Star. — London, England, 1801-01-17 00:00:00

DEUitr-LANE.-XING yolim W I We have been feveral times obliged, by want of roan, to defer our account of the performance of this Play. Xing job* has always been a favourite of thofe who admire a forcible expreflion of .v arious paf liions, and who have a heart to feel and a tafte to relifh the powers of nature, as delineated by SHAKESPEARE. It has, however, been feldom act ed, becanfe iftors are rarely found adequate to the principal charafters. In 1744, CIBBER at tempted a new rw, yehe, in which he fo widely departed from the original in plan and language, that it was badly received. It was revived with more fuccefs at the other Theatre, becaufe it was SHAKESPEARE'S. It lay dormant till Mrs. YATES and Mrs. SIDDONS charmed the public in Lady Confiance• Laft year Dr. Va Ler adapted it to the prefent times, and brought it out at eading School. We t hen save -an account of it Rand as that play is now in the hands of the public, it will be judged whether our account of the alterations was judi cious. This claffical exhibition appears to have given rife to the prefent performance at Drury une. It has been abridged from SM•ICIISPIAILE by mr. 1(1141ILI, with the addition of five lines, on which we have already made fome remarks. Mr. )(SMILE is an excellent Img John. In the two teens with Hubert, in the third and fourth a as, his expreffion of the various changes of pal fion is equal to any part of his theatrical career.— This'is great praife ; for even GARRICK did not fucceed in every part of this charafter. Mr. KEN- Nil is certainly not always equal to himfelf ; in A g John we too often fee Mr. KEMBLE. In the admirable fpeech " Good friend, thou haft no caufe to fay fo yet," he Aimed a finging tone, which greatly dimi. nifhed the effed. This was lirongly contrafted with the next Clutch : " Do not I know thou wouldlt ?" which fpoke forcibly to every heart in the houfe, and which indeed cannot be furpalled in aftion or expreffion. Wt feldom find fault with KEMBLE, whenhe is an &TV , aftor. The monotony of the French nage is inconfiftent with the Englifh lan guage. In the aftor, who perfonates Faukonbritige. fhould be united, as has been judicionflyobferveci, a ftrong and mufcular perfon, a bold and intrepid look, manly deportment, vigorous adtion, and a hu mour which defcends to an eafy familiarity in 1 1 conveying a jell or a farcafm with uncommon poignancy. BARRY failed in it: GARRICK and SMITH, though both inferior to WALKER, gave fatisfaftion in it. We are therefore ready to make allowances for Mr. C. Kassala, who though de ferving applaufe, fometimes wants variety, and fometimes is too boilterous. We conceive that the line applied to Aighla-- " And hang a ealfs Grin on theft recreaot limbs," should be fpoken each time in a manner very dif ferent from his. At the end of the fourth aft, in the fpeech " If thou dldft but content," we with to fuggeft to him whether he fhould ufe a flow declamatory ftyle of fpeaking. 7: tRIP.TMORC has been feen to more advantage than he appears in Hilbert. The Dauphin is a part, of which much might be made m the hands of a good aftor. Arthur demands more powers than a child can give. That unfortunate Prince was, according to the beft hiftorians, about 15 years age. The fcene between Hobert and him ought to be made snore interefting. The fame may be faid of his death. WROUGHTON is refpeflable. CORY looked as if lie was diffatisfied with the part allotted him. He afted Pandesipb fo excellently in Adelaide, that we are furprifcd not to fee him the Legate in Xing goon. Mils MENAGE and Mr. DIONUM had great merit in--the Pantomime. _ AHD bin. SIDDONS.—Her Cosyleilue is her mar ter-piece. We confider it as the acme of perfec tion. Other performance of this interefting, this dignified charafter, we cannot fay more, and we ought not to fay lei. We than add a few general obfervations. The fcenes and dreTes are charaeteriftic and magnificent. The fitnation of the King in the be ginning of the sth a& is humiliating enough, without a kneeling pofture. This is not a time to reprefent Monarchy in that fitUation. SH•RES FEARE'S anachronifm of guns and batteries ought by the fcene painter in the ex the walls of Angier:, in the the public on the late intro- CARK's Plays, and particularly : Rage. think, might be with great t this time at Covent-Garden, ive Peen Ynrw Preferta aged and fuccefs at both Theatres The charatters we would fet manner —lrew gobs. Mr. 'aukotshrit(re_. Mr. Port ; Hubert, Mr. Phillip, Mr. WNITTI ILD j the Joel/ STOK j Artlitsr, Mitt MI a- Condfolets Mrs. LITCHFIELD. concealed Author, was read - - 'Drury-huie Thcatre on Mon- Mr. Laws', Author of the among the forthcoming novelties . Kst.t.y furnithes the mufic. riot at Genoa, where an afrem , firti rank was attacked by the crime of dancing Eagfificountry of the place interferes in the thole pretended Patriots, why . egad /error on drinking poach, 'erase —on hearing . a piano-forte made n feeing their wives and daughters wars P • StAfON.--Rofeg, auricular, carnations, polyanthufes, and n full perfeaton, were gathered the 3sil of December in Sairsovi, at %I/di!. s anacnronstm not to be followed by hibition of town on 1341 century. We congratulate ti duttion of SUMLISPIA of Kig joba, on the This Pla_y, we th efred brought out at 2c WC ITCOllea to hay Kith great emulation at the fame time. in the following Cook 5 ; Faulconbridge .MutitAy ; Inv Pbi4 . 1), :4461. Mr. a Jon say; and La 4 Ceajh A new Play, by a ' 1 he Green-room of ] I .*:', by Mr. Kamsts. A new Opera, by ( 074 Spam is amoni Drury.lane. Mr. 1 There has been a tit My of perfons of the f rnob, forthe beiges: orb .ances. The.Gasette 'carrel, and afks of tl 'lcy do not feel an ey En.zyb beverage--o 1 Loadast--or on feeir :w with Enghft wan Munxits OF TNt nemonies, violets, c; lofforns of beans, in I open ground on thi 4e garden of Lady S RECORDER'S REPORT. Yefterday the RECORDYR made his Report to his Majefiy of the following prifoners under fen tence of death in Newgate, convicted in December Seffions Taft, viz. George Thomas, for felnniourly uttering and publilbing as true, knowing them to be forged, certain Receipts our payment of money, with intent to defraud. John Haler, for Reding from a certain Wharf adjoining the , navigable river of Thames 700 lb. weight of Havannah fugar, value aoL the property of Robert Brown. Jane Camm, for Reuling a five guinea piece and other mo nies, the property of Thomas Greenwood, in his dwelling-hostfe. John Willis, for ftealing a piece of Woollen cloth, value aEL and upwards, the property of Chriltopher Talbot, in his dwcl ling•houfe. William Barnes for burglarioufly breaking and entering tk dwelling-boufe of Thomas Banks, and Realms thersin a wood en Venetian window blind, his property. Mary Oakes, for felonioutly affaulting John Pade HaMoray, on the King's highway, and robbing hint of a Elver watch. Margaret Miller, for felonioufly affaultiog Edward Gifford* on the King's highway, and robbing him of a fdvir watch,. Kul chain and feaL John Reynolds, for burglarioufly breaking and entering the dwelling-601de of William Starvey, with intent to Real his goods and chattels. John Eaft, for felonioully Amain, Richard Brook in afield near the King's highway, and robbing him of a purfe, contain ing half-a-guinea, half-a-crown, and two 'killings. Elizabeth Deering, alias Murray, for felonloully *faulting David Initial on the King's highvray, and robbing him of a liver watch. James Coward, for ftealiog three heifers, price aol. the pro- perty of Join Green. When Jobn Feber was ordered for execution on Wednefday next. SESSIONS, JAN.I6. RlOT.—jamer Broad was indiaed for a riot in the parifh of St. Luke, Old-ftreet, on the z6th of December. The defendant, a throng, healthy-look ing man, was a pauper in St. Luke's workhoufe, where he had always behaved in a riotous manger. On the 16th December, he had the ufual allow ance of half a pound of bread for the day given to him ; he immediately went out, and hung it upon the lamp-iron of the watch-houfe, calling out, " Here's a pretty allowance for a man for one day." A mob collated, among whom were a number of foldiers, who molt probably would have proceeded to violence, if the civirpower had not timely interfered : fome of the mob called out, that it was 3 fhame to give fo (mall an allowance ; and Paid, the Overfeers and Churchwardens ought to be hung where it was. The. Matter of the Work houfe laid, the daily allowance was half a pound of bread, a pint of rice broth for breakfaft, and two ounces of cheek, or one ounce of but:cr, for (upper ; three times in the week they were allowed fix ounces of meat, and three quarters of a pound' of potatoes, for their dinner. The defendant admitted that he hung the bread up, and raid, that his rea(on for fo doing was, that there was only five ounces of bread, and the allow ance of meat was generally no more than four, or four ounces and alalf : he (aid, the moment he had hung it up, he went sway, and had no inten tion of creating ariot. The Jury immediately found him Guidly. The CHAIRMAN raid, it was a great pity that an idle fellow, like the prefcnt, !honld be fuffered to fpend his time between gaols and workhoufes, in- Read of being employed in fome labour. This was a molt enormous offence, and a daring outrage, at a time when his Majelly, affifted by his Council, and the two Houfes of Parliament, were endea vouring. to reduce the confumption of bread, and to alleviate the diftreffes of the honeft and induftri ous poor. The Magillrates hardly knew how to look at this abandoned wretch's offence without horror, nor could they find a punifhment adequate to the enormity of his crime. The Court however fentenced him to be imprifoned in his Majelly's gaol of Newgate for the term of one year. FRAUM—Arthur Baas, a private in the Cold ftream Regiment of Guards, was indiaed for hav ing fraudulently obtained of Anthony Lear (even 1 killings. The defendant was quartered at the pro fecutor's houfe, the fign of the Crown and Anchor, Black Houfe-yard, Eaft Smithfield; he produced a letter to the profecutor, requelling him to lend him (even killings • and raid that this letter was from Mr. Lawton, Of Somerfet-houfe, dein ing him to call and receive the prize-money due to - him ; the profecutor, who could neither read nor write, lent hint the ys. concluding that what he told.him was true; and at different times lent him other fonts, making in the whole 31. Upon making ap plication at Somerfet Houfe, it was found to be a forgery, it appearing that the letter had not been read to him, and that at the time he lent the mo-, ney he was ignorant of its contents. The Jury ac quitted the prifoner. The Court recommended that his condua fhould be tranfmitted to his com manding pfficer. maw Carter was tried for llealing a tea-cheft, and a holy bible, value two (billings, the property of John Williams, of Hadleigh. When the profe cutor was alked what he had to fay againit the prifoner he replied, " Nothing, it ought to have been his wife, ilk Role them; and raid, that the prifoner, at the time he miffed them, and when be charged his wife with taking them, defired her, if the had them, to give them to the witnefs. He lodged with the prifoner, and laid, " he was as innocent as the child unborn." The Court, upon this evidence in favour of the prifoner, immediately acquitted him. Mr. Gaitaow, who fat on the Beach, laid, that Carter had lived fourteen years with his father, and was a very honeit indultrians man. A man, who had left his wife and three ail. dren, about nine months fince, chargeable to the parish of Hampton, was brought up by the Over. Peers, to know the pleafure orthe Court with re fpea to what they should do with him, as he had wrrtten to his wife, Rating that he was in an em ploy at St. Alban's, and wifbed her to come home to him. The Court told them, the belt way was I to let the man have his wife and family, and not Mier them to be a burden on the parish. • 01.1) Yeller'lay twelve prifoners were tried, one of 1 whom was capitally conviehd, viz. Witb Roberts for making an affault on the King's highway, ~n Thoma. Milfon, putting him in fear, and taking from /tin perfon four Millings and twenty-four half pence/. Thomas Milfon swore, that on the tzth of De cember Lift, he was coming from South Mims, about a quarter before Ave in the afternoon, in a cart on the Turnpike-road.---He was driving the cart.—The prifoner who was walking on the foot path, croired over to him, and when - he had come up doh to the (haft, told him to flop. He did flop. The Prifoner bid him deliver his money, at the fame time prefenting a piftol to his breaft; he was fo near, that if he had not had the piftol, the Witnel might have caught hold of him ;- it was growing but he could fee the man diftinElly enough, and he had the fame coat on then as now ; the Witnefi put his haizd into his pocket, and gave him what silver he had,which was three Millings. —He laid to the Witnefs that was not enough, and that unlefe he gave him more, he would fire at the Witnefs. The Witnefs faid it was of no ufc to I fire at him, or to ufe him ill, for that he had no more money, except a few half-pence, which he. might haVe if he chore ; he then put his hand into his wailicoat pocket, and gave him a handful of half-pence; upon which the - Prifoner direaly turned round, and faid to the poor woman the witnefs had with him in the cart, that if Me did nut give him her money, he mould fire at her. The poor woman faid the had none, that she was a poor beggar woman, and if he wanted any thing of her, he moil take her matches. The Prifcner then told the witnefs to go off, and that was all the witnefs law of him that time, nor had he ever Men him before. —The next time the Witnefs law him was on the 16th of December ; be went by the window of the witnefs's houfc at Barnet. The witnefs followed him up and down the town for Tome time ; he had a woman with him, and they went together into several (hops, upon which the witnefs went to a neighbour, and got Lim to come to his afliflance. They law him in a field, they pu•fued him, while he jumped over many hedges and ditches for about two miles, but at laft they took him; the witnefs was pofitive as to the perfon of the Prifoner, and knew him immediately as he paffed by the window. William Wright corroborated the evidence of the Profecutor, as to the taking of the Prifoner in the fields near Barnet, after he had led them over hedges and ditches for near two miles The prifoner, in his defence, denied the charge, and called Elizabeth Norris, who faid (he keeps a lodging. houfe near Watford Turnpike, and declared - that the prifoner had never been out the whole of the t ath of December, the day charged in the indiEt ment. She underwent a very critical crofs-exami nation, and appeared to prevaricate very much : the contradifted herfclf both as to dates and cir cumftances, continually confounding the one with the other. The next witneflt he called was Sarah Neale, whofe teftimony was a complete contradiEtion of all the evidence of the fall witnefs. Charlotte Bally was produced next in his behalf; but her teftimony was not merely a dired contra didion of the whole of that delivered by the two former witneffes ' but alfo in itfelf a grofs prevari cation from the beginning to the end; infomuch, that the whole appeared - , and actually was, one of the moft barefaced and perjured efforts, that ever appeared in this Court to counterad the due courfe of juftice. In no two circumftances did any of them agree as to dates, events, or cireum fiances, even the moft trivial, that they pretended to affert had occurred on the tzth of December, the day on which the robbery was Rated to have been committed; notwithftanding they all were brought forward by the prifoner for the purpofe of proving an alibi, that being his defence. In one particular only the following contradictions ap peared. The firft witnefs pofitively (wore that the three witneffes had tea for dinner ; the fccond as pofitively fwore it was not tea, but potatoes; and the Taft witnefs that the.dinner was bread and Jed?. The evidence on the part of the pifoner being concluded, Mr. Jufticc LawaE !ice fummed lip the whole. to the Jury, in a clear and upright manner, necefarily making . fuch comments as the extraor dinary evidence given in fupport of his defence called impericufly forth, reprehending it in terms of the fharpeft cenftire and animadverfion. The Jury inunediately found him Gotilty. Eight were convicted of felony, viz. John William for Reeling a wooden lafi, and other articles, the property of John Melon. George ibirky and yaw Ewen, for ftealing a quantity of leather , the property of Edw. Beak. Rowland Hughes (a foldier) for (leafing a quan tity of apparel, the property of a Mr. Duncan. The Collide' for the proferution (toted, that dur ing the late dreadful fire at Wapping, the prifoner who ought. to be employed in proteding the pro perty of Mr. Demean and others during that ca lamity, inftead thereof took the opportunity of plundering it. Mr. Davis is a grocer, and lives at No. 138, Wapping. On the 13th of December lag, there was a fire at Wapping, he faw the prifoner on that day, between feven and eight o'clock in the morn ing, with a trunk on his (boulder, and fufpeding him, he accofted him, and finding he prevaricated extremely, he took him and the property into cuf tody at the Royal Oak, Wapping. The landlord of which, a Mr. Bell, fupported the teflimony of the loft witnefs. Mr. Duncan, the profecutor, who is a publican at Wapping, proved the trunk to be his property, which, with the articles it contained, were iden tified by Mr. Duncan's lifter, out of whole room the trunk had been taken. The prifoner, in his defence, (rid, that he was handed the trunk out of Mr. Duncan's houfe, for the purpofe of (eying it, and being direited to carry it to the next public-houfe, whither he was proceeding with it when flopped by Mr. Davis ; that Davis permitted him to depart ; and that not 'fe.tring any charge aglipit him, he rctursed again, and wai tl.en taken into cullody. In fhls he seat, to a certain e-tent, corroborated by Davis and by Bell. and he called a Scrjeant in the Guards to his charaaer : that he had been a soldier fovea years, was in hard fervice on the Continent, and uniformly concluded Limfelf as a good and a brave man. The jury hefitated for tome time, and were proceeding to retire, that they might be afforded an opportunity of confiderinir their verciidt, which the Judge .(Graham) perceiving, he fignified to them, that it occurred to him juft then, to Rate to them two points in favour of the prifoner : the firft, that it uas not in evidence he had taken the trunk out of the haute, as laid in the indictment, and, therefore, the charge of felony committed was not fupported : the other, that if he had not taken the trunk originally with a felonious intent, yet though he fhoulof afterwards, when put in poffeffion of it, conceive a fraud, and then, in tralfift, convert it to his own ufe ; yet, even that would not amount to a felony, but be no more at moD than a breach of trult. And that not being the crime for which he flood Charged, he merely took occafion to call their attention more cfpecially to his cafe. The Jury, however, retired for Tome time, and returned a verdict. —daiLty of healing to the value of 395. Efizaktb Gal, for healing fourteen ounces of Ben gal, and thirteen ounces of-China Silk, the pro perty of Levy Smith. The Profecutor, it appeared, is an eminent Silk ManufaCturer, and the Prifoner was one of thole employed in a certain part of the manufaCture.— On a particular day, the bad 3olbs. of filk deliver ed to her, but when the returned it, it was found to much, as above hated, deficient in weight. Her apartment was fearched, and the quantity miffing found therein. On which the begged for mercy ; and acknowledged the had frequently purloined the article in the fame manner. The Jury, with out hefitation, found a verdia to the above effed. jobs Hanlon and Samuel Baler, for felonioufly healing, on the 13th of December, two bee-hives, value 4.5. and twenty pounds of honey, value the property of John Brockbank. The Profecutor, it appeared, refides at End field : on going down to his houfe, on Saturday, the 13th inflant, he heard that his garden had been recently robbed of two bee-hives. On the Monday he came up to town, with .an intent to inquire refpeAing the ftolen property, when, upon applying A the Worfhip-greet Police-office, be found that the hives, &c. were there, and that two men, the Prifoners, had been detained on fufpicion of dealing them. It appeared, that the Prifoners came carry on Monday the isth, to the flop of one Solomons, a hatter, in Old-greet, with the hives, and offered them for fale.—Sufpeeing that they were diffioneftly acquired, Solomons procured two Officers, who took them into cuftody. The ac count g iven by Hanfon was, that he received the hives, that morning, from his father, who lived in Northamptonfhire. The property was clearly identified by Mr. Brockbank, as the hives were of a particular conftruCtion. In their defence, Hanfon raid, he knew nothing at all of the property, but had been that forenoon at Solomons' refpating a hat, which he left there to be repaired, when that perfon was pleated to fetch an Officer, and took him into cuhody, on fufpi cion of Dealing the honey which Baker had brought there. Baker afferted, that he knew nothing of the hives, but alto went to Solomons' about another hat. Solomon, was called up, and queflioned about the rather extraordinary defence of the Prifoners, when, he faid it was true, Hanlon had, tome time before, left a hat with him ; but which, he verily believed, had been Nolen. The reit of their after tions were utterly unfounded. The Jury vet, !portly pronounced both the Pri fonert—Grilty. yaw: Kelly and Elitaleth Keefe were indieted for a capital offence, in healing on the 6th of Janu ary, rs yards of bombazete, value 11. 13 s. the goods of Edward Burtenlhaw, privately in his (hop. It appeared that the Prifoners were obferved looking earneftly in at the window of the Profecu .tor's thop, a haberdafher and holier, at No. ro6, in the Minories, about (lx in the evening of the 6th of January; that they went in and teemed to bargain for a pair of flocking:, while Kelly went once or twice into the firect in order to point from c c the window at a particular air. While M rs . Bur tenfhaw was engaged in to ing the ftockings out of the window , the woman, eefe, was obferved to take out a large piece of bornbatett which lay upon the counter, and conceal it about her perfon. This was feen from without by a patrole, who fur peeling, watched all the Prifoner's motions. The Rocking, were faid by them to be too dear, and loon a ft er they went out. They were bo t h br ought into the flop by the Parrole above alluded to, who charged the woman with the theft, and on fearch ing her the piece was accordingly found. Melly, in his defence, told a long and cireum- Randal Rory, the jet of which was, that he was re. quelled by Keefe, whom he law looking in at the window, to tell her the price of a pair of flock. ings which were marked in the window, as fhe could not read. He did to, and, by her defire, bargained about them in the (hop, but fhe thought them too dear. On their going out they were both hopped. The woman was fearched, as had been Rated; be protefted folemnly his innocence of the charge, and utter ignorance of the woman's perfon and charade?. A number of witneffes gave him an excellent charaeter. It was held by the Court that the capital part of the charge was done away, as the woman had been teen to take the property. The Jury, under that confideration, found her ,railty of healing, but not privately, and were pleated to acquit Kelly. MURDER. 7.4* nem a farmer of opulence and refpeeta bility, who was indieted upon the Coroner's inqueß for the wilful murder obis wife, Mary Shore, by dragging her from one chamber to another, and by forcibly and violently throwing her to and againft the floor, at his houfe in the parilb of Hampton, in the county of Middlefes, on the sth of January. Mr. Ataas opened the proceedings% Erwporter. k I