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LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 5, 1828.

We are unwilling to affix the most appropriate
eignation to the conduct of men, who fearlessly
lintlertake the highest offices of the State, not
01,6
J with a perfect conviction of their own inca-
-I)4eitY, but of the superior qualifications of those
whose places they occupy.

It
Is not, however, to be questioned that there
are Precedents for this species of presumption.
There is, at least, one anecdote, familiar to our
te4cilers, of an individual who on being requested
t° Play the fiddle, accompanied his declaration
°being perfectly ready to try, with the appalling
aluttinciation that it would be a first attempt. The
question w3s not then raised as to his general
Merits, or his proficiency in other sciences ; but
the fact of his having never played before on
that particular instrument, decided the company
°u declining the proffered honour.

But we will endeavour to draw a nearer pa-
r4lel to the case of our present Administration.
`ye will suppose that not many months ago
it
•:as the wish of his Iy.LAJEsTY to give a bril-
}i4lt concert to the distinguished members of his
court, but that from some schism in the musical
.I''''ll4.(one party objecting. to play the music of
44Y Catholic composer), there existed a difficulty
I''
concentrating all its talent, each party being
to occasion a triumph to its rivals by
'''Neitting to resign the lead.
We will farther suppose that with, a view of
Meeting the difficulty, his MAJESTY looked
446ut for some amateur performer, who should
be in other respects an eminent personage, and hit
115°n Sir TLTOMAS LAWRENCE;—when after ex-
l'l4ining to him the case, and the jealousy which
tlihted, his MAJESTY requested the President of
the Royal Academy to take a nominal lead at
the Concert ; as his musical talents could ex-
'ite no jealousy, and his reputation otherwise
would remove all objection to acting under
n. A very natural answer for Sir THOMAS
LAWRENCE would be, that it might seem
148atity in him to occupy such a position,
hlB musical performance having been perhaps
eNfined- to playing « God save the King,"
01i the German flute, and that having risen to
the head of one profession, he was unwilling to
• ti§khis fame by embarking in one perfectly new*.
On these natural objections having yielded,
19w.ever, to a paramount sense of respect and
4411 V towards his Sovereign, we will imagine
le T. LAWRENCE discharging the part of a
4.(ler, with considerable applause, his want of
.Perience being concealed by the science of these
Thom he had selected. But can any one conceive
t aberration of mind, which could induce that
tt'inent individual to suppose that three months'
practice, and his, having added several tunes to
t 3 original stock, really qualified him for the
4lt4ation which he held ; and that on the strength
;t1 this delusion, he should set about expelling
°lll his band MOSCHF,ELES, and LINDLEy, and
GAMER, and SpAGNOLETTI, and supplying
t4tir places, with Drum-majors from the barracks
It hlnightsbridge,Or with some brother artists, such
Sir W. BEECHY and Mr. PICKERSGILL.
e.ollld he really expect that the second,
third, and fourth-rate performers would for
length of time give satisfaction to the
4q4,
G and to his subjects, though attempt-
t to play the same tunes which they had
practised under the masters who had been re-
!l•s)ved ? Each of those could charm the audience.
14 4 solo, but the Drum-major, or the leader
) _4llself,. would make a sorry hand of it. The

heral din of the whole orchestra can alone
c'hecal the want of science in its component
kits.

buke of NVELLt);(47oN's speech of May 2d, 1827.
1)' en. man believe that I would give up such a
ktiNtilication, in order to k appointed to a station, to the
4,tiett of which I was unaccustonhd, in which I was not
4''.:lled, and for which I teas not qualified ; as it must be
1-441 a to your Lordship, that not being in the habit of
,art
sing your Lordships, I should hove been found, be•
tie" other (I's( nalifications incapable of displaying! a',
t;tli ought to be displiyed, or of defending the meav-'-res of
‘l,:ierntnent as they ought to be defended in this House by
11 Person thus honoured by his Majesty's cunfidoice?-
1Y Lords, I should have been worse than mad, if I had
stight of such a thing."

6 We have received this morning the Nurenz-
:''g Correspondent of the 28th May, which
43'' that no additional information has been re-
from the seat of ‘var, confirmatory of the
34
battle. A letter from Corfu gives an at:-
4,4'4 of an affair with a Russian frigate, which
It'ires confirmation t

N sunEmnu
ac,MAY 2
,7.
110::Iter accounts from the theatre of \car in the East
e"e<4 received here. Augeburgh Pa;sers contain, how-
-11„ -'
the following intelligence, respecting the truth or false-
Which we do not pretend to decide.
Wi"tters from Corti', cf. May 13, announce as official, but
te%ilrit Riving the date, the following statement :—That a
t'an frigate had put into a port near Smyrna, to make