Star. — London, England, 1801-10-20 00:00:00

THLfrAICAL.f. . • CovENT-Gianss.--Laft night Mr. ,Coons re turned to the exercife of his profeflional duties at this Theatre, in the part of Richard the Third, and mperienced a moll cordial welcome from a very numerous audience, Before the curtain role,. Mr. Coous himfelf came forward, and addrelted the houfe nearly to the followingeffeet :— « Ladies and Gentlemen, ft gives me extreme concern thit E ly part of my condudt Could render It neceirary for me to make an apology in this place. I eerttinly had no leave of ab face from the Manager at the time of opening this Theatre for the preterit leafier; but, from a number of circunillances, I bad radon to think that my attendance on the tirlt night wou.d Dot be requifite. A letter, however, was written to inform me to the contrary ; which, being xddreffed to Mancheiter, did not reach me till it was too late for me to obey its call. With what has hapiened to me fine, I believe, you have been fuliciently acquainted 1 I have, therefore, only to conclude with obferv. ing, that whatever may be my future reception, my tumoß eons than always be tiled to prove how deeply I am impreffed with a teak of gratitude for ail jilt favours received at Your bands." . This Addrees was heard with profound atten tion, and rewarded with reiterated fhouts of ap plaufe.--The play pa-oceeded, through every fcene of which Mr. Cooc a performed in even a more for cible (tile than we think. we ever before witneffed in his delineation bf the charaeter ; and he gave'to the cglinne of the part a new and appropriate effeCt by wearing armour in the fight of nofworth-field. —Of Mr. Coar, as the fucceffor of Mr. Poet in .Ritiwen4 we cannot (peak in commendation. Deoti-Lsita.—:ititharti the Third was alfo per formed at'this Houfe. KEMBLE was, as ulna], the hero of the piece. His portraiture f this charac ter, oar readers art aware; is differently coloured from that of Coota. They arts both of an excel lent defeription, and in their refpeetive features well entitled to the weed of apprcbation: The audience were numerous and brill iant. kEADING SCHOOL PLAY., Saturday 114/hi, and the two preceding nights, the young Gentlemen of Dr. VALPY'S School per. formed their annual Play : The Play was the Se cond Part of King Henry Y. altered from Shalc-z -fpeare. The alterations proceeded from the judi cious hand of Dr. VALPY, and were of a nature to compr:fs the whole,.to bring forward the force and luimour of the principal charafters, and to fopprefs all fuch parts as are not confillent with the ftrieefl delicacy. Some new (perches alfo were incerpo rat, d evidently alluding to the late circumftances o - the country, and tending . to animate the exer tions cf loyalty and patriottim. Great firefs has been laid on a French army, which landed in Wales, to the affißance of the rebels, but finding no fupport from them, and threater ed with a for midable oppofition, were obliged to re-erubark. The Dramatis Parfait wcre as follow : ring Haley - Mr. LORING. Henry Prince of *ate. Mr. Wnwetw.ionr. rime Jo hn of Laneafter Mr, CRE3rIGNT. niece of flies-/ .., Mr. Tr 10AN. eefter - Areibbillop of York Mr. Eras. t ari of Weitniortiand f Mr. CAR R. Lord Mowbriy . Mr. NICHOLAS. Ldrd Hafting. Mr. W. T. LOTZDAT, L or d oder p l aice i. ,hir. Wass. Morton - Mr. LOVLDAT. Gower - Mr. W.ANDREITS. . Attendants oft the Chief} M r. c. . ODII Juhiee Sir John Falftaff . 21ardolph - Pans Mr. A m es. Mr. Falters. .Mr. C. Afars. - - Mr. Elwell. Yaffe - Mr. A. B. VALI.T. 'Hake UAW . Mr. SIIUTIII. . Halal=• Mr. CAINE!. bavy . - - Mr. Loacomari. Fang . - Mr. Entire. Snare .. Mr. BALLEINE. Mouldy - - Mr. ANDIMTS. Shadow - Mr. CHA NOL/R. Wart - Mr. WHITTON. Feeble • - Mr. T. Logone. lulled(' - - Mr. CIIEBTER. Holt& Ctilekly - 1114 HAwitts. Prologue - r. Lout it 0. Epilogue it is with pleafure that we witnelled the fpirit and exertions of every one of the performers.— They fully fucceeded in fupporting the ellablithed credit of their little Theatre. It would be injullice 3190 to make particular mention of the principal actors, and to pay them that tribute of praife they fo well deferve. The part of Henry IV. was fullained by Mr.Lo -.rva with great dignity, and the celebrated fpeech of the dying Monarch was given in a faultering tone, and with an urraffeeted pathos, that found their way to the heart of : every hearer. Of the Fringe of Wales we may fay the fame thing. Sir Yobs Fayiyr was reprefented jug as he is drawn : the company were kept in continual laughter at the original drollery and unprincipled pleafantry of this agreeable libertine. But nothing could be more extrilitely pourtrayed than the charatter of !Tiffin? Shallow; not a tingle feature, not the mi. r:aeß lineament efeaped the difcriminatMg judg ment of the performer. The incoherence and rffil. plicity of the Janice, contralled with the Knight's knavery, produced an effc that was highly gra taying to the admirers of genuine humour. The ifsfYi !. 4 trici/y was a faithful and animated like- The Recruit, even contrived to diflinguith !t7nfelves, and entered fo thoroughly into their :offtrent eharaetcrs as to convince as of their ca , reity u!enever a greater fcopc may be given to heir talents But the bell encomium that could he paid to ih6r endeavours is what they have already re rtived, the unbounded plaudits of a full, polite, .nd intelligent audience. iie dreffes were in the coßtime oldie 27;e, and enec both fplendid and appropriate. They R e klieve, More conformable to the fathion tht times than thole of the London Theatres. The fernery was moßly new. A Gothic Cham ber r,rod uce d a fi ne effea, and a drop leen,: of t;ic mall beautiful defign and happieli execution, ( , ''s great credit to the abilities of a young artill r •;: ; ,4 ,1y tiling to eminence, Mr. W. Haystt. c afways happy in affording our (lender of arplaute to winuever has tor its objea ' • • • the promotion of rational entertainment, and the infpiration of a relifh for the liberal arts, efpecially the Drama, being perfuaded that a good talk is no mean auxiliary to virtue, and that it is at leaft neceffary to think jultly before we can at rightly. The late performances have not only this tendency, but come further recommended to us under the amiable form of Charity, as they were prefented for the benefit of that excellent intlitution, the Humane Society. There were a Prologue and an Epilogue made for the occafion. The Prologue, we underfland, came from the pen of Mr. I've, the Poet Laureat. It confifted of appropriate alluflons to the circum fiances of the times, particularly the Peace, and concluded with an elegant compliment to the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, (Mr. ADDINGTON). The reception it met with bore honourable tettimony that it was •not overcharged. The Epilogue was a niaaerly compofition, in praife of the purpofe to which the profits of the Theatre are to he applied. It exhibited in an imprefGve manner the nature of the inaitution, and pleaded the caufe of humanity with a flow of verfe, a warmth of imagination, and a fwell of fentiment, that did equal honour both to the Author and his rubjed. We believe it to be the production of Mr. BOLLAND, a Gentle. man educated at Dr. VALPY'S fchool, and much diftinguifhed by fume fuccefsful academical exer cures. We hope to be indulged with copies of both, and to be able to prefent them to the Public in a future paper. The BUVIARROW, of 14 guns, Lieut. NI C HOL sow, arrived at Plymouth on Saturday Zak. He wmt into Brea harbour, and landed with a flag of truce from the Hon. Admiral CORNWA Lus, for the French Admiral VILLARET, Port Admiral at Brea. Lieutenant NICHOLSON was received with the greatelt joy, and experienced the molt polite attention from all ranks of people. He dined the firs day of his landing with Admiral VILLAR ET, Madame Vittaxxv, and fuite, with whom he vi- Cited the play-houfe, and afterwards attended a ball. The fecond day, Lieutenant NICHOLSON dined with Admiral DON GRAVINA, the Spann Admiral. Before his departure, Madame VILLA- Rtr prefented him with a morocco purfe, contain. ing a fmall, but highly finifhed, bull, in white enamel, of BONAPARTE, Chief Conful, under a convex glars let with (liver, as a token of her ef teem for the Britilla nation, and the happy return of peace. She fent by the SUWARROW, as a pre fent, Come hampers of fruit for the Hon. Admiral Cntawattis, then off Ulhant. Lieutenant M c Hoisow fpeaks in the higheft terms of his recep tion at Brett. He left in Brett water a fail of the line, of which 6 were three-deckers. The batteries were peculiarly arcing, and well provided with forges for heating (hot. By the Lifbon Mail which arrived yefierday, we have received letters from Lilbon of the sth The French army was on its return to the interior of France, and it was expeded that the Spanifh territories would be completely evacuated by the Republican troops before the end of the prcfent month. The troops encamped at Mufrelburgh and Dun bar k their tents on Wednefday. The La narkihire are to be quartered in Muffelburgh, the Aberdeenihire in the temporary barracks there, the Du mfr iesihire at Dalicrith, and the Nottingham at Dunbar, Dunfe, and Ke lfo. On Saturday the loth inftant Trevenfon Houle, rear Redruth, the feat of THOMAS KIVELL, Efq. was ftruck andconficlerably damaged by lightning. —lt was attraOed by the chimney, and entered one of the rooms of the attic about three feet above the mantle-piece, which it ripped from off the wainfcot, and broke in pieces. The flails then fattened on the bell-wire, and divided ; part of it went through all the rooms of the attic, defcended over one pair of flairs, ran through a gallery, where it met with the bells belonging to the ad ' joining rooms, fubdivided into all the ramifica tions of the bell-wires, and was concluded through every room of the houfe. Some of the fluid was concluded into the laundry, to which it let fire, but was happily loon extinguifhed. A portion of it defcended from the place where it entered into the belt hadiging room ; here it feparated in three direftions on the bell-firing, part of it ran towards the bed, fattened on the bed-rod, fluttered in ()rivers one of the ports ; the bed-clothes were tolled all over the floor, and the furniture of the bed entirely d ttroyed; it then defcended by the wall under the plaifter,and found a vent, in two places, in the parlour blow. It continued to follow the bell-wire in every direction, till it arrived at a fet of bells in the palTage on the ground-floor; at the fame in- Itant it entered the kitchen in two places, threw two maid tervants, who held infants in their arms, on the ground, thattered the chair on which one was fitting, and darted through the oppofite wall. Some of the eleiftric fluid entered the parlour where Mr. Kivell, his wife, and fitter, vete at breakfaft : ran round the room on the wire, knocked him from where he was fitting near the chimney to the other end of the room ; glided through a cupboard where it broke a valuable let of Engin china, and forced its way out through the wall. The damage it has done is confiderable, having broken all the windows in the front, and lifted lome of the win dow frames ; and the paper is materially injured, as the lightning has dilcoloured it; in fome places it has diverfified it with a variety of colours, in others made it quite black. The wire in many parts is entirely lured, efpecially where there was a twill, which it completely flattened, and gave it an edge like a penknife ; where three or four wires ran on together with knots in them, they were Itraightened out and melted into one mafs. Provi d;:ntially the family received no injury; Mr. K. his fakes maid, and infant, experienced fomething Ike a (bock. The confternation into which the family were thrown is better conceived than de fcribed. In the multi of their alarm all quitted the houfe through the windows ; but a (errant, who :Cemed to be fattened to the fpot with terror. No other fentiment prevailed among the family than that the end of the world was come, or fome great convulfitrn of nature, which would (weep the houfc from its fouudatioo. • , REJOICINGS FOR PEACE'. We have already given . feveral poetical effufions complimentary to M. arro, and in which the concluding words of each line were made to rhyme to that Gentleman's name : The following which appeared in a window at the Weft end of the town, though not In complimentary to M. OTTO, fliews no leis felicity of rhyme— . Thanks to Lord HAWKESBLIIIY, and Monfieur OTTO, For the glorious peace w:.:ich now we've got. u, If Britain loon don't go to pot-o, Then blels'd indeed will be her tot-o. The Provincial Papers are filled with deferiptions of the rejoicings which have taken place on account of the Ratification cf the Preliminary Articles of Peace, to the almoll entire exclufion of all mifcella neous news, except what is copied from the London prints. On no former occafion has the tide of po• pular rapture appeared to rife fo high as on th.: prefent, nntiatured with any improper political prejudices. Loyalty, liberality of lentiment, and union of opinion, feem to be every where the or der of the day. Monday fe'nnight being fet apart by the inha tants of Maidenhead, for celebrating the Ratifica tions of the Preliminaries of Peace, every perfon in that town hailed with rapture the return of a bleffing fo long a Granger to this country. The morning was ulhered in by the ringing of bells; the Affociations, Cavalry and Infantry, were out, and paid every poflible honour to the glorious occalson. In the evening the whole town was very handfomely illuminated, and many houfes difplayed elegant and grand devices. Fire works were let off, cannons fired, and every other demonfiratian of joy was e xprelfed by the inhabi tants, whole countenances beamed with rapture at this great and good event. The Illumination at Totneson Monday fc'nnight was truly beautiful, the decks, mails, yards, and rigging, of Captain CUMINS'S Blip, the MERMAID, being beautifully covered with lights; the crew, about feven o'clock, brought her dole to the Bridge, in order for thole the Captain had invited (a numerous and genteel party) to " board and ground her." By this " grounding" was meant toafling and drinking out of a large bowl of good old Port, rn in which the Captain floated a handtoc _ . model of the (hip, illuminated with (mall tapers till the was caught by the lwel.—During the time the Captain's crew, with cannon, accompanied by Captains WINDEATE and Roceas's Volunteers, kept up a continual fire, which was followed by a difplay of fire-works, &c.—a Serjeant of the Vo lunteers was unfortunately much hurt by one of the cannon's buraing. The fame day, at Weymouth, the York I-Liars and North Devon Militia were drawn out,, and fired airy de joy, on account of the Ratification of the Preliminaries of Peace. Captain HORSFORD'S corps of Volunteers alto fired a feu de joyr, previous to which they affembled, and drummed out with every mark of difgrace through the town, one of the privates, for nun-attendance on the days of ex ercife, upon which occafiQn Captain lioassoto addrefred the corps in a very appropriate fpeech, obferving that he felt great fatisfattion in laying this man had been the only one who had tweet ed his duty fence the formation of the corps. Purfuant to orders from General SIN COE, the molt animating military exhibition took place, on Wednefday !aft, at (even o'clock in the evening at Plymouth, and throughout the weftern The Plymouth corps marched from thence at a quar ter before fix o'clock, and then formed with the Dock corps upon the extenfive lines of Plymouth- Dock, viz.—Royal Artillery, Royal Artificers, zgoth Regiment of Foot, zd Royal Surry, zd Royal Lancafbire, tft Devon, and Royal Radnor regi. ments ; Plymouth, or Prince of Wales's Regiment of Volunteers, Plymouth Blues, Lai.gmead Volun teers, Major Ju elates Rangers, §toke Artillery and Artificers, Stonehoufe Volunteers, BARLOW'S Dock Volunteers, Captain NELSON'S Dock Greens, and PH IMPS'S Dock Blues. On the Citadel, the Royal Invalids ; and at Maker Redoubts, the Bed ford Regiment ; Cawfand and Kingfand Royal Artillery ; in all upwards of gOOO men, under command of Major-General ENGLAND. A fignal rocket being thrown up from the main guard, a roar of artillery commenced from the battery welt of Mount• Wife, which continued round the lines, and was anfwered by the guns of the Citadel, Eatt and Weft King's batteries, Mount Edgcumbe bat tery, and the redoubts at Maker ; after which the troops, by corps, fired a volley in the air, in ccm pliment to the Britifh army in Egypt. A fecond rocket was then thrown up, on v hich a fecond difcharge from 250 pieces of cannon was fired, on account of the happy return of Peace, which was fucceeded by a moll excellent treble feu de joie from the troops and volunteers on the Lints, the Citadel, Maker Ffeights, &c. &c. After this, all the French prifoners in the 7 p-ifon fhips in Hamoaze gave three hearty cheers.. The troops and volunteers return ed to their refpeaive parades ; and the Plymouth Volunteers and Affociated Corps, after their march i to their own parade, fired three excellent/au de joy in the air, with three cheers. The night be ing very gloomy, the blaze and roar of artillery had a very fine etfea. Several beautiful mu-111)a -rencies were exhibited, and fume exc. ut fire works played off. The whole bufinefs went off without the leaft accident whatever. SOUTNARITTON,OCTORFR tB—Our town has as yet 101 l but li:tle of is gaiety, and what has tended to enliven it is, the recent intelligence of returning Peace. Lail Tlinrlday night, there was at the Long Roon s, a moil fplcridid Ball, and Suppl„, in commcmaratii n of the above happy event ; up wards of tgo of the N .bility and Gentry tat down .t 12 o'clock to flipper, and Mr. MARTIN the Pro prietor provided an ample repaß. The interior of the Rooms WAS lbeautifully illuminated with variegated lamps, interwoven with wreaths of flowersandevcrgrecns, which had a moll charming deft. Mrs. Siuooss concluded her engagement on Friday evening ; the has played gime Short, Mrs. Haller, Lady Randolph, and Mrs. Beverly, to overflowing !macs, and with her ufual eeLti. ISLAND OF CF27.OA'. , A few d.zys finte, v.e took occati• ti to (late the vaine of the ifiand of Trinidad, is the Welt Indies, and probable Conf.:quer:tees of its poifeilion to this country, when being leen:4o by treaty, the induf, try and enterprize of Engliiiiiren might lie ar.i:iie,l without the probability of dH in bane,: or difnol feftion. It becomes equally the•d:ny of a )?rabic: Jottinalift to thew what has been actiaii-_d by the , cation of Ceylon to Extdrilive as oil: vosi,ATions f!,,iia are, prot•er ful and well appollthd etS our rodian army tinquef; tionably is, (till without a rd . ! maniac, it mutt be confelfcd, there pain which his in, truth, become an imnicafe woul.l be h: l 3. in doubt, hazard, and uncertainty. lf, tlttrt a marine be !wet:a:try, die conhileration whiels next offers is, where a rendezv3its can he fixed, Co as to ferve all the purpofes of fecurity to the e , alis both of Malabar and Coromandel, and at the fame time, if needlity fhould require it, of offence.--No one who has ever even read of India, can be fo ignorant as not to know that when the monition Pets in, it becomes impoffible for a !hip to con tinue in the open roadtted of Madras ; but when that fealon approaches, the only hope of pie ferving the (hip is by getting inflantly to and patientlyenduring what in any other coml. ry ould be deemed a molt tremendous hurricane. In this feafon furmerly, it was the invariable, and indeed only refource, to run for the oppofite coast, there wait until the violence of the monfoon had paired over, and then return to Madras Itondt, at infl. nite rifque, conliderable leis of time, and, is war, leaving the important fetticment of Madras open to attack by fea, if an enemy Ihnuld gain the coat before the return of the naval force appointed for its proteetion ; a seircumftanee which frequently happened in the war before the ball, and which led to the dreadful, but drawn battles, fought by Sir E. Hoc Hes and Admiral SUFFICEIN. The port of Trincomale, in Ceylon, was then in poffetlion of France, and her (hips lay there in the molt un difinthed feeurity, while the British fleet were near ly all difmafled before they could cut their cables in Madras Roads, and get to fea, to avoid the fudden and deftrudive effeds of the monfoon. The ifland of Ceylon has now become ours by treaty, and Trincomale, where the navy of Great Etitain might anchor in all weather, affords a retreat for our India fquadrnn at any Peal ti. A dock-y cd may be there eflablifhed: men of war may he !hells fitted and repaired, and the neceny of going to Bombay cease. Thus, by having gained taelipro teElion for our fleet, in all fealons,, we have, at the fame time, added greatly to the fectirity (lithe inimenfe Empire Britith India has now become. Independently, however, of thLf: 'alvantages, Ceylon is capable of producing every article of commerce the growth of ind;:t, or of the Molucca or Spice Iflands ; and from the Dutch Eland of Banda, where the finetl fpices grow, the bet plants have, in very confiderable numbers, been collesled, and cultivated in Ceylon, and they are found to thrive as well as in their native foil. The cultivation of them is fi) eafy, that Ceyhut may be made to produce fuiEcient fpices for the fupply of Europe, and this at half the expence the Dutch fettlements have hitherto afforded filch luxuries: the whole of this commerce will, there. fore, doubtlefs be transfrred into Britifli hands ; for the confideration of the confumer will net be by whom the article he wants was grown, but from whom he can get the ben, at the lean colt.— It is a very curious truth, that the only illand af fording a fecure harbour in the Well Indies, Spain has given ; and the only one affording the like advantage in the Eafi, Holland has furrcndered. A fcrious affray took place at Colchetter Bar racks on Thurfday lad, between the 49th Regi• meat and forne of the Militia. We are happy, however, to karts, that by the good conduit o f General I..stot peace was rettored the fame even- ing, even before the arrival of the 3d Dragoon Guards, who were ordered from the town, and attended with the greatelt alact ity.—Early on Fri day morning, the 49th mtarched to Chtlmstord, the 3d Dragoon Guards attended at the end of the town with drawn fwords ; and, an huur alter, the Cambridge Militia marched out of the garrifon for Norwich. So firdden were thefe routes, that the billet-Maffers did not receive orders for impreffing waggons till near eleven o'clock on l'hurfday night ; and, though fume had five miles to come to the Barracks, many were laden, and on the n ute Ly hall-part fiz next morning. FIRES. —On Tucfday night lafh, about two hours after the family of Mr. Befant, of Fordingbridge, in liampfhire, were retired fa ref!, the nieces of Mr. B. Ilceping in a cliff:int part of the houte, were awakened by a prodigious so.li:rne of fnioke and lining frnell of fire- Hal:ening to the foot of the (lairs, when they opened the fitting-room, over which Mr. Befant hinifelf (who is very infirm, be ing advanced in life) flept, it was all in a blaze.— The mantle, the prop of the chimney was alnult burnt off; the old-falltioned beams were all in a coal ; th.e furniture and the clothes hanging about the room, were alto on fire, fo that very loon it mug have opened a paffaile to Mr. Befai.t's bed niture, in which cafe his filvat ion would have been liopelefs. lite young women with ditficn:t♦ rot:fed their relative ; and, almell filfrocatcd with fmoke and heat, they happily and jointly efeapcd, undreffed, by a back-flair:7.de. `!'heir p;ercing cries for affillance, and the immense clouds of fmoke which iffited from the houfe, had, by thi, time, brought their neighbours opportuniy to their aid ; and loch effi,flual and prudent exertions were made by all chilies of inhabitant:, that within an hour theprogrcls of the Ittnics w.i, ottirely, , orped. Friday mut ning fail, .tb'.ut liven o'clock, a tire broke out at a houle in Rosemary lane, which de ttroyed a great part of the infide of the prentifi..c, together with part of the furniture ; by the timely affiflance of the firemen and engines, it was got under without for eading any lit thcr. In the middle of Tina , ' ty night a fire bra] in the vitriol wotks in Sth i rd, which ,ntirel fumed the whole of the with the ing. ,kc ont Iv con- / MP