The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-05-07 00:00:00

PUBLIC MONUMENT

TO THE MEMORY OF THE LATE LAMENTED
PRINCESS CHAIALVITE OF WALES AND SAXE
COBURG. --

Tie Cenotaph Coalmine', after maturely comiderlag the
various comainricallens they have received, sad iw confor-
mity wits what they have reason to believe is the wish
of the Public, beg leave to state that it is their inanition,
should their roads be adequate, to construct the proposed
Temple of the Cenotaph oil a scale sitnictesitly extensive tit
admit of its being appropriated to the purposes of Divine
Wonbip, sad constituted a Free Church.
(Fur the Committee)
BENJ. BOTCH, Jaw.

The Duke of RICHMOND entertained a party of
distinction yesterday, at Richinond-luttute.
Earl Vsau tam gives a grand entertainment to
a large party on the 15th instant, at his house in
Grosvenor-square.

Earl Foaersetni gave a grand dinner yesterday
to the Duke of Meantime, the Directors of the
Ancient Music, and a large party, at his house iu
Grosvenor-square.
The Countess of Serra, gives a splendid rout
this evening, at her house in Arlington-street.
The Hon. Mr. and Mrs. DRUMMOND BURR ELL
will have a large dinner party this day at their resi-
dence in Piccadilly.
The Bishop of EXETER and the Hon. Mrs.
PELHAM will give a grand entertai ttttt ent, ou Tues-
day next, to the PRINCE REGENT, and a large
'tarty of distinguished personages, ut their residence
in Connaught-place.
Yesterday evening the infant son of Sir Ranee
and Lady AVIGRAM was buptivd by the Bishop
of EXETERs at their house in Connaught-piece.
The Spouses-2 were, his Royal !lignites* the Pets CC
REGRET, his Royal Highness the Duke of CL/t-
-ames, and her Grace the Dowager Duchess of
Neweasei.e. After the ceremony, a party of dis-
tinction partook of an elegant dinner, including
The Marquis of Hertford, the Earl and Coolness of Her.
court, Viscoaat and Viscountess Bernard, the Ma. Mrs.
Pelham, the Hos. Mrs. Trefusis, Lord Carlton, Sir Beajansia
sad Lady Bluessallekl, Sir Edmund Nagle, Ste. Ac.
Among the last arrivals at Bath are--
Lord Sidmouth, Lord Exmouth. Lord Selfurd, Lady
Tynte, Lady C. Dormer, Lady A. Wallupe, Humturable V.
Gardener, Sir W. and Lady James, Sir William Call, Sir J.
Cradurk, Admiral Johnson, Cul. Brutus, Col. Lawreacts
Cul. Ityley, Out. Fortune, Gil. Nacerose, Lieatasaat.Cot.
Baubesay, Lawsua, Sic.
Arrived at their house in Grosvenor-square, Co-
lonel and MIL Gate LANGTON, twin Paris.

Arrivals at the Pultenev Hotel, Piccadilly :
Colonel Mae:mats, M.P. Mrs. MAGER'', and I'•-
oily. from their seat, near Maidenhead.
DRAMATIC.—The laughahle and admirable farce
of Who any Esther ? contra, as we understaud,
from tits pen of Mr. MosTua, lung known and
admired for hi+ theatrical isruiluctions.
It was said formerly of the French Cabinet, that
in the choice of their Ambassadors " they selected
• dull calculating fellow for H.llend, a man of
family fur Spain, and a sharp clever fellow fur
England, and oue who did nut-entirely adhere to
truth."

It would seem as if the CHANCELLOR or the
EXCHEQUER and the Comm awitnirr% of the Bedford
Drainage were endeavouring to supply each UMW*
waists; for as the CHANCELLOR Poi+ doing what lie
could to Injure the tawdry Bankers, ass advertise-
ment appeared iu many of the psur►ncial papers to
say, •• ►hat littera hundred bankers were wautetl"--
Jur the Bedford Lord.

DRURY•L4AIE THEATRE..

Home's tragedy of Douglas was lest night per-
forated to one of the fullest asediencer of which
the season has yet had to boast. We were, on this
occasion, presented with ton novelties. A lady of
the statue of Macanis.V. (rota the Dublin 11,entrri
appeared, for the first time uu the London Isuartlos
its the character of Lady Riedelpil—end Mr.
KEAN. who filo' not before sustaiueil the part of
Yining Norval, its the metropolis, now stood far.
ward as the represetnative of the gallant and
ingenuous youth. Mises MACAUi.uir has hail 1..111..
indent'''. provsucial experietice, and has aCquirtd
u nut inconsiderable portion of proVincial fame.
Her 'sweetener is whet ntatrosily. She is of
the middle stature—her figure full and toenail
—her countenance iiitellsgein ; hut evidently more
calculated fur the expressioit lii the pensive, than of
the violent passions. The character which sloe as-
sumed on this occasion, throughout the whole of
which a sorrow, purely fesniuiste. prevails, appears
to have been very properly selected fur her debut.
Her conception of the part was just—ene, in 'stoat
instances, she displayed powers perfectly lottlirli to.
give life and ainnsatiou to the picture which her
fancy had drawn. There ia, in her voice, a con-
siderable degree of weetuesa—but it is deficient
in volume. Its consequence of its want of body,
some fine passages did net produce those tenets-
lions. which, in other hinds, we have known theist
to excite. MISS MACAULSY alas very little actiroi ;
but it is marked by etegesice and propriety. IVe
cannot pay the same compliment to her mode of
treading the stage, which is too precise and con-
fined. This lady is, nisquestiotsably, au actress of
ins mean lowers. We observed, in her perform-
ance, none of those errors which are. its general.
characteristic of the provincial school. We had
110 rant, nu violence. No attempt was made "to
split the ears of the groundlings." Her perform-
ance was chaste and subdued : perhaps it was
toe even. A little more passion would sent have
been ill-suited to the severe sorrows of Lady Ran-
dolph. We admired her..--and the great body of
the audience admired her not less—its the scene
where she discovers that her son lives, and in that
still more trying scene, where she unfolds her Isis-
tory to his astonished ears. In the latter, the de-
scription of her husband's eye, which is beautifully
poetical. was given admirably. The pensive fond.
nets with which she dwelt sin that otter expressive
feature, which, in early life, bad beamed on her
with love and rupture, taut whose brightness had
long been hidden in the tomb, was very natural
and affecting. Miss MACAELEY'S reception was,
throughout the evening, most flattering. Indeed
we have rarely witnessed a snore favoitrable delta:.
—The part of Aorval is not in Mr. KEAN'S line.
Norval is brave, open, ingenuous—free from all
little passions—anxious, its the outset, to require a
name in arms—and, when he learns the noble
family front which he derives his origin, still more
anxious to prove that he is worthy to be the scion
of such an illustrious stock. Here is no room
for sarcasm—here is no opportunity for biting
taunt and bitter scorn—the atmosphere its which
Mr. KEAN exists. He still, however, displayed
great genius. The level .pacts of the character
—we speak of Aureate history of himself, and
his description of the manner in which he had
acquired the elements of war—were indeed but
tamely delivered. The interview with his mother
was, with very little exception. a deeply interesting
piece of acting. The manner in which he inquired,
whether his father still lived, was replete with the
most affect nu
ionate feeling. But we do t approve
of the manner in which he uttered the hue—

" The blood of Douglas will defend iieeif.w
Instead of the auntie tone and wanner which he
assumed, he ought to have been all loftiness and
dignity. The abrupt manner, too, in which he
quitted his mother, had a bad effect. A gunmen.
tary embrace—a fervent declaration that he would
punish Weisakou fur his misdeeds—and a reluct-
ant removal from that mother, so lately found and
so dearly loved—would have produced an infi-
nitely better effect, and would have been more true
to nature. His coutentiott•aceoe with Gieeakoa was
finely played—although we think it was too touch
Marked by sarcasm. Mr. KILSN's manner here un.
doubtedly justified the sneer of Weirdo" when he
tauntingly says—

" Mark the humility of Shepherd Norval,"
and took away considerably from the ainiability of
the character. The dying-scene presented some
affecting touches. We were particularly struck
with Noroars exultation, when he related the death
of Gleadoom—and with the tremulous and faltering
manner in which, as he is expiring, he sighed out
the name of "mother." Mr. KEAN'S performance
was rapturously applauded. Mr. BENGOUGH'S
Cletusloos was tolerably good. He at least looked
the character well. Mr. Pore will, we trust, be
more sparing of his lungs, when lie again personates
Old Norval.

At the conclusion of the tragedy, Mr. Hots.&ttt►.
who played Lord Rusedo/ph. came forward to un.
nounce The Jew of Malta for this evening—but the
cry for Mr. KLAN and Dorgicu was general, and
be was obliged to retire. 111 r. KLAN soon after-
wards made his appearance. 'midst the acclaims.
tious of the audience, and announced the tragedy
of Dostgius fur repetition.

LAM:WAGE OF BIRDII.-4, There is," says the
Quarter'', Reviewers. " a liviog artist, of the first
rank in English art. who, having .petit much of his
time in boyhood alone. in lowly s.ituistions, and
having ear. as discriminative and obseivaist as his
eyes. has acquired this knowledge. and in cons,.
quence almost as great a command over them, as a
skilful apiarist possesses over bees : from the song
of the pareut lie learn► where the nest is situated.
whether it contains young. or if the brood be
hatched; and he knows ilievuoilwr of young birds
and their age, before he sees them."
About two o'clock on Wednesday se'insight an
alarming fire broke out in the stables of the Bear
and Crow., dun. Ipswich, when in a short tissue a
range of Ix stalls. with an open stable, wasl►-hour.
mud a room over the kitchen, fall a prey to the
devouring element. and lice homes, the property of
Alessrs. LassaLaT sal StiEpimau. ualartutlntrly
peit.heil im the flames, the progress of which was
happily checked shout four o'clock by the ',mow-
worthy exertions of the spectators, particularly the
officers lord men of the Sth Dragoon Guards.

ASYLUM' I'OR DE.II AVD Dui

Yester.ley the Anniversary Vevtival of this Believeleut
Instituttue was celebrated at the Citv of I undue Timer's.
Ilishopugate-street. About silt o'clock upwards of tee
Friends Mini Supporters of tbr Chanty sat 4101111 to a mot
excellent Mltertainwient, his Prins! Higher*. she Duke i.f
tiliisecester iii the Chair, Suppnetwirm Om right baud by thv
Must Noble the Marmots of on the left by
Culvert Gailskell. Armonk the rumpany wow several other
Nuillellewu and Geetlemen Of ilistinctiou. A military
hand attended se the inuccipillcry, and played several airs
tiOrillg the retertaisietrist. After ilia cloth ISIS removed,
Aoa Nithir Dewitt( Was sung au excelletit *tyre by Marais.
Smoak, Collier, Dolma, Wolfe, J. %Elia, Ice.

PREVENTION UP FuRGED RANK .VOTES.

TU THE EDITOR.

Ammo, the novel and tatreuloba iii.mes 'detested for in.
lust the diairollos of /warty. nn the ca.e ot Rauh of
Eimlaud Notes, to au usvestiosi of itr. Ralph Lhatil, the
Easeliseer,' which ha. West recently autainlited to the MUM.
fielldWil of the Rauh Directorii, His method is to
Jute, by • chemical process, tutu the automatics of the sessies,
aWI during the istaimfacistre of the paper, a *mail portion a
a peemnar liquNl gold, Whirl§ .hall base the appearmasce i.O
what is termed by artist. dead mat pule!, and abaci, stiay bet
made to seprearut a society of assitill unmerical hearts. cm.
respuudimg wilts the respective value at A. several notes 1,4
*hicb it uoty be inserted. Thi tic kgnres, it is maisitaiiii
cinout be imitated, except by tkinee whu are orossetaied of I lo:
ideentior's secret tro.ds of chemical preparati ssss and uf
various mechanical apparatus by which hi. processes a, o
carried usa ; and the apparatus. it appear*, it, 91111 large, twill.:
required to be worked by a steam magus-, that comiterl. its
of surfs a &twit CIPIO4I nut be pn.thicert, a. under the present
system. iu eritlCeallnerst ilr a conies; while the etc prose of
Ike preparation is au small, though the most pennons metal
is employed in it, that. it is asses test out to sold inure than
2.1. to the cost uf the manufacture of a note, if the note fro
marked only with a sitr‘k figure. %Vete sail. a phut isotopia it,
mid to correspond with lir pretensions, it would suable the
public to fungi their jatlgincut of a note, not at now. by
pinta,/ aver water marks mod perplekine graphic lints, but
by s sitter glance at a 4mistipictioug mist strikiiie character,
which the Must alliterate Might quickly lona to maid and
dakrataud.

POLICE.
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11A11 Lae/WV° H- STR I It .
LORD 140 V NTCAS E I .'s P l'E.

Yesterday Lord Alssenteastivl attended at Ihis olNee to
♦iew the plait, &c. which had been robin] in the hots
of Messrs. Jelin*, is ttaker•strM, supposed So hart
been stolen from his Lordship's family is, four 'eats
ago, on its way from Ntralford•place to Crooner, Lord
Alounleasbel's nut. the prisoners ■re mill iu clistoilv
ou the charge, aid will be esa ssssss ril un Pei bsy. It *as
reported that he Lordship cinte to town for the pur-
pose of impairing into the ease, bat the constable who
look the Prisoners was not in allendance, vonnequeutly his
Lordship was disappeisted isi hi■ expectaiiiin of vireisie the
property, but the 1111sgietratet gave hiss every other pu.silivt

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