The Sun.
London, England, 1812-01-03 00:00:00

THE THEAME.

A.• -new Comedy was represented at this Theatre
13t flight, under she title of Right and Wrong.,„ .

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DRAMA fIS PERS'ON.Z.
Farmer 041:ham - - Mr. Dow T 0 N .
Dick Oakhain - ~. Mr. OxLsitie.
Charles Pemberton - - Mr. Po r N AM.
Old Pemberton .. - Mr. PeNsorr.
Sir lames Harcourt - - Mr. Lov tceovE.
Harry Neville - .. Mr. DL CAMP.
I\,lalcour - . - Mr. HOLLAND.
. Venom - - - - Mr. CARR.
spruce , - - - Mr. PeNLEY.
Julia - - .. - Mrs. EDWIN.
,CeCilla . . - .. Mrs. GLOVER.
XSther . - . .. Mrs.
‘SCOTT.
name 0 akharn - - Mrs. SPARKS.

The fable of this piece is not without interest;
3111 it is certainly not recommended' by much no-
It depends chiefly on a' forged will, fly
""]ltch Malcour, a villainous charaaer, obtains the
4Thersy which of right belonged to Harry Neville,
tvw ortily young man. Bat Malcour is not content
ilith having defrauded Keville of his fortune, for
e endeavours to entrap him oat of his intended
h tide, Bliss Harcourt, and even to seduce his sister.
&
dislppointed tool of Illalcour, one !,/ezzont, is the
meansk of his detection, and of Neville's" recovery nt-;
1;1.8 fortune. Harty is then to be made happy wish
ts mistress, othor reconciliations take place,' and
r 1 conclusion, the virtuou4 characters are of course
rewardedd as well as the schemes of villainy ren-
;red abortive, and the autheir of them brought to
mue •
Punishment and infamy.
Our Readers will readily perceive that the author
°I k
this piece. has availed himself of,materhils which
are .
st uy no means rare in the reglons of the
Ige, and which are to bt found in a variety
ofi novels; but, instead of being inclined to
qulge in critical severity, we are rather disposed to
tri.4l'" him for not having, conformably to the stele
t most modern dramatists, resorted to the most
2Vravagant fictions, or of having spread over. vice
sensuality the varnish of German pathos, by
licit the most offensive immoralities are taught to
ivsurne an aspect of a tender sacrifice at the altar of
ature, and the most furious excesses of temper re-
z,.e4ented as the noble ebullitions of an heroic Mind, .
sl;'ve to nothing but the most sublime emceions.—
L"ere were two characters like• Farmer Ashfield and
11,8 `vile, and another, a kind of Mule Malaprop.
1 eY werc,all effeCtive in their way, and the critic
,thu
°IQ ecrYSld -r that what may appear' trite plagia-
%in, to him, may be-Vrochactiv of great amusement
the varied i_Tite of a mixed audience. Many of
the
It sentiment's, to this piece were well expressed,
ft,T„ they all tended to the excitement of liberal
Upon the whole, though this Comedy
ils"" not sparkle with otig;nal wit, and has not much
c'velty in any respect, it is amusing ; it creates an
iti
hiteteat, and it uniformly teods to the advance-
ent of amiable and moral feeling's. It Ohl not pass
iwthoot some hostility ; but the audience altogether
seemed to 'be, actuated by lenient feelings, and
therefore, when it was announced for repetition
th
.18 levening, the majority were evidently in its fa-
, 1441 r;

bThe play was much indebted to the exertions of
TON, LOVEGROVE, DE CAMP, Mrs. EDWIN,
to
k 1„ particularly MIS.. GLOVER, who delivered the
ologue with real comic spirit:

It is expelled that the leading Members of Qppo-
,-1"°" Will meet on the evening of Monday next, to
range;it the order of their proceeding with respeot to
lusual Address to,be moved on Tuesday.

A letter which has been received at Plymut.
from;l one of the Officers on board the Bloodhound
°1,43 of war, which lately got on shore at Padatow
j,tlt, states, that that ship has received but very
e damage, and that in a week or ten days she
"day be expeCted at Plymouth.
At six o'clock on Tuesday night, as a carter was
co
oftveYing in his cart, through Smithfield, the trunks
'3ericant Whiting, Royal York Rangers, he was
zriktked &Awn' by one of seven or eight robbers ;
4while down, the villain was cutting the topes
tr I.lett secured the cal t, and removing one of the
8011",16 ; but the carter got up and seized the robber
that he would have secured him, bad not
the
uesPerado cut his hand across the lank with the
,Ivc e, by which, and the aid of his accomplices, he
t;l'ortunately etreCted his escape, while the Ser-
'll'. being only a little before the cart, was coming
4
to aid the carter in securing the thief.

e examining the registers of Boston Church, at
n,c,lnse of last year, it was discovered, that the
t'Yeer of marriages were, for that year, greater

of ~4,1*-fifth than in any year since the foundation
Te church.
di At a Society, near Queertalerry, on the loth
11'44 Isabella Mennen, aged three years ; on . the
th ult. William Miller Mennell, aged seven
Y4lllB on the 13th ult. Marry Mennell, aged
lotle4 years; and Margaret Mennell, aged five years,
ad daughter's of Mr. William Mennen.
C;a Poor woman, while proceeding to Covent-
rden market, from Old Brompton, was yester-
plititaorning stopped between the Bell 4ntl Horns
Aft tic house and Hoginore-lane, and robbed .of
f shillings, by two ruffians dressed in smock-
s.

Gin Wednesday evening, as Mrs. Marsden, of
rcien-row, was coming out of the Surrey Cha-
she had, bet pocket 'picked in the crowd,-of
note, three 21. and several IL, a five-l-pliinea
-ce, about five guineas, in seven-shilling pieces, a
tri
41(irning ring, and a bill for 391. on a Orenfic-
-444' in Garden-row. robber escaped i
tetted.