The National Register. — London, England, 1808-09-11 00:00:00

rr.. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. THE COURT MEW WORLD OF FASHION. • • , tish-oms— Wednesday, at twelve o'clock, his Majesty arrived at !be Queen's Palace, from Windsor, where hr was received *y their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of York, Kent, and Cumberland. At two o'clock his Majesty held a Levee, when the fol lowing bad the honour of being presented to his Majesty : The Bishop of Rochester, to kiss hands on his translation to Bishopric of Ely; Major Campbell, Aid-de-Camp to Sir Arthur Wellesley, in his promotion, and on his return from Portugal; and Colossi Brown, on his return front the army in Pontugal. His Majesty held a Privy Council, which was attended by the Duke ofiPortland, and the rest of the Cabinet Mi nisters, when Mr. Ryder, the Jndge-Advocete, laid before his Majesty the proceedings of several Courts Martial. The musical world, and the fashionable world, nod all the world, have had a most harmonious squeeze at the Music Meet ing at Gloucester, this last week ; the sick, the well, the lame, the lazy, et tous les matades ima, ,, ' enoires, whether water drink ers, or wine drinkers, from Bath, Cheltenham, Nl:Liven), and the surrounding counties having been crowding. into that city, until it has become quite a muitum in pareo, of guns eomme it Picot. eakespeare's Jubilee was but a hardy gurdy concert, when com pared with this Musical Festival, where concerts, halls and sermons formed the bizarre melange; the singers were in cower!, the inn-keepers were in concert, and the lodging-houses were in concert, drawing notes in rapid succession of allegretto move ments from their customers, whose con strepito accompaniments, proved the musical adage " that perfect harmony cannot exist without a discord." The fashionables of St. Giles's, Spitalfields, and Wapping, have had a crowded season at that emporium of annual fun and frolic, dedicated to their patron saint, St. Bartholomew ; round abouts, ups-and-downs, lourdigurdies, handargans, vans, cara vans, and all other wind instruments, have been crowding into Smithfield pens, as if all Creat• had been rushing to the center; some of the roy a l ma nu f ac t or i es displaye d a greater assemblage of gilded Kings and Queens, than even St. Cloud can boast, and a witty vender of hot-spiced ginger bread, exhibited his superfine royal hunting nuts, fresh from the oven, but not so hard as the Spanish nuts which Napoleon has to crack ! Great decorum was observed by she lionesses, and other wild beasts fried sausages. and plumb pudding, all hot, were in their usual abundance for the Ama teurs; lasses :Ind their lads crowded, as usual, to the ups and downs; Juliet mourned her absent love in the old black gown, often-washed white handkerchief; and Pizarro, with the ino.; pathetic ardour, invited the spectators to his standard; and the whole merry go round went nil' with so little disturbance, that the Piedpoudre Court had nothing but red-letter-days, much to the credit of John Bull and his family. BON MOT.—A fashionable party passing through a certain country bovine!' a few days since, were so 'insufferably in their delicate sence of smelling, that one of the Ladies was induced to ask what filthy place i t could he "Do not abuse it, in Lady, said :mottle), for it is a borough that returns two Members to Parliament." " Then, replied the Lady, I ant sere it most be a rotten borough." Spanish brushes are now entirely excluded from the Box A - PARTE family, their roughness having been found g rea tly t o hijurl the N A Ir. A few days ago, one of those untutored sons of Erin, who sells, nuts, dtc. through the country, happening t 4) go into a shop in Belfast, in which a very toll gentleman was standing, the gen tleman, after chattering some time with the nutman for his ware', stepped towards the door, saying., " I am long enough here." " Och! God ble ' s you, my honey," says Paddy, " you're too long any where." An Irish Gentleman being lately asked his opinion of Bo v I PA I'l'es last step, replied. " Oh, and upon my %rod), my dear hone) . , he as at last put his font in it." =sarzczzsizaisa= POPULAR PREACHERS. No. V. " And he went into the Temple; and began to cast ant them that sold therein and them that bought, saying unto them, It is written.lfy house is the must of Pa ►V Stc. Ths Gospel according to Luke, ch. xis. verses 45, 46,. EW* ll r~r,~ SEPTEMBER 11. "THE FOUNDLING CHAPEL; AND Ifs •Allms-rLi ts. ENGLAND has long been distinguished as the country of benevolence. Every where has piety, or philanthropy, erected temples to humanity ; and there is no species of mortal suffering, for which this nation does not oiler eith er remedy or relief. We have built something like pala ces for the repose of those veterans who survive the battles of the state, and founded noble establishments for the chil dren of fathers who have fallen iu its cause ; we have pare. OMI receptacles for indigence, and alms-houses for 11 .7 e ; we have schools of instruction even for the blind, anir, of reformation fur the reprobate ; we proclaim a refuge fo r the destitute ; we have reared an asylum for female or phans, and a magdalen for female penitent i s; o : t d .d w o e o h a a l v i ' c e . , or profess to have, a foundlin g —for deserted illegitimat e ... Our munificence has been mos t happily eniligie o u ri gradation viate every description of human calamity ; l be neficence is most honourably extendeel to every ral of human depravity. This is our praise. It must there fore excite surprise, that so many charitable and provident institutions are inadequate to the purposes for which they were specifically designed ; and it ought to actuate our indignation—if any one of these establishments is found to have essentially degenerated from the original principle of its application. if only interest and affluence are suffered to shelter themselves under that protection which etas i e . tended exclusisely for imploration and poverty ; if the rich have ahnost appropriated those advantages which were held out solely to the poor ; if charity has become pro perty; if, the powerful having ow:led the impotent, the rellige of wretchedness has becAnne the asy lutes of trans gression; if these things be true, or if there exist even suspicion of their truth, enquiry should be stimulated to vigilance, and .convicticn succeeded by resentment ! When nppeals are made to the heart, and contributions are thus levied on the pocket, the head has sonic claim to be satis fied that all is right. Charity ought not to be the great Object of pious imposition. Let the Conductors of the Foundling liospital look to these reflections. Rumour, and something still louder than ruemur, is against them. The whisperings of Maki duals may become the voice of society ; and, where large demands are continually mule on public benevolence, it may be kit necessary to consult public opinion. With funds more than adequate to the ends of their institution, awl continually atignienting, what is the application of them ? Are the doors of this Hospital open to tin. real Oleos of Bs legilimale succour, and to these only ? access to it, on the contrary, go, as they sty of kissing, by favour ? alas protection its price, or countenance its co. • currence ?—These are rather weighty questions. It is with time Foe % rt., however, that I !.rn now principally concerned. Were it the business 01 t;.ii paper to enter minutely into the merits of the Found! Hospital, its interior could scarcely escape notice, mid would, in many particulars, jitslify the language of reisr.- liens'on. As they arc• at present conducted, I catertai-, indeed, some fundamental objections to most of our 1 )111)1 c infantile institutions, and even to charitable nssocialions ofi a higher class. My opinions might appear singular: hut they are founded on candid observation, and strengthened by habitual reflection. Chapels arc becoming too numerous. Our fathers, 7110 seem to have acted upon elevated conceptions of rclig;ons worship, bequeathed to us temples not unworthy of mm tional devotion, monuments of the august piety of p . ..st ages, vi bich still excite our admiration, without influencing our conduct. Money can be found for an r thing eve: pt the promotion of our established religion. Many people talk of despoiling the church, and convenfeles spring HP amorg es like exhalations; hut there is scarcely the nem, who thinks of raising new national edifices for divine wor ship. Churches,' not chapels. are nevertheless mante doe ches, en an enlarged and devotional pl an, where h igh and !ow, rich and poor, may fully mingle iss the worshp ~' E