The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-04-07 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

This house became attractive last night from the pre-
sence of another Norelty. A Gentleman, who was state)
in the baeolbills to make Is:, second appearance on any
stare, undertook the part of Balnlet. If our opinion of
his am eeeee were to be formed upon the measure of ape
planar. bestowed on theactor by a numerous body of i njud
clout' friemls. judiciously stationed in different parts o f the
locouse,tre•loonld certainly say kis surreal WAS :11111itit
un-
qualified. But we must rtanoine his merits by another
and a widely different test. He does not possess a
had figure, a bad face, or a bad vole.; and yet we can-
not say that-any one is good. He is tall, and tolerably
well proportioned, but a peculiar bend, anti an orrasion.ol
untirin gait completely neutralise the effect of Isis gene-
ral appearance. His intones are also regular. but the
contour of the face would seem to have suffered from
the ravages of time and ill health. The lone of his
natural quire nut destitute of richness and melody;
lint no sooner do the portions respire its more powerful
evertioni, than the feebleness of the arbor is discovered.
In fact, his prime defect, and it strikes us as being ref-
taiooly an insisrmoutstahle one, is the original want of
physical powers. The more particularly do we deem it
itisormountable, because, if tht•re be any one oiNuaav
sevano's kaolin characters where it is less carted for
than in the rest, it is Howie t • aairrassofet being delve- I
tire, how can we hope Iu see a eaccroaful performance of
any other. We by no means wish to see iffroolet raring
with al: the virulence uf a facl,crd; or the general feeling
'and tone of the character sleatruyed and Risen np for
the eno.nnntery effect of abrupt points, whirls, by their
sloorolived grandeur, may lead us to insult the shade of
our immortal bard, by carrying us ton with the tido of
spurious passion to admire avol applaud that which is a
direct impeachment of his genius anti judgment. But
the rock of reflection is ever at hand, and on that our
transitory rapture must be wrecked. ?knell searrely
forms a character ; it is the instrument, the organ
of the 'teat mind and soul of SRA KrlPrAßE—in
it he •• lives, an.l breathes, and has his being."
The fine bursts of sentiment and thought, which are
as f. 'liar to ns as honschold trunk, fall not from the
lips of littoolet as connected a ith any business of the
scene; they arse from the mere coot-era:llion, or pestling
ideas of this contemplative and susceptible being. Even
in the " method" of his inattriroa his " capability and
godlike reason" oho mot " rust ;" he is still the
philosopher and the moralist. flow then ran be he the
fiery and splenetic mv.'man we have seen him repre-
s?nted. He who is even melt in seeking that revenge,
for which he pants, for the mere purpose of refining on
its manner! But we must return to the point front which
we have digressed. The roonceptiott of floe part by the
g,atilesstais who played it on this owe:lotion, appears to
he very correct, but he cannot act up to it. Mooe is
notch in his performance to admire, and, in a few in-
atanrea, even on the score of originality; !teran.;e in
parts a hich other actors have neglected, or pastes' over
slightingly, lu toever antlered his exertions to relax. In
fact, the perf.r trance mss the most even we bare ever
witeessed its s.. attimma a character; but no p.ort of it
‘bati excellent. la the eolikoptiout D.: wag paokibliodzi
in that matchless one. " To te, or nut ho ie." there was
a lanwntable want of that intense mental ens rgy with
which the whole soul usnst b.- absorbed, to the exelooiron
of t very tiling around him, even to his town annual
etistence. "It is villainous'," at such a time. In see an
actor parine the stage to and fru, study lila attitude and
action, and talking of Ale streams of an " Iserraftet- as
if they were his earthly dreams of the preceding night.
In thi. last scene some disapprobation was us salivated by
the Villirnre, excited, we believe, by the dimity mia-
ow in whit It nom/et killed the Keay. (Iron the whom
the performance was well received, and is to be repeated
this evening.

MR. CANNING'S BALM OF GILEAD.

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Amongst the other ateintesuents of Easter week, the
town has not been a little divertetl by the tioeJe in which
" Me. Casestixo's CCLINRATED SPLrcH, made alter din-
ner upon his late Re-elettion for Liverpool," has been
annommeil to the public.
Ale. Canning has evidently taken the hint from a late
and distinguished constituent of his ; we mean the late
lamented Doctor Solomon. He has taken op the very
position formerly occupied by tint disting.uished person,
—beginning trills Leicester-fields, and thus way 11 hog
the wart 111 l customers for ever passing through its
height:oaring alleys. :Jr. Canning, too, has suctee•led
the great men now now tio tome, on his ',wit twrdis;
the large portable pl wards which used to annotince "the
genuine Halm of liked- of Dr. Solomon, being now
honoured with "the genuine Speech, Iltc. of the Hight
Honourable George Canning." And as the Doctor was
wont to dub his efforts in behalf of oar individual cun-
stitutions, invaluable, &r. so dues his soccessor freely
term his specific for one holly politic "CrLEVIIATEU.I'
\nr iy there any inconsistency in this; Dr. Soloman
prescribed for the human holy—Mr. Canning's Balm of
Oiles,:l is for the State.

Of these two benefactors to their culintry. Mr. Can-
ning, it must be allowed. is much the 111111 r ressunsble
in his eliarpe. Doctor Solomon's Balm of was
unr ;mines the bottle—dist of .Ir. ('alllllll Oil IN one
sisprn..e the speech ; and when one consideri th.,t it is
a Cabinet 31inister of the King, and co. g rest nit of his
air, who thus condescends to instruct (1.4 cheap a
rate, our obligations to him, it must be aultuittcd, are
infinite.

As for the merit of Mr. Canning', Halm of Gilead—
whether here again he preserves his analogy to the
Doctor, and his medicine be.. quack nice, it is out for us
to say. True it is, however, that the 1,111.1ic have a
strange and very strung snspicion ut it. 1 hey 13y, the?
though it has a frothy and sparklioz appear-11/% it Is
nothing less than a very citing opiate. and that its
great and only object is to keep the patient in a state
of permanent lethargy and std pelaction. It is said, too.
that the very moderate price of sixpence, at whictethis
medic Inc is sold, is a palpable hetaat ; that the vendor is
paid, in fact, in a very iillierent wanner ; that is truth
he is taken up by the Court, and hintseit ,tr.a family
very hatulsomely provided for.•
The pernliar activity with a hich Mr. Canbir ea Bales
of (Weal is at present hawked atm, the •Iree ,s, is asks.
totted to the approaching question of a NEW t. rota Lat.
His employers are most linvi"us, it is said, in hive both
town and country kept in the most tramnil, and, if pits -
slide, drowse- state, during 'he entire siltation of the
above Inestion; and as the Vendor of the Medici,* him.
self is en a peculiar manner interested in the same (rep
tion, it quite accounts for the manner in whirl; the town
is from t:av to day assailed he the re".il dealers in the
ar:icler-(Mar.•ing Chreni,7

'lowa', /tem 6.—Arrived the Princess Charlotte
Wiwi with a rna:! from 110
ItAstsocte, APPIL 6.—The Perseverance, Gibson,
from Velleros for Bremen, got saint last night on the
Utiodwin-.and, hut was got off to-day, sad brought into
liar.uur with loss of anchor and cable.

Poaselsoree, Arm. f —Arrived the Jong Jane.
!_lpa rboom, from An,wero ; aml his Majesty's ship Hind,
troin a ernire.—Passril by. for London, the Print, Re-
mo, l'liffortl, front Bombay, out five months; Olobe.
and Commodore Hayes, Antler, from Bengal ;
the Litter sailed the Sth of November, and has part of
the 21st Light Dragoons on Iso
Fat.morro, APRIL 4.—Arrived the Union. Broken-
Air, rams Lofton.

Pt.trunt:To, Aram s.—Arr!red the Lark, RatitIRCHA.
from Cork ; Integrity, Pori, from Waterford ; and
•
Cummerce, tiriffith, from Toughen.

Dolts, A rot L G.—Thlrt of :I yetu.l has hero picked
up *1 SPA, And Lautrit here, marked rortitudc, ut. North
Shiehk

Listeronr., Arntt, s.—Arriverl the fhinshorough.
Aisthorpe, from Jamoier ; 1 o,trO, Tnnnniinr, from New
Orly:Ins: and Bengal, lair Wyo.; J r.l, fano, lit nral.—Ar-
rigml of this port. the IViitiaus I.:awr.n, from Demerara.

Prat.. APRIL 6.—Arrirrfl. wid eallesl, the Alfred, Oli-
phant. from ice Lon,:un : and It ear, lAborg,
from Cette, for Sim t .ollatrglo —Arrived, and remains,
the Patty, Sias.' ng:sl, from Annorridoo, for Pernansbueo.—
l'ame down from the River floe C./nada, Parker. for
Chaslepton ; Henry, Thonspon. for Quebec; and
llajesty's selowee:: ViJneer, for rertstuoutli.
Dvieratre. Arrat.4.—Oor apprehensions with regard
to the f.te of the American s'.sip, Mar!a, have been un-
tortunntely realiTe I. The g !les of Tars last even-
ing, and the three following. days, completed the
wreck of this valuable ship, and the shores of the Sol-
way POO' are note cool: strewed with whole awl
broken hogsheads of !lletreci, stare.;, atei hemline of
hogshead-, together stills tb.• iong-hoat, pinnace. and
other Inaterisk !whin:ring to tile Al aria. The sight If so
mneh damaged toh.cea has prose', a powerful temp-
tation to the ponsoi c1.44•t0 ahont Annan and various
oilier I.lares, is ho. In•ling for the loss
sustained tie the ow:lers of 9'r Maria, have thonght
only how they contl hest defeat the vigiiance of the
excise and enstom-ls rise ogi:•.•rs. lit I the thefts been
petty, awl confined to a few old wire., who growl
0.11114 Uoveroolent for t talqi! c i gererely their favourite
an .I u bate pri.:•:ip.ll ..njo:turat is a " luntin
few.- and a near.,, •oc it by the cottage fire-side, no
grist h ,r,„ tvou: I blvel;e.os.lone; lest the de?red stions,
we arc sure, r,, :. we heel on IS muds I trier
ani will rive rio% l-r!ta.• I, t.s a nnmhes of prose-
curios., before the JoNtsce., fir trail- is due to the
Wirers ein;...nyed its iris eersicss for their excellent at-
vaegtonents and in le-ft•ip:al,le exerions. Two men, we
understand, have hr: •s apprehended it Autism who had
the aniarity to I:reakitsto a darn ant forcibly carry off
;ls/al.i. of Tot, altrE they had been saved bt an
bobs itAg to We CsistOlWL .47 •

:• f: Pr E.% LT.

(Pr, ru C'orricr.)

cnariaa or IUVIOILIDA .UD ?rin To APRIL 6.
Eleidluet Ar.ntiOrs - - - A 13.730
11tatli t•ca - - - 163.456
Vint• tri their Capital - - - b 9.123
treidwitl4
Nillun%lll,:bt
Civil 1.14 t 634.1'24
Parton%
Annuitir4 - -
Uttar cbargra

To!al e:rirp.l - - 9,49k0,ruu
Sur plus

t 1U.267.617
?WE AISTRACT or ?Br NTT ►PloDtct or ENE DIITENL E Foil
IDE otAirrait ENDED ZrErt lbl9, AND 3TII PRIL,
linU. is al roLLutit:—

ISM.

Cirdoins - - it,110.00
Excise -
Sherpa - - - I,s:st ;•i7

Post-1)41-e - - 5.'110
Ass:-:. kt Taxes - YIM
Gni Taxes - - 144,410
illorellameous • .4

ISiO.

Cutitonii - -.f 1.010.70 s
ir - - 5A:C0.335
,iramp.i - - 1.133.;h14

341.U00
- b 73.716
Land Taxes • - SUP
Miseellane,,us -40.911 U

Tutid -.t !d1,918 I Total
The laciest, no ellsen bails
the Quarter just ended, Is - 1487.96
Tbs decrease uu others - - - 318,544

- 1 1J,703,1147

Increase