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LONDON MAGAZINE.

FEBRUARY,

A new TRAGEDY, intitled, EUGENIA, wrote by the Rev. Mr. FRANCIS, having been lately exhibited with Applaufe at the Theatre Royal, in Drury-Lane, we fall give our Readers an Account of it, as follows.

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HE perfons of the drama A are, 1. Dorimond, a very rich old gentleman, of a humane, friendly, fincere, and good natural difpofition. 2. Mercour, (Dorimond's nephew by an elder brother, who had spent his fortune, as few do, in ferving his country, and had left his fons entirely dependent for their fubfiftence on their uncle Dorimond) a young fellow of the modern tafte, who would spare no pains, nor ftick at any villainy to debauch a lady he took a liking to; and at the fame time full of pride and diffimulation. 3. Clerval, younger brother to Mercour, fincere both in love and friendship, and C paffionately in love with Eugenia. 4. Marquis of Delville, in the difguife of a common foldier, who had in his youth killed his friend in a duel, had been many years under great misfortunes, and at last obtained his pardon by the friendship of D Clerval. 5. Eugenia, the fuppofed daughter of Dorimond, a beautiful virtuous young lady, fecretly in love with Clerval, and courted by his elder brother Mercour. 6. Æmilia, a young lady educated and fupported by Dorimond, out of pure friendship for her deceased father, but privately debauched by Mercour. 7. Orphifa, Delville's wife, a lady of quality, of excellent understanding, in the disguise of a gentlewoman, whom Eugenia's fuppofed mother, before her death, had ap pointed as her governefs, and who had been offered a bribe by Mercour to affift him in debauching Eugenia.

The fcene is a gallery in Dorimond's houfe in Paris, and opens with a dialogue February, 1752.

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between Mercour and Emilia, which discovers his having debauched her under proteftations of love, and that he nowwants her aid to bring about a marriage with Eugenia, thereby to get his uncle's fortune fettled upon him, in order, after a little time, to leave Eugenia, and go and live openly with her as his mistress; which dialogue is ended by Æmilia thus: Yes; 'tis juft,

Most exquifitely juft, this purpos'd insult.
And mark it, ye unhappy ones, like me,
Thus fhall it ever prove, aubo firft betrays,
Will firft infult our weakness. Hear me, Sir,
Fall'n as I am from bonour, loft to fame,
And bateful to myself, yet dare not think,
I bafely can betray another's innocence.
Be wife, and dread the wildness of my temper,
Left it ftart out in madness to deftroy
Myfelf and thee, with horrors worthy beth..
[Exit.

Upon Emilia's going out, Derimond enters, and propofes a match between him and Æmilia, which he waves, profeffes his love for Eugenia, and artfully proposes, that Æmilia thould be given to his brother Clerval, which the old man undertakes to mention, but difclaims all other influence,

Than that of tender and perfuafive reafon. On Dorimond's going, Clerval enters, having just parted with Delville, whofe story he tells Mercour, was a fecret, and upon Mercour's asking, why he might not be trusted with the fecret, Clerval anfwers,

It is the fecret of my friend, not mine. Then Mercour informs Clerval of the double marriage intended by Dorimond, on which Clerval innocently discovers his paffion for Eugenia; and the first act ends with a dialogue between Clerval and Delville, in which the latter declares, that the king's pardon could give him no ease, until he had found her, from the pure joys of whofe nuptial bed he had been banished, and for whom alone he lived.

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52 Account of the new Tragedy of EUGENIA. Feb,

Act II. opens with a dialogue beween Dorimond and Eugenia, in which he propofcs Mercour for her husband; and the thereupon appearing difconcerted, but profeffing obedience, he fays,

No, my child;

I am a father; would be thought a friend,

Is it my own difturb'd imagination,
Or do I fee frange terror and confufion
In every face I meet? No; there's a face,
That knows no change; inflexible in mischief.
What! can be fmile! 'Tis more than common
villainy,
[frowns,
When Mercour deigns to smile. And now be

Whom nature bas entrusted with your happiness; A As if fome thought of goodness fmote his heart.
Whofe more experienc'd age might influence,
But not controul your choice.

Upon his going, Orphifa enters, to whom he recommends his daughter; and the after knowing what had paffed between them, and fufpecting her love for Clerval, advises thus:

The maid, who loves her innocence, should blush If e'er her wandering eye excite the hope of fecret love; 'tis ev'n a crime to please, Which virtue ftartles at. Ob! would Eugenia Exert the Spirit of virtue; let the fenfe of filial piety inspire her breast,

And at the marriage-altar offer up

The paffions of the heart; that nobleft facrifice,

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Then enfues a dialogue between them, wherein he endeavours to perfuade her to marry his brother Clerval; on which the flies into a violent paffion, and declares her refolution to renounce the world.

A& III. begins with a dialogue between Dorimond and Mercour, in which the latter, who was, it feems, the favourite of his aunt, perfuades the former, that the upon her death-bed recommended Eugenia to him, on which he obtains the old man's leave to make his addreffes to Eugenia, and upon Dorimond's exit, Eugenia enters, by his order, whereupon Mercour begins to explain his paffion to

Worthy of her, of virtue, and of heaven-Cher, and upon her going to leave him,

To which Eugenia answers :

And will high beaven be mock'd with fuch a facrifice?

And fhall I give my band, that facred pledge
Of love and truth, to him my foul abbors ?
Shall I deceive even him? Shall I profane
The altar and its rites with vows of falfbood?
There fhall I learn diffimulation ? There
Firft fpeak a language foreign to my heart?
Ye blefled faints and angels, fhall ye bear
My unhallow'd lips pronounce the folemn pro-
mife

Of everlasting love to one I bate?

he catches her by the arm a little rudely, and thews her a paper, which the knows to be her mother's hand, and directed to her father, on which he tells her, that her mother, the night before she died, gave him fome papers, of which that was one, and that it contained a fecret, which would ruin her if the read it; therefore Dhe endeavours to perfuade her not to look into it, but to give him a husband's facred right to guard her ; but the daring him to let her fee it, he cries, Then read it, and be wretched.

After fome more noble fentiments from both upon this fubject, Clerval enters, and Eugenia, at Orphifa's defire, retires; then E enfues a most affecting dialogue between Orphifa and Cierval, after which Dorimond enters, who had in revenge been over perfuaded by Mercour, that Orphifa was carrying on an intrigue between Clerval and Eugenia, which he charges her with, and this prevents her faying any thing in favour of Clerval as he had desired; and upon her retiring, Dorimond accufes Clerval of making a common foldier his companion, having been fo informed by Mercour; on which Clerval declares, that Delville was a man of eminent birth and merit, of which he would then tell him a part, and the whole in due time.

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Upon their retiring, Mercour enters, G with a paper in his hand, on which he exultingly fays, that the fate of Eugenia depended. While he is reading, Amilia enters, and before he obferved her, the in a foliloquy fays,

Upon this Eugenia reads the letter wrote by Dorimond's wife upon her death-bed, and directed to him, in which the informed him, that as the knew how ardently he wished for children, and to engage his affection, fhe had deceived him with a fuppofititious child, and had paffed Eugenia for his daughter. Eugenia being in a furprize at this difcovery, Mercour endeavours to perfuade her to join with him in wedlock, and in concealing the fecret; but he defpifes both, on which he goes out threatning revenge, and Clerval enters, to whom the gives fome dark hints of her not being Dorimond's daugh ter, and then bids him farewel for ever. On her going, Delville enters, endeavours to comfort Clerval, and acquaints him, that he had now got his pardon paffed the feals; and that he was going to the only friend who knew the correfpondence between him and his lovely mourner, who would direct him where to find her, after which his fortune, power, and every thing should be Clerval's.

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