The National Register.
London, England, 1811-11-10 00:00:00

COURT MOURNL

LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, NOV. 7.
Orders for the Court's going into Mourning on Sunday next,
the 10th instant, for his late Serene Highness Prince George of
Brunswick, his Majesty's Nephew, viz :
The I.atlies to wear black silk, fringed'or plain linen, white
gloves, necklaces and ear-rings, black or white shoes, fans, and
tippets._
Undress—White or grey %strings, tabbies, or damasks.
The Gentlemen to wear black full trimmed, fringed or plain
linen, black swords and buckles.
Undress—Grey frocks.
The Court to change the Mourning on Sunday the 24th in.
stant, viz:—
The Ladies to wear black silk or velvet, coloured ribbons,
fans, and tippets; or plain white, or white Ind gold, or white
and silver stuffs, with black ribbons.
The Gentlemen to wear black coats, and black or plain white,
or white and gold, or white and silver stuff waistcoats full-
trimmed, coloured swords and buckles.
And on Sunday the Ist of December next, the Court to go
out of Mourning.

DIM iIIATIC REGISTER.

COVENT-GARDEN.

Friday night the tragedy of Venice Preserved; or,
A Plot discovered, was represented here. There is no
dramatic poet in our own, or perhaps in any other
language, who, with so little exertion of his pow-
ers, has obtained so high a rate of fame and popu-
larity as OTwAY has. He is regarded not only by
his countrymen as a dramatist of the first class, but
is held forth by foreigners in a familiar association
of celebrity with SJIAKSPEARE, like that which they
assign to CORNEILLE, and RACINE. .Yet the sole
basis of this flattering estimation exists in two tra-
gedies, both of them egregiously reprehensible in
moral, fable, characters, and conduct. What then
is that buoyant principle in those two productions
The Orphan, and Venice Preserved, which lifts
their author to such a splendid eminence ? It will
be found irithe charming simplicity of his language,
the easy, and unstudied harmony et his numbers,
and.the truth and tenderness, as well the vigour of
sediments deriVed immediately from nature, and
passing with unsophisticated energy and impression
from the bosom of the 'poet himself into those of
his auditors. There is not, we apprehend, in all
the compass and extent of the dramatic art, a scene
so exquisitely pathetic as the whole of the last be-
tween Affier and Belvidera. But we would ask
why some of the most affecting lines in that scene
were omitted ? as those where Igier's subdued
temper, repressing the ardent emotions of his wife,
says--

tt prythce no more,
But answer me to what I shall demand,
With a firm temper and unshaken spirit.
Bev.--Yes ; when I have done weeping.—.
Juf--------- pray no more:
Have I not hitherto—l prythee tell me
Thy very fears—used thee with tenderest care.
Has e'er my soul rose up in wrath against thee ;
Havel e'er frown'd when Belvidera smil'd;
Or by the least unfriendly word, bet ray'd
Abating passion ?—Have I ever wrong'd thee ?" &c.
Mrs. SIDDONS appeared as Belvidera, a part of
too much interest to be overlooked in the catalogue
of characters which that distinguished actress is now
successively exhibiting in this her closing season.
This latter reflection imposes on the mind of a
lilecral critic a melancholy reserve in his adverting