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(No. 50.-New Series.) PRINCE ALBERT.

MEMOIR OF HIS SERENE HIGHNESS.

correct accent of which he had before acquired at Kensington and Claremont. When he had finished his studies at Bonn, and returned to Coburg, the inhabitants of the Duchy vied with one another in demonstratrations of the heartfelt interest they took in Prince Albert Francis Augustus Charles the prosperity of the ducal house. DeputaEmanuel, is second son of Ernest, reigning tions were sent to the duke to congratulate him on the consummation of the education of Duke of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, who has the prince; poems were presented to Prince been twice married; first to Dorothy, daughter Albert, welcoming him on his entrance into of Augustus, the last duke but one of Saxe public life; and there were, all over the counGotha Altenburg, from whom he separated in try, illuminations, balls, and dinners, in com1826. In December, 1832, the duke married memoration of this important period. In 1838 he came over with his father to this Antoinette, Princess of Wurtemburg. By the country, to witness the coronation of her Mafirst marriage the issue was Ernest, born the jesty. They stayed longer at Buckingham 21st of June, 1818, and Albert, born the 26th Palace than all the other guests, and the Duke of August, 1819. His earliest education the of Saxe Coburg was particularly distinguished prince received at the Castle of Ehrenburg, by her Majesty, who, previously to his dewhere eminent professors, from the College of parture, conferred on him, with great cereCoburg, and other masters, daily attended. mony, and in presence of a numerous attendWhen he had completed his eleventh year, his ance of noble lords, the Order of the Garter. mother, Louisa, daughter of Augustus, Duke On their return from London, preparations of Saxe Gotha Altenburg, died. This caused were made for a tour to Italy; and, in Dethe duke, till he should have contracted an- cember, 1838, they set out, attended by Baron other marriage, to put Prince Albert under Stockmar, who has been for several years emthe care of his annt, the Duchess of Kent.ployed in the affairs of the Duke of Saxe CoHe subsequently resided for some time at Claremont and Kensington, and, of course, had an opportunity of occasionally partaking of the lessons intended for Princess Victoria. They became, it appears, acquainted with one another in their early childhood.

When he had completed his seventeenth year, he entered the University of Bonn, on the Rhine, and attended lectures on the classics, mental philosophy, history, statistics, mathematics, politics, and political economy. Among the numerous distinguished professors of that celebrated place of learning, is Augustus William Von Schlegel. Thus a most favourable opportunity presented to Prince Albert of perfecting himself in English, the

burg and his relatives. It was deemed neces-
sary to make a short stay at Munich, in order
to take, on several questions relating to Italy,
the advice of the King of Bavaria, who had
been several times in Italy. To the Bavarian
capital, then, the duke accompanied the
prince, and the most marked honours were
paid to them there; the public cousidering
the brilliant expectations of Prince Albert
well founded, and rumours to that effect hav-
ing been generally circulated by the journals
of Germany.

The German papers generally call him
Albrecht, which, however, is not a name dif-
ferent from Albert. This will best be seen
from the following paragraph, translated from

the "German Encyclopedia," by Professors Ersch and Gruber:-"Albert or Albrecht," says this excellent work, "is contracted from Adal and bert, and means of noble birth, also a landed nobleman. Generally speaking, Albert was formerly more in use in Germany, and afterwards the second form, Albrecht, prevailed; still both words continue to be promiscuously used."

On the 10th of October, 1839, Prince Albert again visited England, on a visit to her Majesty, at Windsor Castle, where he remained for some time; and, on the 15th of November, following, sailed from Dover in the Spitfire for the Continent. During the above visit, it was apparent by the great attention universally paid to him at the Palace, that he was to be the favoured husband of the Queen, and on Saturday, the 23d of November following, a Court was held at Buckingham Palace, when her Majesty was pleased to make the declaration of her intention to ally herself in marriage with Prince Albert.

Those who were present describe the manner in which her Majesty made this important communication as most impressive and interesting. The emotion natural to a highlyborn and highly educated young lady upon such an occasion, and under such circumstances, was subdued by a sense of the great duty she had to perform; and although it was impossible for her entirely to conceal the workings of her feminine feelings during the delivery of the address, her manner was characterised by a calmness which riveted the attention, and a mild dignity which commanded the respect and veneration of the assemblage by whom, upon that particular occasion, her Majesty was surrounded.

John Cunningham, Printer, Crown-court, Fleet-street.

His Highness is in stature rather above the middle height, exceedingly well proportioned, and of very manly appearance for his years. His general manner is easy, unaffected, and graceful; his features are regular, well de

-VIENNA AND MOZART.

(Concluded from page 194.)

Mozart married during the time he was composing the music of "L'Enlèvement au Serail." In this opera he has introduced all the sweets of the honeymoon into his score. The air of the first act, above all, expresses what Mozart felt, as his biographer phrases it, au fond de son ame. In after time, Mozart brought into his music the most tender and delicate sentiments, but never any thing so innate, so intimate, if we may so say, has ever escaped him. It was a sort of confidence that Mozart reposed in the public. Later, his compositions, without doubt, arrived at a higher degree of perfection, but those airs of "L'Enlèvement," &c., he always preferred in remembrance of that happy époque.

ABD-EL-KADER.

Military affairs in the neighbourhood of Algiers, have taken a turn of late so extraor dinary, and unexpected, as to bid fair to become the scene of much speculation in that quarter; the events of which will be watched by Europe with the greatest anxiety. The results of further operations, in a mercantile point of view (hardly less than a military one), cannot fail to draw upon them general attention. We are in possession of a memoir of the famous Arab chief, Abd-El-Kader, well authenticated, and taken from a French paper, Le Siecle, which we have done into English.

duos soon appeared under the name of Michel Haydn. These performances have been always considered as chefs-d'œuvre, and worthy alike of Haydn and Mozart; and never did the latter include them in his published works. They were religiously preserved as a memorial of friendship and devotedness in the works of Haydn. Do you fancy that you now begin to know and understand Mozart and his music? After this Mozart did the "Noces de Figaro." Tell me now which of the two has shown the greatest talent, Mozart or Beaumarchais; for we are no longer to eulogise Mozart, his high genius and his poetry. But that he has encountered the malice and satire, joined to the most active and vindictive writer of the eighteenth century-him, a heavy thick German, awkwardly dropt from one end of This memoir we had intended for this Bohemia, into the halls of the grand signiors week's insertion, but going earlier to press of Vienna, and who, by that light meagre sketch, than usual, and want of space besides, prevents that poor flimsy rag of Suzanne, gave a trait Men like Mozart know how to express all the still more tender and piquant to the heart-its appearing in this number; we shall, passions, and either find or create them in their broken Rosing: that he has made also of however, have much pleasure in submitting it own bosoms whenever they choose to draw on themselves; and when he composed the deli-mented by his sixteen years of life, and more the following.-Ed. the page Cherubino a youth, yet more tor- for our readers' perusal, either next week or cious air of Cherebino in the "Noces de Fi- ardently devoured by a disease he is ignorant garo," in that vague, wild, rhapsody of feel-of-here then is a gift, in itself no less suring and loving, like that of the Page, it is ex-prising than unlooked for-that of finding in the We for the most part strive to regulate our pressed with as much passion, and no less delirium. Mozart at this time was father of a losophical nerve same man, the grandeur of Corneille, the phi-actions, not so much by conscience or reason, of Molière joined to the as by the opinion of the world. But by the family, sedate and very serious. This good frivolity of another, whose name it is no longer world we mean those who entertain an opinion son and excellent father, this honest and faith-requisite again to repeat.- Le Cameleon. about us. Now, this circle varies exceedingly, but never expresses more than a part. In senates, in camps, in town, in country, in

"Premiers transports que nul n'oublie."

ful husband, where did he find these characteristics of the debauchee,and that infernal rouerie, which he has given his "Don Giovanni?"

THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN POVERTY
AND INDIGENCE.-The terms poverty and in-

Here, then, must be traced that gift which digence, usually employed as synonymous, do courts, in a prison, a man's vices and virtues

angels present to their darling poets. They give them one key to Heaven, and another to the place of evil, to the end that nothing should be hid from their eyes. Let us now descend from those happy regions where the genius of poets luxuriate, and bring forth goodly fruit, to reveal a few of this lower world's inquietudes :

"But longer in this paradise to dwell Permits not"

Shall I say that Mozart, who had stormed the hearts of the people of Vienna by his opera, was arrested at the moment of his departure for Saltzbourg, where he desired to proceed to see his father, not by the enthusiasm of the people, chagrined at beholding its favourite actor escape them, but by a pressing creditor, who, without pity, demanded a debt of thirty florins. Mozart, a favourite of "the gods and men,' ," had not thirty florins! Mozart, who could not raise this paltry sum, set about composing in all haste a work which occupied him night and day. You imagine, no doubt, that Mozart wrote to satisfy this creditor no such thing. He wrote to pacify the creditors of Haydn, his friend, who was ill in bed, and could not fulfil his engage ments to supply two duos for the violin and bass. This creditor of Haydn was more especially importunate, threatening to sue him for the price of those duos which he had advanced to the maestro, and Mozart, as soon as he heard of it, went off to visit his sick friend, entered at once into his room, and sat himself down to work with such vigour, that the two

are weighed in a separate scale by those who not express the same idea, nor represent the know him, and who have similar feelings and same situation. Poverty is relative, indigence pursuits. We care about no other opinion. is absolute; the poor man has not enough, the There is a moral horizon which bounds our indigent has nothing; the former wants assist-view, and beyond which the rest is air. The ance, the latter must have succour or perish public is divided into a number of distinct In modern times a new word has been coined jurisdictions for different claims; and posterity which has not a little increased the confusion is but a name, even to those who sometimes of ideas prevailing on this subject; pauperism dream of it. is employed as a common name both for indigence and poverty, and has, consequently, led to the suggestion of common remedies for the HUMILITY AND PRIDE.-Humility and very different evils of both; the pernicious pride are not easily distinguished from each consequences may be traced in our public dis-other. A proud man, who fortifies himself in cussions, in our varied institutions, and even his own good opinion, may be supposed not to in our legislation. Finally mendicity has been put forward his pretensions through shyness added to the chaos to express the result of or deference to others: a modest man, who is indigence, a result by no means necessary, and really reserved and afraid of committing himthe most pernicious test that could possibly be self, is thought distant and haughty: and the applied. vainest coxcomb who makes a display of himself and his most plausible qualifications, often does so to hide his deficiencies, and to prop up his tottering opinion of himself by the applause of others. Vanity does not refer to the opinion a man entertains of himself, but to that which he wishes others to entertain of him. Pride is indifferent to the approbation of others; as modesty shrinks from it, either through bashfulness, or from an unwillingness to take any undue advantage of it. I have known several very forward, loquacious, and overbearing persons, whose confidential com. munications were oppressive from the sense they entertained of their own demerits. In company they talked on in mere bravado, and for fear of betraying their weak side, as children make a noise in the dark.

The great are fond of patronising men of genius, when they are remarkable for personal insignificance, so that they can dandle them like parroquets or lap-dogs, or when they are distinguished by some awkwardness which they can laugh at, or some meanness which they can despise. They do not wish to encourage or show their respect for wisdom or virtue, but to witness the defects or ridiculous circumstances accompanying these, that they may have an excuse for treating all sterling pretensions with supercilious indifference. They seek at best to be amused, not to be instructed. Truth is the greatest impertinence a man can be guilty of in polite company; and players and buffoons are the beau ideal of men of wit and talents.

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38. Interview between Wellington and accurate portrait of this beautiful and talent

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