The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-23 00:00:00

COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.

beiteik new drama in three acts, ;titled The Embassy,chich we
ia'ie to be an adaptation from the French, was produced last
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at this theatre. The plot depends upon the loves of toe
,Nrs ?ness du Pont, one of the ladies of the Queen of Navarre, fur
.
count P.ene de Rohan, a young nobleman, whose head is
trexeribed in consequence of some ece,perate pranks which he
4s Played under the name of Bretag He is, however,
p gat he taead, and the young Baroness,ne.
at the command of her
°Yal mistress, is about bestowing her hand upon the Duke
de Nevee's, when Rohan arrives, bearing the despatch
3: the Duke of Anjou, of which he has forcibly pos-
' --;Led himself after a fashion of highway robbers,
14,,:;'e hope that it might help lurn to an interview with his
tiress• The despatch, however, contains the warrant for
ofeexecution of Bretagne, and as Madame de Brissac, a lady
o.
he Court and kinsman of the Duke de Nevers, reads the
-.ear•
rlption of tine proscribed culprit, she identifies him at once
4s "
viscount Rene de Rohan. 'J he Duke remembers that Re-
mother had, when in England, saved his life, and grafi-
At ejlow prompts him to do a similar generosity for her son.
and 3 reluest, therefore, he places him on parole for a day,
ta allows him to attend the Court ball, at which the
.e„,--ur°__ness is to confirm her acceptance of the Duke. Of
je irse the rea.der will foresee the intricacies of love,
tu4,l(iii',Y, and forriance which arise out of this event,
ett nerosity over his
- wnich finally t.erminate in the triumph of the Duke's
disappointment and revenge ; and in
ash, "ion of the
aet with sufficie -nt'oung Viscount and the Baroness,
devotion towards each other, but
kith 110 little ingratitude ai:d deceit towards their magnanimous
otiThe little elisode
inTri hardly deserve nottiee, anti
-s of dramatic invention and situ..
we, the; efore, pass to the act-
th°,' Ellen Tree, who was reeei,--ed with kind enthusiasm by
leoc atd ienee, sustained, the mead re part of the Baroness by
tunt 'wth natural and unaffected gt ace; and Vestris, as her
„4. 'Y ant cc, •
the loverll:Tannin of the Court, cont:msted to the
.sentim. sentiment
Was a pleasant strain of merry -hearted gaiety which
that tinge her
mingled with the archnes:ts :`and sly perception
The her lively actin,* with its peculiar' spill't and naivete.
forthgetitlernen of the drama had nothing to th.'.t could call
of ballet 7,eany particular effort of genius.
t
eate"anpctece was got up, in scenery and costinne, witii great
in excelent taste. In its secomd act ari elegant
f t was introduced, and well sustained in all partj• A.
lautt.,of the curtain Miss Tree was called for and much .a1)-
se, There was a smal', but troublesome minority, in I,
bi„.•Ye,i,t.ll audience, which opposed the announcement of the
Wlev,rserdepitioa rather tenaciously, but they were finally over-

A-r• Sewel of Oxford has addressed a letter to
11148eY on the subject of the Tract No. 9U, in which
e declares that he ha; never " been in the slightest de-
Li.s'e connected with the publication of the Tract!," and
tt_ aye studiously aycided habits of intimacy with
ntir authors."—Encning Parser.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—Yesterday afternoon a
tePlurable ace'det.t took !lace in Worship-square, Fins-
-IY, which catved the death of a little boy, named Ed-
ard', the son of a tobacconist, living opposite Worship-
u,'" Police-Jfice. It appeared that some brewer's dray-
en wele "e,ged in I.,wering barrel,' of beer into the
cellar of the ll' aid-faced St tg puLlie-house, when a Inge
rard, which um raised as a barrier in front of the cellar_
ofiaid". was blown down by fne violets 2 of the wiad, and
sho2;"1 the I.he child's head, which was fturod ia a
manner. Upon being picked up, tle poor little
fellow exhibited some slight symptcsms of life, but he died
0 Mcdical asslstaLce could be procured.