The Sun.
London, England, 1830-01-04 00:00:00

SURREY TII EATu

A piece called Ambrose. Gmincii, by the•author
of Black-eyed Susan, was product d at this theatre
last week. Though it is far inferior to that popular
piece, and abounds wi b inTrobabilities, yet what
with good acting, and a judo loos arrangement of in-
cidents, it met wi•li a fovottrable reception. The
story, which is tak,•n from some mwient tradition, iS
founded on the rivalry of two lovers, and exhibits
dining the dominion of the passion, traits of charac-
ter which are but seldom found in real life. A black-
smith (Mr. RAYNER), after being disappointed in
love, bribes the leader of a pressgang to kidnap his
rival (Mr. FORESTER); not succeeding in this, his rival
is accused of murder; he bears witness against
him, the supposed murderer is convicted, and
hung in chains, his rival glories over his misfor-
tunes, and feeds his dark mind with the prospect of
revenge. The convict, after undergoing the sen-
tence of the law, escapes from the gibbet—flees his
country, is taken by Corsairs, sold as a slave, regains
his liberty, and after a lapse of eighteen years returns
to the place of his birth, where he finds the object of
his affection still lamenting over his fate, and his
accuser reduced to the last degree of wretchedness
and the execration of mankind. When the unfor-
tunate victim of so many calamities at last makes
himself known, his rival, though decrepid and
bowed down with poverty and age, exults in the
discovery, and seems to forget all his misfortunes in
anticipation of the repetition of the sanguinary scene
which bad occurred eighteen years before: Such
ate some of the improbabilities with which the piece
abounds. The part allotted to RAYNER is one
of the most revolting, yet he contrives to interest
the audience, and pourtrays with such effect the
misery and utter hopelesness of despised old age, as
to excite even sympathy in his favour. We have
seldom seen a better representative of an old roan.
Mr. FORESTER personated the hated rival with grace
and ease, and Mr. VALE, by his humour, contrived
not a little to relieve the gloom such sad scenes
produce. The success of the piece is owing chiefly
to the actors. In inferior hands it probably would
not have survived two nights.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

CHANGES.

The Earl and Countess of Listowell, at Kingston House, Ken-
sington Gore; Mr. and Lady Jane Goding, at their house in
Belgrave-square, from the Earl of Coventry's scat, Croome, in
Worcestershire; Lady Payne, in York-place; Major Alfred
Powis, in Waterloo-place, from Lisbon; Lady and Miss O'Brien,
in Gloucester-place, from Cheltenham ; Major and Mrs. Sparrow,
in Montagu-place, from Cheltenham ; Captain Spencer, for
Bath ; Lady and Miss Crosby, in Park-street, from Ramsgate ;
Captain and Mrs. Monk, in South Audley-street, from Brigh-
ton ; Captain and Mrs. Rose, in Pall-mall, from Bath ; the Earl
of Liverpool, from Uckfield, in Sussex, for Pitchford Hall, near
Shrewsbury ; Mr. Charles Hoare, for Horton Hall, Colebrook ;
Sir Edward Lloyd, Bart. from Aberystwith, for Penwarne Hall,
St. Asaph ; Sir John and Lady Swinburne, from Ilexham Hall,
for Capheaton, Northumberland; Mr. John Poulett, for Ad-
dington Hall, Windsor; Mr. Lascelles Iremonger, for Clubford
Hall, Andover ; Colonel Sir Ralph Hamilton, for Engletield-
green ; Mr. Samuel Boddington, from Harley-street, for Mickle-
ham, in Surrey; Earl Amherst, from Grosvenor-square, for
Montreuil, in Kent; Mrs. and Miss Nixon, from Cheltenham,
for Bath ; Major and Mrs. Howard, for Brighton ; Mr. John
King, from Grosvenor-place, for Petworth ; Mr. Thos. Alcocke,
for King's Wood Warren, Reigate.