The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1823-09-25

The Meteorological Journal for August
Is reccived-but we are Obliged TO defer
IL tiii next week for want oil room.
The first regiment of the first brigade
of X | Militia, under command of Col.
SHAW, will parade for review and inspec-
ton this day The troops will be re.
viewed by Brig. Gen COLLINS, on the
parade ground, i'll Middllctown.
BY the following article from the Prov
idence Journal OF Thursday last, it ap-
pears we were mistaken in the statement
given in our last paper, tina, there were
no trials of a criminal nature to occupy
the tine of the Supreme Court at its pres
oa session in Providence.
"The Supreme judicial Court CON-
rnenced It's September tern, in this town
OH Monday last, bur did not form quo
rum till Tuesday afternoon. The Grand
Jury being empannel!ed and sworti, were
charged by Chief Justice Wilbour. They
were employed in the discharge of their
duties Until yesterday, when they return
cd with eight bills of Indictment one for
assault and battery, one for burning abarn,
two for passing counterfeit money, one
for irauduIently obtaining ard cancelling
promissory note, and one for not repair
ing public bridge. The Jury was &c.
tanned by the Attorney General, on being
informed that four PERSONS were detected
in the vilagesof Chepachet, In the &C, Of
passing counterfeit money on Tuesday
last. II was expected they would be
bound over by the magistrate to be tried
at the present teen---and as we were put
ting our paper to press, we were in!omed
that two of them had arrived in town, and
were committed to Jail, We understand
the docket is unusually full, and that one
ortwo criminal cases, one OF which is for
Highway Robbery, viii be tried at the
present term.
THEATRICAL COMMUNICATIONS
We have received a lengthy theatrical
eommunicatiou, IN Which the writer hes ct
tempted 10 do ios,Ice to the astonishing pow
ers displayed by NJ. BRowN in his recent
perfo NANCE Of Sir Edwstd MortiiDer. in the
IRON Chest, Sc. but our limits confle Us 20
The following.
eve were bredsposed, on Saturday even.
iag, to give M BRowSs cordial welcome.
We recOiiceted him some Elk years since, and
tie impression then wss favorable; he was
.eldom in f.uit. There was an intelligence
snd mind, those redeemirg virtues, which
stone Tor trivial faults: end there ives p,riicu-
iarly in The Three and Deuce, an excellence
beyond our hopes. But The Mr. Brown,
which VIC saw 10 the Iron Chest, " another
and the same" so far surpassed, so Tar dis
tsnced all that We had seen o. his former sell,
,hs, i, was TO US q sub &C, of wonder, whether
nature hsd so formed him, or whether he lad
formed himself on the rpost accomplished
models We do not deny that at may 'm'
prove on nature; and tbs, the sterling quai'
ties OF genias, may sucesssively be S'oughi
Into view, by an attention 10 ,hc hghfs eno
shades OF Dtamstic effect but we cannot con
cedS, hat the fascination which lives no' IN
the eye alone, but which tsse. po' sessi"n ol
the whole being, cen belong To- 8 mere corr
Is,. Even ~ th,s ancient mrirohpAs, wne'c
suNleeIs at taste are not only not en- article oil
tefic, buI are moreover en- unptof able spec
Ula.iop even here, We are di,pIssd TO dg jis.
tiee 70 The talent. OF o oneri;orious psrform e.
vi BRowS has forever established himself in
onr opinion asa Fl st rate actor, In NJ, Sir
Ftv.rd Mortimer, We knew nothing Of ideal
Jdff. .,og snd imaginary wo--.hs scene Mas
passing b.fore us--oo' as pAgean''ou' s'sr'
sli,y. We we're present, end were not spec.
ts,ors; bu, were deeply in'eres,ed-we mad
feeling, end they were cspiivs'ed. Ia Che IT,
bray scene. We snw The horror os 6 iil', and
we're appalled, ,h: riysued s"en,ion, the ~
ietehange Of feeling, prepared u, Tor the Ina
eatsN'ophe,--, burst OF applause snnounese
thst u was but a deception.
w. beg leave 10 diFs' from many respec
table au.h1riue,, when we say. thar Ronoe s