Star.
London, England, 1826-01-31 00:00:00

COVEVT-GARDIEN.

The Oratorios at this Theatre commenced last night,
under the direction of Sir Gunton Su A sr, and ate to
be continued, both on Wednesdays and Fridays, during
Lent. The performance was " The Messiah," with.
MOZART'S additional accompaniments; and the body
of vocal talent exhibited is considerable. Miss STg-
PHENS, Miss PATON, Miss CAuza, and Miss Love, are
engaged.; and Mr. BRAHAM, who made his first ap-
pearance in London for the season. Mr. BaAHAM sang
i" Comfort ye my people!" Chorus—" Every valley
shall be exalted!" Miss Love—" Behold a virgin!"
Chorus—" Oh, thou that telleit r Miss STEPHENS
gave " They were cut off," delightfully. Chorus—
" Lift up your heads!" And " Unto us a child is
born r (grand chorus) was sung by all the Ladies and.
Gentlemen in the Theatre. Mr. Moat leads the band,
and an alteration has been made in the arrangement of
the orchestra. This change is beneficial; it gives mote
room and opportunity to the principal singers. Miss
P.t.rox was encored in " Rejoice greatly r. and between
the first and second parts of the perf.srmance ,a- curt-
c il° on the violonceHo was played by Mr.W..lismixt:
The commencement of these entertainments gave every'
promise of future success, The pit was fiile.l to over=
flow in the beginning of the evening, and the dress.
boxes were well attended.
. .

Sir GEORGE RoBINsON, Bart. has arrived at P4OSER-
ger, Hertfordshire, from his seat at Cranford, in Northamptonshire:
OntoNum ItiQuEsTs.—Yester,:ay evening, an In-
quest was held at Giltspur-street Compeer, cm the body
of El zabeth Marks, a woman, 25 yeats of ape. The
deceased had come to London from Bristol, %here she
was a servant. She did not succeed in obtaining a
situation here, and wandered about the streets in po-
verty and wretchedness until she was sexed with a con-,
sumptive complaint, which cut her off yesterday .morn-
ing. She was received into the above place of confine-
ment as an act of charity, at the recommendation of the
Lord Mayor. Verdict—" Natural Death."--Two In.
quests were held the same evening, on two children,
busannah Elliot and Maly Mage , who died in conse-
quence of their clothes having accidentally caught five.
Verdicts. Accidental D:ath.

Ettract of a Letter horn India.—" Tvere are three
female Shat m Chiefs in the• Burmese army, whose powers are• so
prodigious, that by holding up a finger a the thing of a cannon., the
ball is turned to viater.'! We may think this a mietny sales becauie
it,is performed at a distance, but we have an equally instantaneous
power of conversion by a little bo)• in London,who in merely holding
up his finger turns a Ticket into. Twenty Thousand Pounds, irshielt"
ay person may prove who adventures in this Lottery of Six Twenty
ihousands, all to be drawn in One Day, Wednesday. tit of hla• ch.

MUG Wl'ol4;4ANumey /0.

I . •
Lady. ICarntuais•leaves her elegant Marine Library apartments,
for London, on Tliur;gl .y.
After a frosty• eight. the Weather to-day has been mild and
blight; the Steyne and Marine Walks have been the preferred
pttimenades, both wets elegantly tesorted to between two and, Ave
otsock. In the morning, the several places of Divine Worship had
numerous etingregationsi
The Earl and Countess of ilatssot., Lord and the Ladies Hea-
vers are arrived.

Lord W..latuunit, Sir W. ADDY, &e. are in the departure Hit.

LI'T'ERATURE.

Memoirs of the Marginvine of Anspach. Written by

Herself. Two Vols. Bvo. Len-don, 1826.
Few persons have seen more of high life than the
Margravine of Anspach ; born of and allied to noble
families, and possessing personal charms and literary
talents of.* high order, she found a ready passport to
every Court of Europe *here she visited. With such
facilities,. and her discernment and keen observation, it
is not snrprisingthat she should have witnessed many
extraordinary Adventures, and treasured up much anrc•
dote ; these she now gives to the public in two very in-
tei esting volumes of Memoirs, from which we shall,,
on a future day, give some extracts, in the meantime wr
strongly recommend the work to our readers.
Papers on Naval Architecture, and other subjects con-
nected with Naval ,Scienee, conducted by WILLIAAI
MORGAN and AUGUSTIN CRIEUSR, Naval Architects
No. 1. London, 1826.

At a time when Great Britain had to sweep from
evert ocean, enemies which her naval supremacy had
provoked, little could he done in the way of experi-
ment in Naval Architecture, but now that peace gives
us more leisure in the construction of new iesiels, the
Lord, of the Admiralty have spared no pains to render
the science of Naval Architecture as perfect at possible,
by liberal encouragement to new di.coveries, and by
experiment.
The object of the work before us is, to collect all the
information that can be obtained, on Naval Architec-
ture and other subjects connected with naval science.—
The first Number displays much talent on the part of
the conductors, and contains not less than sixteen
essays on these subjects, well written ; the work cannot
fail of proving very valuable, in a country so justly
proud of its naval glory as England, and which it is
calculated to promote in no ordinary degree.

The Quarterly oriental Magasine, Review, and Register.
, • No. VI. April to June, 1825.
While some East India Proprietors are urging a more
general knowledge pf Oriental literature to persons des-
tined for India, those already there prove that it is by no
meas.: neglected : for proof of this, we need only refer
to the proceedings of the literary and scientific institu-
tions in India, and indeed to the Quarterly Oriental Ma-
gazine now before us, which contains several valuable
papers, in the shape of critiques and essays, illustrative
of the literature, history, and antiquities of Hindastan.
The political and miscellaneous notices, register of Oc-
currencess &c. ate well drawn up, and are userul_ for
reference as sell as for immediate peiusal.
Literary and Miscellaneous Memoirs. By Jon i's
Citiobcic, Esq.-111;A. F.R.S. SOD. Londos, 1826.

We have already given- a few saecdotes from this
very entertaining volume, which was first printed, for
private- circulation .only, The author is an amiable
Leicestershire Gentle van, who . has now passed hit
tight?-fifth -year, yet, as he truly observes in the lan-
guage of ,Shakspeare, which he takes as an epigraph,
" Yet bath his night of life some naemrtß4.-:1,--- '."
Mr. Cradock has from early life been in the habit of
*Mixing with all- the. literati of his time,. and. he is
familiarly. and with as perfect a recollection of -Di.;
Johnson, i)r. Goldsmith, Lord Thurlow, Sterne, Gar-
lick, Foote, and other worthies of that now olden time,
as.if he had mixed with them but yesterday. Isis work
is full of original and highly interesting anecdotes of
distinguished persons, for whose memoirs it may furnish
some good additions. We have little room for extract,
bat shall quote a coople of anecdotes:
" Soon after Mr. Thurlow was made Lord Chan-
cellor, he addressed his brother in the following words :
Tom, thete is to be a drawing-room on Thursday,
where I am obliged to attend, and as I have purchased
Lord Bathurst's coach, but have no leisure to give
orders about the necessary alterations, do you see And
get all ready for.me."fhe Bishop, always anxious to
obey the sic volo, sic jaw, of his brother, immediately
bestirred himself, and everything was considered as
completed in due time ; but when the carriage came to
the door, the Bishop found that Lord Bathurst's arms
had never been altered, and knowing his brother's
hasty temper, he happily hit immediately on the only
expedient to prevent a corm : the door was held open
till the. Lord Chancellor arrived, and as soon as he was
seated, and had fully examined the interior, he stretched
out his hand, and most kindly exclaimed, ' Brother,
the whole is finished entirely to my satisfaction, and I
thank you: The same expedient, as to the door, was
resorted to again at his return from St. James's, and of
course no time was lost to remedy sll defects."
" Dr. Percy took me with him to Johnson's apart-
ments in Bolt Court, Fleet-street, and we found hire.
relling,op on the Boor, surrounded with books, which
had just, been brought in to him ; and he shewed us a
penis Bible, which he considered as particularly
curious. Dr. Percy, in the course of conversation,
mentioned some friend of theirs who had taken a short
journey into the cuuntry on horseback; but by setting
tut too late had got wet through, and had lost his
labour. " Sir," exclaimed Johnson, mankind mis-
calculate in almost all the concerns of life. This man
. set out too late, got.wet through, and lost his labour;
but then, I suppose, he hired the.horse the cheaper."