The Sun.
London, England, 1824-01-12 00:00:00

THE LAVE CHARLES

'oseph Yorke, and several other distinguished Characters.

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It was finally resolved that the dinner shall
take place on the sth of March, and that Admi-
ral Sir JOSEPH YORKE, Bart. shall be requested
to preside on the occasion. A more appropriate
President than the gallant Admiral could not be
found, and there can be no doubt that he will
readily join in doing honour to the memory of a
man of great lyrical and poetical genius, and
who seemed to derive his chief enjoyment from
paying homage to naval bravery and to the mari-
time bulwarks of British freedom and Independ..
ence. It is proposed that the vocal Performers
shall be requested to sing no other songs than
those composed by Mr. Dr BDIN, and as those songs
are of various descriptions, they will afford ample
scope for the exertion of their respective talents.
Before the Meeting broke up, a liberal eulogium
was pronounced on the musical and poetical talents
of the departed Bard, and on the loyal, moral,
and patriotic tendency of all his productions. it
was then announced that an admirable model for
a whole length Statue of Mr. DInDIN had been
formed by Mr. Sl EV' ER, an eminent Sculptor,
which would be submitted to the inspection of
the company when the dinner takes place. The
parties then separated, highly gratified with the
consciousness of having been engaged in a mea-
sure calculated to do honour to a man, whose
genius, and the objects to which it was devoted,
have done honour to the country.

ROSSINI, the composer, is at present the great
object of curiosity and attraction in the fashion-
able circles. Nothing, however, has been thought
more striking in him by those distinguished
persons to whom he has been introduced than
the manly frankness and ease of his deport-
ment, when in the presence of superior rank,
contrasted with that servility which is characte-
ristic with the subjects of a despotic government,
and which has been so frequently remarked in
the demeanour of eminent foreigners when ou
visit to this country. HAYDN, the reatest
musician of his age, was a striking in.
I stance of this. It was during his late visit
to the Pavilion at Brighton that Rosstrit
maintained, perhaps, more peculiarly that
tone which is inseparable from good society,
and which denotes perfect equality with
the circle in which we are moving. Some
officious friends (of the composer we mean)
were so struck with his manner, as to advise
him, at least in the presence of Royalty, to de-
scend from an elevation which in that instance

appeared to them to border on indecorum.•—•
ROSSINI is said to have answered this sapien
counsel by remarking, that whatever his rea

pretensions were, he had been invited to Eng-
land in the character of a man of genius, as
he had been to half the Courts in Europe, and
that he held that character to be on a par with
Kings and Emperors. His intercourse, too, with
Royalty had been so frequent, that it was in
such society he felt, and could not help showing
that he was perfectly at his ease. The KING,
greatly to his credit, appears to have entertained
none of these notions, but to have treated the
composer with the freedom of an equal. Hos-
suvi, at the KING'S challenge, sang a duet with
him, and the whole of the intercourse was on the

same familiar footing. ROSSINI speaks highly of
his MAJESTY'S judgment in music ; and is, we
believe, even on this point no courtier.—(Tunes.)
REMARKABLE CIRCUMSTANCE.—Ott the ship
Alexander, Baldwin, going into the graving dock
during the present week, it was discovered that a
large kedge anchor, weighing between 5 and 6 cwt.
hung suspended from the bottom part of the ship.
It appears the vessel grounded in the Delaware on
her last voyage to Philadelphia, when the anchor
must have stuck through her timbers, and so re-
mained firmly fixed during her passage across the
Atlantic. had it given way, the consequences,
might have been fatal to the ship. The anchor,
from its appearance, is supposed to have been in
the water about throe years.--(Livcrpool Ad-
veztizer.)

We stated on Saturday last, that there would be
a meeting in the evening of that day for the pur-
' pose of making arrangements for a public dinner
in honour of the late CHARLES DIRDIN, who, as
a lyric Poet, and musical Composer, has done
honour to his country. The meeting on Satur-
day, which took place at Free Masons' Hall,
chiefly consisted of a few Gentlemen who are to
act as Stewards on the occasion. Dr.
liiTcrl-
ENER, who was the particular friend of Mr.
DISDIN, who is now preparing an account of
his life, and publishing his Songs, was called
to the chair at eight o'clock. Several let-
ters wore read from many distinguished cha-
racters, who highly approve of the object in view,
and who are likely to promote it by a liberal
contribution, apologizing for unavoidable absence.
The following Report from the Committee of
Management was then read, and received with
approbation, viz.:—
" That the Committee had received the strongest assurances
of support from persons of all classes, and that all those to
whom they had applied had evinced the greatest anxiety to
promote the object which had given rise to their appointment.
" That, among those who had been foremost in testifying
their zeal, the Committee could not avoid mentioning the
names of Messrs. Elliston, Kemble, Young, Kean, Braham,
Hawes, Broadhurst, Bellamy, and upwards of twenty other
leading professional gentlemen, who had most kindly signified
their desire to promote the measure contemplated, in any way
that could be pointed out, and who, with the Noblemen and
Gentlemen who had undertaken the office, comprised a list of
near fifty stewards for the public dinner.
" That the Committee had the additional satisfaction to com-
municate, that an artist of first-rate talent had, in an early
part of the proceedings, with a laudable desire to benefit the
undertaking, invited the Committee to view specimens of his
ability, and eventually undertaken to complete a monument,
from an approved design, upon terms which they had no hesi-
tation in saying would constitute him the most liberal of all the
contributors, and that a model, upon a small scale, had been
already completed under the direction of the Committee.
" That in requesting the meeting to undertake the task of
making arrangements for a public dinner, the Committee could
not omit to state, that there wasi now a moral certainty that,
however late it may have been protracted, justice would at
length be done to the memory of a man, whose songs, breath-
ing morality and religion in every strain, were so many irre-
sistible appeals to the heart, inspiring even the most illiterate
with noble and generous sentiments, and exciting them to those
acts of loyalty, bravery, and patriotism, which, in the most ar-
duous of her struggles, maintained and confirmed the honour
and glory of the British Empire."
Among the Patrons of the Design, who were
prevented from attending this meeting, were--
The Earl of Harcourt, Lord Thurlow, General Hutton, Sir
P. C. Silvester, Bart Sir F. M. Ommanney, Admiral Sir

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