The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-09-18 00:00:00

FASIIIONADLE INTELLICEA CR.

Thctarl and COuntess of Spencer are expected on Wedtesday
next at Wimbledon, from the Isle of 11'4:ht.
The Earl aad t:sninfess of Calcdon, and family, left town yester-
day. fur their seat in Ireland.
The Earl of Itesburough has arrived in town, (rem W. S.
Poynt's, Esq. seat, Cowdery. Sussex.
Viscount Althorp has arrived at his scat, IViseton flail, from
Northamptonshire.
The I)uke of tfraffon has a distinguished party of friends on a
shooting excursion at his seat. Euston flail, 'Thetford.
Lord 11. Cavendish is cntersaining • l.rge party of visitors at
his seat, Easthourn, Sussex.

Departures from Fenton's lintel, St..fs 'es-plate :—Sir John
Wells, Brut. for Sussex; and the Rol% 31r. 3lurray, fur Reading,
Berkshire.

Arrivals at the British Ilotel, .lermyn-street :—Lermon Gower,
Kw'. from Suffolk; and George r‘mis, Esq. Irtnu Ireland. /Apar.
turn Iliggs. Esq. on a tour.
Arrivals at the Bath flute!, Arlington-atreet i—General and
MN. Bradshaw, from Peris; and Ur. and Urs. rooky, from
Kent.

Departures from Read's Hotel. Lower Gmavenor-street : Capt.
and Mrs..litlery, for Bognor; W. Nixon. Eat for Paris; Capt.
Spencer, 1C MI. for Chatham ; and J. Tyssen, hag. for BriyJnon.
General Sir James Kemp?. Hart. arrived yesterday at flake.
Hotel, Jertnyo-street, front Bognor.
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WORCESTER MUSIC MEETING.
On iVednesday the triennial meeting of the M'orcester,
Gloucester, and Hereford Choirs was held at Worcester,
for the hundred and first successive year, under many ex-
cellent and judicious improvementc, with a very superior
instrumental band, led by Mr. trainer.
The vocal perlortuers of the first talent the country can
boast were engaged.
The chorus singers selectedfrom London and other parts
were extrt mcly powerful and effixtive ; in fact, they sung
u with one voice, and the violins, &c. were played as with
one bow.

Wednesday morning the Church Service was performed
in the Cathedral, when an appropriate sermon was preached
by the lion. and Rev. Edward Rice, D.D., in which he
urged !‘ie claims of the widows and orphans of the clergy
for a liberal subscription at the doors.
The music performed on the occasion consisted of the
overture to Nauf, the grand Deffingen Te Drum, an
lI an-
them, " Blessed is he who considered] the poor and needy,"
compowtd by Dr. Boyce, and Knyvett's Curonteion Anthem.
The solo and verse parts were ably supported by Miss Tra-
vis, Mr. Menem, Af.. Vaughan, and Mr. Bellamy, who
were all in excellent voice, although Mr. Bellamy was evi-
dently labouring under indisposition, notwithstanding
which he sang remarkably well.
In the evening there was a Concert at the College Hall,
which was very numerously attended: numbers were wait-
ing before the doors were opened.
The weather was so remarkably fine, that many ladies
walked considcralde distances without any covering over
their heads, some from out of the city.
Madame Ronzi de Begnis made her first appearance,
and was loudly applauded, and encored in the cavatina I)i
Pincer, by Rossini. The other vocal performers were,'
Mrs. Salmon, Miss Stephens, Miss Travis, Mr. Braham,
Mr. Vaughan, Mr. and Mrs. W. Knyvett, Mr. Bellamy,
Signor de Begun], &c., who all acquitted themselves in
their usual style of excellence.
Mr. Lindley gratified the audience with a concerto on
the violoucell6.

At the conclusion of the Concert a Ball was given at the
Assembly Room, Guildhall, where Payne's celebrated band
from Alluack's Assembly attended.

MAID OF 11.11.D0CK'5 MILL.

The real name of this celebrated rustic beauty was
Mary Cornwall. She has been dead about fifty years, and
het remains lie buried in Baldock church-yard. She had
at one time four lovers—" the grave and the gay, the
clown and the beau." The grave lover was a young
clergyman, and it was he who wrote the song of The
Maid of Baldock's Mill," which soon became so popular,
that the maid was obliged for many years to avoid the
neighbouring market-places and fairs, where it was con-
stantly sung by ballad-singers.
It appears that the divine, though he might have been I
the 1111:6I learned, was not the favoured lover. The
" Maid of Baltlock's Mill" married Henry Leonard, a
carpenter, of &block. Her father only gave her a por-
tion of 1001. or 150/., so that rite was indebted entirely to
tier beauty and worth for her celebrity. The following is
the song, once so popular:—
" Who has e'er been at Italdock must needs know the mill,
At the sign of the horsy, at the foot of the hill;
Where the grace and the gay, the clown and the bears,
Without all distinction promiscuously go.
The man of the mill had a daughter so fair,
{With so pleasing a shape and so winning an air,
That once on the liai.held's green bank as I stood,
I thought she was % emus just sprung trim, the &ail
flut, looking again, I perrclv'd my mistake,
For linos, though fair, has the look of a rake;
While nothing but virtue and modesty fill
The more beautiful looks of the lass of the mid.
Prometheirs stole fire, as the poets do say.
To enliven the mass he had modelled of day;
Had Mary been with hint, the hewn of her eye
had saved hint the trouble of robbing the sky.
Since first I beheld this dear lag of the mill,
I can never be quiet, do what I will;
All day and all night I sigh and sit 'till;
I shall die, if I have eat the lass of the

Reynolds and Burke being one evening in the Roya
Academy of Arts, a student showed his drawing to Sir
Joshua, accompanied with the observation, that he hop.•d
it was hold and spirited. Reynolds, in his usually mild
manner, answered, " very spirited," and handed It to
Mr. Burke, who made no other remark, in returning, the
drawing, but " very bold indee."

Ilot.vaoon Ifouse.—We are sorry to learn from a cor.
respondent, that the portraits in the Picture Gallery of this
venerable palace, are threatened with destruction, through
the mistaken zeal of a servant. Our informant, on a late
visit to the Gallery, found an old female domestic busy
scrubbing the faces of our departed monarchs with a coarse
towel, tied round the head of a house broom. Shocked at
'seeing the visage of our good King Hobert so unceremoni-
ously assaulted, lie patriotically interceded in his behalf,
hut to vain. Ile then attempted. with no better success,
to procure the substitution of a cloth of finer texture, to
wipe the face of the beautiful ,Marv; but the old dame
had no greater respect for the fair Princess than for the
gruff warrior; and despite of his entreaties, nay, indig-
nant at being intPrfered with, continued her destructive
operations.—Ediuhurrlt flue, rer.
Lichen xn.—Lichfield continues to maintain the attrac-
tions which f.,r very many years back it has presented to
the fash`•nablc worhl, during the racing week. Lord and
Lady Darnley, Lord Anson, Lord F. Cower, and many
other noble and distinguished personages, appeared on the
Course on Tuesday. Amongst the splendid equipages
!which attracted our attention, we were particularly struck
with the taste and elegance of that of the Dowager Countess
of Farnham, who has lately taken a place within ten mile
of Lichfield, with an intention of becoming a permanent
resident. This lady was the haler of the host Its in Ire-
land. Her parties, particularly during the King's visit to
that country, were tne most elegant and rerherehe's given
at that festive period. She acquited some eclat there, front
haring declined to receive at her parties, or to visit, a lady
of high rank, then in Dublin, a%41 supposed to possess a
commanding influence in a certain high quarter. The
running on Tuesday wes not so good as might be expected,
with the exception of the match for the King's Plate,
which was sharply contest, tl between Lord Anson's Minia-
ture and Mr. Aloysten's Manfred, but won easily by the
former. Of the other horses, some were withdrawn, and
others walked the ('t•urse, or were tlimaneotl. There are
balls and theatricals nightly, which are well attended, and
every hour is occupied in some variety of fashionable
amusement.

A Litly who had Jul! been three days married, perceiving
her husband enter. *tele s-cretly behind lint and plye bhn
a kiss. The husband was angry, and said that silo offend-
ed against decency. " Pardon me," exclaimt.sd she, "
did not know it w.:s yt•u!"
hie. W. G. Coo Lesley, of King's Collegr, CanthfilAc,
was on %Vetlneaday last admitted Know of that Swiety.
A man on the verge of 60, and whose wife had been
buried about a fortnight before, happened to entertain
some female acquaintances at his hors:: on the First Fair'.
night at Dundee, when he jocularly asked. which of them
would be his housekeeper distant name for " wife ."1
A young girl of 19 expressed her entire %tiling-m:6s to.
undertake the charge ; and the courtship beectuin serious,
they have already heel: married.

TIIE BOURIIONS.
Louis XVIII. as we hare already said, is suecyihil
his brother, Charles Philippe, Count d'Artois, wilt) is sail
to be popular with the French, and particularly with Oh:
anny. Charlts X. is 67 years of age. The fullowits: ar,
the other Members of the House of Bourbon, of the
male sex, in the order of their succession to the Irish
Threne :
I. Louis Antoine, Due d'Angoultsre (now Dauphin) bur,
August 6,177 A.
Se 2. He
m. Due de Bandeaux, son of the Duc de Bum, hot,
pt.:l9, Di
3. Louis Philippe, Due d'Orloms,yrnen Oct. 6. 1773. 00._
has
Tied
nud Maria Ar
enelta, daughter of the 'sing ot Sicily, by ,fliottl;
e issu-
4. Ferdinand, Due de Chanres, born Sept. 3, 1810.
f. Louis Charles, Due de Netnnens, born Oct. 2.1, 1814.
6. Francis Ferdinand, Due de Jo:nrille, born Aug. 14. 1318.
7. Charier Ferdinand Due dc Penthiesre. burn Jan. llt,s).
8, Henry Eugene, Doe de Aumale, ,4
.burn June 16,1324
Of the house of Conde, there as but one indisidnal
117:7,iswihioelry
April 13, ilathej°B4:pi, D
ninthi in the de
hesucE"cessritintob‘the'll
French Crown. Of this Prince, who was the father ,/
the Due d'Englaien, au anecdote is rtlated, which slams
a trait of singular delicacy. On the 'Lath of his tstbo
the Prince of Conde, tl.e title fell on the Duc de lloz:
bon, but as he him no family, he refused to amuse it,
sayi.ig, " I am not worthy to be the last of the Cesda,.