The Sun.
London, England, 1801-10-21 00:00:00

ARTAXERXES

Mrs. BILLINGTON, as usual, drew a very ero';',''
ed audience to this Theatre last night, and 11'
powers were exerted with delightful effect. In
dition to her usual e.vcores, the admiraticdn of
audience obliged her to repeat " If o'er the
tyrant, &c." The repetition is always 'attesd4
with new beauties.

INclEoeN evidently improves in Arbaces.
was last night karticularly succ.....s-::ful in " Dklai
ful you fly me," which was given in a fine:7l;lot
style, as well 25 with great delicacy.
To the credit of the Public they seem to feel tl
value of this excellent Opera ; the music of
on the whole, would hardly suffer in cornparisv
with any similar composition cf the- most distiP
guished foreign masters.

COOKE aned with great good sense in corning
forward and entering into an explanation of file
causes of his absence before the commencement °`
the Play.—lt is but justice to him likewise to ad"
mit, that he made the explanation in a very maoli
manner, and, at the same time, with all proPe', deference to the public judgment,
A Morning Paper very illiberally accuses till
Covent Garden Managers of an " ir
a
disrespeelful attempt," to cttribute Cooxes 0011;
attendance to the illness with which he was seii*
at Newcastle. Was not this reason attested
the medical authority of that town? The non-:lt'
tendance was a disappointment to the Managers,
well as to the Public, and if the Managers, as well
as the Public, were content to take that disappoint`
ment in good part, it is bard indeed to add reproach
to the pecuniary loss they suffered on the occasion'
Stok6.cs and 'BRAHMA are in Town, and ate
soon to make their appearance at Covent-Garde°.
Theatre. We know not if they are to•appear it
Cons's Opera, which is certainly to have , tll6
powerful aid of Mrs, Br t.L I NOTON.
The Gamester, it is said, is to be revived at

Covent-Garden Theatre, for the pur,pose of shovini.
COOKE in Stukely. But it is difficult to say vill°
will be the Be•verley, unless some theatrical noveltl
should start forward.

FRENCH THEATRICALS.--The events of tfiF
month have already furnished the Parisian Dig'
matist with a subjea for their pens ; and after rbc
play called Thunder, followed appropriately enotV,,
an Afterpiece, entitled, Peace in the Channel.'
The entertainment was not, however, so well re-
ceived as the occasion of it, and -the Piece
damned; Its plot certainly does not seem to We
had sufficient salt to preserve it.—An Englishman
becomes enamoured of a young girl at St. Vallery's,
where he is confined as a prisoner of war—:..returns
secretly to that town after he is exchanged, but ig
taken prisoner, and on the point of suffering as a spfr,
when the sound of cannon announces the signing 01'
the Preliminaries ; by which he escapes death, an',
is married to the young women.--The Authors 0
the favourite Drama on the Continent fti Peace, Pr
fir Hour y (voila; are said to he employed on L'4
subje6t, but they wait, like prndenr men, for till
Definitive Treaty before they produce their worm

Some of our Cotemporiiries are amusing' tli
Readers with Plans of Finance—lt shall be O'
business to !ay before the Public, as scon as it 15
proper or prafticable to do so, those Plans of fi'
nance projtEteCr by those whose business it is Ca
attend to this subjeet,

A Gentlema'f), conceiving that since the Pc3c6
coals would be cheap, walked' down to the rive
side, and meeting an Irish Coalheaver, accosted him
with Well, Paddy, how are cods ?"-.l'
as ever, your Honour." •

A singular circumstance occurred in St. James"
Park yesterday, which attracted the notice 0
great concourse of people in the course of the day
—About seven o'clock in the morning, one •of the
seats in the Park, opposite the gates of the Palace'
was discovered almost covered with blood, which
gave rise to the supposition that some person lia
been inhumanly murdered during the preceding
night. Thia put the whole neighbourhood in !In
tion, and after a number of persons were colleEte
together, it was determined that a Surgeon should be
sent for to examine the blood, who came, and with.
out much hesitation, pronounced it to be human.
All' eyes were then direded to the Canal, into which
it was not doubted that the murdered body had heel'
thrown ; but what most contributed to that belief,
was a little white dog, which was found, sitting by
the water-side, as if bemoaning his lost master.

After some trouble, permission was obtained
have the canal dragged, and so serious betarne
inquiry, that several of the sentinels who had beep
on duty in the night, were put under arrest, in or#
der to be examined touching this affair ; when It
yoUng shopman came among the rest to view sch%
was passing, and learning the cause of all till'
bustle, soon put an end to any further proceedings'
by staring, that on the evening before, as he Wa!
passing that way, he saw a butcher's man set his
basket on the,seat to rest himself, which contained
sheeps' heads and plucks, and that it oversee ar'
besmeared the place with blood, in the manner 15
then appeared.

CORONER'S INqUETT:—An inquisition was yes,
terday held at the Black Horse public-hOuse; in 01'
Boswell-court, .St. Clement Danes, before AN-111°'
NY GE LL, Esq. His Majesty's. Coroner for the Cat
and Liberty of Westminster, on view of the body 0'
Mary Spark. The Coroner, previous to the jut!
proceeding to examine the deceased; desired them
not to ,sutfer their minds to be in the-least pre'
judiced by any thing' they might have . beard or
read upon the subjeCt ; but to attend strictly to the
evidence,, and return their verdiCt conformably to it'
The Witnesses produced were the same as'gave their
testimony on the preceding day before the Maglr
trates.at Bow.street. Their evidence was precisely
in the same terms, varying in no one particular ; 1
is therefore altogether unnecessary to repeat ic•
After a few observations from the Coroner, tiwJijr,"
unanimously retutned a vcrclid of—Wilf#4llll4"‘'*

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