Star.
London, England, 1805-01-17 00:00:00

711E47'42 ES.

COV•MT CARlM—Ttlefday night a new Comedy,
prod.:(tion of Mr. Wet rov, intitled, The &hod
r!. Rriorri ; or, How Ru'r a lit:lbcr4, was performed
for the firit time at this Theatrc, and vet y favoura•
rec6N The Dran:xis Perfins and Story of the
pieta ate .ts f iiluw :

Lori: .‘vandal.: . - Mr. Coolie.
rol 'Fort J.;.,n - Mr. Me N DEN.
1.C:711C,t Mr. wl 3.
FT - A:r. C. Kr Mitt.
Old Man . - Mr. Nit:slots..
- - Me. l'riesv.
It::,. Cl.:!ty •• Mrs.Ginis.
• r. mit:at - Mrs I.ITCHTIEED.
Farrazon - . Miff ft ,rNroN.
• Nic,ly . - Mrs. DAyc t 0... V.
S:al . - Mrs. ST. LEGER.
`r,r K,dmor, aficrwsrl. Lord Avondale. is in early life at.
a virtuous girl. but holding a very humble
•r k ,nlifc.thcy rriva!,ly man is I —he goes ahroad in the fuite
n: act Arnhoinlor—flie follow. him—thn Atobatiador dies, and he
ee unerp, ete,fty gro,nn:eil to Inv .ppointtuent —a title fucceeds,
and !Krone- di'..tifted with Coo hare marriage be has formed,
Ontl, by keret agency, ha. her accuroi of pradifing againft the re-
of lair country—Pie is immured in a convent. and he fop-
roles her do d. Frrd.tirk, a fon by this marriage, he places in
the cuflo4 of a young tenant of his (Tyke): the money fun to
hurt tunis his br.on: he is ruin-el at Newmarket. and is banithed
for fourteen years for the crime of horfe•ftealing Frederick, in-
trufted to his care, is deferted, but places: in The School of Re-
form: aod accidentally becomes fervieeable to Lord Avondale,
who makes him his cereury.—The play commences with Lord
Avondales's arrival at ,is family feat, where he has tome to be
c.nitcd to the Oaughter of General 'Farragan, who has alto arrived
• as abroad, and has brought with him Mrs. Radmor, 1160 af.
sown the name of S. Clair, and who, by continental revolotions„
t en liberate I from the Convent where the was confined. She
s.. (having the certificate of her marriage, letters, and
j,,erl6, In her poffeflion, to Identify her claim) to inftitute an in-
qu.ry retpeßing her child; and by a miniature which Is fate
ti ~:n Lo. A A. to Mils Tarragan, the dikovers that he is Mt.
Radronr, her hufband, and the determines ft:truly to prevent
hulband adding a further crime to what he has committsd,by
. fccond marriage. Tyke, who purfued his bad cooties, Is
noyht before I.ord Avondale—ke recognifes him, and he dif-
c!ai,na any knowledge of the child ; but fat's, that by a mark
little with gong owder, he will be enabled to identify him,
Mould they ever meet. I.nrd Avondale. who dikovers that
.1\ Ira. St. flair has, by the evidence the poffeirts, power to ruin
his reputation. determines, at any rills, to obtain poffelion of
them—hr frw.rds Tyke on the fubjedt ; but be having found bin
(:!t is affroVd by (metre contrition, and refutes to become his
ac-ott—Lord Avondale. goaded on by the dread of tenmedi-teex-
r.,,ure, determines himfelt to obtain thofc evidences by force—he
eV-Aviles Ilin.fe:f. ai,d eff,dts his purpok, but is parked; and Fre-
ski ick, to f.,ee Lord Avondale, whom be ardently loves, affornes
t d!f,r,iite, is fuppored to Wm taken the tortured property.
marri.oze is prr:ceded on between Lord Avondale and
Tar7wn, when his Swift places berfel at the entrance of the
• at'? on the door openth;, he holds her demanding her
I.:1 fon. In the mean time, Tyke ~n.F.ditcovered that Frederick is
it -; :en, who ruthes nn, and Lord Avondale, on beholding his
• 'c .nd child reflored, kneels to Heaven ingratitude and contrition.
The comic incidents are fumithed by the agency of Mr. and
"h:.e. Ferment, the former a scheming half-witted hulband, who
ta..s iris court to Lord Avondale, and always is dikomfited ; the
L.ccr, a cheatinl, well-difyorcd Lady, who Ands. that the only
WAY TO Ito to. A HVSBAND ii by HOLDING HER TONGUE.

This play is founded on the German plan, and par.
ta%.-s of what the French cal! a branie, or Comedie
hr,e,rant:. In•ieed we Item critics, albeit unufed
to tli.r melting mood," ft.lt two or three times a
inoniure droppiig from our eyes. Although the
cataillophe is .atily forefeen before the end of the
fecond aft, the plot I:, highly interefling, and the
whole play, excepting one or two trifling paffages,
which a fecoad repreitntation will alter, was received
with unatial applaufe. We think the tneaturea tared
by Lord Avondale to obtain the papers relating to
his Rid marrial,e are not very ditlindtly onderftood I
Neither Lin we Mink it natural that be &mild onbo
fom himfelf to Frederic, immediately after Witting
thar lir! was his rival in the affedions of Julia: Bat
thefe are fpots in the Sun. •
Tie language and tenements were akonglt fait
tod app!aided. One expreflltan among others we
par:ict:larly admired : If there be fuch a thing as
tioly Water, it i; the Sinner!, Tears." Marines
of Bent rolence, Honour and Religion are warmly in.
cultated, perhaps more warmly, and frequently than
iii any fimilar prodation. One remark we mull
take the liberty of making. Thefe fentiments were
too often followed and debated, fometimes in the
feene, though not in the fathe characters, by
that trfe,of vulgar oaths which we have fo cooliant
ly reprobated
The author ha,. ihtroduced fome wit and much
aptnefs of allufion. In defcribing the exotic plants
of a hot.houfe, Ferment, pointing to the ladies in the
boxes, obferved that they wers " beatmitul to behold,
bin difficult to collat."

The aa.iia was excellent. We were among the
t; foretell the eminence of t stilly. In this play
he riles to a height fuperior to any thing he has br-
ier; exhibited. The agonies of guilt, re.nrure, and
deip.i:r. have never appeared in a manner more cal-
culated to harrow the foul of the fpeEtator.
Mrs. LiicHriELD Aim with every new charafler.
She is qualified to thine in the call of Mrs. Sim:Rims,
and the is equally eminent in that of Mts. JORDAN.
Cooke. did all that his part permitted him. The
other chsrallers we hive net room to dircriminite ;
but we cannot fpcak of any in terms of difapproba-
tion. _ _

Coe proof of the public regard to decency we re
cord with pleaftrre. One of the inferior female eh:t-
raders appeared in a Ilyle of drefs, which drew forth
into! reprelicntion : in the nest icene her drefs was
ahercd, and the compliance was greeted with a bur
of pplaufe.
The play will continue long to attr,R crowded
I flies. We c.wilider the author in the ad.t degree
,•1 dramat;e excelleorc to Mr. COL MAN. An alkition
was made to his former prnduCions in the 17.ptir:g•te,
which is laid to be the competition of Mr. LITC -
;I LI), and was charmingly fpoken by Mrs. Ltrca-
rikLD The Prologue is the plothedion ot Il4r.Ts Y-
LoR, and was neatly delivered by that maga and
meddling alor, Mr. Bauscrow.
The new Comedy of The Scl al of Reform was lan
ritzlit performed, notwiasltanding the badnefs of the
tvdiing, to a very crowded audience. As it flood
in need of very little alteration, but few curtailments
have been made. We found irefh reafon, on repe-
Hon, to admire the general conduit of the piece, to-
,-,:ther with the found fettle and appropriate language
~f :he dialogue. The fecund aR polfeffes theatrical
merit in a very high degree. The Equivoque be-
tween Ferment and 7.0 e, and the fubfequent interview
the latter with La, d Avondale, are managed in a
n.:nner which proves that the Author pollees a
ritic.tl know edge of the dramatic art. The fentibi-
'..y of the audtcnce was extremely affected by the re-

lations given 'oy Tyße to Lord Amid.. or the repara-
tion from his father, and by the pathetic interview
which afterwards takes place between the old Far-
mer and his reclaimed Son.
The Performers fullained their• feveral charatiers
with improved ability. Mr. Lewis gave the utmoa
aid which his peculiar powers are capable of affording_
to the part of Ferment, and met with much merited
applanfe. The affected fimplicity, low cunning,
knavint propenfities, and afterwards the fincere con-
trition of Tyk, were depiEled by EMERY in a manner
which does equal honour to his feelings as a man,
and to his talents as an aCtor. Mrs. Sr. ',sofa, in
WA although (he wore the fame drefs as on the pre-
ceding night, we are happy to Elate, fuineradded nfhaol,
fn mudeflly arranged as to be under no fear of incur.
ring the flighteft cenfti: e.
Their Royal Highneffes the Dukes of CUMBER•
LAND and CAMBRIDGE. the Duke and Duchels of
BEDFORD, the Marquis and Marchionefs of THO-
M..., General BROWNRIGGI, and many other per-
funk of diftinCtion, were in the Houle.

Young Routus is much better, and in great (pi-
ths. After all, the bell likenefs we have teen of him
is by Etssiv, of Birmingham.
The following Epitaph, from the pen of Btu Jou N-
SON, ferves to thew that roung Refciu: is not the only
youthful prodigy the Britith Stage has produced :

ON L. B.
A CHILD OF ctsuce4 CLIZARTH'S CHAFSL.
Weep with me all ye that read
This little Rory,
And know, for whom a tear you flied.
Death's felt Is lorry.
He *as a child that did fo thrive
In grace and feature,
As Heaven and Nature feern'd to 'hive
Which owned the ,reature.
Years he cambered fcaree thirteen,
When Fates turned cruel,
Yet three full Zodiacks had he beene
The Stage's jewel.
And did aft (what now we moane)
Old Men Cu duely,
As foods the Pares thought him one
He plaid fo truely.

So by error to his fate
'1 hey all contented,
But viewing him "Mee (alas! too late)
They have repented.
And have fought (to give new birth)
In bathes to ftcep him,
Nit being fo much too good for earth,
licav,n vow..s to keep bins.
A man of the name of Jones, who, as it appears
from the repoi-t of the trial of fomc United Iriffimen,
fobrequent to the inforrertion of 1798, was once trea•
furor to the United Societies in the dill: in of Ar
magh, and fled with a contiderable (um cf money be.
longing to the difaffe&ed, in the year 1797, it is laid
is now eftablithed in America, where he has acc,nired
contiderable wealth, and has been Come time married
to one of the fitters of the wife of Prince Jssomi.
iAPLITS.

The paragraph which appeared in feveral of the
Writing Papers of the 14th inn. hating that a race
had been rur., for a thoufa d guineas, between the
Telegrap page coach belonging to Mars. ROBERTS
and THOM‘ON, of London, and another coach,
called the Defiance from blanchefler to. London, and
that tl.e Telegraph was overturned at Redhurn, and
confequently gave up the crustal—is, we underhand,
altogether a malicious fabrication ; and we are fully
convinced, from the well known charaaer and re-
fpeaability of Mars. ROBERTS and Tnos•turr; that
they have too much prudence to fport with Their pro-
perty, in the manner alluded to, and ton much re-
gard for the lives and fafety of travellers, to enter-
tain the finalleft idea of fuch a tranfa6liun.

A few days ago a flock of (beep belonging to Mr.
CADDISN, of Stamford, were worried by a dog of the
wolf fpecies, when he deflroyed, and crippled twenty-
three of them ; it kerns this ferocious animal had no
owner in or about the place ; he was fortunately [hot.
On Monday night feveral bars of iron were tholen
from the Anchor-warf, Upper Thames flrett. The
watchmen of she night on Satfron-hill flopped a man
late at night, with a large bar of iron on his (boulder,
feppofcd to be 9olen from the above wharf, and took
him to the watch•houfe.

The poll boy conveying the mail to Wexford was
ityppcd on Frid,sy, the 4th inf. by a 111311 drelred as
A folJier, within a quarter of a Mile of that town,
and robbed of the Wexford and BradwAy bags of
letters.

The poll boy conveying the mail from Waterford
to Carrick-on-Suir, was (lopped between the hours
of twelve and one at noon, on the 3d intl. by two
men, who robbed him of the mails.

On Tuefday ft'nnight, a dead new born child was
laid down in a flair an King-flrcet, Glafgow. The
unnatural mother has not yet been found out.

On Monday fe'nnight, a male child, to appearance
about three weeks old, was lOund at the door of a
hook in Kirkintilloch.

Monday fe'nnight a melancholy accident happen-
ed to a young man of the name of Douglas. He
,end his bt other had been ont Mooting, and when corn-
ing over from 'forty, in lifting the gull, which unfor-
tnnitely had been left loaded, and upon cock, out of
Oie boat, it went off, and lodged the whole contents
Lis hip. He loft an irnmenfe quantity of blood.
Nledizal affillance was fpeedily procured, and hopes
we entertained that be may recover.

Tucfday fennight, betwist ten and eleven o'clock,
t fire broke out in Mr. Warr ri•T's bake-houfe, im-
mediately behind the Dundee New Bank, and the
it,,yal Exchange Affurance Office. It was occafion-
ed. we underhand, by the carelefinels of the perfon
who drew out the oven fire, part of which had un-
oblerved by him, fallen under a table amongft Tome
flick>. The fire was loon got under by the powerful
and well dit cued play of the engines. The bake-houfe
was much damaged, and a great quantity of fhip
bif-
cuit was confumed. The premifcs were not infurcd.
Great apprehenfions were at owe time entertained lea
the fire hhould communicate to an adjoining Rabic,
in which cafe, the Dundee New Bank, and a number
of richly filled ELz warchoufes,, 'weld have been en.
dangtied.

NAUTICAL Iik'TELLIGENCE.

MAILS THIS DAY.—Wind S.S. W.

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waa. IDUZ. Ala. Viet.
WDu at • o I Hamhorik 0
erford o s Jamaica o •

The LIVILY frigate, commanded by Captain Ha.
MOND, has fallen in with, and captured another Spa-
nifh Dollar (hip, a prize valued at too,oool. fterling.
The L,i•aty was not accompanied by any other ve-
le!. This is the fecund Plate (hip which this merito-
rious Officer has been fa fortunate as to fall in with.
The DIAMOND frigate, Captain Ecr HI N svnaE, has
alfo captured a Spanilh fltip of war, raid to he of
great value : the enemy fought the DIAMOND fome
time, and had three men killed, and three wounded
in the aFtion.

The brig Apollo, laden with hides, tallow, and
three chefls of dollars, from the River la Plata, cap-
tured by the FISCAL!) frigate, wac fpol:e with in lat.
51. long. i 6. 20; being leaky, and having only (even
people on board, intended making Come port on the
North Weft Coaft of Ireland.

On Wednefday f:'nnight the lhip Edward arrived
in the port of Limerick from Dublin; about to days
previoully, in lat. 52. long. 18. the fell in with a Spa-
nn fhip from the River Plata, .• den with hides,
dollars, &c. prize to his Majelly's ihip nicest), with
a fignal of diilrefs. Nntwithflanding the tea was run.
ring very high, the Edward boarded her, and took
out the Lieutenant of the Ft SCARD and eleven fea.
men. Shortly after fhe went down.

FALMOUTH, FEBRUARY 4.—Arrived the Fl,xle3r,
TRENARY, from London; GANNET and la POULET7 E
Coops of war, from a cruize.—Put back by contrary
winds, the TOIONSrND packet, Captain DOOO, with
the Mail for Lithos, which failtd from hence on the
lath inflant.—Wind S. W.

PLYMOUTH. JANUARY is. —Came in the Mercury
Spanifh (hip, from Buenos Ayres, bound to Cadiz,
laden with hides. &c. and a quantity of dollars, cap-
tured by the Norma, of 36 suns ; the is Lift from
Ireland. Came in From a cruize the CRESCENT, of
36 guns ; ROiARIO, of ;8 ; WALKER, of t 4 ; and
the STAUNCH, of 14....5ai1ed the QUEEN, Of 98 guns,
to join the Channel Fleet ; alfo an armed fhip, to the
Eaftward, with a fleet under convoy, for the Downs.

POP.TSNIOUTN, JAN. i6.—Arrived the BOADICEA
frigate. Sailed the MkltL IN loop of war, on a cruizp
off Havre. This morning in a hard gale of wind, a
man of war's boat. alfo a tranfport's boat upset, and
feveral lives were 1,11. Alfa arrived the Ca famt.t,
of 20 guns, CllrE:tin TAYLOR, from Lifbun ; and the
SAFEGUARD gun VCITO,II./n1 a EMI= Wind S. S. W.
blows hard.

Drat, Jan. i6.—Arrived the fletriae armed (hip
with a convoy from the Weßward, which are failed
for the River ; the HRLDER remains. Alfo, arrived
Plrastoar•turs frigate, HARPY Hoop of war, fe-
veral gun-brigs from of the French coaft, feveral
armed 'hips from Portfmouth, and retrain in the
Downs with his Majefly's (hips, &c. as per Jail.—
Wind S. W. blows hard.

EAST INDIA SHIPPINCt.
Ye(lmlay a Court of Directors was held at the
Eat' India Houle, when the following Captains were
fworn into the command of their refreaive (hips,
Rationed as under-mentioned, viz.
captain Henry Sturrock, Preftoo, for Madras and Bengal.
Captain Thomas Garland urray. in the room of Captain
rdmeatles, refigned, Lady Callicreagb, fur St. Helena and Ma-
dras.

Captain John Rogers, late Commander of the. Adrriral Aplin,
in the rum; of Captain Met:timer, refizned, General Stuart, for
Madras and Bombay.
The Prellon and Lady Cattlereagh arc appointed
to be in the Downs nn the ad of M:trch; the Cener:ll
Stuart is now at Gravefcnd, and is expened to 11.il
from thence in a few days.
The following Captains took their final leave of the
Court of Directors, previous to departing far their
relpeeive dettinations, as under-mentioned, viz.
Captain J. Sanildands, Walpole, lantern ; Captaiu J. A. Cum-
berkge, Surrey, Si y tons ; Captain E. C. Bradford, 1. ,rd Dun-
can, 830 tons ; Captain Thomas Hudfon, Ceylon, 111/1 tuns, for
Madras and Bengal.
Capt. Anthony Murray, Earl Howe, S;6 tons, for Madras.
Capt. T. Welladvice, Charlton, BtB tons, fur ditto.
Capt. J. C. Loamy, C.armartliets, 550 tuna, fur Madeira, Ms.
dras, and

The following (hips are now under difpatch at the
India Hnufe,

Wexford, Capt. Mite ; Henry Addington Capt. Kirkpatrick ;
Bombay Cattle, Capt. Dorin, and Royat George, Capt. Oribble,
for Bombay and China.

Earl of •Abergascnny, Captain Wordkrorth, for Bengal and
China.

Warren Hafting', Capt. Larkins, tor St. Meier*, Basco°len,
and China.

The above fhips are expeeted to be difpatched in
the courfe of the prefent week.
A new 'hip will, on application made by the owners
of the Admiral Aplin, be allowed to be built in her
room, agreeably to the Aet of Parliament.
Accounts have been received by the Maria coun-
try Ihip, that the Wordforcl, Capt. Maar]r, from
China, and Hugh Inglis, Capt. Faravaz, from Ben-
gal, failed from P:iuce of Wales's Ifland, for Eu-
rope, in company with the Maria, and parted from
her f}mrtly after failing. Thefe (flips may, therefore,
be daily- expeecd to arrive.

The Diana, Nrwsr, from Liverpool for Africa,
is captured by a privateer in Congo River.
The Eliza, LO/UNG, from Monti Video for Lon-
don, has put into Waterford in diflrefs.
The Nancy, Wicsom, from Pition for Scotland,
has been found at Sea, water-logged, and without
any perfon on board, and towed into a port near
Wexford,

The Engli(h (hip, the Exprefs, of 13elfaR, bound
for Nilol, has been Nicer' by w French privitecr,
which has captured three other Englitit brigs befnlis.
The Gtorge, Captain Strarsow, of Greenn7l7, has
been lib taken by a French rivarcer, and carried
into Gnadaloure.---irksor.