HAWN 
throughout the and, 
le fongs, kingdom ; indeed, 
poster the higheft favour of all his oratotios, except 
the Mefliah, which this feafon, to the honour of the my d 
e, and dif was received 
with ese sre and — 
seth has been 
performing it 
pital, which refolution was mapas Fe _— in cae to the 
end of his life, under his own direction; and, long after, 
i In'confe equence 
of thefe performances, the arity from 
the years 1749 to 1759 by sone ccumiemanen under Han- 
del’s own direction, amounted to - £6935 © oO 
From 1760 to mori i ight performa 
eae the ao of Mr. John Chriftian 
1332 0 0 
From 1 769% tor — nine performances odie 
that of Mr. Stanley ai 269270" © 
Seabee ood 
"The organ in the chapel ae Nas hofpital was likewife a 
t from Handel ; and he 
vigour of tl a and touch, for which he was ever fo 
july renowned. To fee him, however, led to the or, organ, 
after this calamity, at alphas of feventy of age, and 
then conducted towards the audience to p Psd accuttomed 
chee ht fo trul pitta: Syste lorable to 
pyar pgey apatiey 2 Tic es 
g him perform. 
ey Me a ea ear feafn, we hae ben told that be 
almoft ‘inceffantly 5 and, indeed, that 
“mutt have 
DEL 
was'on the 6th of April, and he expired on the 3th, 
7 
ie figure of Handel was large, and he was fomewhat 
corpulent and unwieidyIn his motions, and his general ca 
or aorta 5 eaeek: there was an original secre 
pleafantry in his moft lively fallies of anger or impatience, 
which, with his broken =a lifh, were ape rifible, 
as great a matt 
. as Sw ‘fe his a mots would have eo = 
and fomewhat of the fam 
H » with many detent, was add 
was injurious to fociety.- Nature, indeed, a a fon 
fupply of fuitenance to fupport fo huge a and he was 
rather epicurean in the 
choice of it ; but this: feems to have 
| hi 
life, and conttantly attended public 
winter and fummer, both in Laan and ae 
 cetieckees faid of him, that, out of h ” he was 
ignorant and dull; but though we do sie admit the 
yet, if the fact was as true a is fevere, it muft be ae 
i ifficult art in the per 
, and to be polenes by it, ae 
unbrid; et 
friend fhip. redit 
thefe, had Handel poffeffed them, would have been t 
confined to his own age acquaintance 5 whereas, 
the fame acquired by filets on and clfeappliation da bis pro- 
feffional bufinefs, 
Jovis ir 
Nec Sisteae he 
And it is probable, that 
Seer will pe. ang es works. noft learned 
concerning either the hoe 
can give us no-information 
to life or compass! of Orpheus, Amphion, Linus, Oly 
5 : or 
tee at ‘of etsniy of his 
