The Sun.
London, England, 1824-03-01 00:00:00

KING'S THEATRE.

The return of CATALAxr to this Theatre on
Saturday night, after an absence of ten years,
not froM public performances in general in the
Metropolis, but -on .this pa;•ticular spot, naturally
excited intense cariosity. The Managers, much.'
to their credit, in order to avoid the danger
of an eager rush for admission, directed that
the. doors should be generally opened at six
o'clock. The House was almost immediately
filled, and many were -wholly. disappointed
Who camp at the usual period of entrance. The I
space between the orchestra and the pit, and all
the passage round the latter were, completely
occupied, and many elegant females found no
beaux gallant enough to surrender the situation
which an early arrival enabled them to obtain.
Th. Opera was Il Fanatic° per la Alaska, and
CATALANI performed the part of Aristea. The
Opera is too well known, and her former excel-
lence too well recollected, to render any elabo-
rate. description necessary. 1.t.-• is-sufficient to
say that she acquitted herself with undiminished
eclat. Her executive brilliancy could not be in-
creased, and it was on this occasion as .perfect to
force, rapidity, and articulation, as ever. her
person is somewhat larger, but. not at the
expellee gracefel action. Her entrance
'ardent a burst of ap.
was marked by as
heard' in a theatre, and
plause as ever was
its repetition evidently atr,nted her to weeping
gratitude. When she recovered her powers they
were exerted with full elrect, and it was impos-
sible that any person could feel disappointment,
but rather the most entire satisfaction and I ap e -
sure. One of our competitors says, this day, that
she_ elevated her voice to the " topmost acme of
ascent." we should have thought acme sufficient,
without the topmost or ascent. Another says,
" one might believe that her threat was a nest of
nightingales." This is au unlucky conception, for
nightingale would interrupt another,
produce confusion instead of liar-
isunrdeltyheo,nveholy.
mony. But the same critic cures the objection
by observing, that her voice swelled into such
force, that one tone, " like the rod (not serpent)
in inefable, (not scripture) swallowed all the rest.'
A rod with a power of deglutition is really
phenomenonphenomenon.We wish that some c'good natured
friend" would translate these panegyrics to CATA-
LANI, that she might know how much inventive
genius has been employed in rapport of her ex-
traordinary talents. At the end of the Opera, she
was called for again that she might receive au addi-
tional tribute of universal admiration. She was led
on by the Manager, and again was nearly over-
powered by her gratefUl feelings. DE BEGNis,
next to CATALINI,CXCited warm applause. by his
accurate science, his characteristic. precision, and
his dry and quaint humour. CARADOnt, with the
addition of ALLEN to her name, appeared to advan-
Itage, but•the overwhelming powers of CATALANI
threw her, as %veil as -Cuatom, into the shade,
though they both sung well. The whole was,
however, an admirable treat, and the Managers
seem to have insured success to the season by the
engagethent of one' of the most wonderul Per-
formers- that' ever appeared in the regions of
music.

Saturday morning early, Mr. tae o, an Italian
courier, arrived at the Foreign-Office, Downing-street, with
dispatches from Sir WILLIAM A'CouRT, our Ambassador to
Spain. Cabinet Council assembled in consequence at three
o'clock, at the Foreign-Office, which was attended by the Earl
of Liverpool, the Earl of Westmorland, Mr. Peel, Mr. Can-
ning, Earl Bathurst, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the
Duke of Wellington, Mr. Wynn, Lord Bexley, 'Viscount
Sidmouth, &c. _ _

Yesterday, at three o'clock, another Cabinet
Council met, which continued. in a protracted sitting till near
six o'clock. There were present, 'the LORD CHANCELLOR,
the Earl of Harrowby, the Earl of Westmorland, the Earl of
Liverpool, Mr. Peel, Mr. Canning, Earl Bathurst, the Duke
of Wellington, the Chancellor Of the Exchequer, Mr.- Wynn,
Mr. Huskisson, Lord Bexley, and Viscount Sidmouth. •
On Saturday evening Prince Luopot.o arrived
at the King's Palace at Kensington, to dine with the Duchess
of Kent ; afterwards his Royal Highness accompanied his
Royal Sister to the Italian.OpFra.—Vesterday morning Prince
Leopold attended DiVine Service at St. Philip's Chapel, Wa-
terloo-place.

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