BOOK I. ODE XXX. PRIVATE BOXES! O Venus, regina Cnidi Paphique, &c. OVENUS, Queen of Drury-Lane! Let Cupid, ardent chaperon, To Hart-Street lead the London graces, With bosoms bare, and brazen faces. Bring with thee, dame, a tempting show Bring too the footpad demigod, Who once outwitted wise Apollo, O'er paths by truant Venus trod, Light Mercury is sure to follow. J. "WHERE THERE'S A WILL THERE'S A WAY." AMONG the gods a contest rose, First, Merc'ry eloquence propos'd, Momus said, he good-humour sought; Apollo said, "poetic fire Will sometimes gain a man éclat; Awakes ideas of Je n' sais quoi."" "The man," said Bacchus, "I profess, send ylarakterb Who coolly takes his bottles trois, Must, most undoubtedly, possess A head compos'd of Je n' sais quoi.'" "Ye gods," said Jove," your eyes incline Good-nature, sense, and wit, combine, In him, to form the "Je n' sais quoi.”»> n and dief zbiEA sdk da balesetviden a di tuoda gailior, quorful freaks eti dibo gad * As the gentleman, mentioned in the MS. may possibly have some modesty, (though I cannot presume to say that I have any knowledge of the fact) I have taken the liberty of suppressing his name. name. EDIT. MEMORANDA DRAMATICA. COVENT-GARDEN. Oct. 25. Man of the World.-Jubilee.* 26. Laugh when you can.-Jubilee.-Oscar and Malvina.t Oct. * No regard for the charitable purpose of this night's entertainments§, or respect for the Jubilee in honour of the 50th year of the accession of GEORGE III. could obtain a hearing for the new piece so named, and performed on this occasion. The fighting was more than usual, and the halloo much the same. The last scene represented a large vessel at sea, and a distant view of a sea-port town illuminated. Soldiers and sailors then came on, displaying banners, which were inscribed, with the different victories of the reign, a triumphal ear, Commerce, &c. The whole concluding with God save the King, the chorus by the entire house-actors and no actors, singers, and no singers. + The wind sprung up in the old quarter, O. P. about the fifth act. The breeze was comparatively faint; still nothing could afterwards be distinctly heard; and numbers of decent persons in the pit and boxes were driven out by the mutinous conduct which prevailed. The mutiny is by no means so alarming as it was, but the crew is still very far from orderly. Mr. Mainwaring's charge to the Grand Jury, in the Sessions-house, Westminster, and their having found bills of indictment against seven of the mutineers, are thought to have had a tendency to quell their rebellious spirit. We saw the two couple of lovers, and heard the same quantity of songs, which form what is called the Jubilee. It is a production reflecting infinite honour on the genius of Mr. Tom Dibdin, and its repetition is equally insulting to the taste and good sense of the town. However it has not the demerit of affecting to be like Mr. Arnold's Jubilee, a drama in two acts,¶ and as a little piece, of Jubilee cajollery" for that night only, might have escaped censure, but could have merited no praise. The music is furnished by Mr. Reeve, "with (as the Courier says) his usual success." From the 18th of September, till the 28th of October, this bark has been with its dead lights up, rolling about in a heavy sea, and at the merciless mercy of a tremendous gale-but the storm has suddenly sub § The benefit of the fund for the relief of small debtors. sided, Our witty friend Jum observed, that Mr. Arnold's Jubilee was just as bad again as Dibdin's, the former being in two acts, and the latter only in one. Oct. 30. Jubilee.--Grecian Daughter.-Flitch of Bacon.*30 Oct. sided, and from the mast-head, the owners seem to descry the land, and anticipate safety. The fear of a Court-martial on-board the Sessions'-' house, or King's Bench, has wonderfully pacified the mutineers.pil The School of Reform, a play (for we cannot call it comedy) of far more painful than agreeable interest, introduced Mr. Egerton a sea cond time, on the London boards. He performed the part of Lord o Avondale, and appears to be engaged to play Mr. Pope's middle-aged gentlemen in comedy. Sorry as Mr. Egerton was in his single perform-s ancet at the Haymarket, he seems likely to effect this well enough; st for all that Mr. Pope, a better actor, could do with these misera-ba ble parts, was to play them without offence. Mr. Emery shewed very extraordinary powers of acting in the horrible Tyke; and we have heard, with no less surprise than regret, that his salary is two pounds ab week less than Mr. Blanchard's, for whose merit, comparatively, twod pounds a week would be exorbitant pay. * The quiet of the latter part of last week was deceitful. Of the forty-one bills presented to the Grand Jury, only twelve, notwithstanding Mr. Mainwaring's laboured charge, were found ‡—those for hissing, hooting, barking, whistling, and specchifying, were all thrown out. The rebellious consequently knew the safe ground, and used it accordingly. The house was full at the first price; but the riot did not begin till the third act of the tragedy, when the riot, as it respected hearing, was to the end as bad as ever. The Grecian Daughter was first acted at Drury in 1772. Murphy, the author, observes in his PS. that the subject "has been touched in m some foreign pieces”—The Zelmire of M. Belloy, for instance, from=$ which, however, he thinks" it is not unlucky that no more than three lines could be adopted." If M. Belloy's Zelmire was any thing but de-lov clamation and dulness, we cannot see the luck. The acting of Mr. and Mrs. Barry in the principal characters, might have done something;13 but nothing, except the story of the daughter's suckling the father being as it were one of the nursery, could with the other materials have kept*** it in being. Mrs. Clarke, from Manchester,|| chose Euphrasia, the he-100 roine of this tragedy, for her debut; and we think that she did not do herself justice, for she seems capable of better things than mouthing de-* #INDI IL/DK age clamation 24 Duke Aranza, in the Honey Moon. THEN MAYATH A subscription has been freely entered into to defray the expences of the needy; each item, as advertised, stigmatizing the managers, &c. Daughter of Mr. Cowderoy, printer of a Manchester paper. Oct. 31. Exile. Portrait of Cervantes.* Nov. clamation and unaffecting rant. She appears to be about twenty; her face is of a handsome tragic cast, and her figure of the middling size, and well-proportioned. She has a musical voice, and, considering the experience of her youth, manages both that and her action with considerable skill and adroitness; the occasional injudicious exertion of the former, and the redundancy aney of the latter, time and study will correct. She is of course, as they say at Manchester, an improveable article ;" and, as it respects this character, her person is in the same situation, for few women could be found more ill-provided to acquit themselves satisfactorily, in the singular scene which passes where "the father finds a parent in his child." Her reception was very gracious, and deservedly so, until the fourth act, when she ceased to be heard. Mr. Young dressed the head of old Evander exquisitely well, and played the part better than we ever saw it performed. The Dionysius of Mr. C. Kemble was acted with energy, and in his armour, helmet,† and sword, he was every inch the picture of a hero. A prologue of some dozen lines was spoken by Mr. Cooke previously to the tragedy it was to bespeak the favour of the audience towards Mrs. Clarke, and began with alluding to the riots in the theatre: "Tho' hostile, le rage so long within these walls, Has rous'd a tempest that each heart appals," &c. and seemed to imply triumphantly that they were over. If the twelve against whom the bills were found had clubbed their line each, nothing more stupidly injudicious, could have been furnished the managers at any this crisis. The wounds were all torn open afresh on the occasion. New pronunciations. In the Grecian Daughter, the following novelties struck us-the names of the speakers we shall, for this time suppress: 1. "Arm" was called harm-We are sure that Mr. Kemble, the sta great patron of aitches, does not patronize this. 2. The y in Syracuse, was wrongly pronounced soft, as in Syringe. 3. See, Melancthon comes," was improved by this luminous reading, "See, my danthern coodaianasutA RA comes. * All at sea again. Nothing heard but hurlyburly from the end of the third act to the final dropping of the curtain. Many persons in the pit exhibited a large O. P. in their hats; and, as no bill was found against Mary Austen, who was taken up for springing a penny rattle, several rattles of that description were used, with whistles, &c. *Mr. Hope's work has been turned to some use in the new dresses. * Worse |