The Statesman. — London, England, 1809-11-14 00:00:00

moment. hare ffi?. Tort. lisktee re • )tease, geeleal Floopeliold-Furniteru, collection of valuable Books, Chine, !riots, grand Piano Forte by Stodhart,_ choice Lisboa Moises, atomism's bays-Cur/dug, sad abOf TOO Greee.houte Plants, Sarah du. TO Bea SOLO Ble AUCTION, By Mr. BURTON, 1 To Morrow, and Colloids% Day, at Eleven . ,_ ,o'Ciltsek. oe time • Premises, steppe Wralt Lane; Titticaham, 1 riiHE genein ; it C" fS of 'a `I;i4DY de. IL CP•11 , 11 j room , Aver-pest, .theib-top t 4atl book. • Case bedsteads, eititeollee *ad other furniture% :pnesskrea- ther-heds, mattresses. apd bedding, double a.. 1 single glum' of drawer, wash-hind stands, dressing table% hainher and r Chairs, a set erdrawtheriesa theirs, Mu*cant and M r t e . nif hoganY pideboard o otleb; Who, carpets, pier . fe. Welles requisites, nall mire • effects, green- W plants, a capital Ao-slsige,' &e • rtril. Precisely as One ts'elsiek ' the * Ars! Day, the , Lease hf tbe How will be sold. .4 rpTo be viewed on the days of Sale, and Catalogues and I'tr • , dinghies bad 0. the Preielie , ; and of Mr. Burton, Kt Vora- - . SUBSCRIPTIONS. ___......._ . .--.-- 1113 COMMITTEE beg leaye to suggest, to . the SUaISCRI BLOIS to the Fund already established "'der the Astietuoce of them woo ere ct:vstotisen •s anon 1 estriffs , p raossof•rep hLthePROPRIE'fORS of CO- ' VENI-6AK DEN . I'IIEATRL' that although 27 out of 41 • of the INDICTMENTS preseettil, were thrown ant by the IHraed Joey, yet the claims aim the Food may IPVTAMIe Mach greater than is, perhaps, in rneral, apprehended ; a d that their exertions should, tlieretore, be redorbfral, rather Wan a-c- -hased. asysicaursons CONTINUE TO BE SrCITIVIIII AT . , The Mire of THE STATIVI V A N, 87 eet- street; Ildr."Sameel Miller, 13, Skinnertetri Pl et (Treasurer); . , Mr. J . Powell, 3, t ;rose- Pl•tee,Cundentrown,(SecrelarY I) Meters. Bose ;sod ilooe, Booksellers, 331, Stratid ; , Mr. Homily, Atatiotier, 4, Duke-street, Grosoesior-bquare ; • 1 Mr. T. ?egg, Boolueller, 111, Cheapslde; Mr. Smutties t corner of Leather-lane, Holborn. Ansoaelodgebscriptiosp already advertised ... £336 3 1 Wm. Day, Goswell- Ist Suborriptimi from street - - XO 10 61 the Founiaitieers - 2 9 6 J. B. fur O.P. Mal no , taltsm to Pam) P. il.: * r - 410 61 The Black Locker.' A mitt Lel far thellieur 3d `Subscription - 3 5 9 BranloolChareeroll, Out, not In - .- 1 1 U private Bostonian S. B. - • s -r 1 0 Profelotor -830 W. A. - - -1 1 0 it is requested that ail Comusunicasiare on the subject of the above e toikutifons owl Ste made to fir. William West, Aitorney, No.l, Clement 'Ana 0...---...--dIIC----..—.-„,__.. , --„,...--.-..—_ , mgr..—........i Arristid. Malls. Dee. 1 IWaterford. . - •• -•--.••• • 2 0 • PRICE OF STOCKS HIM 1/ 1 1Y AT ONRO'CLOCK. $ her Cent- OW. 70d1 " I Loar e , Ann. -184 11-16 Reduced 69. i . li•toulhass ... .. .2.1 prem. 4 per Er0it....804 lndia Merods....33s. 3-te. , • b per Cent... Bust Etch. 11 if 15,40 i. Hs. 17s. Cousals for Arc. 7011 Liett4y Th•M W. 13s. •k,-- 77 , 4 , r —•-- 7 - . .-- ;: -----. 7 , ,,-„.......---T—.........—......-,4 ' 7'll E 'ATESMAN, . . .„.. f. I litkfillyr I IF. N A IL. ~ Itlk I.b A . ....L4t-: , `—L---- . ....-.111 4;0 i• '. „ r • I ." ' • aiNDON l !Vag* T, covetisast 14. • TKAT a naval action hes' beets 'Night In the Mediterranean, is extremely probable; but there certainly has not hitherto been any account of . that event, which can lay claim to autheuticity. • In the iittervel which elapses - between such a re- port, and the arrival of actual intelligence, itnisa- . tience generally IcaJs to conjecture, and, in some t . ' Instances, to iiircotitits. Whether the story which • bas been circulated for the last twenty-four !scum, of a Afoniteur having been received, in which a . I battle Is admitted, be the effect of conjecture or .. Invention, it is nut in our power to mforin the Public. No such Moniietsr .hl t : e. It , req, peso ; and .4 the arrival of such a Paper is ummuuitralleatly die. credited. The report was itE mplvisvailtieculation ' 10 ,, , yesterday afternoon, but triviidid) tatit ly drem It worthy of a Second ISditfdn. 'YiN v ii lap% till. • • ready observed, the paideability oe.ari asetiobileite r se . - • fog been fought is coedit able ; and thatVefiMisea : Walmost universal. A eery few days will reliore the anxiety of the Public. . . ........... et . Tut Public yere aels.tredioigideoriiibleVith a report of the appearance of a Fvettiiillixt off she .toast of feeland-411 absurd conj&l t ere, the au. there of which have thus anticipated what it is • only believed to be the meditated grand object or t . • NAPOLEON. That such is the project which at i this moment occupies the attention of the French . metaoa, there are many strong grounds for be. Noting. It is indeed possible, that the pablie de- . muttstrations of preparation fur an attackon Ireland may be a ruse, fur the purpose of attracting oar attention from some other object. The moment is, however, at length arrived, Which we have in. . • variably anticipated, and so repeatedly mentioned ~, ..when Nsroxeutv,released from the contest in • Perntany t will harass this country with incesaaat • ....--skid a t t i o f t o spision. It may kowever be conjec- . tared, that GO grand difenspi will be made until, by the possession of the ports of Spain and Portugal, he may be enabled to make the of-' 'fort (rain several points at the same moment. The ultimata fall of Spain and Purtagal we have . never doubted, since the imbecile policy of our blasisters was exhibited by the lauding at Porunna. --•Yeee—. i ' Tut public h ave lately beat amused, through the ... *odium of the hired Newspapers, with grave ac- counts of the ". escape" of the Poee....and of his loving anathentafirld Naroxaon by the ful. . . mination of a Bull of Excommunleation.— . The public are, perhape l not aween if Oc anal . . otutive fur the propagation of this report. , ..We i bave pretty good reasoo td beliere that it sows .... -. ) from the certain itifurmation that has been retniiiiil by Ministers, of a curious k fi l lication in ificrie, lT TheL penal laws that b e fit • btell pi, , , .. 4 n this country, agaiast the Gab stian, hove i collected, and carefu ll y traieletetil k i t. 4v er y pre language. This 1416vr has bayer'itren- 1. I • • • ^ _ mttted to the direction of ARTMOR O'CONNOR ; a 4 limenee numbers of them have already been digtriffuted in Spain. To counteract the effeei of NA.roLEox's policy on the minds of the Catholics, ths'story of the escape of the Purr., and the es. communicatiottaf NAPOLISOM, has been circulated in this and a neighbouring country. la our opinion that Walcheren would be found untenable, we have never fluctuated. The 600 carpenters, with Mr. COPEL %ND at their head, hare just arrived• in tinse l at Flushing, to assist the survivors of our brave army in ." packing up," pieparatory to their return to England. The ' policy of our Ministersis sumewhatdifferent from that of NAPOLEON, wbo dues not scruple to em play Poles, Germans, or Spaniards, oat the Pis. tubs, the Danube, or the Ebro. Our Ministers prudently keep their legions of foreign mercena ries in snug quarters at humc, whilst the soldiers of England are sent to perish in the mephitic marshes of Walcheren !!! . .." --77 7 -it ". • ' 4 4 v CTATFSNiA • .•• ••-• 1 GUVENT GARDEN 7'IIEATRE. The conduct of the Agents employed to subdue the insubordinate Public, becomes nightly more outrageous. Early in the second act of Richard the Third, which was gesticulated last night, a party of Po. lice Officers rushed into the Pit, and pouncing on a mau who was standing near the end of the sixth bench from the top, on the right band side, carried him off la a twinkling. This indivkinal t whose name is Robert Stephenson, wore on his head a red worsted cap, tech as is worn by la. bourors in the markets. In the front of the cap was piuncd a piece of black silk, on which were the " initials hateful" of 0. P. in gilt letters. On arriving at the Public Office, Professor Brandon charged Stephenson with " pinning the 0. P. a* the cap, which he wore, and with running up mg dozen the benches, and creating a tumuli." The accused stated, that the person by whom he em frequently employed (Mr. R. Turner, kW. of Stepney.green, son of Mr. Turner, a respbellabie salesman of headenhatl.strect), had offered to treat him to (he ply, which offer belied accepted. He ad. witted wearing the red cap, for which he assigned a very cogent reason, namely, that he never were any thing else. He denied the charge of running up ISM down the beeches, or of caching tumult ie any way. He bad walked quietly down the Pit once (there were not 150 persons in the Pit when he was seised), and afterwards quietly returned to the bench on which he was standing, and he had not, from the time of his entering the House, either hissed, whistled, hooted, sung, cried Off ! 0. P. or made any disturbance or noise whatever. The Magistrate, Mr. RRA 0, ordered hun to find 1001. bail, and two sureties for 501. cash. Mr. Robert Turner, jun. who was in the Pit and close to Stephenson, had followed him out and requested the Officers, who had dragged him away with the most ferocious violence, nut to use him ill —and that he should accompany them to the office fur the purpose of hailing the man, if necessary. On arriving, however, at the Office, Mr. TURNER was, at first, forcibly re strained from entering, and had only just ob. tinned admission when the examination was closed. He they offered himself as one of the, bail— stating who and what he was, and where he lived. , Mr. Rams asked if he was the person who had paid fur. the admission of STEPHENSON ? Mr. R. TU RNER, jun. admitted that he war; adding, that as an Englishman, he had a right to du what he pleased with his money. He well knew, and oc. manna:illy employed, Seerusesom, who was a singular character, and never appeared with any covering on his head, but such a red cap as he then wore, which was well known by all who were in toe habit of seeing the man. lie had walked to the Theatre, as he was accustomed to do every where, in his cap. Mr. Real) de. dined accepting his ball, on the ground of his having paid for ST EPHILNION'S admission. Shortly after, two other persons presented themselves at the Office, and offered themselves as bail, having came from the Pit of the Theatre fur that purpose; Mr. DIAHTON MOTT, of Tower -street, and Mr. MORRIS, of liishopsgatc.stveet, both respectable tradesmen and housekeepers. The bail of these Gentlemen was also rejected, on the ground of their having walked to the Theatre *id entered the house together with Att.. Tvezrclit and the arched, SrtruaNsort. At length two Gentle men, Mr. Bose, of 3el, in the Strand, and Mr. N. JOLLY, of Charing.cross, struck with these very extraordinary circumstances, offered to be.. come bail for his appearance, although they were total strangers to all the parties—their bail was ac. cepted; and be was discharged. Two other persons were dragged out of the Pit Is the coarse of the neat *Act of the Play, and were proved to have whistled, fur which crime they were ordered to find bail. Before the conclusion of the third Act, n per. son in what are bumourously termed the Dress Boxes, stood forward and addressed the audience in an unconnected speech, which was very imper fectly heard. We flowerer collected, that while he thought the conduct of the Managers objec tionable, he disapproved of the 0. P.'s; and by a strange confusion of ideas, seemed to think, from the repetition of Mr. (iobbett's name, that be was at the bottom of this dreadful plot and con spiracy. This statement will, doubtless, not A little as. tonish Mr. Cubbett, who is peaceably, honour. ibiy, and laudably employed in Hampshire, iu agricultural pursuits, and Neither knows, nor cares what it diiing in the Theatre. Whether the ore. for had any hand in the placard that was hung round the horse's, week at Charilig.ceoes, on. the day of the Jubilee, •we know not ; but certain it is, that he seemed to have the same dreadful opinion of Mr. Cobbott, with the author of that exceirite l l production. Soon after this speech, a person in a naval eel. form roared out from the Boxes ' "tern out the , blackguards." This was re-echoed tram Ale pada of the house, who naturally conceived hiss to mean tie bireliegs of the Managers—but limbs". soon l currected this mistake, by shouting, "Sera• out the 0. P.'s--N. P. for ever." .This was ass signal for tumult; but, before the consequences 8i the Gentlemasi's praise of New Prices could -be manifested, the doors were opened at the secant. price. In ten minutes, the heuclies of the Pk were inaccessible—the remainder of Richard was drowned in the accumulated roar which was kept up in the Pit, Boxes, and Galleries. Mr. Wienholt, the English Gentleman (and not the Foreigner, as has been asserted in the Wog Prints), who as so inhumanly treated, as we have already stated, appeared in the Boxes with the insignia of " lasubordisation," o.l'. lle was, as usual a passivw spectpter, and fora wonder wan not molested. Thu .P.sfessor, Whose bload boils with indignation at the sight of this Gentle. man, did nut talk of " having hiss 0ut."... The Professor did, not appear last night to have been so much heated by " libations" to the New Prices as on several former evenings. When Mr. 'ASTON appeared in the muskcal en tertainmet.l of 7'he Quaker, he was assailed with. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. room- PORTSNOUTR, Nov. 13.—Arrived yesterday, from Opor to. the brig Neptune. Old sailed this morning for Leith. — The Capt. informs us. that when be left Oporto, there was a Beet expected to sail from thence for England son the 10th hut. His hllaji..tv's ship 11% perimi is appointed convoy for the West Indies, instead of the Pearlea frig.ste. Deal., Nor. I3.—Catne down from the River, the ITeart of Oak, Thump. m, fnr St. 3'hoinn , i't ; and the Cherokee mad Helicon, sloops of war t from a cruise. HARWICH, No•.l3.—Tbisday sailed the Lady Nepean parkrt, for 114410u:id ; and the Lady France) ditto fur flottroborgb; the Basilisk gun-brig. with *convoy for Liut tenburgb. Iteutain, several transports, and more are hourly expected from the Doane, to take troops on board for flushing.— I Wind W. Due. I a at. N . A IIUOUTH, Not►.l3.—Mailed the trade for Heligohnd, ander convoy of the Pandora .loop of war. Arrived the Beagle sloop of war, frau & cruise. • FALKOVTIII, Nov. IL—Arrived the Active cutter s from a cruise. Sailed the Pheasant sloop of war, to join the Mediterra nean court's , ; and the fallowing p.ickels: Snake, with a until for Cad's ' • Dispatch, with n mad for Malta; Exprma, with a stmt for New-York ; and the Leyden armed brig, for Malta. Gaa•rscao, Nov. 13.—Arrlied the Jamius, Jaeobes, from Belfast Sailed the Thistle, Brotowbar), for Limerick; Felicity, Timothy t and Vioe, Muotgomery, for Londonderry ; Mi aerva, Milne, fur Gibraltar; and the Anrora, Fitssilamosc, for Belfast. the there of the Resolution, Captain Bunker, of New-York, from Load=; the Hopewell, of Clinugow the Henrietta of Beams; Laeoala, of Portsmouth; .1 !nig belm aiog toJer sey. audit ship bound to Plynnutn, are captures' by the De- I tide privateer, of Id guns and 160 meu, trout Bourdeaux. The Weymouth, Leweltyn, hot-) Gibraltar to London, wblek was ruptured about a week a,to, is recaptured by the Plover doop of war, and arrived at Scilly. To the EDITOR of TUE STATESMAN. SIR, I was burn free as IC tract: And this man Is no ‘v become an odor and Jones BIILL A wretchol creature, and must bend his body, . • If KEMBLe carelessly but nod on film. ' He ki3 a fever when I last saw him in the Theatre, „i Au* when the it was no him, I did mark •l.i* HIM be did shake-- .411ir coward lips did from their colour fly ; . 4 41.41 that same eye, whose bead did awe the stage, ~a Inoe itb lustre Ater kim yoga : tt ,A y,aadthat tnagde of Isis—that cramps us all with attain And bade us mark.his topeecbes in nor hooks, Alas it cry'd---- Witet do you want ? • Ye Gods; fi dots amaze me, A man of suds a Millburn temper, shoold " 4 Get the start of a majestic audience, rift' And bear the blame himself. [SAsal, Mores, Rallies, ke. man, be depth bestride the stage Llke a Cubsissis I .• - What should be in that Katsina? • Why should that Raab. be sounded mere awl WM ► Jona lieu. will wart arspirit as well as KIIIISIas New, in the mane of all the Gods at once, What company down KaseaLE keep That he Is vomit so great O you and I have heard our fathers any, There wasa GaAs tca once. that would have brook'd The eternal devil, to keep his cast of parts As easily as Kamm'. Clapham Common, Nov. 11. Y ours, JOIIN BULL IMPROMPTU ON BERING ONE OF THE GRAND 0. P. lif/MAL LIONS. PUBLISHED *BY MR. IlAttiVirAl, .3, QI3BBNII YTH E. • 40 ' Thrice the brindled Cat bath tricked," Thrice bath K—oaca been subdued. . Three times thrice may ar'rice be • Forc'd to bend to fair 0. P. May 0. B.+ soon, full wide he thrower Aid "prioage Tenants" then be 'hewn, That arrogswe swat now bend low, Lad yield, at last, to D. P. 04 OBBERVATOR. • Old Prices. Opals Reims. Defeteace t• Public Opinion. d: To Me EDITOR of 7'llE STATESMAY. [it will barer% by the fallow ing letter, that the addrest of Mr. BerrZlT, the Theatrical informer, bus been inaccu rately stated. The Public will, thalitle.. be gratifird er ' learniNt the actual eroticism and profesjne of that *oft giaaail character Nn. 31, Carey -street. 66 Be pleatied, Sir, to take the earliest opportu. nity of contradicting a report that has been circu. lated, that a Mr. Iftnay BENNETT resides in, this Mouse ; and I beg most poaitively to assure you, ' that no person, except my elf and family, either foefules, boards, lodges ts or,d wells in my house, No. sls CllfCy•Street. v i ••• • _ . 66 Your most nbr" •Withigi ids *rr ' tura. ob.-. ... A • ' 'a B. CUItWEN." bees been seal 7,000 sicl . .. at ranch ijoe- itil l •nd tb. ac. his l'ul. a I . I • ( , / Was concluded, Mr. LIsTON, advancing to the front of the stage, bowed, mid solicited a hearing, which was very readily granted. ,Mr. Liston lamented that he shoelti have been that object of the public indignation ; but, as he conceived himself to be acquainted with the cause —and which had originated iii a mistake, he begged pertaission to state the facts—on hearing which he tiatbered himself the audience would absolve him from the imputation that had been unjustly cast upon hint—(Tlio applause stns here very great.) A: letter signed Instigator, had hppcared is as 'eventing paper (The Statesman) of the '2lst of last *loath, in which he was aceneed of having said, that 66 the Managers of Covent Garden " Theatre would have carried the New Prices, 44 but fur the opposition of Me Blackguard Citi. serve." [The following is a Copy of the j Letter.] , ata--I was this evening sitting is a public coffee-roam with a flieud t it was puiiliely sensed by a tient :man th ee present, that Mr. Liston had said is a mixed company, that i. e Mastageri of Ciivetit-flurdeu Thretre would have carried the pain! of the New Priers, but f".i the opposition of the blaagotuvt eiiisens. Not having the owesas of aseertnia lag the truth of this matter through mks private channel. 1 beg yuss will Insert this is your impiartiat and tralyissatst fUIISIIIIIS, that hfr. !Atm nib have au iippoitimity of answering it as vpintly and With the baine roadster, as it is mow I avowed. 2do sot wish to injure rte Ittelinp or interest of a Performer who ranks so deservedly high Is the opiniall of this labile at Mr. L.; but the stroclou• mixture of *fretted con. beguesce awl base ingratitude cost si;•ed in this rharge. bora nature that, is the pretest slate of toratei:al attain. !opined% the most severe antorldiersioa. Illat.kviard Uterus, Weed %Viet the Rise iof Temple-bar closed het for one night, ou all yuar cit ir ens who (regent the Theatre, Xraged 'sight I t raw, wad Comedy &ugh . . bat there would ire linty " a beg. gayly account of empty Acres,' to weep or to sidle on eke occatitin. " /ours, " LN D AGA roit." " October 19, 1809." Now he would assure the audience, on the ho. sour of a man, that he had never uttered that es_ pressiou, or any other of a similar tendency.-- [Very lortd applause.] Ile had lost no time Oh sending a coatrailictiou to the paper in which gator's letter had appeared ; and he trusted the audience would do him the honour to be. lieve him incapable of offering such an insult to that public by whom he had been so kindly pain. uized, and for whose countenance and favours he was impressed with the deepest gratitude." This speech was received with universal appose. bation. The following is a copy of the letter which, at the request of 31r. LISTON, was inserted ie Tug ST ATILIN " Slit—The benfiseass, who suerted, Ia the presccre of InedsatTea, that I have said, " that therm of Cis. vent Garde. The 4 w ptre would have rival clot of the New Prices, beat taw the opposition of tte • sari COM semi," uttered, kitatcbtr, A gross and nsalistiossiulsetoed. " Your luierting th will oblige. " Sir, year obedient Servant, °' Ili, Strand, Oct. 23." " J. LI 4 TON." In our account in 'rue StA.TEsm.ttv of Saba. day last, of the transactions at the 'theatre on Fri. day evening, We stated, that " A gentleman in 4 6 the Pit, addressing the audience, adverted to 64 th' application of the term Plockgaard 44 tens, by Mr. Ltrron"—and that a porton in tke :4econd tier of /lines answered Wes by saying, " that Mr. Maven Add publicly contradicted the 46 assertion of hike term BlackguerstGitiasor.'• These observations we wore partieutirly careful to notice, expressly with a view to correct the er. rancour opinion with respect to Mit. Lisrote, who is now firmly reinstatli in the favourehle opinion of the Publie...which he has so long mijoyed, and so eminently merits. The performances of the evening concluded amidst a manifest increase of noise and expresiletts of indignation. Placards were more numerous than ever (with the exception of one night). ,The fronts of several Mize* were literally covered with them, regularly limited side by side. Mo'heo Richard killed King henry, a wag in, stantly parodied the speech of Richard, with; happy facility that is not often displayed—heist claimed " Down! down! New Prices !—down to !fell " Asd stay, OLD Pates% sent thee there I" The Private Boxes begin to present that appear. antic of a " splendid desart," to which, py the fulfilment of Mr. Kausee's well-known threat, leihe late Theatre at Drury lane was reduced.. e . In these privileged ruceptac:es, we looked in vain for the splendid tenantry with which they were wont to be graced. In five Boxes only, out of twenty-eight, were enrConipany discoverable, — As we lately observed, nut only are females now averse to braving the observations of the Companf its other parts of the (louse, but the presence of Gaitlemen is become equally unpleasant. Th. truth is, the People of England conceive them. selves insulted by this end olive privilege granted to iodividuals, be they who they may,. hooever ex. sited, or respectable, in a public Theatre—at which the respected Monarch of these realms has never disdained to appear in a part of the Theatre to whack any one of Mt subjects may have access. We again repeat, that the root of the opposition is, the Private Boles. Remove the partitions—open that part of the house to the Public..-ft any preee—even a guinea —for atimis bits° to that circle—and thePelilie will be gratifse4. Nor have we the lest hesitation in avowing it u our unqualified opinion, that no concession will appease the public indignation, without the restoration of every part of thu Theatre to its former publicity anti simplicity, by the abolition of Private Boxes, which are an insult to the whole People of England. Among the Placards appeared a representation of the Manager in the pillory. At the top— " To guilty mias a terrible example." Sbakspear. Beneath it— " For keeping alf *use of 111.1kme." A On the reverse nes the following distich :- 8 , A %retched tumbril was the actor's stage. We make improvenients its the present tagc."—" See tha other bide." " No Blind-tiny llcwetson I No false-sweiaring 'lnformer !" OPpeee OPpreftive °Palace." Keiuhk to rheat, Ilennetoo spy, White to ill-treat, Brandon to lie." The tascals, by demolishing styrenes, have inrrea ar d ma tit het. 6 . 1 Terms of Peace—That the tild Prices shall be adopted that all the Frerniere Phan be dropped; that Kowa, I l .4i