The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-07-18 00:00:00

Ms. TiIELICILL's LEG', URES.

Mr. Thelwall, whose Lectures on Elocution and
Poetry, at..his outs Institution, give such general
satisfaction through live succe.sive courses during
the preceding winter, has just concluded soother
Course at the Public Sctioot room at Newington,
where they have b•en delivered for the benefit of
th. t F:411011i0171111111. Thrui.gtiout the
whole Course, these Loctures have been most Hu-
mor .usly ana respectahls attended, by audiences of
from three to five hundred persons; and the anima•
tints of tit+ L►cturer has kept pace with the ardour
of poodle curiosity.
It would he impossible for to follow him Opp
by step through all the variety of scientific,
and miscellsiseous matter. equally interesting and
oriental. will. which these Lectures have abounded;
or to (los jounce to the vein uS mural, of poetical and
siralosticoll enthusiasm with .which throughout she)
have been sustained; or the corruscetions of humour
and aissire by silica they have been occasionally rr
tiev,ll; but the discriminative criticism on the merits
sod defects of Lord Byron, and the pentityric tapes
Bunts, los the last Lecture but one, and the luminous
illustration sod truly original discrimination of the
four Modes of emphasis in the last the emphasis
of entithesis—and the emphasis by force, by time,
and by qqats.ity (the almost exclusive use of the first
of winch Mr.Theltsall considered as•" the most pro.
minent defect of Theatrical Elocution), may be par-
ticularised as among the must valuable parts of the
series. The final illustration of these discriminations
on the criticisms on the ordinary mode of pronounciug
the Lord's Prayer, brought the subject into the
sists.l demonstrable point of view ; and the effect
produced in the repetition of that divine compo-
sition, at the conclusion of these criticisms, can
scarcely be conceived but by those who witnessed
and partook of it : the whole audience rising from their
seat•, and bending forward iu awful silence; evi-
dently mentally repeating, though without audible
enunciation, every accent and transition of the
speaker's voice. And the struggle at the conclusion,
between the almost irresistible impulse to applaud,
and the deep and solemn feeling of awe and reve
rence which the mode of delivery had impressed,
constituted, itself, an applause more eloquent than
even the enthusiastic and long-rontinurd acclams.
Sion which immediately afterwards burst forth at the
few words with which the Lecturer took his final
lease of the audience.
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On the troth of the fol
lowing facts we are assured
upon the testimony of credible eye witnesses
short time since a poor woman died at Dunbar. She
had lived in a house by herself, and during her latter
illness had been waited on by some of her neigh.
hours, who relieved each other by turns, in admi-
nistering in her wants. She suffered but little bodily
pain, but appeared to labour under a great mental.
oppression, frequently talking incoherently, and'
complaining of being disturbed by the crying of
children end rocking of cradles. The expellees of
her funeral were paid from a charitable fund, and her
effects exposed to public sale. These consisted of a
bed, two old chairs, and a large chest. On opening
' the chest, the bystanders were horrified, by finding
sewed up in a bag the skeletons of two infants ; and
the skull of a third was discovered sewed into the
straw bed on which the woman had slept. The mat.
ter immediatey underwent every possible investiga.
lion by the proper Authorities, but without eliciting
any farther discovery ; and there seemed no way of
accounting for the shocking scene before them, but
by supposing that the infants hid been the offspring
of the unhappy wretch deceased, by whom they must
have been inhumanly murdered.--(Scotch Paper)
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