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I :- : ~,. ~ _.l~ 1 ',X; POLTIIV. r Tho. Tar DUBLIN SVCS TIM POST.] T. old Birr town glad tiding. came, That his Grace of Richmond, and his Dame, • Did mean to eat and drink there And, as a castle there did stead, Belonging to a Noble of the land, Hard by this town so fair— His Grace, with all his nom'rous suite, Of Lords and Ladies, sn4 Knights to boot, Were ask'd therein to dine: And much ado, indeed, there wan, • Furl to provide for all their maws. Together with punch and wine. For know, ye Gentles, that, 'midst the crowd, Both high and low there were allow'd, All fur the nation's , welfare ; For, so lih'ral wow are Statesmen grown, All pride and nonsense they d.sown, And hanglity looks forbear. First came the puissant Charleville, With Lady, in her dishabille, And secants without number ; And Ashtowa, who, of PJnion fond, Was better paid, than by a hood— A title's sounding thunder. And next (as meet) inform appear, The Representatives ; whe, each year, Are howearably transported ; And can, in Parliament, say yes, When noisy Jacobins cry nay ; For which they're well rewarded. And now behold the list of 'Squire', Whose likeness (had you known their sires) Reminds one of the pleneh ; For much this worthy Peer dotb love, His great humility to prove, By herring them with hie how. And oh, how gay their Ladies shine, Bcderk'd is lace sod silks, so fine ; That, by my faith, you'd swear, No meni3l office e'er had spoird Their hands ; or coarse potatoes, boil'il. Had fed these Nymphs so fair. And, to avoid all bigotry, Within this castle you would see, Quaker, Protestant, and Papist I For bour, in early days, this Lord, Ras, by the Catholics, quite silued, Tho'alter'd sow big case is. Pot, as fur that, the time is past e 311 must be fOrgi'en at last— And so tar good man thought, Therefore, that lie might say the r -L Wherein we're taught bow to fo.io:r, Of malice, he knon s nought. But, let me tell you, Gentles, hew It puzzled the 'Squires which way to bow, When they should see their Grates ! Art the poor Ladies much did question, Whether curt'irying at Court was fashion ; And how to compose their faces. Besides, in some old hook, they'd read, That, veto a 'face Majesty, so dread, Poor suhjects, *Wit, should stand : Asa, if the etiquette, in town, was such, That these grist people they should touc►, Which was the way to kiss their head. &hold the Banker, groat is state, Well knowing both his worth slid weight, Like beads, hipper-centre telling; And, as he views each flaunting belle, Bethinks him, " this expere is well, " I soon shall buy her dwelling " The Yeomen next, in coats all new, Bespoke, hut late, for the review, Like bandbox men appear; Nor is their seeming mach amiss— For, tho' they. fight shout a kiss, These pasteboard men I fear. I nearly had forgot to say, Hew (I—f—t's Bishop there did pray, W.th bands and eyes uplifted; No doubt, with pious hope, that soon, Uc woold receive sure gracious boon, And to a better see be ebifted Oh, may his ardent pray'r he heard, And may he soon he so preferr'd, That changing time shall cease ; His hopes, his fears, to cireismveiit, Aod fleeting pow'r be so spent, That be may rest in peace. And as the Church has said, amen, 'Tr time that I should check my pen, And come unto an end ; For dr' moc► matter still cringing, . To exercise my quill and brains, 1 will the tale aiispend. But ere I bid you thus adieu, fain would tell ye that • few, Amidst this crowd there were, Who well intinmed had early been, Ausl much of stately tea had seen, As also real Ladies fair ; And well they knew what court be poly, When to say aye, mid when say n.iy, Without a vulgar fur; All also in what form torero!, If seed sherd be to kiss the band, So farewell Lord of R—sse. The Earl of CAMDEN has been icry much indis posed for about tea days past, p Inch was the cause of the Noble Earl not attending Hi•-- Mares:Tv, last Wednesday, at the Levee ; nod also of his n ot be ing present at the nomination of the Sheriffs, by the Loiters of the Comictt. and the Jut:am in the Court of Exchequer, on Monday, as President wf the Council. The accounts which hare appeared lathe Noble Earl having attended several Cabinet Cowncils, during the above time, of course. are erroneous. Sir W •LTEIL FaaQuuar. attends the Noble Earl four times a-day. Mr. DENT has decliaed the representation of the borough of Lancaster. The Honourable Member has made his intentions known by a puhlic adver tisement, addressed to the freemen of the town, stating that he shall not offer himself at a fiat's e election. • LAN' INTELLIGENCE. CJUIET OF KING'S BENCH, WasTagisrme,NoT. 13. The Grand Jury of the county of Middlesex were this day sworn in as usual. Mr. Justice (hose, in a ♦ery eloquent charge, adverting to the present disturbances at Covent- Garden Theatre, observed, that having, so deposi tions before him, ner any particular information, he could only speak to the law on this head generally. Any assault or riot, tending to the destruction of the property of an individaul, was undoubtedly a misdemeanour, an that of the highest nature.— It was also a breach of that good order, by which the bonds of society were held together, and for the sake of which mankind associated, and entered themselves into ties of social' intercourse. That, from the description of those persons said to he concerned, no doubt the perpetrators were actuated by the worst of views; hut as lie was unacquainted with soy of the circumstances, except from repos,, he left it to their cosi,itler..tioti, soil trusted they would act, in any cases that came beiore them, with their usual judgment end cluscrettou. POLICR. DOW-STRINST, NOV. 14. COVENT-GARDEN RIOTS. A gentleman charged M. John Arutt, belonging is the Victualling-Office, Somerset-601'6e, and residing in Clement's-Intl. with assaulting t its in one of the boxes. He MOW, that he wsamtgro to make this duns, as be had bean In habits of intimacy with the Defendant, and that he had accompanied the Witness's wife, with other lashes, to the Theatre. The witness, after seeing thetn seated iii hex No. •I, in the second tier, went to cite of the annual boars, leaving the Defeadact to protect his wile He was but a few moments in the ..irate box, when hr perceived some persons in the next from that which be had left, who, from their gestures, seenied insulting his Lady; one of them inapt his fingers M her face. He immediately went Ismail, but was at first prevented from getting into the box; with some diffirulty be gut in, and was informed by several Geo tknien, that hn wife bad been grossly insulted by suine per- DOM in the ad:pt.:inn box ; ease of theta was then in the *are, and his name was Walker. He, the witness, being much agitated, sa:11, they most be scoundrels mid black guards who would insult a female ; en which the Defend ant said tbcy were not; they were his friends; and 'struck the Plaintiff a blow on the face which knocked him down. This irstsmony was corroborated by smother ',tufts.... Or&red to find bail. Mr. Jan Broom was cheered with creating a riot it the pit of Ceseat.Garden Theatre, by wearing an 0. P. iu his hat, and walking up and dowo the pit, un the seat e. Mr. Brandon stated, that, before the first act of the play, be saw the Defendant in the pit, with an 0. P. in his hat, standing up and couversing with several other, partici.- laity one who had a newspaper in his hand. th e ' :middle of the art, the Defendant took the 0. P. out of his hat, and left the pit, bnt returned at the commencement of the second Act he set down, 01:14 1110jille41 t h e O. P. again ; after which, hr ran up and slows the seats of the pit, now and then looking up at the boxes, which drew the atten tion of a great number of persons, and created a riot in the bottle during the performance. Mr. Daniel Davis corroborated Mr. Brandon's testimony, sad stated, that be had uhserved the Prisoner walk op and down on the seats of the pit for more than to minutes. Mr. GRA WAIN, the Sitting Magistrate—" When 'on say he was walking or the seats, was it as a man wishing to change his seat, or to create a riot " In my judg meet, it was to create a riot " The Defendant, is his defence, stated, that he did wear an 0. P. in his hat ; end produced it ; he denied that he had created any rim —A person from behind the Defendant asked, if he was to be committed fur wearing, au 0. P. in his bat Mr. Gftlit•lti suggested the impropriety of such • gees lion He bed asked Mr. Davis, who was • Gentleman be Iriew to be of legh respectability, whether the Defendant had guise through the pit with an apparent wish to create a riot i and he had answered ha the affirmative; he therefore begged he (Mr. Graham) might act be actin interrupted. The Defendant was ordered tii find bail. Ifitliam Colley, who stated he was • saddler, residing at Richmond, was charged by Mr. Samuel Hester, surgeon, St. Nfartia's.lane, with blowing a whistle, in the two shirting gal Ivry of Covent-garden Theatre, during the performance; his testimony was corroborated by one of the Pateole ' who stated that he had taken twelve whistles from the Defendant's pocket. The Defendant, in his defence, said, he only Caine from Pichntond that day, aid had bought the whistles for handles of whips, which were in the line of his trade. He never had been in the theatre berme hr saw a great number of persons hissing at a female, in one of the boxes, who had min. behaved herself, and lie took out one of his whistles to join in the seise, bet he did not know he was doles "mug. He was ordered to Lad bail; but stone appear's'', he was com mitted. irwhan Bi g p“ was charged with feloniously stealing • lied, the property of Daniel Desovan, of Stewares.rents, Drs."-lass.—The Prisoner was sera cosousi oat of the Pro serutor's house, with a lied as his back, by Mary Aan Bell, on the 6th inst., and the lied was Ikrand is the pussessioa of the Prisoner the same afternoon. _ The Prisurser was folly etteusitted far trial. UNIOS-111iLL, NOY. 14. VIOLENT ASitiVET: Deinets, a patrule, was brought ►efore Sir Jmm■ PIN- Notts, charged with baring severely wounded a poor mall, named Laws, on Sunday mer Nat. It appeared that Laws had bees paring the preceding evening at a public-house is alms oeighbeurhond, where he bad met with a sailor, who, previa( to be a countryman, both coming from Birmingham, Laws bad invited him to go and sleep at his home ; the sailer bad accepted the invita tion, and they went home together ; the sailor, however, be coming quarrelsome in his ruse, Laws, although a military man, found it necessary to call M the aid of the rival power; be aecordingly baikd Daniels, and requested his assistance to turn the sailer into the street; Daniels, however, instead of doing ku, week Laws, and, wising him by the collar, desired hint Out of the house; and Laws' wife crying '.sat that her husband woold he killed, Daniel' swore be would have his life, and, striking at him with his sword, wounded him severely en the head.—Liws was taken to the hospital, where he still remains, and Daniels was remanded till Laws is safficieetly recovered to appear at the office. The Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas sat until elet en o'clock, yesterday. They then rose, after having assented to some motions, of course, and flirt the Barons of the Exchequer, in the Exchequer Chamber, where they were ocetipied the whole of the day., in hearing arguments on an ar rest of judgment, of no interest but to the parties concerned. An affray, rather of a serious nature, took place at twelve o'clock, on Monday night, in the neigh bonrhnod of gerkeley-Noiarc : A party of gentle men had been pavving the evening at a house of no good repute, one of whom having been cumbered of about sixty pounds, and not being able to recover his property, they all joined, and deufnlished the windows. All the Mary-10-Bonue watchmen attended. Gen. 11ot:it:TAO Gm. OSTEN, wiin were brought to England Troia the isle of Waleheren, .e prisoners of war, are at present on parole in the town of Litchfield, with a great number of officers, and up. wards of two hundred other pi igniters. The bells of St. Mary's Chapel, Litchfield, summon them every evrniug at five iIiCIOCII to their traiirtcrs. • • 471 AT DO YOW fFAIVIIV As an espressiou to this effect his been attri- Luted to Mr. Kenaile, mud construed into au in cult to tl.e public , it is worth while to consider whether it really' will bear that interpretations or nut ? For our parts, .having attended the Thea tre every night since it operseds-ahaving carefully li-tened to ali the clamours of the opposition, both th.'re and elsewliere--and having 10411.41 must of tb •ir wretteu statements, as common-0 in the public wino, devoted to the proinotiou of that cattier (per fen out melds), we are free to confess, that, after all the minute attention we 'have paid to the matter, we would even, at this late moment, be very ranch inclined to repeat the Manager': request, and say to these people, 44 IYAnt is it that you want ?" Amid the urine calls we hear, we would be glad to know which (if any there he) are those that may fairly be called the voice of the public. When Mr. liemble appeared on the stage, he was assailed by hundreds of tongues, clninorous for at least twenty different concession's. When he spoke to one point, he found that the multitude disagreed as Much among themselves, as there were points to differ about. Baffled in hit attempts to reconcile irrecon cileable dittereuces, and to understand, amid the Babylonian confusion that prevailed, whet was 130 t to be understood, Mr. Kernble.cuott properly, and with every token of respect due from au actor to an audience, begged to have their wishes specifi cally and 4 , in a tangible shape," made known to the Proprietor of the Theatre. We cannot con ceive a line of conduct more consistent, more re spectful, sod more likely to produce a fair under standing than this, and the utmost perversion of reasoning must cutely have been resorted to, to Tonle it, for one instant, he believed, that it was either derogatory 9r insulting towards the public diguity. Siring, therefore, that Mr. Kendile has been misunderstood, we beg, w a more full man. tier, to request of you, 0. P.'s, to inform us ‘. What you scant r Do ye went Old Prices ?_—Many of your leaders declare that they are not your °Neel. Du ye want to undertake the sole management of the Theatre. for the purpose of saving the concern the expense of salary to a Manager ?—You have already dour so gratis. Drip wont to prescribe what are the proper terms to actors ? \llia are the proper actors to be en gaged ? IVbat is. the proper scenery to be em ployed in every piece ? What are the proper deco ralions;and what plays ought to be received—a hat rejected?--You have interfered in most of these points--why not in all ? Du ye want to be considered ns t h e " British Publicr—Lf so, &mean yours-tars like Britons. and do not bring disgrace on your constituents, by obscene language to defenceless females ; by op pressive and overhearing insolence towards a weaker party ; by manually rulfien-like conduct in public theatres, and public streets, and by receiving bribes fur your services. Do ye want to burn the Theatre Neolf on, pursue your innocent system of flying births about the house, with placards attaehed to them ; a little farther, and-attach souse combustible metier to one of these harmless sparrows ; if that bird be too small for the precious breeders, employ a pigeon, winch, by chance, may alight on a lamp or chande lier; the paper, may, by chance, each fire, and the poor afl'righted bird may, by chance, take refuge among thecombustible materials of %oh . eh the scenery is composed. By thus means you will accomplish your purpose. Do ye went the Proprietors to come on their knees before you, and beg your pardons, for your having oppressed and ruined them ?—Surely no thing can be more reasonable, or consonant with the spirit of Euglishineu and British justice. Do ye want them to discharge all their old and faithful servants, because these screams have had the fortitude to serve them faithfully, hi the most trying of times ?eseCertainly this is • very proper mode of rewardiug honest services; and, of coarse, those TOl3 recommend es their succes sors in office will be careful to merit similar re munembou. Quatrae-Have you not got Si. able Ministry to conduct the affairs of the country ? Do ye want all the prosecutions to be dropped ? No : for you tell us they will all ultimately end in the confusion of the prosecutors. those vile offend ing Managers. Every one of you, Gentlemen, is too consistent for that, D 4 ye want a row, or a revolution L... But why swell the catechism ?—Do, Gentlemen ! ye en lightened and liberal representatives or the Public, who receive four sAilliwgs a-head to sport noise, red-nightcaps, and O. P.'s ! ! !—Do tell us, for once, what do ye avast! QUICTUs. Ills MAJcirrir is expectrsl iu town, this day, to huh! a Private Levee and Privy Council at the Qum'''. Palace. Yesterday. Sir DAVID MAMAS held a public day at his Office in the Horse Guards, and gave audience to a number of Military Officers. The Kum has been pleased to Nominate, con stitute, and appoint, Bonet Du isDAS. Eaq. Writer to the Signet, to be Conjunct Clerk to the BilL in the Office of His Mossstv's Registers and Rolls in Scotland, vacant by the death of Roam Att- STRUTHIBIL. Esq. The ktas has been pleased to constitute and appoint the Right lion. /War Boron lgui.siaava. Sir KICIIARD BicALItrOX, bpi. Vice-Admiral of the Red Squadron of His MAJESTY'S fleet ; Ro sure.Wsam Esq. Jawes BUELER. Esq. WIL LIAM-DORMICE, Esq. Vice-Atluairal of the Blue Squadron of His MAJESTY'S fleet ; Rosser Moot sou, Esq. and Wswass LowTsisa. E3q. (com monly called Viscount Lavrracit.) to be His MA JESTY'S Commissioners for executing the office of High-Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the dominions, islands, and territories thereusto belonging. The Master and Wardens of the Bakers' Com pany waited on the LORD Mayn't, yesterday, to sat the smile and price of bread. His Lordship, after examining the Mealweighers' account, ordered the price to be continued rat Is. ald. the Quarteru Loaf Wheaten, and Household Is. 20. The Peggies of Fo,herroo, JAMES CEROIIO/1/1 master, out wrecked on the Scow, 19th September last, on her passage from Gotteuburg to Fisherrow ; all the crew saved, but made prisoners of war, and scut tiO miles into the inicilor. ~•~ a CONTEST AT OXFORD. TO THE EDITOR. • Sitt..".lfl all coateete, and 10 itll canvasses, it is much to be desired that the ;ntrties shuntd proceiat with flumes* and equity. To tech luny very ffirly be allowed e natural reagerUtti§ end anxiety to 'mike their CAUSE good, and to place their favourite Can didate in the most favour Able point of view. But in this, moderation ought to be ohseri ed.; fur once laud' is deviated from, it Is difficult. to ray from what point absolute falsehoods shall not begin. It is inspossifile to prevent the circulatiou of dubious and magnified rumours, respecting ilie strength, expectations, and intentions, of a Candi , dote; but to misrepresent three, is not eutisisteot with the character of fuir and honourable oppo.. silents. We :night naturally suppose, that a ?ible man, posses/4e - :h eio;- - lualiticationa as Lord jcet of assailed the banefi gret to ha, few days, bricated pose of midi siry, who intelligence s. of the public pi. The following tieolnitlyiniirti • First —Ti popularit, non that which hod) I.4.llVeti to ft It is cum deceive ; ) that Lord aitaries ' 4 pall ; at the head Second= part against dent Canons he Yo ; I twenty ; hundred whom, vute for I, to bedivided Aldan. Third= the Vol IV e lament lute shout , ' _ Naval promise and Aim, to be false satiated medium conducted Before a custom. bars at v` the Dui of the weapons and dread i comef, affirm, Tempos We 0 cresprit, cislly to wince. leis thue std M ancient a, Duke of Da , n4 - not to . pleasure, phy, and it would I Eldon its influence slate hope that to honor► Lord Grenville Oat roice. reward days of whoever this evil S 1 trifled in town, in - . length been given for the release of the wumen.—A Gentleman also contrived to make his escape, and came over in the same vessel, en American. lie left Paris on the 4th summit. They all confirm the account of IioNAPARTE'S epilepsy, and say that be continues at Funtaitibleso, for the purpose of re crititirm his health. But his mind is as active as ever. lie is, if possible, more rancorous than ts, r ' in his enmity to England. All tbeendestrours that have been made by the British Government to /,•, cure an exchange of prisoners, or the enlarizet, of those detained at the commencement of have failed. They all speak of tie state of Amu. ti trines, that prevails in the country. Universal rem pleints are heard of the fatal effect, of his insortinble ambition. The cletermenition of Miti.iters to esmettate !. k cheren, is at length officially announced, and t , ,e necessary arrangements for the purpose are 11%)0/ making. The Transport Board, we uoderstood, have given orders se their vespective A gent. et the ibfferent ports to get ships ready to send to that Island, to bring sway the garrison and stoma. • Earl O'Nett.c is arrived in Dublin, to attend official duty at the Post-Office, as successor to the • Earl of Ct. Clic tare. Thu Res:,/ation, Capt. BUNKIII, of New-York, for London; the lb/Jewell, of ; the 11e... rietfot, of Boston; Laconiu. of Porsitioutit ; a Int; belooging to Jersey, and it drip bound to Plymouth, are raptured by the Decade privateer, of Iti via.. • and WO men, from rwurtleaux. t . 1 ... , 1 ;;.11 ,:..i. . .. rissessing such eminent qualification., as Lunt le Joes, for the situation ut present the it:i- -• , his very laudable ambition, would he lin- .. by the sting of malevolence, untinicieril I.: ". alit effects of petty jealousies. But we rr- • ! - have occasion to observe, that, a ithin the i..-t s, several reports have been inelicionsly fa- ! and spread abroad, merely for thy par- misleading those Gentlemen of the Unit et- io live at a distance, and who may hoe iit. euce of the University Polities, but fir inetic is , whim prints. . following are those to which we more pier. , rininte :- -That Lord Grenville, conscions of the MI. •ity of his cause, and of the decided m . i .i si . it he is likely to meet with from the Cleric ; „ lied) forms nair-tentlis of the voters, Las ri- m resigu. ' 4 .4 CUM' to see through tine paltry attempt to 1 but the Masters of Arts may be assure iril (. supported as he is by Me highest Di)h. f • of the Church, tern not resign, eV will stand V mud ;we dare confidently engirt at) will/re 'II head of that poll. .. art—That his own College is for the most . i ;ainst huh. grant, that perhaps the majority of re a l- l anon, and Masters in Christ Church, mac It but the Lumber of theie dues qpt exceed ; whereas, that powerful Collegf has two r i and TAisfy Numbers oit its banks ;of no lets than one hundred end .)hrtylvse r Lord Grenville ; feinting eighty fiat rotes sided bctwecti the Duke of Beaitfort and Lord it) d—That the Archbishop of York votes for it it ike of Beaufort. lament that the name of this ex -client Pre. Duld have been prostituted to such mean per- I . • Dis Grace gave an unqualified and uncondi- • . - aniline of support $4 Lard Grenville. ,`•1 I hihrications, Mr. Editur, are as chimed)? 1 nirdly invented, as they can be easily proved. i dse ; and I know of no method, so well CA- I to check their noxious influente, we the II of your widely-extended, and admirably - .' ;ted paper. LP ets I conclude, I must beg leave to deprecate Is ' en, ton prevalent among the younger ;new.- t 'the Viiiversity, of holding up to ridicule. ' i ike of Beaufort and Lord Eldon, by means most gross and vulgar caricatures. These is are unveortley of scholars and of gentlemen ; reading, as twit do, lest they may appear to , .. 'nom the friends of the other vary, we can • with truth, Non tali anvho, Inc cktensoribusiatii, mem eget." do not, however, object to fevers! fees • t, to which this canvass has gureit rise j . espe- to a copy of verses, written with resit ele. in the Latin latignage, and attril.uted to no in three persons (the Bev. Mr. C. Mr. C. S. lifts B. well know,r for her actin 1111 l tram to t is well as modern languages), in which the of Beaufort is represented as canvassing - - end the Wood Nymphs, who requert him forsake their enchanting haunts, and the res of the chase, fir dell Aristotelic Odin*. ad the keen subtleties of the schoolinen, which !d necer be in his power to comps ehoid : Lord as canvassing itstrira, who tell, him. that Are ce on earth is not sufficient I. give any Can.h. ipe ; bat consoling him with the reflection, . be • goad Chancellor of England, is Iles • enosigh for any moderate man to aspire tr : lrenville as canvassing the Muses, lobo. mirk 're, promise him their cordial support, as the t of his faithful attachnwits to them, since the r his infancy. We trust, that the Author, er he may be, will be prevailed upon to give .quisite tittle poem to the public. I tun, Sir, your humble Servant, A MENsro, or CONVOCATIuN. mil ladies, who have been inhumanly de- in France during the war, have arrived in in consequence of the order which has at been eiven for the release of the vromen.,—A lir •