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SIR,
I am sorry to observe that some attempts have
been made to depreciate the merits of that wonder.
ful Boy who has been, not inaptly, denominated the
Young Rorcius. It is, however, a well.known
adage, that 44 envy does merit as its shade pursue ;"
and it ought not to excite surprise that some, jea.
lows of his success; that others, aCtuated by the
pride of appearing to possess a superior judgment
in opposing the opinion of the multitude ; or that a
few, merely for the sake of contradiftion, should
endeavour to detrad from the well.ettrned fame of a
distinguished individual.
In all arts, sciences, and professions, there have
sometimes arisen individuals whose exertions and
whose success appeared to mock to scorn the rules
which ordinary talent had laid down for its guid-
ance, and who seemed to possess that natural and
happy disposition for those respedive arts or
sciences in which they have pre.eminently shone,
which could only be accounted for by supposing
them to have been actuated by donate genius.
There are many, no doubt, who are ready to ridi.
rule the idea of innate genius; but it is °beery.
able, that those of this class, who have given their
bicubrations to the world, have never been able to
account, in any rational manner, for that disposition.
to excel in any particular art or science which
seems to be born with some' persons, and to grow
with theft growth, and strengthen with their
strength; and they have therefore got rid of the
question, by alledging that disposition to have
arisen front a peculiar train of circumstances, the'
Operation of which, however, they have never been
able satisfactorily to explain. ,
As" this subject would lead to a long, and what
you, perhaps, would deem a tedious disquisition, I
shall at present pursue it no further, but return to
the immediate obje& of my Letter, namely, the
Youth who has attracted so much public notice, and
drawn down so much of the public applause, by his
precocious representation olcharadets in the Drama,
which it had been hitherto thought impossible for
a floy'of thirteen to represent with due circa ; and
by the way, I urn induced to believe that a few per.
sons have been led by this very supposition of inn.
poodbility, to discredit the evidence of their senses,
and to pronounce that impossible, which, if they
had consulted their eyes and cars, they would have
found was actually done. I confess it seems to the
that the appearance of Master BETTY will form a
new aura in the histoiy of the Stage, inasmuch as
it nearly approximates us to that natural stile of
aiding froM which we have been, in some measure,
kept at a distance since the days of GARItiCt.
That great Performer first brOke through the tram.
melt of custom and prejudice, by representing dia.
raters upon the Stage with that feeling, and those
appropriate manners, which might naturally be. sup.
used to belong to them in real life.. To enter
into a history of the Stage since he quitted it would
carry me to much too great, a length suffice it to,
say, that since that period many Performers have
figured with conaiderabie eclat, and a few with no
wean pretensions to pte.eminence. We have had
' performances clalsaicallyellaate arid critically coned;
but in many we have had to lament the absence of
that perfedion of the art which consists in making
the art itself disappear, and inducing us to believe,
for the moment, that the character personified is
really before our eyes. This &lett has arisen
either frorn a cold and languid expression of feeling,
which forced the art of the Attor upon our notice,
or from a turgid and declamatory excess of it,
which was equally unnatural, and- which at once
dispelled the illusion, whilst we were the leas in.
duced t 9 applaud the Performer who had thus out.
raged nature.
The medium between coldness and languor and
declamatory vehemence, appears to me to have been
attained by the youth who has already astonished
and delighted the ignorant and undiscerning, whilst
he has drawn heartfelt tributes oftapplanse from most
of those who have any pretensions to judgment or.
disctimination. I have witnessed with the utmost
attention the performance of the Young Roscius (for
so I will call him) in the three charaders allotted
to him at Coveor.garden Theatre ; and I do not
think it paisible for the feelings of the heart to be
pouttrayed in mare; natural colours. It was not a
performance its whic% you merely admired the skill
of time ACtor, but the heart was irresistibly moved
by that expreeaion of feeling which was at once dis.
corned to be appropriate to the character, and as
tna, which would have been the natural result of
the ealations of such a charad:r placed in the
Gi:it Mott similar to that represented in the mi.
I spake at once to the heart ; and this
~,tnts tut that tumultuous applause
I all lets performances ; cur all
• 00-', corroairatively, a few can
al at lA array :heir feelings, and iii:scriminate
ti;eir dlylause.
,The applause Which
wa, no common gratulation—it wasthe
a; as emotions of at least nine. tenths of the
ht) felt those delicate touches of semi.
ho• t
o o alto, were so admirably thrown into hilt per. ,
fun toll 'who immediately; 4a by an instano
impulse, applauded the cause of their de.

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1 is in the natural expression of the emotions
non odorkt,ts of the heart that this extraordinary
oe-eminent;is still+cis and I think 1 am not ad..
any thing wide of the truth when I say,
tl.4t he could nor be taught ; it is, in filet, like
grace and rase in common life, which is not to be
acilutrsd by rule or study, nor can I account for the
ini;nitable grace of his attitudes and aCtion by any
.common • ruieS of -education. That he may ha.ve
bs‘.. ,4ught much of what may be technically term.
ed toe 41,113,54 If the Stage, and of which he has
a ihOrougli l.w.wictlge, I am feJdy to' allow ; but
that he shad (as is aCtoally the case) so far identi.
fy bitn.self with the charaeter he represents, as to
lesve no void, no chasm, in the representation,
to be crmitantly alive to the bwiness of the scene,
heti.cr speaking or silent, and to be, during the
whole of toe performance, the iithmet, Young Nor.
val., of eederick , which he represents,' without
olive diapAtity, 'thy illusion by indifference or inst.
ttnrioo, is one of those phenomena which I admire,
view with the si-itiist pi4asinz sensatiops) but far
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THE SUN.

SOLtI4 QUI& tALSUM AtIDLAT ?

LONDON.
TUESDAY) DECEMBER 18t 1804•

Ta s Favourite Sloop of War has captured a French
Lugger, having on board near bo risen, the Captain
of which is a Member of the Legion of Honour.
Admiral CORNWALLIS has again resumed his
nation off' Brest.

Admiral DitUILY is to hoist his Flag at Ports-
moth, and proceed from thence to Cork, to he
Second in Command on the Irish Station, for which
we understand, a very considerable reinforcewen
is intended to the Squadron.of Frigates At present
statiooted on the Coast of that Country.

We last night.received Dutch Papers to the mat
inst. The intelligence they bring is not very
portant : the spirited Decree of the Dutch Govern.
ment, forbidding the interference of French Officers
in any matters relating to Commerce, his, as we
predkled, been wholly disregarded : The French
a4l as the absolute masters of the Country ; they
even assume to themselves the right of giving away
all the places of profit or honour in the State. Of
the intolerable oppression under which the people
of Holland labour, some idea may be formed from
a very accurate statement which we are this day
enabled to lay before our Readers, and which will
.he found in a subsequent Column, of the various
direct Taxes upon Property in Holland.
The private Letters which we have received,
mention a report which has lately been circulated
on the Continent, and to which some degree of be.
lief is attached, viz. that the PRINCE of ORANGE
is to give up the Indemnities which have been al.
lotted to him, in lieu of which he is to have the
Eteetorate of Hanover.

The Letter of Capt. Couvit,Le, of the Ramey,
returning thanks to the Dutch Admiral KIKKERT
for his kindness and humanity to the 011icer$ and
Men of that Ship, has been published, with evident
exultation, in
rall the Dutch Papers.

The turn of conversation in France, it seems,
now tends towards a General Peace. Nothing in.
deed is more probable than that the Usurper,having
gained the acme of hil ambition,will endeavour to se.
cure himself by the accomplishment of such an event.
The spirited conduct of the Northern Powers, the
late interference of the KING of PRUSSIA, the more
than probable conjunction of the EMPEROR of Att,-
STRIA with the other Continental States, the
accumulating force of the Russians in the Mcdi.
terranean, and above all, the Naval Power of
Great Britain, have shewn the Tyrant the futility
of his aims at Universal Dominion, and convinced
him that, having gained the top of the wheel, the
continuance of the War cannot ,raise him higher
whilst it might, and would mast unquestionably,sink
him at least a spoke or two, if not hurl him down to
the bottom. On these considerations we venture to
predict, that before many months have elapsed,
some overtures will be made for bringing about a
general Peace. Having, however, outwitted us
once, we hope that no such overtures will be ac.
cepted on our"part, except on grounds more solid
than the last Peace was concluded,

Sunday morning the ROYAL FA.MILY attended
Divine Service. at St. Qeorge's Chapel, and heard
an excellent Sermon preached by the Rev. Mr.
Busily, frbm the 7th chapter of Sr. Matthew, the
24th and 25th verses. Alter attending Divine Ser.
vice the ROYAL FAMILY took an siring to Frog.

more.
Yesterday morning Has MAJESTY, the nut s,
of KutlT, the PRINCESSES SON-11A and AusLIA,
took.an airing on horseback in Windsor Great Park.
Ifiß MAJESTY, and the other Pit INCEBSIB, took
an Ming to Frogrnore.
Her Royal Highness PRINCESS ClitaLoTTe of
WALES, accompanied by Lady ELGIN, arrived yes-
terdsy at Carleton House for the season.
A Privy Council will be held to.morrow at
Buckingham.house.
Yesterday the SPANISH ANISASSADOR transafted
business at Lord HARROWS et Oilici,
In the gallant Aftion which was latOy Maintained
in the West Indies, the particulars of witch we tie.
tailed yesterday, by three Merchantmen, against
a French Privateer, Mr. Litioo, whose 'fither'rtf.
aides in Finsbuiy-square, was unfortunately
on board the Tbetn. The loss sustained by the
three, vessels atitounted to thteF•killed and eight
w ounded,

Tres discontents and distresses of the Inhabi-
tants of the Batavian Republic are daily increasing;
nor can we be surprised at either, when we consider
the burthens to which they are obliged, by Bo-
NAPARTE, to submit, in order to carry on a War
which they detest, against their old Allies, to
whom they are indebted for the original establish-
ment of their liberty and independence.
We have frequently stated that the oppression
and exactions of the French in that devoted Country
were intolerable, and upon this point we are sure our
Readers will concur with us, when they have pe.
rused the following detail, from which it is evident
that the few persons in Holland who still possess
Property must very soon be ruined.

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Comparative Statement .of the 'Taxa, in the Bata.
vian Republic, upon the Annual Income of a person
having Property in the Dutch Funds, and having
property in Foreign Funds.

A person having roo,ooo florins in Dutch Debzntures, at
ai per cent. per annum, receives for interest 2500 florins.

Taxes upon this Property for the Year 1805.
Florins.
One-half per cent. upon property, the roosooo florins
in Debentures being estimated at their present
value, at 32,000 florins • r 6•
N. B. This Tax is laid for eight years.
Two per cent. upon Income of asoO florins . go
Five per cent: upon Income (a Tax laid for 25 years) ras
z per Cent. on Capital, being the ad Instalment_
for 1804 I* 320
4 per Cent. on,Property, New Tax for tilos - 1.280
* per Cent. on Property, being a Town Tax . 160

Total Flo. zogs

By which it appears, that A person possessed of
too,ooo florins Dutch Debentures, giving him an
Income of zsoo florins, or about 2271.• a year, has
only 371. a year left to live upon ; and- he ,is still
forced to pay all other Taxes besides.

A person being a Subjed of the 134tavian Republic, and
possessing property in Foreign Funds to the amount of
zo,oool. stock, at S. per cent, receivss for interest, per an-
num, 5001.

Taxes to be paid by him for 180 s.
per cent. upon property, the capital of to,eool.

being valued at 951. percent. (this Tax for eight

years) . •• "
47 To •
2 per cent. upon Income . sTT
oo
5 per cent. upon Income (this Tax for 25 years). 25 o 0
t per cent.upon Property,second instalment for 1804 95 o o
4 per'cent. upon Property, new Tax for do; 380 o o
per cent. upon Property, being a Town Tax 47 to 0

4, 605 0 0

By which it appears, that a person possessing
soot. per ann, in Foreign Funds must sell out capi_
tal to the amount of lost value, in order to pay his
Taxes, which exceed his Income by that amount ;
and that he must then sell out more capital in pro.
portion to his expences, upon which he is ,also
obliged to pay all the other existing Taxes upon
goods, lands, stamps, servants, horses, sales, houses,
&c. &c. with an additional ten per cent. on the
whole,

Thus a Dutchman upon the Income he derives
from Batavian Punds, pays about es per cent. in
extra 'nixes ; and upon the Income he derkves from
money vested in Foreign Funds he pays ao per
cent, in extra Taxes, and is still obliged to pay
all the old established Taxes, with an additional
to per cent. upon them besides.
Such is the advantage of being the Friend of
France and the Ally of BONAPARTE

Mrs. Pow ELL wag too much indisposed' to per.
form the part of Ell/if-Oast night in the Tragedy
of Pizarro, and it was therefore assigned again to
Mrs. Joel NiToNit,from Bath, Pops again resumed
the part of Rolla, and supported it with manly force
and feeling.
The little ROlCia, who has appeared with so much
eclat at Itichniondi in the part of Richard the Third,
it is said, engaged at the rate of fifteen:pounds
g week for Drury-Lane, Theatre, where she is •to
Make her debut when Master BE TTY'S engagement
at that Theatre closes. It is said that she is to
make her tattle in Richard.

BILAISAM and STORACI go to Bath during the
Christmas Holidays, in Order to support RAUZ-
ZIN-tbs Concert.

Mr. KEMBLE published a volume of Poems many
years ago. They were juvenile productions ; and
be has since-destroyed all the copies he could recover,
with more modesty than judgment, as every effu.
skin of such a mind must have been charaderized
by taste and genius. A Copy, however, of this
work was, it is said, sold last week by audion for
31. 55.
Mrs. BILLINgION,. the public will be sorry to
hear, is, at present, seriously indisposed. She was
on Sunday ordered by her Physician to take zs
drops of laudanum for her cough ; instead of which
the whole contents of the phial (pit least 300) were,
by mistake, given to her. The consequence was,
that she was in the greatest agonies during the night,
and lies at present dangerously ill at her house in
Bolton-street.

Mrs. SPCOND'S attradion to the Bath Concerts
has been. so great, that although her , engagement
expired last Wednesday, RAuzzlNt has re.eogaged
her for an additional night, and the oldest inhabit.
ants of that gay city do not recolidt so great a
favourite since the days of Miss LINLEYI deno.
urinated the Maid of Math.

As the Poy a wati unable to finish his Speech at
the Coronation of '4ONAPARTR in the French lan.
gosge, it is very evident that Hii Holinen, has not
" the gift of toques." '

HARWICH, DFC. I7.—The Auckland Packet,
Capt. Ba IDGE, that sailed from hence on Thursday
last for Gottenburgh with the Mail, returned this
morning, meeting with boisterous weather at sea ;
the Diana Packer, Capt. STEWART, with the Ham.
burgh and Bremen Mails on board, and the Diana,
Capt. OSSORKF, with the Gottenburgh Mail, ars
detained by a strong north.cast wind, thick with

8114 W.

A large Flea of Colliers passed this Port for
London, from the Niathward.

The Prussian Hoy Da/is/Jim, of Embden, A.
WAAGENAAN, from London for Rotterdam, sailed
hence yesterday morning, having been detained here

some time.

FALMOUTH, Dec. 15.--Sailed this day Hit Ma..
jesty's Ship Eurydice, of 24 guns, with the Fleet
for Oporto, Lisbon, and the Mediterranean ; 31119
the American Ship Aberdeen, MORGAN, for CO •
de Verd ; the Danish Ship Dorothea, Capt. Royals
for Naples ; the Leicester Packet, Capt. MILL, With-
Mails of the sth inst. for New York and Halifax ;
the Prince Adel/bits Packet, Capt. Blollls°St
with Mails of the same date for Jarnagehtli °alba'
does ; and last evening a Fleet of Conte's for the

DOWni.
Arrived the American Schooner Fair Americas,
Capt; HALL, from Lymington, for Boston; the
Swedish Ship Neasar, Capt. Or s a sto, from Pad'
stow, for the Mediterranean, with fish, having lost
her tails ; and the American Ship General Marthal4
Capt. CoLLy, from Rotterdam, for Virginia.
This day the Chesterfield Packet, Capt. BLIGH,
from Jamaica, was released from quarantine.

POttThMOUTH.; DEC. t7.---Arrived. the Olhorti
Frigate ; Aurora Armed Ship ; Ssuift and Haer
Sloops of War, with a large Fleet of outward-bound
Vessels under Convoy from the Downs.
Sailed the Media Sloop of War on s Cruize.
The Pena; of London, bound to the Coast of
Africa, upset this morning seven leagues to the eitt•
ward of the Isle of Wight ; three men Wet. &o P..
ed, the'remainder were.. picked up by the RIh(CSa
of St. Helen's.

...........
DEAL, DEC. 17.—Attived La Paulette (rol*
Plymouth. •
Sailed the immortalize and jaciall, an a Cruize
This morning,
afr Boulogne ; Starii.iri Gun.brig, and Sussex Oak
Navy Transport, with Convoy for Plymouth. ,
IVell.i, of Leith, 'WALTER STIWAIT Master, laden
With fish, bound to Gihraltar, ran on shore on thir
about seven o'clock, nastier, Sloop
North Sand }lead, and Was totally lost. pis
People' were all saved by a Deal Baal, .v hich for.
tun.r,:iy got there just in time to save them.
i, In,, the Dovvns-olvionarcl , Castor, Leopafti, Ardent, In•
„nekintes Antelope, Leda, Aimable, Jamaica, Arab, Fische,
A utunle, leoulette, Prospero,
ilarpys Eugene, Dart, Alert, Orestes, sPectiff CYgngt4 .
Discovery, Devastation, Vesuvius, ' ebra, Mallard, Cone
stint, Tickler, Bouncer, Watchful, Safeguard, Ritlernsar
Thrasher, Haughty, rClia, Biter, Blazer, Mlot, horlacri h•
Basilisk, Defender, Staunch, Tigresi, Boid, monkey, Spar)t..
per
r Clinkers Destrudion, asci Lonvulsion, Mottar-b"'";
and Ann and Charlotte Schooner. Furl, Lt.„iia, v0i....„,,,

Thursday --....----;.--......
The retorted capture of the Gears', Capt. Siat.
SON, of Greenock, is contradielcsi by a „oboe tr°ll
the owners.
Blessing Armed Ship, with the Trade flottt the
Baltic. morning arrived in Leith Roads the
Saturday
of War on a Cruise.
The H.m. Admiral. Bettlar.rs' is tippointed to
he Chief Command of the SCit Fencibles, on ghe
sailed from Leith Roads the Lynx
Coast of England.
On Wednesdy arrived at Liverpool, where all
are to embark for Ireland, the ad 131ttaliort .of tios
92d Regiment of Foot, commanded by Arsicer Gal'.
rsvo of the Black Regiments in the West InSdli°e°l
laa,i4.
according to accounts received within these Ic
back and disembarked. It is said they
days, were not only embarked, but aaoallY,:rderi
way for the East Indies; when they were °"7cred
for the Spanish Main.
• da
The 'following Volunteer Corps were Ye 5141 sr.'
inspeeted at their several places of muster, l'i,.2' ‘,,,;
M irgaret's and Sr. John's, Lambeth, and ad I°,7r.
Hamlets. The latter presented their Colored, '7;
W. HARDY, with ad elegant Sword and Belt, yell
150 guineas. the
A grand dinner was given yesterday at by
;
Thatched House Tavern, in St. James's.strerrs cii
the Portuguese Ambassador, in honour of the Vs,c co
of Portngal's Birth-day. The dinner wok 1"40
arc doting .
at six o'clock ; after which his Excellency, vii;i
Was in the Chair, gave The Queen of Peroise i
Health. That Toast was succeeded by, Hit illaiti,
the Xing of Enslartd, and the Royal FainitY:
Many other TOaitS were given ; and the even
concluded with the utmost harmony and conviViall'"
ty. About thirty-five Foreigners of distil4. ion
of the
were present, among whom were several
Foreign Ministers. The party broke up
o'clock.din.
On Sunday Lord SOMERVILLIII gave a grand
,),
ner, at his house in Hill.street, to a select partY '
Agriculturalists and Breeders of Cattle,amts
Duke . t i3si,-
whom were, Prince E,TERHAZY, the
---- PRA it i),
tOitD, Cs. G. GlitSY, J. P. ?Atm,
STLIIY, HUD'
Rev . BATII DUDLEY,
WBSTCAito A
SON, &it tabout eleven
There is every
fishery in the Frith of Forth,
appearance of suc onsful herb',