The Sun.
London, England, 1817-10-06 00:00:00

I'HE "THEATRE.

The Comedy of The Refusal, or The Ladies
Philosophy, written by CoLLEY CI BE En , and

founded oil a Play of MOLIEBB, was revived on
Saturday at Drury-Lane Theatre. It was written
in the year 1720, just atter the memorable South
Sea Bubble, to which it bears a strong reference
in the f'►ot. Much of .its 'temporary interest has
therefore been lost, but it is a itiay recon►mettd-
ed by variety of characters, and a spirit in the
dialogue that approaches to the terseness and wit
of CONGREVE and VANBURGH. 1t is well worthy
of. revival, and was altogether well supported in
the representation. DowTon'sSir Gilbert Wrangle
Was excellent, so Was Lady Wrangle by Mrs.
GLovan. STANLEY was animated in Frankly, anti

HAULYY very whitn:Acal and diverting in Willing.
Mrs AtAOP•s (alent:s ate better fitted for Sophro4ia,
than her person —MTS. MARDI' N'S Charlotte was
but sowt!what ion cuarie. It was tliought
lively,
.odd tbat Nits. GLoven should always address her

husband as Mr. ft:Tangte, and not - as Sir 'Gil-
bert. But she was sr, fec t 1 v correct; it is. so
in the play, and the Arthur intended that Lady
Wrangle should thus manifest her .contempt of her
I,w.banil. %Tire know not whether-this Comedy
will become popular, but when a tew prurient
passages, are extracted from it, it (night to become
so, as it displays a knowirdge of life, .and a spirit

of and %sit, far, very far; superior to most
Comedies of the preseut (law. GARLUCK thought
so--aml who was s.iperhain judgni,tit i—lur it
was- the• opening play ,on. his commeneerneut as
`otie
_tit the 11.1anagets of I),i!ry7l,kan,
MAtit.t.t bad a high' reputation in Sir Gilbert, hi,it
we saw hint perform it, and we may Say with
CHURCHILL,, that his actiiw, iii it '' was hard, af-
fected, and constrilied." '1 k play was well re-
ceived by a ntiinerons, but not crowded, att is nre.
—Toe illness of MuNDF.N occasioned the subSti-
tutints of The Romp for. The Cohler of Prestoit.

•
Miss O'NEILL.—A %vino in the Brisl6l Jour-
nal-, olio signs hinisclf,Crito, after most extr.ve;-,
gant ettlogiums on this charming young Actress,
has not only the hardihood to raise her perfottn-
tutees above Owe -of Mrs. SIDDONS, -but says,.
" he does not hesitate at ranking the genius of
Miss -O:N4ILL still higher than that of Mrs. :*_!ID-
DONs." We are glad for the reputation of the
Paper, in point of taste, judgthent, and. Lberality,
that this panegyric conies from a Correspondent,
and not from the Editor. We admire Miss O'NEILL
very highly; but we will not injure her by iirvidions
compatisous, from which her own modesty would.
revolt, and we see (10 reason why Mrs. SIDDONS
should not he suffered to repose under the shade-
of those laurels which she acquired solniamtrably-
to herself, and -soslong to the exquisite gratifica:
tint) of the public at large.
THE MIIIT.—The, whole interior and exterior
of the New Mint, together with the military way
and aljoining edifices,
.has been lighted with gas,
by means of
,an apparatus.erected by Government,
within the wails of the Mint. The gas toi
natiug this establishment is prepared, not- by dis 7
-tilling coal in retorts, -big by means 'of a 10-feet
cylinder, which revolves horizontally round its
axis, and produfes every .24. hours a sufficient
'quantity of gas to light 1600 lamps. The purifi-
cation of the crude gas is effect, d in its nascent
state- by chlorine, instead of quicklime, and all
-die inlet, and owlet mains and branch.pipes are
made to open and shut by s,lt-'acting tuereuri.al
eaves. The quantity of gas daily made, and Con-.
stoned by time burners and lamps, is recorded in the,
absence" of the observer* by a trutchine, impelled
and kept in motion by the elasticity of the ras•
The effect of the numerous" lights scattered opt.
so extensive a scale, over the beautiful machinery
of the coining- processes, is uncontinonly striking,
-and the New Minct,low exhibits the most elegant
establi-hment of the kind. in th`e .• •

,On Saturday 30,000.Ha1f Sovereigns were re-
ceived 'at the Batik from the Minr. They area
very handsome coin,. Milled the same as the Sove:
reigns, and instead-of St George and the Dragon,
the revcr3e side has the armorial hearing§ (if Great
Britain, etionipassed with a ship 111.
Ou Tuesday List a public -Meeting
.was. held in
the Church at Caine, to, establish a SAviligs Bank
for that town and neighbourhood. The Marquis
of LANsoowNE, President, was in the chair, at-
rentltd by the Ker. W. L. BowLEs, and 14bnvk-
ik• MEntiweTHER, Esq., Vice-Presidents.
The whole of the Royal Marines at Portsmouth
were reviewed and inspected on Souths-Ca Corn-
mon, Ott Thursday', by Major-tieneral .1.317,LL, the
Colonel Commandant of that corps ; and yester-
day he inspected the Royal Marine Artillery sta-
tioned at Art Mundt ton.-