The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1821-10-04 00:00:00

COY IVT-CA EN THEATRE.

Last night the opera of Rob Roy Macgregor was
performed at this theatre, in which Mr. YATES
played the part of Rob 14)y, heretofore sustained
by Mr. MACREADT. That regret for the 'blew+
of that distinguished actor should not hire leer
awakened, while the fine glowing tint of Romania.
heroism which his performsnce shed over the chi;
racier was yet fresh in the public remersibrairre, war:
impossible; and it is no small praise to Mr. YAilig
to say, that the excellencies of his predecessor
were not too forcibly reviled. lie gave abtlildal.f
vigour to the bold and forcible outline of the cki-
racier ; and what little there was el crudity percep-
tible in the filling up of his conceptions, or the
Unitising of the performance, was clearly to be
ascribed to those habits of imitating the peculia-
rities of other performers, which at times seemed
to force from him, in spite of himself, some of
those mannered tones, and inflexions of voice and
gesture, which distinguish their delivery of parti-
cular passages. The part of Dinner Vernon was
filled for the first time by Miss Ifs ttssue, whose
reception, it being the first night of her appearance
in the present season, ass most flattering. She
booked extremely well. lier voice seems to have
acquired an increase of strength arid solidity since
her last performinices here; her articulation is also
hecome rather more distinct ; she strikes her notes
with greater firmness and precision ; and her delivery
has gained in fluency evidently [tom practice anti
study. The rich and mellow depth of her lower
tones were heard to advantage in the duet with
Mr. DunusaT, to the air of " .Ruy's Wife of Aldi-
valloch;" and her improved execution was cousin-
enema in « The bonnie bran; young Highland-
man ;" her cadence at the conclusion was finely.
imagined, and executed with a degree of brilliancy
■nd admirable precision which called down a most
enthusiastic encore. Mr. LISTON made his first
appearance for the season in his old character of
Baillie Nicol Jarvie, and was greeted on his en-.
trance with cheers of welcome mud repeated rounds
of applause. The remainder of the characters were
filled as heretofore, and the accustomed owed of
approbation *warded to their several representatives.
The liendesvous followed, in which Mr. MEADOWS
made his second appearance before a London audi-
ence in the part of Sirtioa, and confirmed the favoura-
ble impression produced by his previous performancs
of Scrub. Mr. BLANCHARD was the Quake, and
the scene between the two characters we have named,.
in which they are alersard by the discovery of per-
sons hidden in the closets, was as fitly acted •
piece of comic terror as perhaps was ever exhibited
lon the stage. Miss FOOTE hoydened it with grace-
ful vivacity in Sophia; Miss BEAUMONT could•
II with il.fficulty look uthcieutlystillslid miengaging
for the prude Lucretia; and Miss LoYE was a
charming representative of the arch and lively
housemaid Ruse. The but Las of Tow Thumb
closed the entertai 1111 l flits cl the night with a rich
treat of groves/pc humour. •The several characters
being sustained with undiminished excellence by
Ike statue performers who filled them in she pre-
ceding reason, left uo room fur any particular ob.-
serration.

ASCENT OF MR. GREEN.

Yesterday (Tuesday) upwards of 30,000 persona• I
assembled iii Black Bock Bottom, Brighton, midi
on the adjacent hills, to witness the •scent of Mr.
Green, in his Coronation Balloon. The weather
was flue and the atmosphere particularly ckar, with.
it smart breeze from the north-west. Twelve ass
the time announced for the a►cent; but, from some
cause or other, the public were kept in anxious stIF
pense until eight minutes past two, when the bal-
loon was seen to rise in a slow and majestic style.
The aeronaut waved his hat and was cheered by the
spectators. From the weight it bore, the balloon
took a south-westerly direction, descended so low as
to admit Mr. Green to tooth the earth with one tit
his fie, about a bundled yards from the gasome-
ter, whence he ascended; by throwing out ballast,.
however, it again ascended, takings north-westerly
direction—that is, carrying Mr. Green out to sea.
The balloo►► for the space of twenty-six minutes.
was visible to the naked eye, and tOr • short time
afterwards was perceptible by the aid of a telescope.
Late in the afternoon the mate of the Unity packer.
Capt. Clear, arrived at Brighton, express from Sea-
ford, with the intelligence that Mr. Green, with his•
balloon, had been ion ked up at sea, about four
miles from that place, by the above vessel. Mr. G.
hoped to sup in Brighton last night, and was mo-
mentarily expected when our paper went to press at.
eight o'clock.—( Brighton Chronicle.)

On Sunday afternoon her Highness Princess
ESTERHAZT arrived at Chandos-house, from the
cottage at Highgate. On Friday next her Highness,
with the younger branches of the family, will leave
town for Minisgste, where a house is token ready
for their reception.
Lord STEWART left Blighter) on Sunday fec
London. Lady STEWART was so ill her Larly.l.ll.
was carried down stair• to the carriage.
The intended new bridge over the Thames, freers
Windsor to Eton, is, by the confirm', to be finirherl
by November, 1822.

Jupiter and Saturn, the most beautiful planets 14
our system. rise nearly due east at seven o'clock hi
the evening. The coloured belts of Jupiter, with
bis four little moons, and the luniinous ring which
surrounds the equatorial regions of Suture, and pre-
sents one of the finest telescopic objects in the
heavens, may now be seeu at eight or nine o'clock
with u very good night glass. The approach of
these planets till next December will be very strik-
ing ; they are at present little more than three de-
grees frogs each other by a quadrant, Saturn being
to the south of Jupiter. The beautiful planet
Venus, which has passed her superior conjunetion•
is about liCt degrees to the south of the sun, in the
sign Scorpio, may be seen with the naked eye soon
alter sunset, a few degrees above the horizon, shout
W.S.W.