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• •• COMNl:GillttkAr 771liGeT.R14 Alter- in absence from the stare of nearly fifty Man, 811/11UPSAStes Mirhimiser Artfht'e Dream was st night revived. When this play was performea at Driry.lane, about• the year 1789. it was by nn means attractive. Owing, probably, to the want of sufficient ability in the Comp , ny, to fill; with effect, the immense range of character which the piece em. braces, it was not played more than three or four -nights. Such, we are convinced;'will not he the fate of this drama, as last night represented. With very little exception, all the talent Of the house was called Into action en this occasion—and the audience, in every scene, loudly expressed their approbation of the exertions which bad evidently, and most success fully been made to delight their. Next to the play of. , The Tempest," SHAESPIARS has evinced greater powers of invention and of fancy its his a Midsum mer Night's Dream" than in any other piece written by him. To use his own language (and it is the fittest language in which to praise him) he has here given, to a airy nothings"—to the mere offspring of his sportive fancy, " A local babionlen and a name." That exquisite genius which prompted him tts the delineation of ideal characters, taught him 'also to use a language only suited to them, and to employ his sopernatural agents it actions nicely adjusted to their several spheres. The richest vein of pretry, may be traced through the serious part of this play. The harmony of the numbers. and thesruth and ele gance of the ideas, at once delight the ear and de 'ate the mind. In every erne this observation is verified. The beautiful compliment to Queen Em zasarst, which SHAKSPICARE has made Oberon pro nounce—the address of Titania to Peasblostom and his companions, when she recommends Bottom to their care—(lines which Mr. DRYDIDI has pointed out as singularly beautiful)—the pathetic complaint of Helena—the description which Theseus gives of his hounda—Constitute a few of the striking poetical passages with which the piece abounds. In the comic department, no man, unless he be steeped to the throat in melancholy, can mark the theatrical meet . ings of Bottom, Quince, and Co. without being highly amused. The play, as it is now performed, is reduced to three acts. • Taste and judgment have been *displayed is the' alteration. The story is clearly developed, and no passage of great poetical excel lency has been omitted. SIIAKSPEAReS original songs have been in general retained. Some of his blank verse has also been turned into metre, and set ,to music. But, as it was conceived that a greater num ber of songs was necessary, a part of the old ballad " Cana, follow, follow me, • " Ye fairy elves that be," and the air, 64 Hush, ye pretty warbling choir," from the wnenata of Acis and Galatea," have been introduced. We now come to speak of the perform ers—and first, though it is contrary to the iirdinary rule in theatrical criticisms (we know not why it • should be so), we must notice the /aim Never be fore did we witness so many interesting females as sembled at one time on the stage. Wherever the eye %IA3 directed, it glanced beauty. —The pensive features of Miss Stamm—the smiling countenance of Miss Boor'—the love-darting eye of .Miss Foote .--the arch glance of Miss felattnews—tie innocent simplicity of Miss MAC ALPlN—the force and spirit of Miss BURN/ILL—the matured beauties of Mrs. FAUClT—delighted in turn. But their appearance formed, _perhaps, the least part of their attractions. They severally acted with ability. Miss SteetteNs delivered the dialogue, not merely with propriety, but with great judgment and feeling. Her singing was admilab!y fine. Her opening air—r , By the simplicity of Venus' doves,'' was exquisitely sweet. V.iren from her we have rarely heard any thing so de. 'tely soft and tender. It was loudly encored. She also sang the sir " Hush, ye pretty warbling choir," and it spirited bravura, the composition, we believe, of Mr. Basnor, in a very fine style, The latter would certainly have been enroll, had nut ihe audience that it required too powerful an effort. Miss 'llourn's Puck was excellent. Her motions, graceful and agile, kept pace, throughout the evening, with the merry spirit's boast, that he would " Put a girdle round about the earth, " In forty minutes." _ _ Miss FOO.TE was a very lovely Helena—she vented her complaints-with much pathos. Amongst the fairy vain, we heard with great pleasure, the notes of Mrs. LISTON, Miss MATTHEWS, Miss IkIIIRELL, and Miss MAC ALFIN. Mr. Coy.way appeared as The seus. The character is riot calculated for the display of talent. Mr. CONWAY looked the ,hern was received with great approbation. He delivered the celebrated passage, in which Theseus describes the poet's mighty grasp of mind, with peWerful ef fect—he was here highly applauded. Mr. Duausrr supported the character of Oberon; he sang very tastefully. Demetrius was represented by Mr. SIN. CLAM with effect. The comic characters were, how ever, most amusing. Mr. Limp, as Bottom, kept the house in a soar, by his ludicrous sell-importance. He was ably- supported by Messrs. EMMY, TOM'S, SIMMONS, and BLANCHARD. The scenery is of the most su perb description— the dresses are splendid—and the decorations, in.ge neral, demand our warmest praise. The processions were atimit ably arranged, particularly that with vi filch the piece opens. it was truly magnificent. The pageant with which the play concludes, emble-1 ruatic the various mighty deeds of Theseus, is exceedingly grand. The music is, for the greater part, extremely .beautiful, and strictly appropriate; tie thatch which precedes the appearance of Oberon ani Titania on the stage, is particularly fine. The Play was received with rapturous applause, by an excessively crowded audience, and the an * , uncement of a repetition was heard with scion =larks of approbation. A very serious accident has hsppentd to Mr. YOUNG/ of the Covent Garden Company. Whilst Whiling the stag, at the Windsor Hunt, on Monday. his horse fell under him. While endeavouring to ez. tricate 'himself. the animal struck him aiolelady on the fate with his head, and bruised him considerably. In consequence ,of the injury he has received, Mr. C. KUMLA Will this eveni.:g pertorm the part of Lard .Hastiass, in the. Tragedy of Jane Aare, which has aiLhtrus been Supported by Mr. You Na. i I, I t A Y • - - -LAII , ....--. ' . • . : COMA?OF CHANCF.ItY, JANUAR? ty. • The Loeb CHAICZLLOII, soon after he came into Court, intimated to. Sir S. Rouiu. th at he had just received a letter announcing the deAth of ,Justice HLSTH. The communication was received by the Bar with a strong expression pf. regret. IXPARTZ TUOMAI IN THS SIAI4KR OF THOMAS PHU.LIS AND COCK. This case came again before the Court for further argument. Mr. Thomas, a bankrupt, as one of the firm of Philhs. Cock, and Co. presents a petition to supersede the Commission against him, on the ground that he bad committed no act of bankruptcy ; and farther, that a Mr. Rowe, the petitioning creditor, has so debt. The CHANCELLOR Is also moved, if be should think meet, -.to direct an issue to try whether there is Any debt due to the petitioning creditor, and at lea;t .to stay all proceedings under the commission. Thecomp!aint seems to be this :—Thomas Phillis and Cock were contractors with Government in 1814, to supply the prisoners of war at Dartmoor and Ports mouth. About that time they were indebted to the house of Bosanquet and Co. upon a banking account forty thousand pounds. They dissolved partnership, and loon after Bosanquet and Co. settled their de mand on Thomas by agreeing to take seventeen thousand pounds, payable by instalments, £6OOO of sthich he paid down. It appeared that a joint com mission was then taken out against Phillis and Cock, in London, and Bosanquet and Co. having establish ed their debt under it, there was ground to suppose they would take a dividend. That commission was, however, superseded, and a separate Commission taken out at Plymouth against 'Thomas. By that proceeding Bosanquet and Co. were necessitated to go down to Plymouth to prove their debt again, and the petitioner further gates, that an influence was to be used by a Mr. Boson, the Solicitor, who took out the commission at Plymouth, which would have the effect of preventing Bosanquet and Co. from proving their debt. This was described, upon the whole, to be a most irregular proceeding under the bankrupt laws, and that the second commission could not be sustained. Atter the arguments for and against the petition had extended to considerable length, The Loan CHANCELLOR intimated, that Counsel had given no explanation why the second commission had been taken out at Plymouth instead of London. Ib did not sit in that Court, he said, to admit that a commission could be executed better in the country than London ; and as the circumstance of the com mission having been taken out in the country instead of London pressed strongly on his mind, he advised the Counsel for the defence to be prepared for expla nation on the point by Friday next. His Lordship then rose to attend the House of Lords. comes 01 ICING'S BENCH, JANUARY 17. LEY V. TURIN. Mr. MARRYATT and Mr. GURNEY shewed cause against a rule obtained by blr.Virm.Fono in last terns, For setting aside the verdict for the plaintiff in this case, and entering it for the defendant. It was an action of trespass against the defendant, a Magibtrate of the county of Essex, for seizing the plaintiff's gun, and converting it to his own use. The cauie was tried at the last Summer Assizes, held at Chk•Vaisford, before Mr. Justice Lk Btatic, whin a vet , .act was found for the plaintiff, damages one shillrog. The principal question at the trial was, whi.:ther a gun came within the description of engine:, roesitioned in the Statute of Anne, for the destioctior, of game ?-1 It appeared. that the defendant had issued 'a warrant for seizing the plaintiff's gun and dog, upon rim/a ches of his having used them to destroy game— commanding the constable to seize and bi ing away any gun or dog he should find on the plaintiff's premises. There was no evideace offered of the plaint id's having used the gun in question for the purpose suspected ; all that amieared was, that lie kept a gun and a pointer, awl used to shoot; but it did not appear that he shot. Mr. MARRYATT and Mr. GURNEY contended, that this warrant was insufficient to justify the conduct 01 /he defendant, unless he could prove by distinct evi dence, not only that the plaintiff had destroyed game unlawfully, but had committed the offence with this particular gun. A gun was not an engine within the meaning of the statute, unless it was used for the 1111- lawlul destruction of game. They cited as express authorities for this point, the cases of Wingfield v. Stratford, I Wilson, 5.; and Rex v. G4rdiner. An drews, 256. Mr: WALFO/11), in support of the rule, said he was in . a condition to have proved the plaintiff's convic tion ; but he conceived it was justly assumed, by the fact of the issuing of the warrant. - Lord ELLENSOROUGM—You . ought to have pro. duced the conviction, or evidence to induce a con viction ; but in this ease there is neither one or the other. The plaintiff is only suspected. I dare say the fellow is a great poacher ; 1 have no doubt about it; but we must have legal evidence of it..-Rule. discharged. OiLD BAILVY. Yeitetday U'm. Golding Knit stood indicted for stealing, on Tuesday the 2d of January, four small loaves,. value 14d; the property of Walter Steele, a baker, ar No. 49, New James-street, Maty-la-bonne. r The prosecutor stated, that at nine o'clock of the evening in question, his shop not being shut, his daughter got up from the .paalour and called out "stop thief." The witness ran into the street, and law the prisoner in the custody of the watch. The was searched, but nothing found upon him. t : ° tn n e e s r Witness missed four loaves. duet of which bad been picked up and brought to him. Sarah Steele, daughter of the lasrwitness, saw a 'llan run out of the shop, called" stop thief," and the man was stopped ; before the witness lost sight of him, saw the loaves thrown away ; witness picked up two of them, and the prisoner said," you are - mistaken." Benjamin Bradshaw, a shoemaker, saw the prisoner throw away two or three loaves. The patrole and the constable of the night can., firmed the evidence of the other witnesses. COMMON SZIUNANTIhen summed up the evi• dente, and the Jury found the prisoner Guilty of stealing onl, Mary Welk stood indicted for stealing, od the SOdr co December, a silk handkerchief, the property. George Park. Anne Park kept a habetdashet's shop, 186, irsh • • fialbtirp ;pkiioner note into the shop about seven in the evening, and offered ss. Sd. for a hindkerchiet, which was refused. She then dropt alter, which she vial a tong time in picking up, and was . gtiing away without. buying any thing : witness told. her to stop, shook her cloches, and a calmed silk handkerchief fell to the ground; prisoner endeAvonred to run nut, and threatened to break the windows if they would not let her go. Elizabeth Thornbury who assisted in the shop, con firmed the evidence of the fast witness; and the Jury found the prisoner guilty of stealing, but not privately, which does away the capital offence. The COMMON SERJEANT observed, that as the pri soner seemed to be an experienced hand, it would not be proper to let her remain in the country. Charles ilafron was capitally indicted for assaulting S. T. Bull, and taking from him his gold watch chain, value five guineas, a gold seal, and a ring. Mr. Bull, the prosecutor, resided in Holles-street, Cavendish-square ; last Thursday, betwixt twelve and one o'clock in the morning, he was returning from the' Freemasons' Tavern, where he had been dining with some friends; there were three in company, himself, his brother ) and a gentleman of the name of Du Puis, his friend ; his friend and himself had each a hold of his brother by the arm, who was much in toxicated • witness had been drinking, but was per fectly collected ; at Blenheim steps, saw three men coming towards them, who passed them, and a little after they came baci, and said that witness and his friends bad ran against them ; witness said, if it was so he was sorry, and that they must see the state in which the young man with them was ; they however followed and abused them ; the witness raising his hand to his friend's shoulder, felt his watch pulled out of his fob : he brought his hand down and caught it ; the prisoner and witness both pulled, and the chain broke; witness pursued the prisoner, who turned round Winslow -street, and came back in a little time, when he (the witness) stood in his way, and endea voured to trip him with his font ; the prisoner ran against him, and both fell; the watchmen then came up, and the prisoner was sexed, but the things were not found. M. de Puis corroborated the evidence of the last witness; and the patrol:: stated Lis having taken the prisoner into custody. Several witnesses were called, who gave the priso ner an excellent character ; when the Jury found him Guilty, but recom mended him to mercy on a‘couitt of the character lie had received, in which the prose cutor Most earnestly concurred; stating, that upon enquiry, be had every reason to believe that the pre sent was his first offence. The eouseos &iaa am. said, the recommendation of the prosecutor and Jury should undoubtedly be laid . befo're the Prince Regent. J. Baptiste, a negro, a native of Martinique, stood Vidicted for a burglary io the house of J. M.Cormick, a publican, in the patish. of St. Pa..i's, Shedvrell, on the 23d of December, and stealing 15s. 10(1. in cop per money, and two gallons of ruin, value 30s. The prosecutor stated, thiit his daughter having heard a noise in the house at an ea:ly hour of tl.e waning, he hid struck a light, and going down stalls bad found the prisoner, betwixt five and six o'clock, with the property about him. Witness pre., se . :ed a pistol, and said if he stirred, he would shoot him. When witness want to bed every thing had been licked up ; the property was found about the person of the prisoner ; the bar had been entered by the shutters being forced up, the lock of the till had been picked, and the back door, stood open, which having been bolted, and the bolts not forces!, must have been entries' from within; a keg of sprits was (mind under the prisoner's arm. Had no doubt the prisoner had been all night in the house. • Morris, a watchman, stated his having seized the prisoner with the property in his possession. The COMMON SEIIJUANT informed the Jury, that the offence charged against the prisoner, though not a burglary by the common law, was a burglary by the statute. 'By the common law, it was necessary to prove a forcible entering into the house, in order to constitute the crime of burglary : but by the statute, though no forcible entry had taken place, yet it a for cible exit could be proved, that constituted the crime of burglary, and in a legal sense the undrawing of a bolt was forcibly going out. The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty—Death. P. Mazzuchi stood indicted for stealing a quantity of ribband, to the value of 85, the property of C. Mathew Bonachy. The prosecutor, an Italian, lived in Nassau-place, Ccmmercial-road, and the prisoner, also a foreigner, had been his servant. Having sus pected the prisoner of having stolen his property, he searched his lodgings on the 16th of December, and found 250 yards of ribband. A Woman of the name of Buge stated her having received some ribband: as a present from the priso ner, which the prosecutor claimed as his property. The otic....r who searched the lodgings produced a box containing 226 yards of ribband. Catharine Cr.:ce, the prisoner's landlady, stated, that he had applied to her to dispose of the rihbands for him, which he *ad received from a friend from abroad. . The pr9secutor identisled the property, and, from his check.book, believed t'i.e prisoner to be in his debt. The prisoner, in x writtau defence, said he was a foreigner, and wholly ignorakt of the law of England; th;t IA master being in his dell% and understanding that he meant to leave the counts?, he was apprehen sive of not being paid, and had ts. Nerefore taken so much ribband as was equal to two-th;Zds of the wages ohie to him: had he been disposed to dial, he might have taken a much greater quantity. Francis Buge, the prisoner's landlord,. gore him a d character, and the Jury returned a verdict of— t Guilty.. On Tuesday evening Anthray Mackarot was again 'indicted on a charge of forging a bill of exchangc ‘ for *l2OO, with intent to defraud J. Dougan, Esq. kV. GURNEY, Counsel for the, prosecution, declining tt,, bring hirward any evidence, the Jury, under the di rection 9i the Itscomosa., acquitted the prisoner. ROM?* COACH/We...404a Hafrito who was only ' liberated from the House ofCcm-ection, in Coldbath field', fast Thursday morning, alter the expiration of two years' imprisonment, for a rubbery, was commit. ted tothe same prison, cm the following day, for the robbery of the Salsbury COll6O. Be will undergo a further examination. ilKsvEnzy2.• bELTDRS• COU l MILITARY HALF PAY. Yesterday Mr. BARAYII/Yrd the Cowl put of a rule made by th- MAgistratr : at in the case of a Gentleman named Zioi,, Gentlenian was . a 1144 y nificer ;Is th e had been lately discharged under the Act ehester Quarter Sessions; but in in di c is the Magistrates made an as4gnmear hid half-par for the general benefit of his Now he (Mr. Barry) contended that the, thority io make any such condition, xii ously obtaining the consent of the Sectet for the hall.pay was more at the controul went than of the Officer. The Court concurred in the opinion of and rescinded that part of the rule. Government was ebsentt,tl to the convey portion of the half •pay f.r a purpose of A tenant of Mr. Caste, the great la! :Norfolk, having challenged his landlore posed affront in turning his son mff his g Costs declined meeting him. The team posted Mr. C. at Norwich and several or towns, as a coward, and threatened to tee indignity wherever 1w met him. Mr. fluency resorted to legal measures, and if has been be trid olio-, hirmelf in elCi sureties in £5OO each, to keep the perk proachini' Quarter Sessions, when the CA vestigated. Monday evening as Mr. Lightfoot w the pit of Drury Lane Theatre, he tv bank notes to the amount of between £L9 and a bill of exchange for £3O. BoW•STSßr.T.—Tuesday James Count ! wife, and Morgan Donovan, under%eut tion, charged with robbing Mrs. Eleatit of Woolwich, of lifty.siz coats. and her six years of age. The prisoners, Jamel Morgan Donovan, were fully committe, for trial. Eleanor County was commi ther examination, to enable her to pro' wife of Issues Cdunty. In that case sli charged. CottoNme's IscuesT.—Tuesday even an Inquest held at the sign of the Cr tioneeb.coutt, Ludgate-hill, on view of Robert Hill, a town carter, aged 61 yi eleven o'clock, on Tuesday morning, hi his vet with two horses down Ludgate• fell, and the wheel going over his Ices immediate death. He has left a wi children, one of whom witnessed the ac Cbrouer said, that when the Catholic n is this country, a law was passed which, would direct the forfeit of the horses :1 all the property in such cart, which we neries and convents, in order that the d should be prayed for. That Act wa gether repealed ; but the money now 1 pocket of the Corporation of Landau sent case, the deceased was the driver if a heavy deodar•.d was ordered, it wcp family, he would, theref ire, recommel to make it as small 2S possible. Vero tai Death, by falling unJer the near caused his death, which wheel btc ,, o VAlne aboitr .ss. COAL MARKEY, JANUAR' Skips at Market. dhqn Soli. 54 Newcastle 25i i6i .senderland I i , ong Cual sBs. 30. 0' 21 0 . L H. Jan. 12, at Edutbure,4he esuotrss of Weml MARalt.l) Jan. 12, at Edinburgh, the .rev. W titer College t.bui eh, to Mrs. kobertbon, reek of t.. Krobertsun, Esq. Solicitor. Lately, at ()tumult., Mr. Nat Lamb, 01 •he to Annett, Daly dauglrer of the Rev. Mr. Oar the Methodist old conorctlon that arcwt. DIED. 'October II ; at Nrw York, Nr:ijor limas 4 Sunday, aged _6, Mary Ann. thr wile ut th four, of St. John', Wood, Mary-la-bunne. Sept 1, on board a tramp'' , hum the ewe India, Captain John Black, •if he 72d Reeint..ft RENOVATED Hb..4L - 1 H. IT has been too frequently the sable general reprobation, that nten destitute of t medical art have offered themselves as candid, tronage in the profession of Physic. For the pu lice to the result of our studies and experience, from being classed among those empirics wli tensions have, unfortunately for society, been ceived, we beg leave to submit to the liberal a faithful statement of our pursuits and acquires After having received a regular medical educ of Messrs. Grindal and Blizard, whose tectun carefuUy attended, as Professors and Surgeons o pica, we entered ourselves as students in tha school for medical acquirements, the Royal burgh, and were instructed in the different bra Surgery, the Theory and Practice of Physic, wifery, Botany, &c. &c. tea by those climes Morro, Gregety, Black, Hamilton, Duncan, We trust we shall not be deemed presunipttio our proficiency and acquirements are not having for a long series of years made Veil and the various diseases of Debility, the pal our studies and practice, it will, we hope, be all acquired superior knowledge of their cream slight and recent cases of infection, a perfect completed in the short period of two days, al utmost inveteracy, where other practitioners cess, a proper perseverance in our plan of tri the patient a safe and radical cure. /!midst the melancholy variety of disorder fects of atabit long and most unhappily pure bo:h sexes;there are none more alarming or mi those deficienceies anddebilities which frequer bitter the matrimonial state. ro such person soling reflection to know that they may now, lible mode of treatment,be restored to•that g ip blessings, a strong, meet, and vtgorons consti of debility, from whatever cause suming, w des if venereal infection, we may be consul either sea with the greatest secrecy and hono sultation et home from ten to three, and four dB tea e. night. Patients in the country are requested to star their case, sir, and general habit of living, /cc tACe for advice and medicines, when the sir sent to any part,of the kingdo m. To ensure sential to our undertaking, the postage of kite the account for medicines. CU FtRiE irsisi Ca Surgeons, No. 107, _ HIGH WATER Iv-MORROW Al 1•0 Morning . - 7 nu Monism . • • SS all LONDON: Printed by I prim Kent, published there, =dot Liao Star 9Sce,