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Public Amusements.
mansion , and intends to bequeath him a considerable legacy . The bulk of her fortune she intends to bestow on Emily Fitz-Ailen , the orphan daughter of a ., brave oiiicer , who was killed in India . The proper heir to her possessions is Harry Algernon , her own nephew , whom she has never seen , and whom she has been taught , by the artifices of Eariing , the attorney , to consider as a worthless character , and whom she therefore determines never to see , and wholly to exclude from her will . Harry Algernon is in reality a most
amiable ant ! spirited youth . Having rescued Emil y Fitz-Allen from a ruffian , who had assailed her in . a . neigbouring wood , she becomes attached to him , and Harry is equally enamoured . As he is debarred from all access to the mansion , he assumes the appearance of a servant , in order to be near his beloved Emily , and to obtain an opportunity of clearing his reputation , in the opinion of his aunt . Unluckily , he confesses to her , in his assumed character , that he has been a gentleman , and he is therefore rejected as a
servant , though permitted to stay a night in the house . Finding that Lady Cypress ' s prejudices against him are very strong , he does not venture to disclose himself , and as her nervous feelings will not permit her to hear a melancholy tale , he begs permission to refer his cause to Sir Olivet Montrath , an old friend of Lady Cypress , who is expedted every moment to arrive with his nephew Lionel , the latter of whom is to come as the intended husband for Emily . Emily , however , unwarily betrays her regard for
Harry Algernon , and persevering in her declarations of esteem for the amiable youth , notwithstanding the remonstrances of Lady Cypress , the latter will not sign the Will in her favour , and orders her to leave the mansion . Harry Algernon reveals himself to Sir Oliver , whose nephew , Lionel , had received a wound in a duel with Algernon , a circumstance that much augmented the prejudices of Lady Cypress against the latter . Harry Alggrr non , however , presents a written declaration from Lionel to Sir £ Uiyer ,
vyhich declaration fully exonerates Harry from every dishonourable suspicion , and fixes the odium of bad conduit on the writer . It was in vain that Emily related to Lady Cypress the gallant conduct : of Harry , in protecting her from a secret ruffian . Earling , the attorney , contrives to make Lady Cypress believe that the supposed assassin was a confederate with Harry , paid by the latter to make the attack , that he might derive honour from the apparent rescue . After several scenes of a serious , and several
of a ludicrous , kind , Harry Algernon appears in his own proper . character , and is confronted with the villainous attorney before Lady Cypress and the rest of the characters . It is then seen that the vile attorney does not even know the person of the gentleman whose . character he has defamed . Lady . Cypress becomes sensible of the false impressions she had suffered to prevail in her mind upon partial testimony : she is more fully acquainted with . the high merits of her nephew , whose virtue she rewards with the hand of
his admired Emily , and the promise of succeeding to her fortune . The attorney is dismissed with disgrace . And the piece ends , as usual , to the . satisfaction of all the rest of the . characters , who have the double pleasure of seeing a knave punished , and worth properly recompensed . Mr . Cumberland lias " , in the piece before us , given more into the broad style of the modern drama than in any former work of his pen . He has produce ! a comedy that is interesting and diverting , but one thai will b y no
means stand the rigid scrutiny of criticism . It is founded upon the hi ghest degree of improbability , for it is impossible to . conceive that an amiable and . a reflecting woman , such as Lady Cypress is supposed to be , could be prejudiced against a nephew whom she has never seen , who does not Jive very distant from her , and whose character is distinguished for the most generous qualities , in the report of nil who know him , merely because he is reviled "by an interestedindividual . This is .. the chief objecton to the piece . Ad-
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Public Amusements.
mansion , and intends to bequeath him a considerable legacy . The bulk of her fortune she intends to bestow on Emily Fitz-Ailen , the orphan daughter of a ., brave oiiicer , who was killed in India . The proper heir to her possessions is Harry Algernon , her own nephew , whom she has never seen , and whom she has been taught , by the artifices of Eariing , the attorney , to consider as a worthless character , and whom she therefore determines never to see , and wholly to exclude from her will . Harry Algernon is in reality a most
amiable ant ! spirited youth . Having rescued Emil y Fitz-Allen from a ruffian , who had assailed her in . a . neigbouring wood , she becomes attached to him , and Harry is equally enamoured . As he is debarred from all access to the mansion , he assumes the appearance of a servant , in order to be near his beloved Emily , and to obtain an opportunity of clearing his reputation , in the opinion of his aunt . Unluckily , he confesses to her , in his assumed character , that he has been a gentleman , and he is therefore rejected as a
servant , though permitted to stay a night in the house . Finding that Lady Cypress ' s prejudices against him are very strong , he does not venture to disclose himself , and as her nervous feelings will not permit her to hear a melancholy tale , he begs permission to refer his cause to Sir Olivet Montrath , an old friend of Lady Cypress , who is expedted every moment to arrive with his nephew Lionel , the latter of whom is to come as the intended husband for Emily . Emily , however , unwarily betrays her regard for
Harry Algernon , and persevering in her declarations of esteem for the amiable youth , notwithstanding the remonstrances of Lady Cypress , the latter will not sign the Will in her favour , and orders her to leave the mansion . Harry Algernon reveals himself to Sir Oliver , whose nephew , Lionel , had received a wound in a duel with Algernon , a circumstance that much augmented the prejudices of Lady Cypress against the latter . Harry Alggrr non , however , presents a written declaration from Lionel to Sir £ Uiyer ,
vyhich declaration fully exonerates Harry from every dishonourable suspicion , and fixes the odium of bad conduit on the writer . It was in vain that Emily related to Lady Cypress the gallant conduct : of Harry , in protecting her from a secret ruffian . Earling , the attorney , contrives to make Lady Cypress believe that the supposed assassin was a confederate with Harry , paid by the latter to make the attack , that he might derive honour from the apparent rescue . After several scenes of a serious , and several
of a ludicrous , kind , Harry Algernon appears in his own proper . character , and is confronted with the villainous attorney before Lady Cypress and the rest of the characters . It is then seen that the vile attorney does not even know the person of the gentleman whose . character he has defamed . Lady . Cypress becomes sensible of the false impressions she had suffered to prevail in her mind upon partial testimony : she is more fully acquainted with . the high merits of her nephew , whose virtue she rewards with the hand of
his admired Emily , and the promise of succeeding to her fortune . The attorney is dismissed with disgrace . And the piece ends , as usual , to the . satisfaction of all the rest of the . characters , who have the double pleasure of seeing a knave punished , and worth properly recompensed . Mr . Cumberland lias " , in the piece before us , given more into the broad style of the modern drama than in any former work of his pen . He has produce ! a comedy that is interesting and diverting , but one thai will b y no
means stand the rigid scrutiny of criticism . It is founded upon the hi ghest degree of improbability , for it is impossible to . conceive that an amiable and . a reflecting woman , such as Lady Cypress is supposed to be , could be prejudiced against a nephew whom she has never seen , who does not Jive very distant from her , and whose character is distinguished for the most generous qualities , in the report of nil who know him , merely because he is reviled "by an interestedindividual . This is .. the chief objecton to the piece . Ad-