ABSTRACT
A new Melodrame, called “Massaniello, the Fisherman of Naples, or the Deliverer of his Country,” was produced on the 26th of December, and is on the whole one of the best and most splendid pieces we ever remember to have seen at a minor theatre. The death of Massaniello throws a gloom over the citizens, who together with the Viceroy and the members of the Spanish Government, attend the funeral of Massaniello—when the ceremony is concluded, Leona accuses the Monk of the murder of her husband, and, on his equivocating, stabs him to the heart. At the commencement of the piece, we find that the people of Naples are deploring their unhappy condition in being exposed to the tyranny and rapacity of the Spanish Government.
