Star.
London, England, 1824-01-02 00:00:00

COVENT-GARDEN.

The Tragedy of Julius Carsar was again very finely
acted but night. Mr. YOUNG and Mr. C. liamstx were
admirable in Brutus and Marc Antony, and Coorsa
improved on hii former performance of Cassius. All
the subordinate characters were strongly cast; and the
audience tailed not to enjoy the truly classic treat. The
slew Pantomime went off with its usual success. •

SONG OF. AN ARABIAN GIRL

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Ah! would I were in Araby!
For every splendour here I see,
Is far less lovely, far less fair,. •
Than Nature's simplest treatise!" 6,4 r
There. 'mid the horning Drowi'beroath,
The crystal fount bow sweet to taste I
The cooling shade- of palmy tree
• • 'V'f •
How welcome In bright Araby!
There the Streams &Gots from his ray •
A blaze of glory o'er the day ;
And moon and stars, at soothing night,
Shed beams of softer, holier light ! •
But, alt ! beyond n'en charms like these,
An Arab maiden's heart to plea*,
My love is there ! to bid I'd See,
And live and die its Araby!,
The Duchess of ANGOUL4I6 is said to have acquired
much popularity
,during her late journey in the south
of Fraece, in consequence of the impartiality of her con-
duct when she came in contact with the opposite parties
of Ultras and Constitutionalists. On the occasion of an
entertaitimeht ,iven to her by a considerable town, the
Mayor thought to please her Royal Highness by pro-
posing to exclude from- the company Colonel SWAMI*
TIANI, the brother of the General and Deputy of the
same name. A Paris paper (the Journal dm Commerce),
gives the following as the answer of the Duchess
How could you suppose that! should be offended by
having beside me an Officer to whom the Kure has in-
trusted a regiment? I will not sit down to table until
the Colonel all lees.*
ErfRAORDINARZ PRBCAUTIOII.-.4it the end of Doa
Juan, there is an air sung by the Don, in embracing one
of his fair ones. In this air occur the words, ,4 Viva 141
Liberia," not, of course, in the sense of politics, but in
the sense of gallantry. It was thought dangerous, how-
ever, by the dramatic censors at Paris, to allow a viva
to be raised to liberty, even in an Italian song; and the
actor was ordered to substitute the words 61 Viva la
Hilarita," against all the rules of sense and metre. In
this manner it is always now sung, to the great amuse-
ment of the sensible dilettanti,' who know the liberty
taken with the original.
THE !BLAND TABA, IN THE SOUTR Szas.--The
beautiful little Island of Taba, which is about forty
miles in circumference, is situated five miles north of
Raiatea, and is nearly encircled by the same reef (of
nearly 100 miles in length), which encloses ltaiatea. It
bas a great number of line bays and hirhours, some of
which reach almost to the ceotre of the island. Exten-
sive valleys Teach from the heads of these bays up to
the foot of the mountains : one of these valleys is of
great extent, and full. of all the vegetable productions
of the country, such as wild ginger, the tii-plant, from
crhltir the inhabitants formal/ distilled great quantities
Priliips the bambo6; the Mountain plantain, arrow-coot,
rte. ate., There are two well-built causeways across the'
• arms of the sea, made of coral rock, taken from the sea;
for die convenience of passing from one settlement to,
another. One of these is 688 feet in length, and 11 feet
wide; the second is 348 feet by 10 ; from the former of
the e, and at right angles with it, is a patu or pier, 325
feet by 20, forming a convenient landing-place for boats.
—All the men who ha.l been baptised, are formed into
classes of ten each, for the pus pose of assisting each
edit- in making their fences, building their houses, &c.
The King is the most industrious man in the island, and
he has been seen at work with the perspiration running
down his body in streams. They have many new and
excellent canoes* and five large well-built boats (from
SO to 40 feet long), with others on the stocks, which they
are unable to complete for want of nails.
The Swiss Cantons, whether from .a sense of shame,
err' 4 sense of prudence, appear disposed to abandon
the degrading traffic in the valour of their citizens,
which has for centuries been the scandal of a nation dis-
tinguished fot the simplicity of its manners and its spirit
ul independence—that anomaly in the Swiss character,
which -Mr. Moons has touched so poetically and truly—
See ! Irons his native hills afar,
- -
- Helvetian flies to war,
what—for whom he fights, •
despot—wrongs or rigLts,
t—a hero never—
int, it would be injustice to the
the poet, to withhold the close of
life-blood still,
to his mountain rill,
for ever :••••
',tons have rejected proposition*
(those or 2441:3 and Spain)' to
convention.

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'" Carekss for what-
,' For slave or despo
A Conqueror oft—
;t ?hough not strictly in puin
Swiss character and to the
▪ tit stanza--
Yet lavish of his 11
As if 't were like
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