The National Register. — London, England, 1812-09-13 00:00:00

,SF PT. 13. evill ipg. Eugenia was played by Miss MARRIOTT who ! so me years ago performed at the late Covent-garden Thea tre ; and Florian was given to a Mr. ABBOTT, who appeared before a London audience the season before last at the Pas market Theatre. Both were eery favourably received. Mi MARIO° I . l* rOcSe l / 4 SCS very considerable powers and hat a thorough knowled4e of what produces stage effect. Iler ai•- rarance was inteiesting and well suited to the character see sustained. Per voice is more powerful than harmonions, and she is often loud without being distinct. Her delivery is moreover eccasionally marred by an unfortunate lisp, lei( more fiequently by an affecteti mode of pronunciation. She will do well to endeavour to correct these defects; an( 4 these amended, the spirit with which she enters into the character she sustains, aided by the taste she displays, will make her a favomite on the London boards. Mr ABBOTT is not without merit. His face wants ex: pression, and his appearance altogether is deficient in im portance; but his manner is tolerably easy and unaffected. and his enunciation, if not powerful, has the advantage of being clear and distinct. Occasionally he threw his arms about ra ther awkwardly, and suffered his countenance to present us wiaran unmeaning grin, with which we would gladly have dispensed. His performance, as a whole, was very respectable. Miss BOOTIL was an interesting Geraldine; and the play was welt east throughout. HAYMARKET. " Who Cants a Guinea" has been revived at this Theatre with great success. MUNDEN, in Torrent, exerted himself with the happiest effect, and equally distinguished himself by feeling and by humour. MATHEWS was highly diverting in Solomon Gandy ; and JON Is, in w Sir Larry, was eminently successful. Mr. TERRY sustained the character of Burford in a very satisfactory manner, anti gave a most masterly deli neation of the injured broken-hearted veteran. His action, chaste and appropriate, boasted proper animation without appearing to be overstrained in any part. The great defect of this actor lies in his voice, which frequently proves in competent to express with energy what it is evident he strongly feels ; and after his gestures and manner have conveyed to us that which he should utter, his voice, a feeble auxiliary, follows, and seems to echo, if not to mock, the first expression of the soul. -This, however, though it may at times consi derably detract from the effect of his exertions, will not, if he gives his own good sense fair play, prevent his contiruir.g to rise in public estimation. Let him, disdain the affecta tion of that wonderful versatility of talent which enables its master to do every thing, and be cor,tent to confine him self to that range of chat acters which best suit powers. At a country Theatre it may be very desirable that an actor should hold himself ready to play Hamlet and Jason on the sam e night, and the assembled bumpkin , -, who are perfectly astonished at finding the man who wears a tragedy dress can put on a cobler's jacket, may he prepared to ep plaud him in both, however indifferently he may acquit him self, and to view him with equal admiration and amazement In London, however, this reputation for versati!ity i 3 not quite so valuable as it Is frequently found in the country . , and he who aims most at it generally fails of attaining that eminence to which, under other circumstances, his hopes might reasonably aspire, and is doomed to all the drudgery of the Theatre, to the injury of his reputation, without a chance of obtaining asiy thing like a proportionate emolu ment to console him for the sacrifice. Of the other performers in this play we can only say that they were generally respectable. We could point ont excep tions, but as those we allude to arc not likely to trouble .114 long we will not do any thing to annoy theta at the close of their career. TIIF. NATIONAL REGISTER. .5 7 3 MR. CO A . ! On Friday Mr. Co A TES or ri7icttions ee:ehrit , wa , again exhibited on the Richmond so -e, in tee that ( ter or As u•.:!111, iu the most sl Yilms scere cotivll:sed thi s au;benee with laughter; a A was trr ,e , ! with that which he merited, ~Ita ,t•lch certi , relv have efteet cif making a more rationai •he s.aze in disgusi., never to return. Mr. CoA • 1%-, however. is blest with that happy iesensibility to o wn deice s, ;hat how ever he may fed annoyed by the scoffs of the and wilco, he never for a moment doubts his being in possession of talents 'hat qualify him to sus•a;rt the lea(lin s g characters of the Drama, in a style of excellence whit h can never be surytawA:d. The contempt with which he is treated, he hag no doubt, originates in envy and jealousy, and, till very lately, it is cc , posed he conceived K EMEL E to he at the bottom of it. On hearing fiat Mr. Ki t tat. e had got a 7sl-are in a brewery, Mr. Co ATEs was in hopes thrtt all opposition would he at an end, but had the mortification to find mischief was brewing, even in the absence of the brewer. At the end of the fourth act, the audience, on the death of Lothario, were so kind as to intimate that they had had enough of the pl:Av, and did not wish to trouble the actors to perform the fifth. Co AT ES then treated them with an address about " hobbies;* which the audience thought proper to encore, and which he was wise enough to repeat, assisted by the usual accompani ments. Upon the whole, Mr. Co ATES displayed powers that we should think would m:.' - e him a valuable acquisition tti Exeter 'Change. We conceive Mr. Po L ITO could afford to offer him a very handsome engagement, and Mr. COATES, 1, as the Wild Ass, from Antigua, might be as much at home as in Lothario. BRIGHTON THEATRICALS, SEPT. 12. Never has a Theatrical season in this town been more prosperous than the present one. Th is certainl y is in a very lit vot rt,easure be attriblited to the excellent company our Mana4er, M. .1 ossru Gstovr, hos engaged :—Among the Ladies, are. Mesdames 7.;v u Ev. l,n I. ft t tor. Illad OWEN, WI possessing talents of toe first o . der tau: amoug, tlse Gentlemen, Paw ELL, 11OLLAN n, J. (i ROVt., OW trer NG, V 011• TrUS, and WnENCII ; the latter Gei tleman IL4 us, I,e : , /,k netit on Tuesday, on which occasion he had a ht. toper, a bcve 100 [walrus. We are happy to see this, as he is as great Ci t.ivoar,te ;pirate life from his gentleman-like behaviour, as lie is admit ed for hi, ti& on the stage. — Ou Sttordav, Mts. Dict:ows a,o DO 1 Mr. INCI played in Lore in a l'il'ac, Rosetta and Young e %vete I , :ss delightel with the exquisite taste, sciet played by the former, than clno.mt.d with the !o‘;., ii:nive mclondy poured full) in all the .firs of this far-1:....wd Ma— Tient& wi I ho shot* given ;IT the Thentre, tLe in-•.aorohle Victory at f-alamaitea.---Wcdnesdav Fri.l , y the 11.,05e was v:r3 fitted, and to-u eht the box-hook has a oil ;I'l)e:it - wax, the (tel -1 rirtuatices are, The Heir at Cult ttiitl Etia Mr. KEMBLL has certainly no engagement at ciLher of the Theatres. Mrs. JORDAN is perforintng . all her flrruri!c characters at Plymouth, where the attracts crowdA hou-cs ; is en gaged to appear on the beards of New D urv, but w;11 not perform till near Easter.—Miss .11 . 1:i1 is a!so enagt.-il at this house.--M r. En LIST ON is likewise engaged to perform ihree nights in a week at a snlary of for ti'. ! VC;11":, ex. cepting the run of a new piece, then to have an additiJnal 51. per week. • • • • • • • • .••••••• Continuance of Gfent !--fn the 1 ottf.r.; drawn on Inc , (l;i:c fait, PI ni , ING and Co. loi , e Tr.ld the c:tii , fAction of dt,ttitut:in:, anion , / •ir Friend,: the tcllowno! Cdr.itn!.l. No.'-); 4, C.l,:* A, a PriTg• of 401)01. and No. (.01, (.'h. n 1.1 2)()01. ; fol liter di- ItAed into One Quarter, Two 1.1,2.1111.. ,nd enth. ; the lat ter in'o One Qua! wr, Fl-:! S ;‘ i c t.lol)4. 'I !:c foltu- Prqprietors (*lto 11;t‘e ..I:e oly twen pirti) are • npßlv at either or PtnnlNJ Oftice4, NJ. C , ittir&H. Jr 3, Charing Cross. • - N u