Star.
London, England, 1829-10-13 00:00:00

THEATRICAL PORTRAITS.

We reeume our Extracts from " The Cheltenham
Mail Bag," and w•e shall be mistaken indeed if our
readers do not pronounce the Second Sketch in our selec-
tion of this day, a faithful likeness.

MACIIRADY.
—Thus too MACIIMADT'S fame had been
Solid as marble—perfect—whole—
Did not some lashes caught from Kraw.
Break through the murky clouds that roll,
Awfully grand, round Passion's goal,
But, wrought by rage, with breath held hard,—
Fierce as the tiger or the pard,—
With stiffened sinews, boiling blood,
And eye in fury's fiercest mood,
With dreadful aspect, teeth set close,
Distended nostril, spirits bent
To their full bright,— klaeacsor glows
In his own natural element.
Thus, in ' Tirgiwius, and in' Tell.'
Let him all art beside excel,
But never may he ►ope to claim
Sakespeaven honours for his name.

Watts): Faaaatt.
With gleeking glance, and tottering pace,
The oldest youth of all kis race,
"Sir Peter" F bobbling bows,
And thundering plaudits shake the house.
Asthmatic cough, and watery eyes,
" Shrunk shank," bent spine, and spindle thighs
The palsied bead. and trembling taugue,
Proclaim the youth was never young ;
But, by some comic freak of doom.
Had cut his wise earth in the womb!
Nay more, I've heard the midwife say
Was severstrmine Isis fa birth-clay !
His manners too his age bespeak,
Crusted all o'er with vend intrigue,
And, tinged with art's mimetic glow,
Seem practised centuries ago :
His formal bow and stiffened skirt
Equal antiquity assert.—
The courteous smile—the ruffled hand—
Laced salt—deportment high yet bland,—
The golden dignity of mien—
l'be marks of times that once have been,
In FAIMIUI happily revive,
The best " old gentleman" alive !
Complete is gesture and costume,
Fresh from an ancient drawing-room,
The stripling fairly might be reckoned
A stale old beau of Ganeon THI StCOND
Descending to a lower grade
Of life's still varying masquerade,
His mind displays her wonted powers,
But weeds are mingled with the Sowers ;
And scarcely can we fir his claim
'Twizt censure and the mead of fame.
His genius oft, by Nature's dint,
Strikes sparkles from the coldest Bin ;
To life, and sense, and manners true,
His pictures charm the critic's view.
Craft, meanness, age, with thrift combiti'd,
The dotage of a vulgar mind,
Gain, from a master's hand and art,
An easy entrance to the heart ;
And in his "Mine" we behold
A mine of intellectual gold.
But oft we find each varying print
Tinged with one individual tiut :
In mirth or woe, in good or ill.
His features shrink and shrivel still ;
And his dry, thrifty smile appears
Squeezed from his eye-lids,—like his tears!
Yet, let him curb Ambition's rage,
Confine his powers to polished age,
And, in his own legitimate sphere,
Reign gloriously without compeer!—
aßgsrmatanumam,
DOVER, October I'2.

Arrived the French mail packet, Captain Sour ma:,
with his Excellency Le Prince Duc de LAVAL MO\T•
MORENCV and suite, Ambassador from the Court of
France. His Excellency was met on landing by the
Vicomte D'AUCIIALD, Colonel GOSSET, JOHN WARD,
Esq. and Officers of the Rifle Brigade, and greeted with
the national air of " GOD save the King," by the very
excellent Band of the Depot.
The Duke went to Wuto lIT'S Ship Hotel, where a
sumptuous dinner was prepared ; after partaking of which
his Excellency and suite started for town in two carriages
and four. The customary salutes were fired on arrival

and departure.
Lord GEORGE BERESFORD, Lord RIVERS, and Mr.
PITT, Mr. BEAUMONT, &C. &C. arrived at WRIOIIT'd
Hotel this day, by the Royal George, from Calais.
RECORDER'S REPORT.

Yesterday, the Recorder made his report to his Ma-
jesty at Windsor, of the prisoners capitally convicted at the last
Old Balky Sessions, •is : Richard Chick, 28 ; John Wilson, 40 ;
John Roach, 16 ; Josiah Nathan, aloe Joseph Latham, alias Josiah
Jones, 27 ; and Robert Cross, 13, housebreaking. Richard Gif-
ford, 26 ; James Suffolk, 52; and Thomas Thomas Maynard. 36;
forgery. Thomas Walker, 24 ; Elisabeth Swiver, 16 ; Wm.
Spong, 26; Henry King. 20; Charles Wilson, 27; and Mark
Joel, 59; stealing in a dwellinthouse. Wm. Carrington, 20 ;
James Charge, 52 ; and John Hill, 57; horse-stealing. Timothy
Driscoll. 22; John Boyce, 30; and Michael Duff, 24; highway
robbery. Wm. Newitt, 56; Robert Dennington, 21 ; and Win.
Williams, 25; sheep-stealing. Henry Duffey, 20; and Thomas
Edwards, 18; cattle-stealing. When Richard Chick, Josiah
Nathan, alias Joseph Lathan', alias knish Junes, and Richard
Gifford, were left for execution on Monday next. The cases of
Thomas Walker, Wm. Newitt, Robert Dennington, Win. Wilk
Rams, Thomas Thomas Maynard, and Mark Joel, were not re-
ported ; and the other prisoners were rapped during his Ma-
jesty's pleasure.

His MAJESTY left the Royal Lodge in Windsor Park
shortly before two o'clock yesterday afternoon, attended
by the Lord Steward of the Household and the Lord
and Groom in Waiting, in two carriages and four, and
proceeded up the Long Walk, escorted by a detachment
of the Royal Horse Guards to the Castle, which the
KING entered by the private entrance. Soon; after his
arrival his MAJESTY held a Court, which was attended by
the Lord Chancellor, the Lord President of the Council,
the Lord Privy Seal, the First Lord of the Treasury, the
Secretaries of State for the Home, Foreign and Colonial
Departments, the Lord Steward, the Lord Chief Justice
of Fngland, the Treasurer of the Household, the Re-
corder of London, Sir Brook Taylor, Mr. M‘Lean, &c.
The sales made on account of the Savings Banks,
which have been considerable, have been met, and no
depression, or at least no permanent depression of the
money-market, has been the result. These sales speak
volumes as to the existence of distress among the lower
and middling classes; and, added to the defalcation of
the quarter's revenue in the article of Excise, must shew
forcibly that poverty is rapidly spreading its pernicious
influence, that industry is palsied, and that the savings
intended, in all probability, for old age, have become
necessary for the support of the present moment.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

CHANGES.

His Royal Highness the Duke cif Sussex, on a visit to Colonel
and Mrs Hughes, at KinmeU Park, St. Asaph, on Thursday last,
frost a tour ; the Marquis of Bute, from Charles-street, Berkeley-
aquare• yesterday, for Luton Park. In Bedfordshire ; the Earl and
Countess Bathurst, in Great Cumberland-street, from a tour ; the
Earl and Countess Ferrara, from Harley-street. for Staunton
Harold, in Warwickshire; the Countess Beauchamp, in Portman-
square; Viscount Maynard, for Easton Hall. Essex; Surgeon
Goss, from Dublin ; Hon. Colonel Russell, for Newmarket; Sir
Thomas Mostyn, Bart. in Park-place. St. James's; Lady and Miss
Grant, in Gloucester-place, from Paris; Mr. Nathaniel Bland,
for Randall Park ; Mr. Robert Munro, from Ramsgate. for Bus.
bridge Park ; Mr. James Blackburn.. M.P. for Hale Hall, near
Warrington, in Lancashire; Sir Edward Plackett, Bart. for Mat-
fen Hall. Northumberland; the Hon. Edward Clive, for Here-
ford; Captain and Mrs. Appleby. in Mount-street. from Paris;
Mrs. and Miss rinulleigh, for Brighton ; Captain and Mrs. Ben-
nett, from the Netherlands, for Ramsgate; Mr. and Mrs. Ames,
fur Rodney-place. Clifton; Sir Edward Hales. Bart. for Rams-
gate; Captain and Mr.. Lake, for Brighton; Mr. Augustus
O'Neill, from Cheltenham. for Dublin; Lieut.-Colonel Grant.
for Brighton ; sir. Lyndon Evelyn. for Kynsham Court, Hereford;
Capt. and Mrs. Douglas. in Park-street, from the Hague; Major
and Mrs. Glynne, in Conduit.street, from Dieppe; him. Pascoe
Grenfell. M. P. in Belgrave-square, from a tour ; Sir John Halkett,
from afford-street, on a tour ; Major and Mr.. Ellison, in Picca-
dilly, from Florence; Capt. aid Mrs. Loftus, in South Aadley-
Street, from Rome; Lieut. Colonel and Mrs. Long. in Piccadilly.
from Naples ; %Ir. and Mrs. Manning, from Grosvenar.street. for
Brighton ; the Hon. John Morten:. in Gloucester-place. from a
tour; Gen. Sir Hussey Vyvyan, Bart. from Surrey, in St. James's-
street ; Capt. and Mrs. Langton. In Clarges-street. from Dublin ;
Capt. and Mrs. Law, in Piccadilly, from Paris; Major Maurice,
at Hatchett's Hotel, from the lonian Islands; the lion. Henry
Cavendish, Master, and the Misses Cavendish, in Old Burlington.
street, from Compton-place. Worthing ; I.ieut. Colonel Scott. fur
Paris; Sir Charles Scudamurr, M. D. In Vimpole-street, from Dub-
lin ; Colonel Walker, for Brighton ; Sr Gihert Stirling. at Bryant's
Hotel (late 'Warne's). Conduit-street, from the Continent ; Wm.
Andel!, Esq. Mrs. Andell, and family, at ditto, from a tour ; Ar-
thur Welsher, Esq. Mrs. Webber, and family, from ditto, fur
South Wales.

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.
LISBON, SEPT. 26.

Our situation is becoming hourly more deplorable,
and, from the effect produced both on Don MIG t: et.,
and those who still support him by the event at Terceira,
there is no excess of folly or tyranny which may not be
anticipated. A few days ago the monks of Alcobaca ap-
plied to Mto t:EI. for a party of the military police to pur-
sue the Constitutionalists. The request being acceded to,
two parties, one of cavalry and the other of infantry,
scoured the country, plundering and ill treating all those
who were suspected, after which they returned to the
convent to report the result of their mamnding excursion,
and receive the congratulations of the brotherhood. On
this occasion, the inhabitants of a large town called
Corvilhao 'deserted the place, which still continues
in a state of complete abandonment. As to
MlGer 1. himself, b. is almost continually shut
up at Queluz, which is surrounded with a cordon of
troops to prevent surprise, or suffer any person to ap-
proach. This residence has all the appearance of an en-
trenched camp, in the presence of au enemy. As if con-
science had began to produce its effect, the despot is
subject to frequent starts of horror, like one wh
imagines himself pursued by spectres. Being at the
arsenal a few days ago, he approached the door of a store-
house, as if intending to enter, but suddenly fell back as
he crossed the threshold, and exclaimed to the Minister
of War, who stood near him, " Oh ! it is dark in there :
let us go back !"
Frequent Councils are held, but nothing decided.
Most of the members have, however, recommended that
the system of terror should be continued, as the only
means of sustaining the tyrant. In pursuance of this,
the Commission established at Oporto for trying the re-
bels has been ordered to condemn all those patriots who
had disembarked there from the Belfast steam-vessel,
during the effort made to resist the faction last year.—
Among those condemned to be hanged, drawn, and quar-
tered, are the Marquis of PALMELLA, Count VILLA
FLOR, CORM de SAM P YO, Baron RENDUSTA
M.
Generals
SALDAND A, STUBBS, and AZEREDO ;M. D'HOL-
STEIN , Z.% V I ER, and Ca move°. Among those to be
hanged, alone, are Major MENDES, M. SAVEDRA M.
BARRETTA FEW, Marrs PRAgA and ZA VIER, M. de
SAMBA YO, and Lieutenant D'AR.INJ E. The Count de
CALHARIZ, a minor, 15 years of age, and M. ALEX-
ANDER D'ALvA, aged 19, are condemned to perpetual
exile, and their property confiscated !—After the copy of
the last named decree had been sent to be printed, it was
withdrawn by the judges who dreaded the ridicule it might
bring on them from the condemnation of two boys, and
confiscation of property which really belonged to others.
There is not a farthing in the Treasury. All the Re-
ceivers of Taxes having been a few (lays ago ordered to
pay their balances into the Public Chest, the sum brought
from one of the most considerable, la mesa da cowl-
encia, amounted exactly to 6/. 4s. 6d. ! A bankruptcy
is premised on the Ist of January, after which all pay-
ments will be made by bills on the Tobacco Contract,
which is, however, already anticipated till the end of
1831 !
We have just heard that an American squadron has
made reprisals for the seizure of their ships, by the rup-
ture of a frigate and some smaller vessels, at Terceira.