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Thursday,

26, 57,

Mr. Evatt, 50%. 6s.

Mr. and Mrs. Berry, 561. 17s.

Mr. Shaw, and Mrs. Pensou, 817. 198.
Mr. Rock's, (last night), 981.

Friday, I have already said that in Edinburgh, the amount of a performer's benefit is the criterion of his estimation. The above list of benefits will prove what has been long known to theatrical observers, that Edinburgh and Glasgow possess different theatrical feelings, and do not always accord in the expression of them. I who am neither a native of Edinburgh nor Glasgow, can hear with a certain sensation which shall be nameless, the pretender of each to exclusive fine taste, and their claim of the character of the most discerning audience in Europe.

On the last night of the season Mr. Rock, who for several years has acted in the capacity of both manager and performer, with great credit to himself, and satisfaction to the public, between the play and farce delivered a farewell address. The language of which was neat and appropriate.-during its delivery the audience exhibited the most unequivocal proofs of regret at parting with one who bad so largely contributed to their amusement as a performer, while they evinced with the loudest approbation, the sense they entertained of Mr. Rock's liberal and judicious deportment as manager. In a few days Mr. Beaumont enters here upon his state of "united management," ," of which I shall not be an inattentive observer. I intend to" tent him to the quick," but in the mean time he has given us a "touch of his quality,” “here will I hold.”

Theatre Royal, BATH.-Mr. Cooke, with the permission of the proprietors of Covent-Garden Theatre, has appeared in several of his favourite characters, and been warmly welcomed by the public. Sir Pertinax Macsycophant. Shylock, Sir Archy Macsarcasm, Richard, and Sir Giles Overreach, have afforded the inhabitants of this great city a rich repast. To comment on the excellencies of his performances in the above characters, so well known and allowed, were but waste of words-suffice it, he played them with the greatest effect.-He has been tolerably well supported by the company, particularly in the comedy of A new Way to pay old Debts. Cunningham, Lovegrové, and Miss Marriott, as Wellborn, Marall, and Lady Allworth, deserve honourable mention Miss Jameson, who possesses talent in characters of meekness andsimplicity, has lately had assigned to her Lady Anne, in Richard, and Roxalana, in the Sultan, to neither of which is she at all competent; passing over the former as inefficient, the latter was pourtrayed as a vulgar romp, endeavouring to step into the good graces of the Sultan, and to effect this, practised all the aukward dancing steps I ever saw. At one time I fancied she was playing Kitty, in High Life below Stairs, and attempting the mock minuet. In one of the scenes with Osmyn, where Roxalana desires him to drink wine, Osmyn answers, "What I, that am a true Mussluman;" to which Miss Jameson replied, "If you were an Oyster-man you should take it!!" It never was intended by the author of the Sultan that Rozaluna, should descend to such like puns, and Miss Jameson is advised for the future to be selfish, and keep them for her own private amusement. To Mr, Mallinson a word or two: rather decline accepting a character of no importance, than introduce buffoonery to make it prominent. Osmyn is certainly beneath the talents of this

actor.

Bath, June 20, 1908.

ITIM.

LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

Works recently published, in the press, or in preparation.

HISTORY.History of Brazil, by Mr. Southey. His tory of the early part of the reign of James II. by the Right Hon. Charles James Fox, with a Preface by Lord Holland.

TRAVELS.-Travels in America, performed in 1806, by Thomas Ashe, Esq.

BIOGRAPHY.Memoirs of the Rev. Cornelius Winter, by William Jay. Life of George Washington; by Aaron Bancroft, A. A. S. Pastor of the congregation church of Worcester. A new translation of the Memoirs of Marmontel, written by himself; accompanied by a Preface, illustrative of some peculiarities of French manners, particularly in the literary and fashionable circles, which may render the work more easily understood; and Notes.

ROMANCES, &C.-Tales by the Rev. Mr. Bland. Earl of Cork; or Seduction without Artifices, by Madam de Genlis. Les Souvenirs de Felicie L by the same. Claire d'Albe, by Madam Cottin.

POETRY.-Muse Seatoniana; a collection of Poems which have obtained the annual prize founded by Mr. Seaton at the university of Cambridge, from the first institution of the premium in 1750, to the present time. The Siller Gun, a Poem in four Cantos; founded on an ancient custom of shooting for a silver gun, first given as a prize to the best marksman among the corporations of Dumfries; by Mr. Mayne. Pursuits of Agriculture, a Satirical Poem, Canto I. Poems on Creation, Redemp tion, Day of Judgment, &c. by James Gaggin. Original Poems intended for the use of young persons, by the widow of Joseph Richardson, Esq. M. P. on a plan recommended by Dr. Watts. Critical opinions and com plimentary verses on the Poems of H. Downınan, M. D. The Cruise, a poetical sketch of naval life and service.

DRAMA.-Jew of Mogadore, by R. Cumberland, Esq. MISCELLANEOUS.-Five letters written by the late Empress, Maria Theresa, to her daughter, the late unfortunate Queen of France, on the very delicate and interesting subject of exciting and fixing the warmth of passion in husbands, and thereby securing their conjugal fidelity. Hints to the bearers of walking sticks, and umbrellas. Works of Henry Mackenzie, Esq. Statement of the circumstances and manner of the death of Mr. Goldsmid, &c.

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