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Ar07100
My soul is free as is the ambient air , Although my baser part ' s immur'd ; Whilst loyal thoughts do still repair , To company my solitude : And though immur'd , yet I can chirp and sing , Disgrace to rebels , glory to my king . I am that bird , whom they combine
Thus to deprive of liberty ; But though they do my corps confine , Yet , maugrc that , my soul is free . Although rebellion does my body bind , My king can only captivate my mind .
Strictures On Public Amusements.
STRICTURES ON PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS .
COVENT GARDEN , MARCH 25 . A New Play was produced / or the first time at Covent Garden Theatre , unrfcr the title of "FONTAINVILLE FOREST ; '' thp characters pf which are as follow , and thus represented : Marquis Montault , - Mr . FAR KEN , LaMotte , • - - Mr . Pom , Lewis - - Mr . MIDDLETON
, , Peter , - - Mr . HULL , - . Kortenfia , - - Mifs MORRIS , Adeline , - - - Mrs . POPE . ' The story of the piece is upusually interesting . LaMotte , a Frenchmap of a good family and connections , reduced by a life of extravagance , retires with his wife from the disgrace which attaches to 'his humble circumstances , to a ruined abbey , in a remote forest , the estate of the Marquis
Montault . To this retirement he also takes under his protection a Lady ( Adeline ) whom he had rescued from the hands of a ruffian—she had been designed for a nun , but her parents were dead . Made desperate by penury—for the temporary support of his family , La Motte rushes from his retreat , and robs the lord of the surrounding territory , while on a hunting party in the neighbourhood—is at length discovered , and purchases the forbearance and secrecy of the Marquis , by promising to forward his suit with Adeline . She has already fixed her affections on young La Motte , who about this point of time had arrived in good circumstances from the army , but last from Paris ; her antipathy to the Marquis is moreover rooted at first si ght , which the event justifies .
Wandering by midnight through the intricacies of the abbey , she comes to an apartment , the door to which had been concealed behind the hangings of an outer room , that bears suspicious marks of having been the scene pf a former murder j-this suspicion is confirmed by the discovery of a scroll , which had been hidden by the deceased , unravelling his melancholy case , arid lastly , by the appearance of his ghost I To be brief—at length , it appears , that this unfortunate was the brother of the Marquis , sacrificed by him—and the father of Adeline ' ! The Marquis also receives horror-working conviction of the latter factfrom a icture of Adeline ' motherwhich
, p s , he perceives worn by that lady , ' at the moment when lie is about to commit violence upon her person : this discovery sets the wretch upon working up the shame-depressed La Motte , whom he considers as his creature , to murder Adeline , which lie pretends to give into , but temporizes , and thus ultimately saves litj , '" " ' The conclusion is poetically just—Young La Motte having been entrusted with the dreadful secret discovered by Adeline , returns from a journey to Paris , which he made purposely to forward legal vengeance against the execrable Marquis , so see him
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Ar07100
My soul is free as is the ambient air , Although my baser part ' s immur'd ; Whilst loyal thoughts do still repair , To company my solitude : And though immur'd , yet I can chirp and sing , Disgrace to rebels , glory to my king . I am that bird , whom they combine
Thus to deprive of liberty ; But though they do my corps confine , Yet , maugrc that , my soul is free . Although rebellion does my body bind , My king can only captivate my mind .
Strictures On Public Amusements.
STRICTURES ON PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS .
COVENT GARDEN , MARCH 25 . A New Play was produced / or the first time at Covent Garden Theatre , unrfcr the title of "FONTAINVILLE FOREST ; '' thp characters pf which are as follow , and thus represented : Marquis Montault , - Mr . FAR KEN , LaMotte , • - - Mr . Pom , Lewis - - Mr . MIDDLETON
, , Peter , - - Mr . HULL , - . Kortenfia , - - Mifs MORRIS , Adeline , - - - Mrs . POPE . ' The story of the piece is upusually interesting . LaMotte , a Frenchmap of a good family and connections , reduced by a life of extravagance , retires with his wife from the disgrace which attaches to 'his humble circumstances , to a ruined abbey , in a remote forest , the estate of the Marquis
Montault . To this retirement he also takes under his protection a Lady ( Adeline ) whom he had rescued from the hands of a ruffian—she had been designed for a nun , but her parents were dead . Made desperate by penury—for the temporary support of his family , La Motte rushes from his retreat , and robs the lord of the surrounding territory , while on a hunting party in the neighbourhood—is at length discovered , and purchases the forbearance and secrecy of the Marquis , by promising to forward his suit with Adeline . She has already fixed her affections on young La Motte , who about this point of time had arrived in good circumstances from the army , but last from Paris ; her antipathy to the Marquis is moreover rooted at first si ght , which the event justifies .
Wandering by midnight through the intricacies of the abbey , she comes to an apartment , the door to which had been concealed behind the hangings of an outer room , that bears suspicious marks of having been the scene pf a former murder j-this suspicion is confirmed by the discovery of a scroll , which had been hidden by the deceased , unravelling his melancholy case , arid lastly , by the appearance of his ghost I To be brief—at length , it appears , that this unfortunate was the brother of the Marquis , sacrificed by him—and the father of Adeline ' ! The Marquis also receives horror-working conviction of the latter factfrom a icture of Adeline ' motherwhich
, p s , he perceives worn by that lady , ' at the moment when lie is about to commit violence upon her person : this discovery sets the wretch upon working up the shame-depressed La Motte , whom he considers as his creature , to murder Adeline , which lie pretends to give into , but temporizes , and thus ultimately saves litj , '" " ' The conclusion is poetically just—Young La Motte having been entrusted with the dreadful secret discovered by Adeline , returns from a journey to Paris , which he made purposely to forward legal vengeance against the execrable Marquis , so see him