The Statesman. — London, England, 1809-10-28 00:00:00

ENWASII LIBERTY-PRIUSII THE TLIEJT&E! M It. EDlTOR—Having observed it to be stated th it the Proprietors of Guyon t.garilen Theatre have retained the Attorney and Soleitor.Gencrals, with 3les4rs. Garrow, Court, and Alley, as Counsel to coutLict the prosecution agaiiist the parties now under bail or imprisonment, fur charges of riot. ous c induct in thu said Theatre, L intreat that my countrymen and fellow freemen will not !et slip so momentum an occasion or defend. T,?.; their dearest rights, by standing up in sup. port of the unfortunate prisoners. When talents of the first order are bought up raholesale to strengthen a bold and desperate attack 04 04r liberty as Britons, I trust there is not a Ma who feels the blessing of that adored name, best will lic prowl to step forward in aid of its ous cause ; for be it borne in everlasting MOM, brance, that the result •r the contest will bo GO eoern.il precedent.....ff that day i s l o st, we lit is enemy within our walls, to despoil and destroy es at his leisure. Let not my countrymen rate this picture as overcharged...the event will prove its troth—indeed our pill experience is warranty all sufficient to prove it. That it should come to this !...that theatrical avarice and mountebank in. , sulcnce should be made an engine to assail the fortress of British freedom ! us nut slumber, hut rise as one man and break our chains on the Nets of our oppressors. •••••••ipm••• A BRITON. FOR THE STATESMAN. M r . E ot t a a..u.Pray insert the following ',A ter to my Country tutu. COYLt4T-GA.RDIIN. " Esousancs, 1 will not here remark ou the :justice, or necessity of the item prices. I fear that if Managers exact, you must pay them, br leave the Play to the Si Gotiventicles, erected to Ovaries and mossuality : but lam clear, . that the trivate Busts aro nut sanctioned by theatrical prescription ; that they are an encroachment upon it public right; that they contravene the principle Of the patios!, which coitstitutes the Theatre, and therefore that they are illegal. Englishmen, this is the foundation on which you may stand, and *sett Managcn, that British spirit, moderation, and perseveranc.e, will defeat rapacity, repress in. buttock., and punish usurpation. Thu patent is your gni& ; limo name, the very nature of it, pro tiaitit that the object for which it was granted shall be Orin ; to who.o ?to the Public. Is it so? ! you arc excluded from 31 Boxes. The Manager's Orders have admitted notorious ruffians; why ? to menace youi An A•torney has been !vistaed to prJslctite you. Thus you are abridg. ed of a ciituniary right ; brutalizvd by pugilists ; teited and Imprisoned ; or compelled, contrary to the Bill of Rights, to enter into TEAT HEAVY Sneties for your appearance. Englishmen, will yon esuldre this ? You may approve, and disap prove ; you may kgally clip and hiss ; but, I conjure you to avoid violence, political subjects, end irr;veresid expressions of the Government. Confine your resentment to the Managers, and Petc will shut up the Theatre, or at least open the rivate Boxes. Be loyal, be temperate, be firm ; MO, that the fear of law-costs Islay not subdue vow teal, I will ghost asypessional avid professions/ assistance to all who require It; for which, I will neither ask nor receive any remuneration wktsu. ever. 1 shall be in lowa about the '29th instant, when, by advertitement, I will convene a Public 'Meeting, to consider what stops you can take to tecoveryour right ; or how you can legallN op. pose the sordid schemes and presumption of Ma. stagers. " I am, Englishmen, your faithful humble Ser. tent, •4 T. ig.“ SOLILOQUY OF d " MANAGER IN DISTRESS." it !hit a *hate *hitilt I See before Ise, The blade toward. pay hand P—Come let we grab • thee. 1 hate Mee not--sod yak I hear day min. Art thou aot; sensible To FeOing, as to Heeringt—dr art thou but A Itattitpse the atind-4 filar ereotion, Proceeding Nis the beatad—sitchia,g bra/a— nt kiss Who cannot the New Prices crisis, And Reser Prirah, down the throat of Bull ? • In this sr* reading of " grab" for "clutch," we follow --though at a respectful distatee—the Cruits of Boer-street. Air. to w %SEND says it is ibnve ripsOrtrit— " I ohmic Groh 'ens revs Orgy hiss." The subscription to support the defence of those vrho hare opposed the new prices at Cusent-Gar.. den Theatrb if very rapidly increasing. A short time before the company left the Opera Wiese at the Jubilee, several dashing young men of fashion took offence at the appearance of a r• , nstuh[. in the lobby of the Boits, and the man was inclantly turned out of the door at the grand .7111 rance. An old price uniform is about to be sported by the Opponents of Theatrical Imposition. It is to consist of a blue coat and yellow waistcoat. The Officers, of coarse, will seize and drag to Bow.street 'eery one who shall commit a breach of the peace by appearing hi this costume. We understand that Governor Anis's opinion nn the question of Covent Garden Theatre, is en tirely in favour of the Managers! f" The daughter of a General ()Meer is said to have eloped with Mr. G. a Comedian, froth Tun bridge Wells, a few days since. Duet.s.—Yesterday a duel was fought in a field near Bayswater, between the Hon. Mr. H. and S. 1.. Esq. in consequence of a dispute which ori. gitisk don the preceding day, respecting a public appointment. They met at eight o'clok in the morning, accompanied by Lieu tenant. Colonel L. and Sir J. S. and after exchanging each a shot, iu which they were both slightly wounded, the one in his right and the other in his left arm, thoir sc rofula then interfering, they left the ground, and retired to a coffee.house in Oxford-street, where Cie %misunderstanding was amicably settled. Az To re' EDITOR 41?-rars STAT'ES-VAN. veriettist you to insert the following, in answer to VERITAS—Thd, Mr. Rosins who has been of so much service to the Managers of Cu. vent Ganlen Theatre, by accommodating them with the use of his family and friends, to assist nightly in fillitng their Dress Boxes,. and his nu merous train of clerks, porters, warehouse women, &c. to grace other parts o f the House— The Mr. ROBINS who has taken the trouble of ' igettiug off their Orders—(for, at the Theatre, they now talk. of getting off Orders, as the third.rstc Actors do, of getting of their Benefit Tickets)-7%e Mr. Rentss who has advocated their aime in all companies —assisted in writing their kaisd.bills—spread their reports, and with the help of his friend Bite Knorr, done the rest of the dirty work of their Horse: I say, this Mr. Romeo, is not the Mr. Rental whose name ap. pears in the list of the Grand Jury. The Mr. Rooms to whose name in the said list, they have tacked Gent. is an Auctioneer en. der the Plena, sts also is the before-mentioned strongmen and disinterested advocate for the New Prices sad Private Rotes, and under the same Pinta ; though no oue, I believe, ever tackedG, nt. to his name: The Mr. Robins, Sir, n the son and heir of the Gent. w hose name has appeared as one of the Grand Jury. You must know, Sir, this Gent. and his sun are principally employed by the Pawnbrokers. I was at the Theatre one night last week, and I saw, amongst the young one's party in the Dress Boxes, five Pawnbrokers, l soma of them with their families. This, Sir, is a fact, which, if questioned, I will prove, for I can mention their .naases. net. IL 0. P. AND pro P. B. By P. B. I don't mean Pawn-Brokers, but Private Dusts. it • - IN 11157VRYOF HALF-PRICE. TO TEE EDITOR or THE STATESMAN. Sts—Swat years Vigo Mr. GARRICK and Mr. at tan agreed to abolish the custom of admitting company at half-price at a curtain period of the performance. They for some time made demon strations (accor d ing to the present military phrase), by occasionally advertising, " Nothing under full price will be taken;" and Mr. GARRICK carried it so far, that he acted tor full price to the play of Illacbcth, dressed in the habit of the times ; 'and, if my memory fail nut, without any after-piece. Were the merit of the respective performers to decide the question, Mr. GARRICK wag better entitled to a guinea than Mr. kevoLE is to a shilling, but the imposition WAS resisted—.a row was kicked up, a few chande liers broken, the Theatre rendered unlit fur ser. vice for two or three days, and Mr. GARRICK theft appeared to desist. It was now Mr. Haano's turn to tome forward ; accordingly the chiefs! of Aria cer.re .1 was advertised with the offensive Notes Rene of " Nothing under fall price." The coo.; &upsilon of public resentment theft blued forth wi rodoobled violence, and ten times the mischief was dome, that had been committed at Drury-lane, and the Theatre was silent mach longer. The nest time it opened, whether Mr. &ARO was to ,perform or not, or whether he was called fur, 1 tM Sot recollect ; but when he appeared, he was informed that the prosecutions which were in stituted against several persons must be dropped. He declared his readiness to consent, as to himself ; bat observed, there were other parties concerned, for whom he had not power to act • on this he was told to retire, but soon raters:ld, with full powers. It was then agreed that the Theatre should be entitled to full price, during the first rainier of a new Pantomime, and the Proprietors also got something more ; for it had been the custom to take half price for the Bores, at the end of the second act ; but that custom was now changed to the third, according to the custom of the Pit. One Sunday morning, during the interregnum at Covest.garden, I was at a friend's in Soho- Rare, where 'sassy people of rank were present. Mr. BRAND made his appearance, to solicit their patronage, which was universally refuted—tet I mlasemtsot Lord WALEINGRATI, saying, " Mr. ‘ l. BEARD, Vox Populi...-Voz Dei—greater men " than y o n Woad to it ; and when I was young, " half.a.crown was as object." The above is written from memory. The pc riudical prints of the time give a more circumstan tial account. I will only subjoin a few 'elections as to the kgality ad some proceedings which hare bore hard call the present occasion. Lord Coke, speaking of the Contemn Law, says, " The wisdom of all the wise men in the 6 4 world, if they had met together at sac time, " could not have equalled it." That this col°. glum is strictly just, I will loot allirm ; but cer. tainly the Common Law is, though now, po_durps, rather oat sit the elbows (as Sir FRANCIS WKONO. NEAR says of his estate), the best coat me hose to our becks ; for statute makers have a great affinity to tinkers, who in mantling one halo generalty make two. Now, the Con. mom 1,4 w is the castes of the realm, and the custom of expressing approbation of disap. probnallOat the Theatre is as old as the esta. blishment of the Theatres, and ought to be ex crux' to the fullest extent. The audience should not, indeed, in the law phrase, Travel out of the record. The hissing an actress for supposed enchastity, which I have heard, was certainly travelling out of the Record, for that, indeed, would in elect be almost banishiAg the female perforators. AN OLD BARRISTER. Boit mo.—A MN of the name of Solomon Purdi was killed 'Matey 'boning, in the neigh bourhood of liampiem, in a battle with a brick. maker of the name of lintkinson. The combs. tants h adi fought 40 mods, when Purdy received a blow behind the ear, and died in less than half an hear. The coattat originated lu a hasty dis puts, in which the deceased was the first ag gressor. ' 4 C:. cotnit or COu.vox COUNCIL OF Thu CITY OF LONDON. —...... That the atka, supple servittly manifeited b) the municipal Representation of the City of Lon ' dots, during the Pat Administration, Omelet have uacited the derision and contempt of every bide peodent man, was perfectly natural ; yet it is not a little remarkable, that during all that period the Court of Common Council was the standing , theme Of praise in the other public, self-consti tuted Assemblies of this great Citr.—The loyal Common Council—the virtuous Corpora tion of Londott—eas trumpeted forth at every Ci vic Meeting by the satellites el the Pitt system. —Grocers' Hall, the India noise, and though last not least, Merebesst Taylors' Hall—have been the successive Theatrei of commendation of the Common Council of London. Bat no sooner are the bonds 0 servility and dependence shaken off by the exertions of the independent Members of that Body, than those who were the loudest in applauding the conduct of the Court of Com mon Council, are now the foremost is ex. pressing. en utter contempt of that Court.— The history of the proceedings of the " Ater- rhants isnd Bankers" . of Merchant Taylors' Hall, will form a " divertissement" as amusing, probably, to the Public, as the description of their " Jubilee Dinner." But ef this, rerhaps - , more hereafter. We have not, at present, time, or space ) ty enter upon the subject, and .therefore we content ourselves with glancing, '' en passant," at the worthy members of this " imperium in imperio." We now beg to draw the attssitied of stir Read. ers, and partidularly the Livery and Court of Coas. aeon Council of London, to the facetious senti moues expressed in Dublin, at a Quarterly Assam. bly, on the ?Ist inst. by a Coadjutor and Fellow. labourer in the vineyard with the " Merchants and Bankers," the truly respectable Mr. Guy rAun—contained in the following extract from a Dublin Newspaper, called The Hibernian Jour. nal :—. " DUBLIN, OCT. 21. 66 BOA REVOLT ASSEMBLY. " Mr. Gt ?FARO now called the attention of the 66 Corporation to a subject on which he knew 66 there would be but one opinirnx—not like the " Corporation of London, amongst ahem were " many JACOBIN:4 and TRAITORS !! I.— •' Ile then moved that • (Nutlet sad loyal Address " he presented to his Majesty, expressive of the 44 'whop which the Corperation entertained WI A the joyfet twat et Ws being soon is the 50th ' " year of his reign ; end that a Committee of It " euusisting of 6 Aldermen and 6 of the Com " teener% should prepare the same. This motion, 44 after some remarks from Mr. Menders, mina uc " sicked business which 44111Aest. gatimati ..._ scandalous libels we ever saw, is obvioos..•11110. GltrAltD 4 notoriont as he is, may halitosis' bi considered as too coatemptible to merit the of the Corporatists of Leaden. And we ere INL decmi to notice this rod.ho. loyal effusion of Mi. Gtrrtae, principally % in conseqeence of an ha. portaat discover 7, now for the first time ennoun. cud, and which, coming from authority so high, must necessarily be received as truth. We allude to the distinction between Jacobins and Traitors, and most happy are we to find, that such a dig. Unction is admitted to exist. Hitherto the ands. fined term of Jacobinitin, we bad always supposed, erroneously as it should now seem, to have in. chided treason. But the distinction of Mr. GIFFARD shows us that every Jacobin is not a Traitor, and that every Trailer is net a Jaco. bin. It would be charitable in Mr. Gteraan to point out to us a few only of the individuals who come under the description of either Jacobins or Traitors in the Court of Common Council. Dues he mean to comprehend such men as Sir %V. CURTIS, Mf.SAMUSL DIXON, or that levy 'nous Stationer, Mr. MAWMAN, ender either of these twos ? Who can be allude to ? It would, we re.' peat, be charitable, to point out to the Lively of the city of London, the Jacobins and Traitors in the Common Council, that due precaution only be taken to exclude them at the approaching election on St. Thomas's Day. Let Mr. Givearte say to us, Mat man is a Jacobi*, and that wan is Trailer--bet above all, let him point out the dif. foresee between them. We are now coavincept that Jucobinism is a less formidable stoneter kinist we bad been taught to believe it, seeing that Mr. GireAsto has at last made the important discovery that there is at least **seething wurse than a JA, cost v. Is it within Mr. GurAtto's kuowledp or recollection that, by the conswalseeni at the names Traitors in the Court of Cu" of these sonic Council of London, he is himself Guilty of Mu prision of Treason !! ! unneensionnomeme Tuesday months,/ Mr. LL a surgeon of his Mos jesty's Navy, mid Lieutenaot G. a the CiWaki met on Wimbledon COlllO9ll, to &vide as take of honour. The Ent shots faille& in thelruilsg, they had recourse to a second Ire, *bee Mt. was shot dead on the spot, andet.. so b. y 1 wounded, that ud hopes are en tertained re. ) cosery. The eectiods Immediatelr absomplog, The quarrel eriglealed about a Ludy. • • - tL. - . SPAIN; ia m b.: t- i kisUs, k':-.,•-. isUs, Oci.. 6.--lit mead scarcely have beea expected that a these ue Wei elhoid have pitied bore without 'Wedelns aside idiareatiog 00010 Cakes place. Silice lid retirement a the Width army to the (rootlets it Portugal; every thing has bees perfectly torpid. The Junta of Vallin. cis has lately published in Address tb tbi 'Su. perior Government, which, it followed op by the measures which it announces, must bring the lat ter to its termination, and mud establish a .pope. ear representation, and an eiteeutive -power, in one or few hinds. One of the Members of the Junta of Valencia, who signs this Address, is Jose Caro, a brother of Romans. Another brother is the Captain-General of the Pro. . • since, and this latter has been superseded by a nephew of the Vice-President of the Superior Junta, Valdes ; that is, the latter has been named ; but it is believed that bei will not be re. ceased at Valeucia, in which case a crisis is at hand, gad the event is, therefore, expected with much anxiety. The B ritish army remains totally inactive, and I apprehend the Marquis Wellesley lit comple•ely sick of his Embassy. Mr. Frere is still here; it is confidently said, the Junta has given him some title, but the Gazelle has not yet announced it. lii, stay for so long a time is mit. ter of surprise. The Donegal is yet waitleg at Cadiz. The Assembly of the Cortes is still do. Jaye(' ; bet that eirconuitancets nit of met con. sequence ; the people do not look to the Cortes for the establishment of a free Government. The Junta has declared, by • decree, that the Assort:Ay will have nothing to du but to delibms rate on the matters to be proposed to it. The movement of the Spanish armies, announced tome time ago, has turned out to be of little case. goatee. The French are yet at Toledo, and the head. quarters of Eguia at Depute!. There is no eon. cord between the Commanders. Lord Dillon's eldest son arrived here a few days ago, with in tention to join the Spanish armies; he will proba. bly have a command, after a time, as be is a Co lonel in the British army, of some standing, and has the 101st vegimeot. Notwithstanding his resignation, Garay VW continues Prime Minister. The age ofJoseflatioe has made him timid ; he r has in fart betrayed such sympt o ms as make him no longer looked to as the means of freedom. Infantado is considered by some as the did of a party, but the aristeerssy of that party is not esteemed. There Is no doubt that a British army might be subsisted by contract . in Spain, If the British e.oternment was responsiaL bin at a fair price, N. pet pound for beef at the utmost, perhaps 7fil. an pet things in pro portion ; wines at a very rate in the midland Kowtows : so that those wit arc enthusiastic won.. &t-at its retirement, as ,ltlippears to them that the linglish make a difficulty In a matter merely petintlary. Of this facri speak - with certainty after the best information and investigation, that contracts inighi•be made, fur the completion of i which the most certain security would r ii t fem..-- 'rho Spanish armies are certainly mud atiiiii me r-1 , . • ti l l ti anal show to what purpose. ,---. - - maleamallaiimenmeme ' —..a....--.••• .- % I • •.; 'l ' Relearn by eiPtenelt Tapir of the lath hist. that Mr. Roscoe, the celebrated Author of the " Life of Leo the Tenth," was elected on the sth a Correspundeot Member of the Royal testi. tete of Amsterdam, instead of the late John de Muller, a distingilishixl Swiss writer. It is pleas. lag to observe, that the hostility which divides the nations of Europe has not yet invaded the domains of Science. The Naval Preaeotloit,lo accented et* the Jo. bilee, consists of • i Atimiseis tiost-Ceettalse, lo vise•Atestrats. ceeneaseeni. 10 neer-Admirals, The 25 first volumes of The Armoire of the Royal Academy itt Devlin, have Men destroyed by lire. Eleven Crown debtors were discharged frotn prison on Wednesday, in addltio4 to those !ibis. Flitted by the Society for the Relief of small -Debtors. All the French personages of distinction in .Inmedon assisted on Wednestlty at Grand Mass, eelebestimi in the Catholic Chapel, in Kingoteeer, by the Bishop of Aire, in honour of tbe`J u.. bilre.• On Wedn,iday, Lord Grantley entertained .ose Mayor and Curpbration of Geildord, at hi; bone at IVornersh, end ordered wino and punch ts be given to cull the inhabitants of the pilte e to drink to the health of the King and the Rea, Fan l'y. On Tuesday last, the following cireamstasee happened to Mr. Simeon, of the Shield-field-mill, near Newcastle. flaring stopped the mill tad ascended one of the wands to adjust the sail, the break sullenly giving way, be was carried resod the arm of the mill fur near a quitter staa Our. His distressing and dangerous siteadee being perceived by the people at Pandon,, Sho . I 'lol, assistance was sturdily sent, and in ress . taken off nithuut hatinpecatieed any In. wy ; it we., how e v er , a conskierphle thin . h o recovered his recollection. Coitoxra's hipoisits.ll 4l4 ken on Theraday last, M the hoar. tf, .blayes.buildiags, Netrigettd. o reed i t y of Penelope Matilda Sothing, erli pokes. lieself at- alr. 'Scutt, bond on M 00417 leaf. 'Vali the yes"ipdy who eloped li gettb d early Hit et the 114mover t a 41111#81111 ether, sad with whites As bad linen bie dead, *beet a Bondi siella.•-•1 • Ns iirtiareed *me to bee [rico* thlks ,P went on I, 'vinod of 1 • • art 107 tempest** teleeted, sad she oft a visit at Mr. !tote's how. Sim tom lasing of •'1 Wag VI Gs Iliereber tearefai, tad re.tired to her Amber, lama sloe *et Weed WWI viuknt asidelip, sad who the het 'testi no Fenger be. • " eke euelfeeled belting takeb snook. beg bee* diveeseelate foe rease time,. and Om WOW etas lassaiis. I