The Sun.
London, England, 1817-05-05 00:00:00

TiIEATRES.

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Miutti'-LAN;i.—Thi. diabiatit niitriry briSe-,
Junta)/ laiit, at this th-eatie, was a CoilleGy (ruin
Mr 118174 NY, 16 whom thi: public babe bah, in-
Ilebrerl' for Meiliy at hearty laugh, patticillarlk at
nis whimsical rirce eli!itlecl- Raising the HlJid;-+-
Tile' mina; -of the new COmiidy is [he Ibn6trthine,

.or the World d§ it Gai, aiathe author does not
profess to search deeply info human !White in ge-
peral, but to e.ithiliit thole characters which ore
passing before our 46 iri cciiimiou lite. Indeed
pne of his Main iibjecti seems to have been to
adapt iti characters ill generil to the peculiar ta-
Jents t, be perrormers, and Owl!. etiotA tWoved that
he h;i(i piopel!y conceiv,:d the directi,,n
of, heir po'a erS. DtriVing ltii -tharact et's from
p,a,sing life, there ‘S as of courke Mithing of•striking
*novtelty to he expected, either in those characters,
the seutimeuts which they .utter, or hi the .gene-
-nil construction of the table. There Was, how..
ever, lunch point and whim in the dialogue, and
if the sentiments %vete not new itt thettiselres,
they were placed in a neat and novel form. The
Piece consists of Ivor Acts: it was touch Wein-
ed to the spirit, diligence, and activity of theper•
(urtners ; particularly Miss Klil.l.l', Airs. ALsOP,
Mrs.thaLowE, Messrs. HAULitY,OXBEitaY, %VAL..
LACk, and Dowtott. A faveiurable reception at-
tended it altogether, and it was announced for
to-morrow with •.general consent. We subjoin
the oantesof the characters, and an abstract
of the ?lot

, • - ATIS PE RSONIE.
Finesse Mr. trottmn.
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Probe
Paragon
Garnish-
Copley Mc Ommtar.
Circuit Mr. HUGUES.
Mrs. Fairweather Mrs. Haat.owe.
Vault Cropley Miss KELLY.
RebeCca Garnish • Mrs. dit.4or.
THE PLOT.

Paragon, a ruined spendthrift, veho has beccilne a country
schoolmaiter, solicits the hand of a•fartner'a daughter. The
-Fanner haring given his' consent, applies fur that of the
Squire, Mr. Finesse, and of his sister, Mrs. Fairweather,
licit is refused, and Paragon is treated with great contempt.
At this time Finesse discovers that he is ruined, and Paragim,

by the death of a relation, becomes a man of fortune. He
is now caressed by ,those who despised him before, and the
farmer's daughter is severely reproved by bis new connections
for presuming to think of becoming Mrs. Paragon. ,Garnish,

the friend of Finesse, had aspired to the hand ,of Mrs. Fail-
weather, but declared off on learning that tthe Squire had lot
his all. That' Lady now endeavours tO make a. conquest of
Paragon, and Garnish, ber late lover, brings forward his
sister for the war purpose. Paragon, intoxicated with hit,
good fortune, forgets the former object of his affections.
is next discovered, that the properly soppoied to have' 1)e n.
willed to Paragon has been actually left id his cousin, the
daughter of Farmer Crupley. P4ragoh is again treated with'
contempt by his fashionable acquaintances: Finesse .and
Garnish offer to marry the lately-despised rustic. The affec.
Lion of l'aragon revives on his receiving a letter from his Mis.
tress to inform that she has got another lover; and he and
the heiress are finally, united, to the great discomfiture of the
fashionablts.

COVENT QA' DEN.—A now Tragedy, or nit lier a
trpgedy imported frAm 114 s till ft tiliteOVAS. katittil
fortvard oil Sat leibt at this theatre, Wider

the title of Tire .Ipostrite.,Jt with tmttephy Mr.
Sxtet.t., a gentleman of the Irish bat. This ire.
gay, we believe, was to have been brought forth
last season,'for the benefit of:Mis*O'NEILI,;. but
Were was not time for a tine preparation The
drama is throughout characterised wild • •
spirit
of poetry, such as was discoverable in the play of
Bertrami suit we shonlil.bc almost. induced tom con-
ceive that it was ,written by the Safile
There is• occesionally: much energy iii tlie sent i-
Meats, and the language also is forcible and em-
phatic. It has justly been. observed, that Ate
piece. contains too 11411CII about 'the religion of
Spain and the Inquisition, and that, by implica-
tion, the doctrines of. Christianity 'seem to be
placed below; tliosie of, Islamisin iiigentlenesi,
purity, and dignity.' It must' be acknowledged,
that the sublime air 'thrown over the sentimenhis
amid principle,Of the Mehometan creed give it a
striking ascendancy over those of the hallowed
national faith of this country. These passages'
we conceive it would be proper for the authOr to
soften and it might be proper also for him to
give more grandeur and elevation to that religion
w !rich 'has been deemed, from its origin, the purest
that mankind has ever, possessed, and to which
all'others are but as.thist within time balance.. The
fable is very lnteresting, and is rendered more so
by the alternation of success and misery in which
the characters are invoked. The piece received
all' possible justice from the Perrot Mers, and we
should be guilty of injustice if we did not notice
with high praise the exertions of Miss O'Netcc.,
.yOUNG. MACReADY, and particularly of GnattLas
ICISMDLIS, in the character which gives the tragedy
its title, and of which, indeed, he was the inte-
restin and animated hero. It has been gene-
rally l(eld by the critics, and the subject., has been
adMirably treated by ADDI3ON in. teen of his Spec.
taiors,' that those tragedies 'italic the tuo.st striking
impression, and are more likely to .correct, the
passions and refine thelieart, of which the catas-
tropheis deeply distressing. Vet it maybe &mined
whether a regard to what is celled poetical jus4ice,
where the Guilty only are punished and the Vir-
tuous rewarded, is not inure likely to have:betts
fieial effects upon the morals. In the one cot,
Vice and Virtue snare a common Cite, and in the
other, Guilt, may be deterred: by the dread of sig.
nal vengeaoce, and Virtue be snimated in its
Career, and supported in its misfortunes, by the
hope that its cause will finally :triumph, . and be
recompensed by a due and edetittate reward. The
tragedy-was much applauticd, and announced 10
repetition 'With acelitquitious of universal assent.:
•Though we have thus, from a sense of duty,
candidly declared ow opinion of this: drama, We
cannot hot acknowledge that it bears eery; strong
characteristics of original HMI ,the
110 ii Of poetical spirit, and that it is admi-
rably calculated : produce the most. pp %vertu]
effeets'opow the -imagination an
sl feelings of en
Audience. We conceive also that it will operate

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64614; ereit iirthritit tltir aiti ri
fortnli?(T, lin.l all the cHrii,ation of siletiie
!Lit (;t theAttiFli of tikis bbsi!rvition 11' i 2 'lll3
be trr able triim)ge to-morri)*, when,. ai .
find,it is atitiounced frorr the pr6ipt

pERSOS:riI.
ilameyti Mr C. Krmilt.t.
hlalco Mr. YovNo.
rie.C4l:l' VA, MACIIF.,III7.
Adrar,2 Mr. Murtut.i..
Gomez..." Mr. EGERTdN.
Pluritl;l3
tH.-li.iNtt OF TliE FABLE.

Tike frene is tail in Gt.:walla, rind the time tivloncft to that
P'ra *lien the MOM'S ,uttered its htiftollSll from the persecti-
thins of Pitrilv IL* itirtii/Sa, the descvioliiiit of the Moorish
iiings, 14111 in lots writ wbon father, A Is4rei,
had dust i ried for the at me of Pir4cara. The former, of eoUrse,
beertmet a willing empties. to the beauti and virtues of
rindir. ; tirtineya, in fact, quilt:l6*es (ruin his tuitional creed,
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and, regtirdless of the counsels of his lair: foithftil
frit. e (1, Malec,"yiclds hitncelf tip to lave, Wheri•
lie should harts been cobrerting the delivery of his country.
But nothing can apputve ,the resentthent of Pescara, who
contrives to ensnare both fanieya and Florinda,by. get;.,
tint' the former into the dungeons of the Iniluisition, and
inducing the latter to become his bride, in Order to save her
lover's life. i%lorinda brings the intelligence of,hisliberation
to Hanieya, who; discovering she had become the wife of Pct.
card, stabs hitnself, and dies together with her, as it Appears
that she had taken poison just before her marriage, It
should he observed, bb the way, that a conflict taliel plaCe
between tier lover and tier hiisband, in whiph Pescara falls
Malec coniUS rescue of linhieya, but he nrrired too late,'
and thus terminates the trogedk.

Tice Managers have amply (lischarged their ditty,
)y the splendour of the dresses and the beauty of
Ice scenery. A Moonlight Scene, by GRIHVE, is
meommonly picturesque and strittit4;
:Far the Prologues and Epilogotw of Guth Plec'et, ;tee the
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