The Sun.
London, England, 1802-04-29 00:00:00

THE HAMBURGH MAIL.

THIS morning one Hamburgh Mail arrived.
From Franckfort, and different places on the Banks
of the Rhine, we have the pleasing intelligence
that large importations of English Goods are
announced in these parts. It is stated, that a num-
ber of Russian Merchants had als'o arrived at Frank.
fort, from which we may predia a still more extent
sive circulation to our English Manufadures.
In order entirely to do away the alarms excited
by some evil disposed persons, it has been officially
announced on the Banks of the Rhine, that " there
is no secret article attached to the Treaty of
Amiens."

The Porte has appointed another Plenipotentiary,
the AMEZ I EFrENDI, to conclude a Definitive
Treaty with France ; and he has already left Con-
stantinople for Paris.

THE THEATRE.

Covent-Garden.

The success of CooKß's Falstaff in Henry the
Fourth induced him last night to assume the same
chara,ler in The Merry Wives of Windsor. We
cannot congratulate him on being equally skilful :
indeed there is not the same scope .for the exercise
of his powers. He began in too boisterous a key,
and maintained the same stormy elevation of hiv
voice throughout the part. He gave the text with
precision, but without sufficient variety in his man-
ner, and may be said to have read the part with
judgment, rather than to have aeted it with humour.
His best scenes were with Ford, whose jealousy he
ridiculed with vigour and spirit.
Mr. SIDDONS conceived the part of Ford judi-
ciously, and exhibited his jealousy wiih force. He
attempted too much by. play, and therefore gave too
artificial an appearance to the whole of ;,:, per-,
formance. His soliloquies were addressed too de_
terminably to the audience, instead of ippearing
to be the workings of his feelings. He c,'lninitted
one gross mistake, for instead of beiriHng' dis-
appointment and vexation at Falst,-;ff's having
escaped from his furious search in buck-basket,
he seemed delighted at the embarrassment of the fat
Knight, amidst the foul linen and the drenching in
Datchet Mead.

The other personages in the Drama were not so
well supported as to demand any particular notice.

LINES,

TO WILLIAM THOMAS FITZGERALD, ESQ.*

Arm so, friend Fi-rz, thy lib'ral Muse
Resolv'd unkindly to refuse
Her tributary lay ;
Content that thou, so oft her boast,
Should'st merely put around the Toast
And thy subscription pay

The thought of such a churlish part,
Proves Man but little knows his heart.—
Thou quench the Muse's fire !
No—when thy heart is dead to fame,
It still at suff'ring MERIT'S claim,
Will animate thy lyre.

* Mr. F. had signified, that he no longer intended to pre_
sent his Poetical Contributions on the Anniversary Dinner of
the Literary Fund ; but at the request of the Society, he de.
livered a 'spirited Address, of his own Writing, at the last
Meeting, with his usual animation.

Mrs. BILL mc-roN drew fourteen hundred Per-
sons to one of the Concerts, at which she perform-
'ed last week at Bath. The DUTCHESS of YORK
was so much gratified with the performance of this
great English Svren, that the latter was presented
by Her Royal Highness with a very elegant gold
Cross, ornamented with a beautiful Amethyst.
The revivalof The Man of the World at Covent_
Garden Theatre
.has not been quite so troublesome
to the Aaors during the Rehearsals, as it was
when it was originally brought forward by MACK-
LIN at the same Theatre. The difficulties attend-
ing these Rehearsals will not easily be conceived,
for such was the anxiety of the Author to have his
meaning fully understood, that Mr. LEWIS was
kept above two hours before lie could quiet MACK.
LIN in delivering the word no, and even then the
latter did not appear to be thoroughly pleased with
the negative.
The Liverpool Theatre, it seems, is to be
peremptorily sold," without favour to any
body. Mr. A rcicrs, who has long been conductor
of it, and has been very successful, will pro-
bably be one of the bidders. KEMBLE is also likely
to come forward on the same occasion, and if he
should succeed, with the summer efforts of his sis-
ter, it will in all probability be a very advanta-
geous speculation.

On Tuesday, Belcher, Burke, and their two se-
conds appeared at the Quarter Sessions for the Coun-
ty of Berks, held at Newbury, to take their trial
for the riot occasioned several months ago by the
celebrated boxing match near Maidenhead. They
were attended by their bail and several friends. Mr.
DUNDAS, the Chairman of the Sessions, addressed
them, and said the prosecution was at the instance
of the County, but it had been moved by Certiorari
to the Court of King's Bench. He admonished them
to leave off the prattice of boxing, and particularly
addressed himself to Belcher, of whose peaceable
and decorous conduEl he had heard a favourable re.
port.'

Extraa of a Letter from Berlin, dated April Y 7.

" A few weeks ago the PRINCE CHARLES,
youngest son to the KING of PRUSSIA, was inocu-
lated with the Vaccine matter, by Dr. BROWN,
First Physician to His Majesty. The Prince has
gone through the disorder in the most happy man.
ner, and it is not doubted but that this unequivocal
proof of Royal approbation of an invention which
promises 'to be so beneficial to mankind, will cause
the Vaccine Inoculation to be universally adopted
throughout the Prussian Dominions."