The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-03-15 00:00:00

DI BDI N'S MONUMENT.

The intense interest which this undertaking has created
in the musical world, is almost beyond precedent; there
are but few int tubers of the profession who have not
already offered their services in any way in which they may
br useful, and the funds are receiving considerable acqui-
sitions from their liberal subscriptions. Most of the re-
apt ctable music sellers have undertaken to receive donations.
II undreds who were disappointed in obtaining tickets for the
Festival, are anxiously looking forward for a second, which
it is understood must take place, but which it is properly
determined shall, for the present, give place to the l)rury-
Lane Theatrical Dinner. Report speaks of a benefit at
t'ovent Garden, at which the Opera and Farce will be
Dibelin's, and many of his best songs will be introduced ;
and if the public feeling is to be at all consulted, such a
step is highly necessary. We see no reason for confining
the true enjoyment of his music to those classes who can
pay a guinea or two for a dinner; nor is there any absolute
necessity to shut out the Ladies from such an intellectual
treat. Such a step would not only be popular, but it would
be productive also, and make the monument the work of a
greater number; besides, there is something so truly in cha-
racter in raising a monument from the actual productions of
the man's own inimitable talent. The subscriptions are
highly flattering, and it is said that the monument in con-
templation is to be of marble, sevente7n feet in height,
comprising a single figure on a proportionable pedestal, w hich
is capable of being finished either plain or figured, ac-
cording to the amount of the subscriptions. The Journal
des .11Iudes and New Lde,ary Gazette of Saturday, speak-
ing of the model, says

Dtaan.or rue: Pat NC Ens or Co S IW.—This Princess,
who had long ban suffering under a painful illness, died
at Paris on the afternoon of Wednesday. Them is now
but one descendant remaining of the celebrated House of
Conde—the Duke de Bourbon, the brother of the deceased
Princess. The Princess (Louise Adalaide de Bourbon
Conde) was born in 1757, October 5, and entered the mo-
nastic life at Turin, in 1795 ; and after the restoration of
the Bourbons, she became the head of a relicious establish-
ment in the Temple at Paris, where she eoWed herself, as
the Etude tells us, to perpetual " adoration, with the truly
'
Christian object of expiating the. crimes of the Revolution,
on the very spot where the must horrible of all or thesn'had
been committed."
Ca RGIx a I. Co NINA 1.V1.8 WI I t..—The will of this Car-
Or vmet e Tft 1.. Al' Ri..—Ve De.strter of Naples, we oh-
finial is stated to .'ontain the following dispositions :—Count
Parisaini, his kinsman, is appointed executor. The Cardi- serve by the bills, is abeut to Is revived at this Theatre this
nal leaves 3.000 seudi to the poor of the different pariah,: evening, fur the benefit of Mr. Parker, the Lox-book-
of Rome. Ile directs two thousand masses to be celebrated I keeper, whose indefatigable and pulite attention has been
for him ; and a plain monument to he erected to his me- often appreeiated by the public ; front the excellence of
mory in the church of St. Marcellus ; it will contain his his bill of fire altogether, we have no doubt but he will
remains and those of his brother, who was buritd there ;
A rot LON I i 0 N.—On Saturday the concert on this bistro-
irects a certain inscription, writt,n by himself, to he have an overflow.
he d
added. lie orders two chapels to '•.• built in the said ment was 8 tio"lvd by a tine asheinbi"ge of fasbinnables•
church, in which many masses arc daily to ls• celebrated. —The selection co ttttt synced with liandel'a I Iverture,
Twenty-three of his best snuff-boxes (presents from diffe- " Esther," followed by Ilayiln's Canronet, " My Mother
rent Sovereigns) will he distributed amongst smite convents bids me," selections from " La Belle Laitiere" (Stiebelt)
at Rome. Ilia first valet-de•chumbre and his housekeeper and the duet, " Love in thine eves." The first part con-
will each receive thirty seudi per month during their eluded with Rossini s March and Chorus, from " La Don-
lives. The second valet wi:l have twenty seudi per month. na del Lego." The whole were highly pleasing„ and the
All three will he provided with convenient places of latter particularly grand and intp.sieg. The second
residence. The other domestics will enjoy their full wages part was (Timed with the Overture to the " Slave." The
during their lives, and will divide .I.nm seudi amongst Duct from " Native Land" (Bishop), and " Harvest
them. The congregation tie propv.4.l,ida Ible is made uni-
Home" (Cramer) followed. The air, •, Faithless Emma"
venial here. The Franseiscans, of Santa :klaria, in Aracoli. (Stevenson), which was the next piece, was the most ef-
have a snuff-box given to them of great richness, adfiened I tectivc of the selection: perhaps it was performed a little
with diamonds, which they are directly to am, and apply too slowly, but it was delightinry played, and a universal
the produce I thereof in maintaining the frontispiece of their rac"' testified the delight which it inspired. The finale
church. The Minions of St. Andrea, dell jralli, have a in Moxarts " Non l'iu Andrai" was very finely executed.
similar snuff-box given them, with the like direction : as' Mr. Penkiss never fails to shew off the powers of this
also the church of Santa Maria dello cuoodosione; each of bewitching instrument to perfection ; it would be only re-
these boxes is (,unstated at S.OOO seudi. A snuff-box of the ' vesting what we have often said, to add more.
value of 11,o4x) seudi to the hospital of St. Michael, ,i 1 MARRIAGE IN HIG n Lt e v.—At Drayton Basset, on
Ropograndr, of which he was the apostolic visiter. A fine Thursday, the 1i th instant, by the Rev. John Peel, the
garden upon the River Tiber to the Linke of Braschi. Honourable Henley E.len, eldest son of Lord Henley'
l to
Two hundred ounces of silver and a watch to the Abbe Harriet, youngest daughter of Sir Robert Peel Baronet.
Capacrini, employed as Secretary of State; and a very Previously to the happy pair's departure fur :11alvern, a
fine picture to the Pope. large party partook of a magnificent ikjetou' a lafiarchette.

It is a bold departure from the usual style of statues; the at-
titude is perfectly original, and ,!te digression from the liachicycd
rules and eternally-repeausl attriLutes of other monumental figures,
is at once chaste, simple, and elegant ; there is an intensity of
thought in the countenance, a dignity and ease in the gesture,
which gives an interest to the simple and unadorned figure, beyond
what is usual in the most successful of such utidertakings; but
those who judge front the etching which was distributed in the
room will be most giossly misled; it is, in tact, comparatively no
more like to the originid than it is to llic it AL L ANGELO'S Lo.
rcuzii do Medici, or CANOVA./ Grideet.