Star.
London, England, 1809-05-30 00:00:00

THEATRE-.R0r.41.., HA r-MARKLF

Wednesday night a very numerous, brilliant, 2fli
fashionable audience testihed the high and proper esti.
mation they entertain of Mr. BRANDON'S gellikrnar2,
assiduity inlis situation as Box B )ok, keeper, by at.
tending his benefit. —The entertainments wer.t 41
Cure for the Heart fiche,' and St(MIDAN'S "
which were both admirably performed, and rece;ved
with universal applause.

The comedy of Rule a Wife and Adrie a Wife, w
selected, last night, for the benefit of Mr. Lewis, and
to afford an opportunity to that celebrated and favou.
rite Comedian to take leave of the stage in the dia.
ratter of the Copper Capoin. He never played ,
with more advantage, or: appeared .more .capable of
doing justice to ,he part. ,while the pt.thi,c tauct
regret the loss of so mach excellence, stjil it is a eta.
striation to reflect,. that he retires jaw. the beset:, of
his family, in the full enjoyment of his pcsi,as; fox
nothing can be more painful than to behold an area:
of merit lingering upon -Ore:stage, sine; ills there
only inspire the audicnce.nith a melanckar.olieitrisepm:t
L ranee ofhis former excellenc :
Solve setiescentern mature sanus equum, ne
" Peccet ad extremism ridendus, it ilia dace."
Mr: G made his first appearance in the cha.
raeter*Of Lion. His Affected simplicity
were happily contrasted, and displayed judgment and
discriminatjOn. He "-received . great...applause. The
-char-act:6;ot: Ettifanir was alio siatained, fair the firs
tome, by Mrs. kkesttsc...lottsisnoN.- She displayed in it
considerable •inerit.—After the Comedy, when the
curtain dropped; Mrl Lamm. came forward, aid took
leave of ti audience in the following address :
sr I.4DSZS AND.,.G.E-NtLYPIEN-1 have tbe Idanoier of adds s.
sing you for the last time. ibis is the close of my hevritai
life (loud cri:: cf Ann,' ; and I really Lei so ova rccrne, by tzliii2g
'cave, for ever, of my tritniaind pat..ons, that, migit it r.• t 6e
deemed disrespectful 9rikegl geht:l ttlittlirwish to decline it ; (,1
vy of Go on, go ; aid lord applauie); but It is. s- public diry
which I ose, ancit wid attempt to pay it, 'oonscious
your indurgenee ; for when I remind, you, that I have been ib!ne.
s:z years in your service, and cannot recollict to have once
under your displeasure, my dramatic death minut be met by me
without the strongest eniotians of regret and gratitude.
" I should cat's. nay acknowledgments 'for innumerable acts cf
k:ndusts shewn to my earliest days, and your yet kinder accer-
ia:ice of, and partiality ahivon twiny latest &ems: all these (power-
fully fed, though I have out rite words to tzpress tlicte feelings—
Put -whilst this heart has a sensation, it will beat svitli gratittCe.
Ladies and Gentlemen, with the greatest respect, :1..% if you vial
admit the word, the sincerest affection, I bid you (arcweli."
• During the delivery of this Address, KtoLEwrs
was evidently much affected. His voice faltered, and
the tear started from his eye. The audience Isere
also much affected at this parting scene, and took leave
of their favourite with loud and universal acclarot-
tions.—The house was crowded to excess.
Mr. Lavers was an actor of the old school, and to
the correctness and professional science which distia-
guished the cotemporaries of his early days, he united
all that liveliness, variety and a.him, which have cha-
racterised the comedians of our own time. During
the greater part of his professional life, he devoted
himself entirely to that line of genteel comedy in
which he was so pre-eminent a lusire. Of late ye. rs
he has acted more frequently in the modern comedie.a
than in the plays af the classicaLwriters ; and thiough
his irresistible whimsicality, always added life and
-fire to the farcical pieces that he spoked in, and ex.
Cited never-failing admiration in the public -mind;
yet the full extent cflis. talents cannot be apprtliattd,
except by those who haveseenbisless freqorntbut mei-e
exquisite performances in theidider dramas. The mo-
dern plays, with all their merit, are certainly less
coral told correct in the portraiture of characteroahan
those of some past periodS, and efcourse, thougli...ilre
' most advantageous to actors of mere bustle, are not ate
best calculated to display the powersof those few really .
great performers who.COusider their profession as a scis.
and can discriniinate as well as divert. Thcse,•
therefore, who cc aid fudge of Mr. I.a.wrs'sdramatic abi-
lities, must estimatttim, not merely by the exhibil ions
where nothing -except liveliness and drollery could be
exerted, Vito by those in which all his more re-fined hu-
mour, his subtle conceptions' of comic nature, could
play =easy lightness, unclogged by the earthly weight.
of grosser composition. He was infiuitely comical iii'
his caricatures, but he had the 1411er excellence of
being chastely corhic•in. his characters. We could
laugh at his eccentricity is roung Riolid and in Irony
Dida'ler ; but in AlercutiO.and the eopte,- Ca/Jig:in we
could not only laugh at his .eccentricity, but admire
his discernment of =titre, and his kilo Kletige of art.
To all rho talents of his mind he added, in an emitha-.t
degree, the advantages of person, which he preserved
to his very last performance ; and so singularly harpy
was his manner, that a thousand vagariito which in
less delicate hands would hive degenerate int)
buffoonery or vulgarity, Were with him but gaieties
and amusing whims.

Lord ERSKINE gave a grand dinner, on Sunday, at
his houEe.at Hampstead, to the Earl and Cuunte.s of
JEtt:EY, Lord Kir:swim), and several other Nubility.
Sir GODFIEY WEBST zats,horse Zag is matched
against Colonel TtionsToN.'s. Thorrville, at the first
Ortober Meeting, fur 300 guineas.

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Lord Gttosvrtvoa's Erb,: is matched at the same
•Meeting, against Mr. SliAiEsPEAit's Haritocratts, for
2jo.gulaeas.
The result of the unfortunate affair between Lord
•Pmar and Lady CHARLOTTE: WELLEsLEY hats been,
that Lord PAGE r returns ttk the bosf)m of his family.
He it to live with Lady PAGET, and has left tuwn
with her Ladysh;p fur Beaudesert, in Staffordsh)e.
—He has purchased a house for Lady CliAltLoTtr.
WELLIBLET, in which she now resides, and has made
a settlement upon her ; while Mr. WELLeaLEy IS
eagerly proceeding to obtain a divorce.
SIIADV‘ELL-MAUKET.—The Charter which was
granted by King Charles H. fir holding a market at
Shadwe ll having lain dormant for a great number of
years, it has been lately determined to revive it, OR
account of the increased population And business of
'that district. In compliment to their Royal Founder,
yesterday being the Anniversary of his Re,toraton,
was fixed upon fur the re-opening of the market. It
was opened accordingly with a grand procession cur..
sisting of forty gentlemen on horsebacL. and a band
of music, along. Radcliff-highway to the Minories,
down Rosemary-lane to St. George's Turnpike. to the
New Road, Commercial Road, to Poplar and Black-
wall, and so back through Radcliif, v, pea thy re-
turned to an elegant dinner, under an awning conti-
guous to the market, sufficient to dine 300 people.