The National Register.
London, England, 1808-02-14 00:00:00

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isior. insidious; but it is not null d propos to observe, tha,
iliac Smith's character will, perhaps, be better liked, when
time plot is understood, as on the
.first representation it appeared
rather disgusting to see the supposed !File of Algernon, co-
quetting with Capt. Modern, and suffering him to kiss her
' hand, &c.
There was another actress, whose general mode of Whir
and evi.lent efforts to please, ought al waN s to screen her from
illiberal tcti-ure ; ;wt ue hope bhe will not be offended at a
.. , friendly hint, that, although a frequent extension and even
1101. Violent action of toe arms, may he allowable in tragedy, yet it
is rather unnatural in the einiple Country Girl, the protegee of
to cottage, nfuwithstanding she teas just come from a Boarding
Pcllllol.
1.- lion the whole, our general opinion is in favour 'Of this
Iseee, et we strongly recommend much curtailment, particu-
larly in the two first Atli, where the action seems to hang very
much 4 and also in the common-place puns, and sentimental
clap-traps: otherwise the authors attempt at wit, upon the
Parliamentary Debates may be turned upon himself; and we
may be tempted to congratulate ourselves, " th;“ although
forced to /scar, it is fortunate that we arc not ohlivd to read."

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CITY.
BRFAD.—TurAay the Lord Mayor ordered the prirc of
Errad to reinaiu the sine as last week, viz. 11d4. the quarrn
loaf of Is beaten, and lOd. household.

TINE

marked with a ;!eloi.rat smoothness and equality of brownish
tint, that destroy the effects, and is by no means consonant ta
pentpecti ve.

So. 471.-ou/tiller descabin. Fortification to Horses. S.

S. Cli.riN. R. A.

As a CAM:. Painter, Mr. Gilpin has often ;:tined the meed
of applause at former exhibitions, and in this piece, his Horses
are certaiiily well grouped, stead spiritedly executed as Horses
hut were it not for the figure of Gulliver in a corner tracing out
1 square redoubt on the land, they might pass for EngHAI
horses in a Park, as ouch 7 for the Ilotilmlims of Swift..
Them is something so bizarre, and beyond nature, in the ori•-
tiiial idea, that we can aft-tal only to the satire contained !n it
we are nut surprised, therefore, if Mr, thlpin has failed in hilt.
attempt to embody an idea on canvas, to which the most
In %%IH:tot fancy cannot give personification, and where the ex.
pression of wooder or delight might as well arise from the
.fight of a good feed of corn, as from all the horn works and
half-moons of a Pleydell, or a Vauban.
We looked round with anxious expectation for some specimen!
of Beechey's pencil, but vi ere rather disappointed at boding only
some pretty little laanl•c;iptsc, with the exception of a Monk's
Head, No. 329. In this there is much character and eNpres-
sion : the mixed tone t7f relLious Hope and llcsiglintion is well.
marked, the light:: are well nmoneed to aid the general etfect,
and there is nothing of that st which might be expected
from a pencil so much accustomed to Portr.tit paiothre.
We shall lie happy in 1 future Number, to notice the nume-
rous efforts of pencil, together with Westally
Thomsno, Drum:no:id, and a long ,tretera.

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4.,•1P _ .-11k•owerlit411,e INOe'llomae llt • The Weili,earned fme of Atr. Pocock, as a Marine Painter,
-• : ' '. . .-willatmeas "UtlY .I.og Ai` wi:l always indure unto turn to his performances, with an almost
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.filitivis...., be . , retor -" IN y was it certainty of gratification, and in this effort of his pereil we were
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. ,siocemor•mimp4 . alticing thequaint attematF not disappointed. The surf breaking on the beach seems evi-
'. ' 4 40w1.44,. hick Alla ' puns, some of which, we
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dently copied from nature, and not us we are often forced to wit-
. APpeS 'Abe public will be excused from listening to in future. ; !less it,. as if the Artist bed formed his Ideas from a storm in a
lathtlicalarly where Lewin, In Modarn, expresses his dislike for
washing-tub I—The effect produced by the Setting-Sun, gives a
wonits as arising from his love of novel( y ; and also where pleasinpglow to the fore-Around, and marks that thelticrerl ob-
It.' Solace talks of having got tipsy, and being liable to a tineaer- Neu ri ty in the distance, so cheracteristie of an evening gatle,when
moving Wine, without a Permit, beyond the quantity allowed.," the anxious hlariver watches the declining Sun, doomed, per-i
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It also deIIIfININIMUCC, that Algernon, the hero of the piece,
did not appears-410P the last Act ;,this, perhaps, was in lull-
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Ittaslon of lisreaet, in his " Fair sAndrian," where Glycerium
. the heroine, is never seen, but is heard, by the audience and
the old fathers, crying out for assistance, on a very
I ocCaftiou, to Juno 'Akins, the patroness of ladiesinteitnesttihnge
straw. .
To analyse each Actor's exertions, would be beyond our
• - Jim...its, and where all did well, to notice one or two might ap.
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" Ish.abii, to see him rise no more.
With such acknon ledwed skill as Mr. Pocock possesses in this
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line of paintinr., we eanLot hitt feel regret when h.! turns his at.
tension with less effect to other subjects. This obfervaiion is
drawn from us by No. S3B-4 landscape and Banditti-1u
!I there is a tame, uninteresting accuracy of outline, rendered
even more displeo.ing by an affected contrast in the colouring.
The distant mountains int‘e a darkness of purple which nature
never gives, n hitt the trees and rocks in thr, fore-grounds, are
marked with a reneral sintinthnoot nmi nni.fll:r. ..e 1........_!..1.