon which he continued his road, and Madame Catalani traveled fifty miles in that direction, and thought herself arrived at Bath, when the post-boy informed her she was at Cheltenham. This disappointment was more sensibly felt by Madame Catalani, as it was already ten at night, and she had promised to sing the next day at Bath. The desire, however, of keeping her word, induced her to determine on traveling during the night, and she ultimately arrived in time to sing at the Concert, and to receive the most enthusiastic marks of approbation and applause from an assembly of more than a thousand persons.

Schedule of Fashionable Arrangements for the Week.

This Evening,

The Marchioness Dowager of Lansdowne’s Route, Albemarle-street

Lady Milbanke’s Route, Portland Place

Tuesday.

Lady Willoughby’s Grand Route, Privy-gardens

Wednesday

Lady Catherine Tylney Long’s Fete Champetre.

Friday

Countess of Cork’s Route, New Burlington-street

Lady Willoughby’s Route.

Saturday.

Duchess of Devonshire’s Supper-party.

LADY MILDMAY’S BALL

Her ladyship gave a splendid ball at her house in Holles-street, Cavendish-square, on Friday evening. The dancing did not commence until one o’clock in the morning, and then only a very small circle tripped on the “light fantastic toe;” there might be about twenty couples but not more. The first dance, The Recovery, was led off by Mr. MacDonald and Miss Mildmay; next followed–

Mr. Murray Lady Charlotte Scott

Mr. William W. Pole Lady Mary Edgecumbe

Mr. Fitzgerald Miss Townsend

Mr. Montagu Miss Fitzroy

The supper was only a Sandwich one; but the wines were good, and the desert delicious. The dancing took place in the dining-parlour; the rooms above were appropriated for promenading. There were present upwards of 300 Fashionables, among whom were the following:--

Their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of Cambridge and Gloucester, Dowager Duchess of Rutland, Marquess of Lansdowne and Hartington, Dowager Marchioness of Lansdowne, Earl of Mountedgcumbe, Countesses of Lonsdale and Cholmondeley, Viscount and Viscountess Dungannon, Sir Ralph and Lady Milbanke Lord and Lady Robert Fitzgerald, Sir John and Lady Shelley, Sir Thomas and Lady Metcalfe, Sir J. Montgomery, Lady Sheffield, Lord and Lady Binnings, the Ladies Lowther, Lady Tylney Long and the three Misses Long; Countess Dowager of Clonmell; Viscount and Viscountess Newark; Viscount Sydney and the three Misses Townshend; Mr., Mrs. and Misses Montagu; Sir Henry Mildmay; Mr., Mrs. and Miss Methuen; Hon. Fitzroy Stanhope; Mrs. and the three Miss Thomsons; Lady Smith Burges; Sir James and Lady Murray; Hon. Captain Percy; Mr., Mrs. and Mrs. Pigon; Mr. F. Byng and Mr. G. Byng; Viscountess Perth and Miss Luttrell; Mr. and Mrs. Wellesley Pole; Lord Walsingham, and the Misses De Grey; the Misses Gifford, &c.

THE PARK.

This delightful promenade had yesterday a fuller attendance of Fashionables than we expected to have seen there at so late a period of the season; added to which, a gloom overspread the horizon, the clouds being heady, and of a louring aspect. Among the equipages were those belonging to the following personages:

The Spanish Ambassador.

Duchesses–Rutland, Montrose, and Leeds.

Marchionesses.--Wellesley, Hertford and Headfort

Countesses–Westmoreland, Buckinghamshire, Fauconberg, Cholmondeley, Cork, Oxford and Cowper.

Ladies.--T. Long, Willougby, Campbell, MIldmay, F. Somerset, S. Burgess, D. Smith, C. Drummond, Milbanke and W. Bentinck.

Mistresses–W. Cole A. Stanhope, Montagu, Methuen, Grosvenor, Villiers, and Walpole.

Mr. Buxton, Lord Hawke and Sir C. Bampfylde and Mr. Champion sported their fours-in-hand; the Marquis of HARTINGTON, Mr. METHUEN, Sir J. SHELLEY and Mr. LLOYD, were among the equestrian groups in the ride. The reigning mode in the female costume were white muslin jackets and petticoats, with spencers of apricot-coloured silks; white satin quilted cottage bonnets are still in vogue.

Gossip

The Extraordinary Law-suit in Scotland, mentioned in our Paper of Saturday, will bring to light the so much boasted morality and honour of a certain distinguished modern Reformer.

The parties in a certain moral and honourable transaction, now before one of the Law Courts in Scotland, are a virtuous Reforming Patriot, and the Brother of a wedded Lady of high title.

The want of waist, in the Ladies who sat at the Prince Regent’s table, on a late occasion, was originally termed Scotch economy, from the fashion having been introduced by the Caledonian beauty, Lady Charlotte Campbell.

PUGILISM.

A Man of Kent and a Linen-draper had a severe pugilistic contest at the house of Richman, the Black, in St. Martin’s-street, on Tuesday last; and a more desperate conflict never took place. The man of Kent took the lead, and for the first quarter of an hour his skill and dexterity were irresistible. The odyssey were Lombard-street to a China orange in favour of Kent; but the Linen-draper possessing superior muscular strength, and being a man of tremendous prowess, he would not abate an inch of ground while a remnant of him was left; seven times, indeed, he was put to his shifts, but looking forward as he did to the palm of victory, he continued to lay on the man of Kent without measure, until quite exhausted. The Kentish here resigned the contest and, we had almost said, his breath, while the Linen-draper was hailed as the pattern of all bruisers.--Gregson seconded the man of Kent, and a certain Baronet (a distinguished amateur and patroniser of the science) took the part of the Linen-draper.

Miscellaneous 

Inquest

On Friday afternoon, an Inquest was held at the Spotted Dog, Strand-lane on the body of a young man who was drowned the same afternoon off Somerset House. The medical aid of Dr. Stanton of the Strand, together with Dr. French of the 3d Dragoons, persevered for four hours, but, we are sorry to say, without success.--The verdict was Accidental Death.

Tax Notice

The stamp duty on hats ceased on Friday.

Accident

A most unhappy circumstance has taken place which occasioned a great portion of the City conversation on Saturday. A gentleman of the highest mercantile character and credit has been taken out of the New River dead. He was missed from his house for several hours before any search was made, and was at length found in the manner above described. It was concluded that embarrassments in his concerns had been the cause of a despondency which had led to this fatal act; but a minute inspection has been made, by which it proves that it could not have been produced by any deficiency of means to meet the engagements of the house. It is possible that an accident may have precipitated him into the stream.

Murder

A man named Marshall was stabbed a short time since at Michael Dean, in Gloucestershire, by one Bennett, who had found him in an improper situation with his wife. The wound was mortal; Bennett had fled, and his wife, who had formed an improper attachment for the deceased, is not to be found.

Death of an Eccentric

On the 23d ult., died at Boroughbridge, Yorkshire aged 83, Francis Bolton, pauper, of that place, one of the most eccentric characters, perhaps ever known. His constant custom, from his infancy, was to throw large quantities of cold water upon his head. The manner he performed this was very singular:--In the most inclement winter, he would go to some neighbouring pump and fill his hat with water, and having drunk as much as he thought proper, he would put his hat on, and the contents would run down his body. His shirt, when washed, he would put on wet, and for the last twenty years of his life, refused to lay on a bed, as a substitute for which he used wet straw, on which he used to lay quite naked without any covering but the clothes he put off and during the winter season has many times been found frozen to the ground. When able he traveled the country as a beggar, and his constant address was “Pleas to give any thing.”

VAUXHALL.

Notwithstanding the unfavourable state of the weather during the preceding week, this favourite place of public resort has been numerously frequented by the most respectable classes in the community. This cannot be wondered at, when it is considered how great has been the exertions of the Proprietor to please each varying taste, and to suit the amusement to all seasons. The Philosopher here delights to give up his whole soul to contemplation, while promenading its delightful shady walks;--the Man of Pleasure, charmed with the splendour of the decorations, and with the harmonious sounds which swell the breeze, pants to mingle with the gay throng which pass before him, and can only exclaim–”Mirth admit me of thy crew!”--while the basest citizen lost in admiration of all he sees, can hardly persuade himself that he is not walking on fairy ground, and, gazing in astonishment at the splendid display of fireworks, wonders how the rockets can go so high for the money.--Among the company of Friday we noticed the following:

Duke and Duchess of Bedford; Duke of Rutland, Marquis and Marchioness of Ely, Marquis Townshend and family, Earl and Countess of Westmoreland, Earl and Countess of Jersey, Earl and Countess Cowper, Earl Temple, Lord Palmerston, Lord Kinnaird, Lord Avanley, Lord Grimsby, Lady Noble and several of the French Princes.