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not in retired villages only, but in the Metropolis and in Glas- 

 gow, to the use of any Instrumental Music whatever in their 

 Kirks, we see tlie singular exanple, and laudable spirit displayed 

 by the members of this same religious community, in a distant 

 colony, in beiiig the first to order an Euharmonic Organ of any 

 sort ! : and that on so grand a scale, with compound Stops. While 

 by the English nation, who affect to consider an Organ, almost 

 as a necessary appendage to every polite Church or Chapel, Mr. 

 Liston and his friends have been left to bear the heavy charge 

 of constructing three successive Organs, exhibiting them gratis, 

 and issuing prospectuses, &c. without the public having given to 

 the really scientific improvement Mr.L. has effected, in the most 

 delightful of Arts, the least effective patronage whatever ! ; the 

 sale of his " Essay on perfect Intonation," not having paid its 

 expense of printino, as the writer imderstands, who in justice to 

 himself begs to observe, that he is without the most distant mo- 

 tives in making these remarks, besides those of zeal in the pro- 

 motion of the harmonic science, and to serve ingenious and de- 

 serving Individuals, who have promoted it. 



Since the performances to which 1 alluded in my last com- 

 munication. His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, the Earls 

 of Buckingham and Kenton, Lord and Lady Darnley, and several 

 other persons of distinction, the members of the Philharmonic 

 Society, and on the whole not less than 500 musical persons 

 attended the performances on this Organ : in which, among other 

 pieces 



Mr. PuRKis played from the vvorks of Pergolesi, '' Gloria in 

 excelsis :" — from those of Winter, " Vaghi Colli" in Proserpine, 

 in the Key of Ab, instead of A, as set : and one of his Airs in F 

 minor : — from Hai/dn, " On thee, each living Soul awaits :" 

 and, " The Heavens are telling," in B 5 sharps, instead of C. 

 — From Handel, several pieces from the Dettingen " Te Deum;" 

 " Surely he hath borne:" "And with his Stripes:" "All we 

 like Sheep ;" and, " For unto us a Child." — yVnd from Alozart, 

 the Overture to Don Giovanni. 



Mr. Potter also gave his assistance in ably exhibiting the 

 Euharmonic Organ, viz. from the Works of Haydn, a movement 

 from The Passion. — from Sebastian Bach, " Tantum Ergo." — 

 from Mozart, " Qui Sedes:" " Quoniam Tu Solus:" and, " Et 

 resurrexit." — from Joachim Dos Santos, " Cum Sancto Spiritu;" 

 and " Crucifixus etiam." — from Handel, " Lift up your Heads," 

 • — from D. Perez, " Et incaruatus est." 



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