Page; her manner of singing the song, "Ah, well-a-day, my poor heart?" is in the ears of every one; it was a chaste, and unaffected effort of nature.

The parts in which the talents of Mrs. Martyr appeared most prominent, were, the Page, in the Follies of a Day; Clorinda, Robin Hood; Phæbe, Rosina; Fanny, Maid of the Mill; Wowski, Inkle and Yarico; Kathlane, Poor Soldier; Fanny, Lock and Key; Lucy, Beggar's Opera, &c. &c. Mrs. M. had the good fortune to possess a disposition so engaging, that she was equally esteemed by all ranks of persons employed in the theatre to which she belonged; and in private life she enjoyed the esteem of a numerous and respectable circle of friends.

THEATRICAL INTELLIGENCE.

THE Young Roscius, at the close of his present engagements, is to retire entirely from the stage, and to be placed under the reverend Mr. Butler, with a view to the church. Mr. Butler is to be compensated for his trouble with an allowance of £300 a year.

Mr. Pope has for the third time entered the matrimonial state, with Mrs. Wheatley, the widow of Francis Wheatley, Esq. R. A. He is gone, with his lady, to Dublin, to perform on the stage of that city. Mrs. Powell is also engaged there. These acquisitions, with the addition of the powerful names of Hohman, H. Johnston, and Talbot, will give great strength to the tragic performances.

Mrs. Merry has also passed through the marriage ceremony for the third time. The happy man is Mr. Warren, an actor and manager in America.

Mrs Glover has quitted her situation at Covent Garden theatre, which in her has lost its best comic actress.

Bannister this summer "skirrs the country round" with his budget of Ways and Means, a pasticcio of singing and recitation, which we hear is very amusing. Mr. Colman, Mr. Reynolds, Mr, Kenny and others, have contributed something to his stock in trade. He has had the honour of performing it before his Majesty, who has given him leave to announce the entertainment to be under his Majesty's Permission, an indulgence which (as we are told) discharges him from the controul of the magistrates of any town he may chuse to visit. Mr. Reeve accompanied him at Windsor.on the Piano Forte, and the Princess Elizabeth expressed great satisfaction with his performance, and her approbation of his musical compositions in general.

Raymond and Dowton propose making a similar tour; with some original pieces furnished by Mr. Cumberland, Sir James Burges, Mr. Monk Lewis, and other popular writers. The Wandering Melodist (Incledon) and the Lyrical Novelist (Mrs. Mountain) have commenced their operations.

Mr. Jones from Dublin, in the line of Mr. Lewis, is engaged for the ensuing season at Covent-Garden; and Miss Norton from Manchester-The new theatre, at Brighton, is to open with Hamlet; Hamlet and Ophelia by Mr. and Mrs. C. Kemble. Mr. Palmer again exhibits his portraits of the Living and the Dead at the Lyceum. Catalani is to have 5000 guineas next year at the opera house, and two clear benefits, one of which is to be secured at 1000 guineas.

FOREIGN THEATRES.

PARIS. Académie Impériale de Musique.-The ballet of Ulysses is rather a pantomime than a ballet: the subject of it is the return of the King of Ithaca to his wife Penelope and his triumph over all her persecutors. This subject, taken of course from the Odyssey, and which possesses sufficient interest, has already been treated, in a tragedy by the Abbé Genet, and an opera by Marmontel. The ballet was very successful, but a dreadful accident happened at the conclusion of it. Minerva, represented by Mademoiselle Aubri, was unfortunately precipitated from the height of fifteen feet, and the performer was so severely bruised as to excite apprehensions for her life; but we are happy to say that after a few days she recovered from the effects of the fall, and returned to the exercise of her profession.

Theatre de la Porte Saint Martin. A piece has lately been brought out, taken from a tale in the Bibliothèque bleue. King John, surnamed the good, son of Philippe de Valois travels into Spain incognito, in the disguise of a very rich merchant, to dispute with an English prince, the heart and hand of the infanta. In the first act there were some pleasant dramatic touches, but the satisfaction we derived from them was soon counterbalanced by the shocking caricature which is made of the English rival, who, to increase the absurdity, happens to be Edward the black prince. The battle of Poictiers is an event too well known to bear such misrepresentation even in a melo-drama.

Théatre de l'Impératrice, rue de Louvois. The Avaricious heir, or the Heir without an Inheritance. A comedy in three acts, in prose.

Dorville, is a sort of Legacy hunter, who hopes to conceal his interested views by affecting an extraordinary degree of sensibility. He feigns an affection for his cousin merely because she is an heiress, who is however attached to Sezanne, a person whose principles and conduct are unexceptionable. The efforts of Sezanne to unmask the scoundrel, and those of Dorville to secure the interest of his old aunt, create some diversion. The result is a Will, apparently very advantageous to Dorville, in consequence whereof he thinks he is to be put in possession of several thousand pounds, but by the Items of it he is in fact made a debtor to Sezanne in a sum more than equal to the whole amount of the property. The legacy hunter is thus unmasked and punished, and leaves his rival master of the field of battle.

THE COUNTRY THEATRES.

Theatre-Royal, LIVERPOOL.-This Theatre, which opened for the season on Monday, May 25th, has (thanks to the liberality of the managers), been painted afresh, in a style far beyond the public expectation; its uniform neatness exhibits a pleasing contrast to the light, fantastic elegance of what it was in 1806; but it would be improved by the addition of four chandeliers round the higher tier of boxes, and a few lights in the upper boxes: this I think the managers ought to take into consideration, as it is utterly impossible to read a bill in this part of the house.

We have plenty of performers, but few of any note. Mr. Rae, who is our hero in tragedy and light comedy, is possessed of many requisites for his profession; nature has done much for him: in his acting as well as manner of speaking, it is very obvious that he copies Mr. Elliston, and in some particular parts with great effect; his chief failings consist in a too hurried delivery of his words in impassioned passages, and almost a perpetual motion of the head and arms.-Mr. Grant is an old favourite here, and deserving of the approbation he receives; he is, in every sense of the word, a general actor.-Messrs. Lewis and Knight have long since established their names as actors, both on the London and provincial boards, therefore little remains to be said of them in that capacity, but as managers I may perhaps hereafter have occasion to speak of them more fully.Of Mr. Gibbon and Mr. Turpin I cannot make too favourable a re port; the former is a stranger here, but is already become a great favourite in Munden's characters, whose manner he imitates very successfully; the latter in countrymen is very clever, and only inferior to Emery.-Mr. Tayleure is one of the most imperfect, confident actors I ever beheld; his principal characters are country lads, which, instead of being represented as simple country boors, are by a curious writhing of the mouth, and a particular starting of the eyes, which appear nearly half out of the head, completely transformed into merry-audrews and buffoons; but I must do him the justice to say I never saw Mr. Punch in a puppet-show dressed or played with more effect, than by him in the Mayor in Peeping Tom of Coventry: Mr. Moore also converted Peeping Tom into a native of Hibernia.-Mr. Hamerton is an universal favourite here, and generally allowed, as an Irishman, to be very little inferior to the celebrated Johnstone.-Our singers are Mr. S.nith and Mr. Asker; the former has an uncommonly powerful and melodious voice, and is on the whole the best vocal performer we have had for some years: the latter as a bass singer is tolerable.-Among the females Miss Grant stands foremost; she is a truly interesting actress, without the slightest affectation-Mrs. Mourton is the heroine in tragedy and sentimental comedy; she possesses a good figure, her eye is expressive, and some of the tones of her voice are extremely pathetic, but she should pay more attention to the business of the scene, when she has done speaking-We have also a Mr. Jones from Birmingham, Mrs. Terry, Mrs. Waring, Mrs. Skinner, and Mrs. Brown, of whom I shall at present say nothing.-Mrs. Tayleure in old women has merit, but is by no means to be coinpared to her predecessor Mrs. Grove.-Mrs. Smith as a singer is a

great favourite, and Miss Larkman I have no doubt will shortly be come one :-Besides these we have had the four Miss Adams's from Dublin, and are at present gratified by the fine performances of Mrs. Siddons.

ARGUS.

Theatre WORTHING.-Mr. Trotter has erected a very commodious theatre at this fashionable watering-place, which he has fitted up, without regard to expence, in a style of uncommon elegance; the decorations are of the most tasteful description, and arrangements have been some time making for the opening which is expected on the 6th of July. Miss de Camp, Mr. Purser, and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Siddons are among the performers engaged.

Theatre Royal, EDINBURGH. In the list of the Edinburgh benefits, I perceive one or two mistakes and deficiencies, which fall to be corrected and noticed. Archer-the last night, was less by £.12 than the sum of £.120, as stated in the Cabinet by your correspondent. Mr. Macgregor's night, one of the very weakest of the whole four of performance, and that too in Passion week, when by far the most genteel, if not the most numerous of the frequenters of the theatre were precluded from attending and patronising one of the most meritorious, diligent, able, and faithful office-bearers that ever belonged to a similar establishment-rather exceeded the sum mentioned in the Cabinet. Mr. Evatt's, was, under all circumstances, one of the very best benefits of the season, and most honourably marked the estimation in which he is held, not only as a most promising general actor, but as an amiable man and excellent member of society.-Meggett, considering it was his first season, a weak night, and other still more unfavourable circumstances (but of toa personal a nature to be even here alluded to) had no good reason to be, if he was, which I credit not, dissatisfied. It gives me infinite pleasure to remark, that this very meritorious young performer continues daily to rise in merit and public estimation. Indeed I hear it continue to be asserted, that his performances of Reuben, Glenroy, the Captain of Robbers (in the Curfew); above all, the latter in Glasgow, and the Dr. Pangloss of Evatt, have been in every respect by far the most finished, and of course the most attractive ex. hibitions of the last season without exception. It is the most delightful of my duties to confer the just reward of praise where justly earned by unassuming merit.

Archer's stiffness and preaching are to me intolerable. Mrs, Orger-how unfortunate that there is something in exquisite beauty incompatible with the growth of judgment !-Vining, but as a pantomime wight is good for nothing.-Poor Miss Benson, now, alas, Mrs. Vining! much surely is due to thee in thy new state, for much hast thou sacrificed to attain it; but I cannot be cruel to beauty above all in the garb of modesty.-Berry whom one of your corre· spondents, who I judge from his writings must know better, compares to Munden, pleases still the shilling gallery, and as many of the pit as he can, and in the broadest parts of broad buffoonery, pleases me too. Dwyer is still the darling of the ladies, and our lady-like men; and when an author is fortunate enough to write at or for him, may well please even the most fastidious.-Rock, when he shall have thrown aside those vile punchings or pawings with his arms, and in

English parts, certain Hibernian cadences; when he shall have chosen to get rid of the necessity of fishing for his words, by a study less capricious and interrupted; when to all this he shall choose less to depend upon example than follow his own judgment in playing certain parts (and I have some reason to believe that he would find infinite advantage in doing so), then shall he have my suffrage to his naturally considerable comic powers; then shall he no longer be eclipsed or rather out-applauded by one (Berry) infinitely as inferior to him in native genuine legitimate humour, as in professional judgment, just conception, and accurate delineation. On the disjunction of the Edinburgh and Glasgow companies by the preference to Rock of one Beaumont, a native of Guernsey, and a manager of a strolling company in the north of Scotland, as manager of the Glasgow Theatre; and on the consequences resulting therefrom to the theatrical entertainments of this country, accept a few remarks next month,

ÆQUUS.

Theatre Royal GLASGOW-Mr. Conductor. As the liberal scope of your theatrical criticism, is not confined to the metropolis, or to England, I trust, you will insert in the Cabinet a few observations which, at this distance, I am desirous to offer, concerning a gentleman, who, in a different miscellany, has been the subject of much injurious misrepresentation. The person I allude to, is Mr. Dwyer, whose absence from London, though it cannot have effaced the favourable impression he had made at Drury Lane, has not yet been sufficient either to confirm or disappoint the expectations of his friends. The talents of an actor will always be more or less conspicuous accordingly as his ambition is stimulated by success or repressed by chagrin; and it would not be surprising if Mr. Dwyer, with a laudable endeavour, and no unreasonable hope, to attain the highest honour and advantage of his profession, should, being baffled in such endeavour, and cut off from such hope, become negligent in his performance, and indifferent to his fame. With these suggestions before me I was led to give some credit to the censures in the Monthly Mirror, at which I have pointed; but I can now, with a satisfaction wherein I know your candour will participate, assure you that, to my judgment, Dwyer, in the gayer range of polite comedy is without a rival, or any adequate competitor, at present, on the English stage. I do not overlook Mr. Lewis, whose peculiar pleasantry I fully acknowledge; but the comedian of most value, and now the most wanted, is such a one as we have heard of, and some of us beheld, in O'Brien, what we all remember in John Palmer, and to supply whose loss I have no hesitation in affirming that Mr. Dwyer possesses many of the best requisites.

I am Sir,

A Friend to Truth, Justice, and your Cabinet. Glasgow, 10th. June 1817.