piece, it is impossible not to believe that it must have obtained universal applause; -as a first, it perhaps solicited indulgence, never more gracefully bestowed than in cherishing the posthumous reputation of a writer so deservedly admired as the author of The Honey-moon. Under the influence of doubt and misconception, The Fisherman's Hut, though supported by admirable acting, had obviously little chance of obtaining that popularity, which might have been expected from one of Mr. Tobin's productions. With this painful impression it was on the third night withdrawn by Mr. Elliston, not without the advice and concurrence of the author's friends, in whom the delicacy and liberality of his conduct could not but produce deep and permanent feelings of gratitude and obligation. To the candid and unprejudiced Public, The Fisherman is now submitted, with the hope that on perusal it will be found to justify the manager's taste, and at some more favourable moment become, in a compressed form, a permanent acquisition to that Theatre, in which a generous effort has been made to protect it from oblivion. THE FISHERMAN. ACT I. Scene 1st.-Three Fishermen going to their work. AIR 1st. (Trio.) 1st Fish. How fares it, fellow fisherman, This cold and frosty morn? 2d Fish. I wish I were in bed again, Till the morning star has bid farewell, And the sun has thaw'd the icicle, That shivers on the thorn. 3d Fish. Yet whether the sun will shine or no, We must rise when the cock doth crow, Yet merrily we pull, When the net is full, Whether the sun will shine or no, Whether it rain, or hail, or blow. [Exeunt. |