the Italian singer so famous in England some time ago, and whose proper name was Carlo Broschi, was born at Naples in 1705. He had his first musical education under his father, and was afterwards educated under Porpora, who travelled with him. He was 17 years of age when he went to Rome; where, during the run of an opera, there arose a struggle every night, between him and a famous trumpeter who accompanied him in a song, for execution and strength of lungs in holding out longest; and his fame may be dated from his victory in this contest. In 1734, he came to England, where his musical talents enraptured every audience; sweetness, strength, and compass, were found in his voice; and, in his style, the tender, the graceful, and the rapid. He is said to have possessed powers that never met before, or since, in any one human being; and which proved therefore irresistible. With this character he went to Spain in the year 1737, with a full design to return to England; being under articles to the nobility, who then managed the opera, to perform the ensuing season; but the first day he performed before the king and queen of Spain, it was determined to take him into the service of the court; a pension of above 200l. a-year was settled on him, and he was never more suffered to sing in public. On the death of Philip V. he continued in favour under his successor Ferdinand VI., who, in 1759, dignified him with the order of Calatrava. But when the present king ascended the throne, he was obliged to quit Spain, though his pension was continued; he then returned to Italy, where all his old relations and friends being dead or removed, he had a second life to begin in his own country, among strangers. Dr Burney visited Farinelli in 1770, and the above account of him is abstracted from the Doctor's "Present state of music in France and Italy."