LONDON.

KING'S THEATRE.-Mozart's Nozze di Figaro forms the principal attraction to this place of amusement. The change in the principal characters from last year are Madame Bellochi for Fodor, and Angrisani for Naldi. The new Susanna did not seem to please so much as the original one, though infinitely superior both as a singer and an actress in general. But Mozart's Susanna and Zerlina seem composed for Fodor: she sings them best-Bellochi acts them best. It is in Rossini's music that her peculiar brilliancy of style is appropriately developed. If Figaro loses a little of his impudent vivacity by the absence of his old representative, he gains considerably in his musical character by the voice of his new one,—a voice which, (of its peculiar class,) for richness and depth of tone, we have never heard equalled. United with this gift, Agrisanni possesses that of action: (his Masetto is unrivalled,) and his Figaro will no doubt improve on his better acquaintance with it. The Countess was the Countess of last season, Miss Corri, but with this difference, that she sings with more spirit and intelligence than we have hitherto heard her. In the solos she excelled herself; and in the duets she excelled Madame Bellochi; that is, comparing not the artificial but natural talent of the parties and we experienced the gratification of listening to fine English tones superior to fine Italian tones. If this young lady would but properly cultivate and exert the distinguished talent with which she is gifted, we might look to yet possessing a native singer who, if not unrivalled, would not easily be excelled. Lit. Gaz

DRURY LANE.-A New Tragic Comedy, in three acts, called The Dwarf of Naples, has been produced at this theatre, evidently written for the purpose of exhibiting Mr Kean:-Malvesi, the dwarf, is a little crooked wretch, and as distorted in mind as in body. Like Richard he detests all the better proportioned part of the creation, but his most implacable hatred is towards his brother. This brother, Giulio, is a general returned in triumph from the wars to enjoy the sweets of peace, and is therefore very solicitous to live in kindness with Malvesi, who requites his good intentions and overtures of friendship by entertaining a fixed resolution to murder him the first opportunity for his attentions to Armanda, with whom Malvesi also is in love. Giulio, finding it more easy to gain the affection of Armanda than the friendship of the Dwarf, resolves upon a marriage with her. Count Orsino and the General bring a casket of jewels, intended as a present to his bride, into the room where Malvesi is, who, instigated by jealousy, substitutes a treasonable for a love letter in it. Upon this evidence the marriage is set aside, and his brother banished. After an interval, and some adventure, during which Malvesi sends a bravo to assassinate his brother, the King of Naples, having been informed of the falsehood of the accusation made against Giulio, sends for him and the Dwarf-restores the former to favour, re-establishes him in all his honours, and causes the latter to witness him at the altar married to Armanda. The Dwarf maddens at the sight and dies.

The Lent Oratorios at this Theatre began on Wednesday, the 3d of March, with

an extensive selection from Mozart and Haydn, a Miscellaneous Act, and the battle Sinfonia, by Beethoven.

Connected with this theatre, a dispute has occurred between Mr Bucke, who had presented a tragedy (The Italians) to the Sub-committee in November 1817, and Mr Kean, which has occupied a good deal of the public attention. Mr Bucke's tragedy had been put in rehearsal, and announced for representation; but, from influence in the production of pieces at this theatre at tributed to Mr Kean, the play was postponed from time to time, till Mr B. finding a prejudice behind the curtain against his tragedy, withdrew it altogether; and pub. lished a letter attributing its non-representation to the preponderating influence of this wonderful actor. To Mr Bucke's charge Mr Kean replied in a very ill advised and intemperate letter. On Mr Kean's departure, however, on a provincial tour, the play was brought forward, and was perform ed, for the first time, to a most crowded and tumultuous house, on the 3d April; but has ultimately been laid aside.

COVENT-GARDEN.-The Marriage of Figaro. The Managers of this Theatre have produced this excellent Opera, with the music of Mozart, nor, indeed, have they confined themselves to the music only belonging to the piece, but have made a judicious selection from the, several published works of this great master. The part of the Countess of Almavia was performed by Mrs Dickons, and the songs, and the varied harmony and science of the music, was given by this accomplished singer in a manner worthy both of the inimitable composer and of herself. Mrs Dickons has passed nearly three years in Italy, previously to her appearing on the boards last season; and was received by the foreign theatres with a welcome little inferior to the reception of her talents at home. Miss Stephens performed the part of Susan, and most admirably seconded the science of Mrs Dickons.-Lit. Gaz.

The Lent Oratorios commenced here on Friday the 5th.

English Opera House.-MATHEWS AT HOME. This admirable mimic having had a trip to Paris, has returned from abroad with a new budget of entertainment wherewith to be At Home.

ing the little children speak French. Several Commissioners (Commissionaires) are polite to our humorous traveller, and it is some time before he finds out that persons under this sonorous title are runners of errands. From Calais to Paris his route is by Boulogne, Montreuil, Nampont, (Sterne's Nampont, which has received more celebrity from one dead as, than other towns receive frem hundreds of living ones!) Abbeville, and St Denis. At the capital, of the entrance into which a description, combining much force and truth with whimsical remark, is given, our tourist resides in Meurice's Hotel, which is quite an English Colony. Here he hires an Irish Valet de place, and becomes intimate, pro tempore, with his fellow lodgers, Mr Daniel Dow gate, Mrs Loquax, Mr Marmaduke Minikin, &c. &c. These are his companions to see the lions, and their various characters, remarks, and adventures, fill up the second and third parts. Among the Parisian scenes are represented a visit to the Cata combs, and a lecture on craniology, by a Professor with a long German name, a day at Meurice's, a humorous song, with comic recitations, in Mr M.'s best style: a visit to the theatre, and burlesque imitation of Talma's Hamlet: the Boulevards, and a rencontre with a sad traveller, Mr Mundungus Trist.

In the fourth part Mr Mathews enters the Paris Diligence, in which eight characters are well supported by this single actor. It is considered unexampled as a piece of mimickry. The theatre continues to be crowded in every part.-Lit. Gaz.

Surrey Theatre. At this theatre, The Heart of Mid-Lothian, dramatised from the last series of Tales by our illustrious countryman, has been produced. The play is said to be well contrived, and the leading points. of the novel faithfully preserved; the scenery appropriate, and the effect of the whole sufficiently illusive for all the purposes of scenic representation. Though the dialect of the principal characters must have formed obstarles to the success of the piece in the hands of English performers, it is said to have gone off well, and to have attracted crowded audiences.

The Gallery of the British Institution closed on Saturday, 27th March. The exhibition has been successful beyond for mer years; and pictures have been sold to the amount of upwards of L. 3000.

Sir John Leicester's Gallery was opened on Monday, March 15, and presented to numerous visitors an admirable display of British talent. The room is much improved since last year, and seems worthy the forms of art which people it, and the living gazers who throng to admire the efforts of genius, which many of them have only learnt to prize from seeing them so splendidly displayed.

EDINBURGH.

Theatre Royal. The entertainments presented at this theatre have been less varied than usual, on account of the unprecedented success of a drama founded on the po. pular novel of Rob Roy. The only novelty previous to this was the meritorious attempt to bring forward the play of The Tempest, as originally written by Shakespeare; but its success, in spite of the Manager's exertions to get it up respectably, was not such as to give much hope of success in any similar attempt. Rob Roy has continued, however, to fill the house for the astonishing period of forty-one successive nights, a run of good fortune, we believe, which no other piece represented in Edinburgh ever met with. Much of the success which has attended this piece may no doubt be attributed to a national partiality to the scenes and the characters represented, and to the very excellent manner in which the piece has been got up; but we attribute its chief attraction to the close attention which has been paid, in adapting it to the theatre, to the incidents and the dialogue of the celebrated work from which it is taken. Most of the dialogue, indeed, seems to be given verbatim from the novel; and the gentleman who has arranged it in a dramatic form has shown much judgment in not attempting to substitute the language and the manners of English peasants, for the strong and graphic characters, delineated with so much nature and truth by the incomparable author of Waverley and Guy Mannering.

That this piece should not have succeeded so well in the capital is not to be wondered at, when it is considered how much of it must have been unintelligible to a London audience, and even though they had understood the expressive dialect in which the story is carried on, the manners and the peculiarities of this northern portion of the island are so alien to every thing English, that it is not surprising their admiration should have ceased as their eyes became familiar with the dress and the tartan of the clan Gregarach.

It would be unjust, in a notice of Rob Roy, not to advert to the excellent representatives which the chief characters have found in our theatre. Mr Mackay, as Bailie Jarvie, admirably embodied to the eye and to the ear all the peculiarities which of right belong to a merchant-a magistrate-and member of the town-council in a Scottish corporation; and the Creature Dougal seemed nature itself in the hands of Mr Duff. Mr Hamerton, in Rob Roy, was very respectable, and his manly figure did no discredit to the tartan which he wore. Mrs Renaud was excellent in Helen Campbell; and Mr Dobbs was quite at home in Major

Galbraith. Mr Benson, though rather an inanimate lover, gave the songs very pleasingly; and Mr Chippendale, in his brown suit, did the house of Osbaldistone honour by his representation of its senior clerk and junior partner. It might have been better had Die Vernon been put into hands more able to manage the songs of the part; but, upon the whole, the piece was well cast, and excellently acted throughout.

Rob Roy was succeeded by "As You Like It," for the Benefit of Mrs H. Siddons, who, upon this occasion, came forward with a very feeling address; and Mr Kean has since nightly filled the house by a succession of his most favourite parts.

The Institution for the Encouragement of the Fine Arts in Scotland, founded 1st February, was opened 11th March 1819. The Pictures, which are principally by ancient masters, are 92 in number, and are chiefly from the collections of the Earl of Elgin, the Earl of Wemyss, Sir James Erskine, John Clerk, Esq. Gilbert Laing Meason, Esq. and Alexander Gordon, Esq. We refer to the leading article of the present number for an account of this Institution, and its probable effects on the Arts in Scotland.

In the course of the winter, Mr Allan and the Messrs Watsons opened rooms for the public exhibition of their Pictures.

The performances at the Pantheon, consisting of Horsemanship, Pantomime, &c. have closed for the season, but this place of amusement is now occupied by Mr Louis's exhibition, consisting of Musical Automata, and other pieces of mechanism.

In music, besides the Concerts given by the Institution for Sacred Music, Mr Yaniewicz, who has been a resident in our city for several winters, has given Concerts at which Mrs Salmon and Mr and Mrs Bianchi Lacy have appeared; and a series of eight morning Concerts, conducted by the same accomplished performer, have been weekly performed. It is no small proof of a taste for these elegant amusements being now more universally diffused than at any former period, that performers from the Opera House pay us visits at this season; and much of that taste must, no doubt, be attributed to the stimulus afforded by the classical performances of Mr Yaniewicz.

The Demoiselles De Lihu and Signior Puzzi have appeared in four Concerts; and a number of others have been given for the benefit of our resident performers.

The other public amusements of Edinburgh, during the late winter, have been weekly assemblies at the Assembly Rooms, George Street, and at Mr Smart's Rooms; and the occasional exhibition of Panoramic paintings.

EDWARD HEARD, of Brighton, Sussex, chemist; for certain processes, means, or methods, of hardening and improving tallow and other ani mal fats and oils, so as to manufacture therewith candles of a superior quality to those at present made from tallow. Dated February 12, 1819.1

THOMAS BROCKSOPP, of Fore-street, Cripplegate, London, grocer and tea-dealer; for the application of certain machinery to the purpose of breaking or crushing of sugar. Feb. 23.

JAMES JEFFRAY, of Glasgow, Scotland, Professor of Anatomy in the University of Glasgow; for certain combinations of and improvements in machinery, to be moved by wind, steam, animal strength, water, or other power, by means of which boats, barges, ships, or other floating vessels may be propelled or moved in water; and which invention is further applicable to other useful purposes March 4.

WILLIAM MILLWARD, of Eaton, Bucks, shoemaker,; for an improvement on skaites, and in fixing the same on the feet. March 4.

SAMUEL HAYCRAFT, of Birmingham, Warwickshire, spoon-manufacturer; for certain improvements in manufacturing spoons, forks, and other articles of iron, silver, or other suitable metal, by the application of certain machinery, hitherto unused for that purpose, and improvements in such machinery. March 4,

WILLIAM TYROR, of Liverpool, Lancashire, coach-maker; for certain improvements in the

construction of pumps, and in the machinery for working the same. March 13.

WILLIAM NEALE, of Birmingham, Warwickshire, whitesmith; for combination of machinery calculated to increase power, to be worked by manual labour, or other suitable means. March 13.

ENEAS MORRISON, of Glasgow, writer; for a combination of certain processes and manufactures, whereby animal and vegetable food may be preserved for a great length of time, which will be of great benefit and advantage to our subjects both at home and abroad. March 23.

JOHN OUTHETT, of Vauxhall Walk, Surrey, civil engineer; for improvements in the construction, arrangement, and combination of the series of apparatus used for the production of gas from pit coal, and other substances, and for purifying, storing, and delivering, for the purposes of illumination; and for the application of certain parts of the said improved apparatus to other useful purposes. March 23.

THOMAS MORTON, of Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland, ship-builder; for a method of dragging ships out of water on dry land. March 23.

WILLIAM ROBINSON, of Saffron Walden, Essex, surveyor and builder; for certain new or improved apparatus to be attached to all sorts of doors and door jambs, and hanging stiles, for the purpose of preventing, when shut, the admission of external air into rooms, apartments, or other places. March 23.

I. CIVIL.

March 1.-Sir George Abercromby, Bart, of Forglen and Birkenbog, to be Lord Rector of the Marischal College of Aberdeen.

5. Sir George Clerk, Bart. to be one of the Lords of the Admiralty.

9. Charles Knatchbull, Esq. to be British Consul at Nantes.

12. The Earl of Fife to be one of the Lords of his Majesty's Bedchamber.

16. Edmund Alexander M'Naghten, Esq. to be one of the Lords of the Treasury.

-Joseph Davis, Esq. to be British Consul at St Iago, for the Cape de Verde Islands.

20. William Meyer, Esq. to be British Consul in Albania.

30. The Earl of Morton to be his Majesty's Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

-Thomas Burnett, Esq. of Park, to be Pursebearer to the Earl of Morton, as Commissioner to the General Assembly.

Members returned to serve in the present Parliament.

March 9. Borough of Lisburne.-Horace Seymour, Esq. Captain in 1st regiment of Life Guards.

Borough of Wexford.-Captain Henry Evans of the royal navy.

County of Tipperary.-The Right Hon. William Bagwell of Marlfield.

13. Borough of Clonmell.-John Reilly, Esq. City of Cashell.-Ebenezer John Collet, of Lockerhouse, Hertford.

16. Borough of Newry.-The Hon. Francis Jack Needham.

19. Borough of Yarmouth.-Sir Peter Pole, Bart. of Wolverton-Park, and John Wilson Croker, Esq. of the Admiralty. County of Edinburgh.-Sir George Clerk of Penicuick, Bart.

23. County of Inverness.-Right Hon. Charles Grant, younger of Waterneish.

30. Town of Carrickfergus.-The Hon. George Hamilton Chichester, commonly called Earl of Belfast.

Borough of Tavistock.-John Peter Grant, Esq. of Rothiemurchus.

II. ECCLESIASTICAL.

March 10. The congregation of Original Burghers, Carluke, gave an harmonious call to Mr James Anderson, preacher of the gospel.

12. The Associate Congregation of Stonehouse unanimously called Mr William Fraser, preacher, to be their minister.

16. The Reformed Presbyterian congregation of Airdrie gave an harmonious call to Mr William Symington, preacher of the gospel.

18. The Rev. Archibald M'Conochy having been presented by the Right Hon. Lord Douglas to the church and parish of Buncle and Preston, was this day ordained and admitted to that charge.

2. His Royal Highness the Prince Regent has been pleased to recommend to the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral Church of Peterborough, to elect the Right Reverend Father in God, Herbert, Lord Bishop of Llandaff, Bishop of the said See of Peterborough.

The Associate Congregation of Original Burgher