The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-09-23 00:00:00

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• - NAritie INTRLLWICHGE.
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DEO; Sinn. 22.—The Rakes., Gerdeov, :child
not retch tier Downs yesterday, be Vire up again
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lerliergate-roads.--Arrived and 'sited for theltter,
the • Britenuie, Fisher, from Grenada; and Charles,.
coact frees •falarseilles.—Carnedown•frem the Riser
the Princrss Royal, Ackley, for Africa. ;land remains
in the Downs with the ootward.bound. ai befere ;
end .British Army, Zempbell, from !Stevie for
Rotterdam.— The. Lively, Or: Nert.,Previidence..has
put bock with lose of Aniline and cabb eeder Don-
,geness.
Potursmbwrn, Syr. 22.,—Arrived ditalistch ship;
*Grail* Below, Janine, from Demerara for Amster.
dam ; sailed 31st Shi whhi
sego r, sf(er.lying lit months at Denson's, On thenotb
Joly tun- vessels left for. England.—itichark Noble,
-from Demerara; sailed-I'6th of Augastr4passengers
, bided .by a pilet.l)o4l,-.4essel passed up Channel.-s.
Staled his, Mojesty's ship. Tiber, for, Chatham, to be
peld'elf; and Wood° on a Cruise...°4SW through
tot Cities, the (el) •Nepois; from New Orleans. ,
RAlliklATlt, Sem 24.-4ArtiveFl, late last night.
':the steep Good iteetrowen, .of Amsterdam, Irwin.
etweieteeto,foe Saedmich, distnasted,,isiti less of ttu
, cher tied chistess.a.ed ether damage. w
'Fatationtru, Sum. 20.-•-Arrived of thisire4, his
-)isjesty's ship Sparta,'" tr.orn Milford. acrd sailed
••igain on a croise.—Sailed the Duke of Kent packet,
• a Mail, for Lisbon. • '
o...Pavuoneti, Seer. 21.—Came in the 'rhalia,lfer:
ikst*.frem London for India ; end Lspwiag cutter,
creim..
"112 it. SEP. 2107-The lobe. Deckles, from f.its.
171itiire Main; is arrived with part of the cargo of
• wtise Jane.—A letter received this morning, reports
. :•the seccess 'of the following ships:—Atiel, fell ;
I„,Everthorpe, ; Mary Francis, six large fish:
Dora", Styr. 22.—Arrived rri" this Port theltl.
gulver, from New Yerk.
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The Norwich Paper says, 66 We are told that an
agent from Copenhagen direct is arrived in this city,
for the purchase of bembasine. Oar manufacture,
It "appears, ii now very mach wornln Sweden."
Coast Roils/now, Chancellor of the Russian
• Empire, has, in tae•coarse of the summer, travelled
through different rovinies of the Empire,- for the
purpose oldiscovering and putchasing ancient doge-
'. Bents, original writings, scarce, manuscripts, end
every thing which Might contribute to the national
• 7 history. •
Assumes, Sere. 15 Yesterday a Mietint of
. the Burgesses of Guild was held here, when there
was laid before the Meeting a Report of their Com.
communicating the state of the question be-
fore the Coart of Session, regarding the interim ma-
negenient Slf the Burgh, and also stating the terms of
- • the Warrant for restoring ;the government of tine,
Bergh rtnreewas also lei* befnfe the Meeting a
• ; Memorial. for this Burgesses.mgarding the warrior,
hich. had keret* before Counsel, with abst
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of essra.teLaitie, CaAmITOPP, end THOWDR, thit
the warransir.ttlegal.. and that it' reduction of It
,•• should be brought before the Court of Session, if enr
election andel. it shall be attemptedli—‘e It was firo.
• salved, That! it is impossible for any set of men tb
•7 tarry on the affairs of the Bergh in their present em.
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„itemised and must degraded state, with credit to
themselves and advantage to the community. until a
1.• Magistracy, possessing public confidence, shall be re-
turned by the Burgesses at large, the only conathe•
1i0n.% means of renovating the &Municipal Government;
. . nd the Meeting trusted that no individual would be
-sfound it Aberdeen to act under. she warrant issued
• by the Privy Council! Bet if any election under it
should be attempted, the Meeting pledged itself to
uppote the election and all proceedings connected
with it, by every legal sod itonstiiutional mesas." .
• laczuss.—A mechanical exhibition of a curious
astute took place last night at this theatre, as a part
, of the petformances of the evening. The ingenious
Mr. MAELSEL, from Vienna, the inventor of the me-
tronoire, an instrument for sharking the measure in
which Musical compositions should be played, has
also invented, and transported to this country, an au-
.. tension figere, which, by the. aid.olinternal mecha•
ohm, is made to perform en the trumpet. This
• ''figure was broogbt before the sedilince of this theatre,
sod played three different pieces„ one•alorie, the
other two accompanied by the 'orchestra. Nothing
• Po tatted the accuracy end neatness'of the execs-
lion, or the steadiness of the tone: in the rapidity
with which the same note may be repeated in suc•
cession, and in some passages of a similar netere, it
surpasses that poweri of any tiring trumpeter; it tails
only'in expression, and in the swell of the note, a
defect which is common to all music produced by
seechenimn.•' The automaton trumpeter appeared te.
.esclte great minims and delight in the audience,'and
nee il,olWilled,
was
an encore i%twit of his pieties,
one of which Oss composed for 'hue b/ the celebrated
• IlliiT11011in: After undergoing 'the ceremony of
• It hullos op, be complied with the wishes of the com,
reuse, and repeated *is elaborate perforce-,
• !Amen willed movies a. muscle. • • • ,
CAIRLINLit Suer. 19.--Monday 4lst Mrs. EL'S...,
' Far, se well.keewo fee her exertions in the ist•'l
p...emest prises discipline, strived here frOm
Seelleni, end on Tuesday visited. Carlisle jail, at.
• leaded.by her brother, Mr. Gintetrit,.of Norwich.
She was accompanied by sestal of the Magistrates„,
`end s considerable member of Ladies and Gentle-
' sten, who had spontaneously seeriabled en 'merit*
--010 f hear intadion.• sh• was well eaOsfied with the
•-ciitiditiott of chi prisoners;in reseeet-ef cleaulinesst
lo the 'seeing she met a great tisiey Ladies andi
•• . Gentlemen, who uereitighly gratified by the interest-,
ing information which she commenictied respecting
the reformation of many females of alsendonedschalo
racier. The Ladies present, provided they can ob-i
*sin the sanctiow. of the Magistracy, agreed to form
themeelles into an qesnciation to provide O•
!end salable instreetion fee the fecal
Our 141, and to endeaseer to reader
useful indemry, and, if possible, of
There am be little doubt bet lents
.6 granted by the Magistrates. Mrs.
On Wednesday morning for Kern
Allenby, Maryport, silt. with the
. 'bet praiseworthy tabula& • •

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Sta,--T profess not to be either an actor or enema-
tear of theatricals, but a plain man, who...likes NA'
amend at times by the eztaibition of men anti things,
as both are Oseelly displayed on the stage. With this'
.liking about me, tot without any desire of judging for .
another, I went to Drary-lane Theatre' last Saturday
evening, to witness the representation of Romeo and
Juliet. As I happen to be one of those beings who
make On of the faculties of their Were in foreeleg
judgments of what they draw the strings of their
purses for,. I trust you will do me the justice to be-
lieve that I endeavOured to divest myself of every
prejudice which the Peblis press might have pee:
virmsly generated, and. sa bodow n accordingly to es:
etcher -ay tenses, and jetlgteent, cud reason,' withoot
partiality foe the perferniers. or interest in the tow
cess.of the concern ; for K Is role with me, being a
neutral person, never to bestow praise where there
is do merit, oar to censure where I find my fellow.
creatures endeavour to deserve well of the world.'
.. An ectqfs business is to represent some character,
as thee'Aisracter is in nature, or as the,poet coo-
caved kits calif. The actor does dais by mew of,
lankier, 'end. i isii %nose is either 'artificial arkon...l
tstal. - The artificial language is 'that, in my lodic-,
meat, in which the play is written ; but Ihe actor
I a.
was to personate a character in this la tigoege by intent
Skrtetural language. The elements of newel lair:.
guage are modulations of voice, sestet's, and features.
Modulations of voice may ask-or refute ; pawn
May affirm .or deny ; features shat threaten' or sepi
plicate.; or each of these elements May cotatinitite
ell the silt 'thoughts or ideas of asking, 4riisings.
'affirming, denying, threatening, and supplicitine.--.
TO succeed in the theatrical profession, it is absolute.
ly necessary that the actor should study theiratutal
binguage.which I have briefly defined ;, for, unless -I1
be sufficiently emplojed, the artificial language, the
signi, 'or words which have multiplied with
the acts, and which are used in cliscoenleil
'would give no, idea of the sentiments which they
were designed to communicate. But it is °WNW
bat time, stay, and practice. are requisite to enable
theactor to adapt to the artificial the natural len..
guege now under consideration, since it is by nature{
signs chiefly that we give force and energy to WM.
vial language or words ; (hit is to say, to the play
as it is written; and the less .artificial. language has,
of the elemente of eaten! Imogene, it must be the
Ifilf ezprenire and .persuasiee ;. for artificial sight
merely signify, they do not eapress.., .. . ~ t. . ~ A
lio
n kr Mr. 11. Kuntz? Mrs. Macningigt .illg.;
PZICLET, and Mrs.-St:Ault &weeded, is Keene unfit
Mkt,- dita..Mercutio mid the Nursi,...iin verifying OW
&tiepins observations, I shall new briefly enquire. I
might also have ineluded in. the Jest sentence Mr.
Keroni and M. IfoLLaso, the former as Peter, sad
she latltr es _Peleliu; dud. Mr. PutL4.lll, es.. Friar
'Liguria& • . . .
,- .44e. itaxasilt,wbeluttfia.to a 404 that has done
great thingi far the practicet business Of the *age,
end in tititireint of view he is entitled to the fester-
ineparq..4 • BAIA Public; yet aot even to that if
his abilities be not such might sager fume cele.
Wily. Of Jgglitt, or Mrs. MACZBRIZIE, one' cionot•
take the same flew, for she comes before the Public
without the advantages of a• family neme,-tind the
gratitude of the Public on her side, erisine from Its'
conviction of her family having conspired in no, in-
considerable degree to form its taste for thestribils.
Droning this line of advattit;ge end disirdvantilgti,
considering also the difference of the sexes; the fur.
titode which we may naturally suppose a Man to' be'
possessed of, for any and every arduous endertak..
ing, and the timidity which always overwhelms a'fe-
male in such circumstances as a debutante is placed
in ; we shall, .in some measure, prepare our minds
for forming a judgment of these young actors; yet,
on the part of the Gentleman, we have to conlider
the conviction which she must have had, that
upon that strige on which he made his debut,
kis aunt, Mrs. SIDDONS, and his ande, - Mr.
Jolts
.KeiteLE, commenced their immortal career ;
and this conviction in his mind might haiiiii in.
Ounce in disturbing his conceptioos of R 0140.—
There are' times and circumstances in which vanity
ceases to operste ; and there is little of that vice in
the mind of a Malt who knows that he stands 'Orton',
neither by humility nor by vanity, but by Pleasing
his glottises, sod measuring lit his conception of a cha.
ranee their taste of that character. The 804'4 ob.
ieivitiol applies still more forcibly to the Juliet of
the evening.' Granted that both had had 'the espe-
rience of a region' representation,—so much' had
been said to their disadvantage before last Sstutday,
chat they must have laboured under eventeVer‘
,p.ppresion .tha n en their first appearance.', These,
Sr, are the notions windy any one will form who huts
,eitherthe patience.to investigate so awful an affair as •
# *streptesentitinn, or' he disinterestedness Id ask'
hies I W whet are the reckuisilesio an actor and an actren,
,
cad what allowances are to be made for time, plate,'
iindeircemstaisces. But there is another observation
which I would make in reference to Mrs. MACKEN-
ZIE, as Juliet. The Court is the standard of tansies
Alms, in language, and in politeness or manners'.--
Prom the Court we pass to the Public, and unle4s it
be denied that there is no public standard of taste, all
tesiOnings on morals are vain and nugatory. But
the same pablicstaste decides on language, dress, and
k•
i
menuers; for whatever disgusts generally is repug-
nant. to the public taste. Now, the public trate eh
theatricals is the audience of the night'. If it is sattitfietN"
and espressea satisfaction generally, there hitt andile'
tl
,all cavil on the supposed demerits discovered hi.4l#
critics ; for who are the judges in such a use, some hilt,
doses of men, or some hundreds ? If the latiet,llll
the others must be wrong; if the former, theft.'
litter must be wrung; but the letter's roicelseitt bi‘'
theft° decided this case, therefore the former aret net
heeded - 'their judgments. Not that I vollatii?
ty, that the critics barn not theft inbred f
believe' that that Whittles hen elk': debt
ilt disrearded by the Milk"; •14 iech;4
vas the case last Saturday evening'. -hit
of the play performed her pin tote Otis-
the audience is barely as alslntatlekpri.
that she elicited some beaetlea lea III;
.ase•,, ....
so; and to say that Ii pettorat

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mei& employment heeded in 1
female minuets ia seam to ssj
n4IPT !t .4
Place of .but I most
, of 'rift: desse4..-7. when I see
s will he eliteitelilly, an fag!, WI
t. Fa* left Olisle.4)e_lafict
%del, Witgt'nne—faction of
t dolga ofrirediag' Po'sition;
.1-- lion se lea