VESTRIS brought out lust week a new burletta called The
Retort courteous ; the main object of which is to show up a certain foreign Count, who was the hero of a former piece. However conspicuous in his fopperies this gentleman may be, he is not game for the draniatie satirist to fly : and it is unworthy of VESTRIS to make her stage the vehicle for the ridicule of the follies of a private individual. The recurrence of an attack upon a person who is only notorious in the little world of fashion, savours of personal pique and petty spite. las- Tos:'s personation was scarcely a caricature in dress and manner. The character—that of a dabbler in arts of which he knows nothing, and who is only successful in showing his ignorance and spoiling whatever he attempts to improve—is too good a subject for the dramatist, to be narrowed into insignificance by personality. In the course of the piece, VEsTais assumes the dress of Elizabeth ; which is not only suberb, but complete and correct even to the red hair. She looks like a flattering miniature of Queen Bess animated. She and Miss Precorr also appear as Savoyard girls with their hindy. gurdies ; and dance their comical hop, preserving the nose-pinching, and only omitting the dos-42-dos salute, in very neat and even graceful style. LISTON is disguised as a broom-woman; but his petticoats are not half voluminous enough.
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