Theatrical Register. The properties of carriages are feldom fufficiently understood by thofe who occupy them: and yet nothing is more effential for gentlemen who keep a carriage to 7 allow him to be circumvented, by giving encouragement to others copying his plan. NEW PERFORMERS. COVENT-GARDEN, Sept. 26. HE Chapter of Accidents Twas laft night performed, for the purpose of introducing Mr. and Mrs. Knight, from the Theatre-Royal, Bath, in the cha racters of Jacob and Bridget: and we are happy to congratulate the manager on the fuccefs of his endeavours to gratify the public tafte, by bringing forward acqui fitions fo confiderable to his company. know, than the various principles THEATRICAL REGISTER. on which they may be built to fuit their convenience, whereby with eafe and certainty they may conftruct a carriage for themfelves fuitable to their with. We have to lament, the impoffibility of laying before our readers a full defcription of all the plates contained in the above treatife on carriages and harness, which would convey much useful information to our readers who are interested that way, as there are fifty-three plates reprefenting the fections, and copies of every kind of carriage in ufe; fold, in two volumes octavo, bound, gilt, and lettered, for 11. 7s. by the author, No. 36, Leather-Lane, Holborn, who executes orders conformable to the prices he has published: he receives and gives information of carriages wanted, or intended. for fale, and alfo fuperintends the care of carriages while in ufe, for a very fmall confideration. To our fporting friends, we do not know a more useful work that we could recommend. It feems to have been the intention of the author of the Treatife, to establish at his own house, a convenient plan for the ready purchase or difpofal of all forts of carriages and horfes, by way of register. The apparent advantages to be derived from this plan, has induced others to attempt the fame; the evil confequences of which will be, that, dividing the communication, the public can derive no advantage, and might as readily apply themfelves at the various places of fate, as at the various regifters that may be established, if they Mr. Knight is, what we have long looked for in vain in the line which he has taken—an actor, having nature for his model, divefted of that common place buffoonery and grimace, from which the difcerning mind, although it may enjoy a temporary fpark of merriment, can acquire no real or fubftantial entertainment. His action is at once irrefiftibly comic and chafe; his voice well adapted to the ftage, and his figure very good. Mrs. Knight's perfon is comely, not fo tall as her fifter, and her features bear fome resemblance to that diftinguished ornament of the drama. Her action is easy and fprightly, and her voice, though not very full, is pleafing and melodious. On the whole, the poffeffes qualifications fufficient to render her useful and refpectable, but not to rank her with a Jordan. They were both received in the moft flattering manner, and univerfal plaudits accompanied them throughout. The 8 Theatrical Regifter. The pleafant opera of Love in a Village introduced Mrs. Serris, for the first time on any ftage, in the character of Rofetta. Her perfon is rather petite, but agreeable; and her face, in fpite of her TEETH, very handsome. NEW ROMEO. A young gentleman of the name of Toms, has lately attempted the above arduous cha error, that of fubftituting the whining for the enthufiaftic lover. In the ftronger paffages of the play, be had recourfe to a kind of a mifcellaneous imitation of what we had feen before, but with little effect. The perfon, and fome of the tones of Mr. Tom's voice are, however, not bad, and he appears to poffefs fome knowledge of ftage business, which may render him, in due time, an ufeful fecond. On fuch an occafion, a performer has many claims on the indulgence of a critic; but, in the prefent cafe, the lady came forward with a degree of undaun-racter, and fell into the ufual ted courage, which befpoke that the flood in need of none on the fcore of diffidence. Indeed, had we not been told otherwise by the bills, we fhould have fuppofed ber an experienced fcholar, brought up under an injudicious mafter-we mean as to her action, which, we doubt not, a little attention will fo improve, as to render her highly refpectable, even as a performer. By the way, we would wish to perfuade her not to habituate herself to those He is direct from Weymouth, fudden and frequent inclinations having played, we believe, hereof her person, which charac-tofore, in yet more obfcure proterifed her throughout, giving to vincial companies. her action more the appearance of indifcreet levity than eafy ele›gance. As a finger, we are happy to congratulate her on the fuccefs of her first public effay, and the manager on an acquifition fo refpectable to the vocal department of his company. Her voice is mufical and fweet, but not very full, and experience may improve its power, which although not wanting in ability, are in fome particulars not fufficiently extenfive for the magnitude of the theatre. Moft of her fongs were executed in a high ftyle of mufical excellence, fome were encored, and the whole were fuch as to call forth univerfal and reiterated bursts of applaufe. As a fpeaker, fhe is not fo happy in her converfation there is too great a precipitancy, and a want of articu. lation; which, however, time may in fome measure correct. OЯ. 10. A young lady, whofe name is Manfell, made her first appearance on any ftage last night. In the character of Sophia, in the Road to Ruin. We do not recol. let ever to have been prefent where fo young and inexperienced a performer played with equal fpirit, understanding, and effect. Her perfon is hansfome, her manner highly pleafing, and her delivery (efpecially in her two first scenes) was audible and correct. With fuch a figure, added to the prefence of mind and good fenfe the difcovered on her first appearance, there is every reason to expect the will be a valuable acquifition to this theatre. Mrs. Jordan has returned to the exercife of her duty, which family misfortune has for fome time fufpended. A TREA A Treatise on Farriery. A TREATISE ON FARRIERY, with ANATOMICAL PLATES. (Continued from Page 296, VOL. VI.) SALTS ALTS and typtic medicines must be forborne, for they will do more harm than good. Instead of the laxative ball, he may take two balls of quickfilver killed with a fufficient quantity of turpentine, and mixed with half an ounce of fuccotrine aloes, and the fame quantity of gun guaiacum, made into a ball with common treacle. He may take it every other day, for five or fix times, unless it makes him dung too much, which it feldom does, and then it must be given him at longer intervals. He fhould be kept fafting two or three hours after it, and then have only warm water and fcalded bran. If it has a tendency to falivation, which may be known by the forenefs of his mouth, and this last may be discovered by his manner of eating, he must be fed with water gruel for two or three days, till the foreness is gone off; but there is very little danger of this, because the quick filver almost al. ways paffes off by ftool. On the intermediate days, the ball men. tioned above with valerian root, &c. may be continned; as alfo after the mercurial courfe is over. 9 of the grofs powder of antimony tied in a rag. The antimony in particular will be very proper when there is any breakings out in the head, neck, or other parts of the body." Rowels may be ferviceable for a time, in drawing off the offending humour, but unless the blood is cleanfed by the above method, the difeafe will return when they are dried up. I know not how a running eye which is properly a lippitudé, comes by the name of moonblind, for this is more truly a difpofition to a cateract, in which the eye is never hut up or closed, or runs, but it looks thick or cloudy, and the horfe fees little or nothing. If at the fame time the eye finks, and, as it were, dries away, it is in vain to attempt a cure, fince no internal remedies will reach the caufe of this difeafe; for a cataract being an opacity of the chryftalline hu mour of the eye, attended with a hardness when it is ripe, it is no wonder that it will not yield to remedies. It cannot be denied, but the best authors who have wrote upon this fubject are very confufed in their accounts of moon-blindness; but if the fymptoms are attended to, there is no danger of making any mistake. OF SPOTS, FILMS, AND THE HAW OF THE EYE. When there is occafion to invigorate the blood, and ftrengthen the folids, you may mix a quart WHEN a horfe has had an ulcer, of clear forge water with the wa- or wound of the eye, there will ter he is to drink, once every remain a cicatrix or fcar in the day. Or you may boil a pound fame manner as in other parts of of the fhavings of lignum vitæ the body. When it happens in in three gallons of forge water, the tranfparent cornea, it appears and allow him a quart a day, as like a white fpot, more or less before. Or you may add a pound extended, and more or lefs thick, of old rusty nails to the decoction according to the nature of the of lignum vitæ in fpring water, wound or ulcer. The fpot ge.. while it is boiling; or a poundnerally looks smooth and shining, VOL. VII. No. XXXVII. B and |