The Sun.
London, England, 1823-02-19 00:00:00

THE THEATRES.

KING'S TIIEATItE.—The popular Scottish Bard
of the day has not only furnished. materials for
the British Stage by his Novels, but, such is his
fame, that an. Italian Opera was brought for-
ward last night, at this Theatre, founded on his
poem of The Lady of the Lake, and entitled La
Donna del Lugo.

CITARAtTERS.
King James - CtIRTONI.
Douglas - - Sig. Pon..T O.
Rodiric Dllu Sig. REINA.
Ellen - - Mad. DE BEGNIS.
Malcolm - Mad. VESTgis.
&c. &c.

The scene opens with a chorus of the Royal
train who hid followed the King into the defiles
of Benlidi, and the fable of the Poem is more
strictly followed, as far as dramatic space would
admit, than in the several plays which have been
derived from the novels that are generally
ascribed to the same author The music is by
ROSSINI, and is a pleasing mixture of science and
expression, conveying the sentiment without that
redundancy of accompaniments which has been
properly characterized by the name of fiddling.
The whole spews the hand of a great master.
Madame DE BEGNIS was the facinatincr he-
roine of the piece, and in both acting and' sing-
ing obtained warm and well-merited applause.—
The rest of the Performers acquitted themselves
very well, but we have not room for a distinct
notice of their merits.—The scenery is various and
picturesque. The house was full in all quarters,
and the opera was received with the most decided
success.

: Danny- LANE.—The Opera of,..drigxerxes was
performed last night. As we have already no-
ticed its representation, we have only to observe
that Miss STEPH ENS was the Mundane, and that she
sung with her usual skill, and received the usual
applause.

Covev•r-GARDEN. —After The Comedy of
Errors, well performed throughout, and parti-
cularly by Miss PATON in ildriuna, a new Farce
was represented, under the title of The Duel,. or
M,y Two -Nephews. The following. is a sketch of
the► plot •
Sir Itoger Oldcourt, a wealthy Baronet, and a polished old
gentleman of the Chesterfield school, has two nephew* : the
one Augustus Buoyant, a gay Corinthian of the first order,
whom he invites down to the old manor-house in the country,
where he has resided for half a century without visiting Lon-
don, to receive the hand of the fair ward, Miss Seymour ; and
the tither, his brother Henry, a brave and accomplished naval
lieutenant, ,who is the secret, and favoured lover, of the young
lady. The gallant lieutenant having dangeniusly wounded
his captain in a duel, arrives with his friend Tourniquet, a
surgeon, who had acted as his friend in the affair, at an inn in
the vicinity of the manor-house, where they propose to remain
secluded, until the recovery of the captain shall enable them
to appear with safety. Augustus arrives there shortly after-
wards with 01111auley, an Irish pugilist, whom he patronizes,
and has in training ; and, wishing to acquire some knowledge
of the lady before he,appears as her intended husband, he avails
himself of his brother's trunk, which he finds at the
inn,. to disguise himself in his naval uniform, and passes him-
self off Upon the uncle, who has never seen either of them, fur
his brother Henry, introducing OvAlauley as the surgeon of the
ship to which he belongs. The CorinthiAnisms of Augustus,
and the slang and vulgarity of his protege, soon render him
weary of their company; and, after having kept,thern locked
up all day, for fear of discovery, on the supposition of their
danger in consequence of the duel, of which he is informed by
a letter from a friend of Henry's, he delivers them in custody
to a sheriff's officer, who lia been brought from London to
arrest Augustus at the suit of Iturnfit, a young cockney master
tailor, and the danger of Henry having subsided, bestows on
the latter the hand of his ward,

This Farce is ascribed to Mr. R. PEAKE, to
whom the public are indebted for many amusing
productions of a similar kind, and who has cer-
tainly not lessened his literary credit on the pre-
sent occasion. The acting 'as well as the in-
trinsic humour of the piece rendered it com-
pletely successful, at►d the performance of
FARREN, CONNOR, Iit:ELY, and BLANCHARD,
particularly, gave fully support to their ,respec-
tive characters.

Tisa COUItT..-.011 Monday evening,at
five o'clock, his MAJESTY held a Privy Council
at his Palace at Brighton, which was attended
by the Lord President of the Council, the first
Lord of the Admiralty, the Master of the Mint,
Viscount Sidmouth, the Lord Steward, the
Treasurer of the Household, the Earl of Chi•
chester, &c. Mr. Buller attended as Clerk of
the Council. The Earl of liAnuowaY, as the
Lord President, had hn audience of the KING
previously to the commencement of the Council,
to lay before his MAJESTY the list of business to
be brought under the discussion of the Council.
Viscount IVIEtaxt.LE had an audience of his MA-
JESTY after the breaking up of the Council. At
the adjournment from the Council-room, all the
distinguished personages had the honour to dine
with the litso. •

Yesterday morning, at eight o'clock, the Ca-
binet Ministers left Brighton for London, where
they arrived about two o'clock,
,and proceeded
without delay to the Foreign Office, where a
Cabinet Council was assembling, which had been
summoned on Monday afternoon. The full Ca-
binet continued in deliberation till a quarter past
four.

Letters received in Glasgow from Bahia, of the
sth December, mention, that LABITAL, the Com-
mander of the Brazilian forces, had apprized the
Foreign Consuls that he intended to attack the
town, and that, much as he wished it, he could
not answer either for British property or lives ;
in consequence, all the goods in the Custom-house
had been put on board vessels moored under pro-
tection of his Majesty's ship Creole ; but letters
of the 14th state, that up•to that time the attack
had not been made.—(Glasiore Herald.)
On Monday the election for a Physician to the
Western Dispensary took place.: the Candidates
were, Dr. A.t.r.ATT and Dr. FUitNIVAL (brother
to the late Apothecary of the Institution), which
terminated in favour of this latter Gentleman.
K ELI(' Sine* his return to town from Brighton,
we regret to say, has been dangerously ill from
u severe cold and fever, and is still confined to
his bed,