The National Register. — London, England, 1812-08-16 00:00:00

MTG. 16. 11 1 .5 ro , f ,,, n _ l()%e ; e•'S CS. , in a THE NATIONAL REGISTER. c,n it he wooder'd t It , t the Inintersr won ? h 0 ,u../1 nature c Add Ito longer 14 , oe'd 'iv horses, 'lle %%H prin.. und o ne ! , h o n. st tame ti lid tan ri nuwn, 4• Anti•orsjoct:ea'd all the town." yr•l ,4•1,y, tttlh cynic brow, condemn this rt4..4,e 11..r•e-perlortaters :VI the world% a stage." Thc: , -larc the world to ploy.. the itr.ixini true, I . oll.)w'd nor-cs.—as al! stag, s do. 4 , Co.kipaic otr.v 'spite of noir:ter-re, 4. Th e it, of your two and ..ctors : 4. Tilos? (won !oNr legs, witliutit pan or j.st, Are cuicir..trd sure to em ilit• best." Our. i• tl,crcfnrc trti , t A!! those rad:ery will he (IVee ite'd tar our 'lord --tu Critics; be it 1,:toN:1 1"ot• el k ut his plot is rut hi s ; Its Icadi li letitmvs. Low 1.10). , slice a I r.t.at trac'd. %%n!' master-hand, tlic cheek of youth trill olt ,lull elder•, o‘‘r. the tit•lr,l true• To Ino , d(1Z• hico's p/we, Aud •cc:ll4s too hairid f o r Ow stage, Paint crime %It!. ilt(otler much- -a' (1 bet•A Cekr 11) vo - dt e Ca . fa!, Loatic: hi'l't! al II : `'till La - fulgl.t, The ca;.ill Jthl e es—%% I.C:!ter %NI I (ii lighi. I.I*Ck.UM. ric:t AND POOR. Unlike most of our modern dramas, which after &sap rointing- expectation the first time they are seen, create dr-gust the sertaid, this 01 era really imps oyes on iepre sennaion. is, however, rather due to the exertions of the performers than to the intiinsie men ins of the I iece. It cont.:ins st:me irte. citing situations, but it can never be proper to introduce succestful immorality on the Stage; and what can he more inpn,oral than to make the death of , an innocent wife not only he longed for, bot prove the sole mean , of rend.iring her adultercu; husband happy, with the vin inl oi . his ,educiinn, in honottribi'e matrimony. Such P. however, Cie chief incilent in this Opera ; and although the reconciliation of the erring dlughter with her sorrow ful and irritated but at la't forgiving father, opens a wide fuld for the display of the must transcendent histrionic eN celence, Net its beauty cannot redeem or ma!ie us forget tire mural defierency of the piece. The approbation thus withrAden from the anth,r, must descend undiv di.d on the acting of the two performers in th interesting scene, Mr. l'awcETT and Miss K E ty. It confirms the reputa tion of the one, and exalts that of the other, who had long been considered nue of the most promising per formers on the stage. Miss K 1 L L V's shriek of surprise and terror, when from the window she behold; her father ; her flight and agitation, her joy at seeing him again, checked by the remembrance of her guilt, and. overpowered by the sense of her unworthiness, and hertlespair of pardon ; her half staled and convulsive exclamations of—My Father! My ra ther! Hide me! hide me!—arc bursts of feeling so true to nature, that the whole house is electrified, every eve is fixed on the Stage, not unbedewed with tears, and even the chit-chat of fashionable parties is hushed. 'phis is however only an introduction to the mole esten•ive di , play of consummate feeling and ability in the inceting with her father, whco thinks he addresses a stranger, a vic tim that has fallen to the arts of t same seducer. In this highly affecting scene, FAWCETT surpasses his Job Thorn bcriw, and at the 'moment when re l ating the tale of his daughter's guilt he is about to utter his curse against her and she unveils herself and' sinks at his feet, her loud pleadings for pardon, her despair when he leaves her, and gash of joy brightening through the wildness of sorrow, at • , Iris return, joined with - hls - first burst of indignation, so, rug by degrees into pity, and melting at last into to form a picture which, a•: cv , :ry heart and e3e coufe: , snows art the triumphant I ival of nature. Mrs. (Mc cn, in a fa•hionable lady ; Mrs. 11. E Ili. OWE, in a maiden retailer of scandal ; Ox BERRY as a peer, too vi, c,ons to be good, and tco iydolent to be wicked ; N a fashionable husband, not quite dead to feeling; PEN L Ey, a; an usurer; at KNIGHT, as a drunken servant ; with the re,t of the Pe'rf,•rmers, exc.r t themselves most success folly. Mr. N bas been g!..nerall v encored in a song, which be singc with great to-te 11..1 sweetncs , , and KNIGHT in a medley of songc, ii;.! displays his usual sportive . ne , s and spirit. A strange fatality seems to have attended the lanriir of Mr. TA t. BoT, now performing at the Haymarket Theatre. He was df.Thrived of a father, brother, and three uncles, by t h e mos t hoitible and violent deAhs, in the- four quarters of the globe. His uncle, Major .lOUN TALBOT, was smo theied by II DE r. A Lt. v, in the black hole at Calcutta.; his uncle, Captain J Alt rs TA Lco r was wounded, and sup ro-ed, in that helpless state, to have been burned alive, in' a house set on tire by the fate of war in Charleitown, dur ing the American troubes; his other uncle was shot in a duel in Ent;land, and died the miserable victim to a false notion of honour; his brother (...F.ORGE was killed in an engagement at sea, while serving on board his father's ship as midshipman ; and the father of Mr. TA L BOT met with d fate perhaps still more tra , ,:ical than the others, having been wrecked on the coat of Calf.atia (he being a passenger, with his servant, on board the Grosvenor East ludiaman, unfoitunatcly lust in thu year I 502..) Though Frveri, of the 0. P. Tavein. I -telv gave liisfriends what . till it !Stood to fe a taiewdl tre..t, we arc :1111110riSeffttoiLa:e, that a Public Theatrical Dinner w:11, by particular desire, take. place at hies house, in Russ. II court, near New I/ritry.latie Theatie, on Tuesday next« On this eccalion, veral celebrated performers will attend. Mr. Crt %PM AN. of Covent-c.o - deit heatre. and Mr. Lc No, ot Sadler's Wells, will preside. Harmony, as ustrn!, will doubtless l 4 the order 1 the da . ; ; and the eircurristainc of the r.incipal Theatres being at ~ event Closed, will enable the aciiirs et ho ct'et!d, to prolong the f i east •ot Reason and of !honour to a hiter hour th:irt usiial, to delight' the , orn:i-riv with a rich di-play of the rarest vocal comic talents its, tie I heatrical w..rld. Tickets Lid. each, to be Ifid at the 0.,P• , •. The French .I(laiiral, Villarct Joyense. Goeertuir.of yettice, dieci,in... that city on the ..:5111 ult. Ile coinniandod fur so ne time the Toulon fleet, and .‘as the Officer w he, in sonic boastino dispatches, accused Nekon ot rummy! :way from bitn, which caused the .liritislr Hero . to obseive, that he %apposed his rep•dati it for courage was too welt esta tins. ed to be iiijmed by the lyim , F o,:chimm ; bet it ever he caniVit Monsieur Jovettse, '' lie would onike him cat his words:" On Friday se'ntri,.lit a Cr - tirt•rtarti:d was held t Portsmouth on; Lieutenant Lemoyne, of the Circe, fur having, on the ;7:1,11 of jUiY• eated Captain 11'oolcorribe with contempt before the ship's company.: end beltased in a maiiiirr tending to subvert the s,ood order and dive cipline of the service. The charges were not proved, mid Lieuten:.nt emoyne was acquitted.—.lolin Thompson, p:ivate marine of the Circe. for driinkenne. , s, t..r trrating Lizny en.uu Ajniacke with iosi.lcnee awl contempt, and for using; mutinons elkilteNsicina, was state tired too r •c-i% e 1:0 ia , l):'S, forfeit all pay due to, him, and to he imprisoned heelte months in the Maislia*.i.ea.—John Fearnoth, seaman of the L. tuna, ftr dest.rtion, was senresieNl to reed ve• 151 lashes. tt Fcox Da:a inade his Report to the.Pg tract. R EGZNT of the ing convicts under sentence of death in Newgate, viz. Ann Rogers and Jane Jones, f.r burglary ; Antoaio Kose, for a like Afen: . e ; Thomas Bowler, for mal ciously sholting at William Bur, r tiOis ; John Bowman, f•r stealing goods in a dwelling-hoax; Eli- Cor:oran, alias Cochrane, for stealing goods piivately in a Aloe F joeph Sanders, for a highway robbery ; Diana Lovtll, for .tealing a dkvelling.howe ; Thomas Ransom. for secreting and stealing a letter,. ooraning bank Dotes; and Susannah Lallainent, for stealing in a i dwel!ing- house : when Thomas Bowler was orderel execiition an , i.idAy next,. the 41st host. the others were respired diiting pleasure. • .