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BURTON HUNT.

EN the SPORTING MAGAZINE, during
EN
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month, as they may be completed, in ADDITION to the re-,
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BURTON HUNT,
which will appear in the October Number.
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MEMOIRS OF MADAME LAFFARGE. BY HERSELF.
OnThursday neat will be published, in 2 vols. post Bvo.,
price 17s.
EEMOIRS of MADAME LAFFARGE,
by HERSELF, Translated from the French (under
the Superintendence of M. Victor Bohain), by JOSEPH
THOMAS.

Never was a work expected with greater anxiety than this
in London or in Paris, and never was a work published ca'cu-
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fame, as this of which a traneation is now offered to the British
public. It unfolds the truth, stamped in every line, where all
has hitherto been m 3 stery or dark suspicion ; it tells the com-
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scientific analysis, nor the verdict even of a Jury, has rentlered
clear to the millions interested in the fate et this suffering
woman ; and this in words so simple, yet so brilliant, pourtray-
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interpreters of her revelatior,s, and prouder still to say that
whatever profit may result from their publication, it will be
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but guiltless, the unfortunate but trusting, Marie Cappelle.
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The rage for books in all departments of Science, literature,
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even bad books. With the force of this prejudice on our
minds, we with no little reluctance were induced to peruse
Messrs. Curtis's work, entitled "Manhood;" nor did it re-
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frightful maladies to which flesh is heir.—Old England.
Messrs. Curtis's work, entitled "Manhood," is one of the
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can lay claim to the character of being strictly professional, at
the same time that it is fully intelligible to all who read it.
The moral and medical precepts given in it, render it invalu-
able.—Magnet.
The perusal of Messrs. Curtis's book entitled " Manhood,"
has really astonished us by developing a series of maladies, the
never-failing consequence of the vicious habit of which it
treats. The clear connexion pointed out between the assigned
cause and the effects is perceptible to every capacity. We
strongly recommend the work.—Age.
The multitude of books daily coming from the press, some,
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diseases which proves so fatal to youth, and which are set
down by the every-day observer as the result of common
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Curtis have shown that many diseases, such as Pulmonary
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cine, may, when taken in proper time, and submitted to judi-
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as any other class of affections. We do not think we go too
far in saying that society is deeply indebted to the authors for
producing so useful, so much wanted, so valuable, and so truly
moral a book —Conservative Journal.
We recommend the work entitled " Manhood," &c , to the
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KENT HOP INTELLIGENCE.
MAinsToNE.—llop-picking is proceeding with great ra-
pidity. We hear of no single case where the hops turn out
heavier or better than was anticipated, but we hear on all hands
of disappintment in both quality and quantity.
WATERINGBURY AND MEREWORTH.—The picking has
been general during the last weeltyand the crop is complained
of by nearly all the growers as being deficient in quantity, and
very light in weight. A very general opinion prevails that
the duty is far too high.
TicEnuasx.---Picking is now in full operation in this and
surrounding pat ishes, but the crop will be nearly a third short.
Notwithstanding the hops are now ripe, they require more
than the usual quantity of bushels to the cwt., and it is the
general opinion that the duty will not reach 150,01/W.—Maid-
stone Gazette of yesterday.
The accounts from other parts of Kent are nearly of the same
description, and all concur in the opinion that the duty will
be between 150,0001. and 160,0001.

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GREAT SCULLERS' WAGER.
The great contest on Monday between Robert Doubledee and
James Maynard, from Westminster to Putney, was decidedly
one of the greatest matches of the season. The known merits
of both men as first-rate scullers, and their established game,
induced sporting gentlemen to look forward towards this as a
match in which much skill, power, and stamina would be dis-
played, and the result proved that These expectations were not
without good foundaton. It may be here necessary to say a
few words of the men. James Maynard, a scion of the first-
rate stock of that name, plying at Lambeth, has rowed in
matches for the last three or four years, but never earned first-
rate reputation as a sculler until the wager for a silver cup,
given by the proprietors of Vauxhall-gardens, about two months
ago, that and his subsequent splendid rowing a. few days after-
wards for the Iron Steam-boat Company's prize, enhanced his
value in the opinion of the leading gentlemen, and a '.suitable
match " was looked out for hint. None, perhaps,l more fitting
than Robert Doubledee, of Lambeth, could be found; he has
worked hard with sculls and oars, both at home and abroad, as
one of the Sons of the Thames crew, and had defeated a good
man, named Connoway. Under these circumstances it cannot
be well conceived that the match of Monday could create anything
but interest. At a quarter-past four the two men rowed to
Wesminster-bridge, accompanied by several first-rate club beats
and cutters of every description. The start was even, but in
half a dozen strokes Doubledee had the lead, and passed the
Ilorsererry and through Vauxhall-bridge in advance. Off
Cubitt's workshops Maynard appeared to be much distressed,
and his opponent was at least three lengths a-head ; Maynard,
however, rallied, and gradually gained upon his opponent, and
off the Swan at Chelsea was scull and scull ; two minutes of
desperate work in both boats followed, when Maynard passed
his opponent, and maintaining his advantage Hon by three
lengths. The distance was rowed in 3:21t minutes.

SCULLERS' MATCH FOR TWENTY POUNDS.
A very smart affair in the shape of a scullers' match came off
en nday, at two o'clock, from the Halfway House, between
London and Graves,nd, to the Dre,dnought Hospital Ship,
off Greenwich. The competitors being Forrest, of Greenwich,
and Kersey, of Deptford, and upon the well-known excellence
of the men a great treat was anticipated. Forrest, who won a
similar wager last year, being the favourite, at however very
small odds to the day of the match, with even betting, and
here and there a small advance in favour of Kersey. The Nile,
and other steamboats, were engaged to accompany the contend-
ing parties. There was also a very large assemblage of other
boats of every description, and the banks on either side of the
river were thronged with spectators. Shortly after twoo'clock
the start took place, both getting away well together, which
harmony existed until they had gone nearly half the distance,
when Kersey bigan to take the lead, which, notwithstanding
all the exertions of Forrest, he maintained, coming in a winner
by five minutes, doing the distance, as near as we could learn,
in fifty-five minutes. Both men were much distressed, but upon
landing every care was taken of them by their respective friends.

ELOPEMENT.—On Sunday night, or Monday
morning early, the only
.daughter of a respectable innkeeper
near St. Austell was missing. Search was made through her
dwelling, and a note was found, addressed to her father, her
mother being from home, and it was also discovered that the
young lady's clothes were removed. Inquiries were diligently
made, but it was not until evening that any positive informa-
tion was obtained, when a man said he met the lady and her
lover in a gig. They were immediately pursued, but pursuit
was now useless, and a letter soon reached the parents with in-
telligence that their daughter had changed her name. The
" young Lochinvar" is, we believe, from the neighbourhood of
Camborne, and has been seen about the lady's residence for se-
veral days. The young bride is about 18 years of age.—Corn-
wall Gazette.

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are said to amount to 23,7001- besides doubtful debts, so
that the estate at present shows the probability of a divi-
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Regret, perhaps, is aver deeper for the loss of the
" merry-hearted," than for the death of the great or
grave. On the departure of the latter, our resections
easily clothe themselves in the " dark sable " coir.:spond-
ing with the sad occasion. Far different, however, is it
on the death of him, whose existence has been one of
buoyant rejoicing ; and whose hours have clothed them-
selves in laugh and humour. The very colour of such a
man's existence, being so diametrically opposed to the
final result, the black pall of the tomb, when it comes
to fill, falls with a strangeness that strikes dismally on
the heart. Strange it seems to see so ruddy and bright-
coloured an existence vanish into darkness, forcing us to
speculate in fear, how "Yorick" should come to so
" sorry a complexion."
Mr. Thomas Dibdin, the true Yorick of his day, died
on Thursday, the 16th, at his house in Myddleton-place,
Pentonville, at the age of 70. He was born on the 21st
of March, 1771, in Museum-street, omsbury-square.
His father was the celebrated Charles Dibdin, the naval
song-writer, and his godfather was the illustrious David
Garrick, who, on the occasion of the christening, sent
a hamper of wine. In the year 1775, being then only
four years of age, he was led on the stage before the
audience at Drury-lane, by Mrs. Siddons, in the cha
racter of Cupid, in Shakspeare's pageant of the " Ju-
bilee:" his mother was daughter of Mrs. Pitt, who for
nearly fifty years was a highly respectable actress at
Covent-garden. At eight years of age he was, for the
sake of musical tuition, placed in the choir of St. Paul's
Cathedral, and in the family of Mr. Hudson, where
lie was taught to sulfa and feed the blackbirds
of that gentleman's pretty daughter. Here having been
taught the gamut and good behaviour, he asked his mo-
ther's leave to go to a " real school," and improved for
the next twelvemonth under Mr. Tempest, of Half-far-
thing-lane Academy, Wandsworth, where he was taught
to speak bad French at dinner-time. Thence he was
removed to the tuition of Mr. Galland, a Cumberland
schoolmaster in the north Of England, by whom he was
classics/Hy instructed for three years. After this he was
apprenticed to the present Sir William, then Mr. Raw-
lins, to learn the trade of an upholsterer; and, after his
engagement at Covent-garden, he purchased many arti-
cles of furniture at the very warehouses he had served
in. While in this serviture, however, his chief delight
in the upholstery line was to decorate a smart little thea-
tre of his own. Mis next attempt was at private theatri-
cals; and having read before Mr. Booth, a proprietor of
the Margate Theatre, the character of Marcus in Cato,
the former was so much pleased as to advise him to get
shaved, put his hair in training, and gave him a letter in-
troducing him to the theatre at the Isle of Thanet. From
thence he was 'transferred to the notice of Mr. Rickland,
at Folkstone, in Kent, and played under the assumed
name of Merchant, the character of " Norval," and sang
" Pour Jack" every night for three months. It was
during this time that lie wrote the first of nearly 2,000
ditties, which he has since produced.
In 1789-90 Dibdin travelled to Deal, where he improved
in scene-painting, and played almost everything. Here
he made his theatrical debut, and in a short time returned
to London, from whence he again set out on a new tour,
playing at Beverly, Harrowgate, Liverpool, and Man-
chester, at which last place he became the established
painter of the house, and produced a farce called " Sun-
shine after Rain," which was very favourably received,
and was afterwards acted for Mr. Munden's benefit at
Covent-garden.
After starring it in Scotland and the counties for a
while, during which period he married a young actress
on the 23d of May, 1793, he finally settled in London,
duringand the seasons of 1794, '95, '96, produced at
Sadlers Wells, and many other minor theatres, dramatic
pieces without number. The price he got for these may
be judged of by his selling " Blindinan's Buff, or, Who
Pays the Reckoning ?" a burletta ; " The Glazier,"
ditto ; " The Pirates, or, Harlequin Woodcutter ;" and
" Two Sijos of the Question," a burletta-7-four pieces,
to the renowned Philip Astley for fourteen guineas : he
also sold several songs to Longman and Co., as the
" Irish Newsman," " A Post under Government," " The
Muffin Man," &c., for three guineas each. Dibdin was
now rapidly rising into notice. In 1790, he had on one
night three pieces acting at Covent-garden, and as he
then resided at Tunbridge 'Wells made many friends of
honourable countenance. Among these were the late
Mr. Cumberland, Prince Stahremberg, the Austrian Am-
bassador, and his Countess (who did him the honour to
sing at her own house all his songs in the " Sprite,"
while he accompanied her on the piano), the Earl and
Countess of Mount Edgecumbe Sir John Macintosh,
Lord Cremorne, and especially his Grace the late Duke
of Leeds.

Lord Nelson's victory of the Nile gave occasion to his
" Mouth of the Nile," and at the same time he appeared
bet oe Messrs. Fawcett, Incledon, Townsend, &c., the
high men of Covent-garden, for his acceptance as an
actor or not. Before this assembly Dibdin appeared,
and observed, as many a terrified candidate has done be-
fore, " This is an awful moment, Gentlemen !" Mr.
Fawcett—" Very ; but you are among friends." Mr.
Lewis—" You are just on the edge of a cold bath ;
plunge in overhead, without fear, and in one moment
you will find it quite pleasant."
Thus encouraged, he read his part. Fawcet seemed
much pleased. Incledon observed, "No man could
write a song like his father, and returned after he had
left the room, saying, " My dear lad ! that you possess
some talent, no man that is a man—of judgment can de-
ny : I adore your father ; and, my dear boy, you have
got the mark of the beast upon you, as well us he has."
A few evenings after, Mr. Dibdin played Old Pickle in
the " Spoiled Child," at a few hours' notice, and made
himself.

Lewis, of Covent-garden, now prompted him to write
a comedy, in three acts, under the title of " 3,0001. a
Year," which he owned brmight him the best house he
ever had ; it was honoured by their Majesties' command,
and I)ibdin sold the copyright to Messrs. Robinsons, of
Paternoster-row, for 60 guineas. He had five pounds a
week as salary ; sold the copyrights of the " Birthday."
and " Jew and Doctor" to Covent-garden for 20C1,
anti, in fact, in this season cleared 4661. Gs.

Covent-garden re-opened Sept. 16, 1799, when his
wife, Nancy, made her first appearance in the character
of Aura, in the " Farmhouse," and her reception secured
to her an engagement which lasted ten years ; and on
the 7th of October Dibdin produced a musical pieco in
commemoration of our numerous marine triumphs, under
the title of the " Naval Pillar," the principal character
of which was a Quaker, inimitably well acted by Mr.
Afittiden. After this followed his pantoinime of " The
Volcano, or the Rival Harlequins ;" also written by Mr.
Dibdin, and proving most successful.
On the 19th of February, 1800, his mush, however,
was caught tripping, and his farce of " True Friends "
proved nearly inimical to his interests. Mr. Harris,
however, the. proprietor of Covent-garden. could not un-
derstand why it failed, and one night; when adversity
came " hissing hot, from pit and gallery," kindly helped
the author on with his great coat, exclaiming, " An au-
dience is seldom wrong ; but in this case, my dear Di'o-
din, I cannot imagine why they hiss ; can you ?"
His three-act comedy, " Liberal Opinions," produced
him 2001. and the copyright; and he was selected by her
Royal Higness the Prinsess Elizabeth to write a vaude-
ville farce to be performed at Frogmore Lodge before
their Majesties on the recovery of the Princess Amelia
from a dangerous illness. For this lie received only Z.
His receipts, however, for the season at Covent-garden
brought him 51d, while Mrs. Dibdin's exertions realised
90/. At this period Cecil Pitt, Esq., his great uncle,
also died, and left him 1001.

After a series of seasons at Covent-garden, in which
he produced his " Cabinet" and other celebrated pioces,
he, in the year 1809, withdrew Mrs. Dibdin from the
stage.
In the year 1812, Dibdin engaged with Mr. Arnold of
Drury-lane fts prompter to the theatre, on an annual
salary of 5001., fur which he was to produce a comic pan-
,tomime yearly, and a one-act piece on any public national
event which might take place. During this time he
finished his " Metrical History," nearly all of which,
for want of other time, was written after twelve o'clock
each night. Mr. Elliston one nipt caught him at this
lamp-light exercise, and on hearing him read a page or
two of the work, told him he was opening a bookseller's
establishment at Bristol on his own account, and would
give him 2001. for the copyright : he instantly agreed.
A well-known city gentleman, within ten days, rered
him 400 L for it; but Elliston would not quit his bargain,
and indeed, shortly after, sold Longman and Co. one-
fourth, and the copyright, at the expiration of fourteen
years, reverted to Mr. Dibdin.

In 1816, Mr. Dibdin became lessee of the Surrey
Theatre, and opened it with a comic address, spoken by
Mrs. Dibdin, and held it with success till October, 1822,
in which latter year it was honoured with the presence of
her Majesty Queen Caroline. After this he, in 1823,
opened a campaign at the Haymarket, and his fifth cam-
paign at Drury-lane.
On the 29th of Maroh, 1819, Mr. Dibdin lost his only
remaining daughter, and the 29th ofAugust also followed
the remains of his father, the celebrated author of the
" Padlock," 'to the grave. On the 10th of October in
the following year, he lost his mother, whose last words,
with her last kiss to him were, "We hall meet again in
heaven."

The answer to Dibdin's letters were sometimes seem-
ingly amusing. David Terry having asked him to do
something for the Adelphi, wrote in return to a proposal
of Dibdin's thus :

Dear T. D.
So let it B.
Your's, D. T.

Sheridan, too, called on him with a poetical refresher.
Dibdin, it seems, by the following note, had promised the
celebrated wit a song, which by some inadvertency he
had not sent ; this was Sheridan's reminder:—
" Dear Dibdin,
Having broken my fast,
I'll fully break my mind:—
You promised me
A song, d'ye see,
Which I thought very kind ;
But promises like pie-crusts last,
And folly 'tis to trust ;
A song without the words is like
A pie without the crust.
With my tooralu, tooralu.

T.
oIIERIDAN."
In proof of the unprecedented industry and indefati-
gable labours of Mr. Dibdin, now that we have given in
the current of his biography a list. of his more redoubt-
able productions, it will not be uninteresting, perhaps, to
present in "phalanx firm the list of works, &c., of

Tne English Fleet, Birthday, Jew and Doctor, Of Age To-
morrow, School for Prejudice, Family Quarrel!, St. David's
Day, What Next? Past Ten o'Clock, Naval Filler, Mouth
of the Nile, Nelson's Glory. Three Generations, Garrick
and his Double, Moue-traps, Schneideikins, Zuma, Mi-
series of Human Life, Fate of Calais, Sunshine after Rain,
Golconda. Azim, Three Talismans, Who's to have Her,
Orange Boven, Errors Excepted. Don Giovanni, Banks
of the Hudson, Small Profits, Will for the Deed, Har-
lequin Hoax, Siege of Troy, How to Write an Opera,
Mother Goose, Bill of Fare, Hermoine, Poor Jack, Tom
Jones, Roderick Random, Vicar of Wakefield, Ferdinand
Count Fathom, Humphrey Clinker, Sir Launcelot Greaves,
Sicilians, Silver Swan, Give a Man Luck, Beauty in a Box,
Two Gregories, Princess and no Princess, Everybody's
Cousin, Jack in the Green, The Cameleopard, Tossed in a
Blanket, Love Letters, Kouli Khan, Sadak and Kalasrade,
Talisman of Orosmanes, Florence M'Carthy, Heart of Mid-
Lothian. Montrose, 1 vanhce, Kenilworth, Bride of Lunreer-
moor, Pirate, Old Mortality, Charles XII., Widow and No
Widow, Great Gentleman in the Little rarlour, Waggery in
Wappine, Prince and Policeman, Elephant in Siam, Fatal
Island, Who's the Murderer, President mid Peasant's Daughter,
Devil and Dr. Faustus, All a Fetch, George the Third's Ju-
bilee, Fifty Marriages and Forty-nine Murders, De L'Orme,
Field of Cloth of Gold, Jemmy for ever, Stop Thief, Stage
without Horses, Blood will have Blood, Harper's Son, Male-
diction, Little Red Riding Hood, White Wolf, Paris Diligence,
Scanderbeg, Red Man, Knights of the Lion, Court of Queen's
Bench, Belisarius, Barbarossa, Three Times Three, Secret
Mine, High. Mettled Racer, Chevy Chace, Death of David
Rizzio, Alonzo and Imogene, Uncle Jonathan, Man and Mar-
quis, Tag in Tribulation, Spoiled Children, Paul Jones, Sixes,
Jocks, Lady of the Lake, Snil Dhu the Coiner, Wiuki the
Witch, Thirty-seven Pantomimes, Forty-one Burlettas.
These which are thus recited, if counted, will be
found to amount to the number of 150 ; but the actual
number of his theatrical productions really amounts to
200 ; out of these, ten only were failures ; sixteen were
honoured with extraordinary success, and produced im-
mense profits to Covent-garden, Drury-lane, the Hay-
market, English Opera, and three of the minor theatres.
Such was fifty years' work.
Among other curiosities in its way, which Mr.Dibdin's
active mind had before it, was a novel, which he chris-
tened " Westminster Bridge, or the Adventures of
Archibald Adamson." He was to have began the ro-
mance at one end of the bridge and finished it at the
other.

His latter days were passed in comparative indigence,
and at the time of his death he was employed by or-
der of the Lords of the Admiralty, in re-editing a com-
plete and perfected edition of his father's sea-songs, one
number of which we believe Mr. Bentley has just pub-
lished, and for which he was in the receipt of a weekly
salary. We omitted to mention that his little hand-book
of " Music Epitomized" is a clever little book for musi-
cal novices. His " Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress" done
into rhyme, is as curious a poetical curiosity in its way
as the versified translation of " Milton's Paradise Lost.'
Mr. l)ibdin was possessed of immense mental activity,
his frankness and good humour created him friends uni-
versally, and there are few readers of the present memoir,
whose lives come within the compass of the past half
century, but will own that at one theatre or other, they
have been indebted for many an evening's amusement to
him who is now no more.