The Sun.
London, England, 1821-11-02 00:00:00

LITERARY NO'T'ICE.

IRISH MELODIES; f)y THOMAS MoOn.E; Esq.

It has been observed, that, notwithstanding
this seems to be peculiarly the age of.Lit6-
rature, its chief .Patrons.are to be found among
Booksellers. The obserVatimr is well founded.
Most of the works`whiai have excited the. admi-
ration of the country have been bought .by Pub-
lishers, who have paid sums for the copy-right, of
almost incredible magnitude. This fact must
be. highly, gratifying to the friends of Litera-
ture, because it spews that those •Patrons are en-
couraged by S4CCeSS to a perseverance ill
their adVenturgs. liberality; The author f
the work before us, according to report., ha
received 'large prices for all his, works, hut par-
treAtrly for his tzliktNrokction,
and the universal admiration which it excited
has no doubt abundantly requited the ProprietOrs.
Among those liberal Patrons of genius May justly
be ranked the Publisher-of these AhLODTES, who,
in addition to a considerable sum paid, to .the
Author of the Poetry, must, at a very great ex-
pence, have brought forward the Music. Be-
sides these expellees, we learn that he has been
involved in heavy and perplexing law-suits
against those who have fraudulently usurped
his right. It has long been wished that the
poetry should be published separately from the
music, in order to gratify those Readers who
are not gifted with musical as well as poetical taste.
This object is accomplished in the present ele-
gant little volume, which is adorned with appro-
priate and beautiful vignettes. It is impossible
to read this work without wonder, as well as
pleasure, at the skill, taste, and spirit with which
the Author has adapted his Poetry to the.variouS
measures of the original Melodies, whether lively,
mournful, gallant, tender, or patriotic. The
genuine spirit of Poetry breathes through the
whole, and while the work is animated by a gay
philosophy,. it abounds with sound reflections,
and manifests feelings that do honour to the
heart of the Author, as well as to his genius.

CORONATION CLAIMS.--A serious difficulty has
occurred in the removal of the fittings in West-
minster Hall and the Abbey ; in the former place
every thing remains in stall' quo till the Court of
Claims shall decide to whom they may belong.
Lord GWYDER, as Lord Great 'Chamberlain,'
claims the fittings in the Hall ; and Colonel STE-
VENSON, the Principal of the Board. of Works,
has put in a claim on the part of the public, fQr
whose benefit he contends the materials ought to
be sold.—ln the Abbey the very Rev. the Dean
took upon himself to direct the removal of the
fittings from the choir. Colonel STEVENSON then
requested they might not be removed fromjhe
nave of the Abbey ; the Dean, however, con
sidered them the property OfAtirnself. and the
Chapter, and accordingly sold them ; but; in
consequence of a notice from the Solicitor to the
Board of Works, the purchase money has been
paid into DaummoNns, there to await the de-
cision of the Court of Claims. Within these few
days a new difficulty has been started, the keys
of the principal entrance of the Hall are In the
possession of the Lord Great Chamberlain, who
is at present in France (and• has been written to
on the subject ;) should he refuse to resign them
till his claim is decided, the LORD MA voa, on
the ensuing 9th of November, will have to make
his way to the Hall by a circuitous and bye way.

A Meeting of the Commissioners for making
the river Iver navigable from Tempsford to the
towns of Hitchin, Baldock, and Shefford, took
place on Friday last, at Baldock, when, after
its being stopped at Biggleswade for GO years
and upwards, it was resolved, on the motion of
Asm.r., Esq. to carry on the same to the
Junction of the three Rivers at Langford,-by a
majority of one, the number being 17 for, .and
16 against, the very purpose of their appoint-
ment, though it will be a great public advan-
tage when finished to any one town, and be the
means of employing a great number. of men, now
out of work, to the great relief of the farmers
and others who have to pay the Poor Itates.—
The good people of Biggleswade, however, are
mightily alarmed that what has enriched them
will ruin the next place it goes, through, and in
the spirit of Christian charity, set themselves
against the undertaking.
At a fifth Anniversary of the 'Gloucestershire
Auxiliary Society, which was held at Gloucester,
Mr. CAMPBELL related the following anecdote:—
" At a city which he reached beyond Lattakoo,
the inhabitantS, on complaining that their harvest
that year had been very defective,. urged Mr. C.
to request his men to shoot a rhinoceros for them.
His Hottentots according went in pursuit of one,
and were directed to an animal which, in the
Scriptures, is called the" unicorn. It was long
thought that the rhinoceros NVS the animal there
described, but the head of the one shot being
brought to Mr. C., he immediately pereeived it
to be the unicorn of the Scriptures. He had de-
posited the horn in a museum of the London
Mi siOnary Society ; and in the opinion of, scien-
tific men; it- is Pronounced to he that of the uni,
corn so long-sought after."—(lnverness Journal.)
On Tuesday last, during‘Ta:heavy rain, Mr.
RANDALL, of the Shipwright's Arms, Brompton,
examining' an obstruction to' tare passage of the
water from' the roof of. his house, fell backwards
from the height of about seven feet, and his head
striking against the sitikiof a doorway,he was. so
zziucli injured as to survive the acCident, only 'a
few hotirs.--7-(RochMtit' Gazette.)