The Sun.
London, England, 1802-01-06 00:00:00

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Diury-Lay.

THE Comedy of ,Pde a Wife and Have a Wife
was performed last night at this Theatre; -for the
first time this season. The charader of Leon, which
was personated by Mr. KEMB LE,. -resembles; in
some respells, that- of Petruchio ; • but there is an
additional moral feature in it, which heightens con-
siderably the nature of the charadcr, and the diffi-
culty of acting it. Petrut4io is apparently boiste-
rous and resolute ; Leon is at first the timid, simple
clown, and afterwards becomes the husband de-
termined, but not riotous. No small share of taste
and judgement is requisite- to the perfect delinea-
tion of such a charaler, and Mr. KENIB L E'S exhi-
bition of -it was, in general,' an excellent piece of
;feting. The same may be said of Miss MELI.oN
in Estilania, and of BANNISTER, jun. in Michael
Perez. The latter wanted only a little occasional
gravity in some parts, which he performed rather
too much in the burlesque. SU ETT, in the Old
Woman, kept the House in a roar of laughter.
The Ballet of The Festival of Bacchus, was again
repeated with applause, to which succeeded the
Farce of .211. y Grandmother.

Covent-Garden.

Mrs. B ILL tccr(sl4 last night, for the first time
this season, resumed her Chirader of Rosetta; in the
pkasant Opera of Love in a Pillage. Our Readers
need hardly be told, that she gave the Airs in the most
beautiful and finished style of vocal excellence. Per.
haps the rigid musical critic may think that those airs
Ivould have appeared to more advantage if presented
with their original simplicity ; but the public, taste
has undergone. such a change, that the original sim-
plicity would now appear cold and tame. Besides,
Mrs. Et ct.trio•rort has a style of her own, and the
original compositions are to be considered as the
ground-work on which she raises a superstruaute of
taste, science, and beauty created by herself.

The songs in which her excellence waS chiefly
distinguished Were " Gentleyouth'--" In Lore
should there meet, &c." and "Shtin,le
In the last, which was a capital h ravuraohe was
encored. All of her sohgs were, however, given in
the best style, and she deserves great commendation
for the manner in which she ailed the charaaer.
She was easy, playful and spirited; - •
Her manner of singing " Young I am," waFt
indeed, a very good specimen comic abilir'. She
managed the aileded ,zveeping, direcfted towards
WO9dc.ock, and the side-laugh, with great
skill and admirable effed.

MuNnEN, on his entrance in justice Woodcock,
was received with the most hearty gratulations by
the Audience, who were doubtless very.glad to find
that so great a favourite had only fallt. I a vidiuf to
the hand of report. He. performed the part with
much humour.

INcLEDoiI deserves particular notice for his
manner of ading, as well as singing; in
,Young Mea-
dows. He was natural and easy throughout. He
never sung the airs with more success.
jolt NS iONE and KNIGHT in Hawthorn and Rode,
gave an visential snppnrt to thi3 autublaig
Opera.
Mrs. ATKINS; in bicin. da, would have appeared
to mucii,greater advantage if she had not been des-
tined to sing on the same night with such a Rosetta.
She introduced an air of the bravura kind, rather
injudiciously, as that style of singing was so ex-
quisitely performed in the same drama.
The part of Eustace was oddly 11.-.sig.ned to
.CLAKENUNT, who gave no proof of his vocal
powers, though he was to pass for a Mfisic-master.

Mr 3. DAVENPORT in Aunt Deborah was rather too
forcible. She is a good Adressi but in general a
little too stormy:
" The Statitte Dernee; at •the close Of the lirSt Aka,
was unusually successful in raising merriment among
the AUdience, chiefly owing to little St NINIONSi who
dressed and acted the Cok:.mCziet in a very ivhinisi—
cal manner.

The Opeia was attended by. a eery numerous
Audience; and was altogether soo.vell performed,
thati with the powerful support of such a Rosetta,
it will no doubt be very attraftive on every ie-
.
petition;

The Dramd has been thought to have a great.
moral influence upon society; and hence the esta-
blishment of a Theatre at Botany Bay was aeeMed
an event likely to corral the
.vices of the legal
emigrants from this Country.; Late accounts from
that,quarter, however, shew that di:fnatic discipline
has had little effed upon them, or at least, that
they are unwilling to appear in any Lut Their
famiet charader.%

Mr. ARC:HE ,whose desolate inatiiion-was lately-
destrib'ed in the Piiblit Prints, is said to be a lineal
descendant of Sir IgN.Ac NEWTON, and hence we
may account for his hospitable protettiem. of spiders,
undet the idea that. they are pradical Maibenia-.

A few evenings since a§ a Oenileman, an inhabi-
tant of the neighbourhood of Charles-street, West-
minster; was passing down the steps leading from
Duke-street into the Paik; he crbseived the aged
woman who attends there tO sweep the steps in the
day time; and in the everringwith a tanthorn to light
the passengersi to be in a wretched State from hunger
and cold. He put his hand into his pocket, intend-
ing to give• her a shilling. On the following morn-
ing she called and told him she believed he had
made a. mistake the evening before, and had given
her a gttinea instead of a shilling, and she had
brought it back ; and for this 'uncommon honesty
Ci caused a number of copies of a full statement
of the case to be written and posted up in the neigh-
bourhood of Duke street.

The tiii-abeth; coal-loaded, has., been found at
sea withoirt any person on board,- and carried into.

Early Yesterday morning, *atehmen
Tonging to the Parish of Samt,'Mary, Whiteehapel,
weregOing their rounds, two' of them found'a`poor
emaciated black than dead in Leman-street, Pood-
man'-fields, whoth they took to the watch-house to
be oWned,

.ifICKS's HALL, jAk.

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rIFFORE MR. mAiNwAßltrd h A SPECIAL YUAY

, .
i.EEKI" THE LONDON N VF.T-TOCI:'
'This was a Cause of considerable importjiice;
rind highly interesting to tlikt part of the
pity interested in th operations of the Wet Inds_
Company, or other corporations of a similar kind;

The suit Was instituted by the Plaintiff- to
cover compensation from the DefendantS for certaid
buildings in Ratcliffe Highway, occupied by the
formerin a fa6tory for spinning liven-) am by fria;.
chinery Worked by a steam engine, which 'build-
ings are to be pulled ii(;wn by order of the Wei
Dock Company, tinder the powers in therii vested
by the Al of Parliament tinder which they are in-
corporated ; and also for the costs to be incurred
by the pulling down, removing to other pretniS6;
And re-ereaing the said steam engine and other ma-
chinery in as perfect a stare as they originally stood, •
and for an adequate compensation to the Plaintiff for
the loss he would suStair by the cessation of his trade
during the period of pulling down and re-building
the said engine and machinety.
Mr. Serjeanr BraT, on the part of the Delendintsi
stated to the Court and Jury, that the Defendants
had already compromised that part of th rtlattet
in dispute whiCh related to the pulling down of the
buildings, by .agreeing to ply the Plaintiff four
thousand pounds. The only question thim left
for the Court and Jury now to be decided was,
Whether any compensation .as dee to the Plain-
tiff on the subjett of compensation for loss of trade
He would contend raj such compensation was dire,
for he would -prove by evidence; that the con-
cern had long been a losing one to th! Plaintiff; that
three years agoihe had resolved to abandon it, as
so far from gaining, he was losing by tha business
501. a week; that about two venis since he objea-
ed 'to his being over-rated in the Parochial Taxes,
because his premises were by no means fully oc-
cupied, and his bttsiness'a losing one ; that most of
his work pedple had been long since dischargt.'dy
and the latter work carried on was merely with
a view to support this claim for compenkation from
the Wet. Dock Company, who by pulling down the
:building for which the Plainr:ff had agreed to ac.:
cept a compromise, had in fact done him a most
desirable service, by relieving him from a business,
which, if followed much longer"; Must be inevitably
ruinous. He 'therefore contended, the Plaintiff had
no right whatever to any compensation.
In support of this statement, a ntimber Of with
nesies were examined;

Mr. ERSKINE, for the Plaintiff, argued with great
ability, that his client hid every claim to the corti.
pensation for which he had applied ; that in his ease
was involved the right of protection which belonged
to every Englishman under the laws of his country
against the. arbitrary encroachments of corporate
bodies; and after a very able and feeling appeal to
the Court and jury, he addliced a number of wit- •
nesses in support of his claim;

The Chairman summed up the evidence; iind
about five o'clock the jury retired, and after a deli-
bernrion a near an hour; rkturra4,l a s..rdift for-tits
Plaintiff of 400oL additional compensation to the
4oL:61: alicady agreed to by the Defendants.