At the French Theatre this week, Mademoiselle DEJAZET and M.
LE- VASSOR have been playing the parts filled by Madame VESTRIS and Mr. C. MATHEWS in Grist to the Mill, an English version of La Marquise de Ca- racas; and by no means to the disparagement of the English performers. DEJAZET, as the Marchioness of the meal-sack, is more brusque and homely in her hoop-petticoat and train than VESTRIS was—which is natural as a trait of the paysanne ; but she was not more sprightly, and rather less fascinating. DEJAZET makes you wonder that the stately Marquis should marry ; in the case of VESTRIS it appeared very natu- ral. LEVASSOR, like most mimics, is not effective in the personation of character beyond mere externals ; and though he looked the old miserly Marquis admirably, he did not fill up the outline of the part a whit better than MATHEWS : both were inefficient. Neither was the French representative of the starched old maiden, Ma- demoiselle De Merluchet, so clever and amusing as Mrs. W. CLIFFORD. LEVASSOR'S remarkable talents were afterwards developed in a piece wherein he appears successively, and almost simultaneously, as a raw conscript, a veteran of the Grand Army, and an old invalid bent double with age and infirmity. The change of aspect, manner, and voice, was so complete that it was possible for a spectator to have been unaware that the three were personated by one actor. DEJAZET. on the same evening, played the milliner-soldier, Le Capitaine Charlotte—a version of which was brought out at the Adelphi for Miss KATE HOWARD to exhibit her confidence and incompetence in ; and she appeared in two other characters on the occasion of her benefit, on Wednesday. Her engagement, and the season of the French Plays, is fast drawing to a close.
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