The Sun.
London, England, 1817-10-22 00:00:00

r;IR. ROTIETIT PALMER.

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sr3 A.ctor, who had long- hven s'istr rihiz tinder
free ,tentvissit;ti,o'os of the ;font, oil Monday
evening ithide his finai eitir front the steee of
hte. Br. was °tie of the .School of G,itntiicK,
4o.dii.eatry Ihe last. ne was

tipon the Staze flue tntinfigement of the ceie-
bratea Sial P 062% If not very high ii. his rank

as a CorniC Actor', lat endei.eoured to tread in the

strO ut his Brother, and was at least a. very rtt..-
speciabite Pei fortner. 1.1.1. et e %vas no-affectition in
his ma'ntier'. He w,i; cinil'ented to take-the charac.

tets which' he lierformediiiinply as the anchor de-
sigiivd, and always tilled the i►utline with spirit,. if
t,►ot with an vxnbeianee of original hornour.
brisk foottne4, and the characters Of niiddle-life.,

that do not aspire to polished Manners and retioe-
Ment, he gavit always a faitbtcil and 'spirited refire-
sen!ation, and particularly in Sceneiot inebriety A
character of. this kind in the Comedy of Ways
and MeakS, he perforMed nitich better than any
person who succeeded Mtn. fie was a social,
good- humoared and griod-natured man, and as a
proof that lie was in land and friendly habits with
the 'members ort his profession, be was always
mentioned by the name 'Of •BO'n
mode of designation, which is seldom ap- ,
plied to any but thoSe whose social qualities
recotninentl them ti) the kindness of their asso-
ciates.
.1-le is said to have reached his sixty-se-
cond Year.---:-1r should he mentioned Id Isis ho-
nour„ that on the destruction of Drury-lane
Theatre- by fire, ivlieu several of the Per-
formers announced their intention to provide for
tbe'nsSelvei as well as theV could, hopeless of seeing
the Theatre re-erected, he declared that, sink or
swim, he would siiclt by the old planks, and never
desert His Commander, SHERIDAN. We cannot'
clOse this article without expressing our regret
that the Bcnobt. OF GrAutuck, as it is styled, is,
tirt‘it sinking into oblk ion, thOtigh the Head of
that School was on the Siege what SHAKSPEARE
was in the Drama,
_a GEN WS wholly unrivalled by
contemporaries or successors. The works of our
immortal Bard remain to attest the pre-eminence
of his powers, but the-wonderful qualities of nab
lure and art which constituted the unequalled ex-
cellence of GA ttatcx., are only known by tradition,
or live in the memory of his survivors. '!'here has
yet been no adequate life of GARRICK. DAVIES.
was Ultrlrlal to the task, and MURPHY wrote his
SCCOMI( in the decline of life, whin his memory
and therefore his walk does not do justice
to the character of the Great Ilero or to his 1.30-
grapher. There is one person still alive who, by
iudgment, learning, experience, and distinguished
merit in the Art, when he was- connected with it,
is fully etimpetetrt to prescit a fait Will Portrait of
GARRICK., as far as it is itt the power of Literature
to record the transient eXcellence of an Actor
which must have beeni seen to be properly under-
stood and estiorrstid. ‘Ve tnean the venerable
Mr. SsitTni of Bury St. Edinunds,
,who on the
verge of his eighty-eighth year, possesses his in-
tellectual pots em's in nudec'ayed strengik, irhose
character retains the aniniatiou by which it
was always distinguished, who holds the matchless
Genius of GottlcK in a degri-e of reverence " at-
MOSt 11101111ilig to idolel yb'' Aid Who is bet-
ter qiialified appreciate that Genius thin any
persoi4 now. alive We therefore hope, earnestly
hone, that this Getaleman o ill he induced to raise
a BIoOIIAPH ICAL COLUMN to the merit of his de.
parted favourite, and thereby record his own
TASTE, JUDGMENT, still FicIENDSHIP._