The Sun.
London, England, 1822-10-10 00:00:00

AMERICAN THEATRICALS.

(FROM THE WASHINGTON GAZETTE, OF SEPT. 4.)
Mr. COOPER played Macbeth last night in a
masterly style, to a very numerous and respectable
audience. His commanding and majestic figure,
his face, " as a book where men may read strange
things," his graceful action, his chaste delivery
and correct conception of the character, all con-
spired to give a charm and interest to the per-
formance, which could only be imparted by con-
spicuous merit and real excellence in the histrionic
art. His interview with Lady Macbeth, after he
had " done the deed," was certainly( a most
sublime picture of the terrible passions that con-
vulse the bosom of a murderer. He was literally
frozen with horror, when, in speaking of the in-
voluntary prayers of the grooms in Duncan's
chamber, he demanded—

".But wherefore could I not pronounce, Amen !
I had most need of blessing, and amen
Stuck in my throat !"

A number of our citizens, who are familiar
with Mr. COOPER'S acting, declared that he ne-
ver played better, with more energy, or with
more judgment. The choruses of the Witches,
with the music of Dr. A►txE, were full and well
executed. The farce of The Rendezvous closed
the performances of the evening, and left the
audience in fine humour for the Honey Moon to-
morrow.

A SET of SWINDLERS have for some time in-
fested this town and neighbourhood, and practised a species of
fraud which requires exposure. They are a bill-drawing gang,
purporting to reside at Halifax, from whence they dated their
spurious paper. The mode they adopt to raise the cash is by
one of the party going to a public-house, professing to be short
of change, offering his bill for discount, with the alloiNance of
the usual premium; if he succeeds, the person discounting the
bill is plundered of the whole amount ; if not, he seldom fails
to borrow a few pounds, leaving his bill as security, for which,
of course, he never calls again. The following is a copy of a
bill offered on Monday last in this towil:— _ _

" Halifax, 9th September:
" Two months after date pay to Mr. Isaac Wilman, Six-
teen Pounds Sixteen Shillings. ' JOHN ROBINSON.'
" To Jones, Loyd, and Co., bankers, London."
Wilman is well known amongst the butchers in this town,
and it is said had raised hundreds of pounds in this way.—
( Leeds 1-Welk:gem:cr. )
EXTENSIVE ROBBERY.—At Streatham, on Sa-
torday night, between ten and twelve o'clock,
the house of Mr. Cox, a foreign merchant of great
respectability, was broken open and entered by
a gang of thieves, and robbed of plate and jewel-
erry to the amount of 6001. The family have
been some time at Tunbridge Wells, and Mr.
Cox had left his house in the care of his gardener,
a very confidential servant. Previously to their
departure the plate and jewels had been removed
to a room on the second story, where the
usual precaution of locking up was observed.—
The gardener, after having fastened the doors of
the house, retired to bed before ten on the Sa-
turday night, in the room above that in which all
the valuable portable property was kept. He
heard no noise, but on going down stairs in the
morning was astonished at finding the window of
the pack parlour open. Upon examing the shut-
ters, he found that a large hole had been bored
with an instrument called a " centre bit" under
that part of the shutter at which the fastenings
inside are made, kind that the thieves having
bored the hole were enabled to make an easy
entrance. He then ran up stairs to the room in
which the most valuable property had been de-
posited, and found that the door had been broken
open and that all was gone. Some ill-looking
fellows had been seen in the neighbourhood be-
tween ten and twelve o'clock, after which they
disappeared.