Star. — London, England, 1822-10-12 00:00:00

L, ~." r - I '.,~ ~~~ ROYAL ACAIiEjIf;OF MUSIC. As the period approaches for which the opening ' 1 Of this establishment has been fixed, the degree of anxiety by which its object and progress were at-1 tended appears t obtain a proportionate increase. From the 'respect wish which a public feeling, so pure and beaevoient, deserves to be treated, we shall resume our promised observations upon the princi ples of this Academy, and endeavour to familiarize our Readers more completely than we hitherto have done, with the system upon which it proceeds, and the advantages that system must communicate to the talent and character of our native musicians. The constitution of this great school has been al ready detailed in our columns with a scope and jus tice which, as we earnestly trust, have left nothing tmattributed to the spirit and energy from which it has arisen. The controuling power is vested in a Committee of distinguished taste and zeal, and no difference of opinion can possibly prevail upon the impartiality of their measures. Indeed we look upon the entice exclusion of professional feelings from this body as a sure token of the sagacity with which its appointment has taken place, and of the success by which its deliberations will be attended. The abuses of power, ft is true, might not have happened which the supreme authority, in the form it now wears, is so well calculated to prevent ; but who can answer for the jealousy and suspicion that would be enter tained of the same extensive influence, in mere pro fessional han Is? The prevention of early obstacles is always of double importance, and in this case the no mination of an independent Committee has removed the most serious difficulties, by which the advance ment of the Institution was threatened. Our own faith in this inference is unlimited; and the Public, we are sure, will find unanswerable reasons for the same generous confidence, when those arrangements :Ire examined, by which the fame and value of the new Royal Academy are to be upheld. The Subscribers are divided into classes, accord ing tc their donations or anw, , sal payments: and the first clas, or Governors, in right of their superior contributions, will be entitled to recommend one-half of the Students admitted into the Academy. These Students, who independent of their professional tui tion, are to be lodged, boarded, and educated, in the Established Religion, will consist of a given number, and be selected, most prcbably, from the children of those numerous professors who have applied for their admission, some advantages are reserved to them on this account, and we fully concur in the kind mo tives from which they proceed. The exact feature of the Institution in which the Public must feel more immediately interested, presents itself in the recep tion of Extra Students, or day-scholars, who, for the MID of twenty guineas per annum, will be perfected by the ablest masters in every branch of musical knowledge. Great and striking as are the pecuniary inducements of this plan, we advert with a much higher consciousness of its superiority, to the ri gorous yet liberal system, upon which the genius of our British youth is about to be trained. The pro gress of the pupil will be sedulously watched, and publicly examined; rewards will be distributed among them for superior skill and application; and even wheie the vigilance and anxiety of the master may partially tail in their objects, a very powerful stimu lus will be given to the young candidate,_ by the spirit and success of those with whom he is associated. The finest qualities of the mind will be produced and applied to the service of the possessor, by a principle of action which no establishment, less accurate in its views, and less extensive in its nature, could enforce; and we shall confess ourselves to be most severely disappointed if very ample pro-ifs are not afforded, in sine time, of these benefits which the Institution aspires to confer upon the fund ct natural talent en joyed in this country. It is needless to remark, but we may again observe, that in every instance of early and judicious cultivation, the English professors have I been conspicuous for their superiority. By the plan now laid before us, the brightest attributes of a po pular science will be fixed in our soil, while a broad and certain path is thrown open to those who may aim at its acquirement. Many persons of known taste and judgment have sanctioned this principle by their subscriptions, and we counsel the great body of our countrymen to come forward, and join in a work so material to the character that England should sup port for feeling, dignity, and elegance. Yesterday a fracas took place on the Royal Ex change, between two Gentlemen connected with the, Foreign Security speculations, and a great scene of confusion took place. Mr. G. accused Mr. M. of re fusing to pay him a balance of £2O upon a recent bargain. :slr. M. denied the legality of the claim : words ran high, and the language used was not of the most gentlemanly description. At length there was a shout of " Turn him out ;" and Mr. M. was very unceremoniously driven away. He then ap pealed to the surrounding persons, and stated to them that Mr. G. had no claim upon him; on the:contrary, some transactions in Consols he had with Mr. G. amply liquidated all differences between them. Several Gen tlemen recommended him to submit it to arbitration, as those public accusations were a disgrace to all par ties. Mr. G. admitted Mr. 1 . 14. was a man of consi derable property. Fleet-market is now frequented by a gang of in famous ruffians, who commit the most barefaced robberies in the middle of the day, and have hitherto escaped detection. The villains walk the market in a cluster of five or six ; they have in general a woman in their company, and the appearance of the who s that of a set of wretches of the very lowest deseap tion. They watch the passengers, and if they ob serve any one, a female in particular, after having made a purchase, deposit her purse in her market basket, or whatever else she may be carrying, they gather around her, hustle her as good naturedly as possible, the woman cries, "make room for the Lady !" one of the villains tur-ns round and begs pardon, -.:hen the whole gang disappear, and roe often suc ceed in carrying off the booty. Wednesday a Lady was robbed.in this manner, and was wholly ignorant of her loss until Are wanted her purse to discharge a bill. Thursday again, at twelve o'clock in the day, another Lady was treated in a similar way, and the villains. on both occaiions, escaped detection. As to theneighbourhood the di,tui bances are almost nightly,' and wretched women, disgusting in their appearance and conduct, constantly petiole the sides of the mar. , ket, and interrupt the passengers. ^ ,7wßigfgr7-wr SINGULAR IIAItRA'TII7. In the year 1812, a . respectable tniddle v atied. Fe male kept a tavern of very good repute In the city of St. John't,•New Brunswick. She was a widow, and had two children, girls— the elder at that time ten, and the yo*cer ()illy eight years of age. She was considered Vbe a woman of some property. About the middle of that year, a person of respectable exterior arrived at St. John's, and put up at the house,. He represented himself to be a British Naval Officer,of.high birth, a native of Ireland, and possessing large estates in that country. During a residence there of some months,he affected to take a great interest in the welfare of the widow and her family,- by which he gained an insight into her affairs, and soon ascertained that she was in pos session •of some property in trust for her children, which she was desirous of laying out•to the hest ad vantage. In the month of October in that year, the schooner Lord Nelsen was brought from Nova Scotia to the port of St. John's, for. sale. By the recom mendation of her friendly lodger, the widow was in duced to become the purchaser of .the vessel ; her new friend kindly undertook to negociate the business, and - 6201. was ultimately paid into his hands to conclude the purchase, in the names of the gill , the receipt for the amount being also made out in the children's name; but he contrived, unknown to the widow, to get his name indorsed upon the old register as master, and thus secured to himself the controul of the vessel. His attention now assumed a different character, friendship appeared to " have ripened into love;" he seemed quite enraptured with the person of the widow, l and gained so far upon her affections as to prevail upon her to sell off her whole concern, and 'accom pany him on a voyage to Ireland; and a cargo of timber was accordingly taken in for Sligo. • When all was ready for sailing, and the whole of the widow's effects were on board, the min - ware:l lover managed to give a hint to one of the widow's creditors, that fie was likely to lose his debt. - On this intimation she was arrested and thrown into prison, while her friend, her effects, and her schooner, set sail for Ireland, leaving her and her children in the ut most distress, everything, even to their very clothes, being on board. The villainy of the affair was quickly exposed. The creditor who had arrested her, not only liberated her immediately, but procured a passage for her and her children in another vessel bound for Ireland. This vessel unfortunately, however, was bound to a different quarter of that kingdom ;• and on her at - rival in Reload, she found that she and her children had to traverse the island nearly from one side to the other, with no other means of conveyance than nature had supplied them with. Even this difficulty was sur mounted, and they at length succeeded in reaching Sligo, about three weeks after the arrival of her run away inamorato. Here she soon learnt he was no Officer, but a mere adventurer of the lowest clasS; that he had distributed her's alld her children's clothes *among them, and was giving balls and entertainments with the produce of the property he had thus surrep titiously obtained. Her first application for redress was to the Magis trates ; but having no documents to satisfy them of the justice of her claims, and finding he was taking in a freight of corn for Liverpool, as a last and des perate resource, she threw herself and children on board the schooner. In the course of the voyage the assumed owner ran the vessel into a port, where he disposed of part of the cargo, and consequently on his arrival at Li verpool he was arrested by the consignees and thrdwn into jail.—Her agitation of mind, and fatigue, threw the widow at this period into a violent illness, which confined her for some time, and before she recovered the vessel had been put into the hands of a mercantile house at Liverpool, and had set sail with a cargo to London, whither the pretended owner, who had con trived to get himself liberated from Liverpool jail, was also hastening. By the aid of 'the parish, and tiro contributions of several benevolent persons at Liverpool, the widow was enabled to follow ; and she arrived with her chil dren in London about the middle of 1820. The case was submitted to several professional Gentlemen; but application to lawyers was out of the question. No orie would undertake her cause ea tuitously, nor, indeed, had she the necessary docu ments to establish her claims. The villain who had robbed her, treated her in consequence with the ut most indifference; • Absolute want now pressed upon the wretched widow and her family, froM which they were for a short time relieved by the Mendicity Society, who kindly continued their assistance much longer than their usual period, and even directed their solicitor to take steps for obtaining possession of the schooner.— These were found to be ineffectual, and the Society were obliged to leave them to their fate. During this period her false friend had obtained credit sufficient to get the schooner new coppered, and again to sea. He had, however, been arrested for the expense by the British Copper Company, 'and thrown into the King's Bench prison, where he has remained ever since, now nearly two years. The distress of - the widow with her family was now at the extreme. They were lodged in a small hovel near the Surrey Theatre, and had not lain upon a bed— ' no, not even upon straw—for upwards of five months. They were destitute of shoes and stockings, and . wanted even the common clothing to cover their nakedness—scarcely tasting food for days together. In the month of March, 1822, the widow, learning that the schooner had returned to the port of London, went to make appliCation to the Lord Mayor at the Mansion-house; Brand, the marshalman, was in at tendance, and to him she made known the nature of her application. He soon discovered hoc's was not a case in which the Magistrates could render her assist ance, nobly undertook to do it himself; and set about it with an alacrity, - intelligence, and determination, that does him honour. He supplied Oe unhappy family with bedding, and the needful clothing, and furnished them from his own purse with small sums of money weekly for' their support. Navin , ' thus placed them in comparative comfort, he proceeded •to ascertain into whose hands the register of the schooner had fallen, and succeeded, by threats of legal proceedings, in deterring them from again lending her to sea,. although they were under bond to the pretended owner to work the vessel. With equal dispatch he wrote off to America for copies of . • . , all t he nec essary Open - ind documents relativete the sale of the schooner, iti . 1819, and, not to butilen the narrative with tiriiitteresting partkal&s, suc ceeded, in defiance of two suits in the Admiralty .Courts, commenced for the mere purpose of frighten• ing the real owners into an abandonment of the pro perty, in obtaining legal and actual possession of the vessel on the behalf of the widow and her children, and about ten days ago sold it for 5001. which, though considerably less than the original cost, may be fairly deemed its full value, after the wear and tear it had undergone, and the neglected state in which it bad lain for many months. On the receipt of the proceeds of the sale, the wi dOw's first act was to return thanks to PROVIDENCE fot •his merciful interposition .in her behalf ; her next to repay Brand the various sums he was in advance— ! he would receive no more; and the residue has since, undet : his direction, been lodged in secure hands, until it shall, be determined in what manner it can be best laid out to insure the future welfare of the grateful widow and her children. TABLE DWOTE IN BAVARIA. EXTRACT OF A PRIVATE LETTER. BANES or THE DANUBE., SETT. 28. There is, perhaps. no place better'calculated than the table to elicit those peculiar traits of character which distinguish man in social life, according as he happens to be influenced, either by habit or educa tion ; and, in the instance to which I allude, this' fact was strikingly exemplified. The landlord was neither in mind nor body such a character as we may suppose that personagelo have been, whom Doctor Calms, in the play, calls familiarly " Mine host of de Jarterm." No, he was, on the contrary,' a sallow, shrivelled, hard-featured, lank-looking being, easily irritated, aid not soon appeased. The guests had assembled in great numbers, and of all descriptions above the rank of the common mechanic. As is usual on the Continent, females formed no inconsiderable portion of the motley party ; and you might see a little simpering Miss, in an embroidered boddice, and ith her hair combed back from the forehead, so as to bring it in, a bunch within the compass of a small spangled patch on the crown of the head, sitting beside an old wrinkled veteran, who might fairly be presumed to have served in all the cam paigns from the battle of Minden down to the battle of Waterloo. Mine host, whose forbidding aspect was of itself quite sufficient to deaden the activity of the gastric juice in the stomach of an Englishman, was attended at once by a liebe and a Ganymede ; ! the former, a fat, clumsy wench, holding a platter of broth between her hands, the latter a ruddy, thickset urchin, with a stone jar full of beer under his left arm. As soon as - the capacious platter was laid upon the table, its liquid contents exhibited upon the surface detached masses of floating fat— " apparent rani nahtes in gurgite vasto." This, however, was rather a provocative to the palates of the guests, for in less than five minutes, some fifty pair of military mustachios were immersed in it, and those who wore none smacked their lips while they lackered them. In the mean time, the peevish Fre; sident of the least rated his two ministering attendants most vehemently, turning alternately to the right and left, and demanding in a shrill tone why the one bad neglected to bring plates enough, and why the other had omitted to couple forks with several okl rusty knives that were lying round the table without their concomitant instruments. The mess of broth being dispatched (for soup it could not be called), the host made serious and deliberate preparations to operate on a piece of beef boiled to rags. His first step was to lap the wristbands of his shut over the lower part of the sleeves of his coat, and then dragging down his cravat he tucked a large napkin under his chin, so as to lay bare to the company a great part of his scraggy tough neck. Thus equipped, he grasped in his flesh. less left hand a formidable weapon, bearing the sem blance of a fork, which he stuck perpendicularly into', the sapless junk that lay before him, while with the huge knife which he held in his right hand he man gled off such portions as be thought sufficient, hand ing them over his shoulder on the point of the fork to a person who stood behind him, with a dish ready to serve the guests round in turn. One particular instance of nastiness I could well forbear to mention, but while noticing the habits of a people in a foreign land, I feel that I ought not to omit any prominent feature, however it may excite disgust at the moment. The old fellow, after having sent round the pieces . of beef as I have stated, very leisurely picked his dirty teeth with the fork, till called upon to furnish a fresh supply to some guest whose stomach it was impossible fru anything to nauseate. In the long succession of viandsahat came to the table, I observed, among other things, slices of raw bacon steeped in Florence oil, chickens boiled np in a mess of pears, apples, and patatoes; but the dish most in request, and which is common all over Ger many, was the potatoe sallad. It is a dish worthy the ingenious projectors of aauer kraut, consisting of pc tatoes boiled, and suffered to lie by till they become offensive to any but a•German palate, when they are mashed up, saturated with oil and vinegar, and brought to table with pepper and salt strewed over them. A British Officer returning from Vienna hap pened to witness this scene as well as myself; and finding nothing else fit to eat, he made a crust of bread and a few grapes serve him for his supper, a more temperate, though not a cheaper one than Atte! others partook of, for he was charged the same price with them. The business of eating being over, the natural transition was to the segar and the long to bacco pipe. The room in a short time was completely fumigated, and the guest who had not a bottle of the common wine of the country placed before him was sure to •be supplied with a jug of light sour beer, which a great number drank in preference. As an additional zest both to the tobacco and the beverage, jugglers, mountebanks, and strolling minstrels entered the room occasionally, and after having practised in their respective vocations, way round, collected a few kreuitzers; bowed, and retired to some fresh scene of action. The company also very soon took their leave lot the night, apparently more pleased with their host than he was with them, with the I world, or with himself. A child, in Newland, named Short, about two years .old, drank, on Saturday last, some boiling water out of a tea-kettle, which brought on convuhions, a.)d caused its dealt in less than two hours i !CF DITIAdIfESABLE RENCONTREt • •,• - . Yesterday afternoon, *lady, in suddenly, turning the corner of Russell-square, came in contact with a fellow Who carried a large ugly grey naked ranntc), which, without ceremony, clapped its pawn the lad y'a shoulder. The lady immediately drew, down a fit, and was with difficulty brought to herself, abets she gave her name, and was sent home in a coach. We regret to add, that. she was in.a situation of great delicacy at the time, and was obliged to take to het i bed the moment she gqt home.' Wednesday night, a Mrs. ("Idling, of Cell-lane, Spitaltields, was .attacked near her own house by thtee ruffians, who knocked her down, and robbed her of twelve pair of new shoes which si.e had to bind, .Was on her way with them to her employers. A woman of an abanaoned character, who f'r years past had chiefly lised at Hastings„ and h<it ben known by the name of Betty D►opslo►t, Was found dead in a stable at Ilohertbridge the rooming after the fair. It appears that she we►<t to sleep in a state of intoxication, and did no: awake again. During the hop picking season at Plawkllurst, a young woman, in resisting an attempt that was made to put her into the bin, by a person whose age might have dictated more prudence than even o co.inte. mince, mucli less to set the example of, pueria cony, received such severe injury, that, after linge.ing few days, and enduring much pain, she died! William barrage, who was capitally convicted at the la't Northumberland As sizes of setting tire to and burning a corn stack, bel,?ngin ' to B. Pc: ry, at 1t.411- bury, is ordered to be conned and kept to I:atd labour for two years. lie t% ill be employed about the works of the jail now building at Morpeth, by virtue of the Act of Parliament. A few nights ago, Edward Morray, charged with. horsestealing ; John Cunningham, as a vagrant ; Johnstone Brown, who were confined in the county jail at Dungannon, contrived to make their escape by cutting the iron bars of their cell window, and through a space of only 8i inches by 17 descended into the yard, from whence, by the help of their bed clothes, they got over the yard wall, and have not since been heard of. ~•--~ MARRIED. Tiiesday se'nnight, at Nethcrwood., near Dumfries, 1.4-ute nant Augustus•Spry-Falconer, 77th Regiment, to widow of the late William Munro, Esq. Royal Artillery. Wednesday, at Fetcham, Sir Jahleel Brenton, Bart. K.C. B. to Harriet, youngest daughter of the late James Brenton, Esq. of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Oct. 9, Charles Stuart, son of T. H. Allan, Esq. of Ihy, to Ann, daughter of the late Right lion. Joan Bert:stun!. NEWGATEANu LEADEN (By the Beef ' is 4d to 21 3.1 I Mutton.. ...... ls 8d to 2s Btl Lamb 2s LL ALL MA it rfs, Ocr. il. Care:tie.) Veal ..... 0:1 to 3s 61 Pork 4d to Zs 4d. PRICE 0 wily ■ACS. Kent 2l Ss to 41 4; Stisscx Essex Foreign Y}:•;TERDA Y. PRICF.S or HAY ASP ST. J AM F.S ' S. hay 31 5s od to 41 • 4s Od Straw 11 55 Od to 11 14s Gd I Clover 31 iOs Cd to 41 4s Oil tV IIITFC:1111 . 11.. Tiny— 31 Os to 41 es CI Straw 11 8s to 11 14, el Clover ZI 101 to 41 10, HOPS. PRICE or TALLOW, Town Tallow... ... 41s Od Yellow Russia ..... 4tti Od I White ditto ...... ... .. Os Od Soap ditto Melting Stuff 3os Od PRICE OF CANDLES-1 Capdles, per doz. 9s od—Y allowed for ttitn• rrtc K RIM Kent Susiex Essex FarnlL:rt SOAP, &c. per 112; 1 6. Ditto rotigh • ..... 20e Yellow Soap Muscled Curd ............... 3011 Polak ... From Tallow Chantikrs' i tookis, los 6d; 6d. per duzsa ready money. PRICE OF LEATHER. Butts, 50 to 561bs each " 2J t o 24.1 per Mt Ditto, 5G to G6lbs each 0 51 to 20c1 Dressing Hides 18(1 to 194 Fine Coach Hides 19d to 201 Crop Hides, 55 to 401bs for cutting l9d to 20d Ditto 45 to 501bs "Od to ::211 . Calf Skins, 30 to 401b5 "Id to Ceti Ditto 50 to 701bs ' o 7d to 721 Ditto 70 to 8011)s . .9..6ti ~> .....S1 Small Seals (Greenland) lBd to i9ti Large ditto 17d to 19d Tanned Ilotse Hides l7tLto Ise Spanish Horse Hides 18d to It3d It A W !IDES. I Best Heifers and Steers (p Ordinary ... - 2s 8(1 to 2s lei stone) ls 4d to 3s 8(1 Market Calf 10s od to Os Od 3liddlings 3s od to 3s 2,1 Eng. Horse Os Od to es 011, COAL-MAI2I► ET, OCTOBER u. Newcastle, 41s. 6d. to 465. Gd.—Sunderland, 435. Od. to Os. COUNTRY MARKETS. °Troy), Ocr. 10.—Wheat ss. 21d. a bushel. The price of a half-peck loaf (household) Is. Id. ILssacay, Ocr. Io.—Wheat, 3s. 0,1. to 7s. cal—Bans to 3. Bd.—Vetches, Os od per bushel.-13arley, I6s to 126. — Oats; 15s od to 255 od per quarter—Bread, Is 341 half pt.::: ; ..aud smaller in proportion. Flour 255. to s:ls. per sack. Ciu - KincE, Ocr. 10.-.—New Wheat per load, £9 Os co.-615.05. Wheat, 3:6 to £9 oa—Barley, per quarter, 22s to 276- 7 0asa, 17s to 26s—Beau:, 27s to 316-.—Peas, tAis to 535. NEwouoy, - Basel, Ocr. 10.—Wheat, 26s to 465-- Barley, 1.9 s to 255---Oats. 16s to 26:.—Brans, 27 to .','lc—Y. e, tr:s. to 30s.—Ryr, ;As to 03.—}31 . 42.1d, 101 to Is Old per.o4lon. COURSE OF Amsterdam l2 6 C.F.' Onto xt sight 12 5 Rotterdam... . l2 7 2U. Antwerp, 12 5 ..... 57 10 2U. Altuna l7 11 IU. 25 60 U. .Ditto Madrid, effective 56i • Cadiz Barcelona ...... —554 Bilboa, effective ncl EXCHANGE. Seville ... Gibraltar ...... 30* Leghti-n Ger tia Voice Ital. Liv 10 Malta Naples l9* Palermo ........117 prt I.i ;bon sc, 47 Peblin 9i Cod- . . 9; rItICESOF GOL. Forejn Cold in Pars . ?Cm 1/nutilaons New Dollars... D ND SI LV CR. 5 17 C. 3 13 0 4 • 0 4 111 r, in bars, stand rd N A ILS. • mt. ne e. 1 0 Wlreritirl 2 0 so a. Prince 1 0 I lanitnirgh 0 • Guerti , ey Andienty 0 . 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