The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1809-09-14 00:00:00

COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. Their Royal Plighioemes the Dukes of Yoau, net., and CAMaglIDGig, after having received Ilk. MAJUSTY at the Palace. yesterday, retired, in order tu attend the Qveee and Princesses ELIZABLTH, ALMPITA, Mid SOPHIA. who, with Lady lIAaat.LA THY N gg, and other attendants, went to see the new Theatre at Coveut-GArden. The Managers having been apprised pf the intended honor, had the interior of the Theatre elegantly illuminated, and the Pro- logue which is intended to Le spoken on the open ing of the bowie was rehearsed. Their Royal Righ tmost" seemed much ”teratilistel with the sight ; • little before six, left Covent-Garden, for the Duke of Yogis's residence, St. James's, where they dined. In their inspection of the interior of thismug nificent pile, the ROYAL PAaTY were particularly struck with the brilliancy and beauty of the lustre., by which, and not by lamps, u was reported, the house is lighted. They Are in tminber 40, of which four are suspended over the stage, over which they forms most graceful and splendid canopy, composed of the most brilliant cut drops, in or-mole mount ings, each holding nine candles. The other thirty-six ltistres, of similar construction and materiel*, hold ing each from ire to seven candles. are distri!tated equally between the three tier of boxer. These moat elegant Articles were made by Mr. Centaur, of the Strand. near Temple- Bar. THE THEATRE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRITISH PRESS. S t a—S.nee I wrote to you yesterday on the subject of the theatre, I have seen en article in Tit Morning Pali of this day, signed " An Enemy to imposi tion," with lizures and calculations respecting Co vent-Gar,len Theatre, so similar in •eceurecy and truth to those often resorted to in that print on the subject of national tivauce, that I cermet resist the &.,t. , of expmalig their fallacy and want of respect to the rules of Corker. It is here asserted that the new theatre has not east the Proprietors although 1.50,0001. have iieen expeisiled wean it, awl the proof of the aim...lino is 46 1 . 0110sv , :—" That 76,0001. have been raised by subscription, for which the Proprietors are only to pay the interest or 3 per cent., briug 3,7501. per ann. and give uue hundred and free admissions." Now, really, Sir, 1 woold have conceived that if I borrowed money to execute a work, for which I pull the regular interest, it was precisely the same thing to me as if I paid the mosey out of a sum I had lying at my banker's. As for the remaining 75,0001. it is proved not to have proceeded from the pockets of the. Proprie tors. because the Insurance-Olfiecs pay 50,0001. and the materials of the old Theatre bring 25.0 001 .— Again I nun at issue with these arithmeticians ; for, to my humble capacity, it appears, that the moilies paid me by Insurance Offices, for What I hme ost by tire, and the pruet..d. of my desolw•d prurerty, are as completely and Imisa fide out of any pocket. 111 ally money C4II be ; and my relSoll for so think ing is simply this, that the 73,0001. so produced, would have been in my pocket, unli•ss I had chosen to expend it in rebuilding the Theatre. Thus, notwithstanding the lunimous statement alluded to, it is evident, that the 150,0001. for rebuilding Co- vent-Garden Theatre, come virtually tint of the pockets of the Proprietors; as they have to repay, with interest, the suns they have borrowed L. mono As what they receive front the In , 'trance Ares te 'barely the value of their former pseptrty, at the rate they iceurud it (anti I believe a very low rate, inadegis..te to their loss) - %4,00111 And as the remaining sees arises from the sale of their own materials -11,ttoo Making • total of espeuse to them, and them aluue, of - L. ir,o,ono So much for the assertion, that Ite,l one shelling Conies nut of the pockets of tie,actors of Covent-Garden, to entitle them to raise their pr:ct., and call ou the justice, as well as liberaiity of the public, fora compensation. Let ua now torn to the other parts of this curious outrage on " two and Iwo make four," and pro ceed on the data 1;41.1 down lay the " Enemy to ha position," or rather the enemy to .I.ldition, ottiltl pliection, di visiou, anti the roll' of three. e are told dint the pr Ntit mining from thirty four irate 11.lee+ in the New Theatre will Ire, pct. suntou . . . . . . L. 14,2•0 From which this Calculator is willing to deduct interest of 75,0001. burrowed from the palwie . . L u; Wand of 14 Private Mixes, in the late 'Theatre Leavoi• according to this talcum, • clear moat to the Proprietors, ou Peirstc bases show . 64,10 To this he adds a gross sum of . . 7,000 ma the yo.loce of the suld'tional prime of ail - mission ; and tin cominstea That Om manual ' acciuits• to the Proprietors, Item their le ruisforto w, will amotwat to . . . 13.930 t h the further deduction, however, of 411001, fur the coition, to Catalani, the sole cause and occasion atilt thi. itoposit Had it not been fur this clear and convincing statement, I would have thought the following near the truth ; tAtanx, as I before mentioned, the data of The .Vorninz Post, and liters, us foundation for nay calculation : New czpinseinerrryi by Me Proprietwt, is CO4IIIIIIIICI of thefirs. Atwell a 73 o+aol. burrowed . . . . Y a k s .. of tio ' Alional Admissions ou the !tamp woo, above loons,' :bat as llie room occupied by these Admissions will wit always he rerpitred.,av • Mon interest ante e.n no/ 75,n001. e.anatog out of the ouckets of the PropriAiii• • • . :1,774 saiury to 4aubnl , an adititiane capra..r tectin widely to confetti/tate more tinily to the Public aw tertaatitueut 4 , 600 Total, Independent of the loan n: + %Linos: a whole sta tion. the high price of every iliccies of building ma terials, and the consi.lcialion that tlie . s I,er cent. allowed the proprietor. for their 75,trini. is a moat Lover rate of interest than they could have Move. ed 1.. r their money, in almost say speculation they might choose to employ it in. From this statement it appears, that, even if the private boxes in the New Theatre produce 10,0401. more tkaa they did ;n the Old, the pro. priefors, unless they raised the prices of admission, would be at !cost IG,OOOI. per cantina losers by Laving SO rapidly and Ishorinudy constructed ail I. ‘e4ant place of amusement for the Britiah public. Sept. 1:1. I am, dhc. A LIIIICILAL4AUITOV• "- ~ -~ : - -. . j-f c .of; EAST !NM FIUSE. • •-, 4. •I - Yesterday, a Court of Directors was held at the E4st India noose, when the following ships were taken up, in part of the slumber .0 be employed ill the eaming season, riz.— Cirrac,iler .Arnistin. ..... Earl catnaps •.. tom IL R. Samson. Wexford .......... ..... lono ..-... Barnard Flphinstorm David Seult ".. IMO .1.-... Locke, J un. Exeter .. .... lOW ....- Minton. %V Utilities Alnsit k Ca5t1e......... 3,260 -.-..- Preacutt. Alfred Woodford l,lts• ..... Mamie. Surat Garde Content •••••• 1,195 Lorkuvr. tqlon -- Phoenix Piestun ..............• 671 -- St wrack. Thorium Gresorille sag ----- Patterson. N. S. Prince of Wales sou It. limy. Heigh ill ha 9lll fairfax. William Pitt.. Earl St. Viacent SI. J. S. Sermon. Ann - Masson. Diana 6on ....... Marshall. 517 ..--... Macduogall. Alexander Euphrates - Herbert. Sir William !ark/ . . • ' 547 -- Hooper. Sovereign Nartbmeberlead .. 6OO --- trinicklto. lades Model .. 349 --- I.iich. Iludolast . -547 ---- Nesbitt. Lord Eldon • ~.. -ass Yunisr. Carmarthen ....... ..... • 510 ----• Ruts. Sir Stepbee Lesbiegtau. 6111 ...e.--. J. Hay. _ .. /A Qtl &IST. An inquest was held, at two o'clock yesterday afternoon, by ArthouT GELL, Esti. et the Angel Ism Coffee-house, St. Clement's, Strand, on the body of Mr. Clarks Abbott, who shot himself, on Monday, about one o'clock, in the privy of the above inn. %Villiers Crafty, one of the ostlers of the Angel Inn, acid, on Monday, about one o'clock, he was standing neer the hack pert of the privy, and heard the discharge of two pistols. Having also perceived smoke to mew from the wiudow of the privy, he went to the front port of the house, and told %Vila hum Wild, the hair-dresser befogging to the Angel Inn, what he lied heard. They both went to the privy; and, ou opening the door, discovered a Gen tleman bitting on the seat, with his dress in exactly the same state in which is was when he entered the place; his head was reclining against the well, and appeared covered with blood; purl •.f the deceased's brains lay on his shoulder, cud a quantity of blood 1111b00 the ground. Two-isms!! French pocket pistols. with the Peril/ mark, were found unloaded on the ground, mid in his pocket were some powder and and some extra flints. William Wild corroborated the evidence of the Last witness in every point, end added, that he sin mt:diately sent for nietlicul oruchstuisce. tieing sucked if lie had creel the gentlemen come to the house? he said not ; but a gentleman who was in the Coffee roma when the alarm was given, had told him, that he noticed the deemed walk into this rocas sod go to the glass, sued come and luok at him steadiahtly ; ski much so, that the gentleman was going to :IA bun if he wished for the newspaper that he nits read ing ? but he suddenly turned away and walked out at the back noon A Medical iwntleinan, living at No. 299, in the Strand, said, that on Monday last, about one o'clock in the afternoon, he was sent for to the Angel lan, and first saw the deceased in the privy; found his scull fractured, mid part of his brains lying on hie shoulder. It appeared to hint that one of the balls had passed through the right temple, and the other through the left cheek, and had lodged iii the brain; the deceased lived about twelve hours afterwards in his pocket witness found a Utter sealed with black wax, and directed to his bro. r, 11r. Henry Abbott, which was immediately sent to him in Clement's-Inn. Mr. John White, of Mile-end, • carpenter, said he had known the deceased for upwards of two years and a half; be was a collecting clerk to Messrs. Charrington, ale brewers, at Mile-end ; the deceased had lost his wife in child-bed, last May two years, and bad lodged in witness's house about two years. From that time he had been in a very low state of mind; so much so, that he would somettines sit up crying all night ; he had three children ; the eldest was about nine years old ; and he would often fret shout his rhi dress, and the loss of his wire. Witness had not the least donbt that the lowness of spirits proceeded from the causes already mentioned ; and he knew that, for some tint r past, the deceased was uneasy about his again', as he had kept a teveni, end things were not yet settled. The deceased had been to Margate about a week, and retarned to town on Sunday evening last, and left his lodgings en Monday morning, about inns or tel o'clock, leaving his room deer nsslocked, and had taken very little hreettfast. Witness did not see him on Sunday night, nor Monday morning : and only knew on Tuesday that he had shot himself. He was 29 years of age. A brother-in-law of the deceased, who did not mention Ins name, said, that he had married his sister. and that he had known him about two years, bat was not in the habit of intimacy with bin until some tiros back. when he invited deceas ed to dine with him ; he appeared in a very un settled state of mind, had been under some era baenunnsents, and frequently received assistance from his brother. The last time he saw him vas shout three weeks ego, when hr cense to dine with him. Whitens wished him to sleep iu the house, •but he left it without sneaking. Another Gentlemen came forward, who said, that the letter found in his pocket, and directed to Mr. Henry Abbe t, was the deceits..l's own hand writing. and Merely complainimr of pecuniary em barrassments, from which he had always been re lieved by hirbrother, on making application. There being no more witnrw's, the Jury con sulted shunt their verd:zt, and not agreeing in their opinion, whether it should iw lunacy or self-mur der, sifter one hour and • half consultation, they agreed to decide by is majority of votes:. there hying 1G J uryman swans, tunes were for the verdict of lunacy 7, and for that of self-murder 9; when they accordingly returned a verdict of Sefkilitr.lcr, and las. ou the two pistols. lI'S DULL of fialibarty's TO TEM EDITOR OF Ilit =TISK PRESS. Sts—.Feelinbc a ..iiltlere risent.t for t!%e nvin-try of the late Doke a Bedliird, I was much interested un grtiog to see the Statue erected to his memory, in Itussell-square. Tiie workmanship dues credit to the artist ; met it is worthy the exalted charac ter to wlsom it is intended as a tri:.ote of ri•spect. Bet, Sir, there are faults, ithieb • Ad wish to be remedied. or. at least, net a The figure of little ill-Aaiu' first seems to have crept its between the too grooves, at the eiiener. of the pedestal, and lies so demurely at the feet of the Make, is puerile and trifling, its a grew degree. It destroys. moreover. Ape simplicity and grandeur of effect, and crowds the fore-ground too much. It seems to have so 14e connection with the general design, thtt I am bit:lined to think it an after-tbought of the artist, or seggested, more prebobly. by some zealous agriculturist, and :ad mirer of the fleece. The Duke's attention to the breed of sheep might have been expressed by the representation of a loose skin or fleece thrown carelessly by the side of one of the group's. Such au appliodion of the symbol, would have, iserhaps, improved the composition, and have been more classical. As I can perceive no difficulty in re moving the figure of the lamb, I shall request your insertion of these remarks, in your excellent and widely-extended Paper. Had the fault been without remedy. I should have been silent, for it is invidious to blame where met cannot rectify. I ain. Sir, your's, Sept. 13, I boy. A Lovett 01 VII Ali& JUBILEE. A Coed of Common Council will be field. to morrow, at when dim subject will be taken into consideration. The following is is copy of the notice to the Members of the Court Eta—Yon are desired to be at t Came of Common Conn ea, at Guildhall. on F►iday scat, hc*s the tilt day of Sep tember, tall% ut eleseo of Cie cluck is the foreuoun to take iuto consideration the propriety of ealebratiog, in a portico hr rusuuer, A • emery of the A, cessioo of oar preaeut most gem urea Sovereign to the Throne ;it in the day on which be eaters the liftieth year of his reign THOMAS NEUSOM. We have made the following extract, 'elating to this subject, from Cottold's beingr an Abridgment of the Records in the 'lower of Lon don, by Sir Robert Cotton, a work frerinentiv re ferred to by Hume. in his History If •' The Parliament holden at 11 . 4. stininster the fifteen of S. Hilary, in the sae-acrd-liftieth year of Edward the Third. " In the fifteen of S. Hilary, being Tuesday, next after the conversion of S. Paul, the year aforesaid, was the first day of the Parliament ; at what time the Noble and Puissant Richard, Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall, and Paul of ter, together with the Bishops, Lord*, Jiinice., Commons, and others, suromosiod to this Parlia ment, assembled at th e Palace at W ah r im i n A tr , the painted chamber, sherd the Prince. sitting in the King's own place. in the absence of the King, being partly disea.ed, the King sent thither his Let. ter, patents to the said Prince to begin the Partite. meat. " The Comm4sioners, or said letters patents made to the said Prince : After the reading of which commission, the Ilishopof St. David's being Chancellor, at the enmmiadinelit of the said Prince, then end there Peesid.tit, continued the •aid Parliament until the next day, at nine of the clock in the morning, for that divers of the Lords and Corn woos were not then come. "The next day, the Mince, Bi..hops, Lords and Commons, assembled in the place aforesaid, where the said Chancellor began his long oration with S. Paul, viz. Libenter suffertis iesipieutes, and applied it, that being wise, desired to hear him, the contrary. " He proceeded with Scripture, as that every mes senger, bringing joyful news, is welcomed. Th-reby proving that he should be so, for that he brought joyful news of the King's good recovery of a dan gerous sickness. " By the which he ■hewed that God loved the King, and realm. The King, for that, year diligs eastigo. The King, by the Psalmist, saying 1....r0r due sitat vatit abundant in leteribus, and thereby sheweth, that, fur children, no ehri.tian Prince W 714 so happy ; and coatirmeth the said huppiiitnis I. the above saying, Lt *ideas fans "horsing, e hich the King saw. "That God thereby loved the realm, hr proreil by the recovery of so renowned a Prince, and that his recovery, to he the fiftieth year of his reign, the year of jubilee, the year of joy, for that hr world there by impart to his said subjects, us well spiritual as temporal, or bodily comforts. . - " He then, by the similitude, that if the bead be. wood, and some particular part of the body diseased, that the said infected member can re , c ire no virtue or mike from the head, inferreth, that u 3 the King being the sound head, and willing to chew grace and favour to the subjects, the mem ben, the infected with vice cannot receive the same; ■ud, therefore, persuaded mirth as would be par takers thereof, to conform themselves thereafter by having love, without which, he proieth by S. Paul, 'that nothing could avail." Tuesday, there was a roweng-twitch for twenty inners, between Baoriesost, a waterneun of Bank aide, and Wurtasty, a waterman of Three Crane Stairs. They started at half after Are, and rowed from the Old Swan. London Bridge, to the )141 Swan, Chelsea. lisoottsom took the lead. mud in a short tiase distanced his entagonist, and wow the wager.' - From the high prices at which the !abided pro perty of the late Sir noose K WRI:131111 has biseu &spotted of. there is reason to expect the dividends of his effects will be urger then at first apprehend ed. On Saturday last there was another sule frt . part of his estates, in 36 lots, which produced the stun of 4.2,5651.—Am0ng these a farm •in Seething and Kirsteetl, of ifio acres, produced 7,,9001., and 61 acres, with an orchard. 6lol.—Four inclossires stf land in Brooke. containing it) acres, fetched 1,56111. —.Kiruna Hall. 17e1 mitres (snbjecr to au putgoistg 1;1 111. per ouse.), was kaucked down at 83501.; awl a piece of pasture land, with a small plantation of young oaks, iu ail itl acres, sold for 3151.—the general product of sale about Mill. per acre. "'"1 t :10 hi., • flosie4 ; letoolfte, OW : ;+0: 1 Mi.' • 'lre POLICE.. 140 ~4 • StAttLe:mituou-sTIVRT.IrIIT. Bier, Nair Ni.vr, En. Sinks; .11agistrizte. . DELICATE INQUIRY. Sire. Ptipakee. late :11.ss Gannitt..;, wits bre ;lit tie to undltgo a third private exe:c•i o a c urge of forgery preferred against >sr by Ir, Kiwis. This, like tht others, was a close coocisir ; ni at lent every thing ib the power of the Magi.- mate, was done to make it so. At three o'clock, Plunket iss introduced by a private door, dressed in deep mourning, attended Ifj her Soli citor. Mr. ALLEY, Couniel for Mr. King, addressed the Magistrate as folln.vs Sir—lt gives sae situ:ere pleasure is being :title to communicate to you. that, in the case of Mr. King against Mrs. Plunket, that lady has at lett 4 th done that, which in justice she should have dune, and which is coinpletely satisfactory to I.llr. Km : es feelings. The lady's friends have now come for ward, and adopted those measures, which, it is Mils. cerely to be regretted, had not teen liken ',m g since. Some reoresentations have gone forth to the public, prejudicial to the character of Mr. King, with regard to this case, which were extremely pant fill to his feeling*, and diametrically omtos to to a true statement of facts; however, as Mr. King is now satisfied to forego any further proceedings, I have only to conclude, he expressing the satisfac tion I should feel, could the recording angel drop a tear on the whole occurrence, and blot it from the tablet of events." Mr. N LVE said, that, as Mr. Kiiig had come to the resolution of foregoing ani further proceedings. ho could only. of course, discharge the affair alto gether; however, from the statement* subinitted to him, he could take no other view of the trrurac lion, but that of a ciant;:fai felony. From his observations, be was inclined ts thmk there had been soutethia4 likt. tampering, but the fact had not come to Ids knowledge ; but he WWI hapn to find it had been Amicably adjusted, withont pie ceeiling to revere niessures. Mrs. Plunket seemed much affected, sod its tears; she did not spe:.ls, 'snit deeps • curtsey to the Mag grate, on his ordering her recogoieances to U. quashed. LANCASTER ASSIZES. - • - • • MiCiNTIIOI.IB LETTERS. Milian Wilsou was indicted Tor having feloniertWia ly written and relit a letter, without any name 644. ing subscribed thereto, threoteuing to take away the life oh Thomas Sclaoltield, of Masten, The ArroeteLe-Claseitat. stated to the Jiiry, that the Priwrist;r was charged with a capital les luny, which %vat made so since the 7th of the bite Yileg, which makes the crime of guiding a lettcr, without a mime, loilty of felo•), without the be nefit of clergy. V lore threatening language to murder could not lie described than was to be teuud in the le:ter. The Prosecutor had served this office of overseer, fur a [instiller of years, and had given reels general satisfaction to the pariritioteris„ that they had voted him a silver cup s Thomas Scholfirld said, he war steward to Mrs Hilton, of Peuington ; lie served the office of mier. seer nine years ; it was three years rince he was ist office ; en the ‘29th of April last, when he emit to the Old Black Buy Inn, at Meochester—the lonise he usually put up at when in that tower—the (mud lady gave him a letter, which she had received by the post, directed for him; it proved nut to have any name to tEI the content. of it weir charging him with having done a number of bad acts to Mr. tenants, and to the parishioners, while he was overseer ; telling him to recollect the death a bad character died; and that before the cock crew thrice, as it did to Peter, he might hr uo more; and not to be surprised, when he got home, if his wife told him hie property was burnt. It was written in the most low and Abti%ive language the direction appeared to be by two hands, and it was sealed with shoemaker's was; hr believed the writ. ing to be the Pri.oner'r. The wither& underwent a long cross-examinalino by Mr. SCARLET :—He acknowledged that he had not seen the Prisoner write but once, and that was twelve months since; ackuowiedgeul that he dttt not make any charge agaiust the Prisoner till the tGth of June, aithough fir received the letter the egth of April, and that he knew the Priocier'a writing ; his son was in Lama-ter Castle hefore he made the charge; denied knowing that the Pri. loiter was employed to investigate his sows ac counts, as ()veneer, said did not know it now ; and that, upon the Prisoner's report of his son's ac counts. his sou was sent to Lancaster Cattle; the reason why he did nut make the charge mower was, he wished to get all the itiforesstion he con!:!; he kept t h e letter a secret the day he . rec,ived and did not Mention - it toasty bedy; *heti he saw, the Prisoner write, twelve monthi since. be did Doe see what he wrote, and then he was ebitut two or three yards distance from Mra, end did nut brow what lie was writing stout ; denied having raid be fore the Magistrates, that the reason for his nut making the charge sooner was, he expected lie would have made an apology. Joii.ithan Seholfteld, the son of the oilier wit ness, said, be knew the Prisoner wi ; he. saw him %rile a note on the 7th of last April, and revecal times besides, and believed the letter his father had received to be the writing of the Prisoner. • Qn his cross-esamisistion by Mr. Cools, he de. vied that the Prisoner had been employed to eke. mita* his accounts; but said, he sod others « had put themselves in that position.” end it was in con sequence of them he was sent to Lancaster Castle, for not giving up his books as over-e« r; ,leveed having said that his lather woold settle the Prisoner fir saying his accounts were Mr.tig : but sclin-w.. !eked he had said wit certain other psi sou would 10011 Inflow hint to Lancaster Castle, on account of the letter his father had received;" never saw a lime to the letter, or any taken off; boil written with the Prisoner for two days together, an settling Ins areinint.. I Thr.ataa IFittchiti deposed. that he had wen the Pm...tier write se vend tem.'', and was well itetio&tat. eft with hie wri ting Hr brlstvelf the tistoa)snuos letter swivel oy ttw Prosecutor to he the attitiux of the Pri,oner. The Prosecutor first *hewed hi. the fetter the be t titutin4 of J.i..r. He was croot-exotoweJ by Mr. SCAZIAT. He ackaooludied that he WAS a tensut of the