Star. — London, England, 1821-07-31 00:00:00

THEATRES. DRURY-LAWE.—Last night, according to public announcement, her MAJESTY honoured this Theatre with her presence at the performance of King Richard the Third. Notwithstanding the incessant showers throughout the day, and that the rain was falling fast when the doors opened, every street and avenue leading to the Theatre was filled with crowds of anxious and expectant spectators, all eager to hail her MAJESTY . % appearance, and gratulate her with a warm and affectionate reception. The moment her M AJ Ewes carriage appeared in sight, the assembled multitudes greeted her with hearty cheers and shouts of appro bation and welcome. The pit of the Theatre was filled to an overflow soon after the doors were opened; the dress circle of the boxes was filled with a splendid and fashionable company, including many elegant and heaatiful females; the first circle was also ex ceedingly crowded with a highly respectable com pany, long before the usual period of commencing the performances, and the overflow from the other parts of the House, filled even the slips. A few minutes before seven o'clock, her MAJESTY, at tended by Lord and Lady Hoop and Mr. AUSTIN, was ushe:•ed by Mr. ELLisroN and Mr. WINSTON, with lighted candles in their hands, into the stage box ir the first circle on the Prince's side. On the instant of her Ma.resrfs appearance, the whole audience rose, and with, we sincerely believe, not more than half-a-dozen exceptions, greeted her with repeated peals of applause, with rounds of cheers and waving of hats and handkerchiefs, and every other demonstration of enthusiastic attachment; the curtain at the same time slowly rising discovered the whole corps of Performers, who proceeded to sing the Anthem of "Gnu save the King," in the usual style, the audience, as heretofore, making the usual substitutions of Quern for King, her for his, and so on, and following the conclusion of the song with repeated rounds of cheers and applause. To this gratifying dis play of popular feeling, we observed at this period but two exceptions—one of an individual in the pit, and another of a person in a box on the first circle.— These two persons alone, in the intervals of the cheers and plaudits which followed the conclusion of the song, exclaimed two or three times " The King I" but were presently silent. Owing to the extremely crowded state of the House, even the Gal leries having overflowed, it was not until some time after the commencement of the Tragedy that the noise subsided sufficiently to enable those at any dis tance from the Stage to distinguish what was spokes. Order, however, having been once established, the utmost attention was afterwards paid to everything which passed ; and almost every passage which could be construed into an allusion to the circumstances or t•ituation of the dignified andillustrious female within their view, was received with a marked expression of the feeling which it excited. Glo'ster, in the soliloquy at the close of the second Act, musing upon the ar rival of the young Prince of Wales, and his expected Coronation, says— " the Crown! Oh, yes! he shall have twenty ; globes and sceptres, too : New ones made to play withal—but no Coronation!" which excited loud shouts of laughter, and was fol lowed by repeated cheers. The second scene of the third Act discovers the Lady Anne, then Glo'aer's wife, in her apartment, where, upon the entrance of Glo'ster and his utterance of some injurious speeches, the following dialogue ensues: Lady 4.—Have I deserved this usage? Casten—You have: you do not please me as at first. I jis !y 4.—What have I done? what horrid crime committed? Glo'ster.—To me the worst of crimes ; outliv'd my liking. fly 4.—lf that be criminal, just Hr...av's be kind ! Clo'ster —Now, wert thou not afraid of self-u. Thou halt a fair excuse for't. L a dy .I.—Oh! name it. Glisten-11y husband's hate: nor do I bate thee only From the dull'd edge of sated appetite, But front the eager love I bear another! the points of which were marked with long and rei , terated plainlits. In the first scene of the tourth act, Elizabeth, the Queen of EDWARD IV. with her two sons, the Prince of Wales and Duke of York, the Lady June, and the Duchess of Glo'ster, are seen together in the Tower, when Catesby enters to summon Lady Anne to be crowned with her husband, the latter takes her leave of Elizabeth, who is much affected by the message, in the following words : " Farewell to all! and thou, poor injur'd Queen, Forgive the unfriendly duty I must pay !" which called down repeated rounds of applause.— During the whole of the performance, her MAJESTY sat concealed by the curtain of the box from the view of the greater part of the audience, with her atten tion fixed on the business of the scene, and seemed highly to enjoy the fine acting of Mr. KEAN in the most striking parts. In the interval between the se cond and third acts, and also in that between the third and fourth, cries of " The Queen ! The Queen!" accompanied with general cheering and applause, oc casioned her MAJESTY to advance to the front of her box, and acknowledge the acceptance of those re peated testimonies of popular good-will, with that graceful and majestic expression of dignified com placency and condescension, which none who have seen her MAJESTY on such an occasion can ever for get. At the conclusion of the Tragedy, in which all the performers seemed anxious to exert their powers to the utmost in their several parts, " GOD save the King" was again performed, with the same annota tions by the audience as at the commencement of the evening; and at its conclusion her MAJESTY again came to the front of her box, and returning the salu tations of the audience, immediately afterwards re tired from the Theatre with her party, which had been joined in the course of the evening by Mr. Al derman WOOD. Her MAJESTY appeared to be in ex ceeding good health and spirits, and wore a white muslin dress over a pink satin slip, a black velvet hat, with a plume of pink feathers, and a purple scarf. NEW HAYMARKET THEATRE...—This elegant Thea tre continues to draw crowded and fashionable au diences every night. The Public seem to become more familiarised and better pleased with the House and the Performers upon every occasion of its open ing. The play-bills present the utmost variety, and the superior Company engaged give the fullest effect so every representation. ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE.—Yesterday evening, a Musical Drama, with a new title, the subject of which, however, is familiar to all our Readers, was brought out for the first time at this Theatre. It is entitled 244 Witch Derialettei o and is founded on Sir WAL• TER SCOTT'S celebrated Romance of Guy Mannering• but it differs materially from the Play bearing that title, which has been performed for some years past at several other Theatres. In the incidents and lan guage it adheres more closely to the original work; I the Scotch manners are more faithfully imitated; and some of the characters even speak in the dialect of Scotland. These are features which give a pecu liar degree of novelty to a piece, the interest of which, one might suppose, had been already entirely worn out, and the experiment has been completely success ful. Its hero and its heroine are put forth in more striking colours than the same characters have hitherto appeared in—and particularly so with regard to the performers by whom they arc represented. These are Dirk 1 latieraick and Meg Merrilies. In the for'. mer, Mr. T. I'. COOKE not only spoke like a Dutchman who had learned our language, but displayed all the undaunted courage and ferocity which one might suppose to belong to the head of a desperate gang of smugglers. We do not recollect ever to have seen a character of this kind so well represented before: his daring spirit of enterprize, his contempt of danger and of death, his rapacity, and self-possession, were . displayed with a degree of energy which language, cannot easily describe. Admirable as this perform ance was, it fell far short of the picture which Miss KELLY gave of the IF'itch of Dcrncleugh. Whether her imitation of the Scottish dialect was such as would satisfy our countrymen on the other side of the Tweed, we cannot pretend to judge ; but it sounded as such in the ears of an English audience. This was, however, but a faint shade, compared with the prominent, bold, and just colouring which was given to every other part of this original portrait. The Meg Merrilies of Miss KELLY appeared to be a drawing entirely of her own conception, differing from all those that have been presented to us by other actresses. She gave power to her supernatural agency, she commanded, she overawed like a supe rior being, and was obeyed. The manner, the tone, and energy, with which she brought to light the just claims of Ellen Gotsan's heir, electrified and delighted the audience. it reminded us of some of those ex quisite bursts of impassioned feeling with which Mrs. SIDDONS was wont to display her unrivalled powers in the sublime parts of tragedy. It is hardly neces sary to observe, that every part of her performance drew forth loud and continued applause. The other characters were very respectably performed, parti cularly that of Dominic Sampson, by Mr. WILKIN SON, which was given with much spirit and justness, and without any buffoonery. The Piece was an nounced for a second representation amidst universal applause, The House was well attended. SADLER'S WELLS.-It was expected that last night a New Melo-drama, founded on the most prominent and dramatic incidents in the popular Novel of Gni Manneriug, would be produced at this Theatre, and that Mrs.EGERTON would have sustained the cha racter of Meg Merrilies with her wonted effect. In consequence, however, of her engagement at Drury- Lane Theatre, this Piece was obliged to be put off till next week; but Mr. EGERTON, ever anxious to gratify the Public, produced two new Pieces in its stead, viz. Fun in a Village, taken from the well.' known Farce of The Village Law,er, and a Grand Spectacle, entitled The Chieftain s Oath • or, The Rival Clans. The principal object of the fatter Piece was to introduce the celebrated water-scene, which, on account of the badness of the season, had not been done before during the present summer. Notwith standing the wetness of the weather, we were happy to see that the Theatre was well attended, and the Entertainments much applauded. LAIV INTELLIGENCE COURT OF CHANCERY, JULY 30. The LORD CHANCELLOR came into Lincoln's Inn Hall this morning for the first time since the accident that occurred to him at the Coronation. His Lord ship is excessively lame, and was obliged to be as sisted rom his carriage into his private room, where he remained, not being su ffi ciently recovered to sit in open Court. KIRKPATRICK V. KIRKPATRICK. Mr. WiNorittLn asked leave to mention this case to his Lordship. It related to the marriage of a ward of Court. The parties who opposed the marriage formerly before his Lordship, now consented to it, and if his Lordship would withdraw his order, the Master of the Rolls was ready to hear the petition for the proposal to be laid before the Master, and to make an order on it. The LORD CHANCELLOR" Let it be so." BOWES V. THE EARL OF STRATHMORE. The ATTORNEY•GENERAL stated, this was the pe tition of the Countess Dowager of Strathmore, pray ing that it might be referred to the Master to tax the costs, as between solicitor and client, incurred by the petitioner in claiming the dignity and honours of the title of Strathmore for her infant son, and that they might be ordered to be paid out of the trust estates. Mr. HART said he would not object to the prayer of the petition being gr.‘nted, if the costs of the Earl of Strathmore, the uncle of the infant, were also al lowed in the same way. The trust estates were as much the property of the Earl of Strathmore as they were of the infant ; for, if the latter died before he attained the age of 21, they would be vested in the Earl. He (Mr. Hart) wished to know if his Learned Friend, the Attorney-General, intended to press for that part of the former petition of the infant which asked to be put in possession of the Scotch estates? —He should, however, suppose he would not, after what had fallen from his Lordship in another place (the House of Lords) on the subject. The LORD CHANCELLOR — " What fell from me on that occasion was not intended to be binding on the parties. I certainly was of opinion that a Scotch marriage could not exist, when a woman claiming the benefit of it as one of the parties had never been in Scotland in the whole course of her life." The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said it was the intention of those who acted for the infant to take the opinion of Scotch Counsel on the question. The LORD CHANCELLOR- 1 g Let the costs of both sides be referred to the Master to be taxed as between solicitor and client, and, when taxed, to be paid out of the trust estates." COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JULY 30. COX AND CO. O. ROBARTS AND OTHERS. The SOLICITOR-GIiNgRAL stated the case to the Jury. This was an action brought by the plaintiffs, Vle!isrs. IL A. Cox aid Co. against the • defendants. Messrs. Robarts, Curtis, and Co. for the recovery of the sum of £938 on a bill of exchange, stated to be accepted by them. It appeared - that, on the. 9 th of March, 1820, the plaintiffs received a bill drawn upon the defendants at 61 days after sight, which bill was, on the same day, left in the usual manner for acceptance. It was nor, however, called for till' the 27th, and it was then delivered to the clerk of the plaintiffs with the acceptance cancelled. The drawers, Messrs. Stevens and Roach, bankers at Cork, had in the intermediate time become insolvent, and consequently, although the bill was in the first instance accepted, it was cancelled before given up to the plaintiffs. The Learned Gen - leman, however, contended that the acceptors could not, after having once signified their acceptance, recal it. J. B. Willis.—l am clerk to the plaintiffs. I left the bill now shewn me at the house of Robarts and Co. for acceptance, on the 24th day of March, 18'20. I put it in the box, as is the usual way. I did not call again till Saturday, the 27th March. The bill was then given to me in the state it is now in. 1 made no remarks to any one there on the oddity of its appearance. John Coles, the Solicitor to the plaintiffs, was then examined.—He had paid particular attention to. the, obliterations on the bill. With the assistance of a glass he can make out to his satisfaction the words " Ac cepted, 24th of March, 1820 ;" likewise part of the name, " Robarts and Co." If, however, he had not been so well acquainted with the circumstances of the case, he should not, perhaps, have been able to read it so clearly. With that knowledge on his mind, the' whole of it is quite intelligible. Mr. SCARLETT—In your mind's eye, Horatio! In answer to a question from the Jury, witness said, "I think I can trace the word accepted,' it being written in brighter ink than that used in the obliteration." Mr. SCARLETT, for the defendants, contended, that the simple writing of the words was not legally an acceptance; to constitute an acceptance there must be open delivery, acknowledging it as such. The COURT observed, that this was a point of ex treme commercial importance, and although several times agitated, had never been finally decided. Mr. Scarlett would have an opportunity of bringing it forward in another shape. Mr. SCARLETT continued—lf such was not the case, a blot made by accident in the place where the ac ceptance was wont to be written might be so con• strued ; or t wo bills, one for a large and the other for a small amount,might be left at a merchant's, and the small one might be intended to be accepted, and the clerk by accident begin to write on the larger. Was it, in such a case, to be supposed that it could not be cancelled ? He must correct the statement of the Solicitor-General. He admitted the insolvency of the drawer, but averred that a knowledge of it was not possessed by the defendants till the 29th March, consequently they were not induced to cancel their acceptance on this account. It was an allegation in the declaration that the bill, by such obliterations, was rendered useless, but as it was admitted that all the original writing was legible, that allegation could not be supported. The plaintiffs had their remedy against the other parties. On this ground, there fore, and the one he had before mentioned, that to constitute an acceptance there must be delivery as such, he rested his clients defence. The only ques tion for the Jury to decide was, is this any accept. ance at all ? The LORD Cuter JUSTICE charged the Jury. It was for them to make their own observations upon the bill, and the evidence of Mr. Coles. If they thought (and there could, in his mind, be but little doubt of it) that the acceptance was ever written by the defendants, they would find their verdict for the plaintiffs. The Jury returned a verdict, damages £938. BIRCII AND ANOTHER V. THE REV. R. 0. CREWE. This was an action by the Proprietors of the Staf ford Bank, against the defendant, as indorser of cer tain bills of exchange. It appeared that the plaintiffs, in the early part of the year 1817, did business as bankers with a man named Berks, who carried on the trade of a maltster and corn-factor at Charn, about ten miles from Staf ford. The defendant lived at Muxston, in the same county: he was a clergyman of the highest respecta bility, being nearly connected with one of the first families in the county, and possessed of an income of nearly £5,000 a-year, including his preferments. The plaintiffs having objected to advance any money on the bills which Berks drew upon his factor in London, named Wright, until they had received ad vice of heir acceptance, he proposed to them, if they would discount the bills immediately, that he should get the indorsement of Mr. Crewe to the bills which he might hereafter draw. To this agreement the plain tiffs acceded, and his future bills had accordingly the name of the defendant indorsed on them. Berks con tinued to discount bills with the plaintiffs till the lat ter end of the year 1820, increasing every year in amount, till they reached £40,000 per annum, to all which Mr. Crewe's name was indorsed. This went on till December, 1820, when some bills were re turned unpaid; and application being made to the defendant, he declared the whole were forgeries. Berks had absconded, and was supposed to be gone for America. The amount of the bills outstanding in the plaintiffs' hands, with the supposed indorse ment of the defendant, was nearly £B,OOO, besides other bills in the same predicament in the hands of the Proprietors of the Newcastle, the Stone, and Nantwich Banks. The plaintiffs called several witnesses who knew the hand-writing of the defendant, and they swore that they believed it to be his signature which was attached to the bills. The Counsel for the defendant called W. H. Davi son, Esq. Sir John Chetwynd, and the Rev. Mr. Cockburn, Rector of the parish adjoining Muxton— all of whom had known Mr. Crewe many years. They gave a positive opinion the indorsements were not in his hand-writing. Mr. Crewe, jun. also stated that it was not his fa ther's writing : the indorsements were written with a new pen; his father seldom wrote with a good pen. The Jury, without heiltation, found a verdict for the defendant.—This case occupied the Coa:t seven hours. JURIES IN MIDDLESEX. The Sheriffs of Middlesex, Messrs. WILLIAtts and WarrtimaN, have Adresse:l an ofF.cial notice tot e Constables and Ileadboronghs of the respective Hun dreds of the County, declaring, that . owii..g to thF.r neglect, the Returns of persons qual:fied 1 ,, • s, .rc Juries have been for some time very inccr:ect and defective, and warning them that if the provision o f the Act of Parliament regulating the matter, b e " strictly complied with in the Returns to be mad e 4 the ensuing Michaelmas Sessions, the penalties con. tained in the Act will be enforced. _ The persons qualified to seirc on jwi es AU persons having £lO by the year of copl o K or ancient demesne, or in rent, fee-simple, fee-tail, or fir life. All persons having an estate in posse don in lend, in their ose t right, of the yearly value of Z l / 4 211 or upwards ‘ over end a:.o e; t h e reserved rent payable thereout, such lands being held e: kase leases for the absolute term of 40 years or more, or lot !No ears , cr any other term determinable on ono or recce life or live % All leaseholders on leases where the impo.ed rents shall Owl to £5O cr upwards per annum over and above all gs , :un d rots 'or other reservations, payable by virtue of the said lea. Ls. The proper Officers are particularly ',vat ned :+gaimt omitting to add the title of Esquire, v h:re it is due, and of adding it where it does not properly appertain, with a view to fair selections in cases of Special Juries._ BIRTHS. July 6, at Irvine, the Lady of A. F. G m , F.3q. C onv .„ll, of his Majesty's Customs, of a daught-l. July 19, at Newbattle Abbey, the .11,u 6;o:less of Lothian, a daughter. In Limerick, the Lady of the Rev. RicLatd a son and heir. M RIII Ea July 30, at TTammersmith, Thomas Fryer. Esq• f.f in the county of Cambridge, to 311ss CaroLne Green, of the former place. • July 16, at Dalham, in Suffolk, Sir Digby Machworth, gat. to Miss P. Atil,ch, sister to Sir James Ailleek, Bat. The Church on this joytul occasion was a complete rarden. chancel was inlaid with flowers, forming the names of the 11.7py pair, and other devices in variously blendod colours. The ban of D.ilham and Cazely rang all day, and a laze party assembled at the hall where dancing was kept up until alittc hour. July 21, in Gloucester,lieuten;nt E Hill, KN. to Charlotty fourth daughter of the late lieu. 1.. 'Maxey, of Bytottl, ford hire. The 22d inst. at Edinburgh, Captain J. Robertzun. l4th Ite. giment, to Katherine Steele, daughter of the fat,: C..:nre Gra te Esq. of Tullywhandland. The 24th instant, at Dublin, Wm. Shepard, of Car coe: - trtl Carlow, Esq. to Catherine, third daughter of the late .‘atir Stewart Adams, of the same county. Monday se'nnights at Halifax, Mr. John Hurst - all to Mrs, Bedford, both of Ovcnden. being the fifth bride the kam sivain had led to the hymeneal altar, and the fourth time the Sad, has appeared at the same shrine, they were met Oil their man home by a procession of their friends and neighbours, preceded ' by a band of music, and hailed with the plaudit. of tLe as. sembled villagers. DIED. At Bourt'eaux, where be had only arrived from the Els: In. dies a few days previous, Captain Robert Wm. Km)lles, of So 14th Regiment of Foot. The 111th inst. at Bury. near Gosport, in the Elst ye--r of ih age, Joseph Wilson, Esq. many years an eminent surgeon, a 41 Common Councilman of the borough of Scarborough, Yorkshire. At Crudes House, in Ross-shire, on the 20th instant, Jaws Crawfurd AliLeocl, young,r, of beanies. July 27, at Homerton, where she went for a change of ak, Mrs. Helen Cowley, of Ilornsey-row, Islington, after an dims of continual severity of 36 years standing. The 18th of February last, at Iluacho, in Peru, the infant daughter of Lord and Lady Cochrane. July 2S, at CheltetiharA, the Countess Dowager al levy, mother of the present Earl. Sunday sennight, Mrs. Skinner, wife of Mr. Edir. Skinner, builder ; she went into the Ratters' Chapel. in Hull, 'n perfca health, and ir:d been seated but a few minutef, wh. ti she ontl denly fell back in her husbaud's anus and expired. Wednesday, Mr. Ewbank, in crossing lieg;atn.square, Br verley, suddenly dropped down, and expired ins few mutat* July 9, at Bangor, of hydrophobia, on hie .-stern from theWeat Indies, Mr. Archibald, second son g \Jr. John Mq.aertn, Or than, Lochanehead. July 23, at Dalhousie Farm, Mark John, second roll of the Right lion. Lord Robert Ker, aged seven years and fine Mrs. Blundell, of Crosby-hall, Lancashire, and her e,....ighter Clementina. The daughter on the 18th, and the mother on the 21st inst. They were both burled in the same grave at Durham. NEW G ATE AND LRA DENII A LI. 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