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r sv 4 81 IL diow" • ^ 111 1 .- -10 +4 6 , 12 ° ,✓c, • THEATRES. --mow— °TIM A-HOUSE. The attractive influence of Madame CATALAst. evinced itself. on Saturday night, in a crowded and brilliant audience, at this theatre. The company w ere, of course , much chagrined, on their entrance, by being presented with the following handbill : gtxo'i Toce.Tite Catalani„—January 10, 1817. The Managers of the Opera House, most respectfully inform the Nubility and Gentry, Subscribers to the Opera, and the Pnblic that Madame Catalani has been suddenlg semed with a v iolent cold, sore throat, and fever --She as confined. to her ter!, anti totally incapable of performing. The Comic Opera of II Principe Di Tarento must neecomrily be solicituted. Madame Perini, who balm indispor.ed, has kindly undertaken t• ; eiform in it. The indulgence of the Subscribers an d tt. e is Inc* earnestly entreated fur this unexpected change o?frd. In a little Cunt., however, disappointment sub .lcied into concern for the fair sufferer. She caught her cold at Covent•garden 'cliea , re, on Thursday night, in stopping to see the pantomime. The comic or , A pro ceeded, and, Madame Pkltl NI, evidently ' bD .raring under indisposition, displayed mach talent as an actress, but omitted her songs. The whole weight of the piece, by this means, rested on N ALCM and SI130:41, who severally exerted themselves with great sum c.. NALTII, as usual, was rapturously we're'. and received unbounded applause. Mon sieur and Madame 1)t s yes and PAR ISOT gave every pocsible effect to the DitersiAement and Ba His llet, and were honoured by reiterated plaudits. Royal Highness the Prince of Wr. LES entered his box, during the second act of the opera. His arri val was announced. by the pleasure that appeared in every coun tenance. Every eye was turned to his box. His Royal Highness saluted his numeretts friends in the most gracious and condescending manner, and shortly after withdrew. His Royal Ilighneis the Duke of C A 14 BRIDG¢ was also present. in the brilliant circle were— Trot Duke and Duchess of viontroce, Duchess of R.ox borgh, and _IA.' Mariner., Esq. the Duke and Duchess of St. Allan's, Duke and Duchess De gastric', th:r Marquis and Mar. ehiunete of Larisdown, the Marquis and Mareitioness of Staf ford, the Marchioness rrf Headfort, the Marquis of Abercoro, the Eel and Countess Spencer, Lail and Canniest of Camden, Earl and Countess of Sewn, the Countess of Cardigan, Earl ant Crannies; of Cfonmell, Viscount and Viscalintess Castlereagh, Loot and Lady George Caren dish, deed &Irene. Ludy liladtweed, Lady Calthorpe, Bar Charles and Ltd, lto•ase Broughton, um Partugurim Am bassador, Count Peliff, Colonel and Mrs. Beaumont, Colonel arid Mrs. Ford Bowie, Ma;or and Mrs. Lee, and Mistreame Methuen, /nailer, F.veret, and I. Pritchard, Esq. . _ CHRIST.W.IS FESTIVITIES. The Earl of Cultssearreto's beautiful seat, at Drsdby ILU, Derhyshim, was enlivened, during the Halidsys, by the generous donation of an ample supply of roast beef and plumb pudding. to the sur f rounding neighbourhood, with an adequate quan tity of ale. The Earl of Ems's hospitable seat at Cathiobury Park, was also a place of great mirth. The famous old vat, named Old Postith Hospitorty, with the • wino t , No Waste IS Want"— Brewed! the 24 of Feb. ISM art:fuse/ much joy amongst the surrounding neighbourhood. Druminorsd Castle, Perthsliiie, the seat of Lady Pier's, was a continued scene of joy. The sus rounding peasantry, on christrnas-Day, were re -1 galed, and went home with hearts full of glee In the evening, there was a Ball at the Ca t tle, • which was opened by the lovely Miss Daum ' novo, to the favourite tune of Earl liwre's iweicoku Selland. Yesterday morning, His Maitsrr, Princesses Atrousr a, Soelir a, and AMELIA, attended by La dies M•ceeasr teen and WYNN I, rode to Saint George's CiAttel, Windsor, where a Sertrion was preached by the Rev. Dr. MARsoAst, from the .sth chapter of St. John, Stah verse. The Royal Party afterwards rode back to the Palace. Mrs. Ile•VI&OIST intends giving a Children's Ball, on Friday next, at her house, in Portman-square. Sir Joust and Lady CAL LEVIDEA have arrived at their house, in Mansfield-meet, from Preston Hall House, Edinburgh. The Marquis of LANSDOWN will give a grand dinner, at Lanrdown House. an the 1 dth inst. in honour of Her Moo est v's birth-day. The Duke and Duchess of Bea uro r are expell ed in town, neat week. to 4tteuti the Court, at St. James' , on Her MAJESTY'S birth-day. Lady Pears, and the Hon. Miss TISUlliiI•11D, are expeeteo, in the course of ten days, at their house, in Grosvenor-square, from Drummond , Castle, Scotland. Hyde Park was yesterday, notwithstanding the intense coldness of the atmosphere, very numerous ly attended by pedestrians and equestrians. The carriages for med a double row from the gate of Hyde Park to that of Kensington. Madame CATALAN! is attended by Dollor RLCNALLT, a French Physician, of great celebrity. sir Jona and Lady NEWPORT arrived at their hoes:, in York-street, St. James's, on Friday, from The fashionable world are divided, for this even ing, between Mr. KENNY'S Opera, at Drury-lane Theatre, which embraces the whole vocal and comic strength of the house, and Mr. Kest sees Lingo, at Covent-garden Theatre. The Duchess of Becuswicst has declined visiting England, for the present. "the Margravine of Aeseaett has lost her life %tont of 2,0001. per annum by the French having pct cl themselves of the Margraviate, out of which the King of PRUSSIA p.tid that annual pen. sion. The Niers, eying, however, has realised an estate. of more than 10,0001. per annum out of the ravings of the late Margrave's lite-annuity, which he obtained for the surrender of that principality. The famous, aril so much talked of, ranting Match, between the Manchester mare that woo at Sunbury a few d.tys ago, and another mare called Phenonween, is to take place this day at Cambridge. They are to start on the road to Huntingdon, and fs miles, and then return the same chsrane..— M...,:r .linusestels of pounds are betted on this hu.i sess. II the koovring ones, and a great many •• yesterday to be present on toe occasion. MR. LtIDL At On Friday night, about ten o'clock, Mr. Cross land, the Solicitor to Mr. Ludlum's btother, went to the Public Office, Bcw-street, with the Lord Chancellor's warrant for securing Mr. Ludlam, under the Statute of Lunacy ; having learned that Mr. Ludlam was oeenpying a house in Tenterden street, Hanover-square. Adkins :LA Bacon, who were in attendant*, went with Mr. Crossland to the house in enterdee-slrlfet- They knocked at the T door, and inquiimi (or one of the servants; they were answered by a man in tfte house, without open ing the dnor, that he was not at home. 'they then inquired if Mr. Ludlam vales at home; the man said he wee not to be spoken with, and refused to open the door. The officers said they must see him, and if the deor was not opened, they would break it open; they then heard a great bustle of several persons in the passage, Fastening the doors and windows, and in a short time several men appeared ie the belcnny of the first fi sot, and desired the of ficer s to leave t!,e doer, which thy refused to du the men in the balcony then spruce a rattle, seve ral times, very violently, which t r.:ight a !ember of watchmen in the front of the house ; the men in the balcony gave charge of the officers, saying. they were attempting to breek into the house; and the watchmen were about to force the officers to the watch-house, till they at length convinced them who they were; when the watchmen sold the men in the house they would not take the officers into custody, except they n.°01,1 come out of the house, and go to the watch-Y e eise, to make good their charge, which they declined to do. The Offi cers remained some time longer, endeavouring to ' gain admittance; but finding all their threats and fait means fruitless, they left the house, not deeming it prudent to attempt breaking it open without the special authority of a Magistrate.. On Saturday morning the Offieers represented to M. Reel), the Sitting Magistrate at the Office, what had happened, and the state of the ease. — Mr. Rears, in consequence, direaed that the War met originally granted by the Loan M•eten, and backed by him, should be resorted to, and that a nuniher of Officers, well armed, should go with it • and, in case of a refusal to o p en the door, and there being no doubt cX Mr. Ludlam being in the house, to break it open. Mr. Helder, ope of the City Marshals, who was in possession of the War rant, was accordingly applied to ; and, about one o'clock, Mr. latelder, and Messrs. Adkins. Rivett, Pearkes, Cerpmeal, Taunton, R. Limberick, and Lavender, went armed with loaded pistols to the house in Tenterden-street, where Mr. 'Ludlam was supposed to be. Pearkes went forward singly. and 'mocked at the door ; he was answered by a stabler boy from the area, who asked the Officer what he wanted ? Pearkes replied, he bad brought a letter from Mr. Vandercotab, Mr. Ludlem's Solicitor, and he wanted to see him ; the boy went into the kitchen, and • retuned with an answer, that Mr. Ludlam could not be seen ; and, on the boy'. re turn to the kitchen, the dcior and windows were fastened, and a note was heard in other parts of Parkes gave a signal that he coul d not ga;.n ad mittance, and the other Officers came to him. They gave some violent knocks at the door, when several men emensinto the balcony. and dem:ended of the Officers what they wanted ; the veneers told them who they were, and whet they wanted. The men 'demanded to see their authority, the Officers sliew ed the Lord Chancellor's warrant, but told the men they could Oct reed it where they were, and re quested them to come down and open the ditta, or they must he under the necessity of breaking it open. The men replied, they ehould not; and that Mr. Ludlein was well taken care of, as he was under the management of too of Dr. Mouroe's men ; they then went in, and shut the whitlow. — The Officers then endeavoured to break open the d em• with an iron crow, but it was so well secured, that they could not accomplish it ; they were, therefore, under the irecessity of borrZiwing some large hammers, and other weapon', in the neighbourhood ; but even with these they could not break it open. They were, therifore, obliged to have recreant to other expedients to gam admit tance ; accordingly. several of them got into the area ; they endeavoured. in vain, to hteek open the kitchen door, likewise the windows, as they were secured with strong iron bars, es well as the shut ters; they endeavoured, by ir.treatics and threats, to persuade au old woman, whom they discovered in the kitchen, to open the door ; hut she said, she dared mot; ,she assured the Officers, Mr. Lrielem was not in the lower part of the house, and that she had not seen him tor above an hour. La vender at length contrived to get a standing in a cell of one of the parlour windows; and, by force. broke in the sash nnd 'hinters, and gained admit lance into the parlour; he immediately 'went to the street door to let in the other officers, tut he could not accomplish it, the door being double locked, and the key taken out; he, however, described the part of the door where the loc was, and the other officers soon forced it open. All the officers then entered the house wi:h pissoli in their heels, and preceded to search the closets, beds, chernnies, and every part they could suppose it possible for Mr. Ludlam to be concealed in. They proceeded to, the top of the house, where they found a trap-door, lead ing to the roof, and discovered that the e hwhol the oky-fight had been removed ; they were botery high from the stairs, and they eduld not for some time find any thing sufficiently high to enable them to ascend to them, till they discovered a ladder con creted behind a bed. On forcing open the trap door, a great quantity of rubbish, books, Sec. fell upon them, which they had no do_ribt had been placed there to impede their pursuit of Mr. Ludlam; they, however, got upon the roil, by the sky light, and traced footsteps in the peters, which they had no doubt were Mr. Ludlam', • they copinued their pursuit upwards of an hour, ! during which time they entered ill the houses in 'renterdeuestreer, Hanover square, and Oelord-sweet, that had any eonneetten ; but all the inhabitants denied having admitted Mr. Ludlam ; the officers were, eh-relate, obliged. very reluctantly, its give up their redcap pursoit.e. Duriro this extraordinary attack ot the of4cera, sever ii hundred Formes were assembled in the street to see the event . While the o ffi cers were seerchaag the house, they discovered mat Mr. Ludlum had just shaved himself ; h.s deals shirt aced boo. were before the 6re,laewise tw4,straiglst waistcoa7. There were two female servants, two children. Se veral male servants, two men, said to be. sent there by Dr. Monroe, to take care of Mr. Luellen, and 4 Mrs. Ludlam, in the house ; all these persons made considerable ridicule of the 'Officers, ar.d put them at defiance to find Mr. Ludlam ; particillar)7 Mrs. Ludlam. Pearkes observed to her, that he was only a few minutes too late, on the night Mr. Lud lam shot at Mr. Peacock, in the London Tavern, se;tire him. Mrs. Lir !lam replied, she knew that the consequence would have been he would have bad his herd blown off. As the °M e e t s w e re about to leave the home, an Officer, f:rn Marl borough-street Office, entered the hnu.e, to take Mrs. Lnellam mum custody, to answer a c!-:argt made againic her at that Office ; she, in consequence, set off in her czrri tge to Marlborough-street °lce. JAN. iO, COICERT,. Miss Parke made her fast appearance this season ; and snug Ttt tn' abandunnt °veto," an air that re quires a voice of uncoMMon comp iss and with great sweetness :our apparent ease. In the se. cond. aft, she gave a M.S. Potacta (her owl, com position, we believe), in a highly finished and ani mated style. There is not before the public a more accomplished female perlormer than this Lady. Independent of her vocal talents, she is an ex cellent theoricmu.itian,and a very fine praelical one, ow time piano forte, harp, and lute.— Bulger's Con certo on the violin, was greatly admired; his second movement was loudly and generally encored —Miss Sharp sang an Italian Air delightfully.—Migrath was particularly happy in pantie &IL: irAtionia," and an English Ballad by Cern, from the opera of Thar Tiauctiera; and Morelli drew down bursts of laughter and applause, in two at his hest Buffo, Airs. We were much di,sappointed at Bennett's absence; upon inquiry, we karst that that promising Vocalist I is confined with a severe cold and hoarseness. DUBLIN. JAN. S. PRIVATE CORIViStUNDENCE. Since Lady Cloncurry's Crier. Coo. noil,:ng has occurred in the fashionable world worth coonnu nicating to you, until, the announcement of the to,etridge of Feiward Lees, Esq. with the Countess of Auntsley. The marriage is said to have taken place previous to the departure of Mr. Lees for Lisbon, for ihc, recovery of bis heabh, to which place the Countess is now preparing to, follow Lim. This is the lady who has the curliest with the pre sent Ear: for the, family estates, as the widow of the late LAO, his brother ; whose heirs 417,pute legality of the marriage, on the ground that her Ladysiiip had a htuliand living• at the timo it took . _ place. The history of this Lady is very interesting. At a very early age, she w.ircied a man in the bumble stat;on of a gardener ; and, it is said. whilst be was living, entered into that Lappy state tsgait; with a privat3 in the Llownshire Militia, commanded by the late Earl of Anne ley, still a passionate ad mirer of beauty, though long past the grand e.'inr:c terie. His Lordship wit captivated by a glaiice irons the eyes of this bestwiful lady - ; her hnsbana's promotion follov.ed of course. In a short time after, the lady appear. d, Pallas like, in military (us tra..t—the helmet on her head, the lance in its rest, and her vest the uniform of the regiment. The most eminent masters were employed to cultivate her mind, and improve the natural graces of bar per son; and she is now a most beautiful, accomplished, and amiable woman. Ater her marriage with the late cart, she had two sons, who survived their father, and "whose cause she now defends. reei—rs—r7 --• , 9rwr The report of the surrender of Cattaro is wholly unfounded. A great number of Prussian prisoners have ef fet-ted their escape. There is no certain acconnt of the surrender of Graudentz, Calbetg, cr Breslaw. The British Minister at Vienna has established a post coromprication between that City and Enlace', by the circuitous route 'of Riga. That c•lantiel most, however, cease with the navigation of the Baltic. A house has been engaged at Hamburgb for the Duke of Meciti.arrauacii Scuvrcein. The Dere dirary Princess of Sass Vh'st at Alt will reside at Co penhiigen. Die Marl6es', j•RVIS; and the t ii:flbeth, Davis, from Gibraltar, have been saptcred off the "tack of Lisbon, b! a Spanish privateer. • Me Qeterral Hunter, M' NAILS, from GT.ellOOl, for Demerara,. ho been carried sold Corktiuta, by the MM. The boxing match, between Gulley and Meer, the leader or tire Jewish bruisers, will not take place ; as Petione refuses to fight, unless he be re warded with a considerable sum before sagas, ie. The trial of Captain Davis, of the Guars, on charges exhibited against him by Col. Bea tearyaw, is tweeted to finish this day. The Court Martial is sitting at Chelsea. A letter from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, dated the 7th instant, says:—" The French seem not to have trumpeted forth an empty threat, when they promised to inundate the ocean with their privateers ; for this port end Sunderland have experienced already the seeds of their piratical warier*, in the loss of 'torn twenty to thirty sail of colliers, coasters, and others, ort their passage betwixt here and London. I have jiisl , :arned. that within this week past, no less than toorteen have been seen by the pilots on the coasts of Northumberland and Durham, and on Friday last a heavy firing was heard from Tyne mouth, which coatinued an hour and a half, and is supposed to have been caused by an engagement with a Berwick smack, and one of those pirates who are hovering on our shores." Ovvivs.--On Wednesday last, Mr. FAWARD How 44444 s, jun. of %Velem, near Chirbury, in Sa lop, shot a dog utter on the river Cemblet, which weighed !21b. and measured from the head to the tail four feet. There ere Ow now at Gunley, near Chirbury, two tame otters, taken, when young, from use said gives.; they are s I tame, that they will fel low the servanb to the spout when washing, and one was a voracious as to setae a living toad and devour it immodhusLY. ATMINSTER SERNPONS—Jar. 10, Jelaiinn. Rogers, a professor of the Black Art, was brought up under the Vagrant AP, upon an in formation exhihited against her by eertrn young women, who had been :defrauded by her art:. To one she promised a husband before-she reached her '2oth year, rich, handsome, and tall.; and, to :m -other she promised male friends itrabundanee.. ot serving also, that her greatest enemies through life would be those of; her own sex. She took money from bath as the price of her prophetic lore, and was surrounded at the time of her dieinarans by symbolical devices, which, tie said, esaabled . lin• to look into tile womb of time. it happened, however, unfortunately for pea - tic justice, that there wet a 4atal objeftion taken to the information, and she was discharged, in all probability to repeat her imposi tions upon thr: unwary. Nan'om Thom/Aim, a man well educated, re r.peClatily ccnneete 1, and bred to the profession of the law, was imiiSted for conspiring with H'illison Hewett, a soldier its the Guards, to commit a . 4- te;t able nrime. After the exam7natian of %Valiant Con...tea:nisi:, Cnn'table of St. Julia's Parish, who was the un'y Wheless pro:Ali:La on the part of the prosectsticr, the Prisoners wet... pet mitred to make th:ir'elefen‘e and Thompson, in a very erieigetic a.:d manner, addressed the July. lie stated, that ore, though be had, for the greater part of his life waded through accumulated misfotrinos affbitions, yet, neither the recollection of his put sufferings, nor even his apprehen•ions of the punish ment consequent nn Lis convidlion, were half so, agonizing to his feelings as the gloomy aaticipation. (should he be conviCled) of the obloqay and con tempt mcessaiily entailed on a most respettable fa may in Yorkshire. of which he was a meniher. After a short constitution, the Jury fou.id both, the Prisoners G.o/tr ; and the Court sentenced . Thom?fron to six month's imprisonment, and to, stand in the pillory, at Charing-erns , , within the first month of that period. Hewett was sent: need to three month's imprisonment only, on account a hi s s services in tie army. W1Y1410.1 Jones, servant, was cond.-lee of loring, on the 17th of November, ohtain-d from Mr. Goodal, watch-maker, of Brydges-street, Covent garden, a watch, the property of Mr. Smith, of Chelsea, under the false pretence of lick& Sle. Smith's son. He was, however, ileteNd by hie own indiscretion, and caught iq the a 3 nf inquiring at another watch-maker's fora watch left these by Mr. Smith ; this watch-maker having been pee l vionsly acquainted with the above circumstances. The Court eiltencad hi:a to transportation seven years. A soldier was indifted for stealing a hat, the pro. •ci Drurs-Lane The'atre; as us-d in the titter.; ridence Pen,' tainment of Tclo ; but he was arpOrrraf, :he try' not substantiating the charge. A Elthy wzach, named Rennet!, WAS f'a'ir;: tad of indecent behaviour to a young WOMALI. who served in a pastry-cook's shop in Prince's-street. He was sentenced to three month's imprisonment in the House 'of Correition. The Sessions concluded 01;4 day 1 ' "7'7 - • s Sattyday, at Union• Hall, J. Has don was again examined on suspicion of trilarcimiring old Mar- Titecos; ire Delwrch Hermit. It appeared, that the Prisoner being lately in liquor at a public-horse in the Borinagli, and quarrelling with a companion, threatened to mut der him, as he had done old VIA r views ; on thi, he was apprehended ; hut there being nO regular proof of the crime, he was set at liberty. On Tuesday last, Piet, rd &ode, alias St4n4n, was detected stealing a bo .k from a shop in Swallow -s,reet, and on his person were found thirty-two Pawnbrokers' duplicates, for books pledged within the last year ; beside: several others, out of date. The Magistrates cf the Marlborough-street Office, committed him for a further el imination, t;11 Mm - day (this day), in order to give the bookseller; an opportunity of claiming their property, when a list will be produced cf ail the books pledged by him. It may be information to some, that she vegeta tion of small esculent plants C.Ol be promoted, in may season, in the following curious manner In a shallow dish, half filled with water, lay a piece of flannel, upon which strew the seed of the pla..t in tended to he raised. It wail take root in the flannel, and come to perferiftion. A singular and desperate battle was fought on Thursday morning at North Shields, between two old soldiers, one of whom was an Irishman. —As each of them wanted an arm, it Could not be czne3ed that the ookir srmire was so scientifically eit,played as to please an crviteur of that fist arr. Both stumps and fists, however, were el:Tomah employed, and the battle at length terminated fa tily to the gigantic Hibernian, whit% Mc-tiling a kick, accompanied with a shove, from the stump of his antagonist, though little more than half his size, fell to the ground, and btoke his leg. Mart —The enormous sum of 50,0001. may Le obtained bj the possessor of the First-drawn Tither, and 3,127.4. can be gained for Twenty , six Shillings: thus, by abstaining from a few bottles of wine, which may give ti , e' held:sae, or deferring the pur chase of a muslin gown, which may intail the Rheumatism, you may he made comfortable for life. Who is there then so unwise as not to call at Caws ea's, No. a, Charing-Cross, before the Wheel goes round, and add another Capital Prize to the Hundreds he ha, already sold. To gain Riche; is obviously the wish and rine• pal nhjeet of the world in general; but how to pos sess wealth odd my is the grand des:del-a:zoo. Can the whole tribe of Schemers propose any mode so speedy as that of a State Lettery ? Within a minute atter Ten o'clock To e motrow Morning, several fortunate Individuals are likely to participate of 20,0001. to which the very First-drawn Number is entitled. Adventurers will see, therefore, that they have net a minute now to spare, to obtain quail& kations for so inviting an °Ned. Remember ! Remember l—To-Mormw Merlin the Wheel goes round, with a certainty of Twenty Thousand P o und, ; likewise rosy had, ''hasty Thousands. Twenty Thousands, Ten Thotakandr, Five Thousands, &c. at Homage and Co.'s State Lottery Offices, 26, Cornhill, 52, Chariag Craw, and St. Mar.tarees Hill, 3orough. Noe. 33.979, and, 42.569, Prises of 40,0001. were sold by Ho ItISBY and CO.