Star. — London, England, 1811-12-10 00:00:00

to ' L ~,;' THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10. ' ?~` r • . ~ Y .r . ~;. f+_ PRICI? OF STOCKS TiiiS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK S per Ct. Cons. for money t.hut—Dluo for opg. 631 94 S per Ct. Reduced 620-4 per Cvnt. 781; Navy 5 per Cr. shut—Bonds 145.155. pr.—Omniunt 11 dh. Exch. BIM (9d.) Is. 2s. dis.—Ditto (3,d.) 2s. to ss. pre. AMERICA. . It is high time that this country should turn a se rious attention to the state of its relations with Ame rica. Our connexion with that country, whatever may be the topics of correspondence between the two Governments, is purely of a commercial nature. We have no vital interest exposed to hazard, by any alli ance that the American States may form . with the enemy ; and, if we- have partial interests, subject to be attacked by their arms, it is not to be disputed that the whole of their sea-coast, on which all their cities are situated, is liable, in a greater degree, to feel the weight 'of ours. We therefore consider the American Government fully sensible of this liability ; for the President MA/MIMS speaks of the prepared state of their maritime frontier—and judging by the notorious disposition of that Government, to receive the blows and insults of NAPOLWN, as the sparrings of friendly familiarity, it cannot be doubted that if it did nor, Ia its heart, shrink with apprehension for the cites tiaement it might suffer by open hosillty towards Great Britain, it would, long ago, have joined its squabbling and loquacious anxieties to the firm and efficient energies of the European despot. With this strong, broad, incontestible fact, of many years experience, before our eyes, we deem it unnecessary to consider, even for a moment, what might be the political effects of a war with America. We mean a war of blood and plunder—for we con sider their Non-intercourse Acts and Embargoes as the utmost belligerent effort that the kicked and cuffed spaniel of the destroyer of Republics, feels itself ytt able to manifest against the only Nation that vindicates the rights of mankind from the Upas- Bke desolating Power cf the despotic maker, and or ganizer of despots and despotism. Of this our Go evernment seems perfectly aware ; and, though we cannot approve of any other Minister being sent to the United States than a commercial man, we cannot but express the highest degree of satisfaction at what , appears to have been the instructions sent to Mr. By the last Mail, several private letters were re- FosTaa. We perceive that the great talents of the ceived from Cadiz upon the subject of the Juntas of Marquis Weeeeseev are, in this quarter, manifesting Ladies about to be established in that city, for the themselves by effects exactly of the character that we purpose of affording all possible succours to the wish to see in British diplomacy. This masterly army ; and the avidity with which the project has Statesman has heard, with proper indifference, the been adopted, is highly creditable to the female pa hissing and rage of the distant rattle-snakes—lie does triotism of Spain. These Juntas are to devote their I not find it expedient to attack them ; and, therefore, whole attention to the means of providing the army leaves, them for the present, to writhe and wriggle in with clothing, and to the establishment of a fund to! their native forests, with no other disturbance than meet any extraordinary exigency. The following it I , what is produced by the Wabash Indians,- ". under an extract of a letter from a Lady who is appointed ' the influence and direction of a fanatic of the Sha- President of one of the Juntas : wanese tribe." " Patriotic Juntas of Ladies have been established The American Government has long alledged that here in the name of FE.tDINAND the Vllth ; who un its object of fear and worship, the antihuman potcn- dertake the clothing of the fourth army, and to tate, has rescinded those decrees by which he assumed maintain funds capable of meeting any great emer the right of treating neutrals as belligerents, although gency. There are to be two Presidents, and each NAPOLEON himself has never said any such thing.-- parish is to have a Commissary, who is to collect sub- The Marquis WELLESLEY is not so unpolite as to al- scriptions, and conduct all correspondence relative to ledge that the information given by the American her parish. I have been proposed to the Regency as Government is exactly of the same degree of veracity one of the Presidents, and have been, approved of ; so as the hews of American Captains ; but he has, in that with all my other concerns, you will readily con ' the true spirit of diplomacy, applied a test. If it be ceive I shall have enough upon my hands. The true, that the ohanxious decrees are repealed, the meetings are to take place in a private saloon belong -Americans already enjoy all the blessings of neutra- ing to the Women's Hospital. No Gentlemen are lity, and those among them who affirm that they are to be admitted to our deliberations." ruined by the loss and confiscatien of their ships and By a communication from the Second Legion of property, must be dreaming or mad. No sophistry' Castile under D. P. MAER, to the General in Chief, it I can disguise this argument. The honest Republic, ! appears that near Sahagan, 1000 infantry and cavalry sympathising with the arch-plunderer, and aping his of the enemy, who infested the adjacent country, had projects, has, it seems, been fraternally embracing ; been dislodged. The enterprize was six days in pro- i the Floridas—the children of Spain—while he has' gress, and was completely successful, after a series of I been cutting the throat of the mother. Lord WEE-1 sanguinary conflicts. In the vicinity of Gansu 300 LESLEY, without relaxing in his endeavours to rescue 1 French, appeared, both horse and foot, who were at - Spain, enquires by what right her property is seized. i tacked by Colonel PoNos, commanding at Fonceba- The Republic lifts up its hands, and r rise's its eyes, ; don, who pursued them as far as Murins. Some other like a rescuer, when detected in his dealings with a , Guerilla parties followed up the advantage to the I ' ' thief, and seems to wonder at the question. I very gates of Astorga, where such of the fugitives as , I But, quitting for the present, all political consides escaped at last obtained an asylum. The circuit of ! rations, as forming only the minor part of the Ame- ; country immediately round Astorga is at present un-1 rican question, we wish to call the 'attention of our I der the power of the enemy. Of the city they are I Rulers, and of the public at large, to the serious in-; improving the fortifications, seven additional pieces I jetties which this country sustains—not from the petty ,of artillery are mounted on the walls, and others are machinations of the American Government [we al- collected, which, it is supposed, are to be applied to Iways wish to discriminate between a Government the like purpose. and the people] but from a want of a due considera- 1 Advices from Castile state, that there has been a t'on and knowledge of our own concerns. I considerable movement among the French troops he - There is not a raw material produced in any part longing to the garrison of Valladolid, About 5000 of the world, but what may be found in the British I 1 men had taken the direction of Arcvalo, and 3000 dominions, so great is their extent, and so various that of Medina del Campo, so that only 700 were left i!datir productions , The United States furnish this ; for the protection of Valladolid. The object of these country with nothing but raw materials. In one pine movements was not corlctly ascertained, but it was . of view, therefore, our trade with America is carried . ' supposed to be-to protect Ciudad Rodrigo from any do to:the prevention of improvement and cultivation 1 molestation by the British army. is our own dependencies. It is true, in opposition to Tice superior Junta of Gallicia has, in a public this, that these States have taken largely from our , order, in terms of high cernpliment, exptessed its ' manufacturers ; but it would appear, that this ad. ; gratitude to Brigadier General Sir H. Douotese, now I - vantage ought not to be calculated upon as lemma. resident at Corunna, for his indefatigable exertions, sent. The Americans pretend that they can d o in conju tenon with the Commander-in-Chief, to ro t : without our manufactures—if they can, why should der effectual the defence of that province, and to pro w* take any part of their productions, when, within cure arms and clothing, not only for the forces at our own Empire, or that of our allies, we can obtain cached to it, but for 'the patriotic parties distributed the same kind of materials: If we prohibit, entirely, through the kingdom. the use of the raw materials which shall hereafter be imported from the United States, our own colonies will then find the means of supplying our manufac turers. Cotton is an annual production. We have, True Pntace REOENT.—We are happy to announce already, a superabundance of other kinds of colonial that his ROYAL Hionarss was yesterday sufficiently proJuce. The hands, soil,' and capital, employed in free from pain to be able to remove from Oatlands producing these, may be directed, beneficially both to town, and that he arrived at York House about half.past five o'clock. It was the first day th at his of the general national interest, and for the partic ular ROYAL Moulins was able to put his foot to the interests of the Planters and Proprietors to the raising ground. We are rejoiced to add, that his ROYAL of cotton. HIOUN vas appears in most excellent health and spirits. We are aware that there are kinds cf American Mr. PERCEVAL Will visit York House in a few days, cotton to which we have none precisely similar ; but when, we believe, some important arrangements will be proposed for the approbation of his Royal Highness. our allies have, and- we knew, from the very nature The report is revived, that Lord MELVILLE is to be of the plant and ef agriculture, that within the Bri- • appointed Governor-General of India. tish dominions the desiderata may be obtained in the A new and strikingly original Romance, entitled, course of only one year—nor ought this to be delayed. o The Milerian," will shortly be published by the ccle- By prohibiting the importation of American cotton,lbrated Author of " Montorio," and " The Wild the value of the Demarara and others of ourown co- ! Irish Boy." A considerable sum, we understand, lonies, and the Brazil cotton will increase ; and we lhas been given for the copy-right. SPORTING.—A curious shooting-match took place know as a fact, which we can prove, if required, that on the manor of Captain FRASER, at Lipscon, Bucks, the sales of cotton from our own colonies and those on Saturday, betwixt Captain HAM) and Mr. FRA• of our allies have been very heavy, owing to the sea, on a shooting party there. A bet of 100 guineas quantity of cotton from the United States in the mar- was made to shoot at four hares, each at SO yards ket. In making this observation, we are perfectly from the gun, the game to be turned out from a box at ten yards, and to be bagged within 100 yards. A aware, that the principle which has led our Govern- circumference of 30 yards and 100 yards was taken, ment to induce large importations of raw materials, and the Captain killed three hares out of four, and was in order to keep our manufactures as low to the Mr. FRASER did the same, but one was caught out of exporters as possible : but we maintain, that were this bounds, which lost the match. demand turned to the productions of our own cold- I Monday se'nnight, two greyhounds belonging to a gentleman of the North Shore, Sunderland , started a nits, in a very short time ,as large a supply wou l d b e hare on Cleaden Hills, and had a fine run for about obtained as we .have hitherto drawn from the Ame- three miles down towards the sea, near Whitburn, ricans. • where poor puss was caught in a mole-trap. The At present it behoves, as we have said, the Bri- hounds were so much exhausted, that they could not tish nation to consider that America, in adopting the make one snatch at her. excluding system of NAPOLEON, (far such is the fact DUKE of RUTLAND'S Houxns.—We have seldom and essence of her prohibitory laws towards us , ) re- had it in our power to record so excellent tiA)'s sport as the one afforded by these hounds on Saturday fuses to receive our manufactures, and therefore we se'nnight. The hounds met at Bruadwater, in the ought not to receive her productions, but to take those parish of Rauceby, Lincolnshire, and after a fruitless of our own colonies or of our allies, by which our search in the adjacent cars and coverts, they retired manufacturers will find employment. This is not to Evedon Wood, which shortly produced a leash of a motive to extend the cultiva- foxes ; and the one taking a westerly direction , was all : by thus giving closely pursued by his harmonious 'Visitors; he at first tion of our own territories we shalPincrease their IN> took a line for Burton Gorse, throug!i Evedon, Howel, pulation, and consequently their demand for British Ewerby, and up to Heckiogion Mills ; but confident commodities. This we think is true policy ; nor can in his superiority of speed, he redoubled his steps we allow ourselves to believe that the approaching through Reckington town, thence to Gatwick, and boldly faced the several fens of Hecking:oa, Asgarby, Session of Parliament will be allowed to pass over Ewerby and Howel, thence taking northerly direc without the enacting of some law which shall have : tion towards Kyme, but finding himself exhausting, the germ of this policy in its provisions. Ihe determined to quit this miry country, and seek protection in a safer retreat: he accordingly redoubled his steps once more through Ewerby, 1-bowel, and again to Evedon Wood, but was sa closely pursued, that he was once more driven from his favourite hold; be then took a westerly direction towards Evedon, but being beaded, changed his cousse, and ran through Asgarby,Boughton, and Howel, and was viewed over the adjoining fields by the few sportsmen who were able to continue the chace; and was at length picked up )n open field, in a most masterly style, - without a single hound missing. It is worthy of remark, that the track of country run over was not less than 25 miles, the greater part of which was heavy galloping, as well as tremendous leaping, and performed in one hour and 55 minutes without a check, during which several gentlemen had their horses bogged, and some were only extricated by the assistance of ropes and ponies. Not less than 120 horsemen graced the Japplad field: only four sportsmen saw the death of the fix. RIOTS.—A letter from Makeneg, in Derbyshire, dated December 7th, gives us the following account: " The Frame-breakers are branching out from the trunk at Nottingham into other counties ;—about SO of them came here last nigh:. (Friday) and 'totally destroyed seven frames • their nocturnal depredations are done so expeditiously and secretly, that no force can be collected in time to oppose them ; in the above case, as it is in my. neighbourhood, I went up to see the destruction made ; the place is Holbrook, Derby shire, and at two o'clock in the night, I. Brown, who occupies the first of a row of six houses, was alarmed by a noise and knocking at the chamber window with a pole, and with a demand for his instantly coming down and opening the door ; upon his not being so quickly dressed as they wished, they broke the win dows of the chamber, and struck the doer with a large hammer, but his then opening it prevented the destruction ; about five cut of the party, with black ed faces, entered and demanded the name of the em ployers (for it appears their revenge is not directed against all manufacturers) and finding the owner to be one against whom they meant offence, they or dered the man of the house into his bed-room ; whilst one guarded hint with a pistol, the other carried out three frames, and the leader of the party ordered tha hammer-men and hatchet-men to their duty ; they picked out from the other five houses four other frames belonging to the same manufacturer, leaving some others untouched, having different owners, and acted in the same manner to these houses, except . breaking the window, as they had to the first. By a quarter past three o'clock the party had totally dis persed, and not any trace are left from whence they came ; but the frames which I saw lying before the houses are totally spoiled, being broke to pieces by a large hammer : these are not the wide frames which appear to have given the original offence in Notting ham, so that in all cases of this sort private animosity is gratified. Some of the frames they destroy are worth £4O; these seven were worth about stl6 each." A letter from Nottingham, of the above date, says, " We feel much satisfaction iu being enabled to state that the differences between the workmen and their employers, io the hosiery and lace trades, which have of late caused so much agitation in this town and neighbourhood, and occasioned the destruction of such an immense property in frames, are at length in a fair train of accommodation. On Wednesday a very numerous meeting of the hosiers and lace ma nufacturers took place, when it was resolved, that as won as " it shall be clearly manifested that the peace of the county and town is restored, the trade in ge neral are willing and desirous to receive and consider proposals from their workmen, for the purpose of re moving any grievance swhich may appear to exist," A netification to ;his effect was immediately made by the issuing of hand-bills, and ordered, for the better informatiqn of the public ; to be publicly advertised." THE KING. There is no alteration in his Maissries state. imrm4RICAT TNEXTRE. Last night Rowa's celebrated Tragedy of The Fair Penitent was performed, if we may venture so far as to use that expression. The company on the stage were brought from we know not where; and in that respect certainly answered: all the expectations we might have entertained from performers wham nobody knew any thing about. It there was any merit in composing the dramatic list, it could only have ex . 's. ted in the pains that might have been taken in explo. ring the regions of insufficiency and dullness. There WAS. however, one brilliant exception to the charge of a want of notoriety, in the attraction of one performer, the hero of the night, a Mr. CoATEq, who has already gained fir himself much public note at the fashionable watering-places by his scenic efforts, and who, we be lieve, amused the village of Richmond. a few months ago, in Romeo. Gratified with his exhibition of him self in that tender character, he last night stepped 1 with all the self-confidence that belong; to talents like his own into the bolder delineation of a lid:aria; and surely, from the time when the people of Lo:al-a ' lust saw a play acted, they never saw a more ex ra. 1 ordinary sight. But whatever the stage company was , the boxes were filled with a genteel assemlil age, V.v., from various motives, perhaps, flocked to witness the excellencies or eccentricities of a Gentleman whc, I had so often courted notoriety. Not a seat could L- had for love or money, save by those who had pre . vinusly taken places. In the stage-box sat the Ge neracoolstauroatnioGn of Ee* i ss am s, in st i in l in s! likespit a the nd ga lea te in res g i ita w r er h : a crowded almost to surfeit. This proof oh public curioslty is a sufficient excuse for o u r taking 5en,.... r'.:- I Lice of the eslarition. The 1.. , ./..1..ria of the ro,;:o.„ a gentleman of the beau mor a le, who, by a peculi it taqe. has for some time pact drawn all eyes upon the sing.... laxity of his eytilraiti, which has been adame.l evrr. to profusion with divers molten im iges of t:tat hew- English bird, yelept the game-cock. The reprexie , tion of the play, thoulei aretoviiced for the usual ten .. did not commerce ti,l near an hour afterwards. 'lsir . ... delay at'first caused s-me dis.a Lisfa.ction, but tuine.l . out a source of considerable amusement. llie galle ries furnished a number of vocal performers, who imitated the chanticleer wonderfully well, in horwer of Ore well knoan fancy of the acter, alver:is.rl as " the celebrated amateur perf 'rime- ;" and ult.:stem of westen fashion sat elsewhere, all the fro.dtry seert• ed to be concentrated there. The bell at length rung. hats were taken off, and those who were standing were compelled to sit down, when lo! an actor in a tragedy dress on a sudden appeared before the cur tain. Silence being obtained, the person who had thus come forward addressed the audience as follows : " Ladles and Gentlemen—The Gentleman who was to have performed the part of Altaicont this evening, he is in consequence of a serous accident which has happened to his brother— Here the spokesman was interrupted by a loud burst of laughter. He seemed rather hurt at the efi'ect of his eloquence, but at length proceeded : " The act demo which I allude to is, his brother has this after nom' fallen t:o ~ugh a loop-hole, at tile New Dock, and lost his life. The Gentleman has just cc.me distractedly to the Ticatre and is now dress•ng for the pert, and we ouly solicit year indul : grace till be is ready." This considerably damped the mirth which pre• wailed, and it seemed to be the wish of many, that a person so situated should not be requ•rza to per film. Sulasequently, however. the whole story was isupposed to be merely a hoax. At lan the cur tain drew up, after something that was mist riled mu sic; and v.r:.ea " the i.ollsario" made his appearance, to scene more ridiculous, not even in the heyday of the 0. P. gambols, ever struck our senses. Lothario, the gallant and the g.ty, was most beauffully I1A• bited in white satin, with a pale pink mantle and sash, and crowned with an enormous ostrich plume. —Every line he uttered that could be applied to the actor, and every faulty attitude or gesture, (and, in truth, there were none other) were marked, and created shouts of mock approbation, or peals of lice 4110 ter. Forth came the hero to the front of the prosce- I nium an one of these occasions, and taking les wave 1 head-dress in his hand, turned to the side-boxes, and , ' spoke—" If." said he, " the NoliSey and Gentry wish this play to proceed, I shall go on - and if those noisy people will retire, I will pay for their places." e Ap peal to the House," was the only answer that Jln Bull thought fit to return. On a repetition of thesame unceremonious mirth and boisterous disapprobation, Lathario again addressed the audience. " It mar, per haps," said he, "appear strange, that a Gentleman in my situation should appearhere." True, true," ex claimed the galleries. and most impudently renewed their music att.' their laughter. "My motive," he re joined, o was to serve a widow." "Verywell," said ate Calleries, " and have not we paid our money , Mr oates ?" The play went on in this manner ; so that it was doubtful whether the whole was more ridiculous or disgraceful. Some scenes were curtailed, and the representation concluded without coming to the c::.i of the play. The death scene of Lothario, if a spec 1 tator had not been previously wearied out by a repe tition of fully, would have been exquisitely ludicrous. I There was a long pause when the curtain fell, nobody I knowing whether the play was to be finished or not; • when, at last, out pops the chief actor in his own cos i tame, to recite " Backs have at ye all." He was heard for some time, very patietnly, and his bows ii I the stage-box caused several complimentary testimo -1 nials from the galleries to the Hungarian Nobleman, whom he seemed particularly to consider as his pa tron. The litter part could not be heard ; and atter many twirling: of his cane.• in which he sometimes shewed a merited indignation and contempt foe thl illiberal and vulgar part of his audience, Mr. COATa retired ; and, as far as mock approbation went, " co vered with glory." Now, to be serious, we could not but lament, that any gentleman of fortune, and who ought, for his own sake, it not for that of others, to hold his due rank in the scale of society, should so fir forget him self, or suffer himself to be so ill-advised, as to make so capital an error in his estimate of his own talents, and of what benefits his conduct in the world. He is, and he ought to be obliged to those who tell him so, disqualified by the inexorable decrees of nature in every particular, for excelling either publicly or pri vately as a dramatic performer. His own friends, who were numerous, while they maintained the well dressed reserve of the box rows, evidently enjoyed all the fun, and flippancy, and 'coarseness, which wer displ4lat )ex pence. objeit of the play was charity ; WS are r there was so full a heuse. ..... 0 ,