The Sun.
London, England, 1821-01-10 00:00:00

THE THEATRES.

DRUILY.;LANE.-StICII judicious curtailments
and compressions have been made in the new
Tragedy of Montalto, that it was much applaud-
ed by the audience throughout, • last night, and
announced for repetition .on the close with. the
fullest consent. The acting was again a powerful
support, to the piece, and excited very warm and
well merited approbation.
COVENT GAnor,x..—The public were again
9,-reetcd by the melancholy Muse, in another iiew
Tragedy, brought forward last night, under the
name of Mirandola, the title of the Sovereign of
that Principality.

WRAMATIS VERSON/E.

John, Doke of Milandola
Guido, big son -
son of Isabella
Casti
Julio}
Gherobli, a musk -
Duebeis of :llirandola
Lobelia, sister of tins Duke

Mr. Macrcady.
C. Kenatn,.
Nliss Buden.
f Mr. Abbott.
Connor.
Egerton.

Friends of Guido

bliss Foote.
Airs. F:tucit.

The Duke of Oliran4la, whose son is supposed to he dead.
marries, for reasons of state policy, Isidora, a, lady who hart
been betrothed to that son. 'Guido, recut ered hum his
wounds;.returns with the impatience of a lover to seek.lits
Isidora, when he receives them
afflicting
news that she is ar7
fied,•and to hi; oWn.lat her. He is incensed at the condoct
of both, and at first menaces the Duke and re&oaches 1,-;-
tiora, but subscquentlFtecoming more reconciled to his tale,
he prepares to leave the scene of his fatal disappointment fur
ever. Isabella, the sister 01 the Duke, in consequence of the
latter having named Guido his successor, to the exclusion of
her son front the Dukedoni, is bent upon accomplishing the
ruin of the heir, and assisted by'Gheraldi,- a mook, has kept
back cettain letters front Guido to‘,his father and his mistress,
which, if delivered, might have prevented their union. Site
now obtains a ring front which she gives-to Guido,
awl he consents to wear it fur his mistress, now his mother-
inAaw, as a pledge of friendship. The ring is recognised by
the Duke, and jealousy invades his bosom. Ile is, however,
satisfied that his suspicions are unfounded, and Guido takes
his leave. When just about to depart he is recalled by
/fora, who desires an interview, anxious to rvelaim the ring
which had given the Duke uneasiness. .Through tlie contriv-
ance of Isabella they are surpt bed in the garden by Mira:l-
- and jealouly and rage take'possession of his soul. Tito
son is ordered to death. Isidora attempts to explain,,but
the agonized husband and father is too much agitated'to hear
or to comprehend what site would say, and Guido is conduct-
ed to execution, while she us borne off in a senseless stmt.
In the mean time .Casti . has discovered the treachery of Isa-
bella. and the 41/oni, and he now approaches the Duke with the
)troofs of their guilt, and the innocence of Guido. Miran-
dola instantly revokes the order lie bad given but before Iris
new commands can be conveyed to those who have his soil
in their custody, the sound of musketry announces that GuiUn
is no more, and, filled with horror at the thOught that his • -

innocent son has been sacrificed by his rashness, the unhappy
'parent expires•

If the main events of this tragedy were not so
well known to the world at large by the melan-
choly fact in Spanish history, by the play of Den
Curios by OTwAY, by one of SCHILLER'S and an-
other of -ALFIERI'S, it would doubtless have
made a still more powerful impression on the
audience than it did last night, strongly as it
operated uptin.their feelings. From the opening
of the drama something sportive might have bee;i
expected to mingle with its progress. , This part,
therefore, as the play is very lon;, might proper-
ly be omitted, particularly as it excites an
idea of the character of Guido, which by
no means corresponds' with what subsequent-
ly occurs. The dialogue will admit of cur-
tailment, and indeed requires it. The Charac-
ters are well drawn and properly contrasted.
Two or three of them might be dispensed with,
as by no means necessary to the elucidation of
the Principals, or the furtherance ,of the plot.
The sentiments are in general natural and im-
pressive. There seems to be a graceful simpli-
city in the language, but curiosity and feeling
generally operate too much on the mind of the
auditor to admit of critical scrutiny.—There are
no flights of imagination, except what arise from
agonized feelings, but perhaps there are too
many that are not likely to occur to the mind ILL
such a state. Yet, however they may be omitted
on the Stage, they.should not be lost to• the
Public when the composition is committed to the
press. The chief objection to this play is the
want of poetical justice, as all the innocent Cha-
racters suffer and the wicked triumph, as
.it is
not to be supposed that any ill will befal the
Mother of the Hereditary Prince, and that
the Monk will not be saved under her protec-
tion.—This Play is written •by a Gentleman,
whose real name, we understand, is PROCTOR,
but who has gratified the Public with many ad-
mired Poems under the name of BARRY CORN-.
WALL. The merit of his new Work will, how-
ever, bring his name into such general
.knowledge
as will, of course, induce him to throw oft' his
literary mask. The acting throughout Was. ex-
cellent. Mr. MACREADY displayed great skill,
and produced" a powerful effect. He sometimes
dropped his voice into lower tones, in the'manner
of KEAN, and the consequence was, that he was
then wholly inaudible. We are sorry to See the
successful trickeries of KEAN adopted by: Actors
of mat:genius., as is the case with
.Mr.MAc-
-11E0-i, We never , saw any. character more
completely embodied than by Mr. C. KEiIBLE.
Miss• FOOTE was very interesting, and Mrs.
FAUCIT forcibly sustained her repulkive cha-
racter. ABBOT and I.:GERTON Were. pro-
minent in merit, and the. Play altogether was
brought forward with due skill on the part of the
Performers, and striking splendour on the part•of
the ManagerS. The scenery is peCitliarly beau-
tiful and grand, and highly creditable to the tn.
lents of GRIEVE and Son. The . House was full,
and the piece was received with trituripti'aitt suc-
cess. CHAPMAN spoke a serious Prologue in a
judicious manner, and Miss FOOTE was very ani-
mated in a lively Epilogue.

ANECDOTE.—M. FaVVOLLII one of the persons
implicated in the disturbances which took place at Paris in
June list, was a zealous Ilitonapattist, and is particularly
t ell known from the circumstance that be always followed the
grand army in its campaigns as sit atillite,tr, wit bout belonging,
to the army, or being. present at a single battle, as he always
remained sonic miles in the rear. fie was particularly inti—
mate with Gen. Nloutori Durrrnet, and the Officers of his Staff.
This Gene+ al, with his Aides-de.taux;i, once played him the
following trick, in the campaign trear'Dreiden. l-le made some
of his soldiers, disguked as enemies, .ittneli him unawares,
and plunder hint of all his bagage. When -Favolle returned
to Dresden, he related his misfinAsune, the battle ij► wh ch he
had been, and in short all his mis-adventures, :Intrettx.n,uch in
the style of Falstaff.- To conclude the juke, lie was.runducted
back to his lodging, where he fnistid all his--haggage,,,,Rinl the
pretended robbers, who laughe9 '4arfily at his expelwF,„
The thaw has. again •., the.' 'portsttriop in
• •
spirits, and they are novvfattivoly eniployul, in
preparing .to ,retake ttikleld' *Rh :tot-oVed
vigour. . •
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THE LONDON JOURNALS.

(PA.LY EXTRACTS FROM THE MORNING PAPERS.;

- • [The- Times.]
.new, from Italy staFrs that the Ring of Naples entered

IH.,7cazfr ou the nit. Nome accounts add that his Majesty
ee,tch Layhath ore the 4th inst.; in which" case he
eae-apt to outstrip the mievernents of the Holy Alliauce.
'i'• Lt.he de :ria3o, Minister for Foreign Affairs, arrived at
Ffire ice ~boat the same time with his Royal Master, and
141,3 1.4) proceed kir' the like destiithtion. A foe more terrible
tr:•:n even 100,0 fin freemen has already begun to rawtge and
cest:u the Austrian camps in Lombardy. A typhus fever
h.ol.l.,rtArri out amongst the troops. At the deptotftre of the
a-1 er arer IG,OOO of them were lying in the hospitals ; some
e:t,....tats had seven or [eight bombed men unfit for duty ;
i,t;ro horses, had prriithed, owing, say private letters,
to tf,e warit.of food!. 1f this be the condition of the host of
Crusaders enlisted in the service of the " monarchical
princi-
p:t•," the Duke de Gallo will find the most 'Serious difficulties
of Vfe mission which he leas nndertaken half snrmotinted to
his hand.. A political nirderstanding between England and
France is spoken of in -tome hf the Continental circlet, which
it is.thutipit may produce 'effects of great importance upon
siorstestis at this moment agitating the public mind of Europe.
,o ion of these two leading kingdoms, for the attainment of
au specific•end, cannot fail to have considerable influence
upon the measures of every contemporary power. it remains,
li.,wever, to be seen under what imperious motives, or under
what new-horn maxims of Government;thellonse of Brunswick
cin venture, for the first time, to identify its policy with that
of the'llouse of Bourbon. The fact may lie trite; but it is not
yet authenticated.

[New Times.]
We hardly think it worth while to notice a Radical assem-
blage called, with singular impudence, a Meeting. of the
County of Betio. A private letter from Reading gives, in
half a dozen lines, a jester idea of the thing than The Time:
in four tedious columns. The lathy authority informs us,
that the spacious place in which the Meeting was held was
crowded by respectable Gentlemen," &c. &c. Now the spa=
cious place turns out to be a dung-yard; the respectable per.
suns present are Sir Francis Burdett, Cobbett's Hallet, and
Nor. or five of toe hackney Orators of that school; but of Illy
ryal respectability ul the County, not a name.

The Morning Chronicle is labouring hard to affix the ap-
pellation of " an outrage" to the conduct of the Sheriff at
Rilotainhant ; but it will labour in vain. Jost so, when, a
twelvemonth since, an immense body of people assembled at
Manchester, and when a:Fighted, trampled each other t,
death, an attempt was made to fasten the imputation of homi-
cl.le upon the Miniaters of Justice, and to send the transaction
cl,wn to posterity with the calutunious title of " The Man-
che%ter Massacre." But the endeavour wholly failed. The
people of England arc not in the habit of forming a delibe-
raic judgment upon the strength of mere declaration : proof
necessary to make an impression on their [ninth; but proof
was not then forthcoming—it could not be produced : and no
one now speaks of " the Manchester Massacre" in ally other
tome than that of sarcasm and derision.—(Pid.)

•
[Morning Chronicle.]
ft happens, singularly enough, that in the quarter during
which tie Ministerial Papers have been incessantly boasting
of a wonderful revival'Of trade, and an increased enjoyment
4P:eon:lit:its by the people, the Revenue should have fallen
short of what •it -was far the same quarter last year by
4.10,32a1. The increase of the Revenue of 1831 over that
ut 1820, is a great deal less than what the produce of the
new Taxes was estimated at, though, as has been well
observed by one of ourcontemporaries, in a year during
ael id, all Ile necessaries of lire have been unusually abun•
d,ut and cheap, nothing could have prevented the people
frorn 'increasing their purchases of taxable luxuries and su-
perfluities, but diminished means. In those branches which
remain •on their former footing, there is a considerable
decrease. In the Post-office, for instance, which has al-
ways-been considered tha best gage of the national commerce,
there. has been a decrease •of not less than. 86,0001., that is a
sumo' little short of the produce furall Scotland. In the Stamps,
too, there has been a considerable decrease: Snell' is the result of
ti.e wonderful ins rrovement in our situation, of which we have
heard so much : The truth is, that t tie country is in such a
state, that abundance merely enables the workman to. live
without dtawing so Mach from the Parish as before ; but it
neither-gives Kim the means of extending hi., consumption of
food, nor of purchasing .any of those comforts to which, in
better times, he was accustomed : while the whole oft he Agri-
milturists have hren brought- by that abundance-to the very
Mink of 'Ulu. Thus all are strangers to pruspei ity, though
tire evil may press with'gre.ter severity On one class at one
timelhan on another. One 'year the Manutacturers are suf-
fering the extreme of wretchednens; the next the situation
of the Agiieoltniists is equally wretelted.

[Morninw. Post.]
•
Whilst. Loyalty 'c,iiitiones to pervade the land, the despe-
rate factioii which tow disgraces the cotlntry'relaxes nothing
of .its industry rn promoting its mischievous and diabolical
,ohj,ct, by working upon the weak minds, and administering
trr tie basest passions of the loWest and most depraved orders
of the commouitr. lu ail -age more than any other addicted
ti hold inquiry, in which► the lessons of political experience
are teeafed with disdain, anal the maxims of iiitst wisdom. are
considered as ilearfy obsolete, a Statesman has 'no chance of
being.respected.bY t hi.many, unless .be bends to their crude
aod•rasti opinions, In an age like Ibis, an honest Minister is
compelled to brave the public dislike, in order to promote
1 he p Alit good. We pTeStlthe that we shall trot be.charged with
insinuating, that the possession of authority is a certain situ
of wisdom or integrity. We merely maintain that .the loss
of popularity would be no proof of the want of those, virtues
which might to conciliate public favour. Perhaps we•might
with safety carry nor -aS'sertion farther, and add, that an
enlightened and conscientions.'regard to the public in-
terests ii certain, in times of trouble, to provoke the dislike of
the multitude. Ilya parity of reasoning it might he said, that
the grtPttist favourites of the people are, in certain instances,
their worst enenties. Whenever a love of dangerous novel-
ti•is peerails; aecompartied fliopaot 'contempt of tried
and aseful rules, to rive in popular favour is to sink in pub-
lic virtue. A party or individuals can then acquire the ap-
',Nose or coofiienee of tire marry only at the expence of their
most sacred dntiest and (Jy.the same rule, their hatred is an
atiorist.amerrilig sign that the person who is the object of it is
a man of probity.

[Pri.lish Press.] • • •.
The negociation to obrstiti Marlbt,rough House for the
Queen's residenee• is not to• succeed. The Duke of
tolaißsorough has-au interest, in it for TO, years•to come, sub-
ject to a tease to the Prince of Saxe Coburg for a term of
• years, asf whitly there are. five unepired,• at an annual rent
of 3,5001. We list delstalid that his Royal highness was ready-
to transfer his)nterest in the premises tdAser f‘lajesty; but it
is aid be has recently received an intimation that the ar-•
fratigenient,-if curried• into effect, woold be attended with
inconvenience and dissatisfaction in a cr.ttainquarter. Wish-
ing to accommodate tot the vire side, fearful of offending
on We other, and Standi'ng in the saute relation to both,
the aititation of ptcstliar difficulty and deliency its which he is
placed must,' evory just ;sod liberal mind, acqUit his
Royal iiiglinessiof all blame in this transaction. •

Did not the question relating to the proceedings against
the Queen press with paramount interest :upon the- instant
attentiou of Parliament', and were it• nut of a nature too ex-
tensive to admit a hope that any other snliject can he enter-
tained'.doring the•ritxt Session-with- advantage to the public;
we should trust v hat the mouient inadtat length ariived when
the wisdom of toe -Legnslattife- sbotaid be directed to the
framing of a new system of nancia! accounts. The 'first
St ep;tve should-hope would be to reduce the nominal sinking
fund of 31;,000,000i•which is.•applicable to any service hitt
the one for! which it wav,created, into a real sinking
Inlet of such amount- as tine state -of the public revenue
sloold atinlit, The. present. overgrown woo of stock it: the
banda.of the Cornmissioneis ;is 'productive of nothing tt, the
country bat embarrassment and expenee; it is it vast encum-
brance, a great bubble; but w;thout boyaney,: a political pa-
radox, surprixing by its magnitude, but ‘ridiculous from the
fAility of its operatrons,.. "Wetshoutt4 however: not desire to
Le thought to speak slightingly of a-sinking fund ,conducted
'Upon -the principles. en which the• present •sinking. -fund
is founded,. Weve• those principles• suffered to npet•ate.--
It to the -systerif- -v n e• object, but to the tuaoer in
which tire,;;systens- is punned. 'lire 'Ministers of the
et-owwf,ilare.! established • ant expenditure Sri ' vast; that
tin y .cannte temper 'respect- the '-iacredrresi bf that fund to
whielatimStatesineri of their oviii 'party-had emphatically be-
stownt.the epitbyt of " satred." They have encroached upon:
The tipitartif Country drawing present texts; and it
could snot ter'-bolied -thahtr t twoolit'al-rStoill'inore carefully
train tine hopes -aud resources of oar posterity. There .are

still meansin the power of Parliament to save tht preuni
capital and future resources of the Empire from the ruin that
threatens them, but it will require a strong effort of virtuous
patriotism to give them effect. Nothing can save the Conn.
try hut to pursue earnestly a principle of strict economy • to
enforce it in every department of the State; and to reducel
the expenditure of the Government at least_ eight billions a
year below the estimates of our present Ministers.—(lbcd.)