| was 5000l. per annum; then why is Mr. Canning to have vessels from the sea. If we dispatched a ship to combat them, NOVCI, per annum, with 60001, a year contingent? What cause she was either outsailed or blown out of the water. He was can be assigned for the additional 300 l. a year? In short, ready to allow that the war had been commenced in conwhy was he appointed-let them tell me that? Was it or was sequence of the aggressions of America (Hear, henr!)— it not that Mr. Canning finding it necessary to go to Lisbon, his | hut Commissioners had for two years wandered about the Conjourney was kindly converted into an Embassy, and that such tinent, sent out by America to obtain peace, but apparently in an Embassy would never have been thought necessary, if Mr. vain, and after their arrival it was some months before on our Canning could have remained in England? Unless Ministers | part any individuals were selected to conduct the negociation. can give me satisfactory replies, I and the country at large musi Mr. Baring was ignorant of the real ground of dispute. He much consider this unprecedented appointment as a scandalous waste suspected that the real question between us was boundary, that of public money, and a most infamous and deliberate job. extension of territory was our aim, and that for this purpose we (lear, bear, hear !) I have no doubt that, Mr. Canning will were embarked in a mad crusade, and instigated by the vain fulfil his duties well, but I complain that he has no duties 10 | dreams of dotards. He knew the tract of territory between the fot. (Wear!) The contrast is rather striking. Lord Castle- Penobscot and the Passamaquoddy to be a mere tract of snow, reagh, one of his Majesty's Chief Secretaries of State, declared ( thinly peopled, and the arrainment of which had been, boasted as to be weak in his intellects, has passed ever the Continent to a great achievement was only the triumph of a regular force over discharge most arduous and important functions at the Congress a defenceless village supplied only with two iron guns. In the at Vienna. Mr. Canning, who so declared his Lordship to he Chesapeake we had been more successful, but we ought not weak, is gone to Lisbon to do nothing—(Hear, hear!) I cannot much to plume ourselves upon what might with ease have been understand why, in this state of things, Lord Castlereagh should accomplished on the coast of France at any time during the not remain in quiet at home, whilst Mr. Canning was dispatched late war. The attempt upon Baltimore had been onsurressful, 19 the Congress. It is impossible to maintain that Mr. Canning and on Lake Champlain we had been entirely disappointed. Of would not he competent; the Noble Lord would not retaliate what, then, had we to vaunt? In times like the present the by such a declaration, although Mr. Canning thinks the Noble country would be little satisfied with the mere flourish of a Lord so unfortunately weak in his capacity—(Hear, hear!)- Royal Speech, where our commerce was stated to be almost inSetting aside this question of comparative' ability or inability, calculably augmented and our finances in a state of rapid imstill there is an additional burthen of 14,0001, a year laid upon prøvement; nor were the figures of the Chancellor of the Es the public, which I maintain is unnecessary. Now the ques- chequet more satisfactory : all they proved was, that immedition has been brought forward, is it not necessary that the | ately after the conclusion of peace, our merchaudˇże, which Chancellor of the chequer should give some explanation, be- had before been locked up in our warehouses, had been sent in cause in the last Session he pledged himself to apply his atten- large quantities abroad ; but it was not to be supposed that tion to the expences of Foreign Ministers, particularly to the this great export would continue; or if the Chancellor of the enormous charges beyond the sum allowed in the appointment; Exchequer did so imagine, he would find himself most grievand yet on the very first day of the succeeding Session we see ausly disappointed. It would require greater abilities than exposed one of the most outrageous jobs that was ever connived those of the present Administration to secure to us in future an at by any Ministers—(Hear, hear!) He will reply, at most exclusive superiority in the Continental markets, while our riit is but 14,0001, a year, and you may think yourself well off vals, particularly the Dutch, had all the advantages of colos that it is no more; but I do not think myself well off, and I nies, of ships, and of neutrality, which lessened the rates pf call upon the Right Hoo. Gentleman to give some reason why freight, insurance, and other charges. Nor had we that preMr. Canning is to be allowed this monuity when all the duties eminence of capital that some had vainly imagined. In Paris, of the station could as satisfactorily be discharged by Mr. money was so plentiful that the interest on it was only 3 per cent. Sydenham, at only one-third of the charge upon the country? He agreed that the peace had caused a `momen ary increase of As the case at present stands, it can be looked upon ooly as a trade, and of course, also, a momentary increase of the revevery convenient job for some parties, and as a very infamous nue; but would this last? Could we go on, meeting the madujob for others. factures of other nations in foreign markets, on équal tering? No; it was impossible, unless our manufacturers and tradera were relieved from the burdens under which they at present laboured. It was impossible our manufacturers could thrive under that oppressive and inquisitorial tax, the Property Tax. Mr. WHITBREAD wished to say two or three words in explanation. With respect to the destruction of Washington he had intended in convey, that no atrocity on the part of our enemies could justify this country in retaliating by the commission of similar crimes: if we could be so justified; we ought to scalp all the Indian prisoners that fall into‘our hands. Mr. BATHURST observed, that the term boundary, to which the Hon. Gentleman so much objected, on the assumption that the fixing of a boundary was one of the things for which the war was now continued, he contended did not necessarily include the idea of an accession of territory:-it might mean a line of mutual security. But, at all events, this was merely an assumption of the Hon. Gentleman's, which he had no right to make, Mr. BARING, in reference to the general question of the Address, observed, that after the patient fortitude displayed by this country in the war with the United States, he had expected that some words of consolation to the people of England would have beea introduced, instead of hints of new burdens, by which be understood the continuance of the Income Tax, and other impositions. Ile agreed that it was not becoming the character of Great Britain to retaliate upon Washington the calamities Sir GILBERT HEATHCOTE could not approve of that part of Newark; but the atrocities committed there and elsewhere of the Address which promised further support in the by the troops of the United States, deprived that Government American war, inasmuch as the cause of the dispute had of all just right to complain of the destruction of the public ceased since the general pacification on the Continen!. It buildings of the capital.—(Heur, hear !)—The further proceedings of this country, such as the estal·lishment on an Island appeared to him that we feared the rising power of Ameof the Chesapeake of a rendezvous for runaway Negroes, who rica, and wished to curtail it. This was an important were armed and again put on shore, and the regulations adopied feature in this war, for if persevered in we must be preby our forces as to private property, were highly reprehensible. pared to completely subjugate our enemy, or we should, be Ministers, dazzled with the glory of success, seemed blind to in a worse state than we now were. We had tried to sub the disgraces of defeat, and were often triumphing when they due America thirty years ago and had failed, when she was ought to mourn, Out of doors, the people were not so insepsible of the calamities that had recently attended our arms; nothing like so powerful as at present. We should recolabove all, they loveighed against the mode in which the naval lect how we left France situated, whilst we were engaged department had been conducted, while the Channel had been in this contest; she was at profound peace, recovering from filled with American privateers, who had swept our merchant | her wounds, and if the war was protracted or unprosperous she might join America or attack us herself. A strange policy seemed to he pursued; whilst we were waging war in America to prevent her becoming a powerful naval state, close at home, in Finders, we were creating one. In the outset of the last American war, it was boasted here, that a battalion of British troops would march across that cont'nent. The flower of our army was sent, and commanded by Officers who had served with reputation in the Germay war under Prince Ferdinand. The result is well known, those troops, as brave as any in the world, were compelled, at two different epochs, to lay down their arms to the new rised levies of America. Mr. FREEMANTLE lamented that the Speech was so unlike the one which had been delivered at the opening of the last Session: its whole tenor was that of war, which added greatly to the gloom he felt upon the present condition of the country, Mr. C. GRANT, jun. delivered it as his opinion, that the war on the part of America was unprovoked by any conduct of ours; at the same time he was as anxious as any Hon. Gentleman in that House to see the war brought to an honourable conclusion by Ministers. He confessed he saw no grounds for the gloom which some Hon. Members felt. The question upon the Address was then put, and carried in the affirmative. Mr. WHITBREAD. I now rise to ask whether the Right Hon. Gentleman and his colleagues mean to disavow the Noble Lord who, in the course of last Session, stated that a trealy had been signed, and whether he means to deviate from the usual path of laying treaties, concluded with Foreign Powers, before Parliament for its sanction ? Mr. VANSITTART. I am not at all desirous of disavow. ing that such a treaty was then proceeding. Mr. WHITBREAD (across the table) "signed." Mr. VANSITTART, and when proper, the treaty will un doubtedly be laid before the House. Mr. WHITBREAD.-1 cannot help repeating this matter. It is a violation of the word of Ministers; it is an unconstitutional proceeding; and it is an insult to Parliamen'. TUESDAY'S LONDON GAZETTE. Whitehall, Nov. 8, 1814. His Royal Highness the Prince Regent has been pleased, in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty, to nominate and appoint William Adam, Esq. one of his Majesty's Counsel earned in the Law in England, and Advocate, to be one of the Barons of the Court of Exchequer in Scotland, in the room of George Buchan Hepboro, Esq. resigned. BANKRUPTS. J. Joiner, Henley, grocer. Attornies, Messrs. Tarrant, Clarke, T. Blowers, Tottenham-court-road, linen-draper. Attornies, J. Turton, Ripley, batcher. Attornies, Messrs. Ross and P. Lander, Cardiff, seedsman. Attornies, Messrs. Price and E. Buckley, Delph, Yorkshire, cotton-spinners. Attorney, S. Turner, Bristol, victualler. Attornies, Messrs. Poole and J. Crowther, Dudley, Worcestershire, timber merchant. At- J. Harvey, Oakbampion, woulstapler. Attorney, Mr. Hine, 1. Markham, Cambridge, merebant. Attorney, Mr. Hol- W. Ludlam, Huddersfield, whitesmith. Attarney, Mr. Wal ker, Lincoln's Inn. SATURDAY'S LONDON GAZETTE. E. Hickman, Sedgley, Staffordshire, miller. J. Benriques, Old City Chambers, Bishopsgate-street, merchant W. Barnes, Farnham, Surrey, coach-maker. G. Pennington, Greenfield street, Whitechapel, hill-broker. L. Richards, Honiton, Devonshire, grocer. W. Arnold, Hulme, Manchester, victualler. Mr. B. BATHURST.-All I contend for is, that the House R. Mackey, Manchester, bookbinder. has nothing to complain of that the subject of the troops J. Fletcher, Little Lever, Lancashire, cotton-manufacturer. J. Varyer, Oxford, tobacconist. in the Low Countries was not introduced into the Speech.L. and H. Hodson, Cross street, fatton-garden, printers. Whether Government will or will not, at any future pew. F. Duncalfe, Robin Hood-court, Bow-lane, carpenter, riod, produce the Treaty or Convention alluded to, I do E. Hunt, Stangate-street, Westminster-road, timber-merchant. not pretend to affirm. All I can say is, that they have no G. Dover, Bartholomew-close, taylor. instructions at present to communicate it to Parliament. A. F. Kemp, Austin Friars, merchant. Mr. WHITBREAD.—We cannot help having a little compassion for their infirmities.-(Order! Order!)—Here the conversation dropped. Mr. TIERNEY inquired what the Right Honourable Gentleman meant to propose with regard to the Property Tax, during the present Session. Mrs. A. will perhaps' oblige the Editor by mentioning the subject of the paper to which she alludes. B. F. requests us to acknowledge the rereipt of 11. left with bin by a Stranger, and which has been handed to F. HIGGINS, in St. Andrew's Workhouse, who expresses his most grateful acknowledginents to the unknown donor. ACADEMICIANS, is deferred till next week, for want of room, Mr. VANSITTART said, that as far as he could judge at Eco, in reply to the contradiction by the two ROYAL present, he should not propose any plan before Christmas. -Adjourned. There was nothing of moment before the House on Wednesday and Thursday. On Friday, Col. PALMER alluded to the Military Proceedings which have just taken place, and gave Notice of a Motion on the subject for Monday: and Mr. CROKER brought in a Bill "to encourage and reward the Petty Officers, Seamen, and Marines, for long and faithful Services."—Adjourned. PRICE OF STOCKS ON SATURDAY. 3 per Cent. Cons.... ........ 691 | Omnium THE EXAMINER. LONDON, NOVEMBER 13. .311 dis THERE is no particular news this week; and the Elitor, though. very desirs of recurring to some statements respecting the Times, which that paper has contradicted, and porary nature of this tax. It was to be limited to the pe riod of the 5th April next after the conclusion of the then which he certainly feels hireself bound to notice, must refrain both from this and other subjects, as he has sit at his first article, though of no very great length or pro-existing war. And if it shall not entirely cease and deterfundity, till his prison walls have become livelier than ever they were before and fairly turn round with him. In order to keep up the promise of health therefore, of which he lately informed his readers, and which is growing stronger every day, he must content himself with an extract or two | from the other papers, The following observations of the Times on the resul! of the trial of Col. QUENTIN, appear to be more true to the spirit of the case than those in the Morning Chronicle, and are more in unison, we believe, with the opinions of those who have paid particular attention to the proceedings. The plain truth is, that the regiment was first spoiled by ridiculous foppery, and is now to suffer under the displea aure of those who contributed to render it incompetent :"The 10th regiment of Hussars had, we believe, for years attracted that kind of attention from the public, which men of talent and character in it would have been glad to have dispensed with; till at last its indiscretions have led to the official proceedings, of which we now announce the result. The country has viewed these things with regret, but not with surprise. We should in 'truth have been more surprised, if, under all the circomstances of corruption to which that regiment has been exposed, it had conducted itself with more steadiness and propriety. The proceeding consequent upon the sentence, if it be enforced in the distribution of the officers, as we have no doubt it will be, with honest impartiality, seems to be reasonable and almost necessary; for it is difficult to conceive, that Colonel QUENTIN and his accusers could continue in the same regiment with advantage to the public service. He, therefore, is reprimanded, and they are to join other regiments. Ia these, it is to be boped, that the characteristic activity which they have already eviuced, in pursuing the derelictions of others, will display itself in steady endeavours to improve their own military science, and inure discipline in their professional habits, The general issue of this trial will, there is no question, be subject to much debate in the army. Our opinion of that part of it which affects the great body of Officers is given above: and with respect to | the sentence upon Colonel QUENTIN himself, the public will, certainly, he better satisfied with the award of the Court-Martial, an with the crude and ill-formed judg ment of the accnters; some of whom, as the General Order most properly notices, had never been with the regiment during the period in question: others had never joined any military body beyond the depot of their corps." With its late Officers the 10th Regiment of Hussars will also, we trust, get rid of all those fooleries which have pampered them to such a state of insubordination; and so rise to the plain and simple level of an English regiment of horse soldiers, rather than a regiment of dancing masters or merry andrews, as it has hitherto appeared; from which, as we hinted above, the country never expected any good, and therefore has not been disappointed.". Times. The observation of Lord GRENVILLE on the subject of precedent, applies most forcibly to the plan of continu. ing any of the war taxes, and most particularly that of the property tax. There never was in any instance a more complete or more solemo pledge to the people of England than was given by Government with respect to the tem mine on the 5th April next, there will be a violation of this engagement to the public. It behoves the country to speak out on this subject, The responsibility of Ministers is an empty name, if they cannot be made to keep their promises to the public, Surely, when we hear of every article of living, and of labour in' France, being at onefifth the price which it bears in England by the burden and effect of taxes, so as to endanger our most staple manufactures, it is an object of the first importance that this most grinding tax of all should cease at the period originally | fixed.”—Morning Chronicle. In deferring the remarks first mentioned, we must not omit nevertheless to state, that the account in our last of the proceedings at Milan, has been contradicted on the au thority of Sir GODFREY WEBSTER, who was present at the theatre on the night when the disturbances are said to have taken place, and represents every thing as having been perfectly quiet. The Italians will do themselves no good, if they begin playing their old Machiavellian tricks, and circulate false intelligence. They should leave these ruin ous things to their adversaries. Paris Papers of Monday, Tuesday, and Wedneslay last, and Brussels Papers to the 9th, arrived yesterday. A Vienna official Declaration has invited the 'Plenipotentiaries of the Allied and the other Sovereigns, to a mutual communication of their full powers, and to deposit them at the Chancery Court. The Ministers of the Powers who signed the Treaty of Paris are then to "propose such measures as they may judge most suitable for regulating the ulterior proceedings of the Congress." The Congress is formally to be opened on the 4th of November. Articles from Dresden and Leipsic say, that the greater part of Saxony will be united to Prussia, part of Upper Lusatia is to be united to Bohemia, and the Duchy of Erfurt is to bẹ given to the Duke of Saxe Weimar, to indemnify him for his eventual rights to the crown of Saxony.—Thirty persons have been condemned at Madrid, to the galleys, &c. "for having attacked the Royal Sovereignty," Many Patriots remain to be tried.—It is stated that the united Low Countries will bear the name of the kingdom of Belgium. “SOULT has expressed a wish to live a retired life, but the real cause is known to be disgust and enmity to the present order of things—MASSENA is discontented-AUGREAU repents his Proclamation, &c.—It is a curious fact, that at the time BONAPARTE made his movement in rear of the Allies, a Treaty of Peace concluded between the Allied Ministers and CAULENCOURT, and actually signed by the latter, was presented to him for ratification, when he instantly said "No, take it away; I never treat with my prisoners." Relying on the movement he had ordered MARMONT and MORTIER to make, he seemed certain of having the Allies in a net; but the conduct and views of MARMONT are now well known to the world.— It is a fact, that on the day of the battle of Paris, the French had only seven pieces of cannon on the heights of Mount Martre, and TALLEYRAND had the address to prevent any more being sent out of the city. He also prevented the citizens getting arms who offered to go out and fight, to the number of 60,000.-Upon the facts stated in every instance of implied attack or insinuation upon that Officer's courage and conduct before the enemy, as conveyed by the tenour of the second and third charges. "In allusion to the letter signed by the chief part of the officers, and in which the present proceedings origi in the foregoing lines we shall offer no comment ;, we shall | the proceedings, to have been utterly void of foundation, repeat what we said at the beginning, that they are such as may implicitly be relied on. Our Correspondent has had the very first opportunities"-- Dublin Evening Post. BANKRUPT SYSTEM.-We are glad to find this system beginning to be a public topic ·—we hear with pleasure of the intention of Mr. Waithmaw to make a motion on thenated, the Prince Regent has specially observed, that, subject in the Common Council. It is to be expected that the spirit of the commercial part of the country will be awakened by the careless and wicked proceedings which are represented to be practised, to an exertion which will effectuate a redress of these continued complaints, in the present Session of Parliament, It is now upon record, that an unfortunate individual may be kept out of his Certificate, and his Creditors out of their moues, for nine years under the present Bankrupt System ! THE ARMY. SENTENCE ON COLONEL QUENTIN, &c. On Thursday, the 10th regiment of Hussars was paraded at Rumford, when the Sentence of the Court-Martial, as approved by the Prince Regent, was read. | exclusive of the doubt which may be entertained of their capability to form a judgment so much beyond the scope of their experience in the service, it was worthy of remark, that some who have affixed their names to that paper had never been with the regiment during the period in question, and others had never joined any military body beyond the depot of their corps; and it might thus be deduced, that although the officers bave manifested, according to the appropriate remark of the Court-martial, a want of cooperation in support of their Commander's authority, yet those who have assumed a personal observance of Colonel Quentin's conduct, and those who, though absent, appear to have acted under a mischievous influence, by joining in an opinion to his prejudice, have all co-operated in a compact against their Commanding Officer, fraught with evils of the most injurious tendency to the discipline of the service: nor did it escape the notice of his Royal Highness, that this accusation has not been the momentary offspring of irritated feelings, but the deliberate issue of a long and extraordinary delay, for which no sufficient reasons, or explanation, have been assigned. It states in substance that the Court has found part of the First Charge proved; in which it is said, that on the 10th of January, when the regiment was foraging, the Colonel did not make proper and timely arrangements to secure the success of the regiment, but neglected and abandoned his duty as Commanding Officer, leaving some of the divisions without support or orders when attacked by the enemy. They honourably acquit him of the Second | and Third Charges.-They find the fact stated in the Fourth, of a relaxed discipline existing in the regiment when engaged on foreign service, proved; but in consideration of the Letter of the Duke of Wellington conveying a censure on him for the same, and also in finding from the evidence that there was a want of co-operation on the part of the Officers in maintaining the discipline of the corps, the Court-Martial do not think it necessary to re-merited his approbation, and would willingly believe that primand the Colonel on this part of the Charges; but they think it their duty to reprimand him on the part of the First Charge, which they find to be proved. The pleasure of the Prince Regent was then pronounced, which will be seen at length in the following Official Communication : "I am to acquaint you, that his Royal Highness the Prince Regent has been pleased, in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty, to approve and confirm the finding and sentence of the Court. "In this view of the case (which is not palliated by the very slight censure passed on Colonel Quentin upon the 1st charge) his Royal Highness has considered that a mark of his displeasure towards those Officers is essential to the vital interests of the army; aud that the nature of the combination against Colonel Quentin would call for the removal from the service of those who have joined in it; but as his Royal Highness would willingly be guided by a lenient disposition towards a corps of Officers who have hitherto inadvertency in some, and inexperience in others, had left them unaware of the mischievous tendency of their conduct upon this occasion, his Royal Highness is averse to adopt such severe measures as the custom of the service in support of its discipline usually sanctions, upon the failure of charges against a commanding officer. Still it is essential that conduct so injurious in its nature should be held forth to the army as a warning in support of subordination; and his Royal Highness has therefore commanded, that the officers who signed the letter of the 9th of August shall no "His Royal Highness has further been pleased to con- longer act together as a corps, but that they shall be dissider, that, when the Officers of a corps prefer accusations tribuled by exchange throughout the different regiments of affecting the honour and professional character of their cavalry in the service, where it is trusted that they will commander, nothing but the most conclusive proof of their || learn and confine themselves to their subordinate duties, charges before a Court-martial can justify a proceeding until their services and experience shall sanction their being which must otherwise be so pregnant with mischief to the placed in ranks and situations, where they may be allowed discipline of the army; and that a regard due to the sub-to judge of the general and higher duties of the profession. ordination of the service must ever attach a severe respon- "The Prince Regent has been further pleased to ubsibility to subordinate Officers who become the accusers of their superior. His Royal Highness, therefore, could not but regret that the Officers of the 10th Hussars should have been so unmindful of what they owe to the first principles of their profession, as to assume an opinion of their Commander's personal conduct, which neither their general experience of the service, nor their knowledge of the alleged facts (as appears from their own evidence), could sanction or justify,—and which opinion would appear, from serve, that though Colonel Palmer did not sign the letter of the 9th of August, he is, nevertheless, by his declared sentiments on the prosecution, and his general concurrence in the opinion of the Officers, to be considered in the same light as if he had put his name to that paper, and his Royal Highness has therefore commanded that he shall also be removed to another corps.—“ I am, &c. (Signed) "FREDERICK, Commnoder in Chief." "To the Adjutant-General, &c.” THEATRICAL EXAMINER. No. 181. DRURY-LANE. a poor perturbed sleep-walker, and at last, as we are led to We must now turn to Mr. KEAN. His performance of IN no play has SHAKSPEARE exhibited his extraordinary qualities more strikingly than in Macbeth. The awful incantations of the witches, the energy and truth with which the characters of Macbeth and his Lady are pourtrayed, manifest at once the grandeur of his imagination, the power of his understanding, and his intimate know-it abonnds with beauties that justify and confirm his repuledge of the human heart. We have not room to detail tation. To enumerate these would be to go through half the beauties which occur to our recollection, but we every scene in the play: but we will meution only two er wish to point out one, which although in our opinion it is three passages which particularly struck us. In the first one of the most eminent, has, we believe, escaped the no- scene, after the salutation of the Witches, Macbeth, already tice of the commentators. We allude to the conduct of full of hopes and desperate resolutions, is afraid to trust Lady Macbeth before and after the murder of Duncan. himself with the utterance of his own opinions; he turns The character is frequently described as unnaturally fierce round to Banquo, and tries to sound him, by repeating to and unwomanly; in our minds it is not only perfectly fe- him the promise of the Weird Sisters: "Your children minine but marked with all those symptoms of feebleness shall be kings!" The searching look and affectedly carewhich distinguish even the weakest women. We intend less tone with which this sentence was given, shewed a man un paradox, as our explanation will sufficiently show. fit to represent the finest touches of SHAKSPEARE. Again, When she receives Macbeth's letter informing her of the sawhen he is invested with the title of Thane of Cawdor, nu-lutation of the Witches, and above all when she hears that thing could be finer than his start of surprize, and the va the King is coming to her castle, her imagination immediately rious workings of his impassioned countenance: we saw alcatches fire, and with all the impatient anticipation of a mere ready the man hoping and determined to be king. After child, she wants the kingdom immediately; she wishes to be the murder, the tones of anguish with which he described Queen without intermission. Her decision results purely the deed were almost too torturing for the sense to bear: from her will, which is always strongest in the weakest unbut his best touch was in the combat with Macduff. The derstandings; her mind can only comprebend one idea horror of manner with which he repelled the idea of consequently all arguments against the murder, whether fighting the man whom he had so deeply injured, was founded on its dangerous consequences or its difficult exe-finely imagined: so was that contemptuous superiority "Čution, pass by her unheeded. She goes on with the desperate resolution of insanity, because, like insanity, she immediately connects cause and effect, without examining the motive of the first, or the results of the second. This it is that gives her such ascendancy over Macbeth, in the scene where she proposes the murder of Duncan: in him there is a conflict between his will and his understanding, and as his ambition and his reason are nearly of equal strength, they are each too much occupied to stand before the coucentrated energy of her simple determination. Again, Macheth is playing the hypocrite with one who has fathomed his purpose; and conscious as he is of his murder ous intentions, he still affects to utter humane and magna. nimous sentiments, This gross disingenuousness throws him at once open to the sarcasms of his wife, and he has no al ternative, no refuge from the contempt which his vacilla. tion merits, except to undertake immediately the crime which he land from the first moment meditated. His subsequent agony arises from the same contest between his wishes and his reason; her subsequent fearlessness arises from the same absence of reason. At length, however, when the great blow is struck and Macbeth is King, there is a total change in the manner of both of them. He has now no choice of methods; his reason and his will go together, and he acts with a tremendous singleness to the end of the drams. She on the contrary, now that the object of her will is obtained, relapses into weakness, and is lost in the ascendancy of her husband's character: she who before was the instigator of the foulest murder, is now considered by Macbeth as a person unfit to hear the schemes of death which he is preparing; they are too dreadful, he says, for Unsupported by any intellectual energy, she sinks before the influence of her feelings; she becomes her tender ear. of tone and gesture with which he interrupts the fight, and tells his antagonist that he bears a charmed life: but even this was surpassed by the awful condensation of va rious feelings with which he, after all hope is gone, braces himself up to his last struggle. He poured out none of the sonorous rant so usual to the stage on this occasion: his voice seemed almost choaked and stifled by us overwhelming emotions; he rushed to the clash with a frightful eagerness compounded of the determination of fighting to the death, and of the desire of flying for ever from the developement of those horrid mysteries which open one after the other, merely to distract and destroy han. The ferocity of rage and the agony of appalling doubts were equally conspicuous on his expressive countenance: we should think it a fine study for a painter. COVENT GARDEN, Miss O'NEILL has increased her reputation by the performance of Isabella. She is a worthy rival of Mr. KEAN: her merits are of the same genuine stamp, and that stamp is Nature's. She is not equal to him in energy of understanding, but she finds her way to the heart with equal` certainty. It is impossible to withstand her sob of grief, or the gentle pathos of her voice, while the graceful simplicity of her manner would alone insure to her an interest with every mind which can appreciate beauty and truth. We were particularly impressed with the delicate taste and feeling with which she managed the death of Isabella, She embraces her infant to her bosom with all that intensity of endearment which a mother must feel for the beloved child by a beloved father, but her strength fails her, and even her mind is absent, and her attendants tear away the child from her unclasping arms: still the instinctive feel |