Star. — London, England, 1809-01-12 00:00:00

TH.E4filtIS, DRERY-LANE.—The nevi play of Man and Wife, was repeated last night to a well filled and fashiona ble house. The audience were kept in a roar of laughter by the whimsical turns and broad humour o f the Comedy. One fundamental absurdity takes off from the effect at the end of the play. The sub stitution of the son for the nephew so much exceeds the bounds of probability, that the spectator loses much of his pleasure, incredulus odit. In our opinion, Mrs. JORDAN'S inimitable acting in her particular line constitutes a great part of the merit of the represen tation. We have before expressed our disapprobation of the present mode of adapting, not actors to charac ters, but characters to actors. An author is sure of present success, but his play will be laid on the shelf when the actor, for whom he wrote, has left the stage. __one word to two of the pet/formers. We think that Mr. DOWTON „ oversteps the modesty of nature." He is a caricaturist. He sometimes puts us in mind o f Qtncx, but the muscular expression of the latter was natural, that of the former is forced and has too mach grimace. Mr. ELLISTON in the impassioned parts of his character is very deservedly applauded, but in the light parts he sometimes forgets that a Captain M the Navy is a gentleman in his gait and manners, though he may be fiery and impetuous in his temper. HAygARKET THEATRE.—TILE NEW MACDETIH.— • Critics should be old. They ought to recollect former actors, in order to form a standard of com parative merit. We are old enough to remember Gaiuticx and HENDERSON. We have seen them in Macbeth, and we have expressed our opinion of Mr. )(FABLE in a comparative view. We have now a new Macbeth, Mr. YooNc., whom we do not scruple to place next in merit to GARRICK and HENDERSON. The same clearness of voice, the same distinctness in his high and under tones, which we have admired in his Hamlet, and other characters, were his funda mental excellence, implanted by nature. In his pro nunciation he is a member of the old school ; he does not adopt the French mode, introduced by Mr. KENBLE, of making an additional syllable at the end of a word terminated by a consonant.—To enu merate the instances of his merit, would be to men tion almosst every scene. In the dagger. and the banquet scene, particularly, the whole house was struck with astonishment. Perhaps he might improve the delivery of the passage : Thy bones are nsarrowless, There is no speculation in those eyes, That thou dost glare withal." Tt should be marked by an afected defiance, and a real fear. With some of his readings we do not perfectly I coincide ; but 66 who shall decide when Critic: disa gree ?"—We were pleased to see the restoration of .B.2nguo's ghost. As well might it be omitted in the closet scene in Hamlet, fi r the lines, , 4 do not for. get, &c. are not particularly necessary. Of Mrs. SmnoNs all we shall say is, that art and nature cannot be carried to a higher degree of excel lence. Mr. C. Kk'sßLE was very respectable in Mac• he witches are not quite free from that buffoonery which was never in the contemplation of the Poet, and which, in the words of PRIOR, " what should be grave, turns to farce." The rattling of the broom sticks and other similar absurdities should be banished from scenes, which are dignified by the acting of Mrs. SIDDONS and Mr. YOUNG. Some of the witches in the dances and songs are rather too bewitching for the idea we entertain of these wrinkled hags." The house was disagreeably crowded ; but though in so »Mall a theatre the audience expect to be squeezed, 'shay have a right to bear. This was im possible in this. front boxes. The sleeping scene of Lady Hada -was very properly distinguished by Mrs. Smnashillissiiihle under tones. Of these we could not, hear a syllable, from the cause, which forms the subject of our complaint. There was in the lobbies such an incessant clatter of persons, not wain:, but jumping up and down stairs, and run ning in every direction; such an overpowering chari vari of tongues of the most ungentle description, that We might as well have been in the street during some (4 . tile most solemn ,parts of the play. We saw in deed ; but the words were Greek to us." We serionalf urge Mr. HARRIS to remedy this evil, by the prevention of an intolerable nuisance—a nui sance, which we hope was last night accidental. If the intend of the Theatre requires that it shall exist in some degree, let at least the floors and the stairs be covered with baize. We have lately heard a wish expressed that the ex clusive privilege of the two Theatres should be abo lished. If there was a ater competition, we should have a house, in which our wives and daughters might repair, to receive excellent lessons of morality from the stage, without being annoyed by the inde licate sounds and sights, which meet the ear and the eye in too many parts of the Theatres. Monday evening as Mr. Vyse, who resides in Ben brick-street, was travelling in a Bath coach, with his daughter, he suddenly dropped speechless from his seat, and was conveyed to a public-hotise, near Coln brook, whe re h e shortly expired. He was in high spirits, and conversing with the other passengers , at the time the catastrophe befel him. We are happy to give the requested circulation to ;!t following acc o u nt of the loss of the BANTERER 3- , 0 0P of war : " River St. Lawrence, Nov. 25,1805. " I fear the news of the loss of the BANTERER will reach you before this, and that your Mind will suffer accordingly, as I believe it was known bt Quebec be fore the convoy for England sailed. I therefore re joice in this unexpected opportunity to Worm you, that the loss of the ship was unattended by ttre loss of the whole of the stew kin,' sived; we haVe also *red most of our property, but the ship it totally lost. We have undergone some hardships, as you willtissily conceive, from living in the woods of this comet s at this season of the year, from the 29th of Octobet to this day, on which we happily embarked in a crafts port, bound direct for Halifax. As the opportunity • but for a moment, many of the o%cers have n& been able to take advantage of it. I therefore wish you would contrive to communicate this to some of the Editors of the public papers, which may prevent much anxiety. (Sired) 64 WILLIAM OGILVIS. First Lionenant." i . NWITIC.AL INTELLIGENCE. . ' FALMOUTH, JANUARY Arrived the Spanish schooner N. S. de 1.1 Vejoina, Capt. BINADA, from Gijon, with a cargo of nuts for Bristol, in six days. Also, arrived the Malta, Natty, from St. Croix for Loudon, with the loss of sails, &c. she parted from the fleet on the 6th inst. Also, arrived his Majesty's ships ACTIVE, ROLLA, AMAZON, and SERPENT, from a cruize. Sailed his Majesty's brig GLUCKSTADT, for Plymouth. The Snake packet, which sailed from hence for America, on the Ist inst. has put back to Fowey, with three feet water in her hold. • PLYMOUTH, JANUARY 10. Came in his Majesty's ship GIBRALTAR, from a cruize ; Thetis, LANDGREEN, from Stockholm ; also the brig Crawford, from Liverpool ; she was cap tured by a French letter of marque, of 18 guns, and re-captured by his Majesty's ship AMAZON. Sailed the HumnEn and ENCOUNTER, with a convoy for the Downs. The Beaver, from Cadiz for London, drifted foul of a man of war last night, in Hamoaze, and lost her main-mast. The HARLEQUIN, of 14. guns, that was driven out , .of the Sound on Sunday last, during the gale, came back again this day.—Wind S.W. PLYMOUTH DOCK, JAN. 10. Friday night, a French schooner, laden with wine and brandy, which had been captured by one of our cruizers, was wrecked on a rock at the entrance of Fowey harbour. There- weseve British seamen on board, together with a Lieutenant and master's mate; (Mr. RoaraT MANNING, Quarter-Master, and Lieute nant W. P. Wane') the two latter, I am sorry tcp state, were drowned, in attempting to reach the shore on a raft ; the seamen saved themselves by climbing over the rocks. The vessel is gOne to-pieces, but the principal part of the cargo has been saved. Considerable doubts are entertained here as to the capture of the CARNATION in the West Indies, by a French brig of inferior force. What almost tends to I . invalidate this statement is, that the Francis Freeling packet, which brought the account of her capture, l also brought a letter from Captain GREGORY to his sister at Truro, which has since been transmitted to' this town. But as the date of the action is not stated, it is impossible at present to speak with any certainty on the subject. A letter has been veceived by a Gentleman in this town, stating that the LAUREL sloop, of 22 guns, Capt. WOOLCOMBE 4 which was fitted out at this port; and was cruizing in the Indian Seas, had bees met with by a French frigate, of 44 guns, to which site surrendered without firing a gun. DRI was re ho Taught o f the of fro stituti( t he be much Mrs. J constit tation. of the • tors, b prom w hen t .—Ong that He is of Qv sea, ru much parts but it Capta manor his tei Ha • Critic form( past GAB d lfaci KEMJ new to pla The his hi his ment nunc not Kessi endc merat tion batty strucl the d Tt fear. coinc gree Bang close get, 0 natu lenc, 11,4 whic whic gray stick from SIDI) the c idea TI in Si 14 4 Mrs. cod form the: wola ning vari We oft} dee( by t sane the, som coy, Ic clui lishi hay mig fror iica eye tine dau seat bra spir the the sot ll rea aec for( joie tha lire aV ' Wf r tor 'hi pOl • I bei To • the PORTSMOUTH, lAN. 11. Arrived his Majesty's ship .DEXTEROUS from, a cruize ; and the Venus, SALT, from St. Kitt's. A line of battle ship is now coming in from the west ward, bearing an Admiral's flag. Sailed his Majes ty's ship SATURN with a convoy for the Downs.— Wind S. W. DEAL, JAN. 11. Arrived and sailed fcr the River the Clio, 'ANN AN, from St. Kitt's ; and the Pelican, BALL, from Ber bice. Wind S. S. \V. DOVER, JANUARY ii. The ship Patriot, a letter of marque from the Me diterranean, last from Dartmouth, bound to London, hove too off here this morning with the brig Union, which she re-captured last night off Dungeness ; the following are the particulars I have learnt from the boatmen who went on board : that the Patriot, in running up Channel last night, observed two French luggers 'take the Union, and that immediately after wards one of them stood towards the Patriot with an intent to take her also ; but, on getting alongside, the ship fired her guns into her, carried away her mainmast, and heard the crew crying out very much: she theit pursued the other lugger, but could not come-I up ‘ith her, and then retook the brig, the crew of which, except one man and a boy, were taken out by the privateers ; she belongs to Guernsey, and was bound to Shields in ballast : the Captain of the Pa triot thinks that the lugger he fired into, sunk soon afterwards. Both the ship and the brig are gone into the Downs.—Wind \V. S.W. and moderade. YARMOUTH, JANUARY IL Sailed the MARS, for l'ortsmouth ; the Mosentro, to Heligoland ; CRNSORI with convoy ; and two cut ters, on a cruize.—Wind S.W. Remain in the Roads--Roebuck, Vice-Admiral Douglas; Bel lerophon, Rear-Admiral Gardner ; Dictator, Rear-Admiral Ber tie ; Aboukir, Stately, Princess Caroline, Calypso, Rosamond, Havock, Ernest, and Skylark. GREENOCK, JAN. 9. The Ariadne, STzvFxsoN, from Demerara, one of the fleet, arrived this morning. Parted in a gale, on the 15th December : the Mate reports, that there were eleven vessels besides her, for Clyde ; since part ing fell in with a brig, with no person on board, name unknown. The Barton, FORD, arrived at Liverpool, spoke, on the 30th ult. tke Alfred, --, from Jamaica, for London► in great distress, and. supplied her with stores, &c. The brig Wn.t.itss Ht&crPrsinaseer, from St. Vincent's, for England, was spoken with in lat. 43. long. 62. in distress, having shipped a sea, and inter• ded to make the first port. The Duke of York, —, from Ireland, is lost at Falmouth. The Hero, SANcarrsat, bound to London, has been " on shore at Prince Edward's Island, and full of water, but since got off. •. • • SAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCIMY; JANUARY 4 f This day the LORD CHANCELLOR sat on bankrupt oauses, and the greater part of the day was occupied by the hearing of a petition from a bankrupt in Man ' chester of the name of Bamford, praying that his Lordship would order a new trial, to determine whe ther he had been legally made a bankrupt. Su• far back as August his Lordship had ordered an issue to be tried for the decision of this point, which was ac cordingly done at the last Lancaster Assizes, when the Jury found that the petitioner had committed two several acts of bankruptcy. The particulars of the case having already appeared before the public, we shall only add, that the Lord Chancellor decided that the bankruptcy had been sufficiently proved, and therefore dismissed the petition for a new trial. smallest knowledge of the prisoner'. The princli, points of his evidence were c zrolor a tted by the t.cgt. mony of his brother Thomas,sbx - Wiliiarn Jackson (another officer) and others. Peter Decau, a journeyman carpenter, whose wife has the• care of the house of Laity Stewart, direct, opposite that of Lady Morton, stated, that havi: g seen five men lurking about the latter place, at a l• hour, he passed them twice, in order if possibl•:t to have a view of their countenances and persons—tha he recollected the person of Carvell, one of th thieves ; who had. formerly worked in the same shah with him; he then called to mind :hat Carvell had on .:e asked him to go to the Old Golden Hart, in Parker street, Drury-lane, to drink a pint of porter with him . he accordingly went there the day after he had se" the suspicious circumstance above related; from th he went three other times, keeping himself unobserved by the thieves, and listening to tkhat they said, unt.: the plot was ripe for action ; he then gave informa tion to the elder Foy, and the sequel was such as his already been related. The prisoner was always one of the party, and took an active part in the conver sation ; but on the night of the burglary he remained outside, whilst the others went into the house. OLD BAILEY. Yesterday the General Gaol Delivery for the City of London and County of Middlesex, commenced at Justice Hall, in the Old Bailey, before the LORD MAYOR and some other Magistrates of the City, Mr. Baron TizomrsoN, Sir SIMON LE BLANC, and Sir ALAN CHAMBItE. Sir ALAN Cie IMBRR informed the Jury, that they had two questions to deside, the one as to whether it was sufficiently light at the time to discover a man's countenance by means of the remaining glimmerin; of day I and, 2dly, whether they were satisfied as to the identity of the prisoner, which rested entirely oa the evidence of Decaux ? John Stow Lundie.—lt may be recollected that se veral months ago this unfortunate young man was charged with having forged a number of Bank of England notes, purporting to be good and lawful notes of the value of .51. each, the sum having been altered from a 11. to a 51. ; or with having uttered the same with a guilty knowledge of the alteration. The trial was put off one Session en account of the ab sence of a material witness, another Session on ac count of the supposed deranged state of the prisoner's mind ; it was this day again put off with the consent of both parties, in order to endeavour to prove more fully if his mind be in that melancholy state in which it is supposed to be. Margaret Falley, otherwise Peggy Sullivan, otherwise Margaret, the wife of John Harrington, was capi tally indicted for uttering a base and counterfeit shil ling, having at the time other money of the same de. scnption about her person, and having been before convicted of a second and similar offence, for which she suffered two years imprisonment in Clerkenwell, and found bail for her good behaviour for two years more. The former conviction, sentence and punish ment were proved by the Records of the Court, and by the Evidence of Mr. Bealby, Clerk to the prison. The Prisoner, in her defence, said, she had gone early to market to purchase apples ; she had a gui nea in her pocket, and, on going towards the Garden, she met three or four women, employed in the same business. They all went to a gin-shop, where she treated them, and changed her guinea ; and got the difference, principally in halfpence, and a 7s. piece. She put her hand down to give the prosecutor the 7s. piece, and found that she had lost her pocket.— Guilty—Death. J. Miles Simpson was indicted for stealing a great coat, the. roperty of Dr. Temple. On the evening of last Friday week, the prisoner knocked at the Doctor's door, in Bedford-row, which was opened by a black servant. The prisoner in quired if the Doctor was within ? and was answered, that he was just gone out ; but would directly re turn. The prisoner then asked if there was any one in the house who could give him in answer to the letter lie had brought ? The servant said yes ; and was going up stairs to his mistress, when, turning round, be observed the prisoner take from a cloak pin in the hall, a great coat, the property of the Doc tor. He instantly jumped down, and pursued the prisoner, who had nearly shut the street door : he, however, got out, and took the coat from him, and he was secured byihe watchman, as he was running towards the King's-road The prisoner, in his defence, told a most affecting story. He said, he had usually . gained his livelihood by private tuitions ; but that for a considerable time past his pupils had decreased, and he was finally left without any. He had a wife, with six small children, and had been obliged to pawn all his little property for their maintenance ; until at last he was bereft of Monday evening as Mr. Mestayer, of New-Broad the common necessaries of life, and being involved in street, was Ong to Wanstead, in a landaulet, accom. debt, was thrown into prison, where he remained in panied by his Lndy, they were stopped by two high the most abject distress, until released through the waymen, between Laytonstone and Wanstead, who humanity of a lady, who had been one of his pupils. In this situation, and totally without employment , his ordered the coachman to stop, threatening to shoot wife was delivered of a child seven weeks before her him if he did not ; one of them then went to the side time, and in circumstances so wretched , as to be with . of the carriage where Mrs. Mestayer sat, and, before out the means of covering, were it not for the charity she could let down the glass, dashed the muzzle of of a neighbour. At length, unable to bear the torture his pistol through it, and the other man having by this to his feelings of seeing his children starving for food, time come up, they, with horrid imprecations, de. without the means of relieving them, be went into manded money. They took between .. ‘eo and three the street, and took this letter to Dr. Temple, to beg pounds in cash, a£s Bank-note, and a gold watch, of him to visit his wife • ' when seeing the coat hang- chain, &c. then went off towards London. Mr. Mes ta yer on his arrival at Wanstead, dispatched his foot ing in the hall, and urged by a sense of the misery of his starving children, the weakness of his mind could man, on horseback, after the robbers, who, meeting not resist the temptation, and he unfortunately cotwo gentlemen in a single-horse chaise, was informed mitted a crime, from which, under any other rn they had just been robbed by them. The footman =cum. s t a nces, his soul would have Bunk with horror. — traced them to town, by the way of Mile-end, through The witnesses to his character, he said, did not attend, which turnpike they had passed, full speed, without under an idea that his trial would not come on before paying toll. the 14th. The house of P. K. FORREST, Esq. at Bell-hill, Doctor Temple appeared in Court, and said, he Herts, was entered by a gang of thieves, en Sunday had yesterday received a letter from the prisoner, night. One of them descended by the kitchen chim- Istating a similar story to that which he had just told. ney, and let in the rest. They were, however, dig- Mr. Justice LE SLANE said, that the offence turbed by one of the servants, and escaped with a amounted only to larceny. His story was truly af- small booty. flicting, but there was no doubt of his having stolen BOW-STREET.—Yesterday William Leech was charg the coat. The prisoner had said, he had never been ed on suspicion of being concerned, with another man, at the bar, nor before a Magistrate till now, and he not in custody, in robbing Dr. Bird, of Epsom, and would certainly be entitled to benefit by these facts , another Gentleman, on that road, on Thursday even 'when judgment is pronounced upon him.—Guilty. ing. Information of the robberies being given to the The following were convicted of felonies : horse-patrole, in that neighbourhood, three of them S. Goodman, for stealing apiece of Irish linen, the property of went different ways in pursuit of the highwaymen, C. P. Joslyn. who were soon after seen to come towards the turn. R. Gurney, for stealing a memorandum b ook, containing Ji vers receipts, and stampsoralue one pound, the prop e rty of W. pike, at Kingston Bottom, where they were atterep- Pearson, from his person. ted to be secured, but one of them jumped off his Ann GrundweU, for stealing a child's beaver hat, the property horse, and, owing to the darkness of the night, got of T. F. Salter. away. The prisoner was followed by 'one of the pa- Susannah Burnett, for stealing a piece of cotton,tke property of J Harvey and J Lamming trole, almost to Putney, when he also attempted to . . . Harriet Johnson,for stealing a shawl,the aropaty of J. Harvey escarie, by getting off his horse, and running through aid J. Lamming, and a piece of printed cotton, of G. Vipond. wine fields, but was secured. Neither of the parties robbed being present; he was remanded for further John Turnwril, otherwise Jed Me Baker, was tried for the burglary in the house o f the Countess Do w ag e r exination. of Morton, in Park-street, which has already been SHADWlLL.—YesterdayArin Wellenger, who passed fully stated. himself as Mate, and sometimes Captain of a West- John Foy, a constable belonging to Marlborough- Indiaman, was charged with several acts of swind. street police office, described the entry of the thieves ling and thefts; the most prominent was that of en into the house, and his severe conflict with them af- term the house of Mr. Dennis, in St George's is terwards. He had belonged to the office about six the East, and stealing thereout some umbrelLu s for years and a Wi t during which time he never had the w hi c h h e was f o lly committed. • One of the Jury asked, if the witness had had pre vious knowledge of the prisoner? and upon being answered in the negative, they immediately pronoun ced the prisoner Not Guilty. The following were also acquitted : Ann Mason, Ann Green, Mary Cox, and John Eversall, alias Evans, but who remains upon another indictment. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. Yesterday the coachman of a Lady residing in • Bedford-row, Bloomsbury, named Francis Barker, was indicted for an outrageous assault upon a Gentle man named Pailthorpe, who holds a situation in the Exchequer-Bill Office, on the Ist of October last. It appeared from the statement of 'Mr. Pailthcrp, and that of other witnesses, that on the day mention ed in the indictment, he was driving his gig through Bedford Mews, where the defendant was washing his mistress's carriage. His progress, however, was im peded by the defendant's vehicle, which stood com pletely in the centre of the road, and forbid any at tempt to pass in safety. The prosecutor civilly asked the defendant to make way for him, by drawing the carriage a little on one side ; this he refused to do with a good deal of insolence, and when Mr. Pail thorpe alighted from his chaise, in order to remove the impediment himself, he was knocked down in the attempt, in the most wanton and unprovoked man ner, by the defendant, who, not satisfied with the extent of his outrage, seized the prosecutor's stick, and struck him twice on the head while down. A scuffle here ensued, in which Mr. Pailthorpe reco vered himself ; and although by no raeans a man of athletic make, he repaid the defendant with such li beral interest for the striking marks of his favour, that he willingly resigned the contest. Mr. P. however satisfied he might be personally in the chastisement inflicted on the defendant, thought there was some thing due to the Public in nuking an example of an individual of a cla.ss of men whose ruffianly incivility is the subject of general complaint, and therefore laid this indictment. The defendant, in answer to this charge called se veral of his brother Jthuis, to swear that the prosecu tor struck the first blow, and two of them were hardy enough to depose the statement on oath. The re spectable testimony, however, of the prosecutor and that of his witnesses, had the greatest weight with the Jury, who found the defendant Guilty, and the Court sentenced him to two munths imprisonment in the House of Correction.