The Sun.
London, England, 1806-12-09 00:00:00

THE.TRE.477IE.

COVENT-CARMEN.
The dramatic Romance of The rempest. 'was
brought forward. last night ay this Theatre; with
great splendour. and beauty, not' as originally writ
ten bf SHAKSPEARE, but as altered by MI-DEN,
at the suggestion 'ef Sir JOHN .VANENANT, who
is understood to have assisted him in new-model-
ing ,ef the, Piece.. The Play,-as written by SHAK-
SPEARE, though sublime and beautiful, was, upon
the whole, somewhat heavy, and therefore is'not
surprising that some attempt should have been made
to give, it the advantage of more variety, and if such.
a measure could be accomplished with success, it
might reasonably be expected from the vigorous.
powers. of such a Poet as DRYDEN. The ,Manager
of a Theatre therefore. is fully warranted in reviving
a production 'adinirable, in itself, and supported -by
the poweful names of SIIAKSPEARE" and PRY•
p-iftieUlarly as this very Piece was brought
,forward a few years agehat Drury-lane Theatre, and
.represented near twenty iiightS, with great success..
The audience in general, last. night, received this
.Play with :great applause ; but there were several
persons in the Theatre who expressed their disap-
probation, not, as. we believe, from any invidious
motives, but from a determined partiality' for
-SHAKSPEARE'S genuine nroduCtion.—At may, how:-
ever, be conceived that the taste of the times is in
a great degree changed, and that the simplicity of
the• characters introduced by DRYDEN may be
thought. to savour too Much of ridiculous ignorance
and childishness.—Bnt whatever ,relay be the cause,
the reception of the 'Piece was not quite so cordial as
the Manager had a' right 16 ex:pea on the grounds
Which NA,,vhae stated, as welt as ibr the beauty and
magVeece with. which it has been revived. •
ahe cJa were judiciously assigeed, and very
'Well supported.. ..Kemat.c fillip maintained his high
reputation in Pr ospei o. The dignity of the. Prince,
was uniformly . maintained, 'blended, however,'
with the aweinl charatter of the 11,/,agician and the
tenderness of the parent. Among particular excel-
lenCies may be noticed his manner of giving the
itou n passage of ". The' don d- capt towers."
A.. lofty spirit Of declamatory energy Marked hii-1
Account of the '-destruetitin 'of -all-the illlonumeats of I
Intnaf.) grandeur,,,atid of 'the. orb ep which „they
*ere ereded ; and he 'then made a transition to a
tind of niorai and pathetic solemnityi When he an;
no"Uneed the dissolution of ." all that it inherits."
As this speech is sci'Ycammon-liuckneyed," it requires
great, ability 'to glee it at once novelty and suitable
efieCt.- rt was very much applaud,ed
CHARLES .K...E''?.;EE acquitted,- himself very well
in, Ferdinand. Miranda and borinda could not have
been allotted more properly; than ?to MiSS IRT,INTON
and Mrs. C. Miss LOGAN deserves much
commendation :for her quaint and entertaining sim-
plicitY in liypollite. 111VN4NT and'FAWCETT were
very humouroac in -Stephano apd Trincula, and
EMERY gave an entertaining, and not nncharaCterittic
kind "of savage humour to Cali ban
The .part of Ariel was performed by a young
Lady who made her fit'sra-piTearance in public.—
She is about sixteen years of age.—Her name is
MEADows, and she is the daughter of a Mr. TEA,
DOWS, who was many years ago• a vocal-Perfornier
at the Haymarket Theatre.—Miss MEADOWS pos-
sesses a pleasit,ict VOICe, though it doeS not seem to
be v eiy powerrui. Much allowance, however,.onght
to be made for the terrors attendant on a first ap-
pearance. She sings .perfeCtly in tune, and seems
to be very well acquainted with music. She is a
ptipil of MP. DAVY; and does 'great credit .to her.
tnAter. Her conception of the. .character of Arid
was highly creditable to her own judgment.' There
was an airy lightness in her manner throughout,
particularly in hei• mode of tripping and moving al-
together, that was more characteristic than we have
ever before observed in the representation of the
part.--She was very favourably received, and loudly
encored in " Where the Bee sucks."

Mr. DAVY has contributed'a new. Overture to the
Piece, and Ware accompaniments to the dancing
that is introduced; in all of which he has dispfay-
ed great' taste and judgment, as well as science, as.
all he has done very well corresponds with the fine
original music of PURCELL.'

UpOn the whole, this fine Play, the joint pro-
duetion. of two of our greatest Poets, ,was not only
well worthy of being revived, but has .been brought
forward: in a manner adequate to its.high dramatic
excellence, and, with a few curtailments in the.
scenes in .which, the females are concerned, will,
doubtless, amply reward the Proprietors foi their
berality:

The People of
,Prussia must resent. with curses,
" not loud but deep," the lt;*s of the Scarf and
Sword of GREAT FREDEE MK. which BoNAPA TE
has sent off as spoil to, Paris. While, however,
Prussia remains ruder the power ‘of France she
will be in no want of the Sword.
Mr. B OGEES, who was thought tole wedded to
the Muse, is, it is said, aboin to enter into a matri-
monial cOntraCt with Miss BLAKE, a Lady well
known for her musical abilities in private circles.
The Duke of RICHMOND, whose health has been
some time on the decline, Is now said to be'seriously
indisposed.

Surgeon HEAVIS/DE having been lately sent for to
attend a maniac Gentleman, the latter, as Mr. REA-
v;SIDE:;:iTas entering the room, discharged a pistol at.
him loaded with brace Of:bullets, Which 'lodged in
the door. Upon the precipitate retreat of Mr.
HEAVISIDE, the Gentleman ran down stairs, plunged
into a horse-pond, and was perfe4ly restored to his
reason by the cold bath !

Last week as some labourers were digging clay hi
the brick-yard of Mr. PooL, at, BottesfOrd, near
Grantham, in Lincolnshire, about nine feet •from,
the surface they discovered the bead and horns of an
animal, of the bull kind, of most extraordinary di-
mensions. The weight of the horns, with a piece
of the frontal bone, is 31 pounds ; the span froni
tip to tip is .two feet one inch ; and at the greatest
bulge of the horns three feet two inches.; each horn
from the skull to the tip measures two feet eight
inches, and is, at its base, one foot one inch and an
half in circumference. One tooth weighs:2 ounces
and an- half. There is an imperfeft cavity in the
clay, in which the body of the animal is supposed
to have been, and on each side was a large piece of
an oak tree, as black as ebony:
.Sotp.e part.of the
horns,- near the tip, is completely petrified. The
animal is supposed to have been the ancient Bolle-
s-loth, and to hays lain since the D4lu;,-*,al

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