The Sun.
London, England, 1823-12-04 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER SCHOOL.

THE ANNUAL PLAY was performed last nilla
for the first time this year, by the Youth of this
celebrated Academy. The representation has
been for a long period of years confined to the
Plays of Tcaescr, and that selected for the pre.
sent occasion was the well known Comedy of
The Adelphi ; or, The Brothers. The lending
characters of the Play appear to, us to have been
very happily supported. Th'e Dramatis Persona
were as follows:

lllido - - H. SANDERS.
Demo - - T. KNIGHT.
liannio - - - D. DUNLOP.
,EsclilliGil . . J. G. Purwmonr.
Syrus - - F. MARICLIA.M.
Ctesipho - - H. CHESTEn.
Sostrut3 - - J. AL HEATH.
Conthara - - J. R. HALL.
Geta - - - W. E. PAGE.
Mogi() - - - J. BEN TALL.
Dromo - - J. M. CAnnow.
Although no attempt was made to adhere to
the costume of antiquity in Oa dresses of the
young performers, yet the reality of the scene
was so far consulted as to represent the several
characters in such dresses as would become their
relative situations in life, had they been of a
more modern cast. In fact, though the circum-
stances, situations, sentiments, are all Attic,
still the characters appear in the garb of
the last century, and some of them were in the

more striking and not less impressive habiliments
of the present day. As an example of the lat.
ter, we cannot select one more appropriate
than &tnnio, a dealer in female slaves. Ms sleek

black head of hair, scarlet neckcloth, and frock-
coat out at elbows, aided by a keen eye, cunning
aspect, with a mixture of meanness and swagger-
ing insolence of manner, pourtrayed with fidelity
the bully of the present day, and was so far,
allowing for the difference of the two eras, not
an inapt representation of so depraved a character
in any age. The part too was sustained with
great spirit lay Mr. DUNLOP. The liemea of Mr.
KNIGHT was a masterly performance. His grief,
his anger, and his final resumption of the character
of a good natured easy man, were all specimens
of excellent acting and great and precarious dis-
crimination of character.

The part of Syrtis by Mr. MARKHAM, who
faithfully depicted the cunning slave, was that
which appeared most to gratify the audience.
His drunken scene was loudly applauded. The
parts of Maio, AschimtriCtesipho, and Geta, were
respectably sustained. Mr. HEATH, a very young
gentlernan, of considerable promise, did all in
the little part of the fentale slave Sodrata that
it admitted to ensure a favourable reception.
'We never witnessed a finer spechnen of the int,
pressiveness and musical effect of Latin recita.
tion, than in his adMirable delivery of the words
in which Soitrata reveals the delicacy and strength
of her attachment in the passage beginning with
"Rh me MiSerOM !" Never was applause more
cordial or more deserved. The Theatre was
crowded throughout by a very elegant r
asbiin-
bla4e, including several 'ladies, doubtless the re-
latives of the young Gentlemen who exhibited
on this occasion.

OLD BAILEY (THIS DAT).—Henr,y Harris, a
young man, whose parents were described to
have been formerly in very affluent circumstances,
was put to the bar, on an indictment, charging him
with stealing from the person of Thomas New-
ton a watch and its appendages, on the night of
the 17th of November. A number of witnesses
were called to speak to his character, ail of
whom gave him a very good one. The Jury
after a short consultation found him Guilty.