The Sun.
London, England, 1816-08-12 00:00:00

THE TITEATRES.

THE KlNG's TiIEATIZE closed -on Saturday
a trrilliant house. lietore the commencement of
Ballet, the curtain rose, and introduced the
entire Company of the Theatre full dressed, and
tilt oath/ Intl air of " God sari the King" was .ttrig-
,itt better style with regard to music than lan-
guage, '.the latter exhibiting numerous (Over Va-
, Jiatiohs, such its " Goat cave,- " got share,"
C. Ste. ; however, every man and woman, French,
.iittssiau, German, arid Italian, did fairly acknow-
ledge his 'Sovereign authority, us "Our, (i. e. their))

BY the way, it is somewhat curious,, that in
the Italian Opera there should be so few Italians.
We do not believe there are three in the whole
corps ; and were
,the pure accents of Italy
gaited at these entertainments, it would be,a great
disappointMent to the audience to hear it mangled
through all the horrible corruption of the broad
Russian, the snuffling French, the slow German,
the harsh English, thethick Jewish, .the guturul
Becks, untrthe sibillatiog.dialects,of the least es-
teemed States of the !lonian PeninSula.,
Upon the whole of this season we may remark,
that the, Opera has not been of the highest order,
nor has there been either a considerable variety,
any novelty, or very excellent selection in the
pieces ,got up.
Of the Ballet, however, the reverse may, truly
be pronounced. It has been sustained by full and
admirable corps; the productions pave done the
utmost credit to the Master, and the execotioo to
the Artists engaged. The consequence has been
that John Bull, whose eyes are better
,than his
cars, has l)een much gratified. But we rather
think that (he season cannot have been very•pro-
ductive to the Proprietor It is true the boxes
hare been pretty well let, but the expences of the
concern are-extraordinarily heavy, and for profit
much must depend on the money taken at the
door, which we do not imagine has been adequate
to the reliance placed upon these receipts.

HAYMARKET TnEvrai:---The new Farce, !call-
ed, " My Landlady's Gown," was produced at
this Theatre on Saturday night. It is from the
pen of Mr. OtnTow, tile author of the Skep
Walker, Bfe. We cannot convey any clear idea of
the intricate plot without devoting more of our
spice to:it than we ran at present. spare. The title
of My,Landludy's Gown is taken front the circurn•.
stance of Jack Jocund, a dashing young man of fa-
shion (J oN es) , in escaping from the hands ofbailitfs,
making free with his landlady's wardrobe, and in one
,of her gowns retreating to the house of Sir Perce.
val Paradox, with whose nephew lie is particularly
intimate. On his, arrival there, he is accommo-
'dated by his friend Percecal with a stoat, and is
induced by him, to enter into a plot to frustrati
match projected in ( Young Perceval's) father's
will, with a Miss Higginbottom, whom be (Perce-
vat) is either to marry, or forfeit half his forttme.
he undertakes, and is assisted' by Dermot
()Ten (TOKELv) an Hibernian servant to Sir Per-
cevul, who agrees to assume the character of his
master during his absence. Young Percent's ob-
jection to his father's wishes arises from en
attactirnent to another lady, a Mademoiseile
Geniis (Miss TaYLoa), to whom he had reit-
demi: some assistance at. Paris. There is
also wait her love affair between Dermot and
Biddy, Sir Perceval's maid, 'against whieb
Sir Perceval had set his face, and had nritten to
the fair one's father, Timothy Thimble, in Thread.
needle-street (RUSSELL), with the view of
_preventing the match. The bustle, of the piece
opens by the entrance of Dermot, attired in one
of his master's best suits, attended by JaCk Jo-
cund, who assumes the character of his nephew.
The arrival of Timothy Thimble, Biddy's father,
soon gives, the sni-disant Sir Perccval an np-
pot...unity of pushing the humble interesfa of
Dermot, whom he recommends in appropriate
terms as a fit husband for his daughter....'
This i 3 followed by the arrival of Monsieur Geniis
and his daughter, who came reomminded to the
hospitality of Sir Percival, in consequence of their
having lost their fortune by a fire in a house oe.;
copied by them in Cavendish-square ; the whole
of their valuables being contained in a casket.
which was thrownircim the window on that oeca-:
sion, and which had not been recovered. Dermal,
iu his new charaCter, does not. fait to do ins-
lice to the sitaation in which he is 'placed,
&old gives his visitors a most hearty weiconw:
Young Perceval shortly afterwards appears, and
recognizes the object of his adoration m Madentoi-
selle Geniis, to whom he restores the casket con-
taining her father's fortune, which he Ilse! himself
luckily found on the night of tits fire, and being
unable to discover the right owner, had preserved.
Airs. iligginbonont, the motitcr of Percevul's in-
, tended, next appears', not to,cloitn the stipulations
of the will, hot to announce that her daughter had
eloped with an adveaturer,,whons she had employ-
ed an attorney to arrest for a debt tine by bim to a
tradesman with whom site was acquainted. .Jack'
Jocund proves to be this 'adventurer; anti he
Contrives to turn the tables upon his mother-
' hi-law, by having her arrested in his stead, having
previously arranged that she should eltatto her
tra%elling dress, which hail been soiled by the
overtirruing of her carriage, for his " Landlady's
Gown," of which the bailitf's.hd a full descrip-
tion. The piece ends with the happiness of
all parties... Throughout, A the .Characters were
well 'supported, but particularly that of Der-
inbt. . whose assumed . dignity-, with a 404
Irish accent, accompanied by malty admirable
StrOkes of humour, kept the house In a con-
tinual roar of laughter. in the scene with
jliansieur Geniis, who worntirely ignorant of the
Eughsh language, he %Pat particularly happy. Up-
on the whole, tite author made the bestnof his
materials, and although we cannot say okocii
favour of the classicality of his wit, he ,yet suc-
ceed it, drawing forth the general approbation of
the (louse, and the 'arce was given cot for repe-
tition amidst loud applause.

t•NGt.rgrt nuennft WAS
tbbstituretl for Love!' in a Pittagti 011Satortiiiy evert.
Trip, At the above Tittatte.-64 Mt. J. JOusi
sr-
peared AS Carlos, with totishletable credit to him:
sett- ,totti pleasure to the titittietsee be was !molly
clit"tli itt teYerat softgs, .I#lt6Antniiiit. in Mot