The Sun.
London, England, 1826-02-15 00:00:00

INCLEDON.

BILLIAMIN Cli N, the former of
irtlLte SOLED°
which nausea he disliked and seldom used, was a native of Fit_
Keveran, in Cornwall, and descended from a respectable family
In the West of England. At an early age he was placed in the
choir of Exeter Cathedral, and atuditd music under Jackson,
the celebrated Composer, which situation he quitted and entered
out board the Formidable man of war, of Oil guns, under the
command of Captain, once Rear. Admiral Cleland. On the
%Vest India station he changed his ship, and served on board
the Rationnebk, of 61 guns, then commanded by Lord Harvey,
where his vocal powers and sprightliness of character endeared
him to the officers and men. In this ship he attracted the no.
time of Admiral l'igot, Commander of the Fleet, who frequently
sent for lneledon, and sang catches and glees with him and
Admiral Hughes. H. returned to England in 1783, when
Admiral Pigot, Lord Mulgrave, and Lon' Harvey, gave him
letters of recommendation to Mi. Sheridan and the late SI r.Col-
man. His first appearance on the stage, was at Southampton, in
Alphonse), in the Calle of Andalusia, in 1784. In the nest
year he first appeared at Math as Jlclville, in florins, on the
same night that Miss Brunton! aftewarda Mrs. Merry, made
her first dramatic malt in The Grecian Daughter, and his
subsequent career as a singer at Vauxhall and at Covent-gar.
den Theatre, is too well known to need relation. • He was for
many years in the receipt of a large weekly salary throughout
the season, with an overflowing benefit in town, and had the
most profitable provincial engagements during the recess, but
could not contrive, as most of his immediate contemporaries
have done, to retire from the stage in the decline of hie with
an honourable competency. A well-known rhyming theatrical
critic has thus described. his singing ;
Ilia voice is a tenor—a richer was ne'er
Intermingled with sound, or the vagabond air ;
'Tis a wedding where melody couples with ease,
It is echo's boa bouche, when she babbles to please.
Incledon was an amusing, if not ises inetructive, companion,
and his mods of arguing and drawing con.
cl ii usitn c°rivellis
nswasof t"
aimost eccentric and singular nature. He
married ' two wives from Bath, by the first of whom he
has left children. He was of a benevolent disposition, and on
hie own vocal abilities set the highest value, and could not.
when turned of sixty, be brought to admit that they were so
Unpaired by time as to preclude him holding a prominent situa-
tionat a London theatre, and condemned the caprice of a pub-
lic to whom he was under the deepest obligations.
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MURDER OW MR. BIRD AT a R trNwtcH.---We
have already noticed the arrival of the n 1 tar frigate at Graves-
end, having on board a man who, while serving on board a
ship of war in the East Indies, confessed himself to have
been concerned in the atrocious murder of Mr. Bird and his
housekeeper some few years back, at Greenwich. The Tartar
reached Woolwich on Saturday, and intelligence having
been dispatched to the Admiralty, Mr. Bicknell, the Solicitor
to the Magistrates of Greenwich, yesterday went on board the
Tartar, and had an interview with the prisoner, who is heavily
ironed. He stated his name to be Lovett, and to have formerly
lived at Deptford; where be became acquainted with Husse.it
who, it will be recollected, was executed for the merrier. lie
then entered into a detail of the circumstance' attending the
horrible affair, and mid, that, in addition to Hussey, he was
accompanied by two other men,
whose
names It may at present
be prudent to conceal. In describing the mime/ in which
Mr. Bird had been killed, however, his story was at variance
with the evidence .given on the trial of Hussey, and with
the facts ascertained by the officers ; for he represented
that Mr. Bird was murdered as he was sitting reading at his
bed-side, whereas, in point of fact, the foul deed was perpe-
trated in the parlour, before Mr. itird hail supped. Ile also
spoke of having gone with fitissey,add his other associates into
the park after the crime, to divide the spoil, whereas, it is
known, that every thing which was actually niissed from the
house, was traced to the possession of Hussey. Under all the
circumstances, it is suspected that this fellow, like others wdo
have had recourse to similar tricks, lute adopted this singular
mode of getting himself sent home from a foreign station. Mr.
Bicknell returned to the Magistrates at Greenwich, in the
course of the afternoon, and buying made his report, it was de.
termineti that the case should undergo a more minute limed.
prion on shore, for which purpose the officers who were em-
ployed in the pp rebels' ion of Hussey, have received directions
to be in attendance.

RETURN MK. KERN.---In consequence of
the illiberal treatment this celebrated Actor has
met with in some parts of the United States of
America, a Committee of Gentlemen is now
forming, to take into consideration measures for
recalling him to the British Stage. Among the
names already entered are several distinguished
members of the theatrical profession.

NEWCASTLE dr CARLISLE RAIL-ROAD.

V.

We have a letter per post this morning front
our intelligent Correspondent at Newcastle-upon-
Tyne, which' states that at a general and very
numerous Meeting of the Directors of the New-
castle and Carlisle Itail-road Company, it was
unanimously resolved to defer the applicatiOn to
Parliament for a bill authorizing them to:com-
mence operations till the next eihuing Se4Vino.
This delay—now that the subscription lists have
been long filled up, and the plans and sectie,ts
are understood to be Its it state or readiness
our Correspondent ascribes ton high degree
of discretion on the part of the Directors,
who, in all probability, judge it inexpe-
diem to bring' before the Legislature so
ptirtant *
public 111HiStire VI hen the attention
of Parliament must necessarily be directed dur.
ing the peestutt short session (for. to this extent
ft is measured, in high places,) to a variety of the
most interesting subjects—some of them, as the
currency question, country hanks, &c. most oh.
viously of paramount eonsidetation at the pre.
sent portentous crisis. Ultimately we should re,
gard (his delay as serviceable to the grand.
scheme for improving the intercourse between
the eastern and western sides of the ,land in the
north, becata, we think it extremely probable
that the trifling opposition whieb is now shevriitz
to the measure will die away before the nest
meeting of Parliament.