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Avaunt bum bailey, then he cried, your face looks red, not mealy,
Good player-man, the bailey cried, you've acted rather freely;
The lawyer's bills go hard with you, because your means thus fail ye,
And you must go along with me-along with you the bailey!

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O! the bailey, &e.

The player cried, if at my night each seat's engag'd in all rows,
The manager the kelter has then in his satin small clothes;
He'll pay the damages you ask; the goblin vanish'd gaily,
Crying, bless you with your benefit, but ne'er forget the bailey!
O! the bailey, &c.

All baileys learn this lesson from our bailey's good example,
And never,
with unfeeling hearts, upon the needy trample;
And young men wild, take warning, pay your debts, or else they'll jail ye,
And then you'll ne'er be haunted by that ugly ghost the bailey!

O! the bailey, &c.

Theatre Royal LIVERPOOL.---Since the departure of the London performers, I have expected to see a minute description of what is called the regular company, which, considering the extent of the town, the length of time the theatre is kept open, and the elegance and size of the building, ought to boast of actors of no inconsiderable merit. In your Mirror for November, you notice only the abilities of Mr. Mathews, Mrs. Mathews, and Mr. H. Lewis; I shall, therefore, endeavour to give my opinion of the remaining principal porformers in the company. Mr. Cooper, who played a few nights in London, was here some time, but has seldom appeared. Richard, Romeo, Penruddock, Jaffier, Henry V. Peregrine, Iago, and Horatio, are nearly all the characters he performed. In Penruddock, Richard, Iago, and Henry V. he was the most happy, but was not so great a favourite as was expected from his first appearance. Mr. Young is certainly a good actor, and a very great favourite. Hamlet, Octavian, Young Norval, and some few parts in Mr. Lewis's line, he plays with a deal of judgment and spirit, but he should not have attempted Job Thornberry. Grant has not played so frequently as in former seasons; he is, nevertheless, a valuable performer; tragedy or comedy, old men or young men, all are the same to him, and many of the characters he undertakes would not disgrace the London boards. Penley, who divides the low comedy with Mathews, has considerable humour, and original merit; his Dr. Ollapod, Scrub, Tandem, Caleb Quotem, Isaac Mendoza, Spado, Ralph, and Frederick Willinghurst, have raised him high in estimation with the town: this is his first season here. Hammerton, who has played here several years, has taken an entire new cast, (the Irishmen) and indeed, too much cannot be said of the excellent manner in which he supports them; his Dennis Brulgruddery, and Sir Callaghan, are admirable; his figure is not unlike Mr. Johnstone's of Drury Lane, and could he sing, he would be a formidable rival to him; but there he is very deficient. Ryley has likewise been here several seasons, and if he would take more pains in a

certain description of old men, he would be better regarded. Smith and How ard are in the second line of gentlemen; they are both natives of the town, and are tolerably well spoken of, but they must improve greatly, before they are above mediocrity. Stephens, from York, Shaw, Crumpton, and Benwell, are the vocal performers; neither can boast of the voice of a Braham, or an Incledon, but they are useful men, and assist in tragedy, comedy, and pantomime. Miss Grimani, from the Haymarket, at present the heroine. In characters which suit her figure; such as Juliet, Amanthis, Mary Thornberry, &c. she gains much applause. Miss Biggs gives great satisfaction in the old women; she plays them with spirit, is always perfect, and takes great pains in dressing them. Mrs. Kennedy follows very closely the steps of Mrs. Mattocks. Miss Smith is a beautiful girl, and a fine figure; in favour of her acting but little can be said. Mrs. Penley plays a variety of business, is an excellent dancer, and has taken the leading characters in serious and comic pantomime. A new divertisement, the Golden Farmer, Julia of Louvain, and Armstrong, or the British Outlaw, produced under the direction of Mr. Cross, from the Circus, have been received with great eclat. The theatre, I understand, closes in March, when, as I have been particular in enquiring after the receipts of the benefits, I may be able to give you a just account of them. Mathews' benefit was a bumper. February 8th, 1804.

R. R. O. P. S. Mrs. Chapman, through indisposition, it is much to be lamented, has been forced to retire from the stage.

REVIEW OF

NEW MUSICAL PUBLICATIONS.

(Continued from Vol. XV.)

THE English Fleet, in 1342, an Opera, by T. Dibdin, Esq. the Music composed by Mr. Braham.

The composition of an English opera`requires great musical genius, science, and experience. Our most successful composers of operas has been Dr. Arne, Dr. Arnold, Linley, Storace, Shield, &c. As this is Mr. Braham's first essay of an entire piece, we gladly pay him the tribute he merits of our approbation. We congratulate the manager and the public on the acquisition of a gentleman whose talents are so various and so energetic.

EIGHT Pieces, for a Military Band, from the elegant and scientific pen of Mr. Mazzinghi.

THE "Beggar Girl," a little Ballad. Poetry by Mr. Cherry, Author of the "Soldier's Daughter," and the music by Moorehead.

This song originally made its appearance in the musical journal, conducted by Dr. Busby. It is now republished in a better and more correct style.

Mr. B. has composed part of the Cabinet and Family Quarrels, with Davy, Reeve, and Moorehead.

New Military Divertimentos, dedicated, by Permission, to His Royal Highness the Duke of York, and composed by J. C. Weyrauch, Master of the Band, to his Royal Highness.

Well arranged, pleasing, and not too difficult. We are glad to see a set of compiled pieces from the classical works of Haydn, Mozart, Pleyel, &c. announce ed by Mr. Weyrauch.

THE New Naval Songster, with all the old Music, considerably enlarged and improved.

We do not detract from the merits of this excellent publication, by observing that it contains a number of our established favourite old songs, "Rule Britan→ nia," "Hearts of Oak," "Black eyed Susan," "Britons Strike Home," with "The Storm," translated into French. These old ditties, although generally well-known, are certainly necessary to complete an English collection. We do not observe any of Mr. Dibdin's (except " Blow high, blow low") in this work. This gentleman's works, as a naval songster, form a collection (and a good one) of themselves.

Three MSS. Quartettos for two Violins, Tenor and Bass, as performed, formerly, at Salomon's Concert, composed by John Davy, are to be produced from a very respectable music-press. If we do not err the same which has announced the complete Edition of W. A. Mozart's works.

Mr. W. T. Parke is preparing a New Edition of his Oboe and Flute Preceptors, with considerable Additions. Mr. P.'s character and experience as a musician are so well known, that it renders it unnecessary to say any thing more of these books of progressive instruction than this. They are written in the same spirit (though not so copious) as Mr. Clementi's book for the piano.

Mr. F. Eley, Master of the Royal East India Volunteers Band, continues to publish Sets of Military Pieces, so numerous, that a list of them would oc cupy our musical corner entirely. They consist of every air of merit from the works of the most classic authors, as well as theatrical pieces, with movements of Mr. Eley's own composition, in the true military spirit. We ob serve they are calculated for a small band, as well as for a large one, which we approve of, for the public accommodation.

New Grand March, for a Band, and for the Piano; dedicated (by Permission) to Captain Searle, and all the Officers of His Majesty's Ship Monarch, and composed on board by J. Moorehead, Master of the Admiral's Band. We are glad to see our old theatrical friend, Moorehead, afloat, and bustling in the musical world,

Bainbridge's Instruction for the Patent Flageolet.

The improvement of this pleasing little instrument does credit to Mr. B.'s ingenuity.

We readily correct an error in a former M. M. in which the organ work of Mr. James Henry Leffler was announced as published. We hope Mr. Leffler will not long withhold it from the admirers of that noble instrument.

DOMESTIC EVENTS.

MRS. LEE AND THE GORDONS.-On Sunday the 15th of January, the Rev. Lockhart Gordon and Mr. Lauden Gordon, brothers, dined with Mrs. Lee, a lady of considerable property, at her house in Bolton-row, Piccadilly. In a short time after dinner, Mrs. Lee rang the bell of an adjoining room to that which she had been dining in with the gentlemen, which was answered by a female servant, whom Mrs. Lee ordered to get her a glass of water, appeared very low spirited, and desired the servant to remain in an adjoining room, as she was afraid the gentlemen would take her away; to which the servant answered, that it was impossible to take her out of her own house; but Mrs. Lee replied, they were armed with pistols, and she feared they would force her; she then returned to the room where they dined, and, in a few minutes after, Mrs. Lee's footman was sent to call a hackney coach; while he was gone, the two female servants, were alarmed by their mistress's voice, saying, "I will not be taken out of my own house," which induced them to go to her assistance, when they found the two Mr. Gordons forcing Mrs. Lee down stairs from the drawing-room, and Mrs. Lee holding by the banisters, resisting them; on which they went to her assistance, and endeavoured to rescue her from the gentlemen, when Mr. Lockhart Gordon seized them both, and presenting a pistol, swore he would shoot them both if they made any noise or resistance, and succeeded in forcing Mrs. Lee out of her house into a post-chaise, which was waiting within a few yards of the door; and the post-boy being mounted, drove off as soon as the parties got in, with the greatest speed possible. The servants followed it with screams and cries, but in vain; the swiftness with which it drove eluded all pursuit. The servants making this extraordinary circumstance known to Mrs. Lee's friends on Monday morning, Mr. Parkin (the solicitor for the post-office) applied, with the servants, at the Public-Office, Bow-street, and Mr. Robinson, the sitting magistrate, issued his warrant to apprehend the Mr. Gordons, and Miller and Atkins, two of the officers, were dispatched in pursuit of the parties; they continued their enquiries during the day, and in the evening they learned that Mr. Lockhart Gordon had been at his lodgings in the New-road, Mary-le-bone, and had dressed and gone out to a ball in Portland-place, to which they pursued him, as directed; but on their arrival at the house, they learnt he had been there, but was gone. Having lost all trace of him, they thought they must give up the pursuit for the night, it then being near eleven o'clock; but before they returned home, they set off for Mrs. Lee's house, to see that all was quiet there, and when they got into Bolton-street, they heard the watchmen's rattles, and on their coming up to the spot, found a gentleman in their custody, who, on enquiry, proved to be Mr. Lockhart Gordon; upon which the officers told him they had a warrant against him. His pistols were then taken from him, and he was secured; they both proved to be loaded with balls. It appeared that Mr. Gordon had been to Mrs. Lee's house about eleven o'clock at night in a hackney-coach, and having gained admittance into the passage, told the servants he was come for Mrs. Lee's clothes; but observing a strange man in company with the footman, enquired if he was a peace-officer, and was retiring, when the footman slipped out of the house, and procured the assistance of two watchmen; and just as the coach was driving from the door, with Mr. Gordon in it, they returned, and one of the S-VOL. XVII.

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watchmen striking the near horse a violent blow on the head with his staff, stopped the coach, when Mr. Gordon jumped out, and presenting two pistols, swore he would shoot any man who attempted to take him, and ran away towards Curzon-street, Piccadilly.

On Tuesday morning he was brought to Bow-street, and underwent a long examination before Nicholas Bond, Esq. and Sir Wm. Parsons, when the above circumstances were fully established by the servants, and several other witnesses. By the statutes, the 3d of Henry the VIIth, and 39th Elizabeth, it is made felony, without benefit of clergy, to take any woman forcibly away, with intention to possess her property, marry her without her consent, or to defile her person. Mr. Parkin therefore contended, that it was fair to presume the offence in ques+ tion came within the meaning of those statutes, and in this opinion Mr. Bond and the other magistrates concurred. The prisoner, on being apprised of the situation in which he stood, said, he was very willing the law should take its course, and that he should readily meet any prosecution on that ground. He was committed for further examination.

Mrs. Lee, we understand, is possessed of considerable property in her own right; but, from some family disagreement, does not live with her husband. She is a very beautiful and amiable woman, about twenty-seven years of age, and has been acquainted with the prisoner and his brother since they were children, Mrs. L. having been, when a child, under the protection of their mother, who resided at Bath. The prisoner is in deacon's orders, and has a gentleman-like appearance.

The following particulars respecting this very extraordinary affair, have since transpired: Mr. Lauden Gorden, since his arrival in England from the West Indies, about two months ago, has resided near Ranelagh, and a part of the time in the same house with his brother, Mr. Lockhart Gordon, at Alsop'sbuildings, New-road. On Sunday the 15th he was at the latter place, when he informed the lady who keeps the house, that some very particular circumstances obliged him to leave town immediately, and as he was going out to dinner that day, requested she would pack him up some linen and clothes in his trunk, hire a post-chaise for Uxbridge, and come in it the same evening, at seven o'clock, with the trunk, to the corner of Bolton-street, which she accordingly did; and, after waiting a short time, Mr. Lauden Gordon came, and told her to take a coach and go home. Mr. Gordon then returned to Mrs. Lee's house; soon after which she was carried off, and they took the Uxbridge road. On Thursday evening, Miller, a Bow-street officer, accompanied by one of Mrs. Lee's female servants, set off post in quest of the fugitives; and the same evening a letter from Mrs. Lee, directed to her maid, was brought to the house in Bolton-row, by a young man, who said that it came in losed to him in another letter from his mother, who keeps an inn at Tetsworth, in Oxfordshire, and where, it appeared, they had stopped on the Sunday night; but, from their strange behaviour to each other, much astonishment was excited in the minds of those at the inn, especially as the lady remained while her gown and stockings were washed. Mrs. Lee's letter ran nearly thus: "No clothes! no money! death or compliance!" From Tetsworth they proceeded to Gloucester, where they were found on Wednesday afternoon by Miller, who took Mr. Lauden Gordon into custody; and about nine o'clock on Thursday night the parties arrived in town. Mr. Lauden

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