The Adelpbi burlesque of the Jewess is by BUCKSTONE ;
and though, it does not attain the perfection of satirical parody—that of setting in a ludicrous light all the weak points of the original in order to show their aleatrdity, it accomplishes its chief aim, that of raising a laugh. The principal source of merriment is the burlesque procession, in which CRUIKSHANK'S caricature of out ,Francis Moore's prophetic hieroglyphics, in his Comic Almanac/4 of this year, is embodied with laughable effect ; and it is heightened by the accidental resemblance of WILKINSON, who personates the Mayor, to Mr. WINCHESTER. The Morning Post is very grave upon this " personality," and would have it put down by authoeity. In like manner, the Deputy Licenser was tenacious of the civic dignity ; and so the burlesque, which was announced for Monday, was not represented till next day. Yet the mock Mayor is still carried on a chair, like a guy, by two footmen, with no other canopy than an umbrella; and is preceded by a sort of biped "bog in armour," and followed by a numerous body of hobby- horse and shambling footmen, with culinary armour of bright block- tin. The pot and kettle helmets, dripping-pan breast-plates, and dish and plate armour, make a splendid show, and the spit spears look very formidable. The Provost has a capital representative in a full-blown parish beadle, and the choristers are repiesented by charity children with wands. Toe King of Little Britain figures in an enormousn crown, his train borne by sweeps. Nor are the Police and the crowd forgotten — though it is any thing but a swell ;rob: in short, nothing is wanted but a shadowy, seedy Alderman or two, to attenuate the " dimieished pomp" of the Mayor. A Pal is laid on the edge of the orchestra, across which the procession does vol pass; for one of the hobby-borses turned restive, (in imitation of the noble animal at Drury,) and fell into the big-dram. The Jewess, who with Ikey Solomons, her reputed father, has been condemned to the tread-mill for coinisig, escapes from B.ixton : but is seized upon by a congregation of washerwomen, who actually boll her in a copper,—though after all she is merely put "ins slew," for when the- Mayor learns she is his own daughter, she is fished out alive and well. Ikey, just before she is put in the copper, asks her very coolly, "Ba- you wish to die ?" to which she replies, " On second thoughts I do." WEBSTER plays They Soiomons, and gives a capital imitation of yAN- DENHOFF. 0. SMITH is the Prince; who courts the Jewess an the - disguise of a "Bohemian Brpther." There was some opposition at the conclusion, but the laughers carried it.
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