The Statesman. — London, England, 1809-11-01 00:00:00

ib.v. TIIEJTRICAL OPPOS. The tenoning accounts of 'Theatrical Di4utcs ;;tits not at the preseut moment be uninteresting to o ur Readers. It appears from these statements, that it was re served fur Mears. fiarrix, Son, and Kemble, at an early petite! of the 19th century, to attempt, tir a system of violence, the annihilation of that ; 14ht of censers, claimed by the Public, which, e rt u the great Garrick and other illustrious Per. f,traiers, before whom the Corent-ganlen trio taus' rl,tle their diminished heads, appear to have admit. tea. We beg, however, to be distinctly understuoil, ,s, not only reprobating the violence narrated is, the 4.. accounts, but as deprecating, in every in. nonce, the comnsission of the slightest damage to any part of the property el the Proprietors. ...We also trust that the bending of the knee will never be demanded as a part of any apology h cb may be required from an actor; for, al. though actors live by the favour ef the public , We see IkU good reason why they, any more than other latlividuals, should he called upon to submit to that species of huinillation which is unknown in this country, with the exception of the submis ,iuil demandesi by the Great Council of the Na. tiuu. [To the Muuarch of these Realms we a ll cheerfully bend the knee, as an acknowledgment! of respect fur the supreme head of the station.] It hisiseee said, that Actors, by the public exhibi tiuneettheir persons, arc placed in a Situation less ea t tectable than 'that of other classes of society : to this prejudice, for such we really deem it, we raunot assent. Does not the Barrister, however esecrable may be the case, which by the rules of the profession, he is bound to defend, if required, talsiblt his person, pour forth his eloquence with rt cry oratorical gesticulation, and even sometimes atral passions and stritiments, which may be in i opposition to his absolute knowledge and e onsictien. And ret the profusion of the pleader less/snot only to wealth, but to hunuar and dig- Hey. What is the essential difference between the. actor, in the exhibitive of the various chit rac.ers he represcuts, and the lawyer i t his eorteme of serval and wig--invariably perform. tag the part of truth ? Now, as there art two sidge mid two advocates of every question, nice of them must invariably be wrong, as they 'Mena bulb, siewsfully, sustain the character of troth. The Actor recites that which the hearers know to le untrue; what:the Bat rimer labours with all his might to prove that true, which, lu many in. stances, be knows to be otherwise. Nur is !ski' taiumph ever so great as when he succeeds in such east. The profession of an actor is by no means necessarily degrading, because it has not uuirequently Wen disgraced by the irregular cue. duct of individuals, and it is greatly to he de. st,il that the profession should emancipate from Ca: prejudice el' public opinion. This, however, eau only be eneeted by a genet - al adherence to de. wrath, and a perseverance in that respectable de eseanour and propiiety of manners, by abaci' unity very worthy and respectable performers, of both solo, archoutsurably dbeingeiabod. 1 1 Fringe the Annual Register, vot. a. p. 52.- 1763, January ti.. " A printed waiver was din. pealed in the taverns, coffee-houses, &c. corn. planting of the Managers of the Theatres refusing aamirtauce at the end of the third act of a play for half-ptice; and at Drury-lane Theatre, in the tareaisg, upon drawing up of the curtain, the two actor', who began to play, were interrupted.— ['pop this, Mr. Garrick came ore the stage and at. tempted to speak ; but an uproar immediately bit gait; and the ladies withdrawing, the benches *era torn up, the glass lustres were broke and thrown epos the stage, and a total eonfusion en sued, which prevented the play from going oti ; and about nine the house was cleared, the motto being returned. The damage was, however, re. paired by next night, when the Managers &aught proper to submit, and promised nut to ens one of the actors, who refused to asklpar. don tai his knees for something the audience alleged against him, while he lay under their din. pleasure." Fes. 2i.—" A riot happened at Covent-garden; Theatre, occasioned by a demand being made fur full prices, throughout the whole performance ef the opera of Artaxerxes. The mischief duet was the greatest ever known on any occssion the like kind, all the benches of the boxes and pit being tore up, the glasses and' chandefers broken, and the linings of the Loses cut to pistil. The rashness of the rioters was so great, that they eta away the wooden pillars between the bons, so that, if the inside of them had not been iron, they would have brought down the galleries upon Mir own heads. Four persons concerned its the riot were cuqpnitted to the Gatehouse, bat soon after rebated, and all prose:cations against th• rest stopt, the audience refusing to accept the Managers' submission to the capital point io putt, upon any other terms.—(ibid. p. 57. From the Geltieatan's Magazine foe Janeary, 17e3:-..0 At night, whew the third maids began at Drury-lane, the audience insisted se Britain strike none and the Roast Beef of Oki &gland, %flick were played accordingly. Mr. fibtlatid" taming in to speak the Prologue to Stara, he w..s hissed off. Mr. Garrick immediatelj came on, but could not obtain a Waring. Aftin is cuts. fused uproar, which lasted Mae eked. du %hick he remained on the Aar a II Staid of (I it may be more easily enpadeed than et 1. 0 voices calling ost...Nair Mee Ater tailo as many others MOW 41111, fleas. MO Pit !.r was asked from the Pit, whether he would an. ;et the questions that should he put to him ?---He r, spe e etfully asW, be would. The following pies. Imo were then put :--.Will rot or will You nwit give admittance for balf.pries law the third act, except during the Ant winter of a new Panto. mime ? Mr. Garrick wanted to explain the rat. coos of his conduct, its asking full pikes dosing :i.e k e rn run of anew Pay, but could not obtain leave. He was rewired to give SO IRO& are. No. After aria OW_ 'ldol b, ',reek to explain his condiegt, he OHM out It -Abe mesh not without a editor, et kidigoatioal r we they suppose, at received—Yes ; and the *adipose triumph in the manner they usualir express applies.. " Mr. Ackerman, an Actor, atho had lacerred same displeasure tin the preceding night, wan neat called upon to make au acknowledgment...after he did, Mr. Moody, another Actor, was then called for, but not biting rightly understood, on 44. count of the noise, he was suppored to be refry.— tury, and the audience insisted on his going on one knee; he went toff,' and Mr. Garrick was obliged to come in and promise, that while Mr. Moody • Laboured under; the displeasure of the audience, be should not appear on the stage." This occurrence took place on the night of the tail of January, 1763. By referring to ru1.33 of the Gentleman's Ala :scene, is also an account of a disturbance that took place at Covant.garden about the same time. To the EDITOR of TUE ST4TESMAN. St a—To prevent say iodic(' arising Pre) against me, from the Report of the Grand Jury of West.. allstster, I beg leave, through the medium of your Paper, to state the following facts :—During the prevent public contention with the Managers of Covent.garden Theatre, I have nut been either apprehended, or held to bail, by any Police 0111. cer, or other person whatever, for any conduct 'may huge pursued there. I Teeeived no iaforstae— tiun from the Managers of the "Theatre, or their Solicitor, that any bill of indictment was pre. (erred against me, and was entirely ignorant of any such measure !iving been adopted till 1 per. ceived in the newspaper my name, as one against whom a bill had been fontsd ; I trust, investi. gation, I shall satisfactorily prove, that I have much more cause to complain than be com. plainest of. Your obedient servant, October 1). WILLIAM DWYER. _ . ro ruz EDI7V or THE ST'AT'ES.II4.V. Sza—ln your statement of the proceedings at the Westminster Sessions, you hare called me Robert Binge, against whom the Bill of Indict- Meet preferred by the Proprietors of Covent Gar.. den Theatre, has been returned nut found ; and you hate stated that the Indictment against my friend Mr. Ruse, was a true Bill. Now, my chrlatias nanie is nut Robert, but John; and sir. name nut Birnir, but Burney; the latter I beg to bd particularly stated, that it may not be sap. posed I sin et aft related to Ju•tue Birnie; and the Bill against Mr. Russ was not found a true am, but returned out found. Pray correct these errors. Your's, JOHN BURNEY, ONE OP TSB ACQuITTED ittoTbas. T. Mm IDIOM qf TUE STATESMAN. SlR—When " Military Delinquents" have re ceived a free parilun, but " unprivileged Civil ones" remain sulfuring the punishment of the law, I would, thrungli the medium of your ion. positively stated, that his Majesty the Emperor left Seheratbrune on the 19th, at tot? &cloak 1. tkorafterstoon. It appears certain, that his Imperial sae Royal Majesty will pass a few days ot Munich. Letters from the department of the Mate. Manse mention, that the Postmasters of Chau: moot, Vessaignes, and Langres, have received Gr.! ders to have in readiness at Louchamp and Si.-Ojai xier, by the ?2d, the number of horses necessary for the message of the Emperor. It is expected that his Majesty will have return- , ed to his capital by the 26th. • It is supposed that his Majesty the Emperor, before going to Foutainblesu, will stop fur a few minutes at St. Cloud, where his arrival, we are assured, Is momentarily expected. ‘Ve hair from I.lndau, that the Special Corn; mission established its that city, by order of the King of Bavaria, for trying the instigators of the disturbances in the Voralberg, continues its sit. Wigs. Doctor Schneider is still confined in the town house; the most perfect tranquillity proved' throughout the Voralherg. The fortifications of Lindsts are going on with, and it affords pleasure to see the sameVuralbergers working on them, who so recently were led astray by the disaffected. They are fortifying the bridge-head only, and not, as was erroneously reported, extending the out._ works, at the expenee of the tine country seats in the vicinity of the city. STHASSUROIII, OCT. 20...-Yesterday a courier arrived here,. with orders to get - ready for to. morrow a great number of horses. Ile set out nab', to convey similar orders to all the posts on the read to Paris. This circumstance, and many others, lead us to expect that we shall, to-morrow, see our august and invincible Monarch. P. S. A wood courier is said to have brought word, that his Majesty will arrive te , :. eve t uag, and that he will pass the night her,... • GHENT, OCT. 20..--The guard of ,honour who attended his Majesty tiering 14 stay in this city, when First Consul, in the year It, have re. embodied themselves, in 'the exeectation that his Majesty will condescend to vita this department. Several young men of our city, who did not be. long to the guard, hate solicited and obtained the hottest' of being admitted Into it. VIENNA, OCT. 15.—T0-morrow peace will be formally proclaimed In this capital, by order of his Majesty the Emperor Napoleon. Since the Ist inst. the parader at Schoetibrunn hate been limited Co Sundays and Thtirsdays. Immediately after that of the 12th, the Emperor gave audience In his Cabinet to thu Marsleihi at present in Vienna. His Majesty had a long eon venation with them. The evacuation of the hos. pitals in Vienna is actively going on. The storm are conveyed towards St. Poltett, and thence to the other establishments along the line of depots in I I. the direction of Stresbers. - According to some reports which are in circa. salt. Letters from Presburg of the 11th mention, that the troops of the Austrian army, the major port of whictshave been, for some time, concen trated in the environs of Cumorn, ore on the point of being distributed in other quarters. The atmosphere of that fortress is insalubrious, and the troops ore subject to various maladies in that merrily country. This circumstance, with the happy turn which the negociations hare taken, has induced the Emperor of Austria to permit it e.er.„ tabs numbm. of regiments to go into cantunatunits ie I the circles farthest distant hum the north of gory ; enjoining them, nevertheless, to hold them. selves in readiness to return, at the earliest notice, to the positions which they hitherto occupied. Advice. from various sources concur in stating, that, immediately after the signature of peace, the Emperor of Austria intends to proceed to Pest, where he will reside with his family, until the French troops have evacuated Vienna and Lower A u stria. . MUnirli, OCT. 15.—The comber which is to bring us notice of the precise time of the Emperor Napoleon's arrival, is exrected this evening. It is, probable, therefore, that we shall not see his Majesty before the 16th in the evening, or the 17th. root horses and escorts are stationed along the road from Nieman to Lintz, Passau, ono Munich. All the letters from Vienna contain verime , par. Oculars relative to the conditions of peace, bet none of them contain any positive statement du that subject. It however appears certain, that the pavan:et of the contribudoos doe by Austria Gees. Aimed considerable dilleasity. Two young gide et Ratbbon, the one 11, the other 15 yews of age, having quarrelled about the elections of a lover, provided themselves with a btace of pistols, belunging to the brother of one of them, and in the rage of their jealousy tired at each other, with the musks almost toeekkg ; one of them was killed on the spot, and the other dange. musty wounded. STUTO A all, OCT. 17.--( Eight in Me Even deg.)—An ettafette, who left the Imperial head. "erten; at Strasburgh en the 14th, has dais instant arrived here, with intelligence that pesos has laren •eigned between France and her Allies ire one side, said Austria on the other. At the same time, relays have been ordered for the servile of his Majesty, the Emperor Na waken, 'who was to leave Schuenbrenn on the 15th, to proceed by way of Munich, Shaped, end Strasbergh, to Parks. Coat.faums, t';;;,e. 18.—All the family of his goys! Highness the Qrsed Doke are assetubld j here to receive the Emperor Napoleon, and of. fee him their homage. It is said that the heredi. Lary Brand Duke win accompany his Majesty to fat rasbergh. Certain intelligence was received at oar Coert le.day, that the Emperor Napoteoa left Salaam. . , • on the 150 * 'att be o'clock in tie et _ I%* • noon, and tot orders had been given to proclaim Witte at Yiense.on the I , 6th ekb the politest to. • leeway. One hundred Cannon will be fired (rota the ramparts of.thet city oil the occasion. According to the accounts that we /lOW receleed ,of his Majesty's intended journey, be firipoeed to ; view the works I Jely constrected near elte'Ahbeye of Meelk, at Ebersheee, and in the vieleity op.. Lintz ; afterwards to visit Pains and the Court of Bavaria; then Stutgard and Lonisburgh, by • the way of Dachau, Augsburgls Ulm, Goestine gen, and tuppinghen ; and then through Pfor. ,soihm and Durlach to this city, where-he will be received with the greatest honours. Falsetto, OCT. 19...—His Excellency the Lan. clansman, in a circular of the 4th instant, acquaints the Cuticla' Governments with the serious com. plaints which have reached him from the French head-quarters, respecting the harbouring of Attu trian prisoners, who have escaped into the interior of Switzerland. The Landammsu requests the Cantons to redouble their measures of police against such of the prisoners as elude the vigilance of the military cordon. ',mimic, OCT. 9.—lt is rumoured, that the Duke of Abrantes will, in a very short time, re. pair to Dresden, where he will Mika some stay ; but it is nut thought that his head-quarters will be transferred thither. • Quarters are preparing at Friburg, in the Era. gebirg,.and at Pirna, fur troops which are ex. ' pieteerfe artlte thire immediately. The roads are covered with artillery, tnaibrils, and waggons, laden with regimentals, and other articles uf military accoutrement, proceeding in the direction of I)neden. A , I the S4llOll artillery, which was sent back from Magdeburg to Dresden, is now mounted on the outworks and ramparts of this place. A great number of peasants continue to work, with the garrison, upon the fortifications. MADRID, OCT. IL—The Madrid Gazette re. marks upon various absurdities in that of Seville. The effrontery of the official falsehoods of the latter is not less sineular than the dishonesty with which, at the mandate of the rebellious Junta, it distorts the articles which it pretends to copy from the former.. It would, however, be too 'mach le requre, or to expect any regard for truth on the part of oleo who are the prey of a spirit of fac. lion and discord. Truth is sufficiently aveogod by their contradictions. At one time an express from Gibraltar brings his Britannic Majesty's Consul at Cadis aufitcnltc intelligence of the evacuation of Vienna and the environs by the French army, in consequence of a decisive action ; at another, an English fire:, ar. rived in the• Tagus, announces that the.Emporor of Austria has formally refused to ratify the ar.mistic.e. After publishing so many victories, deitioying 40,000, and upon another °evasion 45,000 of the French, and wounding or killing 33 of..tbeic.-.: Generals, the Gazette of Seville must have fore* it nut a little embarrassing.to admit even the ellthee . — ence of this same armistice. It expresses itself in warmest indignation with regard to • the armistice. inconceivable," it °banns, fi that . have assented to so disgraceful an ar. What a profound sensation most it not Europe! All the conditions, from the first to the lace, are degrading to thceßov.... se reign of Austria. Nis best provinces, inikoctiplA., l , citadels, are delivered up to the French! Coen. tries into which their arms had not penetratZel, *TR spontaneously abandoned to thee) ! The good and faffhfal Tyrolese are sacrificed ; sod , all ehis to purchase a suspension of hostiließs (or .eute„ie • ij I ;,' month. What Inure could have heel? authorised by a situation completely disperate l ? gi But did the Emperor of Austrea-participate e in this 'Freely, the fruit of secret machinations, tvhich we seall not at present dwell upon? It seems certain that he (lid not, and that his surprise, on being informed of it, was very great. Never. !hetes', having been urged by the Generalissimoj ) the Archduke, to execute the principal articles, the evil has become irremediable. All that now remains to this Emperor is to avail himself of the interval, in making preparations for eventually renewing hostilities, with greater vigour than ever, if, as may be presumed from an armistice so insulting to Austria, the cuuditious of peace pro. posed by Bonaparte should be the absolute sub.. mission of the House of Lorraine, and the dismem. berructit of its states and entire provinces." If persons, well acquainted with the state of dependence to whirh the J tette is reduced, are to he credited, this article has been inserted by corn. mend of the Marquis Wellesley, who meddles in every concern. " Such," adds the Madrid Gazette, ' 6 ate the means employed by the pretended defenders of the Spanish people, in order to perpetuate their I bli n d ness ! But n.II not such glaring prOofll of the effrontery with which they spurt with their credulity, have at length the effect of putting them on their guard against impositions, the only tendency of which is to.hurry them eater their ruin?" On the 4th inst. his Majesty issued the fellow. ' leg decree' : .. I . Te e Arebbi.hops, Bishops, RechilleiG mew Osibeerat and ColWai earieser, . k 'MU While to open competloos beer 274 4 7. trees respectively, for the attaiusomst of tlary canon. ries, cures. beneaces, aid other ecelestastict ir t . i stalutes, so di spose d of. th o s e Ex-regulars of the supp commis tiros, who mirv, from tbeireierckes, thebi !Ace, and coo. Abet, be emmtly entitled to the collative of pad 'Wimp Mt their roes titan among the seculars. vs 11. The parishes winch have twil l :: heeastiVeet to the spiriond pirisdicttoo of the Lx- • shall be vaslgSbat of the Archbishops and ese territorial within which they nosy tort shall he ruled mod dl la the same ossalfo as the saber parts of tbeiveletesee" ( 11 A third Decree places the wax-lights of the *oppressed monasteries at the ditties's', of tl. Mi. . slitter for acligiuus Affairs, to be approprieta,tat • the use of such clenthes belonging to the soli ) • convents ismer be left open, or distribeted moon • 1111 the poorer parishot. • A fourth Decree enacts Lee- • ,• wetness It is unjust that the distarhers of the realist have benefit of the illipositkos i retollee_trthe par ; tl id etit. terry debenture epos the state, which Will MA be relt w i t hin ore moots for the alai of the lietendents of Prosiness. shall be deflated mill mod void s and be sato veiled for the beoellt of the gate." je . ** - 1 . . - Tk • bl - } • • . ••• • • , 6,:,, _ TRI STATUMAN. • at the nneandid treatment he b a d FROM TUB FILIINCII PaPEILT; brdois 01, the 15th t at f our Ix and the sadism.. expressed their noon, and that orders had ea sinner they essolly express their •PA MIN Oir. 24wat is peativeiy stated. that !Peace at Viairea.dpe the Mat lation, but without anrcharacter of authenticity, I terms of the wa respecting the cessions made by Austria in the I the articles of tt Treaty of P V IIC I , that p %tut, wi ll Uhot famous salt-pin et D - in the priocipslity Austria can has of Saltzburg, and those of Vielieza, near Cm. mistier. What cow, which supply bee different possessions with produce in Eu .mlO .L Emma 6.. a 1... Pry SO ' Readers sem of pier pro. fathom! , an upinion•-•-Whether a Debtor in cumlinenaint, having obtained the Sheriff's die. charge, sod tendered the gaol fees to the Gaoler, can he legally detained fur rent of the room lie had previously slept in ? I, for one individual, among thousands, thank you for being the means of having pat an end to the illegal practice of sp. prehending people without warrants. A FRIEND TO MY KING AN L) MAGNA CHARTA. - la d Te flis IiDI2V Q of 7'll k; SrATESMAY. "1:14 0801,(111 BILIS/ RD." GIV& TUE DOG A 111/1111. Ma. Fauna•-. 1 beg to apprise your Readers,, list in consequence of a defalcation in certain ac.' 'counts, to the amount, it is remoured, 0f .011,4/ 1 14,0001. which deficit is nightly enerenling ui 'lllMatens the Proprietors with utter ruin, it has been agitated in a Select Com:settee, that a Sub. seription be opened to support the orderty and official capcnces, and that measure is accordingly determined on. As this measure is intended nut only to secure to as enlightened, liberal, just, and generous Public, the novel advantage of a well. regulated ealertainuient, but likewise to break down and crush the stabhuns spirit so boisterously 1 diertityed by suing restless members of the said public during the pest month, I -arose that you II Iced it your cordial support. Offers fruni li quarters Isaac Was 101141:41 of in aid of this patriotic and notional concern, among 'Such I recollect the following EstiritaoaNss, air Mons. Vakek-rsaoeue. A Concede": from all the Continental Upstarts, is finding several new Kitty, Prisms, Ilandieh, A L 5. 0 0 0 Mr. Amps Team • - e 0 6 John Julies Gaup anti Co. - 6b 0 'The staffs of Bow-sines - - 0• 14 The Battersea banes-ziwss al/ he could • i 0 1 A Frew Pews—ad a Glsde - •4 44 A Tres-usil i frets Pristesserrd - 2 TM Pled Bey (psoriasis) - • - 0 1 0 •A Osiketitta mode sti fall price, by as Order-ly .• Audience, NM jortraser, at IL (itch - 2 9 6 That Paroles ef Virtue sod Patriotism', the /le nds Kara Matilda - 0 0 Arse Thief-takers and their A..oriatrs tints Iliteeds • ditch - - 010 0 Jemmy Sex-efite, sae might's pay ; ditto extra, betas tuts] time, £lO. Jut. - - It it 0 - tied a few other Kiddie, 4 131 - 0 reli., 1110eirst alaiimeassail Co.. -A al t. 3 The liaeaslas of our Liberty - - U U Cleastky, Wee the Amaral Boxes (sbe timid no - - - 0 Intripremare ) , rasa ditto - .. - 10J0 0 11 8 0 /oho tiro (.N-rest, per ati,take) - - 00 0 The Tows (ate 4illtU) - - . 00 0 Illieliset Ilasisariag - - - 50 0 0 Tbe Ileesse-sbilters, Lasip-ligaters, Tailors, tee. 0 0 0 dasephise, per Marlon C- - - U 0 0 Subscriptions received at T. Humfriesis. Whys I learn more, shall not fail to communicate pard. milers. You will observe that I have stated the precise sums in some instaucea. The blanks I ass. mot as yet fill up , but report says, they are very large. Trusting you will give publicity to ibis Miter s I am, very respoctfully, Yeses, 7( k; W PRICES. 1L........-.......--X........--.....—.0.-. Ellysieisa at Suaderland has cunstepeted a Ip t which will effectually prevent explefiesh ii indatemable gas in coal mines. , , • , • I . ' 1' I !1 I