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apptate, declared the enthttrultie ideliratioli of die
audience.
When, its the fiatrlit ael he difeottered hittifeif to
Awbarop, the'Prirree Was revealed in a blaie of Ma-
jelly that feemed to awe the Ufnrper; and ahhoiigh
the ipterell of the Tragedy is but poorly managed,
inv the fifth, his genius kept it nearly nu an equality
4:h the preceding fcenes, to the end of the piece.
when he delivered lre following concluding linis with
fuels an awful dignity as made us entirely lofe fight of
the boy, and think we were liftening to an after of
veteran celebi it y •
" Now let us thank the Eternal Powers convinced,
. That Heaven but tries ot.' virtue by affliction:
" That oft the cloud which wraps the prefent hour,
" Serves but to brighten all our future days!"
We confefs we went to the Theatre rather fcepti-
cal, after all we had heard ; but we now acknowledge,
that the powers of this young aftor are aftonifhing
he is, however, as we have hinted, a mere boy ; and
we could with that, after he has gratified the impa-
tient town with a difplay of his abilities in all his prin-
cipal parts, he would retire to his Rudy till time has
ripened him to man—At prefent, he is not without
his faults. In Tome palTages there is, perhaps, too
great a rapidity of utterance, and his aftion may be
conlidered by the CIA judges of the art, too unre-
tirained and vehement. His grand claim to pre•emi-
nence in the profeffion is feeling, which fo happily
varies with the motives and cues for pallion as to ap-
pear the working of Nature herfelf. His deportment
is dignified and graeefol without affeEtation, and his
voice is firring and diftind, and, with very few es-
eeptiow, finely modulated.
On the fall of the curtain, on Saturday night, nine
fucceffive plaudits crowned his labours, which were
repeated, on his fccond performance of the fame cha-
raeler being announced for this evening.
With the exception of Mrs. 'Arc FIELD in Zatbira,
Mrs. H. Smoot:. in Irene, and ME'lltAY in °Oman, the
red of the charaClers were vet) languidly performed.
The PRINCE of Watts fat in Lady Ms Lemma e's
box, where his Royal Highnefs remained an atten-
tive obferver of the aftoniThing performance of the
Infant Rosctus. In the Icetie where he difcovers
himfelf, and points to the (car on his forehead, the
Prince toot the lead in the loud and reiterated burgs
of applaufe, which attended that uncommonly great
difplay cf his talents.
In the interval between the fir' fcene and the time
of Matter BETTY'S coming forward, he fat on a
bench in the Green Room by the fide of Mr. KNIGHT,
the Comedian, where, inftead of being employed, as
other performers were, in reading his part, he amuf-
ed hittifelf in playing non:beliefs boyith tricks with
that Gentleman. He fot Dade the ?rtimpter to affil
him, and indeed his affiltance would have been alto-
gether unn:ceffary. Behind the fcenes were many of
the &ft perfonages, botl: for rank and learning in
the country. Bet:des the LORD CHILI BARON, Lord
Metvitts, Mr. Coss r, the Counfel, &c. there were
all the theatrical judges of merit. Mr. Cotsiew was
there, and he (poke of the youth in terms of the
molt enthufiallic admiration. Mr. K ZAMA'S eye.
were riveted on him whenever he appe tred, and that
great connoifeur did not vrith•hold his due weed of
praife. Behind the fcenes alt.() were numerous groups'
of Ladies of the kit {Albion, who were content to
Rand doting the whole of the performance, in any
hole or corner where they could het a glimpfe of the
wonderful boy. In the impaffuned fcenes where he
was ffw wonderfully great, not only the tender-heart-
ed fair flied tears in abundance, but even the molt
veteran performers did the fame. The father of
young BUTT! was behind the fcenes during the
whole of the play ; and when it finifhed. he hurried
the boy off the Rage through a private door, in an
inflant no doubt to avoid the crowd who would have
preffej upon him with their congratulations. He
will play every night this week, an exertion almoft
too great for his tender years and ftripling form.
We luppofe, on no former occalion was the Thea-
tre fo completely filled ; few, however, Raid to fee
the Farce.
Maxims ox TNa YouNG Roscius.—Upon the
following Raternent, from the molt authentic fources,
perfect re.iance may be placed :
WILLIAM HINItY WEST BITTY, the Young Rof-
eine, only fon of Witt tam Hiner BETTY, was born
on the ,3th of September. t 79 t, as appears from the
peril regifter of the church of St. Chad, in Shrewf
bury. Mr. Berm the father, was the fon of Dr.
Br rrv, a phyfician of eminence at Lilbourn, not far
from Belfalt, in the north of Ireland, at whole death
lie became pnfic Wed of a handfome independent for
lune. His wife was Mils MALT STANTON, thc daugh-
ter of a reipedable gentleman in the county of Wor-
celler, a Lady of good education and high accom-
plifhments, who brought him a Tell:et:able fortune,
part of which, it is laid, is entailed on the young gen,
ticman who is the fubjeA of thcfe memoirs. it has
been frequently laid, that Mitt STANTON had
ore
in
formerly either a performer on a public Rage,
the frequent habit( f aflit g;in private theatres; neither
of which reports have the 'Mallet foundation intruth.
Mr. Barry, at the time oldie birth cat his Inn lived
within a finall dialance of Shrew fhttry, from whence
he removed, a few years after, to the neighbourhood
of his native place, in the north of Ireland. He oc-
cupied a tarm, and alio carried on fume bufineli re.
lating to the linen manufadory, near Ballyhinch, in
the county of Down.
In the fummer of 1802, the play of Pizarro was
brought out by the Belfall manager with much fplen
dor, and bits. SIDDONS was the Elmira. As Mr.
BETTY and his fon happened to be in the town, they
were induced to go to the theatre, being the Rift time
that Mailer BE TT Y had ever fret: a play. From this
moment his fate was decided. When he came home
he told his father with at look of fuch entlitilialm, and
a voice C. palbet;e, that thole who heard him will
never forget the es; r _Rion, "
'hat he fhould
f crafting
die, if he mull n. ta• plas er.Th• wonderl
of Mrs. Smoot: a, tint eatily to he Ingot-
phlegmatic, had lett an imprelLon
to
by the moll
on his glowing mind, which rot liing could ever crate.
Every thing was negleCted for his !a•ourite objet ;
and every thing not eonnetcd w ith it became tirelome
and infipid. His propensity grew visibly inure
to.,trd by time ; his importunities were irreldlible ;
and l is parents at length, finding all oppolition un-
availing, were compelled to think ferinufly of the
praeli..ability of iadidging him. The happy moment
;.q. length :strived, which Was to realize OUT "MOE'S
imres and mifilev. Mr. ATKINS, the Manager
of the Bahia Comp ail, induced by the reports he

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bid iticeihd, tad Iblititoisx to firing ortilar
extraordinary novelty okaecount of the extreme d:
preflicin of the times*, offered him an engagement to
plafr at Belfaft, for four nights. Accordingly about
the middle of Auguft, in the year 51103, lse announced
the tragedy of Zara, the part of Climax to be under-
taken by a Trial Gentleman only elrreti 'tars of age.
The fingularity of the exhibition drew together a ;
great crowd of people, who were equally ationithed
and enraptured at the performance of the young attar.
He af etwirds performed with increared celebrity
ho the fame Rage, the characters of Doug/at. Rolla,
and Rosa. With his fuccefs in other parts of Ire-
land, in Scotland, and feveral towns in England, par-
ticularly Birmingham and Liverpool, the Public are
perfeelly acquainted through the medium of the
daily prints, and it only remained for a London au-
dience to witnefs the rare difpl.ty of his talent,, to
confirm the tributes of panegyric previoufly crinfer-
red upon his different performances. In his private
deportment he exhibits the manner and feelings of
boys of his own age. He is fond of, and participates
in, the ufiral games and fpnrts of youth. His difpo-
fition is remarkably docile and benevlent, and he is
free from all pride and vanity, but padres a juft
confidence in his genius and proters.
• The much lamented bifurcation In Dublin. which ceded the.
death of Lord Kilwarden, had recently taken psca, and had
fluent a great aunt over all parts of the country.

LOIN tIVTEL LIGEtt CB.

COURT OP KING'S BENCH, NOVeMBER ;to.
1.1 V. VAUGHASI.
This was an aElion to recover goof. on a policy of
infurance, made bf the Defendant on a cargo of flour
(hipped on board the Prefident, from New York to
Gibraltar, on the zd March, sBo r.
Mr. GI sus Paid that this cafe lay within a very. nar-
row compafs. The plaintiff having a contrail to (ap-
ply the garrifon of Gibraltar with a qtrantity of flour,
Ihipped the fame on board the Pi ef,dent, &mind from
New York to Gibraltar. Wifhing to infure this cargo,
his clerk went to Lloyd's. where he met with the de-
fendant and Cetera] other underwriters. Having ex•
plained to the Defendant the nature of the infurance
he wifhed to have executed, it was explained that there
were reports at Lloyd's, that the Spaniards about that
time had been making captures of (hips from America
to Gibraltar. On this ground, the premium deman.
ded, mid at which the policy bad been underwritten,
was ten per cent. although at the tame time common
infurance ran only from a to 3 per cent. • The (hip
tailed from New York for the place of deflination,
and in the Straits (he was (urrounded, taken. and car
tied into Algefiras. To recover the amount of the
policy this adion was brought.
Mr. Lander, clerk to the Plaintiff, who lead got
the policy executed, and other witnelfes, proved the
flatenient of Mr. Gibbs.
Mr. Emma, for the Defendant. raid that there
were here, to his mind, fufficient grounds to induce
hem to fubmit to his Lorelfhip, that the cafe might not
to go to a Jury, but that the Plaintiff (honk' be non
fished. In the policy, the flip to be infured was de-
fcribed as being the American (kip Prefident, or by
whatever other name the might be called ; but in re-
ality, the name of the (hip was the American Preli-
dent, a name which did not at all correfpond with the
defcription given in the policy, a defcrlption which,
he maintained, the Plaintiff was bound to warrant.
Lord ELLINBOROUCH faki, that it did not teem to
him that the defcription in the policy went the length
of inferring a warranty again(( the Plaintiff. It mere-
ly amounted to a denomination, which was fuflic:ently
evidenced by the fubfequent words—" or by whatever
other name fhe may be called." It was often impof-
fible, in the cafe of foreign (hips, or, where the (hip
on which the policy was to be executed, was at a dif-
, tance, to give the name with minute accuracy. It
was, he thought, fufficient, that no doubt (hould re-
main as to the identity of the (hip meant to be Minted.
Theg
Jury accordingly found for the plaintiff, re•
retyin to Mr. Emmert, on the ground of objedion
'• he had Rated, to move the Court for leave to enter a
nonfuit.
Lord ELLESISOROUGN having quitted the Court,
• his feat was taken by Mr. plaice LAWAINCI, before
whom the following cafe was tried :
GARDIISIt V. SCALES.
Mr. Gaer.ow flated,that this was an action brought
by the Plaintiff, a wine and brandy merchant, to re-
' cover from the Defendant the fum of soh 5.. being
the price of wine furnithed to the Defendant. He
had been informed, bat he could not believe it poffi-
ble, that a defence of a mull difgraceful kind, and
one which, if made, he could not vampire to any
thing flout of an attempt to fwindle, was to be fet
up in this cite. The Defendant had been introduced
by his father, an opulent and refpeilable man, both
at a banking-bottle of eminence in the City, and to
the acquaintance of feveral merchants in the whole-
Isle trade, as a perfon who, bearing every appearance
of braving reached the years of manhood, had been
fettled by his father in Inch a (tile as to enable him
to carry on a contiderable export trade to the Well
Indies. He kept a counting bottle and lodgings in
town, and a country !route on Blackheath. He frit-
ed his crinkle and lervanr, and in every rtipoft bore !
the marks of an extenlive and opulent London mer-
chant. ('rider thcfe appearance., and knowing
that his father had introduced him as a fit pet lon
to be dealt with and nulled by other merchants, the
Plaintiff had carried on trantaftions with him to a
confiderable e‘teia. 'this, however, was not the
prefent fubjea of inquiry. What the Jury were now
called on to award to the Plaintiff was the firm of
Sal. for wine fmnill•ed to the defendant, for hi, own
private rife, and that of his friends.
The farts of the deliver y to the defend int of tt,e
wine in torellion ; of his lather's having givers f.im
credit with a banking 'mule, and having introduced
him to tome merchants of his acquarna.nee as an ex'
'curiae export merchant ; and of the eleg rut Rile
in
which the delendanillived, being prove alr.Garrow
do I tred the plaintiff's cite concluded.
Mr. WIGLSY then Paid, that the defence he was
inlitneted to make, nonvithfiantling Mr. Gar row's
expeclations to the contrary, was minority.
'lie prove this haft, he -adduced the torgeon rho
had :Milled in bringing the defendant into the world,
and l,is father, from whole evidence it appeared that
the defendant WAS not major till the sth of next month.
Mr. Gaairow, in a very animated and perfoafive
fpeech, called the attention of the Jury to what ought
with propriety and jutlice be deemed neceffaries to a
merchant of the City of Loodor, liv'ng in the Rae of

Fle at which k*a primed the derealme ltd
maintained ; recommended by his father, en olpolent
and relpatable man, not likely to be lapelled of
deceit, as a fit perfon with whom commercial deal.
ings might be had ; and, alluding to the extrema:
fiance of the age in which we lived, and in which tee
within thefe so years was elleented the &remelt lux-
ury, was to be ken in every hedge cottage where a
kettle was pot on the fire—maintained that neither in
minim, nor in the generally received notions of pro;
priety, could the furnifhing of fix dozen of three dif-
ferent kinds of wine be viewed in any other light
than that of neceffaries, to a perfon holding nut abetabet
appearance which the defendant had borne. The
plaintiff had, by his appearance, been defrauded out
of 25001. which, in mercantile concerns, he had en. ,
trutted to the defendant ; but he nulled the defier
dant's plea of minority would not here avail him.
Sir Jullice Lawasaca could not think that the
article of tea, which now, fo far from being an ea-
penfive luxury, was the cheapen beverage which the
common people of this country could command, af-
forded a fair or jolt illutlratirn of the argument of the
Learned Conflict. If the Jury were of opinion that
the furnillt,og of Wine to the extent of Sol. at a tithe,
was atedirry to a young man like the defendant, who,
before he came of age, had fpentr toool. which his fa-
ther (a Tile-maker) had bellowed on him, merely be-
caufe he kept a counting haute in the City, furndhed
lodgings, and a female friend in the weft end of the
town, and a country haute on Blackheath, they would
find for the Plaintiff ; otherwife they would find for
the Defendant. •
The Jury found for the Plaint:if—Damages 501. ft.
aaae W. THQMION.
This was an anion brought by the plaintiff to re-
cover wages to a certain amount from thedefendant;
who is a merchant, and had employed the plaintiff as
a clerk.
Mr. Gm's opened the cafe by Rating, that in con-
fequence of learning that the defendant wanted a
clerk, the plaintiff's father applied to him, offering
his fun for that fitoation. An agreement was ver-
bally made, that the plaintiff &mild he paid at the
fame rate at which the former clerk had been paid,
which was 351. for the fire year, 421. for the farm&
year, and col. for the third. The defendant, how-
ever, MAI ved, that it would be neceffary to have the
young man for a little time upon trial, before lee
could engage him for three years. The plaintiff ac-
cordingly did the duty of clerk for the defendant for
the (pace of four months and ten days, after which
the defendant wrote to the plaintiff's father, inform.
inn him that he could engage his fon only at the rate
of act. f..r the fire year, eel, for the fecond, and 301.
for the third ; and that it this was not agreeable to
the father, defining him to call and receive the boy's
wages for four months at the rate of aol. a year.
The learned Connfel mentioned Come intances ef the
tilefulnes of the yottng man to the defendant, who
had drawn a bill and got him to accept. The de-
fendant, he contended, atter having fixed the rate of
351. a-year, might net to be allowed to pay only at
the rate of zol. a-year had been uttered, but
properly refuted by the plaintiff's father.
The evidence on the part of the plaintiff went to
prove the agreement to pay at the rate of 351. a
year. That a trial was agreed upon was admitted,
but all the time that the defendant kept the young
man, he was to pay him at the rate of 351. a year. •
Mr. GAIROW, on the part of the defendant, Rated
that 61. 13s. 4d had been paid into Court, which
were the wages for four months at the rare of aol.
a year, which was all that the fervices of the boy
deferved. He was called out of a Sunday fchool,
and was only ts .) cars of age, Co that he was pertai-
n ignorant of the world and of Winds when he en-
gaged in the defendant's fervice. The jury would
confider that the boy had acquired a knowledge of
bufinefs with the Defendant which was more than
adequate to his fervices ; and bearing this on their
minds, he hi pell they would think the fain paid into
Court to be amply fitfficient for the plaintiff.
Lord Et.t. ea tosouo a, in fumming up the evi-
dence, obferved, that during all the time the plain.
tiff was in the fervice of the defendant, he had
boarded with his father, and preffed upon the Jury
the propriety of taking this into their confiderauon,
while fettiing what was a reaconable rum for the
plaintiff's Cervices.
The Jury found that the plaintiff had a right to be
paid at the rate of 351. a•year, and therefore in addi-
tion to the Cum already in Court, gave sl. •

PALACE COURT, NOV. so.
PASCO6 Aan WITS V. FRAM".
Mr. Haar, in fupport of the motion made on a
former day for granting a new trial in this cafe, re• •
plied to the various arguments which had been Co
ably urged by Mr. Agar at the time when the mo-
tion was made. He then with the utninft candour
and liberality conk a regular review of all the diffe-
rent cafes which the ingenuity and indullry of that
learned Gentleman had fuggefted. He maintained,
however, upoil the whole, that, though the general
weight of attain' ity appeased to be againtl the prac-
tice of Judges in the interior Courts granting a new
trial to be had before themfelves, yet that the rear=
of the cafe molt appear very llrong from a reference
to the praftice which is now become fo general in the
higher Courts. His client was aAing as a Magiftrato
in endeavouting inn liipprefs the tumult which the
Plaintiff and her alinciates were railing in calling out
Barden for ever," and dillurbing the peace of the
neighbourhood. He did not complain of the bard-
thip of having to pay the damages of 51 he only
endeavoured to alien and maintain the honour and
chs. after of the Magill rates of Middlefix, and in that
to Inpport the independence of the Magiffracy is m-
utt al throughout the Empire.
Mr. SetitAilt MARSHAL, the Judge of this Court,
recapitulated all the arguments which had been urg-
ed, and adverted to the various precedents whicla
had been quoted by the learned Counfel on both fides,
and complimented them in the midi flattering terms
for the liberality with which they had &Cuffed the
quellion before the Court. Upon the whole, he con.
ciuded that he did not conceive the prefent to be a
cafe of fuch importance as to authorife him to ditlurb
the verdiA nt the Jury. But, if the damages were
of much greater magnitude, he Ihould (et slide the
verditi, and leave the Plaintiff to Peek his redrefs in
the Court of Kiny,'s Bench. This was not fo
portant a cafe es to induce him to adopt that moss
of aCtingt He therettrse ordered that the rile be
difcharged.