The Statesman. — London, England, 1809-11-22 00:00:00

3 ~~x~ SUBSCRIPTIONS. THE COMMITTEE beff leave to suggest, to e' tie SUBSCRIBERS to the Fwd already established for the Assistance of thaw who are CONSIDBRID AS SWIG ST/I.ll,llTiat eaosacirrao by the PROPRIETORS of CO VENT-GARDEN THEATRE, that although 47 out of 11 of the INDICTMENTS prevailed, were thrown out by the Grand Jary, vet the claims upon the rued snap become much greater than IS, perhaps, in geoeral, apprelsae&d ; and that their exertmos sbould, therefore, be raskahAid, rather than re hued. --- SI/BURS/T/OMS COSITIMUR To ai lIRCBITED AT The 010/e Of STATCSM•W. 81, Fleet-street; Jar. Samuel Miller, 13. Skinner-street, (Treasurer) ; Mr. J. Powell, 3, Grove- Pldece,Catudeo-Tow n,( Secretary s) ithants. Bons and Hone, !Isabelita, 331, Str.md; We. llaatly, Stationer, 4. Duke-street, Grosvenor-sqoare Mr. T. Togg, Bookseller Cbearside ; Mr. Simians, cosset of Leather-lane, Balboni. Amaunt of Sabscriptions already advertised .. • £4llO 063 Thee Sugar-bakers' Clerks 1 1 0 tires Stug.ir-buyets Ao Envoy to mouupolies A few Friends, subscribed last Saturday sight... ..... 2 1 6 An Enemy to Italian cuoveuiencol. • • 0 10 6 Tao Brutish Forum, by Inc Muds of J. G. Joses 2 7 0 A Friend to the Imjnred—to defend them against the insolence of Jews—dud the impertinence of Vagrants 1 1 0 Richard Ella Members of the Nail and Screw Society, by their Se cretary, D. Britt A. 1.. a Friend to the 0. P's Y 10 6 It is requested that all Commuulcatinos as the subject of the above pro,eastisas mar be :wide to Mr. Wilaam West, Attorney, No. 7, Clemeats-Ino. STATE LOTTERY, on the New and Im. proved Was, consisting of only Five 'finiusand Niuntscrs, to be DRAWN IN ONE DAY. The Scheme centsine. 4 ...:Prizcs of .no,ooo 4 of 5,000 12 of 1,300 5.1 of bJJ &c. &c. ate. TICKETS and SHARES are selling by HAZARD, BORNE, and CO. Susck-Hrui.ers, At thrir Slate Lotter) o.ae, No. 93, ender the Ru)ILI Exchange. 741 E STATESMAN. PROPOSITI TUNAZ• LONDON: AIEDYtsu.►V, Noviussit 22• We are still without any confirmation of the reported battle in the Mediterranean—but letters are daily received, announcing the expectation of such an event having taken place. A 'tarok? is io circulation of the Junta having consigned the fortress of Ceuta to our protection ; but this fact required confirmation. The extremity of the Mediterranean is bounded on the side of Africa, by the piitat of Arming, which corresponds with Europa point on the op. posite side. On the Promontory of dlasime, 'stands Mount Abair ) a rival, although inferior to Calpe (Gibraltar). The town and feehm....l Ceuta, so celebrated by the Arabian parcis-a: tinted at the base. Crut4 is fortified on all sides, and weight be rendaed impregnable on the land side. The port is bad, but by the possession of Ceuta and Gibraltar, the Straits would be com manded. Tns reports of NArocson's insanity, his personal debility, his indisposition, and his snaps ivy, are at length contradicted by the very papers in which tlic.se absurd rumours were originated. To conceal thr real situatiu:i of the French Estrrmon, surrounded as he is daily by a multitude of witnesses, were impossible. His retorts to Paris is iternifistly de layed fiir some cogent reason, which the qlid ssancr being unable to penetrate, the nt.si, has been pronounced mad. It is possible that the en suing Christmas may be passed, rs isii; the last, at Madrid. There can now be no diversion in any part of Europe longer to suspend the catas truistic of the lingering Tragedy which has been su long performing in the Peninsula. The remains of our brave army will, probably, linger to the last moment, and then return, as they hive before returned, in diminished force, without baring effected any beneficial purpose. The re port of the intended lib ration of FcantmAso the Seventh, is revived with increased ennftdence. —This step is said to have fur its object the preservation of Spanish America, user which that Prince will be permitted to reign. This will, however, require nut only the persiiiisiun of NArot.p,s, but the concurrence of England Lie it co only lip by accident that Fsu p ts4np can reach America, in opposition to the the British Government. ....N1TN1...- Aleut'. is reported to haTo been ceded by Pros. sis to France, by chom it may possibly be trans. (erred to Roams. This is an ago of political clopping and chanting. Tar Doke Of NOUTIII:MaIItLAN.D was solicited to permit the insertion of Lord PEI cir's name in the List of Lords Commissioners of the Acni. ialty, but the noble Duke refstsedl the request, . " with Indignation. This repulse was fultowed, by a bold, and must notable stroke, of Mi. nistarial outerprize—Lord Fit tscis SPENCIR— • son of the Doke of Nlaat.aottouou—was one morning electrffied by the sight of his name in the Gazdts as one of the Commissioners for the affair* of India. Ills Lordship had never beard of the intention to nominate him to the office—and instantly insisted on a revocation of the appoiottneu t ! TEIg STATESMAN. ' • '." - !COVENT G4RDEN THEATfig. The Daily Prints in the interest of the authors a the outrages that have been coomitted on the persons of the people, are extre'ne•ly antioss tilts morning to persuade ilttir Keade►s that the pub lic, after forty nights of perseverance, base sud denly " discovered their error," sod arc reduced to submission. " We have this day to record the•decline of .44 the empire of tumult," says the trimming Times, which, during this contest, has boxed every point of the compass, in its vain endeavours to acquire popularity. The sudden turn after the visit of Mr. Kemble—ttiu return as sudden—and the refusal to advertise the •ttbscription—(which, however, !S subsequently condescended to do) — are proofs too obvious to be forgotten : '• On the week, we mar venture to congratulate the REAL " ebat.tc-A4lgb Meads to good or , ler nod deerncy—nn the " eppresch of the establishment of decorum and tranquillity " in this Tbeatre."—Posr. --- Thus with the " rerilable" Morning . Post. But the perfection of ridicule, is, as usual, to by found in the simple Press. " Upon the whole we may with safety now ronwatulaie " the public an the elitism-tont of this rilliasiras prig, and " the return of civilisation and social Artier 10 this Theatre. " the nen-Wormed are 11311 ashamed, :Ind the rides. " afraid to he seen in the cause—it !nun, th /More, sena die " away, its it is imposkible for the few ironhled ltpirits Alta " are yet lift to ate —tio pay their partizans., et gall the no " Kary into a pariicipation of their silly schemes uny longer. " The drama" Atha& • the advancul Prices altd the Private Privile•ed Dozes) " will Ilintriah again in spite of epplai thwaiind conspiraeg."—Casty. " Oh what gin alteration!" has been produced by this sudden death of oppe. silion. It was but on Monday night that the force of clamour was seen to be as violent as at any period since the opening of the Theatre; and strange to tell—hey presto—on 'Tuesday the op position is extinct. All this is abundantly db. surd—those who may be &hided into the expec tation of a " Paradise regained," by the sub mission of the public to the Sialttonetaii " Para dise" of Private Boxes, will be gro'sly deetived. We must, however, relate the trails, as to what occurred last night. The huasurous motion of the Attorney Gelle. ral, on the subject of a cutispiracy, was expected to produce some elit et on the public mind ; and some effect it did produce, though Or a tendency nut precisely such as was expected—for ;t has only tended to increase the indignation of (ho Public against the Proprietors. To second, how. ever, the anticipated effect, it was last night, to wake an elf,Jrt to give a mortis/ blow to the oPposition. Thu house has Owl-ally been thinner on Tess. Jay than on any other evening of the week—the corps of rulE4tts was therefore reinforced so greatly as to restsh.4 them numerically equal to the discontented-4ml the 0. P.'s were, w Wiest ex. ception (if practicable), to have been driven out of the house. %%Atm the " watchword" was to have been last night, we have not Net lettrut...un Frau, Sight the cxelatuatiou of " Green," was Nor -goat eommetticattal 'to the Foundry 'Wien in the Pertralues private room. We have 110 reserve In st,eakiug of these circumstances, with which•(autl many others) we are perfectly acquainted. To avoid the suspicion which the presence of unusual numbers at the first price would naturally excite, a large proportion of these zzoethies were instructed to mix with the cumpaity its the avenue, and eater promiscuutisly with them at half price. —These instructions were minutely followed, and the Pit, after the half price, was filled. 111 the Boxrs there was a CNlSSidera divlay of Order by whoot almost all the front seats arc usually monopolised. The new ladies were known in the Pit at an early hour, and the 0. P.'s played off a counter manstivre, which completely defeated the pro. ject. They all appeared without 0. P. either in the hat or oft the breast.-.and for the first three acts of 'use Suspicious liaAhand expressed but very little disappro:tation. The consequence of this numetsure was, that the ruffians were at a loss who to attack, and this tregi.contic fame, •that had been gut up by the Managers with so much trouble and expellee, %tent oft very licitly ) to the grievous disappointment of the raisins. A respectable Gentleman in the Pit, of the name of a o hson, r ship.owtter, residing at No. '2, in A.merica.square, being marked as a victim, was dragged out, wills a degree of brutality that would have disgraced even a slave merchant—his teat was turn to rags. On arriving at BOW-STREET. Ile was put to the bar like a felon, and there I waited the arrival of his Mightiness the IProfessor, who, in about half an hour, presenting himself, charged Mr. ltobsoa with sneezinn• a un- 1 naturally, and afterwards running into the centre I of the Pit on being mat ked, whereby a riot was created. This charge was corroborated by a Mr. F Daniel Davis, by profession a surveyor, in Moomsbury-square, who not only concurred ► with Professor Bandon in the snee:ing or Mr L Robson having been unnatural, but added, that his roughing was still more so, resembling the bArkiog of a dog. Mr. Robson admitted the facts of sneering and coughing, but denied that they were unnatural; the dust arising from the Pit had made him b:ith sneeze and cough, as it had many others, and would, doubtless, also make his Warship, were he to visit that part of the House. His Worship, however, turned a deaf oar to this remark, and elated the necessity of Mr. Robson going to prison, unless he could find bail. Fortunately fur that Gentleman, he was accompanied by friends who were deemed sufficient to become his sureties. Mr. Robson then returaed to the Plt door, at which, being `refused admission, he returned to Bow -street, and claimed the interferenc: of the Magistrate, a ho re fused it, adding, that he did not wone.er at the refusal to admit hint after his unnatural sneez ing, coughing, and other conduct.—(N. B. Per sons troubled with coughs and colds ought to be particularly careful not to appear in Public, teat they be required to find bail.)—Mr. Robson re monstrated, but Mr. Rc.tu closed the controversy t hy--" You can get no redress here." While this question was milder disceeeion at the Office, the ditcunient in the House had rites to a height which rendered the music in Dun Juan is- audible. No instruments, except a histics, ware, however, introduced in the Pit, as the Company hissed, hooted, and groaned with vigour, amply sufficient to drown all sound from the stage or orchestra. Neither the Boxes or Galleries took much interest in the opposition. At length the ' curtain dropped amidst the usual roar. The company in the Pit immediately turned their backs to the stage, and on hearing " 0. P.': down and uncovered," the whole of the company in the Pit, with the exception of those in the front benches nearest to the orchestra, immediate ly mood themselves. "God Save the King" followed, and atter that the iseiml groans and hisses, fur which the Private Braes came in for an ample share, and by which those privileged re ceptacles were tidally cleared. No placards were attempted to be exhibited, ex. cent in one instance, and that was not up inure than half a minute. Several papers were, house. ver, thrown iuto the Pit ; and, amongst others % three or four lists of the proprietors and tenants of the Private Boxes, one of which we obtained. The following is a copy of this paper, for the correct. ness of which we, of course, cannot vouch. life give it as it came to nut hands : BLOOD ROYAL. FOUR AIifISUAL 1103LEC RENTED IT Aline' , of WALES. Doke of CU MBEALAND, I Duke of YORK, Duke of GLOUCESTER, • YOUR 1111XUAL sous PURCHASED BY Duke of ISOR flIUMBIslt• I Mr. KNoX, L I), Mn. AN TROBUS. Earl of EGREMONT, TWINTY-TOUR ANNUAL BOXES AT PRESENT RINTED VR OCCUPIF.II BY Priaren of VIAL ES, I Mr. WHITE (03lce la the Date of DEVONSHLRII, !loose of Cossunnasl. Ludy HOLLAND, Marquis of SALISBURY, Earl SEFTON. Mr. BOONE, Mr. VAUGII AN (City). Duke of BEDFORD, Duke of NORTHUMISER- Count STAN REM HERO, LAND. Loral NIOUNTJOY, Mr. hi EYRICK. Mi. CUU rrs, Marquis of AU llt CORN, Lord UHOLMON HELY, Lady SPENCER. Marquis at ST A 1.70 R.E, Mn. J. ORBY lIN N TER, Earl GROSVENOR, Marquis of STAFFORD. Mr. HOPE. Mr. A—NGERSTEIN (City), Idn. swum We had an opportunity of ucortaining pretty correctly the numbers of the 'opposition in the Pit after the perforraunce, as their backs wcre all turned to the Stage...we coupled upward►► ..r four hundred, and we aysert with conlidencc, what we know cannot be dettied, that these persons were well diessed, and in appearance and de. meatinur, highly respectable. The foul linen, ragged apparel, unwashed faces, and uncombed locks, were discernible, solely on those benches near the orchestra, where the hired corps had taken their stations. If, fro►n the alteration in the opposition of last night, the Proprietors hatter themselves with the hope of having crushed the Public, greatly will they he disappointed. Thu expressions of intlig. nation last night were _ " Curies oat loud, bid docp." —the settled and steed, Jctermlnatldte of the conspany certainly evinced in our opinion a Inure formidable oppositiva than has yet been sue posed to exist. NAV4L lATELLIGENCE. Pa ars , tovrit, Nor. 21.—Sailed the Repulse. of 74 runs. and the Victorious, of 71 gum, to join the illa4iterratieau fleet. The Downs ecromy sailed yesterday with Ole Relpnie. Sailed the Jason frigate, fur tile Downs; sad the Quebec, on a critize. The Persian is appointed convoy for the Downs. The Spartitste is btripping to be paid or. PLYNOCTR, Nov. %I.—Arrived the Weymouth, new ts:lln, from Gibraltar, last from Scilly, re-captured by the Plover sloop of war ; and the brig Venus, Thomas Martin, from Limerick ; the sloop Friendship, Thoinno Reese, from Cork, with provisions; the Swedish sbip Gustava, Bergman, from Stockholm', with deal.; the sloop Jemima, Joseph Willinass, (ruin Cork, vrienprovisions ; the brig Hall, Thomas Bulger, Master, from Waterford, with provi sions ; the brig Susannah, Hodgson, front Cork, with rum. Also arrived the Violet, Dare, from Boston, in b.illast : the was not permitted to hind a cargo fur Mood, in conse quence of the Non-Intercourse Act hiving been again pas,ed • his Majesty's ship Argos, from Cork; the Good latent, from Newfoundhind ; the June, b liter, from Cork, last from Fal mouth, intro with provisions, for this port; the Porturte. , e schooner Nostra de Carrico, St. Domingo, Antonio Jirte de Abraham Castro, Muter, from Oporto, laden with wine and fruit, bound to this port fbr orders. Also arrived afret from Ireland, last from Sill%. Put hack the Jane, Slater, for Heligoland. Arrived his Majesty's ship Diana, from the Brazils ; and his Majesty's ship Armitic, from& cruize. CORN EXCHANGE, No r . 22: The supplies of Wheat this day are rather considerable, great part thereof of the late foreign nrriy:o4 ; from the de. tumid sales nearly support our last quoted prix .5: R.lrky and Malt likewise : W hate Peas arrive In tsolenthle plenty : Grey and Benue of the tno descriptions, keep their prier : there are several further arrivals of Oats, and thin trade is rather lower, eseeptitag fir tho4e of best quality; flour withaat alteration: Pion Ainerican. 595. to tits. per barrel. Wheat, - - Ns. 966. Ms. Tick Beans, - - - - 4/4. 555. ?toes' ditto -- - lists 144. (lab, Rye. - 506.555. Poland ditto -- - - 364. 391. Burley, - -- to 10-. Malt, - - - ..ElB £54. W. Pea 6( [Goiters) 756.554. Fine Flow -- - 906. Va. (key Peas, 524. s‘. baton& Hew, - sBs. his. Advises have been received from Catalonia, in which there is no mention of the rumoured defcat of General BLAKE. Nu event of that disastrous nature had occurred to that part of the ipanish army, su Wu as the 20th of October, although It 4 mentioned in the Madrid news of two days later. No account of it could hosu bee■ received in the intermediate time. The Sophia, SMITH, arrived fvom Malta, sailed cot the V$J silt. in company with the Britannia, MATSON, and parted from) her MU Gibraltar. On the 7th instant, she fell in with the garonne, French privateer, of 11 guns, and 150 men, and after it smart action, was obliged to strike. They took five bales of silk Out of the Sophig i and suf fered her to proceed. its account is said to have bean received from Cadiz, that Lord WIMLIALIT has prevailed upon the Supreme Junta to allow Cents to boiparrisunell by a British force. TO THE POLICE MAGISTRATES 111 BOIKSTREET. Gitirrrce Ev, —lt was settled by Act of Perlis. went, in 11U2, when the Police Offices were esta blished, in order to better secure our persons and our property, and to increase the influence of the (frown, that two Magistrates should attend from ,eleven till three is the forenoon, and from five till !eight in the evesiisg ; but as all Use public prints state your office to be kept open after hours, mid ea you are stated to be iu Bow-street sometimes even at midnight, it may not be improper to in. quire, by whom you are reinutterate.l for this Nara labour Y—yoet surely cannot be paid by the Secretary of State of the Hume Department fur this task work, because he cannot justify to Par. 1 liameut the expenditure of the public money for such purposes, having the oceans of putting a stop instantly to the impudent bravadoes of Actors and Boskeepers, daring the town to combat—neither can it be supposed, that you submit to receive daily or weekly wages from such gentry as James Brandon, John Kemble, or Thomas Harris. I n I Fielding's days, our Westminster Justices were all said to be venal, and they acme, to be sure, a dirty set of vagabonds, living by the warrantsthey granted ; but as this scandal does not belong to the present times, and it would be too much to expect, even from men of your exalted virtues, a sacrifice of comfort, six nights in the week, at the I hazard of your invaluable health, do you not feel it due, if not to the dignity of your official cha racters, ‘rhich, perhaps, you leave in charge at the office, at least to your reputation, as Gentlemen, to es plain to the Public your motives for this pain ful attendance, night after night till midnight, fur the solitary purpose of taking large bail from one I description of peace-brmtkers,aud small, very small I indeed, from smother. No Secretary of State would venture to receive a contingent bill with such items in it, nor yon to offer it ; as little can you be supposed to receive reward from the Theatre, and the owners of Private Boxes, because that would arraign the impartiality of even-handed justice, and fit you as the partners of Messrs. Kemble and Harris. As a friend to the Bench, and thoroughly persuaded that the Police Magi,_ trates are not a venal, penttyless, and utooitiri. pled bet of vagabonds, as in the days of Old Fielding, I wish the Public to be fully Informed, ohy you should keep your shop open after ail the other shops in your line of business ars shut, and especially as you arc commanded by law to leave off work at eight. It has been said by some, that it NIA to accommodate the Public, many of whom would lie tat the watch-house but fur this voluntary kindness of your worships. Others have assigned reasons not quite so philanthropic, and the very reverse of patriotic, for what they call great offic:ousuess. And as the honour of Magistrate, like that of a virtuous woman, ought not to be even suspected, I have told you what passes in the world on your subject, that you may inform us from what food you ;re remunerated fur working after 'soars, since it is impossible you can receive wages front John Kembl,., James Brandon, or Thwras Harris ; and it is Nulls impossible that any Secretary of State would take upon himself to pay you fur taking are of then property with the public money. 1 am, Gentlemen, ON E OF THE PEOPLE To the EDITOR of TIIE snirenum SIR, Portsmouth, Not. CO, MOP. The Navy, to which I am mulched, no less by a conviction of its value to the country, thtu by duty and hallo, ()eel notch to your firmness and justice, in exposing the ignorance of those to whom its honour is confided. That Lord Mid. grave at the head of the Admiralty, and Mr Croker at the tail of it—the one a profesaional Soldier, and the other a professional lateyer, should both occupy offices for which they are ie. sompetent, is natural enough, because they belong to a faction in want of fund and rai. ment—their being so placed has nothing in it to surprise us, although it has very much in it to ef fetid us. But the Flag Officers at that Huard, these adjuncts, else shou4 feel fur the chars'. ter of the Navy, ou . ght surely to have known that my poor old messmate, Charles Cobb, whose fisg they skirted in Jubilee joy, died six months since, ' fast-bound in is strait waistcoat, and that a Lieutenant has been made a Commander, who has beeu confined 36 years in a nia I...souse ; all this proves extreme iguurance, and what is nurse, ex treme slovenlier , . But, Sir, this is not all—l find among the list of Gentlemen promoted to be Ad mirals, au Officer who his never b..en at sea, since he was made Post in 1790, and eho, at the time of his promotion, was oue of the Commis sioners of the Navy. The Lords of the Admi ralty appear to have been as ignorant of these circumstances as they were of the death and im becility of the other Officers, whom they pro muted, for it has been ats invariable rule to pa►s over those who have - 116! Mired during the ear, or who hold lucrative civil employments, as in the cafe of Captain Thomis Hamilton, now Rear- Admiral Hamilton, who hiving a very excellent understanding of his own, far superior to any at the present Board, keeps his situation at Somer set House an entire secret from their Lordships, and holds, for the first time recorded in Breath history, and, no doubt, unknown to them, the ♦atluable appointment of Commissioner, with the snug tim of Rear-Admiral in the bargain, which, of course, under the present circumstances, is neither snore nor less than a very comfortable sine cure to him. I will not ask Lord Malgrave, our the Qui Tuns Secretary, to explain this fresh in sult offered to the Navy, but I call on `ir Richard Bickerton, and his colleague and hruther fish tit that Board, Admiral Damen, to inform us why they should have shewn so little respect to a service (whose honour it is their duty to ser►e), by having permitted so great an insult to be offered to it, and even to have sanctioned that in suit by their names I am, Sir, a A BRITISH TAR, AND A FIRM FR11:1 49 IV DM DRITfSII NA% Y. U k