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THEATRICAL JOURNAL. "Veluti in Speculum."

DRURY LANE.

Since our last notice of Miss Forde, in that most unfortunate, and misnamed of all Comic Operas, entitled "The Veteran," that young lady has appeared with considerably encreased success as Polly in the "" Beggar's Opera," and Mandune in "Artaxerxes;" so much so, indeed, as to render her future celebrity, with active industry and good instruction, far less equivocal. The Soldier tired, and other favourite airs, in both characters, were loudly encored, and their more difficult passages executed with great apparent facility. She is certainly very superior to three-fourths of our vocal debutantes. Braham's Quartette from "Kais" was introduced as usual, and all the other members of the Corps Operatique de served, and received much applause.

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For the benefit of Mr. Russell, the stage manager,--it is not our wont to notice benefits, except under very peculiar circumstances, and this was one of them; for Russell's benefit, Mr. Kean, on March 30th, appeared as Osmond in the "Castle Spectre," and Miss Kelly as Angela. With all due respect for the talents of the late Author of this Tragic Melo Drama, we quite coincide in opinion with Mr. John Kemble, who assumed the part of Percy in lieu of Osmond, on the Play's origi nal appearance, because he considered its success next to impossible. It, however, did succeed, malgré Mr. Kemble's prediction, and our criticism; and, with all its errors, still remains a stock piece at both theatres, though not very often exhibited. Kean's delineation of

the love, making, and brother-killing hero, was all that the part would allow it to be; the narration of his dream was horribly terrific, and had the Author done more for the Actor, the advantage would have been reciprocal. Miss Kelly's Angela was in her best style, and the remaining Dramatis Persona were what a Frenchman would call, passablement bien. At the conclusion of the farce, Russell took leave of his Drury Lane friends; as, economy and retrenchment being quite as fashionable at theatres as elsewhere, Mr. Elliston is, in future, to be his own Stage Manager, and Mr. Cooper is to play the Orator, whenever circumstances shall demand the exercise of eloquence. An arrangement has also been entered into between the several Proprietors, before the Lord Chamberlain, by which the Winter Houses shall close late in June, or very early in July, and thus leave our Summer Friends "ample space and verge enough," to make hay while the sun shines; and fill both their theatres and their pockets during the harvest weather. In other words, they are to have at least three months clear of all opposition and rivalry except their own. APRIL 8.---After Mr. Cooper as the wicked George Barnwell, and Miss Ed

miston as the deceitful Millwood had in vain lavished their energetic personifications upon a noisy audience, whom even the tragical denouement of Mister John Ketch could not awe into respectful silence; we were favoured with a new holiday Drama of Eastern Enchantment, founded upon, and called "Almoran and Hamet. Dr. Hawkesworth's elegant Fairy Tale must be in the memories of most of our readers, and in the libraries of all; and a mere pen and ink sketch, therefore, will suffice to tell the story. Almoran (Cooper) and Hamet (Penley) twin Princes of Persia, are left by their Father Solyman joint heirs to his dominions, and both are equally enamoured of the fair Circassian Almeida (Miss Copeland) whose choice is Hamet. To gratify his love and his ambition, Almoran seeks supernatural assistance, and aided by the genius Zadoc, triumphs over all interposing obstacles. Hamet, however, whose choice is virtue, and whose aim is honour, protected by the Peri Azael, at length defeats the machinations of the powers of darkness; Almoran's wickedness is

punished, and his Brother's piety rewarded with Almeida and the throne.

This is evidently an excellent foundation for a Melo-dramatic superstructure, and much more might have been made of it in skilful hands: Harley made the most of his part, as did Miss Povey, and all the other performers in their several characters. The new scenery was most splendid, and does infinite credit to the taste of the artists, and the liberality of the proprietor; and the Royal Harem, and the Seraglio Gardens, with their illuminated temple and real fountain, were specimens of splendour, which we have seldom seen surpassed. It is also very justly due to the very active energy of this establishment, to state, that this Melodrame was entirely brought out in the course of fourteen days.

APRIL 10.---A Miss Grimani from Belfast, sister-in-law to Mr. Young, and a former Debutante at this House, some four or five years since, in the character of Juliet, this evening made her curtsey as Lady Teazle in "The School for Scandal," and was received with all possible eclât. A young, handsome, and intelligent actress, must, under any circumstances, be an acquisition, and to all these distinctions, Miss G. possesses every possible claim; although certainly not entirely personifying Lady Teazle. From her declamatory style in the celebrated Screen Scene, we should judge that her talents were more inclined towards the worship of Melpomene than Thalia. In this, however, we are informed, we are mistaken, and therefore withhold our final decision until an opportunity is offered of witnessing her display in another character. Munden's Sir Peter, was quite as good as we ever saw it; Elliston's Charles most lively and entertaining; Cooper's Joseph gentlemanly; and the entire Dramatic force highly respectable.

APRIL 17.-The revival of “The Provoked Husband," this evening introduced Miss Grimani in the character of Lady Grace; but as this part requires very little beyond the look and bearing of a lady, we have nothing to add to our original estimate of her ability. Cooper and Mrs. W. West acquitted themselves with much credit as Lord and Lady Townley; and for the character of Manby, Mr. Powell looks at least twenty years too old.

COVENT GARDEN.

The Genii of Easter, like the Wizards of Christmas, possess, we believe, an equally immemorial charter for exhibiting magic and magnificence during the holidays; and this Theatre has been so long their chosen Temple, as to render rivalry almost hopeless, and superiority perfectly impossible. At the present moment, indeed, we should feel inclined to hail any thing as a relief from the perpetual annoyance of "Life in London,' inundating us with soi disant Corinthians, who bear about them no mark of Corinth, but its brass; who know not, whether the city that gives them their appellation was situate in Greece or Rome; and we are very sure, are sufficiently ignorant, never to have heard of its Timoleon. The close of the Adelphi and the Olympic Theatres, we had fondly hoped, would have relieved us from those compilations of slang and absurdity, which were calculated to disgust, rather than gratify, and to contaminate instead of improve. But, alas! the opening of the Summer houses has but encreased the nuisance, the dose is literally doubled, and we have new Toms, Jerrys, and Logics, on the stage, to excite imitation in the lobbies, and to prove that nothing is too absurd and vulgar to be aped by ignorance. The subject of Covent Garden's attraction for the present holidays is a new version of an old Nursery Fairy Tale; entitled " Cherry and Fair Star, or, the Children of Cyprus," and Easter Monday, April 8th, had the honour of ushering this most astonishing of all Melo-drames to the immortality of a crowded audience's deafening applauses.

The story, for we beg to assure our readers that this Drama really has one, is nearly as followeth. The Princess, Fair Star (Miss Foote) and Prince Cherry (Mrs. Vining) having been, in infancy, doomed to destruction by their unmotherly grandmother were on their disastrous voyage to banishment, wrecked on the Isle of Tenedos, and left there to live or die, as it might please the fates and Fairies, who governed the Island. The Children were however saved by a peasant, named Hassanbud (Blanchard) and protected by the Fairy AviEur. Mag. Vol. 81. April 1822.

aryana (Miss Beaumont) and thus grew up to youth and beauty, utterly igno rant of their royal birth. Sanguinbeck (Farley) the Captain who had the charge of their murder, and Topack (Grimaldi) his Slave, seventeen years afterwards, are shipwrecked on the same coast, and on the point of perishing, are also saved by Hassanbad. Sanguinbeck of course speedily discovers, and recognises his victims, and again threatens their lives; but, as Cherry and Fair Star are ordered by the Fairy to Cyprus to learn the secret of their birth, he changes his intentions, and offers to pilot them to their destined port. A prosperous voyage brings them rapidly to Cyprus, and in more than the usual gilding and glory of a Royal Yacht, or a Lord Mayor's State-barge, the Grecian Galley enters the Harbour. Here the Princely Travellers are again discovered by Giaffier, who is unfortunately in the opposition interest, and the repentant Sanguinbeck is once more compelled by a certain hour to effect their deaths, or to suffer in their stead. A Melo-dramatic miracle, however, preserves the whole party; when Prince Cherry in trial of his love and fortitude, and in discovery of his own, and Fair Star's birth, is ordered to attack the Demons of the fiery-wood, draw the waters of its magic fountain, and ascend to the icy summit of Mount Caucasus. All this his Royal Highness, assisted by Topack, á Merveille, effects; defeats the fiends, procures the dancing waters, and scrambles up the slippery mountain; whence he sinks into its depths below, which, expanding into a splendid Palace, discover the Fairy Aviaryana, Fair Star, and all the Magic Protectors, and royal lineage of the "Children of Cyprus." With such opportu nities for display, need we add, that the scenery and its appurtenances were of the usual gorgeous splendour, which characterizes the exhibitions at this theatre. The Avis Grove, where every bird, of every plumage, flutters, as erst in Paradise--the Bower of Illusion glittering through vistas of interminable beauty;---the Burning Forest, and the Emperor's Palace, outdo even the customary outdoings of Covent Garden.

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ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE.

Our present notice of Mr. Mathews's most prosperous career might be very correctly restricted to a Da Capo of our last month's announcement of his highly successful beginning; for the description of his "Youthful Days" seems very likely to last as long as the reality. Some few alterations have, however, taken place since the commencement of the season, which certainly tend to improve the toute ensemble. The song

of Trade Choosing is now most advantageously replaced by another, entitled School Orators, in which the Masters Wilkinson's speeches are more successfully introduced, as the speaking at the terminations of the three verses. A Yorkshire Tailor's Measure of Shakspeare was also, for a few evenings, given near the close of the second part, but though the execution was far better than the original idea, it too much

extended the entertainments, and therefore did not keep its place.

The cynosure of the evening, however, is the bon bouche reserved for the close, in which our fat friend, Lewyllyn ap Llwyd appears before us, in propria persona, all naiveté and nankeen, perpetually sighing over his love, and rotundity, and never forgetting to enquire, at the end of every sentence, "Am I thinner, think ye? I wish I were thinner!" Mr. Mark Magnum, the delighted, self-satisfied, speechifying steward of assembly dinners, is also of a species most delighting to the audience, though not so rare, as they may be caught in shoals every week during the season, at either the City of London, the Albion, or the Free Masons'. But we are digressing; we had intended only to bear testimony to Mr. M's continued ability in drawing crowded houses.

PARLIAMENTARY REGISTER.

The days omitted were distinguished by no business of Public importance.

The preceding Editor of the European Magazine having, in our last Number (for March) omitted to report the Parliamentary proceedings later than the 6th of that month, occasioning an arrear of rather more than a fortnight, we apologize to our Readers for this inattention to so material a branch of our work; and in supplying this deficiency, we not only assure the public that no repetition of any such negligence is to be apprehended, but that the Parliamentary proceedings will receive from the present Editor an attention, adequate to their importance.

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the Impropriator of 20 parishes, he was willing to make considerable sacrifices.

TUESDAY, MARCH 26.

Lord King adverted to the enormous encrease in the Civil List from 1791, being in the ratio of 140 per cent. His Lordship stated, that at Courts which had almost ceased to exist, or which possessed but diminished territories, our Ambassadors were continued, and with salaries enormously increased. Amongst others, he quoted instances of Austria, increased from £4405 to £12,000 per annum; Turkey, from £1095 to £8000; Russia, from £3520 to £12,000; and our Ambassador to Switzerland increased from £250 to £1595. Lord Liverpool replied, that the Government had reduced the public expenditure £1,200,000 more than was recommended by the Finance Committee of 1816. Lord Holland stated, that as to our Ambassadors, Mr. Pitt's estimate of 1786, including the salaries of Consuls, amounted to £70,800, and the pensions to £9000 per annum. Now, the salaries, exclusive of Consuls, were £174,000, and the pensions £52,000. The expenses of Lord Londonderry to Vienna were more than America paid to her Ambassadors and Ministers to every kingdom on the globe.

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