The performers, who have made their appearance here, are as follows-from London, Messrs. Munden, Melvin, Powell, Fisher, Hill, Smith, Ray, Miller, Seyton, Master Betty, Mr. Blanchard, Mr. Elliston, Mrs. Hill, Mrs. Johnstone, Miss Johnstone, Miss Holloway, and Miss Ray. From other places, Mr. M'Cready, (manager), Messrs. Fawcett, Atkinson, Holbrooke, Scriven, Flowerdew, Charteris, Pitt, Kettleby, Wilkinson, Brown, Henley, Hubbard, Toakley, Miss Macauley, Miss Bristow, Miss Booth, Miss S. Booth, Miss Sims, Mrs. Henley, Mrs. W. Penson, Mrs. Brynon, and Mrs. Holbrooke.

I should be sorry to wound any of their feelings by giving them their due, and shall, therefore, only say there are but a very few out of this number, (some of the London performers excepted), that Manchester would be inclined to continue upon her boards.

Manchester,

22nd August, 1807.

I am, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,

A LOVER OF THE DRAMA.

Theatre Royal WINDSOR. Our theatre has not been so productive to the manager this season as on former occasions; the cause is easily to be accounted for-the badness of the company; for, with the exception of the two leading performers, Mr. Chatterly and Mrs. Mudie, he may speak of the rest of his company, as Falstaff did of his recruits, "If I am not ashamed of them, I'm a sous'd gurnet." Mr. Chatterly is a performer of considerable merit; what is called, in the country, a general actor, and, were his figure not against him, he might stand his ground on the London boards. Mrs. Mudie, in tragedy, serious comedy, and a few characters in genteel comedy, is an actress of the first magnitude. We have no doubt she will soon make her way to the metropolis, where report says she has already been invited. The thea tre closed with her benefit; the Provoked Husband and the Children in the Wood; Lord Townly by Mr. Young, from the theatre royal Haymarket, (whose abilities are too well established to require our praise). Lady Townly by Mrs. Mudie; and, although we do not consider it a character immediately in her line, she did great justice to the part.→ The house was crowded in the extreme. Mr. Chatterly had upwards of £. 60, for his night, none of the rest of the performers, (but the boxkeeper, who had £. 46), brought the expences, (£. 18), which is the best proof of the estimation in which they were held. We had the novelty of Mr. and Mrs. S. Kemble, and that lasting favourite, Munden. But the manager ought to consider it is not the attraction of a single London performer, (or a star, as they are called), that will please a Windsor audience: no-they expect a good company, and then he may expect good houses. A TOWNSMAN.

DOMESTIC EVENTS.

BUENOS AYRES.-News was received in town, on the fifth of September, of the evacuation of South America by the British troops under General Whitelocke. The definitive treaty was entered into on the 7th July, after the failure of our attack on Buenos Ayres, in which our loss was great. It is said that General Whitelocke is to be tried by a court martial. With the example of the fate of Beresford before his eyes, nothing could be more imprudent, as it appears, than his suffering his men to march into the town.

COPENHAGEN.-Articles of capitulation were agreed to on the 7th Sept. after a bombardment of three nights, during which half the city was destroyed, and a horrible slaughter took place. The Danes then surrendered the Danish navy to Admiral Gambier, and the city and arsenal of Copenhagen to Lord Cathcart. This is a conquest in which the generosity of the English seems to take no delight. Many think it a victory without glory. His majesty's Declaration, Sept. 25th, appears to justify it.

BIRTHS.

The lady of C. Courtenay, Esq. of Hatton Garden, of a daughter. The lady of W. Read King, Esq. of Greville Street, of a son.

MARRIED,

The Hon. W. Cavendish, M. P. for Derby, to the Hon. Miss O'Callagen. C. Boyde, Esq. of the Custom-House, to Miss Hyde. Captain Barnett, to Miss Monins.

DIED,

At Bath, George Augustus Lumley Saunderson, Earl of Scarborough. In Charlotte Street, Portland Place, Earl Deloraine, aged 71. At his seat at Rainham, in Norfolk, the Most Noble George Marquis of Townshend, in his 84th year, At Portsca, Sir Robert Chalmers, Bart.

LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

OUR valetudinarian friends will, we doubt not, rejoice to hear that a learned German has lately published a work, which will enable them to get rid of their complaints without swallowing the nauseous draughts of our apo the caries; it is entitled "The Musical Doctor, or the Art of curing Diseases by Music." This musical Esculapius prescribes prestos instead of cathartic medicines; the soothing andante he substitutes for saline draughts, to cool the raging heat of fever; and adagios for ano

dynes and soporifics, to alleviate the agonies of painful disorders. The name of this benefactor of his kind is Lichtenthal, and his work was offered for sale at the last Leipsic fair.

Proposals have been issued for publishing, by subscription, a complete and uniform edition of the works of the Rev. William Huntingdon, who is well known to the religious world by the singularity of the title, which he has thought proper to assume and subjoin to his name, viz. S. S. "sinner saved." The publication will extend to twenty volumes in octavo!

The Rev. Wm. Shepherd, author of the Life of Poggio, has in the press DIALOGUS, An Seni sit uxor dicenda, which was written by Poggio about the year 1435, and deposited in the Royal Library at Paris, where it was transcribed by Mr. Shepherd during the interval of peace, in 1804.

An American bookseller has intimated his intention to publish a New System of Notation, by which the variable sounds of the vowels and consonants in the English alphabet may be accurately distinguished. The manner in which he proposes to effect this is," by printing Johnson's Rasselas on the following principles: 1. By means of a variety of marks placed over the same vowel or diphthong in different words, to ascertain the sound in every variation. 2. By marks attached to such consonants as are subject to variation, to point out their difference of sound. ́ 3. Each diphthongal or vowel mark to denote one invariable sound. 4. The marks applied to consonants to vary sufficiently for the purpose of discrimination, and still subject to general rules. 5. Very slight additions to be made. to the characters, so as to ascertain the general appearance of each letter. 6. Every word is to be correctly spelled.

The Lansdown Manuscripts have, at length, been purchased for the British Museum, by government, for four thousand nine hundred and twenty-five pounds, the average of three valuations made for the purpose.

The Rev. W. Bennet has in the press Remarks on a recent Hypothesis relating to the Origin of Moral Evil, in a series of Letters to the Rev. Dr. Williams, the author of that Hypothesis.

A new edition of Potter's Translation of the tragedies of Euripides will appear next month.

Shortly will be published, in two volumes, Struggles through Life, exemplified in the various travels and adventures in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, of Lieutenant John Harriat, formerly of Rochford, in Essex, now resident magistrate of the Thames police.

Professor Porson is about to publish his four plays of Euripides to gether in one volume in octavo.

MONTHLY MIRROR,

FOR

OCTOBER, 1807.

Embellished with

A PORTRAIT OF STEPHEN KEMBLE, ESQ. ENGRAVED by FREEMAN FROM A PAINTING BY KEARSLEY.

PRINTED FOR THE PROPRIETORS,

By J. Wright, No. 38, St. John's Square, Clerkenwell, And published by Veruor, Hood, and Sharpe, in the Poultry; sold, also, by all the Booksellers in

the United Kingdom.

The commencement of a concise History of the kingdom of Portu gal, by Mr. J. Adamson, of Gateshead, in No. XI. Our readers, with us, will justly appreciate the value of his correspondence.

The interesting paper received from I. P. S. on the late Cardinal of York, the last of the house of Stuart, shall have an early insertion.

C. L.'s learned and elegant observations" on the ETON MONTEM" in our next.

W. F. R. G. desires that the hint given to Justus and Vindex, in No. V. should be observed by Cato and Dangle.

I.'s Felo de se, and Mr. Taylor's epilogue to Curiosity, certainly next month. Nothing but prior engagements should have deferred them.

Jaques' letter concerning our notice in No. IX. came to us unpaid. He complains of his character--he should recollect our two-pence!

G. R-s of Islington, has sent us twelve stanzas to "Miss Susan R-d-r, on her birth day anniversary." Singular that her birth day should be an anniversary! They shall be returned, being too long. Miss Susan may be a very good girl, but surely all other young ladies don't "roll the eye and troll the tongue."

Mr. Bounden informs us, that "he has offered plays to the managers till he is weary."-This feeling may or may not have been mutual, but it is not in our province to meddle with these things.

Inauguration of the Princes of Carinthia next month.

Tim Shallowpate, like many of his brethren, wants a place.-Had he more depth, he must wait his turn.

Scrapiana is very acceptable, and shall be used as occasion serves. We thank J. H. for the "authentic anecdotes of Voltaire."

The length of our Mem. Dram. has made us sparing of Murphy's MS. A greater quantity shall be given next month. Its excellence is acknowledged by many correspondents.

Davus wishes some one of our learned friends to inform him where the puns are in Homer and Sophocles, which are alluded to in our last. Ophelia, on her father's death, is too affecting

"Buried and dead, I now have lost my father,
If my unkle'd died I shoud have rather,
But he is gone above in Heav'n to stray

And I shan't see him 'gain by night or day :"

"Oh dear Ophelia, we are ill at these numbers!"

Shakspeare's Science; The Theatrical Fund; Grizzle on Mr. Kemble's, "aitches and pains; T. B.'s Delia; J. T.'s Shepherd, and Invocation to Peace; J. Bounden's "Scraps;" Juvenis' imitation of Sterne, and Ode to H. K. White; are received.

Mr. Lofft's further remarks on the Comet, arrived after our work was put to press.

O. C. T.'s letter respecting Graculus shall appear. Not so his Mi series. Mr. Beresford has surfeited the town, and they no longer delight in Miseries.

"A commentator on Shakspeare," will find his work at our pub lisher's. It is too profound for us. An example.

"Let the kettle to the trumpet speak.

Hamlet.

This is utter nonsense--for speak read sing.—A kettle sings, but never speaks."

Errata." The motto to the Outline of a Memoir of Henry Kirke White, No. IX. p. 161, is," says Mr. Capel Lofft, " very correctly given from Virgil. However, my meaning was a serious parody, and not a quotation. Nos Juvenem eximium & nil jam terrestribus, &c. The other would have the air of an impiety, which, I am sure, you know I would avoid, both in sentiment and expression. And instead of "defamed,"-disarmed " envy." P. 161, line 15."

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In this number, Mem. Dram. Drury, Sept. 29, omit “a widower, and,” and in Oct. 10, for " Cowley" read Inchbald.