The Sun.
London, England, 1803-04-04 00:00:00

oPE'RA.

Timaire.

n Fernando di 111. essico, produced for the benefit
Of Mrs. BILLINGTON, was repeated on Saturday
night : the Music is in the happiest style of PC IL -
TOGALLO, having a sufficient degree of Science,
and much lightness and pleasantry in the composi.
tion; the Arias are particularly well adapted for
Mrs. BILLINGTON'S style, power, and compass,
and she does them ample credit ; her last Aria was
executed in such a superior manner, that it called
loudly for an encore, and the audience seemed mote
inclined to consult their own gratification, than the
probably weak state of the Performer, after so
severe an illness.

VIGANoNI appears to good advantage; the Duo
and Terzetto arc well composed,' and well given;
they both received well_merited applause.
The Scenery is of the highest style of finish and
brilliancy.
Laurette was the Ballet, which evidently rises in
the public estimation ; the Story is interesting, and
MARMONTEL even might not disapprove of the man-
ner in which it is dramatically told ; there is cer.
tainly some difficulty in bringing the lapse of a cer-
tain portion of time into unity of action; in this
GALL ET has been successful. The Dancing is well
combined to relieve the necessary Pantomime : the
national Dance of the Perigordine is well calculated
to display the adivity and grace of PARtsoT, the
LABORIES, CORALLIS, HILLIGSB ERG, and Boss',
as well as the comparative gaucheries of ST. Pt ERR R.
This Dance is most universally admired and ap,
plauded, and should be a lesson to a Ballet-master,
that what is light and elegant will alwayi make
more impression than the
.flue,and serious. PAR
sOT is very interesting in the charatter Of Laurette.
The House was exceedingly full, and displayed
all the Fashion and Elegance in town.

THE THEATRE.--'The pleasant Comedy of All
in the Wrong, was brought forward on Saturday
last at Drury-Lane Theatre, for the Benefit of Mr.
BANNISTER, Jun. The House had a crowded au-
dience, the due tribute to the metits of that popular
Ador. His representation of Sir 7obn Restless
was humourous and spirited, and he exhibited the
jealousy of the part. with very ludicrous effeeti—
Mrs. GLOVER, in Lady Restless, was admirable
throughout. The quick turns of passion were given
with fidelity and most happy effetl.., Mrs. JOR-
DAN was very spirited in Belinda, but it is a cha-
rade' by no means suited to her professional habits.
ciIAILLES KEMBLE has seldom appeared to so much
advantage in genteel Comedy, as in Beverley.—
There was much skill in his exhibition of the jealous
anxieties which distinguish the part. The rest of
the characters were supported, with decent merit,
but not in such a manner as to call for any distill&
praise. There was a want of keeping, to- borrOw a
term from the Painters, in the dressing of the parts.
Some of the habits were in fashion fifty or sixty
years ago, and others were quite in the style of the
present day. After the play, BANNISTER entertained
the audience with some whimsical imitations of the
itinerant Minstrels of our streets. The Farce was
Blue Beard, and BAitii-moa it was warmly greeted
on his return to the Public, in the part of Abonte-
Eque, after his long and serious indisposition.
Lew ts's Benefit was very. prbperly a bumper, on
Saturday last, ittul.no wonder, since the very at.
tradive novelty of John Bull was represented for
the advantage of an Ador .who stands at the head
of his profession, and is deservedly high in the
esteem of the Public.
.KEMBLE is to open with Macbeth on Easter.
Monday, at Bath. All Negotiatiqns between him
and Old Drury, are totally at an end for the present
Season. ,

Old Mt. BLAND, who has , for near. fifty years
been a kind of heirloom upon the Edinburgh
Theatre, lately requested STEPHEN KEMBLE to play
Falstaff for his benefit in that Theatre. STEPHEN
KEMBLE, with the usual generosity of-his disposi.
'Lion, wrote to the old Gentleman,• informing him
that he would readily travel from Newcastle to
Edinburgh and play the charader for his benefit
without any pecuniary requital. The Edinburgh
Manager, howeVer, refused to let Mr. 'ICEMBLE
display this at of disinteresteit.,kindness.
BLAND, who is a relation of MrS: ,JORDAN, is
eighty-five years of age, and in very indifferent
circumstances. It is' supposed that the refusal of
the Manager to suffer this performance, by 'Which
the departing dayLof the poor pld Gentleman might
have been cheered by the smiles of fortune, will
soon relieve the Theatre from the expence of his
Maintenance.

Much has been said about the figure representing
a Female in a state of nudity, which preceded. Mr.
BiacH, when •he was carried round the Town of
Nottingham, at the late General Elation: bur we
cannot help thinking, that a similar figure, at least
not many removes from it, in a .Box at a public
Theatre in She METROPOI.I9, is more likely to cur.
ropt goodsmorals, and inure pernicious in its ten.
dency, than when exhibited upon the shoulders of
a mad mob, in a Country, Town, during a time
of tumult and riot.

Mr. Moons, we understand, has already been
unseated. When the ceremony of cha;ring him took
place at Coventry on Thursday, the chair broke, and
that Gentleman was precipitated into the mud.
Colonel Ss nnsYrAtql having been originally, a
Postillion, is probably the reason why BONAPARTE
chose him for his jack.boot.

It is supposed that the Society for the Suppression
of Vice will shortly dire& their serious attention
towards putting a stop to Sundry Evening Card
Parties., at present becoming so general at the
Irest.end of the To,thn.

The Officers of the Mysore Army, after 'the
taring of Seringapatam, sent as a present to the
Marquis WsLLssI.EY, a brilliant Diamond George,
of great beauty and immense value, which his Lord.
ship, refused, holding it to be incompatible with his
oath, to accept of any kind:of present.
The Ocean, now on the eve of sailing from the
River for. Botany Bay, takes out, Conyids for the;
New Settlement about to be formed- under Colonel
COLLINS. .