The National Register.
London, England, 1812-08-16 00:00:00

Tliy, NATIOYAk REGISTER.

DRAMATIC REGISTER.

HAYMARKET THEATRE.

On Monday Mr. TALBOT undertook the character of
Young Mirabe in The Ineonstaut. The defects which niamd
his first re: formance prevented his giving this part the
penance which belongs to it. His failure, however, was not
so comnlete as in Rantrtr, and this is saying a ;Tom! deal
when we reflect what an arduous task the representative of
Yur.ng .11ira3e1 has to pet form. There was less of ttriuitiee
in his manner than on the first night, and we could aim 'st
have tlattQled curselv-s that the gentle chastisement we frit
it our rainfal ditty to inflict, had had the desited effect Ili.,
performance became absolute:y respectrble towaids the lat.
ter end of the play, and it is but fair to acl;nowlede flea if
we have in some instances seen that pact of the character
played with mote effect, we have also seen it (and that lc-
ccotly) acted much worse.
The Ilioneynonn was performed on Thursday. We nt.ver
before felt inclined to rejoice that the author of this 1;110%
a‘imirecl play could no longer feel the ill, of frail o;ortaiity.
Had he lived .to have seen his play murdered a, it was
this evening it would have driven him mad—perhap to
suicide. • JONES, Mrs. (=tens, and Mrs. W Ms. oh-
taincd and merited considerable applause as /Wand.), iieidihr
and tolante. By the way we must here just hit to Mr.
JONES that when he pretends to hum a tune hr ought not
to make a noise as if he woe gargling his throat. Of the
:est of the characters, the le3s we say the better, as it is dif-
ficult to determine which most deserved to be le sett, Mr.
RENNET in focrieg, Mr. CHIPPENDALE in Lampad, Mr.
EVttE in Balthazar, or Mr. T A LBOT in the Duke. Iticctefv
ail Mr. T.'s ingenuity to find out a character in which he
has less chance of being tolerable than in tins, Ile cant nei-
ther look the character tior weak it. Instead of appearing
like the Duke disguised in order 'in) humble the spirit of A
woman he loved, he looked mare like the leader of a ban-
ditti who had dragged an unfortuvire female to his retreat
for the worst of purposes. When be took the key from his
girdle to threaten Juliana with confinement, the air with
which he di4l it, and the ferocious tti in which preceded and
accompanied the action must have made that part of the
audience who were not well acquainted with the play sup-
pose that he was drawing a dagger to stab her to the heart,
the only WaV, by. the bye, in which a person of his opputc-
(ince could be expected to make any impression on it.

PROLOW2E TO THE NEW PLAY OF " LOOK AT HOME,"
WRITTEN BY HENRY HARP Lit, ESQ. AND sroKLN BV

MR. GRANT.

(The lines between inrerted commas avec °ruined.)
A, oft the sorry si4o.bourd of at; I.:n
(-041 promi-e of the smiler 13re within j,
Swing, to the Traveller's eye these words of er:ursep
" Cionti entertuiument ft.!. Alan Hilt' Hoise
So our dull l'aoiogutt is hole, out to cloy
To c .tch (if c;,tcii we can) attraction to enr labs.
(/..r tart's 11111)S indlrrellr—wbalP3 Stilt ‘%urse,
:For Mau. we've eitterluiri ment--ann fin Ho, se.
And. as times vu, his flows are p ate, I weed,
" %Vito cannot rube a horse-limgh by his I,cent:a
" 't be broad humour or distal ton lac s,' •
" at. acturti hilt must a die, will, Inientss tat their backs."
S,,me would-be hniliorlitig, ot lute deemed,
A, PLys grew dull, they must improve the breed ;
ostugicians urgue different ways,
They thoogitt. Ns Ploys Were Pportp,oll spurts were Plays.
Hence., eager to attract by something new,
TA-r)-gavy their jiad spoitt to tho ptiblie•vicw; -
NO op those Igt.krds where wwerahrb* fgt. tataic,
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