The Boston news-letter, and city record, Part 43

Author: Bowen, Abel, 1790-1850
Publication date: 1825
Publisher: [Boston] : Abel Bowen
Number of Pages: 850


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Theatre .- Miss Kelly's Benefit was well attended. We were not only gratified with the performances gene- rally, but really glad to see the Thea- tre filled with a fashionable, discrimi- nating audience. Mr Cooper did not appear exactly at home, yet there was true histrionic excellence discoverable in all he said and did.


A gentleman in Philadelphia has in preparation a work entitled 'A Histo- ry of the American Newspaper Press.' If well managed, it will be a source of much amusement, as it is said it will contain the origin, progress, and pres- ent character of the principal news- papers in the United States.


Bishop Cheverus has recently re- ceived five thousand francs from the King of France, with a letter of thanks, written by the Bishop of Hermopolis. the Secretary for Ecclesiastical Af- fairs, at the request of the King, for his exertions in favour of the inhabitants of the department of the Tarn and Garonne, who had suffered by an in- andation of the Tarn .-- Gaz.


Trial of the Shakers .- On the 22d April, came on before the Supreme Court, sitting at Worcester, the trial of John Warner and several others, head men of the Society of Shakers in Har- vard, on an indictment for having falsely imprisoned, assaulted, and beat- en Seth Babbit, a member of the Soci- ety, from the vear 1823, to the finding of the indictment. The trial is report- ed at length in the Worcester papers, the Spy and Ægis. The jury agreed in five minutes on a verdict of ac- quittal .- D. Adv.


Paris .- The prefect of police in Paris lately sent a commissary to take possession of the Gallery of Fine Arts belonging to a person of the name of Rouy, in consequence of its containing some busts of Bonaparte. The week before this seizure, the Gallery had been visited by several of the Royal family. A confectioner at Paris has been punished for selling busts of Na- poleon in sugar to children.


On Saturday afternoon a boat on an excursion of pleasure, was capsized by a sudden gust of wind, off Point Shirley, in this harbour, and we are sorry to say that Messrs. David Pat- ten, James Gillson, William Story, and Charles James, were drowned. They were all stone-cutters, in the employ- ment of the Boston Soap Stone Manu- facturing Company. There were five persons in the boat ; the one saved is David Hull, who was picked up by Messrs. John Sargent Tewksbury and John Burrill, who went to their rellef. They were all steady and industrious men, who have left many relations and friends to mourn their loss. The bodies of the four have since been found and decently interred -Cour.


CITY RECORD.


The following specific appropria- tions to defray the expenses of the city. for the next financial year was passed by this city, 26th April.


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For salaries and compensation


to the Instructers of all the


Schools, except the Primary Schools $40,000


For the Primary Schools 13,500


For repairs, fuel, and all other contingent expenses of all the Schools 4,000


For repairs of Public Buildings 3,000


For Paving and Repair of Streets, - 30,600


For widening Streets, 25,000


For Salaries of all City and County Officers 29,000


For the City Watch


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For Lamps, Oil, and Superin- tendance 10,000


For the Fire Department, in- cluding new Engines, Hose, and all repairs of Engine Houses, 10,000


For Bells and Clocks 700


For Constables -


1,500


For care and improvement of the Common, Malls, and Fort Hill - - 2,500


For care and improvement of Neck Lands 600


For Common Sewers, Wells, and Pumps, 5,000


For the Internal Health De- partment, including sweep- ing Streets and removing House Dirt and other nui- sances 12,000


For the External Health De- partment, expenses of the Quarantine establishment, except salaries 1,200


For the Overseers of the Poor, exclusive of moneysreceived from other towns, (all mon- eys accruing for State pau- pers to be paid into the city treasury) $ 10,720


For the Directors of the House of Industry, besides moneys received from other towns for the support of their Poor, and income from the City's farm at South Boston, (all moneys accruing for State paupers to be paid into the City Treasury ) 15,000


For the completion of the


Stockade Fence, at the House of Industry 3,000


For the payment of the annual Instalments of the City and County debt 15,000


For the payment of Interest on the City and County debt 15,000


For payment of the Annuity for the purchase of George's and Lovel's Islands, in Boston Harbor 400


For payment for work already performed upon the Dyke, on the City's flats West of Washington street 150


For building Reservoirs - 5,000


For Printing and Stationary 1,800


For the County of Suffolk, in- cluding expenses of Courts, Jails, House of Correction, and all other charges, except Salaries, 31,500


For Incidental Expenses, and Miscellaneous Claims, not justly chargeable to either of the foregoing heads of ap- propriation 4,000


For probable abatement of Taxes


- 5,000


IN BOARD OF ALDERMEN.


Monday May 8 .- All present ex- cept Alderman Bellows.


A. communication was received from the committee of Health, in rela- tion to the landing of Hides.


Several notices were received of in- tention of building.


A complaint was made against a bowling alley near Hancock school.


John Q. Adams, Eph. L. Baker, Daniel Magner and William Rider, li- censed as victuallers.


Agreeably to assignment the Board proceeded to the choice by ballot, of nine Directors of the House of Indus- try ; and they were accordiugly chos- en in concurrence with the Common Council.


Aldermen Bellows and Loring were joined to the Committee to examine and audit the accounts of the Treas- urer.


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what right the city has in and to a cer- tain dock on Front-street at the bot- tom of Rainsford's lane, formerly so called.


Communication from Thomas Lamb, that he is about building on State street, opposite Merchants' Row, and praying that the elevation of the street may be determined on, was read and committed to Altermen Bellows and Robbins to determine and fix the same.


Notice from the Selectmen of Rox- bury that they will meet the Mayor and Aldermen on the line between Roxbury and Boston on the 17th inst. to run their lines. Ordered, that Al- dermer Marshall and Loring be au- thorised to provide a dinner at the Ex- change Coffee House.


Wednesday, May 10 .- The whole Board present, except Alderman Rob- bins.


Ordered that the building now used by the Hook and Ladder Compa- ny, be removed to the City's land, near the hay scales.


IN COMMON COUNCIL.


Monday, May 8 .- Forty members present, absent Amos Farnsworth, Ezra Dyer, Isaac Parker, Chas. Tor- ry, Chas. Barnard and Thos. Brewer. A message was received from the Mayor relative to the purchase of a piece of land in Eliot Street for a watch house, suggesting the expedien- cy of authorising a City Stock to be issued for the amount of $1700, dis- charging a mortgage now held by Misses Susan and Elizabeth Inches, whereupon a stock was ordered to be issued, interest payable semiannually, the stock payable at the unexpired time of a note held by Ephraim Marsh. The order passed both branches.


A communication from the Survey- ors of Highways, submitting to the consideration of the City Council the expediency of sanctioning by their ap- probation, imperious exercise of an- thority for the purpose of widening Merchants' Row, made necessary in consequence of the improvements in the vicinity of Faneuil Hall ; with the petition of II. Gassett & Co. remon- strating against the building of a stone


store at the corner of State street and Merchants' Row, was committed to Messrs. Boies, Hastings, Hallet, Mo- rey and Waters, with instructions to report what sums of money the peti- tioners or proprietors of estates in Merchants' Row, and the vicinity, will contribute towards the expense of wid- ening the said street. Also to report what sum, in their opinion, the improve- ment will cost the city after deducting the amount which will be contributed by individuals towards that object.


The Committee to whom was refer- red the order from the Board of Alder- men, requiring the Assessors to furnish the Assistant Assessors, annually, with a list of all the names of persons taxed $10,000 and upwards for personal property the preceding year, reported that the same ought to pass in concur- rence, with an amendment, striking out $10,000 and inserting 5,000. The report was accepted.


A i solve to appoint the Directors of the House of Industry overseers of the establishment for the reformation of Juvenile delinquents ; and appro- priating $3,500 for the use of the es- tablishment, passed to a second read- ing.


It was ordered that the School Com- mittee be requested to report to the City Council the rules which forbid the admission into the public schools of children upwards of 7 years of age ; and upon what principles of policy these rules were established and are still maintained ; and why they cannot be so far altered as to admit a portion, if not the whole of the children for whom an intermediate school is propo- sed to be established. Also that the School committee be requested to re- port the causes, so far as they have come to their knowledge, which have prevented the children, for whom the Committee recommend an intermedi- ate school, from being qualified for ad- mission into the public schools ; and what number of schools will be neces- sary for the accommodation of the children above mentioned.


Adjourned to Monday next. 4 o'clock.


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AND CITY RECORD, MAY 20, 1826.


ROYAL HOUSEHOLD OF ENGLAND.


The simple and economical mode of paying officers of the General Govern- · ment, in the United States, gives more - security to our liberty, than any na- tion in the world. While our Presi- dent has a specific income of twenty five thousand dollars a year, there is but little danger of his buying interest, to any extent, which can ever operate against the vital good of the people. We here present a table of the officers of the Royal Household of George the Fourth, and what American will not sicken at such a picture of royalty !


The King's Salary amounts to five millions of dollars a year, and to give dignity to the crown, the nation pays annually the sums which are prefixed to the names of the following offices.


The Lord Chamberlain, £1200


Vice Chamberlain, 1159


Secretary, 5 Clerks and a superin-


tendant of payments, 1200


Groom of the Stole, 1200


12 Lords of the bed-chamber, 10001. each, 12000


13 Grooms of the bed-chamber, 500/. each, 6500


64 Gentlemen of the privy, 200l. each, 12800


Master of Ceremonies, 300


Assistant, 121


4 gentlemen ushers of the privy chamber, 200l. each,


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4 gentlemen ushers, daily waiters, 150l. each,


600


Deputy, 650


Register, 430


Deputy Register, 350


3 Clerks, 610


Secretary to the surveyor general, and messenger, 140


Office keeper, 35l. door keeper, 30l. 65


Librarian,


Master of the robes,


800


Lord high Almoner, 2000


200


Sub-Almoner, 97


200


Hereditary grand Almoner,


200


Dean of the Chapel, 200


200


Sub-Dean, 91


10 Sergeants at arms,


1000


Confessor of household,


36


Knight Harbinger,


Receiver of duties on Salaries, 22*


Clerk of the Cheque, 9 Messengers,


Master of the King's band of Music, 300


24 Musicians, 40l. each, 960


4 other persons attached thereto,


4 Physicians in ordinary, 300/. each, 1200


7 Physicians extra, Physician of the household, 1000


Surgeon of do. 280


Apothecary of do. 160


2 Apothecaries to the person (royal) 480


3 Sergeant surgeons, 396l. 13s. 4d. each, 1190


7 Extra Surgeons,


2 Oculists, 2 Dentists ; operator for the hands and feet, and Barber, 4000


10 Housekeepers, 150l. each, 1500


Master of the tennis court,


Master of the barges, 100


Herb-stewer, 94


Mole-takers,rat-killers, fish-hook and spatterdash makers, in all, 46,


Surveyor of pictures, 200


Master of Mechanics, 200


Poet Laureat, 100


Examiner of Plays, 400


Principal portrait painter, 50


Seal engraver, 50


22 other artists,


34 Rangers, 17000


34 keepers of Parks, 500l. each, 17000


Surveyor General of the King's woods, 3000


Master of the game,


2 Chief Justices of Eyre, 5916


Secretary and Water Bailiff,


Surveyor of the King's revenue,


2000


Assistant gentleman usher, 66


4 Grooms of the privy chamber, 73l. each, 292


8 gentlemen ushers, daily waiters,


8 pages of the back stairs, Sol. each, Keeper of the medals,


640


2 surveyors of the King's Houses, 100l. each, 200


Groom, clerk, messenger and furrier,


Wardrobe keeper at Hampton Court,


Ditto, at Kingston,


Necessary women, at Kingston,


Ditto, to the State apartments,


2 clerks, and 2 deputy clerks of the King's closet,


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41,


Gentleman harbinger and axekeeper,


Master of the King's horse, 1266


Clerk marshal, 500


4 equerries, 300l. cach, 1200


4 pages of honour, 260l. each, 1040


16 gentlemen of the chapel. 73l. each, 1168


2 organists & 2 composers, 73l. each,


4 violists,


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2 yeomen riders, 316


4 lutenists,


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Store keeper,


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Master of the King's stag hounds, 2000


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2400


24 preachers in the King's Chapel, 30l. cach, 720


Lord Steward, 1460


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500


4 clerks of the King's household,


15 yeomen and grooms, 60/. each,


600


Knight marshal,,


500


Secretary and chaplain,


Coroner of the verge, 25


9 clerks and marshalmen,


Clerk and comptroller of the kitchen,


300


1 clerk of kitchen, 250/. 1 do. 150l. 1 do. 75l. and 1 do. 65l.


540


First master cook, 237


Second do. 217


Yeoman of the mouth, (King's)


138


2 yeomen of the kitchen,


6 head gardeners,


50 purveyors, such as of bread, wine, oysters, fish, oil, mustard, beef, milk and cream, 2500


Captain of the yeomen of the King's guard, 1000


Lieutenant of do.


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Ensign of do. 300


7 clerks of do. 100l. each, 700


8 ushers of do. 491. 113. 3d. each, 394


2 messengers of do.


100 yeomen, 37/ 11s. 3d. each, 3956


4 do superannuated, 25l. each, 100


6 yeoman rangers and yeoman bed- goers, 10/. each, 60


Captain of gentleman pensioners, 1000


Lieutenant of do. 500


Standard bearer, 310


40 gentlemen pensioners, 1001. each, 4000 Paymaster of do. 300


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48 Chaplains in ordinary,


10 Priests in ordinary,


Clerk of the stables, 350


Equerry of crown stables, 200


Huntsman, 123


6 yeomen pickers, 124


Grand falconer, 1200


Total of the King's household, in actual pay every day-795 persons ; 507 have salaries, which amount, in a year, to £102,259. Two hundred and eighty-eight, whose salaries are unknown, but probably average 150l. each,-£43,000. Besides these, there are a large number of footmen, under- cooks, scullions, porters, hostlers, cow- keepers, &c.


From the National Banner.


SKETCHES OF BRITISH CHARACTERS.


George IV. is in his sixty-fourth year, retaining all the love of pleasure and fascinating manners for which his life has been distinguished. He has not been equally fortunate in keeping his youthful beauty, and he now pre- sents the beau ideal of a fat drunken libertine. He is a consummate politi- cian, and has removed the unpopulari- ty which the queen's trial and his profligate conduct attached to the opening of his reign. His extrava- gance is a particular item in his histo- tory, and the nation grati fies him with an annual income of not less than five millions of dollars. There are also large sums lavished on the repairs and improvements of his five palaces, St. James', Carlton, Windsor, Whitehall, and Brighton. Ilis ordinary amuse- ments are simple enough, riding, hunting and fishing, but his public ap- pearances. and his levees, are super- latively grand and imposing .- His court is by far more august than that of any predecessor, and the notoriety of his fondness for ostentation and pa-


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rade, gathers round his presence an everlasting circle of foreigners and na- tives. He is seldom noticed in the public prints, except to state that 'the king is perfectly well of the gout :' ' the king invited to dinner such lords and ladies,' or ' his majesty conferred the honour of knighthood on such gentlemen.' It is reported that he re- grets very much his elevation and of- ten wishes for the pleasures of unno- ticed life. An anecdote related does him very little credit. When the news of Bonaparte's death was received in England. lord Castlereagh announced it to his majesty, by saying 'your greatest enemy is dead.' The king, thinking he meant the queen, or re- garding his private feelings, exclaimed in ecstacy, ' the devil ! she is ?' When he landed in Ireland, he hugged every person he met on the shore without distinction, and several did not wash the hands which received the honour of his grasp, for several succeeding weeks.


His prime minister, lord Liverpool, is the son of a petty counsellor, Jen- kinson, who raised himself to a con- siderable office by chicane and finesse during the American war. He never usurped the unlimited control in public affairs, which Mr Pitt held, for lord Castlereagh was, and Mr Canning is in reality more of the premier than he. His private character is amiable and respected, and his talents very considerable, though less as an orator than a diplomatist.


Lord Holland is the nephew of Charles James Fox, and his heavy brows, thick ungraceful figure, and gloomy countenance speak him the true representative of the family por- trait. He is one of the best speakers in the house of lords and as far as the digressions of party allow him, a staunch friend to the British constitu- tion. His house is the theatre of fashion in London, and his dinners, the town talk of the season .- Lady Hol- land kept an intimate correspondence with Bonaparte, and her efforts to me- liorate his misfortunes are entitled to general acceptation.


Sir Walter Scott in appearance is a large grey headed old man, with a blind eye, a lame leg, and unmeaning phpsiognomy. He is almost adored in the circle of his acquaintance, and lauded by every tongue for his social and shining virtues. Had his person been gifted by nature with a full com- plement of requisites for a laborious life, the world might never have gain- cd the treasures of his imagination, and his life had perhaps been spent in the paternal occupation of. a husband- man. He was once a clerk in the law courts of Edinburgh, but the uncom- mon success and large profits of his works, have raised him a handsome in- dependence. He miscalculated his talents very much in preferring poetry in his early productions, and he had gained a good round age before he discovered his error. Receiving him as the author of Waverley novels, by which his name will descend to future times, he was at least fifty five before he began them, but he has endeavour- ed to repay his lost time indeed with unexampled despatch. His poems are now hardly noticed, and his dra- matic attempt was unsuccessful. ] presume the British world are expect- ing his life of Napoleon with the curios- ity to discover whether the sketches of real life by his pen, will equal those which were drawn from the inexhaust- ible resources of his invention. Lord Byron has prophesied that he could open to himself a new department of literature, whenever his novels began to tire. A student in Trinity College, Dublin, once sent him some poems, requesting his opinion. Sir Walter Scott returned a very polite answer, and among other advices, he recom- mended him to publish nothing before he had at least reached the fortieth year of his life.


The duke of Wellington is a tall war-worn looking man, with a sun- burnt complexion, and a very large Roman nose. His name creates no more sensation in London, than if he had gained his rank by any of the common-place stepstones of wealth or influential connections. He has so far


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lost his sense of principle and shame, | Dublin, knighted by one of the Irish as to forsake his wife, to associate with an opera dancer. All the spoils of his continental campaign have been lost at the gaming table, and he has sunk the hero in the abject character of a pensioner and sycophant at court. His compeer in arms, the marquis of Anglesey, who lost a leg at Waterloo, is a most interesting looking person- age. His handsome face and com- manding figure, all seamed and gashed by the casualties of war, present to the observer a living representation of Plu- tarch's heroes.


Thomas Moore, the poet, is a squat, funny looking, short-sighted, monkey- faced little man. He lives entirely on the bounty of the marquis of Lands- down, for all the products of his works have formed a minimum to his extrav- agance. He once enjoyed a conside- rable share of the favor of the present king, (when prince of Wales,) and lost it by too much impertinent familiarity. His fame was very soon at its summit, and is now rather on the decline, a fate that clings a little to both Rogers and Campbell.


William Roscoe is a most respecta- ble character. A poet, orator, histo- rian and botanist, in the two latter de- partments he has eclipsed every co- temporary. He was once a merchant of large business in Liverpool, after- wards a member of parliament in that town, and since an inhabitant of the king's bench prison for many a day. He is a tall, thin, old man, a good deal stooped in the shoulders. The mercantile world of Liverpool showed how much they estimated literature, by selling, or allowing to be sold, his botanical garden and library. He now resides with Mr Coke of Norfolk, who deserves respect for patronizing a man that future times will perhaps rank with Hume, Robertson and Gibbon.


Miss Edgeworth is a most ugly little woman, whose squeaking voice is the annoyance of every company which she honours with her presence. Lady Morgan was the daughter of a play actor, and wife to an old accoucheur in


lord lieutenants, in a drunken frolic. She never received any particular at- tention at home, and . Phillips far ex- ceeds the estimation of his talents in Britain, in having his works handed about, even through the wilds of America.


Edward Irving, the celebrated Cal- edonian preacher, whose orations have received such extensive attention, is very tall, squints excessively, wears his hear and beard long, affects a sin- gularity in all his actions, and speaks a broad Scotch dialect. Mr Brougham is thin and dark complexioned. He has a scorbutic affection in his face, and his features are disturbed inces- santly by a paralytic motion. He goes through the city very meanly dressed, and generally walks as fast as if for a wager.




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