The Enquirer

Domestic.

From the Baltimore American.

THEATRICAL INTELLIGENCE EXTRAORDINARY.

DRAMATIS PERSONAE.

Principal Performers in the great Tragedy now performing on the great Stage of civilized Europe:

Emperor of Russia, Austria, King of England Prussia, Sweden, Spain

Emperor Napoleon, King of Naples, Bavaria Wurtemberg, Westphalia, Saxony Denmark

Under these principal performers is a multitude of subordinate actors, such as, Princes, Dukes, Counts: Marshals; Generals, &c -besides. Councillors, Privy Councillors, Ambassadors, Diplomats, &c who act as painters, scene-shifters, Printers, Printer's Devils, Puffers, &c. all in their proper costume--To these must be added, at least a million of underlings, trained to the art of killing, NOT in shew, as in our Play-houses, BUT IN REALITY-From all which, our readers may guess, what a large stage is required for the exhibitions of so large a company.

This vast company of Tragedians, however, is divided into two parties, a circumstance very common in common play-houses; and they are at present at dagger-drawing; not daggers made of tin or wood, but real daggers made of steel.-The chief Manager of one of these parties, is a courtly well-looking gentleman, called Castlereagh, who moves his puppets by certain magical wires made of gold-The chief, and indeed the only Manager of the other party, is one Bonaparte, a fierce-looking, sinewy little man, who, on the spot, moves his puppets with strings made of iron.

The difference between these two famous Managers is this--The former reclines at his ease on a silken couch at a distance; whereas the latter is himself a principal performer on the spot--& herein, it is said, he has a manifest advantage, as the active little fellow is ever on the alert, directing every thing under his own eye, and guiding all the machinery with his own hand.

N.B.--Besides the above grand exhibition going on in Europe, there is a side Tragedy now performing in a quarter of the world called North America. The actors in this play, for want of practice, are not so expert as the former, nor have they any thing like the number of puppets, painters, scene-shifters, &c. but the Managers in London very obligingly sent over some of their experienced hands to teach them; and one Tecumseh, a red man, capital at shewing surprising feats with the tomahawk and scalping-knife.

By the last accounts from that country, it would appear, that the American novices were daily improving in playing the soldier;" and it was even thought, that before long, they would be as clever as their masters.