The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-07-21 00:00:00

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HAYMARKET THEATRE.

This ouspeign of this Sommer Theatre commenced
last night, with the Play of The Soldier's Dar, eller,
which b•oeght Mrs. Eowtm spin before the Pitriic,
raw a considerable absence, in the character of Wi.
dos Utterly. This admired widow has, perhaps, io
the opinion of some, a little too mach of the mei-
• poetess of eaverience in her sentiments, she is, no.
vertheless, an interesting object for the speculation
of a dramatic wedding. The ploy Itself it, indeed,
pot altogether free from a degree of barbarism, filled
with rather clumsy modifications of virtue, such as
gleam in the first wakened fancies of srhool.boys ;
the incidents correspond to the wtitee's genies ;
lime sums are given away, end estates transferred
wish as much ease as in " Henry, Earl of More.
land ;" and then the solitary instance of vice which
Is so mechanically set to ran counter to these bens.
relent arrangements, is a likeness of nothing known
.unkind. There is se severable erect, how-
ever, produced by this play ; good humour is an
effective instrument, sod es all the characters but
one possess als, the absence of delicacy in the mon-
itions, parity in the dialogue, a•sri propriety in the
sentiments is forgiven. Mrs. EDWIN has perhaps
the greatest force of comic espressinn that remains
to es after Mrs. Joao sis, and indeed displayed 11.
them too much of it last night to bear out her lover
In the refinement of his choice; bet as there is
scarcely another Author in the lingua/4o whose
fulmination is so coarsely developed, she will
Pot be very often betra)ed into this error.—
Her carriage was a little ton volatile to be graceful ;
her person is too frequently bent in order to produce
effect ; her articulstion displays some aitifice ; in
other respects theAta/Lis at present nearly her own,
as It regardshor lierutrnent.
. cow w
..,tempulkled. called Wel Weather; it
Is a very saceessNl specimen of the reigning mode of
farce writing, fan of puns, personal shserdities, and
hard hits against fashionable fools and popular fol-
lies. !Arens, notwithstanding the moral Impossibi-
lity of his part, or any of its transactions, kept the
audience in laughter almost without intermission.—
The piece is written by an able hook and contains
at least a month's amusement for the town. The
seal of the Mans/era is very praiseworthy ; there are
I new pieces and performers to be introduced,
as rapidly as the other arrangements of their eery brief
season will allow.
It was a little remarkable that the very element%
appeared to chime in with the title of this new piece,
for in order to be gratified with the sight of IVel
Mather. trany who could not obtain coaches were
soaked to the skin.

To rag EDlllOlt of ma STATESMAN.

Sts,—There is se akesrdity se gross that the ad-
kerents of Ministers will not swallow, and com-
fortably digest, however clumsily it be administered.
That BONAPARTE if a devil intimate, that ail the
wisdom and virtue of France centre in the Ultras,
that the King of PRUSSIA is chopfell of the most
amiable qualities, that Lord CAVELERRADIE is a
maker of the best spe►ches o'er delivered in Perlis.
pent, Ste. era dogmas embodied in the creed of the
orthmisser party, and promulgated end insisted upon
by the writers attached to it. When such credulity
es to whatesee is 'opposed to favour legitimacy,
prevails, it is truly surprising that the Tr y
writers have hithirte refrained from exercising their
laudatory talents upon the character of his Spanish
Majesty—the most distinguished =ember of the
family of legitimates, for his attachment to " the
establisheel order of things," his abhorrence of " new.
tangled doctrines." and " the vigour and decision of
his meeseres." These Gentlemen, we know, in their
lecubretions, entirely disregard that sensible role laid
down in the Art of Political Lgiag. to ascribe to
the object of your praise virtues which, in their sta-
ture, most closely approximate to his notorious vices,
sod assess sod insist upon that which is most die.
metrically opposite to troth, in the ambitious hope
of both overturning what has bee. assented to by
the world at large, end of establishing a converter pro.
position. We fully expected that these Gentlemen, '1
acting upon that principle, ',avid, ere this, have ra-
tified the pretensions lately advanced fur FERDINAND
of his being a partaker of Divinity.
What can be the f this most singular for.
;sentence of the Minister's! Press towards the Be.
loved? It run be no want of admiration of his va-
ried eacellescies, or of gratitude for the practical
leetratioss he is constantly affording of the benefits
to he derived from a total went of freedom of dis.
cession, Taal' by Jury, Hebei, Corpus, and other
disagreeable scrompanimputs of Freedom. Is it that
the eatroordieary deserts of his Catholic Majesty
transcends even the consummate elfrontery of Mi-
nisterial welters? If such he the fact, the silence of
these worthies imposts more opprobrium to the cha.
Tatter of FERDINAND, than could well be conveyed
by the eloquence of indignant humanity, or the con•
cures of enlightened philosophy. _ _