The Sun.
London, England, 1835-11-25 00:00:00

DEPARTURES:

The Earl and Countess Cadogan, for Paris ; the Dowager
Countess Beauchamp, from St. James's-square, for ditto;
Lady Tancred, for ditto ; Captain D'Aeth, R.N., for ditto ;
the Hon. James Butler, for ditto ; • Colonel Power, Royal
Artillerv, for ditto; Viscount Powerscourt. from Long's
Hotel, for Dublin ; the Earl and Countess of Roden, from the
London Hotel, Albermarle-street, for Tullamore • Park,
Downshire ; Viscount Valletort, from the Sackville Hotel,- for
Buckling Park, Yorkshire ; Lieutenant-General Sir Moore
Disney; from Upper Brook-street,-on a tour ; Martin Brim-
mer, Esq., and - Miss Brimmer, from Marshall Thomson's
Hotel, Cavendish-square ; Mrs. Glynn, from ditto ; W.
Sawbridge, Esq., from ditto.; Francis Meynell, Fsq., from
ditto.

COVENT-GARDEN

Last night a new play, in three acts, called Inheritance,
.vas brought out at this theatre. It does not possess; in
point of wit, humour, elegance, vivacity, or solidity of
dialogue, such merits as would sustain the name of comedy.
A certain Earl of Rossville, who died without children to
inherit 'his title or estate, had a younger brother, who mar-
ried against his will. He was on that account rejected by
him, and he and his wife, Mrs. St. Clair (Mrs. West),
treated with neglect and scorn. Mrs. St. Clair not having
any children, but determined, in revenge, that her estates
and title shall not go to the rightful heir, suborns a woman,
named Lewiston, to pass off an infant named Gertrude
;Miss Taylor) as her daughter. Mr. St. Clair having died;
his wife, and his now supposed daughter, are in possession
of the property, living inn style of great expense and luxury
Gertrude, being now Countess of Rossvillc, is of course
ardently wooed by more than one lover—by Lindsay (Mr.
Pritel.ard) for her beauty and her virtues, and by a cold-
hearted coxcomb Colonel for her money. There is an
honest old Scotchman, of great wealth, and, in a moral
point of view; of great worth, residing in the neighbour-
hood, who conceives an extraordinary affection for Gertrude,
from the striking likeness she bears to his wife, who had
been lost at sea with her infant child. This Scotchman,
Adam Black by name (Mr. H. Wallack), has a citizen
niece, Mrs. Waddle, the wife of Major Waddle (Mr. Vale).
They take up their residence near the old uncle, Black,
with
.a view to a large legacy, and this pair are the
great funmakerS of the piece. They are both vulgar,
quite in the old metropolitan way, and the Major be-
sides is silly and cowardly. The amiable and worthy
Lindsay is rejected by Gertrude, and, however high her
respect for him, she prefers the gay Colenel. They are
about to be married, when a person named Lewiston makes
his appearance-from America, and threatens to discover the
whole secret of Gcrirudes real parentage unless his silence
be purchased. He extorts from Mrs. St. Clair jewels and
money to a large amount. At length he divulges the secret,
the result of which is that Lindsay, the rejected lover, is
proved to be the true heir, and of course Gertrude and her
mother are beggars. Her former acquaintance refuse an
asylum to Gertrude, hut Adam Black takes her to his home
and to his heart, and Lindsay is still her lover, and ready to
share with her in wedlock his rank and his wealth. The
upshot is that Gertrude is proved to be the child of Adam
Black, rescued by the brother of Lewiston, a sailor, from
the vessel in which her mother-was lost, and from the flames
of which Adam himself was borne away in a state of insen-
sibility. Though loaded with wealth and in possession of
a splendid mansion and demesne, he has ever since led a
lonely discontented life, despising his interested friends and
relations, and finding his only consolation in-acts of benevo-
lence. The important facts arc proved by written docu
ments, miniatures, &c., which Lewiston got possession of on
the death of his brother, and brought over to England as a
promising speculation in the money way. The lovers are
of course married. Such are the incidents ; and the great
merit of the piece is that the plot is pretty well concealed
till very near the close. Did the success of the play depend
upon its humour it could not have - lived through half-an-
honr. Mr. Wallack sustained the character of the good
old ScOtchman very effectively ; and Mr. Pritchard, in
genteel comedy, would be an acquisition to any theatre
There was some disapprobation, bUt applause predominate
and the play was announced for repetition.