The Sun.
London, England, 1829-01-31 00:00:00

MR. KEAN.

We are indebted to a Correspondent for the follow-
big communication, which gives a very exalted
idea of the good people of Guernsey : •
It is not generally known that a short time before
Kean made his debut in London, he was engaged to
perform on the Guernsey stage ; but from a strange
perversion of taste, the Guernsey auditors not only
did not admire, but actually despised his talent. He
first appeared there in the character of Hamlet,
which was very coldly received, and soon after made
his bow in his favourite Richard, the first scene of
which did not pass off without considerable laughter
and hissng: this increased as he proceeded, 'till,
out of all patience, he had the imprudence to ad-
dress the following line, which occurs in the scene
with Lady Anne, to the pit :—" Unmannered dogs,
stand ye when I command." The clamour of course
increased. The audience demanded an apology.
Kean came forward, turd told them " that the only
proof of understanding they had ever given, was
their proper application of the words he had just
uttered." He was driven from'the stage, and for
some weeks lingered .in great distress, without the
means of leaving the Island. l4owever, the Go-
veriair (General Doyle.) hearing of his situation,
kindly assisted .him with money,, and. patronised a
perfotmance at some public-house, which Kean got
up to exhibit his eldest son, who had mtich dramatic
promise, in pantomime. Kean left the Island, and pr o-
ceeded to Taunton, and from thence to Dorchester,
where Arnold engaged him for Drury-lane. On the
day of his engagement the son above alluded to died,
which was a source of deep and lasting affliction to his
father. Kean in his extremity offered himself to Gen.
Doyle as a fit and proper person to serve his Ma-
jesty, and solicited only the next step above a
common soldier. The following is a critique on his
Hamlet , which appeared in the Guernsey paper:—
" Last night a young man, whose name the bill said
was Kean, made his first appearance in .Hamlet, and
truly his performance of that character made us
wish that we had been indulged with the country
system of excluding it, and playing all the other
characters. This person had, we understand, a high
character in several parts of England, and his vanity
has repeatedly prompted him to endeavour to pro-
cure sit engagement at one of the theatres in the
metropolis; the difficulties he has met with have,
however, proved insormountable;and the theatres of
Drury-lane and Covent-garden have spared theta-
selves the disgrace to which they would be subject
by countenancing such impudence and incompetency.
Even his performance of the inferior characters of
the drama would be objectionable, if there was
nothing to render him ridiculous but one of the
vilest figures that has been seen either on or off the
stage; and if his mind was half so well qualified for
the conception of Richard the Third, which he is
shortly to appear in, as his person is suited to the
deformities with which the tyrant is said to have
been distinguished from his brothers, his success
would be unequivocal. As to his Hamlet, it was
one of the most terrible misrepresentations to which
Shakspeare has ever been subject. Without grace
or dignity he comes forward ; he shews an uncon-
sciousness that any body is before him, and is often
so forgetful of the respect due to an audience, that
he turns his
,back upon them in some of those scenes
where contemplation is to be indulged, as if for the
purpose of shewing his abstractedness from all ordi-
nary objects. His voice is harsh. and monotonous,
but as its is deep, answers well enough the idea he
entertains, of impressing terror by a tone that seems
to proceed from a charnel house."

SKETCH OF COUNT DE LA BORDE'S

TRAVELS IN THE LEVANT.

The route from Adana to Aleppo is the
same which Alexander traced when he crossed
the Pil Maritimi on his way to meet Darius.
The field of battle on the Issus, is precisely such
as history has described it ; a plain inclosed be-
tween the sea, and an amphitheatre of moun-
tains, and peculiarly adapted to give the' fullest
effect to the tactics of the Macedonian phalanx,
as well as to afford bravery the preponderance
over numbers.

Antioch and its magnificent ruins, the woody
shades of Daphne, and the pellucid meanderings
of the Orontes, detained us for a few days; but
the ravages making around us by the plague,
disconcerted all our designs. On passing through
the village cemeteries, we were alarmed at the
multiplicity of sepulchral hillocks, and the fresh-
gathered appearance of the flowers which the
Turks are accustomed to plant over the graves
of their relatives or friends. The dismal impres-
sions this scene excited - had by no means dimi-
nished when we reached Aleppo. At a league
in advance of that city, M. de Lesseps, the
French Consul, having received information
of our approach, rode out to meet us in
company with the principal French merchants;
though, in consequence of the ten days'
quarantine to which it was determined
to subject us, they did not venture to come in
personal contart with us. When, however, we
had reached our quarters, M. de Lesseps jumped
from his saddle, exclaiming, " I can contain
myself no longer ; happen what may my feelings
must have vent ;" and with theSe words he threw
himself into my arms. His companions did the
same by mine ; and every idea of quarantine and
its purifications was from that moment laid upon
the shelf. In fact, there are so few Frenchmen
who are found travelling in eastern regions, that
the arrival of a single individual of that race be-
comes a positive festival to their poor fellow-
countrymen in exile. Alas ! within two months
afterwards the plague carried off several of our
hosts, whom the etethquake had spared.
From Aleppo we took our departure for Pal-
myra. The diflieulties in this journey form
much the same kind of episode in our
tine excursion, which that city itself form:* when
we refer to its isolated site amidst tlif e4cifeling
desert. The visitor generally stgt4,bmii, Hums,
or from Hama. Among tire in4ithitatits in these
two towas, are se,,:e.):v4 ‘xlim key up an inter-
course with are Artkla chiefa, and enter into
term, them for providing travellers
gaiirie.s; #n fact, they are, to a certain extent, the
purveyors of the desert. The most eminent t)f
these agents is the Sheik Thala, who entrveys,
the caravan of Mecca from Hama to lkmascus
he instantly dispatched an expre.sa to, t,:le Chief;
who was the most inNeki,k4iii leader of the sur-
rounding hordcs, at. theti,•ine of our visit ; power,
however, is b:43,t a fleeting commodity in the
tiv e t, and is'incessantly merging from one tribe
into another, as it is dependant upon the junc-
tions or alliances which take place between them,
and the fresh tribes imported every year from
the Euphrates and Tigris.
In four .clays time the man who was to con-
duct us, made hiss appearance; he proved to be
Nahar, the Sheik of the tribe of the Lions,
which is a branch of the distin&uishod race of

the Aneses, lie was at the head of .ten thou.
sand men, livine, issier sis thousand tents, and
scattered over a surface of thiety or forty spare
leagues. tio was a 1113 U ni. fruit Satttre, elsiet
sixty years of age, and spare in person, and brow it
in complexion, like ail the Bedouins. lie lied
a sheep's skin, dyed inside of a reddish colour,
thrown across shoulders, and t flirt wits the
only circumstance which distinguished him float
the rest of his suite. kris motions were solemn
and slow ; and when a snide shat across the
predominatin,e- gloom of his countenance his fea-
tures assumed an expression of sweetness, thouelt
mingled generally with a touch of melancleds,
which betrayed the corroding canker of some
internal affliction; he was sparing of words, and
never expressed himself with vehemence. The
terms of our compact were speedily adjusted ;
but there was one condition to which we de-
murred, and ought never to have assented, that
of laying aside our arms. he asserted that he
could not be responsible for our safety without
we acceded to it ; and added flusher, that the
most trivial act of indiscretion might prove
our destruction. With this man, and three of
his followers on foot, as our escort, we entered
the Desert ; our own little host comprised six
horsemen, and three camels, carrying water and.
provisions.
t()t the encampment
The
wamp first (l
nlenf
the
march
e's
Bcilekitibrilotrtgalt übs, ,s,
branch of the Etnbaraki tribe, whose domain es-
tends along the whole range of the Desert .froit
Damascus to Aleppo.- During, the night we
were suddenly called front our slumber; by the
appearance of robbers at a distance ; the who's
camp was in instant commotion, and we became
conscious when. it Ins too late, of the miqalse
we had ,made in leaving our urns behind us.
The two following. days were not marked by any
particular occurrence. The Arabs on foot were
generally Sent in advance to see that all was s;&,
and would frequently stand upr;ght on the back
of the camel, to extend .the range of their obser-
vations, with looks full of anxiety at the sii-1.,;1.1e5t
noise; and earnestly attentive to the most trivial
movement which occurred. Man, a stranger to
his fellow-mortals in these vast solitudes, is ever
apprehensive of encountering an enemy in the
first individual that threatens to cross his path.
However great may be the distance, the moment
one person catches the glitnpse of another, he
instantly seeks to avoid him ; and a whole army
might be lost on the very spot, where ohe human
being would ineffectually strive kr conceal him-
self from another.

The Sheik Nahar preceded us in silence, but
halting at various intervals to say his prayers.
One day, conceiving that he had lost his way,
though he had in fact. deviated from his course
simply with a view of replenishing our stock of
water from the supply afforded by a rock, with
which he was -acquainted, we could not refrain
from expressing our apprehensions to him upon
which he replied with the greatest unconcern,
" I promised Sheik Thela to accompany you to
Tadmor, and bring you back to Horns ; and I
shall keep my promise. Do not alarm your-
selves at what you may see." . 'He did not fail
to reach- the spring which he was in quest of.—
The ensuing day, which was preceded by our
passing the night under the open sky, without
arty fire to protect us against its cutting el:ill, we
were slowly prosecuting our course, when we
discerned from fifteen to twenty Arabs coming
down upon us at full
,gallop, and, with their
lances lowered, commencing an attack upon our
camels which had remained behind. We turned
back to defend- them, and a fierce col:2kt of
fists and sticks ensued ; they as well as ourselves
being unprovided with fire-arms. The rest of the
tribe had joined their comrades, and we were in
the most imminent danger of being plundered and
left naked in the midst of the desert, at 60 miles
distance from any supply of water or human habi-
tation. Wliilst our hands were inutuailyinisied in
tearing the clothes from each other's baeks, our
horses were exchanging blows with the. Arabian
mares, and the uproar was at its height. Messrs.
Hall and Becker once had to struggle on fbot
with two Bedouins ; my own son, who was the
only one of us who had concealed a pistol iii
his girdle, was by its aid enabled to keep two
Arabs at bay, after losing his turban. I was
struggling to find my way through the burly
burly, in search of our guide, whose lance had
been shattered at the first onset, when one of
our party cried out. "We are saved !" In tint
we now remarked the Arabs fighting among
themselves, and their leader prostrated before out:
old conductor, anxiously endeavouring to apoJo
eise for his offence. Nahar, colle-tine his oar.
b
melds around him with the most consumloate
sang froid, regained his saddle, and showed no
sign of indignation but a tear or two which
rolled down his cheek, and certain upbreidinos
levelled from- time to time at the young cilia.
by whom we'were escorted three miles'further on
our road. This youth was mounted on a mare,
worth fifteen thousand piastres ; and yet, the
only recompense he sought, for the service he
had rendered us in arresting the despoiling
career of his tribe, consisted in a small quantity.
of barley for his courser ; to this we added a
vest, in which he attired himself on the Tot.

From the Statistical Tables of• Mr. Weyde-
mer, it appears that the proportion of •males to females, in
all Russia, is as 44 to 40.

SUDDEN DEMISE or THE BARONESS LE
DESPE NC Ea.-Yesterday u".„;rning., between ten and eleven
o'clock, the inmates Of 14.. tr. Green's Hotel, Lincoln's Inn-
fields, were thrown ',oto a state of considerable alarm by
the sudden death of Rachael Franco, Antonina Lee, com-
monly called Iktroness le Despencer. Her Latlyship had
recently come from the country, and had been staying- for
a few days at the above establishment. Not ringing at
the usual 'hour for her attendant, who knocked several
times at the door, me. Green caused it to be forced ovee,
and the deceased Newt found in' the st.tte described. Site
had retired to test apparently in good health on the pre-
vious evt,n;w, at her usual early hunt. The body remains
at the Rotel to await the result of a Cottalt,r's I,Nucst,
11 was the custom with some of thQ Emperors
itt Constantinople, at their coronation, witihs en the
throne receiving the homage of their subject-1, fee a mason
to come with samples of choice mathtle, slesiriug io know•
of which material the new :.4oveleigit's tomb anAildt
be uc

SKATING.--Thic.; exercise, carried to cel'.:4‘;to
degree of perfectioa. sorixisstss every other kind of
as well with rispeet to the beauty of movemekta, L.,. to ;Le-
infinite tettriety and rapidity of graceful auitni:es,
the skiitaer alkat,r knows how to LISMITIIe and clean:,:e
tatittously, without appaaring to take the trouldo.
Sometimes his movement re,embles 6:at wf a bird liveriNg:
allow the same jil ice; sometimes, Nl ith his holy
lanced, he waves front side to s;de, the hark driven by
the wind ; then, instantly uniting all his pievers, them.tiv:s
skater dexteroudy and courateously darts tornoad wear
astonishing rapidity, and the ve:ocity of his course equ.dss
the flight of a bird which appears to cle:ive the air. Some--
time, appearing to yield himself to a simple natteeitolit ittr
impute, ho slicks upon this compact surftee withow. itltAr
spectator being able to perceive the sinee,t niuse4ler ar-
ticut, and passes :ts .6ying shadow bethre the surrountliiv,
objects. This magical action, which seems (SO 40 •VC,Lk,
to set us free ft orn the laws of grevitatitm,
deed, something of enchantment; r,url, wittyiut doubt, it
was the delightful pleasure which this rosw.ttion
-that suzgew-ed to the immortal Kliiiistook the idea. of cele-
brating, in 'songs, the delights wii;,•l4 .the people of the
north :find during winter, on smo.eh solid ice
of their. numerous and lake,, I,,Vorecsiee

FASHIONS FOR FEBRUARY..

LADIES' FASHIONS.
(From La Belie Anon We.)

OPERA DRESS.—Over a white satin slip, a dress
of cape aerophane, with a broad hem at the border.
The corsage is of velvet, of a violet-colour; long,
and pointed in front, at the base, with a Sevigne
drapery across the bust; in the centre of which is
a cameo set in gold. The sleeves are of white crape,
d la Marie ; with the fulness confined at the upper
part of the arm, by gold armlets; and at the wrists
by very broad bracelets of gold, each fastened by a
cameo head. The ntancherons are formed of points
of violet-coloured velvet. The head-dress consists
of a velvet hat of violet-colour, placed very much on
one side, and ornamented under the elevated part
of the brim, on the right, with n gold chain cordon
and one white feather, waving in a spiral direction
towards the edge of the brim. The crown, which
is very low, is surmounted with white plumage, play-
ing tastefully in various directions. The ear-pen-
dants are of gold, en girandoks ; with a necklace
formed of three rows of massive gold chain-work.
PROMENADE COSTUME.—A pelisse of black satin,
finished at the border 1 la Wilzchoura, with chin-
chilli fur. The body made with fichu robings ; and
round the throat is tied a round long tippet of chin-
chilli. The sleeves are d la Marie, and are con-
fined a little :shove the wrist, forming a bouillon next
the hand ; which bouillon or puckering, at its termi-
nation, is made tight to the wrist by a very broad
bracelet of gold. A hat of black velvet is worn
with this dress, fastened under the chin by a men-
ticnnire of blond. The brim of the hat is orna-
mented underneath by bows of satin riband, the co-
lour of the blue wild-stock ; strings of which tie the
hat, iu two ends, without loops, on the right side;
over which side, from the crown, wave elegantly
three black feathers.

(Front the World of Fashion.)

Over a white satin dress, with a flounce at the
border o' the same, doubled in bias,. and set on in
large, full plaits, was worn a superb black velvet
robe, d r Artemise; this was splendidly trimmed all
round, with a rich and costly fringe formed of Very
small jet beads; the white satin dress, from the robe
being left open in front, formed a fine contrast to
the monotony of the black ; and the festoons of jet
fringe, which seemed to fasten it in front, at sepa-
rate distances, produced a charming effect over the
white s.vtin ; the bust of the robe was ornamented all
round the tucker part with the same fringe. The
short sleeves were of white satin ; over these were
Jong ones transparent, and of white Japanese gauze :
at Hie back of the sleeves hung the ancient drapery
of the robes of Crete, somewhat like those now
worn in Poland, adding much grace to the robe;
and the-e were of black velvet, fringed with jet :
the points at the wrists of the white sleeves were
fluted, and similar to the antique British points.
This truly classical dress of that self-devoted pattern
of conjugal affection, Queen Artemesia, was finished
by the regal coronet of former ages, formed of white
satin, and the points edged round with pearls, from
whence depended behind, as low as the feet, the
distinguishing veil of royalty, worn at that period.
Another dress for one of these brilliant occasions
is that of a youthful grand Sultaness ; it consists of
a pair of white satin Turkish trowsers, over which
is worn a dress of the finest oriental muslin, spotted
with silver, and embroidered with the same round
the border, in a very elegant pattern of Indian
flowers. A short white satin tunic is put on over
this dress, fringed round and embroidered with em-
bossed figures in silver, of the shape of pear-pearls,
formed into flowers. The back of the waist con-
sists of bracers of white satin, laid in plaits; and
fringed with silver cockscomb-edging. On the
shoulders are ornaments of fine oriental pearls, and
in front of the bust is a Turkish crescent of the same
valuable materials. A belt of white satin and-silver
encircles the waist. The head-dress with this in-
teresting costume is a Turkish turban of French
white satin and gauze, with a pearl crescent in
front : a kind of diadem ornament, embellished with
jewels of Various kinds, on white satin, in eastern
figures, is placed near the crown ; the Turkish
folds next the hair are of the Japanese-gauze, of
which is the Sultana-veil, that depends behind, and
which ie ornamented to correspond with the dress.
The usual articles for female costume remain with
but little alteration since our last accounts; what-
ever there is of novelty will be found in our engra-
vings. There is, however, among the new head-
dresses, a very magnificent turban for the evening
paety, of gaze brillcrntee! the tissu of which is in
real g.old. In the front is a fluted ornament of bright
amber-wloured crepe aerophane, en eventail. On
the right side is a bow, with short ends fringed with
gold, of the fame material as the turban. The caps
have experienced but little change since last month ;
except that we Anti those of black blonde rather
more in favour than there which are white; these
are adorned with pink satin ribbon, with roses atul
their buds, and are in the Peon style, Berets still
continue in favour.
Few bonnets are now seen in preference to black
velvet ; we have, however, given a fee-simile in our
first plate of one of an entire new shape, of striped
silk; no head-covering can be more appropriate to
the promenade, as it ties closely down, yet is ren-
dered intinitely becoming by being made short at the
ears; it is on the walking figure, in a blue pelisse.
In carriages a few velvet hats have been seen, and
the Week velvet
_ones are often ornamented with
uigrettes, or esprit feathers.
In carriages, the pelisses are of velvet, of different
colours, and are often trimmed with fur, with a long
pelerine- tippet of the same material. The out-door
envelopes for walking continue the same as last
month, with erevrce any alteration worth remarking.
The colours matt in favour are marsh-mallow blos-
som, azure blue, piuk, amber. The green of the
young holly, scarlet, and lemon-colour.

tons.—The pantaloons made of black single kersey-
mere, are loose from the wrist to the knee, and fit-
ting beautifully from thence (quite close) to the
ancle:, with black silk stockings and pumps.

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DAY AT ONZ O'CLOCK.

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Oporto 44
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Foreign Gold, in bars 3 17 10}
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