MARRIED. to Miss Catherine Burns, of Glasgow. is just that it should do so, is quite another question. We live in an agricultural district, we have no interests distinct | from the welfare of our neighbours ; but as public writers we must impartially, and so we trust without offence, weigh the matter in the scales of political expediency which in spite of the tortuous reasoning of self-interested parties-is Justice. a benefit to the agriculturist-it is so at the present moment On the 17th of May, at Washington, Luke Lawless, Esq. barrister-at-law, to-but whether the country can afford this benefit, whether it Virginia Baroness D'Ghrom, widow of the late Minister Resident of his Prussian Majesty at Washington. Mr Luke Lawless is brother to Mr John Lawless, the proprietor of the Irishman, of Belfast. On the 19th ult. Mr Terence Conway, of the Northern Whig Office, Belfast, On Monday, at Gloucester, Charles Offley, Esq. of Upfield lodge, to Arabella On Monday, at Thames Ditton, Captain G. F. Lyon, R.N. to Lucy Louisa, youngest daughter of the late Lord Edward Fitz-Gerald. On the 7th inst, Philip Samuel, Esq. of Guilford street, Russell square, to Phoebe, youngest daughter of Solomon Israel, Esq. of Stamford hill. On Thursday, at Norton, Suffolk, John Thomas Selwin, Esq. of Down hall, Essex, to Isabella, second daughter to the late General Leveson Gower, of Bill On Friday, Mr H. L. Hunt, of Tavistock street, and Maida hill, Paddington, Theresa, the youngest daughter of Thomas Martin, Esq. hill, Berkshire. to Miss Ellen Simpson, of the latter place. DIED. On the 4th inst. at Castle Howard, in his 78th year, the Earl of Carlisle. Though his Lordship never attained any great distinction as a politician, a legislator, or an author, he possessed a considerable portion of literary taste, and displayed that acquaintance with the Fine Arts, as well as that liberality in encouraging them, which make wealth and high station at once useful and respectable. Along with the Duke of Bridgwater, he purchased the Orleans Gallery, and probably died possessed of one of the best collections of paintings in the kingdom. His Lordship is succeeded in his title by his son, Lord Morpeth. On Sunday last, in Henrietta street, Cavendish square, Sir Thomas Stepney. This gentleman of the old school was seen, in his usual attire, perambulating St James's street, from club-house to club-house (his daily practice) so recently as the preceding day. His dress had been the same for half a century, namely, a blue coat, with a broad back and long waist, of the "Monmouth street cut," and he commonly wore a remarkably short spencer; nankeen was his constant wear in small clothes, and his blue broad-striped silk stockings produced a remarkable contrast; added to these was a hat not deeper in the crown than an inch and a half, but with a rim of greater proportion, and a black ribbon tied round it. Sir Thomas, in his 70th year, on the coldest days of winter, was clad On Wednesday, at Weston, Staffordshire, in the 64th year of his age, the On the 1st inst. Lady Jane James, wife of Sir Walter James James, Bart. of the same as in the dog days. Right Hon. Orlando, Earl of Bradford. Langley hall, Berks, and sister of the Marquis Camden. On the 6th inst. in Montagu square, General Stevens, in his 83d year. and Cockspur street, aged 63. Alexander Jardine, Bart. of Applegarth, Dumfriesshire. On Sunday, in his 70th year, Henry Woodthorpe, Esq. Town Clerk of London. On Monday, in Cockspur street, Mrs Kier, relict of Mr George Kier, late of Parliament street, aged 76. On Thursday week, whilst following the sport of partridge shooting, Mr Thos. Lyus, of Barrow, near Bury, was suddenly taken ill, and dropping upon his gun, instantly expired. beef at dinner, and died about three years ago. THE CORN QUESTION. The price of corn is the standard of value for all other commodities: if then by restrictive laws on corn we enhance prices generally above the par of other countries, as a commercial nation we must greatly injure or annihilate our means of competing with them. We render too a foreign abode necessary to all those who cannot, or will not, afford to pay the high prices for articles of consumption which the Corn Law imposes on England. What has drawn such numbers away from our own shores to spend their incomes abroad?— the cheapness of provisions there. Why should they not be cheap in England? It is forbidden by the Corn Law. O what avail are our manufacturing skill and industry, if the high price of food prevents our benefiting by them-since the labouring manufacturer must nearly starve, or charge for his labour to procure him bread, a price which drives his production from the market in which cheaper nations are competitors? If agriculture is the basis of our existence, commerce has been the source of our wealth and power. As agricultural country could not have made the efforts which have raised England to a splendid indeed, though perhaps perilous height. Ministers, now the tumult of war is hap pily at an end, begin to perceive the embarrassments into which their restrictive policy would shortly plunge the Country. They or at least that which is supposed to be the more enlighted part of them, perceive the necessity of com mencing an alteration-and then commences the difficulty of their task. Their predecessors have bequeathed them a Mr King, of Richmond, in Surrey, went to church last Sunday, came home well, and while eating his dinner, fell down and expired. His wife's first hus-weight enormous of debt, which must be answered by taxes band, a Mr Mills, late one of the Bank clerks, choaked himself with a piece of raised of course in part-and a considerable part too-from the land. These taxes the landed interest declare their inability to pay, unless the price of their produce be kept to a There is every probability that an attempt will be made in certain height by protective duties. It is in vain to tell them the next Session of Parliament to alter the present state of that the other parts of the community require this price to be the law as regards the importation of Corn: and accordingly lowered. They answer,-Agriculture must be protected. It we understand the Farmers are already on the alert in en-is vain to say the welfare of the country demands this sacrifice deavouring to prevent what they conceive to be so injurious in the first instance, and that probably the disadvantage will to their interests. This is a question of such vital impor-be much less than they apprehend, as soon as a more liberal tance it comes so home to the "business and bosoms of men, that it is rarely discussed with any sufficient degree of temper; the contending parties argue as if each were about to snatch the bread from the mouth of the other. It is felt as a domestic, rather than as a political question, and the attack and defence are conducted as if the struggle were for the hearths, homes, and lives of the disputants. And such in fact it is, since if the erroneous view be acted on, it must naturally lead, in time, to the ruin of at least one part of the community. " system is fully in operation and things become equalized. Their reply is-" We are powerful in the state; we do not choose to risk the probability of contracting our Rent-rolls, and we will prevent your meditated abolition of the laws which make dear bread." They do not say-We have increased our income, by raising our rents, tenfold within the last 30 years; they do not say we have benefited by the high prices during the time of the long war,-they do not say we applauded and urged on the Government to the incurring these debts which now we feel the hardship of being called on to contribute to discharge. This they do not say but the public bears it in mind, There are some who contend that the Corn Law, as it now stands, is wholly inoperative, and they prove the fact by instancing the low price of the article in 1822, and the present It will be perceived that these remarks apply rather to the price which we are assured by many agriculturists is a remu-Landowners than to the Occupiers-the Farmers, And the nerating one, both having occurred while this law was in fact is, that it more their affair and they well know it-and effect. But we do not see the force of this argument, since are accordingly well pleased when they can induce their the low prices of 1822, resulting then from other causes, tenantry to raise a cry for protecting agriculture, which means would if the ports had been open, have been the same even -Protect our monopoly-protect our darling rent-rolls—no without those causes; and the present comparatively high matter who suffers. Let the manufacturer shift as he can, or price, which certainly has been felt by the Farmer as a relief, starve our grandeur must not be shorn of a beam! The could not have been known if corn had been allowed freely to public may suffer what is that to the existence of our parks enter the kingdom. We certainly do think then that the and mansions! Perish Commerce but be the Aristocracy operation of the Corn Law is, immediately and témporarily, untouched! The Farmers would only be in jeopardy, supposing the free must be imported in French vessels, which will give them a importation of corn were decided on, during the period which monopoly of the carrying trade with the island. The terms might intervene between that circumstance and the adjust-of the treaty with France, it is said, were severely censured, ment of rents, &c. to the new scale, which must follow, how- and thought extremely injurious to the island; a very natural ever the great Landowners would attempt to delay it. We reflection, but which does not appear to have occurred to the acknowledge it would be a trying time-but when the crisis inhabitants while dazzled by the splendid and imposing was past, they would benefit with every other class. They manner with which this treaty of independence was carried would benefit by their produce yielding them a remunerating into effect. price, which it always must under any stable and good Government, and especially so from its being then exempt from the ruinous fluctuations which constantly occur under the present system. Seeing this, they cannot wonder that the commercial interests, indeed that the public (themselves excepted) should be anxious to see the good work in progress, although it unfortunately happens that their (the Farmers') temporary inconvenience lies in the path. They should recollect that their situation is no more exposed to casualties than others. Let them consider the distress some time since felt in the manufacturing districts. Let them look to the losses experienced from the fluctuations in the market, by the monied interest. Let them, with such patience as men with shallow pockets can be expected to have, endure the change which for a time will possibly inconvenience them; and let them, above all, seek to lessen this inconvenience by requiring, in all the memorials they may present to Government on the subject, such compensation for lowering the prices of their produce as may be found in diminishing their other burdens. Let them consider whether it be more desirable that the public should be distressed and the nation half ruined, by paying high prices for its food, than that rents should be lowered; the Tithe System altered; the County and Poor Rates adjusted the National Expenditure, the Civil Lists, and the Sinecures retrenched; the Standing Army diminished; the indirect Taxation reduced, or many other abuses which we might mention, reformed. Let them be sure that hereabout is the relief to be sought fairly, and found permanently. Let them join the Liberals-the Reformers-in one simultaneous and irresistible cry for Parliamentary Reform; and then their interests as well as others may expect to be justly consulted-and not till then. Kent Herald. POSTSCRIPT. MONDAY, SEPT. 12. The French papers of Thursday contain no news of importance. Private letters from Madrid state, that at the execution of Don Pablo Iglisias, and Colonel Santos, on the 25th ult. for their Constitutional opinions, the executioner jumped upon their shoulders, and beat out their brains in the air. The Royalist volunteers wished to cut them up, and drag their limbs about the streets, and the irritated populace seconded the idea, but the Royal Guard charged upon them, and dispersed them to their homes, with strokes of their sabres. Beef is selling this morning at 5s. to 5s. 2d. per stone for best cattle, and 4s. 4d. to 4s. 10d. Mutton remains steady, and Veal from 5s. to 6s. per stone. Lamb rather worse. Pork is 2d. per stone cheaper. To sink the Offal-per Stone of 8lbs. 4s. 6d. to 5s. 2d. Veal........ .4s. 10d. to 5s. 4d. Beef. Beasts ... Hay.... 5s. Od. to 6s. Od. Pork. 5s. 4d. to 6s. 4d. HEAD OF CATTLE THIS DAY. 3131 20,810 Pigs .... PRICE OF HAY AND STRAW. 100 195 £1. 18s. to £2. 6s. BEAR'S GREASE. This article, when genuine and procured from By the Mazzinghi, arrived at Cowes from St. Domingo, letters to the 24th of July have been received from Port-au-Prince. The French fleet, which had visited that port to give êclat to the execution of the treaty for the independence of Haïti, sailed from thence on the 18th of July. It was understood that this squadron would touch at Havannah, but its ultimate destination was believed to be Norfolk in Virginia, where it was proposed to winter, to avoid the hurricanes with which the West India seas are often visited at that season. There were no troops on board. At Port-au-Prince the Government were steadily proceeding to throw further difficulties in the way of English commerce. Not only is the duty to be increased on English goods imported, but the valuation of them, by which the amount of the duty is estimated, is capriciously doubled. With the French merchants a contrary course is pursued, and the duty on goods exported has been lowered 50 per cent. in their favour, while that paid by the English remains unaltered. In consequence of these pro- Bear burnt on the top (not printed) and no pot is sold for less than 2s. 6d.— ceedings, the opinion is entertained by the English houses Price in pots, 2s. 6d. and 4s.; in bottles, 3s. 6d. and 7s. 6d. and perfumed with Otto of Rose, extra price.-Sold at 44 Gerrard-street; and by appointment, by that it is the President's intention to annihilate wholly their Messrs. Gattie and Peirce, 57 New Bond-street; Sanger, 50, Grange, 120, commerce with the island. 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London: printed by JOHN HUNT, in Broad street, Golden square, and published by him at the Examiner Office 38 Tavistock street, Covent garden.-Price7d. No. 920. MONDAY, SEPT. 19, 1825. THE WISHING-CAP. No. XXVII. CLARENDON'S HISTORY OF THE REBELLION. HAVING been much interested by a re-perusal of Clarendon's History of the Rebellion, I sit down to look through it again with the reader. My object is not to write a criticism, still less to enter into a review of the period to which the book relates, but simply to point out and remark a little upon some of the most curious passages. Having felt a pleasure, I wish to impart it, and shall fancy myself in the reader's company as with a friend. The edition I make use of is a foreign one printed at Basil, which is not likely to be read in England; so that I can only refer to the number of the books without noticing the pages. The work opens with an account of Prince Charles's romantic journey into Spain, and the way in which James I was brought to consent to it. This has been copied by Hume; but though Hume relates the particulars more directly relating to the journey, such as the bullying conduct of Buckingham, and the ridiculous lamentations of the King, who threw himself on his bed, weeping and wailing, and exclaiming that he should lose" Baby Charles," he has omitted one or two passages highly characteristic of the courtiers of those times. I observe, by the way, that Hume represents Baby Charles (who was then a young man in the twenty-third year of his age) as having the tears in his eyes when his father wished him to give up the journey: but this is not mentioned by Clarendon. The appellation of Baby, and the wilful infirmities to which Royalty is subject, appear to have beguiled the historian of his usual precision. farmers had good houses and good farms intermingled with those wastes, of their own inheritance or for their lives or years; and without taking of them into the park, it would not be of the largeness, or and was very willing to buy them upon higher terms than the people for the use proposed. His Majesty desired to purchase those lands, could sell them at to anybody else, if they had occasion to part with them; and thought it no unreasonable thing, upon those terms, to expect this from his subjects, and so he employed his own surveyor and others of his officers to treat with the owners, many whereof were his own tenants, whose farms would at last expire. "The major part of the people were in a short time prevailed with, but many very obstinately refused; and a gentleman who had the best estate, with a convenient house and gardens, would by no means part with it; and the King being as earnest to compass it, it made a great noise, as if the King would take away men's estates at his own pleasure."-[As if he would not! What else was it that he desired to do?-]" The Bishop of London, who was Treasurer, and the Lord Cottington, Chancellor of the Exchequer, were, from the first entering upon it, very averse from the design; not only for the murmur of the people, but because the purchase of the land, and the making a brick wall about so large a parcel of ground (for it is near ten miles about) would cost a greater sum of money than they could easily provide, or they thought ought to be sacrificed on such an occasion; and the heard most of their murmurs) took the business most to heart, and Lord Cottington (who was more solicited by the country people, and endeavoured by all the ways he could, and by frequent importunities, to divert his Majesty from pursuing it, and put all delays he well Sir Francis Cottington, afterwards Lord Cottington, was a courtier could do in the bargains which were to be made, till the King grew of real courage for that period; yet, see how he behaves at an unex-very angry with him, and told him he was resolved to go through with pected proposition:-Cottington," said James, "here is Baby it, and had already caused brick to be burned, and much of the wall Charles and Stenny-(an appellation he always used of and towards to be built on his own land. Upon which Cottington thought fit to the Duke)—who have a great mind to go by post to Spain to fetch acquiesce. home the Infanta, and will have but two more in their company. What think you of the journey? He (Cottington) often protested since, that when he heard the King, he fell into such a trembling that he could hardly speak. But when the king commanded him to answer him, what he thought of the journey, he replied, he could not think well of it, &c.-Book I. This was the courage of a great courtier. Now see his delicacy. Cottington, to this offence against the Duke, subsequently added another; upon which Buckingham, after his usual open manner, vowed revenge on him. The courtier applied to him to know whether by a proper obsequiousness he could not be restored to his Grace's favour; and being answered in the negative, said, he at least hoped that his Grace would not condescend to gain by his loss; and so requested him to return a set of hangings he had presented to him "in hope of his future favour," and which cost him 8007. The Duke answered," he was right;" and the hangings were restored, or at least the amount of their value; together with some sums of money, which Cottington had laid out by his order for jewels and pictures.-Ibid. Cottington appears to have been bold enough with every body except his first master; but he knew his men, even when he was most daring. He most likely ventures to behave to Buckingham in this manner, out of a confidence that it was the safest thing he could do to a man of his temper, where his advances were not accepted. It was an avowal of meanness and inferiority, as well as a compliment to the other's spirit; which tended to puthim at a pardonable distance from a lofty but not ungenerous temper. After the death of Buckingham, Cottington got into power. There were none of his old masters to overawe him. He felt secure of Charles and his weakness; and having a turn for drollery as well as artifice, did not scruple to play a strange trick upon Laud, whom all the lay part of the government disliked. It was so contrived as at once to turn to their advantage, and disconcert the Archbishop with the King. The whole of the story is worth copying, inasmuch as it involves a Naboth-vineyard anecdote of Charles I, such as Hume does not venture to repeat :"The King, who was excessively affected to hunting (says Clarendon) and the sports of the field, had a great desire to make a great park for red as well as fallow deer, between Richmond and Hampton Court, where he had large wastes of his own and great parcels of wood, which made it very fit for the use he designed it to: but as some parishes had commons in those wastes, so many gentlemen and "The building of the wall before people consented to part with their land, or their common, looked to them as if by degrees they should be shut out from both, and increased the murmur and noise of the people who were not concerned, as well as of them who were; and it was too near London not to be the common discourse. The Archbishop (who desired exceedingly that the King should be possessed as much of the hearts of the people as was possible, at least that they should have no just cause to complain) meeting with it, resolved to speak to the King of it; which he did; and received such an answer from him, that he thought his Majesty rather not informed enough of the inconveniences and mischiefs of the thing, than positively resolved not to desist from it. Whereupon one day he took the Lord Cottington aside (being informed that he disliked it) and, according to his natural custom, spoke with great warmth against it, and told him, He should do very well to give the King good counsel, and withdraw him from a resolution in which his honour and justice were so much called in question.' Cottington answered him very gravely, 'That the thing designed was very lawful, and he thought the King resolved very well, since the place lay so conveniently for his winter-exercise; and that he should by it not be compelled to make so long journeys as he used to do in that season of the year for his sport; and that nobody ought to dissuade him from it.' "The Archbishop, instead of finding a concurrence from him, as he expected, seeing himself reproached upon the matter for his opinion, grew into much passion, telling him, 'Such men as he would ruin the King, and make him lose the affections of his subjects; that, for his own part, as he had begun, so he would go on, to persuade the King from proceeding in so ill a counsel; and that he hoped it would appear who had been his counsellor.' Cottington, glad to see him so soon hot, and resolved to inflame him more, very calmly replied to him, 'That he thought a man could not, with a good conscience, hinder the King from pursuing his resolutions; and that it could not but proceed from want of affection to his person; and that he was not sure that it might not be high treason.'-The other, upon the wildness of his discourse, in great anger asked him, Why? from whence had he received that doctrine?'-He said, with the same temper, They who did not wish the King's health, could not love him; and they who went about to hinder his taking recreation which preserved his health, might be thought, for aught he knew, guilty of the highest crimes.'-Upon which the Archbishop, in great rage and with many reproaches, left him; and either presently or upon the next oppor- The King said no more than but, My Lord, you are deceived: Cottington is too hard for you. Upon my word, he hath not only dissuaded me more, and given more reason against this business than all the men in England have done, but bath really obstructed the work, by not doing his duty as I commanded him, for which I have been very much displeased with him. You see how unjustly your passion hath transported you. By which reprehension he found how much he had been abused, and resented it accordingly."-Ibid. Hume ought not to have omitted this story. Everything connected with it deserves attention. In the first place, even Clarendon has thought proper to tell it, though he contrives to divide the interest as much as possible with Cottington's humour. This is a proof how much noise it must have made; and how difficult the author found it, in that age, to leave it out of his history. The noise indeed is evident from every part of it; and what is remarkable, the courtiers agree with the people. The design was not only unjust to others; it was inconvenient to themselves. The Chancellor of the Exchequer was puzzled for money for it. Laud, who had the direction of the King's conscience, and was already disliked by all classes for his arbitrary principles, was afraid he should be thought to encourage it. Some thing also is to be allowed him on the score of scandal to the Bible. Here was the scene of Naboth's vineyard re-opened. The Archbishop finds himself in the situation of Nathan. Cottington hates him for his officiousness, perhaps envies him the chance of turning the King's intentions; and the King first leaves him to suppose that he had not made up his mind, and afterwards is not sorry to have the opportunity of rebuking him. His Majesty had been compelled, no doubt, to take to himself much of the reproach which the Prelate, in the course of his wrath, had vented against the supposed adviser. Finally, the project appears to have been obstinately gone through with, and there is no knowing how much of the subsequent bitterness between the King and his subjects, how much of the general indignation, or of the vindictiveness and apparent cruelty of individuals, may have been owing to this single circumstance. manner imaginable. We have rather generalized in this description, as we shall necessarily communicate a few additional lights in our advertence to the acting, which was respectable throughout, and in the most conspicuous characters, even excellent. The Witherton of POPE very ably conveyed that very common character, among the gentlemen of still life, a well intentioned weak man, with great good nature and no decision, who shilly-shallies about marriage until unfit to contract it, and then, declining both in body and mind, mourns the isolation of his condition. An old bachelor of this class generally becomes the dupe of servants or relatives, and the acquiescence with insolence under the garb of attachment and blunt honesty, and gullibility as opposed to female guile and flattery, of an imbecile of this description, are very fairly displayed both by author and actor. The housekeeper, Mrs Subtle, a buxom middle-aged widow, în breach of faith with her honest confederate, the Steward, is secretly practising upon the weakness of her master, to induce him to marry her; and it is pleasant to say, that it is impossible to conceive a more excellent piece of acting than that of Mrs GLOVER in this cha racter. We earnestly intreat every elderly gentleman, who may be doubting, after all, whether he may not as well marry the good creature who has lived with him so many years, who knows all his ways, and is so much attached to him, to attend to the representation of Paul Pry, and to this admirably-acted scene in particular. The successful manœuvres of the artful housekeeper, and the flutter of the old gentleman on finding himself so necessary to a woman's happiness, present a contrast which is very rich, and indeed in itself amounts to sterling comedy. Mrs GLOVER in particular displayed a veteran mastery and self-possession, altogether rare in either sex, but espe cially in the actress,-all pure personation, without the slightest seeming consciousness of an audience at all. FARREN is so much at home in the honourable, humourous, testy old gentleman, that it is needless to say that he succeeded in the old Colonel, and was as diverting as the total absence of novelty would allow him to be. His daughter, sort of naïve simpleton, was pleasantly performed by Miss P. GLOVER and Madame VESTRIS, as a sprightly soubrette, rallied, fibbed, and sang the two songs of " Love's mistake," and "Cherry ripe," to the great satisfaction of the audience. We know not what to remark on the performance of the lover, a young Lieutenant in the navy, by Mrs WAYLETT, because it was a very fair effort, as far as the actress was concerned; but why an actress in the character at all? LISTON gloriously displays his originality in the hero of the piece, for such is indisputably Paul Pry, who, it may be added, is no absolute caricature, like many of the embryos entrusted for existence to the extraor dinary powers of this actor, but a sort of impertinent, whom everybody is sure to meet with in some part or other of his march through life. The strong memory often displayed by the busybody in respect to trifles; his incessant attention to minute incident, and the eternal self-deception of puffing off his idle curiosity for a wish to be serviceable, are all given to Paul Pry; and LISTON fails not to make the most of them. Always at hand where he is not wished, he mars A NEW piece, intitled Paul Pry, was produced at this theatre on the plans of the lovers, misleads with his intelligence the Colonel Tuesday evening. It is attributed to Mr POOLE, and is in fact one offends everybody whom he intends to serve, and, rebuffed on all of those minor comedies, in the composition of which that gentleman sides, is eternally determining" never to do a good-natured action has obtained and merited some distinction. In the present instance again," with the most ludicrous resentment. We need not observe, there is a double plot, and the principal defect in the construction of that this character is anything but new to the drama, but not so this drama is, that there is no necessary connection between the two LISTON's performance of it, which, we will venture to say, is all his stories. On one part we are called to witness Mr Witherton, a weak own. It produced roars of laughter, and, what is still better, with old bachelor of fortune, at once the dupe and the slave of a designing little or no obligation to mere buffoonery, which, however palatable steward and housekeeper, who estrange him from his nephew and from this actor, is still nothing else. The use made by the author of heir by their vile machinations, and are at length ruined by their his hero is very dextrous, particularly in making him conduce to a treachery to each other. This is a well managed exhibition of cha- detection of the trickery of the housekeeper, by officiously fishing up racter and situation, and novel in the illustration if not in the matter. a bundle of intercepted letters, which, while angling, he had acciden The other part of the plot presents us with a Sir Anthony Absolute, in tally seen her throw into the river. He thus lights upon his heels at the person of a Colonel Hardy, who is about to marry his daughter to last, and, rewarded by an invitation to dinner, forgets all his disasters. the son of an old friend, whose name, from sheer contradiction, he All this told very well; and on LISTON giving out the play for repe will not let her know. The young lady however has chosen for tition, in his happiest manner, the approbation was unanimous and herself, and, precisely as in Love in a Village, the very person her unequivocal. A little curtailment in the first act is doubtless desirfather intends for her, a young Lieutenant in the Navy, who is hover-able, in which an explanatory scene with the old bachelor is somewhat ing about the premises, serenading, climbing walls, and making love tedious; and this amended, Paul Pry will doubtless be very popular after the manner of the boy and girl attachments of the stage. In for the remainder of the present season, and revivable the next. this occupation he is of course much assisted by an arch waitingwoman, so constructed as to set off the young lady's inexperience and simplicity to the best advantage. But what, the reader will say, has all this to do with the title of the piece? We reply, that the illustrious Paul Pry is a village busybody, a small gentleman, who, having nothing to do, is eternally intent upon every thing which does not concern him; and is made to interfere in the affairs and proceedings of these two families, in the most characteristic and laughable (To be continued). THEATRICAL EXAMINER. 20 HAYMARKET. We have before had occasion to remark, that in his adaptations from the French, and use of minor comic materials, we think Mr. POOLE exceedingly happy. Falling short of the vigorous construction of plot, and robust development of character, expected from the higher order of comedy, he very cleverly manages the lighter equivoque and tracasserie, amounting to something beyond farce, yet less than the absolute thing. Few in the present day build better with old materials. In this piece, for instance, there is no OF |