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• Mrt.Eourott—lt is somewhat singular (though
the observation is not new) that .while the pro-
gress of Taste and of Genius in this country for
the last two hundred years has been nearly progres-
sive, the Dramatic art, almost alone, forms an ex-
ception to the truth of the remark. - The original
sin of this sinking—of this- departure from the
.purer state of our Drama, rests net, however,
with the present age. Iris as old as the time of
DRYDEN, who, led by the malignant influence.of.
the Monarch and the Coort,
,deviated into a new
style of composition, more in imitation of French
Tragedy,-. and became the Apostate from
our National School—the " Dramatic proper"
With better taste, and purer morality, but cer-
tainly with similar sentimentY, hiF successors—
llowE, AnnisoN, Voinvo, &C.—followed in the
same-track. Bad was followed (with few excep-
tions), not by better, but by worse, down to the
school of the pudic pure—" 'the present, third,
last, and worst" stage of the art.. •
Thanks to modern criticism, to which the
credit of the discovery is due, we may now bold-,
ly, and without fear of contradiction, assert the
superiority of the elder, to the more modern
Theatre. At different times, and for a long
period, this doctrine was considered to savour of
heresy. The prefaces of Darns:sr (as well as
his alterations of several of SIIAKSPEARE'S plays)
are extant to prove, that, in his day, the objects
of our idolatry—the writers of the Elithethan
eye—were held but in slight estimation. ". It
must be allowed," says Druvocsr, to the present
age, that the tongue in general ;s so much relined
since SIINKSPEA E's time, that many of his words,
and some of his phrases, are scarce intelligible.—
And of those which are understood, some are un-
grammatical, others coarse ; and his whole style
is so pestered with figurative expressions, that it
is as affected as it is obscure. It is true that in his
latter plays he had worn off somewhat of the
rust."* And farther, speaking of the preceding
age, and the writers of that period Poetry
was then, if not in its infancy among us, at least
not arrived at its vigour and maturity. Witness
time lameness of their plots—Pericles, Winter's
Tale, Love's Labour Lost, Measure for Measure,
which were either_ grounded on impossibilities or
so meanly written, that the Comedy neither
caused your mirth, nor the serious part your con-
cernment."-f Neither were these masters of the
stage held as objects of veneration, or considered
(as they now are) models-worthy of imitation, by
the reforming spirit of DRYDEN;S time. Of their
sense and language, he observes—" And I dare
almost challange any man to shew me a page to-
gether which is correct in troth. Let us there-
fore admire the beauties and the height of SHAK•
SPEA R E, without falling after him. into a careless-
ness, and, ns I may call it, a lithargy of thought,
for whole scenes together." _l—Though pAtise,
upon the whole was awarded to SIIAKSPEA RE and
some of his cotemporaries, such were the send-
mews that prevailed generally, when Davn EN,
in this country, took the lead, as " the great
master of dramatic poetry." Now, however, the
veil is removed, and Da Y DEN stands before us
as the great appostate who first departed from
the national faith, II and naturalized in England,
the detestable imitation of a foreign drama. His
successor, too, •by following his example, and
treading in his footsteps, share more of our repre-
hension than our praise; and SnAkspEslll2
SUAKSP.EARE alone (such are the revolutions of
taste !)—is now the star that fixes our eyes in ad-
miration.

But let us not, without apology, brand the
" awful" name of DRYDEN with apostasy. He
lived in an evil time, and drew his " harsh breath"
in poverty and pain. Although well born, and
allied by marriage to nobility, he was forced to
write for " precious bread," and maintained
through life an unequal struggle with want,
and with envy.—From long residence abroad,
our second CHARLE., with other continen-
tal fashions had imbibed a taste for the
French Tragedy, then polished by the succes-
sive labours of CORNEILLE and RACINE. Seated
again on his throne, the taste of the King quickly
became the taste of the Courtiers. The Laureate
in duty and honour, was hound to follow.—
Placed in these circumstances (with poverty by
his side), the will of DR YDEN may truly be said
not to have been his own.- appeared, in-
deed, at a peenliarly critical juncture. With
the restoration of the Prince, a new taste, of
which his Majesty was the Patron, together
with a wide-spreading dissoluteness of manners,
burst upon the nation. The Stage was the first
Theatre where both were exhibited. The Lau-
reat. was looked to, and received the Royal
Mandate for assistance. Something, no doubt,
was due to the march of refinement, and the im-
provement of the time. But in place of conced-
ing this, and refusing further compliance, DRY-
DEN, who had the ability, § wanted the courage
and honesty to resist. Instead of taking his

Preface to Troilus and Cressida.
t Defence of the Epilogue.
+
4. Ibid.—Nothing is more dangerous than unlimited admirn-
tion. From the cavils of Dryden, even at this time, something
may be learnt by the observing Dramatist.
11 Not as to his religion (though Dryden died a member of
the Romish Church), but as the first who changed the struc-
ture of our dramatic blank verse-ran error which no words can
canirow rectify. It is,
the original sin, in which suceeding Dramatists (such
isnuffic fact, sufficiently reprobate, nor any remedy
their fate, over which they had no controul), were born—lived
—and died.
It has been said, that the Stage was not Dryden's talent.
His 28 plus certainly furnish no evidence to the contrary.
But had Dryden written under other circumstances, and free
from the importunities of want; had he studied and followed
in the footsteps of his dramatic predecessors : had his fertile
genius been fully exerted in the pursuit, I am bound to believe
that the honour of success would have been all his own. -

station at this point, and resolutely stemming
the torrent, he painted his barge in the gayest
colour, hoisted the broad pennant surmounted by
the fieur-de,lis, and shamelessly took the lead
down the stream of corruption, followed by a
" pigrn:yfleet," the 'obscurity of whose names
deserve not to live in our literary annals !
No individual ever possessed the power of
doing so much for our Drama ; no one (more
by the lesson he set, than by his single exertions),
ev6c wounded it so deeply. Whilst he was em-
ployed " in refining and tuning" our Epic, he was
at the same time disfiguring and degrading our
Dramatic, numbers. DRYDEN, was the legitimate
successor of :4nt 0 Loy, the last of the Dramatists
of the age of ELlzAncTn and JAMES. But in-
stead of following him, in place of rearing his
building on the same foundation, and with the
same materials,he shifted his ground, and exalted
upon saw!, a worlhl.ess and perhable fatr.k.
In this picture there is one prominent figure
which attracts our notice, and leads us to hazard
a reflection. However mistaken the intention—
however debased and vitiated the taste, it shows
us the example of a Monarch—of no less a per-
sonage than CliAttLEs the Second of England—
giving a tone and a turn, to the Dramatic Litera-
ture of his Country. But what name of note in
our time, Sir, stands forth as the patron and ac-
tive supporter of the Drama! From the Monarch
to the Manager, Sir—(ungrateful England !)—.
not one? " Deserted in its utmost need"—left to
its fate—at 'the mercy of an interested, and over-
occupied Directorship, whose motive is gain—a
balancing of profit and loss—whose time (to be
silent as to its talents), is otherwise engaged,--
where the improvement of the Drama, in short,
is as much studied and practised, as the improve-
ment of gas, of steam, or of any other branch of
mechanics. •

In this speculative age, Sir, I yet despair not
of seeing some fortunate " Money-changer"—
some lucky Abel Drugger, sitting, as Proprietor
and Member of Committee of a Patent Esta.:
blishment, and judging with senatorial dignity,
of the merits and fitness of a new piece for stage
representation.—" To consider so"—were not a
jot " to consider too curiously."

PROTEUS.

NEWCASTLE ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY.

(Front the Newcastle Chronicle, Jan. 8.)

On the sth inst. the ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY Of
Newcastle, of which his Grace the Duke of NORTHUMBER-
LAND is Patron, held their 12th Anniversary Meeting in the
Rooms which have been provided for their accommodation in
the new erection for the .Literary and Philosophical Society,
JAMES Losff, Esq. one of the Vice-Presidents, in the chair.
The meeting was numerously attended, and the followinggen-
tlemen Were elected office-bearers for the ensuing year :
PRESIDE wr,—Sir J. E. Swinburn-e, Bart. F.R.S. F.S.A.
VICE-PRESIDENTS,—Sir C. Monck, Bart., C. W. Bigge,
and James Losh, Esqrs.
SECRETARIES,—The Rev. John Hodgson, and Mr. John
Adamson, F.S.A. F.L.S.
TREASURER,—Mr. Adamson.
COUNCIL,—
Bell, Mr. T. Holley, Rev. A.
Brockett, Mr. F.S.A. Hodgson, Mr. T.
Charnley, Mr. E. Murray, Mr. John
Clarke, Mr. W. Stanton, Mr..T.
Cookson, 1., Esq. Thompson, Mr. R.
Cookson, C. Esq. Turner, Rev. W.
This being the first meeting
.of the Society held_ in their new
apartments, Mr. ADAMSO.N,fIie Treasurer, in presenting his
accounts, read the following Report :
" On presenting to you my accounts as Treasurer of your
Society for the last year, I beg leave to trespass a few minutes
upon your time, as I cannot allow the opportunity of our first
meeting in- this Building to pass, without congratulating you
upon the event which holds out the prospect of the fondest hopes
of the founders of the Society being realised.
" We may now send forth to the country (and more espe-
cially to those Persons who have expressed their intention of
making donations of Inscriptions, &c. so soon as the Society
had a situation where their safe custody could be certain) no-
tice, that we have a depository for any antiquities which may
be discovered, or are in their possession, and a place where they
may be advantageously displayed for the gratification of the
learned, the use of the student, and the amusement of those
who may be attracted to view them from curiosity. It may not
be improper to mention in what way the objects of antiquity
are intended to be disposed. The members of the Literary and
Philosophical Society, desirous of combining elegance with
utility, have decided, that around the space of ground which
is behind this erection shall be built a piazza, against the walls
of which will be placed the more massive articles, as altars,
figures, &c. whilst those of less size, or whose exposure might
be attended with difficulty or danger, will find a situation in the
second room appropriated for our use, and which will be provid-
ed with suitable glazed and other cases.
" Your Library already valuable, and continually and ra-
pidly increasing by donation or otherwise, will occupy the
spaces which are prepared in this room ; and the members, it.
is hoped, will patiently submit to the temporary suspension
of the circulation of the Books, which must necessarily take
place until the removal of the collection can be effected, and
which inconvenience to them will be soon remedied.

" I took the liberty in July last to propose for the considera-
tion of the-meeting, that, in consequonee of niir pu.curort+-4.44,1.
pat i on, new furniture would be required, and other expences
incurred, the funds for which, if- taken from the subseriptinns.
would materially interfere with the monies of the Society, and
prevent their being applied to the objects for which they were
intended, and therefore the members should be invited, by a
circular letter, to subscribe one guinea each, for the purpose.
The meeting having entertained this measure, 38 guineas have
been subscribed—a sum which, although insufficient, will af-
ford a considerable relief to the Society, and it is perhaps not
too much to expect, that'so soon as those members, who have
not yet put down their names, are sufficiently aware of the be-
nefit which their countenance of the measure may be to the So-
ciety, they will come forward and give their assistance.
" The chair, which our worthy Vice-President now occu-
pies, is peculiarly deserving of your attention, inasmuch as
there can be no difficulty in asserting that so curious a speci-
men of antiquity as the material of which it is composed has
never before been met with. We were told by Mr. Chapman,
through whose information the wood was procured, that it was
found beneath the Roman Wall, and consequently must have
formed part of a forest which had existed, and been swept
down previously to the building of that rampart. Endeavours
are making that the rest of the furniture shall be suitable to
the building and the nature of this establishment. For the
beautiful model which graces this room, and is placed above
the fire, the thanks of the Society are due to Mr. Richard Far-
rington, who volunteered to undertake it, and present it to the
Society. The design you will perceive to be that of our seal ;
and how skilfully the artist had accomplished his undertaking,
the excellence of the work will at once testify.
" The last year was one during which the Collections of
the Society have :been much increased. To detail the nume-
rous donations would take up too much of your time, but I
cannot omit to mention -some of them, as Members may be
present to-day who do not attend the monthly meetings of the
Society.
" Mr. Gregson, of Liverpool, whose death as one of its
honorary members, the Society has to regret, presented early
in the year his Fragments of Lancashire, a work expensively

" The Archaologia ;
" Roy's Military- Aritignititl..s •
" The Accounts of the Cathedral and Abbey ChurcheSi
and the Priiits from the ancient paintings in the possession of
the Society... .
We have to depl.pre the lcm of two of our members ; Mr.
Thomas, and the Rev. R. Clarke. Of the worth of the former
we have ourselVes•had the means of forming an estimate—
whilst the lamentatiotis which followed the unexpected death
of the latter, sufficiently attest the respect which persons in his
own neighbourhood" felt 'for him'.' In institutions like this, a
year cannot be expected to pass without some of the Members
pa:. n,; 'he debt of nature, and our consolation this year 'mst
be, that liowever. deeply we may ragret their lots, the Society
has received a considerable accession of Members, whose names
and incorporation With us evince the estimation in which the
Society is now held: The new Members this year are
" John Davidson, Esq. of West Otterburn ;
" Mr. Wm. Henry Clarke, of Hexham :
" The Rev. Fras. Thompson, of Stagshore House;
" Chas. D. Shaft()' Esq. of Bavington ;
" Dixon Browne, Esq. of Benton
" The Rev. J. Brewster, of Eggleseliffe ;
" Sir Chas. Loraine, Hart. of Kirkharle ;
" H. Witham, Esq. of Larting,ton ;
" The Rt. lion. Thos. Wallace, of Featherston Castle ; and
" J. G. Lambton, Esq. M.P. for the County of Durham.
" It might be of utility to the Society, if, between this and
its next anniversary, the members would take the trouble to
consider whether any better regulations for our government
could he adopted. According to our present system the num-.
bers of the Society is limited as to ordinary members to 100.—
It may be worthy of consideration whether it May not be more
politic to alloW that number to be increased, as it is far from int.-
probable that more gentlemen will be desirous of joining the
Society. It might also be considered whether following the ex-,
ample of the Societies of London, Edinburgh, and Perth, this
day might not be finished by the members dining together."
[The Report concluded with a statement of the accounts of
the Society.]
After the report had been read, various presents were laid
before the meeting, viz.
From W. C. Trevelyan, Esq. of Wallington.
1. Anglia) Notitia, by E. Chamberlayn, Esq. 1670, 12mo.
2. The Song of the Sun, imitated from the Icelandic Edda-,
by the Rev. J. Beresford, 1805, Bvo.
3. British Remains, by the Rev. N. Owen, jun. 1777, Svo.
4. Select Icelandic Poetry, translated by W. Herbert, Part
1. 1804, Bvo.

5. JoanniS Ulivae Rhodogini in Marmor Isiacum, Rome
nuper eflbssum, Exercitationes, 1719, Bvo.
From flr. Adamson, three volumes, consisting of MS.
Papers, relating to the Great Flood of 1771, to the Riot at Hex-
h'am in 1761, and to the building of the Theatre Royal, New.
castle.

Frem Mr. Greenhow, his Estimate of the Value of Vaccina-
tion as a Security against the Small Pox, 1825, 12mo.
From Thomas Clennell, Esq. of Harbottlet-Castle, a coin
(plated) of Louis XIV.

On the motion of C. Cooxsox, Esq. seconded by the Rev.
C. Thorp, it was resolved, that after the next anniversary, the
Members should dine together.
Several letters were then read, amongst which were,—one from
Vim. Hamper. Esq. to Miss Carlyle, with that gentleman's-
interpretation of the Runic inscription on the gold ring found
on King's Moore in 1817,—and one from Mr. Gibson of Reeds—
mouth; inclosing some silver coins of Richard H. and one or
'the Edwards, which were found lately in digging in a cottager's•
garden at Birtley, in Northumberland ; the coins, it was re—.
golved, should be bought.
Mr. Fox presented some of the bones found in the cave at
Kirkdale, in Yorkshire; with an understanding that they
might hereafter be withdrawn and deposited in the Natural
History Museum of the Literary and Philosophical Society, if-
thought desirable.
_ _

The thanks of the Meeting were then voted to the several-
persons who had made presents to the Society.

SCOTTISH MILITARY ACADEMY.—Monday, the
examination of the pupils of the Scottish Military and,
Gymnastic Academy took place before a numerous and
respectable assemblage of their friends and of military
gentlemen. The specimens of fortification drawings were
particularly admired as well as the specimens of geogra-
phical delineation. Upon these sciences, as connected- with
mathematics, the pupils underwent a long and minute examina-
tion, and gave the utmost satisfaction, both for the readiness
and accuracy of their answers. The ordinary exercises were gone
through in the following order :—Oneclass, infantry broad sword,
exercise ; one class of exercise with sticks in five divisions ;
one class, cavalry sword exercise; one class, small sword ;
one class, firelock. All these classes shewed such proficiency
as to meet the approbation of all present, particularly oft
the military gentlemen. The gymnastics, on a large and im-
proved system, followed. They consisted of the most approved--
slsteins, lately adopted in England, with some additions by
Captain Scott, the superintendant.—They seemed judicious and
highly calculated for developing, strengthening, and otherwise
improving the bodily system, and must add greatly to the health,
strength, activity, and appearance of the scholars. On the eloie
of the exercises, Mr. Arthur Wight, one of the senior pupils,
came forward with an elegant writing desk, and addressed the
superintendent in a neat speech.—( Edin. Courant, Jan. 8.)

SHOCKING SUICIDE.--An Inquest was yesterday
taken at the Plough public-house, Kentish-town, on View of the
body of Alexander Taylor, aged 48, late of the lion. East India
Company's civil service, who put a period to his existence on
Monday last. Mrs. Martha Power, maternal aunt to the de-
ceased, stated, that about four months ago he returned home
from Madras, where he had spent several years in the Company's
service as an engineer, and by his industry had realized consi-
derable sums of money, which he placed in the handS of a 31r.
maa.,„ a boot h mo,ch an t at _Madras. to be vested in the name
of the deceased, in British stock securities, purPoffiVat. the ex-
pi.rption of_ the term of his last engagement to Come over to his
native country. It appeared, however, that the person to whom
those deposits were intrusted for remittance to England, had
converted them to his own use, together with monies belong-
ing to many other persons attached to the same service; and,
-fearful of detection, sold off his effects, and fled to America.
—This circumstance hastened the departure of deceased for his
native country, where. on arrival, he found himself nearly as
poor as when he quitted it. An eminent physician who attend-
ed him through a lingering illness, advised a constant change
of society and scene. During the last two months he had been
to Brighton, Cowes, and Southampton, on visits to various
friends. On Sunday he came from town by one of the stages..
Ile then looked rather better than he had done for some time be-
fore, but his spirits were evidently forced and unnatural. When
the servant knocked at the door to call him to breakfast on Mon-
day morning- she received no answer, and thinking him asleep,
did not repeat the knocking. About 12 o'clock witness went up
to him to arouse him, but still no answer was returned. The
door was bolted inside; and this circumstance, together with the
lateness of the hour, excited suspicion in witnesses mind, and
she, with the servant's assistance, forced open the door. and n
entering the apartment she was shocked to see the d•xeas d
lying half out of bed, and the floor and bed clothes literally
drenched with blood. Witness fainted, and was borne out
of the room, and could tell nothing further about the matter.
Mr. James Ewart, surgeon, examined the body of the deceas-
ed on Monday, about noon; it was then quite cold, and no
human effort could have restored life. There were three cuts
in the throat made with a pen-knife. Mary Ramsay, servant
etdhi e i
nce,
on deceased;when' he rang
forto ilalsrvsfn
eP_oglv,iesrs„
to bse
take his
the night previous,
said—" This bottle is out, but I shall not want another."
lie appeared very melancholy when he wished her good night,
on shutting the door. The Jury expressed themselves perfectly
satisfied as to the fact of insanity, and returned as their verdict
observed,
medicine,
—"
That the deceased committed suicide whilst in a state of
mental derangement."