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the pit, and eke the boxes. Every other 
sentence in this play isin honour of the 
humanity, the generosity, the nobleness, 
the tenderness, the patriotism, the 
every thing else that is godlike of the 
British tar. In times like these, as Mr. 
Colman says in his epilogue— 
«« In times like these, the sailor of our play 
Much more than common sailors has to say.” 
Truth will out, and here it is blunder- 
Art. VI. Hearts of Oak; a Comedy, in five Acts ; as performed at the Theatre Royal 
By Joun Titty ALtincuam. 
Drury Lane. 
MR. Allingham seems to have had 
otzebue’s Stranger in view when he 
wrote this play. Dorland suspects Eliza, 
his wife, of infidelity ; is absent from he 
seventeen years; returns to England in 
disguise, is introduced to her, Ends her 
innocent, implores pardon for his injuri- 
ous suspicions, and the play closes with 
the prospect of their living very happily 
afterwards. The singular character of 
the stranger, however, is not transferred 
to Dorland, but to Dorland’s friend, Ar- 
dent, where it is preposterous and unac- 
countable, When Dorland leaves the 
Arr. VII. Mrs. Wiggins; a Comic Piece, in two Acts; as performed at the Theatre 
By Joun Tite AvtincHam. 
Royal Haymarket. 
THE audience had sense enough to express their disgust at such insufferable 
nonsense. 
Art. VIII. Raising the Wind; a Farce, in to Acts + as performed at the Theatre 
By James Kenney. . 
Royal Covent Garden. 
THERE is 2 good deal of dry humour 
in this after-piece ; the principal charac- 
ter, Diddler, is very well supported, and 
Art. IX. he Caravan: or, the Driver and his Dog. A grand serio-comic Romance, 
Written by Frevericx Reynotps. The Music by William Reewn 
in two Acts. 
8vo. pp. 46. 
IT is curious enough that the princi« 
pal persanage in this “‘ grand serio-comic 
romance” should be omitted in the dra- 
PLAYS, 
ed out. But Mr. Boaden is no partys 
man: he is too prudent to trust the fate 
of his play to the sailors alone ; and very 
wisely, now that two-thirds of the audi- 
ence are soldiers, or soldiers’ wives and 
daughters, very wisely he divides his 
compliments with an even hand between 
the red coats and the blue trowsers. 
The sea-slang of Ben Block glides very 
glibly off his tongue, and his is the most 
entertaining character of the piece. 
Svo. pp. 71. 
country he gives charge of his daughter 
to Ardent; Ardent receives very large 
remittances for the education of his 
adopted child, and, in order to stifle any 
jealousy which might arise in the bosom 
of his own daughter, at the superior af- 
fluence of his friend’s, he sends the for- 
mer out of the way. Can any thing ex- 
ceed the absurdity of supposing that a 
man would turn his own child out of 
doors, and neglect her, that he might 
take somebody’s else! Mr. Allingham 
must study the human heart a little more 
before he can excél as a dramatist. 
pp: 49. 
Svo. pp. 37. 
with the assistance of Mr. Lewis’s act- 
ing,-we hope Mr. Kenney has found it, 
answer his purpose of raising the wind. 
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matis persone ! Carlo—the dog Carlo, 
who has brought so many good houses: 
