The Sun.
London, England, 1815-11-23 00:00:00

ftS. SIDDONS.

The foliocving account of the performance anti
reception of this great Actress, as Lady Macbeth,
on Seiturrlay last, at the Edinburgh Thea: re, is
taken from the Edinburgh Evening Courant of No-
vember 20

" Mrs. Stnnotea not only is, but looks older
than when she was last before us. In this single
observation, every thing inauspicious to the sues
cess of her efforts is included and exhausted. She
is also somewhat thinner than she then was ; but
this gives to her strongly marked features, anti to
ail the petty lineaments of her speaking coun-
tenance, a power and distinctness exceeding
even what they expressed 'formerly: During
a few of the first speeches, her voice was
interrupted now and then by a short cough ;
hut this was apparently owing to her agi-
tation, and, as she proceeded, this nervous
impediment entirely left her, and all her faculties
were displayed in their full power. To dwell up-
on the particulars of excellence sa long and so
fully appreciated, would incur the double risk of
presumption andfailure. We leave, therefore, to
the testimony of those who saw her on Saturday,
and to the recollection and imagination of those
who have seen her formerly, the unequalled gran-
deur, genius, and power of every scene in which
she appeared; from the commen-cement, when she
exhibits herself the ready object and instrument of
the. fiend's temptations, to the close, in which
she displayed by short and frightful glimpses, the
unendurable tortures of his triutnpb. Indeed,
there were sonic instances, in which the uni-
versa', feelings of the audience., unequivocally tes-
tified by the electric ardour of their applause, ac-
knowledged that she even surpassed her usual
energy; and others, wherein she threw new lustre
upon passages, which it might appear that she
had previously illuminated till additional light
was impossible. /ler deportment at the banquet
may be quoted as a proof Of the first remark—
the sleeping scene, as an illusrretiOn of the se-
cond. In the banquet. scene, the effect of her
extraordinary powers of countenance was height-
eoed by our recent recollection of an admirable
performer, who, by the. mere -force of .feel-
ing anti genius, both of the bigheat class, won
her way to excellence with, hardly ally aid from
the countenance at all ; for, at a distance, the face
of MissO'Neill is merely a map. In the countenance
of Mrs. Siddans, on the contrary, every operation
of the mind and feeling of the soul-r--those that fire
it with rage, brighten it with joy, melt it into
or fix it in horror--all those lighter shades and
fleeting varieties which sweep across its regions in
exhaustless-mutation-sr.-arc presentedto theeye with
the precision of truth and the splendour of light.
These powers Were admirably displayed in the
lianquet-scene. Terror, rage, and contempt,
counterfeit hilarity anti actual agony, were here
*combined in a series of looks, and starts, and
writhings, which :reoffered lariguage altogether
soperfirsous. -The Sleeping-scene, in which the
terrible caw:to/Ate of this high-souled criminal
is wound up, was exhibited, nut only with,
creased force, but with tine features of no-
velty. In the anguish of her loaded soul,
when she mourns with such pathetic itera-
tion over the smell and the stain of the blood,
which not all the perfumes of Arabia could sweeten,
nor all great Neptune's ocean purify,.she struck
the the Ipsor hand, that conscience had conjured up as
the witness of her guilt, with a fretful and hope-
less peevishness which was resistlessly affecting.
The feelings of the audienCe bore powerful testi-
mony to this splendid scent.• It was followed by
so many moods: of applause, that we really ceased
to reckon them, after having counted about half
a dozen, •

The following 'description Of the Tri-coloored
•
Cockade is..haniled about in Paris :
Tr tys dontles epis soot ,tror,
se,ra'Uotre cpearde blanche ;
-Loin Ile nous cc n=nd tricolor,
•
sons qui le crime se revanche;
.Car son blanc, est notretoktt,
- Son hien deslgur la psnikriCne,
Et mon rouge, yin fait ltomnr,
• LA le fiat de song qui I 4utraiac.
The following r0t1,41 translation will perhaps
give the English reader some idea of the original
The Lily tipt with gold shall be
Our pure white badge of lordly;
And that dread en‘ign tricolor
Emblem of guilt wr mount no more•.
Its white retals--pale terive's but
Malignant hate gleams iw the.htne :
And the deep crimssinisAhe stain
Front blood ofinyriadebasety shirr.

The Midsummer's Night Dream 'is in prepara-
tion at both Theatres as aii.Opera.
Continuation of Extraordinary Luck,--The
ticket, No. 600, drawn on Thursday last a. Prize
of 20,0001. was .cold at WEBB'S truly fortunate
()Mee, No. 17yiruntlgate-street, near St. Paul's-;
wherett will he•tecolieeted, the Two 65[30;0001.
Prites %rvere.also sold in Shares, besidei a variety
of minor Capitals in the last six months. Nest
Saturday will be the third day's drawing-, and 'tit
not 100 late to Secure some of the three 50,0001..
or two 20,0001. Stock Prizes, which arc yet
undrawn, and p.erhaps st ii on aaie trt WZBL.6

lat LUX:,

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We have much pleasure in publishing the fol-
lowing Anecdote :
" ELIZABETH, the wife of PETER MgM'YLLIN,
private .of the pith Foot, although prenadt, had
followed her husband into-the field of action, on
the 16th of June ; in the heat of the bAtle she
assisted to carry to Cie- rear a soldier severely
wounded, and received herself a severe wound in
the leg 5 shortly after her htisbuild, al-ter having
his cap. knocked off by one shot, and his knap-
sack by another, was deprived of both his arum
by a third, with a severe wound in the body.—
Thus disabled, hut.httle of hope would seem to
have remained for this unhappy pair ; they, how-
ever, survived, again reached their native land,
pnd were received into. the York Hospital ar
Chelsea, where, a few fitly, since, the heroine
was delivered of a fine girl, -unhurt by the alarms
of war.

" His Royal Highness the Duke of Yonx., with.
that recognizance of the soldier, and amenity
which always distinguish !limn, has stood-godfather
to the it►fant, who is named.' Frederica Af'
of Waterloo.'"—We are happy to add, that the
father, mother, and -young FREDERICA, are all
doing? well.