Star.
London, England, 1822-07-26 00:00:00

LITERATURE.

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THE MUSEUM, No. XIS'. (a new Weekly Journal
devoted to' LITERATURE, the FINE ARTS, SCIENCE,
forieutrtFs, the DRAMA, &c.) published this day,
(pricelid. in London and its Environs, orfree by post,
is.) contains :• •
Reviews of Mills's Theodore Ducas--Convcrsations on Mi-
neratogy—OMeara's Napoleon in Exile—Sir C. H. Williams's
Nrorks=Original: The'COutt of Honotir—Sale at Foothill
Abbey—The Picture-Book—The Book of Ghosts—The Op-
slinist-Adellemed-Aly-Mirza-*-Poetrt: A Melancholy Hour,
&co—State of tite•Fine Arts in Denmark—New Musical Aca-
denvy—The- Drama: English Opera-House—Varieties: Hint
feCamlogne Makers...Hydrophobia—Method of preserving Ob-
jects of Natural History—Lacon Loquitur—Poisonous Insect
DlscoVeries•-•Literary Announcements, Ste. &c.
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DEATH OF MR. EMERY, THE ACTOR.

We are truly sorry to announce the dissolution of
that most excellent Actor, Mr. JOHN EMERY, of Co-
vent-Garden Theatre. After an illness of three weeks,
caused-by an excessive inward debility, brought on,
as it is supposed, by a diseased liver, and which at
last attached itself to the lungs, he breathed his last
a few minutes past eight o'clock yesterday evening,
at his house in Hyde-street, Bloomsbury. He was
in his forty-seventh year. He has left an amiable
wife and seven young childien to lament his loss, for
Whose future support and maintenance, however,
there is every reason to fear he has not made even the
most slender provision. Mr. EMERY has always been
a decided favourite—professionally, as well as with
all who knew him, and therefore we trust that, should
the case require it, his friends, in conjunction with a
generous and feeling Public (to whose amusement
and hours of social enjoyment he has been for up-
wards of three and twenty years so great a contri-
butor) will immediately come forward to render their
aid and assistance in any way that may be considered
best calculated to accomplish the end desired. On
these occasions, we have sometimes witnessed the
generosity of Managers in giving free benefits ; and,
audeel, we have no doubt, should it be required, that
we shall in this instance have to applaud a similar
act of kindness and liberality, and which cannot fail
to be fully appreciated, as a mark of feeling and re-
spect for a most valuable and faithful old servant.
With regard to Mr. EMBRY as an actor, every one
who has been a frequenter of the Theatre is well
aware of his superior talent. In his own immediate
line of acting, indeed, viz. the I orkshire rustic—the
Stage, it is universally allowed, never produced his
equal ; and, in all probability, we shall never look upon
his like again! He had excellent natural abilities,
was a good musician (to which profession it was in-
tended by his parents he should have been brought
up), and he was likewise a tolerable artist. To his
duty in his profession, he was ever most strictly at-
tentive; so mulch so, 'that when dining in public, or
in the society of his friends and the time drew near
which required his attendance at the Theatre, his
watch was invariably placed upon the table; and he
was never known, during the whole course of his en-
gagement at Covent-Garden, to disappoint the Public
but once—and that was from the circumstance of the
accoudientent of his wife. His natural and unsophisti-
cated apology to the audience on that occasion, can-
not tail to- be very generally remembered. In the
death of 'Mr.B.siXatthe' Stage and the Public will
suffer a very sevjrellass ; his wife 314 family the de-
privation of a most .indulgent husband and
and his friends andissociates that bit warm-hearted,
gesternui, 'Add in'tHligent t othpanion: ' '

SUDDLN DEATH.—lTuesday night, about eleven
o'clock, Mr. BROOSFIOOPT, WhO had•been thirty-two
years Clerk of the Pipe'r's; arid' Deputy'llWarthal bY the
King's Bench Prison, went thonie ' his ihon'selh tthe
Lambeth-road, Miter spending. liissivi,M4:ielhe Bri-
tannia Tavern', opposite the-prison,. and abouthalfan
hour after she had'been in bed, jumped tip; 'and put-'
tin g hii hand on his head, exclaimed, d!eutirtpcinl
v,;bat's that?" iregraduallY got worse, 'aid 'notwirb:
• standing all the el its of several medical Cientleinen,
breathed hislast about half-?ast one o'clock on-Wed-
ossday morning. flis head •hai been'oPened, li!Bass
vessel was found to hive been inpinied; a gain-
' c6aguisted blood effused an the brain, which
• Auoßiezy, and caused his dissolution. 'W.
was'hl hly estaiiined 117'401 'his (rift's
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