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Public Amusements.
THEATRE-ROYAL , COVENT-GARDEN . Jan . io . A New comedy , entitled A CURE FOR . -riiE HEART ACHE , was rejf a . presented for the first time at Covent-garden theatre . The fable of this comedy is as follows : A baronet , of an ancient and honourable family , and an upstart nabob , of immense ill-gotten wealth , are neighbours . The circumstances of the former are declining , to hasten whose ruin is the ambition of fhe latter . A person , grown very rich by the trade of a taylor , has a mortgage on the baronet ' s
, estate ; who , with his eccentric son , going down in the country on this business , they are invited to the house of the nabob , caressed on account of their wealth , and a match is made up between the son and the heiress of the nabob , though he is already engaged to the daughter of a firmer , impoverished by his own imprudence , while the son of the baronet loves the nabob ' s niece , from whom a . part of her fortune has been withheld by the address of her uncle . The confounding these designsand bringing the true lovers togetheris
, , . the business of the piece ; in which the young faylor , and the artless , but honest son of the farmer , who , with his sister , is reduced to a state of servitude in the nabob ' s family , are made the principal instruments . The great objeft of the present comedy is to shew the influence cf a nabob of dissolute habits , who returns to his native country , and corrupts the simplicity of the place . A better ground than this , which is marked out by the great moralist ,
cannot be inclosed m the dramatic pale . Mr . Morton , the author , well knew , however , the necessity of limiting his censure . It applies , by no means , tq the great body either of civil or military charafters ; who , by the enterprise of yoiith , led either after fame or profit , pass a life of fatig-ue and industry , with neither a blot upon their humanity or their probity . Such men there are , and many personally known to all of us , who will applaud the chastisement of him , who disgraces so much courage and pa : ient labour .
The characters may be thus briefly described : — The Stanleys are faithful representations of old English dignity . Vertex and his daughter display the prodigality of the east , with the tasteless and vicious propensities of minds originally bad- The Rapids are , father and son , taylors retired from business . The Garlands are farmers , and the father has been ruined at cards by the nabob ' s valet . Emma is a young lad y whom the . nabob has plunderedwho is affianced to Charles Stanley ; and Jesse
bat-, land is at last safely contracted to young Rapid . This is a play of so much aftion , that we should fail in attempting a clear detail of the fable . But the effects are powerful in themselves , and rendered irresistible by combination and contrast . The single scene between the nabob and Frank Oatland is as truly dramatic and affecting , as any we have ever seen . It has the advantage of incomparable acting . The author will cheerfully divide his praise here with Fawcett .
The Dramatis Persona ; are as follow : SirHub .-rt Stanley , - : Mr . Murray . Charles Stanley , - - Mr . Pope . Vortex , .... Mr . Quick . Old Rapid , - - " - Mr . M unden . . Ned Rapid , - . " - ' Mr . Lewis . Oatland , - - Mr . Waddy .
Frank Oatland , - - Mr . Fawcett . Miss Vortex , - - Airs Mattocks .. Emma Vortex , - - Mrs . Pope . Jesse Oatland ... Miss Waliis ..
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Public Amusements.
THEATRE-ROYAL , COVENT-GARDEN . Jan . io . A New comedy , entitled A CURE FOR . -riiE HEART ACHE , was rejf a . presented for the first time at Covent-garden theatre . The fable of this comedy is as follows : A baronet , of an ancient and honourable family , and an upstart nabob , of immense ill-gotten wealth , are neighbours . The circumstances of the former are declining , to hasten whose ruin is the ambition of fhe latter . A person , grown very rich by the trade of a taylor , has a mortgage on the baronet ' s
, estate ; who , with his eccentric son , going down in the country on this business , they are invited to the house of the nabob , caressed on account of their wealth , and a match is made up between the son and the heiress of the nabob , though he is already engaged to the daughter of a firmer , impoverished by his own imprudence , while the son of the baronet loves the nabob ' s niece , from whom a . part of her fortune has been withheld by the address of her uncle . The confounding these designsand bringing the true lovers togetheris
, , . the business of the piece ; in which the young faylor , and the artless , but honest son of the farmer , who , with his sister , is reduced to a state of servitude in the nabob ' s family , are made the principal instruments . The great objeft of the present comedy is to shew the influence cf a nabob of dissolute habits , who returns to his native country , and corrupts the simplicity of the place . A better ground than this , which is marked out by the great moralist ,
cannot be inclosed m the dramatic pale . Mr . Morton , the author , well knew , however , the necessity of limiting his censure . It applies , by no means , tq the great body either of civil or military charafters ; who , by the enterprise of yoiith , led either after fame or profit , pass a life of fatig-ue and industry , with neither a blot upon their humanity or their probity . Such men there are , and many personally known to all of us , who will applaud the chastisement of him , who disgraces so much courage and pa : ient labour .
The characters may be thus briefly described : — The Stanleys are faithful representations of old English dignity . Vertex and his daughter display the prodigality of the east , with the tasteless and vicious propensities of minds originally bad- The Rapids are , father and son , taylors retired from business . The Garlands are farmers , and the father has been ruined at cards by the nabob ' s valet . Emma is a young lad y whom the . nabob has plunderedwho is affianced to Charles Stanley ; and Jesse
bat-, land is at last safely contracted to young Rapid . This is a play of so much aftion , that we should fail in attempting a clear detail of the fable . But the effects are powerful in themselves , and rendered irresistible by combination and contrast . The single scene between the nabob and Frank Oatland is as truly dramatic and affecting , as any we have ever seen . It has the advantage of incomparable acting . The author will cheerfully divide his praise here with Fawcett .
The Dramatis Persona ; are as follow : SirHub .-rt Stanley , - : Mr . Murray . Charles Stanley , - - Mr . Pope . Vortex , .... Mr . Quick . Old Rapid , - - " - Mr . M unden . . Ned Rapid , - . " - ' Mr . Lewis . Oatland , - - Mr . Waddy .
Frank Oatland , - - Mr . Fawcett . Miss Vortex , - - Airs Mattocks .. Emma Vortex , - - Mrs . Pope . Jesse Oatland ... Miss Waliis ..