INSTITUT ROYAL DE FRANCE. SKETCHES OF SOCIETY AND due. "But my Lords," said he, rising, keen curiosity, listened with apparent (Academy Royal of Inscriptions and Belles- we are an emulous people, and an ex- astonishment to his words, and in another Lettres. Mr. J. Mutter of Strasburgh, and Mr.ample like yours cannot be lost even upon moment had fixed itself gazing over his Amable Jourdain, joint Secretary of the a German. I have been charmed with shoulder on the volume. The eyes of Royal School for oriental languages at your dramas, and have contrived a little this singular being wandered rapidly Paris, have obtained the two prizes of the arrangement to give one of our country; over the page, and when it was turned Institute. Mr. Pastoret presented the medal if you will condescend to follow me to they were lifted up to heaven with the to the latter at a public sitting on the 25th. the great hall." The company rose and strongest expression of wonder. The M. Dacier read a notice of the life and writ- followed him through the splendid suite German was weary, his head soon ings of M. Larcher, in which the following of a Venetian villa, to the hall which was drooped over his study, and he closed anecdote is related. A stranger was met fitted up as a German barn. The aspect the book. "What," said he, rising and by this savant in a solitary alley of the Luxemburgh, who inquired what it was of the theatre produced first surprise and stretching his limbs, "is there no one o'clock, and robbed him of his watch. Mon- next an universal smile. It had no re-stirring in this comfortless place? Is it sieur (the present king) hearing of this, semblance to the gilded and sculptured not near day?" He took out his repeater, sent Mr. Larcher on the same day a watch salons of their own sumptuous little the- and touched the pendant, it struck four. of much greater value than that which he atres. However, it was only so much His mysterious attendant had watched had lost. This trait was loudly applauded the more Teutonic. The curtain drew him narrowly, the repeater was traversed by the auditors. up. The surprise rose into loud laughter, over with an eager gaze; but when it even among the Venetians, who have been struck, delight was mingled with the seldom betrayed into any thing beyond wonder that had till then filled its pale, a smile for generations together. The intelligent countenance. "Four o'clock," THE PLAY AT VENICE. stage was a temporary erection, rude said the German. "In my country, half Some years since, a German Prince and uneven. The scenes represented a the world would be thinking of going to making a tour of Europe, stopped at Ve- wretched and irregular street, scarcely the day's work by this time. In another nice for a short period. It was the close lighted by a few twinkling lamps, and hour it will be sun-rise. Well then, I'll of summer, the Adriatic was calm, the looking the fit haunt of robbery and as-do you a service, you nation of sleepers, nights were lovely, the Venetian women sassination. On a narrower view some and make you open your eyes." He in the full enjoyment of those delicious of the noble spectators began to think it drew out one of his pistols, and fired it. spirits that in their climate rise and fall had a kind of resemblance to an Italian The attendant form, still hovering behind with the coming and the departure of street, and some actually discovered in him, had looked curiously upon the pisthis finest season of the year. Every it one of the leading streets of their own tol, but on its going off, started back in day was given by the illustrious stranger famous city. But the play was on a terror, and with a loud cry that made the to researches among the records and an-German story, they were under a Ger- traveller turn-" Who are you?" was his tiquities of this singular city, and every man roof. The street was, notwith-greeting to this strange intruder. "I night to parties on the Brenta or the sea. standing its ill-omened similitude, of will not hurt you," was the answer. As the morning was nigh, it was the cus-course German. The street was solitary. "Who cares about that?" was the Gertom to return from the water to sup at At length a traveller, a German, with man's retort, and he pulled out the other some of the palaces of the nobility. In pistols in a belt round his waist, and ap- pistol. "My friend," said the figure, the commencement of his intercourse all parently exhausted by his journey, came" Even that weapon of thunder and lightnational distinctions were carefully sup-heavily pacing along. He knocked at ning cannot reach me now. But if you pressed. But as his intimacy increased, several of the doors, but could obtain no would know who I am, let me entreat he was forced to see the lurking vanity of admission. He then wrapped himself up you to satisfy my curiosity a moment. the Italian breaking out. One of its in his cloak, sat down upon a fragment You seem a man of extraordinary powmost frequent exhibitions was in the little of a monument, and soliloquized. "Well, ers." "Well then," said the German in dramas, that wound up those stately fes-here have I come, and this is my recep- a gentler tone, "if you come as a friend, tivities. The wit was constantly sharp- tion. All palaces, no inns, all nobles, I shall be glad to give you information; ened by some contrast of the Italian and and not a man to tell me where I can lie it is the custom of our country to deny the German, some slight aspersion on down in comfort or in safety. Well, it nothing to those who will love or learn." Teutonic rudeness, some remark on the cannot be helped. A German does not The former sighed deeply and murmured, history of a people untouched by the much care, campaigning has hardened" and yet you are a Teuton; but you were elegance of Southern manners. The sar-effeminacy among us. Hunger and thirst, just reading a little case of strange and casm was conveyed with Italian grace, heat and cold, dangers of war and the yet most interesting figures: was it a and the offence softened by its humour. roads, are not very formidable after what manuscript?" "No, it was a printed It was obvious that the only retaliation we have had to work through from father book!" must be humorous. At length the to son. Loneliness however is not so "Printed, what is printing? I never Prince, on the point of taking leave, in-well, unless a man can labour or read. heard but of writing." vited his entertainers to a farewell supper. Read, that's true, come out Zimmerman." "It is an art by which one man can give He drew the conversation to the infinite He drew a volume from his pocket, to the world in one day as much as three superiority of the Italian, and above all moved nearer to a decaying lamp, and hundred could give by writing, and in a of the Venetian, acknowledged the dark-soon seemed absorbed. He had till now character of superior clearness, correctness in which Germany had been des- been the only object. Another soon ness and beauty; one by which books are tined to remain so long, and looked for- shared the eyes of the spectators. A made universal and literature eternal.” ward with infinite sorrow to the compa- long, light figure came with a kind of "Admirable, glorious art!" said the rative opinion of posterity upon a country visionary movement from behind the inquirer, "who was its illustrious into which so little of its gratitude must be monument, surveyed the traveller with ventor? "A Gorman!" * |pistol, and alluded to the history of gun-scorn and curse of providence can have "But another question. I saw you powder. "It must be a mighty instru- fallen upon them?" As he gazed, tears look at a most curious instrument traced ment in the hands of man for either suddenly suffused his eyes, the first sunwith figures, it sparkled with diamonds, good or ill," said the form. "How much beam struck across the spot where he but its greatest wonder was its sound, it must change the nature of war! how stood, a purple mist rose round him, It gave the hour with miraculous exact-much it must influence the fates of na- and he was gone! ness, and the strokes were followed by tions! By whom was this wondrous tones superior to the sweetest music of secret revealed to the treaders upon the The Venetians, with one accord, startmy day." earth?""A German." ed from their seats, and rushed out of That was a repeater!" The form seemed suddenly to enlarge, the hall. The Prince and his suite bad "How, when I had the luxuries of its feebleness of voice was gone, its atti-previously arranged every thing for leavthe earth at my command, I had nothing tude was irresistibly noble. Before it ing the city, and they were beyond the to tell the hour better than the clepsydra had uttered a word, it looked as made to Venetian territory by sun-rise. Another and the sun-dial. But this must be in-persuade and command. Its outer robe night in Venice, and they would have comparable from its facility of being car-had been flung away; it now stood with been on their way to the other world. ried about, from its suitableness to all an antique dress of brilliant white, gahours, from its exactness. It must be thered in many folds, and edged with a an admirable guide even to higher know-deep border of purple; a slight wreath ledge. All depends upon the exactness of laurel, dazzlingly green, was on its before his death, begged the life of Frederick That the Emperor Charles VI. ten years of time. It may assist navigation, astro-brow. It looked like the Genius of Elo- the Second, the great King of Prussia, at that nomy. What an invention! whose was quence. Stranger," said it, pointing to time Crown Prince, of his severe father King it? he must be more than man." the Appenines, which were then be- Frederick William, is a circumstance that ginning to be marked by the twilight, has been made public as well in several What, still a barbarian! I remember "eighteen hundred years have passed lives of the great King, as also, immediately his nation. I once saw an auxiliary le-away, since I was the glory of all be-after the disgrace of Field-Marshal Sickendorf, (the Austrian Ambassador at Berlin,) gion of them marching towards Rome. yond those mountains. Eighteen hunThey were a bold and brave blue-eyed dred years have passed into the great ed only as an unproved assertion, and much from his papers; but it has hitherto appeartroop. The whole city poured out to flood of eternity, since I entered Rome disputed report. The original papers proving see those northern warriors, but we look-in triumph, and was honoured as the the truth of the fact, will, we doubt not, be ed on them only as gallant savages. Ileading mind of the great intellectual interesting to our readers, and we therefore have one more question, the most inte- empire of the world. But I knew nothing feel ourselves happy in being able to present resting of all. I saw you raise your hand, of those things. I was a child to you, from the original German. "He was a German!" with a small truncheon in it; in a mo- we were all children to the discoverers "Who, CURIOUS HISTORICAL DOCUMENT. them with a faithful translation of them King Frederick William of Prussia to the to. Wusterhausen, Nov. 20th, 1730. it is that alone which has induced me to I thank your Imperial Majesty in the most grateful manner, for taking so much interest in the vexation, which my Crown Prince has caused me by his conduct hitherI cannot deny that it grieves my heart the more, as I have never been sparing of tion, and yet hitherto all has been fruitless, paternal admonitions, and careful educawhich must reasonably move me to proceed against him with due severity. I might truly have good cause to let him feel it still gled awe with devotion. The German The German looked embarrassed; but farther; but he owes it entirely to your felt the sensation of a superior presence in a moment after, he heard the sound of Imperial Majesty, for having been pleased growing on himself as he looked on the a pipe and tabor. He pointed in silence to interpose your mediation for him, since fixed countenance of this mysterious to the narrow street from which the in-pardon him; and I will wish and hope that being. It was in that misty blending terruption came. A ragged figure totter- this may make such an impression on his of light and darkness which the moon ed out with a barrel organ at his back, heart, that he may be wholly changed by it, leaves as it sinks just before morn. There a frame of puppets in his hand, a hurdy- and may learn duly to acknowledge how was a single hue of pale grey in the East gurdy round his neck, and a string of much he is indebted to your Imperial Mathat touched its visage with a chill light, dancing dogs in his train. CICERO ut-jesty and your August House, for the sinthe moon resting broadly on the horizon tered but one sigh-"Is this Italy!" The cere love and affection which you have shown him, as I myself will never forget the special was setting behind, the figure seemed as German bowed his head. The showman proofs of your sincere and valuable friendif it was standing in the orb. Its arms began his cry-" Raree show, fine raree ship and confidence; but, on the contrary, were lifted towards heaven, and the light show against the wall! Fine Madame will at all times exert myself to the utmost came through its drapery with the mild Catarina dance upon de ground. Who of my power, to give your Imperial Majesty, splendour of a vision. But the German, come for de galantee show!" The organ on my side, real proofs of my esteem and habituated to the vicissitudes of "perils struck up, the dogs danced, the Italian devotedness, and to show that nothing is by flood and field," shook off his brief capered round them. CICERO raised alarm, and proceeded calmly to explain his broad gaze to heaven: "These the the source of his miracle. He gave a men of my country-these the orators, slight detail of the machinery of the the poets, the patriots of mankind! What dearer to me than to be united in uninterwith your Imperial Majesty and your August rupted confidence and perpetual friendship House, and that this friendship may be more and more confirmed, I remain with a sin cere German heart, and at the same time Most loving Cousin and faithful Brother, veral new novels, and a small pamphlet, en- took place about six o'clock in the morntitled Personal Liberty! But the eye of the ing; Mr. Ponsonby having languished observer was unwillingly drawn from these from Monday the 30th June preceding, objects, to men loaded with irons in the gloomy cells; one of the criminals seemed when he was suddenly attacked by his engaged in reading a prayer-book; he was mortal malady during a parliamentary under sentence of execution-the governor's discussion on the Extents in Aid Bill. He daughter was at the same moment playing a had just before delivered his opinion upon Mon cher Prince,' When the differences sonata." the Irish Election Bill, but feeling indispobetween the Crown Prince of Prussia and "The horse is, of all animals, that to sition, retired behind the Speaker's Chair, his father were at the height, (the Prince which the English are most attached, and and sunk down into a state of insensibibeing thrown into prison,) and it was gene- of which they take the greatest care; and rally feared that the affair might soon have why? in order to sacrifice it in a race, as the lity, upon which the House immediately a melancholy and fatal end, and therefore priests of Jupiter fattened the bulls before adjourned. From this period he suffered no time was to be lost, I found it necessary plunging into their hearts the sacred knife. much pain though his disorder was acimmediately to do every thing to prevent The horse, that superb child of the earth, companied by occasional torpor, and it the misfortune; and as it seems from all then appears to fly rather than run; but, torn was only a few hours before his dissocircumstances, that the King has not only a by the inhuman lash of the rider, the animal lution that every sense became shut to particular friendship but also a very remark-is exhausted, and the froth which falls from the cares of this world, or the anguish able respect for me, I resolved to dispatch to his mouth is reddened with his blood; his Seckendorf in all haste, and with the great- ardour outlives his strength; his quivering of a consuming disease. There is someest secrecy, a letter to the King, in my own muscles extend and contract with an invo- thing very awful in these rapid transitions, hand-writing, with orders not to deliver it to luntary palpitation, kept up and irritated by and human nature trembles to see the the King, unless he saw that the necessity the lacerating blows of the whip: still, how-active public man stricken in the very was extreme; and not to acquaint any per-ever, he darts forward, reaches the goal and midst of his activity into the insensate son, even the Ministers here, with this cir-expires!" cumstance, but to give information of the A French Journalist, in reviewing this corpse, and borne with the tones of naresult directly to me. Now he has not only book, observes that the article on fashions tional argument still vibrating from his delivered my letter to the King with the is the most amusing of the whole. "We lips to that grave where all is stillness desired success, but has just sent ine the have, he says, been much diverted at Paris and silence. annexed letter in the King's own hand, by a caricature representing an Englishman, The subject of this memoir was the which I communicate to your Highness, who, whilst a tailor is taking his measure for son of John Ponsonby, who was the with the account of the affair, and you may a pair of pantaloons, very coolly observes, leader of a party in the Irish Parliament, to the other Ministers of State; the copy of other; if you make them so wide that I can Commons in 1756. His grandfather was impart both the letter and this note of mine Now, M. Carrick, let us understand each and elected Speaker of their House of my letter, which is also written by myself, draw them on, mind, I will not have them.' I have sent to Seckendorf, and have no This, and other things of the same sort, in- the first Earl of Besborough, who under other: I shall desire him to give it me back, stead of being exaggerations, the author as- the title of Baron Ponsonby, of Sysonby, and will then communicate it also. sures us are far below the truth, and he en- was raised to the British Peerage in 1749. ters into details, which leave little doubt as He was also nearly related to the Imoto his veracity. He gives the History of the killy Ponsonbys, being paternal uncle to A recent French publication, in 3 vols. Boot, and of all the cosmetics used by young the present Baron of that title, who is octavo, entitled, "L'Angleterre et les in- men of fashion to increase the brilliancy of the son of William Brabazon Ponsonby, glois," displays the superficial views which their charms-such as the milk of roses, too many French writers take of our consti- Mrs. Oldfield's rare lotion, Colley's chemical the first Lord Imokilly and elder brotution, national character, and manners. Of cream; powders, bearing the names of the ther of Mr. Ponsonby. He was bred this we may hereafter extract some graver Prince Regent, Duke of York, Dr. Blair, and to the Bar, and early in life became disexamples, though we at present content our-even the immortal Newton! the Bath lotion, tinguished, and advanced in his profession selves with lighter specimens of the work. Atkinson's dye, the curling fluid, and many by his abilities, as well as through the "An engineer named Brindley, a man of other invaluable discoveries of the same influence of his connections. His first very considerable talent, had so completely sort. NATIONAL LIBERALITY. identified himself with his enterprises, that "As for the ladies, on the first of January, public appointment was that of Counsel he thought of nothing but plans, piers, level-1817, that ever memorable day, Mrs. Bell to the Commissioners of the Revenue, a ling, perforating mountains, digging canals, invented the famous Armenian Corset. We place of considerable emolument; satisfied &c.: being once called before the House of confess ourselves inadequate to discuss the with which, or too indolent for greater exCommons on the subject of a certain affair, merits of this rare and admirable discovery; ertions, he relaxed in his forensic pursuits, he was asked for what end he imagined it has, however, met with the greatest suc- and devoted the chief portion of his rivers had been formed. 'I suppose,' re- cess." time to rural sports, to which he was plied he, they were invented to supply navigable canals.'" BIOGRAPHICAL PORTRAITS. Administration however roused him to ever exceedingly attached. A change of THE RIGHT HONOURABLE GEORGE ambitious aspirings, by depriving him of the source of his income, and throwing Upon Tuesday the 8th of July, as him upon his own slender fortune and without leaving his room. The apartment has been stated in all the publications of his talents for support. The political from which these gloomy cells, the recep- the day, died the Right Honourable career was opened to him, and he was ble fatality, were discoverable, was furnished George Ponsonby, who had been for speedily introduced to Chester Gaol." The cells of the prisoners are disposed in such a way that the eye of the gaoler or governor may penetrate into them at once, and embrace them all in a glance, tacles of vice, misery, and the most deplora. PONSONBY. the Parlia in a tasteful and elegant style; the atmos- some years what is styled the Leader of ment of that part of the now United phere breathed the perfume of flowers; in the Opposition, or, as the senator to Kingdom of which he was a native; and one corner stood a piano, covered with music whose address on moving a new writ for from the time he took his seat to the books; in another a table, on which were se- Wicklow we shall have to refer, has de-final separation of that Assembly he His Imperial Majesty writes these three nominated it, "the Country Party" in uniformly supported the measures of the words in French, though the letter is in German, the House of Commons. This event Opposition. From this era his practice at the Bar may be formed from the small number | tinguished as they are for the most brilaugmented rapidly, and he ranked with of condemnatory motions which originat-liant effusions of human talent. the most successful pleaders for extent of ed with him during the sessions he sat Mr. Ponsonby's matter received no aid business, while he at the same time es- upon the left of the Speaker, it may be from his appearance and manner. In tablished a high reputation for sound said that he was not only a liberal oppo-person he was rather short and stout; in legal knowledge. One change, as we nent, but a tacit approver of many of the countenance vulgar and inexpressive; in have seen, very happily for his fortunes, acts of Administration which individuals dress plain and farmer-like; and in gestithrew him upon his own resources: ano- on the same side with himself look upon culation common-place and heavy. On ther restored him to official situation, them to reprove. Possibly, however, this rising to address the House he was grave but infinitely more exalted than that arose in part from a natural disposition to a degree of pompousness, and when from which he had been removed. On to indolence; for, except when excited by it happened that what he had to say was the coming into power of the Whig party some influential motive, the whole course merely a short opinion, the oraculousness in 1806, Mr. Ponsonby was through his of his career as a British Senator display- with which it was delivered had a sinmerits, his family interest,' and the in-ed him rather as a solid and immoveable gular impropriety attached to it. He fluence of his relative the Duke of De- than as an active and impetuous impugner used invariably to advance one foot tovonshire, with whom he had always acted of the measures of Government. wards the table on the floor, poise himintimately in politics, appointed Lord Of his powers as a public speaker, the self sturdily in this posture, and very Chancellor of Ireland. This eminent writer has had many opportunities of form-frequently recur to the action of striking station he filled during the year his po- ing the judgment which he now delivers the table with one hand. In other relitical friends retained the direction of with due humility. Nothing could be spects his motions were ungraceful; but affairs, and, in so far as this brief trial more distinct, clear, and argumentative: his voice was good and sonorous, his enunallowed, discharged its functions in a it was impossible to be in doubt respect-ciation most distinct, and his emphases manner honourable to his character and ing the opinion of the orator or the appropriately and skilfully laid. advantageous to his country "The reasoning by which he sustained it. The Avoiding politics, as much as it is important duties of which," (says the Reporters of Parliamentary debates (an sible to avoid them in these days, when Honourable Mr. Lambe)" he performed arduous and difficult task) had their la- they mix with every thing, this sketch with general satisfaction to all persons bours rendered comparatively easy when cannot enter upon the discussion of the concerned, notwithstanding that, at that Mr. Ponsonby spoke, by the precision of uses or abuses of parliamentary opposiperiod, political parties ran high, and the his style and the logical arrangement of tion; but candour and justice may propropriety of every appointment was his ideas. From the forensic habits of nounce that in Mr. Ponsonby it assumed canvassed with the most scrupulous se- his early life he was perhaps apt to fall ra- one of its best forms, that of a well-reguverity." ther into an extreme on these points, and, lated constitutional jealousy, neither vexWhen the death of Mr. Fox left the wishing to enforce his sentiments more atious to the servants of the Crown, nor Opposition in the Imperial Parliament irresistibly on his auditors, to render them factiously obstructive of measures of nawithout a leader to direct and control somewhat tiresome by repetition. It tional policy. He had the honesty and their plan of operations, the claims of requires wonderful powers of eloquence the liberality very frequently to approve different aspirants were reconciled by the to be able to take many different views of ministerial decisions and ministerial election of Mr. Ponsonby. His abilities, of the same subject, place it in a variety acts. His conduct in this respect, his his connections, and his fair reputation of lights, and reiterate its illustrations, conciliatoriness in debate, his equanimity for inflexible integrity, were all in favour without becoming tedious. In dry dis- and manliness, undoubtedly reflected hoof this choice; to which indeed the only cussion, where sound ratiocination is nour upon his party, and gave it a weight strong objection appeared to be his long more relied on than brilliant oratory, and influence with the public, which residence in Ireland, and consequently this is altogether impossible; and Mr. must render his death a heavy calamity more intimate acquaintance with the Ponsonby always addressed himself to to ranks already thinned by the loss of affairs of that country, than with the the sense and conviction, never to the Sheridan's brilliant eloquence, and Hornmultitudinous circumstances which were passions and imagination of his auditors. er's enlightened mind. necessary to be familiarly known to the He was thus sometimes prolix from an over- Of Mr. Ponsonby's private life we Statesman at the head of so important a anxiousness to lay his subject in every know little, and indeed if we knew much party in England. With this disadvan-position in which an effect could be pro- we should still say little: but we may tage, the able manner in which he acquit-duced ou the understanding of those he suppose that in domestic and social interted himself of his charge, is well known desired to convince. On questions of course he was kind, intelligent, liberal, to the kingdom. His resistance to mi- slight consequence this practice was most and just. Had he not been so, even the nisters was without asperity, and in most injurious to his fame as a Debater. But partiality of friendship would not have of those cases where branches of the Op-on great questions involving the highest ventured on the warmth of panegyric position acted independently of the main constitutional and national interests, (and which has been bestowed upon his mebody, he stood aloof from what was it was upon such questions that Mr. Pon-mory. "He was" (said Mr. Lambe, in violent or personal. We remember no sonby's knowledge and vigour of intellect the speech to which we have already one instance in which he permitted party were most eminently conspicuous) his alluded) "not only dear to every person spirit to warp his mind so far as to make manner of reviewing every separate pro- with whom he was connected by ties of him guilty of private vituperation or ge- position and re-stating every strong ar- blood and consanguinity, but to every neral injustice. Indeed if a judgment gument, produced happy and powerful gentleman who had ever entered into the impressions. Several of his speeches of field of political discussion." His aunt was daughter of the third Duke this genus might be quoted as among of Devonshire, and he is nearly connected by the best compositions which adorn the Mary Butler, daughter of the late Earl In 1781, Mr. Ponsonby married Lady family intermarriages with the houses of Spencer, Westmoreland, and others. annals of the House of Commons, dis-of Belvedere, by whom he has had COUNT DE CHOISEUIL GOUFFIER. had it so. tioned a dent to human nature. There were neither prologue nor epilogue an indication, as well as the sketchiness of the characters, that this play must have been hurried upon the stage. We do not think the custom in this respect noured in the breach than in the observ ance." more ho several children. One of his daughters | love to resort to the unfailing authority of though very ably acted, prove the accuracy is married to Lord Donnally. His son the play bills: according to their unanimous of this opinion. Jones generally makes the arrived in Arlington Street, from Ireland, testimony this is "a Comedy, in three Acts, most of what is drawn for him, as he does within a few hours after his parent called Teasing Made Easy." We did not find on this occasion. Since it is the present course of dramatic composition to write chaexpired. He was privately interred at With equal reverence for the Newspapers, racters for particular performers, it is reKensington, on the Saturday morning as for the play bills, we should have been markable that no very good original part after his decease. Mr. Ponsonby was happy to be under obligation to them for the has been penned for him on the London born on the 5th of March, 1755, and plot of a new play; especially when that boards. The authors seem to rely on his had consequently just reached his grand play boasts of all the involution, bustle, in- talents, and he never deceives them. Glowclimacteric when thus suddenly snatched trigue and Spanish complexity in which Mr. worm is nothing like Contrast in the Lord of away, in the midst of the full enjoyment Jameson, the author of this comedy delights, the Manor, but his representative had the of his mental faculties and bodily and successful. and in which he is generally so amusing same vivacity and animal spirits, and did But our friends of the much for the new Comedy. Less cannot be strength:-Mens sana in corpore sano. Diurnal press have shrunk from the task, said for the dry humour of Matthews; and a Should his health permit, it is whis-and in truth we do not wonder at it, for the compliment as high but of another kind pered in the political circles, that Mr. plot is precisely a string of incidents as long should be paid to the sweet song of Miss Tierney will be the leader in the House as the comedy. However, in brevity, Litigant Carew.-Of the other performers we shall of Commons next session. May he imi-(Terry) is at law with Mrs. Teazer (Daven-only say, that all did their duty;-the old tate the moderation, candour, and libe-port) somewhere in the country, the Gen-deaf man was unpleasantly debilitated by tleman having formerly abandoned Mrs. age; one infirmity does not necessarily call rality of his predecessor! Teazer's niece his wife (Mrs. Connor), and for the companionship of all infirmities inciinfant Daughter (Miss Curew) now The Count de Choiseuil Gouffier died rewoman grown," and gone to America where cently in Switzerland, whither he had gone a large fortune, and the name of Litigant had tu drink the mineral waters. He was a French been bequeathed to him. With these he had Peer and Member of the Academy. In 1784 settled in England, ignorant of the fate of his family. GLow-WORM a young Counsellor he was Ambassador to the Sublime Porte, and had previously taken a tour in Greece (Jones) more addicted to frolic and gallantry and Asia, the result of which he published than to legal studies follows the last menThe Comedy, or to speak more correctly, in 1778, in a very valuable and interesting for she travels in the same route with the the long Farce, was well received, and young Lady, it may well be said legally, work. In January, 1790, a letter from him assizes. GAMMON (Matthews) Glow-worm's though there was some tedium in the two was read in the National Assembly, announcing a patriotic gift of 12,000 livres roguish Clerk, has a bit of an intrigue in the last acts, it will likely run the season. from the French settled in Constantinople, same direction with MOLLY MIXEM (Miss by Mistake is more amusing. ENGLISH OPERA. and a similar sum from an anonymous Citi- Matthews) an innkeeper's daughter, whom Since Saturday, a melo-dramatic romance, zen, i.e. himself. On the following year he he has encountered as a boarding school was named Ambassador to England, but heiress, and to win whom he assumes his called "THE WIZARD," has been performed declined the appointment; and in October, master's name. To these characters are added nightly at this theatre; its cognomen is "the the extent of his misunderstanding with the PETER PASTORAL (Tokely) an Attorney's Brown Man of the Moor. The origin of this government was rendered more notorious by Clerk, addicted much, as his name pre-sup- piece is to be found in the "Black Dwarf" a Conventional Decree for his arrest, on the poses to cockney ruralities, and sent down of My Landlord's Tales, but the Dramatist ground of his being connected with the to serve a subpoena on Mrs. Gibbs, another in, we fancy, his brown study has altered not King's brothers, his correspondence with niece of Mrs. Teazer's and a sort of young only the colour, but the lineaments, characwhom was seized in the republican retreat Squoire," in petticoats. MIXEM the inn- ter, and fortune of the hero. The Dwarf is, from Champagne. keeper (Watkinson) a deaf servant of Liti-by the help of a pair of thick cork soles Upon this, the Count quitted Constanti-gant's, and one or two others of less note fill upon the buskins of Mr. Heury Johnston, nople, and took refuge in Russia, where he the roll. We will not attempt to unravel converted into a tolerably imposing stage was kindly received by the Empress, and the tangled skein of the story:-the mistakes giant, but the aforesaid Mr. Johnston is had a pension assigned to him as an Acade-of one person for another, which occur only a sham wizard, and in reality a young mician: in 1797, he was even made a Privy some two score of times; the entrance into gentleman and lover in disguise. This will, Counsellor by the Emperor Paul. In 1802, wrong houses of which there are sundry however, appear more lucidly as we analyse however, he returned to France, and the instances; the darkness accruing from there the Romance, the principal characters in year after took his seat in the Institute, in being several Glow-worms; the narrow which are right of being a member of the former escapes from detection in the false, and The Wizard, Mr. H. Johnston. Academy. His most celebrated works recognition in the true characters; the Hobbie Elliot, Mr. Bartley. the hidings; the contri- William Græme, the Red Reiver of Westthe Inquiry respecting Greece and the Troad, equivoques ; vances; and the blunders follow each burn flat, Mr. I. Isaacs. and the Journey in Greece and Asia, to other in rapid succession, enliven the be-Hubert Ratcliffe, Mr. Wrench. which we have already alluded. We are indebted for the most of these par-duce a kind of denouement at the end of the ginning, drag through the middle, and pro- Mr. Vere, the Laird of Ellieslaw, Mr. Wheatley. ticulars, to that amusing publication, the "Lives of Remarkable Characters from the commencement of the French Revolution," &c. published about three years ago by Messrs. Longman and Co. THE DRAMA. are, HAY MARKET THEATRE. The first novelty of the short season enjoyed by this theatre, was produced on Wednesday. When we are at a loss to know the proper appellation of a dramatic work, we Barnett. Davie, Mr. Huckel. Grace Armstrong, Miss M. H. Buggins. Exit Comedy, when all the married and marri- Sir Frederick Langley, Mr. T. Short. |