The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1809-11-07 00:00:00

:Pt - -• • attiffa,. 11 . 0 THE EDITOR OF TH e BRITISH PREM. ita—Mr. Heury Burgess, of Coeson•slreet, May• Fair, *Aso calls himself the Solicitor tit the Prato-W.lmo( Drury lase Theatre referring to the letter addressed by me to the papers on the tat instant, has alleged, in apparent con trailictia,? to my statement, that an action has been eon. rueit:•eil agaisst me at the suit of those Proprietors Mr. Burgas% who seis in. this case on %%lingo( the Right Honourable Richard Brineley Sheridan, has, with a jilemt In which few men excel, attempted to convey the worst description of fallacy ; name*, a fallacy in the language of troth. _ . An action certainly has been commenced against me. It MS4 nut commenced, however, Oki two days after I had declared that no such proceeding existed; and had publicly called uu the parties to make good the threats they Ind been previously holding out. The auurzed mite : . rout my Solicitor. Mr. Allen, will then that nay statement is correct ; and that the insinua tion aimed at by Mr. BiltTeta, namely, that an Elicit bail h.vii-conlinenced, when lamerted it had not, is unfoutuled. • Th.: action against me is brought in the names of Mr. Sh -robin of his sou Mr. Thomas Sheridau, of Mrs. Richard -44u, and Mr. Grubh. 1 have received a letter, however, try l m Mrs. Richardsoa ; in which that lady not only dis kfasiinits,the baring authorised any such proceeding; but de clares if had been adopted, &star as she is concerned, against hei judgment and express injunction. 1 know not whether it be uuluel.y, sir nut, for the reputa tiou of Mr Burgess, dist lie should have puldislard a letter importing an untruth ; or that be aliocld hare used the name of a person, iu an acr..sis at law, a;aitist the couscnt and directions of !!!".1 pin sou. Without enti.ring, however, into Vrestiat discussion, lam quilt fattened, trop thebe ..",:vciumos, that Mr. Bus gess is a worthy agent to the at tempt made to convert me into the servant of u p wturrship with which I have fo.mi d nu connection, and with which I eeri4inly mean oeverto be is any way cr4nerteil. I forbear further remirk, until the proper inutneut ; and am, Sir, your moot obedient Ser►aat, KOIIEIT WILLIAM ELLISTON. Stratford place, No►. 6, toot). As Solicitor to Mr Elliston, I base to state, at his re qneet, that I received process from Mr. Burgess, incluaed iu • a note, dated the 34 Mat. and that the mores' was twin. sed as issued ou that day, namely, two days Mier the date of Mr. Ellistna's letter in the puSlic papas. W. E. ALLEN. 19, New Sink/re-street, Nev. 6 Imo. (WENT-GARDEN RIOTS. After the anal-contents hat the Theatre, last night, they formed into a doulde column, and marched, two by two, to the newspaper offices, in a body of about three hundred. After visiting The Chronicle and Post, they paraded before Tut Bat- tliti Pails office, and honoured it with three groans ! They then proceeded to Fleet-street. but with dinai nished numbers, tiiio they arrived at The .Stitesalan's office, which they greeted with thei r usual congratulatory noise. Some of the tinglead - era, with o.l'. in their hats, then called not—" To Keusble's house !" and the call wus instantly obeyed. They took their course up Fleet-street. At the end of Chancery-lane, they rallied, aud, after receiving orders frsin some of their heads, they proceeded (obliging each watchuurts to lake off his hat) up Chancery-lane, until they came to the Re corder's house, where dal , gave three groans. Here, curious to relate, one of those friends to order found, that the person who hid la-en welkitt7 with him,and whom he kiudl♦ supported, by the as►istance of his arm, had picked Isis pocket. He called lustil for the wateis; but the guardians of the night, frightened from their duty, were deaf to his cries. They then proceeded through Holborn, to Mr. Kenshle's house, in Great Rot ssellnitreet, Blooms bury; on their arrival there. they did not exceed, in number, more than oue hundred, but appeared well organised. They dr•w up its array► and tunic a position near the area rails. They commenced with a groan for Mr. lernble. The patrols, who were also under eactllent discipline, formed in Bury.stieet, which faces Mr. Ketuble's house, and caws up. Wi• body of about thirty, with several Ma . gistrates at their hce.t, and warned the populace to disperse, as they were, perhaps, unknowing's. committing a breach of the peace. They ex changed positions, and they retreated to the op posite side of the street. end left the patrols is pos session of that port of the house next the errs. Two divisions of the . patrole then appeared, one from Bloomsbury-sugar', the other from the op posits point. in • Itaissell-street. The disorderly crew were thus completely hemmed in and OW. rounded. The rioters attempted to clmunt verse of flak ISrifawaie, after which they gave three groans for Mr. Keintde, and three cheers for Mr. Clifford. The riotous disposition. which we thou..ght wee pot down hr the appearance of the pinkie, now Invoke forth with load cries •I Co it f—go it ~ - -ttn,aestlz. thereby, attack the lomre)—Chtford fir ever ! The patrols.. who formed in 11,aq-street, seeing !to+r inten tion, trietly walked int.) the centre of I to simmer: and each of them, .witliont the lead uppositiois, eartitel Mr id, mail, to the several we:eh-houses in tae iseighbourlfood. • Tot ouralmit of persons taken lute eststorty. we sit: pine. amounted to twmity. 11• ta u s ..one Velth , lat the least cli lathatice. The rem-abider then dispersed, or otherartpe itcht.-rted thettorliret, getting dose up to geotlenie o , tis he were 'mere sine. Igor', with a wish to rte•id hi the sonpre.ritio of the riot, if necessary. 1:y tnelist o'clock Wessell-street WOO once more re, tor.il to peace. Titus coded the riots vii outrage, eivitinsitted o!mit Mr. heitible's house, in Illooinsbou ; fib, we flatter nor:wives Mod there will not lie a repetitiou of the trent. riremmtanee remind.) of the riots (if, indeed, like the present, they deserve that name), in the mi)•nrolty of Mr. Comfit., in 1790. For several ItileCt"?blVC u:ghta, loo:lieic of the pope.. lace paraded the streets, sod broke the limps sod windows iu sever'al 'nets of the city. •If any thing could Ind:late liillll outfoxes. It was the alleged cause. They complained of the high price of bread, Tr. u )0.4 not withbul for they *ere tettisiontoti to eat bread; and were ntn, liko the men who com plain of the advance of prices of admission to the Theatre, persons not in the habit of visiting it. At the commencement, however, of the riots in 1799, to which we allude, .the populace broke' into the house of a Mr. 4usith, iu litackfriars'-road—a man with a large family, and a very hunted income tit the time, but a partner with a Mr. Rural ) ", who was supposed to be a large dealer in corn. Mr. Smith could no more hare con trollied the proceedings of his firm, than Mr. liernble can control!l those of Covent-Garden Theatre ; yet, such was the fury of the mob, it is thought his life would not have been safe, hid they found him. The tumult thence spread itself into the city, upon the line from Ludgate-hill, northward to the City-road. The Mansion House and 11'ors.•.iit-street office were every day filled with these misguided people.appreheinled in the course of the precedimr, night. The whole civil power of the city wits on constant duty with the Lord Mayor (Mr. Coushe) at its fiend, oho did hiniaelf Milano al honour by the humanity which he displayed, always heading firmness with concilia tion, but never allowing himself a moment's re. pose. Still, the riots increased. and it was impos sible to calculate the length of their duration. At length, however, the-rioters, after demolishing the windows in Bantull-row, proceeded to attaelta great tin-ware manufactory, close to the turnpike on the high-road in that visioity. The Proprietor was a Quaker, and, as such. suspected of bring a dealer in corn, and the members of that profes sion do not use fire-arms. The Quaker's house. it was then supposed, would prove an easy conquest; but it never occurred to the assailants. that it con tained a force of upwards of :to young mon, will armed, and prepared for defence. This was the num ber of workmen in the employment of the Quaker. who, apprised of the enens j 's approach. equip ped themselves with the arms of the isle a Man; tint is. they knocked out of their stools the spokes of old coach wheels, winch constituted their legs, and wielding theta as bludgeons, they sallied out, and beat pc ace and order with such success into the heads soil Iders of the mob, as to effect their eomr: to tspersion; still they never rallied after. Thus etuled,the riots of the City, which had defied the civil power for several days, and excited very general alarm and consternation. THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON. TUESDAY, Nevus's& 7. We have received German Papers to the ?Alla alt. the snlistaace of which is gives in a. Ruby,. spent column. They state that 1.0,000 of the Grand Army will proceed directly to Spain, and that the Officers of the Imperial Girard, deitttiteri fur that service, have liven iufur,rted that they will be y allowed to stop only three days in Paris. The other moiety of the Grand army will remain in Aus tria until the emiclo•ion of peace, Joules being lir tertatineJ that Russia will refuse to guarantee the treaty. To reduce the gallant Tyrolese to subjec tion, will j 1 t t render the preNenee of a French force rwrossory is tleit roorter.—A report prevailed, that the. Toulon fleet had sailed, and that the British were in ptirsoit of them. The more we conteins late the Treaty of Peace recently concluded between France and Austria, through the medium of obscurity and uncertainty in !which it *till remains enveloped, the more do we incline to Isriwife, that it is only a short pause-4 moment of respite, to he speedily followed by new convulsions. This opinion we could sustain by facts. So long, indeed, as Austria remains a Con tinental Power, peessessing Hunger'', Bohemia, and their dependencies; old while the Tyrol. Walchea fen, Spain, and Sicily, still present to KOPIATAIITB objert4 of attack or of apprehension, it cannot be ' said of him, as Juutwa6 does of ...._Ar-seaNDtai: " Luau iaktia ammo Matto saisali." He will suou, we doubt not, re-appear, either beyond I • the Pyrenees, or, perhaps, more proliably, in the vicinity of Flushing. Lei us, :Nevertheless, avail ourselves of this trausitory interval of precarious re . pase shroud, to tiller our eyes homeward, and to proceed In our review of those Individuals to whom the Souereixii has delegated the ardisons ti 0.14 in this critical permA, of repelling the rdurts of the Corsican for our d-struction or sobver.i.m. Lord LititaroJt., if not from priority of rank, or of age; yet,unqucstionahly, from his talents and considera tion, merits our lust attention. It hats fallen to the lot of this Member of the Cabinet, at en early period of his natural, as well as politie.il tile, to have tilled more offices, and to have undergone more tramformations, than, we believe, any Minister or Stutesinsii, wove the elevation of tile House of Hanover to the throde, has ever ex perienced. In the course of between eight and nine years, he has successively appeared at the head of the three <kiwi tments, as Secret/it). of State. itiving begun under Mr. ADoincaon, with the fureipg, he was- removed backward by Mr. PM' to the Home, and he is now thrust forward (Mart ••••ly, as it is said, on his own part) by Mr. Pica t.TVA 1., to the War and Co/oases. We should, nr , Trihrlev% grossly err, it we attributed to versa rail or lieeituhty of talents, that change in (Ace, wirick result s, aitibitilist CIA the 10,.• of place. Yet is the precedent, we are sure, sinique. JUNIUS, 111 1769. when addressing the Duke of Gas F lON, then First Minister, says—" Your ' Grace has now completed the revolution of the political Zodiac, from the : 4 i'corpion, in which 3nu stung Lord CRATUADI. to the hopes of a Virgin, in the house of Bloomsbury." But, the revolution, which, in the Duke, WS3 only metaphorical, or In r sonal, has been politically realised by Lord Listen root. Not that our history is deficient in illustii ons instances of similar nietainorphoseb. DRYDEN, in his poem of Absalom *not Achitophei, describing a Secretary of State of that period, a member of the C'abal," we mean the second VI Li.tcas, Duke of Bt'CIIINORAM, characterises him as one— " Who, in the course of one rliVUltillg Was poet, statesmuu, fiddler, and buffoon." Nay, even in more modern times, and since the commencement of the present reign, Omicron.," commemorating the versatile parts of Dr. am, whom the late King of SWEDE* made a Knight of the Order of Vasa, exclaims— '' For who so well can grace the motley list, Actor, Projector, Doctor, Botanist !" It is evident, therefore, that Lord LIVERPOOL may plead some eminent examples, though not precisely analogous to his case. • If colistitutioual coldness of character. if habits of reserve, silence, and cautiou, added to an heredi tary knowledge of all those arts of compliance and of utility, by which the hue Earl of Livearoot. rose from obscurity, to occupy the non-deseript situa tion abaut the Throne, which he so long filled—if these qualifications entitle to office, the pp sew Earl is abundantly provided with them. He gave, in deed, as long ago as 170, nuffifestations of an early and a premature political ragout, in that Mt. tnoruble G. March to Paris," by the plan of which he commented hi. Parliaineutary career in the House of Commons. As he is no* placed at the head of the War Department, he may have so opportunity if reducing to practice this youthful vision. To him, toy, we are indebted fur another work---the signature of the late poste, in 1801; or, rather, of that precarious itispeusion of hostilities, which it was found impossible to titaiutein beyond the pe riod of seventeen =Oath, I Thus displaying on equal aptitude, either fur measures of offence, or for pacific negotiates:l. Strongly as it would appear that these qualities have recommended him to the selection of the Sovereign, it oil!, however, &mud other sod more solid elidowniciits. to notilitain him in the opinion of the country. at the present moment.— lie has to contend with men, who have risen to their revolutimiary situations, by the greatest tow .:es of niiiid. Lord CAIITIMMAGII and Lord Cllr ril.tx have projected. and accomplished, the reduction of Walclittei.. Lord ‘VELLIIIGTOK has accomplished nothing, stmept the ejection of Sooty from Protiegat. it'd the destruction of This own army. by the sword, or by disease. But the retest boil, or the evacuation of Walcheren. and the con tinuance, or the abandonment of the conteat in the Peninsula beyond the Pyrenees these ques tions will soon come berme the British Cabinet, and they peculiarly belong In Lord Lsirsitrooes Department. We elucerely wish , that, in their discussion, and, in the resolutions that may be pro posed and adopted, he may display judgment, as well as vigour. Deprived, us the present Adminis tration hes recently been, of its two luminaries—if not iii Mr. PERCEVAI. and in Lord Ltvaaroot, where shall we look among them for a ray of its tellect ? lITRACT OT A LLrrut FROM AG OFFICES OR BOARD Ttu: .SOLI., FRIGATE, TO alll FATHER, IN GLASGOW, DATED, MALIFAI, SEPTEMBER 27, 180.9 :-- A serious mutiny took place, lately, on hoard of Ilia Map atr's brig Colowebiae, while lying at St. John s, • 1 , iNew-hromorirk, in the Bay of Fundy ; but, IA the goad conduct of the Captain and Offi cers, the mutineers were overpowered, and the brig taken poasessioa of by a party of soldiers, snit sent round here. 'f hey were tried two days 4gn. Six of them, sinolig whom was the boatswain, were hung up in c;iitius, on gibbets; fourteen were *en tented to hr transported for 14 years, flogged thruub;ll the fleet, and to serre, as convicts, in chain., in any of I lis Majesty's foreign dominions —the carpenter was one of the number. The plan of the mutineers war, to murder their Officers, to tarry the brig into America, and to desert. St. JOile y New-Britu.wielt, is close on the America. lines; therefore, they had but a short thatante to run. • Admiral Cochrane and squadron are here from Barhadus—he was President of the Court- Martial." The following ettrart of a letter. received by the last packet from Listion. under date of the 1.4 of October. confirm. the opinion that the BrAisb Go vernment has revolved to defend Portugal A peat namlow of transports arrived here yesterday from Engtaad, wittiatores and • train of artillery. Lord Visi ble:Ml and Cameral Reresford are still heir l but will join their respective arsine, in the beg - hitting of sail week. —Oar Officers. who are here on have of aborner, coo,- plain much, and are completely tired .4 the campaign laird Welliuglon is making ever preperotioa to art us th e defensive, by erecting f or t s in difterent paste of the cowntry and our troops are daily recovering fne their sickness -. Small bodies, as feat as they recoser, are , seat op the coun ts" to join the army ; bat a west orally ..f them died here The rupiah ground is fell. and they have heel' otelip.l to turn accent convents into husyillat fur the wow..rted. We bare nothing respecting the or , vements of this enemy she last accounts 'Lead 114 they were in peat force at Salamanca. Bat Lutliiug decisive 11111 expected to lake place during the winter." Vie utaiernta;td that orders have been given for an immediate attack to ire mark upon the island (.1 Guadeloupe, of the success of which no doubt is enter,itiotch the ball given by the County, Unitlersity, and City of Oxford, in honour of His MaJtaerv'sJu bike, eqttalled our expectations of so joyful al event.- The company began to assemble about nine o'clock, in the Town 11.111, which was brilliant ly illuminated, and adorlied with a large •ppropri ate transparency at each end ; and at one o'clock the supper :Pianos were opened, where each talk• was covered with soups, game, end a profusion of delicacies. After the health of our beloved :iove reign, God save the King—ltaie Britannia.. &c. were PUII:Z by the whole company : the health of our respected Lord Lieutenant of the comity aas ituaninsously drauk, with Prosperity to the Cipii:ty 6f Orfsrd. After supper the merry d a;ce renewed ; and it was not till a late hour that scene of loyalty and hilarity closed. lit so ann.,— routs an assembly it would be impossible to pal t,. cularise every individual that was present: bat amongst the number that graced this happy fe.ti yob we notic ed— - - - - Lon, and Lady Fraud' Spencer, liar Earl and Countess of Abingdon, Mr. Fare, Lady C. Berne, Colonel and Mrs. Parker, Colonel and Mrs. Carson, Lady Gardiner. Sir H. sud Lady Peyton, sc.c Le. Ise. 11":" Ymobra Nov. S. Ou Monday evening last, Mrs. RlCHAltell gave a ball and supper to the 1 111116 1 1 A Nobility here, on a scale of magnificence that characterises the superior mode, which, on all occasions, urirks the hospitality of this Lady to her guests. The danciog was kept op to a very early lioui, and the company parted, charmed with their evening's ainusemeot. This naorning, their Royal I i4fir.risees the Dukes of CLARENCIL and CAMBItIDGB, and the Prin cesses Maio( and Attat.ta, with their suite, let the. place; the latter in the Prince of Wat.ve's easy travelling early, for Willilser. They sh.ep. e►ening, at General (iA writ's, at Piddletowii, ai,t will proceed by short The state and health of her Royal Highness the Princess A1s1:11.1A, we are concerned to state, still I oi ll itt ues This place is mill very g.iy of company. • 41- 1 d ritt , 'A) r• t ovt•RD BALL. GASCH/G.VE. Th. remains of t, is amiable Gentleman were. on Thursday ae'nnight, interred io the family vault. at Bei svick-in-Elmet, Yorkshire. A ;vest nuinhcr of mourning coaches. in which were his friends, at tended, also upwards ci 1,600 of the tes.a:,tiy and saighbourinz Gentlemen, to express their sorrow for fatal accident which terusitilted the exist core of this:v:111'0 ) 1e and noble youth. The follow in* inscription, written lay his highly respected and disconsolate parent, is to be placed on his tomb :--- Her., is depo•ited *lint romaine of TIit)NIAS CHARLES GASCOMNE, ONLY POW Or bun THOMAS OA:001GUIL, MART. Mt met his fair Crum a &II in hunting, and expired at Wal• ling Walls, the scat of Sir Thomas White, Dart. to Niottingban.thim, ON PRIDAT, TNT. 29T11 DAY OITIDITR, 1149. Snatched thus premetuirly, in tic toc.ity.ti,u r iti ye Ar of his age, front los nninceaus friumN, his ues.iy lavt hnuken father derivt4 comnduciou from the soothing n Section of the general esti mation affection Write to ltis child during We strut career. WITH TN! FAILEAT THt IPANILT WILL aLcurr cruxes! The Countess Dowager of Simon left town, yesterday, for Frogmore. Lady CAKOLINiir DAriff will It lIVe Ham this day for Frogmore. SirJOHN nod Ludy LADT, and a party of Fashion able., visited Mr. Ititimisv's Theatre, on Saturday, and very much applauded his performance. A HINT TO OPERA ASIATRURS. okt.—dil if said, that, mina° the low innehinatioas of a certain contemptible Foreigner, the Vshhe are to be de prived of the transcendent talents of CATALAN' all this winter. Lord llENatt PETTY, and his ans;ab!e and ac complished Lady, arrived in Swansea, front Ireland, on tVednesday, and soon afterward. proceeded to I'enrice. The Duke of POIITIAND'S funeral is not ex pected to take place until the latter end of this week. The arrangements have out yet beru dr-. terinined upon. Mr. Pv.tase's favourite mare, Ro•ctte, broke down when running for the Gold Cup at Rich mond. - - Miss P. F. a lady of considerable indrpendc•.t property, aged about 38, left her friends ■t W... 1 Qaantexhead. on Monday se'ainight, on a - nial expedition. The lovers arrived at Dun.der 0.. Monday evening, and quitted it the following morn ing, at three o'clock, in a post-chaise. Aar proof of the mildness of the weather, fw near three weeks pa.t, a fyll-blown moss rose wa. pulled, on Wednesday, out of a garden belonging to Mr. Tatou as M stv, ni Eivecou near Whitby. At tiornsco, in the nei4l.hourbood of !lull, a few di, r ago, a swain of bees settled an a house in the mid dle of the town. On Friday. the tOth ult. the ceremony of et • throning the Right Rev. Doctor MAJax DI the new Lord Bishop of Bangor, wits performed by th, very Rev. the Dean, in :ho presence of the Vire- Chancellor, Registrar, and other respectable Clergymen. assenitiled fir thaj purpose in the Cathedral in that t ity ; the Rev. Doctor ()writs, Precentor of the Church, was his Lodship's proxy on the occasion. Sir EDWARD LITTLRTOR, Member for Stafford shire, went through the duties of the chair, at Pea- • ridge, on Wednesday sennight. with a degree of vi vacityseldom equalled ; ind, on the following day, when lie gave a ball,ehich was attended by upwards °Ea bemired persons, he remained in the room till Alf -past two o'clock in the morning. He was the ltre and soul of every rejoicing given its his own neighbourhood on the Ist , Jai ful occasion. It :night Le a difficult task to find, iii till His MA. ESTY'S dominions, a eimil.r instance in • man who was, like Sir EDWARD LITTLETON, a Captain in the Rebtllion of 1745. iiw of Ft hii ha SI b