Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1824-06-15
MIR. BOOTH.

! VIC rcgret to learn that this distinguished ac-
| tor, was seized with violent fit of insanity on
| Saturday. On Friday night he played Othelo
| and IN some passages is said 10 have been I'M
| rnIably tine, while in others ii was thought by
some he was turning tlIe character of the Moor
INTO burcsquc. In the dying scene we were
informed he even cxcelIed himself But before
! The drop of the curtain, he turned over facing
The audience, raised his head upon his hand and
said.-"Ihe5'e, antat do you think of that -
these circumstances were looked upon as very
| strange at the moment: but no further notice
Vas taken of it at the time. About II o.
clock on Saturday, he was in the entrance of the
theatre, conycrsiug with Mr.. Woodruff, when
Suddenly but with an air of calmncss, he said TO
vi must cut somebody's throat to-day, and
whom shall take. Shall it be, Wallack, or
yourself, or who?" Woodruff asked what he
meant. ''Why, mean what | say,p replied
| Booth. Wondhrll then observed that he was
grasping dagger under his coat and at the
| moment w ailack passed along. Booth made
pass at him, but as Woodruff called him at the
same instant, by turning round, the blow miss
ed Its Object. Wallack then rushed into the
street, and Booth after him and Woodruff az.
ter hlm. Booth gained upon Wallack, and Just
as nc was making plunge at his back. Wal
lack proyidentially stumbled and fell. and Booth
passed over him. He was then seized. disarm-
cd and secured. In the evening he was taken
to the house of friend, mot to the Asylum. as
| mentioned i'll the morning paper,1 where he is
trea,ed with every kindness G. attention. He has
become tranquil, and it IS hoped that lie will
soon recover from his painful ndisposition.
Miss Johnson, in Desdcmona, certainly ran a
risk of being murdered by the Jealous Moor in
good earnest, and may fclicitate hersclfupon her
escaped IL We should not have noticed this
painful subject, had it not already been men
| toned in the morning papers,
| .Ne,0 York Commercial .loyyeytiser
| n poi,' Of Pocts.--It appears that the lady
| (A1rs. WEILs) who gained the prize for fhe Al
dress at the Chathan-strcct Theatre. in Mo-,
! York, is the wife of the gentleman who gained
the prize for the Address at the New OrIeans
Theatre. 1t is TO be hoped that their Offspring
may be as pocticaI as themselves, in Which, case
we may be bicst with new set of muses..
lChGrieSto1 COu
Tronslated from "EI Tcnezolsno - far tbc Nh,
| tionai hteiljgenccr.
| Letter from the ABBE De PRAp-r TO the PRps,
| DEST or COLUMBIA.
! HtitSt'1ous Ser: More fortunate than rnvsclf
VIII the COuntryman of mine be- who will presept
| TO your EXccliency this letter. since he Will time
| be introduced to the society of the man I,Lo
| freed Continent, and filed the other with bic
name. The nobcst ofseptimcnts, that friend
ship, winch survives TO death, leads TO tlo soil or
AMERICA MI. EmcDard, whou Mr.. Yea. vour
countryIn9n, honorcd with his intimate friend
| snip ms uue atone VIII speak sufficiently in
| favor of Mr.. Emcnard but must add. besiIcs
that he has, with distinction. plirs,ed ;c ,o;I;,a,
career, and also that of literature. in tl,o laet ~
"hlch he has shown himselfworthy ola brof!,er
100 soon wrested from the Muses., and whom tbc
fc!lSTT 9r-23ssls considered ae ORC ,F lie ~.