The Sun.
London, England, 1801-10-20 00:00:00

THE THEATRES.

Drurj-Lane,

KEri4LE Ventured into the Ada last night in the
character of Richard, .and noiwithstanding that he
has played it several times this season, and ~that
public "curiosity might naturally he expeaed to be
'diverted towards the other Theatre, on" account of
the expeaed disturbance, he had' a very numerous..
Audience. There was no occasion to exiinplain of
any want of alacrity and eheeiif fnt he
exerted himself with more than common energy,
and, animated perhaps by the spirit cornßetittp,
never performed with more •succbss.

Covent-Gareleif,

Tut curiosity of she Public was naturally in.
terested in the re-appearance ottoolcz, in conse.
quence of his non-attendance on the opening of the
Season. A very numerous audience therefore was
:collected last night at an early hour, and. a general
impatience 'and anxiety seemed to prevail. Before
the Play began, COOKE, without .being called for,
came forward, with a countenance strongly expres-
sive of solicitude and alarm. In a-moment the ge-
nerosity of the English charaOer burst forth, and
he was received with shouts of applause. Al
length a deep silence prevailed, and he addressed,
the Audience to the following effe.-it, and nearly in
the following Words.:
"LADIES AND GENT,I.ZZ,TEN,

It is with extreme concern that I feet myself limier the
just ne'cessiiy of apologizing to you on the first night that I have
the honour of appearing before you. I certainty had :tot ob-
tained leave to be absent; but I had strong reason to expect
that I should not be wanted in town at the very beginning of
the seak3n, and I did not receive any summons for that pur-
pose. A letter was, indeed, sent from the Theatre, but was
direded to Inc at Manchester, after I had left it, and did not
reach me at Newcastle till it was impossible for me, with
the utmost exertion, to arrive in London time enough to
appear upon the opening of the season. With the events
which have since happened you are sufficiently acquainted.
1 earnestly trust that you will have the goodness to excuse
this involuntary failure. I may not, be worthy of your kind
protealuif, but it shall always be my anxious endeavour to
deserve it.'!

This short address was received with the warm-
est plaudits, and the attempts of a few dissenting
voices were itrimediately overborne in the generill
clamour of approbation.
The Tragedy of .Richard the Third then com-
menced, when CooKE again came on the stage to
deliver the first.soliloquy, twp or three hisses were
heard, but they only helped to draw forth a renewed
testimony of public kindness. ,
We have so fully given our opihiort of Mr.
CooxE's merits as an Ador, and particularly in the
charader"Of Richard, that 'we hardly need say any
thing of his performance last night, It was not at
all affeaed by the previous agitation of his mind.
On the contrary, a sense of the difficulty he had
surmounted, seemed to give a new stimulus to his
powers, and he was certainly not wanting in ap-
parent zeal to testify his gratitude for the generoth
amnesty he had experienced, at a time when he had
'probation.
•
There was an addition to the Arm of Richard
last night which the text requires, but which has
hitherto been omitted. Richard speaks of brckling
on his armour, but has never appeared in armour:
COOKE last night after the tent-scene, appeared
;vith a breast-plate and gauntlets, -Which considera.
lily improved his .martial aspeft. One of his spurs
caught in the trappings of the tent, and threw him
down, but the fall was of no consequence.

CoaY appeared in the charaeter of Richmond; and
played it with judgment, though not without some
symptoms of diffidence, which evidently restrained
his power;.

An ingenious mechanic has invented a machine
to prevent drowning, which is said most efFeflually
to answer the end proposed. Py the use of it a per.
son may sit or walk in the water with the utmost
confidence that he cannot sink. The machine is of
copper ; and so construCted, that in the event of
its striking againt a rock, or being partially in-
jured, it will yet serve to support the person in the
water.

The populace of this vast Metropolis derive great
credit for the order and decorum which theyobscry-
ed in the celebration of the rejoicings far.the Peace.
The accidents which did occur by the lining of
musquetN and pistols, were the effeas of indiscretion,
not of malice ; and when we consider that d mil
1;on of People, or more, were at once parading the.
Streets of London, elated by a most happy public
event, we cannot but think that the praise of good
sense and moderation is peculiarly their due.

The Opposition to the Peace, in Parliament, is
expefted to be confined to a very small number.
It is an event which has diffused such general joy,
that the exceptions to its participation in any rank
of society must be very few indeed.
A serious affray took place at Colchester Rai.
racks on Thursday last, between the 49th Regi.
ment, and some of the Militia. The particulars
we forbear to mention. We are happy, however,
to learn, that by the good conduit of General
LENOX, peace was restored the same evening, even
before the arrival of the Third Dragoon Guards,
who were ordered from the Town, and attended
with the greatest alacrity. Early on Friday morn.
ing, the 49th marched to Chelmsford, the Third
Dr2goon Guards attended at the end of the Town
wink drawn swords : and, an hour after, the Cam.
bridge Militia marched out of the GarrisOn for
14orWielt. So sudden were these routes, that the
Billet_Masters did not receive orders for impressing
Waggoos till near eleven on Thursday night ; and,.
some had five miles to come to the Barracks,
many were loaden, and on their route by half past
sx,next Morning.
The 16th Light Dragoons on Weineeday and
TburAay marched from Brighton to Southampton'.
The Shropshire Militia are arrived at Winches.
teC, from the Isle of Wight, and are to remain there
the winter.

THE FRENCH BISHOPS.

TRANSLATION FROM THE LATIN OF THE LETTES

WRITTEN BY THE THIRTEEN ERENCH BIsHoPS

RESIDENT IN LONDJN, TO THE POPE, IN AN.
SIVER TO HIS BRIEF OP THE 15TH AUG. ISO'.
DATED OCTOBER 1801.

0 WE Will not conceal fie:l,l your Holineis the
heavy anxiety which pressed upon our minds when
first we received the Letter of your Holiness, datea,
on the istli of August, z Sot, in the second year el
yopr..Pontificate which is indeed, so great, that,
as we at all times, tlpught nothing more incurriliNt
on us, and had nothing wore at heart, than zealous•
ly to promote, as far as in our power, your pittertul
councils, yet they should find us now not only un-
certain and fludnating, but, in
.4 duty of this Ralntes
compel us to be even reludant to obey.
" Such is th_force of these Letters, that if that
bedone which They enjoin, all the Episcopal See 9
in France will be, left vacant at one and the same
point of tiwie. by what means th.'s sudden
abdication of the Churches of that most ;men-
siye itr ire.is to produce, throughout Fraoce,
salutary effeet of unity, and of preserving or restor,.
ing the Catholic Religion, your Holiness has not
informed us, nor, to confess the truth, do we a$
yet, sufficiently foresee:Truly, the very experience
of all the calanfities %vitt; which our Cgountiy has
been attlitted'fir many years sufficiently shews that
it is not without reason we dre4 that, by this
voluptaty and universal abdirAt;nn ,C
Churches? more g rievouN incnnyensences would re-
sult to the Catholic Cause ; for which, to acquaint
your Holiness with the means of prevention, be,
longs only to a Convocation of all the Bishops of
the Qallican Church.

Nor indeed do we mean to say this, as if it
would seem grievous or a hardship upon us to resign
our rank in those melancholy and troublesome times!
but rathe: that it would, as much as possible con-
duce to the private happiness of each of us, to have
our infirmity relieved from so great a burthen, if
we may still think of any thing of happiness GL
consolation with minds broken by the weight of
many misfortunes. But the line of our duty seem+►
to us, fully to require that we should never zuffer
that tic which has bound us, and the Churches irrld
mediately committed, by the providence of the
most great and good god, to our care, to be broken•

fc We earnestly beseech your Holiness, that, in
some Writing to be speedily drawn up, we may Oc
permitted tO•disclose and enter somewhat-more :O.
large into the arguments upon which we' thouer
right. to aka in this manner, 'and the grounds of Or
resolution. In the mean time, greatly confiding 0
.the ,ffeetion of your Holiness towards us, we hOPC
it will 4o happen that nothing further will be de;o'.'
mined in this bqsiness before yOu shall, in your
consummate equity and prudence, weigh the reason
upon Which your children shall plead their cast sc;
before their most pious father.
" Prostrate at the knees of your Holiness, rnos;
ardently we, invoke the Apostolic genedigion
your Holiness,
" The most devoted and dutiful sons,
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ARRAS, ST. PQL. DE Lt 0241
AyRANCIiES, YANNI;
1..0M13EZ, VsEz,
MONTPELLIER-, RHODES,
rANT.gi, *OVLINS.*"
Nominated in iNt,

Parsuant to orders from General SINICop, the
most animating Military xliibition took pace. Oa
Wednesday last, at seven o'clock in the evening, 3'
Plymouth, and throughout the Western strifE.
Plymouth Corps marched from hence at a quarter
fore six o'clock, and then formed with the Dcci‘
Corps upon thecxtensive lines of Plymouth Dori'
viz. Royal. Artillery, Royal Artificers, Goth Re'
giment of. Foot, 24 RoyakSurry, id Royal t,ancas
shire, Ist-Pevori, and. Royal Radnor Regiments;t
Plymouth, or PitiNcE of WALSeS Regiment a
Volunteers, Plymouth Blues, Langmead Volunteers/
Major Jtst.,rot's Rangers, Stoke Artillery and Ar'
tificers, Storehouse Volunteers, BAR Lolr's Dad;
Volunteers, Capt. Nustv's Dock Greens, ao,
Pitst.rs' Dock Blues. On the Citadel, the RoyP
.Invalids ; and at Maker Redoubts, the Bedfordshire
Regiment;iionra.Glenpewraa C
irdEs:olsndgaAoNovoa.nmdeKn
n,iuguiadeT i Royalcomma Ar
ndotifi IMe r

A signal rocket being thrown up from, the main
guard, a roar of artillery commenced from tie Bar,
tery west of Mount Wise, which continued round
the lines, and was answered by
the guns of the
citadel, East and West King's Batteries, Mount
Edgecumbe Battery, P., 1 the Tur.:4o:4;`
after. which the Troops, by Corps, fired a volley' ',„l-
the air, in compliment to the British Army
Egypt. A second rocket was then thrown up, °'„
which a second discharge from 250 pieces of cann°'
Was fired, on account of the happy return of Peace'
which was succeeded by a most
.excellent trebleP;
de .Ave from the Troops and Volunteers on ill
Lines, the Citadel, Maker Heights, &c. ,Stc.l
After this, all the French Prisoners in the So'''.
Prison Ships in Hamoaze gave three hearty olieers,;
The Troops and Volunteers returned to Illels
respeCtive parades ; and the Plymouth Volunteeff
and Associated Corps, after their march to these
own Parade, fired three excellent feu.tie.joje in I°,
air, with three cheers. The night being very
gloomy, the blaze and roar of artillery had a verie
fine effett. Several beautiful transparencies. wed,,
exhibited, and some excellent fire. works played
The whole business went off without the least acci#
dent whatever.
On Wednesday died suddenly, Mr. LANG) gLi 1(1;
ner of the St. Antoine,. of So guns in Portsmouo,e
Harbour, to which he was appointed from a Frig `,
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by Sir I. SAUMARE Z ; but the Lords of aro
miralty refusing to confirm the appnintmenf'
ordering him' to rejoin his former ship. he 'lll,,
diately exclaimed, " It will break
my heartd.
And
tment, ,so poignantly was he affeeted by the lor
thatpoin he died within two hours after'

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