The Sun.
London, England, 1817-02-13 00:00:00

THE THEATRES.

DauttY-LAN4..T-7-After the Tragedy of Oreenolro,
the Connie-Opera of The Follies of a Day was per-
formed for the first time at this Theatre, the part
of Susan by MI s. ALM'. Her performance of this
character exhibited talents of the highest order,
and she was greeted throughout. with the loudest
approbation.,--Mr. R. count Alinciviva was ex-
cellent. HARLEY spewed himself quite at home
in Figaro ; and Miss KELLY supported the charac-
ter of the Page with her usual talent. The piece
was extremely well received, and so strongly cast,
will, we doubt not, prove .au attractive tavuurite
with the Public.

COVENT-GAr.OUN,—Last night, if not anew,. tat
least an Imputed candidate for dramatic 'fame ap.
pealed at this Theatre in the.arduous character of
iliehard the Third. ills name is Boom, and we.
recollect him perfectly as the Sylvius, in As You
Like It, so excellently performed at this Theatre
last season. Ye were. at that time struck with an
attempt to the part more efficient than he.
fore, but it scarcely admitted of Success, and the
world is so much inclined to laugh at the puling
Lover, that Mr. Board's efforts could not rescue.
him from his certain late, anti we could only re-
peat--

WW'b.y"s'nivale and wan, fond Lover,
Pryflit4: why so pale?
If wbco louiring well won't ivin,her
Lovttipg ill prevail?
Those signs of, talent, however, which merely
awakened our etteotion, did not, it seems, escape
the penetrating judgment of Mr. C. KILSIBLE,.tiv
whoM,, we untlettitand, the rublit are indebted-
for the news liicherd.: By Mr. KESIBLE'S advice,
Mr. BOOTH wasiodueedlo, try his powers on pro-.
%Mein' boards, and on a higher scale than he
could •then,hope foe-being allowed to attempt its
London. At -:Brighton and Worthing t;,e ap-
probation he received, proved the discernment of
his liberal adviser, and rewarded his own ex- •
ertioni. With the stamp of this applause he
has returned •to the Metropolis, and last
night made • his &dint ; in the most eminent
line' of his profession. The verdict of his
country admirers was here confirmed, and
lie obtained, us he merited, the warmest encou-'
ragement. In figure, voice, manner, and even
iu face, iti3:.reselliblanCe tri Mr. KEAN is remark-
able. His countenance is capable of fine and Va'
flouts expression, and his voice superior in quality
to that of the Actor we have just named.
When .he is more accustomed to manage it in;
'a large Theatre, and in impressive parts, there
will of course be much improvement in this re-
spect,
as well as in' others, where he was last night
deficient. The agitation of such an'enterprize as
that of assuming the highest walk in Tragedy may
well excuse any redundancy of action, or want 1.1
nicetyin minute tnuches of passion, uvhich might
but will not notice. There were strong prools
original poWers and discrimination ; and though
Mr. KEAN wits,- particularly in the early scenes,
often recalled to our mind, we cannot in•justice
say that Mr. itooln is
,a wilful, fur less a servile
imitator. We cannot go into detail-, and shall
only mention the Cofirtship and the Tent Scents
as, especiallradmirable. The applause wss ge-
neral and. healqy ; and instead of the Play an-
nounced for this night, the Audience almost una
yore insisted-on the repetition of Richard the Third;
the parrel Richard by Mr. BOOTH.

Filta•--The premises of *Messrs. Taylor and
Jenkins, grocers, in Mortimer.itriict, Oxford.
street, wk.ie destroyed by fire mitly yesterday
morning. Providentially a manufactory at the
back was saved, by the timely art 4..11 of the Mary-
le-bone and PatlClll9 engines, followed quickly by
that of the jttn, One of the Royal Eetchttoge
firemen saved.an inmate from ttuffwation by tilt
intreitadity, it is not known how the fire. ori•
ginated

}IOrSE OF IVant7eBDAY, 11:n. 12

The Cape of. (Toot} Hope Trade Bitt, brotgLv
np froch the read 4 tir,(
A pet on (rout the Runk lires/Liited the Anitun
Account respecting the reduction% orthe N'alona
Debt und pvrsoit from the iffewitir,r prqselitei
ACCOlitit of the pehsiont. (If the Scotch Civil List.
il'hese Account! were laid on tie table.

C. 111101,104.

Thy ILA SilAVTltiiiitPßY moved, that a flies.
he scar to the commons 10 reerlest that the
e:oinnonts 'could commeoicate to the House of
Lords the Ifeport 'of the Select Committee of the
House of Commons relative to the Laws and Or.
dittanees toreigit States respecting,Ronoto Ca.
thttlis, their intercourse with the Holy See, &c.
It was' ordered accordingly. . •
The Report was ofterwerds brought np,
tiered to be primed.
I.lSr.t.tiss; PLACKA, itr,Pon\t, &c.
Earl Ge(),VENort lose to call the tt,teetion of
the Ilouse to certain notices of luotions which be
Was 1110101 to give, and to some details emetecte,l
with these notices, by which their nature anti
object tvoold be better understood. Alter es-
firtssing his hope that it would soon appear hint
there tens no touodatiou for the elan)) which hail
been felt tioneapitrehended dengers to the consti-
tutitm, he stated his anxiety that what he Was 1)10111'
ilbOtlt to say should not be misrepresented or misun-
derstood. As far as he himself toss cooeerned, he
was regardleSs of these Misrepreseittatiims ; for he
had lived too Tang to look upon diem in ,toy other
manner than with contempt : hut, from the great
itoportattee, in a pehlic view,' of the subject to
which he was now about to advert, he was auebous
that he should tint he Ii isunderetood or misre-
presented. Petitions lately come. to Podia-
ment limo all quarters of the country, the object
01 whielo might lie dressed under km-heeds :—lst,
Itetrenehmeot in the Military rxpehtliture ; 201,
Retrenchmeet in die, Civil Expee inure ; 311, 'the
Abolition of useless. Places arid Sinecures ; and
41bly. Helium' Parliament. With respect to'
the first ttvo poititn, ie nati called their. Lordship's
sittention to them in the. course of last Session;
end entertaioing,,as he did, a ronstitutionel
jealousy of the Ministers of the Crown, lie had
entleavottred, bitt a ithma success, to persuade.
. their Lordships to refer the matter to a etoronintre
of their own, instead of leaving it top COtmitittee
appointed by the Ministers. He (tad hoped, that,
the h&c of third Secretary Of Shoe. 'with all its
train 01 minor offices, wonid have been abolished
but in diet he had been disappointed. AS to the
/slilitAry ExpctlditUre; Mittisters, when they
hiouglit that first *tilde'. the !orrice of the House,
appeared in think, that it could not he further re-
diteed ;'hat rather that it Aright be necessary to
increase it. lo six* or seven days after, however,
they 'altered their tone on that subject, tint( the
expenflitut e teas further reduced ; 'and now fe Com-
mince had been appointed iii the other House, to
itivestlgate the state 11Vour finances, front which he
hod
.no grtiat, .00fAillittee Mild)
Was already known tooter the Of the Hum-
bug Committee. That Commit te mitzitt I..tit for the
whole Session ; it might list' beyond the period of
the 'existence •of the 'pre4ent Parlietnent. The
consegnence4 of it dissolution of Parliatnent were
letto,aot, and all the labours of the Committee might
be rendered fruitless. On that Ittlbjeet lie mielt
feel it his ditty in the 'course hi the. Session to 6116...
mit it motion to their Lordships,' With respect
to the next poitit—the abolition of, useless places
anti sinecures—he was clearly coevioeed t het it
wasloa duty to submit a motion to t he it Lordships
on that import•int question ; anti gave notice-,
that on this day fortnight he would bring forward
that motion. It was his object to have the 0011100
of their Loolships-On the principle; and with that
point he mettot to couple tbat ttt gritoting offices
lit reversion. He . would submit that motion in
the 'hope of meeting with the concurrence of
their Lordships; but if lie shoold stood. alone in
diet [louse on this oecasion, that Howie would
stand alone hi the opinion Of the country. Uu
the Subject of Patliententery Reform, also, he felt
that he ought to state his opinion. ' On that
subject lie had never entertained but, one opinion,
which. opinion 'coincided with that 'stated by a
man who had rendered the mast essential services
to the country, the last time be' brought the subject
tinder the consideretion• of the other House—
be alluded to the bite Mr.' Pitt ; whose opinion
was faVOUrithle to it moderate !dorm. If, there-
fore, a bill' sitould come Into their Lordships'
House for ciirrying into effect a Reform, in the
shape proposed by him (Mr. 'MO, he won'tl
support it, With respect, however, to aniversal
selfrage and annual'Parlinments, he thought that
these objects, if attempted to be carded into
effect, would produce only confu,ion, 'HMI were,
besides, utterly impracticable. But he did nett
therefore think,' that those who etuertabled such
uotions ought ter he ',mashed for titettr-that ttiq
might to be hanged, drawn, aod ,quartered. fie
did not diink that: a Jedge Jethies 'ought to be
sent among then ; nor that the !notitbit of men,
like
,Major Cartwright fur instance—a very re-
spectuble individual, for ank thing he knew to
the contrary.—sloodd be stopped, not by argoment
nr persutteimt, but by force. Such a mode of
dealing with persons holding such opinions would
he (we understood his Lordship to say) .horrible, in-
tamons,' and diabolical. But though he was adve'rse
to annual Parliametits, it did not ,therefore-follow
that he was frietolly to septetinial Parliaments.
He bud well considered the subject, and looked'
upon eeptetteial PerliatneOts us a direct infringe-
Mehl of the liberties of the people. The :sepreio,
nits) bill passed at a time of danger---of risotto to
the succession. It might be a proper measure
so such is timel. but whin the danger was ,past,
the Septeoniel.,Act ought to have cmircd,with it,
anti to htve Atien erased from the statute-book.'
It might, hOwe t • t • • • 1 it, brit
, r, politic no to tepee
the right to eit repealed he cooceivett• to be
clear. it was almost u matter of surprise, eon-
bidoiug the lotedreds of thoesatols nsiembled for
the purpose of'' petitioning, thit scarcely any
torboces had taken place, not-even such as among
such, multitmles might base a'lisen from warmth of
discession, ;This he ctinsiderett as an admirable
symptom' of the excellent disposition of the ;tette-
ral miss of the community.. Feeling so StiVflOy

Ai be did for the piirity (I.'r the tritisii Con'ititutiort,
he frosted that the cloodi of error Which prevented
its bursting f.oith in its native spleildmir would be
dispersed. With respect to nheless places and
sinecurrs, lie hind 'heard that o'ne of thew had becb
given np., and this hilppyi it noidd
have been if Such Plii'e'cit hitid long ito been sof-
fered, to sink to the kVel"o; tlntivs. to Lie
,per
formed,. fie concluded by azain giving notice Of
iritt.ntiiim to submit it niption on the stibjeti. of
nit iess places and 81'11'0c:tures on his day fortnight,
mid moved Ibtt.i the not•se Be-Otninoned for Ow
day.

The Timm CHANciatnit.—'" To that motion,
my Lor(l%, there tan lit no ohjeletioii : it
is tire only regular part of tlieprocertlingi, 1 314 y
that !here etin be no objection to that.motion."
t_iifit-re4l that the toms: bci s:lrwitoilvtl accord-
ly-tor. this day fortnight.—Aiijiniritetl.