The National Register.
London, England, 1809-10-29 00:00:00

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The whole strength of the house was brought forward
on the occasion.' T Chortitses were goods tie 'to ih*
Songs, they rd. their. Aryaktiolsbled along like typo'timp-
ing beggars ;- ne, see
__ indeed,:th4t Mr.
Xelly should 140.14),Kciiiiii0:10 call blinself.ifie composer
of the Entisii,sas it was, Or:meta. tasteless composition we
ever recollece„hearing.: The Overture and Airs have nei-
Aber. taste.; barmonys ncr originality, to reconuuend them,
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and weresothing more than tortured fragmentsyf modern
ballad* whose acted discords were fortunately drowned
the lihtomarre or drums, trumpets anti triangki, whilst
their adaptation to the words set all emphasis, measure,
and accentuation at defiance.

cOVENT•GAROMP.
The temporary production at this nightly Scene othar .
reunions discoid, if it had not been sill-born, would have
fren strangled in its,-birth, by the' vociferation of the-
. Rifles on. the evening of the Jubilee; "the. Manager hiiit-
eirer contrived. oisa subsequent evening to procure a kititi
of Coroner's Inquest on. this first-born of the season, by
briuging it forward in the first part of theentertainmentik
Here all attempts at plot were laid aside entirely, and elle',
gory was substituted in its room, as the joyous occasion was
Supposed to proceed from if Landlord's 49th anniversary' of
bis coming to his estate, to.ielebtate nhieh webad;llfirmer
and his Wife..quarrellint in. the tone, Noon,: a Outten
boatswain whose langpage and dress were both. out 'of
character, a sailoand hisiWeetheart, &c. &c. The dia.•
logue was trifling, both le quantity and quality, but the
songs wore numerous, thonglt tiresome; we saw also the
same attampts at " gilded pageantry" as in-the old *Ouse
which however brilliant in glare and glitter must-disgust
the judicious, when neither selected by the eye'of
went, nor arranged by the hand of taste, and *hie!' are
onsidered As justifying. the rise of prices. ' The ;clos'yng
scene, of a seiyort illumsaated, would hare bad a...:ltter
effect if the.ahip had been. let out, orpeeti Mire,
priately,repr.esented„ aa We -belleve,nehe.ldi 24. the:Covrkt
Garden machinist or property man ever thought of -
street lamps on the tafferel or a three-decker, or of
stating a.rhan of War at the cabin and ward-rboin wind
These Ephemera are gone hoWever ; peace
ashes I

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COVENT GARDEN It)lldria.

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REGISTER.

After the curtain drops,tthreegrisitst ires•as gives
for John Keinble.
the"Perfetmers, lefore'tlitetnitAle• 'hy continued times
Ike have learnt tb'platy Co each other in hater style,. anal
tioltroiduee e'ttiore lisiiriiiOnious concert (if such an.exiiraa-
iluu way be *doled), Of discordant souads. A piodimi•
tatien of the crowitig of a cock now and thibwrariel
ttw
scene, which is relieved at intervals, by. the thrill (slain.

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CT.., tit - • -THE I'I'ATICINItt
jihrusojoga.44intutopeetilifters not of fitsetorporatiou of
RarlistaPlep. icrevegry ;Loll hit off, alidillaie imitation to fo
eqld rout be 4,, 10101 tfie of aineadrpent, wailiumourgly
plinsformed- into Abroad .aod cheasei or 44 touted chesie,
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that only arpoilisty itanour." • #., _ . . - -