The National Register.
London, England, 1814-10-09 00:00:00

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3ltss O'N r.T h s voting Lady, whose histrionic
have excited the admiration of her native country,
has been transplanted from the Dublin Stage to flourish oc
the London Boards. The faille of her beauty and her ta-
lents had preceded her arriva!, and had not the reality
answele ,J the expeeta!if.;ns which had been raised, Miss
O'Neill would have sorely rued the injudicious eftlirts of
her friends to procure her a favoundr;e welcome. Happily,
however, both for the rithlir and beiself, her performance
of Jubri, on Thursday and Fiidav last, proved that the an-
ticipatory praise bestowed on her personal and trental ac-
complidunews had been flint when compared with her real
Alcseits. The entlinqizy,in of admiration with which she was
teceived, also showed that in taste, indgment and sensibi•
lily, a London audience was not inferior to the self-styled
+6 most judicious" critics of the Irish metropolis.

The chief fault of most of the representatives of hitherto,
liag lit ti the Ai ant of that engaeing :oftitt ss which tetras the priori-
-lu.l feature of the character. In the frenzy of love they have gette-
r:llr displayed too much forwardness, and in the other parts toe
rinch levity. They forgot that passion in aft male requires that a
oil Ottaid be thrown over its violence, or else it creates disgust
of attr,tctien, and that the veil supp kit by Natore is that
r,tlting• softness of look, of t:ine, and of manner, which more power-
foilv affects the heart, than the rudency of fiery glanres, or the
vi.,,,L•nwere (of dvelamat ion. The love of .Thrct, however• though it
ettwasses all her soil, does not exclude the t:eca.ional a:hlittance
of ether pas:ions. Nay, it iuvites them. Now she swells with in•
dignatien at the reproaolles cast on her husband ; now his banish-
ment fill! cr with despair. Cahn I-outer:int at the tt:•achery of her
'tore is now hers ; and now all the fortitude of her mind is called
firth to ettrount•tr ti:e terrors of momentaty death, foilowtd by a
dreadful waking in the tomb eflscr ancestors. To personate such a
ele4acter. Miss O'Neill pr,sesses both personal and mental qualifi-
cations. The regu!ar beauty of her features, heightened by a east
of penAvimess, the transparent tail.oes: ()flier complexion, and the
chirk blue lustie of her eves, animated by the most fascinating ex-
.rvevsion, gave a most lively imaee of the artless maiden yielding up
all her soul to love. Btit when other passions intervened, her
countenance assumed, with all the three of moon., the dignified su-
verit.• or inward scorn, the ealmmess of resigna'ion, or the wildue,s
of despair. The iollexiens t.. 1 her voice were equally skillful and
natural. Vaied and 1111%r:onions, 111ZW never grew shrill with rant-
ing', or flowed muninzled with feeling anti expro,sien. Her ae-
tiqi was easy, gracend, and al‘vays appropriate; neither too Ann-
&let' nor too sparing. Her conception, both or the character and
o'. particohir I.asiagcs, most correct. Indeed, site frequently struck
out new beauties, and nevtr passed over any line without itnpart.
Intl, to it a de:Jec of expression evhii7it is not aim's-, given. The ac-
knowiedgmee I if her love in the first garden i iterview, was not only
w;th fervent bot with that delicacy of manner and
ton" which forms one of its greatest charms. The sportive and
seeinie.gly half ashamed accent with which, after recalling Romeo,
she said—

" I have foNot why I did call thee hack.

was nature itself. In the scene with the Nurse, who deceives her
t:!llYltlelit e, ;old wI:DIU she has to fondle into good humour, sht was
ioo,t bewitching. Her de‘pair when cite learns that her husband
is bankhed ; the melting et-lit:if:n*l4ller )ove at parting with him in
garden ; her indignati-:in again,,t her nurse, and, beyond all, the
ei view of the clangers which may attend her thinking the contents
of the phial, and which are all conquered by her love, were histri-
onic beauties which tNe have never seen surpin;ied. The latter,
a yeeially, is of a Still Oder than the rest of ttic pia;, and