The Sun.
London, England, 1816-08-14 00:00:00

THE THEATRE.

Tits ENGLISH' OrmnA —Last night produced
Miss KELLY in Mandane, vice Miss Maims on the
sick list; and INct.rouN iu driabanes, vice IsAACS,
priori hoe, superseded. The former substitution
was certainly one of an alarming nature, for, with-
all the eminent and acknowledged talent of Miss
KELLY, we were not prepared to see her attempt
the PrAin Donna in a sirloin Opera. We were
delightfidly disappointed ;• tost only was the part
hewer acted than perhaps it has ever been, but the
music was executed with ungeonouon taste, power,
and science. We werereally elect' ified by her efforts;
and it seemed that this sattess , Whom we knew to be
capable of st 3 'muck wets in troth eap,ible of every
thing which the stage'retinires. whole range
'of the drama is at her comumnd. In the comic
she is lively, spirited, and humoronS ; the pa-
thetic,'simlile, oat arid, and affecting ; and now in
the musical, We .find her overstepping her further
bounds of the neat, artless,.and sweet, to capti-
vate the town' with the rich, brilliant, and scien-
tific. Siie is truly an astonishiug creature, and foe
excellence' and universality of *genius- excels all
the females upon the Stage. The applause she
received last ` night tray 'as ttoikohnota and cord:al,
VIA sts deserved as any that, ever was bestowed.
The &tldier Tir'd was among the encores.
:After the treat we have just ,been describing,
we ate the less disposed to say it WHS somewhat
uncharitable in Istoutoon to choose for his re.
appearance a part which has been pertortned
all the. season by a younger candidate for put).
'lie favour, and his merits in 'which were
culated to hurt the reputation of this- new
Singer. Mr. INCLSDON himself complains of in-
justice, and ought to have been more guarded
against injuring another. This was evidently felt
by,Mr. lamcs's friends, and some disapprobation
was manifested, which being got over, Mr. Iw:wi-
nos/ sustained the part with his aecustamedvigour;
and in " 11/father away P" extorted an encore,
by the force and skill of,his voice and action.
Ile also sung '' Ihe Smuggler's Death," after the
farce, with prodigious effect, which called for, and
'lost nothing in a repetition. IVe are informed that
lee has -not positively engaged for an American eX-
cursion, and should be glud that a singer, whose
,style and manner are altogether su English, was
retained ou the London boards, where be has so
long 'afforded pleasure.

TUol.o4ii .# iSS KELLY, again pleased its it
the animiited Me7ioll livnisag., Somerville was
exttemely well plat .t 1 by Mr. T. SHoRT, whose
agreeable voice um easy acting reeommero• him
greatly .ti) fetvuur. Alt'. W. S."CtiATTEHLUY CX
a• poction of humour as Di..
Restive; awl Air. t NSON, kit tire,gory, was
mousing:

There are two !rage and splendid Theatre,
building by subscriplim) in America for Mr.
11014 —AN, who is 'low in Looduii on the recruiring
service. lie has engaged a Mr. VALIMJILL ()icon.
sidcrablecelebrity try Donlin in Et.t.rsToN's lice ;
Etta it is not MIL! 0111 Mrs. ILDWIN has undertaken
tt voyage .across the Atlantic.

One, of tite no‘tohers of the Devon County elnb
vvas bnasting that their dinner party of ThursdAy
last exceeded V
arty
gtifileltteti, MCI) XVIII' his servant
in attendances. v...41.ett it was rawly replied, that
as the servants Lan hertz as well etitteattil as !rotor
of their masters,, i' tti Gold be snore COMM tn say
that the cowpony exceeded eighty.gentkinett.
A pack ót O l'Atglish trw.hountis wo&latcly
lauded at Osteuti, intended fur

tAw INT.rt.i.:GENcr.

PZIPILT :Ivo. Is.:
DR CLIAVIZIG V, ttlit itIARQUIS TOWS:SHEN/1.

There was a further- ftearing of this Case to-
(lay,. hut nothing new cme niit; and the ,LOND
.CHANCELLoit expressed hipintention 61 giving,
judgment upon it to-morrow (this duy). .

DEVON ASSIZES.

NORRIS V. KELLY azd S LLE.

This action was brought against the defendants
'nominally for granting a warrant of distress for
vows'. Cates to Lidford parish„ under which-war-
, riors plaintiff's bullock hail been taken and sold
-but really, to try the. boundaries of the parishes
''of Lidford and Widdiemnbe in the moor. The
plairskiff contended that his estate, called Hue-
caby, lies within. the parish of IViddieonibe, and
not that of, Lidford ; and pioduces ‘Viddieombe
palish books for the last 160 or 170 years, by
which it apnrated that, his estate, with many others
(which were part of what is called the forest
quarter, and which were how claimed as belong-
ing to Lit!ford) were rated and paid ,to Widdi-
combe. old title deeds of Httecaby, and other
estates, within the said forest qu;trter, were also
pt oduced, in , width the premises. were described
as lying within the parish of IVithlicombe. .Many
'Old, witnesses were likewise produced, who, proved
that Withlkotobe parish diylded into four quar-
ters, one of which is called forein quarter, and that
Huccaby and other tenements within that quar-
ter had ever since they recollect (being between
seventy and eighty years) paid the poor, high-
way; and other rates and Easter offerings, to-
XViddicombe ; and that they and the other iu-
habitants of said forest /pttier had baptized,
married, buried, and attended the church and sa-
,eraments at ‘Viddieonshe, as their proper church t
that they paid their tythes to the Minister of Lid-
ford, but he paid poor rates for those tithe's to the
parish of Widdicombe ; that in the winter season,
they must go a circuitous road ()reboot '2O miles to
LidtOrd church ; that of Widdicombe is about
tour or five miles.—The defendants counsel con-
tended that length of time had no effect on she
boundaries of parishes, which could not he al-
tered (except by Act of Parliament) since the
sion of the kingdom into parishes betore the .Con-
quest ; and that if he could show that litice.iby and
:the other estates in the tOrest quarter belonged
to Lidford at and after the Conquest, no usage to
the contrary would be an answer, A decree or
order of the Bishop of the diocese in 1260, found
in the Arehieves, was then-produced, whereby
(after reciting the inconvenience of attending the
parish church at Lidford), the Bishop dispensed
with, the attendance of the inhabitants of the said
forest quarter, and ordered them to attend the
church. of Widdicontbe and to pay their offerings,
there, except offering once a year to the (;hutch
tut Lidford. After that, the defendants produced
an examined copy from the record office in'ttit
ToWer or London, of the grunt of the tithes of .t
vatoor of Dartmoor in the 21st Henry 31 to the
, parson of Lidford. Then they produced copies of
Exchequer suits, one iu Ist William and Nlory,
and another in 3d Anne, by the parsons of Lidford
egatust the occupiers of farms within the said forest
quarter, fur tithes, its one of 3045 an issue
,at law was directed. and tried whether ,the
farms its question were lust within the twist,
of Litlford, or titheable plaices thereof, when
was found in the affirmative, . and the parstm
in each suit had a decree for tithes, iu one of
which suits the particular estate ofliaccaby. was
named. After which, the defendants produced one
witness, Ellis Stratiger, aged. 71, who says, he
has known Huccaby for tio years, am! has receiv-
ed the tithes of it fat the Rector of L'dford, and
that he has heard it repined to he its that parish.
Oa his eross-vxamination he says, he, may have
-heard people say also, that it was itt the parish of
Widdiemobe. the Learned Judge s,aid, the great
object is to try the boundaries of the pat ishes
the plaintiff's casesvemed so strong that he Nought
it impossible to be-shaketta nor iittleed could it be
by pares! restimouy ; but that the written evidence
produeed had altered his opinion.--Verdict for
defendants viz. for Lidlord parish,. •