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performance by one who is only interested as a Westminster, will not be impertinent or unacceptable.

To begin then-Dundas's Simo does him infinite credit, inasmuch as his pronunciation is very correct, (with one or two exceptions) and his delivery very good, but his voice and manner, however suited to the violent points of his character, are by no means calculated to express the wounded feelings and disappointed hopes of a fond father: not that he does not exhibit a perfect acquaintance with his author and a proper conception of his part, but he has little or none of that natural pathos in bis looks, that nicety of feeling in bye-play, which Dowton so admirably and effectively pourtrays.

Bourne's Davus shows too much archness and too little versatility; his action is stiff, and sometimes awkward, especially in his first scenes; in some parts however, for instance, his last scenes, and in his short sentences he is excellent.-King makes a

very gentlemanlike Pamphilus, but he is so much too earnest in every word he utters, that he verges on monotony. His other faults are that he frequently introduces a sort of half bow sideways, accompanied by a species of finger action, which at once looks affected and awkward, more particularly in the scenes with Mysis; his excellences are too apparent to need any mention. Murray's Chremes is a very natural and well-conceived piece of acting. Williams's dress and style of acting in Charinus are more adapted to Romeo or Hamlet, than one of Terence's lovers; he has, at the same time, the best bye-play I have seen, the want of which is so evidently detrimental to the effect of most of the other characters.-Hutchinson's Mysis is a very pleasing representation: if he has few striking merits, he has no glaring faults. -E. Williams in Crito, was SO over painted, and so unnecessarily disfigured by his wig, that of his acting altogether I cannot fairly judge: his delivery was gene

rally good in some places he seems to forget "tristis severitas inėst in vultu." -White's Lesbia is very good, and Short's Dromo as gruff and laughable as can be wished.

If these remarks should prove of the least utility to the next representation of the play, it will fully repay the critical labours of

DRAMATICUS.

Q.

No. IV.

MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 1816..

Veluti in speculum.

I have been blamed by a friend on whose judgement I place great reliance, for not having taken, at the commencement of my publication, a general survey of the state of society in this our little world." If

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you give your readers," said he, "a plain ❝ and impartial view of the sets which ne❝cessarily exist in every variety at West❝minster, they will be able to draw much 66. more useful lessons and much more per"fect rules of conduct, than from any "didactic essay, which (with all due de"ference to your sagacity) you could pro"duce. Do not attempt to shackle their "judgement, but leave them to form it by ❝their own conscience and opinions, and

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according to their respective cases, "which, after you have thus fully laid the "subject before them, they will be best "able to understand, inasmuch as they "alone can be the true judge of their own "inclinations and dispositions, and because "no prescription will equally apply to all "cases."

I should be happy to comply with these suggestions, but,

Non, mihi si linguæ centum sint, oraque centum, Ferrea vox, omnes animorum dicere formas Omnia sectarum percurrere nomina possim ;

so innumerable are the divisions and subdivisions of so complicated a subject:--yet I will take notice of such of the most prominent features as will readily come within the bounds of my ability and Paper. The Worthies then, (for I will begin, with the most respectable,) answer to what are known by the appellation of "very good sort of men" in the greater World, who, without any brilliancy of talents, go through

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