BEING Bell's COURT AND FASHIONABLE MAGAZINE, FOR APRIL, 1821. A New and Improved Series. E EMBELLISHMENTS. 1. A correct Likeness of KATHARINE of BRAGANZA, QUEEN to CHARLES II. 2. A beautiful WHOLE-LENGTH PORTRAIT FIGURE in an ENGLISH CARRIAGE DRESS. 3. A beautiful WHOLE-LENGTH PORTRAIT FIGURE in a PUBLIC PROMENADE DRESS. E Person and temper of the Queen ........... 147 An Atheistical character.......... ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. Ormond Cawdor. 160 ib. Boarding-school Miss ib. A fortunate fit of peevishness 161 Letter from an Irish Gentleman to his Aunt. ................................................................................................... 156 A Shipwreck Interior of California Letter to the Listener on Animosity The Trifler. ib. 167 ...... 168 On public fondness in Married Persons. True and false Wit. Hints on Wit ib. Analogy between Animals and Vegetables 171 The Gleaner's Porte-Folio. ib. English Pride and French Vanity ............. 179 Floating Gardens ................................ ib. Society in London ........................ 170 THE Essay on "Newspaper Reading" came too late for our miscellaneous pages; it shall certainly appear in our next. Poetical contributions signed Quiz, &c. &c. are under consideration. Persons who reside abroad, and who wish to be supplied with this Work every month, as Indies, by Mr. THORNHILL, of the General Post Office, at No. 21, Sherborne-lane; to the Brazils, of the Postolice, fax, Quebec, and to any part the Madeira, Gibraltar, Malta, and all parts of the Mediterranean; to Russia, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Portugal; and to France and Holland, at 178 6d. per Quarter, by Mr. CowIE, atthe 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, and No.4, Brydges-street, CoventGarden, London. London: Printed by and for JOHN BELL, Proprietor of this Magazine, and of the WEEKLY MESSENGER, and Published at No. 4, Brydges-street, Covent Garden. MAY 1, 1821. Catherine of Bagonza!? (Court of Charles the Second.) Published May 11821. for La Belle Assemblee N° 148. virtues, in her desire of pleasing, till she gave into, in some measure, the giddy and frolicsome dissipation of the court at that time: though her conduct was ever correct, and she merely followed the then pre disguises, and which she complied with more from good humoured conformity than from choice. As the ancient house of Braganza forms a very interesting subject in the history of Portugal, we shall present our readers, this month, with a likeness of availing fashion, in going about in various most virtuous but unhappy Princess of that family; the neglected consort of Charles II. Though by no means regularly hand some, yet the countenance of Katharine possessed all the charms of Portuguese beauty: fine black sparkling eyes, with hair like the raven's wing, curling natur ally, and in profusion: even Charles himself, at first view of her, though her dress was very unbecoming, confessed himself pleased with her person. Her virtuous principles, her complying disposition, and real tenderness towards the King, her husband, certainly deserved a better fate: but, as no charms, either of person or mind can . be found sufficient to retain the heart of a depraved libertine, and the ties of duty, are but too weak when opposed against uncontrolled inclinations, so the monarch abandoned the society of his virtuous queen, for that of women, all inferior in mental qualifications, and some not much superior in personal attractions. Nevertheless, Katharine of Braganza did not appear with any degree of splendor in the gay court over which she came to reign; nor did she succeed in spite of her Katharine, Infanta of Portugal, landed in May, 1662, at Portsmouth; whither the King went to receive her; and he was married to her privately by Lord Aubigny, à secular priest, and the Queen's Almoner. This marriage was according to the rites of the Romish church, the Earl of Sandwich not having married Katharine by proxy, as is usual, before she came over. However, though the Queen's religion taught her that her marriage was now sufficiently binding, yet, knowing the established religion of England, she would not be brought to acknowledge herself married till she was united to the King by Selden, Bishop of London. The Queen's court was always very numerously attended after she became stationed in the metropolis: she endeavoured, wherein we find her Majesty rather too complying, to render herself pleasing to those insolent beauties who aspired to the favour of her husband, and from whom, had she kept more at a distance, she would, while Ꭲ ? |