BEING Bell's COURT AND FASHIONABLE MAGAZINE, FOR AUGUST, 1819. A New and Improved Series. EMBELLISHMENTS. 1. A correct Likeness of ANNA MARIA DUCHESS OF SHREWSBURY, Engraved from an original Painting by SIR PETER LELY. 2. A beautiful WHOLE-LENGTH PORTRAIT FIGURE in a SPANISH FANCY COSTUME. 3. A beautiful WHOLE-LENGTH PORTRAIT FIGURE in a PUBLIC PROMENADE DRESS. 4. Elegant PATTERNS for DRESSING BOXES: 1r would be better, according to our idea, for our respected Caledonian Correspondent, to signify her disavowal of a Letter in the New Monthly Magazine, to the Editor of that Work ; as we make it a rule never to interfere with other periodical publications. The quantity of previous matter which has been so long and unavoidably postponed, renders it impossible to attend to ber other requests in this Number. The review of the New Publications which we have been requested to notice, must now be deferred to our yearly Supplement, except those of a light nature, and Novels, which will be attended to as early as possible. Persons who reside abroad, and who wish to be supplied with this Work every month, as published, may have it sent to them to New York, Halifax, Quebec, and to any part of the West Indies, by Mr. THORNHILL, of the General Post Office, at No. 21, Sherborne-lane; to the Brazils, Madeira, Gibraltar, Malta, and all parts of the Mediterranean; to Russia, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Portugal; and to France and Holland, at 17s. 6d. per Quarter, by Mr. Cowie, at the Foreign Newspaper Office, No. 22, Sherborne-lane. The money to be paid at the time of Subscribing, for either three, six, nine, or twelve months.-Orders also, post paid, on the above conditions, will be punctually attended to, if addressed to JOHN BELL, Proprietor of this Magazine, Weekly Messenger Office, No. 104, Drury-lane, London. London: Printed by and for JOHN BELL, Proprietor of this Magazine, and of the WEEKLY MESSENGER, No. 104, Drury-Lane. SEPTEMBER 1, 1819. Anna Maria Countess of Shrewsbury. Engraved by J. Thompson from an Orginal Painting by Sir Peter Lely, ८ For AUGUST, 1819. A New and Improved Series. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF ILLUSTRIOUS AND DISTINGUISHED CHARACTERS. Number One Hundred and Twenty-six. BEAUTIES OF THE COURT OF CHARLES II, ANNA MARIA COUNTESS OF SHREWSBURY. she had presented them with. The Earl was a mild meek-spirited man, and was certainly too tame at her ridiculous conduct; but his indulgence to such an abandoned wife merited a better fate, and a different treatment from her hands than the pointed WHY should not superior beauty be indicative of the mind within? And why should a face expressive of candour, innocence, and love, be but too often a mask to disguise an unfeeling, corrupt, and licentious heart? A faulty education, the pre-neglect she evinced towards him. valence of evil example, and a sojournment in a court from whence all purity of conduct and morality of life were banished, were the chief causes to which we can attribute the extreme licentiousness of female manners, so fatally prevalent amongst women of rank and beauty in the reign of Charles II. Killigrew once took it into his head to fall in love with this celebrated lady; and as, by a very extraordinary chance, the easy, or rather depraved fair one happened then to have no other engagement, an amour between them was soon established. Accustomed to continual intrigues of this kind, no one belonging to the court thought of interrupting a connection which con themselves, if we except the injured husband. The whimsical Killigrew thought proper, however, to disturb it himself: not that his expected happiness had ceased to be more than realized; nor did the charms and attractions of the seducing Countess The subject of our present sketch might be said to yield to none in point of illus-cerned no one individual but the parties trious birth, symmetry of form, or beauty of countenance: of her acquirements or mental endowments we have heard nothing. Lady Anna Maria Brudenell, was the eldest daughter of Robert Brudenell, Earl of Cardigan; and was married in the early bloom of youth to Francis Earl of Shrews-pall on possession; but he was discontentbury. This lady, whose beauty was of that fas. cinating kind as not only to lead the senses captive, but also to enslave the mind, delighted in nothing so much as in rendering herself conspicuous: if a man had been killed in a duel for her every day, she would have only held up her head the higher. She had not been long married when four gentlemen about the court displayed their bracelets made of locks of her hair, which ed at not seeming to produce any kind of envy in his rivals, and was quite offended that his good fortune should pass so unheeded: he was therefore resolved to quit an amour that had yielded him so little eclat. The wit of this man was proverbial, and when inflamed by the juice of the grape it particularly displayed itself. He would then indulge in describing the transcendant beauties and peculiar charms of the |