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London, England, 1817-03-17 00:00:00

EPILOGUE

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TO THE NEW TRIOMF OF “ MANUEL*
Frothesalet it'Drury-Lane Thom.

.171.01111•11 T MIS, !CARDIN.
Clad is she gene, and husb'd by Death's relief,
Lie Measure madness, and drilVell grief:
Let me thee o'er their graves roam broken hearted,-
And read the epitaphs on all departed.
No formal burial needs, (or be it known,
Parnassus has a church-yard of its own ;
There honour••1111, with fitting tombs recline,
The Mil heroes of the glowing Nine.
There rands the sepulchre, where rapture views
Eiatorob•id, tbe.off-pring of our Swett 's Muse;
• And on its base has many a bard and sage •
His comments grac'd through every after age,
By hohouring them I,w/made himself be known,
And by their names int:metalled his own.
There Norval rests, there Zoete', guilty pride,
There Is jer sleeps by Brighter,' s side;
Thence at your potent call they rise, and here
Revive and live again their short career; •
Then sink as your applause or frowns may doom,
To short repose, or an eternal tomb.
Then let me try to deck with fitting glory
Those heroes, who to-night have (den before you.
Here lies A 1...., slain by murderers grim,
And, faith ! but little else is known of him.
He, says report, was Spain'idefence and pride,
His hte is litarsay, but we know he died.
How many men (I thus his mural give)
Live but to die, the warrior dies to live!
Here Mwarel lies, how many a tottering Sire
Of half his years, lacks half his youthful fire!
Was not, speak ye, who view'd him through the scene,
His Impulse genuine, and his spirit /CAIN?
l'he moral string our Poet meant to touch
is that of doating on your SON, too muck.
At his child's death the widower quitted life;
He'd filed for years ifter he lost his wife.
Here lies, D: Zdw—e great villain—granted,

He younker, witose estate he irautecC
A bungling knave! could be not find by skill,
Flaw in the deed, or doubt upon the will?
Or should we on his tomb this ludo= carve,
Better to kill at once than leave to starve !
Here lies young Thrisaimmil. of noble race.
Who fell the victim of his Sires disgrace.
lie found, and 'twas enough the youth to stagger,
Hi. father's name upon the murderer's dagger.
Take heed, ye Sires! (Vs this our Poet aims),
Have Special caution where you write your names;
And never sign it, thus your children pray,
To any instrument—yes give away !
Here poor Xilleed and rieteria lie
in death-•but hold-one questiqe—Did they die ?
Though they both fell and ratl'd on Life's muslin,
Women talk thus, who only mean to faint.
Well, then, for them. we'll e'en delay our s.,rrow,
Critics ascertain their fate tomorrow;
And, if you please, to fig the matter quite,
I'll meet you here again tomorrow night!

Orana-Housr..—The beautiful Opera of Molinaro
, was repeated on Saturday night, to the delight of a
most crowded and splendid audience. It was fol-
lowed by the new ballet of Psychs, adapted from
the French stage. Mademoitella /Att./a:taus Psyche,
displayed great pantomimic grace. Monsieur and
Madame BAPTISTS. and Monsieur and Madame
LIOW. were the other principal artists in the piece. In
the fashionable circle present were
The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, Duchess of York, Du •
diem of Orleans, Duke and Duchess of Montrose, Dukes of
Argyle and Devonshire; Marquis of Headford, Marchioness of
Lass/demos ; Earls of Ashburton, and Shrewsbury ; Countess
Antonia, Countess of Antrim; Lords °isolator*. Cranboarne,
Val!ettter, Palmerstoni ' Clive Lowther, Hill. Hamilton, Wal-
pole, Westmoreland, Lauderdale, Borngclins, and Granville;
Ladies Itesborough, Chumley, IVielboursie, Greellle, Aboyne,
Castlereagh, Davey, A. C. Smith, Aylesbury, Verulam, and
Aboyne . • sir I'. Kelly, C. Argil, W. Cud:Wigton, and C. !Putt ;
AdmitalV.usent.
CuV nrr .GA HORN. —SHAKSPLA Het play of Cyntiv-
Thu was raived at this Theatre on Saturday evening,
principally for the purpose of introducing Mr. BOOTH
to the public in an vs iginal character—that of Leona-
• tat Posehma. .Sinee Mr. BOOTH made his appear.'

- once on the London boards, in characters of first••rate
eminence, much controversy has been excited on the
subject of his claims to public patronage. One party
his endeavoured to rut him down, as a mere imita-
toe of Mr. KEAN—another has lauded him to the
skies, as a true original, fresh from the hind of na-
ture. Those who have most assailed him, as being
a copyist, have, we think, formed a hasty judgment.
partly caused by a blind reverence of Mr. KHAN,
whose theatrical throne they will allow no brother
performer to approach, and pertly by the resem-
blance—the ;prong resemblance--which Mr. Bocrru
bears in• voice and person to the hero of Drury-lane.
The Managers of *is Theatre, however, have now
fairly brought the question to issue—they have placed
Mr. BOOTH in a character, the performance of which
must have been regulated by his own unassisted ideas
--for, young as he is, we do not think he ever wit-
nessed the representation of Creleuw. This was a
fair, honest, and manly mode of deciding the contro-
versy. The result has answered our expectations.
Mr. BOOTH has proved that lie possesses natural
genius—his performance was excellent throughout.
Let it not annoy Mr. BOOTH, if his succeu on Sa-
turday evening should draw, from some quartets,
additional manifestations of envy. Let him console
himself with the idea, that
“ awry win merlr, sa pa shade, pens,—
Bet, like the shadow, proves die substance true."
The scene in which persuades him that
faseges hat defiled his bed, was greatly acted. It
was distinguished by that fever of the mind, which,
in the first moment of despair—when the heart is
made desolate—when, awaking from the dreim of
hope, the lover or the husband finds that the shadow
of virtue has been imposed on him fur the reality—
the noblest spirits feel most keenly. In the last scene,
where Pt:azimut. believing his innocent Lady to have
been destroyed by his direction, bursts forth into the
most passionate crimination of himself, was fearfully
energetic. Mr. BOOTH'S performance was received
by a very crowded house, with the highest approba-
tion. A young lady, of the name of Comte°, Pram
the Cheltenham Theatre, appeared for the first time,
in the character of Amgen—she is very young and
very pretty. Necessity, not choice, has occasioned
her to attempt the stage. .She is, we understand, a
young lady of most respectable family. Her father
tell in the battle of Waterloo—and his decease, joined
with many unchward circumstances, reduced Miss
CC/CULL° from a state of affluence to cue of compare.
in consequence, advised to tire indigence. She was,
try the stage-.and appeared at Cheltenham, with
considerable eclat. She was, on Saturday evening,
- vouch aOtatkd—and it would, we think, be unjust to
criticise minutely the first performance. before a Lon-
don audience, of a young and trembling female—her
melancholy story must create, in every manly breast,
*strong interest in her favour—and to check her ca-
reer, by any premature remarks, Would be cruel and

aliberal. Her fears evidently emvented her from fahly
developing her powers—but, m many instances, where
the a cunning of the scene" caused her to forget her
situation, and inspired her with momentary confi-
dence, she evinced much feeling—Mies Corrst.so
was very well received.—Mr. Youan, as !whim,
looked nobly in the Roman costume, and played ad.
ruirably.—Guiderius and Belti►ier were finely sup-
ported by Mr. C. Kmestm and Mr. ABBOT. The
character of Pi:anis, on which much of the unravel-
ling of the plot depends, was filled with much pro•
priety by Mr. CLAREKONT. The part abounds in de-
scriptive passages, which he delivered extremely well.

Yesterday morning the QUEEN and Pat?muses,
after attending Divine Service in the Palace, rode out
in a coach and four. _ _

Yesterday Divine Service was performed at Carl-
ton House, by the Rev. F. W. BLOMBERG and the
Rev. Dr. STANIER CLARKE.
The Duchess of YORK attended Divine Service at
Whitehall yestarday.
The Duke and Duchess of GLOUCESTER attended
Divine Service, at St. George's Church, Hanover-
square, yesterday morning.
Lady HYDE PARKER entertained a large party of
fashionable: yesterday evening, at her house in Great
Cumberland-place.
The Countess Sr. ANTONIO bad a splendid as-
sembly yesterday evening, at her house in HAW-
ver-square.
Lady HAMPDEN had a select circle of fashionable'
last night, at her house in Green.street,• Grosve-
nor-square.
Friday Sir WILLIAM CONOREVE gave a dinner, at
his residence at Woolwich, to the Grand Duke Nt-
CHOLA' and most of hie suite, together with Sir BEN-
sasstx Bcoomriatn, Sir Genera WOOD, and a nu-
merous assemblage of English, principally Officers of
the artillery.
Saturday the Grand Duke Ntatordis went on board
the Russian frigate lying off Woolwich, after attend-
ing a review on Woolwich Warren. His Imperial
Highness was received. with all due honours by the
Officers and men. The men went through the Rus-
sian exercises, Both as soldiers and seamen; when
they were performing their evolutions as soldiers,
they were dressed as light-horsemen. At the conclu-
sion of this novel sight, the Grand Duke gave a din-
ner on board the Russian frigate, at four o'clock. At
half past six o'clock the Grand Duke left the frigate,
and proceeded with his suite to Chatham, where he
slept that night.
THt MARCHIONMS OP Ammonia's Bei LL.
Strat-
ford-place, on Friday evening, a magnificent Ball
was given. The four drawing-rooms were brilliantly
illuminated by chandeliers and Roman lamps, placed
on pedestals of or-molu and bronze. At half-past
eleven o'clock the dancing commenced, led off with
a German waltz by Count &mum" Private Se-
cretary to the Prince ESTERIIAEY, and Lady JULIA
Goat, the accomplished sister of the Marchioness of
Ammon?". Quadrilles and other French figures fol-
lowed. At one o'clock the company sat down to
supper in the middle room, wherein was a superb
display of plate and china. The banquet consisted
of every delicacy. " The merry round" was after-
wards resumed, and concluded with a pleasing no-
velty called the "Coquet-dance," at tour in the
morning. What added to the attractions of the even-
ing was the presence of the Duch;ss of CUMBERLAND,
whose easy manners and affable conversation dc-
lighted every one.
Mr. KIMBLE has announced his determination to
take his final leave of the public soon after Easter.
He plays twelve nights fcr the Managers, and the
thirteenth for his own benefit. Mrs. SIDDONS per-
forms with him the last night.
Scutrvuez.—On Monday last, Mr. FLAIMAN com-
menced, at the Royal Academy, his fourth Lecture
on the Science employed in Sculpture. He began
with considering the relations which the arts of design
boar to the various branches of knowledge, with the
illustration they afford to philcsophy, mathematics,
astronomy, geography, anatomy, and natural history;
' their powers in communicating to posterity, by their
remaining monuments, the theologies and heroism of
ancient times and countries, enlivening early ages with
a twilight'of knowledge, and pnuring a fuller blaze
on succeeding generations. An inquiry was next en-
tered into by Mr. FLAX&IAN, concerning the success-
ful means of practising those arts, according to the
I advice of Somme; by the study of the human form,
animated by the human soul; because the human is
' the most perfect of forms, comprehending the princi-
ples and powers of all inferior forms. In all countries
the early attempts to represent the human form have
be, barbarous and deficient; because in that state of
society where the chief cares are employed to obtain
' requisite foiscl, or to attack or avoid the assaults of an
enemy, objects are generally imperfectly conceived
and rudely executed. Inferior animals have only been
well represented in proportion to the potter of repre-I
seating the human figure. The horses in the Elgin
marbles are extremely animated and beatitiful, and
the animals in the Pope's Museum seem nature trans-
ported to stone; both are collections of Grecian work-
manship. In the human figure, which comprehends
such an extent of parts, powers, and organization, so
beautiful in its contour, motion, and colo.:rt, its sen-
timent and circumstances, cannot be represented from
a transitory view, or ignorant endeavour; the Greeks
did not excel until a knowledge of the bones and mus-
cles bad enabled them to understand that structure,
which is indicated on the surface of the living figure;
till geometry and mechanics had assisted in the de-
termination of its forms, movements, and arithmeti-
cal proportions, and had enabled them to determine
the harmony of its measures. After rude stones had
been honoured with the names of divinities, the ear-
hest attempts to copy the human figure, had the arms
attached to the sides, and the legs close together ; the
limbs first received motion in The school of Dzdalus ;
the legs were extended' in progression, the right arm'.
raised to strike; the most projecting parts of the body'
were expressed, and the principal muscles of.the lower
limbs were turgid. The writing of Hippocrates and
dales were then referred to by the Professor, concern-
ing aneiebtenitomy ; Pliny and Vitruvius for techni-
cal rules and proportions, and Borelli on the motion
of animals. The Lecture concluded with an expla-
nation of an anatomical detail of some antique sta-
tues ; and the groups and statues most remarkable
for muscular exertion were considered posterior to
Alexander the Great. Tables-mini exhibited, explain.'
ing the mechanical motions of the figure, Sm.