The National Register. — London, England, 1808-02-07 00:00:00

SI rEI3. 4 Titr_NATIONAL IWOlrpeEpras 4tatt-: that the Managers Poptessitig Mrs. Fl. 'Sid . dons. and wishing to supply the place of Med. Powell; who qapialotsesithwetts insisted that Bittir• Should he " too appearing `Lowart.Y We have before hail occa.iou to lamest that Managers wdisperatif it performer to play once any character which they It Ow. . oever ss ill b e suffered to play again ; but haw greatly to bib anted are those directors, w hi; bring a lady, again.. her sri!?,' .4 act a part, which she conceive; above her power! The Asir is, that though the fair ezmdidate of _Monday night has a etiospiete posseesitm of the stare business. anti appeared 1.. have rieeeivtwta most.just-idea of the charm ter :Mooed to het-, yet she has not sulicit•nt majesty of person. nor safheient power of vo i lso so seskisly either tlir eke, or the ear, in Elpira—at lea- t. it* till the stage of pi' vast it theatre as Drury-lane. Her action. her. carriage, and her topes, wouid have liven exceedingly ap propriate, if she had possessed greater height of figure, and slretigth of deliver y ; but that 111:LIIIIVI Willeil excites admiration in a woman " que• fileidil Regina," is not effective from a di minutive figure and slender voice.—The sublime is incapable of miniature. iltrwever, we should be very sorry to discourage this :young lady. Vie will not flatter her, by .sayin,z, that toe think she cats be very seems-fal in a London play-house, because she has not the physical requisites ; but if she can resolve to per form only is country thrntres, ty here she. IA ills bet generally beard, we have no doubt that she ..ill be generally admired. We have ;Wen most of, the priucipal pecforivers out of the Metropolis, ittid . we have never foitud one that we can compare to the actress w bu performed Elvira. THE DRAMATIC DETECTOR. No. I. .Quid nevi 7-1 V hat of Tut NI: s ? There was a custom in some cities of Holland, that a rest.eet able householder shoutd every evening take a round of eaeh district, to see that the guardiam of the night performed their duty. It • is. absolutely accessory that some person should, in like matmer, take a survey of those critics who pretend to be the Itatchaven of the public taste. Feeling this necessity, ne mow before oar readers to expose the folly at:d ignorance of the periedical scribblers, and senor a little of that filth which is thrua it up to blind the e3es of impartial people. We have not quite ,so vouch vanity as the persons whom we wish to lay open, and thererure we do not, like them, set eat by prof, ssia; an unqualified satisfaction in our own abilities: hut the conscious. ness of ',Aperients!, perbaps, authorizes us to promise some thing, and if we have not always a it, we hope never to aban don decency. If lendingethe way, we can induce others, better quail ed than ourtelveg, to undertake the office of undeceiving tat pualic , we shall think our labours amply rewarded have opened the first drata will be some sort of credit—lie who cleanses the whole rewitory, will be a Hercules indeed'. Among those Papers w hieli have struggled for pre-eminence, in coarseness of abit‘r, 'The Veit* has long stood con,pirtioup. Th r• theatrical department of that publication was formerly. or rnoied by a getaleman, hy, %vhile the ardour of youthful Veal perpetually hurried him ieto gross error, seldom tailed to el; , play talents which, in many opinions, redeemed his faults. Ile held no certain course, for 'he wandered through an ex panse with which he vas totally unacquainted : but if, like a meteor, he travelled irregularly, like a meteor he blazed as he Now we are told, in the Paper itielf, that he no longer directs its columns : and if ue had not hero told so, we should prehably have discovered it, without taking much trouble in hunting for a clue. The internal evidence is talLeient. The new CI itie ithitaies the faults of his predecessor, though he can not catch hip beauties : and having dressed himself in the ipllmago of the pea,:ock, be does not expect to be recognized as a daw. But literary men will see the diferenre between hit anrt predcce.isor—Neat Peter Piudar will, perhaps, apply Isis old lira'. play d'void of incident, and stuffed with tint caricatur , - stead of character, is flung once more in the face of the world, and set alloat in all the buoyancy of putrAtctism.— e were unwilling, in our own accouut of this piece, t o siy any thing about s lite manner in which it was acted, be cause the play was chtlemned, and, as the object of cr;.. tic6m is reform., ft seem Sin general a needless cruelty to ;*.t:ick an actor for faults which he can tamer base an opportucit‘ of r.Teating. Eat when we find this critic coming forward t o t a _ visit encomium on the acting. of Mr. Hlitaon. in the chara; ter of fant,B Meal, the only comic part we ever saw him in which it was impossible to praise any thing, we feel tir , ,el‘es a little irritated at the outrage which is CO nals I MI every pri n .. c•ple of true last and cannot forbear from entering our pro b. : , against the on-representations of The Neu2s. The character, though intolerably flat, it gross enough for the lowest f artv , ;; „,l Mr. Elliston was not satistied ssiib play ing it as fa• - ce, but he nin=t needs play it tie broad pantomitne. The e;ernal bustle of hi= halals and fret, ;he perpetual Nalwation of his neighbours by renning against them, and the interrupted delivery of passagcl which ought to be connected, would perhaps be very tit for Mr. Grimaldi in a mein drama, but are faults to be avoided he Mr. Elliston in conady. Elliston is an excellent comedian • %%. hen he chusec : and as it very seldom happens that he does not chase it, nothing should have tempted us to record an exception to our general admiration of his talents, but the absurd zeal is it o which his defects have been construed into beauties. We eau never connive at a system of criticism which is intended to 'bake black look like white, and we have received too much pleasure from Mr. Elliston's merits, to encourage him in a repetition of his errors. So much for the matter of The ?lows, and the manner is about as good : for we find several such elegant felicities ofevpressiou as the following : " The most of it was," &c.—" Every body was in the. nicest tune to relish a bustling comedy," tic.—`• lu the former incident is a greater reciprocity of gutter mai gullet.," &e.—The last two arts actually seemed," &c. There are several snore such phrases, but we are sure our readers wHI spare us the tedium of extracting them. The critic mistake, pertness fur *it, and vulgarity for ease : but the dap per smartness of literature is at least a , tiresome as this familiar impertinence that apes good manners : and The Nutrs is as re mote from elegance of critisism, as Southwark (tom St. J awes' Fleas are not lobsters, d—n their souls ! T're New of 1841 Smolav contains remarks on the Comedy of gronenting 4. Do, of which we rase an w'rount in The .National li. gixte r ollast Sunday se'rinighi. This Comedy. ns our renders will recullect, was never actg..' but owe; and arty body ivould thick that it must hive been very eirmei -scary fur Th e Veses to di , tneb the de:11. lilt in VAMPS their critical Resurrection-man,. ard Lays out the pour corpse, in order to she w ibat it would hove b....ca a pukd ti:;:tre, if it had not been tirnisNl to premature tiratb. We are really concerned not to take oy n o ti c e or thi s *Latched piece, hat w. really find the town insulted when a ~, _ ,J 4 SHERIFFS APPOINTED BY MS SI AJ ':STY IN Cols NCIL FOR TB* YEA Tt • Ilerlfurvishirt —Richard °debar, of Puildington, Esq. Berkshire—William Congrese, of Aldermaston Park, Esq. Buckiughtiatxhire—Rich. Morel!. of Lillingstotie I)avre!l. Lsq. Camb' 1X litre—Sir Henry Pc. ton, of Esimeth, Hart. Trelawney Breretoti, of Shot wick Pork, Esq. Cutolorrhoo/—Thomas In in, of Justice Town, Esq. Derhphio--Post potted. Drvonshirc—Sir Henry 1 .. trew, of llaccornhe. Bart. norsetshirt-- Nicholas Charles Daniel. of Upw u!,, Esq. ohn t•oggan, of Waimvad. 'otirest..rshire—Sir T. Crawley Ilocrey, of Ifaxley Bart. Ilerefortfshire—Sammi Peploe, of tlarnOone, 1 7 .v1. iitrTfirrilhirr—Jamec Smyth, of Esq. Arni—Charles 'Atilner. of Preston Park, F.q. 1 Finch Simpson, of !anode Abbey, Tql. Lincoinshirr--Tlic Ilan. Wm. Ileauelerc, commonly called 1.91 . ,1 Beaudere, of Radbourne. 3fnuntoithshirc—Nl illiatu Morgan, of Mangiilad, Esq. Norfulk--.lohn Thurston 'Mott, of liarmingliam, Esq. %,,rthamptonshire.—George Fleet Evans, of !Axton, Northsimberland—Cuilthert Ellison, of lirootnhouse, A oltitsghammhire—.l4ohn Nlanners Sutton, of -Kellum, Esq. 04:ftrdstkire—Thi• IlOu. Tbtren23 Phrker, of Enstatnt Ihitlanskiiire—Thounns Bryan, of Stoke, Esq. - Shrupthire—Rnlph Browre Browne,. of Coughlev , Esq. Sonsorsetshire—Chnrirs Ketneys Tynte, of Hales% ell, * Esq. stafferdshirr--I'oqpnued. an 110141 Of S )uthamplon—G. Titchfiebi.Loilge, Lsq. Suffolk—John Vernon, of Nation, Esq. Surrey—James Mangles, of Woodbridge, Erg. ttear—W illiain Stanford. of j;reston. WaratickAire—Pa:tponed. Wittskirr—Jolsa !fulfills, of Crittleton,. Esq. Irstreeslers4ire—Sir John Park Won, of Westwood. Bart. lirkshire-Iti it iam Jotep It Dennison, of . Ay on, Lsq. Ti them of m duce t