. Dwyer met with a
superior reception at first, and before the end of the play drew the
most unequivocal acknowledgments of his supreme comic powers.

In the character of Ranger, (Suspicious Husband) though he was
wretchedly supported by the performers of every character, save
Strictland and Tester, he was no less successful.

In Vapid he was truly excellent and delivered the epilogue with a force
and humour which merited and indeed received three successive rounds of
applause after the curtain dropped.

The English critics concur in pronouncing Mr. Dwyer's the best WILDING
(Lyar) on the British boards. Nor will an enlightened critic, provided
he be honest as well as enlightened, deny his great superiority in that
part. Having seen Lewis, Palmer, I. Bannister, and several others,
perform young Wilding, we have no hesitation to declare that in many
parts of the character, but particularly in his account of the feigned
marriage with Miss Lydia Sibthorpe, and the adventure of the closet and
the cat, he was superior to any actor but the great original and the
author of the piece, SAM FOOTE.

Of his Rapid we are unable to say any thing, having been detained from
the theatre by business to a late hour. His Sir Charles Racket, which
followed it, was, like Belcour, an elegant specimen of high genteel
comedy. Something went wrong however towards the conclusion of the piece
which occasioned it to end rather abruptly.

Upon the whole we must in justice say, that Mr. Dwyer, so far as we have
seen him go, has shown uncommon talents for the stage--that he is an
acquisition to the American boards, such as we had not dared to hope
for, and that we trust next season will bring him back, and exhibit him
in a range of characters more varied and extensive, and better
calculated to call forth the great natural powers of which he seems to
be amply possessed.

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_Grand Musical Performances._

In no country in the world is the practice of music more universally
extended and at the same time the science so little understood as in
America. Almost every house included between the Delaware and Schuylkill
has its piano or harpsichord, its violin, its flute, or its clarinet.
Almost every young lady and gentleman from the children of the Judge,
the banker, and the general, down to those of the constable, the
huckster, and the drummer, can make a noise upon some instrument or
other, and charm their fri