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  2. LITERATURE.

    THE week that followed the 12th of August, 1762, was a time of jubilee for rejoicing throughout England. A Prince of Wales was born; and as I heard, numberless patriotic sages had, at public dinners, already prophesied in him another ...

    Article : 1,710 words
  3. FASHIONS FOR MARCH.

    White and pink are the favourite colours this season, for crape, gauze, and other light materials of dress; tulle is also again in fashion, and forms pretty toilettes, with double skirts' ornamented with ruches; the corsages are all pointed, and ...

    Article : 384 words
  4. FOREIGN.

    It would really seem (says the Times) as if acts of infatuation were accumulating in the Colonial Office for the express purpose of hurrying on a crisis, and bringing about such a change in the mode of ...

    Article : 469 words
  5. BRITISH PRESS.

    The present Cabinet contains fifteen Ministers. Of these nine are members of the House of Parliament where Ministers aro least wanted—the House of Lords; and six are in the House of ...

    Article : 1,338 words
  6. IRELAND.

    The banquet to the "repeal martyrs" came off on Wednesday (March 26.) Mr. O'Connell's speech was of the usual stereotyped order, varied, however, by a proposition for a repeal uniform, in which the Agitator was ...

    Article : 677 words
  7. THE ARMY.

    A military heard was lately assembled, by order of the Duke of Wellington, in consequence of its having been officially reported to his grace that the funds of the above regiment were in a state of insolvency to a very ...

    Article : 615 words
  8. ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

    The Washington correspondent of a New York paper states that the last steamer from England brought despatches to Mr. Pakenham, the British Minister, instructing him to demand an explanation of—"apology ...

    Article : 1,281 words
  9. SHE WAS READY.

    Say, what the spell of this chill hour? This sense-destroying, crushing power, That sinks the heart, and steals the sight, And seems to warn the soul to flight? ...

    Article : 282 words
  10. THE NAVY.

    The Plymouth Times gives the following account of the relative sailing and other qualities of that section of the squadron which left Plymouth-sound on the 16th of January last, consisting of the Mutine, Osprey, Pantaloon, and Waterwitch. ...

    Article : 349 words
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