The Sun.
London, England, 1816-05-10 00:00:00

11011BEItY on the RIVER. TILIMP,S.

We have had frequent occasions of late to notice •
Most daring 'depreciations which have, been corn-,
taunted tilt the river Thames. A Cube has now
Oteorreil sylrich cannot fail to rouse the energy of
the Magistrate*, especially in thy eastern district.
The Lady Campbell
lying at Ci.raveseml, was completely ready for sea,
except that shetiad to take on board 20 chests Of
dollars for lndia. These were put on hoard the
Company's boy, and, wilb a view to Octter
riry,,two young then from the house which shipped
the dollars-were.put on board, and the boy sailed
on Wednesday sstilt the night tide. When off'
Greenwich,. a small craft came along.i‘le, and
begged for some water, for which they were in
greatdistreSS. The Crew'appearing to consist of
only iwo.persons, no alarm was excited,, and the
Strangers fastened their cutter to the boy. No,
sooner, however, .was the object secured, thrin
the two men hauled to'one Side a large tarpaulin,
which discovered five, or six more men, who,
jumping on board the boy, secured miller Batches
the persons on board, and then proceeded to rum-
Mate the vessel. Their Marin, it seems, how-
ever, was so great, that they hurried on board
the claw only seven chests of the dollarts,out -of
20, and.hastily row of}. In the course of yes-
. tertlay talliaers mere sent off in every direction in
.quest of the ‘illaios„ but without succesi.• ,It iiti►st
, be-evident that the pirates • have connexions 'on
shore, from whom they "reeeive information re-
specting any valuable shipment about to be made.
With this knowledge, it is not a little extraordi-
vary that the owners of the property are not bet 7
-ter prepared to resist the robbers. The- titulars.
Carried off on thel,ecation ine estimated to 'be
worth 7`0U01.--Aster the numerous gang of • rob-
bers had made of with the amount of coin, they
van the boy aground and letti beret littgby's
near Greenwich, where„,by their cries, a number
of persons went to render them- assistance yester-,
tlay morning., - .

ANCIENT Mvsic.--The Earl of DARNLEY %VW
the
.preSiding: Director of the last ‘Vednestlay
Concert, NE the Hanover-square RoOtrks,
which was opened with,Maltini's celebrated 7111
9verttire, to which, the spirit of the orchestra did
ample justice. Handel's, Trio in Aleiiiii,
.Amor," was delightfully given by Miss Travis,
Miss Vaughan, and. !Wittman, as was " Verdi
prate," by Mrs. Salmon but the distinguished
treat of the evening were " Teara such as•tentier
• fathers shed I" by Air. liartientan ; and. "•Theie
4.* ja• a river," sullg by him and. Mrs, Salmon: Miss
Stephens sung eureell's • " From - rosy howtqa)"
With an admirable eilect. :Their. Hopd iligh-
tirtoes the Duke and Ducliess of CUMWlthitsD
Wtre preseut

Ilia il

—L L ft new Trve:tv
produced, wicks. u., I.l.rtrant ; or, file
Castle of .41d,;1n cold. lhe tell wing arc: tbe dt a-
matis per.vmec
G.nnt I.3rttratu Mr. tltAi:.
Count Antot,i,t ..... . Mr. POPE.
Poor of St. r.n4enne'l Mr. HoLiANti.

Nionks—Pirateg.uptler the command of Bertratu-N.uightt
Peasants, aw.

Imogen . By a I'm/ Ns I,Ahy,
(Her first appearante en Me Stare)
Clotillia (her friend) Nl,.s BoYCE.
The Child 0.011.. •
The Seen, is laid nu the roast ref Sicily.

Bertram, a popular and powerful Nublenuto, may expelled I
the hingdom for disloyal practices; and brunt Aldobrand was
the principal author of his exile. Bertram became the leader
of a baud of pirates.. The play opens with a violent storm,
which destroys -his vessel, and casts Ilia, ashore, almost de-'
prived of life, close under the walls of a monastery, contigu-
ous to his enemy's castle. 1-k is sheltered by the monks,.
who acquaint him with the approach of a ate given by the
Lady of Aldobrand, to Which all strangers were freely in-
vited. The in.in whom Bertram hates is absent in the wars;
he resolves, therefore, to enter the defenceless castle, niut‘
tering some indistinct threats of vengeance agaiast the family
uf,its owner. In the mean time we are brought acquainted with
fmogen, the beautiful but wretched w ife of Ablobrand. She had
given way to an ardent passion for one who had lung been nusir-
heredwith the dead; and had snbsequentlybeen united in mat,'
ridge with a ushand forced upon her hyparental authority. She
performs her duties, but bewails her miseries ; and dui log the
influx of strangers to her carte she meets with Bertram ;n
s.ditary walk. • The unfortunate ritrtratu recognizes the ob-
ject of his earliest. tenderness, when, his life wasglin ions, and
his heart was pure. Ituogen; though she dream's not of Der-
train's' being alive, associates some unknown terror with the
outlaw.. lie breathes her name, which dissolves the rilystevYr
and lays her inscasikile at his fact. Nut till she avows it dues
he diseneer that she is the wife of his enemy, and visit her
with a dreadful cure The child of Inwen Iter-

tram, ih a phren;c}•, seizes it, to rersuge all his wrongs by its
destruction; but, latently gazing 4411 the infant features, he
lirids •vorywhere the traci•s of her whoa► he has tho nio.

went hefare do 6eceely exetrated, and breaks our into the
pruyer7" God bless thy child," Dert ram returns to his'
pliable monks--4nrogeri soon follows,' to seek consulAtion
from the holy prier, and chances to meet again with BertratriL
Her hushatid's'retttrn is antimmeed; the love', notwithstana%
despair and Misanthropy, s,:riat to feel, In some
respects, like continuo luvs rs, anal u'it:iins front his mistress
a proMbre to scv him once more within the castle walls, ere
he departs for ever. Count Aidebrand arrives—Liertran)
goes to his appointment wb:le waiting fur the expected in-
terview, some of his band inform him,that his rival, baring
hoard of his retrirti that coast, bad set et.gines in motion
puisue.and destroy him : this news banishes all farther
Scruple; he forces hisWity to tlitCouirk'sapirtinent, attaeksand
I.iil~ hint. Imegen :s itrieen Winadness,--her ipfaut perishes-1,
.I.lertrain surrenders without resistance--his unhappy mistress
expires on again beholding hint--tie stabs himself, and dies
beside her, •

It will-thurhe seen that the plot of this Tra-
gedy is more of a romantic cast than generallv
belbngs to subjects of that dignified class, and
that it i rather meagre for a play of five'acts.—
Whit there is, however, the author, the Rev.
Nl`r. iNlsTrintN, a Curate of Dublin, has clothed
languase not -only highly poetical, but with
occasional touches of the sublime, as well original
us imitated front preceding writers. In these qua-
lities lie the chiet merits of nerliam. We admire
the style, we are struck with peculiar situations,
the up. rove the energy of the Bard ; but we arc
anti last night di not cause a tear to
not affected,
be shed in the Theatre, Bertram aid Into en
are the offs;iring of a' fine poetical imagination,
but they are _ not natural ; and 'what is worse,
they are linnirrral, Indeed the wonderful obki-
(laity of his views of inured virtue is Stiauge in a
Divine: Bertram is a fiend and'assassin—a pirate
and a tnorderer-..-alld yet he is it true loVer and a
hero, who is most unioslly reprieved, from dyiog
like a felim as he is. Tim character of Iningen is
still More distorted from the right line—an Alec-
tioriate mother and a faithless wile----a chaste rind
religions matron and an accomplic,..! in the mur-
der of tier loishatid, whose child she could not su
love while she abiiodoned rile fatiier. Lint' the
whole conduct of this guilty ornot guilty paie(lor
it is not clearly defined how far their complicity
in crime extends) is more ideal than natural.—
They, are, almost from 'fist to last, thriroughly
frantic.! One grapples with and destroys his ad-
versary on a single plank in the tempestuous
ocean,' to, the very life ; while the 'other
sees visions amid spectrums, and all the unreal
mockeries that can be co!jured up by a perturbed
is: kit. Arid hi the trite bitloess of life, they are
,as remote front nature as in the fantastic which
they create for -themselves. The reception of Al-
chibrand by his wife Mast have raised suspicions
under which the veriest Wino! that ever existed,
would have. refused to go to bed atone and unsatis-
fied. The murder is also ill Managed. If Infogen
wilt he present at this catastrophe, it, horror
ought to inspire her with a cliange of action,
awl the audience might be instructed on this
' point. But when instead of this'obvious course,
our attention is attracted to another
.scene, till
the Lady can charade her ttuthes and ity with ber
child to save it, the drama is too :artificial not to
displease. The Child is too often intrinloceti.
Once it has a good effect, bat ever after the Pnet
"night. have -troste to his owo'coMmanding lan-
guage to produce the emotion he wished, atanst
by repetition of the same accident have weakened
the first Impression. The filth act rattier drawls,
from a similar repetition of mad scenes ; Ina this
is a blemish whieh,‘ with most of tintse we have
noticed, may be easily remetiied by the genius
which is palpable in the author of BertranL
We have shortly adverted to defects as well as
beauties; iu no unfriendly tone, for the think the'
writer entitle') by his talent to the warmest sup-
port, hilt 'because the Public hive a right to ex-
pect fait. RA well as candid critieism. The play is
about to be pablished, and we are ninth mistaken
if, it does not display many iustances of the highest
-excellence; what it wants arises out of trio lack
of its atnitor, but front time absence of
theatrical ski Ur trtiislA tau Daly, be acquired by

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Mt 4
ulnaiocc!.. his honr!!pr'6.!tic.;:i:)..)t wit; L,:
to '4,10,e1f 8114 h) cmintry, %.vlp s tee (''coy
talate On posscts.tii, 5u distiogitishett iX ti:e; ars,
ornament. .

Of the Performeti tcC hate left otltt'.lVet
room to speak. Tbe Debutante, nss. S(imER-
VILLE, posiesies a vet y fine'figure; good endow-
wince, and adequate voice. All the bleinisiles we
could detect were tar more than accounted for by
the awfnlneis of her ditnation ; at once sus-
taining the load of It first appearance, and of a
new 'ft agedy. We never. Saw so 1)1'016131,1g a debit,
Katts was, ns usual, ail energy, and so;nc-
what too moth of ti-e savage. .I.le elicited ad,
mirable strokes in several parts. in others he so
oVerstepped the modesty of nature, that any other
actor doing the same would'haVe been hissed---;.he
was applanded. Mr. HOLLAND was highly re-
•spectable—his_ part well though rather
inexorable. Mr. POtql, bud very little to do hut to
be killed, and he died decently. A Prologne was
deliveled by Mr. 11AF.,, deprecating that favour for
the author which his genius afterwards extorted ;'
and an Epilogue by Miss KELLY, which was min-
drous dull till towards the elose,when sotheallusions
to the rope-dancing at the other Theatre put the
audience into ati excellent humour, in which Mr.
li.4s still found them when he came forward to
announce the repetition of Bertram, and was
bailed with unaniinonvapplanse.

ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES.