ments with ennui and weariness! We shall quote one more tribute from vice to virtue-from the rankness of foreign manners, to the purity of those of our native land. May 8, (Florence.) Would you have a portrait of one of the charming_Milady's that we have here, take it. Lady R. is 26 years of age; she is not ugly, very mild, and passably polite; it is not her fault that she is not more amusing, it is the result of having seen so little; for she has good sense, is very natural, and not at all assuming; her tone of voice is mild, even approaching to something like silliness: if she had been educated in France, she would have been delightful. I drew her into giving me an account of her mode of life; she is wholly occupied with her husband and children, without austerity or ostentation. She might be pleasing, she is ennuyeux. dined. Cial life, of which profligacy has so false (and Milanese.—All the Florentines are very and foreign news not worth gleaning, a notion as to class its exquisite enjoy-meagre. At the coffee-houses one sees them that works of this class should start in the take for their breakfast nothing but a single provinces, and prove that it was from no cup of coffee with milk, and a roll the most want of talent that country magazines diminutive possible; this meal costs about four sous, and they dine for about eleven or did not enter into honourable competitwelve sous. Their dress is in the same tion with town magazines, as country style, a coat well brushed, but never a new newspapers had long held an equal pace one; every thing among them breathes the with those of the metropolis. We are most rigid economy. In all respects they glad to observe from the Number before are the very opposite of the Milanese, never latter to be seen among them. At Milan, are the expanded and happy features of the us, which completes the first Volume, that the Yorkshire Magazine does justhe great business is to dine well; at Flo- tice to our prognostications, and is not a rence, to make people believe they have Yorkshire bite. Seriously, we have been much gratified in the perusal of this Though we have not half exhausted work, and with that candour which we the selection which we had marked to trust will ever distinguish the Literary illustrate this strange, but exceedingly Gazette in speaking of its contemporaamusing volume, the extent to which it ries, we take pleasure in stating our senhas already carried us, warns us to leave timents, in the hope that they may tend the rest to the perusal of the work itself, to diffuse a knowledge of this agreeable which, from its vivacity, ease, and even Miscellany, which is yet so new as not (as we set out by saying) absurdity, are (we trust) to be above accepting a kindcalculated to render it very popular. We ness of this sort from our hands. have, however, been strongly tempted to Though there is a great deal of local transfer to our pages some further anec-information in the Northern Star, it yet dotes of considerable interest, some curi-embraces so large a circle of an interestous information respecting the lives of ing part of the country, as to afford much the principal composers and performers amusement to general readers, as well as of modern Italy, and some cursory no- a peculiar treat to readers more intimately tices relative to the arts. The latter, in-connected with the site of its lucnbradeed, we shall copy into that department tions. Its topographical papers, and views of some future Number; and now con- of picturesque scenery, antiquities, &c. clude with M. de Stendhal's version of and its accounts of the manufactures in The horrid monster! what? love her husband and children, and not act the harlot as in France! Oh, intolerably dull and stupid brute! But would to heaven that all our travelling Fair merited the like abuse. man: novelty. Our readers will, we are sure, pardon us for being a little grave on these topics: by way of amends we shall select a few miscellaneous specimens, which may be more entertaining. The following definition of a synonyme would have the retreat from Moscow, which has at the most important of our manufacturing brought an endless laugh upon an Irish-least the merit, if not of truth, of entire districts, are curious and intelligent. The selections, biography, literature, poetry, Every one of the conquered languages Count Neri engaged me one day, confiden- &c. being more in common with other has brought synonymes into the victorious tially, to give him the whole account of the publications, we shall pass them by, and one; and what synonymes? gracious Heaven! campaign of Moscow, with the maps before lay before the public a specimen of the they have often a sense directly opposite. us. I had two officers with me, who were there; I told him that nothing was more more original matter. plain and simple than the transaction, and STAFFORDSHIRE POTTERIES.-Tis not in that, till I got to Paris, I never thought that the power of language to convey any adeI had escaped great perils! While we were quate idea of the appearance of the Stafforddying with hunger, I said, as far as the Bere-shire potteries; they form a scene of a nosina, the cold was not severe, and when we vel kind, totally different from the general were assailed with such dreadful snow and character of an English town; and if the frost, we found plenty of provisions in the term amorphous can ever be with propriety Polish villages. For the rest, if Prince Ber- applied to an aggregate of buildings, no thier had had the least spirit of order, and place on earth can more forcibly claim the if Buonaparte had had resolution enough epithet. to have two soldiers shot every day, he would not have lost 6000 men in the whole re Reasons for remembering a picturesque country. I have been travelling in a Sediola by moon-light; I love the aspect of the Appennines illumined by the star of night. A sediola, as the name implies, is a little chair fixed between two very high wheels; we drive the horse ourselves, which goes on a full trot, at the rate of three leagues an hour.-I was yesterday overturned three times, but it was my own fault, not that of the roads; the horse went at the rate of nearly four leagues an hour. The attention being strongly fixed on the landscape, we cannot easily forget a country which we have gone over in a sediola. We shall next hear of astronomy being advantageously studied by a tumbler in performing summer-saults. treat. The translation (though neither free from Gallicisms nor very elegant) is evidently too faithful to permit us to think Whimsical Anecdote.-A priest at Milan that the Count has been misrepresented : took it into his head to have miracles per- for the rest, to use an odious phrase formed by means of a young man whom he which occurs too often in this book, the instructed; the governor seeing the object at which he aimed, sent them both to young officer deserves himself the inerit prison:" I have no doubt," said he to them of this most extraordinary story. publicly," that to-morrow you will be at liberty; this little additional miracle cannot be difficult to you, and will be very important in silencing the incredulous; for myself, I engage not to arrest you again." Spirited contrast between the Florentines THE NORTHERN STAR, or Yorkshire We noticed in its origin this periodical Conceive twelve or fourteen populous villages, covering an area of ten miles by two, so closely connected as to leave between them no perceptible separation, and you will have a tolerable idea of the extent of this manufactory! Conceive again a large house, built of the finest materials, furnished in the most superb manner, and apparently better adapted for the palace of a grandee than the modest mansion of a tradesman; surrounded with furnaces, kilns, and sheds, and perpetually involved in smoke; and you have a faint sketch of the habitation of a gentleman potter! The smelting of lead, and the converting of it into any oxide, is universally allowed to produce the excruciating disease the bel erected. land; the vapours of sulphur lay the foun- one large street, and numbered every dwell-, the ground was the site on which the cross, dation of spasms and contractions; the in-ing. His manufactory he placed at the end since called "Sir Leonard's," has been haling of sublimed arsenic causes almost in- contiguous to the canal, and fixed his resi stant suffocation, nor is any preparation of dence in the park adjoining. Thus, like the There appears to me so great a similarity tin, copper, or antimony, perfectly salutary Baron of feudal times, he lived among his between this story and that of Alonzo the to the functions of vitality. Imagine then vassals, revered as a parent, respected as a Brave and the fair Imogine," as to make it all these ingredients mixing with the steam chief. probable that one tradition has served as the of the drying clay, and you will have some This village, though perhaps containing foundation for both: or, which is equally conception of the purity of air breathed upward of six-score families, furnishes but as probable, that the poetical Alonzo was the in a pottery. Paint to yourself some thou-a small proportion of the workmen of Messrs. traditional Sir Leonard. sands of human beings subjected to the joint Wedgewood and Byerly. The number of influence of such an atmosphere, labouring hands employed at the " Queen's Pottery," under a complication of disorders which ge- may be perhaps best estimated by considernerally terminate in asthma or consump-ing that the proprietors, at their own ex-GRESS of the late DISTURBANCES, and tion. See these emaciated wretches every peuse, maintain a corps of volunteers, (I on the Conduct of His Majesty's Governday renewing an occupation which shortens think of three companies,) entirely comment. the enjoyment of life, for the sole purpose of posed of their own men. Mr. Byerly is of the most curious connoisseur. THOUGHTS on the RISE and PRO procuring a scanty aliment to prolong, if pos- Capt. Commandant, and every man receives We are not fond of political discussions, sible, a miserable existence. Survey then from him the same wages for his attendance for no man who meddled with them ever the ornaments of your tea-table, and learn in the field, as he would have had, had he yet avoided offence to one side or other. by reflection, how numerous are the suffer-continued at work. The Etruria volunteers Politics are the enemy of literature. They ings and privations of one part of mankind, have never a bad muster. are besides dry, and their importance is in order to supply the other with imaginary One thing only is wanting in Etruria to the only quality which renders them incomforts, and useless luxuries. render the offspring of this private colony, In a commercial view, however, the pot fully sensible of the advantages of its situa teresting. But this pamphlet is so able, teries rank high. Foreign markets are hence tion: that thing is a good school; for though temperate, and judicious, that we think | supplied with a ware peculiar to this coun- Mr. Wedgewood, when he built the village, we can offend no good man, and we are try, and superior in its kind to any conti- erected a school-house, the endowment has sure we may benefit the general communental manufacture. India is rivalled in her always been too little to encourage any mannity by recommending it strongly to peporcelain, and even the antique vases of of abilities to abide here. A school on the rusal. Arguments so moderately urged, Italy have yielded up their composition to Lancasterian plan would be attended with views so calmly taken, and subjects of the chemical research of the philosophizing incalculable benefit. potter, who can reproduce them in such pervital consequence so impartially conPublic spirit and independency of princifection, as to elude the scrutinizing criticism ple are the constant attendants on trade and sidered, lose to the author the character manufacture. The potters in an eminent of partizan, aud entitle him to the praise After quoting from Mr. Accum's Che-degree possess both. Their cauals, their of an independent British citizen, who, mistry a description of "the method of subscription churches, and their dispensary, in pressing his opinion on certain points, making pottery," the Editor proceeds as tion into companies congenial to their indi- country, and fulfilling a duty which his are monuments of the one; and their forma- is discharging a debt which he owes his follows. vidual sentiments evince the other. They conscience prescribes. Were all controAn old tradesman on his journey from have their Odd Fellows, their Clubs, and Staffordshire to London, fell into company their Thespians; their religionists and their versies so conducted, we should have with an intelligent ostler at one of the inns visionaries; their debating and their politi- nothing to lament of that bitterness which where he slept, to whom he lamented, in pa-cal societies. Their women too, from their in politics is so unworthy of brethren of thetic terms, that he feared he should lose employment in the manufactories and their the same nation, and in religion so unbehis horse before his return, from a disorder frequent converse with men, learn every coming of Christians. that had invaded his eyes, and rendered him thing but what should make them modest almost blind; the ostler proposed to cure virgins, managing housewives, tender wives, though his name should be for ever conWho the author is we know not; but him, and taking a flint out of his tinder-box, and good mothers. made it red hot in the kitchen fire, when by cealed, we trust that his example, in this From the modern we turn to the ansuddenly quenching it in water, it became friable, and he soon beat it to a fine powder. cient, and the annexed notice of St. Leo- respect, will be nevertheless followed. In his discussion of our recent politics This powder he blew into the horse's eyes, nard's Cross, near Thrybergh, appears the Spencean system is well defined; and and probably thus saved his life. The old worthy of a place in any literary publi- it is shewn that no principles so agreeable gentleman (who, however interested he cation. might be for his animal, was much more so to the dregs of society ought to be conA tradition is current in Thrybergh to for his trade,) eyed the powder with surprise, this effect. Sir Leonard, a knight of that temned as innocuous and void of danger. and from its whiteness conjectured that a si- neighbourhood, left his lady to go abroad, The suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act milar preparation might be used with advan- probably into Palestine in the time of the is defended as a measure of prevention; tage, in making a whiter kind of ware than Crusades, where remaining many years, he and this is upheld as infinitely more conhad hitherto been manufactured. On his re- was believed to be killed, and his widow, as stitutional and more humane than sufferturn home he had the satisfaction of finding she thought herself, was prevailed upon to ing the mischief, grafted on the national that he had reasoned rightly, and the use of accompany another knight to the altar. In distress, to grow to a head, and putting it calcined flint soon became general through-the midst of the ceremony, when all eyes down by military force. out the pottery. For a long time it was We are no pounded by manual labour, which gave bride, a voice tremendous as thunder was friends to any encroachment upon the place to horse mills, and they in their turn heard to exclaim, "Forbear! the lady is my liberties of the subject, and it is only as have been superseded by water and steam wife." Sir Leonard was soon recognized, the a lesser evil that we should at any time mills. The river Churnet works many of lady gladly returned to her husband, and assent to the temporary removal of this sathem, and their construction is well worth they both instantly disappeared from among cred protection of individual rights. Not the inspection of the curious observer. the company. As his sudden appearance that we fear the abuse of power-thanks Etruria (1803,) is the only place in the could not be accounted for by any natural Potteries that has any pretension to beauty, means, it was believed that the knight had to a free press that is impossible-but or even regularity. The sole property of been brought thither by the help of magic, our very admiration of the constitution, Mr. Wedgewood-be built this village as and that the spot on which he first touched and our loyal attachment to the Govern were fixed upon the bridegroom and the ment by which it is administered, would are neither overcharged nor affected. In tatters, than to impose on the indigent, render us always unwilling, on any case England, nature presents so beautiful, so succour for which they must pay so dear a short of absolute necessity, to encroach rich, and so varied a form, that it would price. have been difficult to forbear delineating Who will believe it? The manufactures of upon the former, or clothe the latter with objects at once so novel and captivating. England, though envied by the rest of Euan invidious authority. But we enter not There mankind seem to have no other occu- rope, and admired by every foreigner who into the question; the public has made pation than to cultivate the earth, and ga- has enjoyed an opportunity of observing up its mind upon it, and we are not vain ther its fruits, like our first parents, before them, are, or will one day, become the enough to imagine that any thing we their sin; ornaments, either natural or con- greatest scourge of the nation. M. Simond, could advance would alter a single trived by art, conceal from the eye every who cannot be accused of viewing the worst opinion. Those who still doubt we refer trace of labour.-" England," says M. Si- side of things, acknowledges that the ma to this pamphlet. mond, "seems to constitute the pleasure-nufacturing population is in general corrupt, grounds of London, which are cultivated degenerated, both in morals and constitumerely for the sake of amusement, and in tion, and equally seditious, whether in proswhich every thing is subordinate to pic. perity or misery. At Birmingham, Manturesque luxury and ostentation. We are here chester, and Glasgow, the machines are in a retired corner, 278 miles from the capi- admired, and the workmen pitied, but partital, a place without trade or manufactures, cularly the children:-to live in the neighof London. The soil, though half rock, is for childhood. To work for more than 12 and yet it is precisely like the neighbourhood bourhood of a manufactory is a sad destiny sold for its weight in gold, merely on account hours, with a short intermission, and after of the beauty of the situation. The difficulty that to attend school for one hour, a of procuring servants and workmen is a ge- duty by no means calculated to amuse the neral complaint; finally, there are not enow mind-such is the daily life of these unforof poor for the rich." tunate little beings. The author enters at some length into the abstract question of the propriety of employing spies in turbulent times; but as we do not design to do more than briefly notice his work, we shall decline doing injustice to any of his arguments, and conclude by quoting two or three paragraphs as a specimen of his manner. On the Habeas Corpus Suspension, he says: A warm eulogy on the moderation and firmness of Lord Sidmouth closes this publication, against which we do not believe there can be one dissentient voice in the kingdom. It is much better that a few bad men should be detained in prison, than that the All this would be too delightful, were there But we must distinguish from these mainnocent victims of their seduction should be no reverse to the medal. M. Simond, like nufactures a number of establishments which given up to military execution. How much all men of lively imagination, yields to the do honour to human genius, and in which better was it to resign, for a short time, some pleasure of describing what strikes him at the steam-engine executes all the labours of part of our liberties that the whole might be the moment, without taking the trouble to an immense manipulation. The almost gepreserved! The Suspension Act has now ascertain whether or not he is perfectly con-neral application of the steam-engine, as a been passed for nearly twelve months. Has sequent. Thus he closes the picture above principle of motion, occasions a vast saving any honest man felt himself injured by it? quoted, by the following comparison:- both of money and workmen, and in some Might not the government defy even male- " Frederick the Great condemned every dra-measure accounts for the extraordinary volence itself to produce a single instance of goon to be bastonadoed, who should happen efforts which England has made, without detention in prison, except upon strong to fall from his horse:- I know not how it impeding either the increase of her riches or grounds of suspicion? Have not the pri- happens, said he, but none of them fall now.' her population. There luxury employs more soners been brought to trial with as much Perhaps the dread inspired by the overseers men than in any other nation: this is apdispatch as circumstances could possibly or church-wardens prevents the English parent from the vast number of male-servants admit? And have not numbers been dis- from becoming poor." This confession out of place, to be met with in the streets charged whose safe custody was no longer amounts to something; but here is one still of London; they are calculated to amount necessary? With this challenge I close the more important :-" When I ask great land- to 50,000. This is certainly not the greatest subject. ed proprietors, and even farmers, why they advantage which has resulted from the do not build houses for their labourers, they use of the steam-engine. usually observe, that they are nests of vermin, In sketching the picture of a country poachers, and pilferers. These expressions which has created for herself an existence diminish the ideas of universal felicity, which territory and population, in comparison with seem somewhat hard, and I confess they out of all proportion to the extent of her the appearance of the country would induce other European states, the highest and most one to form. Far from erecting such houses, abstract questions of political economy must VOYAGE EN ANGLETERRE, EN 1810 the rich destroy them, or let them fall to frequently present themselves. These quesdecay; the labourers generally reside in tions the author has in general treated in a et 1811, par L. SIMOND, à Paris. are then obscure corners, in which the poor rests on the authority of the best English some little detached town or village. There summary but very substantial way. are heaped up like sweepings from the doors and Foreign writers on the subject, particu of the rich. In order to form a correct larly on that of Mr. Malthus. These disnotion of the general prosperity, one must cussions are enlivened by an animated style, This work, though recently published, has observe all that passes in these corners." and by striking observations, though perhaps The author enters into minute details con- with here and there a few paradoxes; and are already reached a second edition. The author has adopted the modest form of a Jour-cerning the poor-laws, and the inconve- intermingled with facts and descriptions nal; he describes things in the order in niences to which they give rise; he observes, which augment the interest of the work to that the overseers who are entrusted with the reader who wishes for information, and which they presented themselves to his no- the management of the treasury of the poor, by no means diminish its attractions to him tice; we follow him without effort and without fatigue, and pause with pleasure in the their own paltry authority, than to the cares are more devoted to the maintenance of who looks only for amusement. laces where he sojourned. No observation of humanity. Eager to domineer, they pry England is superior to all the rest of the Though, for her industry and agriculture, scapes him, though he does not pretend to into all that passes in the families of the world; though in the cultivation of the ba scholar, a statesman, or a philosopher. le is an instructive and lively prattler, poor, whom they subject to the most odious sciences, she yields to no other nation; hose conversational style abounds in bril- tyranny. From the account given by M. though it cannot be denied that she posat strokes, equally in unison with reason is better to run the risk of shocking our by no means happy in the cultivation of Simond, we are tempted to believe, that it sesses great beauties in literature, yet she is a good taste, and without the slightest economists by the sight of a few rags and those arts which are termed the ornaments here is, perhaps, too frequent a recur- ! These learned Thebans never heard of our of life; we do not allude to those frivolities rene of picturesque descriptions; but they eight millions a year of poor's rates. of which it would be childish to boast; but" A French traveller's observations on England, as reviewed by a French critic, will, we hope, be found to possess considerable entertainment for our readers. tre of research or affectation. He duct, by relating many instances of the cor- Young Clifford, Mr. Wallack. THE DRAMA. DRURY LANE. Our dramatic records for the week furnish Various questions ensued on the part of the Duke, the answers to which were so well seconded by the fine bedewed eyes of the widow, that, turning to the Minister of War, he requested, as a favour to himself, that he would forward her wishes. The Minister, with great goodness, assured the petitioner he would instantly dispatch the required order to the Marquis de Spinola, and was taking his leave to perform this promise, when that nobleman most opportunely arrived to inquire after his Excellency's health, The Inspector-general was well acquainted with Madame de S; but not suspecting Of the three plays whence this play is the business which had brought her to the compounded, we feel the most entire conDuke's, accosted her with compliments of viction that the first, called "the First part condolence on the irreparable loss she had of King Henry VI." was not written by so recently sustained by the death of her us with but a solitary subject; for the quarto Shakspeare, but by Marlowe, Greene, and husband, an officer for whom he expressed form of our publication, and we may add its probably Pecle; and brought forward about the highest esteem. This address again greatly augmented circulation, preclude us 1590, under the title of "The first part of roused all her distressed feelings, and she from noticing any thing so late as the panto- of Yorke and Lancaster; and that the sethe Contention of the two famous Houses poured them forth with such lively expres- mimes on the night previous to our issuing cond and third parts, as Malone contends, sion of sorrow that the Marquis de Spinola, from the press. who was not like the other spectators, in Our single subject is however one of in- were re-modelled and appropriated by our the secret of her real feelings, was quite terest: no less than an effort to bring Shak-immortal bard, from "the True Tragedie of overpowered by his own, till the Minister of speare upon the modern stage under new Richard, Duke of Yorke," of the same authors. War seeing calm succeeding to this last modifications, and from plays which have In the original, the first play commences burst of lamentation thus addressed the sym-long ceased to be acted. While we call this with the obsequies of Henry V., and the pathising Inspector. "The dead husband, a bold, we must also say it is a legitimate speech, Monsieur, is no longer in question; on the and worthy attempt. What we may think contrary, the subject under consideration is of its execution is another thing; our opithe procuring a living one, through whom nion of the merit of the undertaking is dethe disconsolate widow may be restored to cided. Who the artist is we cannot tell; happiness and comfort. To you she looks the name of Merriman has been mentioned, for effecting this change in her present for- a name with which we are unacquainted; lorn situation; and for this purpose solicits and though there may be a principal mover your permission that she may marry the of that denomination, we are inclined to Lieutenant-Colonel of the regiment to which think that the getting up of this drama has her deceased husband belonged when liv-been a sort of joint Stock Company business, ing." in which Mr. Kean has had a large share. We have two reasons for this supposition; 1st, because that gentleman is exempted from the management of Mr. H. Johnston in all plays in which he performs, when he becomes de facto the acting manager; and secondly, because after this play had been cast and the respective parts given out to the actors for study, they were recalled and the best bits cut out of each to be put into the mouth of YORK, aud raise that character to importance sufficient for the leading tragedian. Hung be the Heav'ns with black, yield day to which has been transferred by Cibber to night," Richard III.; and dwelling on the wars in France, in which the Maid of Orleans is the heroine, it ends with Suffolk's success in negotiating the marriage of Margaret of Auvergne to Henry the VI. The second play through the feuds of the rival Roses, conbegins with the Queen's arrival, and going. cludes with the battle of St. Albans, and the triumph of the Yorkists. The third play commences with Henry's adoption of York of the Duke of York; the turn of affairs at as his successor; details the defeat and death the battle of Towton; the elevation of Edward IV. to the throne, and the civil wars in which Warwick, (who changes sides,) King Henry, and his son Edward, fall martyrs to their rivals. The Marquis de Spinola replied, "If the highly gratified. It was, indeed, a master- Accustomed as the public have been to low: Henry VI., Mr. Maywood. Holland. which there is either no leading character, These three pieces constitute a mass, in (speaking in the stage phrase,) or several which divide the interest. Thus Talbot, Warwick, Humphrey of Gloucester, Cardinal Beaufort, Richard Duke of York, Edward IV. his eldest son, and Richard of Glouces Richard III., as the action proceeds, become in turn the prominent figures. The compiler of this Play strikes out the first and two last of these, and enriches his Duke of York with their spoils, who is thereby rendered more effective in exact proportion as his delineation is removed from the truth of of the Earl of Exeter, of Duke Humphrey, history. In his mouth is put the speeches of Warwick, of Clifford, of Richard his son, of Sir J. Mortimer, and for aught we could ascertain, of sundry others. The temporiz free animadversions on her sudden transi- Cardinal Beaufort, Bishop of Winchester, Mr.ing and ambitious York is thus constituted a tions from sorrow to joy. The Duchess compared her to the Ephesian matron; but the gentlemen were more indulgent, and the Marquis de Spinola, in particular, endeavoured to soften the indecorum of her con hero. For example, in the old plays, Exeter's soliloquy, (sc. 1, act iv. part 1st.) "Well didst thou, Richard, to suppress thy voice," is given to York, Richard himself. Iu Scene 1, act iii. of 2d part, York accuses Duke Humphrey of taking bribes of France and Gloucester answers, "Is it but thought so? what are they that think it?" &c. chard, to induce York to give battle to the Queen, instead of standing a siege in Sandal Castle, "We'll meet her in the field. York. What, with five thousand men? Richard. Ay, with five hundred, Father, for a need. The feeble and irresolute Henry was ren DIGEST OF POLITICS AND NEWS. The news of the week is unprecedentedly scauty. Our readers may, in few words, already been plundered by Cibber, for his cession of incident; and in spite of the want Richard III. or we make no doubt it would of the main action being sustained to the have been laid under contribution on this last and a sufficient interest given to the occasion; though, from the account we have hero, the attention never flags. It is proendeavoured to give, it will appear that the bable therefore that this play will continue The former speech is transferred to Suffolk action terminates very consistently with the to form an agreeable diversity in the course as against York, and Kean's happiest hit in death of York. of our amusements, though it does not the Play was the above line in the answer. Mr. Kean's youthful look was injurious mount to that commanding station which The bloody Clifford's soliloquy on being to the illusion of the scene; it was impossi- the playing dramas of Shakspeare possess. mortally wounded, (3d part, act ii. scene 6.) ble to conceive him the father of two or Some compression and the familiarity of the is put into the last scene of the present Play three warrior sons; and generally in his performers with their parts will add much as York's mortal lament, and he is repre- contentions with Somerset and Suffolk (in to its attractions, and we trust it will meet sented, contrary to history, as wounded to the former especially, from the petit-maitre the success it deserves. the death, in order to make it suit him. appearance of Mr. Penley) no fancy, however Warwick's appeal to the King, on Duke powerful, could imagine that the peace of a Humphrey's murder and the rising of the nation was at issue. The scolding wanted people, is assigned to the Duke of York, dignity and importance. But in fact, the who supersedes the former through the whole aspect of the play, with only two or whole of this important scene. The bold three exceptions, was too youthful; and incitements of Sir John Mortimer and Ri-scarcely one of the principal characters look-be told that the French budget consists ed their part. of 767,778,600 francs of revenue, and of dered almost ludicrous by Maywood, who was 993,244,022 francs, wanted for the pubseldom energetic but in a wrong place. The lic service: consequently there is a defiexquisitely pathetic soliloquy which he deli- cit of above 225,000,000 of francs. The vers during the battle of Towton in the ori-loan which we have before mentioned is ginal 3d part, is here placed in the battle of to meet this deficiency, and its negocia'A woman's general; what should we fear! St. Albans; but the picture of royal anguish, tion (said to have been successfully comare also given to York, instead of the timid and rural happiness, fell lifeless from Mr. pleted) has lowered the English funds quare which Shakspeare puts in his mouth. Maywood's lips. It is but fair to acknowRichard's claim to single out Clifford in bat-ledge, however, that the representation of about two per cent. tle is unreasonably transposed to his father, the monkish and whining monarch is a task The chamber of deputies has met day in fight against Clifford's father, where the of extreme difficulty: such parts require after day to discuss the projêt relative to same cause of enmity does not exist. more talent and skill than those of bustle the press. The law for placing the "Nay, Warwick, single ont some other chace, and force, which are infinitely more effec- Journals under government control to For I myself will hunt this wolf to death." tive, and infinitely more easy to enact. the end of the session 1818, has been Of Mr. Kean's York we have already said so much incidentally, that a distinct criti-separated from the rest, and passed in cism would be merely repetition. His manner told in three or four passages; but all the minister's plan is likely to be adopted build up this into very marked importance, inroads committed on the other parts, to with a few alterations. failed; and there was much of a level between it and Suffolk, Clifford, Warwick, and Beaufort. In these, Mr. Rae did justice to The Dey of Algiers has quelled a conThe compiler is judicious in having select-the first, and Mr. Wallack to the second. ed very little from the first part. The scene Both played with spirit and energy: the lat- spiracy against his life, and executed a in the Temple Gardens, (the 4th of act 2nd) ter almost overbalanced himself in carrying dozen of the ring-leaders, Turkish solwhere the red and white roses become the off his father's dead body, and a laugh arose diers. balges of the two factions; that in which at the expence of the modern Eneas. A report that the Duke of Cambridge York is restored to his dignity; and that in Barnard performed Warwick in a man-will espouse the Princess Augusta, which York and Somerset come to a rupture and Pope, though correct and impres- Frederick of Hesse, now in her 21st year, ner highly creditable to his talents ;; youngest daughter of the Landgrave before the King, respecting their partizans sive, failed (who would not?) in depictand cognizances, are nearly all that are re But we need not pursue these remarks to show that much is sacrificed for the sake of rendering Richard of York a paramount character. Yet, after all, the attempt has failed; for, except in three or four passages, Mr. Kean was unable to make a strong impression. The rest was all level, and by no means superior to Warwick, Clifford, and other warriors. the commons. The remainder of the A son was born to the Grand Seignior at Constantinople on the 24th October, and named Soliman. We lament to say that the intelligence tained. From the second part, the quarrel of ing the sublime and appalling death of is in circulation. Horner and his apprentice, Peter, is taken, that tortured sinner. Except John Kemand egregiously mutilated. Also Suffolk's ble (and we are not sure even of his powers,) from the West Indies rather tends to plots against Duke Humphrey; the murder of or his incomparable sister were the actor, corroborate the afflicting news via Amethe latter; banishment and death of the for- such a scene as this can never reach the vivid rica in our last. mer, with variations; York's strengthening imagination, which its perusal in the closet Mr. Hone has been acquitted on two himself with Salisbury and Warwick; his creates. The other noble performers were revenge of the murder of Humphrey, instead very respectable; Mrs. Glover excellent. other prosecutions for his profane and of being an accessary, as in the old play; The low cast was also well done, though the blasphemous parodies; the juries having his victory at St. Albans, and allowed claim compiler has not made the most of his ma- held that his intention was not to bring to succeed Henry; Cardinal Beaufort's death, terials. The dresses are rich, and calculated religion but government into contempt. the subject of Sir Joshua Reynolds' fine pic for effect; but there is no great regard paid We believe the latter indeed was his chief ture, and the revolt and operations of Jack to correctness of costume. The scenery is design, and are sorry that, this being much to be commended, particularly two the case, he escaped the punishment Cade, with sundry interpolations, and a conclusion not over-consistent. The third new scenes, the Temple garden, and an an- which the use of lawless means so richly part supplies the deposal of Henry, and cient street. events consequent thereupon; the resolution Upon the whole, though there was someof Queen Margaret, and the battle of Wake- thing of heaviness about this production, it and faith are too firmly rooted to be field, in which York is made prisoner and is certainly an effort deserving of public en- shaken by such men as this Hone, but slain. The remainder of this drama, as well couragement. The dialogue possesses great there is no doubt that his acquittal is calas sɔme passages in its precursors, had force and beauty; there is an endless suc-culated to work great evil among the merited. We trust that both our law |