The Sun.
London, England, 1818-12-23 00:00:00

POETRY.

On the Report that the VICE-CHANCELLOR bad decided in
favour of the Defendant in the BLENHEIM Cause.

MARLEOROVOU may now, so Law decrees,
With ruthless rage destroy the Trees,
Till BLENHEIM'S noble grounds are bare:
E'en TIME is not so dire a foe,
For Time himself will ne'er lay low
The Laurels FAmc has planted there.

As he, his thousands wasting, bought -
Italian trash,,' not worth a groat,
While Reason cast a scornful look,
He hence, when Trees will yield no cash,
Perchance, to gain more ancient trash,
Might barter niENHEI3I fin- a Bosh.

Oh ! CHURCHILI„t hero of the day,
That.blazon'd Asse's triumphant sway,
On BRITAIN turn thy pntriot eyes,
For though no hero of thy line
Was destin'd in her cause to shine,
Lo ! WELLINGTON thy loss supplies.

Nor need we fear the future race
Of this great Chief will e'er deface
The lofty honours of his tomb,
They, jostly proud to bear his name,
Will guard the trophies of his fame,
His LAuttELs of eternal bloom.

Boecacio wat purchased for 22601.
t JOHN CHURCHILL, first Duke of MARLBOROUGH.

REGIS'T'ER OF FASHION.

Earl and Countess of Darnley, from
Sandgate, Kent ; the Marchioness of Downshire, from her
seat at lOchampton ; Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Hillmer, from
Cheshire.

DreAnTuttEs..—The Marquis and Marchioness of Worcester,
'or Itadmington, Gloucestershire; Lady Elizabeth Lowther,
for her fatLer's (the Earl of Lonsdale's) seat, in Rutlandshire.

FOR 'l'H} SUN.

NM. KEAN.

MR. EDlTOR,—Considering how much thePob-

lie have been gratified by -the talents of Mr.
KEAN, I was not a little surprised to see an at-
tack upon him in a Morning Paper of yesterday.
signed a PITTITE, imputing to hint any delay that
may take place in the commencement of Pet form-
ances at Drury-Lane Theatre. The I'ITTITE does
not seem to know the variety of circumstances
that may occasionally retard the beginning of a
Play, but he ought to reflect that it cannot be the
wish any more than the interest of Managers
to offend an audience by unnecessary delay. Per-
haps it was impolitic in. them to protract the
commencement of perfOrmance till seven o'clock,
because the late hour of conclusion must break in

upon the regular time most co►►venient for the
middling classes of the people. It had been
usual, 1 understand, in the time of GAerticx, to
open the doors at five and to commence at
six. To accommodate the people of Fashion,
the time was protracteil half an hour,

lot this accommodation to a part of an au

(Bence was even then inconvenient to the
majority, who cline early, and do not wish to be
at borne late. Seven o'clock is therefore not only

inconvenient, but injurious to the people in ge-
nii, as intruding upon their regular habits. But
it is surely unjust as well as illiberal to impute the
fault wholly to Mr. KEAN, as if he was the sole
cause of a delay which no doubt unavoidably oc-
curs as often on those nights on which he does
not, as when he does, perform. It is still more
unjust and illiberal, to,accuse him of addressing
the audience " with a flippancy bordering on
contempt," as if it were in the slightest degree
probable that he would insult that Public by
whom be is so warmly patronised, and upon whose
favour his fortune depends. The accusation is
absurd, as well as illiberal and fallacious.—By all
accounts, Mr. KEAN is by TIO means buoyed up by
his extraordinary popularity ; he complies with
the wishes -of the audience in announcing the

May for the following night, after he has labour-
ed through an anxious and fatiguing duty—he is
kind to the theatrical community on all occasions,
and I hear, on good authority, that the new Ma-
nager speaks of him as one who seems to have
the interest of his Employers, as well as the gra-
tification of the Public, at heart, and is always zea-
lous to devote his efforts to the support of the
Theatre.

VINDEX.

'l'urk's Head Coffee-Nonce, Dec. 92.