Star.
London, England, 1819-02-11 00:00:00

DUBLIN POLICE.

HEAD OFTICE, FEBRUA RY B.—Blizabeth Bailey was
brought before the Sitting Magistrates, charged with
having defrauded Michael and Margaret Ryan, both
of the town of Cashel, in the County of Tipperary,
of various articles of wearing apparel, and some
money. Elizabeth Bailey, a woman of about fifty
years of age, who had suffered an amputation of one
cif her legs, paid a pretended religious visit, or
pil-
grimage;about three or four months ago, to the town
of Cashel, and there, amongst several others, got inti-
mately acquainted with Mr. and Mrs. Ryan. Her
whole thoughts and conversation appeared to them
the pure offspring of true religion and sincere de-
votion. In a word, she not only deceived poor Mrs.
Ryan, but, if possible, her husband in a greater de-
gree, a circumstance the more extraordinary, as he
had been for many years a soldier in the late war, and
being a discharged Serjeant, enjoys a liberal pension.
At length she pretended to pay a holy visit to Thurles,
a few miles from Cashel, and it was necessary to put
on the best possible outside appearance for the solemn
purpose Mrs. Ryan lent her a large silk shawl,
worth two guineas, a new mantle, a handsome new
gown, and other things. Mrs. Ryan lent her some
money, and paid for the car she rode on, that she
might appear in a style equal to het great deserts.—
All this confiding kindness the treacherous viper re-
paid by eloping with the whole of the property thus
entrusted to her. The credulous couple who had
been thus duped, had occasion to come to Dublin
lately, and accidentally discovered this rank hypo-
crite. They had her taken into custody and brouisllt
uithis Office.
After along and minute investigation, the Magis-
trates expressed much regret that the law would rot
allow theni to punish this woman for her hypocrisy
and ingratitude ; but as the whole of the transaction
was a loan on one side, and consequently a debt on
the other, they were under the necessity of releasing
the prisoner.

SPY OR Nronmea.—Mouchard is the French word
for an informer or spy, derived from the word Ahniche,
a fly, in the same language, because this insect will
buzz round you, sip out of your glass, feed on your
plate, sting you, and suck your blood the first op-
portunity.
Exc ISE PERJURIES.—TV. Slater and G. Sowter, con-
victed at the Sittings after last Term, in the King's
Bench, of wilful and corrupt perjury, committed in
support of an information against a Mr. George
Henty, a gentleman farmer and banker in the county
of Sussex, for a supposed smuggling transaction on
the coast, were on Tuesday sentenced—Slater to be
transported for seven years, and Sowter to be impri-
soned for two years in Horsham jail.
Last week T. Hutchens, servant to Mr. PYE, of
Cuxtone, in Kent, was committed to Maidstone House
of Correction for three months, on his own confission,
of administering to the horses intrusted to his care, a
mixture formed- of oil of vitriol, turpentine, cloves,
spike, swallows, ellecampane, sugar, and tar. For-
tunately the discovery was made in time to prevent
the destruction of the horses; but Mr. Pre was not so
successful on.a former occasion, he having, within
the last year, lost four horses, in consequence of the
administration of a composition which is suspected to
have been of the same description. Two of those
lost were worth 43 guineas each.
Mr. GALTOCK, of Adam-street, Baker.street, was
attacked in Portman-square, ou Tuesday night, by
three ruffians, who knocked him down, and robbed
him of I:3, his watch, worth thirty guineas, anisome
silver, with which they got off.
Tuesday evening as Mri. LLOYD, of Southgate,
was coming to town in a stage, she had her pocket
picked of her purse, in which was a bank note fcr
£5OO, another for £lO, a check for £5O, and 10s. in
silver ; which she suspects to have been stolen by a
woman in the coach.
A journeyman stonemason of Liverpool has brought
writs of right for the recovery of an estate in Ire-
land, which has long been in abeyance, of L'4ooo a
year ; and also an accumulated personal property of
more.than half a million. His prospects of success
have been pronounced to be very favourable by seve-
ral Lawyers of the first eminence.
Yesterday, as a Barnet coach was Coming:throngh
Tottenham-court-road, a gentleman outside, having
lost his balance in endeavouring to save a parcel from
falling, fell from the coach, and his leg getting into
4seel was dreadfully fractured.

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SONG. IN THE TROUBADOURS.
PlZPathalifi AT Till OLYMIPIC TIEZATIUG

Turn sof, sweet Maid, ddise eyes sway,
But Mat to his tender teary,
Who, ere be felt their piercing my,
No other mistress knew but Glory :
For her alone his bosom beat, •
With joy be marked Wye's tempest low'r ;
But now at couquaing Beantfs feet,
Behold the vanquished Troubadour !
Say but thou lov'st, and bid hina-go
To where the battle-tide is turning,
• 11.11 prove upon the haughty foe.
Mow much with love his breast is burning;
And should he fall amidst its rage,
That love would soothe his latest hour ;
The thought of thee each pang assuage.
And cheer in death thy Troubadour!

COVENT GARDEN.

A new Tragedy, by Mr. Sinn., entitled Evadne,
or, The Statue, was brought out at this Theatre last
sight. Mr. SHILL is accustomed to success, and ob•
tuned last night the most complete and the most
merited triumph that had yet crowned his qiuse.--
The following is an Outline of the Plot: '
Ludovico (Mr. lilecazamr), Chief Minister and Favourite of
a King of Naples, (Mr. Assow),sonceives the design of ilestrup-
ing his Master's life, fad raring himself to the Theme. WM
this view, he begins by exciting in the King a guilty passion tar
Evadne (Miss O'Neztx.,) sister of Colonise (Mr. Toone') a /dm
bleman of Naples, and pledges himself that the brother ii
consent to the sister's shame. The traitor has no inteadaa of
sacrificing Evadne, whom he secretlyloves, to the King, Waits
the plot in movement to destroy the King by Coloaaa's bead.
It is further necessary, that, to obtain Evadne, berlame, Thom
Co (Mr. C. Kaseses), should be disposed of, by marriage. to
Olivia (Mrs. Favor), Ludovico's kinswoman, who lowNliiim
Vicentio is accordingly recalled from a foreign embassy; lad,
upon his return, is-told by Ludovico that Evadne was false, and
had become the Mistress of the King. Vicentio is persuaded to
le Here his mistress faithless, on the evidence of a letter written
by Evadne, containing a passionate avowal of tenderness, really
intended for Vicentio, but by the change of name, contrived by
F.odovico, to appear addressed to the King. Viands meets
Evadne, reproaches her with her falsehood, is half pistoled by
her protestations of her innocence; but asks, as the last means
of removing his suspicions, that she should let him see whether
she still wore round her neck his picture, given at his departure.
:the produces the picture, and gives it to him—it_ is the pietism
of the King—Vicentio becomes furious. Colonna enters, in-
sults, and challenges Vicentio. Olivia repents her guilt, pa-
fesses to Evadne that she had contrived the false letter, and sulasl
stituted the picture of the King for that of Vicentio round
Pradne's neck, at the instigation of Ludevico, who engaged ee
reward her by making Vicentio her husband. Colonna and Vl-
centio fight; the latter is supposed dead, and the former con-
fined in a dungeon, and doomed to die. Ludovico visits bins,
g: ees him his freedom, tells him that the King demanded his
sister's shame, and his own acquiescence, as the price of hilpar-
don, persuades him, by artfully working on his feeling•, no give
a seeming consent ; to invite the 1:;ng to his Palace, and et.the
moment when he expects the brother's base sacrifice of the sis-
te:'s honour, to murder him. The King is invited and feasted
b•; Cotomta. The hour of rest approaches, and the King retires
t.. his chamber. Colonna enters an adjoining vestment, and
p:aceeds to clip door of that in which the King lay. He tin-
sheaths the dagger, and is about to open the door, when he hears
a voice—it is Evadne ; she knew his purpose, and persuades
bin to let her meet the King. lle consents, but doubtful of her
virtue; conceals himself so far as to'overhear what passes. The
Eire trees Evadne; she evades his --
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by calling his attention, with mysterious and 50...
plthol, to the statues of her family, which stood In the chars.
b`;. At length she cetry: to one statue, and ishe the King
it to knew it? It was her father's, who had been the King's
tutor, and died by a stroke aimed at the Kieg in buck. She
embraces the statue, and invokes the spirit of her parent.—
'Lac King is moved—abandons his base wishes—Colonsa comes
f.rth, embraces his sister, and is reconciled to the Kitt. Ludo-
vice is approaching—Colonna places the King behind the sta-
tues. and Evadnc retires. Ludovico enters, and is told by Co:
Islam that the King is dead. His joy and ambition burst forth
tumultuously. He tells Colonna he shall die the death of a mur-
derer, orders the guards to advance and seize him, when sud-
denly the King appears before him—Ledovico is confounded—
recovers himself—and tries the success of bypoerisy7-4a spurned
by the King—then, roused by the vengeance of despair. makes
an attempt to kill the King. and is himself killed by Odom,
and the Play concludes. The scene is at Naples.' The time,
without easy express historic fact in the text, appears to have
been about the sixteenth century, from the tuns of character and
ser.timent tiunugh the Play.
The fable, it will be observed, is althost completely
spun out from the brain of Ludovico, and bears the
stamp of his character—profound and complex—yet
clear and consecutif e; presenting to the imagination
of the audience undertakings arduous, almost to im-
probability in prospect, which yet are gradually
wrought with tat greatest ease and veri-similitude,
by the machinery of the passioni. The language in
this, as in his former Plays, is distinguished by great
ct.crgy of movement, in some few tsolated instances
violating strict correctness and purity of style, but
glowing with poetic sentiment and imagery. It might
be considered too uniformly figurative, were it not
sustained by great vigour of tlfought, and by the le-
gitimate eloquence of the passions. This Play has
the advantage over his former Tragedies, of posses.
sing scenes of great tenderness. In the character of
Evadne there is no unnecessary agony, and her dis-
tress is exquisitely touching. The second, third, and
fifth acts drew abundance of tears. The statue
scene, in the fifth act, is one of the happiest drama-
tic conceptions in the modern drama. There is in it
an assemblage of pathetic circumstances which sof-
tens' and subdues both the sensibility and the religion
of the heart. Lud,ovico, whose genius Moved and-go-
verned the action of the Piece, required a rare union
of superior talent and consummate skill, to be ade-
quately performed—a spirit of malignant power,
stooping to be false and base from scorn of mankind,
aod suited for perilous enterprise by being alike ex-
alted above the touch of fear and of remorse. The
character found in Mr. MACREADY a most successful
representative. A more clever and complete piece of
dramatic delineation, cannot be conceived.--Mr.
YouNc's &donna was a fine performaace—noble,
energetic, and sometimes feeling.—Mr. CHARLES
Kemene performed a part scarcely worthy of him
with his accustomed talent, and in a manner far
above the worth of the part—Mr. Aasterry played
the King very effectively.—Eucdne, the heroine of this
Tragedy, will be one of the triumphs of Miss O'NELL.
In the second ana third acts she gave touches of elec-
tric tenderness, which affected and surprised the
persons most familiar with her talents. The conflict
between assumed gaiety and grief, in the scene with
Cetormen is one of the finest examples of tragic power
witnessed on our stage. In the fifth act, her tone of
sublime attd solemn pathos bordered upon ;lupins-
ton. The part of Olivia was well performed by Mrs.
Faxon, who also recited the Epilogue with
success. This tragedy was applauded
without a breath of disapprobatron, and emu!"
repetition by Mr. Younaounidst long and -
acclamation and waving of hats in the Dit.