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THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

hail fregnently advised him to remit Something of his exer-
tions in !stabile affairs.—No man will be more sensibly missed by the
raple as one of their Reps esentut ives, fir no man was more
more undaunted, more faithful in watching over their interest.:,
rot sno:c ardent in asserting their rights. /10 had the good old Katz
ii.h elnaacter of epetasess and ity. Ito called things by their
two, ranks, and his detestation of eves:, thing in the nature of a
j,:ts,mtle him the tettor of deiinvents. His death will be an tini-
;.ersal sootee of sorrow to the country, and now that Cottrtiets are
i(-1( a •l'a from his eastightion, even they will do jitsttee to Isis talents
;Mt/ integtitv. Mr. IVlsithread was a man most thishuhil and zealous
in the disrilarge of all the duties: Of (10111eSiie life ; 11114121111,
ii!:I:CF, friend, and master, his conduct Was in the highest decree ex
esnplary ; it is mine cessaty, then fore, to tay what affliction 11i4
death must have diffused through his bon+elinid and connections.
To Fall Grey, with whom' he was so intimately milted in pclities,
lie and his family were also mote closely bound by the ties of affinity;
Ns. Whitbread was married to a sister of Isis Lotd-hip ; and Cein-
tnisioner Sir George Grey, his Lerdsliit.%'s brattier, was married
to Mr. Whitlread's sister. He died in his 57111 year, leaving Lady
Elinheth, Iris wife, With two sons and two danghtues, to lament a
1a.,, great to society, and to them irreparable. William livitry,
6, !vet soli, nearly of age, will inherit the landed estates, fall
Its unit;, per anenm ; the eldest daughter was milled, a short time
since, so the brother of the Fail .of Waltlegrave. A consillerahfe
potcriv in the ftmds, awl the kree capital is the extensive brewely,
films whence the fortime of tie family was derived, are expected to
be :siva tinned as an ample provision for the junior child' en,
Tor embarrassments of Drnryslime Thea're are 010'1) kis a cause
for the shove dreadful catastrophe ; there are other reports, but too
ridiculous to think of.

DRAMATIC REGISTER.
COVENT GARDEN THEATRE.

Miss O'Neill has added congicetably to the fame she had
previously acquired, by her admirable representation of the
character of Jane Shore. Our confined limits preclude the
possibility of our doing adequate justice to her inimitable and
affecting performance, which was throughout so transcend-
antl`• great, that were we to particularize every passage in
which she excel:ed, we should transcribe the whole (ha-
tactcr.

Every-look and gesture of this excellent actress, conveyed
to the imagination the most pathetic _picture of the suffering

peni•ent.
The sudden and transitory gleam of joy which steals over
her countenance, when informed by Gloster that she has it
in her power to do the Icahn much service, and the eager
anxiety with which she replies
i'oll!"where or how?--Can my unworthy hand
Become an instiouncot of good to any.
Could not be more happily express( d. The placid resigna-
tion with which she hears the cruel sentence pronounced
against her by the tyrant, when sl.e opposes his treasonable
wishes, was most admirably depicted ; and the fervent and
natural manner in which he supplicates for resolution to
bear such an accumulation of misery, drew firma the au-
dience thunders of applause. In the last scene, when Shore
has thrown off his dispnise, and appears before her, as her
wi!lt the intention of alleviating her misfortunes
and forgiving her faults, she :was great beyond the powers of
description.
.The agonised manner in which she exclaims—
" It is in lio,bind !"
The convulsive and heart-broken exclamation that precedes
he" fainting, presented so faithful a poi tiait of the anguish
hich such a situation must necessarily have produced upon
ans erson vossessing her acute sensilrili y, that for a moment
f0,!.;0t tile actress, and regarded the scene before us as the
spot famous emanations of the heart of an unfortunate fe-
male, ".ho had been guilty, but not depraved, and whose
(relines were at that moment worked up to the highest pitch,
by Aceing ti it die very main whom aha had the molt injured

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was the first to 'nave every danger to cherizh and support
her in her affliction. If the merit of a performer is at aihto,
he estimated by the effect which his exertions produce uron
the audience, then Miss O'Neill possesses an unbounded
share; for me saw scarcely a single countenance that was
not suffused with tears when the curtain fell. Mrs. l'aueit
rerresented A lido ; it is true that the characteristics of tbis
part are violent passions arid unrestrained sentiments; it is
possible however to " tear a passion to tatters," and to out.
herod Herod." Mrs. V. should remember that the busittrs•
of an actor is " to hold as 'twere the mirror up to Nature,"
Mr. Young in Hastin,s was most excellent, it would be
impossiLle fur the most rigid critic to find fau!t with any
part of his performance. Mr. Egerton as Gloster was higs..dy
respectable.

A new farce was hrnught put on the same evening calla
the "Two Dr. Hottes," and we should have imagined that
these dis,:iplus of Est ulapins would have stept into very swag
practice, as they met with a considerable shale of applau;e;
we were deceived, however, a:: they are withdrawn firms
the public notice. The piece possesses considerahly more
merit than many others of the same description which are
frequently represented; and although the dialogue contains
no very brilliant flashes of wit, it is sufficiently above me.
dioctity to keep the attention alive to the many laughable
incidents with which this Lice is replete, The characters
were uncommonly well supported. Matthews as A Scotch
-apothecary kept the house in a roar of laughter, It is on.
necessary to give a detail of the plot, as the piece is with.
di awn, from what reason we cannot even guess, as it Was an•
uounced for repetition almost nein. dig.