Sheepstealer. Mr. West, whom we have mentioned in Hawbuck, played Old
Snarl with great humour, which his audience, and indeed himself, seemed
heartily to enjoy. In characters of low humour, particularly crabbed old
men, Mr. West would be very pleasing, if he would aim less at raising
gallery laughter by spurious means. And all that could be done for Mrs.
Scout was done by Mrs. Francis.

_November 27._

ELLA ROZENBERG.--WOOD DEMON.

Ella Rozenberg, a melo-drame, by Mr. Kenny, was brought out for the
first time at Drury Lane in 1807, and has ever since maintained its
ground in the public opinion. It is extremely interesting, and though
there is nothing new or singular in the plot or incidents is calculated
to lay fast hold on the imagination and feelings. At the opening of the
piece, the scene of which is laid near a Prussian camp, the heroine
_Ella Rosenberg_ reduced by the disappearance of her husband to a state
of poverty, is living under the protection of captain _Storm_,
a crippled old officer of invalids, and the friend of her deceased
father. Here she has concealed herself for two years, when she is
discovered by colonel _Mountfort_, who having conceived a criminal
passion for her, had in order to gratify that passion, purposely
provoked her husband to draw his sword upon him, in consequence of which
apprehending the severity of the military law, the latter had set off to
the capital to appeal to the electoral prince, but was no more heard of.
The colonel, who is a finished master of intrigue, enters Storm's house
in disguise, and attempts with the help of a band of his soldiers to
carry off Ella by force. In this he is opposed by the good and gallant
old officer, who, sword in hand, beats off the soldiers, tears the
colonel's sash from him, and in a rage tramples it under foot, in
consequence of which Storm is made prisoner, and Ella left unprotected,
is borne away by the soldiers. The elector, who has just returned
victorious from the war, appears considering a petition from old Storm
on behalf of Ella, which interests him so much, that he resolves to
visit her incognito. Mountfort, who is a favourite of the elector's and
has just arrived to congratulate him, is alarmed, endeavours to dissuade
him from going to Ella, and in the meantime to secure himself from
detection orders the immediate trial of Storm, who is found guilty and
sentenced to die. Ella escapes and reaches Storm, her old protector,
just as he