The National Register.
London, England, 1811-12-01 00:00:00

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DRAMATIC REGISTER.

COVENT-GARDEN.

A Mr. HUNTLEY from the Circus came out here on Mon-
day. He sustained the part of James, in The Knight of Snow.
doun, and that of Rontuldi, in The Talc of Mystery. In both
characters he acquitted himself tolerably well. Fiis person is
not bad, and his powers are very considerable, but there is no-
thing about him that gives promise of his ever becoming a first
rate performer.
Though I cannot see that to the present Covent-Garden com-
pany, Mr. HuNTLE V is likely to prove a very important acquisi-
tion, I still think him a respectable actor. A writer in one of the
daily prints, however, has found out that he has no qualifica-
tions whatever for the stage. This he professes to write with
great pain ; but he thinks that it would be more cruel to ap-
plaud a man, who after a few nights, must, if retained at all,
descend to the lowest drudgery of the Theatre. lc is a wonder
that this humane gentleman, whose geiti/encqs is only equalled by
his dignity, did not find out the cruelty of praising in the case of
Mr. PUTNAM. hat gentleman, the same parr spoke of as
being no mean acquisition to a London Theatre, and some of
his early performances were said to be excellent. There is no
accounting for the difference of taste; but I would prefer the
mediocrity of Mr. Hu NTLEY to the excellence of Mr. Pu INAM,
and so 1 believe would the public at large, as the latter is to the
former, what Mr. HUNTLEY is to KEMBLE. G.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland
has been on a visit to John Vernon, Ecief. of Orwell
Park, Suffolk, where he has taken the diversion of
shooting with a number of the neighbouring gen-
tlemen, who have all been hospitably entertained
there.—On Monday evening his Royal Highness
attended a concert and ball at the Assembly Room,
Ipswich.
METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENTS.—The grand and
extensive improvements in the North-western
suburbs of the metropolis, we are glad to perceive,
in a state of considerable progress. According to
the vast, comprehensive, and magnificent plan, of
the able and ingenious artist, Mr. NASH, the revenue
of the Crown will be benefited to the amount of
80001. per annum, and an enchanting outlet,
studded with superb mansions, and ornamented
with numberless plantations, be added to the
Metropolis, without any expense to the Public.
In ,the centre of the improvements, it is under-
stood that a Royal residence is to be erected.
Mary-le-bone .Park is intended to comprise an ex-
tent of about 400 acres, to be planted with 17,000
trees, and to have a circus of houses or villas round
it. me barracks, and the exercising ground for the
troops, comprising about •10 acres, are intended to.
be f. :rmed near Primrose-hill. The IC)r mation of the
Park is proceeding in with consi,4erable expedition.
A part of the plan connected with tiiis improvement
was, to open a magnificent street from the southern
end of Portland-place to Pall-mail, continuing also
Portland-place to the New-road, where it would
open opposite to the park ; but it is not yet de-
termined whether this part of the plan will be pti.
sisted in. The park will include what was known
by the name of \Velling's Farm, together with seve-
ral fields adjoining, the whole being Crown land,
and extending on the west nearly to St. John's
Wood, northward beyond Primrose-hill, on th., cast,
nearly to the Hampstead road,. and bounded to the
south by a part of the New-road.

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