pish dotard of the vieill cour that we ever saw upon the stage. Every look and attitude was true to nature, without being overdone, or come tardy off. Mr. Denning, whose debut as Mingle in the Bee-hive, we noticed in our last month's Number, has since performed Flexible, in Love, Law, and Physic, pretty much in the same style of bustle and moderate comic humour. DEC. 1. This evening "Venice Preserved was performed, and much to the credit of the Theatre. Miss O'Neill's Belvidera is among the most striking exertions of this able actress. The faults of the play, and they are many and obtrusive in plot, language, and morality, keep clear of the parts in which Belvidera is to throw out her lustre, and no portraiture in the romance of the drama can be purer than the daughter of Priuli, or more delightfully copied than in the performance of Miss O'Neill C. Kemble's Jaffier is a charming representation of the young, fond, and wavering conspirators Young's Pierre, of the bold, firm, strongly-purposed conspirator. Dec. 2.-This evening Braham ap. peared in the part of Harry Bertram, in Guy Mannering, in which he introduced some new airs, and sang, as he always does, with great exhibition of voice. We Mr. Denning appeared on the same evening in Buskin, Matthews's amusing part in "Killing no Murder." have already given an estimate of his powers, and it remains unchanged. He is a diligent, hurrying, headlong imita tor. DEC. 3.-"Husbands and Wives," a farce, by Mr. Pocock, from the French. A spendthrift chased by bailiffs, and a duellist who is flying from the officers of justice, are the two principal characters. The last, disguised as a rustic, escapes his pursuers by personating a newly-married countryman, Humphrey Grub, whose wife and mother are brought to approve of this trick by the hope of obtaining through it the sum of 100%. which the lady with whom the girl formerly lived had promised to give as her marriage-portion, and of which, after walking nine miles, they were likely to be disappointed through the abscence of the bridegroom. While Capt. Wing'em is proceeding in this character to the house of Lady Sarah Peery, his friend Tick all finds his way thither by a shorter cut, and implores Lady Sarah to save him from the bailiffs, who are close at his heels. The bailiffs approach, and are just about entering an apartment in which they suspect him to be concealed, when he meets them in a morning gown and cap, a book in his hand, and accosts them as master of the house, and as the husband of the Lady -Sir Peregrine Peery. The enemy is thus foiled, and the real Sir Peregrine, who next makes his appearance, is (according to a rule without an exception on the stage in such cases) arrested for Tickall's debt, while Humphrey Grub is apprehended for Captain Wing'em. The new married man and Sir l'eregrine become subsequently alarmed at finding their wives provided with other lords in their absence. In the end Tickall's pecuniary distress is terminated by the kindness of Sir Peregrine; the duel is explained away: Wing'em, and Eliza, the uiece of Lady Peery, are united, and all ends happily. The strength of Covent Garden is embarked in this Farce.-Blanchard with his chaste comique, Jones with his exhaustless spirit, Abbott with his agreeable ease, Emery with his rustic nature, Tokely with his broad humour, Mrs. Egerton, with her vigorous conception, Miss Foote, with her pretty face, Mrs. Davenport with her truth of character, and Miss Booth with her lively manner. DEC. 17. On Wednesday "King John" was performed. King John, Mr. Young; Constanee, Miss O'Neill; and Falconbridge, Mr. Charles Kemble. With all Mr. Young's merit, it is, we think, impossible for any actor to fill up the idea of this character which we have received from his predecessor. Miss O'Neill's Constance has not the deep tone of maternal despair; she is always affecting, but there is a preternatural sternness and solemnity about the afflictions of Constance, which do not fall within her powers. The public will rejoice with us in the return to his professional duties of Mr. C. Kemble, in this evening's Falconbridge, and particularly as it is one of his best parts, and not surpassed by any of its kind upon the stage. The new method of warming, adopt ed at this Theatre, bids defiance to the utmost severity of the weather. Thermometers are placed throughout the house, by which the public inay sec, as well as feel, that the temperature is constantly kept between 55 and 65 degrees. Even in a drawing-room it is hardly possible to retain such an equal 1817. and pleasant warmth, as pervades the different parts of this truly comfortable Theatre. PERFORMANCES. With every alteration of both interior and exterior which taste or convenience could suggest to meet the change of season, this superb theatre was reopened for a brief winter campaign, on Friday evening last, the 26th instant. In these improvements the comfort of the audience has been most particularly attended to, and the pledge given by the proprietor at the close of last season has been most honourably redeemed. The late period of opening will permit us only to state, that the various performances reflected equal credit on the management of Mr. DIBDIN, with his truly popular entertainments of last summer, and were received with every demonstration of applause, which they so amply merited, by a fashionable and crowded audience. We are compelled to defer all particulars until next month, but we cannot conclude without quoting from the bills of the theatre a notification relative to puffing, which very fairly ANACREONTIC. 1817. 9. Guy Mannering-Husbands and WivesMora's Love. 10. Isabella--Ditto-Ditto. 11. She Stoops to Conquer-Ditto-Ditto. 12. School for Scandal-Husbands and Wives, 19. Guy Mannering-Ditto. 15. Romeo and Juliet-Ditto-Mora's Love. 16. Guy Mannering-Ditto. 17. King John--Ditto. 18. She Stoops to Conquer-Pitto- Ditto 19. Apostate-Ditto-Ditto. 20. Guy Mannering-Ditto-Ditto. 22. Venice Preserved-The Libertine. 23. Guy Mannering-Husbands and Wires. 24. Christmas Eve (no performance). THEATRE. satyrizes a custom of the mightier dramatic potentates-" more honoured in the breach than the observance:" "The Proprietor most respectfully begs to state, that he has carefully examined all the archives, records, and authorities, he could find in the SURREY THEATRE; and, having found, that in the time of Charley Hughes, and other classic directors, it was not usual to insert long puffs at the bottoms of the bills, those articles which relate to the entertainments of this theatre, will, (in humble imitation of other modern improvements) in future, be placed at the top." The performances were, a splendid melo-dramatic spectacle, founded on GARRICK'S celebrated romance of the Christmas Tale; a comic ballet, called Love and the Lancet; and a comic rhetorical extravaganza, or speaking pantomime, entitled, The Touchstone; or, Harlequin Traveller. POETRY. Have traitors deceived us with thorns among flow'rs? Well!-let us their folly look onThe rosebud of pleasure awhile has been ours, The thorn to their pillow is gone! O! let us not gaze on the wreck of our joys, But build the fair fabric anew;The day which no hope and no friendship supplies Is a day without sunshine or dew. Believe it-the rose-tree will flourish again, Tho' the dead leaf is trampled upon : Our souls like the sun shall their lustre retain, Undimm'd by the days that are gone! Mars may Mohawk or High-dutch quote, Merrily spoke the eldest Grace, Mine is the language all men know 'Tis the rhetoric they bestow None but they! 'Tis lisp'd in Paris, 'tis sung in Rome, 'Tis worshipp'd in old Athena's dome'Tis the nation's voice where'er I roam If I sway. Let us be French in the Thuilleries, Speak English, pray!" DEVO DEVOTION. EVOTION, hail! calm and serenely bright, Dart but one ray, and all the soul is light! The mind's rough passions thou hast pow'r to smooth, And thy mild voice can every anguish sooth. When Hope, the sun of human life, is set, And the pale cheek with Sorrow's tear is wet, 'Tis thine to cheer the heart in all its woe, And bid the breast with holy transport glow: For oh! the prayer of faith, when raised on high, Can dry the tear, repress the struggling sigh, The wretched sufferer's doubting murmurs still, Where softly sighs the summer breeze, The axe may lay Love's tribute low; Round that which feeling deem'd secure Unfeeling weeds may heedless grow. But thine is carv'd upon the rock Where oft the sounding surges fly; The raging tempest it shall mock, And glitter in the evening sky. And as the tide of years shall roll, Thy name shall deeper, broader grow; But broader, deeper in my soul It cannot be, it cannot glow. WM. LEWIS. INTELLIGENCE FROM TUESDAY, NOV. 25, 1817. This Francis Jarmin, of the city of HIS Gazette notifies the appointment Bristol, Gent.; John Wardell the younger, of Whitby, York, Gent; John Fryer, of Wolverhampton, in the county of Stafford, Gent.; and Richard Godman Kirkpatrick, of Newport, Isle of Wight, Gent, to be Masters Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. It also contains an Order of Council, continuing the prohibition of the exportation of gunpowder, saltpetre, and arms to the Coast of Africa, the WestIndies, and South America, without leave from the Privy Council. SATURDAY, NOV. 29. This Gazette contains a Proclamation, prohibiting his Majesty's natural-born subjects from serving or enlisting, or entering themselves to serve in the military forces or ships of war, raised or set forth by the persons exercising or assuming to exercise the powers of Government in certain provinces and parts of provinces in Spanish America, or in the military forces of his Catholic Majesty employed in Spanish America, or in his said Majesty's ships of war. This Gazette also contains a Proclamation, further proroguing Parliament to the 27th January, then to meet for the dispatch of divers urgent and important affairs. It also notifies the appointment of James Colquhoun, Esq. as Consul General for HamLurgh, Bremen, and Lubeck; and of the THE LONDON GAZETTE. Fourth West India Regiment being permitted to bear on its colours and appoint. ments, the words "Martinique and Guadaloupe." TUESDAY, DEC. 2. This Gazette contains addresses of condolence to the Prince Regent from the Presbytery of Dumfermline, the township of Stourbridge, and parish of Oldswinford; ration of the City of York, the Borough of the Corporation of Waterford, the CorpoBurton-upon-Trent, Carnarvon, Macclesfield, and the Corporation of Kingstonupon-Thames.Also addresses to Prince Leopold from the borough of Portsmouth, the Presbytery of Ayr, the borough of Tewkesbury, and the town of Birmingham, to which most respectful answers were returned in the name of his Serene Highness by Sir Robert Gardiner, SATURDAY, DEC. 6. This Gazette contains a Proclamation for calling in, on or before the 31st of December instant, that part of the current coin commonly called the Old Tower Halfpence and Farthings; it also contains a reward of 10001. to any person who shall discover the offender or offenders who set fire to the Woollen and Worsted Spinning Mill at Kidderminster, on the 23d ult. SATURDAY, DEC. 20. This Gazette contains 35 addresses of condolence to the Prince Regent, and seven to Prince Leopold, on the death of the as a Regiment of Lancers; and that Robert Melville, Esq. has been appointed Consul for Amsterdam, the Helder, Vlieland, the Texel, Terschelling, and Harlingen. ABSTRACT OF FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. THE Secretary to the SOCIETY of GUARDIANS for the PROTECTION of TRADE against SWINDLERS and SHARPERS, held at No. 36, Essex-street, Strand, by a Circular bas informed the Members thereof, that Notes, of one of which the following is a copy, are now in circulation at Brussels, and have been remitted within a very few days from that place to a Member of that Society: : There are written marks upon them to give them the appearance of having been some time in circulation. On taking them to No. 3, Ingram Court, the name of Parkin is on the door of a Counting house there; and no one is to be found, and the notes consequently are not paid. The Secretary also repeats the description of the Notes of the "IPSWICH and SUFFOLK BANK," of which notice was given in 1811, 1813, and 1815, one of them having been negotiated a few days ago. They are for One, Two, and Five Pounds, entitled, " IPSWICH and SUFFOLK BANK," signed "For RALPH HOLDEN, SANDERS and Co. RALPH HOLDEN," are made payable to Bearer on Demand, there, or at "Messrs. WINKLEY, BROTHERS, and Co. No. 6, St. Michael's-Alley, Cornhill, London," and are marked or entered, "T. L. LAWRENCE," Also, that the persons undermentioned, viz. JOHN ELLIOTT, late of New Street, Gough Square, but now of Chapel Street, Pentonville; WILLIAM HAWKINS, Beaufort Cottage, Brixton Washway; JOHN STAFFORD and Co. alias CHARLES WADSWORTH, No. 108. Bishopsgate Street Within, are reported to the Society as unfit to be balloted for as Members thereof. On the 18th Sept. 1817, died, after a lingering illness, deeply lamented by all who knew him, Lieut. Francis Gritton, aged 42, Adjutant for many years of the first regi Europ. Mag. Vol. LXXII. Dec. 1817. ment of Herefordshire local militia.-His remains were yesterday interred with masonic and military honours, attended by upwards of one hundred brethren of the different Lodges of the county, and a detachment of our Militia, commanded by Captain Jones, with their band, in full uniform. Colonel Matthews and other Officers, from respectful feelings towards the deceased, attended as mourners. Form of the Procession. Company of Soldiers. Two Tylers with drawn swords. Two Provincial Grand Stewards with wands. Brethren not of the Lodges in the Province two and two, juniors first. Sen, and Jun. Deacons with wands. W S. and W J. Wardens with wands. Past Master of the Palladian Lodge, bear- R. W. Master of the Palladian Lodge. Mourners not relations of the deceased. 4 B |