it would have been destroyed by the repugnancy of its own principles, for want of proper direction in its components towards their proper and regular end, and the whole race of animals had probably indeed been long ago extinct. An Account of the New COMEDY, called, THE DOUBLE MISTAKE, which is performing at the Theatre Royal in Covent-Garden. MEN. Lord BELMONT, a nobleman of fenfe, honour, and fpirit; Mr. Rofs. Mr. BELMONT, untle to Lord Belmont, an old bachelor; a good-natured, Younger FREEMAN, Mr. Dyer; his brother; one who has flipt from be- Mr. SOUTHERNE, an old, abfurd, country gentleman, and an unfeeling father; Mr. Dunftall. WOMEN. Lady BRIDGET, Mrs. Walker; an old, affected maiden, aunt to Lord Belmont, and a great pretender to literature. Lady MARY, Mils Macklin; a grave, well-behaved, fenfible young woman, fifter to Lord Belmont, Lady LOUISA. Mifs Wilford; her fifter, a lively, giddy, romantic girl. I TH leave Bath, Sir Charles requested a laft adieu of his dear Emily, after the family were gone to reft. While they were vowing eternal conftancy to each other, they heard a noife in an adjoining clofet; Sir Charles forced open the door, and, to their mutual aftonishment, out-rufhed a man; Sir Charles called to him to draw; but their fighting was prevented by Emily throwing herself between them. The family, however, heing alarmed, and all coming into the room, Emly fled from the indignation of her father; and running into the ftreet, found the Bath-coach at that inftant farting D pit for London, ftepped into it, Lord Belmont accomplishes his purpofe of perfuading his friend Sir Charles to poftpone his intended journey for a few days. The next Icene is between Emily, aunt Bridget, and the Virtuofo, which is highly entertaining. Aunt Bridget is perfectly ridiculous, with her ftiff, ftarched, formality and pretenfions to learning as is alfo the virtuofo, with his nonfenfe about birds, fhells, medals, and coins. One of thefe laft he fays he will prefent to Emily. He calls it his beft 0 5 it has the true green mould upon it, and is fo very antique, that all the traces of the figure are worn out, and it looks for all the world like a bit of plain copper. The whole of this character is perfe&ly humorous, and is inimitably performed by Mr. Shuter. The fcene is next changed to Younger Freeman's lodgings, who is just arrived in town; to him comes his elder brother, a banker in Lombardfreet, whom he acquaints with a defign, or rather a fcheme he has formed, of marrying a lady with 10,000 1. but the elder brother detefts and abhors the whole plot, as clandeftine and fcandalous, and with a fevere contempt reproaches his brother's folly, prefumption, and artifice. The lady proves to be Lord Belmont's fifter, Lady Louifa, whom he impofes upon with falfe tales of his large eftaté, unalterable paffion, &c. The Virtuofo having conceived a paffion for Emily's true Cleopatran neck, as he calls it, takes an opportunity, when he is alone, of acquainting her with it; but is terribly diftrefied to declare it. lengh he hits on an excellent expedient. He tells her he has got a fine parrot that speaks very plain, and by the next morning he will teach it to teli Emily he loves her, and will marry her. At Lady Louifa having confented to the admiffion of Younger Freeman, he comes, and after declaring his love, talking of his rents, on his knees preffing her to fly with him, to which the almost consents, news is brought that her brother, lord Belmont, is coming up ftairs. This obliges young Freeman to decamp down the back ftairs. The fcene is changed to a fireet, with part of Lord Belmont's garden wall and the door of the garden. Sir Charles Somerville is going to Lord Bel Lord feeing a chariot at the garden-gate, he asked the coachman whom he belonged to, and he answered to Mr. Freeman; fo that Sir Charles is certain he must be in his Lordship's houfe. Strict fearch is inftantly made, and Freeman flies from roomi to room; at length in the utmost diftrefs, and not knowing where to run, finding his purfuer at his heels, he burfts open another room-door, which proves to be Emily's. She comes out in the greatest surprize, and finding him to be the man who had been concealed in her closet at Bath, he is in the utmoft diftraction. Lord Belmont and Sir Charles enter, as do likewife the ladies and all the family, even Emily's father; from whofe knowledge Lord Belmont had kept her concealed. After some severe expoftulations with Freeman, Lord Belmont demands to whom he came he anfwers to Emily, which greatly heightens her dif trefs; and increafes Sir Charles's contempt for her. Being urged to marry her, he refufes. Emily exclaims against his perfidy, and afferts her innocence. At length he confeffes the truth, and Lady Louifa confirms it, with a proper indignation for his falfhoods concerning his birth and character, Lord Belmont having informed her he was only his banker's brother. All parties now feem to be reconciled and fatisfied of Emily's innocence, except Sir Charles, who defires the Bathaffair may be explained. Young Freeman confeffes, that he then came to the maid, and as he was paffing through Emily's room into her's, in came Emily and Sir Charles; and fhe, to prevent a difcovery, thruft him into the clofet. Sir Charles is inftantly reconciled to his fond and amiable Emily, who forgives him. mont's, when at the inftant he is oppofite the garden-door, out comes younger Freeman. Sir Charles is furprised and thunder-ftruck; as this is the fame man whom he found in Emily's closet at Bath. He goes directly to Lord Belmont, whom he upbraids, and even infults, with clandeftinely affifting his rival. After many high words they come to understand each other; and Lord Belmont declares his refolution of finding out this fecret vifitor. Sir Charles goes out, and Mr. Southerne, Emily's father, is next introduced, who is come to town' to fearch for his daughter, about whom he however fays he will not give himself much trouble. He tells his Lordfhip that he had defigned to marry her to his neighbour Winterbottom, a rich old man like himself, but rather than comply the fled. Belmont having fent for his banker, Mr. Freeman, in order to fettle his accompts, which he conftantly does himself, afks after his brother. The account which Freeman gives of his brother, affords fome ground for Lord Belmont fufpecting he must be the man who had been in the houfe; and accordingly, at his next meeting with the ladies, he afks Emily if she knows one Mr. Freeman; the peremptorily, and without concern anfwers the does not; but Lady Louifa faulters. Young Freeman having formed a defign of carrying off Lady Louifa, in his brother's chariot, which ftands waiting for him at the door, by ordering the coachman to drive to the garden-gate; and being admitted toLady Louifa, eagerly preffes her to comply, but is prevented, by fomebody's overlooking the garden. The scene changes to Lord Bel mont's library, and in comes Sir Charles, to acquaint his lordship that, "The father likewise forgives her, and all parties are made happy in the marriage. As This is the plot of the play. to the language it is polite and elegant and from the applause it met with from all parts of the houfe, we may not only venture to pronounce its fuccefs certain; but add, that it bids fair for being an ornament to the English theatre. EXTRACT from the JOURNALS of Major ROBERT ROGERS: Containing an Account of the feveral Excurfions he made under the Generals who commanded upon the Continent of North America, during the late War. of the clock we halted two miles weft of thofe guards, and there refreshed ourselves till three, that the day-fcout from the fort might be returned home before we advanced; intending at night to ambuscade fome of their roads, in order to trepan them in the morning. We then marched in two divifions, the one headed by captain Bulkley, the other by my felf: enfigns White and Wait had the rear-guard, the other officers were pofted properly in each divifion, having a rivulet at a fmall dittance on our left, and a fteep mountain on our right. We kept close to the mountain, that the advanced guard might better obferve the rivulet, on the ice of which I imagined they would travel, if out, as the fnow was four feet deep, and very bad travelling on fnow-fhoes. In this manner we marched a mile and a half, when our advanced guard informed me of the enemy being in their view; and foon after, that they had afcertained their number to be ninety-fix, chiefly Indians. We immediately laid down our packs, and prepared for battle, fuppofing these to be the whole number or main body of the enemy, who were marching on our left up the ri vulet, valet, upon the ice. I ordered enfign M' Donald to the command of the advanced guard, which, as we faced to the left, made a flanking party to our right. We marched to within a few yards of the bank, which was higher than the ground we occupied; and obferving the ground gradually to defcend from the bank of the rivulet to the foot of the mountain, we extended our party along the bank, far enough to command the whole of the enemy's at once; we waited till their front was nearly oppofite to our left wing, when I fired a gun as a fignal for a general difcharge upon them; whereupon we gave them the first fire, which killed above forty Indians; the rest retreated, and were pursued by about one half of our people. I now imagined the enemy totally defeated, and ordered enfign_M'Donald to head the flying remains of them, that none might escape; but we foon found our mistake, and that the party we had attacked were only their advanced guard, their man body com. ing up confifting of 600 more, Canadians and Indians; I then ordered our people to retreat to their own ground, which we gained at the expence of fifty men killed; the remainder I rallied, and drew up in pretty good order, where they fought with fuch intrepidity and bravery as obliged the enemy (tho' seven to one in number) to retreat a second time; but we not being in a condition to pursue them, they rallied again, and recovered their ground, and warmly pushed us in front and both wings, while the mountain defended our rear; but they were fo warmly received, that their flanking parties foon retreated to their main body with confiderable lofs. This threw the whole again into diforder, and they retreated a third time; but our number being now too far reduced to take advantage of their diforder, they rallied again, and made a fresh attack upon us. About this time we difcovered 200 Indians going up the mountain on our right, as we fuppofed, to get poffeffion of the rifing ground, and attack our rear; to prevent which I sent lieutenant Philips with eighteen men, to gain the firft poffeffion, and beat them back, which he did; and being fufpicious that the enemy would go round on our left, and take poffeffion of the other part of the hill, I fent lieutenant Crafton with fifteen men, to prevent them there; and foon after defired two gentlemen, who were volunteers in the party, with a few men, to go and fuport him, which they did with great bravery. The enemy pushed us fo clofe in front, that the parties were not more than twenty yards afunder in general, and fometimes intermixed with each other. The fire con tinued almost conftant for an hour and a half from the beginning of the attack, in which we loft eight officers, and more than 100 men killed on the spot. We were at laft obliged to break, and I with about twenty men ran up the hill to Philips and Crafton, where we stopped and fired upon the Indians, who were eagerly pushing us, with numbers that we could not withstand. Lieutenant Philips being furrounded by 300 Indians, was at this time capitulating for himself and party, or the other part of the hill. He fpoke to me, and faid if the enemy would give them good quarters, he thought it beft to furren der, |