The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-05-24 00:00:00

rFIEATRES.

orpti-oousE.
The ll2w ballet, called lad Rose, ox,/es Deguise-
weds, which was given here on Tuesday, was re.
reute,l no tii.•tirday, is one of the happiest prodoc.
%ions of the kind that this smolt, or indeed that
:he theatre itself, has presented to the
it. beauty consists in a certain simplicity, yet de-
licacy of design, joined to a felicity iu the execs:-
non rarely paralleled. Monsieur and Madame
poroar, the celebrated fiercer* from Paris, were
:lie principal cl.arocters, sod almost the sole at.
of the ballet. The lady appeals as. a
ra4sc girl, simple and be,antiftif,, yet sguoraut of
the proms of love: her sole care is the preser.
'main of a favourite rose, .which she ten is upon
s„,l watches from morning night. ,Her lover,
who is her superior in MIK, assumes different
disguises, and tries various arts to soften her cold.
and to teach her to love: Ilse possession
of her favourite rose, as if to ret;ove a rival in..her
affections, is another object of his stratagems., This
is all managed with the utmost art : the reiervid
toper of the girl appears to soften by slow degrees:
lasecceeds at last in making the desired impres.
rico; in tote moment of triumph he plucks her fa.
~eite rose from its stem; she becomes angry and
'Suns him ; as he pursues she snatches the rose
from Itom, which he endeavour to regain : a long
contest follows, till at length she willingly resigns
to him the prize, the testimony of her affection.
This action was all executed by the DePORTS, with
the utmost ti:lelity to nature, to which the graceful
evolutions of their profession, though in the highest
4legrre oritaureatal, were rendered perfectly subtler.
viva.
The house displayed a crowded and brilliant
andiron.

CONENT.GANDEN.
A new ant•astic sketch, entitled " Cozening, or
w.f.,' Mar Is. France," was produced oil Sotur-
shir moist* It is written for,tlie purpose of intro-
ducing Mr. VATS:a to the public in the lowest de-
',mimeo of the drone—that of pure mimicry—and
places him directly in opposition to Mr. —MATHEWS.
whose At Home has beet) attended with such extra-
ordinary +success. Mr. Vack:s supports the elm-
rafter of young Mutable, whose passion for his
cousin Julia is opposed by her father, au English
tradesman, who, though filled with a vast number
hereditary prejudices eg,aitist the people of
Frairce,i. obliged, by the unceasing representations
of his sister, las eld prude, to visit their country.
Yonng .Hula/,;• arrives at the hotel, we believe at
Coil6iq, before his relatives, and millions to see his
determines in put his powers, aid mimic,
►n remiisttion, in order to attain that object. Mr.
YAI FS personates, in the course of the sketch, Ist,
a French Chatnberlain--Vd, "a great tragic actoi,"
Mi. Yoursu-3d, " an actor of all %sulk," Mr. I
'Pr RRY—lab, " a noted wink," Mr. MATHEWS
—sth, " a celebrated Emrich actor," M. Tattia
—and firli, " a well-koown comic actor." Mr.
EMERY. The success of Mr. _ ATEA was very
greet—but, we confess, it would have pleased us
touch better If he had triumphed in a nobler field.
Mimicry, though we may laugh ist it fur the
moment, is • contemptible as well as • damp-r-
-ill,. talent. It never yet conciliated a friend,
but has created abundance of enemies. The public,
paredoxical as it may seem, while they patrouiae,
despise it—and, we believe, the greater number of
those who hove practised it, discovered, before the
end -1 their career, that it produced more
than emolument. Leaving out of the question
considerations with reference to the nature of
the ♦ntertait)tneat, we must give Mr. YATES cre-
dl
for is Treat deal of cleverness. His imitation of
Air. YOUNG, though the lisp predominated a little
too much, was excellent. Ile was also vety happy,
when he appeared as TALMA. Here thee French
:iciest is supposed to deliver a passage from Mac-
teth, in the manner of Mr. KEAN, Mr. liEstatk.
:aid. lastly, as TALNA himself conceives it ought
to he recited. The imitation of there three person.
ages was uticominotily good. The sort of growl
with which Mr. KF.AN generally commences the last
member of an impressive sentence was most accu-
rately gireu—and, pieced before the audience thus
at second-kind, the ridiculousuesetif thecustom was
rendered strikingly apparent. Mr. YATES also re-
cited a saissa:te frim a French play, in the style of
TALN A, t% hirh was one of the most correct Unite-
times of the evening.. Perliape, on the score of
mimicry. Mr. Mat news, " the toaster mimic of
the age," has less right to expect lenity than any
other mars in the community. He is, upon the Lee.
l'ofjosis bar game. He cannot himself
expect more mercy than lie has shewn to ethers.
Atilt yet we were pained when we saw exhibited
before the imitation of a natural defect, and of
so awkwardness in motion, the effect of a serious
accident. Certainly, Mr. YATES gave us a coin-
p!tte fac-simile of MATHEWS. Gait, look, action,
mod utterance, were must accurately described.-
116 personation of Mr. 'TERRY, as the (free•
and of Mr. EMERY, as a downright John Bell. was
not equal to the rest of his performance.
The sketch, or rather Ale. YATES, received the
most umpialified applause.

The opera of II Pluto Magic°, announced for
to-morrow at the King's Theatre, has brrut get up
at great expi use, and with great care. It is a work
tiff superior merit, and excites great expectation in
tlr fashiou4ble world. _ _

The firth audience will, in the course of a few
dap, be delighted with the transcendent talent*tif
Moor O'NEILL. This admiritle actress lass entered
rot engagement 10 perform at that celehr.ited
',or, of the fashionable, the valetudinarian, and
the druilliated, for fourteen nights, oil very libtial
km!.

--••--•
Anson the Petitions recently presented to the
French Chamber of Deputies was one to prohibit
Dramatic Authors horn a share in the management
of Public Thrifty,.
A tisionsousLi Caesoo.—Yesterday se'n-
night. about le wcieek, a ciickito flew river the
minket piece of GAiiishorough, chautsting its name
ti-lotheutly, and returoed to s few unontes with
tor woe song; it was followed by • snnt l lord
troll rasa. l'h.; is a most itinisual ririt to the
humor of man by that interetting, cod retired
bg• ter.