The National Register.
London, England, 1813-08-22 00:00:00

AUGUST ft

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-DRAMATIC REGIS'

LYCEUM.

On 'Thursday last, an operatic drama in three acts, called The Waltz
and founded on WYCHERLEY'S Dancing Master, but purged of all
its grossness; was represented for. the first time at this theatre.
Those who expected a satire aimed at the prevalent taste for the •
voluptuous indecency of the Gerinan Waltz, were disappointed.
Iu its- present state, the piece has little pungency, either of wit
or of satire, to boast : yet it is lively and amusing. Is it
does not instruct or reprove, it hies little tendency to corrupt.
Its fable is perhaps too simple for an English audience, to whom
the intricacies of under-plots are always pleasing; but the skill of
the performers fills up the emptiness of its outlines, and. gives the
whole the plumpness, colonrino and vivacity of life. The charac-
ters are as antiquated as the plot, which only consists in the giddy
contrivances of a young! girl (Miss KELLY) to deceive her father
(LoveonovEl an Englishman denationalised by his long abode in
Simon, of which he teas adopted the manners anti the dAiss ; her
aunt, (Mrs. SPARKS) an old meddling woman, anti tier cousin
(.I.isirOsil, a dunce of English origin, loaded with 'F'rench frippery
and extiavagance. in order to many ker lover (Pien.ups) whom
she introduces as her dancing-master, with the assistance and
thromJi they stupidity of his very rival, her cousin. She is assisted
its tier intrigue by her maid (Mrs. LtsToN) who has nothing to do
but to inform her when her father is coming, at which times she
feigus she learning 'a waltz. As usual, the contrivances of the
lovers suceeeil, and; they arc ultimately forgiven.
It can easily be conceived that the mere introduction of such able
performers, in any characters, must produce much comic effect,
aid malty laughable. liitilatiollB. Iu these, they have power-
ful auxiliaries in the ridiculousness of their respective dresses,
and the pompous gravity of LovEonove, the coxcombical
affectation of LISTON, Mrs. SPARK'S stiffness, MISS KELLY'S
chdrining vi% nit}, ease, spirit, and nature, with the melodious voices
of Pa ,i.uPs and Mrs. LISTON may well, cause the deficiencies of
the piece to be forgotten. Among the latter, however, we will
mention the attar .ment of ti:e Frenchified dunce to his dress, which
is carried se far, as to make us more-inclined to laugh at the foolish-
Nes- of the author, than at that of his fop.
On the first night, this piece encountered much opposition, but it
has since become mote popular. It is an entertaining trifle en-
livened by -ome pretty music.

The four Officerq, who remained for execution at Win-
cheFter. Ur the fnu.der of Lieut. BLUNDELL, in a duel,
have received a further respite until the 2d of September.
The fallowing notice was posted up in the Corn-Exchange
and other places on Monday:—

MANSION-HOUgE, AUG. 10, 1813.
"Inconsequence of the want of corectness in the manner of mak-
ing the Returns of Meal or Flour bought within the City of Lon-
pon, and the weekly Hills of iviortality, and within ten miles of
the Royal Exeliani4c ari.ing principally from the non-observance of
the 6th Section of the Act, passed in the 37th year of his present
Majesty's rein, which directs, that the price shall be absolutely
fist d at the time of sale,. and before the delivery, and shall not de-
pen I upon any enture mar! et price or other contingency, under the
penalty of twenty pounds on both buyer and seller, the Lord
Mayor is tillable to fix the Assize of Bread with justice to the

" The Lord Mavoc, therefore, gives this notice to the trade, that
lit feels Linise:fnue4 in.peratively called upon to put the penal
clauses of the Art ill forte to the full extent ; particularly against
all persons mho sh;;Il sell and deliver or receive any deal or Flour
without a regular Bill o!' l'a)cels, setting forth the true price actu-
ally agreed upon, acuording to the directions of the said Act.
" By ortier oi leis I.ordship,
•• FRANCIS NOBLER, Clerk."

DRFATIFVT. EXPTeSTON.---Yestelday mortlitlt, tit about twenty-five
riiitiutes past six o'clock, too of the powder mills at Hounslow were
blown tip with trenu.ndous explosion.. The reports, ohick took place
with only a momentary interval bcto eel) them, were heard for up-
wards of twenty mile, round. At Kel.sicgteri and Brompton, the
shocks were so violent as to resemble thr se of an earthquake, and the
courussion of the air so e‘tratirdittiny a• to rine small hells hung in
gardens in the?4e pqrta. We have heard that three persons tell victims
to this aw cilia v--the cause of which, as must gene:9lly be the
cue in such evcntik :cuiniut be ant/wined.