Star.
London, England, 1817-03-29 00:00:00

some footmen.

Last night the Oratorio Season concluded at Co-
vent Garden Theatre. An admirable Selection was

produced, consisting. of fine melodies from the Eng-
lish and Italian, bold chortisses, and instrutnental
boios. The Concert, throughout, was most ably sus-
tained, and highly applauded.
htfr. Leas, after performing the part of Bertram,
of Thuladay night, set off. in his own travelling car-
stage and four, for Glasgow, where be is to egiform
three nights.
The hopes of Miss O'Ntutea convaleicente have
not yet been realised, and bee state of health coati-
. rues to excite the most serious apprehensions. The
air of Brighton basing tailed to restore her. the phy.
sicigat, we understand, have recommended a visit to
01 Frantic.

CORBETT'S FAREWELL:

We were wrong, we find, in discrediting report
of Mr. Costumes departure for America. It appears
that he and his two sons have actually taken their
passage in the inosetee, Captain HALL, bound from
Liverpool to New York, and which would sail on
Thursday, wind permitting. The. rest of his family
remain iii England.
We were led to doubt the truth of his departure,
from the circumstance of those who.were connected
with him in his printing business knowing nothing et
the fact. Bat it is now pu.. beyond all question by
the following Address, handed to us by one of the
rust veudersof Newspapers in the Metropolis:

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" TO THE PUBLIC.

" Liverpool, March 26, 1617.

" My departure for America will but prise m•:IoJy
but those who do not reflect. A lull and explicit
statement of my reasons will appear in a few dais,
probably on the stli of April. In the meanwhile, I
think it necessary for me tr, make known, that I have
fully empowered a person of respectability to managel
and settle all my arairs in England. 1 owe my coua•
tryrnen most sincere regar& which 1 always en-
tertain for them in a higher degree dim towards any
other people upon earth. I carry nothing from my
country but my wife and m 7 children, and, surely, the
are my ow n, at any rate. I shall always love England
better than any other country ; I will never become
a Subject or Citizen of any other State ; but, I and
mine will not lire under a Government having the
absolute power to imprison us at its pleasure; and,
if we can avoid it, we wilt neither live nor die under
such an order of things.

" If I have not taken leave of numerous friend,
in London ail in the Country, it was because I
should have been made unhappy by their importu-
nities and the expressions «if their sot row. I make
an enormous sacrifice of property and of feeling ;
but, when my heart feels the tugs of friendship, and
of all the interesting object, in Harnii,line, it is re-
conciled to the loss by the thought that I can enjny
them only during the plea ;we of A Szcretary of
Stale. When this order of things shall cease to
exist, then blial.l I again see England.
(Signed) “ WILLIAM 01111,1i17."

What kind of reception dots Mr. Cosaxrr expect
in America ? His person may be sate Irons the dan-
gers of a prison—nu small curniort to one who has
had two years experience of its incoi.ven'ences ; but
can he receive a cordial welcome among those on
whom be has !reaped every kind of abuse —lra what
terms did he speak of die Americans, as inJ:viduals
and as a people, when he made his appearance in Lon-
dun as a Journalist ? Let the following extract from
the first Number of his Porcupine serve as a specimen :

" Notwithstanding the example or America, and the more
dreadful example ut Prance, ► end the emissaries of de Republi-
can faction (for such it really is) still preaching fanaticism and
infidelity, still bawling fur that change which they have the auda-
city to denominate Reform; still exerting all their nefarious in•
tenuity in sapping the foundation or the Church and the Throne-
I hose who want experience of the consequences, way, fur aught
I know, be ',muted for conniving at the.,' attempts ; but woe
sae, who have seen Acts passed by a Republican Legislature,
more iratiilukiit than forgery• or coining; roe Alt, who have seen
Republican UlAcers of State offering their Country for Sale, for a
few thousand dollars ; sea me, who have seen RepnblitanJudges
become felons, and felons become Republican Judges; rue ate
to fold my hands, and tamely listen to the insolent eulogist of
Republican Governments and Rulers, would be a shameful than-
dement of principle, a dastardly desertion of duty."