Star.
London, England, 1817-05-20 00:00:00

DRURY-L.INR I HE4TRE.

The Tragedy of lide/giihd was last nizht revived at
this Theatre, niter an interval of ten years, t' Intro.
dike a new car.di/a.... for public favniir to the Town
in the persxt of Mr. 11,,NNEL TtioriNrast, who repre-
sented Cid:card, the Hero of the Piece. No charac-
ter could he more propitious f.:r a drl&i. Mr. l'tinaN-
. ToN looked indeed the hero his Spite is lofty and
commanding; and in the progress of the part hefts.
played all the great powers of a most fit i,he.l actor.
Some of the noble sentiments which he Intel ed passed
like an electrical dart through the whole assembly,
and obtained three rounds of applause ; while in the
scenes with Add.izithr, he was all softness, and shewel
himself equally the husband and the lover. In
the fifth Act he displayed such uncommon feeling
and mellow softness of voice, that the whole audience
were affected. Aver was success, at an ertir?e, more
ioniplete. FA! ittitiiiies were all manly and grace-
fgl-s-his voice, one. of tbe sweetest and most powerful
we have ever-heard. He appeared, not the actor,
bit the man himself ; and has at once convinced us,
that Nature hai *stowed upon him the true requi-
sites for a superior actor—as figure, voice, and great
mental endowments; and, without any trial, we are
told, the Managers of Covent Garden have enlisted
him into their Company.
Seldom has the character of Aklgiiirs been better
played. Mrs. BAnrcitv (for whose ben. the Piece was
acted) gave full sc.pe to her great p axers, and Was
often rhetred with much well merited applause.—
Notwithstanding the wetness of the evening, the
House was full in every part.
Never did any modern Pl.y gain a greater ascen•
dint), over the feelings of :in audience than
Tragedy ; and when the Comedy of the Colfitkrary
was given out for this . vetting initead of a repetition rf
iIdAAJ..LL was l..Ceind with univarsal disapprobv•
tioa. Mr. TitoriN•rox, we understand, will repeat
the character of Guircard, at the other Theatre.
..

. The late Rev. RoBERT Tritwittrt, of 'Jesus Col.
lege, Cambridge. has bequeathed tour thousand 5 pee
Cent. Navy' Stuck to that University.
No less than one hundred children have perished
in the stream at Reading, called Holy Brook, within
the remembrance of one individual.. The inh.tb t
are now, to their credit, erecthig a fence on it, banks.
Saturday se'nnight the Golf Club's gold medal
was played for in the Links, Aberdeen, awl gained
by Lord KENNEDY, the Captain.

BET TING A r TAT 1 E&SALL'S, MAY 19.
• DUET.
S td' I apt The Student. 9 to I apt
9te >t agst colt.by Oryitle, nut II to 1 4g.: Ilrot 11. s to Crisplm.
of Montenoa. to I lg.: NI, rry lO4ket.
to I net Mtr4eil. , 16 to 1 apt colt by D&ck AU-
-9,10 agst Du • 'Antacid's skews.
colt, by *lint: I'. 16 to 1 agst
OAKS.
Sto4 on Neva art the field-5 to I agst Tht• iitn4ent and
Neva both winning.

11-DF-STRIAN MATCH ON. woastwoon SCRUBS.
BAKER completed 41 mites un'Stinelly, and I. wrom only eft,
although the former left off at llsalt-pase seven, and the latter not
till eight, Yesterday (the 13th day)....VA TON Want: lat a queryer
before four, Brew not till live; at tour in th. :i'ternooti they
had both completed 38 miles. BA FR walks quite carte-sti, and
converses for hours together with his ft iends. EA foN
ever !Trak' to any body.
Cot:IC-I'lCiinlst:. —According to annual custom, a
main of cocks was fought during race, at C: ester.
E;uly in the morning of the tint day's 1,•, rt, the fol-
lowing justly satirical invitation was fuuli 1 posted on
the entrance to the cockpit : •
" this is to give notice to all lovers of cruelty prnmorer%
of misery, that tilt,' day will be provided tor tloir
savage aintiouto.nt of cock•fightoig, wilt h ca fail tit lire
great delight to every breast divested of hunaanity ; and &olio.-
less this pastime must be greatly approved tit who have
neither reverencelor theDtis I nor benevolence for hiscreaterce.'
Foxe: are become a leading artiste in our input%
from France. The English Cabinet having been so
often outwitted by the French politicians, an idea
prevails among the friends titthe Chase that the
French Rtinordt are more cunning and full of spert
than our native breed. Last week not less than Potty.
five ot these animals were landed at Newhaven, from
France !

A woman in the neiglibliahond of Narbonne was
safely delivered, on the 14th of Ap►il, of five chil-
dren, all of whom lived to be baptized.
The quartern loaf is now nineteen-pence, a rise of
one penny having taken pl Ice on Saturday, and a
farther rise is in contemplation ; so that we may ex-
pect in a days the price of the Qiiartern Loaf ad-
, tanced to two shillings. We wish the farmer, the
miller, and the baker, I full and fair proportion of
profits; but seeing flit grittkt reduction that has taken
placer() taxes, add the abatement of rents t•enerrarelv
made by landlord 4 their tenants, we apprehend
that, under all the circumstances of the case, the put-
lic have a right to expect btead under the preser:t price.
Saturday, the Election fora Governor to the Pe-
nitentiary, at Millbank, in the room of Mr. SHEAR.
MAN, resigned, took place; when Mr. H. RIDS,
Clerk to MASBERLY, the army clothier, in Vepec
'Thames-street, w.ts appointed.

LdW IhTELLIGeNCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, MAY IL
f/PERA-HOUSE•~{yATER, O. TAYLOR.

Mr. Lencu followed on the same side.

IP*

Sir SAMUEL RIDMILLY this day moved, that the
plaintiff should pay the purchase money of the Opera
House into Court, 471,150, and that the Master's
report sh old be sent back to, be revised, allowing the
plaintiff to Fold ,i 137.000 for claims he has on the
concern. The Learned Counsel observed, that, ac-
cording to the articles of sale, the purchase money
ooght to have been paid into Court on the ht of
December, but the defendant. to oblige the plaintiff,
consented to an order of Court. to enlarge the time
of paying he purchase money into Court on the 28th
of April. Bit instead of paying it, he had taken an
objection to the title, which he himself offered for
pudic sale. The Master had allowed in his Report
several it ms winch were provided for by a Decree of
the Court from another fund; one of them was an
annuity granted to Mr. Harris, Proprietor of Covent
Garden Theatre, of £l5O per year, in consideration
of his not allowing Italian Operas to be performed at
his Theatre. Mr. Harris never executed the deed,
anchhe master had allowed the item in his report.
He coantrnded that the plaintiff had no right to with-
hold any part of the purchase money. If it had been
paid int i Court on the Ist of December, the estate
would have been much benefited from the fluctuation
of the tends.

Mr. HART, Counsel for the plaintiff. contended that
Mr. Waters had a right to hold the sums that were
doe.to him tram the concern; it would be only put.
tiog him to the expense to move the Court to pay out
the money atter he had paid it in.
Mr. WE-rim:ALL and Mr. BARBER followed on the
same side.

Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY replied.
Tim LAW CHANCELLIIR sai., he would read the
decrtc, t..e NlANtets's lteprt, and the afsJs.vits, and
should decide •iccl,rding to the justice of the case, as
the polies sectilvd determined not to du justice to
themselves.