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Public Amusements.
An EQUAL RACE , in each heroic part , With gentler Virtues , that refine the Heart : — Virtues , that tow ' r above their proudest plan , That cheer , embellish , and enable MAN . Does Envy doubt ?—behold the smiling Land ; On every side the DOMES OF FEELING stand ; Where Sickness finds a balm to scoth its pain ,
And Age and Want a ready shelter gain . . Nor less the bounteous aim to spread relief , Where Merit lingers in sequester'd grief : Enough —they hear Affliction ' s faintest sigh , All Volunteers , where Sorrow ' s Ensigns jty . To-night , alas ! a melancholy train For Yomt Protection pleads—nor pleads in vain : ¦
THREE helpless INFANTS and the weeping WIFEUntimely lost the prop and charm of life , An AGED PAIR—but what can words avail , To point your feelings to the hapless tale , When ev ' ry eve the plaintive 5 tory tells , And ev ' ry heart with lib'ral pity swells ? . Nor let th' officious Muse a theme prolong , That melts , yet animates , this GEN ' ROUS THRONG .
THEATRE ROYAL , HA YM A 1 UCHT . June it . The theatrical campaign was opened at the little theatre , in the Hayinarket , with O'Keefe ' s Farce of " Peeping Tom , " the Comedy of " The Liar , " and a new Musical Entertainment , from the pen of Mr . Brewer , ( author of " How to be happy " ) entitled BANNIAN DAY . The story of the latter piece is as follows : — Lieutenant Goodwill , from having married against the consent of his
father , Sir George Goodwill , is involved in pecuniary difficulties . He is , however , faithfully attended in his misfortunes b y his servant , J : ick Hawser , who is very well with Polly , the daughter of Batch , a monied baker . Captain O'Macgallaher , an Irish officer , undertakes , to settle matters between the Lieutenant and his father ; but blunders so much , in his interview , that the Baronet , more incensed than ever , to detect his son ' s extravagancies , hires an apartment at Plymouth , where he advertises as a money-lender , in full
expectation his son will be one of the first to apply to him . Mrs . Goodwill , however , anxious for her husband ' s situation , happens to notice the advertisement , and applies to him , to get a note discounted ; when Sir George ( who had never seen her before ) becomes interested b y her deportment , and offers his protection . Mr . Goodwill is just arrested , through the activity of Bobby Notice , a pettyfogging lawyer , when Sir George arrives to his assistance ; and the Lieutenant ' s Bannian Day ends with a reconciliation with his fatherand
— Jack Hawser is married to Poll y Batch . ' In this musical Farce there is very little originality tu admire . Bobb y Batch , the baker , is an exact counterpart of Dicky Gossip , the barber in the Farce of " My Grandmother ; " and Jack Hawser is as cOmironto tlie stace as the curtain itself . We have an Irishman , as usual , full of blunders ; but , apparently , without any connection with what is going on . Of late years ' Irishmen are so necessary a part of the drama , that we have hardly any one brought forward without them
: they are , at present , what a dunce was in the time of Bays , " we cannot advance to serious business , if they are absent . " All the other characters are very hacknied . VOL . vi . 3 I
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Public Amusements.
An EQUAL RACE , in each heroic part , With gentler Virtues , that refine the Heart : — Virtues , that tow ' r above their proudest plan , That cheer , embellish , and enable MAN . Does Envy doubt ?—behold the smiling Land ; On every side the DOMES OF FEELING stand ; Where Sickness finds a balm to scoth its pain ,
And Age and Want a ready shelter gain . . Nor less the bounteous aim to spread relief , Where Merit lingers in sequester'd grief : Enough —they hear Affliction ' s faintest sigh , All Volunteers , where Sorrow ' s Ensigns jty . To-night , alas ! a melancholy train For Yomt Protection pleads—nor pleads in vain : ¦
THREE helpless INFANTS and the weeping WIFEUntimely lost the prop and charm of life , An AGED PAIR—but what can words avail , To point your feelings to the hapless tale , When ev ' ry eve the plaintive 5 tory tells , And ev ' ry heart with lib'ral pity swells ? . Nor let th' officious Muse a theme prolong , That melts , yet animates , this GEN ' ROUS THRONG .
THEATRE ROYAL , HA YM A 1 UCHT . June it . The theatrical campaign was opened at the little theatre , in the Hayinarket , with O'Keefe ' s Farce of " Peeping Tom , " the Comedy of " The Liar , " and a new Musical Entertainment , from the pen of Mr . Brewer , ( author of " How to be happy " ) entitled BANNIAN DAY . The story of the latter piece is as follows : — Lieutenant Goodwill , from having married against the consent of his
father , Sir George Goodwill , is involved in pecuniary difficulties . He is , however , faithfully attended in his misfortunes b y his servant , J : ick Hawser , who is very well with Polly , the daughter of Batch , a monied baker . Captain O'Macgallaher , an Irish officer , undertakes , to settle matters between the Lieutenant and his father ; but blunders so much , in his interview , that the Baronet , more incensed than ever , to detect his son ' s extravagancies , hires an apartment at Plymouth , where he advertises as a money-lender , in full
expectation his son will be one of the first to apply to him . Mrs . Goodwill , however , anxious for her husband ' s situation , happens to notice the advertisement , and applies to him , to get a note discounted ; when Sir George ( who had never seen her before ) becomes interested b y her deportment , and offers his protection . Mr . Goodwill is just arrested , through the activity of Bobby Notice , a pettyfogging lawyer , when Sir George arrives to his assistance ; and the Lieutenant ' s Bannian Day ends with a reconciliation with his fatherand
— Jack Hawser is married to Poll y Batch . ' In this musical Farce there is very little originality tu admire . Bobb y Batch , the baker , is an exact counterpart of Dicky Gossip , the barber in the Farce of " My Grandmother ; " and Jack Hawser is as cOmironto tlie stace as the curtain itself . We have an Irishman , as usual , full of blunders ; but , apparently , without any connection with what is going on . Of late years ' Irishmen are so necessary a part of the drama , that we have hardly any one brought forward without them
: they are , at present , what a dunce was in the time of Bays , " we cannot advance to serious business , if they are absent . " All the other characters are very hacknied . VOL . vi . 3 I