Star.
London, England, 1816-01-18 00:00:00

RONA P A RTE.

A most intelligent Co. r .spondcnt has favoured os
with the subjoined letter from St. Helena, describing
the behaviour of BoaapanTe since his arrival thcee.
with a minuteness and accuracy which renders W.
communication unquestionably the hest which we
have seen on this inh resting subject. We make, no
apology, therelbre, fur laying it More our Readers;
many of whom will dineatiess be delighted to learn,
that BONAPARTE has at leng►h began to feel a small
portion of those privations and sufferings which, in
the course of his famous and wicked life, he Ks wad
tonly heaped upon millions l
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44 ST. /151.10:4,, NOV. 20, 1815.

" My last letter apprized you of our arrival here
with NaeoLeon—his being safely housed on shore,
amongst a race of people whose surprise and conster-
nation at the arrival of such a visitor, could only be
equalled by dick desire to see him.
" The topography of St. IleLeta must be pretty
well known in England by this time. I have only
to remark, that the imaginatlan of man coed not
pictraren more hideous aspect than its external front.
It is innesessible towards the :nut!' from a perpendi-
cular face and an eternal trade-wind, which nine
months of the year would deny shelter to. a skiff in
the ooly rocky Mule bay in that direction. • Oa the
north side, where ships anchor, there are several
ravines or cliffs, with the. marginal rocks rising per-
pendiculaily 1000 feet, with the exception of it
piing rill.of water, and a few water-crosses, (the only
inhabitant of these dreary defiles) ; the se..tface is
mouldering laves. Oae of these ravines, in cone-
' quence of haringfiecome the habitation "1 man,'
k's assumed the name ot James's Valley. From the •
blaach ,onwards, as far as the GULLY will admit, a
rot. of tolerable hoe,;:s have ben haat, principally
for the accommodation of passengers on their way to
Wit. The rocks Which form the inlet ere ettally
stupqnnt as the others. the labour ot ages 6a
lier:imprish,ed a path en each side to reach the sum.'
, brit. T. •e interest excited on apploaching this fright-
ful island may be better imagined than ..eacribed.—
I watched with e :ger curiosity the look of each indi
vidual v:lir d.ir were consigned to :dwindle here.
Madame P. tea AND, ith streaming .eyes, bugged
me to lock ar it and pity her she can her eye% on
her leishand, Cien on her children, who were inno-
cently playing on the quarter-deck—setmiog to say,
ant I at .05: destined to this.? riatecemott eyed it with
fur.itude: his l.wd:, his *teener sp .ke it a phice more
daninahle than he bargained for. Anzt It as as he.
was to get on 9hork, he did not quit us for a couple.
of days ; and when he did, I positively saw regret
pictured in hi* face. The last word he uttered tap-
pened (from my being near him) to be addresi-ed to
me s the Admiral add Captain were at the eaeg.
way—barge its waiting : Bee A PA UTE hurtied
the quarter-deck from the cabin, wrapped uis in a
white gt eat coat. As he palaed he bowed. My eye,
I do think, spoke pity, foe it met his, and he hastile
asked it I continued on board ? It wasziebt befog:
he reached his house in the village. 'Still there were
twiny spectatorswhom he was particularly '.anxious to
avoid. At dawn the following day he rr,ae out with
Sir GeottnaCocagoas to examine the situation of his
future residence. Lonp,rwood is divant Qve miles'
from the village, and elevated 4boie it 9000 feet—
exactly ten degrees difference ot ,temperature from
that at the surface of the ocean. •The interior of the
island is certainly I:ssoffensiere tA the eye than what,
its ekterior would promise. Pethaps if one would.
draw atomparison between what the island promises
on approaching from the sea, and what is found. on'
taking a tide tbrong,lt the contiry, one would be
tempted to say many spots are beautiful. It has been,
in this way that the taeople who have written of St.
Helena have judged of it. tTAPOLCOX, on his first
day's Bide, fin; he nee not tahen a seeped), spoke in.
very onfavotitrah!e terms of the places, and said,
every description' we had given hina.to read of this
.island was eXaggerated. 911 descending the moun-
tain, oit his return to the Tillage, he stopped at a
ainall.house called. the Wars, situated 'on a project-
ing rock, midway `from the summit. Here. he re-
4ue4ed pernaitaionao stop, and from which he' has
not strayed 'loo,yrds since the hour he took posses-
sion. Nodose and art have done something for this
spot. The lava has become soil, and the eye is re-
lieved by a spot s 4 verdure exceeding two acres.—
Tl)ere is there a ,garden with fruit trees—a till of
water gurgling bj-; and BONAPARTE, with his friend
rLASCassas, here contrive to pass their solitary time.
He is perfectly exrluded froth the gaze of the public,
'Kahan, pethaps a principal reason for his select-
ing this fpot until the repair! of Longwood avere
Swatted.
io I must now introduce you to the inhabitants of
ibis awe Briars—this half serial habitation of the
Fallen NAkOLEON.. Mr. 13ALCOM, a native of Eng.
land, long resident in the ishtnd of St. Helena, a
inerelumt.of the place, and contractor for• the navy,
irthe proprietor 'of the Friars. He has resided there
for many years williNs family, consisting of his wife,
sintelligent woman, and tWQ daughters, both OZ.,
erten* well educated, and under the age of seven- •
'Nip • jimuoat's house a se extremely mall lb*
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there are =mit up4111,1e1411. CaPAhlo of 4ccorolno';
dating his family. • He hai an out-house, fancifully
constrecied, on a little eminence ovirlookioe, the
'valley. This Boxateateen chose for breakfast.reorn,
dipittg-rootn. and parlour. His camp.hed has been
conveyed there from the NorthuMberland, and there
is lie .contented 4n reeainate, the liVe.long day, on the
awful Occurrences of his unexampled career: This
apartment 9f the mighty WAPOLcoi; terai;natts in its
top in a little fanatic garret (where I declare to you
cannot turn round). There resides ;he Counsell
at State Comte LAS Cassai, accompanied by his
den; a page of the ea-Emperor's., aged about sialeen,
sharing the lode couch of his father. • I have re.
peatedly :bought it My alpty to pay niriespa•tts to tl•e
'Mien Emperor since he he took up hit i.l rtS...ii,Ce At
the Briars, more especially as the Visits Of atrai ge: s
ate disappreied of by hint; and demi•otlisiall)
bidden by Iris Excellency air Geonon. Froll tf.e
facility with which i gain admittance to the present ,
lam disposed to chink the attention unaccept..bie.
From the variety of papers I see seatterad abase ~a
bis toilet, and the boars which be is. cVsettia .eitts
LAS CAMAS to man 01 onoommon talent), am ir.
Cloned to ti,iith is busied ,either ip strawbrje up s
remonstrance to the British Government, qr writ ;114
a nistery of his own life. His hours el reereatinn
are generally firm twelve till two o'clock. He
perambelates the little garden, and is. invoriabie
.0100 by the ruing ladiel, chruabrers of 14 Er gyp: it..
Mr. Both steak French, and lam t., 's6 t; ey
..Nord him very great coos, akin. When f last
saw him he was reclining on a sofa, and I thotnlit
hint more than usually slovenly. H(.wever, he had
just left the girls, when I learnt he hal bfen very
spruce ; and when I entered els opartmen-. he
without cpremony, clsd in his urine% gowtt,
out shirt, necklinh.er breeches.
144"1i41 Liartifirsn, the Catatese, GL'aeral Moe.
Thome:, .an 4 Gouviirt., inha!iit a house ill the town,
where I daily visit. They are lull of tecioble. Froul
the habits of life they li'ave been aocustonied to,' ad
ire inclined to launch out into eel: siyagance s riow.
ever the Admiral is as rigid an economist, and v. 15
system of retrenchment appears to give great dis.atis.
faction. k.TaeoLeoe takes every thing as he fends it
however, the complaints of his followiiis h.ive met
his ears, and he has solicited permission to provide
fur them himielf. He is mu:el:ling that tither the
one or the other should in any shape be a hurthen to
the British Government, and he is equally bort that-
. their comfotts should in any shape be ahridged.
" The best thing NAPOLEON, can do is to get a
wife.. Unless influenced by some. fair ihintscl of the
island. I fear he will become careless Gi his person.—
lie asked me one day whether I did pot think A wife
necessary for a man's health I moma he Means
to say, the societ of a Lady would Much contrrbutd
to the happiness of man. • He has a little abrasion
on the fore arm jest now; it is attended with coml.
Iderable infiaminarien. Think of his- application—a
little salt dissolved in water, with which he continues
to bathe the plaife I He has his little dinner sent into
his beil:tvont, wh're he partaket. Of it with- Lae
Cassas. lite:Lundy of an evening lie joinslia,Luoart
family, and with the gills, and perhans a favourite
visitor, he joins in a party el whin, when he tries to
revoke or cheat, and when discovered •by the arcs
ipuneest lass) he 1 in3moderate:y. •
I'. 01 The, rigour with which it .is :low deemed ;Aces-
im'y to treat this pest.9l civil society, *list ill suit
his former el,:variott. The ptobibility of an escape
is in absurd, that re worth,' imagine a 'sreall degree
of relaxation fair. -Nis nq. ..NlieoLeon hat A'CaetaM
of the 0.1 residing in the house With him, nod two
orderly Krjritlis, who never petrnit hire to »ass the
threshold of his fiat strithoat accompanying his steps.
This he thinks severe, and I was Misr yeAri'day that
Ii had, er /art, solicited a faieurr-lo • have the two
soldiers removed, as the it presence 114 *.tendottcy to
remind him of hisleisfortiines. If they wereiliosseht
iudZspensable, to clothe them differf4Y. Alrtioeeli
I shave this from unquestionable authority. ll 04! •
scarce thick BONA:MOTS W. 011141 CottOStePld so toll, is
to supplicate or complain.".

Vle hear that the cLlleetiOna for the Waterl,)o Snb-
scripticn, pricier the licence of tfe 1214Iict ttIO3KST and
the authority of the Archbishops, front nearly 70u0
parishes. of England and Wales, amounts to the un-
precedented sum of about 4140,04 Our Readers
will reflect with pleasure, en this day, on this rage.
rous contribution of a gratefol and adinirirt po6pis.
By a list iltelv auldished, it' apper,a,-ts of the
Members of Abe 'Commotion who Voted for the death
oflthe King of Fanwrififty-six perished by the guilt°.
tine, and that 27 died violent deaths. Some of them
in their last mements exptmed treat compunction at
the vote they had given. -
We have received letters from 4tienos Ayres rip to
Novenaber 6, by the Lady Warren,'arrived at Liver.
pool. l'hey confirm the account we had already
given of CoMmOdore Sttowa having saiie,2l on a se-
cret expedition, suppoted to he to the coati of Chili
and Peru. The P.oyalist army in Upper Peru, is
said to be retreating -on Arica ; if so, the arrival of
the Independent force on the mist of Chili may be
attended with the bast consequences.
CITY OP Lonnow Tauss Socrrr.—lres.erday the '
Rev. RoWi.axn Him. preached an excellent Sermon
in behalf of thit praise-worthy Institution, at tauter
Chapel, in preset e of the puke of ant 4
crowded asicrnblake of GoVeznors and Friends o! the
Charity. A liberal enflection was Made on tl.t ores-
sion, and afterwards the anniversary dinner was held
at the City of London Tavern, at which his Royal
Wetness presided, and urged; with hi 4 tun.' itTvdur,
the cause of i.e, Charity. His Royal Highnets,:in
the course of a most eloquent fad pathetic 'appeal to
the feelings ofthe company , stated the strilcmg but
melancholy fact, that every eighth. person (and in
:tne district! every fifth) tbrougheut the•hmptip
was afflicted with Rupture ! and instanced as a proof
of this, that in ISM, when the Society was 0601 ill
founded, the numbet of persons relieved did noi Moen
exceed two hundred, whereas, now the Cliari!y
has been more diffusively made known, the nun'.
her, army( relieved, is nearly three thonsarid.—
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ally
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His Royal Highness also took -occasion to notice io
warm and animated terms, the ,unprecedented 'and
disipterested exertions of Mr. Twurrrou, Fotii.d
Surgeon, and Treasurer of the Charity. Messrs.
SMITH, BP-OAHOUPAT' and IsAatcs amused the cools
piny with their vocal powers, and the Dukes tine
band also contributed greatly to the pleasure of Al
company, which was numerous and genteel.

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COMNl:GillttkAr 771liGeT.R14

Alter- in absence from the stare of nearly fifty
Man, 811/11UPSAStes Mirhimiser Artfht'e Dream was
st night revived. When this play was performea
at Driry.lane, about• the year 1789. it was by nn
means attractive. Owing, probably, to the want of
sufficient ability in the Comp ,ny, to fill; with effect,
the immense range of character which the piece em.
braces, it was not played more than three or four
-nights. Such, we are convinced;'will not he the fate
of this drama, as last night represented. With very
little exception, all the talent Of the house was called
Into action en this occasion—and the audience, in
every scene, loudly expressed their approbation of
the exertions which bad evidently, and most success-
fully been made to delight their. Next to the play
of., The Tempest," SHAESPIARS has evinced greater
powers of invention and of fancy its his a Midsum-
mer Night's Dream" than in any other piece written
by him. To use his own language (and it is the
fittest language in which to praise him) he has here
given, to a airy nothings"—to the mere offspring of
his sportive fancy,
" A local babionlen and a name."
That exquisite genius which prompted him tts the
delineation of ideal characters, taught him 'also to
use a language only suited to them, and to employ
his sopernatural agents it actions nicely adjusted to
their several spheres. The richest vein of pretry,
may be traced through the serious part of this play.
The harmony of the numbers. and thesruth and ele-
gance of the ideas, at once delight the ear and de-
'ate the mind. In every erne this observation is
verified. The beautiful compliment to Queen Em-
zasarst, which SHAKSPICARE has made Oberon pro-
nounce—the address of Titania to Peasblostom and
his companions, when she recommends Bottom to
their care—(lines which Mr. DRYDIDI has pointed
out as singularly beautiful)—the pathetic complaint
of Helena—the description which Theseus gives of
his hounda—Constitute a few of the striking poetical
passages with which the piece abounds. In the comic
department, no man, unless he be steeped to the
throat in melancholy, can mark the theatrical meet-
. ings of Bottom, Quince, and Co. without being
highly amused. The play, as it is now performed,
is reduced to three acts. • Taste and judgment have
been *displayed is the' alteration. The story is clearly
developed, and no passage of great poetical excel-
lency has been omitted. SIIAKSPEAReS original songs
have been in general retained. Some of his blank
verse has also been turned into metre, and set ,to
music. But, as it was conceived that a greater num-
ber of songs was necessary, a part of the old ballad

" Cana, follow, follow me,
• " Ye fairy elves that be,"
and the air, 64 Hush, ye pretty warbling choir,"
from the wnenata of Acis and Galatea," have been
introduced. We now come to speak of the perform-
ers—and first, though it is contrary to the iirdinary
rule in theatrical criticisms (we know not why it
• should be so), we must notice the /aim Never be-
fore did we witness so many interesting females as-
sembled at one time on the stage. Wherever the eye
%IA3 directed, it glanced beauty. —The pensive
features of Miss Stamm—the smiling countenance
of Miss Boor'—the love-darting eye of .Miss Foote
.--the arch glance of Miss felattnews—tie innocent
simplicity of Miss MAC ALPlN—the force and spirit
of Miss BURN/ILL—the matured beauties of Mrs.
FAUClT—delighted in turn. But their appearance
formed, _perhaps, the least part of their attractions.
They severally acted with ability. Miss SteetteNs
delivered the dialogue, not merely with propriety,
but with great judgment and feeling. Her singing
was admilab!y fine. Her opening air—r, By the
simplicity of Venus' doves,'' was exquisitely sweet.
V.iren from her we have rarely heard any thing so de.
'tely soft and tender. It was loudly encored. She
also sang the sir " Hush, ye pretty warbling choir,"
and it spirited bravura, the composition, we believe,
of Mr. Basnor, in a very fine style, The latter would
certainly have been enroll, had nut ihe audience
that it required too powerful an effort. Miss 'llourn's
Puck was excellent. Her motions, graceful and
agile, kept pace, throughout the evening, with the
merry spirit's boast, that he would

" Put a girdle round about the earth,
" In forty minutes."
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Miss FOO.TE was a very lovely Helena—she vented
her complaints-with much pathos. Amongst the
fairy vain, we heard with great pleasure, the notes of
Mrs. LISTON, Miss MATTHEWS, Miss IkIIIRELL, and
Miss MAC ALFIN. Mr. Coy.way appeared as The-
seus. The character is riot calculated for the display
of talent. Mr. CONWAY looked the ,hern
was received with great approbation. He delivered
the celebrated passage, in which Theseus describes
the poet's mighty grasp of mind, with peWerful ef-
fect—he was here highly applauded. Mr. Duausrr
supported the character of Oberon; he sang very
tastefully. Demetrius was represented by Mr. SIN.
CLAM with effect. The comic characters were, how-
ever, most amusing. Mr. Limp, as Bottom, kept the
house in a soar, by his ludicrous sell-importance. He
was ably- supported by Messrs. EMMY, TOM'S,
SIMMONS, and BLANCHARD.
The scenery is of the most superb description—
the dresses are splendid—and the decorations, in.ge-
neral, demand our warmest praise. The processions
were atimit ably arranged, particularly that with
vi filch the piece opens. it was truly magnificent.
The pageant with which the play concludes, emble-1
ruatic the various mighty deeds of Theseus, is
exceedingly grand. The music is, for the greater
part, extremely .beautiful, and strictly appropriate;
tie thatch which precedes the appearance of Oberon
ani Titania on the stage, is particularly fine.
The Play was received with rapturous applause,
by an excessively crowded audience, and the an-
* ,uncement of a repetition was heard with scion
=larks of approbation.

A very serious accident has hsppentd to Mr.
YOUNG/ of the Covent Garden Company. Whilst
Whiling the stag, at the Windsor Hunt, on Monday.
his horse fell under him. While endeavouring to ez.
tricate 'himself. the animal struck him aiolelady on
the fate with his head, and bruised him considerably.
In consequence ,of the injury he has received, Mr. C.
KUMLA Will this eveni.:g pertorm the part of Lard
.Hastiass, in the. Tragedy of Jane Aare, which has
aiLhtrus been Supported by Mr. You Na.

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