The Sun.
London, England, 1832-11-01 00:00:00

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COURT CIRCULAR.

Ilk MAJESTY, attended by Sir HERBERT TAYLOR,
arrived at St, James's Palace about half-past I o'cloel:
ye~ter. ay afternoon, in a travelling chariot and four, from
Windsor Castle. . _

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Mons. ZE.A. BERMUDEZ, the Spanish Miniver, had an
audience of the KING, to which he was introduced by
Viscnunt PALMERSTON 3151 Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs, and conducted by Sir -ROBERT CHESTER, the Master
of the Ceremonies, when his Excellency took leave of his
MAJESrY. .

Mr. LicriTENßußc, Hanoverian Privy Counsellor of
Lvgition (recently arrived), had an audience of the Kiss.
The Duke of CUMBERLAND and Prineesi SOPHIA
vi,ited his Ala.rEsTv.

In the course of the day the KING gave audiences to
Earl GREY, Viscount MELBOURNE, Lord Hirt., Viscount
GonEsactr, Sir JAMES GRAHAM, Viscount ALTHORP,
Lord Jolts RUSSELL, Viscount PALMERSTON, the Earl
of ALBEMARLE, Sir JAMES KEMP, Sir B. STEVENSON,
and Colonel LEE.

Viscount ASIIDROOK lnd Admiral Sir HENRY BLACK-
WOOD were in attendance as Lord and Groom in waiting.
About half-past 7 o'clock his ALIJESTV left town,
escorred ny a party of Light Dragoons, on Ills return to
Windsor Castle.

Mr. IluncE, the, agent fur Jamaie I, accompanied by
.Mr. BARRETT, the Speaker, and Mr. tioncsoN, a DI; tuber
of the Asetnbly. forming a Committee sprciaq appointed
by the Assembly of Jamaica, on a mission to the Govern-
ni«•nt, had a conference yesterday with Viscount CODE-
atcH, at the Colonial-office.

Mr. JEREMIE has arrived-in town from the Mauri,ins,
with despatches from Sir CHARLES COLVILLE, and had
yoterday an interview at the Colonial-office with Vi,count
GODERICH.

The Judge Advocate-General has arrived in town from
the Continent.

DRURY-LANE.

The admirable comedy of The Hppocrite was per-
formed at this theatre last evening, and the chief charac-
ter in it was admirably represented by car old friend
DOWTON. This excellent actor, who has been absent
from the theatre for the last two years, teas welcomed on
• his return with the most hearty applause, and, had the
audience been as numerms as the reception was warm, it
would only have been a just tribute to the merits of this
actor in the character of Dr. CahillAl. Perhaps it is
not too much to say that no one ever acted it better. He
personates the canting, hypocritical, selfish, and grovelling
villain so to the life, that we every now and then forget
the actor, and see only a low adventurer, who assumes the
mask of religion and piety, to deceive silly women and
ignorant tradesmen, for the gratification of his own ava-
ricious and sensual mind. The sly, cunning, insinuating,
soft, and persuasive manner at the commencement—the
sudden transition from this assumed tone to that of the
heartless and ungrateful seducer when he is removed rob
the eyes of the world—and his violence and• security at
List, when he finds he is discovered, but believes he his
the power of ejecting from the house his kind benefactor—
were all given with an effect which justly excited the
loudest applause. There is hardly, indeed, one part of
his acting with which any fault car. be found. On former
occasions he carried his ardour too far in the first attempt
to sedure Lady Lambert, and generally displayed a rude-
ness and indelicacy of passion,offaisiee to modesty ; but
this he avoided last night as tar as was consistent with
giving due effect to a scene which must always be ntrensive
to every virtuous and well-regulated mind. We cannot
say so much for the rest of the actors. Mr. CoorEtt per-
formed his part ( colonel Lambert) respectably, as lie
always does, and Mrs. NESBITT acted with great spirit as
Charlotte, but HAhLEY was anything but successful as
Muw.worm. It is not at all suited to his style of acting
at any time, and his coming after LisToN made his inabi-
li,y only the more apparent. That constant tendency
which he has to buffoonery, and his irregular tread on the
stage—sometimes running, and sometimes walking with
unmeaning solemnity—may do very well in saint p u ts,
hut are totally out of place in such a character as Mart-
worm. His rhapsody from behind the scene was only to-
lerably done, and though an encore was demanded by the
god., it was not assentd to by the rest of the audience
without loud marks of disapprobation.