The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-09-05 00:00:00

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AIOVEMENTS.
TI e Duke of We Ilington left town on Sunday for Pansasget
Hew. en a vbit to I; id and Countess Cowper.
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The Duke and Duchess of htinster left town yesterday fa
Britthh,:,
The Duke of Rutland has arrived at Belvoir Castle, from Slid.
field.

--;The Dowager 3lJrchioness of Salisbury has left town for Ilst.
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The Marquis and Marchioness of Clanriearde have strived at
their hon.o in :-t..l,,iiies's-a9uare, from Brighton.
The 31artjuir. aid '.‘larchionegs of Ezell r have arrived at theit
sent. Burich,h, Lincolnshire, from Cowdray Park. Sussex.
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The Earl .and Counteu Spencer are expected in town this day,
from the Isle of Wight.
Lord Like has arrived at Cheltenham. from Worcettershire.
Countess Leven has left town on a visit to Earl sad Couctesi
Cowper, at t eir seat. Panaringer, Herts.
Lord Ferrara and the Countess 3lazarine aril family nay Cr.
rXeedeoanti
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dittoiotoir,,sptreetaTiz from
The lion. Colonel Anson, M.P., arrived yesterday atlas luaus
In Curzon-street, from the Pavilion, Brighton..

Charles Oakley, Bars, has arrived at his seat in Shropshire
from a tour. - '

Sir John Shelley, Bart. and snn, left yesterday Jordan's Haw,
St. Jamees.street, for their scat in Sussex.

Colonel and I;a7dy Eleanor Low.her have left town for the Earl
of Lonstlale's seat in Wnunorland.

Major and Mn. Macdonald I,ave arrived in town :real Chet,
tenhant.

Captain Su:tie left Fentoo's New Hotel, St. Jatnes's.stmet, yes.
terday, for Sc Wand.
C. J. K. Tynte, E.g. left yesterday his house in Lower Grosse.
nor.atree, for Bridgewater, Somersetthit e.
Uvi die Price. Laq. left the Waterloo Hotel, Jennyn-street, yes,
terday, h r Portsmouth.
Mr. aid Mrs. Dobbs have arrived at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley.
square, l:om belt
ra. Be iumont has arrived at her seat, Bretton Hall, neat Wake•
field, from the Clif, Scarborough.
Mr. and Mrs. Pcploe left yesterday their seat in Herta, on a visit
to S.r Walin and Lady Harriet 11'. Wynn, at their seat in Dm.
bfghshire.
Arrivals at the Burlington Hotel, Old Burlington and Cott
streets:—Lord Brandon, from a tour; Carew Smith, Esq. from
Dublin; Wallace. Esq. from ditto; Brown, Esq. from a
tour hwtpey, Esq. from Sussex. Departures:—Bedworth
Lanibton, E.g. fur the North ; Colonel White, M.P. for Hermit&
shire; Belson, Esq. for ditto; E. M. Marley, Esq. for ditto.

The Lord Chancellor paid a visit yesterday to the Duke
of York, at the residence of the Duke of Rutland, in Ar.
lington-street. Sir Herbert Taylor, Military Secretary to
his Royal Highness, transacted business yesterday with the
Royal Duke. Sir Henry Halibut and Mr. MGrigoe,
Sergeant-Surgeon to the King. visited his Royal Ilighnesc.
Mr. Secretary Canning arrived in town yesterday morn.
ing from a visit to the Earl of Liverpool, at Comb_
Wood. The Right Hon. Secretary was elf sely engagel
for a considerable time yesterday alto- fawn, at his olice is
Downing-street, transacting business with Prince l'oEgnac,
the French Ambassador.
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Despatches were received yesterday at the Fordgn Of.
Lice, firm Lord Granville, our Ambassador at Paris, anti
from the Right Hen. Frederick Lamb, our Ambassador at
Madrid.

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Mr. Dykes, the King's Messenger, arrived at the Se.
cretary of State's Office for Foreign Affairs, on Sunday
evening, with despatches for Mr. Canting, which it was
understoo.l were from the Right Hon. Henry Wellesley,
cur Ambassr.dor at the Court of Vienna.
We lament M have to record the !oss of our highly-v.
teemed and valued Officer, General Sir Harry Calvert,
Bart. lie died on Sunday at Drayton, in Buckingham-
sh're, where he had recently gone on a visit, after a Yen
short illness. lie was LieutenantaGovernor of Chelsea
Hospital, an l C'olcnel of the 14th regiment of foot.
Ma. MACRIADY:TiIIi distinguished actor has takes.
his departure for America. On the last night of his
ptrformance at Liverpoel the hot.: e was splendidly*
tended; the applause was direuatont t nthtisiastir ; 31;cloa
Er corning forward, after the curtain fell, to address the
audiee,..e. in ei.... ronowmg speech, there was a general was-
' ;ns; of bats and handkerchiefs in the Pit t—
ee "UWE s ANI3 GENTLESMX,—As this is the last dme inn
"'tow thow'retour of °pm ring before an audience of my country for
a vp., cons'derable period, I beg leave to trespass on your site-.
don, and address a few wt rsa •o you en an creation wli,h Iu a
serious and afflicting interest f r me. The parting espy s.,n of
my gratitude—the homage r I my feelings—cannot be offe ed m.
where mere appropriately than heir, in a town which h Vro
dittinguit to d an at.cerdaperfor weal It, numbers, and intc li eree.
" I carnot take leave without emotion, even for a t nr. of s
country to which 1 cwe everything which is so dear to int—of a
ptiVic to whose. kind patronage, and liberal estimation, I ant it-
dcbted for whatever I possess of fortune or of name.
" In adverting to these my obligations, I would CM b.:. thoaabt
.seaming anythirg beyond the little credit due to unwrari d MI,
genet and zeal. To the cultivation of a difficult, and truly de-
, cult ar, I have given, if I tray permit myself to say ,o. tLys art
' nights of si'ent and, laborious st tody—rerusing, and applyikf o it, the
classic remains and monuments of antiquity, those severest. d erred
models of taste. In its exercise I may have incurred ce sans—
some, perhaps, as just rio severe—others from which I nfer aF.
peal ; hut I also have had the happiness of finding my humble ei.
forts most generous!y appreciated ; md whilst I can reflect. witl.
out any bitterness, on the sentence of my less indulgent judges. I
must ever cherish the most fervent gratitude towards those whoa
opinions have more I;cfrei did me.
" Ladies anti Gentlemen, it now only remains for me to repress
' particularly toy sense of the public patronag,. with which I have
been on many occasions honoured by you, and of the various prom
of individual civility and personal kindness which I have received
in this town. With those grateful and endearing recolievions, la-
dies and Gentlemen, I leave my native country ; and with these
I menet, that, by no distance, or place, or time, can they be obi:-
termed or weakened, I respectfully bid you farewell.'
A cast from the skull of the bard of Twit-Irani is now
selling in London, taken, it is said, from the real skull re-
cently dug up in 'Twickenham church. the account in
ft
of some person to be buried in the eh though already
full, the grave-diggers, a few weeks e , broke up the
circulation is, that the Vicar having ted the corpse
spot where the remains of Pope were , when a very
deep coffin was found, and the skull - poet taken out
of it—by whose permission or order we do not hear; but,
as the story goes, the skull was removed, and is now in the
possession of the Vicar. This alleged fact is, however,
doubted by some of the good people of Twickenham, who
will not believe that the Rev. Gentleman would set tie
"sacrilegious" example of robbing the church, even if lie
entertained no respect for the well-known wishes of the
hard, that he might be saved from bad company, and al-
lowed to repose unmolested—
" Herpcs and Kings, your distance keep:
4, In peace let age pror Poet sleep."
—There are not wanting persons who cry out "shame" on
the whole iransactien I. and one individual declared that
WI mislsi Never have occurred, if "the gentle-
tr ( rawer
heit.lift say relatives lit
ease parltlii • ' iortAttniiistratraln WI not, perhaps, he
felt by aH - and, indeed, it is a qtiftion whether Pope
himself, who used his head with such advantage while
living, would have felt any particulai grief, had he baest
aware that his skull would have been "turned to good ac-
count" when he was dead. Whatever the possessor orate
relic may do, the Phrenologists, at least, " will make mach
of it."—Examiner.
On a tomb-stone in Chatham church-yard appear the
following tokens of remembrance to the departed wives
of an individual of the name of Bonner, which, if taken
as the epitaphs directed to be supplied by the deceased
themselves, to themselves, are certainly becoming and ap-
ropriate ; but inasmuch as having been affixed by their
biusbands, appear of a different character. After recording
in the usual manner their names, ages, and accomplish-
ments, he has attached the following extracts from holy
writ. To the first—" The Lord gave, and the Lord
bath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord!" and
to the second—" I called upon the name of the Lord, and
be delivered me out of all my trouble." What selection he
may have made in his minds eye (for corporeal, either in
the singular or plural healrath not, seeing that he is Miter,
for his Liar ! wife, should be survive her, does net appear-.
The highly-elective comic song of L, A, W, MOO
sung at Vauxhall Gardens, during the season ilia em:-
eluded, by Mr. C. Taylor, with the greatest applarse,
possesses very considerable merits as a musical composition,
and promises to become a great favourite with the public.
Braham's style of singing the Caledonian Ballad, '' tote'
to the Highlands wi' me," has given it a high and deserved
reputation in the estimation of the musical world.