The National Register.
London, England, 1823-04-07 00:00:00

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sistence fur the cavalry in the mountains of Roncal,.
detached it into the plains of ltonchesvalles, but the
Constitutional Colonel Zumulacarrcg,ai, at the head
of his column, and of some cavalry attacked them
on the `2lst at day-breez, and the disorder was so
complete • that SO horses out of 140, and 50 men
were taken, and sent to Pampelunu ; only 1 & horses,
however, were found fu for service, which gives anl
idea of the cavalry ofthe Army of the Faith.
A report is spread that General Queseda entered
Iron yesterday evening, but this news seems to be
premature ; what is true is thutk 600 of Gorostidi's
band entered France this morning at Viriato, on the
Bidassoa, to be armed, and equipped, and that they
are immediately to return to Spain..

MR. JUMBLE.- *.

" The late Mr. Keinble !" %V hat words are these to w,le!
liath he departed front the great stage of life, in whom so many
kind-hearted recollections centred ; who transported thousands
from the dull scene of !weevil reality into the mighty past, sod
.presented them with a living image of its gran.:eur ? !lath the
true representative of Human greatness fiittid away like a
shadow f Are those lips, from which philosophic taooght and
venerable wisdom were so tenderly breathed, cold and silent
in the grave ?
So fails, so languishes. decays and dies,
All that this world is pseud of; from their seta
The stars of. human glory are east down ;
,Perish the roses and the flowers of Lngs.
Princes, and emperors, and all sue palms
01 all the mighty !
Mr. Keisible's physical excellencies, no leas than his defects,
circumscribed, in some degree, the sphere of his acting ; kis
lignre was to august ; Ida features were of too decided and
majeatic a oast, to admit of that fluctuating expression which
rambled Garrick to embody every variety of human nature,
„and almost every fantastic creation of human wit. Ile chiefly
excelled where one single emotion or trait was to he clearly
end strikingly developed, and failed comparatively in parts
fall of the ebbs and lowa of emotion, or which were itifiaenced
by external things. He seemed " king of crowned passions ;"
master of the contending elements of internal strife; or, if lie
yielded, it was only to sonic feeling in his owa breast, which
" would not be constrained by mastery." Ile seemed formed
to bid ,: fiance to fate and fortune. How inimitably he pour-
trayed the lofty pride of Curiolanue, the mild philosophy of
Bram, sod the noble severity of Cato, it would be intrerhaeut
to describe ;—but in other and more fiery characters be was
also at home, when the predominant feeling of these was
strongly Marked, and when it was begotten and acted perpe
malty on the bosom of its poss o . Thus, his Zesega was
grand terrific ; his Pierre was gay and commanding; and, even
to the very last, his Noisiest. ass fall of surpassing spirit and
energy. Although be did not succeed in representing love in
its youthful enthusiasm, or the full agony of its disappointment,
WI one could give so tenderly the reminiscences of its long-
oeimed enjoyments, or brood with a gentler melancholy over
its buried hopes. Still the emotions wide!' be pourtrayed were
either single or brought into harmony by the power of commit-
plation, or softened into it by silegt Time. In the Stranger,
sod Poweikioc.A, Ito was far beyond rivalry ; but be could
' scarcely have been more than judicious in ()thaw ; and though
transcendently great in aonte parts of Moe/leak and Hamlet, be
never gave more than use aspect of those diversified and va-
cillating. diameters.
Although Mr. Kemble's range was thus circumscribed, it is
a 'Mittel:, to 01.114105 C that within it lie was less enteral than
other eminent tragedians. As tar as the manner is concerned
—the frame-work, solo speak of the heroic pietare-110 actor
can he natural in the sense required by those who have a pious
bowie of dignity and grace. Even if it were desire .le, it would
nut be possible, within the narrow limits of the seen*, to give
the individual peculiarities of the persons ; to tracts out passion
through all its tong windings, and sbew bow it is manifested
amidst the ordinary forms and usages of life. Hut the poet's
art consists in representing the essentials of passion within this
beef spare ; in epitomising the feelings of yeirs, sod yet pre-
serving their harmoey and proportion ; and in assorting them
from those low and trivia circumetances which tend to fill up
the scene without adding to its interest or its value. The
actor, therefore cannot walk and speak as in actual life;
suit the only question is, whether the manner which he shall
assume shall '-e grotesque and fantastical, or whether it shall
be, in itself b smilel and stately. It is no more in maitre for
an actor to give three taps on his breast, and toss Iris arms in
the air, cr to Ain!: front a very high key to a-whisper, than to
look and move " ax though sonic god had crept into his form
and.giren him graceful so ion." In those passages of intense
leeling, in which the artist obtains his moat decisive triumphs,
all great actors are true to nature; nor was Mr. Kemble any
inanneriet lime. Let his enemies assert, that his strut ing
grief in Core ; that his " Liar and slave" in Maria's. ; that his
mode efaccosting ifenry Waodu a its the Wheel al Fortune—
" You bear a strong reeeMidattee to your mother!" that his
bewildered recoguitiun of Purauthe in Octavian. were snot
natural, if they can,—and the tears and thrilling hearts of thou-
sands shall answer them! Mr. hemble was regarded by ca-
villers as a matinerist,.only because his manner was the finest
in the world.

Ne actor ever more thoroughly understood and relished his
anther than this iecoruparable artist. If he sometimes lingered
too long over passages, it always seemed that he dwelt
on them from a fond admiration of their beauties. He ap-
peared to have a peculiar relish for sense and wit, and, in leis
earlier days, is said to have played with fine discrimination in
the comedies ef emigres° and Sheridan. It has been well
observed attire, that be always gave with singular felicity, the
reliefs and lighter traits of tra ' redy, and reconciled us even to
Sir Gast thorrreeich and Itirhard. his personal demeanour
shed a lustre on his profession. Ile made actors the ornament
and delight of that elegant society from which they were aliens
when his career began. The stage decorations and appropriate
garniture of his art were rather created than improved by his
taste and learned skill ; and all the wonders of the scene
started up, as if by magic, at his bidding.
Mr. Keinlile has tor years ritireit from the scene, yet that
death accrue to make a new chasm among our objects of regard
and to eclipse the harmless gaily of the town. In his retire-
11101t, his mind doubtless, reposed on the scenic grandeur's
which he in lueger realised, nod which were yet living it. the
hearts of his admirers. Thus the sympathy between the public
ant their old benefactor never ceased till it was chilled by the
at destroyer. These images of greatness are now chilled
,addeeed liv funeral OU0111,; 31111 instead of dwelling 011
laeir pr rrnantince and mnjeaty, we are cutupelli.d to feel that
they are but shaduwati