The Sun.
London, England, 1825-02-09 00:00:00

TIIE THEATRE.

COVENT-GAILDEN.—Miss FOOTE, on repeating
the character of Letitia Hardy, last night, was
fully re-established in favour with the Public.
The favourable reception which she experienced
on Saturday having gratified curiosity as to the
event of her return to the Stage, and the event
being no longer doubtful, it was not likely that
there would be an equal struggle for admission
last night; but there was a very numerous and a
very respectable audience altogether, and she
was received with most liberal and reiterated ap-
plause. She was, of course, more in self-
possession, and thetefore displayed her powers
with increased advantage. The character
of Miss Hardy, though the Comedy of The
Belles' Stratagem, on the whole, Is light and fri-
volous, is a character that affords good scope for
theatrical talents, and as it requires broad humour,
easy elegance, and pathetic expression, is likely
to keep its station ou the stage. Favourably as
we thought of Miss FOOTE as an actress, we
conceived thut this character was above her
reach, but her performance of it chews that
her powers had not been sufficiently brought forth
previous to the events which have excited such
general notice. We have been agreeably disap-
pointed, and we are persuaded that she is qua.
lifted to take a leading part in the higher range
of Comedy, which, of course, the judgment of the
Managers will now allot to her. The rest of the
characters were well supported as before, and the
Comedy itself went off with spirited effect.

EXTRACT of a LETTER from RAMSGATE, FL►n. 3.
WARNING TO PLUNDERERS OF WRECKS.-011 Thurs-
day last, Richard Carter and Thomas Sanford were examined
on a charge of felony, before our active Magistrate, sir THOS.
GREY, for stealing from the premises of Messrs. Goodwin and
Co., Agents to Lloyd's, part of a cable, &c. saved from the
wreck of the ship Cornelia, stranded in November last, near
this place, when they were both fully committed for trial on
the said charge at the Assizes, to bo held at Sandwich in April
next.

Recent letters from Copenhagen speak in a
tone that would seem to augur favourably of the sentiments
entertained by the Danish Ministry as to the recognition of
the new States in South America; in other words, the mer-
chants of Denmark are so far from feeling any embarrass-
ment in adventuring upon matters of commercial enterprise
with that part of the world, that we know (says a letter
before us) of two considerable shipments that are at
this moment in progress for Danish account, namely, a specula.
tion of some magnitude per the ship Manoe, from Hamburgh
to M exico ; and another about to be dispatched from Antwerp,
for Buenos Ayres, at the instance of the very respectable house
of Dantzfield and Co. of Copenhagen.

Monday the remains of the late Earl of
TITAN ET were removed from Hothfield Place for
interment in the family vault at Rainharn, in
Kent.

The RECORDER was to make his Report to the
KING in Council, at two o'clock this day, at
Carlton Palace, of the Convicts tried at the De.
umber Sessions at the Old Bailey.
FIRE AT NORLAND-HOUSE.—Yesterday morn-
ing, soon after three o'clock, a fire was discovered at Norland-
house' on the Uxbridge-road, opposite to Holland-house. In
a few hours the whole building was reduced to ashes. Not a
single article of furniture was saved. A young gentleman be-
longing to the family, who had been at the play, came home
about one o'clock, but did not immediately retire to bed.
On leaving the room in which he had been sitting, to go up
stairs, he heard a crackling, as of burning wood, and, on ascend-
ing the stairs, discovered the upper part of the building on fire.
Fortunately, the whole of the numerous family were enabled
to escape, but with such haste, that not a single article of wear-
ing apparel, except what they could hurry on, was saved. Nor-
land-house, it is said, was the property of one of the Messrs.
Drummond, and was let furnished to a respectable family.
SHOCKING MURDER.—An Inquisition was this
morning taken before THOMAS STIRLING, Esq. at
St. Giles's Workhouse, on the body of Joseph
Keaton, whose death was the result of vio-
lence used towards him by his wife, and for
which she is, now in custody. It appeared
that they qarrelled about a few halfpence on
Saturday evening, and that, according to the pri-
soner's account, her husband struck her with his
fist, and she returned the blow with a spade,
which, fracturing the skull, occasioned death.
Verdict—Wiful Murder against his zoife, Mare
Keaton.