OR, Literary and Scientific Mirror. "UTILE DULCI.” This familiar Miscellany, from which religious and political matters are excluded, contains a variety of original and selected Articles; comprehending Literature, Criticism, Men and Manners Amusement, Elegant Extracts, Poetry, Aneedotes, Biography, Meteorology, the Drama, Arts and Sciences, Wit and Satire, Fashions, Natural History, &c. &c. forming a handsome Annual Volume, with an Index and Title-page.—Its circulation renders it a most eligible medium for Literary and Fashionable Advertisements.—Regular supplies are forwarded weekly to the Agents. viz. No. 228.-VOL. V. Men and Manners. NO. XXXI. THE PRUDENT Counsellor. FROM L'HERMITE EN ITALIE, THE LATEST WORK OF M. JOUY, [Translated expressly for the Kaleidoscope.] TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1824. this apparent deficiency, that the science of plants could When we arrived at the inn where we were to pass the All these considerations did not tempt our friend, the bunsellor, to visit these singular retreats; he could not ercome his fears of encountering the venomous and vocious animals by which he imagined them to be tenanted. We crossed several forests of large, trees, which at first took to be oaks, from the appearance of their foliage, and because they bore acorns; but upon examining their ark, I discovered them to be cork trees. We conversed Buch on the peculiar properties of these trees, which are vergreens. They are stripped of their bark for the first me when they are fifteen years old: this operation is fterwards repeated every seven or eight years, for the pace of a hundred and fifty years. It is so far from roving prejudicial to the growth of the tree, that the ark of the old trees is most esteemed. The acorns are and to afford a very agreeable nourishment. The poor Counsellor was busied in seeking a plant dued with properties that might counteract the effects f the bad air; he wondered that nature, who, said he, Sually places the remedy by the evil, had not yet pernitted man to discover that which undoubtedly existed in the countries we were traversing, and he concluded, from PRICE 340 At the distance of three or four miles from Grosseto, we passed near the baths of Rosella, formerly a remarkable town of Etruria, which was destroyed by Barbarossa in the sixteenth century. Nothing now remains of it but its tepid baths of mineral water. They are now falling to decay, and left open to the use of strangers. On the summit of a mountain, on the left, we observed the ruins of a tower which commanded a view of the town. At the distances of fifteen, twenty, and thirty miles from Grosseto, in different directions, may be seen the vestiges of Ancedonia, Saturnia, Popolonia, and many other towns of ancient Etruria. Their sites are usually marked by flights of large birds of prey hovering around them. We were met, near Rosella, by the President of the Tribunal of Grosseto, who came out to pay his respects to us, accompanied by two of his colleagues. This gentleman alighted, and presented himself at the door of our carriage; but we could answer his congratulatory com pliments only by signs, as the Counsellor, whose fears augmented as he approached the Maremme, would not allow the glasses to be let down. The President observed to him, that his head-ache would probably be removed by a change of carriage, and invited him to take a place in his, which, he said, belonged to the Bishop of Grosseto, and was, remarkably commodious and easy. As the Flo. rentine magistrate, however, still persisted in intrenching himself in his corner, the deputies returned to their own carriage, and followed us to Grosseto. When we arrived there, they would not allow our driver to inquire for an inn, but conducted us to the house of a private gentleman, by whom we were all hospitably received. The Counsellor refused to occupy a room looking into the street or garden, but chose a small apartment opening into a narrow court, in which he caused juniper and strong herbs to be kept constantly burning during all the time of his abode there. The name of the place we were at was Doccio. It was an isolated inn, situated at the foot of a chain of mountains, and commanding a view of a wide range of apparently fertile meadows extended below it. The inhabitants of the country exposed themselves fearlessly to the air The report of his alarms and precautions was soon difwithout using any precaution against its effects; we, how-fused over the town. When the public functionaries paid ever, thought it prudent to smoke tobacco while we were their respects to him, they came furnished with pipes in in the open air. their mouths, and musked fans or perfuming pans in their On our return, we found the unfortunate Counsellor hands, so that his little apartment was soon darkened by still on his guard against the fatal attacks of the malignant the smoke of aniseed and tobacco, and filled with perand subtle fluid in motion around his body. He was fumes of various kinds. The Counsellor was much flatengaged in reading a dissertation on the marshes of Tus-tered by the general attention to his personal safety. His cany, published under the title of Ode parico Toscano, of courage and spirits rose with the occasion, and he at length which the botanical part was written by a person of the consented to eat, when I had persuaded him that the stoname of Capitano Marili, and that descriptive of works mach is more liable to the impressions of the bad air when of art by Mechalli. The remarks of the authors on the empty than when loaded with food, which assists in abcauses and influence of the bad air served to confirm him sorbing its malignity. These reflections inspired him with in his resolution to breathe only an air purified by fire new confidence, and he often told me that I should have and aromatics, and to inspire the smallest quantity pos- made my fortune had I been a physician, even in the Masible even of that. remme, where there are so many physicians. Perhaps he meant to couch an epigram in this compliment. He set out the next day with a dreadful head-ache. His physician had recommended him to travel only in the day-time, because the rays of the sun purify the air, and this injunction was scrupulously obeyed. He requested us to wake him if the motion of the carriage should tempt him to sleep; but this precaution proved unnecessary, as his own fears served to keep him awake. The country gradually became barren and gloomy as we approached the marshes of Tuscany: the population diminished perceptibly, the trees and plants dwindled in size and beauty, and the land was encumbered with briars and thorns. The next day it was agreed that the Counsellor should attend the tribunal at noon, while the sun should be at his zenith, in a close carriage, and that on his way thither he should stop at the church, where the mass of the Holy Ghost was to be performed. I induced him to do this, by observing, that as there would be an immense concourse of people there, the contagion of the air would be much weakened, because, when it is breathed by a great number of lungs, they divide its malignant effluvia, attenuate and absorb it, sothat there was every reason to believe he would 1 escape its pernicious influence, if he took the precaution to breathe only the air strictly necessary for life, and to refrain from singing. We found the church more full of smoke than of the faithful. The arm chair of the Counsellor was placed in the midst of the choir. As soon as he was seated, the choiristers enveloped him in clouds of smoke, so thick that he disappeared from our view; we could only dimly discover his arm chair, and the dazzling colour of his long red robe. Before he again ventured out to go from the church to the tribunal, he ordered one of the choiristers to place a pan of burning incense in his carriage. When we arrived at the court, we remarked at the upper end of the hall a sort of sedan chair, elevated on a flight of steps covered with foliage and aromatic plants, The worthy magistrate, without waiting to be invited, threw himself into it, and closed the glass doors. Two sergeants, stationed on each side of him, were furnished with two long fans, which they kept in incessant motion, to refresh and purify the air immediately in front of the carule chair. When the business of the court was opened, he ventured to advance his head between them from the principal window of his chair, and briefly explain the object of his perilous mission; then, without waiting to hear the harangue of the President of the tribunal, he hastily withdrew to his place of safety and again closed the window. The other officers of the court were preparing to deliver their oratory tributes when the Counsellor suddenly rushed out of his chair, ran to his coach, and disappeared; the counsellors tucked up their long robes and ran after him, but their efforts to detain him were vain. Post-horses had been secretly ordered, and he had set out to Florence, accompanied by his secretary. We were under the necessity of sitting down without him to the public dinner which had been prepared for him, and it may be easily imagined what was the subject of our conversation from the beginning to the end of the repast. Liverpool A. W. THE FORTUNE HUNTERS. FROM THE GERMAN OF OEHLENSCHLEGER, BY L. MAN, OF LIVERPOOL, [Translated expressly for the Kaleidoscope.] Some years ago, Alberto, a singer of very moderate abilities, but of great pretensions, resolved to leave Turin, his native town, in quest of fame and emolument, fully persuaded that the little success which he had met with at home was owing to the bad taste of his countrymen, who were not able to appreciate his superior talents. There was but one exception to this general remissness; and this was Xaviero, his next-door neighbour, and a joiner by trade. The man was a little slow of understanding, but very good-natured, friendly, and faithful: he had been impressed with a high opinion of Alberto in his early youth; and as he was not of a very reflecting turn of mind, he had never examined whether or not his predilection was actually founded on reasonable grounds, and he had suffered the singer to acquire a complete influence over him. Although his own circumstances were by far the better, and he could at all times earn more money in his trade than Alberto was likely ever to realize at the opera, he thought himself mightily honoured by being allowed to pay for both at their occasional recreations in the country. Alberto, therefore, thought it only fair to reward the former services of his humble friend, by associating him in the profits, or, at least, in the risks of the projected excursion. He had but little trouble in persuading the poor fellow, that travelling was indispensibly requisite to render him an accomplished joiner; and he found it quite as easy to make him believe, that he (Alberto) would fully succeed in establishing his reputation wherever they might go; that the finest women of Italy would rival each other in offering to him their hearts and hands; and that his companion could not but derive likewise great advantages from living under his auspices. The premises being thus set him, Hark ye, friend: you seem to have made your tled, Xaviero disposed of his shop and other property, fortune without even knowing how; but it may be that collected all his earnings, and engaged a vehicle for Mi-you deserve it quite as well another: let me now give lan: they proceeded by easy journeys; and, for the sake you two friendly counsels; the first is, that you take a of coolness, chiefly by night; although they had been guard of well-armed soldiers on your way home; and warned that the roads were infested by robbers. They the second, that you never play again at hazard as long were suddenly awoke one night as they were sleeping in as you live; for Dame Fortune is rather whimsical, and the chaise, by a blow received on their foreheads: at the she might make you bitterly smart for her transitory same moment Alberto started up with a cry of terror, favours, if you are not wise enough to deprive her of the and offered, immediately, his little purse to the supposed opportunity, by enjoying what you have already got, inrobber; but Xaviero was resolved to defend himself to the stead of losing it again by attempting to get more." The utmost; and, seizing his antagonist by the collar, he be- overjoyed young man thanked his mentor, and promised gan to pommel him with all his might, until the conti- to comply with his injunctions. He returned to the in, nued cries of his companion, and the light of the moon, settled with the landlord, whose behaviour had been some. which just then appeared from behind a cloud, made him what disrespectful, and bid him to direct Alberto, on his perceive that he was thrashing his own dear, and well- return, to the hotel della Città. beloved friend. The mistake had originated in their having knocked their heads together through a jolt of their chaise; and Xaviero was extremely sorry for what he had done, protesting that, in future, he would rather suffer himself to be plundered, than attempt any rash defence, lest he might again punish Alberto, instead of castigating a rascal. Alberto had not fared quite so well in the lower parts of the theatrical premises as Xaveiro had done in the upper story. The public had proved to be very stubborn, and not quite so awe-struck at the sight of the new Holofernes as had been expected. The death of the hero was to take place in the third act; but, before the end of the first, the spectators had already resolved that the fir hands of Judith should not be imbued in his blood, and that they would spare the lady the trouble of cutting off his hand, by hissing him off the stage before that dreadful morn He bore this disgrace most manfully, and, supporting himself on his large sword, he stood the brunt of the attacks, by looking at them with the austerity and resig Our adventurers had no sooner arrived in Milan, than Alberto requested permission to appear on the theatre della Scala: it was in vain that some well-meaning persons advised him to try first at the Opera buffa; which offered a much better scope for beginners: he would listen to no advice, and was too well persuaded of his merit to give it even a consideration. It was, however, a consi-nation of a Regulus. Unfortunately, however, the critics derable time before he could obtain the solicited honour; in the gallery were not satisfied with displaying their anger and he would, probably, not have been admitted at all, if by mere shouts and gestures; but a well-directed orange the sudden indisposition of a principal performer had not hit the splendid helmet of the performer in so effectuala induced the manager to risk the experiment, and allow manner, that it gave way, and fell to the ground. The him to make his début. The resources of the joint stock courage of the man sell with the helmet, and his prand were almost exhausted, and only just enough was left to heart sank within him: he rushed out of the house in fit him out for his part, which was that of Holofernes, in speechless agony, and was now as anxious to conceal his the opera of Judith. He procured a most brilliant hel- romantic dress under a hastily snatched-up cloak, as he met of gilded paste-board, with a shield and armour of had been eager to exhibit it half an hour before. Dethe same: the whole was studded with innumerable false spair pursued him into the street, and, in the agony of his brilliants, which sparkled like stars; and a formidable mind, he conceived the project of drowning himself forthsword on his side, with a black, bushy beard under his with; but, not meeting with a suitable place, he be chin, gave him so venerable, an appearance, that poor thought himself of Xaviero's travelling-pistols, and he Xaviero durst not even look at him. The latter had fer- went home to fetch them. Having been informed then vently entreated the holy Virgin to vouchsafe success to of the message which had been left for him, he thought his friend, having quite forgotton, in his anxiety, that it merely a trick to deceive him, and fancied that, on w performers are excommunicated by the church: he went nessing his disaster, Xaviero had thought it most prude to the theatre with a beating heart; and having missed his to withdraw from his company, and to shake off the yo road to the gallery, he got into another part of the exten- of an individual whose superiority he, no longer sive building, which served as a meeting-place for gamblers. knowledged, after the charm had been broken in so dis Every one there was busily engaged, and Xaviero was agreeable and degrading a manner. He would, never almost thunderstruck at the sight of the heaps of gold theless, attempt to move at least the pity of his quonda which were displayed, and at the rapidity with which they friend: for what other choice had he, besides death passed from one hand to another. He fingered his solitary starvation, finding himself in a strange town, with remaining pistole until it became quite hot in his pocket; resources, and without the means of getting an hes and, after several fruitless efforts to get it out, he threw it livelihood by the labour of his hands? He appro at last in so clumsy a manner upon the table, that it rolled the hotel to which he had been directed with trembling upon the black division, instead of the red one, for which he steps, and made his inquiry in a faltering voice; but, had intended it: he had, however, not the courage to say his naming il Signore Xaviero, a servant in silk stocking any thing, when the banker asked whether all was right; snatched up a triple-branched silver candlestick, and led and, lo! he happened to be on the winning side. This was him to the most elegant room of the house, where he a new source of agitation to him; and, as his confusion found his acquaintance lolling on a sofa, and only waiting would not allow him to withdraw the money, the banker for his arrival to begin the splendid supper, which he ha took it for granted that he wanted to let it stand. He had taken care to bespeak. The theatre, and all that referre already won a considerable sum in this manner, when he to the stage, had been entirely dismissed from the fortun perceived that an old officer, who stood near him, always adventurer's mind, and he only regretted the absence withdrew one half of his gains, and risked only the other: the singer, because he longed to tell him that he migh he quickly followed his example, but not without deep now decline singing in public, and reserve his musi blushes and anxious palpitations. His success continued; powers for their private amusement. Alberto was not and seeing the officer change the black colour for the red, much rejoiced at the intelligence as might have been e he almost instinctively placed his stakes in the same man-pectected from the melancholy situation in which he the ner, and met with the same good luck; for, in less than was, and from which it relieved him. His pride and envy an hour, he was master of five thousand pistoles. He were awakened by this unexpected news, and he mur then thought that he had quite as much as he could con- mured bitter complaints against Fortune, for bestowing b veniently carry; and, as his prototype left the table, he favours upon people who could scarcely read and write, did so too. The officer then took him aside, and said to whilst men of worth and genius met with nothing bu Ter socios pura eircumtulit unda, Pulveris exigui prope litus parva Matinum disappointments. His grief did not, indeed, prevent him were selected at a distance from the abodes of men, too Grecian purity; planted in a grove of columns; withou from joining the supper-table, or from doing ample justice considerable to be attended by insalubrious consequences. windows; lighted from above; and the walls within conto the goodness of the fare which was placed before him; So abhorrent, indeed, were the feelings excited by inter-secrated to monumental sculpture and the talents of the course with a dead body, that they who assisted at a fune- architect. but he positively insisted on the removal of the musicians, ral always underwent purification when the rite was ended. In the architectural part of the cemetery near Everton. who had been ordered to play during the repast; the sound the artist has not made the most of his subject. He was of music having become quite grating to his ears, since it required, we suppose, to erect a dwelling-house, a chapel. bad been accompanied by the hissings, whistlings, and and an entrance into the area. An awkward combination, hootings of the pit and gallery. He had always despised we grant; nor has he surmounted the difficulty. He has Xaviero; but now he hated him, and he only thought of introduced into his design the fronts of two Greek temples, the means of making him squander his dollars, and of broken his façade into three distinct portions; a frittering joined, rather than united, by a colonnade: he has thus ing him in so glorious an undertaking. Yet though of parts more suitable to the aim of Gothic than of Grejoiner was weak upon some points, it was not quite so cian architecture. The colonnade looks like a fragment; ency to persuade him on others; and he had quite sagacity there is a marked impropriety in such a medium of enenough to understand, that spending without getting any trance, through the intercolumniations of which the funething cannot last long; and since the interest of his money ral procession must wind its way as it can. The obvious mode of entry by a gate should have been retained, formsufficed to support him more comfortably than he had ever lived before, he was determined not to make away with towards their dead; and, by an elaborate preparation, en- Nor was the construction of a gate beneath the study of The Egyptians observed a somewhat different conducting a prominent feature in the design, and with which the adjacent architecture might have been made to harmonize. the capital. He inquired carefully where he might place deavoured to render their mummies immortal. Still they his cash to the best advantage, and having satisfied him- interfered no further with the body than they deemed ab- the Everton-architect, since it belongs to a department of welf with regard to its safety, he plainly declared to his solutely necessary. They forbad dissections; and they art which was employed to commemorate the achieveorption, that he was welcome to share in whatever en- constructed remote cemeteries. This last fact is attested ments of Titus, and which engaged the attention of Michael Angelo. could be procured with the amount of the reve-by the existence of a burial-ground near Memphis, of But amid the multiplication of parts, in the building amazing extent. but that he must not expect any thing beyond it, It is true the Romans departed, occasionally, from their at Everton, there is a baldness, a nudity in the general he himself intended to be limited by his income. general practice, with regard to interment. Thus Au- effect, which result from another impropriety. In the was found more yielding in another point, viz. the re-gustus, with all his family and freemen, was interred in fronts of temples we expect to find doors; here there are val to a fresh place. the Campus Martius. But the master of the legions none. Greek temples of the class to which these two was independent of ordinary rules. The apotheosis, too, appertain were approached in front only; there was no which enrolled him in the rank of the immortals, and access in rear. On inspection of these two temples, beraised him above the usual consequences and corruptibility neath the pediments of which there are no doors, we canof death, imparted a religious sanctity to his person which not divest ourselves of the awkward conviction, that they are wheeled round, with the rear in front. authorized his continual presence among men. was not quite so dull as not to perceive that the trical expedition of his friend must have been remarkfortunate; and he had no particular relish for the Imanner in which people stared at them both, they were walking in the streets: he had, therenot the least objection to their leaving Milan and to Florence. ey arrived during the passion-week; and, on the Saday between Good Friday and Easter Sunday, they followed the crowd which assembled, towards midnight, ost in and about the cathedral. A large, square machine, bling a funeral monument, had been brought to the of the building, by means of four snow-white oxen; white dove, over the high altar, communicated with mashine by means of a cord. All was silent and dark, and without; and the people stood in breathless expectation, until the large clock began to strike. Then the officiating priest raised his torch to the dove, which was suspended over his head, and he, thereby, set fire to the rocket which it contained: the fire-works of the thine went off; the church was illuminated; the black were removed from all the paintings; music was I in all directions; the chorus from the organ promed loudly that Christ was arisen; and the congregaon their knees, and with uplifted hands, repeated Biastically," He is arisen." The good Xaviero wept like a child, and was in ecstasy; Alberto knew not whether he ought to smile or to be at the ceremony; and he was just preparing to give humble friend a grave lecture on the subject, and to monstrate with him on the impropriety of giving way to emotions, when his own attentions were attracted by thing that entirely deprived him of his oratorical (To be continued.) [FROM A CORRESPONDENT.] CEMETERIES. EMETERY NEAR EVERTON, AND ARCHITECTS. Then Eneas, in the sixth book of the Eneid, consults Sybil on his future operations, he is informed of the den death of a companion; he is reminded of the myshorror which death sheds on his whole fleet; and he commanded, before he begins his new career, to comthe body to its place of rest. The Greeks and Romane were careful to remove the dead from the presence of the living. Cremation effectually accomplished this objeet; and, where cremation was not practised, cemeteries * Pratérés Jacet exanimum tibi corpus amble), Heu nesels! totamque incestat funere classem Bedibus hune refer ante suis, at conde sepulcro. The prerogative that apotheosis conferred on the great Mortua quin etiam jungebat corpora vivis, We hail, therefore, with sincere pleasure, the enlightened An ample space should be provided; for they who have seen the cemetery of Pere la Chaise, near Paris, and have received due impression from that sacred spot, will feel that the decoration of trees is indispensible. An edifice, too, will be required for the performance of clerical duties, and will give occasion for the display of architecture, at once serious and grand. Here, if an arcade be deemed suitable, we may cast our eyes on the Campo Santo, at Pisa, and adapt a modification of that structure to Roman or Gothic architecture. If a colonnade receive the preference which classical taste assigns it, we know the effect produced by the grand colonnade in front of St. Peter's, at Rome; and we may terminate the vista of a similar one by a Greek temple. The colonnade or arcade may be dedicated to the mural monuments of the opulent, and we may construct vaults beneath the grand edifice for the reception of the dead. If Greek architecture was necessary on this occasion, we combines three longitudinal ale or aisles, the central one suggest that a single temple of the Hypothral class would have satisfied the object of the builders. An Hypothros of which is without any covering, and is open to the sky: it has a pronaos and a posticus, and in this species of temple only the cella may be approached by either. The alæ in the flanks, in the specimen contemplated, might have been adapted to the purposes of the chapel and the dwelling, and the open area would have presented a fit ingress to the funeral procession. A single pediment, resting on the columns of the pronaos, would have spanbed the whole front, and would have imparted unity and simplicity to the building. It is true that peristyles are deemed necessary concomitants to the Greek Hypothros; but, in the present adaptation, they might undoubtedly have been dispensed with, from motives of economy. It is also true that Vitruvius prescribes ten columns for the front; but it is certain that this number, in practice, may be diminished or not, according to the expansion of the building, and, perhaps, according to the frugality of the builders. The Parthenon, which Stuart supposes to have Jupiter Olympius. The temple of Neptune, at Pœstum, been Hypothral, was octostyle; so was the temple of has only six columns in front. It is amusing to contrast the works of architects with their tumid pretensions. The architect, we are told by Pythius, "should be more expert in every profession connected with his art than the ablest professors of each art respectively." Architecture, says Milizia, is the art per eccellenza, and the regulator of all other arts. Vitruvias is content to be somewhat more modest. Sir William Chambers, however, will not abate one particle of the full blown dignity of his profession, and he is echoed by all his modern brethren. In his opinion, the architect is a rival to the crack brained poet in Rasselas:" he must have a mind that at once comprehends the vast, and attends to the minute." The painter's canvas, and the sculptor's block, says Sir William, are their ultimate objects; but the architect's attention must be directed to higher and more complicated views. A thorough mastery in design, optics and mechanics, antient history, mythology and We hold, however, that a colonnade is unnecessary, and antiquities, are insufficient for his accomplished profession. that it would partly mask the beauties of the temple. Let He must, furthermore, be well versed in the customs, this temple be insulated; let it stand on the merits of ceremonies, modes of life, occupations and amusemen its own severe majesty, without any adjunct whatever, of all degrees of his contemporaries. Nor is the knowledge The genius of the architect may be summoned; not in which books can impart enough. The architect must tra deed to copy, but to rival the Pantheon or Erectheum, un vel also. But we may extend this catalogue of vanity fettered by those difficulties with which he has to contend indefinitely. As to Sir William, he looked down with in adapting a Greek temple to ordinary worship: for the supreme contempt on mere mechanics: he read much, short service of the dead might permit us to dispense with travelled much, and built much, and yet he thought St. the accommodation of pews; and the interior might be Martin's Church, in London, a finer structure than the effectually lighted from the roof: thus, in the true spirit Parthenon! For our own parts, we have never heard that of the Greeks, the area within would be unbroken, and the the ship-builders pretend to be more than master mechasurface and columniations would be undisturbed by win-nics; yet, we would rather be the authors of one of the dows pierced into the cella. How we yearn to see an edi- fine ships which which are launched at this port into ite fice, either round or quadrangular, thus constructed in●lement, than of half the public buildings in Liverpool. Poetry. ON THE RE-APPEARANCE OF THE PRIMROSE, And art thou here again, sweet modest flower, The friend that loves throughout the varying year, And when the flowers are gone, wide spread his wing, No, Robin, no!-the friend no change can sever, And Robin, gentle flower! thy mate shall be, Fine Arts. ADAPTATION OF MUSIC TO SENTIMENT. The sound should be an echo to the sense.-Pope. that mischievous association with the original words, at cording to his remark, but our evangelical hymn writers sedulously force upon the mind this association, by forming their divine verse in parody upon the original! Amongst other examples now occurring to me of this determination A few weeks since, we inserted a letter, on Church on the part of the evangelical poets, I give you the wellMusic, from a Bristol correspondent, to which commu-known soldier's song of the celebrated Curran, "If sadly nication we appended a note, referring our readers to the each stanza, "Let us be merry before we go,"-to the thinking, His spirits sinking, &c." having for burthen to corner of our paper containing our usual notices to cor- favourite tune belonging to which is applied the following respondents. It was then our intention to offer some divine parody: observations upon our Bristol friend's letter. Something, however, occurred which obliged us to postpone the brief comment we had then prepared. Its purport was principally to express our general concurrence in the view he had taken of the subject of Church Music. The letter we now subjoin has superseded the necessity of any observations from us, as the writer's opinion on such points is of infinitely more consequence than any thing we could advance. Of our London correspondent's identity we are not at liberty to say more than may be gathered from our present assurance, that we feel highly flattered by his correspondence, as, in the theory of music, and the knowledge of counterpoint, he has no superior. The adaptation of the pathetic and masterly air in Acis and Galatea to the words From lowest depths of woe" is most appropriate;-never was sound more truly an echo to the sense.-Mr. Webbe, in his valuable collection of psalm tunes, interspersed with airs from Haydn, Purcel, and Handel, has very judiciously adapted to sacred words, some airs which were not originally intended for Church Music, but which, from their character, are peculiarly suitable for such appropriation; amongst these are the subjoined exquisite air from Acis and Galatea; the airs from Haydn's Creation; "With verdure clad," "The Heavens are telling," and "In native worth," Wal Oppressed with thinking, From all his woes; This adaptation brings to my mind another, connected with a little anecdote that may not be entirely new to you, of some young ladies, daughters of serious parents, who were rather dissentient from them on the subject of vocal recreation, but who happily fell upon a good-humoured compromise for use, at least, on the Lord's-day, viz. thes papa and mamma endured their daughters' lively strains, only on the condition that they were attached to evangelical verse! The following is a distinguished specimen of the young ladies' taste in adaptation, which rested with them. selves; a hymn, of rather penitential cast, beginning follows, "Almighty and merciful Lord, The hope of frail sinners below," they used to sing to the well known and choice tune to Spado's song in the "Castle of Andalusia." dron's "Hope thou nurse," Dr. Arne's March in Ar-26 taxerexes, and many others, which may be termed secular CHURCH MUSIC. TO THE EDITOR. SIR, I was attracted by an article in your paper (Kaleidoscope) a fortnight back, on the subject of Church Music; the more so, as being myself "a compiler of tune books" for church service, and being of opinion that your correspondent spoke very sensibly on the subject, inasmuch as his remarks are in strict conformity with my own feelings! His reprehension of the very frequent application of the psalms and hymns prepared for Divine service to our favourite secular airs, a habit most prevailing in those places of worship whimsically distinguished from others by the term evangelical, is surely most just; especially when it is considered, that, in the last mentioned places, not only is there pretty certain to arise in the mind Original. Adapt. A soldier I am for the ladies, &c. &c. Lord, The hope, &c. that an occasional exception to the rule of excluding such I am also of opinion, however, with your correspondent, tunes may be not only warrantable, but judicious, if the tune have in itself any thing of solemn or devout charic ter, and be originally appended to words not palpably variance with that sentiment. I beg leave to present be fore you, a specimen of this exception, which, amongs several others, I have adopted in a collection of tunesd my own compiling, adapting, and harmonizing;-the is at your service, if you will honour me with the of your musical types on the occasion. This air will no doubt, be well known to your correspondent, and to those of your readers who are admirers of the immortal Handel, viz. "The flocks shall leave the mountains from the sonnata of Acis and Galatea, and is, in the b stract, strikingly characteristic of humility and penitenes If you favour this by insertion, if not too much to t from well-devoted pages, I shall probably request a lit more space for a future article on the same subject. London, Nov. 1, 1824. Yours, &c. S. W. of sailing. I have done what no Emperor, King, Prince Admiral, or General could do:-I have made vessels to go against both wind and tide, which no man could do his invention was abandoned. before. I erected several other steam-boats, and opened In his letter in the Manchester paper, we find the fol- up the most of the different stations where steam-boats ply. A GRAMMAR, calculated to facilitate the acquirement of lowing affecting description of his present condition and and all this single handed. I sold the first steam-boat |