The Sun.
London, England, 1820-01-21 00:00:00

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[PRICE SE irENPENC E.

MR. NATHAN.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sea--Since the Morning Papers of Monday last
have overwhelmed me with a deluge of severities,
I take the liberty of-appealing to the candour and
liberality of -kindred minds for the intrusion of a
few couslaftratione, Wilier possibly may serve to
palliate the bitterness of prejudice, and account
far the humiliation to which calamity so taunt-
ingly misrepresented as self-satisfaction has re-
duced me. Upon the score of that worldly." in-
convenience and distraction". which hurried the
to the tribunal of -a London Theatre, I have
to plead a sacred excuse in the persons of a most
amiable wife and four young children. To explaiu
at foil the visitations of Divine' Providence which
have lett . the naked uPon the world, is neither a
duty I owe the mblic,--nor an ontra.ol.3m dis-
posed to offer my-erarrrieeling-C- One cloud, how-
ever, to the prosperity of lite I will venture to
name ; and that is;' Stt intpaireti state' of- health,
which I attfws-nred bi, my medical advisers,.restilts
in a great meesure from intense application to
prolessioual • study, in ' the several departments
of which I have been a teacher no less than
thi'iteen years; -iend ' having had the gratification
to find'-nly pupils esteemed for - their style and ...
iustruction,'l was led to judge accordingly
Of the exteur e'otkcompaas of my voice ; cited al-
though doubtful in" the extremett degree of its
power, I have been encouraged by numerous
beientifie musicians to believe .nay style-would not
fail to please, since; by comparison with that of
several esteemed masters, under whom, .1 studied
in the early part of my life, I cannot forirake all
claims to originality; and wi,li this impreision,-,l'
applied to the Author of " The Dee Hive," and to •
Mr. Motaterap, so well known in the dramatic
world, to write an Opera for which I pin have ,
composed music in my own stsle,and as far as I was
personally concerned., adapted to the compass Of
my voice. I must disclaim altogether the idle
vai)ity of wishing to place myself in competi-
tion with my esteemed friend, Mr. Pa.ktiam,
since it. was for -the convenience -iiiid econoiny
of the ,Theatre only that I vent ured - open'
the character of Henry Bertram ;.. and it is de-
clared by every person Who 'chose to exer-
cise the ,sense -,.0r sight, that what .1 - felt
too acutely, I appeared more than -' sufficient-
ly, namely, (pile dispossessed of ;myself.. If the
stanza sung behind the scenes had the good for-
tune to please, it may reasonably he conelnded
that the saute voice would have 'been more ins-
pressive where the radiation of_ sound was not
intercepted by camas. if exefied
:to its fullest
parrer. 1 W
RS not disposed Cu excite the Collinds-
serationol the audience by a statement, that in
addition to extreme mental agita•ion, I was it great
bodily pain from an unhealed blister between my
shoulders, and troublesome application on my
chest, from which circumstance alone, it - may
be concludA, that I had great difficulty to re-
sist the importunities of my medical advisers
to withhold my first effort .at least for a time ;
but on Ft iday night I found my health and voice
so much better than they had been for a great
length of time, that the notice of my appearance
%VHS not withdrawn; yet,- as if an evil planet
sited its influence upon me, the whole of &Attu-
day,.from the moment of my leaving my bed to
that of setting off for the Theatre, I was-troubled
by a confused accession of mental inconveniences
anti bodily exertions, which would hale left the
most healthy person unfit for any kind of busi-
ness in the evening, -The idle 'accusation of
intrepidity," which bas been charged on me, '
bears too much the colour of prejudice to be -
dwelt on ; and as to personal deformity, 'though
I had never the blindness to imagine symmetry
an attribute of my person, I confess myself vain _
enough to believe that, however rudely, I am still,
" formed after the image of mart," and weak
entragh to believe with the.Batil of Avon, that
even a monster such as Coliban may dread the
burden of oppression and the stings of torture.
If a beam of .mercy from the public mind remains
to cheer the darkness I have been plunged' into,
the Manager of Covent-Garden Theatre permits
the i() make another effort on his boards-in. the
character of Macheath, which, with all 'respect to
the public, I will venture on, hopiag that no pri-
vate teelings will be exercised w my prejudice ';
and heggiug it may be, remembered, that indit- .
ferent acting is sometimes endured by the indivi-
dual who only professes singing,
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your obedient and humble Servant,
Thursday, Jan. 20, 1820. J, NATHAN.