The Sun.
London, England, 1824-12-17 00:00:00

THE MARKETS.

CORN EXCHANGE, DEC. 17.
The arrivals of all %orts of Corn this week are very large.
The Wheat trade continues almost in a stagnant state, and this
article is declined 2s. per quarter since Allonday last. Barley
is excessively dull, and 2s. to 3s. per quarter lower. Beans and
Pease tind scarcely any buyers. Oats are now abundant, and
they have met a further reduction of ls. per quarter. The
Flour trade is now extremely heavy.

Aunty,*Ls.—English Wheat 11,200, Barley 15,1100, Oats,
11,100; Irish Wheat 1,300, Oats 7,000 gunners; Flour,
:3,000 sacks.

SMITHFIELD MARKET, DEC. 17.
The following is an accurate Report of the numbers and
prices at Smithfield Market this morning:—

CATTLP AT AtAUKET
Beasts 1 701 I sheep
Calves l7O I Pigs "" 100
To sink the Offal, per stone of Illit.
nee( 3s 10d to 4s 84(1 Veal
Mutton 4s 04 to 4s 10d Pork 4s 8d to As 84
Lamb Os 0 to Os 04.
_ __

HAY AND STRAW, PEN. LOAD.
sty £3 Os to £ N I Clover .C 4 Os to A:ti Os
Straw lOs to £2 2s.

NEW ROUTE To ITALY.—The beautiful road
of Posilipo, begun by the French in 1811, and
carried on with much art up to the foot of the
mountain near Pazzunle is continued upon the
same plan by the Austrians, and will be com.
pleted immediately. The trenching which these
works made necessary, has been the means of
discovering tombs, inclosing skeletons, and vases,
with money placed in the mouths of the skele.
tons.

FlRE.—Last night, between the hours of ten
and eleven o'clock, a fire broke out in an oil-
shop, in Duke-street, Waterloo-road, which
threatened destruction to the adjoining buildings,
but, from the timely arrival of the engines, the
flames were subdued, with the extinction of the
interior of the oil-shop, and trifling damage to
the adjacent premises. An unfortunate inmate,
ft journeyman mechanic, has lost the fruits of se-:
veral years' hard work; he was not insured.

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Extracts from the, Morning Papers, Dec. 17.

(THE PUBLIC rAnntn.)
We believe that Ministers are occupied at this
moment with devising means to relieve, next Ses-
sion, his Majesty's Catholic subjects of Ireland
from the disabilities, to which by a perversion of
law, and in despite of the soundest policy, they
are still condemned. The King's gracious visit
to Ireland prepared us for this healing measure,
which, besides corresponds with his Majesty's
wish, to see all his people happy and united.—
Those persons too, who pretend to know Mr.
Canning best, maintain that he would not have
encouraged the hopes, which his presence neces-
sarily raised last summer, unless he had known
that it would be► soon in his power to gratify
them. At the same time we may safely affirm,
, that the Marquis Wellesley accepted the govern•
meat of that country, with the► understanding that
it would be the prelude to Catholic Emanci.
pation. Besides, the measure has the cordial
concurrence of the honest and enlightened of
every party ; whilst its enemies are distinguished
by the narrow and selfish► principles of policy,
foreign as well as domestic. Moreover, it would
unavoidably add to the strength and security of
the Empire, by converting =six millions of discon-
tented, into as many contented, subjects, who
would at the same time invigorate the Constitu-
tion, by bringing with thorn into its pale a quick
sense of political oppression, together with
an implacable hatred of religious intolerance,
under the conjoint effects of which they
have so long and cruelly suffered. It it this
apprehens►o►►, we suspect, and not any fear
of danger to our liberties, which stimulates the
resistance that the Catholics have hitherto en-
countered ; and such is the dread which their
enemies entertain of the great accession they
would bring to the cause of good government,
'that the latter, rather than witness it, would sub-
ject the country at large to any risk. Be,this as
it may, we are fully convinced that some measure
of relief is in contemplation : and the froth and
fury of The Courier, which we need not tell our
headers has been discarded by die respectable
part of •the Ministry, for its slavish principles/
would alone confirm us in this opinion.

[BRITISH .pitEstia
The Paris Journals of Tuesday are not very
interesting. The principal subjects of domestic
intelligence in them is the funeral oii'LGirodet,
the painter, on whom a very elaborate panegyric
,appears in the Journal devDhliats, from the pen
of, M. Bon tard . Thajeceased • was interred in
the groUnd of Pere Lachaise, to which his corpse
was followed. by .M.-de:-Chateaubriand, M. de,
Seze, and several other Peers, M
.. Gamier, the
old friend and rival of M, Girodet, pronounced a
warm and eloquent eulogium over his grave. On
the coffin were laid crowns of amaranth and
laurel, and immediately after it a cushion was,
carried, by the King's order, with the Cross of
the Legion of Honour, which his Majesty
had resolved to grant to this distinguished Artist,
•but, as it would appear, had delayed to confer
upon him until after his decease. The Prince de
l'olignac arrived at Paris on Sunday evening, and
the next day had a private audience of the King.
His accession to the Ministry there seems' to be
little reason to doubt. From the Madrid corre-

spondenoe of the Mode we learn that Ferdinand
VII. has been conferring rank and honours on
all his Generals in Peru, without any reference
to the part they have taken us to their intestine
dissentious. Valdez and Otaneta are both re-

warded for their services, which at the present
moment consist chiefly in doing mischief to each
other. The Editorof the Etoile takes this opportu-
nity of vindicating Olaneta from the infamy of hav-
ing deserted the Royal cause.We know—whatever
the Etoile may airvet to believe—that this faith-
ful officer has publicly renounced the authority
of the Viceroy Laserna, whom Ferdinand has
created Conde de los Mules ; and, as the Buenos
Ayres Papers inform us, Olaneta, in open rebel-
wages a fierce civil war with his fellow-
subjects:- One of those (Carratala), who is pro.
motel with him to the rank of Major-General
Mariscal del Campo) is actually his prisoner!
A compliment to the fidelity of Olaneta is surely
00111eWila t misapplied.—The news respecting the
Greeks is highly favourable to them. The Egyp.
tian fleet is said to be blockaded near Boudruon,
between Stanchio and the Main. Seven frigates
pre said to have arrived at Napoli, purchased by
Varvari, the aged and rich Ipsariot, who some
time ago -returned from Russia to devote his
wealth and the remainder of hip, life to his coun-
trymen. The Mon tour, in its official part, con.
thins two Ordonnances; the first relates to Con-

yoking the Electoral Colleges of the Arrondisse.
meta of the Gard, and Seine and Oise, for the
choice of Deputies in lieu of the two who are
deid ; and the second regulates the revenues of
the Institution for Military Invalids.

[MORNING CHRONICIAP..] •
A gentleman who has recently visited the mines
of the Rea del Catoree,,sailed from Tampico on
the.4lll October last, for the 'United States, and
arrived by the Nit packet from New York. lie
reports
,that when he left Mexico the greatest
order and tranquillity prevailed,' and confirms
the accounts previonsly received in this country,
Of General Victoria 'having been elected Presi-
dent of the -Republic ; as'well as the gratifying
intelligence of the mines being 'worked with the
greatest activity and Profit to those :concerned.

We can state with certainty that General'Dar-
has'been appointed to the 'Government of
NPw South Wales ; and that Major Goulburn
1i 4een removed from the office of Secretary, to
the Govirnment---(lbid.)

Advices from runny quarters confirm in their
utmost extent alli,the favourable news latterly re-
ceived from the Archipelago, announce new vic-
tories on the part of the Christians, and also
state that the'cause of Greece has been strengthen-
ed by the reTolt of the Christian portion of the
population of Bosnia and Servia, from the Go.

vernment of the Sublime, Porte. Never, perhaps,
ha a greater politicalphenomenon occurred than
that which has been witnessed during the last
half year in Greece. The efforts of a bigotted,
powerful, and vindictive enemy have been frus-
trated by a despised but gallant population.—by
men, whose only consolation was the remembrance
of the actions of their progenitors, and civilization
has, almost by magical aid, established itself,
where a few months ago barbarism reigned in all
the majesty of undisturbed power. After the
Turkish fleet was defeated at Mytilene, the rem-
nant of it was pursued by the Greeks, and it
again suffered severe reverses off the celebrated
Island Tenedos. A few vessels only of this power-
ful armament have escaped from the bravery of
the Grecian navy, to which no partial success was
satisfactory, and which did not cease its labours
until its enemies were rendered incapable of doing
farther injury. Another division of the Grecian
fleet is taking care of that from Egypt, formerly
commanded by Ibrahim Pacha, and which, by the
latest advices, had taken refuge in Badran, and
fortunate will it be should a tithe of it ever
reach Alexandria. In the Morea, the conduct
of the army has emulated that of the navy, for
the General in Chief, Colocotroni, according to
u letter from Malta, dated the 23d November,
had captured Scatavuni, which commands Patras.
(Ibid.)

[TUE TIMES.]
Some of the Papers have been speculating on
a move in the Irish Government. Lord Bristol,
says a revived rumour, is to succeed Marquis
Wellesley, and Mr. Wilmot Horton is to super-
sede the present Secretary of State for Ireland.—
We cannot trace the former part, at least, of
this intelligence to a reputable source ; nor is
there the slightest ground for believing that any
difference among Ministers upon Irish question
extends either to the person of the Lord Lieu-
tenant, or to the system of the Executive Go-
vernment. The Noble Lord at the head of his
Majesty's Councils makes no secret (it is said in
well-informed circles) of his satisfaction at the
slate of Ireland, notwithstanding the mutual
efforts of party to disturb it by menaces, crirni.
nations, and prophecies of change In spirit, prin-
ciples, or persons. The truth is, that however
troublesome the war of words may be, it is the
only warfare now perceptible in Ireland, where
popular outrages no longer exist, and the King's
peace has been for months past as well preserved
as in the most tranquil spot of the United King-
dom.

[MORNING POST.]
French Papers to the 15th inst. and the &ode
of Wednesday arrived last night by express.—
They have brought still more afflicting details of
the late calamity at St. Petersburgh than those
which we had originally been inclined to reject
as extravagantly exaggerated. Siven thousand
bodies are said to have been taken out of the
houses after the waters had retired, and eight
thousand persons were still missing. The Im-
perial fleet, which lay at Cronstadt, had been
entirely destroyed by the hurricane, which
threw the ships on the coast where they went to
pieces. All the gardens and edifices which
surrounded Petersburgh, as well as the neigh-
bouring villages, had been swept away, and
the country was turned for miles along the river
into a complete desart. All the provisions laid up
for the winter had been spoiled, and the threat
of approaching scarcity was added to the poig-
nancy of present suffering. It is remarkable that
in little more than ten years the two capitals of
'Russia should have beendevastated by the two
opposite elements ; Moscow by fire, and St. Pe-
tersburgh by water. The Etoile contains intel-
ligence from Constantinople to the 13th ult. It
announces fresh successes on the part of theG reeks.
They had attacked the remains of the Turkish
fleet on the 27th and 28th of October, and had
destroyed two frigates and two brigs. They
had then turned their strength and activity against
the Egyptian squadron and had forced it to seek
shelter in the Gulf of llalicarnassus, where they
kept it strictly blockaded. The Captain Paella
had not been completely disgraced, as disgrace
is understood in Turkey, where it is equivalent
to loss of life. lie, however, no longer retained
the chief command of the combined fleets, which
had been offered to Ibrahim PaChti, by whom it
is said to have been refused. The Greeks had
landed at Tchesme, and near the scite of ancient
Troy, and levying contributions on the subjects
of the Porte. Rebellions were taking place in
every part of the Ottoman empire, and
every thing seemed to announce the dissolution
of its gigantic but shapeless and ill-cemented mass.
According to advices from Madrid of the 7th
inst., Prince Maximilian had at last reached the
Escurial, and Ferdinand, desirous of rewarding
the services of those who still supported his
claims to sovereignty in the New World, had
created the Viceroy of Peru, La Serna, Count
De Los Andes—given to Canterac and Valdes
the Grand Cross of St. Ferdinand, and promoted
01aneta,Carratala, and other Brigadiers, of the
Army of Peru, to the rank of Major-Generals.

[NEW TI M Es.]
The private letters from Paris are full of spe-
culations as to the purport of the King of
France's. Speech on opening the Chambers, a
subject on which little can be authentically
; bat it is satisfactory to observe, that
the writers all concur in opinion, as to its
conciliatory and pacific tone. The Rentes on
Tuesday,closed at 101 90 for money, and were
afterwards done at 10.2 10 for the account.—
ConsolS opened at 951 yesterday for the account,
and before the close of business were 95. i. to 06.
The intelligence received via New York from
South America was generally viewed as satisfac-
tory, and produced an improvement in th 6 prices
of tiouth American Securities. Mexican I,louils,
which have been uradually advanring for the loss
few days, closed at 69. Colombian Bonds were
one per cent. higher, as likewise were the Greek
Bonds. The prices of the Mining Shares expe.
Hence(' an advance. Aavie-Mexfcan from 341.
to 36/. United Mexican 36/. to 38/. Colombian
from 18-1 to 20. Buenos Ayres Shares Ri pre:
Mime; and Continental Gas Shares i after ben
g

at per Cent., dosed at II premium. Brazilian
Shares continue at panto premium.

[MORNING 1111IRALD.J

The French Government has resolved upon a
measure which shewts that the public mind in
France is brought to a settled and tranquil
temper, and the House of Bourbon regards itself
as firmly re-established. This measure is the
proposal of an indemnity to the emigrants for the
confiscation of their property. Two years since
this proposition would have spread alarm. When
proposed soon after the Restoration by Marshal
Macdonald, it was resisted and disapproved
even by the Royalists themselves, and he was
induced to abandon it. There is every rea-
son to suppose that still it will not pass in the
approaching Session, without opposition and ex-
citement. .Among those who have taken the field
against it, is the Abbe de Pradt, one of the most
versatile and voluminous of pamphleteers—and
one of the most popular also. There is in his
writings a liveliness of 'thought and style, which
gives interest even to common-place. Some ex-
tracts from his work against the indemnity are
given in one of the French Papers. We notice
them not for the arguments which he adduces
against the measure, and against the manner
of providing for it--viz. by what he calls
the fatal system of loans—but for some va-
rious facts which he states with respect
to the emigration from France, and the
amount to which property was confiscated. In
1789, when the Revolution commenced, the
French Nobility reckoned about 18,000 families,
which, at five persons each, made 90,000 Nobles.
Of these about half emigrated. But by the
Abbe's calculation, those who returned in time to
escape confiscation, and escaped it by other
means—such as friendly conveyances in trust,
would reduce claimants for indemnity to 7,000
families,or 35,000 individuals. Those who have an
interest in the transfer of this confiscated property,
are estimated at five millions of individuals. Be-
sides these five millions, purchasers of the confis-
cated property of individuals, he estimates that
there are at least five millions more interested in
the confiscated property of the church and other
corporations. Thus they who are interested in
the purchase of national property are very nearly
a third of the whole population of France, which
was last year returned at near 30 millions and a
half. It is only to individuals that an indemnity
is designed to be given. The alarms however, is
not restricted to their case, for the ecclesiastical
bodies are suspected of pretending also to be in-
demnified.

from a Belfast Paper, in which place Mr. KEAN
he following paragraph is copied
Mr. If.
has recently been performing If any actor
can collect au' audience, and exercise unlimited
dominion over their feelings,—rouse the enthu-
siasm of the ardent, and dissolve the icy coldness
of the frigid—relax the severity of criticism, and
parry off the poisoned thrusts of envenomed ma-
lice—it is Mr. KEAN. In spite of physical ob-
stacles, of bitter enmity_ to his splendid fame,
concealed under the imposing:garb of candid cri-
ticism—of professional rivalry—of a' high and an
irritable spirit, which disdains to bend to circum-
stances or even policy, this great actor still holds
the supreMacy of the
.British, Stage, commands
the h due to intellect and genius, and
p a
ie osmt ahge
eineffectual ray" of every luminary
that shines. within ,the circuit of his splendour."
FOLLY OW HUNTING:r7BURTON, in his work,
upon Melancholy, quoting from POGGIO, states,
that a certain physician of Milan kept a house
for the reception of lunatics, and by way of cure
made his patients stand in a pit of water to a
depth proportioned to the degree of their insa-
nity ; some as high as the knee, others up to the
chin. A patient, now nearly recovered, while
one day standing at. the door of the house, see-
ing a gay cavalier pass by with a hawk on his fist,
and his spaniels after him, he must needs ask,
44 What all theSe preparations meant?"--The
cavalier answered, " To kill ,game." , " What
may the game be worth which you kill in the
course of the year ?"—rejoined the patient.—
" About five or ten crowns." gg And what may
your horse, clogs, and hawks stand you in ?"
" Four hundred crowns." On hearing this, the
patient, with great earnestness of manner, bade
the cavalier instantly he gone, as he valued his
life and welfare ; for," said he, "if our master
come and find you here, he will put you into his
pit up to the chin.".

RECEIPT ron. LowNrss or SPIRITS.--Take an
ounce of the spirits of resolution properly mixed
with the oil of good .conscience, infuse into it a
large spoonful of the salts of patience, distil very
carefully a composing plant called others woes,
which you will find in every part of the garden
of life, growing under the broad leaves of dis-
guise, some drops of this will very much. assist
the Salt of patience in its operations ; gather a
'handful of the blossoms of hope, sweeten these
properly. with the balm of 'Providence; if you
can procore•any of the genuine cordial of true
friendship you will have the most valuable me-
dicine that can be administered, but take care
of a counterfeit kind of true friendship, which is
very common, but entirely different in its nature,
though very much like it in. its appearance, and
whose proper name is self-interest ; a small
quantity of this poisonous plant is saficient, to
spoil' the whole. composition.' Make these in-
gredients into pills, which you May call pills
of Comfort ; take one every night as you lie
down to restsitid tiq you awake in the
morning.' .
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A letter from Pensylvania (published in the
New York Gazette of the nth Nov.) says, that
a white hear 'lied ' been .killed in • the western
branch of the Susquehannock, four miles below
observes
any
of
Young-woman's7town. . The fur of this animal
was thicket and :much softer than that of the
black bear. It, Vy 61 in company.
with a black
bear at the time it was killed.. This, the writer
o
k the first
,quadruped of this species
.been seen or taken, in this part of the
chbottirtd has
the oldest iniutbitants. Query,
Perhaps it is the . harbinger ,of a .hard winter, as
thityare found iu plenty, in cold countries.

FOR THE SUN.

EXTRACTS FROM MY COMMONPLACE BOOS,

No. I.
BY A. GENTLEMAN AT LARGE.

AUTHORS AND ACTORS.

Authors and Actors by profession (" not to
speak it profanely") are alike in this respect—
they both pursue intellectual and uncertain voca-
tions. The object of all that are of true blood
(for the Ladies of Parnassus have many illegiti-
rates) is fame, which the actor enjoys during
his life or not at all, but the Poet rarely attains
till all relish for its enjoyment in him is lost.—
There ere some splendid exceptions to this rule,
but for every " hot-pressed darling" who draws
as largely on his banker as his Hypocrene, and
has his draughts on both equally honoured, how
many unhappy admirers of those sad jilts, the
Muses, are living on 44 the camelions dish—the
air !" An actor may get to London in his prime,
and if run after by the public and beloved of
the Manager, may make a fortune, as well as
a name, but how many poor devils (tip-top
tragedy men too) may be starving all their
lives upon a country circuit? Thousands,
indeed produce verses and tread the stage, but
few are either poets or actors. Ido not mean to
insinuate that a first-rate Actor, is entitled to the
same intellectual rank as a poet or dramatists.
Poets conceive new forms and combinations of
beauty, and the Actor embodies them in action.
The characteristics of the former are, imagination
of the highest order, profound knowledge of hu-
man nature in all its aspects, and the faculty
which

I- " Out of all the lovely things we see,
" Extracts emotions beautiful and new."
His command of our passions and sympathies is
absolute, and his is the power to abstract and
ceig,oveumaeaurlbitistinirficeuesel:
ittbnhuootnature
rau
oigntr d images
anaslr)st,:in)
eev :e:
Thertahe most
beautiful,
oioe‘sysstee
powerful
u:r are and
Idt o rthese
masterthat
over the affections, whether to move laughter
or draw tears,"—he must have both apprehen-
sion and comprehension with the quickest sen.
sibility (" tremblingly alive all o'er") to enable
him to enter into and personify the conceptions
of such master minds. In addition to all this, he
must have figure, voice, manner, and expres-
sion. The writer of the verses . on Gar-
rick's tomb, in Westminster Abbey, (Mr.
Pratt) makes Shakspeare and Garrick " twin
stars," that 'shine with equal lustre in the
world. This is rather too much. Little David
mounted in the seventh heaven, beside the bard
of A von reminds one foci irresistibly of Cibber's
linnet on the eagle's back. Ilis talents, however,
were extensive, if not profound. Perhaps he had
not so tine a poetical bos as John liemble, but
he made up for it by a world of fact and shrewd-
ness—great mobility of mind and pliancy of dis-
position, with a knack of penetrating and expos-
sing the weak parts of human nature. The well-
known excellence of his comedy, and sprightli-
ness of his manner and conversation almost in-
cline one to suQuect that he neither thought
nor felt Lou deeply, and that his tragedy was
therefore somewhat superficial. This, however,
may be his highest praise, and far am I from
wishing to pluck a single leaf from the yet green
laurels of our dead Roscius. He let fall some
good table-talk and his verses are clever, if they
have no pretensions to be called poetry. If the
story of his making the agony of the father, who
let his Child drop out of window, a study for
Lear (himself . being the authority for , it),
and the account.of his spoutings with Clairon,
&c. be true, he must have mixed up a little
quackery with his high knowledge of the arts.
—There is a prodigious difference between a
clever and a great man. His farces are little
cabinet pictures, worked up with infinite care
and spirit. They lOok as if they had been kept
by him for years, and touched and retouched till
they acquired their present exquisite finish. His
lion Ton, for instance, is a gem—a painting in
enamel—the characters are so richly yet deli-
cately wrought. The tedious concoction of the
Clandestine Marriage by him and Colman (de-
tailed in their lately published correspondence)
is 'a proof that his pieces were not hasty effusions
—sparks of inspiration—struck off in happy me-
' 'milts when the mind is " rich to overflowing"--
but were the iloiv products of close study and
robservation. A drama, indeed, of whatever
kind (so it he excellent of its kind) is a work of
much labour, and at present when so much is
required in a tragedy or comedy, viz. a plot, in-
-1 characterstric
withit t
ae ,
plentiful
yet r
iiti
iecf‘ulvel a
to the
rt i 61:pi
oki riii
stage,ti l
g sot ifr ring incidents, and
theyet
choicesttrue t o
flowers
of poetry, wit, &c.—we must not expect more
than two or three in the course of a generation,
which are likely to survive till the next
comes round. The question has often been asked,
if the plays Shakspeare, &c. were produced now
for the first time, would they be well received ?
The answer to this is, that they never could be
produced now ; it is the taste of the age which
in the long run determines the quality of its pro.
ductions ; if the immortal bard were living, there-
fore, his mighty mind would either triumph over
" existing circumstances," or strike into a new
course. The teeming minds of our old drama-
tists were poured forth without stint or measure,
and with little regard to rules of art—the effect
of each particular scene on the feelings of an au-
dience being their only guide. They were not
" cabin'd, cribb'd, contin'd," by the unities or
the critics ; their works are consequently mines
of thought and feeling, and their imputed extra-
vag
ofre
ancieirsrgesuelmar beauty,bleth andeluxn riot
ceonpffrdt
esitittoretehes,
full
stiff mathematical forms prescribed by the latest
French taste.
To pursue my comparison—Authors and Ac-
tors both slave for " the fickle breath of popu-
lar formeriiitatslwiceaapsriteiiee m alto
Ilse bookseller
fre-
quently
tiger, and in
the one case an appeal lies to posterity, but in
the other, no hope is left when 4' the town"
s not applause,"
si
o'l theau
greats veiC; i
am bbouafti
and " the press" are pleased to be displeased.
Actors universally affect to be above their pro-
fessions, and wish to have it thought that their
talents have merely accommodated themselves to
the stage from necessity, being capable of Much

better things. The " calamities of authors" too,
is a favourite theme with the genus irritabili,
although they have a greater Esprit du corps, and
are sufficiently aware of their high calling and
destinies, to laud the " divine craft" upon all
occasions. 1 have already said, that a first-rate
Actor must possess faculties of a very superior
order and qualifications, both mental and per.
sonal, which we rarely find united ; but in order
to apply these advantages the mechanical part of
the art must be acquired, and how a man of
strong mind and quick feelings, can go through
the drudgery attending that process, is a matter
of surprise. To many people, however, it seems
unaccountable, that boys should go to sea from
choice, but " degustibus, ttc." and we find
that the horrors of a country engagement Cans
not restrain those who have the real stags
furor from entering upon it. To do them justice,
Actors never put a gloss over the weak parts of
the subject, but always dissuade novices from
commencing are,
indeed so unhappy a pursuit. They
indeed the creatures of circumstances (55 v)
are all,more or less), and a fit of the bile, and
numberless other as apparently trivial causes mat
ruin an Actor's best prospects, and entail beg•
gary upon him and his family through life.
must, however, protest against such as have
reached the top of the ladder, " scorning the
base degrees by which they have ascended,'
and wanting to mount even higher than " t
topmost round." They are worthy members of a
highly intellectual profession, enjoying a plump
salary, and the entrie into worshipful society."--
Let no man continue to tread the stage who
wants to be above it. What would Garrick
have been had he stuck to his wine-vaults? The
buskin raised him to the fellowship of the nrst.
swphi raittsthoef twheerladgew;eaunldd it may
Actor before or since who had chosen to kee.p
s
skirts against the side scenes, or been initiated
his " privacy," and who had never rub.b.ed.
into the mysteries of 0. P. and P. S. ?
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