The Sun. — 1827-11-13 (London, England)

III.,• Posthumus, or an Othello, and identifies itself -so firmly with them, that to recall the one is but to conjure up the image of the other. Mr. Macready has none of this superior faculty : his name is associated with no Shaksperian recollections ; we do not speak of his Coriolanus (which he attempted some years since, and failed in), or even of his Othello in the same strong spirit, whereby We identify John Kemble with the one, and Kean with the other; we recollect him merely as the.. representative of Virginius, and this rather because he was first in the part, than from any extraordinary splendour of intelleet that he flung around it. His Macbeth of last night has fully confirmed the justice of these few preliminary remarks. It wanted the poetic elevation with which Shakspeare has.invested it. It gave but a glimmering insight into the alternate fine sensibility —fierce. desperation—moody spleen=and frantic ambition bf Macbeth; but rendered him instead, from first to last, a mere common minded despot and murderer. This may be Mr. Macready's estimate of the character, but most assuredly it is not that which the world entertains of the " Royal. Thane," in whom humanity (for it should be borne in mind. 'that 'Shakspeare's most. revolting characters, even MaSter Barnardine himself, have strong claims on. our sympathies), philosophy, and a high chivalrous sensibility, Were strangely blended with the opposite extremes. Mr. Macready acted Macbeth. as his friend Mr. Sheridan Knowles would have written it. —need we add that it was a failure ? T o detail minute foibles, where the general outline was deficient, might appear invidious.— We cannot, however, refrain' 'from expressing our surprise that the fine apostrophe to sleep, " sleep that knits up the raveled sleeve of care" should have been given by Mr. Macready in' a roar worthy. of a Tower gun. Macbeth, it; should be remembered, at that 'precise period, was: just recovering from the wild excitement produced by his first murder : he was both physically mid mentally, exhausted.;itirely, then, he would not have invoked sleep as Falstaff called the waiter, with a bellow ? Mr. Macready'S positions were equally peculiar. In the famous banquet scene, for instance, he threw himself into •an attitude evidently • of trans-atlantic origin, for nothing in the slightest degree approaching to it was ever yet seen in European nature ; how he balanced himself during so desperate a defiance of equilibrium is, and must ever remain, a mystery to all but himself. Mrs. West's Lads Macbeth was, like this Lady's other performances—respectable.' We heard a Gentleman (who smelt powerfully 'of cheese) just two boxes off us, say, that it was equal to Mrs. Siddons ; he , became in consequence an object.of considerable curiosity to us, throughout the remainder of the evening: The' house at half-price was well attended.  JERSEY, NOv. Gaspee, YIBERT, arrived to-day from Rio Janeiro, sailed the 24th of Sept: She brings advice that a few days before 6,000 troops embarked un board Brazilian ships.of war for Rio.Grande.  The Undaunted frigate, Captain AUG USTUS ClaFro an, C. B. , is expected to leave Chatham this day for Spithead, to embark Lord W. BENT' NCR, Governorral of India. • • • • •