MAY 16. merit as to likeness truth, Wit Hwy are too detached, too decoupeks ii•oin the back ground, and are not in our opinion in the happiest mautter ot• this weli.khuwo and justly admired Academician. • [To be continued.] BRITISH GALLERY. The Proprietors of several of the best works of Sir Joshua Rey nolds, have entrusted them to the care of the Directors of the British Institution, in order to gratify the public, with the sight of one of the most precious collection-4 of ICaintings, wde') any nation conid ever boast trt", under similar circumstances. 'l'ho inspection and study of the chaf . doeuvr cs, emanated from a genius whose mortal remains have Leen deposited in the earth, for the space or one and twenty years' will undoubtedly give a new impulse to the rising school, and may ultimattqy str , gest the idea, and facilitate the means of eres•ting a statute to his memory in St. Paul's church, or in the Royal Academy. The rooms were opened last Monday, • Sir J. Reynold's was bu:ieil in the Crypt under St. Paul's Cathedral on the :id of March, 179'2. DRAM A TIC REGISTER. DRURY-T, \NE THEATRE. On Thursday evenie7, a new piece was presented at this Theatre, in two ucts, called The ;i l k aNsion, s.lid by the M.;.;:igers to be a Melo Drama. Report es•igns the honour of this heap of clap-traps to Mr. Thomai Sheridan, but we hope that nothing so d . rogatory to the lite rary fame of the fat:ler will prove to be the work (tithe son. It was repeated on Friday and Saturday, but with cons!derable opposition. Want of room prevcnts our entering into a critique on its claims to pub lic favour, elyl as it can exist but a few days longer, it is bet charity to let it die the natural d ea th of all such stupidity-. It was last night succeeded by thc IS in which the exertioi's of WRENCH and KNICitT in Diddler and Sam kept the audience in a roar." The ensuing campaigns, at Brighton and Winrbor, under the inde f..t:gable nctiiagewnt of Mr. Jost.ph Grove, pie rromise of most brilliant seasoos ; Alcipomene and Thalia, it is expected will be equvlly honoured, and have equal attractions, its there are silently enlisted under the hauliers of both, stone of the most distinguished Tragic and Comic Pern.rusers of the ; among tho,c already engaged, are Messrs. Jilaneltard, \\Trench, Lewis, Ladbrooke, Houghton, Gordon, Betinelt, .111ouro, and ; and among the Ladies, Illessdmnes Dalrymple, 6ydney, Lath:Nuke, f.acy, Houghton, and Miss Sydoey. HA YAIARK KI THEATRE. fu NA a v ni g ht, !tr. Coates again presented himself at this house, in the character of Romeo. A party attend( d for the sole purpose of putting an end to his public folly, by endeavouring to bring him to a of shame ; but all their efforts failed. in the scene where he kills Tybalt, smut person from the boxes threw a Bantam cork on the stage, which Roncio'N leer. A violent ninon succeeded, and pone of the performers were Auffercei to be Inird. Soon after Coates %vela behind the scents, and limn one of the aims dim& his sword at tienOenem in the boxes, whom he stepected of throwing the coa. This act of indecorum occisioned the loudest clamour, and a 'cry of apol,nry. The gentleman iwulted vot Cut of the stake box on the stage, and went to Mr. Coates, rcgoest;tig an apolo l fy, but every eff.rt to obtain one failed. The proreedings 011 the %thole ‘ceie highly in decorous, and mischievous conserpiences may custr.2 In:leafier if the tovatd-Le-actor is not revrained flout disgracing the boards. COURT OF COAIIION COUNCIL. The Court having assembled about one o'clock on Tuesday last, the proceedings at the last meeting were read. Mr. WAirram.ty then rose: he said it was not rc•silde for him to discuss the principal question hciore the Cowl, Nvithout going over 6oine of the grounds which hail been touched upon at the last meet ing. If had then put it to their rcelingc, whether his resolution fled arise lAA or the business or the day : the debate teas then sun . ..red to go on; no objection wa: mad e on the (core of it-mg - fatuity, or malt or notice: Wally sock objeetion had been raised, he should have given way. and have dererred the business till another time, tiT he bad a requisition ready in his pocket: but enter a Jong debate—alter his reply _.a person was allowed, rather regal:AN, to rinse an objection• int•oduce new ground. This £.e co nld not help thinking was rather unfair treatment. 1t he ‘sas 0 . 61 ocopi:sion that ids ilesolutiofw sprang fairly front - the tut-.itirss isoloce the Wart, he .630u1d skit:: souk. re.a.en::: tar their ag,:Teing to Tun NATIONAL REGISTI7.II. Opposition had been made on variety; grounds. Some-who . gretd that the rights of the City bad been violated, ssendd ne?„ toe ever, concur in an addresZ to the Prince Regent : ethers, who had ao objection to such address, tint ght, that part ltt . it Mfidl I(- laud to an estsblishment was not advisable. He had new, thete fore, divided the nue:tints ibto separate resolutions, so that they who rejected one plight perhaps accede to the other.—The tint se .olation was, 66 That Lord Viscount S dutouth, by his npreee " dented condoct, in departing trom immenneial us.n by retiming " to i: sett iu the London Gazette, the 410 ind and local Address) cot " this Court, to her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, with " her most gracious answer thereto, so that tau regard and seiscra " Lion for the virtnes of lies. Royal Iligluiess might be preserved in " olhctal security, and remain capable of !Aims at any time resorted " to as the recorded opinions of the City of London, has .evneceli " a marked contempt for the feelings and opinions of this City, and " the country at large ; and that by so suspicious au exercise ofhis " disesetion, has seemed to insist's:lie a belief, that the trium4 of " the Piineess of Wales ever a conspiracy so foul and detestuble, " could have been displeasing to the Prince Regent ; and has thereby " offs's ed a gross indignity to the Princess of Wales, and cast a " most invidious and odious imputation on the honour and character " of his Master."—The Address to the Prince would now be eparate uroposition: and hire, agsin, he begged most solemnly to discie:in that lie meant any disrespect or insult to hisßoyaikfil.* nt•-. I' M the other question, he hoped that Gentlemen would teel that it was an occasion when they ought to vindicate the eimkts of their fellow-citizens. It the Court should ever show a disposition notavourable to these rights, he should think it a disgrace to hold a seat among them. He did not see how any objection could arise. to his proposition. *Solve persons were fond of arguing against their own rights, and were always ready to give them up when contested. Some, perhaps, would rise up and slew that the right did not exist at the time of the conquest, and was thersdore void. The value of a rislit did not always depend on its duration : utiiity was its um measure; and it' useful,• it ought not to be departed front. He con sidered the late conduct of Lord Sidle/nal] as a part of a systematic attack on the right of - The Court were always care rc ady to receive cougratulatery addresses, but when complaints and remonstrances were carried up, a very different teelieg -was mani fested. The right of petitioning was one of the most important in the Constitution, and one .which, perhaps more than any other, ren dered us the envy of foreign nations: it ought to be sent down un shackled to posterity. It it vetild be shewu, that addresses to the Princess had never been keerted in the Gazette, except at the time of her inns riaee, lie had a right to infer that the address was then pleasing, but was now displeasing to the Regent : and on this ground he thought himself entifled to their verdict. It would heve been different it there bad been any thing offensive in the Address, but on the coeirery, it containei nothing which, both on publit: and private gromi.U:, oa:zlit not to have been grateful to the Wince, both as the I'm lacess was the future Queen of England, and was the mo ll ies o f eleehild. He then read the Address, and aslseal s if it were not perfectly inotkesive and loyal : wlretberit showed aNs hostile lee ing towards the Mince : unless it was to be pm:leanly., that he could he offended at the foul contamination wiped atcay from Ids wile, or at the confident hopes expressed towards his daughter. Lord Sidmoutles conduct, therefore, had been liighls7 improper; and clearly chewed, that his opinion was, that the Ati• dress would lie displeasing to the Regent : an opinion %illicit eon. veyed the highest insult on the Princess, the Corporation of Lon don, and*the Prince. Mr. Faa%mast Fceondcd the motion. . _ Mr. Dtxo:ti rose to *cove the previous question. The seund sense and discretion of the Court %wild be forfeited, if the debate should be sail :red to go into any length. If there uas ever any dimi ger of losing a right, it was when it was demanded not on gam! groun.ls. Those persons Uho weie so careful of their own rights, should he cautious how they invaded those ofothers. Ile than mad the letter of Mr. Secretary Ryder, in NW, where he slated that he inserted the City Address becaus. it had been twnil, not because it was a right. When this was formally connonnicated, it was in a pretty full Court: why did not the geutlesnen tire then, %%hen that letter was rezni 3 the wife of the Regent, he in-isted, was as mere a subject as the wite of any inch% idnal in the hinztioin. 114 hoped fdr sense w mild prevail it Would tit he seen, tLat the con duct of Lord Sititnouth did not deserve the opprobrious epithets applied to it. If tl:e City should choose to go up to the negro! on this subject, lie was perfeet ly satisfied, that they would be told, that they bad no such right as they elaiieed. lie tbetefore moved th , previous question. Mr. JACK. •The Court then divided : —F moners, 53 —For the p:eviot anonas, apiust 4 cs se:otatied the motion. For the motion,-- I :Sidemen, 57 Com- ins questioh, ili Alticrinc::, 76 Cto- t the otic,iuul motion,