Thou hast loved me, my Love, when the world was You may laugh—but believe me "you're all in the unkind,

When you merrily marriage deride;
For to marriage alone lasting pleasures belong,
And in them we alone can confide,

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VOL II

Thales, the Milesian, one of the seven wise men of Greece, being asked, what is the oldest thing? He answered, God: because he has ever been, and exists immutably. What the handsomest thing? He said the world : because it is the work of God What is the largest thing? Space: because it comprehends What the most lasting? every thing besides. Hope: because when all other things fail, that remains. What the best thing? Virtue; for without it nothing that is good can be said or done. What the quickest? The thoughts of the buman mind. because in one moment they overturn the universe. What thestrongest? Necessity: because it surmounts all other accidents. What the easiest? To give advice. What the hardest? To know one's self. What the wisest thing? Time: because it brings all things to pass.

WIRT.

.

Handel met with at Rome was of the most flattering kind. The fame of his musical atchievements at Florence and at Venice, ha reached that metropolis long before him: his arrival, therefore, was immediately known, and occasioned civil inquiries and polite messages from persons of the first distinction there. Among his greatest admirers was the Cardinal Ottoboni, a person of a refined taste. Besides a fine collection of pictures and statutes, he bad a large library of music, and an excellent band of performers, which he kept in constant pay. The illustrious Corelli played the first violin, and had apartments in the Cardinal's palace. It was a customary thing with his eminence We read in Sandoval's Life of the Empe- to have performances of operas, oratorios, and ror Charles V. that he was a great friend such other grand compositions, as could from to the science of music, and after his abdica.time to time be procured. Handel was desirtion, would have the church offices only ac-ed to furnish his quota; and there was always "Excessive wealth is neither glory nor bapcompanied by the organ, and sung by fourteen such a greatness and superiority in the pieces piness. The cold and sordid wretch who thinks or fifteen friars, who were good musicians, composed by him. as rendered those of the only of himself, who draws his head within his and had been selected from the most expert best masters comparatively little and insignifi-shell, and never puts it out but for the purposes performers of the order." He was himself cant. There was also something in his man- of lucre and ostentation; who looks upon his so skilful, that he knew if any additional sing-ner so very different from what the Italians fellow creatures, not only without sympathy, er intruded; and if any one made a mistake, had been used to, that those who were sel- but with arrogance and insolence, as if he was he would cry out, Such a one is wrong and dom or never at a loss in performing any oth-made to be their lord; as if they were formed immediately mark the mɑn. He was earnest er music, were frequently puzzled how to ex- for no other purpose than to pamper his avatoo, that no seculars should come in; and one ecute his. Corelli himself complained of the rice, or to contribute to his aggrandizement— evening, when a contralto, from Placentia, difficulty he found in playing his overtures. Such a man may be rich, but trust me, he can stood near the desk with the singers, and sung Indeed, there was in the whole cast of these never be happy, nor virtuous, nor great.→ one verse with them eminently well, before compositions, but especially in the opening of There is, in fortune a golden mien, which is he could sing another, some of the barbarians them, such a degree of fire and force. as nev- the appropriate region of virtue and intelliran, and told the prior to turn him out of the er could consort with the mild graces, and pla-gence. Be content with that; and if the horn choir, or, at least, bid him hold l:is tongue." cid elegancies of a genius totally dissimilar. of plenty overflow, let its droppings fall, like The emperor understood music, and felt Several fruitless attempts Handel had one day the honey in the wilderness, to cheer the way made to instruct him in the manner of execuworn pilgrim. I wish you indeed to be distinered him behind the door, as he sate in his ting these spirited passages. Piqued at the guished; but wealth is not essential to distincown apartment, near the high altar, beating tameness with which he still played them, tion. Look at the illustrious patriots,philosophtime and singing in parts with the performers; he snatched the instrument out of his hand. ers, and philantropists who in various ages have and if any one was out, they could overhear and, to convince him how little he understood blessed the world; was it their wealth that him call the offender names; as readheaded him, played the passages himself. Bat Cor-made them great? Where was the wealth of blockhead," &c. "A composer from Sevilie, elli, who was a person of great modesty and A. istides, of Socrates, of Plato, of Epaminonof my own acquaintance," continues his bing- meekness, wanted no conviction of this sort; ditas, of Fabricious,of Cincinnatus, and of a rapher, whose name was Guerrero, presented for be ingeniously declared that he did not un-countless host upon the rolls of fame? Their bim with a book of motets and masses; and derstand them: i e. knew not how to execute wealth was in the mind and heart. Those are when one of these compositions had been sung them properly, and give them the strength the treasures by which they have been immor as a specimen, the Emperor called his confes-and expression they required. When Handel talized, and such alone are treasures that are sor, and said See what a thief, what a pla- appeared in a passion, • Ma care Sassone, worth a serious struggle." giarist, is this son of a! why here,' says (said he) questa Mus ca a nel stylo Francese, be, 'this passage is taken from one composer, and this from another,' naming them as he went on. All this while, the singers stood astonished. as none of them had discovered these thefts, till they were pointed out by the Fmрегог. Busby.

and tasted its cbarms: the friars often discov

di chio non mintendo.*”

European Magazine,

That is indeed a twofold knowledge, which profits alike by the folly of the foolish and wisdom of the wise; it is both a shield and a sword * My dear Saxon, this music is in the French it borrows its security from the darkness, and style, which I do not understand.

its confidence from the light.

DR. ARNOLD.

of his productions least familiarly known, into neither read nor play Moore's productions;
materials for a new oratorio; which the Doc they are too full of profaneness and things that
tor produced, under the title of Redemption hould not enter girls 'neads." We should like
The judgment displayed in this laborious ad-to hear where those puritanic critics can find
aptation, was worthy of the compiler's long them. There is not a line that we know of in
experience in orchestral compilation; and his Irish Melodies that ought to mantle any fair
effort was received at Drury Lane Theatre cheek with a blush, or “which, as was said
with the most cordial approbation.
of Addison," dyiug he would wish to blot "
Disinterested friendship, fervent affection, en-
thusiastic patriotism. pure, holy, and ten ler
love, alternately sway the verse,(" they best
can paint them who can feel them most"), and
we are sure no man or woman can sa Moore
is irreligious, when he or she has read that
sweet and pious production, the Paradise and
the Peri.

Dr. Samuel Arnold, born in August, 1740,
was at a very early age received into the
King's Chapel, and, by consequence, received
his musical education under Mr. Gates, master
of the children of that establishment. En-
dowed with a considerable portion of natural
talent, and a persevering spirit, he, in his
twenty third year, found himself qualified to Doctor Arnold's general habits were not
enter upon dramatic composition. Engaged the most abstemious; and a train of disorders
at Covent Garden Theatre as one of its regu-brought upon his constitution, already enfee
lar composers, he gave the first public evi bled by the long confinemeut to which he had
dence of his abilities, by his composition and been subjected by the accident just mention-
compilation of the music of the Maid of the ed, hastened his dissolution. After an illness
Mill. His success in this undertaking both of many months, too severe to admit the hope
stimulated further exertion, and expanded his of his recovery, he expired at his house in
Tom Moore is a creature of the heart, he
professional ambition. Aspiring to the very Duke street, Westminster, on the 22d of Oc-
highest rank of his art. he prosecuted his tober, 1802. His remains were interred near has no selfishness, no affectation; his poems
studies with new ardour, cultivated with avid- the northern exterior of the choir of West-proceed from the bosom more than from the
ity the principle arcana of counterpoint, and minster Abbey. The funeral was attended by brain; hence they are sometimes perhaps,
in 767 produced his oratorio of the Cure of the gentlemen of the three choirs of West- too rich, voluptuous and thrilling; but if the
Saul, written by Dr. Brown. The piece was minster, St. Paul's, and the King's Chapel; extreme rigidness of society will make this
received with sufficient favour to encourage and among the mourners, were the late Sir a fault, after all it is a fault on the right side.
the continuance of his efforts in the same high William Parsons, Dr. Ayrton. and Dr. Busby. We abominate indelicacy and immodesty as
province and the following year, he brought
much as any body, and hence we felt a strong
forward his Abimelech. The applause obtained
dispositien, while we regret the want of pow-
by this second oratorial production, establish-
er, to banish Byron for seven years to a pig-
ed the reputation of its composer; and in
stye, for writing that filthy compound of ob
1773, he successfully submitted to the public
scenity and sublimity, DonJuan, knowing as
he did, that his "new poem
judgment his Prodigal Son, the tenor and bass
to every lady's toilette as her glass or her pins
was as necessary'
songs of which, I am reminded, were sung
but where is there any thing of the sort in
by Mr. Vernon and Mr. Merideth. Four years
Moore's avowed productions. Where is there
after this, appeared his oratorio of the Resur
a word, a line, or a sentiment in Lallah Kookb
rection, the general merit of which was well
or those Melodies, that can. by twisting, be
calculated to sustain the reputation he had ac-
made to open indelicate or irreligious? We
quired.
do not believe there is one, and hence we have
not the slightest hesitation in recommending
our fair Cambrian readers, whose taper-fingers
and pulpy lips discourse together mot el
quent music," to purchase immediately this
delightful number.

or

EIGHTH NUMBER IRISH MELODIES BY T. MOORE

the

THE CORONATION.

Among the numerous arrangements that have been making for the Coronation of George the Fourth are the following.

Ubi mel, ibe apes... Plautus. From the Carlisle Journal.-- Moore is certainly not the greatest of our modern poets, but he is infinitely the sweetest, the richest and the most luxuriant. He has not the profound depth, the soul searching misanthropic abstractedness of Byron; he has not the still holy, pensive, solitariness, the deep and yet child-like mingling of heart with the mysterious Of the four oratorios already named, the spirit of nature, that Wordsworth possesses; Prodigal Son aquired the superior renown; he has not the redundancy of fanciful and fanand when Lord North was elected Chancellor tastic imagery, glittering in all the hues of the of the University of Oxford, the composer was prism, but, like chaos," without form and void," was applied to, for the use of that piece, to that characterizes the writings of Southely; nor celebrate the in-taliation. The oratorio per has he that classical elegance and minute corformed, Mr. Arnold availed himself of the op- rectness of the sweet minstrel of Hope, portunity of presenting to the musical profess-bard of Gertrude's woes; but he has more a probationary exercise for a Doctor's than any or all of them, a fancy teeming with degree. Dr William Hayes had heard the brilliant and happy conceits, a heart swelling oratorio in London, and with a politeness that with patriotism and enthusiastic feeling, an im equalled his judgment, declined scrutinizing agination sparkling with all the splendid and Choir and Musical Department.-The Orthe submitted composition. "It is, Sir," said luscious beauty of a bed of tulips, when played gan to be used on this occasion is nearly erectthe professor, returning to the ingenious can. on by the sweet rays of Aurora. There is noted, in a gallery over the altar, in Westminster didate his score unopened, unnecessary to ex- a man in the world whose heart is free from Abbey. It is not the one that has been menamine an exercise composed by the author of the cold, calculating, grub-like meanness of tioned, but one bespoke by his Majesty's State the Prodigal Son." Mammon, or the still more petrifying and dead- Officers, and made by Mr Elliot, of the City In 1783, Dr. Arnold succeeded Dr. Nares, ening influence of heartless superstition and Road. The keys are brought a considerable brother of Judge Nares, as organist to his still spiritual pride, that does not burn, and Majesty, and composer to the Chapel Royal: thrill and swell, and become prouder and betand in the following year, was nominated one ter, and more expansive,when he reads Moore's of the sub-directors of the grand commemora- poetry; nor is there a lady in the land, whose tion of Handel, which took place in Westmin-feelings are not locked up by the mockery of ster Abbey The new interest given to the prudery, or dissipated by the frivolousness of product ons of the Prince of Modern Musi- coquetry, or frittered away by the follies of cians, by this royal celebration of German gen. fashion,that does not feel her heart heave with ius, suggested to Dr. Arnold the idea of fur- with a tenderer force when she is singing and nishing the public with a complete e lition of playing those divine melodies on her pianoHandel's works; and in thirty six folio vol-forte Those who umes, be effected his design, with the exception of the few of those Italian operas of the great composer least in public request. The re-perusal of Handel' compositions necessary to the prosecution of this undertaking, gave birth to the idea of converting those portions

distance from the pipes, so that the player may be near the band and principal voices Mr. Knyvett Sen. as Organist of his Majesty's Chapel Royal, is to preside at it over the choir department; and Mr. Shield as Master of his Majesty's band of Musicians, over the instru mental; the vocal will be confined to the gen tlemen of his majesty's Chapels royal, and the choir of Westminster Abbey, and the instrumental, to his majesty's band of musicians as appointed by the Lord Chamberlain.-Two Anthems are composed for the occasion by Mr. Atwood and Mr. William Knyvett by virtue By darning those they have no mind to. of office as composer to the King Te Deum, affect to find out immodesty and irreligion in Sacrament Sanctusses, and Handel's grand Cor Moore's compositions. "My Mary, some moh-opation. Anthem, will likewise be performed. cupped silly old woman is exclaiming, "shall

Compound for sins they are inclined to

Courier.

ANECDOTE OF VERACINI.

"Being at Lucca at the time of la Festa della Croce, which is celebrated every year on the 14th of September, when it is customary for the principal professors of Italy, vocal and instrumental, to meet, Veracini entered his Bame for a concerto; but when he went to the choir, in order to take possession of the principal place, he found it already occupied by Padre Girolamo Laurenti, of Bologna, who, not knowing him, as he had been some years in Poland, asked him where he was going? Veracini answered, "to the place of first violin Laurenti then told him, that he had been always engaged to fill that post himself; but that if he wished to play a concerto, either at vespers, or during high mass, he should have a place

THE BEWITCHED LIEUTENANT.

the interior of the mould corresponds exactly
with the shape of the fleshy part of the inside In 1817, a very corpulent gentleman, a lien-
of the band, and are therefore carefully mod-tenant of the royal navy, applied to the lord
elled and an assortment of moulds of a varie-mayor of London, under the following circum-
ty of shapes and forms are provided to fit the stances. He stated, that the lady of the house
hands of different persons; different moulds where he lived, her daughter, and several of
are also prepared for the same person, to fa- the lodgers, had conspired to deprive him of his
cilitate the performance of open or close pas- existence, by means of " electricity and the at
sages in the music; such as chords or octaves. tractive power;" that they had utterly depriv-
in which the finger require to be extended ed him of his ancle bones, the nobs of his wrists,
over such as in which the notes follow close and had superinduced a consumption. His
lordship remarked that his appearance by no
after each other in succession.
means warranted that conclusion; but he as-
sured his lordship, that his rotundity was occa-
sioned by their contrivances, and that it con-
sisted entirely of inflammable matter: that they
had cut three setons in his neck, bled him four
times on the art with lancets, and seven times

MUSICAL PERMUTATION.

A very curious invention or discovery has been made in the art of musical composition. Cards are prepared on each of which a bar of an air is arranged according to a

great contempt and indignation, turned bis and key, Four packs of these cards marked on the forehead with leeches, and that the

back on him, and went to the lowest place in the orchestra. In the act or part of the service in which Laurenti performed his concerto, Veracini did not play a note, but listened with great attention. And being called upon, would not play a concerto, but requested the hoary old father would let him play a solo at the bottom of the choir, desiring Lanzetti, the violincellist of Turin, to accompany him: when he played in such a manner as to extort an eriva! in the public church. And whenever he was about to make a close, he turned to Laurenti and called out; Cosi ei suona, per fare il primo violino;'-This is the way to play the first fiddle."

This, and other instances of his eccentricity procured him the appellation of Capo puzzo; Mad-cap. Busby.

NEW INVENTION.

To Major Peter Hawker, of Long ParishHouse, near Andover, Hants, for a machine to assist the attainment of proper performance on the Piano Forte or other keyed instru

ments.

A, B, C and D, are mingled together, and as
the cards are drawn and arranged before a
performer in the order of that series, it will
be found that an original air is obtained. The
cards hitherto made, are as waltzes and suc-
ceed perfectly. The invention may be cal-

led musical Permutation. It has received,
however, improperly that of the musical Kal-
eidoscope.

MANUFACTURE OF CATGUT STRINGS.

young lady had applied the attractive power with so much violence, as to extract two of his teeth! which teeth he produced in court, in Gorroboration of the fact; at the same time he handed up a voluminous written statement of his grievances, and concluded by claiming the protection of his lordship.

The lord mayor remarked, that he did not see how he could interfere with the attractive powers of the young lady. through she had them with such strong effect.

The lieutenant said. it was not against this The catgut strings used for harps and violins particular family only he had to complain, but are manufactured at Whitechapel, &c. of the that multitudes were in the habit of tormenting peritoneal covering of the intestines of the him with a tube and a spring, and other vile sheep; but have always been considered infe- contrivances, and it was lamentable and scanrior to those exported from Italy. Dr. Mdalous to see a great nation conspiring against Culloch ascrites this superiority to the leanness an individual who had served his country in so of the Italian sheep it is known, that the many battles membranes of lean animals are stronger than those of fat ones; and he suggests, that the An extract from the last will and testament of catgut should be manufactured from the Welsh Highland or Southdown breeds, in preference to those which, like the Lincoln, are prone to excessive accumulations of fat.

VARIETY.

The macbine constituting this invention consists of a supporting rod placed horizontally Dr. Gregory, whose legacy to his daughter in front of the keys of a piano forte; the hands should be in the hands of every young woman of the performer are supported on this rod, has said, "when a girl ceases to blush she has in a little mould or frame which slides to and lost the most powerful charm of beauty." It fro on it, the rod is made of either metal or is truly surprising that some of them will cher. wood and in its figure either cylindrical or oth-ish or indulge customs which will infallibly wise; it is mounted on pieces or supports strip them of those sweet attractive garus, which are screwed on to the front of the despoil them of that retiring sensibility, and bottom board of the instrument. The whole those nameless charms which endear them to is capable of adjustment as to height and dis-our hearts and irresistibly impet us to love and tance from the keys, the length being about the same as the front of the instrument and of sufficient strength to support the hands without inflection.

Col. Geo. Mason, of Virginia.

"I recommend to my sons, from my own experience in life, to prefer the happiness of independence and a private station to the troubles and vexations of public business; but, if either their own inclinations, or the necessity of the times should engage them in public af

fairs, I charge them, on a father's blessing, never to let the motives of private interest or ambition induce them to betray, nor the terrors of poverty and disgrace, or the fear of danger or of death, deter them from asserting the liberty of their country, and endeavoring to transmit to posterity those sacred rights to which themselves were born."

By one physician might your work be done;
But two are like a double barreled gun ·
From one discharge sometimes a bird has flown,
The second barrel a ways brings it down."

Friendly warning.—A gentleman having called wo physiupon a friend with whom he found protect them.-Many a thoughtless but inno-sians, left at his departure the following lines, cent girl, by indiscreetly yielding to youthful scrib led on the back of a letter: gaiety and fervour, has eventually lost her reputation, blighted her fairest prospects, and ruA pair of frames or moulds for the hands to ined her hopes forever-A woman's hopes, rest in, for the purpose of guiding the fingers, her happiness, her all, depend upon the goodare made of wood, leather or papier machee,ness of her character; that once injured, is carved or moulded to the form of the under lost, farewell to the expectations of honour of pa t of the right and left hands, from the happiness on earth. Sorrow and wretchedwrist to the extent of the knuckles; they are ness is the probable lot of such unfortunate smooth on the under side for the purpose of females. They pine away in ignominy or obsli ing on the rod, and are attached to the scurity, and as Spencer has expressed it, hands by straps passing over the back of the hand round the wrist, and which buckle on;

"Griev'd with the present; of the past asham'd
They live despis'd; they die, uo more is nam'd.

Woman.-A woman whose ruling passion is
not vanity, is
superior to any man of equal fac-

ul'ies

A philosopher wisely observed that superstition is to religion, what astrology is to astronomy the very foolish daughter of a very wise mother.

EUTERPEIAD:

OR....MUSICAL INTELLIGENCER.

BOSTON, SATURDAY, SEPT. 1, 1821.

ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE ART OF MUSIC.

A disquisition on the philosophy of the art of music may possibly tend to its advancement, we therefore offer a few remarks which may interest that gifted class, who have what is called a musical ear, since we might with as much chance of a right judgment, address ourselves to the blind upon the merits of a painting, as to per sons not susceptable of the effects of music, upon the truth of the principles which we shall endeavor to establish.

Dugald Stewart observes, "It is obvious that the circumstances which please in the objects of taste are of two kinds: First, those which are fitted to please by nature or by associations, which all men are led to form by their common condition; and secondly those which please in consequence of associations arising from local,and accidental circumstances. Hence there are two kinds of taste; the one enabling us to judge of those beauties which have their foundation in the human constitution; the other, of such objects as derive their principal recommendation from the influence of fashion. "

MR. WILLIS.

The two first divisions are expressive in themselves;
the two last only in conjunction with others."
This accomplished musician possesses the appoint-
First-Loud sound is connected with ideas of pow-ment of Professor of music, and instructor of the
er and danger. Many objects in nature which have band at West Point, attached to the battalion of Ca-
⚫uch qualities are distinguished by such sounds, and dets. In our last we barely had room to speak of the
this association is further confirmed from the human scintillations of genius aud fancy depictured by Mr.
voice, in which all violent and impetuous passions Willis in his orchestral scores used by his band,in the
are expressed by loud tones."
performance of numerous familiar and popular airs,
with which the inhabitants of this metropolis were
nightly regaled.

The imperfect knowledge of the science and the little sensibility to the pleasures of music, which MR. ADDISON appears to have possessed, may probably account for the slight notice he has taken of its ob jects and its powers in his speculations. His observations are few and scattered. He, however, has remarked,that "the rising and sinking of the passions the casting soft or noble hints into the soul, is the natural privilege of music in general. MR. ADDisox also extracts the basis of recitative from the tones of the voice in speaking, and of course the different expressions of passions in music, as imitative of the tones which passions naturally adopt. Hence, he infers," that music, (in common with other arts) is to deduce its laws and rules from the general sense and taste of mankind, and not from the principles of those arts themselves, or in other words that the taste not to conform to the art, but the art to the taste." The author who has gone the farthest into the develope of the means by which music effects us,is MR. ALISON in his beautiful Essays on the nature and principles of taste, and while he classifies the sentiments to which sounds address themselves, and endeavors to establish some of the principles upon which music, properly so called, addresses itself to the understanding and the heart, he gives much more association than any of his predecessors, and thus divide- the sounds and the ideas,and the emotions, they

excite.

"The "reat divisions of sound are into loud and Low, Crave and Acute, Increasing and Diminishing,

Second-Low sound has a contrary expression, and is connected with ideas of weakness, gentleness and delicacy, This association takes its rise not only from the observation of inanimate nature, or of animals, where in a great number of cases, such sounds distinguish objects with such qualities, but particularly from the human voice, where all the gentle, or delicate,or sorrowful affections are expressed by such

tones."

Third-Grave sound is connected with ideas of moderation, dignity, solemnity &c. principally, I believe, from all moderate, or restrained, or chastened affections being distinguished by such tones in the

human voice.

Fourth-Acute sound is expressive of pain or fear or surprise, &c. and generally operates by producing some degree of astonishment. This association, also, seems principally to arise from our experience of such connexions in the human voice.

Mr. Willis received his musical education in Ire

land, and when quite a youth, was employed by Sir John Stevenson to travel the several counties in search of original Irish airs from the peasantry, whom he would hire to sing, and from this species of oral performance, he obtained a very large portion of those exquisite melodies which Sir John Stevenson and Mr. Moore has published in several elegant editions. Mr. Willis's acquirements are numerous, he performs with much execution upon every instrument in his band, and the facility with which he executes the chromatic passages upon the Kent Bugle, is the result of many years practice under the celebrated Mr. Logier of Dublin, whose improvements have brought this useful and much admired instrument into general use.

Among the lovers and judges of music, new beauFifth-Long or lengthened sound seems to me to ties were discovered in every performance of Mr. W. have no expression in itself, but only to signify the and it is with much satisfaction we learn it to be his continuance of that quality which is signified by oth-intention to visit Boston in a short time, for the purer qualities of sound.

Sixth-Short or abrupt sound has a contrary expression and signifies the cessation of the quality thus expressed.

pose of giving a few concerts. Being particularly conversant with his versatile talents, we have beheld with admiration his excellence as a musician, and with unmixed delight his vast superiority as a performer on numerous instruments.

Seventh-Increasing sound signifies, in the same
manner, the increase of the quality expresscd.
We make no doubt his merits will be duly appre-
Eighth-Decreasing sound signifies the gradual di- ciated, and that his claims upon the patronage of the
inhabitants of this metropolis will be co.npensated.
minution of such qualities.”

"I shall leave to the reader to attend to the diver

sity of expression which arises from the different com-
binations of sound.

MRS. FRENCH.

This interesting lady on her way from the Springs The most sublime of these sounds appears to me to visited this town for a few days, and was urgently be a loud, grave lengthened, and increasing sound." solicited to give an exhibition of her vocal talents in The least sublime, a low, grave, or decreasing the line which she most excels, that of refined Melosound. ody. The short notice given of her intention, did not The most beautiful, a low, grave, and decreasing afford much opportunity for a display of her best sound.

Such are the few general principles that take place with regard to the sublimity or beauty of sounds. The innumerable exceptions that there are to every one of those rules, affords a sufficient proof that this sublimity or beauty of the sounds themselves. Whereever or however, any new sound occurs, it is, by its approach to one or other of these classes that we determine its sublimity or beauty."

MR. ALISON has also a dissertation upon music or sounds united by laws. It goes to prove, that this science is productive to us of two distinct and separate pleasures.

First-Of that mechanical pleasure, which by the constitution of our nature accompanies the percep tion of a regular succession of related sounds.

Second-Of that pleasure which such compositions of sound may produce, either by the expression of some pathetic or interesting affection, or by being the sign of some pleasing or valuable quality, either in the composition or the performance.

Songs, but her Concert Bills were replete with many of the newest and most fashionable airs extant. It is unnecessary for us to remark upon this lady's acquir ments, or science in music, her voice is unimpaired notwithstanding the fatigues of a long journey from New Orleans by land, and wherever she appears, will attract notice and attention.

MR. T. PHILIPS. The arrival of this accomplished Vocalist, may be shortly expected in this country. We understand letters have been received, announcing his intention to visit America as soon as he should be able to make

the necessary arrangements. Mr. Philipps was engaged in making overtures to some females of music. al celebrity to accompany him on his transatlantic excursion. It is needless to say he has done much in the refinement of the style and taste, in this coun try, and that he will continue to improve our execution in sacred musical composition,does not admit of doubt.