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Bell's

COURT AND FASHIONABLE

MAGAZINE,

FOR MARCH, 1806.

EMBELLISHMENTS.

1. Portrait of her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, engraved by special Permission of the Duke of Gloucester, from the Picture in the possession of his Royal Highness, painted by Sir W. Beechey.

2. Song, set to Music by Mr Braham, expressly for this Work.

3. Three whole length Portraits, and four Head Dresses of the London Fashions.

4. Three whole length Portraits of the Parisian Fashions, with Head Dresses,-for the Month of March.

5. Four New Patterns of elegant Needle-Work.

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London: Printed by and for J BELL, Southampton Street, Strand. April 1, 1806.

London Fashions for the Month of April, with Descriptive Prints

Parisian Fashions for the Month of April,

with Descriptive Prints

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

WE have to return our thanks to many of those early Friends of our Work, whose Communications have appeared in our present Number. We solicit a repetition of their favours, and offer freely to them, and to others, the pages of our Magazine, for the discussion of whatever is interesting and elegant, or anywise bearing upon the important points of domestic life and character.

There are many who might wish to address admonitory, or other Letters, to friends or relations, who would not choose to appear in their own names. It is well known that such was the case with the Spectator, and with the earlier Numbers of our most celebrated Periodical Publications; the greater part of the Letters of which, and particularly of those which have been most admired and considered as Letters of Life and Character, were actually sent with this covert purpose-that of conveying, under the assumed fiction of a story, of exactly resembling circumstances, some precept or admonition, which could not have been communicated, or would not have been attended to, in any direct manner. To Correspondents of this class our Magazine is respectfully offered, as a delicate and most suitable vehicle for this covert, and not least effectual method of precept and admonition.

The Culinary System will be continued in our next.

We have to regret the loss of our Correspondent who facoured us with the article on Heraldry in our last; but we have obtained the assistance of another Gentleman, intimately acquainted with this Science, who will resume it in our next Number.

We thank BELINDA for her Letter.

H. S.'s Poetry is very good, but the subject is too grave. We are not partial to blank verse; but shall be glad to hear from him in any other metre.

The Acrostic on Cupid's punishment is translated from the French.

The Tale entitled the Sisters, came to hand; but we can never insert a Tale to be continued, without being first possessed of the whole of the MS.

The future Correspondence of the Author of the admirable Letter “ on the use of Rouge," is earnestly solicited by the Proprietors of this Work.

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Her Royal Highness the Trincess of Wales.

Printed as the Act Directs for John Bell March 28.1806 Southampton Street Strand. Exclusively for his Publication et La Belle Alsemble.

COURT AND FASHIONABLE

MAGAZINE,

For MARCH, 1806.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

OF

ILLUSTRIOUS LADIES.

The Second Number.

HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS OF WALES.

CAROLINE AMELIA ELIZABETH, first, Charlotte-Georgiana-Augusta, the the present Princess of Wales, and wife of eldest, born Dec. 3, 1764; married, Oct. 11, his Royal Highness George Prince of 1780, Frederick-William, now Duke of Wales, was born May 17, 1768. She is Wirtemberg-Stutgard, lately created King the second daughter of the present Duke of Brunswick, of the Electoral line of Hanover, and of consequence, closely connected before her marriage with the Royal Family of Great Britain.

The following genealogical account of her Royal Highness will explain her connection with the Royal Family of England, and is sufficiently ample for our purpose:

of Wirtemberg by the Emperor of the French, (by whom she had two sons and a daughter), and died in 1791. The present Duke of Wirtemberg is brother to the Empress of Russia: he was born on Nov. 7, 1754; and on May 18, 1797, married, secondly, to Charlotte-Augusta-Matilda, Princess Royal of England: second daughter, Carolina-Amelia Elizabeth, born May 17, 1768, was married, April 8, 1795, to her cousin, the Prince of Wales, and has issue Charlotte-Carolina-Augusta, born January 7th, 1796.

Frederick-Lewis, late Prince of Wales, father of his present Majesty, was born on January 20, 1707. Married, April 20, 1736, Augusta, daughter of Frederick II. Duke of Saxe-Gotha, and great aunt to the present Duke; by whom (who died Feb. 8, 1772) he had the following issue; and died March 20, 1751, during the life-exalted character and rank would prescribe, time of his father.

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In the short sketch which we propose to give of her Royal Highness, it might be difficult to confine ourselves altogether within those limits which respect for her

and at the same time to produce an acFirst, Augusta, born July 21, 1737; count which should convey interest and married to the present Duke of Bruns- instruction. We shall therefore extract wick-Wolfenbuttel, Jan. 17, 1764, by whom from the writings of a German traveller she had issue three sons, viz. first, Charles- who was intimately acquainted with her George-Augustus, born Feb. 8, 1766; mar-Royal Highness, such an account as will ried, Oct. 14. 1790, Frederica-Louisa-Wil- endear her to all those subjects whom she helmina, daughter of the late Stadtholder; is destined to reign over in future. second, George-William-Christian, born June 27, 1769; third, William-Frederick, born Oct. 9, 1771: and three daughters;

No. II. Vol. I.

The following extract is from Travels in England, in the year 1802, by Joachim Henry Campe. It is proper to observe,

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