The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1821-09-06 00:00:00

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last night. A young y, subsotipmaa has not
,yet trampired, sada her first appeases. is &M-
-are. She is er a small Bore, end her coente.
DOOM comprises no features which are of • sulk-
ing character. Her appearance is agreeable,
but did nothing of itself towards the success
which crowned bee performance. Her voice was
enfeebled, seemingly Irma the emotion which
the resonance of a lull and applauding house
is well calculated to produce in those who
are (4s she is) new to the stage. He first scene
I.lMeisred the entire and respectful suffrages of the
audience. Her style is allied to tenderness, and
she is most seeceesfel in the milder feminine pss-
sions ; not that she wanted spirit or intelligence
in the more arduous junctures, as in the two
scenes where she urges Juliet to the confes-
sion of the conspiracy, where she displayed
considerable fire and sensibility. The (suer
scenes had rather too much of the debility of im-
passioned grief mixed with them, and the in-
fluence of a fond wife's embraces was somewhat
too frequently and confidently put in experiment
on the temper of her husband. With a alight ab-
breviation in these particulars, the performance will
take rank with that of any female tragedian at
present on the stage. Her mad scene exhibited emo-
tions of deep interest. She is rumoured to have
been even more excellent and promising at rehearsal
than in her public performance. Therefore, though
she has already woo golden opinions of the audience,
it would be great injustice to her if we did not sti-
pulate in our present remarks for a larger credit
with the reader on her behalf than this description
of her would seem to claim. The uproar of ap-
plause which succeeded the death scene was inde-
scribably loud and overwhelming, insomuch that
the Managers, deferring to the declared sense of the
house, have put off the entertainments prepared for
to-night, and the tragedy was given out for repeti-
tion with loud will universal accordance. Mr. Cott-
WAY sustained the part of Jollier in • manner
which will serve to maintain his high reputation.
His acknowledgments of treachery to Pierre on
the various occasions, were the most distinguished
and original parts of his performance, being given
with the voluntary and Penitent humiliation of •
once noble though fallen nature. Mr. TERRY was
original for the evening, as he performed Pierre,
we believe, for the first lime before a London au-
dience. Since his celebrated Veniidius, in An-
tony and Cleopatra, he has not been seen to
so much advantage. He exhibited the quaint and
daring spirit of that alluring conspirator with pe-
culiar force and expression. The play was well
sustained throughout, as the anxious interest
of a very crowded house, relieved by incessant
peals of applause, plainly testified. Some cu-
rious commentaries occurred on the text in the
early part of Pierre's dialogue. The galleries,
hearing Pierre talk of a Senate which cheated "the
deluded people with a thew of liberty they .e'er
mast taste of," applauded very loudly. Again,
when he talks of the same Senate driving them
-" Like wrecks down the rough tide of power,
" While no hold's left to save es front destruction;"
and on several similar occasions they repeated their
plaudits—probably in their heedlessness forgetting
that the description had nothing to do in word or
deed with the affair. of their own

.So far there was nothing more in it than has
been frequer.tly witnessed on the representation
of this
_play—when the popular zeal has been
Auietly suffered to expend its •force in • little
-Ur this harmless sort of spite. But a few booby
coxcombs thought good to set up an opposition to
this, and enter into a controverref noise and uproar
with the galleries upon the disputed passages.
Some hisses were heard which •had the of of
combining almost all the house :iii one sedulous and
triumphant concord of applauses. There must be
some motive fur such conduct as that which we
have described. That which is the most easily
attributable is the supposition that • the hissers
thought that they were e►incing their loyalty by de-
fending the State from asperon. But of what
a remarkable species is their allegiance, when they
can from passion and ignorance suffer themselves
to be drawn into an inference that they consider the
description of that vile and (Sellout; system of mis-
rule, nick-named the Republic of Venice. to be
in any way applicable to the Government of these
kingdoms! This is another, though trifling proof,
how much danger the Ad 'striation of the State
has to contend with in the vile eagerness of self-
appointed supporters.

SOUTHAMPTON. SEPT. 3.—The Duke of SUS-
Sex Irft us on Saturday last, ow a visit to Mr.
DENT, at Christ Church. Hts • Royal HighneFs
was to return to town on the following day, and
was expected to reach Kensington Palace on Tues-
day night.
His Grace the Duke of Muir-Tow has arrived
at THoMAs•s Hotel, Berkeley-square, from Paris.
The Marquis and Marchionesi of LANSDOWN
passed through Maidstone on ►Monday afteruoou,
on their way to the Continent.
Arrival at the Brunswick Honse Hotel
Lady Kensington, front France. J. Astor, Esq. has left
the above Hotel for Liverpool.

His Grace the Duke of W. ILLINOTON landed
at Dover on Sunday evening (WI instant). from the
Eeli pie packet, and went to the Ship War where he
slept. About noon yesterday (Monday, 3d instnat)
his Grace passed through thu city (Canterbury),
on his route to London. --(Kentish .Gazette.)

Lady COCHRAN 6, with her two fine children. has
fixed her retdetice w Liryanstone-street, Portman-
square.
Since the close of Covent Garden Theatre, seve-
ral alterations have taken place in the Prompter's
List, and not • few performers will be introduced
on the opening of the house, for:the first time, to
a London audience.

HAZARD'S SCHEME.—Not Two Blanks to' a
Prise--every Prize Sterling Money—Taint olTatarti
Tnouseino, and Thirty other ClOlaic •

The famous race horse, Gs:loops, the winner of
the Derby race, and the first favourite for the Don-
caster St. Leger, arrived in the neighbourhood of
Doncaster on Thursday, well. It is understood
that he will take one sweat only before the race,
which will take place on the 19th instant.