as shall from time to time be ordered and required by the secretary of state in that behalf; and every clerk of assize or other clerk as aforesaid, who shall refuse or negJect to make any such return, in the manner and form prescribed, shall forfeit for every such offence the sum of one hundred pounds. The returns to be laid before parliament. Cap, L. For the Abolition of Gaol and other Fees, connected with the Gaols in England. From and after the 1st day of October next, all fees and gratuities paid or payable by ang prisoner, on the entrance, commit. ent, or discharge, to or from prison, skall absolutely cease, and the same are hereby abolished and determined. Whereas in some places such fees and gratuities are payable to the gaoler er his serrants, and are to him or them as a salary; the justices of the peace assembled in general or quarter sessions, are authorized to make such allowances to the aforesaid gaoler or servants, as may to them seem fit, in the way of salary or compensation, for the fees or gratuities, payable by prisoners, now abotished by this Act.. the prisoner shall have been charged; and shall then stand charged with any process authorising the detention of such prisoner = provided always, that, if it shall happen that any prisoner who shall so stand charged with any process authorising his detention as aforesaid, shall have been discharged in supposed obedience to this Act, by reason that the sheriff or other officer entitled to have detained him was at the time of such his discharge ignorant that there was any such charge against him, it shall in such case be lawful for such sheriff or other officer, on receiving information of such charge, presently to retake the prisoner so discharged as aforesaid, and thereupon forthwith to detain him in custody upon. such charge, in such manner as the said sheriff or other officer might have done if such prisoner had not been set at large; and that upon his being so retaken the said prisoner shall be deemed for the pur pose of that suit to have been in custody continually from the time when he so first stood charged as aforesaid. All fees usu-> ally paid to clerks of the court, assize, &c. to be abolished.-County treasurers to pay allowances for places not usually assessed to the county at large. From and after the passing of this Act, any clerk of assize, clerk of the peace, clerk of the court, or their deputies or other officers, exacting such fees, shall, be rendered incapable of holding his or their offices, and be guilty of a misdemeanor. Liberates to debtors to be granted free of expence, and compensation made to sheriffs for the same. The salaries, allowances, and compen sations, in lieu of fees and gratuities shall be raised by a separate rate and assess ment to be made by the churchwardens and overseers of the poor of the several parishes and precincts by such means, as the rates for the relief of the poor are le vied.Allowances in certain places to be. paid out of the poor's-rates. Any gaoler, who shall, from and after the 1st day of * The Editor of the Monthly Magazine October next, exact from any prisoner any quotes the whole of this Act, and this fee or gratuity for or on account of the clause in particular, with a feeling of ex- entrance, commitment, or discharge of altation on the successful result of ques- such prisoner, or who shall detain any pri tions which he started when filling the soner in custody for non-payment of any office of sheriff of London and Middlesex in fee or gratuity, shall be rendered incapable 1807; but for agitating which he was at the of holding his office, be guilty of a misde time exposed to much obloquy, His Let-meanor, and be punished by fine and im ter to the Livery of London records his prisonment.-Nothing in this Act cons feelings and exertions on all these subjects; tained shall be construed to extend to the and it is a reward beyond any other which King's Bench prison, his Majesty's prison of the world could bestow, to find, that, in the Fleet, the Marshalsea and Palace courts. the space of eight years, nearly every sug gestion of that work has been engrafted on the practices of power, or become part of the law of the land. It is an encouragenient to persevere, in fearlessly disseminating TRUTH, however unpromising at the instant may be the prospect of success; and however vindictive those may be, who are interested, or who imagine they are in terested, in opposing it, The allowances to be paid out of the county rates, &c.-Every prisoner who now is or hereafter shall be charged with or indicted for any felony, or as an accessary thereto, or with or for any misdemeanor, before any court holding criminal jurisdiction within that part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, against whom no bill of indictment shall be found by the grand jury, or who, on his, her, or their trial, shall be acquitted, or who shall be discharged by proclamation for want of prosecution, shall be immediately set at large, avithout payment of any fee or sum of money, for or in respect of his, her, or their discharge, to any person or persons whom soever; except only in such cases wherein II. for the more easily assessing, collectCap. LI. To amend an Act of George ing, and levying of County Rates. Justices in general or quarter sessions are to make a fair and equal county rate, whenever circumstances appear to require it; and churchwardens and overseers to make returns of annual value of rateable property to them, REVIEW OF NEW MUSICAL PUBLICATIONS. Capricio" with Nine Variations, on a favourite Air from the Opera Dance of La Nouvelle Zoé; for the Piano-forte; composed by D. Steibelt. 59. MR. STEIBELT has displayed in this publication much of his usual brillianey of imagination, natural flori dity of style, and constant command of scientific evolution. The Capricio not only partakes, in an eminent degree, of the fire and volatility proper to such a movement, but presents many novel passages. The variations to the Opera Dance are strong likenesses, however embellished, of the subject-matter upon which they are founded, and give a fair display of the genius from which they emanate. In a word, this production, viewed in the aggregate, is every way worthy of its justly celebrated author; and, by every admirer and practitioner of brilliant, though somewhat difficult, piano-forte music, will be listened to with peculiar gratification. a crotchets: an andante, in triple time ef three crotchets: and rondo, in com→ mon time of two crotchets, allegro pia. Mr. Erskine is, obviously, a perfect master on the instrument for which he writes, and possesses a degree of taste and judgment that would confer credit upon any performer. On the subject of genius, or original invention, we are not, perhaps, authorized to speak in terms equally decisive. The traits of respectable and cultivated talent discoverable in most of the passages, whether considered independently or connectedly, we cheerfully admit and gratui tously applaud; but cannot announce any of those deeply artificial evolutions, or flights of an animated imagination, which the free and volatile powers of the violin arc particularly calculated to display. The piece, however, as our readers will collect from the aggregate of what we have, ranks above mediocrity, and will not fail to considerably gratify the majority of its auditors. Three Glees. The words from Milton and Shakespeare composed by T. Anstey. 64 Merrily, Merrily, bounds the Bark," a Glee for Three Voices; composed by Dr. John Clarke, of Cambridge. 2s. 6d. The poetry of the glee before us is from Scott's "Lord of the Isles." It consists of Milton's charming hymn to The poetry of the first of these glees, certainly is no flattery to Dr. Clarke to the "Moming Star:" that of the second say, that he has fully entered into the and third, of "Oh! Mistress Mine, spirit and meaning of his author. The where are you Roaming:" and "Heigho, variety he has introduced, both in re sing Heigho, unto the Green Holly," spect to the pass passages themselves, and Mr. Anstey's music, excites two ideas, his successive distribution of them of which only himself is qualified to point among the several voices, is as honourout the c correct one. Either his confi-able to the resources of liis genius, as to dence fixed on Shakespeare and Milthe solidity of his judgment. The piano ton, as the only poets worthy of the accompaniment is so appropriately con- exercise of his genius, or his diffidence ceived, and forms so prominent and nic- deemed all their superlative excellence ritorious a feature in the production, necessary to compensate for his own that we do think the Doctor has been deficiencies. We hope that the latter just to himself in omitting its announce feeling was the real one; for it is seldom, ment in his title page. It is not always very seldom, thank Heaven, that comthat accompaniments carry with them positions half so scientific, or half so much, oreven any additional, title to our senseless, come under our inspection. commendation; but the instrumental, We do not meet with a bar that does appendage to "Merrily, Merrily, bounds not betray an ignorance of even the orthe Bark," is full of feeling and design, dinary rules of combination; and melody and so powerfully illustrates the poet's is perfectly out of the question. We subject and expressions, as to well jus- should be glad to learn that Mr. A. is tify the pointed notice it has extorted not a professor. from the reviewer. A Solo for the Violin, u with an Accompani- This solo consists of three movements; a moderato, in common time of four "Strains of Other Days," arranged for the Piano forte; by J. B. Logier. 2s. 6d. This little publication contains the well-known Irish melodies of "Kitty Tyrrel, or, Oh! Blame not the Bard;" and "The Legacy." The arrangement of these airs having. formed formed the whole task of the gentleman whose name the publication bears, our's, of course, is limited to remarks upon that arrangement. We are happy to have it in our power to say, that what skill Mr. Logier's plan afforded an opportunity of displaying, he has fairly and fully exercised; and produced a praćtical lesson for the juvenile performer, abounding with well-judged harmonization and tasteful embellishment. "La Chasse;" an Overture for the Piano forte; composed and dedicated to Miss Ann Hadley; by W. Ling. 2s. 6d. Mr. Ling is evidently a composer of considerable ability. The present piece abounds with passages indicative of a superior fancy and a regulated judgment. Not only do the ideas in each movement rise cut of each other, and blend with the most consentaneous effect, but the movements themselves happily consort, and form a consistent whole. The character announced by the title is duly sustained, without satiating the ear with cornued sounds; while the passages are amply versified without wildness of digression, or affected contrariety. A new Medley Divertimento; composed of popular Scotch Melodies; arranged in a familiar style for the use of Young Practitioners on the Piano-forte; by J. might be admitted, he has indulged his power to bestow it, and furnished, for the use of young practitioners, a desir◄ able and improving exercise. 66 Deep in my Soul that Tender Secret Dwells;" a Canzonetta, written by Lord Byron; composed by J. M'Murdie, Mus. Bac. Oxon. 1s. 6d. Mr. M'Murdie ought to pardon, and doubtless will, a stinginess of praise which we owe to the quality of his own music. We grudge, because we are not prone to give, where merit does not demand. We, however, by no no means intend to say, that his canzonet is destitute of every claim to our commendation. It possesses a few passages that deserve better company; and, the expression being feeble, it is not, of course, strikingly erroneous. Avarice," a Canzonet; the Music by Phi lomusicus. 1s. 6d. The words of this canzonet are from Moore's Anacreon. The melody is pleasing and sentimental. The accompaniment is judicious. While it gratifies the ear, it enforces the expression. Who Philomusicus is, we cannot inform our readers; but his merit, if he proboth publicity and popularity to his ceeds as he has begun, will soon give assumed signature. Three celebrated Irish Melodies; arranged as Duetts for two Performers on one Piano-forte; by Mr. Corri. Ss. The three airs here selected by Mr. C. aree-"Robin Adair," "Planxty Kelly," and, "St. Patrick's Day in the Morning." By the manner in which they are treated, they are rendered agrecable and useful exercises for the juvenile finger, and that appears to be all that was intended. NEW PUBLICATIONS IN AUGUST. AGRICULTURE. BIOGRAPHY. Wood's Athene Oxonienses: the history of all the writers and bishops who have had their education in the university of Oxford; very considerably augmented both in text and notes, and continued to the year 1800; by Philip Bliss, esq. Vol. II. Royal 4to. 41. 4s. 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