False Friend, Don Juan, &c. which were aided by the exertions of the same performer. We have been treated with a greater variety of Shakspeare's plays than in any former season; the Winter's Tale has proved as attractive here as at Covent Garden. Mrs. Glover in Hermione, Miss Taylor in Paulina, Mr. Barrymore in Leontes, Mr, Swindall in Antigonus, Mr. Bartley in Florizel, and Mr. Noble in Autolycus, could scarce be excelled. Besides the above named performers, whose various merits are well known to your readers, our company consists of Mr. Harley from Birmingham, Mr. Meggitt from Edinburgh, Mr. Conway (a young performer of mach promise, possessing a fine tragic face, a dignified person, and a clear audible voice, capable of any modulation), Mr. John Dwyer, Mr. and Mrs. Hill, (of Covent Garden) Mr. Musgrave, Mr. Barnes, Mr. Grove, Mr. and Mrs. Lee, Mr. Atkinson, Mr. M'Farland, Mr. York, Mr. Shelmerdine, Mrs. Swindall, Miss Simpson, Mrs. Noble, Miss Grant, Miss Hudson, Mrs. Henley, Mrs. Brooks, &c. &c. all possessing considerable merit. I wish I could close this paper with saying that the benefits have been productive, but from the badness of trade, &c. with very few exceptions, the contrary has been the fact. Mr. Bradbury, near 3001. Mrs. Glover, 165l. Mr. M'Cready, 120/. Mr. Swindall, 1087. Miss Taylor 801. and Mr. Connor, 1801. the latter an old veteran here, now the box-door keeper. I will only add, that knowing Mr. M'Cready, only as the manager of the Manchester theatre, in writing the above I am influenced by no motive but that of rescuing the character of a respectable man, from unmerited obloquy, and from your known impartiality, I flatterr myself with its admission into your next publication. June 13. ARISTIDES ACCOUNT OF MR. COOKE'S PERFORMANCES AT BATH AND BRISTOL. Bath Saturday, June 11, Sir Pertinax M' Sycophant. Monday, June 13, Shylock and Sir Archy M' Sarcasm. Thursday, June 16, Richard IN. Saturday, June 18, Sir Giles Overreach. Bristol. Wednesday, June 15, Sir Pertinax M' Sycophant. Monday, June 20, Shylock and Sir Archy M' Sarcasm. Wednesday, June 22, Richard III. Friday, June 24, Sir Giles Overreach, Bath. Saturday, June 25, Iago and Sir Archy M'Sarcasm, last time. HEAT. SIR, TO THE EDITOR OF THE MONTHLY MIRROR. Troston, near Bury, July 20, 1808, I send you the heat by the thermometer 12 and 13th here. I believe such heat bas never been ascertained in England, since thermome ters have been in use, now near a century and a half. 1808, 12th July, Troston.-Therm. on the outside of a northern wall, in the shade, and with no reflection of heat, 0. 40m 91o. Bar. 29° 9. July 13, 1h 22m 91o. The wind south, a little inclining to the east. Barom, very little varying either day. A cold continued haze and much cold wind had preceded. On the th, the Therm, had been at 80 about 50m p. 1. There has been scarcely any rain for a week: much electric coruscation almost every evening, Nights remarkably clear and brilliant, with short intervening hazes, which soon precipitate, or are dissolved by the encreased temperature of the atmosphere. I am, CAPEL LOFFT. P. S. At Bury I learn the heat to have been 93 on the 12th, 95 on the 13th. You will have seen statements of much greater heat: but I suspect not where there was equal attention to avoid error. LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. THE first volume of a new edition of the Harleian Miscellany, edited by Mr. Park, has just appeared, and for typographical elegance and accuracy, is without a rival in that class of books. Mr. Walter Scott is preparing for publication, a new edition of Lord Somers' Tracts, to correspond in magnificence with the Harleian collection; the first volume of which is far advanced in the press. Mr. Drakard, an enterprising bookseller of Stamford, is printing a "Guide to Burleigh House," the seat of the Marquis of Exeter, to be embellished with engravings of the house and lodges, by Messrs. Storer and Greig, from drawings by Mr. Edward Blore. This work, it is expected, will be ready for delivery about Christmas. Mr. Hunt is collecting the papers on Methodism, which appeared in the Examiner, and intends shortly to re-publish them with some interesting additions. We have this month inserted a defence of Mr. M' Cready's manage ment at Manchester. It has always been our custom to give any variety of opinion we may receive respecting country managers, as well as actors; and we think it competent to any part of an audience, to deliver their sentiments freely, on the conduct of such public persons; but we have to regret the publication of a letter signed A Townsman, and must suppress the philippics of Henricus and Acutio, because we. have been favoured with the following caution, which we deem it just to attend to." The reports of discarded and worthless performers, or disappointed printers, should not be regarded by publishers. Such people are to be found in most places, and ought to be guarded against rather than encouraged." Mr. Wiggins and Mrs. Waddle,a Hint, and a Husband to his Wife, by P. G.; Dick Stripe; B. X, on a rude kiss; Anna to Edwin; J. G.'s, of Grafton-street, to Miss Louisa Gatliffe; J. L.'s Lines on hearing a Welch Harp; M. P.'s Sonnet; T. D. W.'s Epilogue; Perez's Fairy Revels; Eliza's lines, and Mr. Brown's sonnet are received. The remark on Scott's Marmion is just. It will be reviewed next month. "On the duties required of a leader of an orchestra," the first opportunity. The idea of A Collector of Portraits shall be considered. Mr. Howelles has had fair play. A sonnet, said Johnson, is an epigram without point. We wish Mr. H. would try the other sort. Venus's pourquoi won't do.-Pray, what dost thou? is the sense, B. F. a writer in the Examiner's Defence; the Coincidences or Imitations, from Tower Hill, Sunderland Theatre, aud Mr. Lofft's Reply' to W. R. next month. Investigator has some good sense, but little humanity. To make our dramatic register as full as possible, we noticed Mr. Pope's performance of Sir Callaghan for his benefit, but what sin have we committed, that he should wish us to have been present ? Scot's "simple tale, as related to him when traversing the mountains of Argyleshire," is too long for us to fix a time for it. Nothing but brevity with epigram, or the exquisite finish of a cabinet picture, can insure immediate insertion. Mr. W. Brown, of Mincing Lane, assures us, that he was not the author of "Meditations on a Scull,”'—a poem rejected. Tastes differ, or Lord Chancellor Eldon versus Lord Cottington, Chancellor of the Exchequer to Charles I. and the Theatrical Fund, certainly next month. C. E. Barry says, "I take the opportunity," (sending a sonnet) "to compliment you on your two very elegant correspondents, Endymion and Horace in London." We quote this letter with pleasure. Single Stick and Wrestling; T. N.'s genuine anecdote of Wilson, and Curious Inscription, next month. We do not understand Patrick on will and shall. Why not I will, nstead of I shall, thou wilt? ERRATA. Vol. III. p. 460, 1. 25, read shall for "should;" p. 467, sire for "seir," and p. 452, l. 17, for Turn read From. MONTHLY MIRROR, FOR AUGUST, 1808. 11 i Embellished with A PORTRAIT OF STEPHEN WESTON, B. D. F. R. S. S. A. R. L.H. ENGRAVED BY FREEMAN, FROM AN ORIGINAL PAINTING. PRINTED FOR THE PROPRIETORS, By Hurding and Wright, No. 38, St. John's Square, Clerkenwell, Edinburgh; and sold by all the Booksellers in the United Kingdom. 1808. 1 The FREEDOM OF THE PRESS, established by the VERDICT, which we had prophesied in the case of SIR JOHN CARR, v. HOOD and SHARPE, makes us think every thing relating to it worthy of record. We have therefore in our LITERARY Intelligence given, in addition to our usual quantity, the curious correspondence of the EARL OF MOUNT-NORRIS, SIR RICHARD PHILLIPS, and the AUTHOR of "MY POCKET BOOK," subsequent to the trial. An interesting paper on Charity, by the Rev. Mark Noble, F. A. S. of L. and E. next month. Henry's Harp, by Mr. James B. Brown shall appear when we have room. Mr. W. Brown's Sonnet on Noon; B-b's Westminster Quibbles; W. S-n's Portrait Painter and the Lovers; C. E. Barry's Lines on the Spanish Patriots; R. H. J.'s verses; mes reveries, and a sonnet, by Mr. Howelles; are received. The compliments and advice of L. B. and Philaster are received, and no part of the former rejected. The latter will require consideration-however, we shall do our best to satisfy them both. Philaster reminds us of eighty-one promises-he will recollect that they are põetical promises our Parnassus is small. W.D. on Duelling, Hugo Twist on Biography and Biographers, and Enpa on Voltaire's Criticism, shall appear. J's Medical Advice and Epitaph; and Patrick's Epigram and Epi* taph, next month. Mr. George also. The Lines of our Cambridge friend on King's College, possess considerable merit, but their number prevents immediate insertion. Mrs. Jordan, or Kissing goes by Favour; Costume; Rats; and Gif. ford's Massinger, in No. XXI.. Mr. Howelles, Hertford-street, and Observator, Coleman-street Buildings, have both fallen epigrammatically on Mr. W. Brown's "Scull"-there is nothing in it, and the warfare is unnatural. Let T. D. W. look at p. 64, No. XIX. W.S-n's Anecdote of Cooke is old. To R. M.'s enquiries about Mr. Colman and Mr. C. Dibdin, junr. we can make no reply. Joe's bon mots are indeed Joe's. The attorney without business who died insolvent, and was said to have lived without causes, and died without effects; appeared in the papers. Errata-Vol. IV. p. 25, for "Palautim" read Paulatim; and at p. 40. put the note! after hæc. In the present No. p. 85, read Wal ter for "William." |