Star.
London, England, 1807-12-17 00:00:00

THR/iTRES.

DatIZY LAllll.—Laa night a new Tragedy, avow.
edly the produnion of Mr. GODWIN, WAS pc:formed
at this Theatre. It i, erg itied i'aulener, the ground
work rf which is to he tound i❑ Roxalana, an old
Novel of DAN tri. Der np.—Thc principal chataftert
re ac follow . •

Faulketier
Count J'Auini
Stinky
Ihnedetto
Duke
Gaoler
A rahella
Laureva
Emilia

Mr. P.LWTOM
POWELL
• H. Smoot.:
PACZER.
RAY
SHlrn
- Mr 4 Pawn!.
H. SWOONS
- MirsTIDIWELL

The Scene of this Piece lies in Florence, to which
city Faulkener, an Englilh foldi.:r of fortune, had re.
turned, from the memorable frege of Candia, accom.
panied by his friend Stanley.—Tbe objeet rf the incef•
fent anxiety of the hero of the tragedy is a loft mother,
(Arabella) whom, from a very early age, he bas never
been permitted to fee or hear of, on account of the
milcondua of one pet ind of her life. Her fir& hatband,
the fath.r cf Faulkentr, having been killed in the battle
of Worceller, the had been induced to linen to the fond
protedations or Charles 11, then about her own age,
and became his mill ref:. Afterwards Fortune threw
her in the way of Count d' /lufini, while on a vifit
England, who made her his wife, and carried her to
Florence, where the was refisling at the point of dine
at which the play commences, and where Faulkeaer
fita, after a long abfence, obtains a fight of her, at a
grand mafquerade, through the apparent good offices
of Benedetto, a relative e,f the houfe of Aslini, but who
is devoted to lauretta del Monte, a former and vindic-
tiie mittrefs of the Count, who, having learned the
hillory of Arabella, avails herfelf of that knowledge,
to infpire dillru& and animofity among all parties.—
This malevolent agency leads to a feries of horrid,
events, in the produdioa f which little regard is paid
to poetical 011ie:, and as little dramatic skill it
manifelled in bringing about a denouement for the infor-
=don of the parties concerned, of which the audi.
ence is fully acquainted from the beginning, and
which after all is very unfiti,fadory.—The language
of this pieclis ftrongly marked with the peculiar Ryle
of the Author, alternately laboured and puerile. It
is prole, but not colloquial ; yet is, notwithftanding,
here and there very impaffioned, though, as to the
moral object of the Author, we are altogether at
Ids to find it nut.

The ailing of Et.t.rrrou was admirable ; and that
of HARRY Sinuous was delaying of much commen-
dation. Mrs. Powat.t. exerted herfelf with confider-
able effe& in the Counrys ; and Mrs. H. SIMONS/
laboured with fuccefs in t aureita—a part very
fuited to her talents, as indeed the ccmfelfed in an
apologetical Epilogue, well delivered. The Prologue
croaked out in mail fepulchral tone by Etas, limply
told us, that the [tory of the piece was taken from
the works of the Author of Robinfon Crufoe.
The audience eras very numerous, but far from
unanimous in their approbation of the Tragedy, on
its being given out for a future reprefentation.

COVENT GARDIN..--1,0 night Sir JOHN VAN.
BURGH'S CO/Dedr of The Confitkraty, was revived at
this "Cheatte.—The performers acquitted them(elves
well in their feveral parts. The Corinna of Mils Noa:
TON, and the Fhppanta of Mts. Marroces were par-
titularly entitled to praife. Mr. Jonas, in Dick "fink!,
and Mr."Litwis, in Brafs, did every thing that could
be expeEted from thecharafters which they fupported.
Ti e Moneytriip of Mr. MUNDEN was highly arnufing.
Gripe was rather out of Mr. EMERY'S hue ; but what.
ever ccu'a be done for the part he ad.
The route was well filled, and the play well re-
ceived.

The caufe of capture of merchant chips in the
Baltic, by open boats, is chiefly owing to the matters
and crews themfelves. They have cannon and fmall
arm► on board, it is true, but the former are either
lumbered up, or in qo condition to fire ; and th;
latter, red with ruff, or perhaps not one in three have
locks or flints.

A Telegraph communicating with Yarmouth is
now erefltng, and nearly completed, on Rymer
Heath, between Thetford and Bury. This will
nearly complete the chain of communication between
theAdmiraltiand the aboire port.
LaR night Gregfon and -Gulley met, by appoint.
ment, and agreed to fight oil the
.itit of next May,
for Soo guineai a fide. ~ • ; ..•-• •
In the Court of Chancery, yetierday morning, jolt
al
as the Loao CuaNcszt.oe. took his feat, he was ',
dreffed by a woman of mean appearance, cillin '
herfelf Elizabeth Davis, who raid, the came to folic*
jultice ; that a Lady Burgefs had left her fume
property, of which the Parith Officers of Fordea,
Welch Pool, in Mnntgomeryfhire, hattgot poifeffion,
and driven her hufband, a cripple, with 7 children,
out of the print, and had fent men, with knives, to
murder her. She then proceeded to abate lawyers
and their big wigs. The unfortunate woman bad
every appearance of infanify. His Lordfhip ordered
her to be removed out of Court.
A Gentleman in Portland Road, who has retired
from the bufy fcenes of life, received an unexpeded
letter on Saturday from a Clergyman at Wellington,
near Devizes, at whole hoofe his daughter, a young
.Lady, 19 years of age, was receiving private tuition,
eating that it was abfolutely necellaw for her to be
. removed, to prevent her eloping with a Rodent of
Winchefter, who had fought by various ftratagems
to accomplilh fuch an objettf; and by a Mkt dew
found in the poffeffion of the young Lady, a day was
fixed for what was termed her deliverance. The uncle
of the young Lady proceeded accordingly to Wel-
lington with an Officer, but on their arrival there on
Monday morning, the had clandeftinely made 2111
efcape about two hours before with her lover. The
fugitives were purfued to Mare, a village in Somer.
fetthire, where they were farprifed at dinner by their
put fuers. The young Lady arrived is town yelterdaYs
with her uncle, who concluded her home.

Moans R.—Barbara Malcolm was a few days nue
committed to Edinburgh jail, charged with poifon-
ing her daughter, aged 18 months. Under pretence
of giving the infant a medicine for cold, the forced
down its throat a qoantity of .aqua fortis and arfe-
nic, of which it died in extreme agony in a few hours.
So potent was the deleterious mixture, that the
bottom of a new tin jug in which it was Cons tirteJ
was in a few minutes dcatoyed.