The Sun.
London, England, 1830-04-29 00:00:00

COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.

SouTimex's' affecting tragedy of Isabella, was played
at this theatre last evening, for the benefit of 11r. C.
KEMBLE, when Miss KEMBLE appeared for the first time
as Isabella. The character of Isabella is inferior to very
few tragic parts, for the interest which it is capable of
exciting. The blamelessness of her conduct, her un-
merited sufferings at the beginning of the play, and the
fatal occurrence of events which plunge her unwittingly
and innocently into an inextricable depth of misery at its
close, are calculated to produce commisseration, the inten-
sity of which is increased by the obvious impossibility that
any prudence could have guarded her against the sufferings
she endures, or that they are the consequence of any fault
of her own. The other parts in the play, all of which
are subordinate to that of the heroine, are well arranged
for producing the effect that is designed by them. That
of Biron, slight and sketchy as it is, shows enough of a
noble quslity to justify the almost idolatrous affection of
Isabella for him ; and the generous infatuation of Villeroy,
the unmerited partaker of their sorrows, increases the
sympathy which is excited by the destruceon of his pro-
mised happiness. The character of Isabella is by no means
one of the easiest in which Miss KEMBLE has hitherto
appeared, and her performance of it showed that she is
endeavouring to maintain the reputation she has gained by
the only means by which it can be secured—pains and
study. Her acting in the earlier scenes of the play, the
interview with her father-in-law, and that in which she
gives her consent to become Villeroy's wife, was judi-
cious and effective. The manner in which she conveyed
that apprehension of coining evil, of which she perceives
the approach before she can discern its form, just before
the arrival of Biron, was very powerfully conceived, and
her recognition of her husband, produced a striking effect.
She rushes tawards him, and falls prone at his feet, as if
struck down by the sudden recollection of the horror
of her situation. The whole of this scene, and the
short soliloquy which ensues upon Biron's leaving her,
when despair seizes upon her at the thought of being
" married to both, and wife to neither," were very ad-
mirably given. From this part of the play all is distrac-
tion with her, and the depicting that aberration of intel-
lect which the poet meant appeared to us the least success-
ful part of the performance. The attempt to murder her
husband was too cool and collected, and therefore the
sense of that speech in which, as her reason returns, she
says, " Madness has brought her to the gates of hell, and
left her there," was in a great degree lost for want of
contrast between it and the other parts of the scene. Her
passionate grief at the sight of Biron's corpse, and her
own death, gazing on her child uatil her strength utterly
fails, were acted with a most natural and pathetic force,
and drew from the audience universal applause. Mr. C.
KEMBLE'S Biron was very well acted. There is very
little in it ; but that little was given with great good taste
arid feeling. Mr. ABBorr played Villeroy ; the other
parts, which are very insignificant, were tolerably well
filled. Mr. G. BENNETT acted Carlos, and although he
is many degrees at present from being a good actor, it
seems not at all improbable that he might become one if
he would study the text of his parts more attentively, and
abandon the excessive and misapplied gesticulation and
that boisterous tone of voice in which he indulges.
Charles the Second followed the tragedy, and was very
pleasantly played, anti Miss PATON sang Black Ey'd
Susan with great effect. The house was very well filled
in every part. The tragedy was announced for repetition
on Friday.

DOYLEY'S DIVORCE MI, L.—On the second
reading of this Bill on Tuesday, in the House of Lords, the
following letter from Mrs. DOYLEY to her husband was
read, dated April 28, 1829 :
" Have mercy on me Doyley, for the sake of your loved
and innocent children; and if possible conceal their mo-
ther's shame. I do not deserve mercy from you, yet for
them I sue it ; and let it not be in ♦ein. Let them not,
on entering into this world, have that hardest trial to
struggle with—a mother's infamy. But, oh, for their
sakes, spare your too just anger,—for the sake of him who
came into the world to teach us Heaven's holiest attri-
butes—mercy and forgiveness. In his name, who forgives
sinners, forget and forgive me. I should not wish to meet
you again, my injured husband, I am too unworthy—l
should die with shame—you were always too good for me.
But now, oh God ! the consciousness of your love and
fidelity and of my faithlessness kills me. Only, if it be
possible, conceal my shame, for our children's sake, and my
poor old father. The knowledge of my guilt would bring
his grey hairs with sorrow to the grave. I have not neg-
lected your children, Doyley; whatever may have been my
faults, they have been minded and cared for : there is not
a night or morning that your little Georgy is not taught
te, pray to God for his absent and dear father. Leave them
to me, and trust in a mother's love to bring them up in
the paths of virtue and religion, with the assistance of the
great God in Heaven, to whom I shall pray for strength to
fulfil my duty to them, and to follow any plan you will
deign to mark out for me. May He incline your heart to
mercy—may He support you in the severe trial which
your guilty wife has brought on you, is my prayer. Show
pity to the repentant "CHARLOTTE."
" To J. Hadley Doyley, Esq., care of Messrs.
Palmer and Co., Bengal."

THE KING'S HEALTH.

(From the Court Circular.)
Sir MATTHEW TIERNEY, after signing the Bulletin
of the KING'S health yesterday morning, left the
Palace for town, and returned shortly before seven
o'clock in the evening to the Castle.
Sir HENRY HALPORD remained in attendance on
the KING during the day.
The statement in a Paper of yesterday, that Mr.
BRODIE had been sent for to attend the KING on
Tuesday evening, is not correct. The complaint
under which his MAJESTY is now labouring (Joel
not require the attendance of a surgeon.
The following is a copy of the Bulletin issued
yesterday :
" Windsor Castle, April 28, Eleven o'clock, ♦.se.
" The KING has suffered less from the attacks of env
bairassment in his breathing since our report of yesterday;
and his MAJisTr has passed a good night.
(Signed) " HENRY HALFORD.
" MATTHEW JOHN TIERNEY.°

The levee and drawing-room which were to have
been held next week have been postponed ; the fol-
lowing notice was issued yesterday from the Lord
Chamberlain's-office :

" Lord Chamberlain's-office, April 28.
" Notice is hereby given, that tits levee and drawing'
room announced for the sth and 7th of May will not take
place, but his MAMTY'S birth-day will be celebrated 10
the 7th of May in every other respect."
A Bulletin will be issued this day, which will tie
shown in state to the nobility and gentry at the
King's Palace, St. James's.
The Duke of WELLINGTON arrived at the-Pslac.
about half-past eleven o'clock yesterday morning'
and remained till one o'clock, when his Grace left
the Palace for London.

The Duke of CUMBERLAND arrived about half;
past twelve o'clock on a visit to the KING, S 1
after remaining at the Palace about three hours re'
turned to his residence at Kew.

The Duke of LEEDS came from London yeeter,
day, and stayed some time at the Palace.

(From the Times.)
The Bulletin and the indefinite postponement of
the Levee and Drawing-room are very alarming,
Why is not some exact account of the KING'S illnes.
communicated to the public ? Every body asks with
anxiety, " What is the disorder under which 10
MAJESTY labours ?" The Bulletin gives no answer.
A loyal nation has a right to more perfect informa-
tion. In the absence of any authentic intelligence,
the universal apprehension (Heaven grant that t"
melancholy foreboding may be erroneous) is, that,
the reign of GEORGE IV. is drawing rapidly to
a conclusion.

(From tlie Morning Chronicle.)

Our information that Mr. BRODIE was sent for 10
Windsor has turned out to be incorrect.
Another Bulletin has been issued, of a less unfr
vourable complexion than that of Tuesday. "Jut
these Bulletins throw no light on the nature of the
illness. We have heard that the KING'S COMPlail"
is a disease of the heart, and that the fear is that it
may terminate in a dropsy of the chest.

(From the Morning Journal.)

Bulletins of the KING'S health are now publishing
daily. At first they were at intervals of three and
four days. The frequency, therefore, hetoken6
alarm, to which another symptom may be added/
namely, both physicians sleeping at Windsor.
Our private accounts, received from the loot
authentic source, and one on which implicit reliance
may be placed, speak in the most desponding tone
of his MAJESTY. The disorder is represented 05
making more rapid progress than was anticipated, in
which it is unfortunately assisted by the present
unusually warm weather. While life remains there
is hope; but we lament to say that the indicationi
of a fatal malady are but too apparent.

(From the Morning Advertiser.)

We have the pleasure to state, on the authority
of his MAJESTY'S medical attendants, that the KING
is riot worse. The attacks of embarrassment in h►s
breathing had become loss frequent, or less severer
since the Bulletin issued on Tuesday, and the nigh'
that succeeded had been passed more comfortably
than that which preceded it; but whether these
kindly symptoms proceeded from the temporary re'
lief afforded by medicine, or from a rallying of the,
constitution, which would encourage hopes of hrou
recovery, we are not informed. This is the point
which the public is anxious to ascertain, and With
which it ought to be made acquainted. We have
already pointed to the evils resulting from the tlt
certainty which exists at present on the subject, 1011"
now only revert to them to say that they are dally
increasing, and that their continued existence cause°
the greatest dissatisfaction. Why should this be
the case ? We subjoin the Bulletin :