The Sun.
London, England, 1803-02-08 00:00:00

THE,I77:E.

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_ Covettt-Gardeft.
' Ma, .CAw•Ltec, the Gentleman who performed
Othello at this Theatre, appeared last night in*he
charade* of
.7 affer. His features, eleared.ftOrn.the
sable cloud of the Itlnor, corresponded very well.
with his figure, and are capable of -strong expres.
slot!, kfe did,not, in our opinion, appear quite to
so much 'advantage in
~7uffier, as he did in Whello:
Thc energetic passages he gave with firmness kind
Wed, but his voice appeared too harsh in those of
the tender and pathetic kind. .
'[here was an appearance of .labour in his utter..
anei, as if- he was rather reeolleding instructions,
than yielding to the impulse of his feelings.. All
Mr gestures, however, Iseerned to be the result of
passion, and we saw enough to. convince us, that
with praffice, be will become a valuable•addition to
the Stage.

With the evi►lent good sense that this Gentleman
pOssesses, and with the, advantage of an education
mnch superior to the general race of aEtors, he is
likely Jo. profit more by the lights of his awn under.:
than by walking in the trammels of pre..
scription; . We say thus much, because we plainly
discerned the elaborate traces of precept rather than
the animated bursts of Nature.
A •
CooKE gave a bold and spirited outline of Pierre,,
but he was autimes somewhat too comic in the more
familiar passages, and even in some of the elevated
and heroic c.iste His performance on the whole(
however, was manly and impressive, and very inudh
above what we are accustomed to see in the Polar.
mer's of the present day.

Tt is with much regret that we say any ,thing
unr.vourable of Nits. H. SIDDONS, whose simplicity
and feeling seemed likely to raise her to a distin..
guished height in her profession. At present,
she seems only studious to imitate the
tom of "Mrs.SinnoNg, without paying attention to
the expressive energy, the genuine exhibition of
truth, nature, and char:idler, by which that great
Actress acquired her'high and merited distin4ion.
`Mrs. H. SIDDONS has requisites to render
Betv;dera very, interesting, but last night she may
be said to have only tolled through the Poet's notes,
with mechanical-regularity.

CAUTION TO SERVANTS.—tidturday night be..
tween seven and eight o'clock, a well dressed man
having knocked at Dr. BADH AM'S, Bloomsbury.
square, desired the servant (who admitted him im.
prudently to the hall) to inquire if there was any
answer to the letter sent from a Mr. Beckford. At

the instant of being left alone, he took a new great
coat from the nail, and got clear ofF: a similar. in-
stance happened in the immediate neighbourhood
within a kw days.
At- the Public Office, Bow-street, on Friday, a
man was examined,before N: BOND, Esq. and Sir
WlLOnsi PARSONS, on a charge of stealing a va.
rietk of articles in the house of Mrs. Eves, -in
Dover-street. Mrs. EVES had a card party on the
night of the loth of January last, and .the Company,
as they came in, deposited their shawls.), tippers,
&c. in the hall, and a parlour adjoining ; but when

tlity were going away, not a shawl, tippet, or
great coat, was to be found, some person having
entered the house iu the interim, and carried off the
whole. The 'Prisoner being apprehended a few
days ago, endeavouring to commit another robbery,
his lodgings were searched, when shawls, tippets,
silencers, and great coatN, were found, which were
on Friday identified by the respedive persons to
whom they belong, and who were bound over to
prosecute him accordingly.

A few days since a perion employed at the leather,
mill, at Hartshorne; 'in Derbyshire, was' found dead
in the stove room. It was his intention to work
during the preceding night for the purpose of more
expeditiously drying some
.skins, but having im.
prudently lain down to sleep in the stove room, in
which a quantity of greasy skintrwere'drying, he
was soon suffocated by the foul air caused by the
heated. skins, and the extreme closeness of the place.
This man was a tramper who had obtained work a
few days at the above mill, and it appeared from
some papers found, upon. him, that his name was
Robert Dand.—Concealed amongst.his clothes, was
found a pistol in good order, together with powder
and slug shot.
•On Sunday,evening, the 16tb,ult. a fire Unice
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out in the.dwelling.hoose of CHAR Les LEA, a small
farmer, Aim Whitchurch, in Cheshire,, which en-
tirely consigned it, .pa'rt of the household furniture,
the whole of the out-buildings, and all the corn. and
hay. The loss is estimated at. Igo'. No part of
the premises was insured. The poor . sufferer has a
wife and eight children.

A sailor, who had been 'abroad during the war,
returned to Wapping, a few days since, and after
sonic inquit'y, found his wife in a very
:wretched
lodging, in Old Gravel-lane,. with two young
children by her side.—He soon foUnd she had been
false hearted, and that the children were the conse.
quenee,of a second marriage. The second husband
,shortly after came home, and a whimsical, although
embarrassing scene took place. The latter offered to
resign the fair one ; but the tar, with more con.
sideratioh than generally falls to the lot of his pro.
fessidn, when a female is in the case, declined the
courtesy, and giving them ten guineas, with hiS
blessing,' unmuored, and under a press of all,
shaped his coorsein quest of another port,

AMRRIED.

in Liguanea, on the 24 of November,' Dr. 'William S.
Forbes, of His Majesty's Navy Hospital at Port Royal, to
Miss Harris.

DIED.

On Sunday sennight, aged ss, Thomas Hammond, Esq.
of York, and brother to George Hammond, Esti, Under Se.
cretary of State in the Foreign Department. • ,
At • Keninivon, in his 65th year, Sampson Cosgane
Lloyd, Esq. formerly a Merchant of Rotterdam. • .
On Saturday, at 'Twickenham, Middlesex, Mrs. Shaker.
lay, relki of Peter Shakerley, Esq of„Somerford.Hall,
Cheshire.

The same day, at, his house, Charing.crnss, after a few
days illiuss, the infant son of Charles Drummond, Esq.
At Edinburgh, on the 26th ult. Miss Sarah Mercer,
daughter of the late Mr. Mercer, merchant.
At Springfield, Leith Walk, on the asst ult. Mrs. Spit-
tal, relief of the late •Cupt. Spinal, of Mail:logic. •
On the tBth ult. in the 77th year of his ige, and the 49th
of his ministry, the Rev. James Gordon, minister of Fettler.
At twine, on the't6th ult. Miss Allittl,S
On Tuesdas, the 2.5 th ult. at his house, laniaica-street,
Glasgow, Claud Hamilton, Esq.