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Strictures On Public Amusements.
received with the most decided approbation . Mr . Holcroft is said lo be M author . 6 . Was presented for the first time at Drury-Lane Theatre a new Opera > called " JACK OF N EWBURY . " ¦ This Opera is the first effort of young Mr . Hook , whose father has lor so many years enlivened the . orchestra of Vauxhall with sweet harmony . Making allowance for inexperienceit . is with concern we areobliged to
every , . declare , that the Opera in question has neither to boast probability of plot , novelty of character , nor variety of incident . A Masque , in compliment to the Royal Nuptials , is attached to the piece , but by no means promises to repay the manager for the most striking , superb , and complicated p iece of machinery we ever witnessed . . The music docs credit to Mr . Hook . At Covent-Garden the same evening was produced ; for the benefit of Mrs .
Martyr , a new Musical Interlude , called " THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN F ACLKNER ;" which was received ' with approbation . 12 . At Drury-Lane Theatre a new Comedy was brought forward under th * title of " FIRST L , " written by Mr . Cumberland . Lord Sensitive ; - - - . - Mr . W ROU . CHTON . Sir Miles Mowbray j - - - Mr . KING . Frederick Mowbray , - - - Mr . PALMER .
David Mowbray , - ' - Mr . BANNISTER , jun * Mr . Wrangle , - - - - Mr . R . P ALMER . Mr . Bustler , - - - - - Mr . SUETT . lady Ruby , - - - - - Miss FARP . EN . Mrs . Wrangle , - Miss POPE . Mademoiselle Rolet ; - Mrs . JORDAN . Frederick Mowbray ' s first love was devoted to an amiable youiig lady , but oonosed by his father Sir Miles Mowbray , who contrives an artifice to separate
them , sends his son to Italy , and intercepts all the letters addressed by the latter to his mistress during the time he was abroad . —Conceiving that her lover was unfaithful , thelady marries the rich Sir Paul Ruby , and becomes a very wealthy widow just at the time when Frederic returns to this country . —Dunng . his residence at Padua Frederick falls dangerously ill , but is recovered by the endearing attentions of Mademoiselle Rolet , a French Emigrant , whose parents were massacred in France . Sensible of her kindness , and pitying lier forlorn stateFrederick solemnly promises to this Sabina Rolct on their arrival
, marry in Eneland . Meeting his brother David accidentally , Frederick by his assistance procures tiie fair emigrant an asylum in the house of Mr . Bustler , a navy agent . While Sabina is in this house Lady Ruby calls , in order to appoint Bustler her banker , and luckily enters a room in which she finds Frederick and Sabina . It scion appears that ' Frederick retains his first love for Lady Ruby , though he determines to fulfil his grateful engagements with the unfortunate Sabina . ¦ Lord Sensitive , a suilor to Lady Ruby , has , it appears , passed through the his
ceremony of marriage at Padua with Sabina Rolet , but having gratified wishes , he cruelly abandons her . Sabina secretly resolves not to profit by t . is generous offers-of Frederick , and more particularly on perceiving the strong attachment that prevails between him and Lady Ruby . After several interview : ' , between Lord Sensitive and Lady Ruby , in which the latter stings him to the heart with allusions , to his conduct towards poor Sabina , he relents , and determines immediately to set off for Italy in order to do her justice , but is agreeably - with
surprised in finding her under the roof with Lady Ruby , and he then , every app ' earance of contrition for his perfidy , and of transport in regaining her , acknowledges her as his w-ife . Lady Ruby of course is united with her beloved Prcderic ' k , both professing that their first love continues in . unabated force . Tlu . re is an episodical part relative to Mr . arid Mrs . Wrangle , the latter ot whom is the daughter of Sir Miles Mowbray , who forces her to marry a man net the choice of her heart . The general moral is , that parents should never cross the tlicta' . cs of a first love , as it is the genuine effusion ot innocence and
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Strictures On Public Amusements.
received with the most decided approbation . Mr . Holcroft is said lo be M author . 6 . Was presented for the first time at Drury-Lane Theatre a new Opera > called " JACK OF N EWBURY . " ¦ This Opera is the first effort of young Mr . Hook , whose father has lor so many years enlivened the . orchestra of Vauxhall with sweet harmony . Making allowance for inexperienceit . is with concern we areobliged to
every , . declare , that the Opera in question has neither to boast probability of plot , novelty of character , nor variety of incident . A Masque , in compliment to the Royal Nuptials , is attached to the piece , but by no means promises to repay the manager for the most striking , superb , and complicated p iece of machinery we ever witnessed . . The music docs credit to Mr . Hook . At Covent-Garden the same evening was produced ; for the benefit of Mrs .
Martyr , a new Musical Interlude , called " THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN F ACLKNER ;" which was received ' with approbation . 12 . At Drury-Lane Theatre a new Comedy was brought forward under th * title of " FIRST L , " written by Mr . Cumberland . Lord Sensitive ; - - - . - Mr . W ROU . CHTON . Sir Miles Mowbray j - - - Mr . KING . Frederick Mowbray , - - - Mr . PALMER .
David Mowbray , - ' - Mr . BANNISTER , jun * Mr . Wrangle , - - - - Mr . R . P ALMER . Mr . Bustler , - - - - - Mr . SUETT . lady Ruby , - - - - - Miss FARP . EN . Mrs . Wrangle , - Miss POPE . Mademoiselle Rolet ; - Mrs . JORDAN . Frederick Mowbray ' s first love was devoted to an amiable youiig lady , but oonosed by his father Sir Miles Mowbray , who contrives an artifice to separate
them , sends his son to Italy , and intercepts all the letters addressed by the latter to his mistress during the time he was abroad . —Conceiving that her lover was unfaithful , thelady marries the rich Sir Paul Ruby , and becomes a very wealthy widow just at the time when Frederic returns to this country . —Dunng . his residence at Padua Frederick falls dangerously ill , but is recovered by the endearing attentions of Mademoiselle Rolet , a French Emigrant , whose parents were massacred in France . Sensible of her kindness , and pitying lier forlorn stateFrederick solemnly promises to this Sabina Rolct on their arrival
, marry in Eneland . Meeting his brother David accidentally , Frederick by his assistance procures tiie fair emigrant an asylum in the house of Mr . Bustler , a navy agent . While Sabina is in this house Lady Ruby calls , in order to appoint Bustler her banker , and luckily enters a room in which she finds Frederick and Sabina . It scion appears that ' Frederick retains his first love for Lady Ruby , though he determines to fulfil his grateful engagements with the unfortunate Sabina . ¦ Lord Sensitive , a suilor to Lady Ruby , has , it appears , passed through the his
ceremony of marriage at Padua with Sabina Rolet , but having gratified wishes , he cruelly abandons her . Sabina secretly resolves not to profit by t . is generous offers-of Frederick , and more particularly on perceiving the strong attachment that prevails between him and Lady Ruby . After several interview : ' , between Lord Sensitive and Lady Ruby , in which the latter stings him to the heart with allusions , to his conduct towards poor Sabina , he relents , and determines immediately to set off for Italy in order to do her justice , but is agreeably - with
surprised in finding her under the roof with Lady Ruby , and he then , every app ' earance of contrition for his perfidy , and of transport in regaining her , acknowledges her as his w-ife . Lady Ruby of course is united with her beloved Prcderic ' k , both professing that their first love continues in . unabated force . Tlu . re is an episodical part relative to Mr . arid Mrs . Wrangle , the latter ot whom is the daughter of Sir Miles Mowbray , who forces her to marry a man net the choice of her heart . The general moral is , that parents should never cross the tlicta' . cs of a first love , as it is the genuine effusion ot innocence and