The Sun.
London, England, 1820-08-12 00:00:00

Mit DAVID rISHEIt.

This Actor appeared with considerable advan-
tage at Drury-Lane Theatre during the Manage-
ment which immediately p'receded that of Mr.
ELLISTON. If he had had justice done to him, he
would have..retained a, permanent situation in
that Theatre, but he was overborne by a predo-
minating influence:, and retired in such. disgust
that he renounced. the theatrical profession, and
resumed the mnsical,•for which be had been re-
gularly educated.—But the charms of the theatri-
cal Cothurnus induced him to tread again the
Thespian boards, and he has risen into,great fa-
vour in Norfolk and Suffolk, and 011, we doubt
not, again make his way to the metropolis. , As
a proof of the predominating 'influence to which
we allude, though he had appeared in the part
of hamlet during an interregnum at Drury-Lane,
and repeated his performance with success, yet,
when he solicited 'permission to perform it again
for the benefit of, himself and his family, only
one night, he could not obtain that permission.—
In justice therefore to this Gentleman, we have-
taken the following article.from a late number of
the Norwich illereurN, only entering our protest
against the censure of KEM BLE'S Hamlet, which,
though it might want the unrivalled and wonder-
ful union of judgment, energy, and spirit that
distinguished the performance of GAnnicK, was
in the opinion of all sound Critics, the most judi-
cious anddignified representation of the Princely
Dane, since the days of that unrivalled Actor,
the,glory of the British Stage :

" It is recorded by Herodotus, that when the Grecian-Ge-
nerals had to.declare whom they thought the first and whom
the•second among them in merit, each individual inscribed
his own name, as claiming the first re-ward ; but a great
majority of them united in giving the second place to The-
nistocles.

."This merits of Mr. DAVID FISHER' as an Actor, more par-
ticularly in the play of H«nklet, would be estim lied in the
same manner by the suffrages of his dramatic cotemporaries.
The critic, however, like the historian, standing aloof from
the ;if tty jealousies of competition andlhe perversions of lo-
cal passions, is bound to award an impartial. verdict, even
though he has to sail against the current of popular preju-
dice. He is bound to give honour to whom honour Is due,
without respect of persons, and in defiance of the ackrlaw
!edged authority of great names and of sPlendid pretensions.
It has been observed that no play suffers so much in being
transferred to the stage as that of Hanilet, and some have
thought the character of Hanikt himself hardly capable of
being acted. Mr. DAVID FISHER, kowever, has infused into
it all that ease and variety which Mr. KEmui,E wanted, and
he has judiciously rejected all the severity and violence of
Mr. KEAN, which is so entirely inconsistent with the refining,
speculating character of _ Hamlet. Mr. KEMBLE, in acting
this part, was too monotonous and unimpassioned; Mr. KEAN
it too 'wrathful and abrupt; Mr. Davit, FistiErt has beauti-
fully depicted -those gradual falls and rises, those gentle dc-
clivities, those sloping inequalities, with Which the character
of Hamlet is variegated. In the midst •of his solitude and '
cmitemplation the behold neither the flatness of a barren
moor, nor the painted crags_ and frightful precipices of a
mountain district. The air is not stagnant,,nor is it agitated
by tempests and hurricanes ; lint the music of some distant
lyre is at intervals borne on the breeze.—lf inj acting the j
character of Hamlet, Mr. D. Fisumt has achieved what no
Other Actor of the present day has done, we are naturally led
to follow him into the other dramatic scenes of our immortal
Bard. Let us view him in Othello, and here we cannot but
say, in justice to hint, that he has Marked with the nicest
precision the lines of that graduated scale by which the !mime
of the noble Moor is worked up from love antd.tenderness, in-
to the heights of jealousy, hatred, and madness.
" Mr. D. Fisher has given its pro Per shape, size, and co.
lour to every undulation of feeling, from the first halcyon.
days .of love until the surface is kutiled,adttgradually heaved
up into overwhelming billows, which make shipwreck of
Othello'y happiness. and leave hint the victim of madness and
despair. His fits of remorse and recollections of former love
were delineated with so affecting a tenderness as to leave no,
conception of the part undelighted, or unsatiAed. The rush.
of Othello towards Desdemona, after he had stabbed himself,'
and the last words of I kissed thee ere I killed thee,' &c.
were given by Mr. DAvro nsuott with the most happy
effect. -
,"ro ronclude,—on every occasion Mr. D. P..is the Sao-.
lar and the Gentleman, and reminds his audience as little of
the Actor as possible. If cur • limits allowed us, we should
be happy to do justice at some length to the very considerable
merits of Mr. CHARLES FlsriEn, as logo; and it would be a
pleasing task to weave a chaplet for the youthful and pro-
' raising Miss LEE, at thti divine and gentle Deademona.'

Advices from Margarita of the 17th of June,
state, that General' D'EvEnEux reached that
Island on the 12th, where he was received in the
most distinguished manner by 'General Ants-
MENDI, and the other authorities of the Republic
of Columbia. The CommissiOn of General of
Division was conferred upon him, and he was also
presented with the Order of Liberator. He was
to sail immediately to take the command of the
Irish Legion at Rio de la Hache; but'the 'defec-
tion of that part of the Legion under MotiTti,Lo,
of which he would be soon apprized, would
probably produce a change in his intended .plan
of operations.
The Duke and Duchess de CAZES, Baron de
CAZES, Baron FAGEL, awl Count CARAMAN were
among the distinguished party who dined yester-
day with the Marquess and Marchioness of STAF-
FORD, at Stafford House, Cleveland-row.
Prince ESTERIIA.ZY has been several days on
a visit to the King, at the Cottage on Windsor
Forest.

The Duchess of KENT, Prince CHARLES of
LININGEN, and the Princess FEonoa, were of
the Duke of SUSSEX'S dinner party on Thursday•
The fine whole length Portrait of Sir 'WIL-
LIAM GRANT, recently placed in the Rolls Court,
is from the pencil of Sir THOMAS LAWRENCE, for
which the gentlemen of the Chancery Bar sb
handsomely subscribed five hundred guineas, as
a mark of their respect and regard for their late
Master.

Mercury has al-
The Editor of The Lichfield
lowed judgment to go by default for repeated
libels on the character of Sir • ROBERT PEEL,
Bart. and sentence is to• be passed in the ensuing
Term.—(Birmingham Chronicle.)

• • THE TOAD.—The following singular fact has
been related to us by an eye-witness. A person employed to
cut down an ash tree, the property of Mr. W. Holiday, of iVood-
plumpton, near this town, having observed an excrescence on
thetrunk, proceeded to cut it off with theaxe, when he was sur-
prised to find a quantity of moss in the centre, which had every
appearance of having been the nest of a wren. Several other
men were present at the time ; and on taking out the Moss from
the hollow of the tree, a large toad crawled from the midit of
it. The reptile seemed very lively at first, tnit in a few mi-
nutes became sickly and powerless, thongli our informant
believes it did not die. The excrescence was twelve
fret from the ground, when the tree was growing; and on
examining the timber, there appeared to he 20 years growth
round the hollow part.—(preston chron.rie
Jul 10.)
CAUTION-TO FARIVIEHS.—Mr. Wheatley Wood,
of Sykehouse, farmer, was convicted 011 Monday
last, before the Magistrates of Doncaster, in the
penalty of forty-shillings, for selling a load of
wheat, which was proved to be above the legal
standard, or Winchester measure.