Star.
London, England, 1829-08-25 00:00:00

ROSSINI'S WILLIAM TELL.

From Paris we learn, that the music of " rams swr is ap -
;predated and judged a &Idiom. Four successive represen-
tations of the piece have established its fame, and the more it is
beard the greater is the admiration for the beauty of its partitions—
the genius of this great Master here takes its full career—and the
monument he has erected is more doable than iron. We do not
Aare whether Rosana has composed his Overture after the com-
pletion of the Opera, or conceived it by inspiration—like the other
morsels of his work ; but this is certain, it is disembarrassed of any
thing like fatigue or restraint in its style, noble and majestic. full
of taste, grace, warmth, and harmony. The " Cantabile; " fee Ave
violinellos, is an original morsel, which yields to nothing in the
beauty of be melody, and disputes applause with the beautiful Al-
legro which follows it. After the Ilse introductory Choruses, a
Duo by Arnold and William Tell produces an admirable ant.—
The magnificent details in the scenes and finale which follow, sparkle
with charms of the Are order. The sealed act is enriched with a
grand Hunting Chorus, and a Duo of unequalled sweetness ; to.
/ether with a Trio between Tell, Arnold, and Walter, sufklent In
itself 14 have formed the reputation of Rousso. The third and
fourth acte are perhaps the least perfect, though abounding with
exquisite musk it various descriptions; In fine, the execution of
" William Tell" hgves nothing beyond the force of its execution.
The winter feast it premises to a Leaden audience, cannot fall be.
Death any thing, however excellent the " dilletanti" may anticipate.

THE REVEREND MR. SIMPSON AND MISS FOOTE.
Mr. Simpson has been very officious; and bliss Foote is very
impertinent. Mr. Simpson is Minister of St. Peter's, Derby ;
bliss Foote is the present star in the Thestre of that ancient 80.
. ough. Mr. Simpson earnestly advised Miss Foote to " withdraw
from her engagement, out of regard to the morals of kit Suck
and her own character." To if hick Miss Foote, or somebody
for bar, is said to have replied in the following manner :
" Ton appear to be a very well-intentioned sort of a person.
and tbetefore I consider your letter as kind in its purpose, though
very weakly imagined. Surely your care of 7,000 souls might
have been an ample apology for your not looking after more
particularly as my lodgings are not in your parish. Your main
object appears to be to induce me to break my engagement and
run away. Miss Love, lam told, did so recently at Not-
tingham, but I tear not much to her credit. It is well that you
are not Mayor of the Borough of Derby. as well as the Curate of
St. Peter's, otherwise I might have been whipped out of the town
as a vagabond. As it Is, I have the benefit of your advice and
your prayers. If I bad followed the farmer, I should have de-
graded myself still lower than I have yet fallen in public estima-
tion ;--( )—had the latter been preferred leas in the spirit if an
fadeanest. they, perhaps, might have found &reggaes at the
Wiwi of pace '

' GEORGE lIL AND PYE THE POET.
" Dr. George Horne was a 'man of unaffected piety, cheerful
temper, great learning, and. notwithstanding his propensity to
jesting. red manners. He was much beloved in Magdalen
College, which he was president ; the chief complaint against
him being. that he did not reside the whole of the time in every
year that the statutes required. He resigned his headdilp_on being
.promoted front the Deanery of Canterbury to the See of Norwich ;
the alleged reason was, the incompatibility of the dunes; though
abscheads of homes, when made Bishops, have retained their
academdcal situations. He never manifested the least ill-hem our
hiniodl, and repressed it, but with gentleness, in others. Having
enppd in a pany at whist, because lie was wanted to make
up dat number, and playingindifferently 111, as he forewarned his
partner would be the case, he replied to the angry question,' What
reason amid you possibly have. Mr. President. for playing that
card? 6 None upon earth, I assure yes.' Oa the morning when
news waareceived in College of the death et one el the Moen, a
ffpoosjend!ist. a hen avast, Herne met with another Fellow, an
especial alma of the defunct, and began to condole with him :
4 We boos bet poor • Ah! Mr. President, I may well say
I could have better spared a better man.' Meaning all, 1 sop-
Pon r sad Mew. with an air that, W its pleasantry, Pot to Allot
the other's grieL I was talking with Henry James ries late tort-
lsolostos when he happened te mention the name of Mr. r.. a
(endemism of Berkshire, and M. P., I think, for Beading; ' That
is the man, said I, • who dammed the Xiog's wig in the owl Pm'
lepe. of his Majesty; wish peat credit, however. to his own
loyalty, and very much to the ammisessem of the King: ' 1 do
.not well see bow that mild be.' Tom shall beer a story which
our President (Pye had been a &adman Caminemer of Magda.
len College) told at his own able. The Xing was tat a Minting
was in, and tf, the Held : the King's hone fell; the King
was thrown from the saddle, and his hat and wig were thrown to
a Mile Alamos from him ; he got en his fat again koolodioudli
and began to Mak abort for the hat and wig, which be did not
ma big. as we el knew. short-sighted. P---s owl
muckod by the aiding, rides op in peat hide and arrives
at the mmlnait wham the Klig is peering shone sad wag to the

attendants, g Where's say wig? where's my wig?' cries
aut. D-8 your wig !is your ?dainty safe?"—liniassal and Li-
terary Maoist.

THE EGYPTIANS AND ISRAELITES.
(Extract of a Letter to the Marquis Spinet*, dated Jane 10,1829).
On the connexion between the Egyptians and Israelites,
and the sojourn of the latter during the eighteenth
dynasty, and the Pharaohs at that time mentioned in the
Holy Scripture.
It seems now settled, by the best ebronologers, that the mode of
Israel took place in the year 1490-1 A.C.: k occurred. therefore,
in the Reign of Amenoph-Rameses (father of Smarts, and NA of
Meiansosm), who began his reign anno 1493 A.C. (vide Ist Lotus
au Due de Mayas, Not. Chrunolegique, p. 117, and the othecau-
dimities). It follows, that nemeses bleismoun was the Pharaoh
front whose face Moses led when he bad slain the Egyptian • for
Meiantoun reigned slaty-six years, commencing in 1550 A.C. ;
Moses was eighty years of age when summoned by the angel in
Horeb, after the death of that Prince, and probably in the first
year of Atnenoph- Hanna's, before whom be was ordered to ap-
pear; Moses had been exiled forty year. in Midis", being forty
years of age when be led (vide Bible); therefore he must have
led in the twenty-sixth year of the reign of Aleiamoun. and meat
have been born in the reign of Mandood (the Acbeocheres U. of
Manetho), who ascended the throne in 13113, i. e. about the deb-
teen* year of that Prince. It seems probable that Gelid
(Ph'oasirei. the Busiris of the Greeks?), Mandouei, and Mehl-
moon, were the Pharaohs that persecuted Israel ; and that Israel
had been persecuted by their predecessors, Amenophis 11., 'loth-
mods IV., Amenophis 111. (Memnon), and Horus,—wlns Kanto
have been good and beneficent Princes, and as such highly bestowed
by the Egyptians. It was in the reign of Amenophis 11. (son of
Morris) that Joseph came into Egypt (and afterwards Jacob, i. e.
from 171$ A.C. to 1706, vide the Cbroaology). The other
Princes, Osirsi and his successors, appear to have been san-
guinary tyrants and conquerors (vide their tombs, bas-reliefs.
&c.) ; and being of a race collateral to the former Kings (vid.
Not. Chronologique ~ 107) might have been called the " kings
who knew not ,losepit." Their oppressions of Israel were punished
in the time of their descendant Amenopb- Raman ; and whe-
ther or set this Prince perished personally in the Red Sea
(which may be doubted, as it is no where expressly so said in
Scripture. except loom passage of one theAUeluis Psalms.whkh
were probably composed after the Habylonish captivity), It is clear
that great and serious calamities betel Egypt in his time, as de.
dared by the historian Manetho. therein corroborating the Mosaic
account. it is likely that on this account, with his unfortunate and
unhappy reign the Meets chose to conclude the eighteenth dynasty.
and commence a new one, the nineteenth, with the accession of his
son, Rameses-Sethos. the semen's of the Greeks—as being a reign
of peculiar prosperity and glory. The long wandering of Israel in
the desert of Sinai, forty years. more than twenty of which cones-
pond with the early years of the reign of Sesestris, during which
many of hisgteat conquests on the side of Syria and Palestine must
have been achieved, sufficiently accounts for Moses and the
Israelites not mentioning him, and not having met with him; as
they would base been in the peninsula of Sinai, and afterwards pro-
ceeding by Mount Her, and to the eastward of the Dead Sea—
while &monis probably penetrated Into Palestine, &c. from
Pelustum " aloes the sea coast." He is said to have returned into
Egypt the same way (tide Diodorus and the Manetho). May it
not be supposed that the Divine influence (operating by strand
came* whenever a miracle was not absolutely necessary) directed
Moms to proceed by Sinai, Mount Hoe, and eastward of the Dead
Sea, is order that Israel might be out of the way of Seam:tie, and
that they might ultimately have the advantage of attacking the
Canaanitish natloss after their power should have been broken by
the previous invasion of Smarts ; and it is cipressly said, that
Moses was not allowed to lead Israel by the way of the Philistines
slow/ the oast) "lest they should see war." The extreme
youth of Sethorffiatneses (Sesosuls) at the time of the geode, as
described by Mambo (vide Diode. Sic.) is well accounted for
by the death of the eldest son of the King, at the time of the de-
minted= of the first-born of Egypt. Of this there can be no doubt,
as it is expressly stated by Moses.