APOLLONIAN CRITIC. SEMPER FIDELIS." Kais," or Love in the Deserts (con- according to the scale; this is one of tinued from p. 342)" Alone retired many glaring errors which may be beneath some tree." Composed by found in the compositions of this sucMr. Braham. cessful candidate for public favour; and THIS song does not possess that we sincerely hope that he will in fuoriginality which we expect to ture pay more attention to the study of find in compositions announced as musical theory than he has done hientirely new, but there is that common therto. In the 9th bar, page 20, he place sweetness in it that pervades all has introduced a shake upon A flat, M. B.'s compositions, and affords a while the upper voice is making a momentary gratification without leav- shake upon D natural; this does not ing any thing to assist a recoilection only produce a disagreeable effect, but of the air. At the close of the 3d bar, displays more whim than merit: in the and at the commencement of the 4th, 19th and 20th bar (same page) there is we discover two consecutive fifths, a fifth followed by two naked fourths, which Mr. B. ought to know (as a com- which is very inharmonious; then poser) is a forbidden progression; in follows a symphony, that to all appearshort, the uncultivated ear will readily ance closes the duet; but Mr. B. afdiscover that it is inharmonious. The terwards introduces a cadenza, which accompaniments and basses are very is very improper, as all cadences ought thinly strewed, and bespeak a want of that fertility of genius necessary to produce originality in musical composition. "O'er the tent see twilight grey, 66 to be preceded by a supposed bass, it being intended to give the singer.or instrumental performer, an opportunity of displaying his knowledge in the science of music, to the satisfaction of his hearers, and thereby completely closing the piece with some degree of eclat. Slaves should rise with rising day." We presume that this is a chorus in two parts, composed by Mr. Reeve. The air of this composition reminds us "Farewell sweet maid." A Duet of a groupe of children calling upon (Braham). The commencement of their playmates to join them, by sing- this duet is evidently a plagiarism ing the well known air of " Girls and from a beautiful trio, with accompaniboys come out to play;" this is a happy ments for "Violas," called "Conrad adaptation of simple sounds to simple the Good," and may be found in words. Thus far Mr. R. deserves praise 'Shield's Introduction to Harmony." for having studied his author: but We lament that Mr. B.'s researches in his 33d, 35th, and 37th bars, he has after knowledge are not confined to his made a ridiculous attemptat a fugue own improvement; and we dislike a fugue did we say? no that must be a also his attempts to display a "ready nick-name for it, as it is merely a made genius," by affixing his name to jumble of nonsense, in similar motion; another man's composition. Had Mr. in short, there are only three chords in B. emulated Shield in his musical stu-* this chorus, viz. G D C, therefore dies, he need not have resorted to what can be expected from such a con- such despicable means to find matefined system of modulation. rials for an Opera. "Far from my home." A duet (Braham). We acknowledge ourselves much pleased with the greater part of this duet, and regret that we cannot say more. Mr. B. has much to learn 'ere he becomes a scientifical composer, which is exemplified in several instances in this duet; he has introduced the chord of the 2d, 4th, and 6th, in the 10th bar, but it is not properly resolved either by suspension or H. [A farther review of this Opera to be given in our next.] "Poor Putty." A favourite comic song, sung by Mr. Grimaldi, in the pantomime of "Harlequin's Lottery," at the Aquatic Theatre, Sadler's Wells. Written by Mr. C. Dibdin, jun. Composed by Mr. Reeve. 1s. 6d. We have no hesitation in pronounc Flute. H. ing this to be an excellent comic song. moralizing on death; yet upon the H. "Lumkin and his Mother." Written and composed by Mr. Dibdin, and sung by Mr. Mason, at the Lyceum, in the entertainment called the "Professional Volunteers." 1s. THIS is one of many excellent comic songs produced by Mr. Dibdin, a veteran in the service of the public, and whose words and music are replete with more originality than any author of the present day can boast of; and we sincerely regret that Mr. D. should (at his advanced period of life) be compelled to resort to "Entertainments" for procuring a livelihood. H. "Miss Wigley," is an excellent comic song by the same author. 1s. THERE is a happy coincidence of circumstances contained in this song, that is rarely to be met with, and we have no doubt but it will prove a very great favourite with the Public. H. "The Best Bower Anchor." By the same author. 1s. Messrs. Button and Whitaker, of St. Paul's Church Yard, have issued the plan of their Musical Cabinet for the German Flute (to be completed in 22 volumes, at 2s. 6d. each) which is as follows: Vols. 1 to 4 will consist of Songs (with the words) and Dances-5 and 6, Duets and Trios-7 and 8, Scottish Airs and Songs, as duets and trios9 and 10, Irish airs, as do. do.-11 and 12, Welch Songs and Airs, as do. do.13, Italian Airs. as do. do.-14 and 15, French Songs and Airs, as do. do.16 and 17, German Songs and Airs, as do. do.-18 and 19, Marches and Quick steps, as do. do.-20 and 21, Songs and Duets (with words) from the Öratorios of Handel, Haydn, and Arne-22, Russian Airs and Venetian Songs. The whole to be selected, arranged, and partly composed by Mr. John Whitaker. This plan meets with our most cordial approbation, and we have no doubt, from the well known correct taste and talents of Mr. Whitaker, but that this will prove the most valuable work for the German flute that bas ever been brought forward in this country. THE general subject of this song we Four of the volumes have already have seen before, in various shapes, appeared, and three more are promisfrom the pen of Mr. Dibdin. The idea ed in the course of the present month. of " Providence being the guardian of We intended to have reviewed the first mankind," may be found in his very four in our present number, but have excellent song," Poor Jack;" and the not had opportunity. We confess 2d verse is a plagiarism from his "Jack that we look forward to the appearJunk; his Sd verse is merely "fetch- ance of these volumes with very raised ing up the lee way," as he terms it, by expectations. ADDITIONS TO, AND CORRECTIONS IN, FORMER THE OBITUARIES. T. HE late BENJAMIN GOLDSMID. some of the public papers had run -In addition to the particulars into an extreme of fulsome adulation mentioned in our Obituary of this of the deceased. One of them aftergentleman, page 347 of the last wards complained of an imposition aumber, it seems that till a recent practised upon them to procure its "Statement of the Circumstances and insertion. But it seems this imposi Manner of the Death of Mr. Gold- tion was only that of a payment. smid," appeared in print, complain- On the subject of concealing this ing of the impropriety of concealing evidence, though an inquest had been the evidence on the coroner's jury, held and a verdict given, it has been asked, Whence this reserve? humane; and abstracted from the Whence this stery? If a court was view of convert making. held as a cot should have been But to return to the late Mr. Goldheld, why was i close court? By smid. There can be little doubt of what authority anywhat right have his being subject to constitutional fits the proceedings n suppressed of melancholy. During these periods Under these circum nces, how does he would withdraw himself into his the duty of a coroner differ from that bed chamber, or any other remote of a judge in other criminal cases? room and there studiously sit alone. No person would affirm that the wealth Notwithstanding the unusual reserve even of a Goldsmid could in this at first observed respecting Mr. B. country avert or turn the course of Goldsmid's death, the following facts justice, notwithstanding, common relative to the cause and completion fame has ascribed the reprieve and of that melancholy catastrophe have pardon of more than one criminal, to been thus stated. their intervention." Common report Mr. Hamerton a gentleman about made it appear, a few years since that 38 years of age, had resided many a young man convicted of forgery was thus reprieved on the very same day that Anne Hurle, a young woman, was executed at the Old Bailey for passing a forged note. years in the family of Mr. Goldsinid, not only in the capacity of steward and tutor, but in the more confidential character of friend; for he held valuable land for Mr. Goldsmid, the Jews Still, to the credit of the deceased, in England being unjustly debarred no partiality to his own people has this common privilege of their fellow ever been imputed to him; on the subjects. Long before the tragic event, contrary, his breaking through a la- a want of harmony was remarked bementable prejudice, till then common to Jews and Christians, was highly honourable to him as a man; and was a species of that charity that is able to cover a multitude of other sins. tween Mr. and Mrs. Goldsmid. On the Friday preceding his death a dispute was over-heard between them as they were walking in the grounds, respecting the dismissal of Mr. H; and Mrs. Goldsmid, it is said, exclaimed with emotion-" If Mr. H. leaves the house so must I!" Hitherto it has been but too justly remarked, that both Jews and Christians have, owing to the religious rancour subsisting between them, felt Mrs. G. it appears slept in a diflittle sympathy in their mutual dis- ferent room from that occupied by tresses. Each have considered the Mr. G. and a man servant slept in other as a distinct order of beings to- the same chamber with her husband, tally different; and have accordingly Being afflicted with the gout, a silk supposed themselves acquitted from cord was suspended from the bed top, any mutual obligations. Hence, till by which he changed his position and the Goldsmids set the example, the raised himself. About eight o'clock names of Jews in subscriptions to on the Monday morning following the christian charities, have been very dispute with Mrs. G. be ordered the rare. To almost all the Hospitals, Mr. servant to go and expedite the carB. Goldsmid is said to have been a riage; on his return, finding no adliberal benefactor; and such has been mittance, he alarmed Mr. flamerton the power of their late example, that and Mrs. Goldsmid, who bursting at present, many christian names ap- open the door, the dreadful spectacle pear among the subscribers to the presented itself. Assistance was imjewish school and hospital lately mediately imparted, but "the pulse founded. On the part of the Jews it of life was stopped; the anxious spirit ought to be remarked, that in sub- which fluttered within had fled."scribing to christian charities, they Though this occurred early on Monhave no latent motive for making con- day, it was not till Wednesday afterverts to their religion. It is to be noon that the coroner's inquest was wished that in future, the motives of held. They gave the usual humané the christians who subscribe to or as- verdict of Lunacy, which few will be sist the Jews may be equally pure and disposed to object to, when it is con UNIVERSAL MAG. VOL. IX. SI son he has left a legacy of 4000%; and he is also to share in the residue of his property with his four brothers; a moiety of which is to be paid them at the age of 21, and the other when they have attained their 25th year. His steward, the children's tutor, and all the domestics have been kindly remembered by him. His will was made in the year 1798; but the codicil, which specifies most of the legacies, was added two years ago. sidered that the property of a suicide, small legacies, as a token of his re'supposed sane, is forfeited to the membrance. He has remembered the crown; so that the affliction of an in- London Hospital, and several other nocent family would be increased by charitable institutions. To his eldest all the horrors of poverty. Mr. Goldsmid was about 55 years of age; Mrs. G. about 44. She produced him seven children, as we observed in our Obituary, page 847. The eldest son, a fine young man about 19, lately forsook the Jewish faith, and was naturalized. He is an officer in the Putney corps. But though it has been observed that Mr. Goldsmid's wife and family were by no means strict in their observance of the customs of their people, those persons know very little of the jewish character who are ignorant that the conversion or apostacy of any of their families from the belief of one God, is always to the rest a source of the most poignant affliction. Their general idea of converts from their belief is, that such persons are impostors or time-servers. If Mr. B. Goldsmid during his life-time really observed that he should be the last Jew of his family," it is not improbable that this laxity of principle, as well as the circumstances of his death, induced the High Priest, over whom it seems great wealth had no power, not to permit his remains to be deposited within, but they were interred without the Jewish burial ground. mentioned in p. 354 of our last); his Sir HENRY GREY, (whose death we estates, at the time of his death, did not amount to 17,000l. per annum. So far from leading the life of a coun try gentleman, as stated in the newsfor nearly forty years, but resided papers, he had not been in the country most of the time in Great Ormond street. The late Admiral RODDAM (mentioned in the same page,) never lived at Morpeth. He came to Newcastle for medical advice, and died there. His family residence was at Roddam; and tradition has reported, in the vulgar dialect of that country, that it must always be possessed by a Roddam: "While hills grow heather, Roddam of Roddam for ever mair." The following is the substance of Mr. Goldsmid's will. To his widow he has bequeathed 5000/. in cash; the interest of 25,000/. for her life, which sum is to be invested in the three per cent. cons.; 300l. per annum for the maintenance of each of his seven children; the use of the mansion The admiral was brother to the at Roehampton, together with the late Edward Roddam, of Roddam, in estate annexed to it, until the eldest Northumberland. Mr. Roddam went son attains the age of 25 years. He to sea as a midshipman in 1735-6 has also left her all his jewels, plate, in the Lowestoffe, in which capacity wines, carriages, horses, live and dead he served, also, in the Russel, Cumstock, growing crops, &c. Mrs. Gold- berland, and Boyne. He was upon the smid is also allowed the privilege of Antigua station five years, when Sir disposing by will to the amount of Chaloner Ogle took him into his own 5000%. If she at any time chuses to quit ship on his way to Jamaica to join Roehampton for another residence, a Admiral Vernon, whom he accompa further sum of 250/. per ann. is be- nied in different expeditions against queathed her. To each of his two Hispaniola, Carthagena, Cumberland daughters he has left 75007. besides Harbour, &c. In November 1741, he 1000% to be paid to each on the day of was made third Lieutenant of the her marriage. To his nieces he has Superb. In 1746, he was appointed bequeathed 500l. each; to his bro- to command the Viper sloop. At thers, and other relations, he has left Portsmouth, having the good fortune to excite the notice of Lord Anson by After performing a number of bril his seamanship, he wrote to the Lords liant services, peace only induced him of the Admiralty for leave to take to turn his sword into a plough-share Captain Roddam under his command. upon his own estate at Roddam, to His capturing a number of small Spa- which he became heir, through the nish vessels and silencing a battery in death of his brother, Edward Roddam, Sidera Bay soon after recommending Esq. In 1778, a Spanish war being him to Sir Peter Warren, he obtained expected, he was appointed to the for him the command of the Grey- Lenox of 74 guns, at Portsmouth, and hound frigate, with the rank of Post continued in his command three years Captain: this was in July 1747. In as a guardship. At the commence. 1758, he got the Bristol guardship of ment of the American war, he was 50 guns. In 1755, he commanded the commissioned for the Cornwall. In Greenwich, and fell in with five March 1779, he received the rank of › French ships of the line, which he Vice Admiral of the Blue. He was engaged several hours, till he was at made Vice of the White in Sept. 1780; length compelled to strike to the and, in April 1789, he was appointed. French admiral, and himself and commander in chief at Portsmouth, ship's crew were carried into Hispa- where his facility in getting the men niola. Captain Roddam, on his re- of war ready for sea went beyond all lease, was honourably acquitted for precedent. The admiral, however, the loss of his ship, at Kingston in had never been employed since he Jamaica. On his return to England, struck his flag at Portsmouth in 1792, he took the command of the Colches- though in 1805, he was Admiral of ter, under Lord Hawke, who was then the Red, and placed at the head of off Ushant. the list. ΟΝ HISTORICAL CHRONICLE. Deaths in and near London. N Thursday, May 12, in the 52d year of his age, Charles Henry Wilson, Esq. late of the Middle Temple. Mr. Wilson was some time editor of The Gazetteer, and there are few daily or periodical publications of any standing which have not been occasionally indebted to his contributions. He was the author of The Wandering Islander, Polyanthea, Brookiana, Beauties of Burke, and many more original productions, compilations, and translations, to none of which would he suffer his name to be prefixed. His attainments were versal. He was deeply versed in the antiquities and literature of the Gothic, Scandinavian, and Celtic nations With an inexhaustible fund of learning, he was "a fellow of infinite jest of most excellent fancy." His wit and humour, as many of our readers must have had opportunities of knowing, were truly original. The factitious jester, the Joe Miller wit, in vain attempted to enter the lists with him; he was speedily distanced by a simile, er an expression which never could enter the imagination of his rival, but so ludicrously apposite to the subject in hand, as never to fail to set the table in a roar." He was a native of the North of Ireland, and migrated to the metropolis upwards of twenty years ago. Born to no fortune, he ran his career of life without doing more than to provide for the day which was passing over him, a fate not uncommon to men entering the world under the same circumstances, and possessing similar endowments, joined to a strong relish for social enjoyment. At his house in Deau's Yard, Westminster, in the 30th year of his age, Mr. Thomas Hulf, known, since the death of Macklin, as the oldest actor in London, The last appointment he filled was that of deputy-manager of Covent Garden, which he occupied for three years, when Mr. Colinan relinquished it; but finding it too fatiguing for his time of life, he also relinquished it, and was succeeded by Mr. Lewis. Mr. Hull was the founder of the theatrical fund for the relief of distressed actors and actresses, or those who through age or misfor |
