Star.
London, England, 1802-01-18 00:00:00

PRIVATIL CORRESPONDENCE

P• 1111, ON. 12.
In my lag I informed you that the Flux CON-
SUL had fet out for Lyons. He will only Rop there
fax days. A thofifand conje&ures are formed re-
fpetting his journey to Lyons, but not one of them
jug. The real objeit of his journey u known to
nobody ; I afore you that Paris is as tranquil as
it poffibly can be, excepting that its good citizens
are a little mortified at the death of the male de
pliant, which was brought hither from the Stad-
t/solder's menagerie. The ladies of Paris are alto
very mucb chagrined at the death of a celebrated
fortune teller, who was getting inrmentely rich,
and acquired much celebrity by telling hUdame
BONAPARTS'S fortune during Bosaraira's Ray in
Egypt, namely, that the would be one day Queen
of France !! !
It is with regret I fee Co many artful and defigo-
ing falfehoods to the Englilh papers concerning
pretended occurrences at the Thuilleries. This, I
ow, that of many things which have occurred
at the Thnilleries of late, not one of them tell

aria the reititude of the FIRST CONSUL. If Ge-
neral LANNES and othirs are guilty of dilapida-
tion', and the FIRST COllsuL detells and punithes
them for it, is there any thing improper and unjuft
in that ? But the falt is this, that the Engliih now
liere, sad I am forty to include perfons who thould
know better, have their coteries with emigrant
Priefts, Terrorifts, and Septembrizers. Strange
incongrnous union! but fo it is, and for what pur-
pofe ? but only to kindle the names of difcord
again in the metropolis. A certain Gen-
tleman gives dinners, and invites alternately Ter.
rmifis and Emigrant Priefts ; nay more, thole
Englifh newfpapers which contain all this abufe
of the French Government are received by this
Gentleman, freely diftributed by him to his mot-
ley and difgraceful affociates, arter which they
Are fent graOs to the moil frequented coffee-hours.
rtrie of thofc to stool I allude should be on their

guard- They are all known to the Maniacs of Po-
lice ; a Rep or two more, and they Rand a fair
chance of fuffering for their indifcretion.
A ihort time fine the celebrated VOLLEY (of
the Confervative Senate) in a private audience he
had with BON•PARTI, ezpoftulated on the imp°.
licy of recalling the Prießs, and fuffering them to
remain here after they had on their return given
fuch repeated proofs of their turbulence and clifaf-
fation. The Pearl. CONSUL replied, that by re-
calling the priefts he afted in conformity to the'
willies of the French People, and as to their tur-
bulence, as long as they had not an army of one
hundred thoufand men to fupport them, he did not
much regard them. Vota si faid, if you want to
ad in conformity to the wifhes of the French Peo-
ple -41 reftore to them, the Bourbons." This info.
lent and falfe retort is faid zo have irritated Bora-1
pairs fo much as to induce him to turn VoLNEY
out of the room with marks of ftrong'difpleafure.
General Lammas is certainly gone as Atnbaffa-
dor to Portugal.
I informed you in my laf that the anti-Mettou
party were in favour with' the FIIIST CONSUL, in
confirmation of which I refer you to this day's
Makeup, by which you will fee that General BEL.I
LIAR!) has received an appointment.
Major HADORN ;Sit& arrived here from Egypt,
and I underftand brings an account that the
Grand Vizier, and a Palhaw of Cairo, invited all
the Beys of Egypt to a grand fete at Cairo, dur-
ing which a band of foldiers entered the hall and
murdered every one of the Beys, which produced
great commotion: at Cairo, and a few thoufand
Englifh bad marched thither to reftore tranquilli-
ty, and no doubt to allift their vigorous and gene-
rous allies !

General HUTC HINSON was very ill at Malta.

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As this Paper was going to prefs we received
French Journals to the 14th ina. inclufive. They
are very barren of intelligence. A letter from
Lyons, dated the 4th, mentions the arrival there.

of Citizen CH A PTA L, Minifler of the Interior, and
adds that the FIRST CONSUL was expeded on the
9th, and Madame BONArAtrfi on the 15th.

His MAJESTY on Saturday took an excurfion to
Kew, accompanied by. his Royal Highnefs the
Duke of CUMBERLAND.

His Maklty's Letters Patent have been paired
under the Great Seal of Ireland, conftituting and
appointing JAMES M'CLEI.LAND, Efq. his Majelly's
Solicitor General in Ireland, in the room of Wit.-
west SMITH, Efq. appointed one of the Barons of
his Majefty's Court of Exchequer.
On Saturday Captain Baowa, charged with dif-
patches from Lords HurcuINSON and KEITH, Ar-
rived in town from Egypt and Malta : he came
through France.
On New Year's Day the Earl of 'Nasal., at
his feat at Heathfield, in Kent, diffributed to his
poor neighbours a large ox, feveral 'beep, and a
confiderable fum of money : his Lordthip has alto
lately taken a mill, which he is repairing for the
ufe of the neighbouring poor ; and has ordered
his bailiff to buy a quantity of the beft wheat, and
to retail the fame at prime toff, and to have it
ground at one third of the price ufually taken by
the millers.
_ _

Lord RADNOR, the Chairman, in his charge to
the Grand Jury, at the Quarter &filen: for the
county of Berk:, held at Reading, on Tuefday
ha, very pointedly alluded to the violation of
the peace in that county by a late boxing
match in the parifh of Hurley. His Lord;
'hip (lazed the law and the duty of jurymen :
he ftrongly enforced the folemn obligations they
were under to make prefentments of all public
difturbances that came within their knowledge.
In confeq. uence of this addrefs, the county of
Berks is likely to fet a laudable example of marked
difapprobation againft diforderly meetings and
barbarous pradices, of whatever defcription. The
Grand Jury have found a true bill againft the per.
fens principally concerned in this difturbance.
An anonymous letter having been addreffed to
the Lords of the Admiralty a few days ago, Rat-
ing that the body of a Leaman belonging to the Re-
strrauca frigate had been fent to the burying-
ground at Hailer Hofpital for interment, who had
died in confequence of blows received from an of-
ficer, orders were given for an immediate '
gation of the alledged murder. The body was
accordingly dug up, when upon minute infpeetion,
and examination of witneffes' the Coroner's Jury
returned a verdia of wilful murder againft Lieut.
Lutwidge, of the fah! flip.
It appeared, that while going off to Spithead,
Lieut. L. had flruck the deceafed, who was one
of the launch's crew, twice or thrice with the tit.
ler, for having, in a (late of intoxication, made
ufe of Tome impertinent and difrelpatful expref-
floss. No external marks of violence having been
difcovered next morning it was generally fuppofed
onboard.that the deceafed had died in confequence•
of intoxication. Lieut. L. who is nephew to Ad-
miral Luvwince, has been committed to Win-
cheller gaol to take his trial at the enfuing Spring
Aflizes. In confequence of this event, the. Re-
fiftance, which had heen completed for the Weft-
Indies, has been ordered to fend her fibres and
provifions on board the Define, it being neceffary
that Tome of the officers and men should appear
as evidence at the trial.

TIitITRE-ROTAL, COPINTGARDBN .

ALFONSO.

As a Poem, this play is entitled to confiderable
praife. The ftyle is correa and elegant, the con-
ception bold and fometimes original, the images
glowing and ftriking, the fenuments noble and
unpailioned.
We may, indeed, remark, that Mr. Lewis is
too fond of a trochee in the middle of a line, a
licence that fhould not be lifer!, except after a
paufe. Some Callicifins occur in conftruetion
thus The Lords, to whom I fend thee, what
reception foundft thou from them ?"
The Author indulges a fondnefs for antithefis
more liberally than the dramatic ftyle allows, as :
" Profperous, I iltunn'd ; unharpy, I forgive
him; he reign'd, I fcom'd his pow'r ; he finks,
I'll Pave him."

Turgid expreffions too abound; " Pil'd like the
Alps, each' loftier than the laft one."
We think with the Author, that this piece has
more merit as a poem than as a play, which de-
rives eminence from a clear, natural, and ftriking
plot. We with he had more of the tendernefs of
Rama, and lets of the terror of Cesatt,tos. He
excites more horror than pity. With the applica-
tion of more art he might have avoided much of
thofe frightful fituations, at the fight of which
true taße [brinks with abhorrence. It is difficult
to reconcile fome parts of the plot to nature or
confiftency. In the firs aa, the play opens with
day-break, and in that very fcene Amelrora is
overpowered by " the mid-day heat."
We are at a lots to comprehend the charaeter of
Colt:rip. It is a libel on human nature. His cru-
elties are too wanton and too indifcriminate. His
revenge is unprovoked, his malice without a pur-
pole, his falfehood without an object. His mur-
der of Ottifia difplays the moft unmanly barba-
rity. He ftabs, in the facred faniluary of the
Church, a woman who loved him to diftraCtion,
who came to that holy place to be united to him
in marriage, and whole threats were natural to a
woman in the rage of difappointment. He de-
clares
that his foul is joyous after the murder of a
woman, who had poifoncd her own hufband
through her paffion for him. This is not only
horror without refinement, but it thews a po-
verty of invention; for, if Mafia mutt be punn-
ed with death, it was eafy to makh her fall a vic-
tim to her own artifice. His barbarity makes us
[budder, and his inconfiftencies excite our furprife
to the laft.

We believe it is not very ufual for a woman to
fix the approaching night for her fecond marriage,
when her firft hufband has fill three hours to live.
Yet fuck is the fituation of Ouifia, _

The praifes given by Orfila to a patriot King
were evidently intended by the Poet, in the
effufion of loyalty, to be applied to the Monarch
on the throne of the Britilh Iflands ; and the au-
dience felt and countenanced the allufion.

The conclufion of the fourth aft is particularly
great and interelling. The explofion of the mine,
the founding of the bugle.horn, the tranfition of
the lovely Amelretfa,_ from the wildnefs of rage and
dittrefi, to the warm expreffions of gratitude at
the fignal of her father's fafety, produce an effect
which has been feldom equalled. But from this
fcene, " what a falling off is there !" There were
tome, who miflaking this for the conclufion of the'
Play, left the houfe with Itrong admiration of
the piece.
There were, in the first reprefentation, der lon-
pnwr, which have fince been, in Tome meafure,
removed, and which, wt hope, wll totally dif:
appear.
Of the afting we are now to fpcak.
We mutt be permitted to make a general re-
mark, that the aftors, in almolt every fpeech,
turn verfu into profe ; whether by accident or
defign, they bell know. Yet, on Tome occafions,
they have our thanks for alterations. The facred
name, too often introduced by the Author, with-
out the lignsu vindice nodur, is very properly omit- '
ted, and tome expreffions laudably foftened by
them. We with they may profit by the hint,
which we threw out a few days ago, and which
our duty prompts us to urge with the molt
earn& zeal.
In the performance, Mr. Coots Rands promi-
nent. His afting was admirable, particularly in
the fecond @tie of the fecond aft, and in the
fecond of the third. The expreffion of his feel-
ings on the difcovery of his Eon's difloyal cru-
elty was given in a ftyle which forced its way
to every feeling heart. A ftrong inftance oc-
curred of what we mentiona laft week in his
performance of Zanga, that his tone of voice had
produced a laugh, when it was intended to ex-
cite a very different fenfation. This was cor-
reded on the fecond reprefentation.
H. JOHNSTON is ill qualified by his looks and
manner for fuck a chara&er as Csfario. Both are
too pleating for fuck unnatural villainy. In his
pronunciation, we would advife him to guard
againft that Frenchikd mode, which we have
frequently reprobated, of adding a fyllable to
words ending with a confonant. He thus pro-
nounces the following lines :
'Here lose file forrovat ; bete at length the died-e;
" Died of a broken hurt-c.---each tear thou iheddit-e

" With drops of blood-c"
Mrs. H. JOHNSTON has much fweetnefs of man-
ner, and foftnefs of exprefilon ; but in the more
imeoned fcenes the is deficient in force.
LITCHFIELD never appeared to more ad-
vantage. The powers of her voice are eminently
adapted to the strength of paffion, which cha.
radieiifes Ottilia.
MURRAY was highly rcfpeetable. Every part,
in ihort, was well done ; a praife which we are
fearcely ever able to bellow.
The Piece is brought forward with liberal fplen-
dour. The folemn chorus in the fourth Aft is
very 'creditable to the tale and &ill of the com-
pofer, Bu s sr. The following are the words
to which ibis chorus is adapted, ana wo infert them
becaufe they are not in the printed copy of the Play:
Thanks which fpring from pure delight,
Joyous fwaing folunn !trains,
Rife upon the breeze of night,
81.. k this throne where mercy reigns.
Breathe around, below, Mulct-,
tiratcf•.:! Tai,turos, Holy Love!