Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Wayne County, Ind.) 1831-1837, 1835-04-04

1885. NuxsER
Berlram 10 . combinati0n Of all these
|teuible qualities. In copious ana heart
touching eloquence It exhibits to the read
or the picture Of . powerful mind-rulned
l-blassed-desolase-yet unhsading, and
holding in hrs soul as the life Of his being,
tho sentiments Of q deadly Vengeance =
9ainst the earthly author Of all his wees.
II was this being, whom M'Langhlin rep
resented. The tragedy opens with TER
r,ble tempest, in which Bertrao, leag -
exile and outlaw from his aative land, 10
thrown upon the coast near the castle Of
his deadly esemy Aldobrand. He 10 sue
coured BY 4 community Of monks-thro'
them he gains access I, the castle, AID
there reeks his long unused, double distil-
I'D, nen6s.h sengeaRcs - its lord--Ae
stabs him to the heart. The lady Of The
castle-of whose connection with the out
law, in the past and the present, We shall
not speak-dies, heart broken at his feet.
He then winds up the drama BY stabbing
himself.
McLauehlin had cOnned his dreadful
lesson with such an absorbing interest,
and SO completely stood within the char
acter during it, representation, that the
effect was deep and narrowing ON the
minds Of the audience. He seemed to-
be in a high state Of mental excitement,
and with the most gloomy pathos pronoun-
ced such sentences al these:
hare M ennnfrvs
And for my race. the last trump shall wake
The sheeted relics Of my ancestry.
Ere trump of herald to the armed lists,
Ir. the bright blazon of their stainless coat.
Calls their LOST child again.''
The applause Of the audience was of
course great. and added to what We shall
cal: the naososania Of the imagination.
He became what he reprssented-there |
was something like an empowering ra-
ality in what he wrought. His step-hisI
eye-the stern tones Of his voice-low and
husky with the deep earthquake Of pas
the outlaws own-The audi-l
ence were almost inclined to say, with the I
prior in the tragedy:
man. sublime even in thy guiltr'
An evil strength, 50 above earthly pitch"
. .
. This majesty Of guilt doth ava my spirit
Il is the embodied iend who tempted him.
Sublime in guilt.''
As the tragedy wore to it, denouement,
~ sxcitssncns inereaeed, and the Gloomy
spirit Of the play was on him with q power
hat made a strong impression Of reality
upon the hearers, and made them shue-
Ter as he pronounced the following, ac-
by the plunge Of the dagger
hat brought him to his death: I
Bertram hath but ono fatal foe on earth,
4ndh Is here''- stsds hsnsse1)
It was at this moment that he plunged
he dagger TO his heart. 1t u said to have
,sen m accident. il is our opinion, how
:ver, that it was the result Of the excited
ceilings Of the actor, who had SO Absorbing
y entered into the dreadful spirit OF his
zero az to drive home his death upon his J
leart by the mere spasmodic action Of the
muscles that uneoiasciously moved to do
he bidding Of the tempest within. Taking
nto view premeditated purpose, it was &C
ident, for he had no design Of ending his
lie with the play; but looking 1t his
omplete indenti6cation Of feeling with
he part he acted, the accident became a
atural and not wonderful conscqse &c.
The hallucination, if such we may call ,
!, did not end with the plunge Of the dag
er. His feelings bore him along yet fur
her. There was still, after some excla-
Datiens Of surprise from the tragic monks, :
dying sentence for him to repeat. He
rent through it With startling effect, and :
burst Of exultation:
--''I died no felon's death
warriors weapon freed a warriors soul.''
While he was pronouncing these, the
lst words Of the tragedy, his eye e. man.
er we're fearfully wild--the blood was :.
llling from his bosom upon the youngl". =
entleman who had persoaated the then
feless Imogine! As soon as the last
lords were prsnounesd-he fell to rise
o more.
The wound was inflicted on the left 9
reast, entering the pericard,um, If IT did
OF pierce the heart. The bleeding was :.
lternal, and so slow in ITS progress that y
'e organic action Of the heart was not !,
nally cioeged until Saturday, when he p
# this sublunary scene, and another cur q
in opened upen the drama Of eteruily.i
His funeral was attended BY very large 2
on Sunday, in the Masonic Hall q
he Rev. Mr.. Howell, Of the Baptist =. =
huch in this city, preached solemn and q
psopriate funeral discourse. There was
eathless silence, l. ever eye was rivet- y
on the speaker when, near the close Of "a
) sermon, he related that be was fellow
ssenger with the deceased when he came :,
the city four weeks before-that he =