The Sun.
London, England, 1802-01-26 00:00:00

THE THEATRE.

Druty-Latte.
. •
R. PorE appeared for the first time last night
at.this
Theatre in the charaEter of Othello. ln
present state of the Stage Mr. POPE is certainly an
46;1°,1 Who is entitled to a station on the
11,311-aser,Lsaa
.OHe has so often
,performed Othello that no •
however: tt n can be necessary on the occasion. He,
, •
more tU--- in
passages
may be
,said to have sustained it with
that ~,4°. usual success last night. The
sentr:le'grit°,lred strong expression of agony and re.
he gave with considerable effect. Those
of the tender kind we thought were expressed with
rather too
'much softness and
,bo had used his. dearest action in the tented
effeminacy for a hero
ueld." Othello, however, is supposed to possess
great sensibility, as well as honour and courage,
and
as POP E. gave tli whole of the part with energy
end spirit; it would be invidious indeed to dwell
, .upon what; if erroneous,r was trifling compared with
:the general eof his performance. He was re-
ceived With a very cordial greeting on his entrance,
and excited much applause throughout the, parr: -
'. Biki,ivytytortE, for the first time, performed /as.o,
20d.t•in Our opinion, he has seldom been more mis-
taken- in his conception of a part. His manner was
marked by flippant gaiety and quaint familiarity,
‘vitl2. hardly any indication of the artifice and
subtlety of the charaaer. He delivered every so-
lit°(l°Y as. if he had been speaking a serious Pro-
logue, not as.the workings of solitary cooitati6n•
0
. . Miss Blocs assumed: the part of Desdeinona for
the first time, but .did not represent it in such a
manner as to render it very prominent on the dra-
Inatie canvas. She was too uniformly solemn and
artificial. ihere are some beautiful touches of play c-
fulness, . simplicity, and pathetic tenderness in this
very interesting part, but they were obscured by
1 air of gloom which overspread her ptrformante.
. - IVlrs. PowEee, much to her Credit., took the part
°f Emilia, a part below her rank in the Theatre.
411 she had to say she delivered with ptoper chit,-
ti°n ; but she stood like a statue at the back of the
o'erstage, during a violent scene between Othello and
mistress, though she afterwards commented
what -had passed. up-
The Tragedy was not well attended, but the
•ArterPleee of Urania drew a considerable increase
of tiffs•
ltors, and was much applauded.

, 4:3 (?arious Dlieh—A _____
dispute lately took place in
between a Military Man and an Apothecary.
lile. Soldier insisted upon satisfaCtion from his ad-
versary, and appointed a meeting next morning
Ain the Boil de Boulogne. The next ing the
pothecary waited
upon his antagonistmorn before the
'lour appointed, and said to him, with great cool-
ness, ...Ydu are a mili 1 e'
a m edical, man—
You-tindethand the tistar y,
eof the sword and istol—l
"rii-only acivainted with drugs. You are' the chal.
leuger, therefore I have a right to chuse my wea-
Pori. ' Here are two Pills one is poisoned, the
-then is not. Do you chose one and swallow it,
4nd I will swallow the other." The Officer laughed
‘'Cry heartily at this proposition and tey breakfast together very good, friendsh. sat down
It is Somewhat whimsical, says a Punster, that
1" of the Secretaries of a kyia
,4:
e .z.in_Hospital should
~
L414e4 :iiu-whitt, -

REPORT,

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JAN. is.
THE KING v. RICHARD- HANILEY.

The ATTORNEY GENERAL said, that this was
the Case of a ConviCtion on the Stat. of 24. th
Geo. 111, Cap. 44, Sec. 5o ; the Defendant, Rich.
Hanley, otherwise called Little Dick, had been
committed in execution of his sentence, which was,
that he be confined to hard labour on board the
Hulks, and this was a considerable time ago,,.but
he had been, in Newgate ever since, becausey ,the
Keeper of the Hulks would not receive him, alledg.
ing as a reason for his refusal, that as the Defend-
ant was sentenced to pay a penalty of 5001. he
did not like to run the risk of his making his escape,
by which the Keeper would become subjed to pay
the fine. This conductin the Keeper of the Hulks,
the ATTORNEY GENERAL said was a defiance of
the sentence of the Court, and such as was not to
be endured, and theiefore his Motion now was,
that the Prisoner be now brought in, and charged
in execution of his sentence. He said, he moved
this on the authority of the Case of the King v.
Kernan, which he said, was in point, and the Court
granted' the same sort of Motion exaelly as that
lie was now submitting to the Court.
Mr. Justice LAWRENCE' asked if the Keeper of
the Hulks had had any notice of this Motion.
The ATTORNEY GENERAL said, he had not, but
that he had refused to take the care of the Prisoner.

Mr. Justice LAWRENCE said, he thought it
would be as well that the Keeper might have notice
of this Motion, that he might have an opportunity
of coming before the Court, who would hear what
he had to say in this Case.
Mt. Justice GROSE said, that as the case stood,
he could hardly conceive how a doubt could arise
upon the propriety of the Motion, because, if this
Was to be endured, a criminal, in collusion with a
creditor, might get himself placed in a situation
where he was subjet to civil process, or, perhaps,
penalties,. which, if he was sentenced. for a mis.
demeanour, might defeat the purposes for which
Judgment was pronounced upon him, and escape
punishment, a thing not to be endured. It was- not
easy to guess what reason -the Keeper had to alledge
for not obeying the order of the Court, on receiving
this Prisoner : however, there was no harm in cau.
tion, and giving an oppoitimity of hearing what
the man had to say. _

The case to which the AvfoßNEy GENERAL
had alluded,' was one in which there was no Argu.
ment, Therefore notice might be given to the keeper
of the Hulks when this Motion "should be made
again, which was agreed to be..made on Thursday
next.

THE KING "v. D.I'LEOD.

MG SCOTT said, the Defendant, Allan M'Leod,
stood charged, now in execution in Newgate, for
two Libels, one by that Court, the other by the
House of Lords. Two Informations were exhibited
against him by His Majesty's ATTORNEY GENE-
RAL, one for a Libel, charged with being, done to ex-
cite an hatred against Lord Clare, and to cause him
to be assassinated :—The miler to stir up the people
of Ireland, &c. to resistance against Martial Law.
The Motion was, that a day may be appointed
for the trial of these Informations, on the ground
that they have been already set down, and the De-
fendant. had received three notices of trial ; to pre-
pare for which the Defendant had subptunaed Lord
Camden, Lord Pelham, and Lord Castlereagh :
Had been obliged -to forego an. engagement he had
with a-Bookseller, upon finishing a- literary wotic,
for which he would have been entitled to • re-
ceive 'vol.—That these notices of trial had been
countermanded from time to time, without any rea-
son assigned to him, or any that he can discuver, Sze.
—by which he is reduced to liVe on the- prison al-
lowance„and now feels the extremity of distress, &c.
The Court observed, that in: ordinary Cases,
wherea Defendant wished to have a trial, and the
Prosecutor declined to bring it on,, there was a
method by which the Defendant ,might have his
trial, that was, by carrying;-,down the Record by
prorraso, so that if the Prosecutor . did not ap-
pear by a-given -day, the Defendant gave notice to
the Prosecutor to produce clic Record, and he would
be entitled to an acquittal—but in this Case, the
Defendant would do well to be advised whether
he would move the Court for leaVe to do this,
after perusing the Case of the King v..Dydej in
the 7th Term Itep. 661. - -, •

fl-IE KING 41. sTOoDART.

This was a Prosecution against the Defend.
ant, who was Aid.4le-Camp to General Garth, and
he stood charged with assaulting a Gentleman who
was Manager of the Ipswich Ball-room; a Gentle-
man of fOrttine who kindly took this office for the
accommodation of, the polite inhabitants of Ipswich.
General Garth and the Defendant bad tnin sub.
scribers to this Ball-room. The General entered
one evening at a side door, and one of the servants
of the Prosecutor ventured to approach the General,
and remind hith that his subscription time was ex-
pired, and the season had arrived for its renewal-;
upon which the Defendant went tip to the Prosecu-
tor and hastily resented this behaviour in the Door-
keeper, arid insisted upon it; that the Prosecutor
should .answer for the misconduEt of his servant.••—
The Prosecutor disavowed all intention of offering
the least offence either to the Genetal, or to his
Aid-de-Camp, the Defendant, and proposed an ex-
planation, but the Defendant lost his temper, and
offered him the indignity of pulliv him by the
,nose ; upon which this Prosecution was' instituted,
and upon which the Defendant suffered Judgment to
pass by default. All the circumstances of the: Case,
of which this is the outline, were fully discussed
before the Court a considerable rime ago, when the
Defendant was committed to the King's Bench
Prison, and he was this day brought up to receive
the Judgment of the Court.
The Defendant alledged, that since he was before
Ole Court in a former Term, a reduaion• had taken
place in the military establishment to which he lit-
longed, and by which his income had been reduced
to nearly one half of what it formerly was ; that he
.was under peremptory orders to join his Corps, and
that
most
absence from it would be attended with
the- serious consequences to himi

, . . .
Mr, justice GR6SE slid; that ih was a raa
which had been already coriununicated to the Judges,
and had been considered in zhe Judgment they were
about to. prOnounce;-;—The Learned Judge then,de:..
livered an exhortation to the Defendant, in Which
he contrasted the vain and foolish heat 'hy which
men are'hurried on to Duels; which are murder,
with that true courage..which enables a man to set
aside the ill-founded o inion of the. dissolute as un-
worthy of notice, a nduits:himself calmly *in-
society, and appeals to Laws when insulted, in-
stead of taking the Law into his own hands, &c.
The Learned Judge went over the whole case, and
reprobated the conduit of the Defendant in many
parts of it, and .then proceeded to pronounce the
Judgment 91 the Court, which was, in addition to
the imprisonment he had already suffered, which
was several mont4, he, be further imprisoned in the
custody of the Marshal of the Marshalsea of that
Court (the King's Bench Prison) for four calendar
months, at the end of which time he was to give
security for his good behaviour for three years,
himself in 5001. and two sureties in 2501. each, and
that he be further imprisoned until such security be
given, Scc.