The National Register. — London, England, 1808-02-15 00:00:00

VER. 15. ay discovered by Awl, and in the contest Atari strikes gds. This, the latter would have avenged with his poniard, till re que:ted by Leila nut to kill her fattier ; he then tells her he can a . , lancer asiociate with his military companions, and, therefore, w ill wish her gtm.l 1114)111illg, and retire to the Desert, to lament his dishonour. Alt this is dime with much warlike pomp, and the gentle Leila is ;wiled by a baud of strapping fellows, with long pikes, as if, like the hiug of Brentford, she bad got au army in her pocket. As in assipnation is nothing without a confidant, Kais is assisted in his utter. iew by ilosella, a Circassian slave; stolen Item her father's cottage, and followed into Egypt by Alm ran, under the name of ilarvellosu, who, it appears, keeps a coffee shed, inhere he retails out collee and lung stories, to a number of light, airy, si.ipping, good humoured young Turks; all, of course, very natural and very appropriate! Rosetta, to be on a par w ith her mistress, has not only a NOUllg Lover ; but also an old one, Baschrti, with whom she vadergoes a very amorous assisted by a spinning idled, whose evolutions and accidents tire a kind of accompa niment to her song. who have visited the countries of the East, may pernisps enquire bow long it is since the spinning wiled has superseded the use of the distaff; ss mist those nut e!ifiversant with Eastern customs, might naturally expert a se (.:Jul edition of " Somehow, my spintile I mi.laid.". 41morani meeting with ,ilindnzia., the Page of ifal4 h in formed of itosctla being a blaVt at Caird, he therefore at tempts to gain an interne[ s ith M'r in the disguise of a peri patetic perfumer, and at last discovers td t• coining out of a Mosque: a place, by the bye, o here the 2.7la s aLimetans arc not very food of admittinz the Ladies, as they imacine that those vt ho have no souls, have nothing with religion. We are now presented tv ith a view of /AN and Rosetta en joy in; theunelv es by inemAight, lheaa distant voice, in a soft warbling tone, tells them that hail is gone to the desiirt, whither %l is, Leila resolse:, to tallow hiu.;. She sets oil on foot, in a dress which, sin!. *as tibligini; enough to inform us, is a pilgrim's habit, and on her s a im.eting with Achniel, the father of her lour, harems his tOi , l,t.kllCe in her search. 'lin• old man very kindly asks her buil his hut, and walks in himself, when Ali,,, thouth in a violent hurry to talk of her lever, stops at the door to give us a song. .Iboran and llosrtift hav log escaped to . tether, join the Ca ravan for 'Mecca, though why the. snookd ico to Mocca in their W.ty to Cireassia, is left to tile itIAWIICV to find nut. They meet, as usual, vt ith the pltinrir Hoy: Arab+, by whom they arc robbed and separated, and Lcita and .ihnird soon meet the same fate :—at 61, moment she robbers hate seited upon Lild„ilnioran step: in and ran:aots her, tv a jewel north many sequins, altlit.ugh he had been robbed and stripped bum tniaetes befor,•. Ards is 1:e tt seen ainua,.;it me 4 sphynxes and blasted trceA, where he talks much, Lind more about dying, &c. lle is t last travel b. hi, ;with of .1/nuria:or ; and after some time, a meetin4 t tke., place t:ie two f4ther4, who rail at each other through a long dialogue. when as they are drawing thPir bri meta the I. lice of pt stew in and rceoncaeb them. Didl•ren: pa :;re sent in pursuit of the wanderers, who go through se%cral b 0 .11 1 .• of Aid,- , cn!-s,-ek, in the Dysart, when a part) of sohlior:. a rhse.. !1:.:!tled by an °dicer, who seemed quite oat or breath, w hit •t he iiintrott...l them that he was sent to bring theta tr. Papa. _ _ . q.lick as th:ingle, or ni s telegraphic divatch, they rcthrn to Cniro, illuminated on tan occasion, and, as Vv• old story . gee. " cods happily.". Moth it the outline of Lite Opci'a, on which a great e:tpence has Leen iocurred in scenery ; %et, IlOWE'Vt`r brilliant this was, it waQ nevertheless tii!,ge4(itis to tbo , e at all acquainted w ith 1 - •;:yptian or De-art Landscape. In one ,cene, we have the volcanic mountain tied larcti tree - . 4, of tile American toast ; in another, are masses of rocks, cold enough to repre sent toe keltergs of ; irecoland. The ina,ic, in general, seemed much 'Oinked, though sonic otticions friends, by (heir early and obstinate encores, gave dis gust to the au.lieace in general. A son;, which Almoratt was forced to ,ing, having a drawn &cellular hung over hint, seemed to afiOrd much aniusem.sa, though Bannister slyly observed, that he had neve:sung before to Mat instrument. Whea fame is Ro long, and perhaps so well eitablished as Mr. Witham's, both for execution and composition, it might seem prerimptuniss to find faul: ; yet, as there is something so in coo.gritoui in general between the cadepee of the songs as read, and the pauses ;nil star;s ti; his flourishes, it be a- NATIONAL REGisTEtt. well if the authorvintnielet their songs ft bts tussle, insted of his manufacturing antic for their songs. In his vety htst air, fancy runs over the ear in a single crotchet, whilst the next word, of one syllable, has nearly as many attendant ntitei as the Prince of Egypt had guards. The Opera was given out for the next Orman, aohlst mixed clamour of applause and hisses. I I COPRiVT OdADENt Tuesday evening iiresented us with a new Comfy; in *biek there was qu much said about novelty and originality, that we del spaired; in a very early stage of the perfetmance, of andlng either the one, or the other► A dull Prologue, most solemnly delivet•ed by Mr. &tinfoil} promised its a real, genuine British article, and not as in genetall " neat as imported;" closing with a deprecation of early We% sure, and a request to hear it out with patience% fidnest itthd listened to this request with his usual good hamodt, but his pas. tience was nearly exhausted by the long interval behreed the Prologue and the opening; another circumstance, Most an indecorous one, tended, iri some degree, to excite digairprObar. tion. The Proscenidm, or Drop Scene, like the inVigilile-pettil coats, being rather too shed, displayed the legs, not only Of the Performers, but also ofa table and chairs; and a wag in the Pit; from the very social manner, id which they were asgembled, ea= quired if that was the first Act of " Begone Dull Care !" W e shall now attempt, slightly, to delineate the Plot of llegiiiti Dull Care ; or, How Will It End F=A Welch Baronet, Sir Art Mar St. !Lyn, appears to he greatly enibutraised 13y debts, art: sing front dissipation,from which he had expected to be relieved by inheriting the stealth of a deceased brother ; bht this ltatiug been bequeathed lb Algernon, his only son, he suspects th e ytfittit man, of having prejudiced him, unfalily, In his Srdther's ettdefit To Allard, however; against the probable consequences of hi§ int , prudence, he crimes doWti to alt. Alt In Castle, in order to per:- suade, or even force; his niece Selina, over whose fortune he had controtth to marry his Friend Mr. Danvers: the nephew of Gard tilushdec, bat a needy dissipated villain: Ile notv hinds hiitlsClf by a hood to bring about the marriage, and admit Mincers as A partwr in his copper-mines, on condition of Lord Blushdale givz jug up a bond of 16,0001. Algernon being at Bath, a letter arrives from him to gir thur, in which be acknowledges having been married to Selina, some mouths back ; and Sir Arthur having notified to Solace ; the Superintendaut of his Works, that be meant to admit Daneersns a partner, Solaro feels himself so much hurt, by the previott; . soience of Danvers, and by his subsequent attempt to injure hint in Sir Arthur's opinion, that he endeavours, by persuasion, to prevent the partnership taking place t and is tit length unwil.z tingly obliged to produce a deed given him by the lute Sir elem., who, apprehensive of his son's extravagance and impro- per connections, involving him in difficulties, hadtaken this mea sure of precaution, allowing . Sofact. a share of the profits; and nominating him as a future partner, as a reward for his honest and industrious superintendance. Selina is now obliged to leave the Castle, and take shelter in the friendly Cottage of Solace; but previous to this, Cicely, ati orphan, protected, educated, mail lidos ed by Solace ; arri v ei from a Boarding school near Bath ; much in love ; but vvitlt . iciono does not appear, until her agitation at being informed of 4lgernon's marriage induce us to su,•pect that he had seduced her. Ckely in despair, resolves to leave the cottage of het protector, and on her way to London, i 3 obliged, at the dose a f day, to ask shelter from an old servant of Lord Blughdalts. who, not having room in her ass n little habitation, puts her into an uninhabited house of his Lordship's in w hid* he had resided, as a plain country squire, previous to lotterltiog t hla title: His Lordship sick of fashion, high We, and place hunters, arrives unexpectedly, and much elnivoque enSUeS i which affords two or three instances of good singe efiett: Danvers, foiled in his schemes with Si. Alban; now waits upon his uncle, and proposes some unhand-lne measures towards kis friend; brit the honest Peer. disdaitiing to romp, v, Danvers threatens to deprive him of his estate and title, by bringing forward the lawful heir, Capt. Alod.-rn ; *rho had heed supposed to be the illegitimate son of the late Lord: Modern having slipped into the apartment during this convettaitinti, conceals himself, until, at a fit opporbmitv , he possesses himself of the certificate of his mother's marriage ; and the supposed l'cer, convinced of , his claim, instantly and must joyously resigns his title to bins, accompanied by a moniter of ietterf addressed to " Lord Blusadale," consisting of a challenge, * Call of th.: /louse, applications for patronav, etc: i!”Twrgm VIM 1 !!.'7!. ~----. 111 f ~+