The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1804-10-16 00:00:00

KILKENNT, OCT. 9.

The Court of Comus has been established here
for a fortnight pact, and we aie all revelry and
rout, and jollity and joy. Our s have gone oil
with great telal. Rothe is ous• Rosclus. Richard
Power was taken iil a few days b, fore he
commenced. This WAS a main-branch lopped of';
but there were candhlates enough to fill his parts ;
and w,, have had Peers suing to play even the pans
of footmen. We have three pays a-week, and the
intermediate nights, concer and balls. Miss WA-
steia„Mesdames •-litchcock, Mq:ullough,
and Davidson, are our ,-n-..;see. T Cooke leads the
band with Atwood, tb' remainder of the Orchestra,
arc Gentlemen, Musical Amateurs. The play-house
is every night a hot-bath, crowded with beauty and
fashion. At least, a hundred coac:tes left town,
with eseir conep ny, for wart of lodgings and places
in the boxes ; Cu,' the pit :s at box price, and three
rows of the gallery are inclosed with the green.
boxes. Counsallor Lyster is an excellent Falstuf;
he played many scenes superior to Henderson,
ana ha. not his equal in Sir Anthony Absolute and
Colonel Oldbott Rothe's countenance strongly marks
the various passions as they rise; his anion and
recitation are critically correti ; but he want,
serength of voce for the higher tones —Hi, Hot-
"air was the worst of his archtv..r. lam not sot
prised at it—it being a charaßer all rant, boo-
bast, and ransense. Lord Nt.oirjoy play' f the
Primer if Wiles in the place of Richard Power,
ei..i supported the eharaaer very decenly—tor
Lon! ! His rn.rked attention to his s:ep-rnother is
a high trait in his charafter, and evinces an amiable
disposition andgma bean. The Countess of Clare
and Lay Asd.d came late to our play-lionse on Sa-
turday hight, and, n ith great difficulty, bad room
made for the.n, after standing during one aft in the
box-lobby. Tie stage.-drusses are mag,tiificent, and
eirttutau is aridly adhered to. We have not to com-
plain yf

" Caw', long wig, flowed gown. sad I onuor'd .71114."
R. Langrishe is a capital Sir Pei( r Tra-it and T IC
Oft j his son bas the Weeds a good AaOr about
hitn. .abd Humphrey Butler Ilse h.eu a ertat ac-
cession of s•rs. oath to the company in low comely.
Tighe's Moan u
Mrs. Bryan, wile of Mr. Bryan, of Jenkins-
tows, lately a Captain in the Guards, gives a ball
to-morrow night, and cards have b..en profusely
sent about for it. Jenkinstovrn house is old-fa-
shioned, and though it comains a great many room',
they are Mall, but, for this occasion. a framed
wooden house is ereeked, with a lesillroom. capable
of containing with ease above three hundred per-
son;; and a number of cooks and coefeetioners have
been for some time employed, preparing refresh-
es- ors ar.d slipper. There are great expedations
from it: curiosity is on the tip.tue ; the long old
avei.ce and road from Dinan bridge Ale to be illu-
rnm.r.,:d wi:h variegated lamps, and it is to out-do
all that a a.. 1 out-daings of this country.
I .rsl Dlsart, who Ise most promising young on.
beman, is prepariag to set of for Osforsi, where he
pope es to remain for three years. until he takes
out his degree. lam happy to find, that at a time
w:sen the reins (1 may say) are thrown loosely on
his neck, he has an eye to future accomplishments.
lir mill be seventeen next February.
There were :above eighty bills of indiftment for
assaults fnund at our County Sessions last week.
My political barometer augurs well. Mr. Lee,
Member t'or Waterford, is here, attending our
and concerts. Rumour says, that the Earl oEor:tbs.:id
will shortly be married in E,pgland, CO a hl•ss
Clerke, whose present fortune is 6,0001. a year, with
a reversion of 16,00C1. a year.

On Thursday weer, the Prot:Hemet, of Whitehaeer,
from Ittmber, in Ireland, having on board forty-
nice horned cattle, for Marypott, was stranded on
Robin Rig Bank, in the Solway Frith, where she
was he all ; and, next tide, wax drifted upon
the beach of &ekfoot. Twenty-one of the e.ittle,
which were standing updn the bodi.'s -4 the remai:l-
- with only their heads above wi;er, wcte O.
out alive, and of these four shed s,:on after they
%ere rescued. Fortunately, no human lives were
lost, as the men took to their beat, aud got s.ue .m
shore. Same night, a fishing Lou, belonging to
klaryport, with four amen on board, foundered off
Allonhy ; two of the met), Jou.: H•LLIDAV, and
11stoct. Douksir, were drowned t the other two
were most providentially saved by doatirs to lard
lq-Ja their oars.