Musical Biography.
'he following letter of a very eminent musician ic too amu,ing not to be inserted, thouglt he has adroitly contrived to make it an.,werall the purposes of an advertisement :-I TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIAES. Sir,-That truth and accuracy ougbt to characterize valuable bio- graphy has 11 believe) never been much disputed. As a demonstra. live evidence that both these precious ingredients are happily corn. 'Wned in a work juat edited, and entitled A Biographical and Hij. toitral' Dk)ioantzjy of Mlusiciaft, published by Alessis. Saineburv a.d Co., Bell-court, Fleet-street, pray please to take the following specimen Un}der thearticle " SA Mn E L ?VrEBr.xE1" I read thIs assertion..." H e dled about the year 181F." An entirely new musical church.service, lately composed by this .1eparted musician, is now in the press, and about to be ushered speed iily irnto public notice. To immortalize the reputation of MesIrs. Sainabury and Co., as bio raphe s, equall v correct and conscieutious the person who has now the Conour of communicating this intelli- gence to yourself and your niumterous readersl happenr to be that selfsamc Individual, who, although predicated to be defunct eight vcars ago, 12 nevertheless now in the act of writinvr -fi _ SAMUEL WV1R.iV o Q h -- - ' ,aIIiIAuury aua ;o. would till futther oblige and l uMMiAte the world by a minute detail of my funeral, with the names of the eye.wirneases, and a geometrical description of my present place of 8epulture. Al iiviuig residence is now at No. 16 uston-strcet, Euston-squarec, New-road, St. Pancras, if they will trust " thle Ghost'a word." October 11, in the year of our Lord one thousantd eight hundred and 'wenh,Ifozsr. MUbsjc.liL ~BIOG-RApflp.