The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-25 00:00:00

EVENING fS UN

, MONUMENT TO MOZART.
Mozart—whom Haydn reverenced for his ex-
traordinary powers, and whom Burney looked
upon as the greatest leader of 'the nioderirseheol
—has lain in the grave for aperiod of fiftYlears'
and yet the whole of Germany has not, any
instance, awarded a monument t IS
mmory.
The author of "La Clemenza di Tito," the Ido-
meneo," the " Nozze di Figaro," and a host of
other exquisite productiOns has only been re-
membered in the airs and melodies of his owncreation, which have been warbled since his
death in the halls and chambers of the Continen!'
Haydn, in respect of a monumental memorial,
e
has been much happier than Mozart, for in the.
very town that gave birth to the latter, the chief
attraction to strangers is the monument erected
to Michael in the splendid church of Salzbourg.
"While Mozart sleeps unforgotten, without a relic
to his remembrance, Michael :Haydn lies buried
at the foot of the noble steps leading up from St.
Rupert's Cathedral to the chapel andcell of St.
Maximus; his heart, inclosed in a black marble
,A 1
urn, is placed on a monument erected_tuhinio
the neighbouring church of the BenedictiaTioug
while the moss-covered rock, supportive of !"„toic;)
urn, is scattered about with a number of
marble tablets, on &tell of which is iiiscribe4ll!;7,lo9
first words of his most admired compositirs'lnicei
A traveller who visited. SalzbOUrg- in10,,141
says, " in one of the principal streets of this tni.va7a
nearly opposite to the University Chiii6hl.i.S
house in which Mozart was born in :tlke,..tPnilis
1756, but as yet no inscription, bust, .or-011.7„,e
memorial of this great man draws the eye-ait-00
passenger upon it. This house has througbf4„ll
communieation, in the Salzbourg fashion, batwv`,,,,
the Place de l'Universite and the Getraidgailleid
"Salzbourg," continues the same writer, "Ifte„
do herself honour by erecting some public? M,, •I
morial to this immortal composer. She is haPv
in having her name united both with his ` „'d
that of Michael Haydn. The latter was bora n!
Vienna, and died at Salzbourg. Mozart
born at Salzbourg and died at Vienna." that
Indeed, it is an almost unaccountable fact ps
while the Viennese arc notoriously fbnd of statues
and monuments, so that of the more open P`c,i's
about the city, there is not one which has 0:°4,-;0
monument, statue, or other marble efeet'Atch.
the centre, nothing of the kind has been u,,iite
cated to this great musician's memory, .os
scores of inferior men and less notable Per 3-,
have been so honoured abundantly in this
It was at Vienna that, so early as his 6'-ng,
year, his father took him, along with his you,
sister Maria Anna, and where the little a7,as
was introduced at the Emperor's Court. It of
at Vienna that first the unequalled execulien,al
this precocious child first excited such unive.Liio
surprise. At Vienna it was that his, little loth
was given him, which he afterwards played /0)
so brilliant a beginning that had not:the Pi aral
occupied his attention the more, his fief, ht
and execution upon this former instrumeat-9?tbe
have been fully equal to his performance °-
latter.
0. an
Paris, England,ithe Hague, and SalzbotirT an
in their turns, sought to retain him, but witrs' to
apparent penchant for Vienna, which aPPeapople
have been as strongly reciprocated by the 13;roed
of that capital, Mozart again, in 1708, rqourt
to Vienna. He:no sooner arrived than the ~
co
took him under its protection, and the En 1130,14
Joseph commissioned him to write his ex" the
La _Pinta Semplice. Here he made Hate' and
master of the royal chapel, his best frienu'prt of
the mass which he composed, and the e"cflope-
trumpets which he led in presence of the wove
rial House, stamped him—a boy of only Libre
years old—as a wonder Vienna had not
seen.
renter'
Rome and Naples, as his fame grew g of
again drew him abroad, but again at the
twenty-four, the Emperor called him to 'tious
and after composing those brilliant preuniineat
which have surrounded his name with se en 1791.
a lustre, he died in this, his adopted city, niiejan's
Salzbourg itself; the place of the in clear-
birth, is a beautiful city, situated beside the
about
flowing waters of the river Salz. Lellstands
sixty-three miles south-east of Munie",.' a place
where stood the Roman Juvavia, and 'las any'
of more pure and untouched antiquity t striking
to be met with in Germany. The 110°.5 a amidst
feature of the place is its romantic sittlatl°o a bold
high mountains. The citadel stands f 'the gate-
and commanding situation, and one '),t depth and
ways is cut through a solid rock of vaii -Mozart
altitude. Such was the cradle in
was born.
Austria, however has at lasi de
determination whieli, though too long dela„..),t
is nevertheless to be hailed with joy--to erc'he
monument to his memory. But even upon th'e
preparatory measures taken for its erection, ter
blameable forgetfulness which has passed 0,./
his name, transpired a few days since in the 1°6,.
s-
lowing tact, at a time when it was made a Veld
bon.
tion as to the spot where this monument s ja
be reared. The Cemetery of St. Maxiiniclitaend, it
the Austrian capital, was the place sele be had
termined.--eda,
having been known for certain that there
been interred. v. the
Application was accordingly made, wow where
nister of the Interior to his widow, to Oa
wa that she
his grave was situated. Her reply body w 0.7
could not tell, that when lie died bathe triode
taken to the Cemetery, according to 'Lot any
then adopted for simple citizens, witil,u.Lat she
persons accompanying it as mourners ; d bad
had quitted Vienna immediately after, ul'orts to
been 22 years absent, and that all her eund jay
discover the exact spot where her hnsba
bad been fruitless.
erection hag
At length, then,. the place for its Auitrian
beau made almost by hazard, and the .be bodY
Government, at a loss to discover whereilthat the
of the great musician lies, has decide"' ,oable
monument shall be erected as near the P'
spot as can be conjectured.

$O4
DEATH of VICE-ADMIRAL SIR -.- 60 ~6 ime
SCOT
gallant T,K.C.B.—We
Admiral, the n
ir havei tote l
lin
recordgeee
owhich the death
reo io.ohvenedt
above
the Admiralty on Thursday last. The naelaucheli bol
.
took place on Tuesday last, at his villa, at r;te,.rs,Johl
The deceased Admiral, who was second son of elated
Scott, of Galor, Selkirkshire, and collaterally
to the Buccleuch family, was born in 1770,50 ~,,n3,7-alas,
the 27th of October, 1810, the Hon. Caroline Jeoce3
daughter of the late Lord Douglas and PP' Oe
Scott, sister of Henry second Duke of Bueciench.
told
entered the navy at the early age of eleven r3rs'
when Lieutenant of the Bellerophon, was Prf°S
3111". e
nt
Earl Howe's actions of the 28th and 29th of ketamseil
the Ist of June, 1794, and actively distinguish mtruc•
in the following year when in the Niger at the 'lest tbe
tion of a French convoy. During the mutinytbe.
Nore he was the means of rendering great service r,"ilbe
Government, for which he received the thallksA-,,f the
Committee of Merchants. When in the conaltan"!"o. of
Stately he superintended the landing of the leftiw;c7hfs
the army under Sir Ralph Abercroimbie, 003 old
services on that occasion he was presented with the goo, .
medal of the Order of the Crescent. When. ill titlaet
ratio, in 1809, he was severely wounded in g,-firest
action with the Junon French frigate, of the .Ihat
class, which he captured, and for his conduct O 3 en.
occasion has been in the receipt of a good servicetfired
sion of 3001. In the succeeding year,' 1810, be
the
"iPle 43f
the French frigate La Necessite, bound to ;
11 a
Ide
France with stores. The gallant Admiral was pcn,
a Knight Commander of the Bath Sept. 13, 18Teh. 19,
commission was dated as follows :—Lieutenacjune 15,
1791 ; Commander, Sept. 19, 1796 ; kcnira],
1798; Rear-Admiral, May 27, 1825; and v
Jan.ie
T The Gosport
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branch of the South rn Rail'weste e
fear
way has been re-opened for goods' traffic en,li: n sager
that it is not intended to re- commence runn'eb
trains for some months.—Railway Times. 0°
REPORTED MURDER NEAR ir rePOrC
Wednesday last some excitement was caused bY,%t, re'
being circulated that a labouring man named city'
had
siding at Rufforth, about five miles from this on
brutally murdered his wife on the day precedifT o'llthe
the afternoon of the above day an inquest was ho"„,,,,reti
body by Mr. John Wood, the Coroner. It alrt for
from the evidence of several of the neighbours, 113 it, of
a length of time Flint had been constantly in the halloo
ill treating his wife, and allowing:her searbels,lluttbe,
to eat. On Sunday they were heardlo,quarrt.,A"—kielgeu
deceased afterwards stated that her got
her on the body, but, she being of weak int,e'ph-riu
much notice was taken of it. She was seized
ness on Sunday, and on Tuesday Morning became
worse. Flint was out at work, .ahrs-orne of the 7:00
phroeusrssiowneultno
him and
him of the necessity of a ill,
thing
being called to his wife, as they thought she wa,s Ire od it
likely to die. This appeal; however, Ine3e nif oe-
was
the
matter. whilst
Ihveh
ilvs et
nhte
sitting in the same room with his wife, she died, av",os
stupidity and callosity of the fellow's disposititcmoider.
manifested' to the last. Mr. Abbey, surgeon,
He found several bruises on the arms and legs, bad
tlovashitahudsilcuinegra.gasedi and
gate, York, made a post mortem examination of
but none
on the body, and he was Of opinion that the
was
died of inflatmnation of the intestihad nbeenes, bu
caused.,t he i_h ~ the
it the
blows, as there were no bruises to correspond wo_
0
to state whether‘ her death
inflammation in the bowels. The evidence was ntrnn__
cient to 'commit Flint. The Jury, therefore, ret i
but there was not sufficient evidence to show bY, or
" That the deceased died of inflammation of the bo,vveli-a6i
means it was caused," thus leaving the case op
h,.
tained.— York He raid of yesterda.
1 st a 6ne
future investigation, should any fryesh eidonce "
ARA RE FAT OX.—On Saturday -a ,of
Zetland, and bred by that Nobleman, was pi` 'e3
fat ox, rising four years old, belonging to tahtellir'the
machine at Richmond, and weighed 177 stones.---,
Advertiser. dav for
Sir Thomas Fremantle left town on I rlur
his seat in Buckinghamshire. - -