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to the College-hail. Inthe firft act, “* Pious 
Orgies, pious Airs,” by Mrs. Billington, and, 
*< Aym, arm, ye Brave,” by Bartleman, re- 
ceived unbounded applaufe. Mifs Clarke, 
who has for fome time received inftru€tion 
from a gentleman of Oxiord, appeared as a 
candidate for the favour of the public, in the 
lively air, **Come ever fmiling Liber: bys? 
which fhe executed with fcientific propriety, 
though evidently labouring under no fmall 
evikaimnant, But, in the fecond part, In- 
ciedon eleétrified thg audience with ¢* Sound 
an Alarm,’? a piece well calculated to deve- 
lope his powers; it was encored amidf a tu- 
mult of applaufe. The circumftances of the 
Wraelites, as reprefented in that oratorio, have 
fo many points of ftrong refemblance to thofe 
of Britons, at the prefent crifis, that the in- 
tereft of the piece was thereby confiderably 
increafed. Gn Wednefday morning ‘¢ The 
Creation,” by Haydn, was performed to an 
audience, nearly as sumerous as that of the 
preckdive day. 
fages in this oratorio; but, as a whole, it 
certainly is not likely to vie, in popularity, 
a the fublime and affecting compoiitions 
f Handel. In the evening the College. hall 
was filled, at an early hour, with a company 
that might: weil rival, in beauty and fplen- 
dor, thet which met the King there in the 
year 1788. More than 1400 perfons were 
prefent; but many were obliged to return 
without being able to obtain admiffion. The 
concert opened with the Overture from Acis 
and Galatea, and the Chorus, ‘*O the Plea- 
fure of the Plains.” —~ Mrs, Billington’s 
*¢ Sweet Bird,” was rapturoufly applauded 5 
Incledon’s ** Thorn’? was encored, Between 
the aés, he favoured’the audience with ‘* The 
Storm.” Mr. Scott, who, (fo unexpectedly, 
to the good citizens of Worcefter) became 
their reprefentative on the laft eleGtion, in- 
troduced, from the chapel of Great Bar, near 
which place he has a feat, a mufical child, 
Fanny Rofs Melville. She took the upper 
part of a Glee, harmonized from the old 
Scots’ air, ** Down the Burn, and thro’ the 
Mead,” and fung it with infinite tafte: her 
voice is furprizingly powerful for one fo 
young; and fhe bids fair to become the Mara, 
or Billington, of a future day. On Thurf- 
day morning, numbers were unable to obtain 
. admiffion to the cathedral. That fublime 
Gratorio, The Meffiah, which feems to in- 
clude every excellence oe which mufic is ca- 
pable, had a powerful effe& upon the hearers, 
Several ladies were carried out fainting, and 
fome gentlemen were nearly reduced to a fi- 
milar ftate. Neild fung refpe€tably, the very 
_ difficult fong ‘** Thou fhalt dafh them in 
pieces.” Though inferior in power, there is 
a fweetnefs and tafte in his performance, 
which we “thay in vain feek for in Incledon, 
Incledon will pleafe the people, Neild the 
mufician: perhaps, both run into extremes. 
Incledon is fometimes boifterous; Neild of- 
ten approaches to tamenefs, In the evening, 
| Herefordpire. 
There are many pleafing paf- 
[Nov.1, 
Fanny Rofs Melville performed, with high 
approbation, a part of the Dirge, ** To fair 
Fidele’s graffy Tomb.” The beautiful Mifs 
Cantelo, from Bath, who had amufed the au- 
dience with a Concerto on the Pedal Harp, 
on Wednefday evening, forfook her ftrings, 
to fing Braham’s ‘* Little Jane of the Mill ”* 
To fay the truth, however, ‘* Little, little, 
little, little Jane,’? obtained but little ap- 
plaufe. The laft fong this evening was Mrs, 
Billington’s ¢¢ Soldier tired.’ To thofe who 
have heard her in this her favourite air, de- 
{cription is ufelefs. She afforded an example 
of the excellence to which good natural 
powers, aided by fkilful cultivation, may ar- 
rive: in the rapid divifions of this fong, 
which fhe makes ftill more fo, by performing 
them nearly twice as faft as the original 
time, every note wasarticulated, as diftiinly, 
as it could be on the violin. In the laf di-' 
vifion, ‘*And dares again the field,”” her 
finging fourths inftead of thirds has a ftrik- 
ing and enrapturing efieét. Lord Ruchinfon, 
Lord Coventry, Lord and Lady Somers, Lord 
and Lady Stourton, Lord Rodaey, Mr. and 
Mrs, Lygon, &c. &c. were prefent each day. 
The colleion for the charity amounted to 
52 tl. 8s, 
Intended inclofure in this county, Little 
Comberton, 
Married.| ‘Mr. D. Edge, mercer, &c. of 
Evetham, to Mifs Bowen, daughter of Mr. E. 
Bowen, builder.—-Mr. Hill, of Hillbend, in 
the parifh ‘of Caftie Morton, to Mifs Lord, of 
Buhhley.—Mr, R. Burlingham, jun, of Wor- 
cefter, to Mrs. M. Truited, capes of Mr, 
C, Trufted, grazier. 
At Worcefter, the Rev. Mr. Britchete, to 
Mrs. James, widow of the late Captain 
James —Mr. Palmer, attorney, to Mifs Jonesy 
-of Wolverton..—Captain Marcus J. Annefley, 
eldeft fon of the Hon. and very Rev. W- 
Annefley, Dean of Downe, in Ireland, and 
nephew of the Right Hon. Richard, Earl 
Annefley, to Mifs C. Smith, daughter of the 
late Ferdinando Smith, efq. of the Grange, 
Salop.—Mr. J. Lycett, glover, to Mifs soe 
lis, of the London road. 
At Upton, Mr. Sheward, furgeon, to Mifs. 
Benbow, of Great Malvern. 
Died.| At Bewdley, in childbed, Mrs. 
Adey, wife of Mr. Adey, plumber and glae 
zier. 
At Kidderminter, Mrs. Burford. 
At Malvern, James Solly, efq.” 
At Upton, Mr. J. George. 
At Redditch, Mrs. Fowkes —Suddenly, 
Mrs Carr. 
At Hopton, Mrs. Baker, reliét of the late 
J. Baker, efq. of Moor Houfe, near Tene 
bur 
& Evefham, Mrs, Hasben, of the Rofe and 
Crown Ina. 3 
HEREFORDSHIRE, 
A correfpondent.of the Hereford Journal 
recommends to the hop-planters of this and 
other counties, to make an alteration in the 
prefent 
