The Sun.
London, England, 1828-10-02 00:00:00

DRURY-LANE THEATRE.

This theatre opened last night for the season, and
was honoured with a full, and considering the period
of the year, a fashionable audience. The great
novelty of the evening was Mr. YouNG's first ap-
pearance for five years (on these boards) in the
character of Hamlet--a character which he selected
for his first debut, and in which he won deserved
applause. On the present occasion he went through
this most difficult of all parts with even more than '
his usual tact and intelligence, and in the closet
scene exhibited with much effect all the fine charac-
teristics of his school. Miss ICEI,Lv's Ophelia, the
finest on the stage, and this is not saying much for
it--was distinguished by the delicate tone of its
sensibility—her insanity was in the truest spi►it of
pathos—her modulation touching in the extreme;
especially her delivery of that passage so true to
nature, where a burst of feeling struggles through
madness, " I would give you some flowers, but they
withered all when my poor father died." Mr.
TERRY'S Polonius was judicious, and Mr. HARLEY
as one of the Grave Diggers threw more whim than
humour into his part. The sterling farce of Simp-
son and Co. followed, in which TERRY resumed his
favoured character of the jealous merchant. We
should not omit to mention that a Mr. LEE made his
debut as Laertes, in Hamlet, but with very moderate

success.

COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.

That entertaining pastoral drama, As You Like It,'
was selected for the opening performance last night.
It is a hazardous play, and depends wholly for sue-
ce4a.un the genius and fancy of its Rosalind and
Jaques. Miss JARMAN undertook the former, and
Mr. WARD the latter character. Both were well
received, the lady especially ; who, however, did not
altogether seem at home in the very difficult sylvan
beauty. She wanted the gay buoyant freedom of
nature—the arch elasticity of fine health and animal
spirits. Mr. WARDE, as the " melancholy Jaques,"
was too stiff and solemn—he mistook gravity for me-
lancholy; whereas one is by no means a natural ally
of the other : there is nothing on earth so grave as a
goose, yet it is far from melancholy. Mr. C.
KEmut.E's Orlando was pourtrayed with all the trite
feeling and finished acting for which he is so pecu-
liarly di.tinguished. The showy afterpiece of
Peter Wilkins, a very entertaining pantomime, by
the bye, closed the evening's amusement.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

CHANGES.

Admiral Sir William Johnstone Hope and the Countess of
Athlone, at their residence in Portman-square, from Bifrons,
Kent; Mrs. and Miss Hussey, for Ramsgate; Major Gooch, for
Dublin; Mr. and Mrs. Bullerton, for Ramsgate, from Walder-
share ; Mrs. and Miss Holme, for Scarborough, from Chelten-
ham; Mr. and Mrs. Ellis, from Sevenoaks ; Major Macdonald,
from Chester, for Dublin ; Mrs. and Miss Digby, from Launces-
ton, for Bath, ; Mr. and Nits. Noel, for Bath, from Leamington
Spa ; Mr. and Mrs. Hawker, from Brighton, for Bath-; Mr. and
Mrs. Adair, for Bath ; Major Selby and Captain M'Carthy, for
Dublin; Mr.i and Mrs. Saville, from Maidenhead, for Bath;
Major Scott, for Chester; Captain Upton, for Manchester;
the Earl of Belmore, at his house in Hamilton-place, from
Scatthampton ; the Earl and Countess of Sefton, and the Ladies
Molvneux, from their house in Arlington-street, for New-
market ; the Earl of Jersey, at his seat, Middleton Park,
Oxfordshire, from a War; the Earl of Lonsdale, at his seat,
Lowther, Westmorland, from Cottesmore ; Sir Thomas and
Lady Farquhar, at their house in St. James's-street, from
Walter Burrell, Esq. M.P.'s seat, Knipp Castle, near Horsham,
Sussex; Mr. and Mrs. AngerAein and family, and Captain and
Mrs. Rowley, at Blackheath, from Paris ; Mr. and Mrs. Kirwan,
in Regent-street, from Worthing; Mr. and Mrs. Crawford, from
Pall-mall, for Brighton; Hon. A. Phipps, an a tour; Captain
Hughes, from Grosvenor-street, for alvem Wells ' • Earl
Bathurst, from Thomas's Hotel. Berkeley-square, for his seat,
Cirencester, Gloucestershire; Thomas Mansfield, Esq. at ditto,
from the North • Earl Onslow, from the St. George's Hotel,
Albemarle-street," for his seat, Clandon, Surrey ; Lord and Lady
Abercrombie and the Misses Abercrombie, from Warren's Hotel,
Regent-street, for Paris; Captain Mason, from the British
Hotel, Jermyn-stieet, for Ireland; J. Rawlinson,e Esq. from
ditto, for Oxford ; W. Railton, Esq. from Cook's Hotel, Albe-
marle-street, for the Continent ; Robert Allan, Esq. at Ellis's
Hotel, St. James's-street, from a tour; Mr. and Mrs. Urquhart
and family, at the London Hotel, Albemarle-street, from Scot-
land ; William Wilkinson, Esq. at Gould's Hotel, Jermyn-
street, from Ramsgate; William Mills, Esq. Lady Pilkington,
and the Misses Pilkington, at the Berners Hotel, Berners-street,
from Dedham' near Colchester; Thomas Hearne' Esq. and fa-
mily, from ditto, for Buckinghamshire; Mrs. Finch and T.
Finch, Esq. from ditto, for Bath.