MUSIC AND "IlIAGISTRATES.—There is a specimen of the wisdom of
our ancestors,' which says, that if any publican allow music to be played in his house he shall for every such offence forfeit 1001. Tile fiddlers are not specially disposed of, but of course they are to be bows/ringed. Mr. ADOLPHUS had the mischance of digging the sta- tute from its burial-place, and the informers have made their own of it. One licensed victualler was compelled to compromise with JOHN- SON because his daughter was found practising. the " Meeting of the Waters ; " " Fill a bumper round" has been cashiered ; and who should adventure on" Ta cite accende" to a brimming bowl, had better swallow its fill of salt-water. On Wednesday, several of the perse- cuted publicans appeared before the Magistrates at the London Ses- sions, chanting a miserere, with the innocent author of their distress, Mr: ADOLPHUS, leading the band. The Magistrates were Aldermen FAREBROTHER, HEYGATE, and BIRCH, and that meekest and mildest of men the Recorder. Mr. ADOLPHU s pleaded long and hard for Mr. INNEs, of the Queen's Arms, Cheapside. The Aldermen, good plain men, were almost melted by the melody of the pleader ; but the Re- corder had a high constitutional duty to perform—" He did not think that playing a fiddle in the Queen's -Arms was a public benefit ! " and poor Mr. INNES departed in melancholy silence, a martyr to the good of his country.
The next petition was from the White Hart, Bishopsgate Street The Recorder shook his head!
The George, Smithfield—
The Recorder shook his head !
Mr. MUNNS (a sweet musical name) entreated that Miss Musxs might be allowed to play her piano, which the fear of the law had put to a stand-still-
The Recorder shook his head ! In short, the eloquence of Mr. AnoLPitus, entreaties of Mr. INNES, Miss MUNNS'S harmony, Jew weddine.; id Christian hops,
all pleaded in vain—
The Recorder shook his head !
_principle, shook his head, very gravely, three times : "The right ho- nourable gentleman," cried the witty baronet, "shakes his head at what I say ; I would be better pleased if he shook some sense out some topic or other, when one of the Ministers, a man of high public Sir FLETCHER NORTON was addressing the House of Commons on
of it.*" * Debates in Parliament, edited by Joseph Bliller, gent.
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