The Sun.
London, England, 1805-03-18 00:00:00

DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE-MONEY.

To the Captain. Officers, and Company of His Majesty's
Ship L . Loire, for the Capture of Lis Blonde French Priva.
tear, the 17th August dog, to-morrow, on board, in Ha.
moage.i or every Tuesday and Friday, for three years, at Mr.
lane's Countinghouse, Plymouth,
To the Officers and Company of His Majesty's Ship
Naiad, for the Capture of the Fratien Sri etta, the rgth May
tSaj, Le Napoleon French Brig, the 21st fuse t 503, La Pru.
dente, ditto. the Bth July tBO3, and Li rime Marie ditto,
the gth August di:9, oh her arrival in. Fort ; or every Tues-
day and Friday, during three years, at No. ill, Clement's-Inn.
To the Officers and Companies of His Majesty's Sloop
Busy, and Ilrig Speedwell, a distribution on account of the
Proceeds at the Cargoes of the Ships laden with Naval
Stores, forming part of the Second Swedish Convoy, de.
tamed the 7th August tygll, on Saturday next, at No, il,
Cecil-street ; or during three years.
To the fficers and Company of His Majesty's Ship
Boadicea, for the Capture of the French Ship La Favorie,
the 4th lolly tSooi, by His Majesty's Ships Sirius and Inde-
fatigable, on Friday next, at Mr. Lockyer's (Mix, Ply.
mouth ; er every Tuesday and Friday afterwards, during three
years, at the same place.
To the odium and'Ship's Company of His, Majesty's
Ship Ganges. tOr the Re-capture of the Eliza. - the *Bth 'Fe.
bruary tile+, by a Squadron under the command of Sir Ed.
ward Pollew, on Thursday next, at • No. y, Welbrooki or
every ThursiLay and Saturday, during three years, at .the
same place,
• To thantfieers and Company of His Majesty's Ship the
Blanchc for the Capture of the Charitas mid j win, the 3 tat
May andioth June 4°3, 00 Tuesday the ad April next, at
Plymouth; or every Tuesday and Friday, during three years,
at Mr. Rostfew's Office. Plymouth. .
To the Officers' and Company of His Majesty's Hired Cut-
ter Swan, for the Re.captute of the Jane, the asth January
last, on board, at Yarmouth, to-morrow ; or daily, duriiig
three years, at No. 23, Norfolk-streor, Strand.

A proiNnt ItNYS..—Capt.BYNO, to the Bell:max;
Capt. H. kHAU., to the Malabar; Capt. RR/keit, to
the frig Capt. J. BAUR) to the captor; Capt.
Snits; to the Nautilus, Capt. GAiCOYNit, to thr
lletia ; Capt. E. HAwKRI, of the Theseus, to the
Tartar; Mt. G.WatrreuttßAD. to be Putter of the
kats/esaaie, in the East Indies.
/1/I,skir Host* is appinted to the Portsmouth Di.
v'hion.of Royal Marines, by the death of Major
CiteswaLL.

The preparations for the intended Expedition are
now nearly mature. Fourteen Ordnance Transports
have come into Portsmouth harbour from Soutliamp.
tun to have their stores mote judiciously stowed.
A Letter from Madrid, of the 26th ult. in the
Morita/poi the gth inst. state, that an English Ship,
of So guns, anchored on the gth between Culleyra
and Yates, when the Corregtdor of Vivero, sus.
MSting their intention to land, mustered it body of
ilitary and Volunteers, and repairing to the
shore, observed the Boats of this Ship attempting
to board a Merchant Vessel, of 260 'tottsi at an-
chnr in the Bay. • They immediately fired -on them,
iti4 kilted the First Lieutenant and several men
the English returned the fir.., and then made off,
without effeeling 'their purptsre ; but having to
weather the point of Vitedo, the 'hoops ran thither,
and poured on them such a vigorous fire, that half
the Crews were either killed or wounded.
A number of Dutch Seamen have been sent to
Dunkirk, to expedite the equipment of the flotilla,
and to serve on board it.
The Dey'of Algiers has issued order, to seize all
'Veasels laden with corn, whatever may he the ft
under which they sail. An Austrian Vessel waslatetq ,
brought in, but by dint of remonstrance obi,
tabled permission to prosecute her voyage; in a
short time; however, the Dey experiencing regret
at his lenity, sent two armed Vessels to retake.
her, but after a tong chase she etreeted her escape.
in addition to a fine new Frigate, and two Brigs,
lately launched at Genoa, a Ship of 7+ guns will lie
ready for launching in a few weeks, when another
of the same force Wilt be immediately' laid down.
The French Minister of the Marine has received
30,000 francs to reimhtuse the inhabitants of Frcamp
and Havre for the injury sustained by the Bombard..
(tient of the English.
The Spanish Prizete-eaptured by La Sorthre Pd.
(latter has arrived at Nantes: she 'is valued 'at one
million of franca. Another, worth boo,ooo french
has been re-Liken by the same Privateer, and tient
into Boutde.2 tot.
Marshal Jilt us* is said to have brorigbf with,
him to France is° beautiful Arabian hOrsei;isiltiels
he received as a present from the Grand Seignior
and,: the Grand Vizier.

We have received a Calcutta Paper of the Bth
of September, 1804, from which we have made the
following extrod
The American Brig Washiligten, arrived on the
srh, left Mcteca, on the West Coast of Sumatra, on
the oth of August. This Settlement had been cap.
wrest by the ihmAa.,), Frigate, Commodore IlAytis,
and the armed Ship Lard Castlereagh; about two
hundred of the native s were killed, and a few of
the English. The town was completely burned ;
a!l the guns, a large iron chest of dollars, and some
tittetittopetty, were carried off by the natives.
" it is with great concern we have to state, that
litters were yesterday received horn Backergungc,
(Weil Augest 2, which mention the loss of the
ship tanslidtite,. Captain Fat.t, on the 28th of July
last.

" Captain and Mrs. Fru., Mr. BALL, Second
Officer, Dr. Anne ItSON, of His‘Majeaty's zstli Re-
giment, and ninety other person's, have perished an
this melancholy occasion.
" Messrs. Dern, puree, end Fox, Mares of the
Caedidato, and ten !Aware, were providentially
saved to the jullk boat.
" The long boat was in the ad of being hoisted
our for the preservation of the remainder of the on.
fortunate people, when the ship is reported to have
gone down, head foremost, and involved them in
de•trudtion."
An Exchange of Prisoners has taken place between,
the Governors of Earbadoes, and Go.idaloope ;,by
which means our SquAdron on that station ha 4 re.
ceivcd a reinfacement of three hundred Seamen.

To Tat Ebittiß SUN.

SIR,

I some time lince, troubled you with tenet. on
Y
the suhjett of the our/0 Ikci.c tut (as he is called),
in consequence of repeated attacks having been made
upon him in one or two of the Public Prints. I
am induced again to take tip my pen after reading a
Letter in your Paper of Saturday last, signed H.
H. From the exordium of your Correspondents'
philippic, I expeeted he would have kirntereti into a
derailed 'critique of Master BaTTv's-peiforiban'ee,
and that he would, in the Course of it, have point.
ed out what he considered to be defeels in that per.
formance. In this eicpeCiation, however, I was
much disappointed ; as, instead of making any cri-
tical observations upon the acting of Master BETTY;
H. H. contents himself with a sort of general de-
clamation against a Buy of thirteen being suffered
to play Hamill, which chataCter he'airentioasly con.
tends (for that is the ohjeet of his Let ter) it is ut-
terly impossible for a Boy to perform with any pro.
priety ur effect.
Upon this point I cannot subscribe to the tea.
soiling advanced by your Correspondent H. H. It
appears to me, 'on the contrary, that if it proves
any thing it proves too. much, because it goes to
establish, that no person .can with propriety or ef-
feet perform a character unless he is about the age
which that charaeler is supposed to have attained.
A datrine which, if established, must for ever
close the doors of our Theatres, and make a yawn.
ing chasin in pnblit amusement ; for where are
aged parsonages to be found who can
do Theatric justice to the varied chataeters of
old men,' old maids, :and antiquated dowagers,
with which our plays of' all descriptions abound.
Incongruities between -the age of the odor and
the supposed age ',of the charaCter which he re.
presents, must always exist in theatrical per.
forinancee, 'not only' where the latter exceed, the
former, but pt.' hapi still inure frequently where.
youthful charafters are allotted to, those who have
passed the meridian. of life,

It may be 544 that to ail this there is a limit,.
and that Boys (though it remains for your Cortes.
' porstletit to point, our when the age of Btyhood
ceases) ought never to be suffered to perform the.
higher charaders of the Drama. But, Sir, when a
Boy appears upon the Stage, and displays many ;rt_
tributes of theatric excellence, I do not stop to in.'
vestigate any principle of this nature-4 only make
&lie of my eyes and eats. Ido nor atop to inquiry
whether a Boy of thirteen ran perform lifirdit, nr
any other charq.ter„--4 only observe and hear,: for
the purpoqe of ascertaining whether he dart perform
it with spirit, accuracy, and discrimination, ' With:
this view I have contemplated the Young korcint,
(it so he must be called) in his perlarmance lit the
characters which he has p}syed in the Metropolis,
and have been much pleased with those nuinerotts
beauties which he has displayed in his acting. I
arts aware that in your excellent and well.iegnlated
Paper there'is.no chance fur the, insertion of thie''
Letter if it is protraaed to any great length, and..
therefore I' atii reltniantlreorsinelleilio forbear cts
tering into a critique of Master Bei—We perfor.
mance ,oI Ilaudet : I must content myself with
pointing ont his scene with his father's apparition,
the Closet Scene, and the Dying Scene, in which I
wilt venture to say, I shall not be contradicted by
ninety.nine hundredths of those who witnessed Its
perfortnnee, when I observe, that he displayed a
:spirit and energy, a propriety and a grace, that
would have insured to the ablest and most cxpe.
ricnced :Idiots the tumultuous applause of a distil.
minor jog audience, •
Far be it from my intention at the same time to
set up MUM(' Berry as a 'phenomenon, which is
only to be gazed at and admired.---I-le has been
,sehaoled in the Drama from early infancy, and ,
with an extraordinary quickness and promptitudeof
genius, he has.btiZed upon some prominent points,
in the management of which he is unrivalled.--
There are, however, &kis in his acting which
only the cultivation of his mind and a judicious
knowledge of the world can Cures . and let it never
be forgotten by those who have the -care of hint,
that he cannot maintain, as he advances in years,
that.pc-eminence which has already been awarded
to him unless Lila mind is properly cultivated.
I remain, Sir,
You; sincere Friend)
' . CRITICUS.
, .

Tye; °PARA.—A crowded and splendid Au.
thence attended Wirtreit's last Opera, Zaire, on
Saturday last at the King's Theatre. The cha.
ratter of the heroine was most excellently supported
by GR,Wir.ll. Her last air Was rapturously en.
cured, and her emotions with the Ghost were most'
feelingly pourtrayed. Nothing particular occurred
in the Ballet. The PR urea, and a large astern.
Wage' of the higher circles, were present.
BETTY made his cc.
COM) 'appearance On Saturday night, at Drury lane
Theatre, in the character of liaPnlet. We obselved
no difference in his manner of performing this difli.
cult charatier. We readily subscribe to his extra.
orchiary talents as a boy ; bur we think he fell much
below the degree of dierit neces«ary for such a le.
presentation of the part as the public erught to ex.
pet when one of the best, if not the very best, of
SetAtcrsmt.i's. eharaciers is in question. There
Was spirit and emotion enough to satisfy every
reasonable critic, when so young a Perft.rtner is
the tilled of attention. l'hey who perceived in.
telletiiud deduction, the acumen which the part
demands, and all its nicer shades and comi.licated
muveiderits, possess more discernment than we pro.
some to boast. He knelt again to the spirit in his
ftest address to it, but he appeared without his cloak
in the cbureh.yard, and this was the only alteration
we noticed. The part of the /6v was supported
with unifotropropriety by PowaLt,, and be deli vercd
the speech is Oh I my ofpnce,'t &c. very ably
deed. Mrs. 11. joimstotea adorned the simple meta.
dies of Qpbeha most unmerciltilly—"Praj Jen
it." The house was, as usual, crowded, and the little
hero WAS in no want of applause.
Saturday the Pit INCRIISSS SOrfirA and Attsr.TA.
accompanied by the Hon. Mn,s E,otworl, took an
airing on hor:ithatl. jet Winchor Gnat Park,

;.%.'l.littsTr attd thc ottict Pit INClia3gl ithlk
art isitiog to Yrogtoure.