The Sun.
London, England, 1802-04-26 00:00:00

THE THEATRES.

•
THE Comedy of The Rivals, and the After;
9-ece of The Citizen, were performed at this Theatr
Saturday night with great eclat. , The foralre.
Piece has been so often before- the Public, that i
is needless to comment .upon the manner in whichht
was represented. It is sufficient to observe tl1:1
the acing was uniformly good,
Mrs. JORDAN made her appearance in the
rafter of Maria in The Citizen. To' the most 1:,‘;
cellent acing, she added the Air -compose".
KELLY, which she sung in the Comedy of fait
able .Friends ; it was received with the gr"-,s,
applause,,and universally encored. BANNI,TEa `,-r441,0.
as usual, peculiarly happy in Youno- Philpot• •
House Was well filled, though not4'croW/ded.

Covent Garden. ,
The Man of the World drew a very
audience on Saturday, or rarlier the talent!:
COOKE give animation and attraction to she Pl,e-de.
His exhibition of Sir Pertinax bold, sPilltej
and humorous. There are indeed few efforts be
theatrical ability, in the comic province; that ca° 5.
brought into comparison with this admirable aic
sumption of charader. To the credit of the wh°,..
of the Dramatis Persona., hovvever, it must be ca,
knowledged that they support their respetli",c„bi.
rafters with such spirit as to give force arid prol"
liry to the representation.
numerous(

Mr. C. KEMBLE, we onderstand, was authorises
to withdraw Fashionable Friends from the che r
on Friday night, and was going at first to ahr''-nai..
The Rivals, when the indignation
,of the °Lie,
ence would not suffer him to: speak, under 2 Per.
suasion that he was going to give out the fotilet
Hence he smiled at their mistake. This staraTi-v;
affords some mitigation 'of his apparent lev-'Ol,
but nothing will execuse the want of that decor ht
gravity, and respect, with which the Public °Lip
always to he treated on such occasions.
an
Mr. DWY.E.I2,• of the Theatre Royal I , °r_i". is
ACIor of much celebrity on Provincial Boarui-,ce,
shortly to make his debut at Drury Lane The.
in the charader of Belcour, in the ComedY °C
West
• Bowtts, the active and enterptiiing Thos'
Chieftain, has again involved the Spaniards i, p:3st
tility with the Indians, on the Frontiers ct otor
Florida. Bow t,gs,, with a. party of I\43ehas°,
Town Indians, plundered different .Plantati°ll,tic..
St., John's River, and destroyed an extensiNe s.l the
ment-formed by Judge HAL 1-at the IVletanz"s't7,biu
southward of St. Angerstine ; and advancing wool
a few miles of that City, carried awaY sAe
Women, murdered some Men, and destroYe"foea.-•
property as they could not remove. These dcrel
sures exasperating the Spaniards, they murtberu
some friendly Creeks who were amongst
vhieh
for the sale of furs, and thus commenced a war 'ntS
has already been fatal to all the new settlemc-them
Florida ; the Spaniprds being unable to reilder have,
protection, the thinly-scattered inhabitan"l force
fled in every dire for safety. The wh° °ego!
in the province, including the Militia, is ,n°t
to meet three hundred Indians in the svous.gatis.
• It has been publicly announced, that the feu at
trates at the Quarter Sessions about to be b°.,, theta
Bury, mean, in virtue of the powers vested to, to
by the Ads 3d of WM. HI. and • 2lst Ggo• , Thin
regulate the prices of the carriage of goody vt
their distrid. been 111'a
Thomas Mowbray, of. Darlington, has
p. for being drunk on Sunday se'nnight•
High
Nerd-
On Monday last a riot took place at }lig, n sore'
castle, above Pateley,bridg,e, Yorkshire) ‘"`e JOl-114
ral people entered a field belonging to i.vird: a shaft
LuProN, and broke to pieces and destroYe
he par-
,which he and. his workmen had sunk for t filled up
pose of getting lead there, ain't afterwards •
the shaft level with the ground.—Th Tee oft:r Ifrorn
cipal rioters were apprehended by a wars-.ooi
,ut
h
the Dean of Ripon, and bound over. to 3.1-1
Pontefract Sessions, to take their trials.
claY9
A most daring robbery was committed a Tic:o
ago at a public-house in the Kent rodd • Joao,
lows haying drank a pot of beer in tbe!:,!,,stairst
took advantage of the landlady's going,ocrked the
to folow her into her, room, whe'l they not not de'
door, and threatened to murder her if she dido, ne-
liver up' all the money
cessity complied, the villains were
el,' hby the. s
their booty, when they were perCeiVebbers were 011'
vant,,who gave the alarm, and the r°
prehendetie' -
she had. Having fob-svith