As our Doncaster Correspondent desired that we would acknowledge his commu. nication, we hereby do so; and farther inform him, that we had not sauntered far before we discerned, through the disguise, a cloven foot: for, as the song says, "All the little Clarks Were mark'd," &c. This self puffing candidate for employment is desired to take notice, that the different departments of our work are already occupied; and that his inestimable services are free to any publication that may stand in need of them.-Neither the Proprietor nor the Conductors of the EUROPEAN MAGAZINE are partial to hot water, or will submit to act as gall-ducts to any self-dubbed Aristarchus. LEDA, or the SILVER EGG, is by no means a bad idea: whether we shall adopt it. will be seen at some future period. How our ingenious Correspondent, LITTLE THUMB, could suppose that there was any political, financial, or fiscal allusiou, in MOTHER GOOSE, it has puzzled our sagacity to conjecture. We do not, as he says, believe this fascinating piece to be "a barrel thrown out to the whale;" because, however it may sound, it has never yet proved an empty vessel. We can only hint to W. J., that too many of "the Miseries of Human Life” have already come professionally under our inspection. THE EXODIAD, a Poem, shall be reviewed in our next. The poem by the late Sir WILLIAM JONES is very beautiful; if it has not been printed, we will most readily insert it. We are obliged to T. B. for his communication, but cannot insert it; because it is rather a delicate thing to observe upon PARTY, or to reflect apoR. TRIBU NALS. Our Correspondent P. O. would do well to consider the space to which we are limited with respect to our Review Articles. We have already reduced our quotation type. We are obliged to him for his compliment; but it can have no effect on our judgment of the work to which he alludes. The Rev. Mr. Mercier's defence of the Swiss came too late for this month. 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Cornhill 1 May 1807 EUROPEAN MAGAZINE, AND LONDON REVIEW, FOR APRIL 1807. MEMOIR OF MISS POPE. [WITH A PORTRAIT.] "Nothing, though ever so barren, if within the bounds of nature, could be fat in her Hands; she gave many heightening touches to characters, but coldly written." In contemplating the subject which. now engages our attention, we find a peculiar pleasure, because it recals the images and ideas of our juvenile days, and presents to our view the reseinblance of an actress, who, from the time that we first saw her personate Miss DOLLY SNIP*, POLLY HONEYCOMBE, and the Musical Lady, to that of her latest representation, has heen as much our favourite, as she has been the favourite of the public. To this hour we can remeinber her cxultation at the idea of her being a fine lady, and “Wearing a little cap, or no cap. at all.” Her mode of summoning the female band CIBBER. mureness in the FAIR QUAKER OF DEAL. We still retain the idea of her characteristic assumption of "Cheapside pertness and Whitechapel pride," in the representation of Miss STERLAG; and have not lost sight of the intriguing archness of her LAPPET: nor the adinirable contrast which she exhibed in NELL. In fact, we may repeat it the words of our motto, that " Nothing within the bounds of nature and truth can be flat in her hands." Of this, another instance strikes us in her epresentation of Mrs. CANDOUR, which, though short, is one of that species of parts in which, Cibber says, there is as much skill to be shown as in the most voluminous; and respecting which we must recur to the manner in which she spoke, and the look that accompanied these words: "Poor dear Girl! who knows what her situation may be?" To take the whole range of the parts performed by Miss POPE within the space to which we are confined, would, were it necessary, be impossible, To characterize her acting is, perhaps, less difficult; because it is, as we have already observed, a superstructure of truth founded upon the basis of nature; and consequently to the audience discriminates itself. Of her acting it is to be further remarked, that the outlines of the poet are filled up with the greatest judgment, and heightened by the most fascinating touches of genuine humour; or, where the scene requires it, of exquisite sensibility: so that she intro duces upon the stage an inexhaustible variety you never see the fulsomne affectation of ABIGAIL *, the quality binding of KITTY +, the purse proud boisterous insolence of HEIDELBERG‡, nor the distinguishing traits of any of her other characters, intermingled: she has, indeed, too much real genius ever to appear in the smallest degree a man nerist. If we recur to that great master of his art, Coley Cibber, and contemplate the highly finished picture of Mrs. Monfort, which he has delineated, we shall find a very considerable similarity betwixt the professional character of Miss Pope, and the description of his favourite, as it glows in his page. "She was, says the Laureat, "so fond of humour, in what low part so ever to be found, that she would make no scruple of defacing her fair form to come heạ tily into it. For, when she was emirent in several desirable characters of wit and humour in higher life, she would be in as much fancy, when descending to the antiquated Abigail of Fletcher, as when triumphing in the airs and graces of a rine lady." Though this is, as he observes, a species of excellence that few actresses care for, it is certainly one of very conslerable magnitude; for, divested of it, we have seen DORCAS endeavour to out-bloom SALLY; URSULA attempt to appear handsomer than LEONORA**, and many other instances in which characteristic propriety was sacrificed to vanity.. While we feel ourselves under the influence of the cacoethes quolandi, we shall request the rader's indulgence to allow us to extract a few more words from thesame author respecting another actress, as in a particular point of view they apply to Miss Pope, and with them we shall conclude our exordium. Mrs. Bracegirdle was now just blooming to her maturity; her reputation as an actress gradually rising with that of her person. Never was any woman in such general favour with her spectators, which she constantly maintained by not being inattentive to her private character." This, like that of the lady who is the subject of this memoir, passed over the fiery ordeal of the stage like pure gold through the furnace, without the smallest diminution of its value. Miss Pope was born in Russel Street, Covent Garden, where her father resided many years, and whence she only removed to Great Queen Street; so that she seems to have been through life as stationary in her dwellings, as in her attachment to ONE THEATRE. Her dramatic life commenced in the earliest period of her youth. She may with propriety be termed a daughter of the Comic Muse. It was not owing to any idea so absurd, as the infantile taste which we have lately seen possess the town; but, most probably, from a wish to erect a kind of nursery for dramatic genius, that induced Garrick to collect a juvenile company, and to have some of his pieces performed by them. Miss Pope, even when a child, appeared to the sagacious Manager one of the most promising candidates for theatric fame: to her, therefore, he trusted some of the capital parts; she, in consequence, performed the fine lady in LETHE, then a favourite part of Mrs. Clive's, also Miss in her Teens, and from her professional skill in thriding the fantastic mazes of the dance, shone with distinguished lustre among the fairy group of LILLIPUT. She also contributed her magic powers to the aid of the enchantress in the GRACLE. The first regular appearance of Miss Pope as an actress, was in the character of CORINNA, in that truly pleasant Comedy of Vanbrugh, “The Confederacy," September 27, 1759, when she was received with universal applause. "On the second night of her performing the character, Mrs. Clive called her into the Green Room before she went upon the stage, and said to her, "My dear Pope," (which was a very tender appellation to come from that lady, "you played particularly well on Saturday night as a young actress; now take froin me a piece of advice, which I would have every beginner attend to; you acted with great and deserved approbation, but to-night you must eadeavour to act better, and expect to receive less applause; for, if you let your young heart be too sanguine, and rest on the caprice of public commendation or praise, you will find yourself disappointed; you will foolishly let it |