Duhalde, the wife of a notary, has made a directed his visits, his cares, and his suc-only person to attest the truth of the fact; charming translation in Basque verse, of La cour; the people conjured him not to expose but soon twenty thousand witnesses offered Fontaine's fables; Sare or Saint-Pé was the himself to certain dangers; he replied like to confirm it. birth place of two jesuits, of the same name an ancient; "the question is not to know On her entrance into Bayonne the people as this lady, the fathers Duhalde, one of where is the danger, but where is the duty." strewed with flowers the streets through whom passed his life as a missionary in This religious heroism had its triumph; a which she passed; on the bridges, in the China, while the other prepared for publica-month afterwards, the whole city in mourn-squares, at the doors of the churches they tion the memoirs which his brother sent ing and in tears followed him to the grave. prostrated themselves before her. The mahim, and which are often quoted by Montesquieu. To the right of Agnoa are several villages concealed in the mountains and famous for their agriculture. Such are Macaye, Orsès, Haspuren, &c. There, a soil which appears to the eye arid and stony, always yields, and is never exhausted: it is by the variety of its presents that it is fertilised: two crops in a year are common, and perhaps with more labour and money, they might often obtain three. "See what celebrity is !" (said my Basque gistrates knew not what they should do; companion)" people still talk of the fathers the boldest contented themselves with doubtDu Halde, and even the name of the Capu-ing: they questioned father Clement, who chin Clement is unknown, though he was a continued for some time to listen, to observe, man far superior to those two Jesuits. and to preserve silence; he had placed near Though Voltaire was right in saying, that the young virgin, a lay brother of his conevery thing that has been done, does not vent; whose presence gave the Saint a foredeserve to be written; though this be more taste of Canonisation. This pious Acolyte generally true of what may have been done charged with a surveillance which he exeror said by a Capuchin, it is certain that the cised with a degree of address, which the life of father Clement would have appeared aunt and the niece were far from suspecting, to Voltaire himself, more useful, more inter-discovered, though not without much time *. The esteem which the practice of esting, than four-fifths of those biographical and attention, that a mysterious bag, which the first of arts, enjoys in this country, espe- Memoirs with which so shameful a traffic is the young woman wore on her breast, under cially contributes to make it flourish. The made. Father Clement was born at Ascain; the pretext of covering the mark which an labourers of Macaye and Orsès, are all land-when he was fourteen years old, he had angel nad impressed there, contained the owners: they are never spoken to but with scarcely learnt in those mountains to read substantial aliment on which she fed during the title of Etchèco Yauna (Lord of the and write; having lost both father and mo- the night. These two women being ar House) and these Lords have never chosen ther, he had no means of supporting him- rested on the report of father Clement, unto recognise others in their commune, even self; Clement's sole resource was a sister derwent a severe punishment and were exat the time when this title conferred real older than himself, but this sister dedicated pelled from the city and its te ritory. privileges. her life to him. With one of the finest Father Clement having attained in spite M. Ďestère shewed me the house of a faces, and one of the finest forms, that a man of himself, the highest place in the adminisperson who having resided for some time in ever received from nature, he resolved at tration of his convent, was sent to Rome; great cities, thought fit when he returned the age of nineteen to bury himself in the but he refused to appear there as represenhither, to plant an avenue before his house, Capuchin Convent at Bayonne, where his tative of the whole order of which he was a which he called his castle, giving himself sister got him admitted as a novice. By a member; I aspire higher, said he, smiling; the title of Marquis de Macaye; his preten-miracle which it is impossible to account and he went thither on foot with his white sions would probably have been only laughed for, he acquired extensive learning, in those staff in his hand; he returned in the same at, had he not claimed to found more sub-cloisters where they took a vow of ignorance; manner. Having grown old in his apostostantial privileges on them; his neighbours he suddenly left them to mount the pulpit lical labours, he retired to his convent which went to law with him, and the parliament of at Toulouse, Bordeaux, and Paris, where he he never quitted in the latter year of his Bordeaux by a decree, reduced the Marquis electrified his auditors, with one of the most life, (during which I saw him several times) to the level of the Lords of Macaye. The eloquent voices which ever shook the vaults except to visit his aged sister, who fancied Commune of Macaye entrusted the manage-of our temples. It was not a Bridaine, one she saw the heavens open, when she beheld ment of this suit to Dr. Hiriart a physician, of those missionaries of the deserts who ap- this venerable follower of St. Francis. who established the rights which he de- pear in great cities, to terrify, to anathemafended on the custom of the Labour: at the tize their elegance and worldly voluptuous-Abstineas igitur damnandis: hujus enim vel same time that he informed the judges, he ness; it was under the mean habit of a Ca- Una potens ratio est, ne crimina nostra sequantur made them laugh, a method which succeeds puchin, the holy urbanity (if I may dare to Ex nobis geniti: quoniam dociles imitandis every where and particularly at Bordeaux. associate these two words) the eloquence, Turpibus ac pravis omnes sumus. This is the same physician who had one day full of grace and unction, of a prince of the at church a comical altercation with his Rec-church, in whose eyes, the purest morality tor who preached. Doctor Hiriart who had and the sublimest philosophy, were the true placed himself opposite the pulpit, fell spirit of Christianity. a MODERN EDUCATION. Juv. SAT. 14. The living generations present a true picture of the different stages of time: old men asleep in the middle of the sermon: "Wake Father Clement did not vaguely declaim and children the future. In the vast picture represent the past, young men the present, that man," cried the Rector, addressing against luxury; but he rigorously confined of human life, the first offer their examples, those who sat next the sleeper. "Come himself within the humility of his own con- the second their actions, and the last their come (says the Doctor in his turn, opening dition. A president of Bordeaux one day hopes. I think I may be allowed to dispense his eyes) it was your business to keep me urged him to make use of his carriage, in with a more particular statement of my awake and not to have me waked; my tour which he had to make out of the city: reasons for preferring the latter for the subsleeping is in vain; I shall hear more than "I have three reasons for refusing your ject of my first observations; experience has enough of you." The laugh which this sally offer," said he, "I am young, I am a Basque, not yet belied their promises; I also have it excited among the congregation infested the and I am a Capuchin." preacher also, who had much to do to finish The more he loved religion, the more hos-cipation with all the qualities which I wish in my power at least to endow them by antihis sermon. tile he was to superstition, whose greatest they should possess; and in order that crime is, to make it hated; they have not nothing may diminish the kind sentiments yet forgotten at Bayonne the story of the I entertain for them, I impute to their paholy maid of Burdos. rents all the faults which I remark in them. One of the sons of Doctor Hiriart, after having studied at the Jesuit's College at Toulouse with such éclat as gained him great reputation in the southern provinces, was She was a young virgin, sixteen or sevenappointed when very young to the important teen years of age, in whose favor heaven rectory of the only parish at that time at operated the miracle of making her increase Bayonne; a contagious fever broke out in in grace and beauty, without her taking any the city; all those who were attacked in the food; the word of God was her sole nourish hospitals infallibly died; it was to the hos-ment; an aunt who presented her to the pitals particularly that our young clergyman veneration of the faithful, was at first the No object is more important than the education of children; noue, therefore, has furnished more matter of discussion to Theorists. The author of Emile is doubtless the most eloquent and ingenious of all speculative instructors. Shocked, like all liberalminded men, at the errors of the old system of education, he thought he had only to differ from it in order to establish a better, and setting out with the false principle, that every thing is good which is conformable to nature; and that every thing is corrupt in society, he would have taught us, as Voltaire says, to walk on all fours. His brilliant theories on education have shared the fate of his eloquent political reveries: the latter have formed systematical men, instead of creating statesmen; and the former have only produced ill-educated children. The old system of education tended to blight the bud in order to ripen it; but every possible effort is now employed to promote its premature developement. We wish to create men of fifteen, lest we might run the risk of having children of forty. with pleasure that the children, who were ther she intended to educate her daughter Nothing but the fear of losing his share in the desert, which was already served up, would have induced the little rogue to quit the fort in which he had entrenched himself. The children, who were nine in number, had now all assembled, and from that moment they were the only objects of attention. The mothers mutually complimented each other on their fine families. How old is your daughter? in what boarding-school does she receive her education? and other questions of the like importance went round, in which those who felt least interest pretended to feel most. Last Sunday Mad. de L sent me an invitation to accompany her to dine at the house of Mad. de Moronval, a lady well known for the excess, or rather (as I very soon perceived,) the ostentation of her maternal affection. It was only five o'clock when we arrived; the company were amusing In order to put a stop to the emigration, themselves in the park; Madame de Lcards were proposed. Whilst the servants entered the apartment of Madame de Mowere placing the tables, the tormenting little ronval, who was just finishing her toilette, Emilie seated herself at the piano to blunder and left me alone with a little boy, about through a sonato of Mozart, while her eight or nine years of age, whom she had mother, to perpetuate our torture, had the embraced and addressed by the name of But our torment was only beginning. cruelty to make her repeat every bar which Eugene. This child was the son of the lady We had scarcely retired to the drawing-room she played imperfectly. Mademoiselle at of the house: he ran up to me smacking a to take coffee, when the father of one of the length struck the final chord, and fortunately large whip which he held with both his little rogues took a fancy to entertain the at that very moment a servant stepped up hands, and in a very unceremonious tone company with a specimen of his son's to Mad. de L to inform her that her exclaimed, "What is your name?"-" My knowledge of history. He accordingly rose carriage was waiting. I took leave of Mad. little friend," replied I, showing him the cover from his chair, and in a voice which com-de Moronval as politely as I was able, vowing of a letter, "I am not in the habit of sounding manded general attention, asked him what to myself not to repeat my visit till after the my name; let me see whether you can spell King succeeded Charles VIII. of France. holidays. I was nearly an hour before I it."-"I had rather you would tell it me The boy without the slightest hesitation re- could recover my hat and cane which the yourself," continued he, pulling me by the plied Charles IX. Three-fourths of the com- mischievous children had concealed in the skirt of my coat. I was under the necessity pany, whilst admiring the readiness and garden, in the hope of enjoying a good joke of complying with this demand, and in re-precision of his answer, paid but little atten- on seeing me search for them. One of turn for my condescension, the little fellow tion to the trifling blunder he had committed, Mad. de L -'s footmen at length found added, "You are very old and very ugly." and seemed, as well as the little historian, them and we drove off. On our way home I endeavoured to make him understand that en jaquette, to have lost all recollection of I could not avoid observing to Mad. de it was not in my power to avoid this double the good Louis XII., the brave François I., L, that children brought up in this way misfortune, and that it was unpolite in him the gallant Henry II., and his son François would infallibly prove extremely troublesome to reproach me with it. But, instead of II., the first husband of the unfortunate and ridiculous men and women; and that if attending to what I said, he snatched off my Mary Stuart. the old system of education created too great hat with such violence as to carry away my Madame de Moronval, who only waited a distance between children and parents, wig along with it. I did not regard this for an opportunity of showing off her daugh- the modern plan tended to establish between joke as at all amusing. I rose to run after ter's powers, conducted her into the middle them, relations of too familiar a cast. It the silly child, who fled with his spoil to his of the circle, and with an air of the sincerest remains for prudent parents to observe a mother's apartment. In a few moments maternal confidence, said to her," Now just medium between these two extremes. Mad. de Moronval entered the drawing- Emilie, tell us what are the Hamadryads ?" room, leading Eugene by the hand; she" Mamma," answered the little girl," you THE DRAMA. made a thousand apologies for what she should first question me concerning the termed a childish trick, and whilst correcting Dryads, from which the others are derived.” RETIREMENT OF MR. KEMBLE. her son in a tone highly calculated to induce At the word derived, Mad. de Moronval cast Last Monday night being that appointed a repetition of his fault, she felt the greatest a circular glance on the company, to which for this great Actor's taking his leave of the possible difficulty to refrain from laughing at all replied by a movement of admiration. stage, the sensation which this approaching the ridiculous figure I cut. But it was infinitely better, or rather in- event had for some time occasioned increased I adjusted my head-dress, and stammered finitely worse, when Mdlle. Emilie, at the beyond any thing of the kind which we had out an ironical compliment to the lady on general request of the company, who, by-the-witnessed on similar occasions. The whole the good breeding of her son; she replied by bye, cared very little about it, began to dance, of the boxes and the places in the orchestra introducing to me Mile. Emilie, her daughter, wretchedly out of time, a pas de ballet, in had been taken a fortnight before. The sula very reserved and reasonable little lady; which however she displayed all the grace-try weather, and the dread of encountering in all respects the very reverse of her bro-fulness of her little figure. She was highly suffocation in the pressure of the crowd, ther; but not a bit the better for that. applauded, and yet her modest Mamma was added an anxiety to the general feeling. The far from being satisfied. "My dear," said heat in London on that and the preceding she, "I perceive you have not practised day was 83 and 84 in the shade, and from your battemens this morning." I was laughed 108 to 110 in exposed situations, which is at, because I asked Mad. de Moronval whe-the usual temperature at Calcutta. Numbers The bell now rung for dinner, and the guests, among whom were a number of children, of different ages, entered in succession, and seated themselves at table. I observed Again. Again. clusion. At the fall of the curtain, placards were exhibited in different parts of the pit and galleries, inscribed with this further ma nifestation of the public wish, "No FAREWELL FOR EVER FROM KEMBLE." Owing to a misconception that these were designed to prevent Mr. Kemble from delivering any address, murmurs immediately arose. But this circumstance only furnished an additional proof of public esteem. The idea that a prevention or disrespect was intended, occasioned some tumult, although it soon appeared that the audience had but one wish and opinion. A short but anxious interval ensued. The curtain again was drawn up; were intimidated from risking an attempt What you have nobly done." (long and to gain admittance by these circumstances; loud applauses) Act ii. Sc. iv. and a multitude endeavoured, by letters and "Cominius.-I shall lack voice personal applications, to Mr. Harris, the perthe deeds of Coriolanus formers, and door-keepers, to obtain a safe Should not be uttered feebly." (loud admission by the private entrances. We applauses) Ibid. are informed that these applications were "Coriolanus- --as soon in battle, steadfastly refused; and the people began to I would before thee fly, and howl for assemble at the pit passage as early as 12 mercy, (repeated bursts of applause) o'clock. On the opening of the doors, the AS QUIT THE STATION they've assign'd screams and struggles continued with viome HÈRE." lence for some minutes. Amidst the rend"Aufidius.-Thou canst not hope acing of clothes, and loss of hats and shoes, quittal from the Volscians. two ladies fainted, and were, with difficulty, Cor.-I do :-Nay more, expect their borne out of the crowd into the open air. approbationThe house soon filled, and we do not recolTheir thanks" (several peals of ap-a grand street of Rome, which forms a prinlect a more brilliant display of Beauty and plause) Act v. Sc. i. cipal scene in the Tragedy, was displayed; high Fashion in the boxes and orchestra. Kemble accompanied the first speech in and Kemble, in the Roman costume, in Notwithstanding the risk, an unusual num-this last extract, with a vehement grandeur which he had performed Coriolanus, came ber of ladies were in the pit. Mr. Kemble of action, which produced an astonishing forward. One of those lofty public edifices, had chosen the favorite character of Corio effect. Every thing gave force to this strik- which adorned the capital of the ancient lanus for this memorable night; and on his ing scene. The language of Shakspeare; World, rose behind him. The impression entrance in the first scene, he was received the crisis; the sublime spectacle of an indi- produced by this unison, on such an occawith a waving of white handkerchiefs and vidual, a Roman, bidding defiance to a hos- sion, was deeply felt. It appeared as if laurel branches, and a tumult of enthusiastic tile General in the midst of his army; the Kemble, the Roman spirit, the Roman grangreeting, for many minutes. We do not Actor who spoke; the martial fury of his deur, and Rome itself, were about to dismean here to go into any critique on the passion; the voice; the look; the lofty appear from the stage, and leave a chasm, merits of his performance: we shall only re- erection and dilation of his commanding which could no more be filled. The ties of peat what was testified by the Audience, and figure, as if his nighty spirit could not find sympathy, which had for thirty years bound by the diurnal critics in the public journals room within the confinenient of its habita-him to all that was great and noble in the since, that he never performed this arduous tion; the combination of relative circum-Drama; and knit him, as it were, into the part with more energy and grandeur. We, stances, interests, and sympathies, of class-heart of the Public, were about to be at who witnessed his first and last performance ical taste and feeling and sentiment; all once, and it was to be feared for ever, disof Coriolanus on the London stage, fully contributed to excite the enthusiasm of the solved. Those who had seen his outset in concur in this general judgment. The ex-audience. When Kemble refused to QUIT their youth, felt in his retiring, the interests traordinary circumstance of his unabated his station in the camp, the general wish of the past, the present, and the narrow professional powers on the evening of his that he would not quit his station on the future, crowded into the single moment. final appearance on the stage, added to the Stage; and the deep tone of his fiery bravery, Several long and continued thunders of public regret for their immediate loss of his drew down the loudest acclamations, and applause rendered it impossible for him to exertions. The audience eagerly burst into cries of "No! no! dont QUIT!" He ap-be heard for some time. At length, in a applauses at every passage in the play, which peared evidently affected by this expression faultering voice, and often interrupted by enabled them to express their sense of his of the public desire for his continuance: and his feelings, he addressed the audience: distinguished merits. We shall notice a it must have been highly gratifying to his few only of the many points which they ap- feelings to notice that whenever the points plied, with shouts, to their justly valued fa- of Coriolanus's merits as the shield and glory vorite. A long and loud interruption took of Rome could be applied to his foremost place, when Cominius told him, rank as an Actor, the audience eagerly seized upon the opportunity of testifying their sense of his excellence. "You shall not be The grave of your deserving. Rome must know The value of her own." Act 1. s. iii. And I could laugh-I'm light and A curse begin at every root of his -yet by the faith of Man We've some OLD CRAB-TREES, HERE, AT HOME, that will not be grufted to your relish." (applause.) Act ii. Sc. ii. Again. "Menenius.-Sit, Coriolanus, never shame to bear "Ladies and Gentlemen, I have appeared before you for the last time." (Here he was interrupted by loud cries of "No, No," from all parts of the house.) He then resumed, "I come now to close my long professional career." (Here he was again obliged to stop by loud cries of "No, NoMany Ladies and Gentlemen in the boxes No retiring-No farewell for ever.") This and pit bore laurels in their hands. Between tumult of applause, and the reiterated proofs the second and third, fourth and fifth acts, of public esteem affected him to tears, and an address to Mr. Kemble, printed on a folio rendered him still less capable of collecting sheet, was circulated, by several gentlemen, firmness. When he proceeded his tone was through the pit and boxes, and perused with broken and his countenance agitated. earnest attention. It was also circulated, at "Ladies and Gentlemen, I do not wish to the same time, in the galleries. This ad- trespass on your time-I feared I should not dress had been read in manuscript, in the have sufficient fortitude for this occasion— pit, a fortnight before, and the printed copies and it was my wish to have withdrawn in had been circulated, in town, during the pre-silence from you:" (loud cries and applauses,). ceding week. A copy of it had been also "but I suffered myself to be persuaded, that printed in gold letters, upon white satin, if only from old custom, a few words would surrounded by a painted wreath of roses, be expected from me at parting." (Renewed surmounted by a crown of laurel; and en-applauses.) "The invariable kindness with compassed by an outer border of fanciful which you have ever treated me, from the ornaments, embroidered in gold. The tas- first night of my coming forward as a candi sels, at each corner, were acorns, composed date for public favour, down to this painful of gold twist. This tasteful expression of moment, will be eternally remembered with public respect was accompanied by a superb gratitude. Such talents as I have been crown of laurel to decorate the brows of master of, have always cheerfully been exMr. Kemble. The satin copy of the address erted in your service; whether as an actor, and the laurel crown were handed by the au- in the character allotted to me, or as a dience, from seat to seat, from the back to the manager, it has ever been my ambition to front of the pit, to be presented at the cou-add to the splendour and propriety of the Monday June 23d, 1817. Drama, and more especially to exert myself | cern, and if possible, an increase of respect. I the permanence of that celebrity which they to give effect to the plays of our divine In justice to the interests of the Drama, and have already so deservedly acquired, and a Shakespeare. (Loud applause.) On every our own feelings, we would fain postpone sure pledge of the future honours which occasion, permit me to say, all my efforts, all the moment of a separation so painful. await upon the close of their professional my studies, all my labours have been made Fitted by the endowments of Nature and by career. We, therefore, earnestly entreat, delightful to me, by the constant applause classical acquirements, by high association that you will not at once deprive the Public and approbation, with which you have been and the honourable ambition of excellence, of their gratification, and the Stage of your pleased to reward them. (Applauses.) Ladies you have, for upwards of thirty years, digni- support. We entreat of you not to take your and Gentlemen, I must take my leave of you, fied the profession of an Actor, by your pri- final leave on the night named for your last and I now most respectfully bid you a long vate conduct and public exertions in the Bri- performance. All we ask, is, that you will and unwilling farewell."-At these words he tish Capital. We beheld, in your personifi- consent to perform a few nights each Season, bowed with much agitation, and amidst a cation, the spirit of History and Poetry so long as your health will permit. We adrepetition of enthusiastic applauses and cries united. In embodying the characters of jure you to grant this request, by your own of regret, from all parts of the house, hastily Shakspeare and our other Dramatic Writers, fame, an object which is not more dear to withdrew from the stage. In about two ini- you were not contented to revive an outward you than it is to us, and we confidently rely nutes, the copy of the address printed in show of their greatness alone. The splen- upon your respect for public opinion, that letters of gold on white satin, and the crown dor of an antique costume-the helmet and you will not cover us with the regret of a reof laurel, which had been handed forward by armour-the crown and sceptre, all that per-fusal. We have spared the annexation of the audience from the back to the front of tains to the insignia of command, are easily signatures as inadequate and unnecessary, the pit, early in the evening, were delivered assumed. When you appeared, the habit even if our numbers and restricted limits by the gentleman, who held them, to the and the man were as soul and body. The permitted that form. The pealing applause celebrated tragedian, MR. TALMA, in the age and country, in which we live, were of the audience, each night of your performorchestra, with a request that he would fling forgotten. Time rolled back a long succes-ance, and the united voice which accompanies them upon the stage. This was executed, sion of centuries. The grave gave up its this, are the best attestation of the public and applauded; with loud cries for Mr. illustrious Dead. Cities and Nations long sentiment. Fawcett, the stage manager, to present them passed away, re-appeared; and the elder to Mr. Kemble. One of the servants en- Brothers of renown, the Heroes and Statestered to clear the stage, but was warned men, the Sages and Monarchs of other years, by the general shout not to touch these tes- girt in the brightness of their shadowy glory, timonies of public respect. Mr. Fawcett lived and loved, and fought, and bled, beentered and took up the satin scroll and fore us. We beheld in you, not only their crown and shewed them to the audience, varying looks and gestures, their proud M. TALMA AND MADLLE. GEORGES. with these words.-"Ladies and Gentlemen, march and grandeur of demeanour; but the I presume that I am to consider this crown elevated tone of their mind and the flame of We attended a part of the recitations of and scroll as a mark of public respect to Mr. their passions. We mean not here to enu- these admired tragedians at the King's TheaKemble if it be your pleasure to depute me merate the various characters in which you tre; and were much gratified by the display to present the laurel to that Gentleman, it have shone as the light of your era: but we of their abilities. Impetuosity and spirit are will be the most delightful task, which ever may be allowed to say that you excelled in the principal traits of their performance. fell to my lot to perform."-The whole house that which was most excellent; that where- Undoubtedly they speak and act with great by a burst of applause and cries of "Yes, ever the grandeur of an exalted mind was fire, but the genius and manners of the Yes,"-communicated their desire. Mr. united with majesty of Person; wherever French are so opposite to those of the EnFawcett, with respectful acknowledgments, the noblest organ was required for the no-glish, that their style of acting can never be bowing, assured the audience that"in their blest expression; wherever Nature, holding duly appreciated in this country. An untraname he would present their compliment to up the mould of character, called for an im-velled Englishman has no living standard by Mr. Kemble;" and withdrew, amidst fresh pression from the most precious of metals, which he can form a correct judgment of a tokens of esteem and respect for the eminent there she looked to KEMBLE as her gold; there French actor's finest strokes of nature. The actor, whom they had just lost. We have you shone with pre-eminent lustre. In the tossing of the arms, the quick and aspennever seen an audience so deeply affected austere dignity of Cato, the stern patriotism like quivering of the hands, the comparative by the retirement of a favorite Performer. of Brutus, the fiery bearing of Coriolanus, and violence of all their action, attitudes, and The emotion among the gentlemen, was very the mad intoxication of Alexander, you trans-gesticulations; the rapidity of their utterstrong; and many ladies were in tears. As ported your audience in imagination alter- ance in level dialogue, and sudden transian additional mark of honor to the valued nately to Greece, Rome, or Babylon. Seconded tions in the very height of passion, are loudly favorite, the audience forbad any after- by the well-painted illusion of local Scenery, and deservedly applauded on the Parisian piece and the performance of the night, you seemed every where in your native city; stage; but appear extravagant and unnawas closed in compliance with their wishes. every where contemporary with the august tural to an audience in London. Sedateness Thus we may parody the lines of Homer, edifices of the ancient world. In you, some is the basis of grandeur and majesty in Greek and apply them to Mr. Kemble: of those great characters lived, and we can- and Roman art: our English tragedians, not conceal our apprehensions, that, when you withdraw, we shall lose sight of them for a long time, and, as life is short, perhaps for ever. In expressing this sentiment, we feel a warm respect for every Actor of genius. A mind like yours would be wounded by any compliment that was not founded in the most liberal sense of general desert. It is an additional merit in you to have obtained Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. distinction in an age of refinement, and from Sir,-After having so long received from a public qualified to appreciate your powers. the display of your eminent abilities, the A small fight shines in darkness; but you greatest degree of gratification and instruc-have flourished amidst a circle of generous tion, which the highest class of Histrionic Competitors for fame, whose various abilities representation could bestow, we think upon we admire; and in whose well-earned ap. the near approach of your intended farewell plause we proudly join. They behold in the to the Stage, with sentiments of deep con-honours which your country pays to you, His long career, in one proud tenor ran, Here follows a correct copy of the address printed on the satin scroll, and presented to Mr. Kemble. ΤΟ JOHN PHILIP KEMBLE, ESQ. OF THE therefore, from the sedateness of the English mauners and character are more capable of representing the majestic movements of a Greek or Roman, than the French. We do every justice to the energies of Tulma and Georges as the most distinguished actors on the French Stage; but truth obliges us to own that they have little of the ancients in their art, but the costume. The Philoctetes of Talma, with all his vehement power, is a Frenchman in every thing but the classical garb and name. Mademoiselle GEORGES has a very noble and striking figure. Her Lady Macbeth, in Paris, is an astonishing performance; but if it approaches an Englishman's conception of grandeur, it is only because it is nearer our own time and country; and is not at all associated with our ideas of what is termed the grandeur of the antique. W. C. The triumphal entry of Cortez followed by POLITICS. PARLIAMENT, it is now generally un After a long interruption in the represen- | form a calm contrast to that tumult which tation of this lyric drama, M. Jouy has frequently pervades other parts of the opera. thought proper to change its arrangement, The character of Fernand Cortez has very and to introduce a new character, that of few songs; but the recitatives of M. Spontini NEW ENGLISH OPERA. Montezuma, King of Mexico, a character well are frequently more melodious than the reThe large space justly devoted to mark for suited to the French theatre. gular airs of other composers; they abound an hereafter, the important circumstances atin delicate feeling, and are always distinctly tending Mr. Kemble's unwilling retirement the seventeen horses, (which are historical and forcibly accentuated: these are particu from the stage and the extreme unwillingness personages in the conquest of Mexico), pre-lars in which his music bears a striking reof the Public to part with that great actor, ne-sents a very beautiful spectacle. Horace semblance to that of the composer of Alaste cessitates us to be very brief in our observa- complained that the Romans in his time and the two Iphigenies. tions on the performances at this interesting preferred to the best dramatic writings, the and truly national Theatre. We can do little pleasure of seeing chariots rolling, and horses more than notice that Miss Miriam H. Bug-galloping about the stage; but he would gins, who made her first appearance before surely not have condemned the introduction the public, last week, in the character of of these proud animals in an opera destined derstood, will rise about the middle of Polly, in the Beggar's Opera; repeated that to retrace the conquest of a country in which the ensuing month; but the surmises, character with increased effect, last Tuesday horses were night. We understand that this young lady filled with terror the bravest warriors of lution, seem totally unfounded-Lord seen for the first time and respecting the so often talked of dissois a sister of Miss Buggins of Drury-Lane Mexico. Theatre; and, as far as we can judge from There is a happy mixture of love and he- Castlereagh, in the course of an explanaa single performance, she promises to be a roism in the part of Amazily, and the author tory conversation, expressly disclaiming valuable acquisition to the stage. She pos- has rendered Cortez sensible to the charms all knowledge of any immediate intensesses considerable feeling and science, with and virtues of this fair Mexican, without di- tion of calling a new one. The debates, a voice of great compass and sweetness. minishing the manliness of his hero, as is during the past week, have been as proAlthough she manifested less embarrass-too much the custom in operas. ment than is usual to a new performer, tracted as usual, though but little has There are few modern lyric tragedies been done; indeed the new system of she has yet to acquire that easy self-pos- written in a more energetic or purer style session, which is necessary for the free than Fernand Cortez. We recognize in every then declining to press a division, seems proposing questions for discussion, and exercise of her judgment and full de-scene the elegant and easy pen of the auvelopement of her attractive powers. The thor of La Vestale. as if intended to turn both Houses into playful or pensive graces of expression, are The music of this piece is the production Debating Societies, now that these latrarely to be found in the first public essays of M. Spontini. His style of composition ter, out of doors, have come under the of an actor or singer. Her person is above is well known; its characteristics are grace, licensing act! A long speech was made the middle size; her speaking countenance majesty, and pathos. This artist commenced in the Commons introductory to a motion somewhat like the prints of Mrs. Abingdon his career in Italy, where he composed when young; and not unpleasing nor inex- fourteen operas, all of which were repreon Lord Sidmouth's circular, but that pressive; her smiles are arch and agreeable. sented with success in that classic land of was waived, a division taken on a vote of Probably owing to her being unpractised on harmony: he then proceeded to Paris, where censure and lost. The subject of the the stage, her articulation in the dialogue he distinguished himself by the production resumption of cash payments has been was somewhat indistinct; but, as an actress, of an opera buffa and two French comic again brought before the House; but she has no bad habits, and time will soon operas. But these were only preludes, and surely the supporters of such questions enable her to display her person and talents La Vestale, which appeared in 1807, placed must be aware that paper is actually preto their full advantage. M. Spontini at once in the rank of disThe new Opera of the Election, was per- tinguished masters. Fernand Cortez apferred to gold in the common intercourse formed at this Theatre on Thursday night; peared two years afterwards, and twenty- of metropolitan trade, that stocks are with the new Ballet divertisement of the eight consecutive representations proved rising, that interest is falling notwithAnglers, or Sport after Rain; and the Operetta that the divine inspirations of the author of standing the large expected issue of Exof Is he jealous? We were glad to see a full La Vestale, were far from being exhausted. chequer Bills, and that confidence is rahouse on the Manager's account; and de- The chief characteristic of the vast compo- pidly reviving in all branches of domestic lighted to see the DUKE of WELLINGTON in sition of Fernand Cortez, is variety and force and exterior traffic in spite of Bullion one of the boxes, on his Grace's account. It of local colouring. All is a powerful contrast. must add another laurel to the brow of our The ferocious and savage joy of the Mex-reports and clamorous croakings! The illustrious countryman, after having con-icans insulting the captives whom they are Habeas Suspension has been carried quered the conqueror of the Continent, to about to sacrifice, is expressed by tumultuous through most of its stages in the Lower set a praise worthy example, by patronising accents and furious and disorderly cries; House, with such large majorities that it the genius of his own country. The English and these rude sounds are rendered more is probably passed on a third reading Opera House is, on public grounds, peculi- appalling by accompaniments which are whilst this sheet is in the press. It now arly entitled to the encouragement of the British public. Every Englishman has an interest in its success, as a manly attempt to vindicate the character of English singing from contempt and to rescue English professors from neglect and poverty. W. C. ACADEMIE ROYALE DE MUSIQUE. First representation of the revival of Fermand Cortez or the Conquest of Mexico, an Opera, by M. Jour. This Opera, which was represented for the first time in 1809, obtained a most brilliant success; critics then were unauimous in praising the judicious simplicity of the action, the elegant style of the language, and the excellence of the music.. in perfect unison with them. M. Spontini appears that not more than 32 individuals are at present committed under the former act, with the exception of the very recent arrests. Several attempts have been made to bring the Catholic A sweet and flowing style of melody di- Question again before the Legislature, versifies the effects of this terrible chorus, by means of detached motions on tranand the hymn is a fine specimen of harmony substantiation, the idolatry of the Church deriving all its charms from truth and ex-of Rome, &c.; but such discussions pression. The trio, Createur de ce nouveau monde, is no less excellent. The music allotted to the character of Amazilly is composed in a pure, tender, and have, very wisely, been checked in the outset. Wooller's case, brought before the House of Commons in the shape of a petition, has produced a very curious result, for both Mr. Ponsonby, and Mr. |