The Sun.
London, England, 1825-01-01 00:00:00

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Cape & Madras 5
( tlsGeneral Palmer sdolGeorge Truscott Geo. Truscott E.l. Docks Captain T., Birchin-lane
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Madras - 1 25:Hope 556 john T. E. Flint J. T. E. Flint E. I. Docks {
Cape, Madras 1 t 1 1 court
R. J.
& Bengal . . ' Mar. I,Enterprise 500. R. J. Saunders, Agent .I.H.Johnston Deptford {• •Saunders,Agent,
1 1 South Sea House
Jan. 7,Coromandel 643 George Joad Thomas Boyes W I.Docles John Lyney, jun. Birchin-lane
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.Lady Flora ;50 Cockerlll, Trail, & Co. T.MacDonnell Blackwell John S. Brinley, Birchin-lane
30 Maitland 694 Thomas Ferguson Mich. O'Brien City Canal Edmund Read [ Sea House
10John 464 Adw. Loughan, & Co. T. Poppleweß A City Canal nstice & Thornhill,OldSouth
• Feb. 28 Thalia '7OO Francis Robinson W. 11. Biden City Canal It. F. Wade, London-street
Mar. 10, Malcolm 650 Watts and Heath rJames Eyles Deptford John S. Brinley
Madras and 30 ('asar 500 Johnston & Meaburn Thos. A. Watt City Canal W. Abercrombie, Birchin-lane
Bengal - - . 311 Eliza 682 David Sutton David Sutton E. I. Docks Barber & Neate, Birchin-lane
April 10 Orient 597 S. Marjoribanks & Co. Thos. White E. I. Docks S. Marjoribanks &Co., King's
—Royal George 550 Joseph Soames Wm. Reynolds W.l.Docks Edmund Read (Arms Yd.
151 Neptune 556.1. Cumberlege, jun. J. Cumberlege E. I. I)ocks John Lyney, jun.
301Woodford 444 Alfred Chapman
• May 11William Miles 581 Samuel Beadle Alf. Chapman E. 1. Docks J.Chapinan&Co.Leadenhall-st.
Samuel Beadle E. I. Docks Capt.B.Jerusalein-coffee-house
[ 101 Kingston
500 Wm. Atkins Bowen W. A. Bowen City Canal Cockerell,Trail,&Co.Austin-fr.
Bengal
- 'Jan.
20 Gilmore 405 Hunter and Co. R. W. Laws B. I. Dock Hunter & Co. Old Broad-street
'slAmity 300 John Chapman & Co. John Gray W.l.Docks John S. Brinley
-Royal George 477 John Barry S. Ellerby City Canal John Lyney, jun. [street
Bombay -311 Norfolk 536 Alexander Greig Alex. Greig City Canal Isbister & Horsley,Leadenhall-
-1 Mar. 5 Britannia 450 George Wiggins Wm. Luke City Canal Edmund Read
Lpril 5 James Sibbald U 47 Henry Blanshard Jas. K. Forbes E.I. Docks 11. Blanchard, Old Broad-st.
Ceylon - Jan. 25-Tiger 330 Buckles and Co. Henry Kent City Canal Buckles and Co. Mark-lane
Mauritius and f &Africa • 350 William Tindall John Skelton W.l.Docks John Lyney, jun.
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Ceylon . t —Nero 189 William Rutter Wm. Rutter City Canal Edmund Read
25' Belzoni 250 Robert Granger fßod;Alcrlnewrsnon City Canal
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Batavia & Sin- 1 .5 Waodlark 198 Buckles-and. Co. City C
Maria 351 Thorntons and West James Moffatt City Canal Edmund Read
gapore -
15 Batavia 402 Thorntons and West Robert Blair City Canal Edmund Read
Singapore -251 Rosella 220 Smith and Co. T. Atkinson City Canal John Pirie & Co. Freeman's-ct.
) Bencoolen, Pe-
-1 Leornhill
nang, & Sin- '- 10 Spring 236 Richard Drew J.P. Hackman City Canal Edmund Read
gapore - 1
Cape - - 5 6 Borneo 420 .Toseph Hare J. C. Ross City Canal Isbister and Horsley'
1. 15 Margaret 220 Alexander Robertson J. Henderson LondonDs. Cooke and Horsley
New S. Wales hi 31arinee-f 440 John Chapman & Co. 'l'. Welbank Dep&Cork John Chapman and Co.
101WilliamShand 296 John lumsden Alex. Kenn hondonDs.i Buckles and Co.
Van Dierna
New
Land & w 5 15 Mountaineer 487 John Chapman & Co. John Herbert LondonDs.iJohn Chapman and Co.
South Wales. t Feb. 1 Medina 168,John Hayman John Brown LondonDsOsbister and Long
Andromeda 1931 William Stoveld James Muddle LondonDs.Anstice and Thornhill
* From Gravesend. + From Portsmouth. -4." Convict Ship.

FOR THE SUN.

THE DRAMA.-(LETTER V.)

Mu. EIIITOR—In my former Letters *, I in-
stanced the system of Management of our Metro-
politan Theatres, in regard to Authors, as one
cause of the long7complaiue,d-of degeneracy of
the Modern Drama. I charged Managers with
blaine,-7-not for actual refusal of many of the
pieces offered them for the Stage, but for want
of discrimination, of taste, and of the proper dis-
charge .of their official duties, in couching their
answers of non-acceptance in much the saine
laconic, undistinguishing, repulsive style, whe-
ther addressed to Authors of the highest promise,
or to the imbecile class of writers of no promise
at all; so as almost to generate a suspicion (when
many rejected Plays are compared and contrasted
with some that are accepted), that something
like Stage Secrets, have to be acted behind the
scenes, in the mysteries of which it is necessary
the fortunate Author should previously be in-
structed. I have also censured Managers for the
unreasonable length of time the productions of
Authors are detained by them under examination,
—thereby proving the general neglect and want
of regularity and method, that exists in this de-
partment of the Theatre.

But I have also unequivocally allowed, that
Managers, in the discharge of this branch of their
duty, have often a painful, delicate, and em-
barassing task to execute ; and I ventured to
propose a remedy, in the shape of a Committee,
which, acting gratuitously, might tend to direct
and controul, not only the choice and judgment
of Managers, but, eventually, to influence and
improve the national taste.—Until the evil
complained of, therefore, is remedied, of what
use is it, Sir, to ring the everlasting charges
of abuses and complaint against Modern Dra-
matists."—" Silence, that dreadful bell !"
Strike at the root of the evil ; for, if you do not
this, it is worse than idle to talk about gi re-
vivifying the sleeping MELPOMENE," or think of
recovering from her vapourous insensibility, the
afflicted and offended sister Tn4Ll 4.

Indeed, for so long a period has mismanage-
ment prevailed, i in the quarter complained of,
that no alteration of system, however liberal,
could suddenly be expected to effect a favou..-
able change. So heavy has been the pressure,
Sir, so deadening the weight that Managers
have now lost the power. and are unable to rouse
the dormant sparks of Genius, or remove the
deep stain of mediocrity from the history of the
modern Theatre.

It is time, however, to turn our Critics,i- in
this dilermna, for advice and instruction.
One of them, (Mr. LACY) has divided our
national Drama, into three distinct and separate
schools ; " branding each, with a name, indica-
tive of its character."l viz.—The Dramatic pro-
per; Comprizing the aera of SHAKSeEARE and his
contemporaries : The Rhetoric, including that of
YOUNG, RoWg, ADDISON, &c.: And, the Poetic
pure,—being the present, third, last, and worst—
which embraces the living generation of writers;
or, as Mr. LACY chooses to designate then:l
D/yin/oasts of the day.
To this classification, nor to the treatment, as
far as it goes, by which Mr. LACY proposes to
restore his patient—(the present, third, last,
and worst school of Drama) to pristine vigour
• and health, I have no serious objection. Mr.
LACY, rightly judging, that the general debility,
accompanied by alarming lethargic symptoms
was first to be attended to, has recommended
'aud prescribed to the patient, the liberal use of
the old and celebrated tonic of action, with an
occasional mixture of running dialogue ; great
abstinence from pretty imagery, lusciousness of
language, _and the exercise of spinning at the
eternal Wheel of Verse. He has also enforced
the necessity of attention to plot-work, together
with daily and regular employment in the study
and irnitatiou of the works of the great Drama-
tist, with peremptory orders to the patient,
strictly to avoid prose poetry, and the regular
system of joinery. Fired, already, On imagina-
tion) with the fancied success of his prescrip-
tions, he exultingly exclaims—
" 'Tis I, John Lacy, have reformed the stage."
,fo be sure, this (unlucky) " note of triumph"
savours more of the boastings of the Solomons
and the Brodums, than of the grave, graduated,
regular, and decreed practitioner. Six letters
,(with a postscript), addressed to the " Drama-
tists of the day," and published in a Monthly
Magazine, is just as likely to " reform the stage,"
as the pill of the Emperic to restore the shattered
nerves and debilitated constitution of the con-
sumptive invalid. Reforms, whether of the Stage
or the State, to be lasting, must be gradual. The
reforming Dramatist, therefore, must go hand in
hand with the times, and the taste of the age;
neither extending his stride too much before, nor
yet lagging too far behind. Let him follow the
prescriptions and regimen, in part, or in whole_.
(and safe they are, as far as they reach), of Mr.
.LAcy. Let him summon to his aid all his powers,
and 64 screw his courage to the sticking place ;"
Ire will yet discover—though warmed and urged
oi
hasi by " Proethean heat" within—that Ire
n n the many difficulties to overcome—a
many an
Alp" to cross, before the desideratum is found_
before the summit of his wishes is attained.

To what quarter, then, shall we look, Sir, for
the reformation and improvement of the Stage ?
—Not to the imitation of the French school of
Tragedy, founded on the models of ancient
Greece, with the rigid preservation of all the
unities—cold, monstrous, and declamatory. Not
to the simplicity of plot, and meagre dramatis
persona' of the .1 talian Alfieri, also founded on
the same seminary. Most assuredly not to the
supernatural terrors—the questionable morality
—the hideous fatalism of the German school.

" Imitate SIIAKSPEA RE," exclaims the sanguine
critic, " and regenerate the Drama !"—But, alas!
SHAKSPEARE is illimitable !—Were SIIAKSPE:IItE
again to be called to existence, himself could not
imitate his former self. He would, indeed, be
great in any country, or at any period ; but he