The Sun.
London, England, 1802-02-02 00:00:00

THE THE 4TRE,

Drury-Lot/re
MRS. PGPE made her first appearance last nisi':
at this Theatre; in the chara&er of Juliet: 'this
charaeter she so often performed at the other Thesge'
that the Public are fully acquainted with her Ineriti,ts.
However, it may be truly said, that she seems to 1'"
much improved since she last performed in Lond°sd
Her jx./iet was always one of her best efforts, rill
she rendered it last night a very interesting per'
formance. The expression of her affeCtion for Rol
,was the best part of her acting, and -it was givete
with•charaCieristic tenderness and animation. S'
was particularly successful in!lhe- garden. WIT
where Juliet, first reveals her' love.- Ind"'
through the whole of the part, she -aCquived
self very nialy, and excited much applause,

Mr. PoPE was the Romeo, and thotigh the repre;
sentation was not equal in merit to the jufief,!
was a" performance creditable to his talents. 1e
'
chief defea in the earlier scenes was the want.c
that of rapture which is supposed to charaetell',,
the Lover, and which,SHAKEsPEARE has ceTtajou
made a leading feature in the part of Romeo. IP the
scene we have mentioned; instead of 's tivetting
his eye to the face" of the idol of his ,heart, wlliie
she was venting ,the effusions of her passions
imagined solitude, f; he bent his eye on vacancy,
All the flaious passages he gave with •table
sui
energy and Are ; but in ,those of the pathetic lot''
he displayed too ,whimpering an effeminacy. Yet',
on 'the whole, we question whether any perfortoc;
on the London stage at present„could repTe;enc
charaaer with more appropriate ability.
Afercutio was performed by BANNI sT ER, Jun. ;
more spirit than precision. There .is a lightoos;
ease, and humour in Zieraftig, which deniand
first order of comic talents. 134NNT 3T Eit was 01615
too rough and too hurried in his manner ; yet he Ivo;
tolerably successful in his relation of the freaks 6'
Queen Mat, and drew much applause in that spee);l7.
Pow E Li., who is always a respe6table PerfortFiell
gave more importance to Caplet than usually aq
SPARKS,pears in the charafter. The Friar Lawrence ro
PACKER, and the Nurse of Mrs Sirth
• be mentioned with praise i but the rest of the ref;
formers may well be satisfied
.to distnissed
silence.
The Theatre, towards the conclusion of the PIA/1
was well attended. Mrs. POPE was Warmly
ceivcd on her entrance.- .•

DONCASTER, JAN. 26.

Ox Friday last a dgaphment of the r rth L'
g •
ts'
Dragoons, which had lately disembarked at 1:61",-,4
mouth, from Egypt, arrived here in good nc
pt
and spirits, on their route to join their Itegifne;i
at York, where they arrived. on Monday.
were met without the city by the band of 01°4
and many of the Officers and men from the barrack,
and heartily welcomed by a great concourse Per;
that attended on the occasion. The detaobillcor
which on its. landing in Egypt, consisted of 91'.114;
men and four Officers, is reduced_by death arid b'
chance of War, to forty-five men,.. with whorn 214.
the Officers have returned, .They, had the 11°14
W. 10:.
to form the body guard of the late Sit ItArittr;
An ERcitor.tcr,and were the first troops that
mounted in that Country. j
;
.f"1
The, Eagle lately. shot- in the neighbourheo,. ;
Ferrybridge, has ,been exhibited in this tosvo, •
has only its thigh-broke, of which it has nearly i";,1
covered, and is perfectly tame. It issuppOsece
Naturalists to be a bird of only a year
.old,
nk
of more than ordinary size was observed bovelic
about, and seemingly pursuing the course cctitr,
river Ayre, near Leeds, a few days .ago.,— .)0,
number of these 'birds in this and adjoining c(2„
'
ties, during the present winter, has been notice,
to-he particularly great, and as such having attr'4it
0
ed the attention of some, we Mention the au•°`”
circumstances.
•

General MENOU has written the following tti
important Letter to the Editor of one of the Fretl'
Papers :

" CITIZEN,
"I gave to GOVerEITIICIIt, Withollt any exaggeration, °':,1011
count of the difficulties which I experienced troin the Entiiols
General in Egypt, in my efforts to. preserve the Colic ito
made by the Members "Of the Institute and the Corrl r
of Arts. My Correspondence with that General, (if G°fttl/
ment think proper to publish it) will prove the truth 000/
account I have given. I also gave to Government, withotiftitil,'
exaggeration, an account of the Ova which I brought„all
Egypt, and which is of a different species from that bhr'l),'
by Citizen ADAMSON. This Letter is the first vvi''„t r".
have written to the Editor of any Journal since I ice-
Egypt,. which is now four years ago.
(Signed) " . ME-

gatire
The Gentleman who made a conspicuous PD
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at a late fashionable rout, has ever since 0b01'1,5
the name of the Spanish PUNCH, though perha,;
he might more properly be called the Starao°' t
On Friday last a bag fox was turned out tit
Ightham Common, before Mr. SLNIPSON'S h3rilijleo
of Fairlawn. He went away towards Seal, an",g.'sfr
took over the hills to Kingsdown, and on to betiC
ningham, there he turned to the right, and I.e
away for Ash, from thence to'Grinstead Green A; ofi
then again took off to the right for Hartley, 37:017'
to Longfield, Mepham, Nursted,
ham, Shorn, and Gravesend, and was taken alic;
Milton, near Mr. GILBY'S, of Denton, aft
chace of between so and 6o miles.
reta
Tuesday morning last, during the peal at %--a- iota
bury Cathedral, fora marriage, a stranger went ere
the precinets, and inquired whom. the bells
ringing for ; on being told, he posted to' the refs,
dence of the bride, and, as one
.'orthe:ll4,;ete
asked for the fee ; upon which, tWti,gUi'neAs:%.(j. 05
sent him, with which he deCamped, dria)3s
since been heard of. 004
Saturday, one Isaac Nicholls, and- James GOS
a Serjeant of the Second Somerset Militia, wellcor
prehended by Mr. D. Lazarui, one of the so'
stables of Portsmouth, for having in their 17°test
~s
sion a quantity of forged Bank of England rclthet
of iol. 51. and 21. value each, one of which 00
were in the aft of tendering at a public-housetor
the Hard, when they were taken. They were cf trio
mitted to Portsmouth gaol until the Solicitor °
Bank arrives to attend their examination.

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THE BAMPURGH MAIL

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V.,PLES, DEc. 24.

°NE Marquis 15 I GALL°, who is lately married,
is appointed Neapolitan Ambassador Extraordinary
to Paris.

MODENA, JAN. 3.

A, melancholy accident has happened here : the
half of the Palace of the Marchese CAMP/tit 1 has
been blown up, by which his wife, a very respea.
able Lady, several servants, and a number of Sol-
diers of the Polish legion, have lost their lives.—
The latter woe the occasion of this misfortune, by
setting fire to a quantity of gunpowder in the lower
apartments in. APhith they were lodged.