"That is drawn over the ground in order to smooth compelled to cultivate: so that this business mar,) with an interesting story, and much its surface. You may imagine implements of in Tirhoot is carried on more through the ne- originality in the principal character, Sir this kind cannot penetrate very far, for which cessities of the people, than regard for itself. Andrew Sagittarius far surpasses the comreason, also, to keep the lands soft and moist, The colouring matter is contained in the mon run of the trash which may, according they are ploughed sixteen times or oftener; leaves alone, and the quantum of produce de- to the saying, make good for trade as far as when prepared, they are finely pulverised and pends upon their size and number, without paper and ink are concerned, but certainly quite smooth, without a weed or blade of any relation to the tree itself, which does not for nothing else. Sir Andrew is passionately grass. Planters begin to sow in the latter possess the precious dye with which they are addicted to astrology, to which his whole life end of February, with seed which is partly impregnated. The process of manufacture is is devoted. On the birth of his eldest son, grown by themselves, and part purchased by as follows:-After the plant is drawn to the he casts his nativity, and finds, from the asmerchants; this is a very critical period, for factory it is put into vats. which may be rated pect of the stars, that this child will in time if a fall of rain should take place before the at eighteen feet by eight in superficies and attempt his life; this leads to an inveterate plant has vegetated and appears above five feet deep; having been pressed firmly dislike on his part, and eventually to the boy's ground, its growth is prevented by a thick down by bamboos which are placed across secretly leaving his parental home. After a crust which forms upon the earth: so that a the vat-beams, it is watered, and allowed to little time he is believed to be dead; but he second sowing must be commenced, generally stand until fermentation takes place; this is, notwithstanding, of course alive (a novel performed upon this occasion by the English happens in twelve or sixteen hours, when the reader's of course,) and takes a prominent drill plough which has been introduced; the water assumes a deep green colour, sur-part in the events that oecur, but whether first sowing is by broadcast. After the sow-mounted by blue froth, and is let off into ano-for good or for bad, to fulfil or falsify his ing is finished, and seed has had time to ve- ther vat called the beater, by means of a father's prediction, we will not be ill-natured getate, the zilledars send in a report of such wooden peg made to withdraw at pleasure; enough to spoil the story by telling. As a spelands as have succeeded, and such as have this water is agitated, until the fæcula has cimen, we extract a sketch from a fashionmissed; the amount of this latter is often very separated, by persons called Danghers, who able party, taken with much vivacity. considerable, so that another sowing must be live in the jungle, and are brought from a Lady Sherrington had not been improvientered upon after a fall of rain, when the distance, or others of the lowest caste, with dent. She had already a gentleman of very lands have acquired moisture; perhaps this an implement which consists of a semi-cir-possessing appearance at her elbow ready to may fail, too, again and again, for the deli-cular board fastened to a handle of conve-be introduced to my sweet self. - - cacy of this plant is such, that it requires not nient length; it is then allowed to subside, "I had nevertheless no reason to complain only great care in cultivation, but the nicest after which the water is drawn off carefully of my present beau; he performed his duty adjustment of temperature for its production. by means of small wooden pins, and the fæ- to me and the quadrille with a becoming ease. When the plant rises about six inches high, it cula taken up from the bottom, whence it is His conversation was pleasant and diverting; is necessary to weed it, by clearing all grass conveyed into the boilers; this liquor is boiled indeed, for a wonder, extremely sensible at and vegetable productions from its root; this at night, and allowed to cool, by which means the same time." operation is performed with a small imple-more water is separated; it is again boiled in While the partner is endeavouring to proment called a kurpi, which consists of a small the morning, and drawn off upon the table, cuire some refreshment from the supper table, iron blade fixed in a shaft six inches long; which consists of bamboos finely split, united no easy thing in a fashionable party, a lady the workman holds this in his hand, and together, and covered with a cotton sheet; Blabmajor entertains the young lady, and, delves it lightly into the earth, taking care through this it oozes with great rapidity at amid other information, tells hernot to root up the plant; after this is finished, first, into a hollow space below, from which is something more than the crop begins to shoot up pretty high, when it is caught up and put back into the table. a confectioner. He not only sends out sweet it gets choaked among the grass which has This operation continues until the fæcula has cakes, wine and fruit, but also handsome sprung up again. A second weeding is then settled, and nothing but water oozes out, young gentlemen, who dance quadrilles. commenced, at the end of which the plant which is allowed to flow; the indigo remains These are hired for parties where they are assumes the figure of a tree, gets strong, here until next morning, when it is carried to wanted, at the rate of one guinea per night; branches out, and rises five feet high. In the press, which has small holes perforated half of which goes to, and the other half managing zirrots or factory farms, a great for letting water escape, and is inlaid with to the young man, for the purchase of silk number of hired ploughs and people are em-cloths, into which it is put; it is pressed by stockings, gloves, and coach-hire in rainy ployed in the ploughing and weeding sea- screws until the water has completely sepa- weather. has these dancing men regusons; at these times the muster generally rated, and the indigo is formed into a solid larly entered in his books, and, like quadrille amounts to three hundred ploughs and seven heavy mass. Next morning it is carried to players, there is generally a dispute to have hundred men daily: there may be fewer or the drying-house, where it is cut into cakes, the best. Lady Blabmajor said that she tried more occasionally, but this I think a fair me- and put upon bamboo gratings, or tables, to to engage one of these dancers-an exceeddium. At the very idlest season, an indigo dry: this goes on slowly, without artificial ingly handsome youth-at her last party; but factory has got employment for one hundred help, and here it remains until packed up in that informed her he had him booked for workmen daily, so that the expenses attend- chests and sent off to Calcutta. There are that evening at Lady H-'s. These gening such an establishment would be enormous, two cuttings, the morin, or first crop, and tlemen, it seems, are bound by contract to were it not for the low rate of manual labour koonti, or second growth; after the manufac- eat as many of -'s sweet cakes, wine, and in India. The manufacture commences in ture is finished, a person called a mounsiff is fruit, as they can. July, and the plant, after being cut by a sickle sent out to measure, which he does in con- "I was naturally inclined to doubt the to which it readily yields, though of a lig junction with the cultivator, by a survey of correctness of Lady Blabmajor's information; neous nature, is carried into the factory upon the indigo stalks that remain on the ground. but she insisted upon its truth with such an hackries, drawn by bullocks, on bullocks' There are three kinds of plant, viz. good, air of confidence, that my incredulity at backs, and in boats; three hundred hackries, middling, and bad; for these five and a half, length was changed to implicit belief. I confive hundred bullocks, and four boats are re-four and a half, and three and a half rupees sidered, in my way home, the excellence of quisite; for these the indigo planter gives are given; according to this measurement, this scheme to remedy an evil complained of advances beforehand, in order to secure their the account total is made out, and matters in parties-the want of dancers; and I could attendance, viz. eighteen rupees for hackries, are adjusted between the cultivator and not help commending the ingenious contriand two for bullocks; his whole business, in planter: so that in case of a bad crop, the vance, which remedied the fault at once: and fact, is carried on by advancing money, as former is a loser as well as the latter." as these dancing gentry are not entailed as without it he can do nothing, and has often At page 158 there is a trait of coarse writ- acquaintances on the donor of an assembly, much difficulty with it. The natives are na-ing. The style is generally too inflated, and the plan is therefore not only advisable, but turally averse to indigo cultivation, both on sometimes fails; but upon the whole the vo- agreeable; for it is easy to obtain respectable account of the trouble it is attended with, and lume is creditable to Mr. Huggins' intelli- partners, in order to shew our sex off in the the trifling profit, which is not a sufficient re-gence. ball: and none of these dancers will compense for their labour; however, they are book, unless their characters are good, and forced to it by their necessities. A zemindar Sir Andrew Sagittarius; or, The Perils of their rank of a certain degree. The greater wants money to pay his revenue to govern- Astrology. 12mo. 3 vols. London 1824. part are composed of half-pay officers, who ment, and must have it somehow or other; James Haldane. converse upon what they have seen abroad; he goes to a planter, gets the sum requisite, WRITTEN in an easy and lively style (in which comprehend Italian; talk Spanish like nagives an engagement, and his tenants are we detect a few rather grave errors of gram-tives, and come off with flying colours in the French language. But I must proceed with "It was truly the case with Jack Humbug: the way, considered by those who knew her other matters. My beau, by his unwearied his knacks and tricks, and turnings, and best, somewhat jealous of her own daughters endeavours, had effected an opening between manoeuvrings, and talents if you will, were in that line. so incongruous, so sketchy, so oddly assorted, "The girls were all exceedingly foolish, and so ill-arranged, that they were to his but none of them in their mother's way. mind much the same as the motley coat is to Harlequin's body-a collection of patches of excellent materials, whimsically stitched together, to make their wearer as ridiculous as possible. two dowagers at the supper table. He obtained a plate of wine fruit, which he brought to me. I thanked him for his kind attention, and felt really grateful to him for his care: but the little black imp of mischief lodged in my brain, caused me to offend him. The fact was simply thus:-I was full of the information given me by Lady Blabmajor; nor could I resist, in the course of conversation, to mention it to my beau. He evidently coloured during the minute I innocently gave him my opinion. A thought struck me, that his change of colour might be caused by himself being one of these hired dancers! He made several aukward replies to my queries, which confirmed me in the suspicions I formed. He was much embarrassed and confused; and, without offering an excuse for leaving me, he forced his way through a crowd of ladies, disappeared from my sight, and released himself from the torment of my discussion upon hired gentlemen.” "Jack had the advantage of a remarkably good person, and that, with the aid of his nicknackeries, perfect good humour, and a smattering of boudoir wit, procured him the affections of Lady Honoria Dawdle, the only daughter and heiress of a noble Earl now no more: she was beautiful and a fool,-she thought him beautiful and a conjuror, and eloped with her young swain before she was of age. "Her friends, perceiving that the step was taken, instead of crying out and exclaiming against the affair, very prudently consoled themselves with the reflection that she might have done worse,' and determined rather than affect to dislike a marriage which they could not dissolve, to do every thing in their power SAYINGS AND DOINGS.-[3 vols. Colburn.] which might add to the consequence and reIN returning to this clever picture of modern spectability of the person to whom she was times and manners, we find ourselves at the united, and give him, if possible, an importsecond story: "The Friend of the Family." ance worthy of one of themselves, which he This Friend of the Family is a most villanous then was, and which he had not. Thus, in attorney, one of the few, no doubt, who dis- his matrimonial project, he may be thought grace that humane and honourable profession. to have succeeded entirely, but not so, for He plots to separate a diplomatic nobleman although, when his dear Honoria came of age, from his only son, destroy the happiness of he found himself possessed of a life-interest the latter in an affair of the heart, and get the in about twenty thousand pounds per annum, property of the family into his own possession. still there was an earldom in remainder, He ultimately fails; and all ends well by his which was encumbered with two conditions. committing felo de se. From this tale also, "First, that the nephew of Lady Honoria our examples shall be miscellaneous. Some should die without issue-and secondly, that of the subordinate characters are excellently he, Humbug, should have a son upon whom drawn. the honour might devolve. Here he failed: he had been blessed with three daughters, but no male heir had gratified his expectations or his vanity. "Mr. Humbug, or, as he was commonly called, Jack, was a person who sprang from the soil, and was, what, nobody can exactly say. He had been in his youth a bit of a lawyer, "Lady Honoria was an excessively weak a bit of a sailor, a bit of a soldier; he was a woman, and, as is usually the case, an excesdabbler in all arts and sciences, a proficient sively vain one; she was without exception in none. He could draw, he could sing, he the most sentimental creature that ever excould dance, play, etch, engrave, model, isted, and, like Fielding's Huncamunca, shudwrite sonuets, take likenesses, fish, shoot, dered at a gross idea. She had been a beauty, hunt, turn little ivory boxes, make alum and the worst of the matter was, that she baskets, carve and gild, and play every game on the cards; he had an eye for a horse, drove four-in-hand, jumped higher than any man in the United Kingdom, tired Barclay in a walk, and beat Bedford at billiards-at least, he said he did. could never forget it-and neither published "Jack Humbug, himself, was a kind indulgent father, and a fond-enough husband, considering it was a love-marriage-for, dreadful as the truth is, and scolded as I shall be by the Humbugs for saying so, I have never seen a run-away match turn out well; and I have noted down a good many in my common-place book. "Humbug's disposition greatly resembled his wife's in one respect: he affected never to feel the approach of age, he kept on jumping as he had done while he was a stripling, after he had attained the age of fifty-six, and when a leap over a dwarf ottoman with a run of the rug's length was a feat in which he was baffled nine times out of ten; he never could be persuaded to save his money, or his constitution, but betted with the most hardened bravery that he would take fences and clear gates, over which, no possible effort of his could carry or even scramble him, and always gave some excellent reason for his failure that time,' though most assuredly not the right one. "He wore his clothes in the extreme of the reigning fashion, whatever it might be, or however ill-suited to his figure; a wig à lanaturelle, nearly the colour of his whiskers, but not quite-a waist intended for a slim figure, and a hat meant for a boy; his manners, too, were extremely juvenile, he was always alive, always got the first of every thing; the first fizgig from Germany was in his possession nobody ever did Cardinal Puff before him; in short, by his own account, he was perfectly wise, perfectly learned, perfectly clever, perfectly fashionable, perfectly happy, and perfectly young at fifty-six; but every body who knew Jack, and heard his stories, knew perfectly well what Humbug really was. - "Charlotte, the youngest, was quite of a different turn. She was blue, deep blue, and you could taste the Prussic acid even in her conversation; it was full of killing pedantry and pitiable affectation; she was as silly as her sisters, but, having bored herself to death to learn Latin and Greek, felt herself authorized to surfeit her friends with the half-ripe fruits of her labours. She had many fluttering beaux hovering about her filty thousand pounds, but the arts of the scavante drove them all away, one after another; so that whatever desire the young linguist might have had to conjugate, the world seems to think she never had an opportunity of declining. "In short, from the oldest to the youngest, from the father down to Charlotte, they were all decided Humbugs.' "I remember one day seeing at Fontaine-clothed her person. bleau a clock with seven or eight dials, one "Love, romantic love, that particular sort professing to tell the hour, another the day, of love which lives in a cottage, and breaka third the month, a fourth the moon's age, fasts upon a May-morning breeze, was the a fifth the year, and so on; and they were usual theme of her conversation-she was The following remark upon an occurrence all very nearly right, but not one of them full of romantic enthusiasm about moonlight, in the progress of the story, is full of truth. quite so. I could not, at the moment, help and perfect abhorrence of worldly views. "There is no mistake greater than that into thinking of my friend Humbug: if half the Her favourites were all heart,' and all which people fall, who fancy a lively disposipains which had been taken with this toy, had mind,' and (like some others of my friends tion an insensible one;-those whose feelings been bestowed upon so much of the machinery noticed elsewhere)'all soul.' She wrote are always alive, whose passions are capable as was merely necessary to the well-going of verses, and would read poetry with a twang- of strong excitement, and whose animal any one of those dials, an object would have ing affectation to her friends, and emphasize spirits are the highest and most volatile, are been attained, the thing would have been the beauties; she would melt into tears at a those upon whom sad, sudden changes from perfect, and we should have had the advan- piece of music she remembered to have heard happiness to misery, have the most poignant tage of deriving correct information from it played by a friend who had been dead thirty-effects." as far as it went; but the application being four years; she treasured a rose-bud in a We shall only add here the writer's anadiversified, and so many qualities sought for, box which somebody had told her grew in the thema of the waltz: the consequence was, both to the man and the garden of the house where Petrarch was said machine, that they professed to do every once to have lived-and she had an album, thing, and succeeded in doing nothing per- and scrap-books, and, moreover, and above fectly. all, was extremely fond of flirting-being, by "The only two persons who were not in the slightest degree affected in any way or manner by the great passing events, were the two Misses Farnbridge, girls whose intellects likely to be in London, for I'm off—O'Calla. "Am I not to meet Felton?' "Poor fellow, I hope you'll never have to meet him in this world; it will be mighty disagreeable if you do.' "I don't understand you, my dear Fitzpatrick,' said Merton. were placed in their heels instead of their sitting over his wine, expecting a reply to his same name. "Oh! put your heart at ease. I'll trouThe third of our series is Merton-the mis- ble you to look here, Mr. Merton," said he, adventures of a most unfortunate young gen-producing from a neighbouring chair, on which tleman, who is persecuted by fatal ill-luck to they had lain previously unobserved, a case a desperate extent and finally sorrowful issue. of Manton's particular. 'Here are as sweet There is more romance in this than the preced- a pair of weapons as a man would wish to ing; but we are warned not to shut our belief have. Look ye there, now-look ye there: against the possibility of the events. We shall that pistol killed the Earl of Whistleton, and not however follow the loves, the marriages, is reckoned a beauty; but for my own private the elopements, the trials, the condemnations, fighting, I prefer the other.' the escapes, and all the marvellous incidents "I am no judge,' said Henry; and I in this strange tale; but as we have hitherto own it is with repugnance I enter into such done, display the author by various extracts. a contest.' A Dandy is thus painted: "I vow to Gad, those are just my own 'I never seek the battle, "Where are we to meet?' "The Lord only knows what the place is called; as how should I know, unless, indeed, I were a witch? I know it when I see it, for as we were going along, I saw a stile and a sort of copse, and I said to my friend, There, says I, in case we don't make up this business, Colonel, that is a likely place for our purpose.' "Felton was a thorough-bred Dandy-and never sure was word so profaned, so misused, or so woefully misapplied by the more ordinary judges of society than this. The un-but if people will be so unreasonable as this initiated call a man a dandy who wears a stiff Mr. Felton, why one must come to this arguneckcloth, or stays, or whiskers, or any thing ment, which, as it is certainly the worst, ought outré, even if he live in the city, and be de- always to be the last.' tectable in a play-house lobby, or on a great shining horse with a new saddle, in the park on a Sunday. Never was such a mistakeFelton was really a dandy; he lived in the best society, knew every body and every thing, could distinguish the hand of Ude, even in a risolle, would shudder if a man took white wine after brown game, or port with cheese (after the manner of the ancients.) He was the youth who at Oxford woke the dean of his college at two in the morning to shew him an ill-roasted potatoe as a slur upon the cookery of the University; he was the man who always left town when the chairmen began to eat asparagus; he was the identical person who was called the late Mr. Felton from never being in time for dinner; he was the being who only saw fish or soup upon his own table; carriages were named after him; he had a mixture at Fribourg's, and gave the ton in hats. In short-he was a dandy "Let that be understood, Sir,' says he. "Hadn't we better get to bed, Charles?' "Oh, to bed-then to bed: I'll call you in time, never fear. Eight is the hour-sleep fast as a church, and rise steady as a rock. Bring your hand up gently, and fire low.' "Why, by Gad, I hardly know how to explain myself, for I have a thousand apologies to make to you for taking an affair of this nature out of your hands; but upon the word of a gentleman, I vow to Gad, this same Mr. John Felton of Haversfield was so unnecessarily impertinent to me last night personally, that I was obliged to change my character of second into principal with him; and my friend O'Callaghan and I, had him out at seven, and I'm deuced sorry for the result, but it's what we are all born to. They've taken him home on a shutter, and I'm not a likely man, under the circumstances, to call and enquire after his health." "In the name of Heaven, what do you mean?? "Nothing, only that I am afraid he's as dead as Julius Cæsar. It's no fault of mine; upon the word of a gentleman, I'm quite as sorry as you can be, only those divils of Man. ton's have such a way of killing.' "But am I to understand. "You may understand that you may just stay where you are, and that I must not. We have got a chaise waiting to take us to Carlisle, they call it, I think; and then we will make the best of our way to London, where, if you 'll just give me your present address, we'll meet often, I hope."" We shall now give the description of a City of London Street, &c. "Perhaps my reader may imagine, from what I have said of this lady's views and ideas touching a suitable husband for Fanny, that she was descended from a line of kings, or perhaps peers, whose blood, only a little adulterated, still flowed in her veins; but such is not the case. the gay, elegant Mrs. Meadows, so full of airs and pretensions, was the daughter of a riband-merchant resident in one of those streets leading from Cheapside, which are so narrow as to render it impossible, when a man is in them, to say on which side of the way he is walking; where, in the pea-soup atmosphere of the city, and in a wainscoated drawing-room decorated with little prints, and silhouettes of the whole family hung pyramidically in all the gloom of "Henry readily took the first part of this London filth, she had spent the first eight or advice, and retired to his room. It is hardly nine years of her life; her ideas of gaiety to be expected, that under the influence of bounded by a treat to one of the playhouses so many contending feelings he should have in a hackney-coach, and her notions of life, slept; but nature was absolutely exhausted, limited by the sunken wall of Kensingtonand although Fitzpatrick and his friend, gardens, to which place, of a Sunday,' the "Our hero returned to his friend, Mr. O'Callaghan, from Newry, occupied family were wont to betake themselves, after stated the circumstances, and put himself into themselves in cheerful converse, and the de- an early regale of roasted beef and potatoes, his hands. Fitzpatrick, having shortly de- struction of whiskey punch, which was ex-in order to mingle in the gaities of a fashionliberated, attended Colonel Musgrave, and hibited in large quantities during the evening, able morning." after a debate with him, returned to Merton, in the parlour immediately under our hero, There is a very severe portrait of a popnand told him that it appeared to him the thing he slept without the smallest interruption, till larity hunting Judge in this story, which we might be easily arranged, but that both he and his schoolfellow Charles burst into the room, sincerely trust is overcharged; but we are Colonel Musgrave thought that if they were and roused him from his imperturbable slum- sorry to say how entirely we agree with the together to go to Felton, the difficulty in set- bers. author in his remarks upon the administration tling it would be greatly decreased, Fitzof the laws in criminal cases. As an exampatrick being resolved that no apology should ple of his graver efforts, we give his view be made. of a condemned innocent man, on the eve of the time appointed for his execution. "To die, he was prepared-he could single This worthy is killed in a duel by a Captain Fitzpatrick, who had engaged to be Charles Merton's second. "According to this plan, the two negotiating powers proceeded to Felton, who was "I'm ready,' cried Merton, starting up anxiously; is it eight?' "Och! faith, it is, my dear friend,' answered Fitzpatrick; but you must just lie where you are, only tell me when you are! MUSICAL RECOLLECTIONS. pause a moment, and endeavour to rally dormant memory, if 'tis possible for such extensive musical patronage and unbounded generosity not to remain floating round the vivid and sensible heart of every performer, vocal and instrumental, in every department of Apollo and the Muses. out no action of his life, as they passed in re- Abbé; but sometimes he displayed a noble considerable energy, to one of our ministers, view before him, to which he could conscien- pride. Vous croyez donc valoir beaucoup?' M. le Comte de **, of an act of his adtiously appropriate the name of crime, except said a minister one day to him in a pet. ministration. "Monsieur, (exclaimed his Exthe last, the dreadful deed with which he Très peu quand je me considère, beaucoup quand cellency, much irritated,) it is well for you stood charged-of which he had been con- je me compare,' was his reply.-In the pulpit, your place is irrevocable."- Monseigneur, victed. He prayed-and prayed for fortitude as well as at the tribune, he often gave proofs (replied the Magistrate,) it is much better for to bear his lot like a man; but the horror, the of extraordinary quickness of intellect and France that yours is not. Adieu.' worldly horror, of being killed on a public presence of mind. One day, when preaching The senior Italian performer at Paris, M. scaffold by the public executioner, glared at Versailles, he treated the Court rather Barilli, a few days since, broke his leg by upon him, and overcame that serenity and roughly; and perceiving strong symptoms of falling down stairs. peace of mind so earnestly to be desired in discontent and disapprobation among his A proprietor of the Ile-Bonne, in the Seine his situation. courtly auditors, he dispersed the gathering Inferieure, a town founded by Julius Cæsar, "The clock was striking five-the bright storm by exclaiming, Ainsi parlait Saint- in digging the foundation of a house, dissun gleamed through his prison-bars, and the Jean- Chrysostome! All was peace; and, covered a statue. It has been conveyed to birds outside the grated window were singing proud of his courage and of his address, he Paris, and is exhibited at two francs par tête. gaily-as the sound of the bell announcing the said, after the sermon, to his friends, 'Leur en It is in bronze gilt, six feet two inches high, hour, rang on his ear, what were the thoughts ai-je donné avec Saint-Jean-Chrysostome?"" and represents a young man in a noble and of the unhappy culprit ?-To-morrow at the The fortunate accident which procured for simple attitude. The workmanship is exquisame hour, he should be stretched in death; Méhul the patronage and friendship of Gluck, site, and the design belongs to the most pare his body delivered to the knife of the surgeon is thus related:-"At that period, one of the antiquity. The connoisseurs consider this -the heart that beat in his breast with every chefs-d'œuvre of Gluck was to be performed statue to be one of the first order. tender feeling of love, of peace with all the at the Opera-Iphigénie en Tauride. The world, would, perhaps, be torn from its seat, young Méhul ardently desired to be present the object of philosophical research, or even at the first performance, but the price of the The two Noble Brothers and Patrons of Music, of professional ribaldry. The form that had tickets did not suit his pecuniary resources. Viscounts Dudley and Ward. been nurtured by his anxious parents, who, Some one gained him admittance to the re- HERE let my grateful professional feelings in the watchfulness of their care over his in-hearsal, and the enthusiastic youth imagined fancy, had sheltered him from the niglit- a singular stratagem: he glided into one of breeze, lest it should blow too strongly on the boxes, squatted down in a corner, and him, would be lacerated, exposed, and ex- there determined to remain concealed till the hibited as an example of terror to his gazing morrow evening, and thus obtain one of the countrymen! The thought was, of itself, first places. But, most unluckily, one of the enough to kill him; but the effect it did pro- inspectors happened to discover the young duce was worse than the death which Nature rogue in his hole, and, with brutal oaths and When the late Earl was the Hon. Mr. Ward, would have brought. His mind was made threats, dragged him forth, and ordered him he and his noble brother were to be seen at up-his determination formed, and self-de- out of the house. At this very moment Gluck all elegant music meetings, town and country, struction was the object of his meditation." passed the corridor, and inquired the occasion public and private,-dispensing, with liberal With this we must conclude our notice of of this terrible noise. Méhul, trembling from hands and open hearts, their far-famed bounty these amusing and well-written Tales; re- head to foot, told his story to the great Master, to charities and hospitals, independent of all serving, it may be, if opportunity permits, who was so struck with the enthusiasm of a the private good that never can be sufficiently the brief sketch of Martha the Gipsy lad of sixteen for scientific music, that he known. Their valued names were always to for a separate paper. From what we have became interested, and not only gave him a be seen most conspicuously on every urgent stated, however, our readers will be desirous ticket for the performance, but insisted on a donation list; kind and benignant to every of perusing the whole in their original shape; visit. Méhul was in ecstasies, and did not musical professor who had the good fortune and we are well assured that none of them fail, after the performance, to honour the in- and high honour of making one of their vocal will be disappointed, if a more than ordinary vitation. From the first visit, Gluck appre-party; permitting all the first-rate glee comdisplay of acuteness, talent, intellect, and the ciated his young acquaintance and protégé, posers to dedicate to them their interesting power of at once interesting and entertaining and was delighted to cultivate talents of so works, and rewarding them with munificent have charms for their hour of light recreation high an order, and which he had so acci- largess. with a favourite book. dentally discovered. The following fact will Both of these most distinguished Noblemen give a high idea of Méhul's love of the art and were rapturously fond of the science; and of his thirst for fame: Lenoir, the lieutenant possessing good and cultivated voices, they of the police, took a lively interest in the suc- most cordially joined in all their own catch cess of the young composer; and one day and glee parties, and were members and conTHE 13th volume de la Biographie des Contem- that he expressed his regard, Méhul exclaimed stant attendants at the Noblemen and Gentleporains, just published, contains a number of abruptly, Soyez assez bon, pour m'en donner men's Catch and Glee Club, Thatched House, interesting articles, written with talent and sur le champ une preuve.'- Laquelle?' asked St. James's-street, which remains to this impartiality. The notices of Marmont, Mar- Lenoir. I have no reputation, (said he,) day as highly supported and delectably enmontel, Massena (called by Napoleon l'enfant but I can create one. They have intrusted joyed as at the first establishment,-uniting all chéri de la victoire,) Maury, Mahomed-Aly, me with an Opera, and I wish to compose it the first characters and talents of the British Méhul, and Mirabeau, are among the most in six months; but how can I? I am occuremarkable, and are enriched with anecdotes pied and distracted; be kind enough, then, I remember formerly to have been honoured either original or little known. to have me shut up in the Bastille for six with a snug seat between the above Noble During the Revolution, Maury was in- months.-Lenoir ne fut pas assez bon pour cela." Viscounts Dudley and Ward, at the Ancient debted for several escapes, to the wit with The 14th volume will appear in about a Crown and Anchor Concert, and I can aver which he replied to the cries and fury of his month, and will contain the biography of Na- that they sang perfectly comme il faut. The adversaries. As gay as his enemies were en-poleon. celebrated Geminiani once performed on his raged, he extricated himself, on many occa- A young German lad, twelve years of age, Corelli sweet-toned violin most delicately sions, from immediate danger by happy turns named Lyst, is here, and excites the admira- there, treating the subscribers with one of his of expression. On one occasion that the mob tien of all who hear him. He has a most won-own beautiful concertos or solos. pursued him with cries of L'Abbé Maury à derful talent for the piano. He not only exe- This Concert was well attended and supla lanterne,' he set the rabble a-laughing, by cutes, at first sight, the most difficult pieces, ported by the voluntary subscription of Amademanding Y verrez-vous plus clair? At but he improvises in the most brilliant man- teurs of Antient Musick. Some gentlemen another time, when pressed very closely by ner. These musical improvisations are pro- performed on various instruments, some sung, the crowd, who exclaimed, Envoyons ce nounced, by the first judges, specimens of har- and others were content to enjoy the sweetmaudit Abbé dire la messe à tous les diables!' mony and taste. The little prodigy has only swelling sounds as auditors. All were more Soit, (replied he,) mais vous viendrez me ser- been heard as yet in some private parties; or less liberal promoters of the science, both vir: Voilà mes burettes!' pointing at the same but he is shortly to perform in a public con- practical and theoretical. In casting about instant a pair of pistols at his assailants.-Hu- cert, and will then attract crowds of amateurs. and about me, iterum iterumque, I have the mility was not the predominant virtue of the A respectable magistrate spoke lately, with supreme pleasure of seeing a name in the ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. Paris, Feb. 28, 1824. Empire. Literary Gazette that once graced the Ancient Kentish and Essex farmers at all seasons, mown should be finished before the end of having had many works of first-rate glee by the middle of the month: the Surrey far- blers are paid by the bushel or peck of seeding in the directions laid down, will readily used,) and these come up weaker than if in- discover the constellations pointed out. The serted in the soil by any other mode what- 689 of Leo are the hind part, and form a ever. The argument in favour of dibbling is right-angled triangle. Leo Minor is immethe saving of seed; but that is no great mat-diately to the southward of the two hind paws ter, and, in the opinion of the best farmers in of the Bear; and in the same direction are arable districts, nothing like equals the ad- four stars in the body of S, nearly forming vantage of being able to give a good deep a rhomboid, of which Regulus the a is the furrow between drilled rows. Drilling beans southernmost. At 8 o'clock the Northern therefore we consider to be decidedly the Crown will be rising NE.; Arcturus, ENE. best mode of cultivating them on a large about 60 above the horizon. The aẞ II, and scale; and the same as to pease, which on a Canis Minor, with the stars in the prow of dry soils are sown alone, and on stronger Argo Navis (the only part of the constellasoils generally mixed with beans. Peas for tion which appears in our latitude,) near the the London green grocers are sown by the meridian. The seven stars in Ursa Major, a, B, %, d, e, $5,n, are vulgarly called Charles's Wain; the four stars in the body representing the Wain, and those in the tail the horses. They have likewise been named the Plough, an instrument they certainly resemble. The a B are styled the Pointers, from their pointing out the Polar Star. Polar distance, a 27° 18' 4" B 32 40 34 7 35 19 35 € 33 4 58 No part of the Great Bear sets to the latitude of London, except the two stars in the hind foot. |