The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1821-02-26 00:00:00

Sl'. DAVID'S DAY.

The true origin of the custom, still retained by the Vir• lab,
of wearing leeks in their hats on St. David's day, is involved
is much obscurity; however, in the absence of all cerwiu
knowledge respecting it, conjecture has not been idle. Ac-
cording to one accosts', We practice originated in a grist
victory ',Maimed by the Of iIOUS over the Saxons, Uhl which
octanes Ike former were distingeriabed by the leek, as the
order of Si. David, and list OM* Ws tatlonjmg English liues
appear W allude:— .
" I like the leek Aloe oil beaks .ml Sowers ;
When first we wore the sasimptbst field was ours.
i▪ lerke is whit and grecs, whereby is smest,
• Britons are With stout and ennuenii
Illext to the Lion and the Voieors, .
The Leek's the fairest emblem that is mem- •-•
• Soother version of this tradition refers rho maw to
victory liaised by Cadirallawn, near a Said of leslinrwhich
have, in coewquruce, ever sines bees worn by tbs BMA+ to
commemorate that event. The more plausible suppgnitius,
however, of SI r. Owes Pugh. is, that the castors aril/Mated
la the'eymasartha, atiti observed is Wilco, in which the
farmers assist each °lbw trt ploughing their load, and us
which otessios every ow toitoseviy cootribalett his Icek to
the commie repast.
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VENTRILOQUISM.
• : ::(1. jlhmlees day night Moasieur Alexandre, whose fame
,their reached this country from the Continent, gave
his first public exhibition' at these rooms as a ventriloquist;
_and we are happy ta_say, that his success fully confirmed
the b:gh repetation widish be bad acquired abroad.
The performance commenced between Mons. Alexandre,
Ls the Character of • waiter, and an imaginary old and in-
' 6rm 'box vivant, iu which the former is compelled, muds
against bis will, to prepare an ousels t. This entails upon
him the 'semen)? of pluming and sawing wood, striking •
light, and frying the eggs over • candle; these different
sounds he Imitated in the happiest and mnst netonishing
ininswer. Ater ibis followed • dialogue between a chim-
tiey.eweep sad Mons. Alexandre. In this the voice of the
sweep .adulated, in his descent down the chimney, was so

'amity inutsiea, MT a wipe suspicion UT cocrumerw7 per-
vaded the minds of several of the surbeuee. This doubt,
however, do creditable to the rare talents of the vetitrilo-
'quid, was must happily removed is the progress of the
representation. iVe have not leisure to follow him through
the various humorous dialogues which took place; we will
threrfure simply misusers.* them. A osinversatiou between
Monsieur Alexandre, some uue shut up in a room, and
a servant in the eellsr—a dialogue with a man enclosed in
trunk—e winversotion hell/rem a gantekeeperta countryman,
and his wife, illustrating the efficts of an alarm in a house
guarded by several dugs--the quarrel between these last
anal souse CAIN follawed by the erica of as infant weakened
by the uproar, and lbe vino sitempttstif the gamekeeper's
yottig wife to pacify Ilre child, were delineated with ouch
truth, that duubts might have again arisen as to the exist-
ence of a cosfedersey, had Not the removal of the screen
rev. sled to MI/ astouieheil senses Monsieur Alexaudre solar,
who, is conclusion, caused • voice to issue from the
stomach of ore of the spectator., singing the Freed, air of
" Narfirusch."—The Duke of Clarence was present, and
expressed himself most highly gratified with the perform-
ante. The company was ournerous, and of the most
fashionable n write. We observed must of the Foreign Am-
bassadors ;arms .

ROVIEVY.—As Mr. Owe* Fon Lim, a respect-
,aisle harmer, near Aber, Giroutvonshire, was re.
turuing home about eight u'i lock in the eseniug of
,Tharoday, he was stopiwil by ;three persons, all
'Welshmen, upon the celebrated mountain, Pen-
'Wien Mawr, and rubbed of his ',octet-book ; the
trillrioa afterwards threw him over the stone fence
able', secures the rood front a tremendous preci-
pice, the bottom of which at lagli water is over-
' limved by the sea. It is aatuunhiug that Mr.
You Lau was not dashed to pieces. He lies in a
dangerous itate.
On Thursday night the premises of Mr. RICUARD
WORKSIAN. at Barn Green, Hams, were at-
tempted to be robbed by u man of the name
of Saunders, who 'Mended to edict his purpose
by concealing himself iu a loft ins the premises,
*rail the family had retired to rest. At twelve
o'clock Mr. Wooziest', was disturbed by a noise,
',end on searching ahe-house, discovered Saunders,
with a cleaver. in his hand, behind the door of the
',parlour. Mr. WORKMAN immediately cut him
_down with u broad sword, and then secured him, by
tying his arms behind him, until lour o'clock iu the
',Morning, wheel he was taken to Hainbletin, where
the wound which the sword had inflicted in his
aria was dressed ; and he was then conveyed to
Winchester and committed for trial. The wound
was of such a nature as to reader it necessary to
send him to the hospital at Wiuton. He described
I self as *bricklayer's labourer, from the Half-
way Houses.'
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