The Sun.
London, England, 1817-12-17 00:00:00

vii 141-iE 'SUN.

LETTER 11.

Ala, Esai.on,—lt is not becauSe improper per-
"ns should he excluded a profession, that none

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On a Portrait* iif tie bite Princess CTIAITLOTTC, painttd
during the Infuley of her Royal Highness, by
ftl A .005.17.41'.

Touch'd by MARIA9s r„ r ins, here we trace
The. pensive softness of inatet ❑al grace,
Sin:odt% that► i .;cr;)tly tvod, ,
Beams in the feat Ires of the lovely (Mild,
While in.BertANNzA's awful for, we see
The patriot zeal that lteePs an Empire tree:
Hence we inft.r that all those merits dwell
In ber Whose poW'rs. can picture thr.ii so well.

Such was the tribute to ig.ArttA paid,
When her skill this noble Group peurtraed:
Alasl.what sad reenls have since been known!
Lost is the FAIR ICCCESSOgio the Throtie,
Anti, w!.ile titankind the fatal loss deplore,
Tit c NiOTgER wanders to a foreign shore:
FITTANNI .0111 y of theGiouP remains,
To guard the fa.s.,,ti‘eil isles where FR EDOM reiktts'

• A fine Mezzetinto,,Plate of this beantaUi 'Picture is in
posseisieo

ENGLISH DRA ric IVRI MRS.

• • •
Tlne Analytical Essays, on-t1)43 Early, Engl4l
Dratinttists, in iii.kcit,Woon's Edinburgh Magazine
lire written with great taste, nisei imination, ant
indginent. That on IVlAntauCvisEdicard the Second
afforded ua.great pleasure -; the selections from it
are admirably calculated to draw the public atten-
tion to the writings of 'thin hivouri(e author, and
to revive a taste for the literar'y prOthictions of the
Elder Poets. The scene in Kenilworth CaStie is
most •.ppropriately given as a specimen of Man-
Loves talents for drathatic 'composition ; it is
worthy of SHAKSPAARB, and the King's Address
o the Bishop of Winchester is beautiful
"•Leier-ster' if gentle words might comfort me,
Thy.speeches long ago had eased my sorrows;
For kind and loving host thou alwa.ys been.
The griefs of private men are soon allayed,
But not of Kings. The forest deer being struck,
Runs to aulterb thht eloseth up the wounds ;
But when th' imperial Lion's flesh is gored,
He rends and tears it with his wrathful paw,
And highly scorning that the lowly earth
Should drink his blood, mounts up into the air.
And so it fares with me, whose dauntless mind
Th' ambitious Mortimer would seek•to curb ;
And that unnatural Queen, false Isabel,
'Who thus bath punt and mewed me in a prison.
For such outrageous passions cloy my soul,
As with the wings of rancour arta disdain
Full often am I soaring to high Heaven,
TO plain me to the Gods against them both.
But when I call to mind j am a King,
Methinks I should revenge one of the ierutgi
That Mortimer aunt Isabel have done.
But what are Kings when regiment is gone,
But perfect shadows ;u a sunshine day.?
My Nobles rule—l hear the name of king !
1 wear the Crown, but art controurd by them,
By Mortimer, ,and my unconstaut Queen,
Who spots my nuptial bed with infamy,
I ant lodged within this i.,11,e of care,
Where sorrow at any elbow still attenits
To company my heart with sad laments,
That bleeds within nte for this shame and cN01574.
But tell me, must I now resign my Crown -
To make usurping Mortimer a Kin-.?" •
Christopher 'Marlow, the author of this ittle•
restive play, was born in the reign,of King Ed.
ward VI. and was educated at Bennet College,
Camhiidge, where he took the degree of Master
of Arts in 1587. He was much estecated by Ben.
Jonson, and most of our early writers. Henry
-Petowe, who, in 1598, pnblishcii a translation of
Hero and Leander, s'.tet-iks thin of Marlow
What mortal soul with Marlow might contend ? .
Whose silver charming tongue moved such delight,
That melt would shun their sleep in still Glatt: night
To meditate upon his golden lines'."
If the Editors of the Edinburgh Magazine con -
tinue to give the public such rich, varied, and in-
teresting intellectual feasts, it will justly become
the most popular and learned monthly publication
of the day. The other articles in this Avork are
of a superior order and we never rose from the
perusal of any periodical publication with more
general satisfaction and pleasure than we did trot
his 'Magazine.

THRATRP. —Though the new Opera, en-
titled Outwitted at Last, was so roughly handled
at Drury-lane Theatre, the llanage rs, trusting to
the liftable nature of the multitude, ventured to
bring it forward again last night. It has 'under-
gone ample pruning, and appeared in a more
compact shape, but still it'was not well relished
by the andience, and probably will soon conclude
its dramatic rareer.

INcLEDow's rotccess in America has exceeded
the most sanguine expectations of his friends --,
His first six nights at New York produced 7,73)
dollars. His debut exceeded in attraction that of
Cooxs, the receipts a►trounting, to 1814 dollars,
being twelve more than the sum taken on Cooxe's
first appearance on the same boards.

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Cnrnhill at present has become one of the
must fashionable promenades of the day—our '
fair pedestrians have deSeried the West End of
the Town, and crowd tlaily into the Coy. Whe-
Alter this is occasioned by an anxiety to be pos-
sessed.of a Chance that may obtain them the
Fotia Prizes of 20,0001. which mant,,t -be drawn
Next Saturday, is uncertain ; but we know that
the Offices of G. CARROLL, the Contractor, have
.been visited by an assemblage of rank and beauty
'rarely equalled, particularly since be had 'the
-pleasure of selling CM the last day- of Drawing
4345, a Prize of 20,0001. in Shares.
Sonic of the Numbers already drawn Blanks in
the present Lottery will most likely become,
Next Saturday, Prizes of Twenty Thousand
Pounds. Strange as this may appear, it is no
more than froth; as all the 5700 likuks drawn o►►
the last Day of Drawing, that were not entitled
to money, «•ill be put into- the w'. eel again and
r.•-drawn. The last and only Lottery drawn on
this plan was in July last, when No. 4367, drawn
the First Day a Blank, was on die Second Day
drawn a Twenty Thousand Pound Prize, and sold
by BISH in Sixteen Sixteenth Shares ; therefore
as he is the only Office-keeper that has ever yet
sold a Prize of that nature, many are of opinion
his Offices will be the favourites at Fortune Next
Saturday, when the Four 20,0001. and minor Ca-
pitals must all be drawn. In the present Lot-
tery, Bun has already sold one 20,0001. in twelve
Shares, besides several other Capitals,. all in
Shares,