The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-08-13 00:00:00

ROYAL COBURG THEATRE.

A novel species of melo-drainatic hurletta was
last night produced at thus Theatre, founded upon
an episode in the Dun Quixote of C EKVANTES, and
although the subject may well be supposed to be a
hackneyed one for a dramatist of the present day,
yet we must decidedly pronounce this one of the
best production* of the kind hitherto brought for-
ward at any of our Theatres, the portion borrowed
from the novel being dramatised with infinite tmge-
cushy and skill. The performers were perfectly at
home in their respective characters, and the ecenic •
deception exceeded any thing we ever witnessed on
the stage. The mode of exhibiting the varied
effects of vutisut, twilight, and moonlight in the
Appe tttt lore. upon the same landscape, Was in the
highest degree Nouvelle, bnlliaot, and astonishing,
and far exceeded even the magical delesion of
LOOTHEIMIOURG'S EdiphusieoN. The piece was
given out fur repetition amidst thunders of ap-
plause. We subjoin a short programme of the
story.
Quench°, • rich farmer, is preparing fur the ceremony of
his niarris.te on the following morning, to Quitcria, the
beautiful daughter of Cavascu, which the latter is deter.
mined shall be solemnized, notwithstanding his previous
promise of his daughter's baud to &mains, a young student
amid dramatist of the College of Salamanca. On the even-
ing previous tic intended unptials, LAM Quixote and his
reuowned Squire, Sancho Pane* arrive on their journey in
search of adventures, and the peerless Dulcinea. Many lu-
dicrous mistakes take laser, arising out of the erittitvgne
and situations of the scene. At length the time arrives fur
the fele in celebration of the marriage of Cam:who and
If Qniteria. At the moment that the Priest is about to pro-
claim diem one, Bastlius appears, clad in • black rube,
with a chaplet of funeral cypress round his brow, and a
truncheon of uncommon size in his hand. He forbids
the ceremony, and ;Artemis to stab himself in cousegnenee
of •Quiterites supposed iufidelity ; when apparent!), dying,
hs states his resign:dim' to his fate, priiviileil that Quileria
might be permitted to bee 1111 l e his Glide; the parties agree—
the Priest performs his office, and it is lieu slat Basititis
discovers the deception he has practisedi and that instead of
stabbing himself, the sword passes round his body ite au menu
tube, and the only introduction ut blood appears to be souse
purchased al the colourmait's. CWllBl'llll a wrought ut
to gooiest to their nuptials by the Dust, and every thin
turns out correct.

Mr. BOURKE, the Uani•h Minister, will give a
grautl entertainment on Saturday, to a large party
of distinction, at 'Mt residence iu %Velbeck-strert.
Curious Discovery.—lt appears from the Police
Reports, that the -smartest and prettiest Gipsies
brought up for examination are Irish, from St.
Giles't.; and yet there never was a real Gipsy in
Ireland.

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The remains of the Earl of SA!►DWICII ere to he
removed tot Monday next truy) his house it) Do-
ver•rtrret, for interment in the family vault at
Barnwell, Northamptonshire.
The eurlbgrnl.•er now prevalent on the Continent
are supposed to denote the approaching Cettg,rps
of the Sovereigns, a turetitig generally attended
with dislocation of territories.

As a woof of the strecgtls and number of par-
tridges this fine summer has produced, there are at
this time ei birds of a covey full on the v.iiig in a
field belonging to Nlr. SHAW, a farmer, four miles
from Wade's 11ill, Hefts; and in a field within
half a mile of it, there is another covey of 19.
The culprit lately pardoned by the King of
FRANCE, was only crtier in the Court of Dijon.
His teats must have %hewn hint a true penitent.
A strawberry, me:liming five inches and a half in
ciiermiference, was lately gathered in ►he garden of
J. L. HERBERT, Esq. of Dolevorgaii, Mootgainery-
shire.

Yesterday was the Second Day of Drawing of
the State Lottery, whets the only Capital of any
entsseptencedrnsva was N 0.357, entitled to One Thousand
S.e..relLots, and Four Pipes of Nit or Madeira, or Four
Hogshia.l, of Claret. It was sold by 131SII, at his Form-
nate Offices, 4, Cornball, and 9, Chariul;.cruss•—where
Tick►ts and Shares, wars-Anted ticihrivii, are 111 NV
for the Isst Day, Tuesday, tlith instant, whets Two
90,000/. and all the ocher Capitals wu►t he drawn.

GROUSE. SEIOOTING.—A great number of Eng-
lish sportsmen have this year pew to the Highlands
of Scotland for the purpose of grouse I.llootillg,
which COMirenCto this d.ty. {erode the tine
breeding season, and tilt iIIIUSUaI waimtli and
drptess, the quantity of moor game is greater
thou has hero known for many years. The Mar-
quis of lIUNTLY lies a large party ()I' sharp-
Abutter, iochnlitol the ,Secretory :for, at his
sporting seat in Inverness-shirr; and the Eurl of
Fin: is preparing 11,r a yery 610JJy easapoiign in
the Forest of Mar, where the returns of killed were
last year so tunrvellously great as to threateti the ex.
tinction of the whole race of Grouse, Ptarmigan,
aud Black Cork.

So iiiirinke wa4 the heat at Southampton oa Wed-
nesday tato, that a ceipet, lying under a skylight,
in a store-rtnu of 14 cabinet-maker of that town,
111 alt, neatly burnt Wine it Wllb

A tire broke out, at nue o'c'ock biet morning, in
the ul.p•r story of Mr. GRAHAM'S, grocer, on Lod..
glue-hill, but Owing to • plentiful ►iupply of water,
mid the tortmipt absi tanee of the firemen, it was vet)•
•nun •übductt, after buroitig putt el tl.e roof