To clear the way then, be it in the first place known, that Mr. Matthew Lewis has found out a new kind of infernal agent--a demon who delights in human sacrifices, and lives in the woods. Perhaps it is because we are poorly versed in demonology that we do not recollect to have heard of this particular infernal before. Be that as it may, _Count Hardyknute_ of Holstein, having been sent into the world deformed in person and poor in circumstances, and being resolved to sell his soul to damnation for the bettering of his body, makes a contract with the demon, in condition of his being made handsome and powerful, to sacrifice to him a human victim on a particular day in each year; in failure of which he is to become the prey of the demon, who is very handsomely named _Sangrida_. The count has sacrificed nine victims before the opening of the piece, and is meditating with himself with what fat offering he shall next glut the maw of Sangrida, in anniversary punctuality. _Leolyn_, a dumb boy, the rightful heir of the estate and title which Hardyknute had usurped, has been secretly bred up by _Clotilda_ as her own, but Hardyknute discovers him by the mark of a bloody arrow on his wrist, and determines to help Sangrida to his little body. _Una_, a beautiful young lady, to whom the count pays his addresses, is selected by the guardian spirit of Holstein to be the preserver of the intended victim. The time approaches for the fulfilment of the agreement. By a process of the most horrible kind of enchantment Una is enabled to remove the boy so as to elude the count, and gets possession of the key of an enchanted place on which the boy is chained. She gets him down from it--the clock is seen just near the stroke of one--she resolves to push the hand forward--Hardyknute seizes and is about despatching her, when Leolyn with difficulty mounts to the clock, pushes forward the hand and it strikes one--the demon appears, seizes the count in his claws--the earth opens, and the demon carries him down, in the same manner that an alligator or shark carries down a puppy dog, to devour him in comfort. Such is the piece, and such the depravity of a nation's taste. It is no wonder that the tasteful, the learned and the judicious, should wage an open war of wit and satire upon such things. On this subject we refer our readers to a piece signed THEOBALDUS SECUNDUS, which will appear in our next number. SECOND WEEK. _November 29._ RECONCILIATION, OR FRATERNAL DISCORD, _with_ FALSE AND TRUE. It would be superfluous to say any thing of a play so well known and so justly admired. _December 1._ ABAELLINO, OR THE GREAT BANDIT, _with the_ LADY OF THE ROCK.