Star.
London, England, 1825-11-30 00:00:00

KELLY'S. RENTINISCENCLIS.

At Yiples the profession of a nun is a most magn:.fi.:
cent and impress ve sight : if the Lady be tf a noble
and rich family the luxury ,fispliyed on the occa-
sion is excessive; she is covered with diamond=, all of
which, if she does not posiess them herself, are borrowed
or hired for the occasion. The young and be•ut fol
daughter of the Duke de Monteleone, tl e richest N..-
, bleman in Naples, was destined by her family to take
the Ted : she consented without a mut mur to quit the
world, provided the ceremony of het profession was rer
formed wilt splendour, and a sine qua non was, that
Cafferelli, the great soprano. singer, should rerform at
it. It was represented to her th tt he had retired with
a fine fortune to his estate in the interior of Calatoia.'
and had declared his determination per/et- to sing again.
" Then," said the reasonatle young Lady, " / declare
my determination never to takt the veil unless he does.
He sang six years ago, when my cousin was professed,
and I had rather die than it should he said that she had
the first sineer in the world to sing for her, and that
had not." The fair Lady was firm, and her glorious
obstinacy was such, that her father was obliged to take
a journey into Calabria, when, v WI much intreaty, and
the e ffer of an immense sum of money, he prevailed on
fferelli to return with him to Naples. He sang a
salve regina at the ceremony, and the Signora having
gained her point, cheerfully submitted to be led like a
lamb to sacrifice, to eternal seclusion from the world.

Mr. Kelly being at Calais, met a Captain Barnes,
who was flying the country, having been second to the
notorions Dick England in his duel, for which the
Judge in his charge to the Jury endeavoured to procure
a verdict of wilful murder. It is known that Dick
England had also fled to Holland, and returned to
take his trial, having in the interim, done some service
to the Duke of York at the Helder. Bat the secon I,
Captain Dunes, was an Irishman, wi h a strong verna-
cular twang, a powerful man, and remarkably tall; he
had a male servant not.quite nine years old, and very
short. for his age. He was dressed c:p d: pie like a
jockey. Nothing could be more diverting than to see
the huge master and the diminutive servant going along
the beach to the b ,at. The master took long Bobadil-
like strides, and Tom seas ordered to walk behind him.
Every two minutes, the oldster would stop and cry out
" Tom, are you after me?" Tom answered, 44 Yes,
Captain." The Captain turning to me and vociferating
44 By the riper of Leinster, Sir, he is the finest man-
servant in Europe;" went on a few steps further, then
repeated, "Tom, are you after me ?'' " Yes, Sir,"—
" He is the first rifer and shaver on the face of the
known universal world." In short, the Captain thought
that his valet was the first of all valets. It was such a
truly laughable scene, that when I returned frum France
and Jack Bannister of it, it tickled his fancy so
much, that many and many an evening, to please Lord
Derby and Miss Farrel), &c. &c. in the green-room,
did we enact it. Bannister on his knees, representing
Goliah, and myself his master. Bannister, with a great
vein of comic humour, made the dialogue truly amus-
ing, as, indeed, he did every imitation which he gave.
I and Storace, accompanied by a young 'Gentleman,
went to Drury-lane, to see Richard (,'tear de Lion. Just
as we entered the boxes, -Richard was singing the ro-
mance fr• m his prison, most loudly accompanied, from
behind the scenes, by two French horns. I was as.
tonished to hear an accompaniment so completely at
variance with the intention of the composer, and which
entirely spoiled the effect of the n:elody ; nor did I
think much of the vocal powers of the royal captive;
and turning to Storace, said, "If his Majesty is the first
and best singi.r in your theatre, I shall not fear to ap-
pear as his competitor for public favour." Storace
laughed, and told me, that the Gentleman who upon that
special occasion was singing, was Mr. John Kemble, the
'celebrated tragedian, who, to serve the proprietors, had
undertaken to perform the part of Richard, as there was
no singer at the t 1 eatre capable of repre,enting it. Kern.
ble laughed heartily when he was cold that I bad mis-
taken him for the Drury-lane Orpheus. I heard that
when Kemble was rehearsing the romance sung by
Richard, Shaw, the leader of ti.e band, called out from
the orchestra, Mr. Kemble, my dear Mr. Kemble, you
are murder ing titre." Kemble, calmly and coolly taking
a pinch of snuff, said, "My dear Sir, it is better for me
to murder time at once than w be continually beating
him as you do." _ _ _

observation Mr. Sheridan once made to me about
Coirgreve's plays, I venture to repeat, it has so much
genuine wit about it: he complained to me that Love
Jim- Love had been :o much altered and modified for
the more de.icate ears of modern audiences, that it was
quite spoiled. " His plays," said the wit, "are, I own,
somewhat ltcentious, hut it is barbarous to mangle them;
they are like horses, when you deprive them of their
vice, they lose their vigour."

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

A drover was brought before the LORD Above, charged by the
new. Mr. Brougham, one of the Members of the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, With having neglected to wear
his badge ; but as the drover was not driving cattle at the time he
was seen by the Rev. Gentleman, the Lord :Mayor discharged him.
His Lordship expressed his opinion, that the Society had done
much good, but he apprehended that the zeal with which the objects
were pursued was often immoderate.
GUILDHALL

Jahn Warner was committed for stealing a silk handkerchief
from the pocket of Mr. Bradford, a surgeon, 'as he was passing the
mins of the houses in Sboe•laue, pulled down to make room for
the new market. Mr. Bradford had lost five handkerchiefs in a
short time, on the same spot, and was now on the watch for a
similar attack.

Mr. .411 croft, the landlord of the watering-house in the Old
Bailey, and Roberts, the waterman of the coach-stand in Smithfield,
appeared to answer the complaint of William Barrow, who alleged,
that seeing some coachmen come in with a Gentleman who had a

co:tilde' able quantity of gold about him, and perceiving by their
winks and nudges that they intended to rob him, he took the liberty
of giving the Gentleman a hint, when the whole body of coachmen
Ml on him, beat him, and robbed him of ss. and a- handkerchief.
lie could not identify Roberts as one of the men who struck him.
Sir Jamas SHAW dismissed the complaint, conceiving that the
complainant might have 1011, though he did not miss, his handker-
chief before he entered the house, and because Barrow admitted he
could not say any one in particular had struck him a single blow.