The Sun. — London, England, 1807-02-20 00:00:00

i i TRUEST, in the course of which 'Mr. N)rhidlireat..l .re ceived many compliments on the talents, and dili gence he bad evinced, and the propriety of dividing his Bill into two or moraßills wee. suggested,. the Motion was , agreed to.. FiNANCIAIL. RESOLUTIONS. Lord' H. PETTY moved that' the said Resolutions be now read a second time. Sir J4.*ES PUL-TEIVEY was aware that in jury would accrue to the Stockholders of the Coun try by interfering with the Sinking Fund. The benefit of the Stoelcholder e arises from. the venal of Sinking Rind brought ; into - the market. In the year 17g1, . the them:per cents. reached 96. e.. Heaves sorry to say that We could not equalize the Loan with the. Sinking Fund. The present debt, mone y c apital, . amounted to a.i2,957,0001.. the new debt was forty millions, whieh e together, made: upwards of 300 millions. Re entirely disapproved. of pledging the War Tales. lie was for eniting • the .War Taxes and the Sinking Fund, and establishin a Permanent Debt' and a Permanent - Sinking Fund. if the War Taxes. ..be .dedutied 'from the. Debt ee the Debt would then be 29e• rriillions, f:. to :this; be added the. Sinking FUnd he proposed,. the,„ ! ,amount would bt!. 14,700,0001." w h ere " t h e ei t ikli s gyeed of the Noble-Lord would amount only to. 13,000,000. The Nottlelanrd's Debt would be 291,100,001. whereas his Debt world be 279 millions. Fre threw; out these suggestions with out preteeding to any extraordinary aOCuracy in the 'ealculationor method in _dr ar r angement. TilaitArra . fraro a 'comparison of the two Noble Lord's. plans,, was inelined' tit% give the en tire prefer e n ce t o th a t f the - NOble Lord (Petty) at that. siloof-rher.froute. The other Noble Lord had proposed a Loan. of but II millions, but he had not mentioned that the - deficit should be supplied by an . additional. taxation of no leia than le millions a year He objeCted toahe words ." present system — as used by the Noble Lord. Besides, ne substitute had 'men proposed by the- Neble.Lord:for the excesses Of the SinkingFand. liedisapprovedof a third plan that had b eensuggeste d as te t h e s e o ppageofthe Sinking Fund. The Hon. .Menaber adverted to the observations of the Gentlemen on the other side, telative- to the bor. rowing of money err compennd _interest; He b w g. ~..ged those: Gentlemen fully to consider the subjeet, and it would appear that the_taxes which the - Noble Lord's system enablei him to avoid -'imposing, formed a saving that more than C ounter b a l anc ed the disadvantage vilafch the .mode of borrovviiig - objeaed to was lik ely to produce. With 'regard to the mis chiefs apprehended from the idea which this system involved,, .of 'legisleting for posterity,' he deprecated the notion that if was not subject to any alteration hereafter; if clieunistanees should appeer*te require snch alteration. After pressing the ',propriety, in point of goOd faith and - policy, of always preserving the principle and promoting the progress of the Sinking Fund,' the lion. Member congratulated the :House and thiCoutitry upon the state of our resources -which the Plan now under consideration presented ; for, notwithstanding all the perils we had encoun tered, and all the expenses we.had Meet-red, it.ae peered that, after paying between eeied vo mil lions: ,fur the iuteiest of our debt; we were still able, within about 2,50u 5 0001. to meet an annual ex penditure of nearly millions, should it be deem ed expedient -it; appli,the whole of the War Taxes and the produe'v of epr oinking Fund to defray the `t xPence of the war.. 'Atte even leaving the Siniting Vend not only unrouthed'but aceurnulatin,g, it was. a.source of ,the highest satistn4ion to think, 'that we bad tileans.withie ourselves imply, sufficient to meet. all the increaser expellee arising out of the difficulty of our situation, -while the enetny was only able - to eubsiSt bei oppression, irepos hien, and illusory, ex pedients. in his:own country, arnhined with confis cations end military exadious in the territory of bja unfertueate neighbours. The Hoe.. Member core. eluded with. expressing 'his decided preference of tie system PrepostelsOy. the Nplale Lord On the Treasury tench, toany and ttiall the - plans that had beck et- - feted from the.otber side of t* . frou*; 211 .r.e1OHNBTON:4-thoaght: The 'N'eble Lord's calculatioa expel s- extremely erroneous, even as to the:present year. ,F0r..4 appeared quite probable, that*, the present situation of the Conti . - nent, Prussia must, bis altogether abandoned; 'or a much lar e eer amount of esubsiclies would be required than flieNeble,l4o4,professed to have in conterii pfation.. .• liesidess;biee. was a sum of .500,000 i. due to the :India 'Company, which the Noble Lord omitted. in his estimate. The' Honourable Gen tleman. protested-against -.the idea 'that Zlinister s should take credit for having had this. system of nanae in contemplation s 0 far back as last year, as in the speech at tbe- beginning of the Session his Ms 7 je sty expressed his regret .at the necessity that existed for additional hurthens on his people.- 'Therefore it was manifese , th4;this plat; had bur recently mwung Up. To thiseoniliteatedschetne the Hon. Gentle man recommended a preference, of the simple pro cess of borrowing., elevenetuillions . annually, and levying taxes .only. to. p l ay the intere'st 'of so mucli of that , sure as 'exceeded -the • present amount of the Sinkiree Fund,, namely for. e,e00,0001. This pro • jet* would, lie contended eceision: less taxation; - • • • ' end produce less debt by 40 millions, than the sys ' ' 7- atena proposed by the Noble Lord. • • • • , 'Mr. BANKES . observed that a radi ca l ee- o t ru n through the Spee c h of t h e l as t Sp ea k er , namely, that produc e o f the ; s inking Fund should b e a p p li ed to the current expenses Of the year, and of coutse , • eire..ly suspended from i ts ° bi t e. The conseitiklnee; - • therefore, of the Hon. Member's proied'w6llll't this, that instead of. the public creditor being:Paid' off in .forty-five years, according to the principl e * of - _ the Sinking Fund, and the' pledge of Perliament, the • debt to which this fluid was applicable, would not, •e.sshould the War continue ten years., bg discharged .in leis than fifty-five years. The Hoboukble Gentleman expreseed his couftdenee in the disposi :, 'lion of. Ministers to•nse every practicable economy, . - end that no effort' would be left.untried to keep the expellees within the estimate stated by the Noble Lord. Advertiegjo the paradox of a national bank ruptcy resulting flow the discharge Of the. National Debt, he thought the apprehension chimerical "and ueprecated the idea, under any such apprebensioil; of withdrawieg the Sinking Fund ,from .the dbjedt for which it was . originally instituted. - The Ho noutable* Gentleman suggested for consideration, • that if, in the course of the sums ntentiened in _the new system, larger Supplementary Loans,should necorrie necessary Allan the Noble Lord had- in view, a certain pr'opartioli of the per cell • t ;iv set •t " 1: 1 iv; ,AN :11V St ~' r a. ~' !.a {~ '~ `. ~' '-w ~r ~ 4 ►~~d 5.~. ♦.y ~' MAILS. ARRIVED—I• W aterford. Du z-2 Gotten burgh, t Dublin, I Watcrford, PRICE OF STOCKS THIS bAY.AT'CWELVIL-OICLOCK. Comols THE S U • • • . e apart fogy the W ar L oans m i g ht b expropr iated to form a Fund for .the liquidation' of such in creased Supplem sutary Loans—for he saw no reason why these War Loans. should be paid off so much sooner than Loans of any other description. Tae delay in their payment would be produdive of no - , material inconvenience, and the appropriation he re- 1 • ss . ched s e commended would lead to. present relief Its re- Leer night some mo re f ore en etreto. s Pe ached viewing the several W a r Ta xe s, a nd considering town ; they are ofa later date h' one asy th an those which it would be most expedient to continue if rte- which we had previously received, `!':ley • do not cessary, in the event of P e a ce , h e was decid e dly o f contain any intelligetice of itepeetence. Letters opinion that th e P roperty T ax, w hi c h el le Nobl e - th ' Lord professed his wish t o r e pe a l, was , o f all others, • from Vientsa stale ;, st. the AeStrian Cabieet has the most eligible to continue. For this tax, with 'me.' been of late most adively coapieced. in Negotiations tain modifications including a more equitable distri d that in Courts - 'and it suppese bution s an advance if requisite upon persons of large s with different , .. fortunes, an exemption altogether of small rest- ; a very 'Alert tune Austria - will takes a decided Imes-. in the reduations of charge, under certain' ! part in the present contest. If Bo:es:est:7.E had any circumstances, struck him to be the least excep- 1 'eionable tax that could be 'devised. He was the i expectation of receiving the support, or if he could, • more inclined to this opinion, becatrse he always pre- l even rely upon the need-a - lay of the EMl , Eittiß of ferretl dire6t takes to those circuitously levied, being' a would have es as aate AUSTIIIA, he . certainle is , ' -a • d Bran firmly persuaded that they were less oppressive to the • . : • - , subject and more productive to th e rev e nu e. Th e naes in,compliaece with- his repented promises and Hou. Member, on the whole, preferred the system the express Stipulation§ of the'Treary of Presburgh ; 'proposed by the. Noble Lord' to any that had been on the contrary, it is stated that be haS given orders mentioned, for although be saw some diflicultiea., in the. former, he th ou gh t t h e l atter ca l cu l ated to create for. strengthening the fortificatio ns , and for pro mtieh greater. • . . ' • I visioning it' for four Months. The. very severe Mr:JOHATSTONE, its explanation, stated, that checks which the French have received in Poland he meant only to have the interest on the part of the ! from' the Russ. ins have convinced B r s IeONA AUTE 11 Millions which tie had mentioned,. provided - for . ' of the necessity of- adopting measures for the se out of the sums applied i n new purchases .by the Commissioners for Redeeming: the Public Debt. • i curity of his Army. ,The fortifications at Prep have . Mt. ROSE condemned,. he str ong te rms , w hat he' been extended, end it is said they are capoble of denominated the anticipation of the War Taxes, and • ' ' e a contended that the debt for which it was proposed to containing 60,000 men. It is singular that all this pledge the War Taxes would not be paid off in 14 peecautioe 'should be used to guard the Frenish Army years ; as supposing the money to be borrowed when . ae ; tst the attacksof those who represented, . e et ane in the hinds were at 60, they would rise in the event - ' of a Peace, to 70, 80, or 00, and thus the debt, in- s • the French Bullethis, as having been beaten in every stead of being paid off and the War Taxes redeemed adion and every. skirmish which : has taken place. in . 14 years, would not be paid oft in less than 16, • th e ,This morning a Gottenturff o h Mail arrived , 18,.0r 21 years. The War Taxes also Must, in a " g measure, cease to bfollowing are the principal article s whi c h i t conta i ns: reat e produttive at a period of Peace. • ' ' • . ' " GOTTENBURGH, FEB-. 6.—A Russian Courier . :MK CORRY contended, that the identical taxes arrived here this afternoon, in eleven days from St. now in existence would not be pledged laTs the one-, ration of the Plan, b u t th a t i t wou ld b e a l ways i n Petersburgh :. he came across the . Gulph. o f Both the power of Parliament to impose new taxes instead nia. An English Courier-left St. Petersburgh. at the of others which might have failed or be deethed ins-' same time, but, having taken' . andther 'ratite, is not politic, and which new taxes might be pledged, et arr i ve d. instead of those rep ea l e d, f or t h e . i nterest and Sink- ' 1 '. ' " The newest accounts fro m th e arm i es i n Po ing Fund charged upo n t he l atter. Mr. P.bitell'AL drew an inference from the ar- land state, that the French have been most roughly guments used on the other side, tha t th e House treated in the late affairs by the Russians ; and that were' called upon to vote the continuance of Taxes - they have su ff ered greatly by the weather an d bad which- were not tuestut to be continued. He thought it would be much better to postpone the considera- . ness of the roads, through which they have lost a tion of the plan till another year, in .order that suffi- considerable part, of their field equipage. It is said cient time might be given to the consideration of a -e eeseseteeken is heartily tired of his Polish campaign, subject of such great importance. Lord HEYRY PETTY ma i n t a i ne d th a t th e R e - and of being confined, as it were, so far from h o me, solutions contained no pledge whatever for the con- Where his presence begins to be necessary. It is tinuance of any particular Tax. The objed of the reported that General has been killed. Plan was to provide for th e exi g encies of a protraaed • war, and at the.satne time, b y abstaining from. ins- " The Quebec Frigate and the Fanay Gun-brig, posing fresh Taxes, to relieve the Country, to re- . having landed the money with which they were pair its strength and recruit its resources, whilst its charged for the Elill , EttOß of Russis, will sail the operation -would would provide the means of resorting again to taxation, if that must be the case—a resource which first fair wind, and will take some Merchants' Ships Would still remain, even supposing the Plan totally from hence under their convoy." ' . to fail. His Lordship entered into a comparison of the Plan he bad proposed,. and those suggested on . the other side, and contended that Isis Plan hed this , great advantage, that it would operate to increase the Sinking Fund, in a larger proportion to the Debt, 1 up to a - certain poise, when its excesses were to be taken; whilst the Plans proposed on the other side would operate to increase considerably the Debt, and leave 'the Sinking Fund as it now stood. He pro poaed, after a certain accumulation of the Sinking Fund, to appropriate the excesses —but they would attack that Fund immediately. He remembered a story of a man who said he had a ' sure method of curing sheep of ail disorderS, and that wrs by cut ting their throats; so Gentletnen on the other side would get at the Sinking Fund by immediately tak ing it ; and this constituted the boasted simplicity of their Plans. His Plan, on the contrary, by the pro portionable magnitude of the Sinking Fund, would ensure to the Stockholder a certain ' market for his Stock ; and instead of mortgaging all the resources of the Country, as some Hon. Gentlemen had con tended, there would, if it continued to operate, be a suns of ee,000,0001. available for the service Of the Country in the year 1822. Mr. Rose explained. • Lord CASTI,4IIEAOIi contended that the system be. fore the House was a much greater infraction of th e A6t of 1786 than thatewhich had been done in t 80::, which had been alluded to in the course. of the'de bate, After touching oe several other 'scants, his Lorsiellip observed, that be . would speak more fully on the subjed : next Monday, when the Resolutions Which he had submitted to the House would be nu der consideration. Mrealuserssoar adverted to an expression of Mr. IL Therntotes, that ouegreat fault had been that we had not paid sufficient attention to the invigoration of the Sinking Fund, and yet at the. same time de clared that the present system met with his entire approbation. Yet this would, tend to weaken . that Fund more than any measure that had been yet brought before Parliament. .. Mr. Vessel-stae maintained that, by the regular progress of the measure, as laid down in the l'a%les, it was evident that it would be a constant souree of supply to that Ruud. , . . . , Mr. CANNING observed, that he should reserve his opposition till the bringing in of the Bills to be funded on these Resolutions. The question was then put, the Resolutions were agreed to, and a Bill or Bills ordered accordingly. Leave was given to bring in a Bill for levying an additional Duty on Brandy, and also for a Bill grant ing additional Bounties on Su g ar, pursuant to Reso lutions of the House. The Sierra Leone Bill was passed through a Committee, and the Report was ordered. to be received to-morrow. The other Orders were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at halt past two o'clock. rAzttim L 0 1V 0 FR/DAY, FEBRUARY 20, i 8 07 We have receive private accounts from Holland, of as late a date as 'Sunday hit, whiela state, that there were three Dutch Frigates, ,fully provided for a long voyage, waiting at Helvoetsluys for an oppor tunity to sail.—lt is supposed that they are destined for. Batavia. An Embarg - o bas bees laid upon all VeSsels at Helvoetsluys and Brine. Qn Wednesday - setnniglitr King Louts made a great number of knightS'of the Order of Union and of Merit,. with great ceremony. The report of the French having received some very severe chocks in Poland was very generally cre dited among the best informed people in Holland, notwithstanding the assertions 'to the contrary in the French Papers. Theyerjuisition, in Brabant, of all young men •from 16 to years of age, Is enforced in the most rigid Manner,, and has prodUced some very serious ,disturbances, • . The corbinatfon of king Louts is shortly to take place with great splendour. - . • Mr. WirrrnimsD, in the House of,Commons last night, delivered a speech on the subject of the Poor Laws, in which he. displayed the enlarged views of the Philosopher, and the liberal feelings of humanity:. He obtained leaVe to bring in a Bill upon this tri= tereSting subject, - for the purpose of , bringing for ward .a Alan to relieve Distress, check Vice, and pro motoladustry among the lower orders of People; The Adeanci , Captain GUNN, did not, as was at first stated, run into Buenos Ayres ; the misfortune Which betel her was 'ail more serious nature, and' Was as followS :,--She was laden at Table I3ay (Cape of Good Hope), and sailed from thence for, Buenos Ayres the t lth of Odober, Sir D*Vill BAIR having previously solicited a passage in her for three Spanish Officers who were on parole at the Cape. .Un the 224 of `.Novernber she arrived in•the River Plata; on Which day Capt. GUNN, while at dinner, heard an unusual noise on the deck; and ongoing upto learn. the cause, w:'is immediately stabbed in the bellytiy ane of the Spanish Officers. These ongratelid pasSenge rs had disseminated the Seeds of discontent among t h e crew, who were at that moment in a state of muti n y, Capt. GUNN was carried below, and the "Mama was taken possession of by the crew, and continued un der their controul thirty-::ight hours, when the Medusa Frigate, Captain BouvEam, hove in si g ht, and chased the ddeona; but: bt.fore the Meduitz could come.up, the mutineers ran her on shore near th e Island of Flores, on the-Spanish Main; took to th e boats and effi..iited their escape. -The Medusa, in vain, tried every .means to get Ler Ali the shore, and was at last compelled to burn tier, to prevent her from. falling into the hands of the enemy. The ship and cargo were worth upwards of 40,0JQ1. and not mere than toool. of prop, , rsy- could ez saved. 1. 7 Ntan • it 88. 17 --Arrived the Pri vateer, -Goon, from a cruize, and brouo - lit in with her a Danish Brig from Cart hageria bottf3d Ic •with a eri?go of salt ; The Aineticcin IV:oriref Sinis, HAYNES blaster, frotri Cctte, iti 24 days; with brandy, for orders : it was reported there very currently that the Frendli had been defeated, and that BotrAPAriTE was hourly expected at This Ship spoke`the 13th inst. it lat. 42.. la. long-, 12. the homOvVard-bound Lisbon - Fleet, about 4c) Sail, under codVoy of His Majesty's Ship Camilla, all well. • . The American Ship, as mentioned yesterday to have been recaptured by the Nile, is the Brisq Pettket; DAY Master, from Liverpool, bound to Phi. ladelphia, with a cargo of bale goods, taken by a Spanish Brig Privateer (formerly the King. GeQrge Packet, of this Port) from St. Ander°. FEB. l Bg.—Many Ship Of War drove out of the Dowris dining the gale of yesterday, tramei unknown. The account of the Boddingt 's being on shore is not correct. The Vessels stated to be - oil shore yei terday are lost ; also the St. George, PALMER, .or Jamaica, and the Dawson; PRourmov >r. The'"follOwing Vessels are in the Downs dismast ed,• viz. • The Shecttons,_MgDonald, Udy Nlackworth, Hayes, the Hit)berts, hound to the Wcst two can Vessels ; two other Vessels, one a euiher ; t wit ed at their anchors ; a,Ship,. called tile it!tjeS, is diSMaMil ;, the Ellison, Stronnack, Autigua, rfi Linda, .Jackson, kr St. Kitt's, are iiisn!asteJ i koAds; the Chaties,liarnian, Hdl, iron) Shor..:l don, is Wiecked near Margate ; it ti feared tt finings, is 4lso lost. Thu -., Pink, f lu i London, is carricd into Margate. “my ~... PLYMOUTH 4 FEB. 18.—Sailed the Endeavour hired Armed Brig, with a Convoy, fo•• aies ; and the Hazard Sloop of War, with a Convoy of Viduallers ; fOr the Channel Fleet. HARWICH, FEB. i 9.—The Dorset, Capt. HA MIL - TON, for Gottenburgh, and the Lady Nepean, Uzpt. G. DEANE, for Heligoland, with the Swedish Mails of yesterday, arc detained by a strong North wind, THE 7WEATIIE. Drury-Lane. THE . high dramatic repute which the late Mr. TOBIN has acquired by The Honey Moon drew a crowded Audience to this Theatre last night, 'as a new Play, entitled The curfi-a , , from the saute pen, was announced for representation. FABLE. The scene of this Play lies chiefly on the sea-shore, in the neighbourhood of the castle of the Baron De Tracey, ',Nilo had accompanied the Conqueror to England. Some years betel:" he quitted NOrmandy, his nati ve country, instigated. by jea lousy, he had stabbed his wife, and believed her to have pe rished at sea. 3n making her escape, Nfatilda, the wife of the Baron, had been driven by a tempest, with het only son, on the 6:1111e coast, and is discovered living in obscurity near the castle where, amongst the neighbottrheod, she passes iota' witch. Florence, the daughter of the I3aron, is attached to Bertrand, who had saved her father's life, who refuses his consent to their union, o n account o f B ertrand's low birth ; , they" make their escape from the castle, .to solemnize their marriage at a neighbouring:monastery, but are attacked by robbers in their way, who carry oil' Flor-nee, whilst Bet trattrils,brought back to the caStle by a party sent by the Ba. rom: Fitzharding, the leader of the robbers, haVing received a galling insult front the Baron, pursues him with unrelent iog haste, and resolves, at the' soundinwof the Curfew, to at . tack the curie, having previously gained admission in thcdis. guise ofa Friar, whom the. Baron had sent for, to make con . fes',.;:irf of his sips.. Three of the robbers, disguised as Min- Strels, also gain admittance to the Castle : Matilda, accused of•Witcheratt, is [nought before the Baron, and, on making an able delenc,e, is d , isinissed. At this moment' Florence, hav ing been delivered over. to Robert, the son of Matilda who had joined the robber s ,' an d h aving been resoled by him, is b:nught bet Ore the Baron—she predicts the attack of the Cas tle, and puts tltctn On their guard. litzharding having ap pointed a meeting with the Baron, to give blue absoluti4i, in a lonely chapel, there Aiiscoyers himself, and as he is about to kill . bitn; Matilda enters with a party of the vassals, and use= her husband• in the meth - while an uproar is heard in v the Castle, the robb er s, enter and are overcome; Roh&t, ain is amon gs t thehi, etastled by the Baron, is saved be the interposition of Matilda; and the Piece finishes by the Beron's reepficifiation with his wife and daughter, whom he bestows on Jiertranct. The , general charatier of this Piece is exaetly what might be expelled from the Author of The Hon, / Ninon.. It was evidently his design to corn, pOutid a. Play with different parts of other Dramas, rather than to produce a Fable purely original —re lying upon his vigour of sentiment, variety of ima gery, and power of language. .1 - knee we rind in his chief charadter, Fitzh ar di ng , p arts o f Jago and of Lava, but more particularly of the latter. In the chara&ers of De Tracey and Matilda, we are strongly reminded of Leontes and Hermione, in The Winter's Tale. The scene between Robert and Flo , rence, in which th e f ormer , i n con f orm i ty to the orders he had received, is going to kill the latter, we have in Hubert and A r th ur , an d the Sallie charac ters are involved in a subse q uent dan ger , w h ich is n may be traced i n conclusionpttralel t o a aga scene i in reminds 2 'he children usof the b o i os th e e of lrood. me Re_ variousvengt:. 'oßut other works, h th e e p uts Authorhis materials together with great skill, -and produces a whole that is very \yell calculated. to gratify a mi xe d aud i ence, who are L their feelings th an di verted likely tfor-obnel the ere interestoccupiedof t ty ;.Piece by reti e & i ons on its dramatic coincidences. Nor will the Piece before us fait to interest the more critical auditor, as it abounds in iMpressive sentiments, with occasional touches of humour, and neat and powerful expres sion. —There were some excesses last night that will undoubtedly be lopped -off, There is not so great a proportien of humour as in the former work of the writer, but he has managed his fable with more art, and therefore a stronger interest is excit&d. A writer of the present day would not have been so bold in pl.lgiarisni, and few indeed would - have been, able to re-mould borrowed matter into so striking a shape. The- style in general has an antique cast,' that strongly leads the imagination into the time 'when the aetion is supposed to have taken"plk:T.. The performers in general deserve great praise,-- ELLISTON, BARRYMORE, H. SIDDONS, and B AN ... LISTER, supported their chargters with distinguish ed ability. Mrs. PoWELL was admirable thrcughout. Miss bLINCAN'S voice is. quite ultit I'drtragic Jan guage, tint otherwise she - acquitted herself Very well. The FLiy was received with such strong and uni form applause as promises a very .successful career. The Prologue, on the difference of the time of aEtion and the present, was well written, and v.'ell spoken by BARTLEY. The Epilogue was playful, but had Ii entitled to much notice. It was not happi ly delivered by Miss DUNCANT, who .had as gestLulations as a Clown in a Pantomime. ntanr