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Article BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF EMINENT (DECEAS... ← Page 2 of 11 →
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which Arthur Wellesley > the great Duke of Wellington , really derived his descent ^ -Colley , or Cowley- —was afterwards , by adoption , merged into that pf . ¦ ¦' "^ esliBy ; ... or Wellesley , from " whtich had previously sprung the famous Joh ^ brother Charles had been requested to proceed to Ireland in order to
succeed to the family there , but , for various reasons , had declined j and the branch of the family represented in Garret Wesley was the successor to that patrimony . Garret Wesley is supposed in some degrep to have owed his elevation to the rank of Earl of Mornington to his great musical talent , as he is said thus to have become a fovourite vyith Ge 6 rsre III . As we are not
Ayriting a life of the Duke of Wellington , we shall close this part of our sulyect by sh ow ^ comparatively late date . On the ^ from the disastrous campaign of W ' alcheren , he applied to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
he had been married , sighing himself as Colohel Wesley , not having then assumed the morp a ^ family then was of this paper we shall drop the eminence of his lineage , and regard him in his true character ^ as the most wonder ^ musical genius that England can boast .
In the " Miscellanies" of the Hon . Daines Barrington , 4 to ., 1781 , there is an account of the precocious talents of Samuel Wesley , and his elder brother Charles , who was considered the more gifted of the two . Our purpose being confined to Samuel , we shall abridge and extract from the paper mentioned , as suits our convenjiehce . His father , the Rev . Charles Wesley , told Mr . Barrington that " the seeds
of harmony did not spring up in him ( Samuel ) quite so early as his brother Charles , for he was three years old before he aimed at a tune . " This statement , however , does not appear to be correct to the letter , for Mrs . Wesley , no doubt in the fulness of her maternal love and pride , told Mr . Barrington that he played a tune when he was but two years and eleven months old ; and she produced a quarter guinea which was given him by Mr . Addy for this extraordinary
feat , wrapped up in a piece of paper , containing a memorandum of the day and year of the gift , as well as the occasion of it . It would seem that music was inherent in her children , for she had an elder son , who died in his infancy , and who both sang a tune , and beat
time , when he was but twelve months old . According to his father ' s account , the tunes first played by Samuel were « God saA ^ e the King ;" " Fischer ' s Minuet , " and others , which were mostly picked up by him from the street organs . " And these melodies he put a true bass to , after he had learned his notes . While his brother Charles
was practising , Samuel used to stand by with his fiddle , scraping and beating time . And so little did we think of his talent , that when he was asked , ' And what shall this boy do ? I answered , ' Mend his brother ' s pens / in allusion to the well-known story of Marcello ,
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Biographical Sketches Of Eminent (Deceas...
which Arthur Wellesley > the great Duke of Wellington , really derived his descent ^ -Colley , or Cowley- —was afterwards , by adoption , merged into that pf . ¦ ¦' "^ esliBy ; ... or Wellesley , from " whtich had previously sprung the famous Joh ^ brother Charles had been requested to proceed to Ireland in order to
succeed to the family there , but , for various reasons , had declined j and the branch of the family represented in Garret Wesley was the successor to that patrimony . Garret Wesley is supposed in some degrep to have owed his elevation to the rank of Earl of Mornington to his great musical talent , as he is said thus to have become a fovourite vyith Ge 6 rsre III . As we are not
Ayriting a life of the Duke of Wellington , we shall close this part of our sulyect by sh ow ^ comparatively late date . On the ^ from the disastrous campaign of W ' alcheren , he applied to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
he had been married , sighing himself as Colohel Wesley , not having then assumed the morp a ^ family then was of this paper we shall drop the eminence of his lineage , and regard him in his true character ^ as the most wonder ^ musical genius that England can boast .
In the " Miscellanies" of the Hon . Daines Barrington , 4 to ., 1781 , there is an account of the precocious talents of Samuel Wesley , and his elder brother Charles , who was considered the more gifted of the two . Our purpose being confined to Samuel , we shall abridge and extract from the paper mentioned , as suits our convenjiehce . His father , the Rev . Charles Wesley , told Mr . Barrington that " the seeds
of harmony did not spring up in him ( Samuel ) quite so early as his brother Charles , for he was three years old before he aimed at a tune . " This statement , however , does not appear to be correct to the letter , for Mrs . Wesley , no doubt in the fulness of her maternal love and pride , told Mr . Barrington that he played a tune when he was but two years and eleven months old ; and she produced a quarter guinea which was given him by Mr . Addy for this extraordinary
feat , wrapped up in a piece of paper , containing a memorandum of the day and year of the gift , as well as the occasion of it . It would seem that music was inherent in her children , for she had an elder son , who died in his infancy , and who both sang a tune , and beat
time , when he was but twelve months old . According to his father ' s account , the tunes first played by Samuel were « God saA ^ e the King ;" " Fischer ' s Minuet , " and others , which were mostly picked up by him from the street organs . " And these melodies he put a true bass to , after he had learned his notes . While his brother Charles
was practising , Samuel used to stand by with his fiddle , scraping and beating time . And so little did we think of his talent , that when he was asked , ' And what shall this boy do ? I answered , ' Mend his brother ' s pens / in allusion to the well-known story of Marcello ,