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Public Amusements.
from Atwood , with a mealey or popular airs for the nnale . The whole is diverting enough , and very well adapted to the occasion . Mr . Franklin , ivho wrote The Wandering Jew , is the Autlioi-. Dec . 14 . This evening v / a ? produced a new drama called ' THE CASTLE SPECTRE , ' byMr . Lewis , the author of a well-known novel , intitled 1 'heMonk . The story is briefly this : Angela , the heroins of the piece , is in love with Earl Percy , and is herself beloved by her uncle , Earl Onuondwho , in a
fa-, mily feud , has killed her mother , and who supposes himself also the murderer of her father . But the life of Reginald has been preserved by an old servant , who , fearing fatal consequences to himself , keeps him somewhat inhumanly chained in a dungeon for sixteen years . This Earl Ormond discovers in the progress of the piece , and endeavours in vain to make her father ' s life the price of Angela ' s consent to his wishes . By missing her way in her endeavours to escape , Angela stumbles upon her father ;
Ormond comes immediately after with his assassins ; a ghost follows close upon his heels , and after the ghost in comes Earl Percy , with his armed retainers . During the hesitation and fright occasioned by the apparition , Angela stabs her uncle , and after that heroic act , embraces Percy and Reginald with all the softness imaginable , and so concludes The Castle Spectre .
'The writing of this piece , a mixture of Tragedy , Comedy , and FarceJ is not equal to what we should have expected from the Author of The Monk , which , however licentious , is remarkable for splendour of diction and richness of fancy . The lig hter parts of the Castle Spectre are disgraced by more vulgar expressions than one ; several passages occur , that afford suspicion of plagiarism , and in many instances the shaft of wit entirely misses its aim . The serious parts are better ; and the whole of the piece is well calculated to
keep attention awake , and to produce stage effect of a very grand and striking kind . It is , in short , rather an appeal to the eye and to tiie fancy , than to the judgment and the mind . From the frequent introduction of supernatural machinery in his Novel , it becomes a doubt whether lie has introduced the Ghost in conformation rohis own taste , or to p lease the vitiated palate of the public , which seems at present to relish no food but what is very strongly devilled . However this
maybe , the Ghost is a good ghost , and certainl y gives less offence than Eai 1 Ormond ' s black attendants , who are , moreover , his confidants and counsellors . The assigning negro slaves to a baron of feudal times is the grossest outrage upon time and probability we have seen committed upon the stage : £$ uicquid mihi ostendis sic , incredulus odi .
The piece was very well received on the first ni ght by a crowded audience , although the freedom of Mr . Lewis ' s pen , and some prolixity , more than once give occasion to incipient hisses . On the second ni ght great and judicious curtailments were made . THEATRE ROYAL COVENT-GARDEN . Monday , Nov . 20 . A new musical afterpiece , entitled ' AN ESCAPE INTO
PRISON , ' was performed at this Theatre , said to be a translation from the French by Mrs . Inchbald . The songs were written b y Mr . Cross , and the Music composed by Mr . Reeve . It failed so completely of its intended eit ' eCr , that it was consigned , on its first performance , to perpetual oblivion . ij . The new Comedy , which was brought forward this evening under the name of 'FALSE IMPRESSIONS , ' is a production of Mr . Cumberland . The following is the fable . Lady Cypress is a rich widow , of a good understandings but credulous and valetudinary . Having been successful in alawtuit , as it appears bythe aid of Earling , an attorney , she takes this man into the
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Public Amusements.
from Atwood , with a mealey or popular airs for the nnale . The whole is diverting enough , and very well adapted to the occasion . Mr . Franklin , ivho wrote The Wandering Jew , is the Autlioi-. Dec . 14 . This evening v / a ? produced a new drama called ' THE CASTLE SPECTRE , ' byMr . Lewis , the author of a well-known novel , intitled 1 'heMonk . The story is briefly this : Angela , the heroins of the piece , is in love with Earl Percy , and is herself beloved by her uncle , Earl Onuondwho , in a
fa-, mily feud , has killed her mother , and who supposes himself also the murderer of her father . But the life of Reginald has been preserved by an old servant , who , fearing fatal consequences to himself , keeps him somewhat inhumanly chained in a dungeon for sixteen years . This Earl Ormond discovers in the progress of the piece , and endeavours in vain to make her father ' s life the price of Angela ' s consent to his wishes . By missing her way in her endeavours to escape , Angela stumbles upon her father ;
Ormond comes immediately after with his assassins ; a ghost follows close upon his heels , and after the ghost in comes Earl Percy , with his armed retainers . During the hesitation and fright occasioned by the apparition , Angela stabs her uncle , and after that heroic act , embraces Percy and Reginald with all the softness imaginable , and so concludes The Castle Spectre .
'The writing of this piece , a mixture of Tragedy , Comedy , and FarceJ is not equal to what we should have expected from the Author of The Monk , which , however licentious , is remarkable for splendour of diction and richness of fancy . The lig hter parts of the Castle Spectre are disgraced by more vulgar expressions than one ; several passages occur , that afford suspicion of plagiarism , and in many instances the shaft of wit entirely misses its aim . The serious parts are better ; and the whole of the piece is well calculated to
keep attention awake , and to produce stage effect of a very grand and striking kind . It is , in short , rather an appeal to the eye and to tiie fancy , than to the judgment and the mind . From the frequent introduction of supernatural machinery in his Novel , it becomes a doubt whether lie has introduced the Ghost in conformation rohis own taste , or to p lease the vitiated palate of the public , which seems at present to relish no food but what is very strongly devilled . However this
maybe , the Ghost is a good ghost , and certainl y gives less offence than Eai 1 Ormond ' s black attendants , who are , moreover , his confidants and counsellors . The assigning negro slaves to a baron of feudal times is the grossest outrage upon time and probability we have seen committed upon the stage : £$ uicquid mihi ostendis sic , incredulus odi .
The piece was very well received on the first ni ght by a crowded audience , although the freedom of Mr . Lewis ' s pen , and some prolixity , more than once give occasion to incipient hisses . On the second ni ght great and judicious curtailments were made . THEATRE ROYAL COVENT-GARDEN . Monday , Nov . 20 . A new musical afterpiece , entitled ' AN ESCAPE INTO
PRISON , ' was performed at this Theatre , said to be a translation from the French by Mrs . Inchbald . The songs were written b y Mr . Cross , and the Music composed by Mr . Reeve . It failed so completely of its intended eit ' eCr , that it was consigned , on its first performance , to perpetual oblivion . ij . The new Comedy , which was brought forward this evening under the name of 'FALSE IMPRESSIONS , ' is a production of Mr . Cumberland . The following is the fable . Lady Cypress is a rich widow , of a good understandings but credulous and valetudinary . Having been successful in alawtuit , as it appears bythe aid of Earling , an attorney , she takes this man into the