The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-10-16 00:00:00

F 'AI A DRURY-LANE THEATRE.. mr.7 ambition, but fir the appearance of anotheiethibi: tor, who, to shew that no time of life was exempt from absurdity, was absurd enough to address the sinking struggler for the honours of the stage. After expostulating with him until he became insufferably stupid, on the weakness of his voice, this old candi date for popularity was proceeding to make a speech for himself, when he was silenced by a roar which would. have overpowered the most inveterate self love; and the antique orator was at length compelled to give up his task. The audience now grew satisfied and disgusted. Mr. ItAystowo came forward, and after observing that alt performances on that stage required the previous license of the Lotto CHAMBER LAIN, requested to know whether the pleasure of the house had not been sufficiently complied with. lie was universally answered in the of rtnatire : then approaching Mr. Beatty with a profusion of bows, he took his arm, and with a happy mixture of argu ment and entreaty, forcible pustmsion and gentle violence, led him off the stage. The audience imme i diately retired. A singular occurrence twisk place at Drury-lane Theatre on Wednesday. After the play of the Hy pocrite, a person rose in the Pit, demanding the at. tention of the audience to some circumstances which were to be, of course, signally worthy of all their attention. The orator was at length induced to mount the stage, from which he attempted to continue his harangue in the midst of shouts and hisses. Mr. RAYMOND, however, after some unsuccessful efforts at conciliation, introduced two Bew-street officers, who tried the more intelligible argument of force, and the orator was borne off the stage. This adven turous and ardent person proved to be the son of Dr. Bestir, an author of considerable notoriety, if not of peculiar fame, who, having written an Ad dress for the opening of the Theatre, and conceiving that its merits were unfairly dealt with, determined on securing himself at least a hearing. If the transaction at the Theatre on Wednesday deserved to be called singular, we must tiud some stronger title for its repetition last night. That there might be no doubt either of the person or the abject, Dr. liceor yesterday addressed a circular to his acquaintances, informing them that he intended an appeal to their feeliugs or their judgments last uiht. This secceeded so far as to fill the house to en overflow, and early in the evening every place eas occupied. The passages were filled with spectators, impatient to be auditors, and a glance through a box dour was a matter of good fortune. Daring the per formance, the Rivals languished in expectation of the more interesting exhibition of Dr. BusßY ; and SHAKESPEARE or SHERIDAN would have been forgot ten in the mute suspence with which the Doctor's rising was awaited : for he rose at last, and on the eroppieg of tho curtain, attempted an harangue from one of the boxes of the second circle nearest the stage. After a few moments of apology, his voice evas lost in the shouts of the audience. lie attempt ed his speech again from the beginning, and gravely informed his hearers, that though he thought respect fully of Lord Birees's Address, he thought he could shew them sometteug better of his own. All he de manded was justice, a fair hearing, and British libe rality. This gatte.ing solicitation was received with infinite sympathy, and. Dr. BtSBY prepared to detail his grits:dances, when the commencement of the over ture unleckily overset his eloqaence • and, after some expossitt,gestures, he was compelled to sit down.. The audience, however, were not prevailed open to give up their pastime so easily ; and Mr. lione and the other actors were mercilessly hissed off the stage. Mr. Reemoen then came forward, and Ale- . sired to know whether it was their pleasure that the farce should proceed : they answered that it was, When Admit al MARTIN left the Baltic, they and in consequence hissed off the Actors again, .atuti were wholly ignorant of the entry of the French contrived through the remainder of the evening to ; int..) Moscow. The most unbounded order and make a due sacrifice of all that was said on, and alt , bravery prevailed amongst the soldiery s but they that was said nif, the stage On the fall of the cur- I were most lamentably defieicent of experienced bin, the true farce commenced with uncommon viva- ' Officers. ' city. 'rile universal cry vsas—" The Doctor—let us ! It is said that one of the firemen unfortunately lave the Orator." The Doctor was at length pre- ! lost his life at the late fire in Ililliter-lane, and two railed on ; and after a multitude of obeisances to all ' others were taken iu a dreadful state to St. Bartho parts of the tense, he begin. ile professed himself . mew's !lospital. a friend to merit, provided it were modest merit.— I e :ondaiafternoon, while some workmen were em (Grcat applause, and cries of " Prue, true, Doc-I played in pulling down the premises belonging to the tor!''] Ile acknowledged that the addresses already Old Swan public-house, in Blackman-street, lea. c ommunicated to the public might have their value; rough, part of them give way, when four of the la. but he believed he might with equal truth a nd mo de, louvers were unfortunately buried in the ruins. In ty now submit to them one which vsould give some slant relief was afforded, but one of them Was dread final and general idea of excellence in the art of pro.. fully bruised, and conveyed to St. Thomas's 114)5. logue writing. — [Cries qf bravo—Lct us hear it, pital without any hopes of recovery; the other Dedor—Go on, Apollo.]—But at the moment the th ; see escaped without receiving much injury. speech was interrupted by the entrance o f two per- • sons into tit , box, who pinioned the Doctor, and The late of Sir Robert Hartland's farming stock, conveyed hen ieto the lobby. 4at Wherstead attracted a vast assem bl ag e of persons 9 from all parts of the county. The horse stock The scene of interest was now changed, and the lobbies became in a moment scarcely p sable, from i fetched unprecedented high prices, five chesnut a the crowd who poured out of the b ed yof the house.* 170 i• mares having, produced 6221.; a chesnut stallion, 13 other chesnut horses and mares, 2351 . 10 s. Dr. BUSBY, who seemed to be under th e p rotection ; four-years old chesnut cart colts and fillies, 2031. of Minerva as eel' as of Apollo, took advantage of The whole, horse stock, sixty in number, produced this incident with uncommon presence of mind ; and Instantly commenced a battle, w bids lasted toughly 3 ) 3351 . 10 e• on both sides, till the combatants now swelled to : About three months ago, a horse, rising three Y ears 0141, the property of Mr. Alexander Guthrie, the amount of the whole audience. Ile was, how in Findowrie, near Brechin, Scotland, received a ever, forced alone to the ereat straits, and was iu the very crisis of fate and Bow-street, w hen he , hurt which ultimately shut up the urinary passage. i made another effort fur victory, by making a b o d g . , C. Black, farrier, in Brechin, being called in, made several attempts is the ordinary way, to get the meat on the steps. The gravity which might have stoppage removed, all of which proved ineffectual. been prejudicial to the Poet was the most fortunate From the certainty that the horse could not survive thing possilde for the Pugilist; and sitting on the steps, not all the force of all the B o w-street Offi- long, unless immediate relief was procured, he re cers could shake him. So much fortitude was not solved to make an incision into the urethra; this was to be abandoned : the spirit of the audienc e was ace mlingly dune, externally about three inches long, ; commencing immediately below the fundament, and snored within them—the Officers were kicked ;gm , - cut int.; the urethra close to the neck of the bladder. miniously to the foot of the stairs — the Doct or borne The operation had not been performed above two 1, ttiompliantly through the corridors, and • reinstated ill the boxes in all tlie pride of victory. lie t h ere , minutes, when the animal discharged an immense recommenced the interrupted speech, and informed quantity of urine by the artificial passage, and began the louse, that " considering to cat, neither of which it had done for several days. himself now the chant- ! pion of their r i ghts, and aleo as much a freeman . The passage is perfectly o pen, and now whole on as he was a converor, he should give th e m the both sides ; the animal continues to elischame its opportunity of hearing such a monol o gue as they , nrine regularly, is perfectly well in every respect, ;and thriving as well as any in the country. had seldom heard. (Cries of brauo ,— Th e Prolo g ue --ire on, Doctor ! ) He acknowledged their kind ; Mr. Anthony Mandey, who kept Sebloniere's Ho -square, was f dead in don Foiality with more than common gratitude , for ' tel, in Leicester Tuesday morning. He honad ge oun to d bed the previous more than common complir eent to his Muse ; but ho' evening in apparent good health : his wife on awak tu9st now mention, that if they were as sincere as lie found hinv cold by her side. was in their desire to hear his verses, they must hear ing thnm from his son, who had been all this while ! .!a. 1 Sunday, about 12 o'clock, a very serious alarm took place on beard the Ganges prison-ship at Ply tiotied in the pit with the monologue by heart, that 1 mouth wherein 750 French prisoners were confined. they might have the power of judging for themselves. , One of them had actually set fire to the ship and It was, however, necessary that they should secure ! him from being hustled oil', in the performance of: burned a great hole in her before it was discovere d. this Iris duty to the public." After this speech, The incendiary was soon detected and put in irons ; which was almost unintelligible from hisses and he confessed his guilt, and declared it was his inten tion to destroy himself and companions, who were plaudits, Mr. Busav, jilt]. prepared to mount the tired of confinement—he was immediately taken on stage. .At the same moment Mr. RAYMOND came out, tied seemed proposing to address the house, board the San Ysitlro. The prisoners all assisted in wben finding its sense determinfd, he retired, say- p utting out the fire, and it waswith difficulty they w lag, as'we understood, that the Reciter should not were restrained from tearing the offender in pieces. be interrupted. Mr. BUSBY then began, and if the Upwards of 2000 French prisoners have been sent distinctness of his elocution had been equal to the from the ships within these four days. energy of his gesture, Lord BYRON mast have hid 'The present month has been long memorable for " his diminished head ;" but by peculiar ill-fortune, .brewing super-excellent beer, styled October. Its with the exception of two lines, which informed us modern appellation is—bromn stout, so congenial to something of British constitutions : yet, it is imagined, that many " Old Drury, that till the other day, will give the preference, on Tuesday next, to a " Lay like a nuisance in the public way." stoat purse, in consequence of the then decision of a we were left to our bare imaginations. The audience small, yet most important Lottery_ Scheme, whose Listened, but the reciter was still inaudible; and Prizes of LlO,OOO, and other great Capitals, wi ll probably their disappointment would have been not only enable them to quaff old :lingo, bat old strongly visited on the head of this victim of RA ternal ' wine ) during life. vrtiE STATESMAN. . i .1 1 . • • • • I POLICE. filantsrmoveirt-sTamrTwo respectable dressed children, a girl and a boy, of the ages of ten and eight years, were pro duced before the Magistrates, they having been left by their , mo ther, the wife of a country Innkeeper, at the 01.1 NI isle Horse Cellar, without protection. It appear dby the statement of the children, that their father kept the Crown Gnu, at Plymouth, and that he had accompanied them with their mother to the coach, u Melt arrived at the Old White llorse Cellar on NVed tiestlay afternoon. The mother sent the children to Duke street; in the neighbourhood, to seek the house of an aunt, and after a fruitless search they returned, when the mother had fled, and no tidings u hatever had been had of her. The situation Of the poor ettilo'ren eteited the compassion of the inn keeper, who took them wider his fostering care. Whilst the story was being related, the mother was brought op from St. Gilrs's watch house, charged with having been disorderly in the streets at midnight, and this was the first tidings of her. She had 111. when she left the Inn, which was reduced to 41. and she had log her bonnet, pelisse, tee. It was evident that the unfortunate woman laboured under strong woad derangement, and this was further corroborated by passengers in the coach, To questions put, she gave such answers as an insane person would do, and her looks were altogether wild and desponding. Mr. FAKER, the Magistrate, recommended her to the humanity of the pa rish officers of St. Giles's, until her husband should be in formed of the affair, and the Proprietor of the Coffee-house, at the Old White Horse Cellar, took the children under his pro tection. WORIMIP4I`IIF.r.—G-orge Ilankinton, late a Collecting Clerk in the employment of Messrs. Hales and Co. of Red-truss street, was brought up for farther examination on Thursday, on the charge of embezzling various sums of money received fur them, and with which hr had absconded. Mr. George Hale and another partner in the same flit, at tended, together with several of the Clerks. A number of witnesses were examined, chiefly victuallers, wins had dealings with that house, to prove the various 11111! Of money w hich they had paid into the hands of the Prisoner Yo coma of his employers, and for which a number of re:eipts were produced io the Prisoner's hand-writing. 1, Toe Prisoner was fully committed. MOSCOM -0.-- • I/ . FROM A FRENCIt PAPER.] Geographers and historians are not agreed as to the period when Moscow was built. Some of them assert that it owes its foundation to Andrew the First; others assign its origin to tho year 1300, and affirm, that it was built by the Grand Duke Juije Wladimirowitsch. It became the ordinary residence ' of the Czars, who successively embellished it with a great number of public buildings. It was also the seat of the Head of the Russian Church, and the splendour continued to increase till it became the ca pital of the Russian Empire. It is of very great extent, not being less, as it is said, than 21 geographical miles in circumference. The public buildings, the palaces, and hotels, arc (or rather were) very numerous; not less than 1600 churches and convents, and about 50 pala.:es and public walks. The number of houses, which, in 1600, was computed to amount to 150,000, had de creased by four-fifths. Its distance from Paris is about 650 leagues. When we leave Viasma, wo enter the vast forest of Volvouski, which extends from thence to the very gales of Moscow, covering a space of 150 miles. 11/hen we reach Malo Ariastna, a place agreeably situate in the midst of the forest, on the bank of a small lake, we are only six miles distant from that capital, to which we proceed through a wide avenue, cut in a right line. The trees oa each side, planted by the hand of Nature, are chiefly oak, birch, ash, poplar, and fir, all mingled together; they present to the eye shades of verdure extremely rich and varied, and occasionally the majestic uniformity of the long avenue is agreeably broken by fields and meadows. Immediately on enteting this avenue, some of the steeples of Moscow are discernible; three miles farther on, you have a full and maguiticatt view of that immense city, extending in the form of a crescent, and presenting to the eye an immense number of churches, towers, gilt spires, domes, white, green, and rod buildings, glittering in the sun-beams; awl, in contrast with all this pomp, you perceive, eose by those splendid edifices, an infinite number el ,retched wooden huts. The country that remains for you to traverse is varied and pic- tureseue, and you do not get out of the forest till you are within one mile of the walls of Moscow. As soon as you have entered the city, its vast ex tent, and the variety it .fords, the irregularity of its structures, the extraordinary contrasts it presents, strike you with astonishment. Its streets are long and wide, but some only of thorn are pared, others are laid with the stems of trees, or boarded, like a room. Superb palaces are surrounded with huts, which afford an asylum to indigence; here wooden houses are seen covered with pantilittst, while others are remarkable for doors and roofs of - iron. There is nothiug more discordant or more singular than the architecture of the public buildings. You meet with churches at every step, the domes of some of which are covered with copper, others with pewter, others are painted or gilt, and some of them are simply of w00d..-In short, as you pass through the different quarters of Moscow, you find Yourself successively in a desert, in a flourishing and well-peopled city, or in a miserable village, and you, at length, reach those places where every thing announces the magni ficence of a great capital. We must consider Moscow as a city first built in the taste of Asiatic architecture, and which has been gradually assimilated to that of Europe. The population of Moscow is not proportionate to its extent, a circumstance which will not occasion surprise, when it is known that it contains vast parks, in which wild bears, de( r, and other wild beasts, are kept. A considerable number of large gardens, and even in some quarters tillage lands, impart to the city a very picturesque appoa, ance. Moscow, then, does not contain a population of more than from 300 to 3'20,000 souls; but this number increases in the winter to near 400,000. This difference arises from the circumstance of the Noblemen passing the summer in the country, whither they bring with them a great number of persons, and from that of the travelling merchants returning home at the end of the Carnival. - The principal divisions of Moscow are-Ist, Kremlin-2dly, Khitaigorotl-3tlly, Bieleorod -4tltly, Semlainogorod-sthly, Slobodsn, which is a kind of suburb. These five principal qearters are subdivided into circles,. of which we Nave already' given separate descriptions. Moscow seems to contain two people, the indivi duals who composed the one dwell in palaces, speek i French, pay much attention to fashion and tailors, amuse themselves with music and horses, frequent halls and operas, while they hire a band at a thou• sand rubles a-year, and they not unfrequently give a hundred rubles for a well-taught canary bird. The other people dwell in huts, like savages, wear long beards, ere Ignorant that there is such a thing as a theatrical entertainment, get drunk with brandy on Sundays, quarrel, and become peaceable as soon as they have been sluiced with two or three buckets of water, which are usually kept ready for the purpose in places of public resort; on the one hand we per ceive civilization, accompanied by all its luxury and all its excesses ; on the other, that gradation of so ciety which is on the very border of barbarism. The desire of being amused seems to be that which is pre dominant at Moscow. On the Ist of May the whole city is on foot, all the brillant equipages are display. ed on the road to the promenade, called the German Tables, where people take refreshments in tents Mid under trees. The remainder of the summer they amuse themselves at Vauxhall and the Palace Gar dens ; but winter is the genuine season of pleasure. The streets covered with snow are thereby made cleaner and more passable. The frozen surface of the Moskwa furnishes a new promenade, and the cold of 25 degrees has peculiar charms for the Moscovites.— They then exhibit themselves in traincartx, but when these are drawn by two horses, one of them is obliged always to gallop while the other trots. It would be taken as a mark of vulgarism if this general rule were to be swerved from. At the Play the people in the Pit never hiss, they content themselves with not applauding bad actors ; but if the piece should happen -not to be interesting, the audience converse so loud that nothing said upon the stage can be heard. Although Moscow is no longer the residence of .theNovereign, it is still the most pnpulous cif v it, th e empire. The Nobler, ssho are not attacheri to th e Court by employments, settle there, awl iudol o themselves in that somewhat-harbaroos ma;oiti-e•ice which keeps alive the remembrance of i heir f u-o lor grandeur, end they are not, 29 at PetniblrgS,e;:liplc,4 by the splendour of a Court. There is but one national theatre at Mascastr, a nd that is little frequented, particularly by person; o f condition ; it is kept down by the great number o f private theatres, each Nobleman hung his ft is the same with respect to the musicians to t e Nobles, they are slaves; thus, nothitiq is more cu7N. mon than t..) find a numerous band i i thn house of a private individual. 11e has nothing to do but to feed his artists; well or and to clothe them decenty when he sees company. We . shall say nothio , ; with respect to the bastinadocl they receive is the course of their apprenticeship. One of the chief coriositiesin Moscow lithe !10w.% market ; it is•held in a tarp square in the s'iburht. A persons can purchase in it houses of all ths timbers of which they are to be crntstrected are marked with care. Sometimos the purchaser pits f or that which suits him on the spot, and tak,•s it with him ; sometimes he bargains that it b.• b ro „ st and put up on a curtail spot. It is not tetrour n o,, to find any one of these houses bought, carried, err; ed, and inhaliitud in less than a week ; they are most frequently made of the trunks of trees, with tenons and mortices at the extremities, so that nothing k left to do but put them to4ether when they are w si o„ ed. This manner of building is not conlioc.l to et. bins and smail houres, very large ones are often erect. ed in the same manlier. The most remarkable public foundation in Islos. cow is the Foundling Hospital. It was endowed by the Empress Catharine, in 1761. There ha Theatre in this hospital, the decorations of which are the work of the foundlings ; they built it, painted it, made tha dresses, aad are themselves the actors. In the course of the fourteenth vt>ntury the Tar. tars possessed themselves of Moscow, slaughtered the inhabitants, and reduved the city to ashes; it was soon, however, re-peopled. The barbarians took it a second time in 1411, and committed the sane ex. cesses. It was in a very flourishing state during the reign of Ewan thsilowitz. After having committed unheard-of cruelties at Novagorod, the ferocious I wan the Fourth', on his return to Mos:ow, had 80(1 women thrown (tit° the river, and stained the waters of the Moskwa with the blond of 300 other victims, whom he canard to he executed. During the !attn. ' part of the 16th century, and a great part of the ! 17th, Moscow was the scene of most tragical events; I there was a general massacre of the Poles within its Iwalls. I❑ 1771, it suffered terribly froth the plague. The territory of the Government of Moscow fertile in all productions of the earth. Petershuqh derives from it a great proportion of its subsistence, so that the possession of it by an enemy must render the supplying that capital with provisions a matter .of great difficulty. FREEDOM OF GOM.MERCE. --ow— i'vsz—ra 41unercum i 4 Heaven. Whets Commerce first spread the broad mil to rite wise e . And her bark the proud billows submissively hnre, And the Oceaa became the wide path of inankiud, And the waters divided the flatiron it. more; Round the rocks of the main, Was re-echoed this strsin,— Now shall man's scatter'd race he connected agars, And the ves.sels of Commerce extend the great plan, Of Harmony, Peace, and the Freedom of Mao. The fruits of each climate shall Commerce exchange, And make equal the blessings of Goo upon earth, Over each distant realm she delighted shall rauge, Aud rough Labour enrich'd shall sins; carols of mirth,* Pleasure tread the gas green, Beauty too, Pleasitrh's Queen, And the cottage of Indastry gladden the scene; Aud the Arts shall, with Commerce, extend the great plai‘ Of Harmony, Peace, and the Freedom of Mau. Titus the nations with w:toni Commerce chose to retitle, They ‘sertt free, they were great, :nd wi h opulence htertt But she toed Britain most—'twas her home and her pride, And the world soon rever',/ her—" fair isle of the )Veste For where'er the waves roll, Erma the line to the pole, To the veigels of Britain she g we the control!) ; And she said be it yours to extend the great plat, Of liarmlny, Peace, and the Frecdota of Nl:;, Here the lAtirer, emboiden'd with gains of hii toil, Felt the solace a blithe !mini:cadence his own ; For the Heats o. mankind arc the growth of this soil, 'ney grew wit OW' st.rength, and encircle oar dom. A nd.these rights shall prevail, Tho' CorrJ ption For the enrti of wretches 'gai tot ljberty fail : And these rights are the ground work of :hat mighty plan, The Harmony, Peace, hud the Freedom of hlan. Yet, forgetting those rights. Ire permitted of late, Vile miscreants to irsue forth perjured decrees Distress and di>•eusion pervaded the State, And Commerce, du-gusted, deserted the seas, Then, pale, and oppres?d, Pined the lab'rer distrest, Want and Woe in his dwelling, and grief in his breast-. For Commerce no longer exteaded the plan, Of Ilarinony, Peace, and the Freedom of Man. 'Twas then BnoucitAin, as the Champion of Commercear pear'd: She, to freedom restor'd, shall enrich Ili again ; BROUGYIAm's name be to Liverpool ever endear'd, Acd his cause. as her own, shall her Freemen maintain! Theo dispel sorrow's gloom, Willi a health of our linoticrwt, • And make Liverpool bright with the pink's lovely bloom; Commerce collies at Baoucewe's call, to restore bee ' Of Harmony, Peace, and the Freedom of Mani Nor be CRECVET forgotten, our townsman and friend Though Directors still rant, and base Mini ters frostily To the East he the l'reetlo»i of Tratir shall Extend, Aml Liverpool's riches he CazuvEv's renown. Then your sates, Freemen join, And he this your design, — The bright pink routal the c.ip of fair Freehrn to twine, While our 8R0W111.131 and our CREEVEIF restore the go plan, Of harmony, Peace, and the Freedom of Mans LONDON: .Printed and Published by P. Iglvicw 11 1 SI STUMM' Orricr. Bi. Flcekstvess