EUROPEAN MAGAZINE. VIEW of the NEW TOWER and part of the GREAT KITCHIN WINDOW of Arundel Castle. Sussex The Seat of His Grace the Duke Norfolk. woman returning home with a remnant of unfold fprats; and, by a fudden jerk, launched the basket into the air with fuch infinite dexterity, that in an inftant the little fifh appeared as it were fwimming in the ocean of mud collected in the highway in all directions. At last, as Fortune would have it, he was brought up in his career by a machine known on winter nights, containing nice hot fpice gingerbread, which came in contact with his legs, when the whole apparatus, the Gingerbread Merchant and all, were at once overturned in the kennel; the fire of the oven and my friend Bob's flame were prefently extinguished, and he lay a confiderable time before he could get affiftance, being much hurt in the attack that he had made upon the barrow. Wet and weary, Bob returned to his lodgings; and, after making fome excufes to Molly for his behaviour, and a ready story to account for the plight he was in, he went up to his room, and threw himself upon the bed, curfing his evil stars, and groaning with vexation. Often has Bob told me, that he never could altogether get the better of that difappointment, and that he would give half his fortune to find out the handfome devil that had played him the trick. My friend Bob never married: he ufed to fay, he loved the whole fex, and they were all his fifters. Nothing could be more harmless and pleafant than his fpecies of intrigue: he was a prodigious advocate for Platonic love; and, in fhort, could not do any thing in life without a woman. At one time he had a mighty defire to attain perfection in the French tongue, and actually kept a miftrefs, who was a native, purely for the purpose of teaching him the language. Bob ne ver went into a fhop where there was not a female; and in the common occurrences of life used to fay, that he defied all powers but love. Bob was the friend of the fex: he comforted them in their troubles, aflisted them in their wants, protected them in their journies, guarded the steps of innocence, and recalled the wanderer to domestic comfort and happiness: yet, after all, Bob liked a pretty girl. Bob Ogle was, in thort, tender, benevolent, and generous; lively, gay, and harmless in his pleasures: his regard for the fair-fex remained till he was grown grey in the fervice, when, as ufual, he ogled every handfome woman he met, and offered them his affiftance, at every opportunity, to help them over a ftile, or across the road. And when he died, the worst that the enemies of Bob Ogle could fay was, that he loved a pretty girl. G. B. ARUNDEL CASTLE. [WITH AN ENGRAVING.] IN N our Magazine for September 1799 [Vol. XXXVI. p. 151] we gave an Engraving from a South-Eaft View of Arundel Castle, and at the fame time promised a View of the New Tower which has lately been built; and a part of the Great Kitchen-window: a promife which we now perform. To the account of this very ancient Atructure which was given as an ac companyment to the former Plate, we now add the following particulars. It has been before faid, that the Caftle, Seignory, and Honour of Arundel, was fixed, in the reign of Henry VI. in the family of William Fitzalan. The great grandfon of this William dying in the 22d year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, the Cattle became, by his will, the property of his daugh ter Mary; who, marrying Thomas Duke of Norfolk, carried the Castle and title into that family, in which it has ever fince remained. This building was, from extreme age, falling into a rapid decay; but the prefent Duke has within thefe few years refcued it from ruin; and with that liberality and tafte for which he is fojuftly celebrated, will, when the work is completed, render it one of the most beautiful edifices in the kingdom. Its old ruinated walls are now repaired with the fineft Portland ftone; the ancient ftyle of the building, with the large windows, and grotefque orna ments to the mouldings and buttresses, preferved; and the rooms finithed in the true Gothic ftyle. The place is now alfo equally convenient and elegant. The pictures at present are moft mostly portraits of the Howard family; and in the great hall is a fine painted glafs window, reprefenting Solomon (a portrait of the prefent Duke) with a cup in his hand, inviting the Queen of Sheba, who fits at table, to partake of the entertainment. Near the Keep of the Caftle his Grace has fome very fine Hudfon's Bay owls, an eagle, and some other foreign birds. The annexed VIEW represents one of the New Towers on the Terrace facing the river Arun. The Caftle was originally, as we have heard, a complete mile in compaís; and in the civil wars was thought to be of fuch importance, that a fierce contention was held between King Charles and the Parliament army for the mastery of it. It was first fummoned by Lord Hopton, who obliged it to furrender in three days time; bat Waller, haftening from London with confiderable forces, beat up Lord Hopton's quarters by the way, and then, marching to Arundel Cattle, foon took it, and allowed the garrison quarter. Arundel Castle is, by favour of the noble owner, conftantly open for pub. lic infpection, without any restriction; and from the top of the Tower is i most extenfive view of Goodwood (the Duke of Richmond's), Slindon (Lord Newburgh's), the Sea, Little Hampton, Bognor, and Chichester Harbour, to the right; Worthing to the left; and an extent of country for feveral miles round. LORD MONBODDO'S DEFINITION OF POLITENESS. IN the first place, a general benevolence, or love of mankind, which makes what the French call the politee naturelle, and without which politeness is mere form and etiquette. Now, there are men of this age who have not in their nature the philanthropy of a Newfoundland dog, who will not bark or growl at a stranger who comes to his matter's houfe at a proper time, but, on the contrary, will fawn upon him, bidding him, as it were, welcome to the houfe. Nay, I know men who are not only wanting in general bene volence, but have not that attachment to any one of their own fpecies which every dog has to his mafter. Secondly, A polite man muft know the company in which he converses, and what mea fure of respect is due to each of them. For an undiftinguifhing civility, without regard to rank, worth, sense, or knowledge, is not politenefs. Thirdly, He must be fo much of a philofopher as to know himself,and not affume more in regard to any of the particulars abovementioned than belongs to him. In one word, he must not be vain; for vanity, though it may be concealed for fome time, will break out upon cer tain occasions, and give great offence to thofe you converfe with. And, lastly, a man, in order to be polite, muft have the fenfe of the pulchrum & decorum, and of what is graceful and becoming in fentiments and behaviour, without which there is nothing amiable or praifeworthy among men. And as this fenfe is the foundation of all virtue, it was not, I think, without reafon, that the Stoics reckoned po liteness, or urbanity, as they called it, among the virtues. THEATRICAL JOURNAL. OCTOBER 25. A is introduced, particularly in the opening scene of Mount Olympus, where the Gods are reprefented feated amid the clouds, in full council. Jupiter, Juno, Minerva, Venus, and the whole of the Di Majores, appear magnificently and appropriately attired. After Jove has executed his vengeance upon Apolis, and burled him to the earth by a thunderbolt, he refumes his throne, and the ce leftials lestials afcend to the upper heavens. For the execution of this movement, a falfe ftage has been conftructed, the breadth of the proscenium, and very deep; which rifing, elevates their godfhips in a most majestic manner. The clouds gradually gather round them, and at last they vanish altogether from the light of aftonished mortals.-This piece of machinery has extraordinary merit. The laft fcene, exhibiting Mercury and the Mufes, is also beautiful. As the main mufical strength of the House was employed, it will not be wondered, that the Piece has had a very fuccessful run. The principal characters were thus caft: Midas, Mr Suett; Apollo, Mr. Kelly; Jupiter, Mr. Sedgwick; Sileno, Mr. Dignum, Pan, Mr. Caul field; Daphne, Mrs. Mountain; Nyfa, Mrs. Bland and Mysis, Mifs Tyrer. 30. A New Comedy was prefented at Covent Garden Theatre, from the pen of Mr. Reynolds, under the Title of "DELAYS and BLUNDERS;" the Characters being as follow, and thus reprefented: Henry Sapling Sapling Paul Poftpone Mr. LEWIS. Mr. MUNDEN, Mrs. St. Orme Mr. SIMMONS. The scene of action lies in Herefordfhire. Lieutenant St. Orme was married 18 years before the opening of the play, to the daughter of the late Sir Frederick Delauny, contrary to the wish of her father Difcarded by him, the Lady goes with her husband to America, where they live fome time in comfort, but, owing to St. Orme's ill tate of health, fall into embarrassment and diftrefs. Their daughter, Lauretta, in order to fupport her parents, goes upon the stage; and Mrs. St Orme, with a hope of foftening her father, returns to England, but finds him inflexible. He, however, keeps her in his houfe, deceives her into a belief that her husband has taken a mistress, and induces St. Orme to believe that his wife is infane, to account for her not returning to America, and to prevent him from following her, One of the letters which St. Orme sent to Sir Frederick, written upon a prefumption that his wife was deranged in mind, earnestly entreats him to confine her. This paffage, which is the effect of connubial folicitude, is cruelly mifconftrued by Sir Frederick, who induces Mrs. St. Orme to confider it as the refult of treacherous and barbarous infidelity on the part of her husband. At length, St. Orme, anxious to behold his wife, returns to England, and demands a fight of her from her father, who refuses to let her husband fee her, or know where she is confined. St. Orme in agony presents a pistol, and demands fatisfaction. In the ftruggle that enfued, the pistol went off, and lodged its contents in Sir Frederick, who dies foon after. The only perfon prefent on this melancholy occafion, is Lauretta. St. Orme is taken up, and imprisoned, and, at the opening of the Play, he is about to be tried for the murder of his father-in-law. Lauretta retires into a place of obfcurity, in order to avoid the horrid neceffity of giving evidence against her father. The profe cution is carried on by Sir Edward De. launy, the nephew of Sir Frederick, who has left him all his fortune on the death of Mrs. St. Orme. Sir Edward has placed Mrs. St. Orme under the care of Farmer Nightshade, a despicable minion of his purposes, and she is clofely confined in his houfe. Henry Sapling, a fpirited and amiable officer in the British Navy, is the particular friend of St. Orme, and, as the haunt of Lauretta had been difcovered by the perfeverance and vigilance of Sir Edward's agents, Henry procures her a male difguife, and recom mends her as a fervant to Nightshade. At the command of Nightshade, Lauretta fings a melancholy air, expreffive of the unhappy ftate of her fortune. The found reaches the ear of Mrs. St. Orme, whofe exclamations in confequence engage the attention of her daughter, and the latter fuddenly takes off the chain from the door, and releases her. tender interview ensues, but the farmer oppofes their departure from his house. Henry Sapling again fortunately appears, and takes them away under his protection. St. Orme is brought to trial, but for want of a witnefs against him is acquitted. He inftantly haltens to Sir Edward's to demand his wife, and the latter rejects his entreaties. Mrs. St. Orme is, indeed, averfe to fee her husband, being prepollessed against him by the false charges of her late father. Lauretta, in order to I A raife raife compunction in the mind of Sir Edward, has a painting of a veftal virgin buried alive, illuminated, as it bears fome resemblance to the flate to which he had doomed her mother. Sir Edward, with much agitation, but at length with hardened impenitence, refifts the appeal of the picture, and at laft Mrs. St. Orme rufhes into the room, and Sir Edward then gives way to feelings of contrition, refolves to furrender all the hereditary property to her, and relieves the feelings of St. Orme, by affuring him, that Sir Frederick died a natural death. Such is the melancholy part of this play. There is another plot relative to Mr. and Mrs. Sapling. The former had been a fimple Country Squire, but is FINISHED, as he terms it, into a fashionable Gentleman, by his wife, who encourages the visits of Mr. Privilege, a man who lives by what wits he poffeffes; and by the aid of a few trifling, but FASHIONABLE talents, is enabled to procure a FASHIONABLE fubfiftence. The wife intends to let Privilege marry her husband's ward Honoria, and Sap. ling affents to this difpofal of her hand. Honoria, however, is attached to the geLerous Henry Sapling, the nephew of her guardian. Henry is alfo very much attached to her, but is connected with a pretended woman of quality, Lady Senfitive, who is in fact a rapacious woman of the town. The audience only hear of Lady Senfitive, as they only hear of Mrs. Grundy in Speed the Plough. But the great Agent of the Piece, by whole DELAYS and BLUNDERS, mot of the events are promoted and retarded, is Poftpone, an Attorney, a man who is fuppofed to be divided between bufinefs and pleature, and who, by the flightelt call of the latter, is induced to neglect the most important concerns. After a multiplicity of ludicrous incidents which we will not venture to defcribe, Privilege is defeated in his attempts to obtain Honoria by artifice. Henry's mittrefs, Lady Senfitive, who, he thought was dying with grief on account of his ab. fence, goes off with an Irish Officer, and Henry and Honoria, with the content of her guardian, are to have all their virtues rewarded in marriage. With all the eccentricity of Mr. Reynolds's other pieces, the prefent Comedy is both amusing and inftructive. The most striking character of the comic caft is, that of Paul Poftpone, an honest attorney, carried away by the attraction of the moment, fitting down to fill up a * fubpoena, from which he is diverted by the mufic of a fylvan fête. The struggle between the man of bufinefs and the man of pleasure, and the tantalizing emotions of the diftreffed lawyer, are inconceivably ludicrous, as well as his abrupt feizure of, and decampment with, Mr. Privilege instead of Lauretta, uttering the quaint legal phrafe, "Court fits-Witnesses called !" We are no great friends to the mingling of tragic diftrefs with the light scenes of comedy, or the broader ones of farce.The idea of bringing a man to trial for the murder of his father-in-law, and the confinement of a Lady on a fictitious charge of infanity, are certainly matters of too ferious and melancholy a kind for the comic drama; and nothing, we think, but the fuccefs of the German School could have induced Mr. Reynolds to fhut his eyes against propriety, fo much as to make them the subject of a Comedy. The Play, however, though we do not think it the best of Mr. Reynolds's productions, being admirably performed in all its parts, was received with great applaufe, except only in the scene where the young puppy Peer was introduced, which, as being thought rather indecorous, and wholly unneceffary to the conduct of the Piece, received tokens of difapprobation. Mr. Lewis's entré, the first fince his ferious indifpofition, (fee page 291.) was greeted with fuch general and reiterated applaufe, as must have amply convinced him of the hold he has on the affections of at least the play-going part of the public. The Prologue was delivered by Mr. Brunton, and the Epilogue by Mrs. Mattocks, who gave effect by her naiveté, to one of the most feeble and pointlets frings of couplets that we ever heard. Nov. 1. On the performance of the above Comedy for the fecond time, the baby caricature of Lord Orlando de Courcy was omitted; and fome not very decent lines in the Epilogue, refpe&ing Balloons, left out. This deference to public opinion was not loft on the audience, who teftified their approbation of the improvement.-A ludicrous circumftance, however, occurred toward the clofe of the Epilogue. One of the deities in the Gallery, being justly offended at the length and dulnels of the compofition, moft naturally affumed the voice of an afs, and began braying in to hideous a manner, that the feelings of Mr. |