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_ SPOKEN BY MR. MARTIN.
A native Bard, a native scene displays,
And claims your candour for his daring lays:
Daring, so soon, in mimic scenes to shew,
What each remembers as a real woe.
Who has forgot when gallant ANDRE died?
A name by Fate to Sorrow's self allied.
Who has forgot, when o'er the untimely bier,
Contending armies paus'd, to drop a tear.
Our Poet builds upon a fact tonight;
Yet claims, in building, every Poet's right;
To choose, embellish, lop, or add, or blend,
Fiction with truth, as best may suit his end;
Which, he avows, is pleasure to impart,
And move the passions but to mend the heart.
Oh, may no party-spirit blast his views,
Or turn to ill the meanings of the Muse:
She sings of wrongs long past, Men as they were,
To instruct, without reproach, the Men that are;
Then judge the Story by the genius shewn,
And praise, or damn, it, for its worth alone.
CHARACTERS
GENERAL, dress, American staff uniform, blue, faced with
buff, large gold epaulets, cocked hat, with the black and
white cockade, indicating the union with France, buff
waistcoat and breeches, boots, Mr. Hallam.
M'DONALD, a man of forty years of age, uniform nearly the
same of the first, Mr. Tyler.
SEWARD, a man of thirty years of age, staff uniform, Mr. Martin.
ANDRE, a man of twenty-nine years of age, full British
uniform after the first scene, Mr. Hodgkinson.
BLAND, a youthful but military figure, in the uniform of
a Captain of horse--dress, a short blue coat, faced with
red, and trimmed with gold lace, two small epaulets, a
white waistcoat, leather breeches, boots and spurs; over
the coat, crossing the chest from the right shoulder, a
broad buff belt, to which is suspended a manageable hussar
sword; a horseman's helmet on the head, decorated as
usual, and the union cockade affixed, Mr. Cooper.
MELVILLE, a man of middle age, and grave deportment; his
dress a Captain's uniform when on duty; a blue coat, with
red facings, gold epaulet, white waistcoat and breeches,
boots and cocked hat, with the union cockade, Mr. Williamson.
BRITISH OFFICER, Mr. Hogg.
AMERICAN OFFICER, Mr. Miller.
CHILDREN, Master Stockwell and Miss Hogg.
AMERICAN SERGEANT, Mr. Seymour.
AMERICAN OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS, &c.
MRS. BLAND, Mrs. Melmoth.
HONORA, Mrs. Johnson.
SCENE, the Village of Tappan, Encampment, and adjoining Country. Time, ten hours. _
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