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. . well Imbed hap of good grieel are to be broken. Thfh business is now going on at Ridge Hill, and those our vryors who wish to see the brat way of preparing Finset, • may there obtain mike very sterol iofurntation. The gravel as it conies from the pie is mil sifted; then it M washed in sieves, held 'under the matte: the stone-breakers then . sake not, according is they want 'a supply. the atones exceeding one Mch and a half in length ur breadth. Thole which they hfrib, they pat together in separate heaps. The uew road at Ridge Hill is formed as follows: it.ere being 00 stone in the cisonty, a layer of six inches ',reboil is pot over the clay, then sex inches of well srrersien grovel over that, then three inches more of than., and opou this is laid for right feet of each side of the centre of the road, the broken grave I stone three inches deep, making a breadth of sixteen feet of broken gravel stune : on each side of this, the small 'travel stones are pat fur four fed wide and three inches deep ; and on each aide of these smell stone's, the siftings of the gravel is put, also three inches sleep. And thus a road is formed, having the 'Morro centre feel composed wholly of broken 'Roue, eight feet of small well.cletowd gravel, and six feat of weaker materials. No part of the gravel is vast. ed, and the rood is strong where it ought to he SO. The Fame sort of surface rimming would answer for all roads having a good fooodation ; and it would rust notch less than the heavy coats of ballast, whirls have lately been laid Ull the .Wht %%rune and other 'I . , no., one half o f ahick is pore cloy. 'lbis way of mending a rood, :wakes at least one horse's draft in four additional labour to more heavy loaded carriages. Your Committee, before they close this their last Report upon the very important subjects which have been referred to them, feel it ter be due to the credit of the Committers of 1915 1111.1 181%, who have preceded them, to recapitulate very shortly what have been the practical results of their laboors. 1. In consequence of the Holyhead mail being sent through Coventry in place of Oxford, and 44 other regola row; of the Poat-office it performs the jilorney in thirty-six hours ; that is, is six ;tours less time than it "lid to 1815, and in ten horn-, less time than it did in 1809. 2. 11i 1815 an Act was passed to appoint Commissioners for tier improventest of the road from London to Holyhead. It appears by Mr. Telford's Report MI the road in North Wales, that they have made thirty miles of sew road, where the old road was thensost difficult and dangerous. They will b: able to complete ten miles inure in the course of this year, with the grant of money which has been made fur this purpose is the reseed Session. 3. in the pretreat Session an Act has passed, and money has bees granted, to enable these Commissioner' to build a bridge across the Menai Straits, sad to make a new road, of 4_ miles in length, across the island of Angles,. .by which nearly three miles will be eared, and all the steep bill. on the present road. 4. Another Act has passed this Ses.ion, to vest the whole line of road of 110 milts from Shrewsbury to Holyhead in 15 Commissioners, who will have sufficient funds to mars twit the new parts of the road su their present perfect I state, and, by degrees, fn alter and make equally perfect the cementing parts of this road. 5. In contequersce of the recommendation of the Com mittee of 1917, Mr. Telford has made a survey of the road from Shrewsbury to London ; and several of the Trusts have already dune a great deal towatils the immurement of this C. In consequence of the recommendation of tenth the Committees of 1815 and 1817, the Lords of the Treasury liave rumbled the Post-office packets at Holyhead to carry Coach parcels; and have thus removed a very great impedi ment in the way of a free e ornmunicatiou between the two countries. 7. The Committee of 181' having suggested the utility of a boat harbour fur the packets to be able to laud the mail and passengers on the south shore of Holyhead Island a:: easterly winds ; one has been constructed at Port Dv 'arab, and a new road has been made to it trout Holyhead. h. In addition to these improvements, a new mail has been established this spring, to run between Liverpool and Holyhead, in consequence of a conutionication between your Committee and the Post-office, by which the North of England letters arrive at Holyhead at the same time with the London letters, soil in time for the packets. This mail, by leaving Holyhead two hours before the London mail, brings the Irish letters to Liverpool, in time to be delivered every looming with the Lundou letters. AR that rentals, to he done, as it appear. to your Corn ter tee. to complete the object of establishing a perfect com munication between England rend Irelanc, is, first, to im prove the road fur the first 100 miles from London, so that the mail may go to Holyhead in 34 hours ; secondly, to ins rove the mostenelion of the packet.; thirdly, to improve, iiy new regulations, the conveyance of the English letters thioughout the interior of Ireland; fourthly. to remove all the inconveniences which travellers now experience on laud ing cud embarking at Holyhead and Howoh, from be. tog subject to $ strict examinAtion of their Inegage, aml the payment of fees to the Post-oilier boatmen, and the Cesium-honer porters. Jody 6, 1819. NORWICH, Sarruescit 9• ELECTION OF SHERIFF. At the election of Freemen's Sheruf for Norwich, Tuesday last. Thomas Starling Dav, Ecii, sac un enpecte,llv nominated for that office, in opposi tion to Edward Taylor, Esq., and a poll took ',lace, it the close of which the numbers were—Fir Mr. Taylor. 807; Mr. Day, 530.—After the ituoubr is were declared by the Mayor. the fullosing trout Mr. Taylor was received by the Frreuien with cents ued shouts of applause. I r " Fellow.Cuiseas--The office to which you have now elected me was wither desired nor expected on my part. bad anticipated that it wouhl base fallen to the lot of some uthei individual than myself to have been your Sheriff for the ensuing year, and that having been so secently elected by the Freemeu of the Ward In which I beside, one of their Kepresestatives,l should have been excused front serving any oilier or higher utfiee. Rut, Gentlemen, it has been your pleasure to place me in the high and important office of your Sheriff, and to your will, ale decidedly as it has now been expressed, it is my duty to bow.--(Applanse.)—There are limes, Gentlemen, when it more particularly becomes those who value the Laws anti the Constitution of their country, not to shrink from the discharge of those magis. artist duties by which the rights mid liberties of the people cosy be affected. And if ever thee was such a period in the history of our country, it is the present. The late dreadful and bloody scene which has been acted at Manchester, has read the people an awful alai important lesson. It has taught those who have the choice of the Magistrates to be vigilant and circumspect ite the selectiou of the men whom they shall choose. We bare seen the laws of our country violated, nut by wad is usually and contemptuously denonduated the boob, but by the Magistrates themselves aiding, abetting, aud instigatiug a wanton mid unprovoked breach of the peace. Men, women, and chiWreu, Unarmed, and unpro tected, have burn savagely butelteretto and this too while the people were asietubled to exercise one of the dearest and proudest rights of F.teglialimen—(Appfause )-I;iefortunately for the inhabitants of Manchester they have no voice in the election of their Magistrates. They are spared the trouble of electing their municipal officer., who art appointed her Mi-nisters, and paid out of the taxes. Instead of those eta awl venerable constitutional officers, the Mayor, Aldermen, and Sheriffs, whose very titles mark their high antiquity; they are governed by men with the modern, uew-faugled; and tAlions names of Stipendiary Police Magistrates. Nu wonder, Oeutlernen, that such officers, so appointed and so paid, should base very little feeliug in cumnum P with the people; no wonder that they should regard the people as or wo. thy so enjoy the rights which their fellow-countrymen possess, and should so promptly and vigorously administer the law of the sword and the bayonet. We have reason to rejnee that we live under a different jurisdiction. All our local institutions bespeak a constant reference to the will of the people, mid thereby manifest their high antiquity, and tbtir entire Conformity to the genius and spirit of our Con asmitios. Take, for instance, the office to which you have Now elected rwe; The universal practice throughout the Moistest, is those times whit-agave Weds to the brightest and noblest of gar laws sad instillation% WO fur the peopk to elect their own Sherif f s. This cesium wooer seek remote anthillity, that though users was a otartileordilwieg tfial.jt should be m in the reigu of Edward I. yet prior to that time there was no instaiee of any Sheriff having heeit'utherwiee elected. Now the right of elegies( their Moeda* is possessed by few places in the kingdom —it is a right which you almost peculiarly enjoy. lung may you hold it, mad may you shew by the choice which y o u make, the wisdoms of dome laws and institutions which were made by our patriotlealletaillfi! " Gentlemen, allow tae now to Shenk you for the warm, nneolicited, and artier exertion' which you have this day made. I trust that I shall prove myself nut wholly euworthy of them. I feel, most sensibly, the high importance and the grave responsibility of the office to which I sin elected ; I shall enter upon it with an earnest desire to dischame its duties with silent' soil fidelity. I steed rut rensiud sun that one of those duties is the preservative of the peace of the city. This part of my ofike, lam confident, will be very easy one indeed. And here, Getithissen, I feel it my ditty most distinctly to state, that if it shall be your pleasure to meet in a legal and constitutional way to petition for the redress of our grievances (and who will are that we have Nut grievances which call aloud fur redeem?) I shall feel it my duty to be present. Not indeed to let louse upon you a military force, but to assist you, to the best of my ability, is the discharge of so important a ditty.--(Shonfs ofrappicum.) —The right of petitioning is one of the must sacred of our privileges as Englishmen, sad to protect the people iu the free and unimpaired exercise of that right, ought to be the retro( those who have to administer the laws. " lam very glad that this contest has taken place. It is of great importance iii the present situation of the country, that the opinion of the people should be clearly and decided ly expressed un those subjects which so deeply involve our interests as a nation. The event of this election has shown what is your opinion. Tun know what are my pi/fittest tentimente, and you have now declared by the decided ma jority which appears on the poll, that you regard a friend to a Radical Reform in the Commons Hesse of Paeliateseet as a fit and proper person to be your Sheriff.--(Load applause.) This contest has been conducted in a way the must gratify ing to alt who value purity of election. Here has been no bribing, nu treating, no canvassing, nu perseading. threatening. All has been fair and open. Such, Fellow citizens, ought to be all elections, and such they will be w h ets t h e re , : ple shall in deed and in truth enjoy that share in the Legislature which is now possessed by a faction of B u r o ughinongers.—(App/uttse.) " I have now only to thank you for the honour whirls yon have conferred oliom me, and to essute you, that if I shall be able, at the end of my year of office, to receive the appro bation of my Fellow-citizens, it will be the highest reward I can experience." . . _ ,_ INDIA. Extract of a letter, dated Faun, February 15, I 181►9 : " Yesterday Sir Stamford Rattles returned from Singapore, where he witnessed the commencement of the infant colon• under the care of Major Far quhar with the moot promising augury. The Ma lays there, it would appear, are quite delighted at the idea of being taken under the dominion of the B r itish—and are flocking to them from all quarters. The new settlement is formed on the east-side of a newly-discovered river, up which vessels drawing ten feet water can pass. Opposite the town is a bank, betwixt which and the beach, the largest 'Mittman can anchor in safety—the Blunds of Goa and St. John's are in front, and behind is a moun tain called Mount Edge Conili ;'—by all accounts the place is quite a paradive. " They tried Corium' tirst, but that would not do; besides, their prevent position is well chosen. there being a channel of only three miles through which any vessel can pass the island of Goa, and it will assuredly form an excellent place from which to furnish the Birgeloess with English passes to proceed on Penang. They never yet passed Ma lacca, the Dutch, under the plea of their not pa.- seising those passe.. detaining them so long in their ports, that they were lanced eventually to trade with them to pay their expenses. " The Dutch at Malacca, I am told, are nigh at their wits end. T h e iiraitient has dispatched a boat to Batavia with the slew., and requested the Admiral to come and blow the whole concern out of the water. They say here the L irerpnol will speak to him on the subject." LOSS OF THE MYSORE. The Penang Gazette, of the 6th ultimo, contains a statement of the melancholy loss of the ship Ny sore, which, it appears. dial not, as at first stated, strike e•n the rocks of I'ulu Satiata, hut foundered conNideruble distance fruits the island, in rouse.. (livelier of having sprang a leak in a violent hurri cane. We regret to add, that this account con firms the siatement that the second Mate and seven toxemia only were saved. ifIIIWART 6, 1819. ffy the Charlotte, Capt. Sieseusim, from Chime, the 13th alt. which arrived un Wednesday last, we deeply regret to Iron die loss of the Mysore, Capt. Whir, off Palo Sspata, on the 7th ceiiiber. The second Mate and seven tamers bad reached Mulerea in a prow, but the Captain and re maining Officio' and crew sae said to have perished. We Mire hero obligingly resumed aids the following par ticulars of this melancholy event : The Mysore left Chitin on Ow Ist December last, and had proceeded as far as the a olio of Corkin China, in 'built lat. 13. North, • lien she experienced a heavy gale of wind fo am the northward aril wesiaaid, in whirl; she scudded as long as was deemed safe smiler a reefed foresail, but on the 7th it blew so violently that the ship war obliged to be hove to, under her bare masts ; this lieil not been effected tell mi l: noes. before her lower yards, topmasts, jibboom, &e. were all swept sway, and at the mine time it was found that she had sprung a &macrons leak. and six feet water was reported he the hold; all other duty was laid aside, and every one repaired to the pumps, where their exertions proved nun vaitiug, as by eight pm. the water had risen in the ship to lifieeu feet, and the gunoleek was also half full; it was theta determined to sere as many of the crew as pos sible, by gentile their two remainiug boats out (the other boats baviug hero torn away from either quarter).— About Weniye was charged with the care of keeping clear of the ship, and to remain close under the lee while the long boat could be gut out ; nearly one half of the bust's crew deserted Mr. W. while getting clear of the ship, owing to a large hole being knocked in the boat against the ship, anal only seven !Mears ri °mined with him, one of whom be em ployed in stopping it with a blanket, and the other six were employed at the oats. The gale baring considerably abated, about eleven the lung boat was nearly hoisted out, and Captain Dobie bailed Mr. Wernys to approach the ship as quick as he could; immediately after they heard a terrible crash, as if the ship had burst, or a heavy gun gone off, which ass followed by a general shriek from those on board. Captain Dubie bailed the cutter as before, " Pull hard, Weynis, and approach us;" but In a moisten' after the ship sunk from their sigbt,and every &oil perished. Nothing sus seen except a large white whirl or boil in the water where the ship had been, sad they ap peared surrounded with the cries of people fur assistauce the night wet dark, and although they made ever exer tion to move the suivrield, bust toward the wood of voices, Grit oo one side and then us the other, they failed in being able to save a single soul. Mr. W. now found himself in the open sea without a morsel of any thing to eat or drink, ur a compass to steer by; they were so overcome with fatigue that they fell into a mum' sleep in the bust's bottom, and remained till next day ; they then set the reefed sail and steered by the son for Pilo Sepals, which they made on the lactind day, but could nut laud un account of a heavy surf; , . they made Polo Caedeee three days &Dee, at cheld get nr thing to eat, incept lime Ash Thee emight.entomg She rocks, as the hostile appearance a the inhabitant. 'revealed their going up amongst the trees; they were eight daps more be fore they made Telemann, and their only instenance was Si . % :entail bill/mita, found on one of the Wears, sad water they caked ultra raiutug. The Rajah of Tristram, treated Cheat hospitably for a month, and then swat them in sisrow to Malacca, where they arrived on the 9341 ultimo. Lost 14 the ship Mpsore:—Cspt. Alexander Dubie; Mr. IWillis,. Barr, Chief Male; Mr. Charles Laadin, 34 ditto; Mr. James Liesoad,lth ditto; and abort 90 Lamar.. BI TI SI I PRES S. LONDON, THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 9. Itil9• We have received Paris Papers of Sunday last. It was asserted in one of the Journals, that the next Session of the Chambers would be opened on the lit of November, and that on the 4th of the same mouth the Budget would be presented to the De puties. On this the ✓ournal des L)ebats remarks, that the Ist of November is All-Saints-day, which has ever been observed by the Chambers with re ligious respect—and that, even should the solem nity of the church festival be violated, it would be quite impossible to present the Budget to the Chamber in three days after the meeting, as that time would be required to verify the powers of the new Deputies. Accounts from Dresden inform us that the Spa.. Irish Ambassador proceeded in Castilian state to the Palace of the king of SAXorrir, ore the 40th of August, and in solemn audience demanded for his Master the hand of the Princess JOSEPHINE. His demand was as formally grouted. The marriage was to be celebrated on the 48th, and the Princess purposed to leave Dresden on the 31st for Madrid. One of the Princes of the Blood Royal of Spain has beets appointed to meet her Majesty at Iran, where a large body of the Royal Guards ha. been ordered to await her arrival, and where also a triumphal arch will be erected by the people to evince their joy at this happy union. In the mean time the preparations for the equip ment of the grand armament are pushed forward with activity, and every nerve is strained to acce lerate its departure. No intimation is yet given in the Paris Papers of the accouchentene of the Duchess of BEERY. Her Royal flightless continues to enjoy excellent health. A courier has arrived from Rome, who, it is said, has brought intelligence of the termination of the iireotiations between the French Court and the Papa'. Government. There is no further intelli gence of any general interest.—The French Funds seem to be improving. The Five per Cents. are 73 1. 15 c.—Batik Stock is at 1,435 1. 75 c. We have reeeiveJ Boston Papers to the 10th last, The following are extracts: — BOSTON, AUGUST 9. By the Biting Sun, arrived at Norfolk from St. Bartholomew's and St. Kitt's, letters to the 6th tilt. have been received. An article in one of them, of a late date, confirms the account received at Baltimore from Si. Thomas's, of the 3d ult. respect ing the victory obtained by the Patriot army its the province of Barcelona. The account was received by a vessel just arrived at St. Kitt's from Oronoko. The battle took place on the 10th of Joule, at Chopper°, in Barcelona, and the loss sustained by the Royalists, under Colonel Corea, was 1,000 killed, besides prisoners, wounded, and the whole of their baggage. After the battle, Gen. Marino took up a position promising ulterior advantages. A letter from Velparitaio, of May 4. states, that the Macedonian, Capt. Downes, had sailed for the Gulf of California, at which place • number of Atm ricans belonging to the Cossack. Capt. Merrick, ' forcibly taken possession of by a Spanish vessel, were detained prisoners. Capt. Read arrived at Washington on the 3d instant. but the natu►e of his dispatches is not as yet divulged. 'rhe Cabinet Ministers were at their Fasts. and the President expected to arrive on the 4th or sth instant. The Hornet, it is said, is again tinder sailing orders. and now taking provisions on board for fire months. She is probably to return to Cadiz with dispatches fur Government. The Common Council of the City of London will this day assemble, for the purpose of taking into its serious consideration the proceedings which took place at Manchester on Monday, the 16th of August. We hope that the Meeting will be nu merously attended. because, on a question of such deep and general interest, involving matters of vital importance to the constitutional rights of English men, it would be advisable that no opinion should be expressed by the representatives of the capital— by a body to whose sentiments every individual in the kingdom, however some may affect to disguise it, must look with respect and deference—without the fullest and most mature consideration of the subject. Fortunately sufficient time has been suf fered to elapse since the occurrence of the unhappy events which will be made the topic of discussion, to suffer whatever feelings of prejudice or passion in favour of either party, the first accounts of those transactions may have elicited, fully to subside, and give place to a more tempered-judgment. founded on a more detailed and tatisfactory.knowledge of , . . le entire cireutnstanees : the irecneaiag, therefore, `, *cannot be charged with precipitancy. In the Coo t/M. Council alai, the fullest liberty of speech is allowed. and the advocates of the people and of the Magistrates will alike be heard with impartiality and attention. The opinion, therefore, of the Conned, whatever it may be, must, from the na ture of its constitution, and the constant inter course which subsists between the members and their fellow-citizens, whom they represent, be re ceived as expressing the sentiments of the City of London. We have made the most extensive pre parations to give a full report of its proceedings on this very interesting occasion. The following is a copy of the Requisition in pursuance of which the Court has been convened: " To take into consideration the late extraordinary and alarming proceedings at Manchester, when, in consequence of the interference of an armed military force, the lives of se veral of his Majesty's subjects were destroyed, and others en dangered, whilst exercising, in a peaceable manner, an un doubted constitutional right; and to adopt such measures, either by petition or otherwise, as may appear necessary." Mr. Alderman WAtTHMAN will move the Reso lutions, which are remitted merely with reference to the proceedings at Manchester, and without touch ing upon any general political topic. The trial of JOSEPH HARRISON, the reforming Parson, has been at his own request postponed until the next assizes at Chester. fle has in this instance experienced the fullest indulgence on the part of the Court and of the Counsel for the pro secution. He had at firrt traversed the indictment, and the witnesses for the Crown were in consequence dismissed from their attendance; he then changed his mind, and insisted upon his right of going at once to trial, when, to accommodate him, the wit nesses were again required to attend ; but on Satur day last, he stated in Court that he was surprised by the eighth count of the indictment, which charged hint with endeavouring to incite his Majesty's subjects to take up arms against the Government, and requested permission to traverse until the next assizes. This indulgence he could not in strictness hope to receive, but ill technical formalities were superseded, his request was granted, and he was liberated on bail, himself in 500/. and two sureties in 250/. each. The political business of the Grand Jury of Lancashire has closed, and as all the per sons charged with seditious acts have traversed their respective indictments, we can look for no further intelligence of much general interest to the assizes for that county. In another part of our Paper will he found a copy of the bill of indictment by which Mr. Hurr and his friends are charged with having conspired, on the Ist of July, to excite tumult and disturbance. and with having unlawfully and riotously assembled on the 16th of August, and caused others to ble in a formidable and menacing manner, &c. to the great alarm of his Majesty's faithful subjects (Messrs. OWEN and HOLTON to wit), and to the endangering of the public peace. There are seven counts in the indictment, in some of which the charge of conspiracy is omitted, and the Defend ants are accused solely of having assembled unlaw fully, riotously, and seditiously. It is fortunate for the Defendants that some time should elapse be fore the constructive sedition and riot with which they are charged comes to be tried ; it is fortunate also for the country, because in the mean time the judgment will cease to be so much under the in fluence of the imagination as it must be snpposed to be at present in the county of Lancaster. It would be much to be lamented if on so important a subject any hasty decision should be formed which would bind the country• in future. The proceedings at Norwich on Tuesday se'n. night, in the election of a Sheriff for that city, are very interesting. We beg leave to draw the parti cular attention of our readers to the spirited and judicious address of the successful Candidate, Mr. TAYLOR. In his allusions to the sanguinary pro ceedings at 'Manchester, he with great propriety traces the intemperate zeal of the Magistrates of Manchester to the circumstance of that town's being under the government of Stipendiary Police Magistrates, appointed and paid by the Ministers of the Crown, to •whom they must endeavour to make themselves acceptable. • If the people of Manchester enjoyed the ancient and constitu tional power once possessed by every freeman in England to elect their own Magistrates, could it be believed that Peter's-place would, un Monday, the 16th of August, have displayed the revolting spec tacle of an armed and violent soldiery, cutting down and trampling upon an unoffeuding and un resisting multitude ? By dispatches just arrived from Tripoli we learn that both Mr. Btunte and Lieut. LYON. R.N. em ployed on the mission to the interior of Africa. had had attacks of fever. bait were now entirely recotered, at Mourzouk. Ve hope tits will be the means of securing their future health in that climate. Policies were on l'utsday opened on the Royal Exchange to receive 100/. on paying 201. if war is declared between Spain and the Uni►ed States with. _in two months. The Vevey,' and Superb. and other ships which are to sail under the command of Sir THOMAS MASTIMMAN HARD?, are to have the full war com plement of meta. The Spanish Government has taken off 50 per cent. from the duty On exhorted wool, reducing it from SO to 40 riala the arroba of 25 pounds. This reduction of duty is equivalent to id. the pound. 49 11 * lf th6 (l4 4 4i t l eA, * v .L /L W___ , - --, ..- ' Ale 9 .., . ,:.:, , ,, ,,, :5 .. - 7 - vNgt, 0 t z , ' l O-4, ':.:,- . - .)e,i;.` ft + it'4. THEATRES. COVENT-GARDEV. Mr. SnrawAN's brilliont comedy or %Le .%cG;•l .fur Scaridul, was last night representetl. house was extremely well filled—and we have ratv;v known the vivid limit's's of wit which 111(111;14e innster-intre of comic wfttiug, to cre.k!e s to wr electricul rtfeet. Mr.. DAVISON smorarril no ;hr.., boards. for the first iinie. es Ludy Tea:le. Stir was received with enthusiastic plats her trance—and similar testimonies of satisf..enli vine liberally bestowed on her lierfortitic,ce the evening. She displayed in the course oi representation, all thst spirit, anon, atr . nese of manner. and pointedowso of remark, w! constitute the life and mud of the chdr.i..b. r . humorous ipiarrels with Sir Prier were m • with infinite comic effect—althofeL. , h, lit souse Ire instances, her colourien( wits chrism:n*l4,rd ify tr. much breadth and boldne•s—sod her ticriteif er the members of the scandalous colle ge , weer with a degree of keen, yet amusing smacked of the genii's of him by whom they w e ,.. written. The interview between her and that " inciting monster," Joseph Surfare, before the arri val of .Sir Peter, was skilfully and effectively ma. tinged :—but Lady Teazles sulisequesit confrsimi of frailty—the accusation of her insidious coati. dant—the expression of deep contrition, flowi l , from the knowledge of Sir Peter's atArle towards her—were too elaborately titterid to boot the heart. Declamation, in these i.istai:ces, usurpto the place of feeling—asid, though we cannot say the this portion of the play was ill performed, we inuo, in justice observe, that we have often see,, it melts better acted. Miss O'NEtr.t.'s perform:wee, in the particular passage, was a splendid il I itri ration of tu. toe aroused to the assertion of its owii di=mly_ f tenderness revisiting a heart from who ii ta r r r. forts of a querulous temper had estranged it— and of a deep contrition, created by a 1/11V• ful and powerful sense of past impruden:e.— Mr. MACREADY supported, for the first tan,, the character of Joseph Snsface, which wd• tor. merly personated by Mr. YOUNG. The ramie is certainly not an improvement. Mr. NIACIEIDV laboured to render Joseph a more meek and 51:11t like sinner than the character, to he understood ite the audience, would admit. With this view, whispered mod murmured the dialogue sr, /11.10 br. fur the most part, inaudible beyond the first eon. of the pit. In the scene, where, being interrogatii by Sir Peter, with respect to the petticoat the screen, Joseph states that he law ceiwea!t,l " a little French milliner there," the whole .h.ely. sure would have been a perfect mystery to us, if 'Sr had then, for the first time, been present at the pPt formaace of the comedy. Mr. You nri was eminently happy in his delineat lan of Joseph. lie %cis sufficiently specious and sanctimonious in his manner—but he took care that the audience should not lose a pa;. tide of SIIERtPAN's inestimable dialogue. Tie other characters were cast its usual. Mr. C. KgstaLe was an admirable Charles. Gay, volatile. and humorous, it was impossible to look on his career with any feeling like purity. Mr. Tease's Sir Oliver was a sterling representation of the " little Nabob," who is not more distinguished 1w the blunt honesty of his mind, than by the genuine philanthropy of his heart. Mr. W. FARREN'S Sir Peter Teazle is a performance of such et. traorditiary merit. that we feel that no coin. mendation of our's, however warm, no descrip tion, however elaborate, could give an adequate idea of its excellence. We never beheld a fitter performance. It excited unbounded laugh. ter from beginning to end. Crabtree and Sir Benjamin Backbite were sustained with 'bun& ant humour by Messrs. BLANcHARD and Linos. Mrs. Candour and Lady Stseerwell were sup ported by Mrs. Glass and Mts. Cow son is a style highly creditable to their talents. Nor must we omit the trifling parts of Trip sod Moses. which, in the hands of Messrs. FARLEY sad Simmons, added considerably to the general ewe , tat inuent which the comedy afforded. lu the auction scene, when Clarks Surface offers to sell the portrait of one of his relatives, who had been Moyer of Norwich, for eight pounds. the remark of Sir ob. ver—" No ! six pounds is enough fur a Mayor r was evidently applied by the audieuce to a %meetly Magistrate, of the preswest day. mud called forth several rounds of applause. The audience were still mote delighted. when Charier says, " Make it guineas, and VII throw the two Aldermen into the bargain!" But, when he desires his friend "10 knock down the Mavor and Aldermen," the esso.o *riots of ideas produced hearty peals of laughter. which continued fur a considerable time. IiATKARKET. The comedy of The Honey 37,,,,a; tat Ititile i n incident, bright with imagery and wit, awl opal with jest and repartee, was pet tot Wed lest and performed in a style of e xcellence seldom equalled. The characters *rye. without a ringte exception, cart in the most judicious manner. 111.1 i supported with admirable prow levy and felicity. The most prominent part in tlw niece, the Duke Aransa, was allotted to Mr. %% •111:11t, sod could scarcely have fallen into the hands of a more adequate representative. From beginning to end he appeared the man of sense, feeling, and fireworks. as well as the nobleman of elevated mind, and refined and finished manners and deportment. His apparel; step, and bearing, indicated a person who had long breathed the air of courts ; while his mild sod softened gravity of countenance, ha suavity of address; his temperance and smoothness of language, bespoke the understanding which necessary to derive improtement from a commerce with them, sod to guard from their infection. Worked' on by the strongest gusts of passion, his equanimity never forsook him; and the polished Gentleman was as visible wider the disguise of a peasant, while joining in the rustic dance Ott the green, as under the gorgeous hisb;i!. mettle of a Doke, am rounded by a train of attend . ants to his castle. and avowing has real character. lii short, we could not use terms too strong to exptco our conception of theeatteordivary merit of this pen' formative. Mrs. EDWIN poortreyed the listoglitT, f !~