The National Register.
London, England, 1813-05-09 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

AY 9.

Bishops I reverence yeti though call'd of wood
Their worth, hi days like these, ill understood !--(9)
I reverence their office ; placed of old, •
Shrpheids, to form, and 'keep the Tit itual•fold
Under one-slicplierd,----the GREAT HEAD!--
ho, thing, vongnish'd Hell, and raised the'Dcad
F.—You preach

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p.--They need such preachment, in an age•
Almost infantine, deeni'd itself most sage....
When 4 moody madness,:ewokse than 4 laughing wild,'
Is charm'd ‘i••ith•toys that would disgust the child ;
When the grOWn babies-of this fateful day,
Scanted refletion,'fritie time away,
Carele,.s what scene shall next. its woes untold,
Or- who that scene may quit ? or who behold 1
E-2ln mercy, Manse!
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P --Welt, Hell ; with preaching done, •
Ere yet with preachers I have well begun,
Deans, then, I recognise, since there remain
• Whom .deanerics have not dignified itt vain.
F.--Ntme me the one whom merit could advance,
Assertion else might pass for sheer romance..
P.--I have hint, at nis fingers ends ; I mean--
F.--You mein--mean who? What, C**t**Vaty's Dean !
P.--Ocesimus applauded-
What then ?•--
Onesimus sOmetimes mistakes his men.
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( To be continued next week.)
(9) Resl!ors I reverence ye!, though of wnef.---1 As
any thing but creditable to his character and situation in life, that
W.trbarton, in his. correspondence with Hard, t, rms the Bench of
11,-hops a,‘ wood 'n bench." Such jot es really degrade such wiz!
Iroweyer confidential. they al.grace those between whom they were
h :tidied ; and even if b inauless, amongst churchmen, still they ought
never to helve been pnblisfied. •

DR AMAT IC RI:GISTER.

D RY LANK '4'HE yam.
The tragedy of /fande/ has been performed at this theatre,
for the purpose of again introducing Mr. SOW Eft El Nr to the
notice of the public. In this play, beyond ;my other, the
greate.it .varictiess of passion arc delineated in the save cha-
racter. Natural feelings, and natural weaknesses inter-
change with sentiments and resolutions the most noble, whilst
disappointment of early hopes,' and a desponding conviction
of the pi evalence i)f those evil impulses of mankind which
annul all natural oblic;ation.,spccad over the whole character
liatatet n shade -of moral and reflecting' melancholy. To
delineate the varieties of such a part with uniform felicity•
has consequently 'never been. attained. And though par-
ticular casts of that character may by •'sevca.al actors have
been most exquisitely pourtrayed, yet a pet feet
,llantltt must
be composed- of the be.st, of many players. If, therefore. Mr.
SOWEREIV was not wholly successful, be has but shared the
'fate of the greatest of his predecessors. Of these we remein-
her none who have detivsred 'the soliloquies and long re-
flections of Hamlet •with a juster expression or a more pure.
'taste; and none 'who have with a. more. laudable boldness
trused to their own conceptiims and understandings to the
sexclusion of green-room prescription. Ile delivered that
beautiful and difficult soliloquy to be or not to be' with a
force and pi opriety with which we .were dclisghted and asto-
nished. In the dialogne -he• was- not so successful, particu-
larly in the scene in which he is first informed of the ap
pearanec of the Ghost, and in the whole of the fifth act. In
his t'eplies the preparation is obvious—nor (Iles he allow a
itacient pause between his own and the speech which has

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immediately preceded. Lie i 3 unfortunate In his figure ant
in the expression of his counter tree: he has also too much
action, and that is not sufficiently varied. But his voice,
which is distinct and full, in the delivery of those pas-ages
more peculiarly suited to his powers, .by a just and happy
modulation suspends too• minute an observation of these a-
ficiencies. On the whole ho is a studied player, and one
who has successfully studied : to many passa!!es he gives the
sense certainly intended, though not always obvious :—and
whether he prove a succe,sful performer or not, he is a de-
serving one.
The other characters of the play were all most wretchedly
cast. Dow TON metamorphosed the courtly emptiness of
Po!onills into the buffoonery of a fool. RAY M cries Ghost
had nothing ctheleal in it. but was a mass of most gross and
palpable •mortality. Miss KELLY was an uninteresting
Op&lia;. and the spiritless enactor of Lacrtcs cast such a
vapid expression over nil of the fifth act, in which he was
concerned, as required greater powers than the other actors
11 possessed to counterbalance it.

LITTLE NEW DRURY-LANE THEATRE.

The excellent performances at this elegant little house, under
the active management of ELLISTON, Wilk.ll i very succeeding even-
ing increased in popularity and public estimation, we are sorry to
announce, were last night brought prematurely to a close ; but we
confidedtly- hope, only to re-open on Monday. with additional eclat.
Thy siihjoitted Address, spoken by Mr. BARNARD, was highly ap.
planded by an elegant auditory.
LAM ES AND GENTLEMEN.--AS it is usual, at this period of the
evening, to announce the Pmformances for the succeeding night*
I am instructed by the Proprie for of this T:;eatre, to Infiniti you,
that, front peculiar circumstances which are at this moment pend.
ing, there cannot, at pre'wnt, he any annunciation of Pertormances
for Monday next. Dee notice will be given, when a Performance
on this stage will again take place.
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Proprietor of this Theatre has to
acknowledge great kindness and attention, un the part of the
Public ; .and he ilistructs me to say, that, on all occasions, he en-
tertains every possible feeling of gratitude for the honour lie has
experienced.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I have been instructed to 'READ there too
words to you, that there may be no possibility of their being mis.
conceived, or mis-stated. .
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LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF OF RING'S I3ENCII, MAY 7.
D F(4l. ASSES6ED TAXES.
This was an action in trover. hrouulit for a witch. distrmitlea by the.
Collector of the Itimg's Taxes, and was tried before Mr. Serjeaut
Marshall ht the last Assizes for the county of Buci.s, and a verdict
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given for tlie dcfcudant.
Mr. BE n moved this day, that the sold vc:dict should be set aside.
and a nonsuit entered, on the ground that the said verdict was con:
trary to law.
It appeared that the plaintiff was a baker, and that he also carried
on the trade of a watchmaker ; that llaving a watch belonging to 4 cut.
turner to it hung up in Ws In:l:ing shop, when the defendant,
Who is thy Colhfclor atOresaid, on being rcfn,,ed payment for its.
scssed Taxes due, &strained the watch in arestion, and sold it. It
was a: gited, 'hat as there was oilier preperty, and that ton belonging to
the blkun., CoUctur ought to have diArdined such property, and
not that of another person.
The Court Inclined to this opinion, and granted a Rule to sited
. cause. -

LIBEL.
THE KINC; V. CR FFVEY, ESQ.
This Wag an indictment at firs! preferred before tlie Quater Sessions
fir the County of I...inc:mt.r, and aftecwatds removed by Ccreiorerit
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into this Court. It %%as tried at the last Lancaster Asiz •s, It chur-
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ed the'd! ft'llthlllt "ith "'"written and published a certain Sr'
taus and filla4 libel, reflectitir oil the public and private thsracte
1 Gentleman of the name el Ftzoatrick, who it, Ids a public. tiolice
Revenue at Livt•rpuol. an:l I,ubliiiing the saa.e in a uewbpaper
The Liverpool :Mercury.

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