OR, Bell's COURT AND FASHIONABLE MAGAZINE. Lady Charlotte Campbell.... FOR JUNE, 1809. EMBELLISHMENTS. 1. An Elegant PORTRAIT of the RIGHT HON. LADY CHARLOTTE CAMPBELL. 3. An ORIGINAL SONG, set to Music for the Harp and Piano-forte; composed exclu- 4. Two elegant and new PATTERNS for NEEDLE-WORK. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF ILLUS- || BEAUTIES OF THE BRITISH POETS. TRIOUS LADIES. ....... 167 ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. Of the possibility of growing young again 168 .... Character of the Spanish Ladies Art of Drawing LA BELLE ASSEMBLEE. Explanation of the Prints of Fashion.... 198 186 191 London: Printed by and for J. BELL, Proprietor of the WEEKLY MESSENGER, Southampton-Street, Strand, July 1, 1809. THE HALF YEARLY SUPPLEMENTAL NUMBER. This Day is published, with the present Number of LA BELLE ASSEMBLEE, No. XLVII. being the regular SUPPLEMENTAL Number, which concludes the Sixth Volume of this Work, with the termination of the half year. DECORATIONS. The Supplement contains the HEADS of those POETS whose Works have ap peared in the prior Numbers of the Magazine, and likewise of such poets whose Works appear in the Supplement and following Number. These Portraits are Five in number, viz. very fine Portraits, from original Pictures of acknowledged fidelity, of The SUPPLEMENT is charged Half-a-crown; and Subscribers are requested to give immediate orders for it to their several Booksellers, that they may procure fine impressions and complete their Volume.-A richer Number than the Supplement, and at the same price, will never issue from the periodical press. Well's COURT AND FASHIONABLE MAGAZINE, For JUNE, 1809. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF ILLUSTRIOUS LADIES. The Forty-sixth Number. THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LADY CHARLOTTE CAMPBELL. LADY CHARLOTTE CAMPBELL is unnecessary to inform those female readers the youngest daughter of John Duke of who are possessed of experience in the Argyll, by Elizabeth, Duchess of Hamil-science of costume, and can count the ton and Brandon, and of Argyll. Her revolutions of fashions with accuracy and Ladyship was married to John Campbell, precision, that Lady Charlotte Campbell Esq. eldest son of Walter Campbell, Esq. was the first inventor of what is technically of Shawfield, Lanerkshire. I called short waists. This Gentleman is since dead. It is scarcely fifteen years since Lady Charlotte Campbell was the most distinguished ornament of the fashionable circle. To a great share of beauty she united the most brilliant accomplishments, and a taste in dress which excited the admiration and envy of the female world. Her Ladyship will always maintain a conspicuous place in the records of fashion: the time in which she flourished will, if we mistake not, be celebrated as a kind of ERA in the decoration of the female world. It is perhaps) This peculiar attraction of the sex will long be remembered by those who have so often shuddered at that martyrdom which beauty has sustained from whalebone and tight lacing. After her marriage, Lady Charlotte Campbell made a very hasty retreat from the gay world, to cultivate the domestic duties in a more tranquil and secluded life. Her Ladyship has chiefly remained in this retirement; and, a short time since, had the misfortune to lose her husband. ON THE POSSIBILITY OF GROWING YOUNG AGAIN. [Continued from page 136.] A multitude of facts might be adduced to prove, that nature, as we have just observed, still possesses the same resources as ever; all that is required of us is not to paralyse her means, and this our manner of living has most unfortunately but too often a tendency to do. "The age of the world," says Dr. Huseland, "has hitherto had no perceptible influence on the age of man. It is possible to live, in our days, to as great an age as mankind did at the time of Abraham, and even at a more remote period. There have undoubtedly been times, at which men, in the same country, have attained to a greater or less age. But that nation, which should return through a revolution to a less civilized state, and approach nearer to that of nature, would be most likely to arrive, like the people of the early ages, at the real term of life." || It would be very easy to demonstrate, by examples, that man at the present day attains to a very advanced age. These examples we began to collect, but they are so numerous, that the limits of this chapter forbid their introduction. Many of them will be found in the work of Sir John Sinclair, and other writers on the subject of longevity, and the means of prolonging life, to which we shall take the liberty of referring the inquisitive reader. The possibility of attaining to an extreme old age, is so clearly demonstrated, that we have no occasion to say any thing more on the subject. We shall therefore confine ourselves, in this place, to the proof of our assertion, that cosmetics, bathing, in a word, the pains bestowed on the skin are one of the principal of the means that promote length of life, and are sometimes capable of producing the astonishing phenomenon of a complete restoration of youth-a phenomenon of which many authentic examples are on record. That this renovation is possible, and that it is owing, in part, to the good state of the skin, is neither a paradox nor a new opinion peculiar to ourselves. I shall take occasion to mention the names of some physicians who have entertained the same sentiments on this subject as ourselves, and to which we might add a great many others, if our limits would allow us to enter into a full discussion of this opinion. Most of the physicians, both ancient and modern, who have devoted their attention to the means of prolonging life or restoring the vigour of youth, have always recom mended particular care to be taken of the skin. Hippocrates advised the use of the bath, daily frictions, and exercise. He lived to the age of one hundred and four years. Galen, who died at the age of one hundred and forty years, and never had any illness, owed this protracted life to the practice of the advice which he gives in his treatise on the way of preserving health. Asclepiades, a physician, affirmed that by art it was possible to prolong life and health, and that he would consent to pass for an ignorant quack, if he' was ever attacked with the slightest indisposition. He made good his assertion, for he died of a fall, at the age of one hundred and fifty years. ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. LOVE AND MADNESS. A ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE. - THE general conversation of the fashionable world is wholly occupied upon the melancholy business which has lately been agitated in the Courts respecting the separation of Lord and his amiable wife; a separation which, throughout the whole affair, is accompanied with such singular and unhappy circumstances as render it more like a romance than any thing which has recently occurred, or which could be supposed to have occurred in real life. In the variety of human misery, however, it would seem that for tune sometimes orrows the powers of fiction, and thereby produces real scenés and actual occurrences, which, in the dark ebony of their ground, resemble the images of fiction. Something of this kind has happened in the unhappy affair to which we allude some of the transactions are so melancholy, and at the same time so little known, that it may not be uninteresting to retrace them. Lord- is a nobleman possessed of the most eminent personal attractions; he is possessed, moreover, of those qualities which still farther heighten the effect of those attractions. Amongst those illustrious few whose single deeds uphold the reputation of the country, Lord -'s name stands foremost. Some of the most brilliant of our late victories have been imputed to him, and certainly if not altogether acquired by his individual prowess, his active valour has at least contributed more than an equal share. It is a very old remark, that no quality is so attractive to the ladies as valour, and therefore that nothing more effectually recommends a man to their favour than having a reputation for courage; Lord- possessed this reputation in a most eminent degree. Every soldier could relate the acts of his unexampled courage; every soldier ac No. XLVI-Vol. VI. knowledged him as his star and model. In || || ―――――――. In the ordinary intercourse of fashionable life, Lord was introduced into the family of Mr. Mr. - -- was one of those men who are, perhaps, more calculated for business than for domestic society. He was a man of the most strict |