The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-08-06 00:00:00

A GOOD AIK, AND ‘A STEADY MARK.

A few day, ago, la consequence of a trilling wager, the ful•
lowing occurrence took place, which certainly rivals the rek-
bested fest of Wm. Ts.II. Li a yard, within a short distance
from our office, • professional grulleman, of this town, stood
with a tumbler glass on his bare head, and with his face to as.
other individual, ■ tradesman, who, at the distance of twelve
yards, discharged a ballet from a cross bow, at the glais, and
broke it to atoms, without injuring, in the slightest degree,
the mortal target, which bore it. Our readers may depend
upon the truth of this atatemeui ; but we know not which
they will deem to be the greatest—the skill of cum of the
parties, the nerve of the other, or lb* fully of bitb.—(Llpe►-
pool Mercury)

ENGLISH PLATS IN PARIS.

THEATRE DE LA PORTE ST. MARTIN.

(From do Journal do Park)

To represent Engli.h tragedies and comedies in Paris seems
a whimsical spreulatiou. Certainly the taste for English N.
lenitive has, for some years past,greatly increased is France,
and massy persons have Ironed to appreciate, by reading is
the original, the beauties el Shakspeare, Milton, Walter
Scott, and Byron. But the English pronunciation presents a
• ... ...A • - ...be those who are able to follow
new diticutty 1 » ryes ar.. „
a conversation, how few are capable of understanding the lan-
guage of the pulpit, the bar, or of the siege. What effici,
therefore, could a dramatic performance in English
peeled to produce ow an audience whose ears were greetid
merely by monads conveying so image? Bat to this first ob.
stack was joined * prejudice against English stints, for we
knew that our Forsch performers are not publicly adasittid
in laatios. All our readers cannot be rightly informed on
this subject, we will iberefore presest to them the following
correct *talcums. of facts:—

Feeech actors are only tolerated in Imadom; they cannot
hire a theatre, and appear in a compaey ow any public stage
like that of Drury-laue, Covent-garden, the Haymarket, Ate.;
they are obliged to take refuge to the Argyll Room's, which
I Mfg a mite of apartments, and not'a public theatre. Mosey
is not received at the door: the performers cannot so-
trounce their entertainments by mesas of bills, and the au-
dience is admitted uoly by cards of invitation issued by a
committee of rich and titled individuals who defray she ex.
peeves of the perfurnmace. The Argyll Rooms cannot,
therefore, be compared to a theatre, sad is Pavia can
only be placed on a level with a little theatre of the Rue
Chaatereise. where none but private performances take place.
Our dancers, it is tree, are admitted to the King's Theatre,
but probably this happens because there is no speuktag, and
because io a ballet it is impossible to distinguish a French
from an English or an Italian dancer.
The reception our French actors had exprrimseed in Inn-
don powerfully etched the ill.bnmour of the pit of the Pirtle
St. Martin, and prudent persons have, with regret, sees the
French imitate she conduct whleh they condense in the Eng-
lish. It would doubtless have been wiser to here seliered
these poor actors to spout their English at full liberty, and
to bare permitted the spectators to eajoy an temaitegoent
which would have bern dearly purchased (though at lie or.
"hoary price), and to have shown the Eagliah that we did not
wish to take reprisal. on so trivial an (Pommies. Bat such
was out the case. The poverty of Ilse companydeleed to this
moaccommodattsg arniagement of a part of the theatre, de-
cided the fate of the events'. The performance was coati-
, neatly interrupted by hisses, mire, the exclamations of the
actors loudly repeated, sod iromical shunts of "braro !"
avid it may be said that Orkelio was played io dumb show.
Weaken not enter tutu any detail of the tragedy of Milk,
which may be sufficiently appreciated by the excellent trans.
Milos of M. Gurzut. Our duty is merely to relate what
passed at the theatre of Le Porte Si. Martin We comcied•
with regretting that the pit was not more tolerant than, wader
similar circumstances the upper gallery of Astlry'r or the
Circus would have be:rit.

NAVAL IN PELLIGENCE.

PORT•SIOUTIFII, •IJOUIrt 3.
Sailed llor Thames, Haviside, for Bengal and Chios ; Sir
Edward Paget, Grady, for Bengal; Creole, Cutreirorib, for
Peraarabare ' • Mary, Itieliardaua, fur Maracaoo; and
Comet, M'lliersoa, fur Quebec.

stxworrif. Aucusl 3.
Arrived die Eagle, Pratt, from St. John's, N.B.
Pawed off the post ihr &gems, Clark, from st. John's,
N B. for London.

I'ALMOILITIV, LUOVI? 3.
Sailed the %teem, LiMal", fur St. Jobe., N. 8.; and
Slimmer packet fur Lisbon.

out., &VW'S? 3.
Arrived sad sailed for the River ltse Hero, Slade, from
Jamaica ; Loaders, Turner, from ditto ; sod Narcissus,
Calder, from Oporto.
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Cease down A. the River and sailed ihe ream, Rummy,
for Quebec; Pomona, Gray, for Grand Canaries ; Genoa
packet, Patterson, for Genoa ; cud Syrea, Cora, fur the
Soath Sesi—tbe suer renews is the Dowels.

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