The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-07-26 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, JULY 20.
THEATRE ROYAL.
bliss O'NEILL, that brightest planet that ever
shone in the galaxy or our Irish dramatic beans.
phere, appeared upon Crow-street boards last night,
for the first tame these live years, in the character or
Belnidera, iit Vaite P resereed. The places ise the
boxes had been all takesi, at least a week hack,

and ihe rasa► at the lant and pit doors fur adeui‘sioti

was very great. The house was tilled !Dog before
the riving of the curtain, and is snore fashionsble or
uninerous audience could sc.srcely be especteJ,
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particularly at this season of the year.
The dressing up the curtain was loudly called
for, and when Mr. CHARLES KESIBLR presented
himself, as Juffier, he received the warmest marks
of applause, which continued fur ',rue minutes.
The (da of Mr. COBHAM. as Pierre, was al*
hailed with the loudest plaudits; but when Miss
O'NEILL appeared, the simultaneous burst of ap-
plause was greater than we have ever witnessed...
lists, handkerchiefs, and hands, waved from every
part of the house, and every testimoisial that could
welcome this lady to her native couistry„ was die-
played in the most genuine feeling of Irish friend-
ship and hospitality ; it seemed as if every being
iu the house was one heart and one mind, all eager
to testify the happiness they felt in once snore be-
holding her who so often before elicited from Dublin
audiences tears of pleasure and bursts of transport
—site who had made the poetical effusions of our
best and most esteemed dramatic writers, no longer
fictitious illusion ; but the character she represented
was to every mind, as if reality itself was identi-
fied, and that OrWAY had never been in existence,
but that we were in times of peril stud treason, and
that all was nature.
To describe her performance is now our duty.
She appeared in mourning ; the costume was, we
thought, too heavy for her beautiful figure, but soon
all idea of her dress was absorbed in her personifica-
tion of the fond and affectionate wife; she seemed
to have lost and gained since we last saw her—
she is thinner ; but every action and attitude so
deeply interested the audience—in displayingall the
varied passions of the soul, that she received snore
applause from the agonised silence of the auditory,
than she could have found in the reiterated plaudits
which every pause gave opportunity to let the feel-
ings of the house he expressed. Her bursts of pas.
'donate feeling thrilled the soul of every person near
us, each successive scene produced successive beau-
ties ; but in the scene where Jq(ier parts with her
it is utterly impossible for language to express the.
feelings that she excited in the breasts of the audi-
ence, her heart-felt anguish, her heaving bosom,
her twining arms, and her convulsive sobs, were too
naturally given not to harrow the most stoic heart—
but when she appeared in the last scene, where mad-
I ness had seized upon her brain, dressed is contra-
distinction to her sorrows, in pure virgin white, her
lovely hair disheveled about her shoulders—and iu
all the wildness of despair—the scene was so affect-
ing, that we could scarcely wish to behold it again,
if recollection did not come to our aid, and tell us
it was but the grand effect of talent and sensibility,
united, that touched every heart and filled every
eye with the throb and the tear.
Mr. Keating's Jqpier was a most masterly piece
of acting ; he sustained the character in a manner
highly creditable to the talents of a first-rate actor,
and the audience did justice to his exertions. Mr.
COBHAM. who is so justly a favourite—always sue.
cessful in whatever he undertakes, merited and re-
ceived unbounded approbation.
To particularise passages is impossible—all was
great ; and the announcement of Romeo and Juliet
for this night was received with repeated marks of
applause.—lSaanders's News Letter.)
JULY 41.
An overflowing house last night again testified
the estimation in which Muss O'Neill's admirable
talents and virtues are held in her native country.
She played the sweet and gentle Juliet—the charac-
ter in which she made her debut at Covent-garden,
and by her performance of which on that occasion
she placed herself at the summit of her arduous pro-
fession. Mr. Charles Kemble's fine graceful figure.
excellently dressed, added much to the effect of
his very judicious representation of Burnett. The
house was fashionable, and crowds of ladies appear-
ed in the boxes. Miss O'Neill plays Isabella this
eveuing.

At a Quarterly General Assembly of the Corpo-
ration of Dublin, held on Friday week. Mr. WIL-
LIS moved a series of Resolutions, tending to a re-
peal of the Union between Britain and Ireland.—
After a short discussion they were put to the vote,
and negatived without ■ division.
At our Sessions, this week, a coincidence
of names in a case of trial, rather curious, oc-
curred, and is worth recording :—A man of she
name of Kirld was prosecuting a man of the name
of Wolfe, for an assault ; and as it was necessary to
have corroborative testimony. a snail named Lawb
was produced to give testimony against Waft.
On winding sip the affair. the ferocity of the Iruffe,
in his attack upon the Kidd, was so glowing, that
the Jury (of which • Crow was the fo►ruran) in-
stantly pronounced a couviction.—(Limerick (.'hro-
nicle.)
The IVoierloo steom-vessel arrived at Liverpool
on Thursday w 18 hour: front Belfast. She is
comoleirlY rigged with sails. independent of her
machinery—two engines of 30 horse power each—
and as she carries 100 tolls of got►ds. is intended
to because a regular trader between Belfast and
Liverpool.
A few evenings since as Miss C. PRICE, a young
lady residing in Oxford-street, was passing along
Broad-street. Si. Giles's, a ruffian struck her on the
breast, and a Gentleman with her turning to re-
monstrate with hint, a woman Caine up, and snatch.
iog a gold chain from her neck ran oil. The man
and wosi►an both escaped. .
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Rem:lett, cosivictrd or stealing Mr. Hon:mates
child, is on board the hulks at Slieeruess, symbol
a conveyance to New South Wales.
Satuiday too 666 6ig a Gentleman named Pam,
whilst look►ng ►n at a caricature shop in Ssckville-
street, had his pocket picked of notes to the amottot
or 23/. besides his watch, &c. Sooty mark. awl,-
ing on h►s trousers, there is little doubt but that
two sweeps who were staudisig by him Were the de-
-I►redatorr.