The Sun.
London, England, 1831-06-08 00:00:00

DEATH OF MRS. SIDDONS.

We regret to have to record the death of this celebrated
and highly talented lady, after a painful illness, which she
bore with very great fortitude. Her dissolution took place
at her residence in Upper Baker-street, Portman-square,
at about half-past eight o'clock this morning. Her death
has) been for several days expected, yet, notwithstanding, as
might be anticipated, the event has thrown the Ketnble
family into the most poignant and overwhelming grief.
The melancholy information soon reached the ears of the
distressed relatives of the deceased lady, and the intelli-
gence was brought to Covent- Garden theatre shortly after,
we believe, by an intimate friend of Mr. Charles Kemble,
that gentlema❑ being too unwell to attend himself. It is
rumoured that the play of the Provoked Husband, which
is announced for to-night, will be withdrawn—Mr. C.
Ketnble being the Lord Townley, and his daughter Lady
Townley.

The third grand masquerade for the season
takes place to-night at the King's Theatre, under the Dan—
nagement of Mr. WILLIAM BARRYMORE. A full house
may be anticipated.
MADAME MARA.—This lady is still living
at Revel in Russia. On the celebration of her S2d birth-
day lately, between 70 and 80 of the most distinguished in-
dividuals of the town and its neighbourhood collected to
receive her on the occasion of a public banquet given the
ci-devant cantatrice. The pleasures of the scene were
greatly enhanced by the performance of an ode written by
GOETtIE, in which he retraced the enthusiasm produced
by her first appearance in METAsmslo's oratorio, S.
Elena al Calvario, in the Sear 1771, when GOETHE
heard her for the first time. She was then plain
Mademoiselle SeIIMELING, and he a stripling student of
twenty-two. The ode was set for four voices by Hum-
?rlEL ; but before it was performed she received a finely_
embellished copy of it from a daughter of KonEaur.
After the banquet, a public concert was given in the even-
ing, and of this Madame MARA was again the delightful
prima donna. The two compositions were repeated with
inere'sed effect before a crowded audience by some of her
own pupils and friends.

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