And again; in the third scene of the second act, when, in answer to a hint of Villeroy that she has it in her power to make a return for his generosity to her by marrying him, she says,

"Buried and cold in my dear husband's grave;

And I should wrong the truth, myself and you,
To say that I can ever love again.
I owe this declaration to myself:

But as a proof that I owe all to you,

If, after what I have said, you can resolve

To think me worth your love-Where am I going?

You cannot think it-'tis impossible."

The break at "Where am I going," and the return again to" You cannot think it," &c. were executed with great power and skill. The growth of Isabella's despair in the fourth act was well managed, and her distraction in the fifth (with the deductions already made on account of overdoing) had sterling merit. In the second scene particularly, where she draws a dagger, and goes to the couch on which Biron sleeps, in order to stab him, she was peculiarly great and striking. She showed that she really felt, and was so deeply affecting, that we could not help regretting any little circumstance that detracted from such solid merit.

In a word, her performance of Isabella convinced us that Mrs. Beaumont has talents, natural and acquired, to place her in a very high rank of her profession, provided she will but sedulously endeavour to get rid of the bad habits we have described; which, so long as they remain, will effectually impede her march to fame, and if not soon removed, will become so inveterately rooted, that no human effort will be sufficient to dislodge them. What Macklin said to Henderson, may no less appropriately be said to this lady: "When you have unlearned what you have already learned, you may learn to become an excellent player."

We are sorry that it is not in our power to speak in terms of equal approbation when we follow Mrs. Beuamont from the tragedy to the afterpiece. In Roxalana she was the very reverse of what we should have expected from her. In truth she does not appear to us to understand the character. If she does, Mrs. Abington and Mrs. Lyster (Miss Barsanti) the original Roxa

lanas, knew nothing at all about it. It is a character, too, which may be more easily understood than most others; since it is essentially the same in the beautiful tale of MARMONTEL as in the little drama founded on it, and in the representation of the two ladies alluded to, the same as described by both writers. Playful, resolute, and, on the strength of her conscious goodl qualities, blunt, free of speech, voluble, and pleasantly flippant. But it is still the flippancy of the lady, easy in her manners, well bred, proud, and therefore undismayed even by a sovereign despot, whom she has no moral reason to respect. She therefore asserts her superiority over the sultan not only in her words but in her deportment and every action; so did Mrs. Abington. Mrs. Beaumont's Roxalana partook more of the eastern dancer, and seemed rather like one that was brought in to divert the sultan by her drollery, than one asserting the privileges of a free woman, and bending him down to compliance by the superior elevation of her mind, as well as the superior playfulness of her wit. Her dress itself partook of this. She marked with unnecessary emphasis some passages that trespass on propriety; and, in a word, overacted the character to an irksome degree, rendering it so coarse and rough to the sense, that, wishing much to see her often in characters that sit well upon her, we wish never again to see her in that of Roxalana.

(To be continued.)

Ir was intended to present our subscribers in the last number of the year, with a portrait and memoir of our respectable manager and friend, Mr. Warren, for which purpose he had obligingly consented to accommodate us with a loan of an excellent portrait painted by Sully. The picture was placed in the hands of an engraver, where it now lies. But on account of pre-engagement, which could not be postponed, Mr. Edwin has been unable to accomplish the engraving time enough for the publication of this number, which, as well as the last, has been postponed so iong, that the editor would be ashamed to offer an apology for it, if he could not with truth say that the delay is to be ascribed solely to circumstances, not within his control. And he earnestly requests that the subscribers to the work will not do him the injustice to hold him responsible, or let him suffer either in their opinions, or otherwise, for a disappointment, which he has most poignantly lamented.

The plate, which, in due course, should accompany this number, not being attainable in time, one in lieu of it shall be delivered with the next number, from which it may be transferred to this. Thus our subscribers will be entitled to two plates in the Mirror for January, 1811.