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Public Amusements.
PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS .
THEATRE-ROYAL , COVENT-CARDEH , OCT . It . THIS evenings new Play , entitled LOVER ' S Vows , was brought out before a numerous audience , and was crowned with universal applause . This drama is avowedly a translation from the Natural Son of Kotzbue , a p lay which has had a great run in Germany , and it is altogether in the stile
and character of the German stage . It was , wc understand , translated literally from the German , and put into the hands of Mrs . Inchbald , to whose taste we are indebted for the alterations and curtailments that have most hap . pily adapted it to our theatre .
The Baron of Wildenheim is represented in his you Mi to have seduced a young lady , a dependant upon his mother , and who lived in the Castle . Being ordered to join his regiment , he obtained from Agatha ( the unfortunate victim of his licentiousness ) a promise not to reveal this secret . In his absence her pregnancy discovered her guilt , and upon her refusing , in conformity to her promise , to declare who was her seducer , she was driven from the Castle with disgrace . For some tine she found an asylum in the house of
an old clergyman , and there she educated her son , who , when he was of proper age , entered the army . Upon the death of the clergyman , she was driven to the utmost distress , and having neither heard from her seducer nor her son , and being unable from sickness to maintain herself , she became a , prey to absolute want . The Baron in tlie mean time had married and settled ^ in Alsace ; but upon the death of " his Lady , by whom he had a daughter , he
returned to his estate in Wildenheim , after an absence of twenty years . — At this period the play commences . Agatha , sick and famishing , is turned out of a cottage near Wildenheim Castle , where she found a lodginsr while she had money to buy her bread . At this moment Frederic- her soil , who had obtained leave of absence from the army , appears ; he is -about to relieve Agatha , seeing her to be in want , when he discovers her to bs his mother , who having related to him the circumstances of his birth , and the navnfe of
bis father , sinks exhausted with the exertion . He conveys her to a cottage , the owner of which receives her with the utmost hospitallity . ; but poverty disables him from procuring the necessary relief for Agatha . Frederic o-oes out in despair , with an intent to beg , and meets the Baron , of whom ha entreats relief , and receives a small donation ; upon asking for more , the iron
Jj . expresses ins displeasure , and is about to depart , when Frederic draws his sword , and demands his purse ; but some of the Baron ' s attendants arriving , he is secured , and taken prisoner to the Castle . While a prisoner , Amelia , daughter of the Baron , carries him some food , and from her he , learns that the person whom he attacked was Baron Wildenheim . He solicits sii interview with the iSaron , to whom he discloses the secret of his birth . A general reconciliation takes place , ami the pieces concludes with the union of tlie
Baron and Agatha , and Amelia with Anhalt , who is chaplain to the Baron , but whose virtues induce the latter to overlook Iris want of birth and fortune .
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Public Amusements.
PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS .
THEATRE-ROYAL , COVENT-CARDEH , OCT . It . THIS evenings new Play , entitled LOVER ' S Vows , was brought out before a numerous audience , and was crowned with universal applause . This drama is avowedly a translation from the Natural Son of Kotzbue , a p lay which has had a great run in Germany , and it is altogether in the stile
and character of the German stage . It was , wc understand , translated literally from the German , and put into the hands of Mrs . Inchbald , to whose taste we are indebted for the alterations and curtailments that have most hap . pily adapted it to our theatre .
The Baron of Wildenheim is represented in his you Mi to have seduced a young lady , a dependant upon his mother , and who lived in the Castle . Being ordered to join his regiment , he obtained from Agatha ( the unfortunate victim of his licentiousness ) a promise not to reveal this secret . In his absence her pregnancy discovered her guilt , and upon her refusing , in conformity to her promise , to declare who was her seducer , she was driven from the Castle with disgrace . For some tine she found an asylum in the house of
an old clergyman , and there she educated her son , who , when he was of proper age , entered the army . Upon the death of the clergyman , she was driven to the utmost distress , and having neither heard from her seducer nor her son , and being unable from sickness to maintain herself , she became a , prey to absolute want . The Baron in tlie mean time had married and settled ^ in Alsace ; but upon the death of " his Lady , by whom he had a daughter , he
returned to his estate in Wildenheim , after an absence of twenty years . — At this period the play commences . Agatha , sick and famishing , is turned out of a cottage near Wildenheim Castle , where she found a lodginsr while she had money to buy her bread . At this moment Frederic- her soil , who had obtained leave of absence from the army , appears ; he is -about to relieve Agatha , seeing her to be in want , when he discovers her to bs his mother , who having related to him the circumstances of his birth , and the navnfe of
bis father , sinks exhausted with the exertion . He conveys her to a cottage , the owner of which receives her with the utmost hospitallity . ; but poverty disables him from procuring the necessary relief for Agatha . Frederic o-oes out in despair , with an intent to beg , and meets the Baron , of whom ha entreats relief , and receives a small donation ; upon asking for more , the iron
Jj . expresses ins displeasure , and is about to depart , when Frederic draws his sword , and demands his purse ; but some of the Baron ' s attendants arriving , he is secured , and taken prisoner to the Castle . While a prisoner , Amelia , daughter of the Baron , carries him some food , and from her he , learns that the person whom he attacked was Baron Wildenheim . He solicits sii interview with the iSaron , to whom he discloses the secret of his birth . A general reconciliation takes place , ami the pieces concludes with the union of tlie
Baron and Agatha , and Amelia with Anhalt , who is chaplain to the Baron , but whose virtues induce the latter to overlook Iris want of birth and fortune .