The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-10-18 00:00:00

DRURY-LANE THEATRE.

Jays night Mrs. MARDYN appeared in a new cha-
racter —that of AP.ina Mandeville, in REYNOLDS'
Comedy of The Will. This was the part in which
Mr,. 11ARDYN, w' are informed, made her debut
on the Dublin stage, and in which she has always
been popular with the Irish audience. Albina Man.'
demie Is an inanee::t, lively, spirited girl, brought
at by a dishonest Governess in the firm belief that
her father lead deserted her, and that it was for his
barbarous neglect of his child, he had been disinherit-
ed by her grandfather, who bad left her heiress to his
entire fortune. The same virtuous duenua—hilrs.
Rigid, destines the hand of Albino for Mr. Villas,
under an agreement that they should divide her for-
tune—but Verde's has too much natural honour not
to feel a repugnance to this partition treats ; in a fit
of drunken penitence he reveals the whole of it to
NirSulomon cynic, a frieite and neighbour of the
family. Mrs. Rigid is brought to public shame, and
Athlete delivered by her father him:elf to //mord,
the object of her affection. The play has of late
years been aweetrlwmatted—saaler we believe, slime
Mrs. Jottn.tn's retirement from the London stage,
that we were of opinion a slight reference to the
story sod characters might not be unacceptable to
our readers. The part of Albino bears, in some
respects, nn small resemblance to that of Amelia
Wildenheim, so that Mrs. 111ARDYN had to develop,
in both, a large proportion of the same speolps
talents. She discovered last night no contemptible
fund of humour, with constant quickness -*end
vivacity of apprehension. her ridicule of the old
nurse—her jealous quarrel with Howard at the cot.
tage.-her efforts to court and conciliate him in the last
act, and the generous sensibility with which she heard
and proposed to relieve the distresses of her parent,
though unknown to her, were severally executed with
perfect justice and good taste. She acted beauti-
fully in her assumption of the man's apparel—we
hare never seen a female (Mrs. JORDAN excepted)
less awkward or ungraceful in its management. Mrs.
Al AR n vs discovers all the attractions and professional
cacellencies in this character, which we have admired
in her performance of Amelia Wilde nheini ; and must
be pronounced a cultivated, elegant, and emphatic
speaker—an actress endowed with spirit and sensibi-
lity—while of the beauties of her face and form—we
are hardly sufficient connoisseurs to describe them so
a; to gratify one sex—nor moderate enough upon
the aiihject to have our praises forgiven by the other.
She was apturouslv applauded throughout the play.
lhe other performers had great merit—Wat.t.Actr's
thnikeriness was in perfect nature. RAE teas very
enccessfid. LovEntrort in Realize, was a thoroughly
harden-d 0111 knave, and Dowroo, we need not say-,
was An inimitable cvnic. The Comedy was given nut
for repetition this night, with extraordinary marks
of approbation.

SiIAOWELL-OPF:CE, OCT. 17.—The dreadful alarm
which his of late so much agitated the neighhourhood
of Nli.i.-eiscl, by the assemblage of nearly '2OO sailors,
Mho had been paid off from their respective ships,
and taken op their residence iu the different huts of
the brick grounds at the old town, and who have
EPPit •t'.aling poultry, robbing the potato* grounds,
as well is committing numerous other nocturnal de.
'redviong, has in a great degree subsided, by appli-
cation having been made by 'eve: al respectable lobs.
hitants for Magisterial sssistance. Hewett, Hope,
and Mortis, three vigilant Officers from Shad well,
this morning visited their places of residence; they
!tyces.deil in dispersing the greatest part, and bring.
fog 48 of them before EDWARD MARKLAND,
ne Sitting Magistrate, when lie committed nine of
t!'em to the House of Correction as rogues and va-
gabonds ; some he ordered to their respective pa-
f.;!,e%, others to work at the Milo-eud.road, until
other employ could be had for them ; and the re-
mainder, being foreigners, to be taken to the re.
spectire Consuls, representing their country, for re-
f. pf.

This day the prisoners who stand committed on
various chimes of felony, will be removed from the
different gaols in the City of London and County of
Middlesex, to Newgate, preparatory to their trials
et the ensuing Sessions at Justice Hall, in the Old
Bailey, which magmas wa Wednesday west.