The National Register. — London, England, 1809-09-24 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER: SEPT. 9.4. • • 1,4, r the fatal trust 01 po.c ea. :t itout 1 .4x wift aci en. evergic, that give a title to it, we congratulate the nation upon i.l“. developemen , . And it is of importance for us to learn whether ambition or avarice have jostled these genii, : men from the straight line of (hay. We hope and truss: that it will not turn out to have arisen from a degradiN. scuffle for power or emol u m e nt. We are.not certain: at the nightly confusion at the nev , Theatre does not claiM more firm an equal share of publii atteotion with the Duel. BUONAP.RTE is forgotten, Slum and our brave army are unthought of, and nothing fos many years has so completely .occupied a certain class of indi-viduals am this disgraceful scene. The great plea which the Proprietors of this Theatre urge for raising the price , of admission, is the necessity of so doing, or of being ru ined by their speculation. But what obligation are the pub lic under to pay 5 per cent. on any given per centage for the capital they chime to expend. The Proprietors have a monopoly, and yet cannot make it answer without an in crease of price ? What price of admission would have made it answer. if the other Theatre had not more unfurl unatek been burned at the sanie period. It is not sufficient to prove t hat the Proprietors have spent 50,000!. more than they ought. If they have expended their money foolishly, they must consent to abide the consequence. When societies of men ask for a monopoly, as in the case of canals, Etc. there is a stipulation, in favour of the public, that the monopoly shall not be used to their preju dice by encieasing the price beyond certain bounds. Here there is no stipulation, and the proprietors insist upon more than they ought. !t would be easy to prove this if it were necessary. It has been proved indeed over and over again, and the only auswor that is, or can be given, is simply this: We have spent so much extra money in building the house rapidly. Whose purpose was this to• -answer? We have given such extravagant prices to per formers.—True, and you ought/to surfer fur it. It is beyond all decency ! And we expend so much in dresses and specta cles, that we cannot afford to do otherwise. The answer of the public is equally simple and to the point. What have we do with your speculations? We neither can afford, nor will we pay 7s. for admittance to the boxes, or 4s. to the pit; besides you have driven us from the cellar, without leaVing room for us in the Barrett, and we will not submit to it by 'The language of the public is very plain and intelligible, an if Mr. KEMBLE does not, nor will not understand it, he must be very unfortunate in his intellects; and as Lord E. said of Sir RICHARD, if it he so, he must certainly be one of the weakest. men that walks about this great . city without a keeper. We cannot but notice the stupid, effrontery with which the Managers en deavour to cram the busines down the throats of the pub lic: JOHN BULL is like that animal who, the more he is taught to do what he ought, becomes the more refrac tory and [intractable; and will, at length, when his pro verbial patience is exhausted, both winse and nica. .8111 there are other parties in this dispute who, had big been once wiong, will always be wrong, anti seem to claim some merit from being consistent in error. You may as well at tempt to drive a Goiise straight forward as to make such men tread the path they ought to follow. Blindly presump Nous and opiniated, they become perseveringly obstinate, continue to steer the same devious course, and think an attempt to bring them into the right track, an affront to their understanding. 013 • If is were not for these considerations we would venture to advise Mr. Kest tux not to betray such au indifference to he up!nioo of that public which has made him ALL he is. :Hid which would resent continued effrontery even from kg Ch,, f :ttagi.itrate. It is not by publishing the observations 4' !Av . (' MANSFIELD, or by pushing the law upon this ;Abject into all the public prints, that the people will be ci:itifird. Mr. KEXBLE may be assured that with the people he may be every thing he wishes, without them he will be nothing. If the mountain won't come to MAROMME D. why Ma 40MMED must move to the mountain, and the sooner the better. Those who subsist by the public, should consult their decided feelings, and even cheerfully gratify their humours.—We are all of us a sort of children that must he soothed and managed.—Opposition and violence are in their nature obvious and revolting, and put people upon their guard.—Gentleness saps the understanding, and seduces the judgment. Air. KEMBLE might have carried ills point by and bye, but for his imprudence, he might, have safely talked a little more about generosity, liberality. and enlightened principles; and by apparently ascending to,, or descending from his stilts occasionally, might by an im perceptible thread have so thoroughly insiuuated his pur poses, as to have required the touch of iTH KIEL'S spear to have discovered them before they had been interwoven with the expectations of the public.—We caution Mr. li - vmat.t: against the employment of meuace or threats.— The police of a French theatre has not yet been grafted upon an guglish one; and we trust that the name of the man who occasions it, or who even makes it plausibly ne cessary, will be gibbetted to eternal infamy. Mr. WARDLE'S threats against Mrs. CLARKE have. at length assumed a legal form, not in the shape of an Indict ment for Perjury, no thank ye, the" he dared not do, but of • an Indictment for a Conspitacy with the W RIG RI'S. 01 wretched Mr. WARDLE, have you found a Lawyer at last with a rag of a gown to his back, with a single tic to his wig, who could gravely advise this measure And do you believe, Sir, that when you have shewn • upon what proofs .71011 think a .Conspiracy may be established, that the same measure of justice which you meet to others, will not b e meeted out to you again. This is the law, Sir, aye and the prophets too. The Duke of Yoga has at least Lite rights of a subject. It were easy enough with such Coadjutors as are k now n to act with Mr. WARDLE, it were easy for a man of Mr. WARDLE'S own description to put just proof enough before a Grand Jury to find a Bill. The evidence is ex-. pate and uncontradicted—but 'tis another pthe sort of thing, to prevail upon a Jury, though a patriot be the sup plicant. Really this course of law will sink the patriot into the petyogger.—But we understand this Gentleman him hereditary claims to the latter title. He is nut the first in that line who has discovered to his cost, that A little learningl, a dangerous thing. Whatever vices may attach to Mrs. E t falsehood is not one, maugre her long acquaintance with Mr. WAkDLE. Dispatches from Lord WELLINGTON have been received as() l,tf t a date as the sth inst. but their contents have not been communicated to the public. The leports which pre_ rail as to their contents are contradictory and incimsistent. The British army is stated at less than 25,000 men, and that of CUL•'STA as gill Inure 'diminished, and 3:et we are