ADDRESS.

Auckland Times, Volume 2, Issue 57, 13 February 1844, Page 2

ADDRESS.

Ladies and Gents., to you with due submission We lowly bend, unto your just decision ; Trusting that we your influence may engage, In patronizing this our new-raised Stage. The Drama’s laws, the Drama’s patron's giro For those who live to please, must please to lire, t hus sang the poet, to appease the rage Of those who blame the morals of the stage. It is the public taste that governs ; let ttiat be Depraved—depraved, of course, the Stage will he, But, if fair virtue guide the public mind, Vice on the board* no more a home will find. The Stage is bat tire mirror, which reflects The virtues of mankind, or their defects. Hoping to please our Auckland pations, we Will this night attempt a real novelty, To please our friends, ’tis true, and what beside To fix the Drama here, in all its pride; By holding then the mirror up to nature,” And showing, the very time its form and feature. Impel I’d by motives of the noblest kind Knowledge we seek to humanize the mind. ‘‘Treading those shores, by art before untrod To point through nature up to natute s God.” * Truth is our object— But the scenic art Compels from truth, an author to depart. Nature the Dramatist may paint; but facts He must somewhat —exaggerate. A tax Impos’d by custom—wiii< ti we must respect • And sacrifice some truth to s'age effect. ’ And here, our Manager, hopes a first attempt From rigid censure, may he deemed exempt. Nor vain Ids hopes, tor by your smiles I see You’re predisposed to generosity True British feeling beams from beauty’s eyes And with the curtain bids his spirits rise. " “ So much for Buckingham”— No So much— -yet, hold—for now the Actors claim home little notice, and some little mercy • Out ’s is no easy task, but vice vena. As foreign noblemen, 01 kings, or queens (Folks seldom met with, save before the scenes’* W.th some ecat. we may •* make up’ and show, " hat snc, ‘ g r<,al persons are supposed to do But when we venture to assume the name And characters of persons known to fatue

T is there, kind friends, with sorrow then we find, Our inability to assume their mind. Here we must fait—so humbly we request Your kind indulgence, when we do our best. Kind to our faults, we trust you’ll always be, Nor criticise too keenly what you see. With grateful hearts, your kindness is confess’d ; We say but this—our acts must speak the rest. Trusting, that we this night your smiles may gain, And that I have not humbly sued in vain. My best I’ve done to plead a humble cause, Our suit is gained, in gaining your applanse !

Mi Barstow gave a parting dinner, at Hart’s Hotel, on Saturday last, to Capt. Nelson, and some of his fellow passengers by the Bangalore , to the number of whom were added some few more of the new friends he has acquired since his arrival. This entertainment we understand was ordered by Mr. Barstow, and effected by the landlord, in a style that has not yet been attempted in the Colony. Last evening more leave takings, of a similar nature were made, at the same house ; and upon both occasions the guests declared, that a first-rate London tavern could not have done better. These manifestations of conviviality, at the present moment, are cheering in a place like Auckland, The arrival of the Bangalore has been quite a refresher to the place, and we hope soon tu see her Commander hack among us,