If all this belongs to the profession of a comedian, what shall we do to prevent its effects? For my part, I see but one mode to pursue; and that is to destroy the cause. When the diseases of a man proceed from his nature, or from a manner of living which he cannot change, can the physician prevent them? To forbid a comedian to be vicious, is just as wise as to forbid the man to be sick. February, 1807. THE TEMPEST. MR. EDITOR, WHATEVER may be said in favour of Mr. Kemble's making aches a dissyllable, nothing in oppostion to the imperious command of present custom, or learning, as it was observed in your last, can be prudently advanced to support the pronunciation of ch like tch and not k. The Greek x in its etymon, and not only modern practice, but even ancient, seem to order that the ch should be pronounced hard. In Timon of Athens, Act. 3, Sc. 5, we have, according to the second folio, "My wounds ake at you." Now if the word was so spelled, the pronunciation of it is not left to be guessed at, and with the many other reasons pressing on the case, who can think it wise to give it an utterance neither just to etymology nor custom? C. HERBERT. MR. JEFFERSON. MR. EDITOR, A portrait and memoir of this theatrical gentleman, recently deceased, having been given in your work, I could wish some one of your ingenious correspondents would favour the public. with any other curious particulars relating to his character. Mr. Jefferson had the honour of being the means of introducing Garrick to a London audience, for the first time, at the theatre Goodman's Fields. J. B. ORIGINAL POETRY. ON MY HUSBAND'S BIRTH-DAY. Ye flowers that bloom around the silver stream, Ye airy sylphs, and dryads of the grove, O! may the keen and desolating East, And blust'ring North, with all their terrors cease; O! may successive days, with smiling train, E. C. THE CATHOLIC QUESTION. I stand up for the church, Said Deputy B. And I would not affront her, Nor would I break the law, I would fain remain holy, Said Alderman S. If the Catholics come, Said Alderman D -v-lle. That will not be, Said Alderman L. I do not say so, Said Alderman R--cr-ft. Then take advice, Said Alderman P. Would you have 'em in step? Said Alderman P. I would fain give them room, But no power therewith, Said Alderman S. Pray how without power? I would put in the stocks 'em, I would satisfy soon 'em, Said Alderman N. They are every man sly, Said Alderman A. That nothing new is, Said Alderman L. They will ne'er remain idle, They will never come in, Said Alderman G. Nay, that I foretel, Said Sir W. L. We have many a schemer, Said Alderman E. Which brings us great slander, Said Alderman A SONNET. TO A YOUNG LADY. WHEN midnight robes the world and labourers rest, In vain I sigh for sleep to calm my woes! That burns with hopeless love, and heaves opprest But if a short and broken slumber give Yes! through the blackest shadows of the night, EPIGRAM. Without our sex, proud Hannah cries, Without her sex, then let her know, He had tasted paradise-till now! J. B. J. B. ON THE DEATH OF PETER SYKES, ESQ. SECOND OFFICER OF THE WEXFORD INDIAMAN, Who died some Months back, of a lingering Illness at St. Helena. UNHAPPY Sykes! in manhood's bloom, When Hope's bright prospects prompt to live, Why seek so soon the silent tomb, And one more victim to stern Pluto give? Love was the source of all thy woes! WESTMONASTERIENSIS AT HER BENEFIT, FEB. 4, 1807, AFTER THE PLAY OF THE HONEY-MOON. (WRITTEN BY MR. PRATT.) YE words of aweful import-'TIS THE LAST! My last approaches. Ere another year Fall when I may, those I must leave behind, Yet not alone the ACTRESS have you blest, Your balms have sooth'd the PARENT's tortur'd breast, I sought the pity of the public heart; My sons, in England's cause have FOUGHT and DIED: |