The Sun.
London, England, 1817-10-03 00:00:00

POETRY.

THE BLAtk DWARF.
Whttt WALTER SCOTT Ills *DWARF designid,
A fiend of most malignant kind,
O'ercharged with hellish gall,
He seem'd, with a prophetic sight,
''o sketch that monstrous mass of Spited
The DWARF that haunts Guildhall.

tut when TILE trY's honest pride
Has rebel Miscreants spurn'd aside,
All rile nianceurres crest—
And irine'd Ssiurti has gaiii'd the day,
The hideous DWARF shall flit away,
While rautering " LOST, LOST, LOST."I,

Vide TILE LAY Of the LAST MINSTREL--t

THE "THEATRES.

not.
The Prince Royal of Prussia, having formed the resolution
of withdrawing himself from the dominions of his father, in
consequence of the rigorous treatinent to which he had been
sulijected by the peculiarities of the King, engages Anhalt, a
Lieutenant of the Guard, to accompany him in his flight.
Their design is to be carried into effect just at the time when
the Prince is about to he united to an Austrian Princess.
Frederick William, informed of their intentions, causes
both to he arrested, and determines to punish them for
their meditated retreat, as deserters. Favoured by Bib- •
rack, the Prince escapes from the fortress to which he
had been consigned, to the pavilion of the Austrian Ambas-
-1 sador, where he succeeds in concealing himself from the
King. .The latter determines pit condemning hissma to death.
This decision is firmly resisted as illegal by the Chancellor;
and the Monarch upon this decides on sending him before the
proper tribunal. IVlnle this scene is passing-, the Prince is
within bearing in the pavilion. He is again enabled to es-
cape by Bibrack. The King is much incensed at Hot finding
him, when a pistol is fired, and the nex'wcnnent brings him TICWS that his son is no more. Nature revives, and he is
mourning the catastrophe, when the Prince and the Austrian
Princess, (whose kindness to hiui in his distress had gained
his affections.) appear at the feet of the sorrowing Monarch,
and all is forgiveness and joy.
We regiet that we have not room to render full
justice to the merits of this highly interesting
Drama, and to the general excellence of the Per-
, formers. We must, however, state, that TERRY
was admirable in the King ; ABBOTT displayed
great feeling in the Prince Royal ; EGERTON' manly
firmness and dignity in Baron Kniphausen, FAR-
LEY ill Bibrack Frederstoff, COMER in the little
part of Casta, and Mrs FAUCIT in Christine, de-
serve very commendatory notice. Nor should
we pass over CHAPMAN in the Ambassador, and
CoNNoR in Admit. Indeed tl,e last displayed
a degree of energy, feeling, and expression, that
manifests it considerable improvement in his pro-
fession. The scenery was beautiful, splendid, and
appropriate, and the piece excited a very strong
interest throughout, and was most deservedly ap•
plauded by - a crowded audience. It is a free
translation from the French, and has been very
judiciously adapted to the English Stage, by Air.
ABBOTT, the Actor.

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Immediately after the play on Wednesday night
at Covent-Garden, Miss STEPHENS set out from
the Theatre in a chaise and tour for Birmingham,
to which place she was obliged to travel all night,
in order to keep her engagement there by ten the
next morning, as an assistant at the great Musi-
cal Festival now holding there.

LAILTRY:LANE.—The tragedy of The fieveitge
presented Mr. Mn} worm last night to the 'au-
dience in the part of Zanga. This part only re-
sembles that of Shylock. in the passion of revenge,.
and therefore an actor who can make a tolerable
stand in both must be acknowledged to possess
abilities. Stich was the case with Mr. Mavwoop'.
He was respectable in both, if not pre-eminent in
ether. His Zanga, however, was certainly nOt
tqual to his Shylock. .The heroic measure in poe-
ry demands a more skilful management of the
voice. His general conception of the part was
just, and he displayed strong emotion through
the whole, but occasionally be assumed a fa-
miliarity in his utterance hardly consistent
with the dignity of the character, execrable as it
is in its ruling principle of action, and at times
dropped his voice so as to render the conclusion
of the sentence inaudible. His deportment, too,
was not suffiCiently elevated, for Zanga was a
prince, and never forgot his lank, the deprivation
of which constitutes a part of his vindictive hos
tility. But the play itself is gloomy, turgid, and
pedantic, and Zanga must be supported by time
highest powers of the histrionic art, to render- it
at all an alloring•colllposition.
COVENT-GARDEN.—After As You Like It, in
which Miss BRUNTON recovered that c,,osequence
which had been so imprudently hazarded by her
introduction in The Duke of Savoy (now supposed
to be in the tomb of the Capulets), a tie .% Melo.
Drama was bronght forward last night tinder the
title of The Youthful Days of Frederic the Great.
A more brief title might have been found, but a
more interesting piece has hardly ever been sub-
mitted to the Public. The following is a sketch
of the