Star.
London, England, 1803-06-10 00:00:00

PROLOGUE

TM DR. VALri% ALTI,F.ATION OF K:NC JOH9.

I'Llornird at Coat, tit-Gardc n Theatre.

SVRITTI N BY 11. ). SY MR. lICNION,

To Night our Irene front Bi itini annals, ws
How Driziet Warriors brav'd their Count, y's toes;
WI, Vier tb.ir hardy bands with martial toil
Dar..l the proud Gaul upon his native foil,
And by hi, r.wag'd plains and proftrate tow'rs
Led in triumphant march their conqu'ring pow'n,
Or, oii thi..r own infulted fields, defied
The whclming deluge of Invalion's tide.
The Mule Dramatic, with an Angel's tongue,
I'r clains, tic ills from civil Dircriod fprun7.
When bound by Union, England's heroes fond,
Dread of ea.-11 wave-warn (helm and hoftile land;
When warp'd by FaCtion;funk, dlfmay'd,—they mourn
Their fairell wreaths by foreign inroad torn.—
Then be this truth on every Englifts breart
In adamantine characters imprcfs'd,
That England never did and never Mall"
Dow to a vidor foci inglorious thrall,
Till her own tons, feduc'd by fael ion's found,
Aim at her heart the part icidal wound.
Far now fuch fear,—if fpecious arts awhile
hurt Come mifguided lons of Alhion's if
To think thofl train'd to bend the fuppaant knee
Could teach thr manly Biirains to be free—
The fiend awhile, in Freedom's femblance drcfs'd.
In all Hs native horrors Rands coofefs'd;
And Rill o'er fertile Gallia's weeping land
Defpotic empire waves his iron band.
Britons, be firm—Be firm?—We know ye en, !
Pride of the field! the thunderbolts of war!
And when the fword infulted Valour draws,
When facred Juitice combats in our caulk,
While the fam'd charter, offspring of the days
The awful zra which our Irene difplays,
Beams now with bright effulgence o'er the land,
Proteded by a Monarch's guardian hand,
Tho' Europe tremble at the Gaul's alarms,
" Come the three corners of the world in arms,"
That force the Ifland-Queen's united form
" Smiles at the whirlwind, and derides the ftortn."

We could not notice bower the fecond reprefenta-
tion of the above Play. It was repeated to a crowded
audience on Friday, for the benefit of Mrs. MILLS
and Mifs HOWELLS.Notwithftanding borne imperfec-
tions attending certain parts of the reprelentation, the
play was received with 11111 more enthufiaftic applaufe
than on the firft night. When it is brought forward
with the liberal Manager's whole attention, it will
have an undeferibable effeet on the public mind during
the prefent (Late of France with refpea to this country.
Mrs. Livco FIELD was, if poffible, even more im.
preffive than on the firft night. We never were more
truck and affeaed. Mr. H. Jo Harrow gave Fakeer-
&rid& in a ftyle of excellence which will not be eaftly
forgotten. His celebrated fpeech in the sth aft pro.
duced fuch butts of applaufe as were never exceeded.
Mr. Baurrow was highly fpirited in Leuir, a cha.
rafter which has defervedly railed his reputation.
A ludicrous mixture of clapping and hitting occurred
in one of his fpeeches. In dcfcribing the chance he
bad of obtaining the Kingdom, he lays—
' Have I not heard theft !Ganders Clout out,
Gar fro Lewis. ate.
part of the audience, before the word Lewis was ex-
preffed, began to applaud what they conceived to be
GOD SAVE THE Kim° ! and another part hiffed them
for clapping God fave Kea: Law is! The miftake, how-
ever, was loon difcovered, and produced a general
Smile of mutual approbation.
Mrs. MILLI, in the part of Selena, in the Tale of
Myfiery, (hewed great fenfibility, and gained a con-
fiderable degree of credit.