1810.] 
"At Divertimento for the Double Flageolet. Com- 
' posed, arranged, and performed, with the greatest 
applause, by J. Parry. Dedicated to J. A, 
Willink, esq. 19.64. | 
This divertimento, in which Mr. Parry 
has introduced the air of Sul Margine 
d'un hio, with variations, is, in the grand 
points of consistency and connection, 
highly creditable to his taste and judg- 
ment. The variations are ingeniously 
conceived, and the subject of the rondo 
is simple and attractive. 
§* Beware of the Cuckoo ;”? a favourite comic Song, 
sung with great applause by. Mrs. Bland. 
Composed by Mr. W.T. Parke. 15.64. 
This little ballad, the words of -which 
are far from being destitute of humour, 
is pleasing in its-melody. In the imi- 
tations of the cuckoo, Mr. Parke, after 
what has already been done, had no 
choice but to imitate Arne, who had 
taken up the burthen before him, and 
Jeft no opportunity for a successor, 
The much admired Guaraca danced by Miss Smith 
~ in the Grand Ballet of the Castilian Minstrel, 
arranged as a Rondo for the Piano-forte, by 
H.R. Bishop. 18.64. 
This rondo, taken in the aggregate, 1s 
of a cast that cannot but please the 
majority of hearers; the passages, though 
perhaps for the most part not far re- 
moved from common-place, are so judi- 
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cidusly chosen, and sv happily connected, 
that something like a new effect is proe 
duced from the whole; and Mr. Bishop 
has displayed a judgment that almost | | 
compensates for the absence of origie 
nality. " 
The Coronach, or Funeral Song’, ‘‘ He's gone on 
the Mountam.”” The Peery from the Lady of 
the Lave, writlen by W, Scott, esq. Composed 
expressly for Mrs. Ashe, and inscribed to Lady 
Marrict Clive, by Dr. J. Clarke, of Canbridgee 
Dr. Clarke has in this Funeral Song 
acquitted himself in a style ne way dero. 
gatory from his well-merited repute as a 
vocal composer. The melody is most 
affectingly appropriate, the expression 
is Just and forcible, and the bass is chosen, 
and accompaniment arranged, with real 
taste and mastery. 
The favourite Pas de Quatre, danced by Mr. 
d Egville’s Pupils in the Grand Ballet of tbe 
Castilian Minstrel; also in the favouriie Spa- 
nish Divertisement at ibe English Opera. Come 
posed and arranged asa Rondo for. the Piano 
forte, by H.R. Bishop. is. 6d. 
With the subject of this rondo the 
public are too well acquainted to require 
our remarks on its merits, The divrese 
sive matter is consonant to the theme, 
and connected with 1self; and the genes 
ral effect, it not striking, is abeve mee 
diocrity. 
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=a 
The Battle of Maida. Engraved by Anthony 
Cardon, from a Picture painted by 
Loutherbourg, eg. R.A. 
N viewing pictures or prints of battles, 
the mind of the connoisseur involun- 
tarily reverts to the incomparable en- 
gravings from the battles of Alexander 
the Great, by Le Brun, The mode of 
modern warfare is not so favorable to 
pictorial representation, as that of the 
ancients. With the ancients, war was 
not so much of a science, so many men 
were seldom led out, and conducted as 
-great machines among them, as with us. 
We employ columns of men of various 
sorts, and lead them by otticers employ- 
ing variety of mancenyres to obiain 
certain positions prior to a trial of arms. 
On the contrary, the ancient mode em- 
ploying fewer men, and depending more 
on personal prowess in those men, were 
often a series of singlecombats by heroes 
singling out each other, as so admirably 
gescribed by Homer. The combat de- 
P. F. De* 
scribed in this picture wag one more 
approaching to this latter mode than 
any one described in modern history; 
and will ever be a distinguishing and 
honourable feature in the military chae 
racter of Great Britain. Mr. De Lou- 
therbourg has rendered his name as de- 
servedly celebrated for painting moderg, 
combats as Le Brun those of the arte 
cients; and has even. with inferior mae 
teriais to tne manaterof Alexander's batiles,: 
set himself on a level. in the séale of 
painting, with this celebrated nvasters 
in this picture, the plain of Maida is 
accurately painted ; and the whole of the 
combatting armies (if so small a quantity 
as the English had could be called an 
army) displayed in a most mteresting 
and important period of the battle. The 
engraving could scarcely have been cotte 
fided to a better artist than Mr. Cardon, 
who has executed his task with consider- 
able ability: the figures are drawn with 
accuracy, and beautifully Guhed 5 aid. 
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