The Sun.
London, England, 1821-01-13 00:00:00

MR. ASHE'S FIFTH CONCERT.

Wednesday evening's amusement commenced
with a grand Siufonia of HAyDN's ; the Perfor-
mers wishing to second the spirit of their leader,
Mr. LODER,' exerted themselves with success,
and it certainly was given with great effect.
Next followed a beautiful glee of Bisnop's, "The
huge globe has enough to do ;" we hardly need
add, that in the hands of GARRETT, A. _FADER and
RoLLE, that it was received with pleasure. In
succtssion came Mr. VINER'S production, ' a
scientific composition, the -Words by our young
friend, Mr. J. HARIiER, which Mr. LEON! LEE
did ample justice to, Immediately after followed.
the duet, " Se vedet una ragazza," by Mrs.
ASHE and Miss H. ASHE—it was admirably sang
and warmly applauded. Mr. RonnE's son.- Of
Handel, " Pour forth -no more," displayed' his
beautiful mellow bass -Voice to advantage, and
we are happy to witness the great improvement
he has recently made by application and
study—soon he will reach the climax of per-
fection ! Miss Woon is certainly a most ad-
mirable singer; in a Scena of Singarilli's." SOl7l-•
mo del the it cur mi vedi," she gave the genuine
expression and beauty of the composer, The
attention of the audience was now particularly di-
rected to the Orchestra, to witness the entrance
of Master SMITH(a wonderful musical phenomenon
from the Nobility's concerts, London;) this charm-
ing little boy, only eight years old ! gave a song
by Davy, " been an orphan poor," " Cease
your funning," and joined in a duet with Miss
AsuE, " MY pretty Page," in all of which
he electrified a brilliant assemblage of beauty,
fashion, and musical amateurs, whose won-
der and delight-being too great for restraint—
encore and bravo ! were ushered from all parts of
the room ; his voice is extensive, powerful, anl
sweet, and we hail with pleasure the eV4ning that
again gives us the skill of age and study issuing
from the mouth of a child ! MrS. AsHF. never hr.-
parted more delight in her life ; Handel's divine
aria, " Dove sci amato belie," produced sensations
the most gratifying. The duet, by the same com-
poser, " The Lord is a Man of IVar," was finely
given by ROLLE and L. LEE. Mr. J. 13.131tAmEn,
on the piano-forte—what shall we say of this great
masterl—words cannot convey many excellen-
cies—he stands unrivalled, if true taste, en-
lightened and
,comprehensive study, elegance of
touch—and the most delightful composition form
a theme for judgment and eulogium—every move-
ment of his fingers speaks majestic charms—it.
was indeed " Cramer's" performance !! !—(Thah.
Herald, Jan. 1'2.)

IMPERATIVE STATUTE.— Mr. GERRARD, a
builder, appeared at Marlborough-street Odic?,
yesterday, befoi eH. DYER, Esq. the Sitting
Magistrate, in obedience to a summons exhibited
against him by some firemen, upon his refusal to
pay the usual reward (allowed by Act of Parlia-
ment,) attached to .a chimney being discovered.
to be on fire. The watchman of the beat proved,
that he found a stench of smoke, and discovered
Mr. Gerrard's chimney to be on fire, in conse-
quence of which he made an alarm, and soon
after engines arrived on the spot ;.the inmates re-
fused him admission into the house. lie•po.3l-
- swore to there being a fire. The firemen,
on examination of the chimney, did not discover
any fire ; but there had apparently been one in,
the chimney. The Worthy Magistrate wished
it to be perfectly understood, that it wasno mat-
ter whether flames or spark% were seen in a case
of the above nature, one or the other came within
the meaning of the Act ; for instance, if a servant
was merely to lay some wood in the grate and
set fire to it, and the sparks issuing from that
were to be seen coming from the chimney, so
that it was proved, it would be imperative to de-
cide in favour of the plaintiff. Mr. Gerrard ac-
quiesced in the decision of the Magistrate.—
(Morning Paper.)

REMARKABLE PRESER VATION.--MARTHA PREE•
D au old woman about 73 years of age, a resi-
dent in Worcester, and who has for some time
past been afflicted with mental derangement and
loss of speech, left her home on Christmas-day
last, taking with her a quantity of wearing appa-
rel, &c. Every inquiry and search were imme-
diately made in the neighbourhood, by her hus-
band and friends, for the discovery of her person,
but without effect ; and it was not till the fol-
lowing Thursday that any information was ob-
tained respecting her. Early on Tuesday morn-
ing she was discovered standing in a mill-pond,
near Ledbury, in a state of insensibility from the
intensity of the weather; from this deplorable
situation she was promptly removed by several
humane persons, and by whose kind exErtions
and benevolent attentions she has been restored.
to her family.

CAUTION TO SKAITERS.-On Sunday after-
noon, as Mr. Joseph Gunnery Griffith, ne-
phew of Mr. Gunnery, solicitor, was amus-
ing himself on a pit, which, having a spring,
left the water scarcely frozen over in the
middle, he fell in. Every assistance was imme-
diately rendered ; and Mr. Knowles, nephew of
Mr. Knowles, John-street, plunged through the
broken ice, and brought the unfortunate boy to
the land ; but too late, the intense cold hav-
ing taken away the vital spark. It is a
remarkable and melancholy fact, that the Cor •
over for the adjoining townships had not less
than eight imjuests to attend yesterday ; .and
that within three days not not less than.
17 individuals have met a premature death, by
incautiously venturing upon the ice, which,
it would appear, is at the present season in a very,
insecure state. To the above melancholy list,
with regret we have to add the name of our re-
spected young townsman, Mr. W. Kearsley.--:
(Liverpool Alerc4l.ll.)

A publicab residing in the put-part of Walcot,
was lattly fided by the Magistrates in the miti
gated penalty of 111. 6d. for the suffering tippling
in his house during Divine Service on the Lorcl's
Day.

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

[DAILY EXTRACTS VROM PAPERSI

11,errild.1

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The Declaration of tlie.Sovercips assembled at Troppau
was received yesterdaxfi-unt Troppan, and will be fucuit in
another column. We stated"a•few dap since, that this de-
nunciatiuu was nut confined tol'sraples, but. also comprised,
iu express terms, Spain and Portugal. This we Ami is the
fact. The very first seotei:ce passes sentence of counter-

rerohttion upon the existing order of things in Spain, Porte

gal, and Itiapies. This diitunietit is very short, but conta:ns
ntori.false-reasonnig, false ,prineipte, ithd-erett false asser-
tion, tpan any that reeoiket to have ever t'esn. It is as

outrageous violence upon the common sense anti common

rights of st4tilins as any, the iticAt extravagant, atlL:ress to the
" human tact," by the " tigtuati race';" sui-desalif Steve-

tary, Andcharsis Clouts,

[The Pabl.ir Ledger.?
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folloling is an extract of a letter-.from Barttloi!ii„
dated. the 30th Yesterrlay morning came into tbiV
• port, a Spanish Captain and his crew, in their boat, having
niadr their escape from an insurArtit- pi irateer, or a pirate,
who attacked them the night before Or Sitge, a small port
about eight 'icagncs to the westward of iiarcelona ; the said
privateer hail a Spanish jaheyre in tow, and it-Es reliortett.
that a Yreorh rissrl taad been robbed of ntercinunt:ze•of con-
siAtirable value. She is a brigantine srliiioner, lint no parti-
•eriars cit her force are its yet Iciiiate,-.5 last ingot she had t lir au-
dacitc court in front ut this.port. There being no Sp ,ttailt
vessel Lit war at west:lit here, the anth,rities. ti ritinar-
goeXthe best vessel in port, and are arming her with all pus-
attDle dispat LA.7

• [The Times:]
We noticed yesterday ,siih pleasure, thong?, with surpris'e,
a ept I,fl of merchants, bankers, and traders., teth'Cttog
'On the conduct of the King's Ministers in regard both to the
,t•ountryand But it seems that tier were tui,
p.tas,•;t--chat we ;in.; as indeed we hare WWI susiiecti-d oar-
selves of being, tut, calm and moderate for the times in' whitth
'we live. The above- mentioned declaration is, we understand,
'cotticiered by the great tortinteicial atistneracy of London a 4
not by any means so clear, so strong, or so specific ni its ten
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sures ut thetAdminist atom as the merits of the case would
justify, ant vs necessity trittire. There is, according to
-at-it-ant henticated tumour, it design on the part of a Puwer-
Oody of tile roust respectable and independent ,over,
Clutt,ts, bankers, of London, to call a public meeting,
and to exprei, their sentiments oh the dangers which now
i/npend over the country. In deliberating on thin im;-
subje‘t, the existing evils most present- thetn,rkes
nro!er three pulls of view—their origin, their, extent, and
the means of their mitigation or removal. Front such an
arrangement of the tattier to he discussed it is utterly um-
wixsitscetvexclude the conduct of the King's Ministers, or
V,etr pretensions to remain Ministers, unless we air disposed
to out from our contemplation both the cause of the
n‘alarly and its cure. We take for granted the Gentlemen
feho attended • Sir Robert Wigram's meeting, on 'Thugs lay,
wilt be likewise present at that Which we no r anticipate, I lmt
T!, ey rosy follow up and rnake 1;ood their c large against the
ittsturbers of our .domestic peace," at a time when wo
Pare •• no foreign enemy." It is plain, to be sure, who these
stilturhers have been; tor their: is but one small Wily of Olen
in the nr.:ion,who (let others, martiiest what disposition they '
t;ii,.) hare command enough over the means and engines of
commotion, to pi odoce that frightful tempest which now
agitates the country trusn- end tv cud.

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[Morning Chronicle.] •
The Declaration of the persons who assembled secretly at a
'tavern, and called themselVei " the Merchants, Bankers,
and Traders of London," certainly contains soruC, few mimes
ot great respect: hut there is an arrogance in a click assum-
ing to itself the name of the Merchants of London, which
makes t!,eir effort to ereen Ministers from public censure,
un,,,i;.hy of ail -uttern,on• The ari:tice was yesterday con-
demn, d by the most respectalde, and lead.ni.; charaeters of
the City; and we hare authority to say, that it is determined
to give the independent Mrrehants, rankers, and Traders,
•Tpi,rtunity cprv,ving their scioirnents on the present
state of atrArs, in the wily way in which such an expression
cam hivi: 'a jest it,fIUCIICe Oil his Majesty's mind, alld on the
.et4lintry—namely, at a public Meeting, duly called for .the
uurpose.

[Naming l'ost.j
We are not ninth eisposed to turn grave sobjects into ridi-
citie,.particularly in times Witt the present. But it is
.next to
hapossible to refrain ft-0 ill laughing at the courtship nosy
gong-. on, between the tVhigs and the Radicals Disappoint
ed, ne least for the moruerii, to their views of office, the fotmer
;see coquetting' with the disaffected, and the latter, surprised
at; the•-urrexpeeted familiarity, imagine that the Whigs
are serious in their ndeatices. However, tins unnatural
harmony will not List lune. The aristocratic part of the
connection have 'to lea; n that they hate fortunes to lose, as
aull as resentments to gratify; aild the thorough-paced
reformers are of too hard a stuff to he gamed by haft ap-
koaelies. In the mean lime, it is hardly possible, in the wide
range Ot caricature, to imagine a more grotesque association
Allan that between a proud, splenetic, and discontented Aris-
tocrat, and a sturdy,. determined, and entinitig leveller.
firfgarib, in bis finest bunionr,•coulti not hate drawn such a
'group as the political whirl of our time has frequently
jumbled together. When we see so grave and proud a person -
aee as Itail Grey, full of high pretemeons, stooping to the arts
that gNitl. Upon a radical meeting, we thrust asiee for a MO.'
ji,c,,t the danger of the exiithvie to witness the bard struggle
between dignity and condescension. However, the ridiculous
pit'rt of the scene is soon sunk in ri,fiections tot its mischievous
tetirlency ; and. we, cannot but feel man anxiety for the for-
tunes of the State, at seeing the rage of faction and the taint
of an unpricu;plett timintieat affecting a min Of his weight
r the country, We may attach ti.o much importance
atxt, attribute too much danger to the conduct we have
desceilied. We wish it were ; but with every just
aliLwance for party violence and bitanto frailty, we cannot
divest ourselves of an impression, that the 'Whigs have them-
selves destroyed the last shred of 'confidence it; their wisdom
and consistency. Their conduct fur some months past
(0c:113511s' fur a tniiels longer period) has been the meats
of • soliing a political problem of the first importance—
whether, in the 'event of the party, who have so long
aeuktiistere the alirits of the Country, wishing to re •
s4n, another count be' Woad with the requisite skill
and prudence to sneered them. This question would be,
at any peeled, an 'interesting one; but, at the present, when
the vet y existebce of the Goveitiment and Conslitution is
menaced, it presses itself with great force on every reliectihg
aniLj~attiut c, urinate It ifert subject of trielanchuly nottniely
that iht•re is a fattion in the country who entertain the most
dlseligettizing views, and
.ivito would nut be satisfied with less
than the entire overliii ow of the State, and the ifii•ititt of its
wegirb,"lreintlurs, and pots et, amongst (hemsebes. The) are,
at the same lime, it pro,elyte-o;al.ing sect; and their suc-
cess has heeti unhappily eutioncnsurate with their zeal.
h t (it ;illy destitute. of the faients which are necessary to
the t peace, and lumpiness tit anoint)'; they -11;4e others tar
nior l:ougenial-to.their view'-, pat Ocular lry the peroicious tutu C
of worhior ilic.fceEngs of the umitituele to their detestable
purposes. They ate at last become as illid.it2lollS in their
hopes, as they are-confident ef a heir strength ; anti to subdue
them titiuld require niuic than the trickery of partyliolitics.

. . [New Times.]
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We hare always expiessed our taro< t hope and confident
ex:leciation, that the revolutionary trioviquentt s have
in• the hOigthoul O.:Naples, would he counter-
acted v.:tiles by the coons:: 'than by the arms of the Allied
Sot trei4ris. A State Paper ut the 114;liesi importance, in
this itunit of !view, oppr ars in the Perittan Journals whichai '
d )rsterddy : it is thelleclatatiun tot the Allies, (Jill-
cially.communicated to the Senate .of Hamburg!, by the Aus-
tt ian itesident Minister, Baron flatlet. 'this sotersn clout
uiesit, we trust, will ieatiquiliise the minds of those who may
have entertained any ai,Prelittision that ,the conferences at
Trofpitti•were itift.cted•etthrr tm virAs of casigurst; or to any.
liaftCs iptellerFUCC just:riglits• of tlie
the pt esent State Taper the illlird •Stivervigns
formally dtsclaiiifall views UrclUtiquest, anti rxpEieilly declare
list ins viefuntary anie.tiorailor'st in the Goeminent ut Stiples
%111 lie impeded., in .short, it
.I!iisplts! be "willing to litcotne
an 113t1CH:IldiA:t or of the great Connitiillwealth tit t&
lions. promoting her own gout by !mail* that thi ;Cut in-
j.re air public. welfase of all, she is at full liberty to be so;
Ito' Allies iesp.ret and cherish !licv sunk, and h'er rights
snit interests 11: remain under, the safeguard of:the
,entire,
tilt deraeyi' hilt it' that i'efofut lunar), spirit whicir Sit long
convulsed
_49llol4si,glialeut-fiii 'whoS,e'busbiu sprung
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