The Sun. — London, England, 1815-01-03 00:00:00

.N.a.vAL NEWS. ALNIOUTH, DEC.- 31.—Arrived his Majesty's ship Cyrus, having in tow the Dutch man of war Rotterd am, o f 6 4 guns, dismasted, and with loss of rudder: she is - one of the squadron that sailed from the Texel for the Mediteronean, most of which have been dismasted and separated in a gale of wind in the Bay of Biscay. Three sail of them wcnt up Channel this m orn i ng . The Cyrus has sailed again on a cruize. Put back the Lord Cranstimii, princess of \Wiles, Louisa, and West In dian, part of the.Swiftsure's convoy : they in farm us that the remainder of the fleet 'have bore bp for a port to the Eastward. Arrived his Ma jesty's ship Andromeda from' a cruize ; Quebec Packet from Bermuda, in 9 9 days ; on the 13th alt. picked up the crew and passengers of the brig Amphitrite, Capt. BEGO, from Quebec for Lon don ; they Were 19 in number, and had been four days in the long-boat, in a very distressed state. Wind IV. S.W. ship PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 2.—Arrived his Majesty's Crocodile from Newfoundland, last from l ' ish°4. ; Sally, SEM:TIT, from Prince Edward's sland ; and several vessels 'from the Downs.—.... Sailed fro withm St. H e l en ' s his Majesty's ship N!ger, a fleet, bound to the Cape, Tsle of France, and East Indies, The Pilot transport, from New E ast is The at Plymouth ; parted from the James tDRONDSON, in lat. 50. 4. The James Was captured in ri can Sept em b er b y the Chassenr Ame .lohn.privateer, • recaptured, an d carried t 0 St. ceed fleet o f transports is ordered to pro immediately for Cork, under convo of his 1 / 1 1 . y hislestY'S ship Hope. The present convoys are. Majesty' ship Cloicle Ma , for Sp a i n , & c. ; hi s jesty's shiprn Montague, for Bermuda, &c. The fi/llowing are the ships that sailed with the Niger frigate,. viz. ---Lady Flora, for Bengal ; Ni)rth amptun, for Botany Bay and China ; -Governor Raffles, for Batavia ; Rose, for the Isle of France ; Ploznix and Hydra transport s J‘ Thomas, Or pheus, and Albion, for the Cape of G oo d H ope ; and William, for the Brazils. • — Wind N. E. LEARWICir, JAN. with a ma i l and o.---Arri Vei l t i • -Thetls Packet, p a ssengers front Tottenburgh ; the Lady Melville Packet, with ditto from Cux haven, and the Auckland'Packet, with ditto from Volland.—Wind E. DEAL, JAN. 2.--Cante slow o n frOm the' River se veral sail, and remain. ihr4FAx, Nov. 28.—The following ships of tear ire ' now in this 'harbour :—Centurion (flag ship), Rear-Admiral. GRIFFITHS ; Bulwark, 74, Captain_ - En —.WoRT H ; Satur n , 54, C apt. BROWNE; Supe r b, 74, Re ar - Admiral flo - nrior ; Bacchante frigate, Captain STANIMLL ; Narcissus frigate, Captain Goßpo N ; Leander, 50, Captain Sir G. COLLISR also the Prospero, Escort, Donanicai Alusquito, and Sharpshooter. —It is said tote Ame ric.an Commodore has laid down two more 74 gun ships at Sackettes Harbonr, to be ready in the Spring. ---The Superb, 74, Rear-.m HoTn Ante has just sa il ed on a cruise off the coa l, st Of rica. lrßEcics-.—Fris Majesty's brims SYlsEs, with g Fantom e , C apt. a tra ns p ort brig an five schooners o ndyr c onvoy, lately sailed from Castine : - about 4 o'clock on Thursday morning, the Fautome, a transport, and two schooners Mashie and ers-everauee, with lumber,' &c.) unfortu • t ILL y struck on some of the reefs near Prospect. The kantome and P erseverance soon w ent to pieces, s 4 '''"( l the P:iend s hi p bilged • the - t ransport, it is PP°4e:(l3 will Le saved. F, The Race----"---. P Racer schooner, Lieut. OGSON', which m ile(' from Plymouth with dispatches West Indies, has been . for the idas---crew saved. . lost in the Gulph of Flo -1:1'e non- Admiral LEGGE has struck his flag u the river Thames,' as Commander in Chief. The Lords of the Admiralty have been pleased o direct,- that the workmenof Portsmouth Dock ttrcl, who may be discharged ,on the Peace Es-. aldistnent, .shall be entitled to superannuation ifter 20 yeatS' servic e ; before, the privileged tine wa s 34 yens, . . It is ordered, that the frigate;-Which went 'not the Mediterranean to the American station, hall have precedence of all - other :ngland to b e paid of or repaired:s, itt com i ng to A letter from an Officer o( his Mair;:st's ship Aaredemonian states, that the Secorld *Lieuteant f Njarines only t 63 wounded, In the capture of !m American gua-boat i atici that sine the Lace_P.monian tilts been stationed off Ch or f les town: ive Ilizs captur e d an d destroyed 30 sail o vessel S.. :be wounded 011icer was doing well. __. , DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE-MONEY. tratine, for Vlnvincible, on hoard, at P ortstnouth, on the 11 inst. R. calls No. "22; Norfolk st ree t.' • • Thaie, for the Orizonte. on the 4th instant, at No. 2G Bir lia-htne. ltecalls ev e ry W e d nes d ay and Saturday. , Spartan, - fur the I•lette, Belle, Morning Star, F anny, oaqlihoy, and Itapide, ot; tin, sth instant. Rec,ills at the thee of Mr. ii. Abbott, No. le, Clement'. Inn. uidstone, for the Rapid, on the 6th of January, at N0.,23, trrt.)---truet. Recalls ‘ - ery Monday and Saturday. Che4f.ll, for the Itashabonde and ;Tophia Amelia, on the /tot Jan. at No. 23, Surrey-street, Strand. R eca ll s every outlay and Saturday. The Dinners for " the PITT Club" for this 11. , are fixed for the third Tuursdhy in Febru . - Y, I\larch, and April. The Anni versary, as 114 1, Will be on the 28th of May next. T he Subscribers to...the Statue .0f Alr.-PITT, in , L -S enate House of the University of Cambridge,. kejecently had it engraved .by the elder 14ATEt, best manner. It is a fine specimen of his pie a ,N reflects great credit on his talents. The cif °f 'this engraving are limited to the nunl tU to the statue, except omi t which e Present& . l to " The Pitt Crub.". U I AN L.E.G-. As a Poet, of subjects was once in great want, He an Elegy wrote on it sickly old Aunt, *ho chancing to hear of her Nephew's odd freak, Resolv'd the impertinent Poet to ftek, To drive_both Himself and his Elegy thence, And punish him duly for this his offence. " Indeed," said theßhymester, "rown it was wrong, To make you, my dear Niadam, the point of my song; But my fault to confess is at once the best way, And since I hare done it, permit me to say, That more generous surely I never can be, Than to grant you ten fed fdr but one L—E—G— But if this excuse brings net pardon about, - The next time I'll foot it, a better w/y out." Dec. 23, 1814. FANNY. ON TI - 1 itVENT. The storm which long has howl'd, is past, Our hopes are nothing shirer'tl, All that we pray'rl, we have at last, JOAN'S. TOWZER. ON HEARING M. GARNEIUN'S ,EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF Ti - lUNDER. GARNEnts's - thundering lectures cause In all the town much wonders And if nut thunder of applause, Extort applause of thuodcr. ON THE DEATH OF JOANNA. Thong-h the Believers needs must own JulxNA's gune.to sup, Their faith is not at all cut down, Because she is cut up. No, on the contra, sure they're right, • Th , - - 'll stickle for it bravely, Since the world with them tinite • To treat the subject gravall. \WINDSOR, JAN. 2. Saturday morning, ,her MAJESTY and the Prin.. cesses ELIZABETH and MARY, attended by their Ladies in Waiting, took an airing through Maid denhead, &c. The Duke of YORK arrived 'at the Castle out he saute Morning, and in the evening left for Oatiands. Yesterday morning the Duke of Kent arrivcd at the Castle. The sane morn ing, the Royal Family, including the Duke of KENT, after attending Divine service, went to Cranbourne Lodge-, to visit th e Princess*CHAß- LoTTE. In the evening, iter MAJESTY had a se lect party at the Castle to, tea, a Concert of Sa -crt4d:Music, &c. The Duke of KENT left Windsor this morning for Castlebar-hill. General DE Buns came into Waiting this morning as Eluetry to the KING. DEER LIU NT.—On Friday, artbough the Avea -tiler was very wet, a number of sportsmen as sembled on • King's Beach-hill, where, at the, usual time, a very fine deer• was turned out for the day's diversion, which spewed great sport in taking across• the Heath, thr•oogh the right of Bagshof, where be - rap with great swiftness to wards the Golden Farmer-hills, Liking to the right by Black Water, 'where he an back by •Scwiiiley and Winkfield, taking through the en closures towards the Thames, where he was taken near Down-place, after a ma of near three hours. In the course of the chase numbers of the sports-, men were obliged to ride in the waters. BRIGHTON, JAN. 1. Yesterday erening, Itis •Royal Highness the PRINCE REGENT,- accompanied by General BLO - rtELD and Colonel THORNTON,- arrived at the Pa lace, where he had been preceded nearly an hour by the Duke of CLARE`; Cl+. - Divine Worship was performed at the Palace this - morning, after which the PRINCE REGENT, attended byriieneral I3LooMrIELD, took an airing along the Cliff and about the Downs to the.weq, - leaving the Palace by the Stable entrance in Church-street about half -past one o'cloth, and . . returning- about four. During the. PhINCE's ramble, the Dnke CLARENCE honoured Lady ANNE WYNDHAM with a visit at her. rnral resi dence in Hilly-place ; and, subsequently, .joined 'a very gay concourse of promenaders on the Steyne. • The PraNcg REGENT, we have the Vappiness to state, is in most excellent health and spirits ; and the same, rewark will equally apply to the ROYAL DUKE, Tim flag. is once more hoisted on the venerable tower of the Church, where it will continue until the departure of the oRrINICE REGENT. NAVAL CHARITABLE SOCIETY. Yesterday a Quarterly Meeting of this most laudable Institution for the relief of the relatives of our deceased Naval Heroes, was held, which was attended by Admiral Lord RAnsTocK (President) in the Chair, Admiral Sir John Colpoys, K. B. Vice-Admiral John Hunter,, Vice- Admiral M. H. Scott, Rear-Admiral W. Taylor, Rear-Admi ral A. Gnvot, Lieut.-Governor Browell, Capt. F. W. Austen, Capt. W. Butterfield, Capt.ll. M. Clonnanney, Captain C. B. Harvey, Dr. Robertson, Dr. Ontram, Dr. Edward Bromley, Surgeotl Jilinallrotuley, Lieutenant Frederick Bedford, Ford Brown, Lsq. Thirty cases were presented for the Committee's consideration,. 28 of which w ere re li eve d, an d two rejected. SCOTS BANKRUPTS. SEQUESTRATIONS. • D. and A. Munro, merchants in Glasgow—Creditors meet in the Pi ince of Wales Tavern. there, 4tli and 18th january, twelve o'clock. Andrew Smith, builder at Woodmire, near Burn, in Kincar dineshire,dreditors meet at Sur eon's Hall, near Fetter cairn, Gth and 2oth J anuary, one o'clock. Peter Simpson , currier, Dalki-ith, in th e county o f Edin burgh—Creditors meet in Morrison's inn, Dalkeith, ;31st Dec. and * 2l stJanuary, 11 o'clock. James Fergu%son, cattle-deale r in Anobinhlain, Kirkoswaidt' Ayrshire—Creditors meet in . tlic King's Arms ion, and 23d January, one - o'cl oc k . Ayr, 4th W e are informed, that the - bill lately brought into tire souse of Lords for establi g a new Court fo r th e , tr i al of certain civil cli m shin s b l i es 'Tory, Was taken i nto consideration by the Faculty of Advocates, at a very full inceGag held esterda It was resol ve d w i thout a vote to approve of the y. principle of the bill, and to appoint a Committee to go through the different clauses, and to report to the Faculty their opinion thereon,—(Caledonian Mercury, Dec. 294 THE THEATIIES. MR. KEAN's ROMEO. DRURY-LANE. The announcement of Mr. KEA:4 fOr Romeo, excited a considerable stir in the theutrical,world, anti Drury-lane was well at ,tended at 'an -early hour last night.. The best -thing that could happen to an Actor, his happen ed to this Performer;—the opinion of the Public is divided to tille utmost points of difference upon the subject of his merits ; one Party extolling him to the very echo, and another maintaining that his: extraordinary popularity is the result of sas gross and ttmporary a delusion as that which made the• boy BETTY a man of fortune.—Probably the tinth, as it generally does, lies somewhere between these e;tremes but nevertheless, the contention has been most fortunate for Mr. KEAN, as the zeal of •admiration versus the heat of disapprobation, is always sure to elevate the person who is the object of .both ;; for one side showers applause on their favourite, to counteract what they deem to be persecution, while the other -side only con demns the more loudly, in order to justify the soundness of their, judgment—and between them, the person in dispute•is raiseil to notoriety, con sequence, and fortune. There are two ways by which an Actor affects the jmlgnient of an audience—by their eyes, and by then• ears ; but we may distingu►sh a third mode of operation,which, though received through these argans,depends more -exclusively upon the ►nine!, and refers to the 'gratification or distaste experienced from the idea formed of the concep tion,. skill, and mental energies evinced by the Player—an appeal, iii shot • t, front mind to mind, and so forcible, that though the'physieal powers of the Actor tail hint, the spectator• gives him • credit for the possession of internal resources, which nature only denies hint the means Of ex hibitingy. with the greatest effect. In the wide range-of'the drama, though perhaps the character of Liamlet demands these. three requisites in the highest degree, the part of Romeo co:nes so near it in a similar claim, that it may, without hesita tion, be.classed as only second toHamkt in thoSe respects. . To charm the eye, a fine figure and gracef►tl action are necessary; to delight the ear, we ask a good voice and appropriate modulation ;. and to' have the understanding pleased, we. must discern a judicious conception of charac ter, and at least an attempt which cannot be mistaken, to develope that conception in execu- tton. Upon these critcrea we . proceed to . examine the personation of the youthful Montague by Mr. KEAN. In tlu tiist pLice, be is deficient in per son,• and his action possesses neither digo,ity *grace. )0-the second place, his voice is harsh and discordant, and altogether incapable of those intonations 'which touch the soul. Did he then exhibit that mastery in the idea which he farius of the part,, and that transcendent ability in -em bodying it, which would force . us to forget all his physical imperfections and obvious onfitnes3 to sustain it ? Did he display those talents before which All objections fly, • - PRITcHARD's genteel, and G.t3Fuch: six feet. high ? In mir opinion he did not. Through - the early scenes, instead of the buoyant and hopeful Lover, he was uniformly serious and saturnine :—it ap peared as if the play had opened with the Tomb, instead of being to close with it, and that Romeo had been. so infected with the dankness of the '‘,Storehotre of the ,CApfLETs," as never after wards to be able to recover any elasticity of spi, rit. Romeo - is a desponding Swain, hut not a gloomy Ascetic--he ought to he mebneholy, if you will, but not sepulchral, and Mr. KEAN chose to make him th e latter.- . ---Thus the Play proceeded, cheerios as uniform dullness could render it, to the scene in which 'Friar Lawrence announces . ..his sentence of banisinnemt, for which Mr. KEAN had evidently reserved himself. Here the ap plause, Vhieh had hitherto been butseantily sup plied, was, lavished with tinhoUnded profusion. The million clapped the distraught lover, while the judicious few -were lost in an endeavour to ascer tain. What it was that excited -this prodigious and irrational shouting. We candidly confess, that to us the seene,seemed., to be greatly overdone; and though there- were points in it that might justly have been noticed with approbation, yet it is remarkable, that 'the very worst parts were the very most huzzaed to. Of these we shall only cite one example : in the lines,, then might'st thou tear thy hair, And fall upon the ground, m I do now, Taking the measure of an unmade grave;' . Mr. KEAN, after the prepOSition "of," made.one of the longest, and we will add most unneces sary, pauSes we ever witnessed upon the Stage.— We know that this species of ornament, rightly and timeouslyemployed, is of powerful efficacy,thelook, the action, nay, the very absence ofeither, may fill up the gap in a manner beyond the sphere of utterance; but surely it is equally clear that - these injudi-. cious and unnatural stoppages, where the-sense of the author and the dictates of miturt disoA them, are alike destructive of every thing which can he thought to raise a Rerforniance above the lowest grade. From this period, Mr. BEAN, having broken from his torpor, appeared anxious to throw as much violent, gesticulation into the last half of the play as would compensate for his want of anima:ion in the first half. lie exaggerated every passion, and tore them to very tatters, to split the cars of the groundlings. A rotatory motion of the baud, as if describing the revolution of a spinning Jenny multiplied slaps upon his forehead, and manual elevation of his " fell of hair;" repeated knockings upon his own breast, and occasional rappiugs' at the chests of others; •the ofiening ofhis ruffles, like a school-boy run riot from the play-ground, and a strange •indistinct groping on the inside of his shirt, as if. in search of something uncom monly minute, filled up the round of hiS action, while a voice most umntistcal, exerted to .a harsh and painful sctwech, affoided the finishing touch to a Romeo, 'decidedly the worst we ever wit nessed upon the London boards. I - Living :4C/tie so ruttch into detail upon the chief attraction of the night, we shall he as brief as possible in our remarks uptin the other cha racters. Any Actress. with youth, simplicity,-and feeling upon her side may personate Juliet very satisfae, tcray. Such a Character, performed with an or dindry li,tre of gentleness and sensibility, is of awaking responsive sensations not only among the fair damsels in the upper regions, hut in the barer bosoms which adorn the boxes—and if a little pathos is added, Oren matrons of a certain 'age aild greybeards may be tempted to acknow ledge, that love is not so unpardonable a frailty as, for some feu years past, they have con sidered it. Juliet is somewhat froward, but not O. wanton ; she is artless, but not childish ; play ful, but not hoydenish ; and when the master-chord of her heart is struck, energetic and passionate, but never masculine and boisterous. Airs. I.IAnT LEY sustained this part, and furnished no apology for Romeo's romantic attachment. Nothing of fends- more in 'private life than to see elderly fe males aping girliShness, and even upon the, Stage it is more apt to disgust than to please. Mrs. BARTLEY really tried - to play the characttr. well, but she is so utterly un fi t for it that b et most suc cessful attempts only demonstrated the fact more palpably. I _ W . _ hen the superior parts of a drama displease - us, we are perhaps, not so likely to do common justice to the inferior cast. Weknow not whether this oblique sentiment or .candour compels us to, say, .that 'altogether - , the Play of last: night was - giit up in - - a. style which would not stand high i ' comparison above that ,of a second- . rate itinerant Company.. With the latter, the choice of_a, heroine would have fallen upon the youngest and prettiest votary of illelponione among them ; and tor their hero, they would have selected the handsomest aud most lover-like of their body. But at Drury-lane, the Juliet, except in dress, look ed as old as her Mother ; and the Romeo so mean, that every - Mercurio shoved more like a gentleman than a French hair-dresser beside him; and Denuolio, in• spite of his everlasting display of . denticulation„ was absolutely genteel. Tybalt. ivas bravo, instead of an impetuous nobleman, and the rest of the Company were so congenial with their chiefs, that if this had been Mr..KEAN's debut, and, the first night of Romeo and Juliet, the former would never hare appeared again before a London audience, and the latter would infallibly have been condemned. COVENT GARDEN.—The play of The Tempest, not as written by SHAKSPEAHE, but as mangled and disfigured by I)IIYDEN, was represented last night at this Theatre before a very numerous au dience. The Tempest, in its original State, is tine of the most beautiful, as Nvell as the most regular, of the great Author's dramatic productiOns, and, within our remembrance, Was among• the chief stock-pieces of Dry. .7-lane Theatre in the time of GAlltucK. We are, therefore,_surprised that so bad a taste has been sheWn by- our dramatic caterers, as to throw aside that admirable • play, and revive the. clumsy distortion of DRY-. DEN.. The charater of I'rospero was, as usual, well sustained by YOUNG. Miss FOOTE made her first appearance in Miranda,. -in which she 'displayed an interesting simplicity.— The part of Ariel was assigned to Miss MAiirEws, but she . was by no means happy in representing the light and sportive movements of this interest ing Sylph. %The act ion of Miss MATlmws seemed to be throughout too studied and affected, and partook more of the manners of this' world than . what May be conceived" of the airy sprite which the author has so admirably,designed. The rest of the characters were so well supported as to 'calt, for no- additional comment, and the play ailtoge ther was favourably received, bat we hope the Managers \Yin retrieve their credit for critical judgment, by restoring the piece as it came front the creative and unrivalled imagination of its im . - mortal Author. NO VETO. [VERY rATEST ACCOUNT FROM ROME". We have been just favoured with the perusal of a Letter from an Q/ticial Gentleman of Authority in that City, of a much later date than th it which we saw on Monday last. Ti,ie . following state ments may he • implicitly relied upon :—The4 Pope is hostile to the Veto :—He says that he will make na Arrangements—Quarantotti's Rescript is not noticed, except with contempt and indignation.• It will- probably never be rescinded or- condemned, because it is considered of no authority. Doctor Milner has been ordered to remain at Rome until the arrival of Doctor Poynter, who has been sent for, it is thought, to give some explanation of his conduct. As a proof that no change is intended, the Pope has already confirmed the Postulations from Ireland to fill the vacant Sees. Our Readers will now see what credit is to be given to the Papers of the Party Who so confi dently affirmed, that the Itescript was confirmed, that Doctor Murray quitted in disgust, and that Doctor Milner kept the field in a rage :'whilst others stated that he was going to spend the re mainder of his days amongst the Monks ! XVlnit will my Lord Fingal! and the Seceders do ? We trust they will return to their posts, and join the people—without , whom they are nothkig—with whom they are every thing. The Government Prints state the nominations to the vacant Sees of the Irish Catholics in about five lines, in which there are as many gross blun ders. They state, that it was the Propaganda postulated.—This is false—the Irish Diocesses ' postulated, and that College reported the postula tion to the Pope. We have given the list accu rately long since. —(Cork Chronicle, Dec. 30.) From a Bristol Paper of last week. —" PRO.. PERTY TAx.—After the deli very of the letters by the London mail, on Tuesday last, RICHARD 11ART DAVIS,,Esq. one of our Representatives in Parliament, read to the Gentlemen assembled at' the Commercial Rooms, a letter which he had re ceived from the Earl of LIVERPOOL, and which. contained an abstract of the terms . of the Treaty with America. But tbi letter was important in another point of view : the Noble Lord adverted to .the period of time which would necessarily transpire before the ratifications of the Treaty could be excl aitged ; observing, dolt hostilities would be continued in the mean -Jinn!, anti that it would .probably be late in ti , e enstiing year be fore our fleets and armies could he withth awn from. America. His Lordship added, that on the e grounds it might be . deenied necessary to continua the Property Tax until April, 18.16.,