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. i i ['ER PINDARIC.
(From the New Jgestkly Megarion)
THE rAR 3IER ANA THE COUNSELLOR.
A Wand in the Common Pleas,
HM was esteeni'dirmighty wit,
Upon the strength of a chain* hit
Amick a tbou!.aul flippancies,
Anerhia ticcasienal bad jokes .
In spying, bantering, browbeating, -
Ridiculing and maltreating
Wonien or ether timid. felts,
•
Isi a Lite cause resoied to hoax
A ekhanish- Yorkshire farmer—one
Who by his übcuuth feat and gait,
Appear'd expressly swept by Fate,
Fpr being quizz'd and play'd upon.
So having tipp'd the wink to those
In the back Aiwa, •
Who kept their laughter bottled down •
Until•isir Wag should draw the cart,
. , 1k smiled jocosely on the clown,
And went to work.
" Well, Farmer Numskull, bow go salves at York r
Whyte-not; Sir, as they do wt you,
Rut ou four legs instead of two."
" Officer!" "cried the legal elf,
Piqued at the laugh against himself,
" Do PraY keep silence down below there.
•
Now iook at me clown, and attend,
Have I not seen-you somewhere, friend ?"-s-
-" lees--very-iike--I often go there!'
" Out rustic's waggish--quite laconic,"
The Counsacricd with grin sardonic p—
" I wish I'd known this prodigy,
This genius of the clods, when I
On Circuit was at 'leek residing.—
Now Fanner, do for once speak tree,
Mimi, you're on oath, so tell me, you
'Who doubdess think yourself so clever,
Are there as many fools as ever
lu the Wsst Riding ?"
" Why as, Sir, no; we've got our share,
lint nor se vastly as when lon were there!"

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Itiaeston Rotten.-s-A apeeles. 4 inier*Pq..
A hm..N..tn .
length of time carried-en ht th_ l,
o altariblia..
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has notbeen reached SY_ltnY Act of
Bank, Id* xpe..hv of obtain-
in the habit of lurking about the
who contrive to keep good elothes onthebtaaitimagie emus*
at the rate,
me money for good bays, which.___ they .
idyl
of ss. ahead, and wllicit collosts. us ~ 1 .!case _
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and wheat pill Ottoo havWee
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resuesithat surn,of
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bankof
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'land. It it the of Se these Mows eseamiegnamo of tuts!„
claimed der and to write to mei* iiirtoratbsti thipit UMW
can impose upon, Stating that the hollteligeed iisibie tb Info.*
them of something to their advantage, on Nettie Of ss; for trio
teasel,. ; Letters a tete demeiptlea have been seat so all:parts.
of the country. and poor peel& have twee fammestay induced to
serape M
r ang they could commute, to diischarge
their
toy. ed in the important task of making
tle
expensestilgeer w ail tihlr emp
their females by a joerney to London, and a eidt to the Bank,
to prow did: claim to stints of the cash that lies there withodt
owners. The disappaistiment which attends the application of
these dupes has almost broken the hearts of some, while
Mimes in their rage hive lone hi quest of the gentlemen who
supplied then with ils. Werth of information, fur the purposeof
ieflicting immediate chastisement epos them. In most instances
the fellows have escaped. and the unfortunate adventurers, who
left their homes full of hope, have been obliged to walk and per.;l-
' haps beg their way back. The clerks in the dace of unclaimed
' dividends have hemeently the disagreeable task to inform appli-
allibiterhe produce a statement of their claims, that the money.
they demand had been paid 169 g before to those who had a more
IPtablished right—and to witness scenes of the greatest distress,
arising entirely from the misrepresentations of the class of specu-
lators to whom we have alluded.
llesterday,e man who corresponds very extensively erg! the
'abject, and sends minted circulars stating that be can render
benefits for five shillings, was brought before the Loan blevoit
in consequence of having threatened a Gentleman who exposed
him in the counting-house of Mr. Samuel Teornton.
Mr. Samuel Read, a respectable merchant is the City,, de-
scribed the occupation of the prisoner, and stated that he (Mr.
Read) was threatened by him for exposing the secret ci craft
to some person from whom he was claiming ss. for the purposes
above-mentioned ; but the complainant stated that his
cri4l:
being to caution the Public against persons of this ,
---- he should not persevere in charging the defendant.
.4.VECDOT'ES OF MUSIC. The Loan Mares said, that if any complaint of the deserip- '
„na_ „ don alluded to were to be made on any future occasion, the
Front the fad Number (just published) if that decent""' "'"" closest investigation should take place, and, if possible, a Jury
" TITC matey ANECDOTES." should decide the fortune of the accused.
MUSIC OF TIIN:. ANCIENT& Heeinx-Geemtx.--Yesterday, William May, a silversmith,
Music, like all other arts, has been progressive, and its improve-
who had been examined on a former occasion, charged *rah
tnents may be traced through a period of more than 3000 years. paving forged the Goldsmiths Hall stamp upon some plate that
Being common to all ages and nations, neither its invention nor he was ordered to manufacture for Messrs. Rundell, Bridge, and
refinement can,witb propriety, be attributed to any single indite- Rundell, of Ludgate-hill, was brought up again for re-examina-
deaL 'the Hermes or Meseary of the Egyptians, surnamed Trieste- tion.—The following fresh charge was preferred against him :
gigue, or thriceillestrieseewho was, according to SirlsaacNewton,
Mr. George Blackway, a cut glass-manufacturer, in the Strand,
the Secretary of Osiris, is, however, commonly Celebrated as the came forward, and metre that the prisoner, some time age,
inventor of Music. came to his shop, and presented a written order, purporting to
Front the accounts of Diodorus Simian, and of Plato, there is come from Mr. William Elliot, of Compton-street, Clerken-
reason to suppose, chat in very ancient times, the study of music well, for a pair of expensive cut glass decanters, value three
iu Egypt was confined to the priesthood, who used it only in re- guineas, which were delivered to the prisoner without any sus-
ligious and solemn ceremonies. It was esteemed sacred, and
__, picion, as Mr. Elliot dealt largely with the witness In this way;
forbidden to be employed on light or common occasions; and and it was not until several days afterwards, that Mr. Black-
all innovation in it was strictly prohibited. way found that the order did not come from Mr. Elliot.—Mr.
It is to be regretted that there are no tracesby which we can Elliot proved, that the written order produced by the last wit-
form an accurate judgment of the style or relative excellence of loess was not in his hand-writing, and that he never employed
this very ancient musk. kiss unhappily, not with music in this the prisoner to go to Mr. Blackway for the decanters, mar did
respect, as with ancient sculpture and poetry, of which we be want such ;uncles at the date of% the forged order. There
have so many noble monuments remaining ; for there is not were other serious charges against May, but he was fully corn-
even a single piece of musical composition existing, by which we mined upon Mr. Blsckway's complaint; and as the Sessions
can form a certain judgment of the degree of excellence to which are near at hand, the other charges standing against him, and
the musicians of old had. attained: The earliest Egyptian musi. an accomplice now in custody, will be inquired into before a
cal instrument of which we have any record, is that on the gess& . Jury of his country.
mita at flume, one of the obelisks brought from Egypt, and said Maamiolouom-seerre—A fat elderly lady complained of a
to have been erected by Smear* at Heliopolis, about four hun- most outrageous assault committed on her, by another lady of
dred years before the siege of Troy. This ceelous relic of anti- the sister country, with a hammer and fists. The complainant
quity, which is a musical instrument of two strings, with a neck, occupied an apartment, which was only separated by a thrn
resembles much the calascione, still used in the kingdom of Na- partition from the prisoner's, and the latter perceiving daylight
plea, and primes that the Egyptians, at a very early period of peeping through one or two holes in the wainscot, determined
their history, had advanced to a considerable degree of excel- to watch the manmuvres of the complainant, and it so hap-
lence in the cultivation of the arts; indeed, there is ample pened that both the fair ones went to peep through the same
evidence, that at a time when the world was involved in see- hole at the same time. The prisoner, vexed at the curiosity of
stage ignorance, the Egyptia.is were possessed, of ntusioal intro- her next room neighbour, armed herself with a hammer, deter-
ments capable of much variety of expression. mined to make her pay furpeeping, and belaboured the head and
We learn from Holy Scripture, that in Laban's time inane. shoulders of the complainant so lustily, that she began to be in
mental music was much in use in the country where be dwelt, alarm for her life. Tut Magistrate advised the parties to bung up
that is, in Mesopotamia ; since, among the other reproaches the holes on both sides, and settle the matter amicably between
which he makes to his sou-its-low, Jacob, he complains, that themselves, for which purpose they retired into the passage.
by his precipitate eight he bad put it out of his power to con-
TOWN-HALL, SOOTHWAlN.—Yesterday, in consequence of a
duct hie; and his family" with mirth and with songs, with tabret Gentleman being summoned by a hackney coachman for his full
and with harp." 'The son of Sirach, in giving directions to the fare, having agreed at the time of hiring to take a less sum, the
master of a banquet as to his behaviour, desires bin, amongst Magistrate (Alderman J. J. SMITH) adverted to the decision of
ether things, eto hinder nut the music ;" and to this he adds— a Bow-street Magistrate, in the case of Mrs. Hyde Solari, in
" A conceit of music in a banquet of wine, is as a signet of which the Magistrate decided that that Lady was bound to pay
carbuncle set in gold ; as a signet of emerald set in a work of her full fare of 6s. although the coachman had agreed, on hiring,
g id, to is the melody of music with pleasant wine." In speaking to take 2s. 6d. The Alderman was sorry that a decision should.'
in the praise of Josias,,he ear., " the remembrance of Josias is have been given at Bow-street (conscientiously he was sure) con-'
like the composition of the perflame, that is made by the art of ttary to decisions on the same question at the Mansion-House,
the apothecary ;it is sweet as honey in all mouths; and as music Guildhall, and the Town-Hall. The clause of the Act did not
in a banquet of wine." litre we have a pleasing recollection, il- prevent a coachman from agreeing to take less than his fare, nor
lustrated by a comparison with the gratification of three of the did it empower a Magistrate to grant a coachman his full fare
senses. Ossian, on an occasion a little different, makes use of the from thersons that had hired him, after an agreement between
List comparison, but in an inverted order.when he says, " The the partiespe to take a less sum. The Act was passed to prevent im-
music of Caryl is like the memory of joys that are past, pleasing, position on the part of drivers, and they were liable to fine and
and mournful to the soul." imprisonment if they took more than their legal fare. The Ma.
The Hebrew instruments of music were principally those of gistrate then read the clause in the Act, which was as follows
percussion ;so that on that account, as well as the harshness of "And be it further enacted, that no agreement or engagement
the language, the musk must have been coarse and noisy. The whatever, at any time or on any occasion made with the driver
great number of performers too, whom it was the custom of the of any hackney coach or chariot, for the payment of more than
Hebrews to collect together, could, with such language and such his established fare, shall be Wading on the person or pert,
instruments, produce nothing but clamour and jargon. Accord-. making the same, but any such person or persons may, notwith-
ins to Joseplius, there were two hundred thousand musicians at standing such agreement, refuse, on discharging such coach or
the dedication of the Temple of Solomon. charier, the payment of any sum beyond the established fare ;
Music appears to have been interwoven through the whole and in case such person or persons shall actually pay to the driver
tissue of religious ceremonies in Palestine. The Priests appear of any hackney coach or chariot, whether in pursuance of any '
to have been musicians hereditarily, and by dace. The pro- such engagement, or not, any sum exceeding his established
libels accompanied their inspired effusions with music ;and every
fare, which shall have been demanded or required by such driver,
prophet, like the present inaprorisaturi of Italy, appears to have
the person or persons payingthe same, shall be entitled, on cons-
been accompanied by a musical instrument.
. plaint splint such driver, to recover the overplus paid ; andsuck
Vocal and instrumental- mask constituted a principal part or
pounds," &c.
driver shall be subject and liable to a penalty not exceeding five
the funeral cerenionies of the Jews. The pomp and expense on
these occasions, were prodigious. The number of flute players in The worthy Alderman saw nothing in the above clause te
the processions amounted sometimes to several hundreds, and the prevent an agreement between the coachrnau and the perms
attendance of the guests continued frequently for thirty days. hi • to take/ess than his fare, and dismissed the case before him
It has been imagined, with much appearance of prebabi. the driver having agreed to ake less than his legal fare, which
lity, that the occupation of the first Poets and Musicians of
was paid him.
tireeee resembled that of the Celtic and German Bards, and •
Bow-amaze.—Yesterday Thomas Pearson and David Barnard.
the Scalds m
of Iceland and Scandinavia. They sung their poems neither of them more than 17 years of age, but both of them no.
in the streets of cities, and in the palaces of Princes. Tilrt:s
WriOUS.hOUSebreeheres .
_wet! brought up. •
.for re-exam_ inatiote
were treated with . great respect, and regarded as intip charg ea on suspicion of being concerned In several burglaries
persons. Such was the employment of Hinter. In his poems, committed in the vicinity of Chelsea.
so justly celebrated, music is always named with rapture ; but The prisoners were apprehended 'lurking about Henrietta-
as no mention is made of instrumental music, unaccompanied street a fortnight ago, about dusk in the evemn' g, by Morris's
with poetry and singing, a considerable share of the Poet's praises party of patrol, and, as they were so well known, the dicers
are to be attributed to the Poetry. The instruments most Ire-
took them into custody, and found them a blue bag, case,
quently named arc the lyre, the flute, and the syrinx. The trum- mm; a large number of skeleton and picklock keys, a dark lan-
pet does not appear to have been known at the siege of Troy,
although it was in use in the days of Homer himself. tern, a phosphorus box, a centro-bit, and several other ho
'Barnard
apparatus. Lack,l one of the oken, discovered where-
.her r therewith he s
if found nodr sm
savese
The invention of notation and musical characters, marked a
cog
distinguished era in the progress of music. There are a diversity
More itinpwlealimelnodtsgoinfirt,heand on
kill:rill,
of accounts respecting the person to whom the honour of that
Pocket-books of different sizes, each fitted with knife sci
invention is due; but the evidence is strongest in favour of Ter•
tweezers,whch :eel. but without wilibethoulyt
to be
viirdientintmed.g or ether marks mosarkes'ers,in ssbcgal
pander, a celebrated poet and musician, who flourished 671 year.
before Cutter, and to whom music is muck indebted. Before i
ever, were t in their Inquiries, and yesterday
of burglary, which is likely to be against them, this valuable discovery, music being entirely traditional, most -
have depended much on the memory and taste of the performer. was
The character of the Grecian music • appears to have been Preferred.
Mr William Adamson, Chief Clerk of the Council Chamber,
noisy and vociferous in the extreme. The trumpet players at the at W,.,. • ..,
...cam residing in Ebury-street, Chelsea, deposed that, on
Olympic games used to express an excess of joy when they foetid ~..
awokei by a cracking noise in the lower part of the house. Its
their exertions had burst &blood vessel, or done them some other ewe Mg of the 16th of May last, about two o'clock, be was
serious injury. Lucien relates of a young dutaplayer, Harm-
Jumped up, looked out of the window, and called loudly for the
nicks, that on his bra public appearanc.e at these games, he began
a solo with so violent a blast, in order to surprise aed elevate watchman, whose box was but a few yards from the door ; but
the audience, that be breathed Ms last breath into his lute, and "Mt minutes elapsed before he trade his appearance, and thou
died on the spot. .at a snail's pace. Witness called to-him that there were thieves
The musicians of Greece, who performed in potato, were of in the house, and be than sprang hi rattle, and another watch,
. h:
both sexes ; and the beautiful Lamie, lobo was taken edema by man came up. The house was searched and found to have bees.
De metrius, and captivated her conqueror, as well es many other entered by area window,
females, are mentioned by ancient authors in terms of admiration. a bt ty of platsand the back parlour plundered est'
A desk containing a large sum
the Romans,like every other people, were, hum' their first I a olorleY had Cdatteinpted to be broken open, but it is comm
origin is sanation, mastoid of a specie, of music which might ; lectured the Mum. • made by witness prevented them. It was
be distinguished as 'Mir own— it appears to hemelatten undo hod 1 fAladtitheat thieves had escaped by the back window, and got
Gnaw,
front i
abat
this
biwinkbasate the twhasievisathes cohbldrobnebot
alipacvne,eszped.robbedAdiTenrtioutuightt,
coarse,
vbsivoiNioly.
was
ii
aviation
of the mink in Wee „tag i over gardenss watt Hid the watchuitet been on the alert,
the Etruseasts, and ether tribes around them in Italy; Mt ae
soon as they begimae.Open a comnuinieation with
Chas country,widetheir arts stud philosophy they born end she ;damp, • and
also
twoPecbtetebook,
.. eh exactly like the one produced.
their mimic and musical instruments. 1 there were aiSO Ot Draman's patella letch-keys stolall from 1