The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-12-06 00:00:00

COBURG THEATRE.

The performances at the Coburg Theatre during the past
week, have been more than usually excellent and interest-
ing. The manager has not only displayed good taste in the
selection of his dramas, but he has hupport,d them ail c-
many by two important additions to his corps dramatigne.
Mthsrs. Rowbothain and H. Kemble, who ate quite as
well known, and as duly appreciated, on the Surrey side
of the water, as Misers. Young and Macready on the other,
now divide the attentien of the Coburg play-goers with the
favourites of the Mesirs. Cobham and lien-
gough. Xliss Watson remains in full power and popula-
rity as the Traeic Queen; Mr. Bradley confining to fence•
like a hero and look a villain; and Mr. Davidge is still
the unrivalled lord of all that is comic. We may, there-
fore, naturally t xp, et, that as 'he labourers are many, the
hare, st will lie abundant ; slid we have only to express a
hope, that, if the manager (lee:, it now necessary to te-uc
the usual quantity of puff, lie will ray a little more atten-
tion to " the hing's English." The performance of Sa-
turday evening commence el with a tragic drama (" of a
singular domeetie nature," says the playbill,) altered from
Lillo's tragedy of Arden. or Eoversioin.
In Ifollintheinrs Chronicles may be found a statement of
the facts of the occurrence on which this prt duction is
founded. In the reign of King Edward the Sixth, Arden,
a gentlemen of Favershatn, in Kent, was assassinated in
his own house, while engaged in a game of draughts with
a treacherous friend, who suborned two rufliates, named
Mark Will and Sluttehag, to the performance of the salt-
guinary deed. The tale is still told in Faversham, los-
e Mg none of its intense interest from the time elapsed since
it happened ; a part of Al-ilex's house is standing to this
day, and the curious may be shown the very apartment in
which the act was committed ; the Abbey wall still re-
mains, amid the low-arched entrance may be seen, with the
aspect of a black memorial of a tale of other times.
The principals, with the abettors in the crime, were
shortly after executed. The poet has made the wife
of Ardea a party to the murder, and from these ma-
terials an interesting drama has been wrought. Mr.
Cobhatn sustained the part of Arden with censiderable
ability ; and he was well supported by Messrs. Bengough
and Rowbotham, who represented Afo.shy and Green, the
other gentlemen of Faversham. Miss IVatson was the
heroine of the piece, Alicia, the guilty wife of Arden, and
her acting in the part was excellent. Mr. 11. ramble was
one of the two ruffians, and Mr. Bradley was the oilier ;
the former dots not appear to have lost any of his popu-
larity in the transplanting from the Surrey to the Coburg.
The tragic drama was followed by a" laughable hurletta,"
callt d The 3fotrul and the Cobh r, or Sailors in the Air, and
the performance was cmitl.ided by a grand romantic melo-
drama, denominated The Rork if Arpennnz, or The Dumb
Brother. The three pieces are to he repeated during the
ensuing week, and we have no doubt they will again gave
the satisfaction they certa'nly have given.

Sir Charles Bacot has k!t his house in Cumberland-
street, to proceed on his embassy to the King of the Ne-
thr►lands.

Mr. Stratford Canning was engaged nearly the whole
of Saturday with Mr. Se:retary Canning, at the Forti!m
Office, and took leave of tit.. Rigid Honourable Serret,ry,
previous to the departure of his Excellency on his embassy
to the Emperor of all the Itrssias, at St. Petersburgh.
lieverday his Excellency left Orillon's Hotel to proc..ed on
his journey.
On Saturday Mr. Krouse, the King's Messi.nger, lett
town for the Netlorlatals.

Yesterday the Lord Chancellor had an audience of the
King.
It is rumoured that borouzh of Lewes will be con-
tested at the next Genoa' Election. Mr. T. R. K•lop,
and Mr. A. Donovan have been named as the Cantlidat..
in opposition to the pr,,eitt Members.—On Tuesday even-
ing tickets, each entitling the holder to halt-a-gallon of
porter, were distributed among the electioneering trim nds
of the Members of the Ir.rou ,h of L ; which most
liberal allowance was drank pardy at the White Hut, and
partly at the Star.—Ces,,r Paprr.
e 1101) hay • r•eeived the following letter from
Messrs. t;retn, Ward, ail • I (

St tt.—lit limner to the mitam:l which your Correspondent has
prornsed to ms, relative to Mr Queen's Plste—we have to reply,
that on the tkee,,e to her 114; lot, the order was countermanded.
The model, which was to ti.tv helm cast into ',jiver, was at this
time oitly in pr-pAratton, a d w:i:ch being completed by a subse-
quent order of the cklivend to them, end honour-
ably paid for. rm. 61,11 oor pat of the tranaaction.—We are,
Sir, your 1110.4
Liidgate-hill, D. 3. GREEN, WAan, and Co.

When Hopkins. the Drury-lane prompter, once re-
commended a man to lie cit;tatznd as mechaniAt, in preparing
the scenery of a new pantomime, Garrick wrote him the
following Rote, explanatory of his reasons for declining to
employ hint :
" Southampton-street, Thursday Morning.
" I tell you, Ilophit.s. the man will never answer the purpose of
the Victim. In lie first place, he cannot make a moon. I
wouldn't give hint threepence adorn for such moons as he showed
me this thy. Ili, suns arc, it possible, still worse besides I gave
him particular directions nhoht the clouds, and such clouds writ
never wen since the Hood. I desired the carpenter to knock the
ruinttnr to pieces ; it is execrable. Ills slurs were the only things
that write tolerable. Ile may be a very honest man, for aught I
know, hut until he can make a good sat, floor, and raishro, he is
wholly unfit for ail 'metal purposes. " L. GAIlltILk."
The columns of our papt.r serve every week to convey an
idea of the very CKtcll,ive transference of property, which
is taking place in this county, particularly in the West
Riding. And such is the spirit of cnter:trise in Leeds,
that as much land has been recently sold tOr building pur-
poses, in the immediate neighbourhood, as would firm
another town nearly as large as that we at pre iii inhabit.
Last Satuitlav, .SO,OOO yards of building ground, the
proptrty of ,loin Wilson, Esq. on the south bank of
the Aire, war the Buckram-house, was bought by Mr.
JoFeph t;reen. tro the morning of the rune day, 2n,otin
yards of land, situate between Camp-road and Sheepsear-
lime, were sold at a priel! which it is said rtaliz.il to the
tiwtwr. on a pmell7,Se made only a few years ago, ti.yoof.
And in the (muse of the present week; '20.000 yards of
hoililing wound, on the Elmwood Estate, and 30.000 yards
of building ground„ in Park-lane, have been offered fur
sale by auction, but neither of them sohl. A small allot-
ment. of laud was also offerca in Alnion-street, for which
2/. a-yard was bid, but it was bought in by direction of the
owner, for Su per cent. above that sum. Within these few
days, an estate, consisting of not more than non yards, at
the west side of Albion-stre:l, he, been surd, with the
buildings upon it, for OW/. beiti about Wt. the square
yard:—L, eds
. . .

• The Leeds .stereurye says, " Mr. Co!,!tett, it secir.s, is not
able to emnprelti nil how the Dula! of !)eronshire !Monti!
happtn to dispose of his ii.tate I,t Wetherby (which in-
cluded a great deal of cottage Frothily), ter any other
reason than slier.: debt. We will t edcavoilr, if Le will not
alinse 115, to make this matter intel;iglb!e to 11.1 n : Seprwe
a tieblenniii or gentleman has an estate at 'Mirky. or any
other !dace, wliklt yields him by way of r, lit ;
and suppose that, from the capital in the t;istrie;
to which it adjoins, and from an existing emulation to
obtain freehoid litsessions Ohre, he can dispete itf OM;
estate Mr a stun, which, if re.,Mil in the puhlie funds, even
with the three per its, a: 96, or hi landed Froperty
senile other pars of the country. will I reduce hint
a-vear at least, still it be very extraordinary if lie should
cell the estate in ime-tion, and inve.t the money in Fro-
thily or svetiri!iLs i,•!,liotr, all actual i,lerca.e of ilftY
per cent Nutt- this :las been precisely the elltiet of the
IVetherby sale, after the auction duty (which. by Ilto way.
is t.a;il by the purellarrr) and all other I.N pen.v: are 'llia.-
. •. .

;rho ei.tv t 'oll..uatiee and its tiobie Siiai>u r 1,,,0
in the ino:t iunnirtot ilatiror freto a il.readttii tire that
!no's,: nut en the I th Wt. at loco in the morning, in ilhe
he Doke at Snitif. :11:11
wl,deii is sitires,.el to !lase Leentat:-..1 by ili This
:art it edifice., in Wide!' there was a gri. at i;ttattny of cern
I.Ut tuns of wino, as W.ll fe; 'woof the
of Enz't.rr, was lio-oit to the ;.;routel. oath, i1r..1
saved by ,rcat exertiolis, but Lot v.-nitwit the t!caruc'iun
of two chopols, and dattia:7,.. to the atneunt of •eo.tleo

On IVciltiesday last, Swab trill, of I,Pods. on her
way to the lEorLhouse, full down in Kirk:;ate is a y.tate of
insensibility, and was conveyed by a nombur of humane
perms to the ltegint Inn. whore die alit cst
tKpirctl. The littsband of the our di.."—s" I ebj:•et t!;:.t.l
the (hay below.