Messrs. Pickersgill, Turner, Reinagle, Hilton, Newton, Constable, Good,
Daniell, Clint, Kidd, Howard, Phillips, and Elford, have also some
excellent pictures in the exhibition.

_May_ 14, 1831.

G. W. N.

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SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS




BILLINGTON.


(Print her name in grand capitals, Mr. Compositor)--Billington returned
from Italy! My father, who remembered, I suspect, the beautiful woman more
than the accomplished singer, determined to hear again her _Mandane_; and
sorely against my will, I rather think to prevent the chance of my doing
mischief at home, forced me to go along with him. With listless and
unwilling ears I listened to her and Mrs. Mountain, that second best of
English singers throughout "Fair Aurora." Gradually, however, and
involuntarily, I became pleased, interested, delighted; and when the
encored "Soldier tired" was ended, had I but possessed so much Italian,