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trumpet of alarm is sounded by the to which he had been exposed, and Society for promoting ChristianKnow- the expences to which he had been ledge-With what horror must not made liable. He was proceeding to his hearers be oppressed, when they read some affidavits, when he was hear the dread tidings from the pulpit, called to order; and he then stated, and see the advertisement in the par- that there was no proof of any direct son's hands! Little do they think that act or agreement on the part of the the whole is a fabrication of a Dr. baronet; and he moved that the resoGaskin, whom nobody knows, and lution be taken into consideration about a dozen other insignificant be- three months hence. Lord A. Hamilings, who have brought themselves ton stated, that from the attention he into consequence by managing the had given to the case for four or five guineas of very well-meaning chris- weeks in succession, he was clear that tians, who intended their subscriptions the charge was proved. Another for very different purposes than those member of the committee confirmed of inflammatory advertisements in this statement. Various opinions were But however we may then brought forward, and the discusreprobate in this instance the conduct sion ended with Capt. Herbert's moof Dr.Gaskin and his associates, we by tion being negatived. A new discusno means feel any great concern for sion now took place, whether the baLord Grenville; for we would ask his ronet should be expelled the house or lordship, whether, had circumstances not? This motion was not carried; been changed, and he could have used but an important one was carried imthe same instrument against his op- mediately after, and it was ordered, ponents, he would have had any scru- that the Attorney-General be directed ples whatsoever in patronising the said to prosecute Sir Christopher Hawkins Dr. Gaskin and his dǝzen friends for bribery and corruption. We re

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That great minister, as his lordship joice when any of these rich men, calls that most wretched and unfortu- who are encouraging profligacy among nate statesman Mr. Pitt,-that great the people, are brought to the bar of minister was notorious for starting and justice. This crime is of a very high supporting alarms; and we have not nature, next to high treason, and far forgotten the state trials, and the ridi- worse than forgery, for which poor culous plot broached by the ministers men are banged: but the true way to of those days, and more known under prevent the repetition of this crime is, the name of the Pop-gun Plot, which to prevent the members of the House was intended to serve a turn; and the of Commons from being bribed, and cry circulated through the country the ministers from bribing them with was as bad as that of No Popery. places and pensions.

Nec ex est justior ulla

On the 24th of April, Mr. WhitQuam necis artifices arte perire suâ. bread's Poor Bill, as far as it went to The proceedings in parliament, be- education, was considered; and Mr. fore its close, were of no great extent. Elliston very properly thought, that a From the moment that Mr. Canning bill of such importance ought to pass held out the threat of dissolution, the over to the next session. Mr. Rose members of both sides were preparing regretted, that a system of labour and for the event. We trust that one act coercion was not combined with that of the House of Commons will be car- of instruction. Mr. Roscoe viewed it ried into full effect. On the 22d of in the light of elevating the general April, the resolution of the Penryn character of the poor, and therefore election committee, charging ir gave the bill his support. Mr. H. Christopher Hawkins and his agents Erskine adduced the instance of Scotwith gross bribery and corruption at land, as a happy instance of the effect the late election, was taken into con- of educating the poor. Mr. Giddy sideration. Captain Herbert was for was against compulsion. Mr. S. Stanletting the matter rest where it was, hope looked upon the success of the and to consider the Honourable Baro- plan as doubtful, if not improbable; net (as he called him, but by a strange and, from his knowledge, he asserted, perversion of language) to have been that the children of the poor are very sufficiently punished by the vexations averse to going to school. Mr.Simeon

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session of power as they were in the interval between their dismission and the prorogation, there would Lave been no need for the complaintAlacrity seems not to have been want ing after the dismission; and a caicature represents a noble lord making use of his time to procure paper, pens, tape, boxes, wafers, &c. &c. from the public, more than would be sufficient to set up a respectable stationer's shop.

The parliament was prorogued after the following speech:-

My Lords and Gentlemen, We have it in command from his Majesty to inform you, that his Majesty has thought fit to avail himself of the first moment, which would admit of an interruption of the sitting of parliament, without ma'erial inconvenience to the public business, to close the present session: and, that his Majesty has therefore been pleased to cause a commission to be issued under the great seal for proroguitg the parliament.

observed, that the bill was unnecessary; committed in the financial departthat there were schools enough in ment. But we would ask them, why England to teach reading, and these that report was not brought in Lefore? he would not wish to destroy, by a bill They had full time to bring it in, imposing a heavy tax for a merely whilst they were in power; and, if speculative advantage. Mr.B.Bathurst they had been as alert during the po thought that we should not give the poor too high an opinion of themselves, and thereby thin the ranks of the common people. (This is a singular opinion in a christian country; but we recommend this gentleman to an oldfashioned book, teaching us that to the poor the Gospel is and ought to be preached; and if they are to hear the good newsof this exaltation, theSaviour incant also that they should be enabled to read and judge for themselves). Mr. Wilberforce agreed with the principle of the bill, and was for the House going into a committee. Mr.Windham opposed the bill. Mr.Whitbread contended that his plan would decrease the poor rates; and he observed, that the quantity of executions in London were exactly in proportion to the want of education. The greater number was from Ireland, the next from England, the last from Scotland. After various observations, the bill was committed. The dissolution of parliament has, we are happy to say, put a stop to all farther proceedings upon it. The real fact is, that the poor are much better educated by the schools now in existence, the school-masters already formed, and the charity of the rich, which supplies in numberless instances the want of their poorer neighbours. Were a bill of this kind to pass, the lower order of schoolmasters would become the spies of government; would lose the attachment of the people; would grow idle; the whole would degenerate into a job; and the country would be without education. Before any steps are taken to introduce a system of education among the poor, we would recommend the House of Commons to examine the state of the grammar-schools in England, in what manner the duties of those schools, where the masters, receive a salary, are performed.

We are farther commanded to state to you, that his Majesty is anxious to recur to the sense of his people, while the events, which have recently taken place, are yet fresh in their recol lection.

His Majesty feels that, in resorting to this measure, under the present circumstances, he at once demonstrates, in the most unequivocal manner, his own conscientious per suasion of the rectitude of those ing tives upon wh he has acted; and affords to hisle the best oppor tunity of test.

their determinatien to support im, in every exercise of the prerogatives of his crown which is conformable to the sacred obligations under which they are held, and conducive to the welfare of his kingdom, and to the security of the constitution.

On the 27th, the parlament was prorogued by a speech from the com- His Majesty directs us to express his missioners of the crown; and the ex- entire conviction, that after so long a ministers complain that they were reign, marked by a series of indul indecently prevented from bringing gences to his Roman Catholic subin their report on some enormnitie, jects, they, in common, with every

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other class of his people, must feel naturally and unavoidably excited by
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assured of his attachment to the prin- the late unfortunate and uncalled-for
ciples of a just and enlightened tole- agitation of a question, so interesting
ration, and of his anxious desire to to the feelings and opinions of his
protect equally, and promote impar- people, will speedily pass away; and
tially, the happiness of all descriptions that the prevailing sense and deter-
of his subjects.
their united efforts in the cause of
mination of all his subjects to exert
to conduct, to an honourable and se-
their country, will enable his Majesty
cure termination, the great contest in
which he is engaged.

Gentlemen of the House of Com

mons,

His Majesty has commanded us to thank you in his name, for the supplies which you have furnished for the public service. He has seen with great satisfaction, that you have been able to find the means of defraying in the make only one observation: that it Upon this speech it is necessary to present year, those large but necessary points out the necessity of preventing expences, for which you have provided, without imposing upon his people the immediate burden of additional taxes.

his majesty's ministers from having a seat in parliament. A difference of opinion, it seems, took place between His Majesty has observed with no missed them.-The people did not the king and his servants.-He disless satisfaction, the enquiries which you have instituted into subjects connected with public economy; and he trusts, that the early attention of a new parliament, which he will forthwith direct to be called, will be applied to the prosecution of these important objects.

My Lords and Gentlemen, His Majesty has directed us most earnestly to recommend to you, that you should cultivate, by all means in your power, a spirit of union, harmony, and good will amongst all classes and descriptions of his people.

His Majesty trusts, that the divisions,

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seem to interest themselves on the
subject. If they had retired into the
mass of private subjects, no mischief
would have arisen from it; but, by
holding seats in parliament, they were
enabled to obstruct public business.
Thus the whole nation has been put
into a ferment, merely because the
all placemen are excluded from the
king and his servants disagree. When
House of Commons, the king's ser-
vants will not form a compact body
to lord it, or to attempt to lord it, over
the king and country: they will be,
not the masters of the crown.
what they ought to be, the servants-

APOLLONIAN CRITIC.
"SEMPER FIDELIS."

"Said a Smile to a Tear."-Braham's on an additional sixpence per sheet, celebrated Piano Forte song, sung so that if we must have a song of Mr. and accompanied by the author in Braham's he extorts the opera of False Alarms. Price 3s. pence; but as if Mr. Braham was deour eighteenHOSE ignorant blockheads and termined to outrage even common unscientific composers, Handel, decency in his charges, or as if (which Purcel, Arne, Boyce, Green, Travers, perhaps, indeed, is the case) he was &c. &c. poor stupid souls, were con- determined to try to what extreme tented to charge the low price of six- public folly and extravagance could pence for their paltry songs; it was be pushed, he now treats us with a reserved for those great masters of song for Three Shillings!!! A song modern times, Dibdin, Reeve, Kelly, too, which possesses less of beauty =&c. to raise the price of their exqui- and of originality, than any one he site productions to one shilling each; has yet published. The air is that even this price, however, was thought of a well-known march, though the by Mr. Braham, to be much below name of it at this moment has the value of his divine compositions; escaped us; and as to the Accompaaccordingly he began by clapping niment, for which it is we suppose UNIVERSAL MAG. VOL. VII.

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that we pay our three shillings, it is a distinctly noticing as particularly mere trick, that any one of the spirited. Seldom have we seen a "Young gentlemen late of his Ma- sonata of equal length with this, in jesty's Chapel Royal" would have which all the passages lie so uncomdone for him, (and done it as well monly well for the hand. This is an too) for half-a-guinea. If, however, excellence by no means so much atMr. Braham can really find pur- tended to by composers for the Piano chasers of this song at the price which Forte as it ought to be. Mr. Monro he has affixed to it, we will suggest is therefore to be highly commended to him a plan, which if he will adopt, for his attention to it, and we feel will at once save him even the expence much pleasure in bestowing that comof paper and printing, and rid him of mendation upon this very deserving the insufferable bore of signing his and highly promising young comname to his songs for the beggarly poser. consideration of three shillings a signature.

T.

"Sunday Evening's Recreation,"conThe plan, therefore, which with sisting of Hymns and Sacred Songs all due humility to so great a man, for one and two voices, adapted we suggest, is, that he would advertise also for the Piano Forte. Op. 115. that "A SONG, composed by Mr. Composed by Mr. Hook. Price & Braham, may be SEEN at his house Those who have been in the habit of in Great Russell-Street, Bloomsbury, reading our monthly criticisms will reevery day between the hours of ten collect, that we have sometimes found and six.-Admittance one shilling it necessary to apply the lash of satire each person." Nay reader, smile with some small degree of severity, to not at this plan, nor treat it as ro- some of Mr. Hook's musical producmantic, for be assured, that every tions. In some of his operas which one who possesses no more common we have noticed, he has been impru sense than to part from three shil- dent enough to compose music to the lings for the "Smile and a Tear," most intolerable nonsense we ever would hasten to visit such an interest- read. When this is the case, we can ing exhibition.

T. rarely expect the music to be goodPity that a man of sense should so far "Le Retour de l'Eté,"'-a favourite degrade his talents: and it is a much Divertimento for the Piano Forte, greater pity that a British audience with an Accompaniment (ad libi- should tolerate such contemptible tum) for the German Flute or Vio- stuff as most of our modern musical lin. Composed by Mr. J. Monro, entertainments are made of-Wit author of the celebrated Rondos of ness, the Ogres, the Mother Gooses, Laura and Lenza, Duchess of Bed- with a long string of et ceteras; the ford's Waltz, &c. &c. Price 4s. very names of which convey the seThe fame of Laura and Lenza has verest censure upon the idiots who been so long and so firmly established pay for such abuses of the stage, and as a light, tasteful, and pleasing who suffer themselves to be insulted Rondo, that we have no doubt to en- (and appear to be pleased) with trash sure a favourable reception with the not sufficiently rational, one would public for the present article, we suppose, to amuse an Hottentot.need only announce its proceeding Surely we are verging towards a nafrom the same ingenious composer, tional idiotcy. But to notice the pubMr. Monro. We, however, shall not lication before us: we are the most gracontent ourselves with such a recom- tified where we can the most comment, mendation, but assure our readers, and to speak the truth, we must conthat this divertimento is much more fess ourselves pleased with this little worthy of their patronage than the work. Mr. Hook appears here to be the abovementioned agreeable rondo. at home; and to remind us of his The different movements are con- "Hermit," and some other of his ceived with such peculiar taste, and earlier productions, when his genius their excellence is so equal, that we was at its zenith. The airs of these can scarcely tell which we prefer: little pieces are simple, pleasing, and the march, however, we cannot help well suited to the words. With two

of the duets at the end of the book we were quite delighted. The basses are well adapted to the instrument for which they were composed. We strongly recommend these hymns for

young practitioners.

Z.

When the two first volumes of this Cabinet first made their appearance, we bestowed some favourable remarks upon them, and promised occasionally to notice the publication in its

Sunday practice, particularly to progress. We observe by the prospectus annexed to the title page, that these four volumes complete the series of songs and dances, and that the two next volumes are to consist of duets and trios for instruments only. We consider the selection of songs and dances to have been chosen with taste and discrimination, and that the editors deserve to meet with encouragement for the reatness and accuracy with which the volumes are brought out.

"Hail lovely May,"-a favourite Duet, written by T. Goodwin, esq. composed by H. Denman. Price 1s. This is one of the prettiest duets we have seen for many a day, and reminds us strongly of the beautiful and simple strains of our old favorite Mozart. We were almost in raptures at the pleasing melody contained in this little piece, and most cheerfully recommend it to all the lovers of harmony. The words are pleasing, and perfectly chaste; and the music is adapted to the words with much taste and discrimination. We congratulate Mr. Denman on the felicity of his judgment in the execution of it; and those who admire the artless strains of the divine Mozart will thank Mr. D. for this instance of his skill in harmony. Z.

The favourite Air in the Wood Damon, danced by Miss Bristow, arranged for the Piano Forte by T. Powell. Price 2s.

We are not much acquainted with Mr. Powell as a composer of music, but judging from the little piece now before us, we perceive he is not destitute either of taste or judgment; he has given us seven variations of this popular and well-known air, which he has executed with considerable taste and ability. Z.

Theme, avec douze variations pour la
Flute. Composés par C. Kreith,

Price 2s.

Of this Théme with the variations we are disposed to speak in the most favourable terms. Mr. K. is already well known to the amateurs of that pleasing instrument, the German Alute, and we will venture to say, that his credit will not suffer in their estimation by the present publication.

Purday and Button's Musical Cabinet,
or complete Pocket Library for the
German Flute, Violin, Flageolet, or
Oboe. Vols. 3 and 4. 2s. 6d. cach,

Dr. Callcotts Musical Grammar.

[Continued from page 171.]

It was our intention to have concluded our remarks upon this work in the present number, but upon a more attentive examination of it, found it to be impracticable, from the limits to which we are necessarily confined. We shall therefore examine the parts of this Grammar in the order in which they stand in the title page, viz. NOTATION, MELODY, HARMONY, and RYTHM.

The motto chosen by Dr. Callcott seems to have led him to extend himself as much as possible for the benefit of his readers. It is true that "the better music is known and understood, the more it will be valued and esteemed." But we can assure Dr. Callcott, that if he thinks unneces sary amplification the most likely method to produce a knowledge and esteem of this delightful science, he is entirely mistaken, for it will, on the contrary, impede both.

NOTATION. To this article pro perly belongs an explanation of the number and names of the lines and spaces, the names, form, quality, and quantity of the notes, and also of the different cliffs made use of in music, and agreed upon by all nations.

Now upon this information, which is usually in other works conveyed in about a dozen pages, Dr. Calcott has employed 84 pages, and 150 articles. Nearly fifty examples of melody are introduced under this article, which are evidently misplaced, and should have come under the article MELODY,

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