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New Music and the Drama. 



[March I, 



perpetual by 31 G. 3. c. 43, as to importa- 

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Repeal of § 1. of 19 G. 3. c. 48, as to 

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^ Repeal of § 2. of 19 G. 3, c. 48, permit- 

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Repeal of s G. 3. c. 30. § 1, 2, as to li- 

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Repeal as to licenses for importation of 

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Repeal of so much of 43 G. 3. c. 68. § 29, 



Repeal of 22 G. 3. c. 78, as to import of as provides that Russian or Turkish to- 



diugs, wines, tinSber, &c. except as to 

 thrown silk. 



Repeal of § 10. of 27 G. 3. c. 1, as to im- 

 portation of enumerated European goods 

 in British ships, or ships of the country. 



Repeal of § 11. of 27 G. 3. c, 19, as to 



bacco shall be imported in British built 

 ships. 



Repeal of so much of 55 G. 3. c. 29. §10, 

 11 ; and 57 G. 3. c. 4, as requires goods of 

 the Levant, or raw silk, or mohair yarn 

 of the Grand Seignior's dominions, to be 



importation from Gibraltar of goods im- imported in British-built ships only 



ported there from Morocco. 



Repeal of § 4. of 30 G. 3. c. 40, as to 

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Repeal of so much of 35 G. 3. c. 117, as 

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Repeal of so much of § 2. of 36 G. 3. c. 

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Repeal of 56 G. 3. c. 37, as to German 

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Repeal of 59 G, 3. c. 74. § 2, as to im- 

 portation of tobacco from place of its 

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 country. 



Not to affect penalties already incurred 

 under recited Acts. 



NEW MUSIC AND THE DRAMA. 



T/ie Rose, a Ballad, composed hy Joseph 

 Garnctt, with Accompaniments for the 

 Piano-Forte. Is, 



THE words of this ballad are an- 

 nounced as emanating from the 

 muse of the late Kigbt Hon. Charles 

 James Fox; and, though they turn 

 upon one of the oldest similies in 

 poetic use, possess an ease and smooth- 

 ness creditable to a mind, that, we ap- 

 prehend, was little habituated to me- 

 trical composition. The music, with- 

 out daimiug any distinguished praise, 

 is at least of a pleasing cast, and cal- 

 culated to gratify the general ear. 

 The piano-forte accompaniment is 

 constructed with attention to the cha- 

 racter of the instrument for which its 

 execution is designed ; and, witli the 

 advantages of an agreeable voice, and 

 a good finger, the composition may be 

 rendered considerably attractive with 

 most of those who are not disposed to 

 be difficult or fastidious. 

 Absence, a Smg. Written hy Mr. 



Thomas Campbell, and composed by 



Mr. Henry Bishop. 2s. 



With Mr. Bishop's powers as a vocal 

 composer, none are better acquainted 

 than ourselves, nor more disposed to 

 award to them their due portion of 

 praise : but the present effort is not of a 

 description to allow us our wonted 

 pleasure. We cannot praise insipidity 

 and want of invention. Mr. B. has 

 evidently sat down to the words of this 



song in spite of the inappitude of the 

 movement; that inappitude, by which 

 every man of genius is liable to be 

 visited, but which no sensible man se- 

 lects for the performance of a task 

 that requires the exercise of his best 

 powers. The words of this song 

 would alone be sufficient to rank Mr. 

 Campbell above the generality of mo- 

 dern poets ; but the composer, as if 

 little sensible to theirraerit, has slighted 

 their claim upon his exertions, and by 

 no means done them justice. The 

 effect of his music is flat and feeble, 

 and not calculated to illustrate the 

 poet's meaning, or raise, or even sup- 

 port, his own reputation. 

 " 'Tis sweet to hear." Recitative and 

 Air, su7iff by Mr. Nelson at the Nobi- 

 lity's Concerts. The Words selected 

 from the Poems of Lm-d Byron, the 

 Music by John Burnett. 2s. 

 We have perused this publication 

 with considerable pleasure. The re- 

 citative is correctly expressive; and 

 the melody, of which it lorms the in- 

 troduction, possesses many proofs of 

 strong and clear conception, as well as 

 of beauty and elegance of manner. 

 In some of the passages, the sentiment 

 of the poetry is not only justly, but 

 forcibly, given; and the general result 

 of the junction of tlie muse of Lord 

 Byron with that of Mr. Barnett, 

 amounts, in our judgment, to a vigour 

 of effect, mutually creditable to the 



poet 



