The Sun.
London, England, 1802-05-31 00:00:00

THE OPERA.

,
TaE Comic Opera of 11 Fanatic° di: Berlina ,was
repeated on -Saturday to an exceeding .fUll house.
The music of thispOpera being a composition on
which PAEsIELLo bestoV.Ted a particular finisah, can-
not but be highly gratifying both to the Cognoscenti
and less informed Auditor ; and as the Performers
acquire.a greater facility in the execution of some
of the difficult passages, the Opera rises in the favour
Of the audience t •indeed there is so much delicacy
in some of the beauties of the harmony, that a par-
ticular nicety is . required for a just' eitecution of
them. Virlci was in better voice than she has
been lately, and we obsZived that she ,has changed
her aria, as we recommended ; but we are even now
of opinions that if she had confined herself to the
air as origitMil_y written by PAEst E La, the effe6t
would have better seconded her wishes. VIGA-
NoNt was animated and coved: he is the soul of
the beautiful quintetto.
Paul Lc' Virginie was the Ballet, which, although
a revived Bailer, seems to increase in its attraftion
of popular favour. The new pas des trois, by the
LAsoittEs and fittAtcspEßc receives deserVed.
applause, and the general execution of the Ballet
produces'a brilliant effect.
The hbuse was filled-at an early hour, and owing
to the wetness of the evening the passage 'of the
Hay-Market was so obstructed as to- render the
approach difficult ; many carriages could not get
up at all, and parties returned disappointed of their,
evening's amusement:

THE THEK4E.—The Tragedy of Venice Pre_
served was represented on Saturday last at Covent
Garden Theatre for the Benefit of Mr. BROWNE,
who appeared in the charaaer of laffer. If he
did not display any tr anscendant proofs of genius
in this character, his performance throughout was
marked by plain good sense and Unaffetaed feeling,
as well as by -some. touches of, true pathos. In
one passage he .introduced' a novelty creditable to
his critical judgment. It has been usual when
Daffier proposes terms to the Senate, before the
latter have manifested the least tendency to mercy,
in uttering the following requisition, 'to hold in
his hand a paper supposed to contain the names of
the Conspirators, ",

• " For myself full pardon,
" Besides the lives of two and twenty friends.
" Whose names are here entoird."
_Mr. BRo.wsE,. in 'delivering the word here, put
his hand to his breast as the. record of friendship,
and indeed it seems obvious that if he had preserved
the written list in the. first instance, it might'have
been seized by the Officers of justice', and the Senate
need not have submitted "to my capitulation.
Coons; for 'the first time performed, Pierre; which
he gave in a very manly and spirited style, but
was on the whole somewhat too. boisterous.---Miss.
IVIoRRAY, iti Betvidera, trod rather too closely in
the steps of Mts. St nooNs, but altogether played
with much greater force and effect than we expelled
in so difficult a part. Notwithstanding the merit
of the Play, and the novelty of the performance,%
excepting the Pit, there was but a scanty 3.Odicnce,
owing, no doubt, to the inclemency of the night.

77:4! Dueniza, though it did not draw a crowded,
had a numerous audience on Saturday last, at,Drury-
Lane: Theatre. Mrs. BILLINGI'D.N'S Clara
of course, the chief magnetic point.—No:hing
could be more exquisite than her execution of the
Airs, and her Bravura was a prodigy of skill,
taste, and scientific precision.
It is an established faa, that such has been Mrs.
BiLLINGTON'S attraaion at the.two Winter Thea-
tres, the Managers will pocket as much, net profit,
AS they pay to that accomplished Singer.
PAitiscvr has taken a tour to the coast of France,
in hopes Of some benefit from the change of climate.
Her complaint has nothing to do with the accident
to herancle, as some people imagine, hut was an
eruptive fever of a dangerous ,kind, from which,
although recovered, she, is still so weak as to ren-
der her conval&scence tedious.

Madame VINCI, from a modest opinion of her
own attralion, we hear, intends to decline ven-
turing a benefit.
The late KINe) of Drury-Lane Theatre, has, it
is said, left no lineal Successor. There is too much
truth in the observation, and his Histrionic Posses-
siva, like the Empire of ALEXANDER, most, of
course, fall to the share of many very inferior Ex..
peCtants:

SALoktoN, it seems, is going to introduce two
furcign Horns to the Musical World. Considering
the kallatitry'orthe times, and the abundant pryofs
of those articles in the Records of Liceior's Commons,
they may be thought a needlos Importation.

LITERATURE.----Mr. JONES/ to whom the Public
are indebted for an erudite and interesting account
of the musical- antiquities of Wales, as well as
for the• revival ,of many.ancient melodie3 of that
country, has been renewing his inquiries with
great succes's, He has recovered many. more re-
liques of 'the. musical and poetical genius of his
countrymen, 'in remote ages, and explored many
very curious particulars respeding the WELCH.,
'BARDs and DItlilDS. The -spccimens of ancient
poetry, and descriptions of ancient customs, render
the Work highly interesting, and will remain a
lasting monument of the zeal, industry, taste and
knowledge of the ingenious Author, who, is him-
self BARLI.tO the Prince of WALES, and who brings
it. forward under the liberal encouragement Of his
Illustrious Patron..

At the close of the Play on- Saturday night, at
Covent-Garden Theatre, a glass chandelier, from
the upper tier of boxes, fell upon one on. the left
hand, hanging over the stage, but fortunately no
person was hurt by the accident,

Wednesday night, about nine o'clock, as Mr.
Phillips; of St. Margaret's-hill, in the Borough,• in
company with a lady,. in a chaiie,. Was coming by
the Shoulder of Mutton Green, near Shooter's-11M,,
they were stopped by two footpads, who robbed
them of four guineas and a - hall; besides a silver
watcfi.