ations of remarkable Incidents. Drawn by Mr. Webber, during the Voyage, graved by the most eminent Artifts. Published by Order of the Lords Comrs of the Admiralty. 4to. 4. 14s. 6d. Nicol and Cadell. E narrative of this imporSoyage has been fo long and atiently expected by the public, ar readers will not be much furwhen they are informed that the whole impreffion, which very large one, was fold on the ng of publication. The greater of the plates form a feparate , and are very numerous, and beautiful. Together with the they are eighty-one in number. voyage has at length appeared the direction of Dr. Douglas, t name is well known in the liworld for the acutenefs and which he discovered feveral face, in detecting Lauder's cat of the pretended plagiarifms of Douglas has prefixed an introty account of Cook's former eries to the first volume, and has concluded it with an infcription to the memory of that great navigator. This contains alfo a lift of the perfons who affifted the labours of the editor by their communications, their advice, and direction. At the conclufion of the third vo lume are given feveral vocabularies, and tables of the route of the fhips, digefted from the log-bock. For thefe laft valuable appendages the editor and the public were indebted to the abilities and perfeverance of Mr. Wales, of Chrift's-Hofpital, who undertook this laborious task merely with a view of ferving the widow of his deceased friend, Captain Cook. From his information, likewife, feveral paffages in the introduction have been derived. In our next number we fhall give a further account of the contents of thefe three volumes. 3. LXX. Dramatic Mifcellanies: confifting of Critical Obfervations on feveral of Shakspeare: with a Review of his principal Characters, and those of various Writers, as reprefented by Mr. Garrick, and other celebrated Comedians. Anecdotes of Dramatic Poets, Actors, &c. By Thomas Davies, Author of the in of the Life of David Garrick, Efq. In three Volumes. 8vo. Davies. HE reader who is fond of anecand theatrical characters will great entertainment in these voand fhould any author ever ke a general hiftory of the ftage, find affiftance from the great of Mr. Davies. What a treawould a work of this nature, a either in the time of Shak, or at the Restoration, be aced by the stage antiquaries of the at age? Such a treasure will this prove to thofe who fhall devote thoughts to theatrical history at * diftant period. The reader of prefent day will likewife reap no siderable fare of amusement from the volumes. As a fpecimen, we fhall et the following notes from the aks on the fecond part of Henry IV. vapours. "With Falstaff, wine is the promoter of courage, and every good quality of the mind. "Athenæus, fays Dr. Falconer, makes an obfervation fimilar to this. It is true; and I could quote many Greek verfes to prove it: but the doctor knows there are so many precepts from various poets, and other writers, quoted by the fame author, against the immoderate ufe of wine, that Falftatf's followers would lofe more than they got by the authority of Athenæus. After this long note on fifh and wine, I hope the reader will pardon a quotation from Aristotle's #STATE. "Skill in the weapon is nothout fack. A good therris fack hath operation in it: it afcends me into the and trics me all the foolish and duil problems; in which that philofopher gives an accurate defcription of the progress of wine, and the effects of its immoderate ufe. When a fober, moderate, and filent man drinks wine in a quantity more liberal than routing his fpirits and genius, and rendering him ordinary, it has the effect of cherishing and more communicative: if taken itill more freely, he becomes talkative, eloquent, and confident of his abilities: if taken in itill larger quantities, it renders him bold and daring, and defirous to exert himself in action: if he perfift in a more plentiful dofe, it makes him petulant and con tumelious. The next flep renders him mad and outrageous: fhould he proceed ftill farther, he becomesd ftupid and feifeless." Ariftot. Prob. fect. 30." Mr. Mr. Davies gives the following account of the performers who have appeared in the famous fcene of the king and prince, "The much-admired interview between the King and the Prince of Wales owes its beauty principally to fituation and character. The taking away the crown by the prince produces a noit pathetic dialogue; fuch perhaps as no writer, except Shakspeare, could draw from fo flender an incident. Where the heart fpeaks, no ornament of words is neceffary: the more plain and fimple the diction, the more affecting it will be. Such is the fcene, though ftill more interefting, between Queen Katharine and Griffith, in the fourth act of Henry VIII. where that princefs takes leave of the world, with a noble grandeur of mind, in expreffions the most teeling, and at the fame time the most familiar and unadorned. "The great expiation of fin, in the days of Henry, was esteemed to be a crufade to the Holy Land; and, though I once imagined he was not fincere in his intention of undertaking the expedition, yet I know not whether motives religious and political might not have co-operated to urge him to it. He certainly made great preparations for it, and it is as certain that his fon, Henry V. as a proof of his piety, on his deathbed declared, that if he had recovered from his ilinefs, it was his firm refolution to refcue, if poffible, the Holy Land from the infidels. This pation of delivering the Holy Sepulchre was fo predominant for a long time, that the Countefs of Richmond, mother of Henry VII. declared, if the Chriftian princes would undertake a crufade, fhe would herfelf turn laundrefs, and walh their linen for them. "If it were poffible that any thing could reconcile us to an ulurper, and the murderer of his fovereign, it must be the deep remorfe and fincere compunction which the offender feels for crimes fo atrocious. Had Henry been the next heir to the crown, his wickednefs would not have been lefs; but the people would not have fuffered from infurrections in favour of Roger Mortimer, the rightful fucceffor by birth. This circumftance rendered his whole reign one continued fcene of tumult, battle, and bloodfhed; and involved his pofterity and the kingdom in the longest and moft fanguinary war that ever afflicted a nation. However he may have been cried up by the clergy, for his piety in perfecuting the followers of Wickliffe, and being the first King of England who burned heretics, it is well known that he and his father, John of Gaunt (who were the great patrons of Wickliffe) when they understood that the clergy poffeffed almost half the revenues of the kingdom, declared that they would clip their wings, or ufed words to that purpose. But the King food in need of the clergy as much as they did of him. Henry's conttant jealoufy and fear of lofing the crown may be forgiven; for that was a juft part of his punishment for feizing it: but his cruelty, in fheading torrents of blood to maintain the crown, can only be juftified by the tyrant's law, neceflity; a neceffity which he had imposed on bifcif. "Almost all the actors who have for than thefe last fifty years reprefented this pa fcene of the King and his fon have bee nate in engaging the attention and raific affections of their auditors. Booth, whoy the king, and Wilks, who acted the were highly accomplished, and underbood nity and grace of action and deportment, all the tender paffions of the heart, in a degree. The elder Mills, in the king, fon, an imitator of Wilks's manner, prince, followed almoft immediately the fummate actors; and though they were means equal to them, were above medin efpecially the father in Henry, which may to be the last part this worthy man appea He was taken ill a few days after he had it, and died, I believe, in November His name was announced in the bills beth, but Quin was obliged to supply la I faw him hurrying to the play-house five and fix in the evening. "Milward, ceffor of Mills in Henry, was, in path his fuperior. His countenance was finely five of grief, and the plaintive tones of were adınırably adapted to the languor of perfon, and to the fpeech of an offended fectionate parent. Garrick's figure did him in the perfonating of this character, forcible expreffion of his countenant energy of utterance, made ample an fect of perfon. To defcribe the ang with terror, which he feemed to fe caft up his eyes to heaven, and pronounce words, How I came by the crown, O God, forga would call for the pencil of a Rapha Reynolds. "Though Garrick, from a mean a paffion which conftantly preyed mind, denied to Powel the merit of und ing the pathos of this celebrated fe audience thought far otherwife, and, tears and applaufe, juftified the action very pleafing tragedian. In the last lingering ftage of life, worn by complicated distemper, and with afflicting pains of the gout, the emaciated Barry undertook to reprefent fcenes of Henry. In perfon, if we contu he was better adapted to the part than an predecctfors; for almott all the prisons Plantagenet line were remarkable for but that was but a trifling requifite in actor. The fatherly reproofs and can monitions, from the confequence in Barry's pleafing manner, as well as nel acquired authority and importance. Ha were, perhaps, heightened by the anunt mind in the declining state of his he the frequent pains of his cruel distemper. his fetting fun, which emitted a win glimmering ray, fpectators might form a inent what Barry had been in his mendi On fome future occafion we probably give further extract these Dramatic Mifcellanies. T 497 E ENGLISH THEATRE, AND REGISTER OF PUBLIC ENTERTAINMENTS. MEMORATION OF HANDEL, UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF HIS MAJESTY. The fourth performance, at Westminster-Abbey, on Thursday, the 3d of June. WITH regard to the effect of the mufic in power and effect of the fcene, for experience cannot furnish us with an adequate impreffion. If any thing could be faid in addition to the praife of the conductors and the performers, it would be, that the excellence of each day's performance in fome degree rofe upon the preceding. The moral effects of the exhibition; the holy paffion which it engendered in the bofom; and the elevated notions of religious worship which it inftilled, are circumstances that tend to aggran dize this memorable teaft. The vifible impreffions which the lofty ftrains made on the audience; the fervour and the awe infpired by the grand paffages of the full chorus, fuch, for initance, as "To Thee Cherubim and Seraphim continually do cry." voice of the audience had fhewn ded they were, we have heard them and by muficians of the greatest emiw, rather than admit the fallibility of Tents, were contented to lofe their rich a feast to all mufical men. No ld have been better adapted to the fcene performance, nor more compact or more in its movements. Even Pacchierotti's paintive, melodious, and captivating, was n the utmost diftinctnefs in every note. atat fint intended that the festival fhould with the third performance; but his was graciously pleafed to indulge the public which had rather been inflamed than with a fourth; and the Queen ordered a The pieces which his Majefty felected day were chiefly thofe which compofed #entertainment. The orchestra and the as numerous as before, and the exethe whole in the fame grand and unftyle. Imagination cannot reach the WTH PERFORMANCE, at WESTMINSTER-ABBEY, on Saturday, the 5th of June. "Holy, Holy, Holy; Lord God of Sabaoth " "Heaven and earth are full of the majefty of thy glory"-intitle this celebration to honours diftinct from its mufical merit. Here it excites emotions favourable to religion and virtue, and impreffes on the most thoughtless mind ideas of the ineffable grandeur of the Deity. The feelings of the auditory were stirred to all the kindred emotions of the mufic, of which the character and articulation is every where as diftinct as language, and alternately melted with grief, or glowed with rapture. Madame Mara, who, to her other merits, this day joined that of exerting her talents, though ftruggling with illnefs, gave the air of "O ting unto the Lord a new fong," in a ftyle of molt matterly execution. The inftruments were, as before, individually great, and in the whole wonderful. day the facred oratorio of the Meffiah pated. It was most numerously attended: est due as much to the memory of tal compofer, as to the amiable perader whofe immediate countenance the atment of the day was given. The feiti has done fo much honour to the naconcluded as brilliantly as it began. given our teftimony to the honours of king fo great and fo magnificent in the and in the execution fo fuperb and comWe are happy to hear, in confirmation telligence last month, that it is to emte elegant talents of the mufical biflorian, province it fo peculiarly belongs. Dr. l do juftice to the fcientific merits of ral performances, and his authority will this triumph of the art the monument t deferves. The folowing infcription, on a tablet of white was this morning placed over the mo of Handel, in Weftminiter-abbey: Lovo. MAG. June, 1784. Their Majefties were accompanied by the three eldest princeffes, and wore the medals truck in commemoration of Handel. Within thefe walls H A N DEL on the 26th and 29th of May, on the 3d and 5th of June, 1784. 3 S Sir Richard Jebb, Barts. and conducted by JOAH BATES, Efq. PANTHEON. The Dettingen Te Deum; the dead march in Saul; the funeral anthem; the coronation, & PANTHEON. May 30. THE MASQUERADE this evening was reforted to by a company of eight hundred perfons, many of whom were of rank and fashion: the ufual proportion of variegated and black dominos formed the light and fhade of this midnight picture. Among the characters, Merlin delerves the lead; he perfonated a gigantic Mother Shipton; the mechanism of which was fo curious, that a figure upwards of ten feet high was enabled to walk amongst the company with great freedom: by the rudeness of fome intoxicated perfons, Mr. Merlin was thrown down; he, however, recovered his fall, and walked about the room with his ufual dexterity. A character of night seemed defirous of inviting fuch far-gazing philofophers to repofe, as might be fo inclined. She faid, with fome humour, "that the remained to the laft moment among the maiks, to make the night as long as poffible." An Acteon metamorphofed, who ditributed the following lines: "Tell, if thou can'ft, the wond'rous fight difclofed, "A Goddefs naked to thy view expofed? ADDISON. "Such dire decree compell'd thefe horns to grow, And fpread their antlers o'er m'enchanted brow; But ye, fair dames, with virtue lefs fevere, Who tread with careless grace this magic sphere, Adopt of punishment a jufter plan, Nor make us brutes, till we forget THE MAN!" ANONYMOUS. An excellent mafque of a paper-maker.-A Sir Archy Mac Sarcafm, who was one of the most defpicable characters that ever incumbered a malquerade. Two very excellent Highlanders, one of whom was a perfect reprefentative of the Herculean Wally Wallace, of famous memory. A Highland woman.-Two chimney-fweepers, who were of a magnitude utterly out of character. A cookwench.-A Lady Pentweazle. A Cantab, who demonstrated that wit and learning are effentially different, for while he fpoke Greek he talked nonfenfe. A moft humourous Sir Jeffery Dunfian, who dealt more in drollery than old wigs. The Nimmy Pimmy was prefent, and appeared in the dress of a female.Mrs. C. was fuppofed to be in the character of Princess Rufty Fufty, from the Agreeable Surprize, for her enormity of shape could mean no other reprefentation in nature. About half paft one the fupper rooms opened. An excellent cold collation was fre confifting of chickens, tongues, hams, a va of pies, cream tarts, fruits, &c. with a very aflortment of wines. The dances, which were interrupted the company adjourned to fupper, were i wards affumed by different parties, and nued till paft fix; after which the on began to withdraw, till the rooms were en cleared. Monday, June 7. THE superior excelle Madame Mara, in every great requir finger, hath lately been difplayed fo univ by her repeated performances at the the Pantheon in honour of Handel, not a circumstance of furprise her ba evening, should have been honoured fashionable affembly. The Prince who has ever approved himself the merit, was among this eminent perform mirers, and teftified his approbation in flattering degree. The concert confifted of the follow felected fubjects: Firft Att. Overture, Mr. Bach Madame Mara, Pugniani.- Cost Mr. Salomon.-Song, Mr. Hami violoncello, Mr. Mara. Second Act.-Symphony, Mr. Song, Madame Mara; Naumann.oboe', Mr. Fifcher.-Duett violoncello Crofdill and Mara.-Song, Madam Grefnich.-Full piece. The different inftrumental players emulous in diftinguithing themselves in Madame Mara. Mr. Harrifen was vocal performer befides hertelt: he fung the affettuofo ftile. Madame Mara two airs with which the originally in od felf in England, and an additional Grefnich. Her performance of the mann is celebrated in the highest degre continent; her English patrons equally her merit in that compofition; but fong the gave new proofs of her executing in a very finished manner ad libitums, that feemed hardly limits of a first violin. Her voice is at inexhauftible sweetness and variety, and fitions are fine and perfect. OPERA-HOUSE. June 12. THIS evening a new comic opera was performed, entitled Le Gemelle. It is lively and fpirited in the compofition both of the poetry and mufic, and is full of comedy, both in its fable and conduct. The embarraffments arife naturally, and the mifconceptions in regard to the heroine are at once laughable and probable. The argument is thortly this: A country gentleman has two daughters, and he is robbed of one of them in her infancy. The daughter thus taken away is full of vivacity, wit, and beauty, and the gentleman into whofe hands the who had adopted her as his daughter, informing her that he was not, defperately in love with her as she grew u having difcovered to her that he was t daughter, made her an offer of his hand, the loathing left his houfe, and came houfe of her own father, juft on the eve fifter's marriage to one of three fuitors embarraffments and miitakes arife tr fimilarity of the two fifters. e words are by Tonioli, the mufic by AnIn many parts it is rich and beautiful. This opera will give a moft brilliant termination to their feafon. COVENT GARDEN. 1. This theatre clofed with the Careband, after which Mrs. Abington spoke www.ng epilogue: RESS to the Town, written and spoken by E play concluded, and this season o'er, my warmeft, humbleit homage here; they are fix'd, and here they ne'er fhall part, Efforts, which, warm'd by fuch a foft'ring choice, After this epilogue, which was well received, it was ftated, that though the manager's feafon was closed, both he and the performers were to join their efforts in favour of Mr. Wild, whofe benefit was deftroyed by the accident of the Westminster election cloting on that day. It was announced that his play was to be the Merchant of Venice, and that Mr. Macklin was to perform the part of Shylock, on the tenth of June. THEATRE-ROYAL, in the HAY-MARKET. announced the opening of Mr. Colman's per, Mr. Palmer. Mr. Egan. Mackram, ere are expreffions ftrongly tinctured, and ch provoked from party fpirit rather harsh ke. Mrs. Simper and Mrs. Buckram ata one another with a coarsenefs ftrongly cha+ Boxes. * Pit. racteristic of election feurrility; but the fatire is indifcriminate. There are female canvaffers on both fides; there is abufe oh both fides; there is bribery on both fides. At the clofe of the poll Holly and Ivy are returned duly elected, and Bayes's counfel fays that he will petition; for the merits of the election must be ultimately determined by the HOUSE. There were two well-painted new fcenes, the one of the Piazzas, and the other of the huttings. The prologue was admirable, and the audience received it with three diftinct shouts of applaufe. cr PROLOGUE To the ELECTION of the MANAGERS. C Written by G. COLMAN, Esq. Gives virtue fcandal, innocence a fear, Yet fome, with crític nofe, and eye too keen, Thus once, when fick, Sir Gripus, as we're told, Το |