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and drew their enemies from the abyss, who at length threw down their 

 arms. All this was done by our brave fellows, who would not suffer 

 themselves to be perturbed either by the fire of the cannon and musketry, 

 or the canister-shot poured upon them from a brig, and, conducting their 

 prisoners thus made, they flew again to their arms, binding up more 

 than one wound with their handkerchiefs, which some had received." 



A few days more must decide the fate of Covent Garden : whether 

 the truncheon of Field jMarshalFawcett or the hammer of George Martel 

 Robins is to be the insti'ument of command. The catalogue is curious, 

 and no doubt the relic hunters will be busy in the purchase of some of 

 the articles. Among them we find, in Mr. Kemble's room, the following 

 lot : — 



" An eight-day clock, in a mahogany case, by Wilson, 1775, with 

 the following inscription, on a brass plate : — ' After the dreadful fire of 

 Covent Garden Theatre, on the morning of September 21st, 1808, this 

 clock was dug out of the ruins, by John Saul, master carpenter of the 

 theatre, and repaired and set to work again l)y Mr. John Lockwood, 

 clock and watch-maker, St. James's Street, Clerkenwell, London.' " 



Fawcett's room does not appear to have been over furnished, if we may 

 judge from the catalogue : — " A chimney-glass plate, and fender, and 

 coai-skuttle," are all that we find mentioned as its contents. Farley's 

 room was much better provided. He, besides the ordinary furniture of 

 a sitting-room, had a piano-forte, and an enormous glass, which may 

 have enabled him to see the whole of his nose at once. 



A humoui'ist would derive some amusement, in despite of his regret, 

 from the list of articles which the catalogue exhibits, in connection with 

 the wardrobe and scenery. Not to touch on the peculiarities of the 

 dramatic characters of the drama, as a poetical correspondent has done, 

 we may observe, that the auctioneer is expected to knock down 

 "Mary," "Elizabeth," and the "Prince Regent" (three ships); and 

 among the scenery, passing over such trifles as " the whole of the Devil's 

 Elixir," " Back of the Grand Admiral," and " Changeable Woods," 

 besides selling " Clouds," " Moonlight," and one item, which reads 

 (though but humble prose) as euphoniously as poetry, viz. 



" Front and back ' The Harem' — Grieve." 

 We find that the following properties were actually at the same time to 

 come to the hammer — " The Colosseum," " The Horns Tavern," 

 " Old Street," " Southampton," " The King's Bench," " Shakspeare's 

 House," " Dunsinane Castle," " Salamanca," and " St. Catherine's 

 Docks." 



MR. SADLER S SPEECH, AT WHITBY. 



We believe that we shall gratify our readers by presenting them with 

 this noble speech, which was made by Mr. Sadler at the dinner of the 

 mercliants and shipowners of Whitby, on the 1 5th ult. It is the most 

 eloquent performance since his own masterly speech on the popish 

 question. But its elociuence is the least part of its merits ; it has the 

 higher qualities of solid information, vigorous reasoning, and high prac- 

 tical Ijenevolence. We have here no saucy pretender to supreme illu- 

 mination, exalting science to scoff at religion ; no empty march-of-intel- 

 lect man, urging his fellow fools to tlirow aside tlioir ploughs and 

 hammers and reform tlie state ; no silly Utopian tlieorist, building 

 castles in the air, and preparing his disciples for tlie dungeon ; no pert 

 political ceconomist, retailing the exploded nonsense of the Edinburgh 

 Review school, and crowing over truisms ; but a man of mor.al dignity, 

 and grave senatorial wisdom, expressing the highest truths of govern- 



