Star.
London, England, 1802-12-24 00:00:00

THEATRICALS.

COVENT-GARDEN THICATRE—CATO.
Thole who hate read Dummies Critique on tint
play, muff have 'gone to the Theatre with no
hopes of rational entertainment. Thole who hale
formed their talte according to the Pizarro: and
yemaa: of the prefent times, according to the
paatomimical machineries of Modern dramas,
could not expea to be dazzled with the fplendour
of fcenery in a play, in which the Author has fo
carefully preferred the unity of place as well as of
time, that he has made the Governor of Utica's
4di the.fcene of the confpiracy again ft him and
Arad his daughter. All thefe, however, mutt
have experienced a plaafnre,heightened in propor.
tion to their moderate expedations. The Managers
have frequent changes of fcenery, which divert
the eye, and gratify the imagination. The adion
of the play paffes in Utica, but the fpeetator can
as estfily fancy that the fcene is fometimes in a
areet, fometimes in a court, on the fea fliore, on
the ramparts, as confined to one room. Path pc
the violation of the unity of time is more offenlive
to the talk and the imagination.
Whi,liwe applaud the changes, we do not mean
to praife the varieties of architedure,in the fcenery.
Sometimes we obferved the Grecian, fometimes
the Gothic (Lyle. The dreffes too were not exael
in every particular. That of Portia: was the molt
claffical.

The ading was, on the whole, excellent. We
do not remember to have ever feen COOK,E more
applauded. Some palages drew, and defervedly,
reiterated burfts of applaufe. The roughnefs of
his voice well agrees with the fternnefs of Cato's
difpofition. If he fometimes was deficient in dig.
pity, he was always Itriking and impreflive. We
were often reminded of HORACE'S ohfervation
Cutlets terrarum fubadta,
Prater atrocem animum CATO NI I.

The fcene in which the dead Marrrat is intro.
duced, was deeply felt and loudly applauded.—
No fpeech was ever delivered with more effeet on
the heart and underllanding than the celebrated
foliloqup . This was indeed COOKE'S acme of
perfeetion. We do not think he was fufficiently
impreffive in the dying fcene.
H. SIDDONS and H. JOHNSTON did great juffice
to Portia: and Marcus. They were both charade-
riftically difcriminatiag. BRUNTON pleafed us in
Tula.
MURRAY was fometimes comically quaint.
fometimes ridiculaufly ranting in Sythax. The
impetuous hurricane of his manner was almoft
fufficient to

44 Teas up the fands, and fweep whole plains away."

Mrs. 11!TCHF: R LI) and Mils MARRIOTT were
defervedly admired in Portia and in Lucid. The
former is always challe and dignified—the latter
was loft and pathetic, and is a great acquifition
to the Ow
CoonMght have afted &ft:p.*4u better.—Of
Lutist the lets is fai4, the better.

The Senators appear to be the identical Geode•
men, in the identical dreffes, employed in the Se-
nate fcene of the Merchant of reale:.
Some pafrages in the play were generally felt as
arietly applicable to Bonaparte. It were almolt
endlefs to enumerate them.

The dead mirOb on the introduCtion of the body
of Mama would have a much more (triking effea
if it were played behind the fcenes. At the con•
elution of the Play, the mawkiflt falntations to the
audience are fbockingly-difgulling. The furviving
ACtors ought to place themfelves in attitudes of
mourning over the body of Com while the curtain
is defcending.
Why in the pronunciation of the word Cato, the
Performers adopt the broad Scotch manner, we
cannot conceive ? Let them afk an Eton or a
Weitminiker boy, and they will be fet right.

The banns of marriage between Lord ANDOVER
and the Hon. Mifs DUTTON, were publifhed for
the firft time, laft Sunday, at St. George's, Ha-
nover-fquare, and Mary-la-bonne churches.
The Hon. HERCULES ROBERT PAKENHAH, of
Caius College (fon of Lord Loworoao), and the
Hon. HENRY CUST, of Trinity College (fecond fon
of Lord Iltowmt.ow), are admitted Honorary
Mailers of Arts at Cambridge.
The fon of the late GILBERT WAKEFIELD is faid
to have been admitted on the Charter-houfe Foun-
dation, under the patronage of Lord THURLOW
Dr: BaILE, the Redtor of Wythyham, in Suf-
fer, has diftributed, by the Duchefs of DORSET'S
order, thirty pounds among the indigent inhabi-
tants of that village, where her Grace's liberali-
ties render her umverfally beloved : and twenty
pounds to the poor of Sackville College, Eaft
Grin Read.

Sir G. S. EVELYN has given 2001. to be applied
to the releafe of poor debtors in Warwick gaol :
in confequence of this benevolent donation, 17
perfons have been reftored to fociety.
Lord CLiva has fought out the filler of that
unfortunate Commandant, SYR!) IBRAHIM, Who
fell a facrifice to fidelity and honour in one of
Tirtoo's dungeons. His pay is to be conferred
on his finer as a penfion, and a monument is to
be eredted to his memory.
The Earl of WARWICK has recently dircovered
on his eftate a valuable and eztenfive ilratum of
earth, which nfst only cuts like Soap, but is found
to pofrefs all the qualities of that ureful article v'r-
a principal Clothier in the Welt of England has
engaged to take too tons weight of it at a high
price !
Awrtortrry.—A curious piece of very ancient
marble was lately found thrown afide in the poul-
try-yard of the late Earl of Deseoatiuc H at Roe-
hampton. It contains a long infcription in the
Greek language, upon a man who had paired
through various fituations in life. Mr. Town LEY,
who is to defervedly efteemed for his talk and
knowledge in the reliques of ancient art, has bad
an engraving made of this (lone, for his private
friends, 4nd the infcription has been elucidated
with
_great learning and acumen by tie Rev;
Mr. XV.,

AMISS. •
WRITTEN BY A GENTLEMAN OP THE ISLAND,

AND SPOILIN IT MISS STRATTON,
AT THE THEATRE kOVAL, JERSEY,
carton of a Play performed ror the benefit of the Gene:al
Hofpital, November 6, 1802.
She enters with a bag in her hand.

the tickets gone !—yes, none remain
'cold, unfeeling bofonis to complain.
'boll dale to fay, in this dramatic dome,
That charity begins, and ends at borne

! in her caufe ;he gentle Km fo hearty,
Have dropt their lov'd quadrille, their evening party;
And furr, by her illum'd, their beauties thine,
7ith brighter teams, with radiance more divine.
The pliant Cilia', whofe firm and Ready hand
')ireets the helm of state, and rules this land,
, Europe's well fought fields who fought a name, ,
And earn'd, in either Ind, the wreath of fame,
here deigns, to froth diftrefs, a while to (teal
, few Mort moments from the public weal.
The MAnisTRATi, on whom no bribes prevail,
Who of (tern juftiee holds th'iMpartial fcale,
IVhofe keen difcernment, and pervading fight
Dart through the tangled maze of wrong and right,
this night's Adion finds no fatal flaw,
Pity his code, humanity his law.
The hieleaatlT tunic, oh deeds of virtue bent;
Tenets his tale of three, his five per cent.
To feed the poor his golden ftom unlocks,
And welts his money in the heft of flocks.
There fits the generous SZAMAN—honeft Jack
Hu Lithtt ftect'd without a fingle tack ;
His foul, tonfin'tl within no narrow (cope,
To fwect benevolence gives ample rope,
Throws to the finking wretch the friendly oar,
'When the winds whittle, and the waters roar..
And You, ohoref. whom no vain cares annoy,
Children of whimfteality and joy,
Vont id siiistody phrafe, devoid of art,
o tpcak tltb cankers feelings of your heatt,
'on would not front the poor your mite withdraw I
lot out—oh, no!—not one cried, envoi Jiat.
Hark ! from you houfe, retreat of human woes,
'hex Mifery reeks relief, and Pain repofe ;
Wheys, defolite and Torn, the Widow flies,
o breathe, in peace, her melancholy fighs,
Where the jioor Orphan weeps no more his doom,
And Age, in comfort, totters to the tomb;

:or yeti, their kind Prqtedors, and their Friends,
Their prayer, in gratitude of foul, afcends,
o'er their wan cheeks behold the colours rife,
And tears of rapture gliften in their eyes!
timer:cc!, proceed !—while thus your hearts bemoan,
And make the Four man's fufferinis all your own,
And, pouring bleffmgs in a copious flood,
tnjoy the luxury of doing good.
Your bright example maU inftrua mankind,
Azd mould to virtuous alts the public mind !
• General GORDON, torevpuder in Chief.
The Gallery.
$ The Jerky dialed for .• hula.

, fetters from the Hague ialtie the Dutch Eaft
Indiaman, lately loft'upon the Englifb coaft, at
two millions of florins. The Captain's Lady was
'foittittately left at \AM fterdam.
The Catholic inhabitants of the Batavian Re-
Public have prefented an Address to the Govern-
ment, praying for the fame privileges to hagrant-
ed to them, with refped to the erection of churches
for the exercife of their worship, as are peered
by the Members of the Reformed Religion, a re-
queft which, it is not doubted, the Government
will acetic to.
On Monday fe'nnight Mr. Moles T. Gabitus,
a confiderable farmer at Brnifyard, near Sasmund;
barn, left his houfe, and went to the Halefworth
Bank, from which he chew the fum of 4501. fence
which be has never been,heard of. His houfe was
found not far from home late on the Tuefday
evening ; that gave alarm, and fervants were fent
in all direCtions to leek hint. On the Wednefday
morning his hat and pocket-book were found on
the entrance into the Bruifyard Wood, which has
given a fufpicion of his being -murdered. The
tstod has been fearched, and all the ponds drag-
ged, but to no purpofe.
The tare mannfcripts and other valuable books
brought to this country by Mr. CR ma, of Suffer,
and the Rev.Mr.CLAIME, are principally intended
to enrich the library'of Jefus College, Cambridge.
The whole collection made by thefe gentlemen is
contained in. 183 cafes, illufirating the Natural and
Moral Hiftory of the various people they vifited,
in a journey from the 69th degree of North latitude
to the territories of Circaftia and the fhores of the
Nile. The Botanic part contains the Herbary of the
celebrated Pallas, enriched by the contributions of
Linnseus, and his numerous literary friends. With
the minerals are feveral new lubflances, and the
tareft productions of the Siberian Mines. Among
the antiquities are various lufcriptions and Bas-
Reliefs, relative to obfervations made in the plain
of Troy, and which were announced by Monfieur
Chevalier, in France, in the lift edition of his work
'The Medalicferies,eontains feveral coins of Greece,
and of the Kings of Parthia, hitherto unknown.—
The mannfcripts are in Hebrew, Coptic, Arabic,
Abyflinian, Perfian, Turkifh, and the language of
Thibet Tartary ; and in the Greek and Latin lan-
guages are feveral manufcripts of the Claffics, of
tie Gofpels, and the writings of the earlieft Fa-
thers of the Church. In addition to thefe, the col-
leelion contains Greek Vales, Gems, Sculptures,
and many remai kablc Egyptian Monuments from
the ruins of the city of Sais, difcovered by thefe
travellers in the Delta, after the evacuation of
Egypt by the French. Alio numerous original
Drawings, Maps, Charts, Plans, Istoclels,and Seeds
of many rare and ufcful Plants; the -Habits, thew
fill, Idols of the inhabitants of the Alentan Met,
brought by Billings to Ruffia, after his expedition
to the countries lying between Kamtfchatka and the
N.W. coaft of America, with many Geographical
Obfervations; the publication of which was fo long
with-held by order of the Ruffian Government.

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