The National Register. — 1812-11-08 (London, England)

NOV 8.  varied, and easy ; his delivery impressive; and b comes lapid, ,„ Ferforniance vies in enthusiastic spirit with that of our most renowned actors. Ills conception throughout is fault; his bye-play is excellent, abundant, not excessive, and vilere he is not great, he is always chaste, judicious, and  pleas:ug . Ix scene in which he sounds Othmtas real sentiments before he makes himself known to him, was rendered more than usuall: interesting, not only by the skilful expression i orjli: triumphing over doubt in his mind, and the tenderness, Ifx2d with apprehension, of-his encpt.ries respectieg his saes, but by the excellent acting of the veteran BAItRYNIAtE. We do not recollect to have Cs cr seen this always ty, ,cible performer appear to greater advantage. His love r Wended with regret for his death and horror for his murderer, struggling with his regard for bier own s fity. alll. at List buwong through all selfish considerations otien detestation of the tyrant and lamentation for his ft,rnied a portraiture of natural feelings worthy 0; th- most consummate master. During the whole of the sic: ne! act Mr. BETTY'S performance. even on Thurs day last when he met, in the same character, with the same flattering reception, was impaired by his agitation. In the scene with his mother, he recovered himself perfectly, and at the moment when astonished at his tears she exclaims ,‘ who art thou then r" his sudden drawing of the turban on his forehead lest she should perceive a scar by which she musi know him, produced a very just and striking erect. From that period to the end of the piece, he rose to superior excellence. The speech in which he enjoined his fricials to " remember mercy amidst the tumult's rage," his soliloquy at the end of the third act, his attempt at stabbing Barharossa, were some of his most successful passages ; and the spirit with which he discovers himself and afterwards awes the Usurper's soldiers into momentary forbearance, when he tells them " I am your king," Ste. was so enthusi. astic a to elicit not only thunders of applause, but repeated shouts of bravo from evecy part of the house. In the rack scene he was also really great, and in forgiving his dying enemy, feelingly impressive. tpon the whole, it appears to us that Mr. BETTY, with tolling imperfections, is a performer of great promise, %horn exertion and experience cannot fail to ripen into a great  actor. Mrs. EGERTON displayed •on Thursday considerable feeling and ability in Irene, having wisely repressed the wild ranting of which she was guilty on Tuesday. Mrs. Pow ELL in Zaphira and Mr. EGERTON in Barbaroysa exerted themselves also more successfully, and the talents of the actors did ample justice to the merits of the poet. " The Cheats of Seapin" was on Friday revived. MAT iEWS in Scopin provoked much lau;hter, but was upon the whole less effective than might have been expected. 'lle extravagant nature of the business and the meanie plot of this farce, preclude the possibility of its being very much approved of, by an audience of the present day. It is hardly suppased to have begun when it ends, and the spectators are a() sooner prepared to laugh, than the green curtain descends to enjoy their good humour. We know not what caused it to be awakened just now from a slumber of " many years," and we care not how soon it is put to rest again. If the managers wished *to give MATHEWS some scope for his extraordinary comic powers, we think among VOOTE'S Farces, they might find several in which he would have appeared Inth much greater advantage to himself and to the theatre than he can ever do in " The Cheats of Scariin." Ihe tragedy of 44 Zara" was last night performed. Mr. BETTY as Osman was less successful in the early part of the