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aunque parting from the boxes and pit, 
as once the ftill-regzretted Vigaxo was, 
when fhe, for the laft time, enraptured the 
Enperial city by her enchanting dance 
(an arutully conduéied cabal had previ- 
eufly taken care that thi. fhould not be 
the cale with Kotzebue) ; the leaders of 
the oppoiite faction did not, however, 
cam the advantages they had ‘promifed 
themlelves trom Kotzebae’s departure ; 
ane thofe that had been mifled by them 
became fenfible of their wrong, by reading 
Kotzebue’s vittorious Defence aygainft bis 
Calumniators, which was yead likewile at 
Vienna with much applaufe. ‘Phe publie 
fincercly Jaments already a lols, which 
hardly will be compentated by his tuccet- 
fors in a place which, at the bottom, has 
not been filled again. Meff. Retzer and 
. Bfchrich have too many ether important 
- affairs, ‘and their affifants have learned, 
that not too much ought to be done in 
this matter. Since Zzegler’s drama, Great- 
nt{sof Mind; or, The Tyrclians rifng in 
Arms, which owed its fucceis only to the 
fubjegt, and to the patrictie difpofition of 
the public, no piece bas made till new any 
general {trong impreffion. Zzegler is one 
ef the favourite actors of the Court I ke- 
@tre at Vienna, and very fertile in thea- 
trical productions, the belt of which iS, 
without doubt The Laurel (Der Lorbeer 
Kranz); which would be fit alfo for an. 
Engtifh tranflation and reprefentation. But 
a common report is {pread at Vienna, that 
@ clergyman, who does not lift his name 
under the banners of Thalia, is at the bot- 
tom of the whole authorfhip of Ziegler, 
who, with Brockmann, bore the moft ran- 
corous enmity to Mr. Kotzebue. In Mr. 
Koch and. his daughter Bet/y, an actre{s of 
great talents, both of whom have been en- 
gaged by Kotzebue, the Court-ftage nas 
acquired two of the firft German aétors, 
For the reft, Schikanider’s witty pertor- 
mances. and the Boulevard amufements 
of the fecondary theatres in the {uburbs, 
ftill are requifite for the digeftion of 
the eafy and fubftantial citizens of Vi- 
éenna.—At Berlin, the hope of feeing a 
new theatre worthy of this fuperb refi- 
dence raifed, is now fulfilled; the king 
having affigned 150,000 fls. for that pur- 
pofe. It will be completed towards the 
coronation jubilee, to be celebrated at the 
end of this year, in conmmemoraticn of 
_ Frederic I. afluming the title of King of 
Proffia a century ago. The manager 
and firft actor of that theatre, M. Iffand, 
gained on atheatrical journey, during the 
months of May and June, at Deffau, Leip- 
zig, and Breilau, the lond applaule of th 
Retrofpec? of the German Theatre. 
[June ry, 
numerous affemblies, and thewed *6 aétors 
and critics, by his judicious and artful mo- 
deration, the true fecret of dramatic repre- 
fentation, that, he does all, who does not too 
much. "is journey was the triumphant 
proceffion of Art itfelf. The moft fafhion- * 
able peopte furrounded him in hofpitable 
circles. The inhabitants of Leipzis coins” 
ed a filver medal to his honour, for which 
Mr. Biiimner, a fenator and lawyer at Leip- 
zig, the commentator of Sophoeles’s CEdi- 
pus, invented the Latin inicription. Fleky 
the under- manager, with his amiable wife, 
and Mad. Unzcimann, had already ex- 
hibited before the company of Berlin in 
other countries. Mad. Unzelmann aéted 
at Yienna with univerial applauie. Inthe 
Berlin Theatre, the truty enlightened mi- 
nority is, however, {till overpowered by 
the ftaring majority. The moft fkilful 
reprefentations of a Merope, tranflat-d by 
Mr. Gotter, or even of the Piccolomiat 
and Walleajicin, thele wonderful exertions 
of the dramatic ‘powers of Mr. Schiller, 
fill the houfe much lefs than the quintef-" 
fence of nonfenfe, The Ghof?-Seer (Das 
Sountagisknd) ; or,a new ballet of Lau- 
chery, the mafter of the ‘ballets; or Ve- 
rona the fcene-paintes*s fliow-heaps in 
a new frofty Alpine opera. But ne- 
ver did the wirtz of the pit, in damn- 
ing a piece by knocking and laughing, - 
fhew itfelf fo much as in the Axdrophobia 
, 
(Die Manner {chewe), whofe teprefentation — 
had been carried by the paternal fondnefs © 
of its author; and now the neweft “pro- 
du&tion of Iffiand, The Afor, was hikewife 
damned at its firft reprefentation; whilft 
the new, fine tranflation of Hamlet, by 
Mr. Schlegel, in iambics, is only ftared 
at with irrefolution.—The five joint-ma- 
nagers, or, as they are commonly called, 
the pentarchs, of the Hamburg Theatre 
take much concern in removing thote de- 
feéts and blemifhes which havg attracted 
the cenfure of natives as well as foréign- 
ers. The names of Stegmannu, Herzfeld, 
and Langerbans may be put in comparifon 
with the moft celebrated of other theatres ; 
nor fs it always the fault of the aéiors, 
if the carelefs difpofitions of the fpetta-~ 
tors make them inattentive to the actors 
art in Kotzebue’s Reward of Truth, for 
the newly decorated Church-yard, and the 
charming coftume ofthe Goddels of Truth; 
— if the fame dullnefs applaud the tyrant 
Hugo Herzfeld, in the moft extravagant of 
ali new plays for thew, the Enchantref> 
idenia—(a play of Mr. Tichokke, the au- 
thor of the famous A%e//zo, fullof charms, 
witcheraft, and hobgoblins)—with more 
rapture than the Abbot Gregory, whais 
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