Star.
London, England, 1823-10-09 00:00:00

COFENT-GARDEN THEATRE.

The School of Reform was performed last night ; and
Mr. RAYNER, who had already acquired a high repu-
iation on the boards of the English Opera House, made
hi ar
ssfirst appeance at this Theatre, in the arduous cha-
racter of Tyke. The very mention of the name of Tyke
brings along with it that of EMERY, who had made it
so completely his own, that any performer on the Lon-
don stage had better have appeared in Macbeth, than
encountered his chances in a part which was in fact
made by the actor rather than the dramatist. Even
now that we are for ever deprived of Mr. EMERY'S
talents, his memory remains as an obstacle in the way
of a successor. This bold undertaking Mr. RAYNER
undertook, and he acquitted himself with more ability
than we were disposed to anticipate, even from his for-
mer exertions. Of course we mean nothing like a corn-
pari,on between him and the late Mr. EMERY; but that
recollection apart, it is no flattery to Mr. RAYNER to
say the I
his Tyke s an admirable effort.—He entered
so completely into the character, and felt so perfectly at
his ease throughout, that we cannot state a single in-
stance in which he deviated into the offensive, but too
common, transgression of over-acting. In the principal
scenes, the feeling displayed by Mr. RAYNER reminded
us of his predecessor. Mr. BLANCHARDS General
Tarragon was, as all the characters he attempts turn
out to be, a well conceived and well executed portrait.
Mr. JONES, in Ferment, exhibited the restless disposition
of a man who might be happy, but will not. He kept
op the uneasiness of the part in the most ludicrout com-
motion from beginning to end. Mrs. Gums, as Hrs.
Ferment, was by no means slow to second his endea-
vours, and between both the effect was in the highest
degree comic. Airs. DA VENPORT'S Nicely was truly
laughable, and Mrs. PEARCE'S Shckh excited the
amusement which always attends the correct Lepresen-
tation of liish character. There is no Lady on the Stage
so capable of sustaining the droll peculiarities which
Theatres arc in the habit of ascribing to the fair ones
of that country.—When the curtain fell, and another
piece was attempted to be given out, the call for Mr.
RAYNER was so general, that the intention was aban-
doned, an dhe announced the School of Reform. After
the Play was perfornisd. a new Afterpiece, of the ro-
mantic kind, entitled, Ahe Beacon of Liberty, was in-
troduced. When we state that it was the old story of
WILLIAM TELL, our readers will not demand any de-
scription of the plot. They will probably feel some
astonishment at the adoption of a story so familiar to
the Stage; but a little reflection will be sufficient to
convince them that it is no uncommon thing for Mana
gars to prefer what is threadbare to what is original.
It was very splendidly got up. The scenery an I deco-
rations were of the most brilliant kind, and the per-
iormers exerted themselves with a zeal becoming the
high-sounding title of the drama. Master LONGHURST, as
If alter, the son of William Tell, and Miss R. BODEN, as
Wilhelm, two children, sung a duet in very good taste.
It was loudly applauded by the audience. The whole
was well received, and the house was better attended
than since the opening of the present season.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

The Flora. BLOVA lb, from Rio Janeiro to Copenhagen, was to
tally wrecked the 26th ultimo, near Thisted—crew and part of the
cargo saved.

ALMOUTH, °masa 7.—Wind &W.—Arrived the Brutus, Hos-
annas, from London for New York ; put in in consequence of
several bottles of aquafortis having burst, by which Means the ves-
sel took dre—the vessel is discharging. Sailed the Mary, FAO,.
cLotten, for St. Michael's-
PLexouvw, OCTOI2II 7.—Wind W.S.W.---Arrived the Vigilant,
CUURCH, from London for Barbadoes; City of Edinburgh,Wrsemair,
from London for Calcutta—out fourteen days : on the sth instant,
being then as far West as Cape Finisterre, the vessel became leaky,
making about seven inches water per hour, when they bore up, and
from the leak' decreasing on going before the wind, it is supposed
that the principal and only leak is in her stern-post ;it will, how-
ever, be necessary to unload some part of the cargo, consisting of
bale goods, &c. in order effectually to stop it.
POLTSMOUTH, (kronen B.—Wind variable.—Arrived the Ellen,
DOUGLAS, from Sumatra in one hundred and thirty-six days ; his
Majesty's brig lizowtso, from Cadiz ; and his Majesty's brig
HELCON, from a cruise. Sailed the King George the Fourth, Pats-
me, for the Mauritius.

Dam., Omura B. Wind W.S.W. Came down from the
River and remain, the Rock, TOM:WS, for Fayal; Charles WCarthy,
ELD RIDGY, for Sierra Leone. Also, and sailed, the Betsey and Sophia,
GA If KOWAY, for Dominica. Arrived and sailed for the River, the
Surrey, Gaaaurr, from Honduras ; West India packet, Museor,
from Jamaica ; and Philip, FORSTIR, from Cuba.
liolltnAlr, MAY 31. The ship Cornwall, Riche anSON, arrived
here on her voyage from Mocha to England, struck on a bank off
Cape Aden, and sustained considerable damage. On the 29th of
March, at 8.35. r. m. the Cornwall, in the act of tacking, struck on
a Knoll, with only 2; fathoms writ, five fathoms inside and round
it, and a regular bank of soundings, from four to twenty-three fa-
thoms, extending about five miles ; lat. 13.2. N. long. 45.30. E.
Cape Aden in sight, bearing S. 52. W. a large white tower above
the low coast, bearing N. by compass ; the beach low, with a heavy
swell running on it. The ship struck repeatedly, and broke the
main piece of her rudder, as well as all the pintles short off; sprung a
leak of two feet per hour, which increased when it blew hard. After
getting the ship off, made a temporary rudder in three days, with
which she got close to Maculla, when, from heavy seas, and a gale
from the eastward, the temporary rudder broke ; she was obliged
to bear away for Aden Bay, where she arrived the middle of April,
.steering pith the assistance of the sail, ; another temporary rudder
was then nude, which brought the ship to Bombay. Twenty men
died with fatigue during the voyage, and seventeen were landed
sickly the day after her arrival, four of which are since dead.
CUSTOM-HOUSE, OCTOBER 15.
-

Stun Ermagn Icwitans—The Nielson, from Jamaica; Alliance,
from ditto; Perseverance, from llamburgh ; Rebecca, from Ant-
werp ; Alpha, front the Cape de Verdi ; Hoppet, from Antwerp ;
Vrow hiargaretha, front ditto; and Harrison, front Quebec.

CLiaattu; °wawa ans—The Fountain, for Naples ; Phyleria, for
Santander; Zeemeuw, for Amsterdam; Aimwell, for Hamburgh ;
New Comet, for Lisbon; St. Elias, for Stettin; Fortitude, for St.
Mitt's; and Superb, for Seville.

Altaiven—At St. Helena, 4 Attrevedo, —, from Manilla;
Venerable, Dixon, from Neouth Wales; Alexander, Marcus-
sen ; and Arab, Brown, from Batavia; Frances, Watkins; and
Ellen Douglas, Rice, from Sumatra; Thames, Gibson, front Pe-
nang ; and Caledonia, 'Cant. from Madras. At Hane, Adolphe
Eugene, from Buenos Ayres; Olinda, from Guadaloupe ; and the
Physicienne, from At Madras, Kellie ,Castle, ; and
Eliza, Watd, from London. At the Mauritius, Charles Grant and
William Miles, from London. At Bengal, Kent, Cobb ; and Ge-
neral Kydd, Nairne, front London ; Olive Branch, Kinnard, from
the Cape of Good Hope ; and Nantaise, from Bourdeaux.

PIRACY. Extract of a private letter, dated Por
Praya, St. Jago, Cape de Yerd Islands :•46 In the
night of the twenty-second of April last, the British
schooner Swift, Captain HONEY, of Sierra Leone, at
anchor in this port, was boarded by about twenty sol-
diers of the garrison, and some renegado French sailors,
and taken out of the harbour, without being discovered
from any of the batteries, and it is supposed has gone
on a piratical cruize, as she is without papers to protect
ber. Captain H. was at the time on shore. The mate
and all the crew, together with a young man from Bos-
ton (United States), were all on board, and it is sup-
posed the latter and the mate, with such of the crew as
refused to join them, have I:keen murdered."
THE ARRIVAL or A WHIALER.—A stranger who has
never witnessed the arrival of a well-fished whaler has
a treat to come greater than he imagines. No sooner
does the report of a vessel of this description being in
sight begin to citculate, than sweethearts and wives of
all ages, sizes, and complexions, crowd to the piers or
the South End, for the purpose of welcoming home a
lover er a husband. Interviews between the parties are
such as 46 plain unsophisticated nature" dictates—the
squeeze, the kiss, and the 44 what cheer, mate?" No eti-
quette pervades the deck of a whaler ; and though the
odours proceeding from below are something different
from the 0/fumes of Araby," yet there is a sincerity
of affection depicted in the countenances of those who
meet there, that amply compensates for the want of it.
An absence of six months affords sufficient space for the
occurrence of new events, and therefore the joy mani-
fested by the strangers and their friends when they once
again see each other in health, is by no means serpris-
ing. Sometimes it unfortunately happens and what
state or rank is exempt from vicissitudes?—that the
Dukineas of the enamoured seamen play them false in
the interval which occurs between leaving port and
making it again ; but this is of every day's occurrence
in high life, and therefore does not, nor should it, pre-
vent the mariner from softening his boisterous nature
by the all-powerful influence of 66 sweet woman."—
Hull Packet.
ARCTIC PnzsozazoAi—oMr. SCORESBY'S Journal of a
Voyage to the Northern Whale Fishery, recently pub-
lished, contains mnch information respecting the retrac-
tions which are usual in high latitudes; one very singu-
lar instance deserves to be noticed g, On my return to
the ship, about eleven o'clock, the night was beautifully
fine, and the air quite mild. The atmosphere in con-
sequence of the warmth, being in a highly refractive
state, a great many curious appearances were presented
by the land and icebergs. The most extraordinary effect
of this state of the atmosphere, however, was the dis-
tinct inverted image of a shin, in the clear sky, over the
middle of the large bay, or inlet, before-mentioned ; the
ship itself being entirely beyond the horizon. Appear-
ances of this kind I have before noticed, but the pecu-
liarities of this were—the perfection of the image, and
the great distance of the vessel that it represented. It
was so extremely well defined, that when examined by
a telescope, I could distinguish every sail, the general
g rig of the ship,'aud its peculiar character; insomuch that
I confidently pronounced it to be my father's ship the Fame,
which it afterwards proved to be; though on comparing
notes with my father, I found that our relative positions
at the time gAve our distance Irons one another nearly
thirty miles, being about seventeen beyond the horizon,
and some leagues beyond the limits Of direct vision. I
was so struck with the peculiarity of the circumstance,
that 'I mentioned it to the officer of the watch, stating my'
full conviction that the Fame was then cruising in the
neighbouring inlet."
•