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male Auxiliary Bible Society, 31 dollars 5 cents; the BS of Maine, Mass. 447 dolls. 77 cts.; the B. S. of Frederick, Virg. 500 deliars; the Fishkill B. S. 200 dolls.; the Auxiliary Welsh B. 3. of Steuben and Utica and their vicinities, 200 dolls; the Auxiliary B. S. of Lexington, Virg. 200 dolls.; the Female Auxiliary B. S. of Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 30 dolls.; the Female B. S. of E. Haddam, Connecticut, 16 dolls. 50 cts.; the Female Auxiliary B. S. of Washington, Penn. 100 dolls; the Auxiliary B. S. in the County of Middlesex, Mass. 200 dolls.; the Fayetteville B. S. N. C. 150 dolls.; the Mercer B. S. Penn. 39 dolls.; the Union B. S. of Burke County, Georgia, 250 dolls.; the Newark B. S. N. Jersey, 150 dolls.; the Auxiliary Female B. S. of Caledonia, Genessee County, N. Y. 60 dolls.; the St. Lawrence Female Auxiliary B. S. N. Y. 74 dolls.; also from William B. Crosby, Esq. executor of the will of Mary M'Crea, late of New-York, 250 dolls; and from Isaac Heyer and George Griswold, col. lected in the first Ward, New-York, 511 dollars.

A Bible Society, Auxiliary to the American Bible Society, has been formed at Auburn, under the name of The Auxiliary Bible Society of the County of Cayuga.

At the last annual communication of the Grand Royal Arch Chapter of Vermont, it was resolved to forward to the American Bible Society sixty dollars, for the purpose of constituting the Rev. Jonathan Ney, of NewFane, Grand Chaplain of said State, &c. and the Rev. Ebenezer Hebbard, of Brandon, past Grand Chaplain,-members of the said society for life.

A Bible Society has been instituted in New-Jersey under the name of The Sussex Auxiliary Bible Society.' It is a branch of the Bible Society of the State.

A Marine Bible Society has been formed at New-Haven, Con. auxiliary to the New-York Marine Bible Society. Elias Shipman, Esq. has been chosen President of it.-A Society has also been formed for the religious educa tion of the poor and ignorant, to be called the New-Haven Sabbath School Society.

New-Hampshire Bible Society. This Society purchased during the last year eight hundred Bibles, and 1000 Testaments. The amount disbursed during the last year was $1415 24 cents; balance in the treasury, $1148 50 cents.

Albany Bible Society. From the annual report of the treasurer, $1388 25 cents were disbursed by the Society last year, and he has now remaining in his hands. $413 25 cents. Bible Society of Philadelphia. From the Ninth Report of the Bible Society of Philadelphia, it appears, that there have been issued by that Institution during the past year,

1850 Bibles, and 3500 New Testaments, for gratuitous distribution; and that 9017 Bibles and New Testaments from their small stereotype plates, and 1250 New Testaments from their octavo plates, have been sold to different Societies and Associations These make the aggregate number of Bibles and New Testaments published by the Society since its institution to be 76,850. A donation of one thousand dollars was, during the year, received by the Society, from the executors of the late Robert Montgomery, Esq. end one of five hundred dollars from the Female Bible Society of Philadelphia.

Philadelphia Female Bible Society. The receipts of this Society in the year past. by their annual Report, were 1443 dolls. 31 cts. Their disbursements 1305 dolls. 49 cts.

The General Missionary Convention of the Baptist denomination of the United States, held its session at Philadelphia on the 7th of May last. It was fully attended. Its address is an interesting paper. It appears from the Report that there are in the United States, 2727 Baptist churches, 1635 ministers, and 183.245 members in communion. During the last year 10,000 were baptized on profession of faith and repentance.

Bishop Hobart of New-York, at present acting as Bishop of Connecticut, has consecrated Episcopal Churches at North-Killingworth and North-Guilford in that diocess. He has confirmed 249 persons in his late visitation to the various churches in that State.

The Rev. Sylvester Learned has been ordained to the office of the Gospel Ministry, by the N. York Presbytery. It is understood that he is to be employed by the General Assembly as a Missionary to New-Orleans.

The Rev. William Bacon has been ordained to the work of the Gospel Ministry as an Evangelist, by the Presbytery of Niagara, at Buffalo, N. Y.

The Rev. Samuel Clark has been inducted into the ministerial office at Princeton, Mas's.

The Rev. Edward Richmond, D.D. bas been installed Pastor of the third Congregational Society in Dorchester, Mass.

The Rev. W. Burt has been ordained Pastor over the Congregational Society in Durham, N. H.

A new Baptist Meetinghouse has been opened in New-Bedford, Mass. The Rev. Silas Hall is engaged to preach in it.

The St. Francisville (W Florida) Sentinel of June 17, says,-On Sunday last, the merchants of this village closed their doors, by general consent, and refused to transact any business, or sell a single commodity!-This is the first determined effort we recollect to have known made in Louisiana, to pay a due respect to that holy day.

E.

ART. 10. POETRY.

For the American Monthly Magazine.

From the London Courier.

JEU D'ESPRIT.

2

THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE.

On receiving from a Lady a flower of the Al- Who fell at the battle of Corunna in Spain, in

thar, (Marshmallow.)

AS, from the blaze, with fearless hand,

Althæa snatched the burning brand,
Twin with her Meleager's fate,
And, in her flowing mantle's fold,
The glowing wood undaunted roll'd,
And clasp'd the rescu'd amulet;
So, from fierce love's intenser flame,
Me might the pitying fair reclaim,

And in her gentle bosom wear,-
By stronger spell my life were blest!
Ne'er sever'd from that faithful breast,
No earthly ill could reach me there.

E.

From Southey's Curse of Kehama-Canto 10. They err who tell us love can die:

With life all other passions fly,

All others are but vanity.
In Heaven ambition cannot dwell,
Nor avarice in the vaults of hell;
Earthly these passions of the earth,
They perish where they have their birth;
But love is indestructible.
Its holy flame forever burneth;
From heaven it came, to heaven returneth.
Too oft on earth a troubled guest,
At times deceived, at times opprest,
It here is tried and purified,

Then hath in heaven its perfect rest:
It soweth here with toil and care,
But the harvest time of love is there.
Oh! when a mother meets on high,
The babe she lost in infancy,
Hath she not then, for pains and fears,
The day of wo, the watchful night,

For all her sorrows, all her tears,
An overpayment of delight!

1808.

Not a drum was heard, nor a funeral note,
As his corse to the rampart we hurried,
Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot,
O'er the grave, where our hero we buried.
We buried him darkly at dead of night,
The sods with our bayonets turning;
By the struggling moonbeam's misty light,
And the lantern dimly burning.

No useless coffin enclosed his breast,
Not in sheet nor in shroud we bound him,
But he lay like a warrior taking his rest,
With his martial cloak around him.

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Few and short were the prayers we said,
And we spoke not a word of sorrow,
But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead,
And we bitterly thought of the morrow.

We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed,
And smoothed down his lonely pillow,

That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er
his head,

And we far away on the billow.
Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone,
And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him,
But nothing he'll reck if they let him sleep on
In the grave where a Briton has laid him.

But half of our heavy tusk was done,
When the clock toll'd the hour for retiring,
And we heard the distant random gun
That the foe was suddenly firing.

Slowly and sadly we laid him down,
From the field of his fame fresh and gory;
We carved not a line, we raised not a stone,—
But we left him alone with his glory.

ART. 11. THESPIAN REGISTER.

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is simple, its diction polished, well-sustained, and energetic, and we know not where to thos, or a finer strain of eloquence. It ranks find, in modern tragedy, more genuine pa

deservedly, among the noblest productions of the British tragic muse. With Mrs. Barnes in Douglas we were both pleased and pained. Though she exhibited her accustomed correctness in her conception of the character, and a just apprehension of the lofty sentiments and heroic spirit so natural to the "blood of Douglas ;" and though her action was graceful and appropriate, and her animation did not flag, yet she came so short, in her stature and the might of her arm, of what the whole probability of the incidents required, as almost entirely to mar our enjoyment of

please. He has a very good voice, his size and figure are advantageous, his ideas of character are frequently correct, and we think it is in his power to rank so respectably, as an actor, that when his audience should be in a good-natured mood, they would scarcely think of the absence of a greater. Mr. Jones was very respectable in old Norval. He related his story to Lady Randolph with a good deal of feeling and propriety of tone and emphasis. Measuring Mr. J. by the standard of his own abilities as an actor, he fails most we think in gesture, which is too generally wanting in ease and freedom, and seems not enough the spontaneous expression of feeling. We have seen Mr. Pritchard play far better than he did in Glenalvon. We are willing to make every allowance to Mr. P. on account of his having much to do, but still, though this may prevent that profound study of his character, which is doubtless necessary to great success, yet we do not think it a sufficient excuse for that coldness and apathy, which too often renders Mr. P's acting tame and tedious. In Glenalvon Mr. P. was not ardent enough in his villany, his mind did not seem to be active and plotting enough to suit the catastrophe of the play, or the general character he took upon him; and when he said of Lady Randolph,

the scene. There should be verisimilitude in the looks of an actor, in his figure and muscular strength, as well as propriety in his costume,correctness in his readings, or adaptation in his voice and gesture. There are doubtless many men," tall fellows of their hands," who could read with perfect accuracy of emphasis what is put down for Juliet Capulet, for instance, and enter thoroughly into her feelings, but with what shadow of propriety or hope of success could they undertake to personate her on the stage? The attempt would be obviously most preposterous. And where is the propriety of a delicate female, small even for her sex, totally deficient in size and vigour of limb, and in fulness, energy and masculine melody of voice, attempt ing to personate a young man of heroic sta. ture, and majesty of mien as well as of un conquerable valour, whose frame, if it have not become as compacted and capable of toil and privation as it may, in maturer years, bas, nevertheless, attained its complete stature, and exhibits the full-grown vigour of an Athleta moving to the contest? If the story had brought young Norval before us, at the age of 15, when his imagination began to kindle at the recitals of the hermit, and his soul pant to break from obscurity, and prove his parentage by deeds, we think we should have been completely satisfied with Mrs. B. for his representative. Instead Whose charity exceeds not. of the strength that could enable her "to play her weapon like a tongue of flame," and an arm to shelter the Grampian vales, and of "four armed assailants" strike to the earth, "from which they never rose again the fiercest two," while the other two sought safety in flight, she could scarcely unsheath her sword, and we regretted that Mrs. B. should undertake the part at all. We are aware that this has been the favourite character of stripling performers, and that the master Bettys and master Paynes, have all figured away in Young Norval; but they could none of them play the part. One of them we have seen, and in regard to the other, Mrs. Inchbald's In the entertainment, so called, Mr. Caropinion satisfies us that he could not do it pender, as Harlequin, made a very good leap any justice, while Cumberland's opinion of through the barrel of fire, but the Harlequinhis general powers, however it might allow ade, on the whole, was very stupid. The him some talents as a boy, is, with us, suffi- only thing that can redeem a performance of cient authority that he was most extravagant- this kind is the "wonderful of bodily activily overrated. When Mrs. B. puts off her bon- ty," of which there was very little this evennet and her slipper for the hat and boot of ing. Myrtillo we are delighted, but the helmet and the shield and the claymore we would advise her to decline. Mr. Robertson in Lord Randolph we cannot praise, though we The Rivals; or a Trip to Bath.-The Peasant will not entirely condemn him. If he could, by any imaginable means or motives, be in

"Even I did think her chaste,
Precious sex,

Whose deeds lascivious pass Glenalvon's thoughts!
instead of manifesting a diabolical satisfaction
at finding, as he supposed, the guilt of Lady
Randolph, and chuckling at the last proof of
depravity in the sex, he said it with a phlegm
and a mere recitation tone, that spoiled the
whole effort of a passage that gives a deeper
insight into Glenalvon's character than any.
other single passage in the tragedy.

Mrs. Groshon's Lady Randolph was more than commonly well for her, though she can never hope to excel, and Miss Dellinger's Anna was not so bad as it might have been.

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Friday Evening, June 27.

Boy, or Assassin Discovered. "The Rivals" has been preferred by some

duced to quit his monotony and drawl, and to "The School for Scandal;" but though speak some of his sentences quicker than this be exaggerated praise, yet the piece is others, and trust himself occasionally to a full of vivacity and wit; is strongly marked natural manner, we are persuaded he might by a vigilant and nice observation of what

and

The melo drama of the Peasant Boy is interesting in the plot, is worked up with considerable skill, is moral in its effect; and Mrs. Barnes and Mr. Robertson, on whom the interest of the piece depended, played well.

is ridiculous in sentiment and conduct; and, Languish was very spirited and very just. In in respect of character and incident, is pure this kind of character we must concede to comedy. Mr. Barnes was certainly animated, Mrs. Darley high praise. We know of no on the whole, tolerably correct in his lady of Thespian fame, who is more interestapprehension and representation of the self-ingly and provokingly capricious and waywilled arbitrary, irascible, Sir Anthony Ab- ward, and who then repents and reforms solute, though, we think, he indulged him- with better grace or more amiable contrition self too much in grimace, (as he often does) than Mrs. Darley. Her Lady Elizabeth Freeto suit the respectability of the character, love, Lydia Languish, Mrs. Ferment, and which, notwithstanding its many eccentrici- characters of this turn, are good enough. ties and absurdities, is not that of a buffoon. Mr. Darley's Sir Lucius O'Trigger was passable, but could not have been adequate to the author's conception of his high-mettled adventurer, who was as ready to quarrel with a man for his thoughts, as for his words or actions. He was such a man as Mercutio calls "the courageous captain of compliments;" one who fights as you sing prickIn the recitation of the "Ode on the Passong-the very butcher of a silk button-a sions," though we think Mrs. Barnes' readduellist-a duellist;" one who like Mercutio ing might have been improved, yet her action himself "will quarrel with a man for having was all grace, and her pantomime descriptive a hair more or less on his head than himself." and fine. Indeed we have not seen for many years on the boards, one who could personate the Irishman. Such a recruit is very much wanted, for many of the very finest comedies in the language have this sort of character shot through them, and cannot be enacted, simply on account of the above mentioned deficiency.

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Mr. Simpson, in Capt. Absolute, was very good-very good indeed. This belongs to that class of character that suits his talents, and in which he is universally acceptable. In Faulkland, the most original and nicelydiscriminated character in the comedy, Mr Pritchard was natural and pleasing. He represented well the peevish, querulous jealousy of the love-sick Faulkland, who though intelligent, accomplished, well-bred and honourable, was cursed with a nervous sensibility, that was a perpetual torment to himself and his friends.

The songs this evening were sung respectably, particularly "Hard Times," to which Mr. Barnes gave much effect.

L.

Saturday Evening, June 28. Speed the Plough-Mother Bunch, or Harlequin and the Yellow Dwarf.

There are some improbabilities in this comedy, (such as Miss Blandford's falling in love with a plough-boy, at first sight, and Sir Philip's making a confidant of Bob Handy,) but still it is pleasing in the representation, very pleasing. The character of Sir Abel Handy and his son Bob are original and well conceived, and though they approach extravagance, are full of entertainment and just satire. They were well personated by Mr. Barnes and Mr. Simpson. Mr. Pritchard represented the stern, remorseful, anxious Sir Philip forcibly and with propriety; and Mr. Baldwin made a very good, plain, blunt, upright, honourable Farmer Ashfield. Henry was performed by a stranger, announced as from Belfast. The manners and action of this gentleman were rathers tiff and awkward, though his gesture was occasionally very expressive and appropriate, and his conception of the character and his reading for the most part accurate and discriminating.

As for Harlequin, &c. it was miserably stupid and tedious. Harlequin could not roll; the clown had no variety or point in his "body wit," and the prolongation of perpetual clumsiness, tired us out.

L.

Bob Acres, with his vanity, good-nature, eredulity, animal-spirits, and valour, which can by no persuasion or example of Sir Lucius be" screwed to the sticking-place," and his new style of "oaths that echo the sentiment, and his hair in training," was done to the life by Mr. Hilson, who, odds judg. ment, tact, animation and humour! did adequate justice to the comic conceptions of the author. Mrs. Baldwin did much credit to herself in Mrs. Malaprop, and with her dictionary words most accurately pronounced, Monday Evening, June 30. and "most ingeniously misapplied," with her Adelgitha-High Life Below Stairs. absurd vanity and grotesque disappointment, This tragedy is from the pen of M. G. contributed greatly to the entertainment of Lewis, and is much such a tragedy as might the evening and the exposure of folly. Mrs. be expected from him. The names of his Croshon's Julia was tolerably good, as com- characters are familiar to history, but he has pared with her general style of acting, though blended fact and fiction in his plot, in inexwe cannot allow that she was altogether the tricable confusion. But the principal fault elegant, lovely, intelligent, high-minded, un- of the piece is the circumstance on which it affected Julia Melville. Mrs. Darley's Lydia hinges. Adelgitha, the heroine, is daughter

of the deceased Prince of Salerno, and wife
of Guiscard, sovereign of Apulia. Michel
Ducas. the Greek emperor, having been
expelled from Byzantium, by his subjects,
whom his crimes had instigated to revolt,
seeks refuge in the dominions of Guis
card. This brave prince espouses the cause
of the deposed emperor, and whilst he march
es forth to fight his battles, leaves him at his
Court. Michel feels the humiliation he suf-
fers in receiving such favours from an infe-
rior, grows indignant at the idea of his de-
pendence, and jealous in the extreme of the
military reputation of his benefactor. To
complete the picture of his ingratitude, and
to crown his baseness, he becomes enamour-
ed of Adelgitha, and in Guiscard's absence
attempts her virtue. She rejects his proffers
with disdain, and boasts the unsullied purity
of the blood of Salerno. This name recalls
to Michel's mind a tale, the application of
which he never knew till now. In 'Astra's
wood' he had once lost his way in the dark
ness of the night, when suddenly a groan
reached his ear; he hastened to the spot
from which it proceeded, and found a knight
stretched weltering in his blood, who had
been stabbed by robbers. The cavalier in-
trusted him with the confession of a guilty
deed,-

A maid of noble birth
By solemn vows seduced-abandoned-left
To shame and anguish.-

And implored him to restore her letters and portrait, which he committed to him, and to assure her of the poignancy of his remorse, &c. To make the shortest of a long story, Michel now discovers this maid to have been Adelgitha. He profits, by his information, to charge her with the fact, and compel her to give him an assignation. This is appointed, after Guiscard's return, in the chapel of St. Hilda, whither Adelgitha repairs, in the hope of dissuading him from his purpose, but find. ing him resolute, she attempts to stab herself, and being defeated in this design, she plunges her weapon into the bosom of her ungene. rous suitor. Another is arrested for the murder of Michel, and condemned to death by Guiscard, when Adelgitha comes forward and avows her own guilt and the innocence of the accused, whom she acknowledges as her son by her youthful lover, George of Clermont. Guiscard is thunder-struck by the discovery, yet such is the strength of his affection that it overcomes even the dread of dishonour, and he is ready to consent to receive her again to his arms, when she charitably averts this new disgrace by terminating her existence. Who would believe, after this narrative, that Adelgitha is represented as a paragon of virtue, and that she is introduced, whilst unapprehensive of detection, in all the confidence and cheerfulness of innocence VOL. I. NO. IV.

and love? The play is equally improbable
and immoral. Unmarried females in the sta-
tion of Adelgitha, or in any respectable grade
of life, never do forfeit the immediate jew-
el of their souls,' nor ought they ever to be
suffered to believe that it is possible for them
to be the objects of illicit solicitation, much
But how fatal
less that they can yield to it.
a delusion is it to propagate the idea, that a
woman who has been unfaithful to herself
can be loyal to her husband,-and that a
wanton who has imposed herself upon the
credulity and insinuated herself into the af
fections of a man of honour, can, when her
duplicity is unmasked, be still an object of
forgiveness !-nay, of tenderness!

In regard to the performance, a few words must suffice. Mr Pritchard's Michel Ducas was more than respectable. Mr. Robertson, as Guiscard, described with much force and animation his rescue in the battle by the gallantry of Lothair This last character was handsomely supported by Mr. Simpson Of Mrs. Groshon's Adelgitha, as we can say nothing in commendation, we will say nothing at all.

E.

Wednesday Evening, July 2.
Iron Chest.-Wood Demon.
This is a monstrous play, the hint of which
appears to have been taken from Godwin's
celebrated novel of Caleb Williams. Inter-
esting, however, as is that ingenious fiction,
this drama is so replete with folly and incon-
sistency, that it excites little sympathy. Mr.
Bancker undertook the character of Wilford,
(it being his benefit night,) and got through
with it better than we should have expected.
Wherever we see ambition we are disposed
to encourage it. Ambition, however, unless
it be well regulated, will defeat its own pur-
pose. A man, for instance, who disdains to
qualify himself for the discharge of every-
day duties, will hardly be prepared to meet
the demands of more important exigencies;-
much less, if he is incapable of fulfilling the
first, will he be able to satisfy the last. What
Pope has said generally of life, is particularly
true of the stage-

Honour and shame from no condition rise,
Act well your part, there all the bonour lies.

And yet it is astonishing to see how many, both in real and mimic life, prefer acting a great part badly, to performing an humbler one well. It is enough to be compelled to endure the assumptions of ignorance in common intercourse with the world, but when one resorts to the theatre for recreation,' it offends one to the soul to hear a robustious, perriwig-pated fellow,' tearing not only passion, but sense and language, to rags and tatters. We cannot but wonder that so few actors have correct apprehensions of the dig2 Q

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