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From this melody, formerly set to the awful query of Shakspeare's witches, Mr. Horsley has formed an ingenious and agreeable trio. Without forsaking or intruding upon his original air, he has produced a structure, the general order and harmony of which is both diversified and regular; and the author's sense and meaning faithfully conveyed. The pianoforte accompaniment is fanciful and appropriate; and the introductory and intervening symphonies relieve the ear, and evince the taste of their ingenious and respectable master. Air with Variations for the Piano-forte. 2s. 6d. Composed by Mr. Forster. The theme of this composition is from the genius of Martini, and by no means unworthy of its distinguished author. Mr. Forster's variations (nine in number) are pleasingly diversified ; but do not, we must in candour say, rise to any peculiar eminence. As a practice for the piano forte, or an occasional chamber-divertisement, the piece may justly command attention; and we should not doubt of its general favourable reception. "For Thee alone, my Mona dear," a favorite song, sung by Mr. Cogan, at the London Concerts. Written by Francis Wyman, jun. composed by George Frederic Harris. 1s. 6d. If this song is not of a very striking description, neither is it destitute of commendable points. The sense of the au thor is well illustrated and enforced; the passages are melodiously turned, and the introductory and concluding symphonies are tasteful and consentaneous. In a word, though Mr. Harris can scarcely be allowed to stand exaltedly above the general and numerous ballad composers of the day, this production exhibits him as a musician of considerable natural talents, and entitled to our expectation of much future excellence from his pen. Aria Introduzione and Rondo for the Flute, with an accompaniment for the Pianoforte, composed by Leonard de Call. 2s. 6d. This air, and its succeeding rondo, are creditable to the taste of Mr. Call; and the accompaniment, (by Mr. Denman,) though slight and familiar, has a respectable share in the general effect. The solo, (for so it may justly be denomi Number 2. of Il Flauto Magico, composed by The present number of this pleasing "Grand Isit, bile," " Colomba mia venite qua." These eleven specimens of the facility, happiness, and originality, of Mozart's imagination, are treated with taste and skill. The flute accompaniment is not only congenial in its style with the character of that instrument, but, by its affinity to the melody it adorns, and its own independent beauty, it exhibits no less fancy than judgment, and places this ingenious musical caterer for the musical public high above the rank of an ordinary adjuster of the productions of other masters. THE DRAMA. REMARKS on the English Drama will, in future, form an occasional feature of this Miscellany. Our national Theatres, though not uniformly free from frivolous and puerile characteristics, as sume for the most part a correctness of moral sentiment and dignity of manner, which seem to entitle their performances to the notice of a publication devoted to topics scientific, literary, and economical; will scarcely fail to prove acceptable to fair and impartial observations upon which many of our readers. Of the two winter houses, the arrangement of Drury-lane claims our first atten tion, as having sprung to a new and unexpected eminence, through the laudable efforts of an ingenious, respectable, and indefatigable individual. Mr. Elliston received this concern from the hands of a committee whose mismanagement had involved it in a degree of ruin and dis graces are we, that neither of thein was recom. mended by the gentleman engaged to read and judge of the productions offered to this Theatre. However, we do not hesitate to agree with Mr. E. that nothing is more difficult than to determine, from the perusal of a manuscript drama, its effect in representation: and that, in that point, the most experienced critic would be liable to self-deception. For our selves, we are free to acknowledge, that unless the novelties produced be of substantial and superior merit, we are oldfashioned enough, and even fastidious enough, to be reconciled to their condemnation. Our stock of classical pieces is too extensive, and their merits too sterling, to be superseded by compositions of mediocrity; and the dramas of Shakespeare, Beaumont and Flecher, Otway, Congreve, Sheridan, Cumberland, and Colman, skilfully represented, will always well compensate the rejection of the offerings of inferior dramatists. grace, from which it could be retrieved only by exertions like his own, aided by the benefit of long managerial experience. The professional reputation so well earned by this gentleman, soon established an opinion favourable to his adventurous and Herculean undertaking; and the doubt which at first prevailed respecting the possibility of the former, prosperity of Old Drury being revived by any talent and industry, gave way to the most cheering hopes, hopes realized by the receipts of the very first week, which amounted to more than two thousand three hundred pounds. The constellation of merit existing in the united pretensions of Kean, Elliston, Braham, Munden, Dowton, Mrs. Edwin, Mrs. West, and Miss Kelly, formed a just basis for high expectations; but much depended on the manager's standing with the public: and that, very luckily, was of the most favourable description. On his opening night, his appearance was hailed by the warmest and most enthu siastic cheers; and the satisfaction and delight demonstrated by the audience throughout the performances, were the happy presages of success. In the course of somewhat more than three months, as many new pieces have been produced at Drury-lane Theatre, which had not the honour of the public sanction: "The Fisherman's Hut;" "The Disagreeable Surprise;" (musical pieces) and "Gallantry," a comedy. Respect ing the first of these dramas, we easily imagine that the manager suffered his judgment to be seduced by the name of its ingenious author, the late Mr. Tobin; but cannot so easily account for his adop tion of the second and third. Certain COVENT GARDEN THEATRE continues to be conducted, as heretofore, on a scale of expence which utterly disregards private profit, and therefore will claim our respectful notice in the next Number. If Drury-lane has its Kean and Braham, its rival has a dramatic corps, not inferior in talents to any epoch of theatrical history. Nor will our notices be limited to these western Theatres, for a license having been granted to the East London Theatre, and a Theatre near Goodman's Fields having a sort of hereditary claim, it may be expected that its performances will be entitled to historical and critical attention. MEDICAL REPORT. REPORT of DISEASES and CASUALTIES occurring in the public and private Practice of the Physician who has the care of the Western District of the CITY DISPENSARY, -the limits of which, commencing at the Fleet-street end of Chancery-lane, pass through Gray's Inn-lane, Portpool lane, Hatton Wall, Great Saffron-hill, West street, Smithfield bars, Charterhouse-lane and Square; along Goswell street to Oldstreet; down Old-street, as far as Bunhill-row; thence crossing the Old Jewry and extending along Queen-street, terminate at the water-side. ONE of my daughters, (says a corres pondent of the Reporter,) has had the small-pox, although she was declared secure from it by vaccination some years since. In this case, the usual subterfuge, that it was the chicken-pox, will not avail; for this last disease the same girl had a year ago." It may be replied to this statement, that there is no necessity for thus evading the allegations of the antivaccinist by any contra-statements, which should imply an apprehension that the warfare would prove unsuccessful if fairly waged. That small-pox does actually, and not unfrequently, succeed to vaccination, it were flying in the face of all fact to deny: but what kind of small-pox is it that thus occasionally visits an individual, Z. 2 after after his constitution has been defended by an impregnation of the vaccine virus? Is it not the disease, with very little exception, modified and mitigated to a comparative nonentity? So much so, that, while the matter taken from a person thus affected shall prove perhaps The poison of death to one not thus defended, the individual himself from whom it was received shall speedily and successfully close upon the malign power with scarcely a consciousness of conflict. That there are some exceptions to this general rule, must be allowed; but then it is likewise to be recollected, that small. pox itself does not infallibly exempt against future attacks; nay, at this very moment, the writer is informed that two members of the same family, in high life, are suffering from the effects of the variolous poison, the one of them having been sometime since inoculated, the other vaccinated. And of a family, which the Reporter himself attends, one individual has but just now recovered from small-pox, who had the same disease decidedly characterised in early infancy. An epidemic likewise has lately prevailed in several parts of this island, which, in the shape of an eruptive distemper, neither spared the variolated nor the vaccinated; and, upon the whole, the Reporter thinks it by no means made out, that had the immense numbers which have been subjected to the latter undergone the former process, the secondary affections, which are now exciting the attention both of the profession and the community, would have either been fewer in number or less in virulence. It is still an unsolved problem, whether the preventive efficacy of the two inoculations stands at precisely the same point; but, even allowing the exempting power of the variolous, compared with that of the vaccine, to be as two to one, the latter ought still greatly to be preferred to the former, by every principle of calculation on contingent conse quences. A medical writer has recently started, and ably advocated, the hypothesis, that chicken-pox, small-pox, and cow-pox, are all the results of one and the same virus, modified to the utmost variety of degree, by time, place, and circumstances; and some of his positions, in support of this theory, are exceedingly powerful: but, whether that be or be not the case, the writer cannot but think that vaccination must eventually establish its claim of being considered the greatest physical blessing that Providence has ever bestowed upon man, provided no unfair means be had recourse to, in order to invalidate its pretensions. Thavies' Inn; Feb. 20. D. UWINS, M.D. REPORT OF CHEMISTRY, NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, &c. AN experiment was lately made in Pa- exhibit, by actual experiment, the princi ris, in presence of a committee named by the Minister at War. A marmite was placed on a carriage, in which was put 500 quarts of water, 300 lb. of beef, with vegetables in proportion. The fire was lighted at 9 A.M.: it was then drawn about Paris, and at half-past two the meat and soup was ready. There was no loss from evaporation: 52lb. of bois blanc only was employed, and there was enough left to have made it boil two hours longer. Now 261b. of coal would have been sufficient. These marmites, pots, or kettles, may be shaken about without injury; so that cooking may be effected on-board ship in any weather. In consequence of the frequent imperfection of the common stop-cock for the retention of condensed gaseous matter, Sig. CRIVELLI, professor of natural philosophy at Milan, has invented another, which is supposed to be free from the objections that may be made to the first. It consists of a box and plug, both of the usual form; also a conical valve and a spring tube. Mr. BYWATER has constructed a small model of a ship, in such a manner as to pal magnetic phenomena mentioned by Capt. Flinders. Professor MEINACKE, of Halle, has just succeeded in producing a brilliant illumination by means of electric light, and with the aid of an artificial air inclosed in glass tubes. As the electric sparks propagate themselves to infinity, the Professor thinks it will be possible to light up a whole city with a single electrifying machine, and at a very trifling expense, by the adoption and probable improvement of the appa ratus he has already invented. Matches kindling without fire are prepared by mingling two parts of the oxymuriate of potash and one of sulphur, which, by means of a little gum, is attached to a common sulphur match. This match, on being dipped into, or rather slightly wet with, strong sulphuric acid, (oil of vitriol,) immediately catches fire. The sulphur and salt should be pulverized separately; if rubbed together in a mortar, they will explode with some danger to the operator, provided the quantity be over a few grains. Matches made upon this principle are sometimes put up in little japanned cases with a small phial, from |