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• Ditat:lUtkiilCAl . NIEMOntSOIt------"%it ae----O'Neill was not soy7ting :---c--------. to elicit ii-13;(- is FIIO-1-1 T LIES G IY' VI( ' I IT'S GAZETTE
N• 1 lti. BECHER, merely on account of her youth; her acting was judged BANKRUPTCY SU PEfIeEDED.
LATE MISS O'NEIL. of entirely by its intrinsic merits, end it was by the laws-
S. Burgess, elancheater. calico-printer.
--ewe— ss • alone oftereat talents, and pet conception, that BANKRUP'I,S.
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I. rem hail any chance of enceeeding in her proleecoon.— J. Balme. Goinersal, Yorkshire, woolstapler. Solicitor, Mr.
(Prom the London I'viagatzine.)
• ' There is no eise half ao deligeb tul to the bingrepher, It i*evideut, therefoic, that hcr ',meets Were intuitive, Evans, Hatton thinner. i . _
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es the stellar:item of a female poseeesing talent, River,
atid that she was in 3 %cry great measure indebted to R. Blease, Altruigham. Cheshire, Boer dealer. s.. ems.
Wright and Cole, Temple.
• neae. anti virtue, tifiillg, ittilli the gloomy vale of huh- nature for the resplendent success ele la* 11.tprite I an
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J. Shuttles•orth and T. Stephens, Torkington. Cheshire,
Ilellee and obertirity, and by intrinsic excellence alone, received. lice illustrious prototype Mrs. Sulam's, ste• dealets. Sala. Messrs. Wiglesworth and Crossley, Gray'leinn-
.4 1, attaining reads, riches, and renown, in the beauteous retired dramatic excellence by connoted study , and win„ace
bower of connubial felicity. Such a pisture is rendered had she lint received very colitisitlerehle assistance ram J. Chance Worcester, inaltster. Sol. Mr. Edmonds, Ex.
doubly charming, if, in aJdition to these excettent quali- her celebrated relatives! in a probebillity would lever chequer Otfic.e, I,inc,o. !Ws inn.
)- S. Smith. Kit lc Cheshire, cotton spinner. Sols. Mes.srs.
ties, the writer can present to the eye a scene where every have attained mediocrity. It was a ong, a eery ong
Bruntlrett, Spinks and Reddish, Temple.
thing is tell:Waled to tempt the feet front the path of time, before the latter lady became a decided favourite;
J. Dtindas. Carlisle. cattle dealer. Sols. e'er:krt. Modesey
• sa- the v.—. here exemple, the allurements of pleasure, and and it was by slow and ine*sured steps that she. attained and Fisher, Red Lion Sqnere.
••. t,4 ' the fescitiations of fashion, an: in combined array to en- that climax of povverful and beautiful acting, for which S. Carrington. Aaliborne, Derbyshire, mercer. Sol. Mr.
I. ; 14...: trap unsuspecting and unprepared modem? ; all(' yet site its now Si) deservedly fatuous. Bather. Fetter Lane.
i where virtue triumphs tint merely in the disdainful re- Ali.* O'Neill, after the expiration of the two years R. Wilson. Bridge Street, Vituxliall, linendraper and haber•
(Lieber. Sol. Mr. Phillips. Ring Stu:et, Covent Garden.
;cetion of illicit love, but in the noble refusal (from its she performed on the Belfast stage, during which tune
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• ' with rank, effluence. and splendour Si 1.1, however- received very- advatitaecone offers from the Dublin
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• e brine toicointected with mutual affiettotte of what atici- her fame had flown all over the motility and co tttttt alitlevl
ety %vomit tolerate, and molians commend, a legal union the:attention and admiration of all who heard of wi.:Jtio.c..eklilata:lactNieee:,w.itt.l,e2i_i,ti:ni:Tltee.risSi,atvrriee.thti,;:icit.uanal.el.er. . Sol. Mr. Dacia, Pals
it, .1. Brenda and J. Barclay, Size Lane, metchants. Sol. Mr.
tt sere be any &Inuit eventing to complete this portrait al ineteteer*, whose etniusity anti copiaity had been alike J. Owens, Kennon. 11:rctordshire, tronnto 6
female worth, when lie eau 'tourney, as the climax ol excited. Tliis IVas a nrw and tryntg event in her life
his deecoption, adrersity without base senility, 'nowt.- She Was Called to a theatre where she would have to
city without pride and presumption ; and the tentlentese appear before an audience far more varied, refitted, aaid
of filial dote and the kinthiess of freternel affection ; critical than she had yet seen ; and she was called benne
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t dsyd in every situation, aiid under every circons- her physicel powers were yet-saleiently
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Such is the character, and such has been the to Klee effect to her mental conceptions of cilli:atrialerytder..—to
conduct, of Mrs. Becher, as the following brief memoir These were ci tett inetailees oleo small moment, desetving, rugh.
will sufficieutly prove ; and it is moat fervently to 1w couselereble tl gilt, and which, in all probability,
hoped, that the steer, instead of being as it once was,
e . yenuld have demote' any inferior pte filmier ; but her lk anl Street, Russell Square.
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B. Willi:ens. Birmingham. chymiate Sols. Moors. Egerton,
Norton and Chaplin, Grays Inn Square.
S. nye, Norwich, gluier. Sol. elle Goodwin, Norwich.
.1. Fullerton, Nlanelituter, saddler. Sols. Alesin. M rightand
Cole.* Temtl(C..• lisle tallow chamller. Sol. Mr. Drake, Old
fish Street. Datiretors'Commt-ins.
F.. Ford. Lime Street, wine merchant. Sot. Mr. Young,
Charlotte ewe, Mansion Ilouae.
J. G. liidwill, Exeter. wine merchant. Mr. Young, Char.
a sort of lire:deed !edam, where its female ornements better genies prevailed, and she went I Iler Dublin lone Row, Mansion House. .
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might he hawk purchase(' by every noble or Alarm li- was more auspicious III:111 her Bellest della, anil the G. Solomon. Lemon Street, Gtuw.lman s I telds, hardwaremun.
beriine, it will colitinu,- to proiltice actresses like her, character ol %Velma. Clicerly, in the comedy of the Sol- Sol. Mr. Hutchison, Crown Court, Tereielnordle Street.
W. ilenley, Halpin:ll Streat, Stand, silk mercer. Solt.
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, . whose beeline modesty, and aliiiity, il transplanted to a dier's littiehter, n 'Cell Was selected on that occasiott.
. • Messrs. Jacomb and Bentley, liasingliall Street.
more dignified station, way compensate for the wunt ol stamped her Lone as a first-raie acttess fur ever. She J. Melcraft, Lamb's Conduit Street, jeweller. Sol. Mr.
exalted birth, ot of splendid and titled connexions. alternately 'tern ttttt eti tragic and comic characters to 'Boxer, Old Jewry.
Lord l'hurlow and the Eat' of Derby have successive- delighted :tielienees whilst she continued on that stage, eeeae...'
ly deprived the drama of its charming supporters; and with equal effect ; but although we Heidi she cannot
a - ADDRESS TO EARL III'ZIVILLIAM
their respective tidies have given oilier prods of the ell- perform any thing in a very inferior dimmer, yet we do
eliantinent which talent and levelmess throw aronint not conceive that her comic ability bears any proportion "TO TESTirI"rI.,IE GRATITODE OF THE WEST RIDING TOR
HIS LORDSHIP a sEitv ICES MIRING HIS coerrovueece
them, whet ludic(' with purity of character, soil pro- to her tragic ex •:elleitce :—but more ()I' this a ttttt
. le IN elm OPIIOE OF LORD-I,lElyr ENWNT, A PERIOD op
11 prietv of conduct. The mattsger or Covent Gertlett hearth her fame, and stone THAN eweeey TEARS."
M.O. Becher is descended, on the paternal side, from believed ii. lie made oilers of a nature so liberal, that Wednesday big the day appointed to present Earl Fitzwil.
1 Mr. Oeil, 'o:use ancestors led the " tiolaeleas tenor of they could not be refitaed ;and Muss O'Neil graced i• lime with the adtheis agreed to at a meeting at Wakefield. oh
•„. 9 their way" in the sieter kingdom of Ireleir.l ;as del Loadou theatre, and gratified a London atelitetee, oi.lemen and gentle.. en
Ithose of her mother, who is the iletteliter of aM i. Fee- her first appearence, to a manner we ail know to be too tu,i'e 1131 it (litinNthve. last,
Wpew;wartdsVoS!'ent°(vellowrwttbehouse, to attend we
li therstone, of the county of Longford. Mr. and Mrs. rich for deserietion, iii Die character ()Ounce It would uses:l:anon. The cotounpialle; were received into the pillared ball,
i 4.1 avid about two o'clock Lord Altlio'p. and the gentlemen forming
O'Neil are the parents of several children, besides the be an unnecessary and almost tie imicuasi-ble task, Itl (lc • the deputation, proceeded to the saloon, followed hy the re.. 4 to
Jacomplislicti subject of these IlicitiOitv. Tile dons, 1 scribe the different characters in whieli Miss O'Neil ap- lordth:men and gentlemen. prelient, where Earl Intzwilliani
are all yotower than Mrs. Becher ; and Of tilt sons, the peered from time to lime ;or to tell the ain zito‘.l nitrite- as waitm' to receive the 'Mmes.>, . supported. on his kin. uy
eldest is lieu forming respectable parts, tv oh a rising re- 1 siesin—the nil Ogled iv . ler and delieht site Ole:16161y Milton and on It s lett by Ms Lenient) a chaelutii, e ,
t • Potation, 1,, several provinciel theatres ; the eccond hat , excited. The tram of eettsibility %vetch have nick led Rev. J. lenv'e. The company formed a crescent in front ot iits
Lordship, the depUtation occopyine the centre. Lord Althorp.
studied inteliciiie, under Mr. I,V ilson, of ‘‘'ilitlinill- I down, not merely the cheek of the fair, but of our liar- advaming a few paces. addressed his Lordship in a manly, ener •
street, a popular anatomist ; the third is an officer in tiler and more stubborn sex, whet' she performed lier getic, ana impreaeive speech, eulogizing Ms Lonhltip's many
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• - the armv, whoee lienten3itcy is nue :memos, many I Belt Mere, her Nlontinia, her Isabelle, her Line Shore, public and private venues, and in a considerable degrve reitera-
i ►proofs of the kind affection of his eldest sister ; and the 1 and h..r other pathetic pieces, are the best practical pug the sentiments contained in the resolutionv and attires*.
'- • rest are too young to be noticed, either here or elat- I proof, of her po Net'. Alid iii our littligMllt entlitisiaain hie! his Lordship then read. and concluded by rid
at, that
thew best t testiatony,ef the approval of his long ead faithful servi-
where. With such a numerous oliSprinee it could tett l we should denominate the heart that had lint throleirci, cis was evinced by the unsolicited sign:items of upwards of
''. ii • be expected that Mr.
vi ell, tinder clueutustances winch I, or the rye that hail not wept, in beholdine her in these 6,1100 is
friends and neighhoure lend, Anhwei then tali-
in a pectineny point of view, were never very to
! .•haracters tii muchine toolerness, to be colder than tor vered the roll awn dm handsel Earl Fitzwilliant, wltath contained
could h.-snow upon each or any ill tilirtii a finished rd u- Alpine snow, Sue harder than the Adansantine rock. many skins ot parchment.
After the applati.e which followed the presentation of the Ad-
. Calittit ; Vet from w hat is known of the ytaing gentle- ! The conduct of Miss O'Neil has been alwevs Marked
i - men, indepteelem iii Mrs. Hechsr, it is ei butt
titiat this I with a sense nf proptiety seldom equalled, and never es- dr • had subeitled, his Lordship under feelings evidently nitwit
aft:cacti on die occasion, said, in reply to I.nrst Altliorp's speech
: eighty ticess.try duly ti
nut been wtiolty tin-attended 1 celled. 'eV bile siugle, she Was unambitious of distinc- on pneenting the Address, that it was int; (melee to imagine his
to. lion, mid refused the mejority of those invitations which feelings: he felt inure than he could express, and the recollection
Mr. O'Neil became, in early life, an enthusiastic ea- others would have been delightea to accept. The hand itt thie day would never be effaced but with his existence. is
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tar), to Titespis, and a ttttt °A such of his countrymen as of an Irish tiobletnan was offered it) her, but she IChlacti subject which het to ear address he would not (Mien's.. He per
' ' teeny agreed well the sentiluelits expressed by the Noble Lord
possessed nage wound' of heart than COolllntiS of head, , ir, coliceiving that a coronet, iiii ()toweled with motile'
(Lind Abbott'.) that the Crown haul the selection alai appoint-
. elicited at various time* no little applause by his Itietris t love anti mental feeling, Was only a tinselled bauble—e meta et us suts otlinate officers, and consequently me rtgot and
miteczettions. He was not, however,
ennere by t• gilded misery. prerogative of dismissing them whenever it thought prop. T. and
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very op, judgment of the critic. entitled
tartassning any reason Mr so doing ; as such, he Idol neier
rank in a very Mali order as a thematic performer, but of a Matinguished I ably itt !relive'. His estates are inquired us to the eause witich led to his own 'lieu l'wtali hic"'.
was alloWeil iti raisers', like many other etteateist indi- principally in Mellow, (for which he is member of par- so Juni.* the right eats such prerogative, that were le •
hailt . elbow
•adviser tit the Crown, end a smelt:: oCCutrenee taken •
Tidnals, (woUill they kilevy it l) c ability in teaching I element) and the aajonititie villazee. H.s varions te-
lace, •and an inquiry into the reason had been tequestiel, that
atid correcting the acting of otheis, than in acting hint- mints, Si well as all it ho know lima, honour and estecni rm. as such adviser, would counsel the Clown to give no reason,
sill'. inns for that liberality and kiiiiiiiess which has um- it being wholly inconsiate withers dignity to b
euun,
held account-
"— • Under such 3 tutor, whose lessons would have all the tinnily characterised his conduct. Ili* beautiful bride
• able for iis acts towards Bentffis )) But. gentlemen. .although
pliant of parental aliectiona beetles their justness and 11.111 been presented io ell the iiiibility amid grimy of the
•I cannot ask the mason, yet I can divine it ; and in doin, so, I
do nut we ally thing, during the long and es'entful period of YO
propriety. the 'young and fair follower of Melpomene surroutulingcoust• ry, all I has been received by them nu;
. could not but Imbibe many twilit' tikes, which, in ad- as Om branch of a plehiall Mot, parteking of a low mitill yeats I held the situation ot Lord Lieutenant of this Riding, that
can impeach My having Dtitilltvl the duties of my late official
I . en em to the powerful talents sac liatentea from eettne, and vulgar manners, and mere'y etigratted on a Patti- Situation other than tetlifutly, loyally, and to the best of my ••
ta togetinr with the experience site derived during. het Mail tree for its blossom, its bloom, and its iteanty--Init abilitne, I may have erred, as we are all liable, ;and if I hove, 1
. • •Pict"ll,l dramatic "fee!, will sufficiently account for as a fair flower, designed by suture, and fined by virtue, feel confitlerit no one will as, that I_ have done it intentionally,
• that Illogical influence she MIS so frequently k aertett 10 grow and shine, auto shed its fragrance itt the highest I however, teel• gentlemen, I have done my (hue towards the
treat her elteritately astuntaliad arid delighted metrupo. aim the noblest garden of society. King and to My country. The representations I made were
such as l ufficially land from the best sourecas received; and I -,
lean atiil a. Mrs. Becher to her lemma he it recorded, has la- Made Mein faithfully anti learlessly :if they were not correct, I
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I Mr. O'Neill's circumstances compelled him to change homed assiduously and succetsfie!y, not for herself, bill was deceived ; GentIC1114:11, i feel the ntore convince(' teat my
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7, from time to t i ttt e the ...eerie of his performances from
Belfast to I)rogherla, and front thence to various proviti. 2611".ethiltaossenis
,h,el,ltliveeddewcitillititiligliapltatiititilpffhraetrernal affection ; geaerai conduct has Mem correct, twin the very marked attention
ame,,e„,e,,,,,„ , end approbat ttttt 1 this day receive a. your hands ; and I shall
I, ciao theatres in Ireland ;in all of which his daughter's smooth, and peacenil. pleasing site has beinowed teasuier, getitlemen, that day on which I received the despatch,
that toy services were lio longer required, tis the moo fornicate
-r, • telents shone conspicnottily. At the early age of twelve nn one of her brothers the commission, for which tits day ell itly life. inasmuch as it le, led to this—the !Mintiest and
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Miss O'Neill made tier
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fun the stage of I)roglieda, breast panted with youthful ardour sad enthusiasm; kind lotypicA slay of in
exi tenet:. lie lithont or Censute intended
thlakil*t, islelarerhi:lsdeuntaiesbledin tilhiec "sittualitliohtetsr irnelawtihvieschtoPrP:vriblenritlcethlti.;:st to be conveyed by my dismissal front office. is now thrown buck
on ti.osei writ worm) It originated. The approval, and the very ..
actin tae ttitnea
na‘augarpr• c; es,
and
di her father,
is rantaitihneri,:ss ai(7la,
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. - . nt. of you, my li tends and neighbours. is or more
• true, that those who were at all actpt limed with drama. ,serail them, without having any thing to fear from the
icy hand of stern Adversity. value ware teen the lanitoir conferred by my late tutee. I Low '.
• tic excellence in that quarter of the sister country, gave
'..i'r . Th's is true btney'lle"u'' ;. beg, my Lind and gentlemen, to say, that the greklul feeling., •
it as their °pluton, from this first appearance, etet slit and aitiinuAls those who mietake eccentric prodieelita wile II ties day have been create:l !cynic approlettien of upset, es of
11. r' t ruag deingdnie was deatinee at no e,„,ent eine, to saran for generosity, and prudent economy for avarice, Ina% WSW of My Ohne citizes and miglihotirs, can IleVer b
et efractil •,
.s a dramatic star in a nobler horizon.
The da wining of this fair petite' nein became the
f of
land; throw bow tee centiguutis co _ duty and tenderness, which has
Ihr:it ttttttttttttt traduce her fhaotnneo,rtaittewaleosrtecetti: I, nikiii,nttEtiaiiii,:li hut by my latest Meath eland I Cali only a slue you, at my
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p pied her tutees,- t'srbtaul.lrai•mi.itillwalli,:iiti,.eist,iicni Meath[ itah.
the
t...ineigv.i(iitens:
tic:, itnygsi;!rti•iii,;"l'„tahlerligerta,vt: ~ •
.... 'hens- T. IFT,OIIng Of the good ut my country, and to the service and
reset Ireland ; and 111 r. Ta bot, manager of the Bel ing exertions, much more than either the wish for tot,‘„at„it arm, iny liientih." • •
‘ ' COMpilltY, made very advantaresus off, rs to enjoy t e ftit• one or the thirst for f IBC. . The company then retired from the saloon, and rooms for
• I"..i.i.fis. of h. "ion abilities 'These offers were aneedee refieshment were thrown open, while %towards tir lnosentiel7l3ll
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