The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1803-02-21 00:00:00

THE.4TRZS.

Or tlk A-110USE.

The new Ballet of Lavrate went off with great
triat upon Saturday night. The minuet by the
Lanottir:, was executed in a mast elegant style,
and displayed ease, grace, and agility. Monsieur
G AI. LET, the composer of the piece, has shea•n in
it much taste and genius. Madame CouALLI, his
pupil, also does him much credit, and contributes
not a little to the success of the piece. The house
was fashionably attended.

fRI•RV-f. %NE.

Saturday night a new Historical Play, in three
acts, intitled The Hero of the North," the produc
CCM of Mr. Dimond, jun. WAS represented for the
first time.— charadets are as follow
Gustami Vasa Mr. P Tr.
CaN•Air Prthe,,Aki Mr. W rougluon.
L'ariou ar. Mr. Raymond.
Breluiemar
l'giomuold q. Calmar
Uthrse.l Mr. Dowtnn.
.4ore.of
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Lein ... Mr. Secirgirriek.
Pri/treu n C.10'114.41 Mrs. Yout'g•
Dante 4114-4140,w
Frederica linheiv.ki Mrs. Wont Am.
Pauline
Alice
1116,n

" The seise opens after the battle, in which the fortune,
of Gustatusrlid, the Hero of the Piece, had proved adverse,
and at the. period when he was labouring in the mines. Fee-
d, tea, his beloved Mistresv, 3ori Catimir 1-146.r,Nkr, her father,
are seen entail ig the cottage of .Yveref, a loyal peasant, who
',rote& dteot fto.ii the punt* and veniperice of Carlo-sit:, the
urping Governer of 'b provitt^t of Dalecei4, in which the
dt-e.e is Ird. F.rdeslea and CeAvoir are conveyed to the
mines fur vafztv, whetethey meet, and sects:zit:zit the disguised
natorres nisei/dr, hi: sister, and t:Mitress cf :tigiongter, is at
this period retcued front a Crnvent by lever, lust Slit' w-s
in the ad or ea.king the veil ; but tip, are interee; tel in tl'.eir
flight, an' fall inns the hands of the Governor. Geo-
mut and his natty am view routed into *Rico, and, gather-
:Li( stren4th, the: obtain possessiem of the fortress Tar first
eflicer of the Governcr, however, still retains possession of
r",:,ima aryl and threatens their destruction, hat the
6,vezr.fl( C:CTIOW:ti, who hart been previo bl y tkarmed,
"pi:ears, and insists upon the nommen-in of the lady
Gostaing ore to bs outdane in gmcrosity, vstotes Car/owes his
sword, -2.3 d challenges him to deLide the right to the throne by
finale cambat ; but the latter, overcome by such gre.atocs: of
'till, declines the c,...ntest, and acknowltdgzs Gesta,,ea for his
lawfu; Prince.'

8!:ch are the incidents of a plot, which displays
neither ingennity in its construction, nor excites in
its progrciss the slightest interest. Any attention
which it commands, is produced by means entirely
foreign from those of the legitimate drama. They
consist of wu'ic, various scenery, and magnificent
decorations. In bustle and activity, no pantomime
excels the Hero of the North ; in embellishment it is
interior to few of our mast splendid rifreitudes.—
Under such circumstances, it cannot be conceived
that performers, however great in merit, should
have an opportunity of displaying it. to advantage.
Mr. RAY MO N n and Mr. Nei; bad a few scenes for
declamation. The rest had to do little more than
strut their hour upon the stage" in their gaudy
trappings. We mean so far as respeCts the dia-
logue ; for the vocal powers of the corps were, in
many scenes, exerted to great advantage. In this
department, Mrs. MouNT am stood pre-eminent in
caste, in talent, and execution. Mrs. $L AND and
MisS TY REP. are also entitled to praise. The piece
is by much too long, but it maybe easily compress-
ed to great advantage. Should it be brought for-
ward in that improved state, we have no doubt but
tsar it will repay, by its success, the great expense
with which it has been got up. There has been sel-
dom witnessed a greater pressure for place 7. This
was, we believe, owing to a report that Mr. ST:L.
*roam had revised the piece, and improved it by
the introduCtion of a speech for Giutavut Vasa, si-
milar to the celebrated one of Rolla. Wersdia not,
however, perceive any rays of his splendid genius in
the scene. The Play was heard throughout, and
announced for future representation with great ap-
plause.

On Thursda7 morning, about two o'clock, a coach
was seen to stop at the back-gate of St. Thomas's
Hospital, in .Toiner-street. The watchman observing
2 man in the let of taking out something in a sack
that excited suspicion, he sprung his rattle for as-
sistance ; the night-constable of St. Olave's parish
came up, and found two dead bodies in sacks, and
another uncovered. Before the constable arrived,
all the parties had made off, except the coachman,
who was detained. He was taken to
bat as he appeared to be ignorant of the contents,
and of the parties, he was discharged. The bodies
were taken to St. Olave's xvatch-house, where they
were recognized. They proved to be the bodies of
two men. this were interred on Sunday se'nnight,
in St. John's chutch-yard, Southwark. It is no. a
fortuight ago that the same constable stopped two
men with two bodies (a man and a woman) in a
sack, in Tooley-street, but before he could procure
assistance they made their escape.
Thomas Goddat d, a fisherman, and John Sands, a
waterman, who resided in the neighbourhoOd of
Billingsgate, lived in the greatest habits of intimacy.
Yesterday seinnight Sands died, and on Wednesday
he was buried. Goddard followed as one of the
chief mourners, and at a late hour on Thursday
night he was stopped by a watchman in the Bo-
rough, in consequence of his having a sack on his
back, which proved to contain the corpse Of a man ;
and on an investigation before the Magistrates at
Union-Hail, on Fitlay, it proved to be the body of
his deceased friend, whom be had been attending as
chief-mourner-the evening before, and lie wa. going
to sell it to a surgeon.
Letters received from the Raves, of 18 guns,
dated December 12, at Malta, mention, that tran-
sports were expeEtcd shortly to sail for Alexandria,
to take in the Briti.h trovs in that quarter, in the
event of Egypt being evacuated.

SIMACT UT A PRIVATE FROV A MEM-
RIR OF THE HELViTIC CONGRESS AT PARIS.

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Sixty deputies front d; Brent Cantons have come
to Paris, to ass's in the plans of the FIRST CoNsuL
of France.
Forty-five of these demand, that the Government
lately established should be made permanent.
Fifteen wish that the old Government should be
'restored, nearly in its primitive form.
In the first forty-five, are three Deputies from the
Helvetic Senate, rwerity-nine from Diets of the Can-
tons, seven from different rural Cantons ; from
.Ar.-tn, a prisilegel. city ; five who are in the Depu-
tation, hecluse they were before ia official authority.
'The other p.►rty consi to of live Deputies from atis-
vcr.itie Cantons ; aud seven from privileged cities.