LA BELLE ASSEMBLÉE; BBING Bell's COURT AND AND FASHIONABLE FOR AUGUST, 1818. a Pew and Improved Series. EMBELLISHMENTS. 1. A Correct Likevess of her ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUCHESS OF CAMBRIDGE, Eugraved frora an original Drawing. 3. A beautiful WHOLE-LENGTH PORTRAIT FIGURE in a PARISIAN WALKING DRESS. 2. A beautiful WHOLE-LENGTH PORTRAIT FIGURE iu an ENGLISH DINNER DRESS. 4. Elegant PARISIAN PATTERNS for NEEDLE WORK. LITERARY CONTENTS. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF DIS. His interesting conversation with the Baroness 61 TINGUISHED AND ILLUSTRIOUS Contrivances explained 62 CHARACTERS. Description of the Glaciers in the Alps. 62 Their increase and diminution .................... 63 Amiability of the Duke and Duchess 51 ib. Their enthusiastic reception ..................... ib. 64 Re-marriage in England ib. ib. Number and extent of the Glacier ib. ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. Abridgment of Natural History, in a series A brief History of Music, selected from the of Letters from a Lady to her Daughter. best Authorities. The Tortoise and Turtle 65 Music of the Britons The Frog 66 ................................... 52 Anecdotes of Illustrious Females. Topographical Museum. Dover ..... Elizabeth Queen of Hungary ..... 67 .................... 54 The Listener. 69 Anecdote of Charles XII. of Sweden 55 Complaints of a twice Married Man ............. 70 Old Acquaintances ; or, New Masks. High sense of honour in a Peon ................. ib. Revolutionary Events ib. Anecdote of Sheridan ................................... 72 Dr. Franklin Discovery of old Acquaintances 56 the King of Denmark ib. Pierre Huet ; or, The Square Tower 75 Saxon Anecdote The Wonder of Wonders! 77 Island of Loo-Choo 57 78 Women ....................... 59 Brief Account of Vieung. 60 79 Disguise and no Disguise. A Tale. The Pruter ************..... 80 Disguises of the Chevalier and Mathilda ...... 61 | German Literature ................................ 81 73 ib. LITERARY CONTENTS (Continued.) POETRY. English Opera.-Miss Kelly's Louisa, in the 89 Antonia, extracts from, ............................ 81 Address to Sleep .................. 84 FRENCH THEATRICALS. The blighted Rose ib. Theatre Royal de l’Odeon.--Sketch of The ib. FASHIONS FOR SEPTEMBER, 1818. Theatre de la Gaite.-The Village on Fire ... 90 Explanation of the Prints of Fashion. No.J. Parisian Walking Dress ................ 84 LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. No. 2. English Dinner Dress ib. General Observations on Fashion and Dress ib. Review of An Introductory Lecture for the Cabinet of Taste; or Monthly Compendium Diseases of the Ear of Foreigu Costumes.-Costume of Paris... 86' - The Works of Madame Riccobini 92 Description of a young Mogul Beauty .. 87 Works in the Press 93 Letter from a young Married Lady to her MUSICAL REVIEW.-I'm certain ho'll come Sister in the Country ib. ib. The Principality of Hesse Hombourg ... 94 MONTHLY MISCELLANY; Singular Zoophyte ib. INCLUDING VARIETIBS CRITICAL, LITE Madame Manson 95 RARY, AND HISTORICAL, Public Amusements in Paris ib. 96 Haymarket Theatre. Mr. Warde as Shylock 89 91 ib. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Le Portefeuille Francais, published in London and Worcester, shall be revised in due time. The French works that we review are generally those newly published at Paris, and which are trans. mitted from thence for our inspection. Some of the subjects that compose the melange of Le Portefeuille Francais, are not new, and have already been treated of in La Belle ASSEMBLBE, which, should it adopt any fresh anecdotes, &c. from Le Portefeuille Francais, the author will be sure to have the credit given to him. The Sojourner is unavoidably delayed till our next Number. The Statement of Facts relative to the case of Mrs. Scarborough, shall be treated of as early as possible; but such statements require close investigation, and caution in the perasal. The valuable Letters and Tale of Female Heroism, from our respected Caledonian Correspondent, came too late for insertion this month, they shall certainly meet with prompt insertion. We thank ZEPHYRUS for his bints; but it is not likely we should contradict in one Number what we are authorized in stating in another. 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