My skin is lily white, and my colour here is new,

So the first man whom they sold me to, he thump'd me black and

blue.

The priest, who bought me from him, in a tender-hearted tone, Said come from that great blackguard's house, and walk into my own. Crying won't you, won't you? &c.

Good lack! but to behold the vicissitudes of fate!

I'm his black Mandingo Majesty's white Minister of State.

For hours, in my lobby, my petitioners shall stay,

And wish me at the Devil, when I hold my levee day;

Crying won't you, won't you, won't you, won't you come Mr. Mug? Won't you, won't you, &c*.

On the 12th of August Miss A. DECAMP performed Edmund in the Blind Boy for the first time. She is a miniature of her sister, under whose able instruction she seems to have prepared herself for the Character, and acquitted herself extremely well.

Mr. GRIMALDI played Orson in the grand Melodrama from Covent Garden, produced for Mr. Farley's Benefit, when the house was crowded in every part.

FIRST COME FIRST SERVED; OR, THE BITER BIT-The principal effect of this little piece arises from the whimsical adventures of two rival Fortune Hunters, admirably supported by Farley and Liston, who in their endeavours to obtain the hand of a young Lady of fortune apply without informing each other to a loquacious, and humourous Country Hair Dresser for assistance. The Hair Dresser performed by Mathews, with his usual drollery and success, promises to aid each of them, with a determination to baffle both, and the tricks and schemes which he employs are full of comic humour. By his ingenuity the young lady is saved from their clutches, and married to her lover. Mrs. Davenport in the part of an amorous. old maid, devoted to the study of botany, was very happy; with a very slight alteration, to produce a little more stage effect, we think this Farce would become a favourite with the Public. It is not as some of the newspapers stated, the production of Sir James Bland Burgess, but we believe of Sir John Carr. The former gentleman we understand has a Drama in preparation at this theatre; and as we have few better poets or more elegant writers we hope it will shortly be brought forward. The new Farce was very favourably received. The author is indebted for his principal incident to a French Piece called Le premier vener.

COUNTRY THEATRES.

SUMMER EXCURSIONS OF THE LONDON ACTORS.---Elliston has been at Dublin, and Edinburgh; Cooke at Newcastle, and is about to proceed to Liverpool; Pope at Dublin; Jones at Manchester, Buxton, &c. Mr. and Mrs. H. Siddons at Liverpool and Glasgow ; Mrs. Powell at Glasgow and Edinburgh; Mr. and Mrs. C. Kemble at Bristol, Brighton, and Lewes; Miss Smith at Dublin and Liverpool; Mrs. H. Johnston at the latter place; Munden in Ireland and at Manchester; Incledon and Johnstone in Dublin; Bellamy and Mrs. Dickons at Dublin and Belfast; Raymond, as acting manager, at Glasgow; Mrs. Litchfield is at Worthing; Kelly is with Catalani in Ireland.

* Mr. Colman received Eleven Hundred Pounds for this piece! VOL. IV.

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Mrs. Edwin, it is said, has quitted the Dublin stage, and is en gaged in Scotland. The Margate Theatre is supported by Wilmot Wells (manager), De Camp, Wheatley, Lovegrove, Holliday, Ditcher, Miss Martyr, Miss Wheatley, Mrs. Taylor. Mrs. Ditcher, and the Miss Dennetts.

At Windsor the performers are Messrs. Putnam, Browne, Dalton, Sims, Mrs. Mudie, Mrs. Walley, and Mrs. Sims.

The Drury-laue Theatre is to be under the direction of Mr. T. Sheridan; Mr. Wroughton remains acting manager; and Mr. Graham will continue to give his advice and assistance with respect to the new pieces to be represented, and other theatrical arrange

ments.

Mr. Crisp has taken the Birmingham Theatre.

Half of the Brighton Theatre has been purchased for something more than 5000 guineas by Sir Thomas Clarges.

The Earl of Guildford has been gratifying his visitors at Wroxton with the representation of Romeo and Juliet. He performed Old Capulet himself. Mr. Kemble was the Friar Lawrence; Mrs. Kemble the Nurse. The love-sick hero and heroine of the piece were performed by Master St. Leger and his sister. The whole was conducted with the regularity of a public theatre, and afforded much entertainment to the company.

THE LATE MRS. WARREN, SISTER TO THE COUNTESS OF CRAVEN.

(From The Baltimore North American.)

SIR-The following Hendecasyllabic Ode, not more distinguished for the pure and graceful latinity of its style, than the delicacy and beauty of the conceptions, was addressed to the late Mrs. Warren, then Miss Brunton, by Francis Wroughton. It speaks more than volumes could in her praise; and will be read with fond regret, by every admirer of that accomplish'd actress, who, alas! is now no

more.

AD BRUNTONAM,

E GRANTA EXITURAM.

Nostri præsidium et decus theatri ;

O tu, Melpomenes severioris
Certe filia quam decere formæ
Donavit Cytherea; quam Minerva
Duxit per dubiæ vias juventæ,
Per plausus populi periculosos;~
Nec lapsam-precor, O nec in futuram
Lapsuram. Satis et Camoena dignis
Quæ te commemoret modis? Acerbos

* Died, at Alexandria, on Tuesday afternoon last, after a short but severe illness, Mrs. Ann Warren, the amiable consort of Mr. Warren, one of the managers of the Philadelphia and Baltimore Theatres. Could the writer so command his feelings upon the present melancholy occasion, as to enable him to enter into a detail of the excellencies of Mrs. Warren's theatrical character, it would be superfluous, her celebrity having long since diffused itself over both her native, and this, her adopted, country.

(New York Paper, July 6, 1808.).

Sen proferre Monimie dolores,
Frater cum vetitos (nefas!) ruabat
In fratris thalamos, parumque casto
Vexabat pede; sive Julieta

Luctantes odio paterno amores
Maris: te sequuntur Horror,
Arrectusque comas Pavor. Vicissim
In fletum populus jubetur ire,
Et suspiria personant theatrum.
Mox divinior entitescis, altrix
Altoris vigil et parens parentis.
At non Græcia sola vindicavit
Paternæ columen decusque vitæ
Natam; restat item patri Britanno
Et par Euphrasia puella, quamque
Ad scenam pietas tulit paternam.

O Bruntona, cito exitura virgo,
Et visu cito subtrahenda nestro!
Breves delicia! dolorque longus!
Gressum siste parumper oro; teque
Virtutusque tuas lyrâ sonandas

Tradit Granta suis vicissim alumnis.
TRANSLATION.

Maid of unboastful charms, whom white rob'd Truth,
Right onward guiding thro' the maze of youth,
Forbade the Circe, Praise, to 'witch thy soul,
And dash'd to earth th' intoxicating bowl;
Thee meek-eyed Pity, eloquently fair,
Clasp'd to her bosom, with a mother's care;
And, as she lov'd thy kindred form to trace,
The slow smile wander'd o'er her pallid face.
For never yet did mortal voice impart
Tones more congenial to the sadden'd heart;
Whether to rouse the sympathetick glow,
Thou pourest lone Monimia's tale of woe;
Or happy clothest, with funereal vest,
The bridal loves that wept in Juliet's breast.
O'er our chill limbs the thrilling terrors creep,
Th' entranc'd passions still their vigils keep;
Whilst the deep sighs, responsive to the song,
Sound through the silence of the trembling throng.
But purer raptures lighten'd from thy face,
And spread o'er all thy form an holier grace;
When from the daughter's breasts the father drew
The life he gave, and mix'd the big tear's dew.

Nor was it thine th' heroic strain to roll,
With mimic feelings, foreign from the soul;
Bright in thy parent's eye we mark'd the tear;
Methought he said, "thou art no actress here!
A semblance of thyself, the Grecian dame,
And Brunton and Euphrasia still the same!"
O! soon to seek the city's busier scene,
Pause then awhile, thou chaste eyed maid serene,
'Till Granta's sons, from all her sacred bow'rs,
With grateful hand shall weave Pierian flow'rs,
To twine a fragrant chaplet, round thy brow.
Enchanting ministress of virtuous woe.

LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

Works recently published, in the press, or in preparation. BIOGRAPHY. The Second Volume of the Rev. Mr. Wool's Memoirs of Dr. Jos. Warton. Account of the Life and Writings of the late James Bruce, Esq. of Kinnaird; by Alexander Murray, F. A.S. E. Account of the Life and Writings of the late Mr. Joseph Strutt. Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Sir Philip Sidney; by Thomas Zouch, D. D. F. L.S. Prebendary of Durham. Life of Abraham Newland, Esq.

TRAVELS, &c. Travels through Russia, the Territories of the Don Cossacks, Kuban Tartary, the Grand Crimea, &c. by the Rev. Dr. Edward Clarke, of Cambridge. Observations on a Series of Journeys through the States of New Holland and New York, intended to illustrate the Topography, Agriculture, Commerce, Government, Literature, Manners, Morals, and Religion, of those Countries.

NOVELS, &c. The Murderer; or, the Fall of Lecas; by J. Bounden. Romantic Tales; by M. G. Lewis, Esq. The Female Minor; by Dr. Campbell.

BOTANY. Practical Botany; being a new Illustration of the Genera of Plants; by R. J. Thornton, M. D.

POETRY. Specimens of English Dramatic Poets, who lived about the Time of Shakspeare, with Notes; by Chs. Lamb. The Shipwreck of St. Paul; a Seatonian Prize Poem; by the Rev. C. J. Hoare. Translations, Imitations, and other Poems; by the Hon. Capt. Herbert. Latin and Italian Poems of Milton, translated into English Verse; and a Fragment of a Commentary on Paradise Lost; by the late Wm. Cowper, Esq.; published for the Benefit of Mr. Cowper's Orphan Godson. Pastoral Care; a Poem.

DRAMA. Plot and Counterplot; a Farce, by Mr. Charles Keinble.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Naval Records of the present War; by the Rev. J. S. Clarke; consisting of a Series of Engravings, from original Designs, by Mr. N. Pocock, illustrative of our principal Engagements at Sea, accompanied with Historical Accounts: the Engravings by Fittler, Landseer, &c. A Guide to Burleigh House, the Seat of the Marquis of Exeter, by Mr. Drakard, of Stamford, to be embellished with Engravings by Messrs. Storer and Greig, from Drawings by Mr. E. Blore. Intrigues of the Queen of Spain with the Prince of Peace and others; written by a Spanish Nobleman.