The Statesman. — London, England, 1809-11-18 00:00:00

ale ...( • a U t O I , 1 I 111 _~ r Odin 17. -men . _ sunscßipno.vs. TUE COMMITTER 1we,000.6 to topical, lu. the SUBSCRIBERS to the Find elready established tru. the Avis! :OM of !hoar who Ire remelt's.° AS BRING te . - U•istLY runtime-ran by the P PR lETORS of CO- L VIIN T-r.A RIMY THEATRE.' dekt Idthourb MO or 41 t efitile IN DI CTM ENTS presented; dere throws opt by the r 44.1 Ju , ‘, vet the claims upon the Fund qty became much 6—der than is. perhaps, in general, ptebefoted ; and that ANN ..ierti.mt ...mold, therefore, be % 'rattir than re . tt; itscater to 'lli CONTINUE TO BR lirczlrst) AT The Office of THE STATISMIR, 87, Fleet-greet; Mr. Samuel Miller. 13, Skinner-mreet, (Treasurer); nrore-Plior,Comdeo-Town.(Secretary ; ) • Ntesam. Boob a id Hone, Bookiellers, 391, Strand; Mr. I I untly, Cl:ilia/ter. 4, Duke.strter, Grovreoor-square ; Mr. T. TmT, Book4eller, 111, Chenpsitle Mr. Simmons, corner of Leathe►-lane, Holborn. A:anJut of Subscriptions already advertised .. • £392 19 61 A Frirnd of the Drama, tusd to the laws and customs of England, who thinks the expenses on dresses, decoratioot, and machinery. have of late been car ried too far, and that it is 10 . 4 . 4 time they should be checked " man, man, dressed in a little brief authority. still loor.ict of what is most emitted." SH A KIIMIA R. 1 1 0 1 prylhor, 11-trri., tell outright, hew much may be the run of :WM, nen a renal Pren, and also a relies Poet. From the Printer of 01:1 Price% Rupert-ebece, to worth% equal justice Three Stigar-bakers Clerks 1 1 0 Three Sugar-bakers An Enemy to monopolies It Is requested that ail (Autnunications on the subject of the above pro..ecutioos may be made to Mr. William West, Attnnse), Ilia. 7, Clement 's-Inn. • COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. This Day was published, Price Rs. Id. embellished with a caricature Froatispiece, rrIIIE LIFE of JOHN PHILIP KEMBLE, 1 Es .—A PROPRIETOR, and STAGE MANAGER of COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. beenpersed with Family and Theatrical Anecdotes. 0, my " Aitches!!!" Tin ecirr—( Nur Reading.) Printel fir J. Johnston, 101. Cheopside ; and sold by Sherwood. Neely, anti Jrme., P.lternoster-row E. V. dam, Royal Etclutoge; and all Booksellers. Arrhed. biallt. Due. 1 DuWit; a .0 I'RiCE:O 9Tockq 1 3 per Cern.Cens. 69j 70 lirdoced per Cent—Al Apir Ceig....10 .wools fur Ate. 7J S I/1 Y AroNr o•cLocK. I Lon. Anu...18 9-16 e Offiniow ye prem. llndia Roo& 'at. 211 s. rach. 81114, 99. 14,. Lottery Tickets *Po THE STATIFISMAN. PROPUSIT( kNA X. LO N no N SATURDAY. NoTi SUM 18. * 1 RE:Nouns of a battle in the hltliterratscan arc bronAlit by every arrival from the Coninsent. From Holland, in particular, that event eOllll. nuts to he asserted with confidence, but no pathi culars have yet been received from any quarter, wt which the sli;htest depertd.ince can be placed. THE accounts from II.)114m1 say, that the King of SaxoNy had ar.ired in Paris. The ces. sion of the Grand Duchy of Warsaw is asserted with increased confidence. It is said to be destined for EL/GENE BEAUHARNOIS, 311 port of the &mi llions of his new kingdom of Poised. WE regret to find, by the Liters from America, that the yellow fever has again made its appear. ance ; and alt!iots;ts the caws have hitherto bean n ither numerous nor fiial , the apprehensions :of the Public are already tety powerfully etteitede and every p ossible precaution has been taken trovt ate.' . t t su gut elf all intercourse with the infected districtgs, THE return of the Emperor Faa NUE to Vienna .—the extension of the ilavarian territories—the progress of the insurgents in the Tyrol—and the probable fate of Turkey, are the leading, subjects iu the German Papers. Germany, once su formLlable, is reduced to ab solute insignificance—and the public papers speak of the possibility of NA POI.EuN displacing till: POPE —substituting in his place, his relation, Cardinal Fsscu, and directing him to place the Imperial Crown of Germany ou his head—with the moat perfect swig frail. From France, reports of Nl.‘rot.tov's Indispo sition continue to 11441 their way to Ilollmod and Germany. I t is unnecessary to inform our Bond. era that every effort is making here to propagate an opinion that Ms heath is declining. But were the fact of his I.eing subject to epilepsy established, It is s ell known that persons afflicted with that disurd...r, nut unfrequently live many years. The Lest reports from Fr•ttiee are, that the Emperor will shortly set out tor Spain, and there continue until he lus eutn:lletal the subjugation of the Pe nitattl4 .IfoNlTEcxs, and other French Papers to the 34 inst. were recAseti at a late hour this day. The Pt )Ih:idle states an expectation at Paris, t h a t t h e Empriton will return from Funtainbleau, at the end of this month, to that city, where he will, it is added, probably pass titore t r i qaisple.s of • , . • the sinter. • • . . .. ' ' II A e.mv.)y - fr ini thetialiic, consisting of tante, 150 T& %S.l•, pa3sed Aims's% Irarusoutls auslitop Vedue4l.43.. ri- . f —r• - ott t it t ited mantles, al(' caps of corresponding colburs, with an ',oriel' plume, are all the tun ; this gives our dashiag Belles A truly military air—several of them Aar.., In truth, a more fierce and warlike appearance 11l an many Officers on guard, who are dimly uu dals isi Pall Mall and St. Jamrs'iatroet . • This Smith is the man who was charged with the assault ea Mr. Cassias, who sow lies dangerously ill. P A STATESMAN. BOW-STREBT. the Theatre, Powell ?" To this no answer was given. " You say this Smith is a fel low workman of your's at the Iron-foun dery ?"—" Yes." " Were there any other workmen io the Pit from (his Foundery ?" " Yes." " How many, three or four?"—" Yes." " Fiat or six perhaps ?"—" Yes." " flow many might there be of you all ?"—" That's not a fair question." 46 Not a fair question ; well, fur what purpose do such men as Jou and your fellow workmen go into the Pit of the Theatre— ' flow came you to go there ?"—" That's not a fair question." " Did you pay for your admis sion ?"—" That's not a fair question." " Have you been often in the Pit."—No answer. " Ilow often may you have been there ?"—No answer. Mr. GRAHAM then observed, that as to the wound of which he complained, it could not have been made by a stick; and he could not help being of opinion, that the Complainant and his Fellow-workmen could visit the Theatre for no other purpose than of themselves creating a riot. 66 Sir, " said he, addressing himself to me " the charge being persisted in, you must find bail."— I accordingly seat for two friends, who gave bail for me in Ten Pounds each. I am, Sir, &c. W. WYNNE. The evening concluded with the nsnal chef ring, groaning, singing, and hissing at the privileged tier, which, by the persevering efforts of the other parts of the House, was at length filially cleared. The only noveltie4 of the evening were those of two ladies attcmping to address the House— the one from the Pit, and the other from the Ho=es.—The Lady in the Pit is the same person who appeared there some weeks ago, and of whose conversation we were under the !lei:1sill of giving some account, in order to cur. reet the falsehood of 'rite Globe. Although some part of the House was willing to hear the lady last night, the noise in other parts rendered her unintelligible. The advocates for hearing the lady in the Dress-Boxes at length silenced the first ortarix, but when silence was obtained, the fair advocate said but little ► and that in so low a tone of voice as nut to be heard. She however took considerable pains to display her 0. P. Me. dal. In tile contest iii the Fit, one individual boat his bat antl coat, the latter was reduced to shreds —a collection of which was triumphantly raised on a stick. The sufferer made a must ludicrous ap. pearance. At length a Gentleman handed over a great coat into the Pit amidst a thunder of ap probation. A bat was, however, still wanting, and the Gentleman was obliged to quit the House uncovered—without even the protection of a night cap. Of the company which departed soon alter 10 &cluck—some adjourned to Here a respectable Gentleman, calling himself Nicholas Donelly, by profession a journeyman smith, working at the fountkry in Great Queen street, and residing In a place of some celebrity, called Laseelles-street, in the fashionable district of St. Giles's, preferred a charge against Charles Ruwls, Esq. of Kingston, in Surrey, for an as. sault. Mr. Donelly stated, that having exerted him sdf to tear a placard, in which he was ciicevss. ful, somebody pushed him down, when, on rising, Mr. Howls gave him a violent blow un the haud with a large stick► Mr. nowt, solemnly declared, that he himself had received a violent blow with a stick from Dv. welly, whom he struck its his own defence. This assertion was corroborated by a gentle man in company with Mr. Ruwls—who was, how ever, held to bail. Mr. Holloway, solicitor, of Chancery-lane, and the master of the Hotel in which Mr. Russia lodges, were sent for, and im mediately bailed him. One John White then charged a Mr. Plastow, a hatter in the city, with having assaulted the well-known Smith, wh,i, however, not coming for ward to substantiate the charge, Mr. Plastuw was discharged. That Gentleman then requested the Magistrate to grant a warrant against White for an assault, in which Mr. P. had lost his hat ; but Mr. GRAHAM recommended him to indict White. I Mr. Webb, an Officer of the Eafje man of war, now lying at Chatham, was held to bail, on a charge preferred by Professor Brandon, of hay. ing wuru a paper on his hat, for two successive nights, with the inscription of " Death or Vie. toffy," and with having run up and down the Pit, and committed a disturbance. Mr. Webb imme diately produced bail, e hick was accepted. Mr. Aaruu, r e siding in the neighbourhood of Finsbury-square, being also charged by the Pro fessor with disorderly conduct, was held to.bail. Ve are at a loss which most to admire—the conduct of the Proprietors and their agents in the' employment of the ruffians principally concerned in these outrages--or that of the Magistrates, who hold respectable individuals to bait un charges of assault, by men who avowedly attend the Theatre nightly fur the purpose of assaulting every one who may express disapprubatiou in the Theatre. We would ask the Polio!, Officers whether many of the persons on whose accusation of assaults in dividuals have been held to bail, arc not notorious characters, who have been repeatedly brought to Bow-street on charges of felony ? That such is the fact we have good cause fur believing— And is it by such Ruffians as these that the Proprietors hope to dragoon the public into snbmission ?—ilow greatly are they mistaking the character of the English people. Every addi tional outrage tends to increase the indignation of the public—for every individual nu whom the brutality of the Ruffians may fall, will have some friends to participate in his feelings of resent. meat. Even those, who at first, were warm in their support of the Proprietors, are now loud in reprobating the nightly insuths offered to the pub. lie, by their own servants. It is worthy of the particular observation of the Public, that the principal perpetrators of the recent outrages, have been a set of workmen in the employment of en iron-foundery, in Gre.►t Qtteen-Street ) by which a great proportion of the COVENT GIRDEN THEATRE. MR. COWLAM. This GentlemaitiilFrentains in a dangerous 'State at his friend's house, from which the Surgeon is of opinion that he cannot yet be removed with safety. The bruises with which the body of Mr. Cowlam is covered, are more painful than they Mere yesterday; the stiffness of his limbs is also greater, and he cannot move without extreme pain and difficulty ; the oppression on the lungs is con siderable) and Mr. Cowlain has expectorated much blood. FRIDAY EVENING. We lament the painful necessity we arc under of announcing a repetition of brutality by the gang of Ruffians, of Whose nightly outrages the public have so often been apprised. The first act of The Woodman was performed, with very slight interruption, to the slemkrett audience that has yet been seen in the Theatre; for, at , the rising of the curtain, there cer. tainly were not five hundred persons present in the house, of which the " orderlys" con stituted so great a majority, that it was with ditficnlly we meald discover a few money vi. sitors. In the second Act the company in creased, and in the third it was more simmer ous. At half price there was a further increase of company, but the (louse was nut half 66 We Fly by Night" was as inaudible as the greater part of The Woodman. The corps of Ruffians was present, and that too with a numerous reinforcement ; from the com mencement of the performance it was sasy to anti. cipate a night of tumult, outrage and brutality. Several attacks were made in the course of the evening on the 0. P.'s, in which they generally repulsed the assailants. At length a placard was hoisted near the top of the Pit. This was the sig. nal of assault for a strong corps who had concen trated themselves behind the back bench of the Pit, from whence they rushed with great violence to tear down the placard. A furious cuntliat took place, in which, although several 0. P.'s alio were on the outside of the body, were seized by the officers in waiting, and hurried uff one by one „the ruffians were finally repulsed. Of the indiscy iminate attack_ made by these raglans on every one N he happens to fall in their way, the following isarrative of Mr. Wynne will enable the public to form some opinion : '6UTRAG2 BY r 11: FcRINDERy MEN FROM fr. QUELN-STRUET. TO THE EDITOR Of THE ITATRSMAY. request you to itistirt the following oar. retire of sh4t happeued to me last Mild at Cu reut-Gardrit Tbestre. I was standing on one of the Benches at the up per part of the Pet, tic.ir the bat.k seat, on which the spikes arc fixed, si hen a placard was hoisted two or three seats below me; several dirty-looking men, I think more than a dozen, rushed from the passage behind the first seat, and making directly for the placard, a viuktst contest ensued, in which great numbers wets at different titers thrown down. At last the crowd pressed in the direction of tny. self; and being uaable, from the great pressure upon me, to get out of the way, I was at last forced to the bark of the first seat, against which I was so violently pressed, that so) head hung over the spikes, upon whi:h my neck rested. In this situation, sew, ral blows were made at my head, which I endeavoured to deftild, by holding up a small wislking.stick. At length I was seized by several men, at the same mu►nwet, who, with great violence, dragged me (as well as others) off the seat, from amongst the crowd, in which I was w ecl4ed ; and, being handed forward its sticets,ion, to other men who were waiting below, I was dr.igged on the ground Into the passage, and down she steps, to the place where the money is taken. •litre, on looking at my face, one of the men " Damn it, Jack, that's not him ; let him " go, let him go ;" and they actually released thy•. At that moment a matt of genteel appear. ante, iu black, came up, and said, " Damn him, but he shall not go," and a constable who came up front the outward passage, instantly took um into custody, and we went directly to llow-street. Thu constable knew nothing about me, or of what I was accused. At last a man said, " I'll charge him," and presently stepping forward, he told Mr. Guatt.sta that I had been particularly active in a riot that had just happened, and had wounded him scvorely in the inside of his hand, which was then bleeding, by a slick, with which I bad made a blow at a friend and fellow-workman of Isis, of the name of Smith, and he had caught it in his hand. Mr. Gtt tu*asked his name? Powell.—What was he? k 4, worked at an iron founder . y.— Where? its Greet Queen-street, Lincoln's I tin fields. Smith a then came forward and produced a sit. vor.headed cane, eith which ho said I had 'newel& him twice on the hat. On being asked by Mr. GRAHAM what I hid to say in answer to these charge‘, I related the sub. stance of what I have already mentioned—adding, as was the truth, that I had neither hissed, hooted, or in any manner been concerned in the disbar bance—that I had struck nobody—but that with a small stick which I had, I bad endeavoured to de fend my head from several blows that were made at me whilst I was leaning over the spikes—that the cane produced was not mine—and that 1 had ! never before, to my knowkdge,, seen either it, or the men by whom I was charged nith the assault. Here a Gentleman in the Office observed to Mr. Graham, that Smith was the man who had been accused of robbing a Gentleman of his hat, upon which Mr. GRAHAM expressed great indignation at his daring to appear before him, and ordered him to be instantly turned out of the Office — which order was accordingly executed. Mr. Galmtm then asked Powell, if he thought it possible that a blow from a stick could have wounded the inside of his hand in the manner that it appeared to be hurt ? Powell asserted that it was so. "To ow," said Mr. Graham, " it appears impossible—the wound seems to hare been by a spike." " Pray what business have you at "7 -- iron work of the New Theatre has been supplied. Now although it is not asserted that these Cyclu. plan Italians are sent to theTheatre by their 'no s _ ter*, it *uuld, perhaps, be worthy the consideration of those masters,' to reqect, on the probability of the Public viewing with an eye of suspicion the nightly outrages committed by a set of own, in the daily employment of the tradesmen of the House. To the EDIM of 7'UE STITES:FUN. Sra—As the Managers of Covrnt-garden Thai. tre cannot possibly .fiq the house with orders of admission to their j riends, they fuse resorted to the expedient of dropping orders down the areas of certain houses : A few evenings since, Mr. Perry, coach-maker, of Long-acrc, rectived au order for four, from his servant, which she found in the front area of his house, signed " J. Bran. don," by which his family and himself were ad. mitted to the 'Limn) the same ctening. I leave it to more able heeds to comment on the expedient to which the Proprietors are nun - compelled to re. sort, to fill the house. I am, Sir, ) our obedient, hun.ble Servant, and Conitaut Meador, Nov. 16,119. T. P. To the EDITOR of TIIE STATESMAN. Sta—l was seated in the lower circle of Boxes on the eveoing that Mr. Cuss lam was so inhumanly treated, and whilst there, I observed to a friend who accompanied tne, that must of the persons iu the Pit, who were seated in the front before the performance began, appeared to be carpenter:— amongst them I recognized the foreman of a car. penter, who has a considerable employment un der Government, and employs about JO wen; tecy were nearly all present at the Th. 'tie, and I bate been since informed that the Battersea Captain gave each of them an order of admission, with a previous regale of bread and cheese, and porter. Whatever might be the object of introducing these men, they happily were not so brutishly dispos. ed, as were some other well kuuwn workmen, who we also saw in the 'louse. This corps of Carpenters sat peaceably during the evening..._ 'They have since declared they would not be again even a quiet party in seconding imposition and brutality, era, if they were paid fur their atteaUs. ance. I am, vour's . A CONSTANT 41EADER. - This kelps to account fur the stuthug of th• House. To the EDITOR of 7'HE STATESMAN. •-•••••1110.... Lloyd's Cofee-boose. Satorshy. 47 notes sod a half 1)&4 11,A. X ‘liod E. SIR.- I beg leave to inclose you a copy bf a letter which was received eight minutes since by a Merchant of the first respectability. Ng doubt whatever is entertained of the truth at the intel. ligence contained in this letter, which hg, been publicly read, amidst the hums of the str4frierlfe. vs, by a worth• Civic Baronet, who shed tears of joy on the occasion. Ail business is stopped on this joyful occasion. The Park and Tower guns aro ordered to fire; and a general illumination will follow. The Gazette Extraordi. nary will, I understand, contain further particu. lays, from a Government dispatch. Yours, &c. In haste,' T. PRESIII:M. P. S. There are two hand organs in the room at this instant, playing God tare the King and Rule Britannia at the same moment. The people on 'Change have jest given three cheers ~--- Shores of the Atlantic, Nov. 15, 1809. MY DEAR FRIeND—No doubt you Stave, 'cre this, he:a.l a the return of `n roLitem to Paris, and that the erain fa sa►, natter which he so long laboured, had marl/ saieideJ. The rtinditituu of peace beta gat Austria and France are mi wralile enough; but, thank God, all the true frirods cif liag land (which are at kart rtine-tenths of the Coattnent), are, utter more, is high spirits and e.rpodatione. You must know, my dear friend, that on the 15th ult. about half past stir, P. Al. the wind soddenly changed to the North, accompanied with a thick otensive fog. The inhabitants of the Western parts of Fnusce were iastantly attaclis.l with a violent we,. pression oo the lungs, and many, sr hu could nut had immediate shelter, were saturated. The schist, which was grow ing with great luturiancy, instantly changed its colaur, acid besore sight, scarcely a vestige was to be seen. fhe gr.At Wits completely burnt up ; thousands, and tens of thous-oafs of cattle, horses, sheep, tvc. were destroyed, and the la :d, los hundreds of sails% presents that dreadful picture, so eluquently described in the Book of lisudas. From other parts of the l'greinee dominions we bear, frvm anstoaked authority. that inwienss swarms of beasts corer Sae face of the earth—and even lice and frogs nave Ihiqe their appearance in unusual quantities, The Tyrant, x how rivers of blood could not appal, woo feels the force of con science. Some say he intends to inske restituiluit of all the conquests he has so unjustly made, nix! after &Ling a 81111. bon on the Throne of France, retire to a Mona ter) among the Alps, and pass the remainder of his dap; in peniteurx and tears. Others again assert, that his heart is !widened. and he will persizt in the wash of destruction; of this, however, rest assured, that As el..picufal is certain, and that he has at last drawn ciao n on himself and miserable slaves, the Jot! pen. geanee of the illniighly I To common obicrieri it may not appear elttrnordinarl, hut to all rtflectieg men, it isnot is tittle singular, that the mo ment the pestilence began (allots in= fur the ditereare of longitude), the Lord Mayor of London tins actually sallying forth from St. Paul's, to eat cold but roast het,: Gongralulai• ing you, my dear friead, on this awful but geed sees, I re main, run, I)OUUTED AUTHORITY. P. S. 11 is to be hoped that the dreadful vengeance now intbetiug nn Ike . r ) rant of Earope, way have a proper pert on the Theatrical Tyrants of t'osent-Gardeit, shoe brans appcar hardened to th..ir own destruction. While the Gentlemen of the Police ant bsOily engaged iu seising penny rattles and &wave& at the Play-house, a gang of hustlers, taking el. vantage of the circumstance, are out every e►en. ing in the public street ► committing depredation perfectly unmolested. f I r ~J b r