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Mr. HORNE stated that there was. a long motion respecting a colliery, involving many intricate points. As he understood that his Learned Friend (Mr. Heald) would be engaged else where, it would be, perhaps, most convenient to postpone the motion until seal-day. Mr. lIEALD (who just then entered Court) observed that his Learned Friend was mistaken, as he (Mr. Heald) would not be elsewhere engaged, and was quite prepared to go on with the motion. The fact was, that his Learned Friend, Mr. Horne, was elsewhere engaged, and was desirous to throw all the odium of absence upon him. Mr. HORNE professed that he meant to say nothing which might call forth such observations from his Learned Friend.— To the imputation he would disdain to give any answer. The LORD CHANCELLOR begged that good temper might be preserved on both sides. He knew the wish of Leaned Gentlemen was to accommodate each other, and that was also his strong desire. Mr. HEALD was as averse as his Lordship could be to such observations, but he confessed he felt rather sore when such imputations were cast out, that he (Mr. Heald) would not be ready to proceed with a motion, Arlieu, in fact, it was Mz. Horne who required postponement of the motion, because he himself would be absent. Mr. HORNE SOO/1 atter left the Court, and Mr. HEALD ceeded with a motion, of which due notice hadbeen given, and no Counsel appeared on the other side. There were, in fact, not more than three or four Counsel then present. , The LORD CHANCELLOR said that lie had devoted these three days to hearing motions, because he understood that there were a great number of motions in arrear. Of his intention so to devote his time, due notice had been given to all parties, and he thought it rather hard that Counsel were not now prepared. The first day of this Sitting he was compelled to rise before one o'clock, yesterday at three, and on this day also there appeared to be a similar difficulty. With respect to the motion just made by Mr. Heald, if Counsel did not ap pear on.the other side, he must search for cases himself, and endeavour to meet the case in the best way he could. - KILSHAW v. CROWTHER.—On this motion, which related to costs claimed upon an attachment irregularly issued, and to compensate for false imprisonment under that attachtnent, his Lordship gave judgment. lie thought the costs ought to be allowed, and that there ought to be a direction to the Master to ascertain what injury had been sustained, and what compensa ticin ought to be given. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, JAN. 13. DE 71EAUVOIR V. RHODE. The arguments of Counsel in this cause, which have occu pied the last three days, were concluded at the hour of the Court's' rising. The VICE-CHANCELLOR asked to have the proceedings and the evidence handed to him, and promised to give judgment as soon as he should have been able to consider the contents of this volumnious body of papers. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JAN. 13. DOBELL v. STEVENS. This was an action brought by the plaintiff,. Who keeps the Ship Inn, Ivy-lane, Newgate-street, to recover a compensation in damages for a alse and fraudulent representation made to him by the defendant, of the extent of business carried on in it, in consequence of which he had been induced to enter into a contract with the defendant to purchase front him his stock in trade and the lease of the Ship Inn, in which the defendant then carried on the business of an innkeeper. The facts of this case, which occupied the Court for lour hours, lay in a very narrow compass. It appeared, that the plaintiff; who had acquired a small sum of money as a plumber and glazier, was recommended to set up a public-house, in the hopes of increas ing it. Having learnt that the Ship Inn was to be disposed of, he applied for the terms to 111 r. Cotterell, as auctioneer in the Borough, who was authorised to sell it. Mr. Cotterell , spewed him a memorandum, which he had taken by the de fendant's direction,' in which it was stated ." that he had ten years' lease of the preinises, at a rent of 122/. per annum—that he asked for it a premium of 550/.--that the goods and fixtures would come to about 4001. More—that the stock in trade must be taken at an appraisernent—that his tap was let at a rent of 821.. per annum, and two other rooms in his house at 271. 125., and that the busineis which he was• doing amounted alto gether to 240/. per month." Being satisfied by. this informa tion, the plaintiff was introduced by Mr. Cotterell to the de fendant, .who repeated in 111 r. Cotterell's . presence what Mr. Cotterell had before told the plalritiff, with this further explana tion—thatfiis trade in Pgrter was seven butts, end his trade in spirits more than 160/. per month. A contract was then made between the plaintiffand the defendant ; whereby the former agreed to purchase the lease of 'the Ship Inn of the latter for 400/-, and paid down 504 as a deposit upon it. On the sth of February, 1824, the contract was completed by the plaintiff 's paying to the defendant 1,1321.55. 5d., whit included the re maining 410/. for the lease, and also the price of the stock in trade and the fixtures. The plaintiff was then "put into posses sion of the premises, and shortly afterwards discovered that the business of the house, notwithstanding all his diligence, fell short of the account which lead been given of it to him.— Ile was in consequence induced to make some inquiries as to the extent of the trade which the defendant had carried . on in it; and from those inquiries made of the brewers and the excise -officers, he discovered that the defendant's trade in porter was not more than five butts and a half, and his trade in spirits less than 90/. per month. He likewise disco vered that the tap was let for 67/. 125., and not for 821. a-year, and the two rooms for 251., and not for 27/. 12 s. a-year. Ile also discovered that the business had been decreasing for some time before he took the house; and in consequence determin ed to apply to the defendant for some compensation for the injury which he had sustained in consequence of these mis representations. These Facts were fully substantiated in the course of the trial; but it was extracted from the witnesses on the part of the plaintiff; that on the sale of public-houses, when an account was given of the extent of the trade carried on in them, it was usual, and at any rate competent for the buyer to demand a sight of the pass-books giVen by the brewers and distillers to the publican, to ascertain its correctness. A witness, who was clerk to 111 r. Cotterell at the-time the, contract was completed, but who is at present broker to the defendant, had, " a strong idea, but a faint recollection," that th e b rewers ' pass-book had been absolutely shown to the plaintiff; but re fused to swear positively to the fact. It was likewise sworn by the same witness, _that in April the plaintiff had told him th at by going into: Newgate-market, and treating the people well, he had no doubt but that lie should make the business answer well, and that it was not till the month of October, or a short time previously, that he heard from the plaintiff any complaint of the bargain into which he had entered. At that time the plaintiff's wife said to him, in the witnesses presence, " Dobell, you had better hold your foolish tongue—your busi. ness would do very well, if you would but attend to it." An attempt was made by the defendant's counsel to show that the business of the Ship Inn had fallen off since the plaintiff had taken it, in consequence of his having changed his brewer, wine -merchant, and distiller, of his had management, and of his not having kept his house so quiet as it had been kept by his predecessor. Under these circumstances, Mr. SCARLETT contended that the misrepresentations of the defendant to the plaintiff had been so false and fraudulent as to entitle him to recover, if not the whole price which he had paid to him for the premises, at least a very considerable portion of it. It was not merely the difference between the real and pre tended receipts of the defendant, while in possession of the Ship Len, that the plaintiff had a right to recover; but the whole amount of injury which he had sustained by taking a house, which he had found to be a losing, when it was represented to him as a winning, concern. Mr. Justice LITT LEDALE, on the misrepresentation of the rent of the tap and two rooms being proved, observed to Mr. Scarlett that he thought this action could not lie for a false af firmation with regard to rent, because it was competent for the party to make inquiry of the tenant as to its correctness ; and if he did not make such inquiry, it was his own fault by which he suffered. He believed that this was even admitted to be law in " Paisley v. Freeman" — a case of which he doubted the general correctness, though it had now been so long established, that it perhaps could not at present bedisputed. Mr. ScARLETT was of a different opinion from his Lord ship, because, though the purchaser ,might apply to the tenant for the information, the tenant was not bound to affbrd it. Mr. GURNEY, for the defendant, contended that his client, even supposing that his representations were false, which he • denied, was not liable, since the plaintiff had been deficient in. proper caution. There were in the possession of every publican documents which showed to a fraction the extent of his trade: and a broker selling a public-house, and a publican coining in, might ascertain, by referring to them, whether the representations made about - the - trade. of it were correct or not. - The plaintiff might have made these references; and if he had pot, it was by his own fault alone that he had suffered: He contended, however, that no false representation had been - Made. Indeed, no complaint had been,made of any till some months after. the: contract had been made, and then net until the plaintiff's cus tomers had discovered the change which had been made in the brewer, the distiller, and the wine -merchant, who had formerly supplied the house. The sale of the spirits, too, hat been cal culated on the price by the gallon, whereas they were sold to the market-people in much smaller quantities, which . gave to the seller a much greater profit. There was, therefore, no proof that his trade in spirits had not produced the suns which he had, stated—a circumstance which, he trusted, they would keep in mind, as also the singular fact, that - nobody had been called by' the plaintiff to shew that the. house was not worth the suns be had given for it. He therefore contended that their verdict ought to be for his client. . Mr. Justice LIT TLEDALE, in summing up the evidence to the Jury, told them that there were three iSoints for their consi. deration—first, was there any such iepreslaitation as the plain tiff charge(F? and, -secondly, if mere . was it true or false ? If it was true, there was an_ entl ee to the case.; if it was false; then - came the thirkkeet- - Z- - a-AS - the defendant' liable for it ? and if he wase_what .w e ia- the amount of damages to which the plaintiff was entitled ? There could be little doubt that the representations had been made : and that, as far as the rent was concerned, it was untrue. So, too, that the trade in porter was not 7 butts : but only 5 2-Laths butts per month. With regard to spirits, witnesses had said that it was less than 901. per men th,when it had been represented at 1601. per month. They would, however, recollect that this was estimated at the distiller's, and not at the publican's prices. 11r. SCAR LETT intimated that there must be some mistake as to this point on his Lordship's notes, and in consequence A witness was recalled, who said that he was a publican, and that he had . estimated the price of the spirits at the publi can's prices. - Mr. Justice I, yr T LEDA!, E having set this matter right with the Jury, proceeded to tell them that he had two or three:oh servations to address to them upon the point, whether the de fendant was liable, supposing the represerftations to he; false. This was not an action upon a warranty, but upon a contract founded on false representation. If a man bought goods upon a warranty, the .seller was bound by it, and the buyer had no occasion to make any inquiry; but when a man bought them - on contract, he was bound to use reasonable diligence in in-. forming himself of the correctness of the inducements which the seller held put to him to enter into it. If the means of in formation were obvious, and he neglected to use them, it was a point for theeViiry to consider whether the party had not brought that loss .fipon .himself by his own negligence, and whether he had not, for some reason or other, chosen to be de ceived. Now, as to the rent, it was quite clear that it was in the power of the buyer to apply to the tenants for intOrmation. . The tenants, it was true, might refuse to answer; but then the buyer, by applying to them, had done all that he could to learn the truth of the seller's assertions. The means of ascertaining the correct 'lessor the representations respecting the beer and spirit rate were perhaps not quite so easy. Still there were , pass-books .which might have been 'examined ; the plaintiff, however, had not examined them, but had rested implicitly on the story told hint by the defendaht. As - : the defendant had told that story, he must now stand by, the consequences of it, mince, it' it were false,- it was false within his own knowledge. After pointing out to the Jury the principles.on which they ought to estimate the da mages, supposing their verdict to be for the. plaintiff, he. told them that it appeared to him that, by the law as it was nowset tled, a tight of action existed for the representation respecting the extent of the beer and spirit trade, but not for that respect ing the rent. . He would, however, thank them to state the amount of damages they would give for the representation re specting the tratle,„.in order to save expence to the parties, in' case his opinion ,should. be ill-foUnded in point of law. With these observationS' left the case to their considennion. . The Jury retired at half-past one, and returned their verdict at half.past ten o'clack at night, for the plaintiil:—Darnages, 170/., cests,4os... The Oat - pages were thus apportioned—Al ,to trade, 150/.; as to rent, 20i. • .------.-- - JOINT STOc.',K COMPANIES IN 1720. The following ,k a list of some of the Joint Stock t;omnanif;;; projected - at. the time of tin SGuth litilible,t4k_en from. a -newspaper ..of - the day : - . • - - • -(-Prow' Tirecleig PeteNf /if J n 2. 1720,1 For building or buyin4-4 ships to I 4 - 6r freight at Grairai4y's.; - Exchan_gc-alley, • •,` For the raising the growth 'array, silk; t,000,000/.:. For lending, upon . the thlioSit of stock, tallies, ke. at .Robins, Exchange-alley, 1,200,000/. - . . For buying and selling of estates, Stocks, - govcrinnOnt securities, and to lend IntnOr, .3',000,0001. For carrying on the nudertaking . business for furzlishing fune rals, 1,200,0001. i.t the Fltece _ . . For buying lead mines andworking_thern, „ Ship "Tavern. 4,000,000/. for purchasing and improving commons and waste lands, Ilanorer Coffee-house. _ _ _ A subscription for effectually settling the Islands of. Blanco and SaltortugasY • ":.•' For supplying the London market with cattle, Garraway s. , . For strieltingleltd:.ore in Derbyshire, Swan anditannuer. 2,000,000/. - for •importing walnut-tree fro& Virginia, Oar, raway's. For purchasing, tin and lead mines in Cornwall and Derby shire, Half-1110m Tavern. 2,00,000/. for an engi►ie to supply Deal with fresh water, &c. Black Swan. For making Joppa and Castile. soap, Castle Tavern. 4,000.0001. for exporting woollen stuffs and iMporOrig copper, brass, and iron, and carrying on a general foundry, Virginia Coffee-house. This day, the Elth instant (Jan. 1720), at Sam's_Coffee-house, behind the Royal Exchange, at three in the afternoon, a ;book will be opened for entering into a joint-copartnership for carrying on a thing that will turn to the advantage of the con cerned. For a settlement in the Island of St. Croix, Cross Keys. 2,000 shares for discounting pensions, &c., Globe Tavern. 4,0001. for improving all kinds of malt liquors, Ship Tavern. A Society for landing and entering . goods at the Custom house, on commissions, Robins.-2;1100,0001. for a Friendly Society for purchasing merchandise, and lending money, King's Arms. 2,000,000/. for purchasing and improving fens in Lincoln shire, Sam's. - 4,000,000 L for improving Lands in Great Britain, Pope's Head. The Gold and Silver Society. For extracting Silver from Lead, Vine Tavern. For Trading to Barbary and Africa, Lloyd's. _Making Iron with Pit-coal. Insurance Office for Horses Dying Natural Deaths, stolen, or disabled, Crown Tavern, Smithfield. A rival to the above for 2,000.0001. at Robins's. For furnishing London with Hay and Straw. Great St. James's Tavern. 100,0001. fora Perpetual Motion by means of a wheel mov ing by force, of its own weight, Ship Tavern. A copartnership for insuring and increasing children's for tunes Fountain Tavern. 400,0(101. for manufacturing irorr and steel, Black Swan Tavern. 200,000!. to be lent upon pledges, Blue Coat Coffee-house. 2,000,0001. for erecting salt-pans in lloly Island, John's Coffee.house. FlRE. — YestPrday evening, between the hours of six and seven o'clock, a fire broke out at a cotton wadding manufactory in Charles-street, Mackfriars-road, which might have been attended with serious consequences, but for the ac tivity of the workmen employed on the premises. Fortunately it was got under without any furthe r mischief than the destruc tion of a quantity of the materials employed in the manufac tory. UNCERTATNTY OP WORLDL Y HOPES AND WI sius.—A young man of time name of Weaver, who died on the preceding Thursday, was in- - terred in the parish church-yard On Tuesday, the very day - which had been fixed upon for his wed ding !—(Cheltenham Paper.) FOR I'HE SUN. THE DRAnA.—(LETTER VII.) Enuroa,—lt was at the era of the Re storation (with!: , ut being particular to a year) that the English langutige ceased to be dramatic. It is truly and strictly so, - and I entreat the reader to attend to the fact, as a beacon, or land mark, which may lead us to the right . understand-. ing of some .apparent discrepancies in the works • of cotemporary writers. . . The proof of the assertion (restricted tb tragedy) is to be found in the history of our Drama. •The school of the " dramatic Proper," or Sha ksperiatt age, affords us the testimony of language.—dra 7 tnaticsuited to action, - and to the developement of character. DRYDEN,as we-have arready seen, was' the first who, with the countenance of the Court, copied after other models, and succeeded .but too well in banishing SUAKSPEARE from the .stage as well as the closet. The tragedies er• YOUNG. ROWE, ADDISON, PHILLIPS, and others, were also bottomed more on the French school, ,than after -the fashion of the poets of the Eliza bethan age. Indeed, after the forced, hut suc cessful, run of Cato, the disease assumed a ,chronic: form : the constitutional symptoms be came fixed and inveterate, defying—down to, the present day—the utmost art and skill, of the cri tic to alleviate or cure.— Let the reader who doubts the truth of the assertion—that the Eng lish language has long ceased to be dramatic— examine the history of the British Theatre from the day of 'DIZYDEN to his own, anti if he finds one tragedy, or the one half of it (thwAriis hardly an exception), where the true language of Drama exists, and is the medium through which the dramatis persona' communicate (heir 'sentiments and speak to each other, I am con tent to bear the stigma of stupidity, or incur the charge of wilful misrepresentation. When SHAKSPEARE was laid on the shelf; when.l Theatres filled, and audiences applauded such. Plays as Cato, IJusiris, Tamerlane, Phaedra and the Distrest Mother, and others of a similar description, the writers of that time found it easier to adopt the declamatory poetic style of French - Tragedy, with an humble and .distant attempt at the preservation of the unities, than boldly, like their predecessors, to sketch from Nature-, 'with constant and fixed attention to the delineation and preservation of character, general, as well as indiVidual, the basis and foundation of all true and legitimate• dramatic diction. Hence, Was entailed on succeeding Dramatists, —(rich and precious legacy !)—the solemn mea -sured step of the heroic line ; the descriptive imagery —the . indiscriminate use—the dull mo notonous flow of epic numbers, to the exclusion of the characteristic, ever-varying, and energetic eXpression. , --fOunded on the just conception, and developement of character, of the earlier writers. We have only,- :in truth, .to open our SI! IK SPEA It ES. and read,.to feel assured, that Dramatic language is. now one of the lost .acts of a forgone age, of which' the: specimens—objects equally of our adiniratign and enyy, alone remain to us;, or attempt to elucidate the truth of'these - ,rentarkS by apposite quotation, would . be,f ; :kin:a . fri:liii ; Sir, to intrude too far on the limits of periodical columns;—one - or two, there fore, shill' 'suffice.—.llow spirited, flowing, and suited. to action, is the language of the conspira tors in " Julius Casar." .The Senate is convoked, and . the,l - 1 - etilioo of Cimber (the signal of the as sault), is to be preferred ; Dec.—Where is Metellus, Cimber ? Let him go, And presently prefer his suit to Ctesar. Bra.—He is addressed • press near, and second him. Cint.—Casca, you are t he first that rears your hand. ems.—Are'we all ready ! what is now amiss? That Ctesar, and his senate, must redress? met.-=Most high, roost mighty, and most puissant Cmsar, Metellus timber throws before thy seat An humble heart (Kneeling) Cces mustprevent thee, Cimber, &c. U udismaYed by this first refusal, the conspira tors press close to their victim. Met —.ls there no voice more worthy than my owip, To sound more sweetly in great Cmsar's ear, For the repealing of my banished brother? Bru.—l kiss thy. hand, but not in flattery, Canal. : Desiring thee, that Publius Cimber may • Have an immediate freedom of repeal. C'its.—M 7 lutt,' Brutus ! Pardon, Oscar, Caesar, pardon ; As low as to thy foot cloth Cassius fall, To hes enfranchisement for Publius Umber. CLe - sar, still 'resolute in refusal, yields not to the prayers of the petitioners, but answers them, ending-- That nvas constant Cimber should be banish'd, And constant do remain to keep him so. His fate is now at hand— , -the conspirators, on every side, surround him. Gear. • Ctrs Hence! Wilt thou lift up Olympus ? Dec.—Great CEesar.— Cc's. Doth not Brutus boothless kneel ? C'd.cca.-,-Speak, hand, for me.— ( C'asar is stabbed and the:. The Senators and people retire in cottfitsion. The picture that follow's is animated, and Sketched with the hand of the master. Cin.—Liberty ! Freedom ! Tyrany is dead.— Run hence, proclaim, cry it about the streets. cas.—Some to the common pulpits, and cry out, Liberty,' freedom, and enfranchisement 1 Brit.—People; and Senators ! be not affrighted ; Fly not ; stand still :—ambition's debt is paid. Casca.—Go to the pulpit, Brutus. Dec.-------And Cassius too. Brzi.-Where's Publius ? C'b - /.-1 - lere, quite confounded with this meeting, Ilfct.—Stand fast together, lest some friend of ersar's Should chance.----- Bru.—Talk not of standing :7--Publius good cheer : There is no harm intended to your person, Nor to no Roman else : so tell them, Publius. Ca3.—And leave us, Publius; lest that the people, Rushing on us, should do your age some mischief. Brn.—D6 so; and let no man abide this deed, But we the doers. Re-enter Trebonius. Car.—Where's Antony Tre.--Fled to his house amaz'd.—(Julius Ccrsar, Act 3, Scene 1.) diniony, assured of his personal safety through a es appears amongst th e cons pi ra t ors . Il m isg s r e i te grief Calar's death, bursting, uncon scipusly' as. it were, from lain, in the midst of hi s temporising conduct with the assassins, is finely ponrtrayed 0 mighty •Ctesar dost thou lie so low ? Are .all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils, • shrunk .to this little measure ? , ---Fare.thee well.-- I knolt not, gentlemen, whet you intend, Who else Must be let blood— ' 'The character of Brutus, too, is admirably kept - and:_preserved tbrOughout. SHAKSPEAIt appe'ars to have had Aniony's I)icfure of him cow staittry before his eyes : This was the noblest Roman of them all t • the conspirators stAVeonly he, . Did that they did, in,envy ot . great Ciesar ; He, onlk, in a general honest thought, • And.conanon good to'all, made one Of;thern. His life was gentle; and!the elements . . So mixed in him,,that Nature might stand up, And say' to all . the world, This was a man'! . • From this exampl e of the " dramatic proper, Arturtt with 'feelings of regret and hcmiliation to " the Rhetoric or descending' school" Wd open a miscellaneous volume, and quote at ran ! . dorn. The first that . meets our eyes is Theo dosius, or, The Force of Love;" by' N, LEE. It has been said of this Author, " that he was born to write for the ladies," and " that no poet ever described the passion of rove more gracefully." That description of grace, however, is not the ladder by which the Dramatist can ascend to the Temple of Fame, the works of more authors than, LEE can sufficiently demonstrate. There is beauty and harmony in the following lines, but they are tarnished with the faults of that school to which LEE unfortunately 7 belonged. Varanes.—"Tis strange, 0 Athenais,Wond'rousall ! Wond'rous the shrines, and wonderful the altars ! The martys, though but drawn in pointed flames, Amaze me with the image of their sufrrings Saints canoniz'd, that dared with Roman tyrants; Hermits that liv'd in caves, and fed with angels ; By Orosmadcs, it is wond'rous all ! That bloody cross, in yonder azure sky, Above the head of kneeling Constantine, Inscrib'd abole with golden characters, Thou shalt o'ercome in this: If it be true, I say again, by Heav'n, 'tis wond'rous strange. The style of Li is cotemporaries cud SuCCES 2' sors shares, snore or less, of the same blemishes ; and, the rebuke of the Critic, is equally appli cable to the Dramatists of that, as well as to those of the preseut day :—" they employ smodk of phrase good in itself and suitable to excellent purposes, where they ought to employ another more appropriate to the stage." That " TOM °TWAT," amongst the rest, was at times, " a born devil at heroics," the lamen tation of Monimia (to her attendant), at the sup posed desertion of Castallo, is one testimony, amongst .many :—Custalio departs, and the hitr,4 ricane commences— Mon.—Help me to hold this yet lov'd cruel man. Oh, my heart breaks—l'm dying, oh !—Stand off: . I'll not indulge this woman's weakness; still Chaf'd and fomented let my heart swell on, 'Till with its injuries it burst; and shake' With the dire blow this prison to the earth. Maid.—What sad mistake hays been Ihe cause of this Mon.—Cast:di° ! Oh ! how often has he swore. Nature should change, -the sun and stars grow dark, Ere he would falsify his vows to me ! Make haste, confusion, then ; sun, lose thy light, -And stars drop dead with sorrow to the earth ; For my Castalio's false ! Maid.—Unhappy day ! ,as the Wind the water, or the weather ; Cruel as tygers o'er their trembling prey : fcelhim in my breast, he tears my heart, And at each sigh he drinks the gushing blood; Must I be-long in pain." ( Orphan. Act 4. Scene 1.1 Unhappy day ! indeed, when the" rich mind"of OTWAY could thus be led aside after strange • gods, and bow at the altars of ' It would far exceed the limits I have pre.: scribed to myself, to continue the task of pro. gressive selection and quotation, from the Works of our late Dramatists. Nor is •it necessary. One error, one common fault (differing perhaps a shade- in kind and degree) - pervades the whole ;—natnely, the substitution of heroic or common poetry to the entire dramatis personce-- - with the consequent extinction•of all characterial distinction—for the language of Drama. On this topic, our critic on the right is clear, distinct, and convincing. " This, this is the distinction," says he, addressing our Dramatists on the suh ject of ianeuage, 44 which 1 would force upon ".your minds ; this is the truth which .1 would " burn into your memories ; this is the " point to which I have repeatedly in the course .of these Letters endeavoured to drag your at " tention ; being convinced, that until you per " ceive, acknowledge, and avoid this confusion " of languages,, this .wrong-headed. and prepos -"- terous substitution of poetry for dramatic "• phraseology, you will never produce .an 64 effective legitimate Tragedy. In compari.: 44 son. of this," continues, this " Dennis of the " day," " meagreness of plot, or insignificancP " of fable, is of small account in the Drama. 44 There may be little interest of story, yet the " Play may not act well by the mere force of " the language ; but if the phrase of the stage " be supplanted by the mellifluous monotony. pf " ultra-poesy, I would as soon hear it read in a " dressing-gown and slippers, as recited in a toga "or buskins."* The cure, however, for this radical evil, (by placing on the shoulders of living Dramatists too heavy a responsibility,) he has not been so for tunate in discovering : It lies (if it can be found) 64 full fathom five" deeper, than he dreams of digging for. At this point, Sir, the subject be comes one of overwhelming—almost hopeless difficulty.—" And those who know it best, de plore it most." In my nest, I shall compare, and contrast the opinions of some modern writers on this import ant branch of our Drama. PROTEUS. * Fourth Letter to the " Dramatists &the day." • Died at Worle (after having bee n:confined to his bed for the, short s'page of t hre e days only.)Aslomr.eJrsoeEtLsiii3iries,n4pe,dolfot3h.e-.parish 'of Banw 11' . •