The National Register.
London, England, 1815-06-18 00:00:00

JUNE 18.

The Vienna Gazettes of the 3d instant contain very mi•
note details of the late occurrences at Naples, .and explain
the reason why Murat's wife .had not arrived at Toulon, for
which port, according to former accounts, she had embarked.
An Austrian official account, after stating the escape of Mu-
rat, says, "' The Queen, who was on board of the Tremen-
dous, had, in a prior convention with Commodore Camp-
bell, been promised a free passage to France with her suite.
Upon the declaration of Lord Exmouth that the Commo-
dore had.,o4teeeded his instructions, fresh negociations were
entered idtb with her on the part of Austria, with the co-
operation- of Prince Leopold, and Lords Exmouth and
Burghersh ; in consequence of which she, together with her
children, who are at Gaeta, threw herself tipon the protection
of his Imperial Majesty, and with Generals Macdonald and
Livron, and also with the Minister Zurle and Moesburg,
goes on board an English ship to Gaeta and thence to Triest,
where she is to wait for the favour of his Majesty the deter-
mination of her future residence, with the promise never to
return to France or Italy without his Majesty's special per.
missnu On the 23d, when this Convention was concluded,
the English and Sicilian expedition, under General Macfar.
lane, about 6,000 strong, appeared in the Ray of Naples."
A gentleman is arrived in town, who left Dunkirk on the
12th inst. It was on that day that the order for laying an
embargo was received and it was with the utmost difficulty
he made his escape, happy to get off with the total. loss of his
baggage.
Three thousand cannon, of various callibtes, Von) 4 to
48-pounders with all the shot necessary for eoo rounds, have
been brought from Rouen to Paris by water carriage.
Jerome Buopaparte commands a division of infantry under
the orders of a Lieutenant-General. This feeble minded
creature has no military talent whatever. During the Rus-
sian war he was sent from the army in disgrace by his
brother Napoleon.

The King of Saxony has addressed a proclamation to the
inhabitants of the ceded parts of that Kingdom. in which,
after deploring his separation from them, he exhorts them to
due obedience to the will and command of their new Sove-
reign, the King of Prussia.—The King of the• Two Sicilies
has also published a proclamation, in which he assures his.
subjects of Naples of " the most complete, the most exact,
the most general and eternal amnesty and oblivion." Joa-
chim Murat, in a farewell Address to the Neapolitans, is
stated to have informed them, " that he was leaving his king-
dom for a short time only, and that he would return to it
as soon as he had concerted with his august brother-in-law
the walls of delivering the world !
The French Marshal Berthier, is said to have fallen from a
high window at Bamberg, and been killed on the spot.
A Corunna mail. arrived on Tnesday, with papers to the
27th of May. The French troops along the southern fron-
tier of France are represented few in number, and great dissa-
tisfaction is said to prevail in that quarter against Burma-
parte. At Toulouse and Pau the troops refused to march
to join the army.—The Madrid Gazettes, • among other offi
cial documents, contain dispatches from the Viceroy of Peru,
stating the important fact of the reconquest of Peru by the
king's troops, after a decisive battle fought on the 2d of Oc-
tober at Kancagua: The remains of the enemy's force, con-
sisting of only ,00 or 300 men, were obliged to pass the
Cordelleras, and take refuge in Buenos Ayres.
Extract of a letter from the agent to Lloyd's at Gibraltar,
dated May 19.—An Algerinc squadron passed the Straits to
the westward, during yesterday and the day before ; some say
from 12 to 16 vessels, to cruise against the Americans. Au
American brig was chased by one of them, but escaped."

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We regret to announce that Government have received
dispatches, which state that the Marquis La Roche Jacquelin
has been killed in an action in the west of France.. The de•
tails have not transpired ; we fear they are unfavourable.
The Marquis La Roche Jacquelin was a uoblemaa of distin-
guished gallantry and loyalty, He accompanied the expedi-
tion which sailed some time ago from this country to La
Vendee, and landed at St. Gilles. He was a most intrepid
and enterprising leader of the insurgents.
The Austrian Messenger, who arrived on Tuesday evening.
is understood to have brought accounts of the arrival of the
Emperors of Austria and Russia, and the King of Prussia at
Stutgard, It was expected that a general and simultaneous
advance of the allied forces upon the French frontier, would
take place by arrangement within a very few days after the
appearance of the Sovereigns in that place. Wednesday was
mentioned as the day of this important commencement of
operations, which, we trust, will he as auspicious as the cause
is important to the rights and the repose of uations.
A Corunna Mail has brought papers to the 27th last;
which represent the South of France nearly in a defencelez
state. So little, however, does Bunnaparte fear on that side.
he would draw off the few troops that are these, if they did
not resist his orders. At Bourdeaux and Pau they refused
to march.—Among other official documents in the Spanish
Papers, are dispatches published in the Madrid Gardte, from
the Viceroy of Peru, stating the important fact of the recon-
quest of Petu by the King's troops, after a decisive battle
fought on the 2d of Octdber at Raneagua. The remains of
the enemy's force, consisting of only 200 or 300 men, were
obliged to pass the Cordilleras, and take refuge in Buenos
Ayres.

The dispatch received from Lord Burghersh on Tuesday.
by Lord Castlereagh, gives a very pleasant account of the
entrance of Prince Leopold, of Sicily into Naples, at the
head of the Austrian troops, on the 22d of May. Murat, it
appears, left the city in disguise. Prince Leopold has te-
quested all the authorities of the kingdom to remain at their
posts, to await the orders of the King, whose arrival was ex-
pected in a few days. The overthrow of Murat ►ill give
Austria a disposable force of 50,000 excellent troops, whom
it is expected will proceed immediately to the 'thine.
There is some anxiety in the City respecting the home-
ward-bound Jamaica fleet. The convoy sailed the Ist of
May, and the news respecting the political changes in
Europe did not reach Jamaica till the sth ; it is therefore sup-
posed the vessels may separate on the passage to be first at
market. The Admiral on the Jamaica station, iminediatey
upon hearing the news, dispatched a sloop of war after the
fleet to give them the information,
Extract of a Letter, dated Gibraltar Bay, May —" On
the evening of the I';'th a gun•boat sailed for Tangiers ; iu
her were Mr. Williams, the surgeon of his Majesty's ship
San Juan the Master of the same ship, and a crew of nine
men. In the gale of the following morning the gun-boat was
unfortunately lost, and the whole of the above persons crow-
ded into the small skiff belonging to it, and pulling only two
oars : in this wretched defenceless state, expecting every
wave would sink them, did the Moors open a file of musketry
upon the boat, which killed Mr. Williams, and wounded the
Master. Poor Williams was in the act of urging the men to
greater exertions, when he was shot through the head, and
died instantly; another victim to the sanguinary ferocity of
these barbarians. Af►er incredible exertion and sufferings.
the boat arrived at Tangiers in safety, and the body was
buried in the garden oldie Swedish Cousul."

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REVIEW OF LITERATURE.

LIFE OF THE CELEBRATED COMPOSER, JOSEPH
HAYDN, BY L.A. C. BONIBET-PARIS, 1815.

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Europe will never cease to be delighted with the produc-
tions of Haydn. There have been many opinions enter-
tained with respect to the merit of the dramatic composi
itions of various schools; but with one voice, homage has
been paid to the histtumental music of the German genius.
The life of this celebrated man cannot, therefore, be unin-
teresting to any friend of a science, which, in every civilized
country, has procured him as many admirers as hearers.
We have already several biographical sketches of Haydn, but
they are generally incomplete: the most extended. is by M.
Framerv, but this is so spoilt by the admission of several po-
pular stories, that the well informed reader will be insensible
to the merit which many of the pages of this pamphlet con-
tain. M. Bombet, who has written in the very place which
this great artist inhabited, and who has described him, as it
were, after Nature, must gain a much greater degree of con-
fidence. J Haydn was the son of a poor village cartwright,
and gifted by tte.ture with a most agreeable voice, which at-
tracted tl,e attention of the master of the chapel, belonging
to the cathedral at Vienna, who was at that time going round
the environs of the city for the purpose of procuring cho-
risters. Ile took with him the little Joseph, and a few les-
sons were sufficient to unfold in him that innate passion for;
the science of music which was one day to be exerted within!
much energy. At this period of his life, M. Frantery has re-i
an anecdote of him, which is as ridiculous es it is pose
table to conceive. According to him, or rather according
to the contemptible retailers of stories, whom he has not ,
been ashamed of listening to, it was in agitation, in order to
preserve the silvery clearness of his voice, to employ those
means which might have ranked him with the Marchesi or
the Cresrentini, but which would certainly have nipt in the
bud a genius that was destined to produce so many eht:fr
d'aNrrc. It would have been sufficient 'for M. Framery to
have recollected, that the scene was at Vienna, where neither
the manners nor laws have ever authorised an outrage which
in the present day would meet with a capital punishment,
even at Rome or Naples.—M. Bombet has not related any
circumstance of Haydn which is not strictly true; but the de-
t are sea. tered thionghthe various letters, as he was more
sirQus of amusing his friends with every thing that attracted
his attention at 'he period he wrote, than of giving a come
plete life of tha• glee artist We shall collect them in the
order they present themselves, and fiequently without even
changing the words of the author. Less forwatd, says he,
than Mozart, who at the age of thirteen composed an ad-
mired Opera, Haydn at the same age composed a Mass which

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his master very justly ridiculed. Ile was conscious he could
not hope for any real success, without being initiated in th•
theory of the science; but he would have been obliged to
pay for lessons, and the poor Joseph had not the means of
procuring even the more necessary wants of life. Ile purl,
chased some treatises on music of a second-hand bookseller,
and set to work with almost supernatutal courage. Although
poor, and shivering with cold in his garret without a fire, and
studying very late at night, overwhelmed with sleep, by the
side of a miserable harpsichord, that was almost tumbling to
pieces, be still thought himself happy. His voice changed at
the usual period, and he was turned away from the cathedral
at Vienna, with the greatest barbarity, A hair-dresser, who
pitied his condition, received him into his house, and. this
circumstance had a fatal influence upon the remaining days.
of the young musician, who became attached to one of the
daughters of his host, and promised to marry her. Ile kept
his word, with that religious fidelity which the Germans are
remarkable for observing in such engagements, and took a com-
panion, whose ill temper embittered every future moment of
his existence. He contracted, at different times,. many very
useful acquaintance; M. Martinez., a distinguished amateur,
offered him his house and table. ", It was now," observes
the Author, that the same house contained the first poet of
the age, and the lost composer in the world. bletastasio
lodged also with M. Martinez; but poet laureat of the Em-
peror Chalks VI. he liyed perfectly at his ease, while poor
Haydn passed the winter days in bed, for want of fuel. The
society of the Roman poet was nevertheless of great advan•
tage to him. A profound and acute sensibility rendered Me-
tastasio an excellent judge of every science; he was passion-
ately fond of music, which he was well acquainted with, and
he admired the talents of the young German. In his conver-
sation, he became intimate with the Italian. Fortune, at
length, began to smile upon the miserable Haydn, and her
first favour was introducing bins to Prince Antoine Ester-
hazy, a devoted amateur of music, and a general benefactor
to all artists. Haydn was obliged to compose a number of
pieces for his successor, Prince Nicolas, which were to be exe-
cuted upon the haryton, a complicated instrument, that is
now entirely out of use, with a most agreeable soupd between
a tenor and base. Ile frequently said, that the trouble which
this singular instrument required, had greatly added to Lis
knowledge. The agreeable life he laid at the palace of Prince
Esterhazy, would have been.prejudicial to an artist,.who was
mote inclined for luxuries and pleasures, than ambitious of
study and reputation. This celebrated man, on the contrary,
gave full scope to every impulse of his genius ; nevertheless.
nothing could be more method cal than his life. He rote
very early in the morning, and his fist care was to
dress himself with a neatness bordering upon affecta-
li9u; it would have been mud against his will to have coin-