The National Register.
London, England, 1813-01-31 00:00:00

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tulnca" is a pleasing whimsical olio, by no meens des• it u to of
claims to public approbation. Tire dialogue is in many idits
very good, the business is not always well eviducted, but the
situations are generally etiective. The moral we lurve for-
got. lithe play, however, does not instruct, it c t.tcr ain%
and those who go to see it ought not to repine, if it des not
make them wise, so long as it makes them laugh.
HAYMARKET THEATRE.
The Yahoo called Co AT Es, whose exhibitions in " The
Fair Penitent," we noticed in a recent number, received a
new tribute of scorn, on Thursday. in the same play. The
business of this evening was so little I aried from th" former
performance (if such an express:tote may here be used,) that the
account of the one maybe received as a description of ;he other.
We wonder the gentry who pick up a living by 'bows of
this kind, do not introduce some other animal in the part of
the gallant gay Lothario. A baboon, dressed up for die
character, would perhaps not be a novelty sufficiently
sttiking, immediately after Mr. COAT Es ; but we should
think a bear, a Newfoundland dog, or a full-sized tom cat.
might prove very attractive, and well deserve the title r f
the celebrated amateur of fashion." No objection could
be raised on the score of the play being Hut ed by such a
representative being found for Lot hario, for if it is supposed
Calista could be captivated by a modern amaleur, we see
nothing to preclude any one of the anima's we have men-
tioned from becoming the object of her choice.
Some may think a bear, or a dog, or a cat, would not
easily get the part by rote. Those, however, who have seen
in street spectacles what education will do for a bear, or
who remember the run the dancing dogs had at .4.4-adley's
Wells some years ago, will perhaps be of a diffee trot opinion.
A cat may be thought a more untractahle animal than either,
but we have reason to believe that, with proper assistance, a
torn cat might cut a respectable fi..raire in Lot hnr:o. An
Italian, some years ago, gave a grand concert, in which cats
were the only perfor niers. They were ranged according to
their age, their size, and their voices, on steps placed one
above another, in the form of an amphitheatre. Each cat
had a frill and ruffles made of white paper. They had desks
before them to which their paws were ratadied, and on each
desk was a leaf of music, and two wax tapers. The scene pro-
duced was extravagant enough. The faces of the animals h
were much more eapressive than the countenance of the -Err.-
market Amateur) presented a singular picture. The music and
the instruments which furnished the accompaniments were
equally preposterous, and the tail of each animal being se-
cured in an instrument procured for the put pose, the leader
of the band had only to press this, and pinch their tails,
when their vocal exertions were required, and the melody
wanted was procured.
After reading this historical fact we think every one must
be satisfied that our Haymarket puppet-spew men could, if
they pleased, give us a greater variety of first rate perform-
ers. Their acting, it is true, might not be quite so midi-
culous as that of Mr. COATES, the anim:ll3 themselves
might appear entitled to some respect, and the teat in
consequence not quite so complete as some would wish. We
however must contend, that the variety' thus preductd would
be more entertaining than an often repeated exhibition of of
wretched Yahoo. Candour, however, obliges tis• to say, that
those who bring forward Mr. Co ATM, may he actuated by
very patriotic motives. They may be of oi illicit', that ot.r
national character can in no way be so effectually r..ited,
foreignets must conclude that fully is very seance among of',
when hundreds run, time after time,, to sec such an f.ctor.
They must think an idiot a great rarity in this ha; py nation.
as the natives desire to st e no gt eater curiousity than a fool,

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