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where cousistent and connected, and that 
they form a whole, the effect of which 
cannot fail to please every hearer of 
‘taste. 
Numbers One and Two of the ** Cabinet ;” con- 
sisting of Rondos, Airs with Variations, and 
Military Pieces for the Piano-forte. Com- 
posed and arranged by F. Woelf, Esq. ‘Each 
Number, 1s. 64. 
The present numbers of this work are 
conceived with fancy, and arranged with 
judgment. The variations are playful 
and pleasing, and young practitioners 
will find much improvement from their 
practice. 
6« Ben Reef,” a favourite Song,, composad by 
Fobn Birch. The Words by T. Conway. 1s. 
“Ben Reef” is a pleasant, familiar nau- 
tical ballad, and well calculated to please 
a convivial party, looking rather for a ge- 
nuine picture of broad nature than for 
the refinement of finished song. 
An Interrogation for the,Piano-forte, composed 
and dedicated to the Misses M.and E. Morcott, 
by Augustus Voigti. 1s. 
Of this piece we can only speak in 
terms appropriate to a pleasing trifle. 
By young performers on the piano-forte, 
it will be found both agreeable and im- 
proving. 
State of Public Affairs in January. 
[ Feb. 1, : 
<€ Thine E am my- faithful Fair, a Canzeonet 
eworitten by the Author of the Thorn. Come 
posed by Fobn Whitaker. 1s. 6d. 
This song, which is accompanied witha - 
well-arranged part for the piano-forte, is 
composed with considerable taste. The 
melody is regular and expressive, and the_ 
bass is chosen with judgment. 
Mr. Preston is about to publish a new 
treatise on the art of teaching and prac- 
tising the piario-forte, written by Mr. D. 
G. Turk. The publication is to be com- 
prized in ten folio sheets of letter press, 
accompanied with twenty-two plates, ex- 
emplary and explanatory, partly com-— 
posed by Mrs. Turk, and partly selected 
from distinguished authors. Mr. Turk, 
in his Prospectus, which lies before us, 
professes to point out the art of fingering 
*‘ inthe exactest manner,” according to 
the practice of the late Philip Emanuel | 
Bach, and other masters of eminence, If 
Mr. Turk, in the prosecution of this un- 
dertaking, keeps pace with the utility he 
professes, we shali deem his work highly 
valuable to piano-forte practitioners; and 
though he pretends to little more than the 
merit of translating, we shall think he 
deserves much of our commendation, 
and of public encouragement. | 
8 2 EEE NIST 
STATE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS IN JANUARY. 
Containing official and authentic Documenis. 
=e 
FRANCRB, 
FE HE following Imperial Decree, addi- 
& tional to the decree containing mea- 
sures against the markime system of Eng- 
land, has just appeared in the bulletin 
of laws: 
At the palace of the Thuilleries, 
Jan. 11, 1808. 
Napoleon, &c. upon the report of our mini- 
ster of finances seeing our decrees of the 
23d November and 17th December, with 
the concurrence of our council of state, 
we have decreed, and do decree as fol- 
lows: 
Art. I. When a vessel shall enter into a 
Erench port, or into that of a country occu- 
_ pied by our armies, any man of tHe crew, or 
a passenger, who shall declare to the princi- 
pal of the custom-house that the said ship 
comes from England or her colonies, or coun- 
tries occupied by English troops, or that it 
has been visited by any English vessel, shall 
receive a third-part of the produce of the net 
sale of the ship and cargo, if it be known that 
his declaration is exact. 
Art. 11, The principal of the custom-house 
who shall receive the declaration mentioned 
in the preceding article, shall, in conjunction - 
with the commissary of police, who shall be 
called on for that purpose, and the two prin-* 
cipal of the custom-house officers of the port, 
shall cause each of the crew and passengers 
to undergo separately the interrogatory pre- 
scribed by the second article of our decree of 
the 23d November, 1807. : 
Art. II. Any functionary or agent of go-» 
vernment, who shall be convicted of having 
favoured the contravention of our decrees of 
the 23d November and 17th December, 1807, 
shall be prosecuted in the criminal court of 
the department of the Seine, which shall be 
formed into a special tribunal for this pur- 
. pose, and punished, if convicted, as if guilty 
~of high treason. 
Art. IV. Our ministers are charged, each 
in his respective department, with the execu- 
tion of the present decree. - : 
(Signed) NavPoreon. 
SPAIN. ae 
The King of Spain, on the 3d of Jae 
nuary, issued the following Decree + 
The abominable attack committed by Eng- 
lish ships of war in 1804, by the express 
order of that government, wnen four pir 
