The Sun.
London, England, 1816-12-06 00:00:00

TUE TIIEATII4.

Dituay.LANß.—Another musical Debutante np.
peered at this Theatre last night, as the Heroine
in the Opera of Lionel und ClurisA4. Her name is
NIANOPON, anti she is s:iid to. be a pupil of Mrs,
NlootiTAft4 in person atnl
:toe,ithe has every
requisite for the Stage, being elegantly formed, and
handsome. Of her skill in song it is not easy to
speak accurately, for the term' sof " first
appearance on. any stage" are enough to subdue
much stronger powers than this young Lady
seetned to possess. We are afraid th'at the extent
of our Metropolitan Theatres tout operate greatly
to her disncle istge ; for though sweet and pleas-
ing in the middle tomtit,
,we do not think she has
snfficient compass to fill tlu 'vide and lofty
domes. She was however much applanded,' but
the applause front this Theatre is very injudiciously
managed. There is too 'much of the " trick of
it" apparent, and hostility is often excited ,by
seeing the thunder or 00proliation fai.setl front
hands evidrudy insert stvd. Performers, When
Auditors, ought tO he very cautious of obstre-
perous plaudit:4., for thOngh one good two de-
serves another, the Public .likes to pronounce its
own judgments.

• Mr. T. Coolie was the Lionel, Dow ToN Cologa
oldbuy, Nlits KELLY Diana, Mrs. SPARKS 4ady
Merry, Mrs. BLAND Jean j, and Mr.,PYNR
man,.....These-parts were therefe.te %veil filled-44w
or rwo of them exeullently well.
Jessamy is 'Dahlij of a former dry ; his repre.
sewative, PeNLP made him an idiot of no pe-
-60,1 ill our memury or in the memory of our
grandmothers.

AN 4mcvsaMAN'S PHILOSOPHY.

&mt.: BULL can give anti tote Joke,
Indifferent he to Gallic -sneers;
And, to his credit Ise it spohe,
trninuv'd lie ,a;i7w,k- before -liticerr.

CRAB.

GRAND DU ltel VlCHOLAS.—Yesterolity the Grand
'Duke NicunLAs• ant{ suite, attended bY Sir Wm.
Cougreve and Baron Nicholity,'with livery servants
of the Prince Regent, arrived at the Riiyal Hotel
in this town to dinner„ In the evening Mr.Thoma-
aon, inC hutch -strcet,illtninitted his splendid Shew,
Rooms for their inspection, with which they ap-
peared much gratified. This morning, about ten
o'clock, two carriagei were in readiness, when the
Grand Duke and suite proceeded to Ole Tower,
itt Waltner-lane ; the nail manufactory Of Messrs.
Williams, Jones, and Co. Britannia-huildings; P.
T. Montt, anti Co.'s mill, in Water-street, pool
rollers, and mannfactnrets of steel anti iron wire;
Jnrden's Patent Sash manufactory iii Friday-street;
Aiessrs. Cooke and Attwooll's, Masi Founders, iu
Broad-street : Small's pwer mache and japan nut—
'olfactory, etc. &c. and returned to the Roytillio,-
tel to. dinner. We understand they will ,leave
town to-morrow.—(BiriminEhtini (Iron. Dec, 4.),

A respite was • yesteriloy received for Robert
Towsithemi ititriog his lloytti flightless the Pineal
IttGEttcr'S plei131111:.
CARRot.t. has' the pleitittee of. informing cite
Public that Tickets and Sit Ares, for the, NEW
LOTTURY, Sate ut hiw. Portonate Offices,.
7,.Cornhill, anti 26,.0xlhrti-street, He therefore
requests his Friends who are anxious to obtnin tiny
particular Numbers to make itnmetliiste applied
tip, 10 C11:1611! him 10Si:cure them bef,wet hey ttre
issued from the listlk. Time greut.
.V Cuts which
attended his Offices in the Last Lottery, when n
Grettid.Prize of 30.0001., tour of lopol„, three of
6001., besifles vArioos others were Nlt Sidil in
t' omloribtedly in the recollection 01 every
hotly. He trusts his usithl .success will attend
hiht in the present Lotteri; which, with unit,
12,0 Pa 'rickets, contnins two Prizes of 20,000
Gliinedg, be 57 others of 5000, 1000, 3;,c.
anti as ilie Lowet,t Prize sitionsits to l 1, Rua nil
tkee other. Priz,s arc eomposeti-o( Gitioetts, the
prcAent Lottery promises to irecome a deeLtett
favourite +kith the Public.

iftadiltS ,41-11:11IDAN.
The first Pert of " Dr. IVATICIN`S Memoirs of
=
Sheridan" were published this week, end as Mich
a work excites general interest, we have teken
.bast .r survey, of it, so as to 'he 'enabled to bring it
under t be
,public eye.
Pioglivphy swiftly following the (teeth of its
, .
select, is at once apt to possess sei'eral advert-
wes and several disadvantages, , The materials
are likely
stir be snore copious and accurate than
•
v't a later, period, more easily crillected, freer-limn
tinfotioded, hypotheies, end in the Maie bearings
better deserving of. credit. lint partklities are
.also likely to operate More strongly, souse facts
which may afterWardi he disclosed to be con-
.
coded from motives of prudence or feeling, and
so many jiving interests to be involved in the nar-
rative. dog the task of honestY is hardest upon
the early Ilingripher. 13elatieing between these
helps and Memoirs written so imme-
Iliately upon the demise of a distinguiShed
vidual can only be expected to' fill up the grand
outline, with, as it may happen, greater or less
skill and ability '; leiving to future authors to
edd , these gleanings, anecdotes, and sketches,
which will render the picture still more charae.
feristieand Complete.
Dr.lVatet&s, as foras he has gone, for the 24
part Is delayed- in pnblication, appears to our
hinny inspection to have executed his labour wills
much fidelity and impartinlity. lie is not the
mere, flatterer and encomiast, at is too merit the
ease with modem I..ife Writers. With the fear
of Pei in the Critic before his eyes on the one
side, and the Dramatis Pirstmez of the School fur
Scundal on 'the other, he has steered as dear as
could be hoped of the Charybdis of sycophancy,
and the Seflla of detraction. We say it briefly,
his book Seems to be " honest in Booth."
It is also, written in an easy style, and could
scarcely fail to be entertaining.. The only rock
elm' which a historian of the Adventures of
SHPRIDAN could possibly wreck this eminent
tptality of biography, wield be that of making his
transactioes the texts forenforcing so mail doe•
trines,' and twisting the whole of his erretick
course into one theoretical illustration of human,
character. Dr. 11/./vre.tss hits pursued a much
wiser anti intodi more amihing method : he has
given us very ample details of events, and very
concise oliservetioni thrieepon.; very ,Full nc.
counts of .dramatic productions, and very short
criticisms ;
,plenty of matter, end not ton much of
his, at least, stilts our tttste ; and we
Bilotti& ttotlilialiko it inch were Historines in ge.
neral CHIIVaIO,II auto Annidists,, awl limit), ex-
ceedingly prolix Essayists Imo the mere keepers
of dry Mules': Bit we will not full corn the
ror we teteveie, and tell our Readers largely whist
we think,• while we keep !kern. from knowing
what we •kuove of t)e subject before us.
'inii:Quarol \Winne has two good Kites, of
Mr. Siiamunaa 11-641 Sir Joshua, etui the first
Mrs, SHERIDAN from a drawing by OsiAs MU.
/MST." •

The Ntentoirs commence with an Introdoction„
containing an accoant of the ionily Of Mr. Stilt-
RIDAN, and sortie uliccdotiss ut his imatediatre pro.
genitors, and several eminent contemporaries.--
These occupy one-third of the book, it then pro-
ceeds front the birth of alcohol) IioiNSLEY, and
conducts him to the Close of the memorable trial
ot .WANHON, 1-14 STINGS. In this perio4 is', of
course, ;compriced the 'story of his boylrood—of
his first movements in the world-of his orarriage
with Miss quarrels, and productions on
that litcutiintis— ut hi, introduction into eminent
literary retit4soolitical society itt London—of his
dramatick wortls--theatrical property and
nagement—ofhis Party exertions and Parliainett-
tory eloquence—al his coining into office and
getting, out itgaltiatid all the incidents, anec-
dotes, .and proceedings cox netted with to im-
portant AD erd ot his poblic career.
To this index. of contents it is our duty to sub-
joiu uu Extratt whieh may enable our Readers to
form a judgment upon the style and manner ot
the Writer. This wool.i be H difficult matter to
select from the multitude of claims set forth by
die generaUttitrasian at: entertainment through al-
most every page, were it not that the interest at-
welted tort km,School for Senndal affords a fair pre-
eminence, to iyhat relates to that flue Comedy.
To•litsaity tie our younger Readers•it will be new
to learn,%Abarttte right'of SottittohN to that Pro-
(Medan ,111.• cfmtested. The facts stated by his
Biographer are certainly very strong, and we Ili-
titer make them the .matter of our choice in copy-
ing from •Irre work, because %%T. trust the notice of
Public Journal will bring the qtrestion before
the Piddle. Tribunal fordiscusitiou ; and if any
doubt exists, it will now be definitively settled—,
100 tarot the datitOr of the Schovi for Scandal.

The comedy of The School for Scam's!'
was pertormed, for the first' time, on the eighth
of. May,--and its eftrct 'upon the public exceeded
that 'ut the Diteitita, though the sesson wail then
at the close, h was indebted to the judgment of
Garrick for some slight touches, with a prologue,
and to the-best setor3 of the day for, their clef»
Lions s but ,its. intrinsic merit could not fail to in.
sure success, of which its cootinued power of
Pleasing 'ad ,istsblisited proof, Of
Wnd the uphill-On entertained of it by G,icrick,
liriat a atturtoltl by Mt... Murphy, io h life of
.ttiktt tt.reat perfortner, to the ett:•et
The Sehool for Scandal ,t 1.; prtli,titvil at Drury-
lane, in the, beginning 44 ,1l qty Mill three agaiii
We, find that Garrick wits still at wnrii, [IN atillta
the prologue to that cacelle.itt comedy.
Mr, Sheridan .wisliett• to 'hare the opiiiitiit of so
able a judge. - •Garriek read the play wide glowe
Mitt 411 ion, and spoke of it in lull comenni. $ with
the highest approhatiOn. lie attciiikti the iv.
litairsdis, ism! was never known, on tiny forme('
occasion, to be mote anxious for u favourite
piece.

i -
.‘ , II; wag proud of the new Illttilariero nitd, in
a nittiophaut manner, hoptsted of the geitiits to
wituts) he and consigned the conduct of the theatre.
Attsidst the vatic which he hotowed un Mt. Sites

tan's performance,—agetitlernan sairto
ihis but a single play, and, at the lord;-ruts,
r. ill be hut a slender help to support a theatre.
To you, Mr. Garrick, 1 must say, the Atlas that
propped the. 0•h
as as left his station.' bias
Ite said Garrick it that be the case, be has
town! rotot her Hercules. ,t o. succeed to the office.ll
'
He itogitied the best from a genius that began i
So toispiciOtis a foamier. gltisto be regret et
his
continues the complaisant biographer, that
.iiredietion has not .been - A few more
suet; productions w °tad, with propriety, have
itixed- on Me. Sheridan the title of our modern
(..;otigreve.'
a hut celebrated comedy has the peculiar merit
of charming the audience, without possessing any
thing-like a regular plot, or such a
,connected
atory as keeps up- the attention of the spectator to
t!ie gall of n drionatie representation in constant
cxpectiition of the result.`"` Ilia here nO such en.
riOsity is awakened, and yet ice are carried oil
from one scotte, to another with increasing plea-
sure. An immediate interest is.. created at the
orp.aning, which CJlallitsCi to the end? 'without,
• .ativsuspensiou of 'bought or conjectural Solicitittle
as to the fortiwe of any of the perties. The two
brothers are p dpahle luiltations of the 'principal
o'l4 ' characters in Fieldin-b's hest novel : but the
hy-
"l'44' baseness of Blifil, cool, .thought-
"'"7 "toil plottiog, in all his measures, is much
-tam more consistent than the sentimental retitirtifellt
4111 ii
• * of Joseph Surface, whoeudetivours to draw 1.41-1411,
itt"f •
- Teazle frOM virtue by logic Anil philosoPhy.
In
lett. that very scene, upon whlch the whole.„p.ece is
'4:341111.1;' Ade to turn, this foraial dealer in apoplithegii:s
selitentititisntorality.leye siege to, the wife of
his tt tend dialectically fit mood and :figure, wilco
be Swldoily interrupted hy the artival of Sir
'" 'refer; and the Lally, Or security, is placed he-
lintel tt sci-eeti, though there ia a closet in ilte same
r rtoao. lint this smelt roost icnteailla sitetl Quo )1 i 4
,
o,r he whole phi y without, uynocrisy,
ri woutd not be unmasked, or relormatiwt effectett
It;otroitible, however .es i', it
att, wets the purpose for wh theratathor deign ed.
it, hy exhibitiog to the
audience p group
of perstortgt..s PC4 Wit ed -at rite -moment. by very
ft q'creur feelings 4 So far the..,couttivance is good,
• Lot it is the study of the desk34o(l.,not the caaiial
:twice of real life. No man,.in the einbar-
It';' ith ,
tassed state of Joseph, arid no; stlpposetl
,
-; ,
• cutottog,
,wottio tiCt SO iliCatoiolitly as to place' a
$ .s.t
litigt t
..oay of that Miliortaoe,evili a where she
104.tt''''6y111,1 liar:lly escape ciiis4iyery.
'
Ir. Citiiitirland, however, huts vindicated,
41:'411 'suchexftt iit.ti upon the stage in it very ingenious
anti he has justified titent.,by'aclthicing
Ar ate''
this very play, of which- lie says, 1:could name
ot'st ()tie', note. l; vane, who has made such happy use
1011 his screen in a coniedy,of "the very first merit,
• 'that 'if Aristotle himself had written a whole
chapter professedly agaitist scref.llS, and 'Jerry
1" ' bad edited it, w jib notes and
- I would not have pineal; Lady Teazle tent' of ear-
"' Shot tit h,:ve saved call, :from . the pillory
but if caller of these worthies:cue:ln have pointed
oat an expedient to have :.,got ,Joseph ::,turface .off
the stage, pending that amir,,, %Otis any reasonable
" confOrtnity to nature, they would have-ilone'more
;;ot.:1 to the d'Atita that; tither-of them, base done
(tato ; 31111 that is saying it great deal:,
4• " alt t, hetet to so good a jtrtlgessf stage
; &Seer, awl liceo-e of tireanetie poetry, may•
'f,iirVy admit of a donut whether a seete,.of this
toprobtable description can be consitleridaS corning
svitl.;ll the. e,xact of cometly,avlt has all the'
rippeArttlicat of artful contr"vance in the , autlinei
lit 1,1-iiii.;,4l)olir the scix.oe which be baa.in
'when his. genius is unable to accomplish.hiS iotra
pore iii any other way. ,We are amused, indeed,
‘ 'at the eclair act& contrast of the charade's, their
embarr4StilllC;it .anti surprise ;. but so tee
j,yi
shoo lld were the sante exhibition to:plta belore us
• In a paotuntiine or. a,lar.cg. •.•
t The moral c codency of, the School for Scandel
"c.is that payt tipon, which its greatest atlinirers will
clud it difficult to say anyalting-cdneltisive and Sa-
tiitacipry, By enjoying the thoughtless levity of
an extravagant prang rake, and laughing at the
starched forturtittv, ottti sober maxims of his bro-
titer, the gay and inexperienced will stand a pretty
rood chalice of preferrieg for their companions
characters resembling:Jilt: first ;'.slid of treating
the sctious and stuslionts as persons who cover
kilayibb principles with the .garh of decenes'i like
„Inseph !I!..itirface.. ,
pi ()duct inn of this . comedy upon the
""' stage t,F I„?rury-latie elevated 341 r. Sheridan in the
esteem as the first dramatic writer of his
lily, and
.wiel•eornylitnentetl with the appella-;,
tion of` being the younger Congreve.
" hut while the superlative excellence of this
play, ea' contposition, was universally admitted,
•
wert: not wanting sonic eente critics', who
andyzed it with severity, a*, being ratlicr NM cif-
' it of the itnaginatimt Oleo a picttiro oflife
ttttl inannf..rs. Other.) agaiy.. had no sample in
°Pinion. that the comedy was- not.
Petfortamiee nt
.Sheritlatr'; and what was at
first merely suspicion, gathered into the sobstan-
. tial fOrni of positive assertion, By sonic .it was
tateilimeil to the:, pen cif "Ilirs. Sheridan
th.-le. Were persont.who rotmdly asserted that the
play,,las„erritten 144_ta, young lady, the daughter of
nterelinat ill ..."Itionnes-street ; . that at the be-
al itra~lii of else hen .Mr. Sheridan corn=
, ill lit,' hitagetstcut, the manuscript was put
'lutcrhis '•444101.1 tor 11.13,, twagment suon., utter which
!he l",,ir-Wier
idi Who was then in's-state of de:
• Ivetit to I.lriatol.ikot NVells;.wbar4e.shte.ajea.
Stich .was the rumour, which solar obtained- ere.
4 t it,that Mr. Isaac. lteed, a man ,entretnely can-
-lions of giving publicity to loose
it prnkirt to insert this story in--theneienttit which
he gav of the play in bls edition of the 13iogra--
.phia Ift:amatica„ Very nbscrvahle ft is, that- not -
`withstanding the gLncval..circtilation of a charge,
which, if true, tout materially injure
,the uttital
end literary 'reputation of Sheridan, Ite?itever took
:the !titis of repelling it, or of establishing his
right to the brightest performance, tlrtit bears his
• It certainly i 5 not a little e...,aritordtrtary,
that while the .otherdratnatic pieces of Arr. .
She-
ridan have been commoted to the press, by.hts au7
thority, and for his emolument, that which ex-
Ceeis them all; and hits brotight most honour to
his wont, still' remains unpublished, except in
serrept iridus editions. This.eouhl not have arisen
• • 4 —e.
from any reluctance to uppcur -print, itt.vais

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