The National Register.
London, England, 1812-07-12 00:00:00

JULY le.,

SIR-1 shall feel highly gratified if the accompanying
translation of a Latin Epistle to Chloe, which appeared in
your last week's publication should prove acceptable. It is
far inferior to the original, but the distinction between
milk and millial,l think, sufficiently marked, the ten being
evidently undeistood as an indefinite number, as we sav,
units, tens. Yours, respectfully, 11. S.

TO CHLOE.
Restore the kisses given to thee,
If shame, and wounded moth sty,
Can eau -e thy mantling cheek to burn;
But 1 the Usurer's interest crave,
And fir each thousand which I gave,
Expect TEN tbousaud in return.

(1110THER TRANSLATION.]
'lO CHLORIS.

if thy 1'44 chreiis a kiss d;stain,
Give them the rus._.s blushing hue ;
I'il take the tenuer boon again,
But. kuuw, my dear, there's interest due !
A ttionsaird kisses I've my fair one given.
Return ►ue thousands, CleLoris, to be even

DR-4MATIC REGISTER.

COVENT-GA ItDEN.-A TOUCH AT THE TIMES.

Ilk is an attractive title. Satire is always welcome, not
so much Isecause it is generally deserved, as because man,
the proudest being in creation, is also the most foolish, and
regmdiess of the discredit or dishonour which the miscon-
duct of his fellow beings casts upon the whole human race,
exults in the exposure of their errors and vices, as though
their lots of character yielded him any individual advan-
tage. It is not our intention here to investigate the causes
of this perversion of feeling; it is sufficient for us to know
its effect, and to infer from it the predisposition of an
audience tr, be satisfied, when it assembles to enjoy its
lay:Atria! treat. In the present case, however, the author
lrt, been rather unfottunate. lie has awakened expecta-
tions which he has disappointed. His blows has been well
aimed, but through want of force have recoiled on himself.
In a woid, whilst attempting, accoreing to the title of his
Picce, to give A Touch at the Times," we apprehend he
is more likely to find he has inflicted a wound on his own
fame.

To undertake to delineate the plot of a comedy which
possesses nolie, would be mole than vain; it would orgtle
wait cf common sense. To enumerate the obief incidents
"4)10 occur in the course of five long acts is most easy, as
their number is very limited, and it requires no stretch of
memory to keep them in mind, as they have long been
stored in every man's knowledge by the perusal of former
Plays. The most prominent in this comedy consists of an
unsuccessful attempt made by a fashionable husband (Mr.
ILiaavmoitE), encouraged by the advice of an hones! Wor-
m!, (Mr. BLANCHARW, and assisted by the thoughtless
levity of his lady (Mrs. EGERTON), to redeem his affairs by
o,bt.aming-large damages for his wife's supposed infidelity.
I liis is unfortunately no novelty, either hi the world or on
the stage. We recollect real cases, when husbands after pub-
licly exposing their wives, on ascertaining that their convicted
lilt-amours were totally unable to pay the heavy daniages
tound against them, have prosecuted others of a richer de-
scription fur a previous offence of the same nature. We
recollect too, that FIELDING in his " Modern Husband," has