The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1804-09-08 00:00:00

ITS PARIS THEITRE. Messrs. COMIlliTe DVFAILTY, and MORIN", are the tiller Authors of the parody of Osst Aa, now play inTr h t e rawlewile, under the title of Ouian Cadet. Opera Bafa, to awake the ',meteors from their kthargy, have announced the immediate debut of a prima Dams from Portugal. She calls herself &pave Sassoke A. She is to appear in Odour The boxes are already all leu. The little piece, attributed to Aitnereux, played at the Theatre Fryman, is entitled 1 1 direr aree set eimu ; or, Le Soggier eel:strait. It is a piece in rem, and generally played after the tragedy of l'eser Great. Unon the 14th of Atign.t, the artist BRVNET Set 01It for Bourdeaux, where he was engag• c; to perform ten nights, at a salary of 500 francs earl., at•d a benefit. It tat:iv, the altos., vet out for the same city under a similar engagement. Tbitse oho like to laugh, still frequ-nt Nl,.,ian sier. notwithstanding the absence of BRUNT'', and fir.: their purpose answered in listening to the now opera of L' Ear el It F.s; or, Le Gaston a rEpreave, Irt:le piece of buffoonery, in which, however, GAsscnAM 11:1/1 an excellent part, and BIANCHI some charming nets7c. 13 the absence of the great French aanrs. the minor Comedians play pieces of the old Theatre dri romele.. MICHOT 11.14 been very successful in Le Pia. , de Comedic; or, Let dews Pigaroo ; a piece in acts t,- Tide Smioet : eitc% the title of the rew piece to be played at the 'I reatre tl—Y will play the part 01 - 7.4, • .e, an I M. Timieti.itt that of Goarmandan; a famous per sw.age for the invention of sauce, ragouts. Scc. It is a general complaint against all our young au thors. that they have too w.t (;rep d' and they on their part are angry when repro:Lc:led avil! it. The author of the new piece pla;:ed at Lomita., under the title of La Prereotion Yr,i ,cue, it we inay judge from his work, will never be in a jiss : ion His name is JUST lA. Our theatres are in great a4itation. Desp.driiir of being able to get from had to they aTr obliged to rummage the rr.pertories for old Faeces. Caprice, however, oftener preside.; at the selection than t4,te. It is nut general merit; but the excellence of a patticular performer, in a parti cular part, that determines the choke. After the Groin, di Trtfunii, the BOUTIONS will reproduce Gsuida, Le Grh r.da..e, and hex Jaen. The ordinary Comedians of the Estratss fre quently repeat Le Prrjege tainesie of Mssiv•tx, and promise a new comedy from the pen of PICA an. Fr,,deom has been shut. The attors of the cnmic ,era are now playing at their old house, called elted, or Leg Itatens. The old house was large:, btt Les hall( /a is lighter, and painted in a more Lautiful style. - - The Hereford Music Meeting is expeet.d to be Most numerously and fashionably attended etis sea son. The Earl and Countess of Esssx leave Mar gate nest week, for their beautiful seat in that cnucty ; where they will be joined by the Duchess of DIVONSHIRL sad faos,i;y, Marchioness of S••• 1.13111. y and family, Lady CARRINGTON aati her beautiful daughters, the Mist, Shill Hs ; Lord and Lady Mossos.,'and Lord Ossu L ss us. Mrs. LINOI'ON sa also discOed. JUDGE BOWEN'S CMIRCE. JUDGE ISOWENN CIIARGE 'lO THE GRAND JUR? OF Cif ‘TRAM COUNTY. "GENTLIEUEN OF THE C R•NO " The period has at length arrived, when the citi zens of Georgia shall hear from the bench semi ments which ought long since to have been pro mulgated in the Legklatnre. Why is it that the silence of the grave has hitherto pervaded every de scription of men, on a subjett so highly important as that on which lam HIPMF to address you ? Why is it that on our legislative floor, amongst those w!to are annually eleißed to guard our safety and secure our repose, the most Important avenue by which danger may assail us has neither been anticipated or guarded ? Is it that cool-blood fear has paralysed the minds and the nerves of our legislators ? .1s it that the Apprehensions of drawing down the ven geance of the wealthy and the powerful has silenced the cries of oppression, and the voice of truth ? Or is it that, alike interested in one and the same species of criminality, each individual is willing that his own mal-conduct should operate as an Apo logy for that of his neighbours ? and thus, with a view of conferring benefit, expose to ruin all he most loves on earth. *. Avarice! how dreadful may be thy conse quences! Unnatural love ! that exposes its objeas to the justly irritated passions of an oppressed and abused people. " Long have ;our eyes been closed to the dangers that surround you; enough have you been misled and deceived ; in vain will the laws of our country enact injustice, and authorise oppression; the loud tongue of treads, and the sacred, anrescriptible rights of man, will be asserted. Hear, then, my fellow-citizens ! Listen to what experience and wis dom suggest, as the only means of rescuing you from the abyss which yawns beneath your feet, and now, even now, opens its destruelive jaws to ensnare and devour you. Derived from the same Almighty source are life and liberty. They are one and the same gift—they cannot be disjoined. Life, without liberty, would be considered a curse, instead of a blessing—the wretched donation would he repelled, and the Almigkty Donor accused of injustice Are not, then, all men cloathed with the same privileges from our Creator? Are you autisurited to assert. that to one colour are given the two-fold blessings of life and liberty, and to another colour life alone, devoid of liberty ? Impious wretches I cease your calumnies on the God, whose decrees are just and immutable, and who can confound your misinter pretations of his ordinances. How then, does sla very exist Not from the f iat of heaven, but from the municipal institutions of base degenerate man. " No human laws ate of any validity. if contrary to the law of nature, which is coeval with mankind, ar.d dictated by God himself. Neither are posi t. • • laws, even in matters seemingly indifferent, any tut-ther binding than they are agreeable to the law of God and natt.re." Of what authority, - then, are the laws of this or any other country which sanction slavery ? Slavery, which is contrary to the law of nature, which law is dictated by God him self—slavery, which is opposed to the principles of justice and humanity,--.slavery, which, in the lan rage of Lord Coke, can only be au•horised by laws contrary to reason, which laws must conse quently be void. "It is not on principles only that I will assail this detestable system; for principles of justice and hu manity, when opposed to the di&ates of neat ice and the desire of lordly power, have ever had but li,- tle avail. Else why, in a country which bto 1.. t republican magnanimity, and vaunts lou r r• e rights of man, s. lynce is it that chi. d s , r , this curse on oar land, still exist.? I wil; th 11 is !I you in the only vulnerable part—listen to rm. —let your fears be aroused, and let them (for wily can operate the miracle), let them compel y•tu u du an aft of justice; an aa which can alum! so use your lives, your liberties, and your properties. Cast your eyes b'ck to ancient history; do you not there find, titan Amongst the most dea.lly an.t terriie war the republic of Sparta was obliged to maintain, was that against their own slaves? Torn your eyes to the more recent occurrences in the West-ladies. Has not France entirely disgraced herself, by a:- tempting to subvert privileires guaranteed by na ture, and which she heist-ff. after having destroyed, had res , ored ; and is not tile number of Frenchmen immolated by the brave sons of nature, in their own defence, enough to appal the stoutest heart ? And who is there that does not justify them ? From my very soul I have wished them success from the com mencement /If their career ; and I glory that so nu merous and so oppressed a portion of my fellow creatures have bravely asserted the rights which God and nature gave them, and have rescued them selves, and, I trust. their descendants, from the gall ing yoke of servitude. Are we not in this country precisely situated as they were ? have we not a horde of rois-i able, oopiessed slaves amongst us, R•lro outnumber us by thousands ? are they ignorant of th-,r rights? are they ignorant of what has taken place in that country ? surely they are not. What then hare we eventually to exped—wha; but bl code mastac •e, and devastation ? There is yet a method by which tl.ese h ,trot; may be averted. I entreat you to mlopt it, while it is yet in your power. believe that you hear the voice of inspiration, when I solemnly assure you, that an immediate and au implicit obedience to the diEtates of justice alone, will be in obedience to the diflates of sound puticy, and can alone avert those miseries to which we ale exposed• _ . _ Let our legislature enalf,that every femal , slave, born after one year from the date of the law, shall be free at eighteen years of age, and the male at twenty-one; and lrt the master be obliged to bring them up in the praßice of religious and moral du ties, and teach them the common rudiments of edu cation. What would be the consequence ? At the expiration of niwueen years, perhaps, one thousand females would have a right to demand their liberty, and, three years afterwards, one thousand males. They would say to their masters, My relatives ate with ) ou ; give me some trifling compensation and I will labour for you.' This reasonable bout, would be granted ; and. in the course of a few years, in stead of a gang of menial, wretched, unhappy slaves, each planter would find in each slave a child and a friend. In addition to this, let our legislature say, that a master shall lay up for each slave a cer tain quantity of meat and of fish, in addition to their usual inadequate allowance of rice or corn ; that no rna. - .tii. shall be allowed to give lire slave more than twenty lasbes r iwithout the attendance of, a magistrate, to . authorise. A farther punishment ; and that eat h and every nia" ir who does not coin ply with these regulation.:; shall be compelled to part with such slave or saves, to any person whom he, she, or they shah .choose to live, on his receiving the price originally paid for the slave or slaves. A law of this nature would insure to us and our posterity, the e.ijoyment of what we have long unjustly deprived this unhappy race of people, _viz. • liberty and property, and oticwitnes of life itself. Let then these things, Gentleman, ocLupy your atteation ; your minds cannot be more advan tageously devoted, be assured. I posse.; s great a stake in this country as the most wealthy ; for my little all is here; and no min's heart beats higher with a love of country than mine. " Put although I love my country much, very much, yet I love, I adore the principles of liberty, of justice, and humanity; and I will no longer ac knowledge that my country, where these sound principles are thus prostrated by such accursed ava rice, such infamous condua ; but I will seek in other climes for that tranquillity and repose which are here every moment liable to be interrupted, the moment I am convinced there are not virtue and un derstanding enough in Georgia to listen to, and pursue the path I have pointed out In you. " I have delivered these sentiments atter the most mature and deliberate retie lion; and I solemnly swear, in the presence of that God, who crested and who knows my heart, that if, stretched on the bed of death, I should be called upon to advise on the proper method to secure the safety and tran quillity of this country, I should dictate what I have now expressed to you. You well know, or you ought ere this to have known, that I am far above the impulse of fear or of hope, in regard to any thing the people 'of this country can do for or against me. Within myself, and the bosom of my family, and to the approbation of my God alone, do I look for happiness. I despise from my soul the threats of the haughty and vindictive, and the applause of the giddy, unreflecting multitude, and , have dared to avow sentiments which, while life mantles in my veins, I will support, because I am convinced the pursuance of them will be simply an act of partial justice, and can only .secure my country horn all the horrors of civil warfare. Care less of the approbation of the public, when I lay my head open my pillow, it will be with the re flection that I have discharged my duty to my God, my country, and the poor, miserable wretches who claim your proteaion—and I hope, Gentlemen, you will so condua yourselves in this particular, as to merit the same heart-consoling reflection. (Prom Me Providence (R. I.) Gowan) POLICE. MARLBOROUGH STREET. Yesterday morning, Mr. Pootate Wegfe attended before the Sitting Magistrate,NaTNlAallt. CON •i• r, Fag. pursuant to odes, accompanied by his Law Agent, and a Gentleman of the Bar. The Magistrate stated that Mr. Wolfe had been charged with • :cbasiwz regimental cloaks belonging to the yiinesit of Lite Guards, and, undo the ika of P qUament, had incurred a penalty of SI. for eael ofrance. The in/anion:in stated, that James Ja.•k,un. idids 3iitch-41, had sold tifteen or sistect: of thelc cloaks to the l)e.endant at various times. 'the last transaftion betiveen them was the purchase of Mitchell's new full-dress jacket and pantaloons. When Mitchell brought the first cloak to the De fendant, he asked him, had he any more to dispose of, that he would purchase them, and as he not not keep them in the shop, they never would be deteaed, in consequence of which the s , ••ldi,r (Mitchell) was induced to bring him more to the amount stated: He observed, that as the chief evidence of these fa Rs had come from the Defendant himself, and as he had ingenuously acknowled ged them, the Gen. tlemen of the regiment were induced to turn the the prosecution into that of a penalty, instead of fe• loop, which they might have done ; when, though he lived not more than 100 yards from the place where the regiment is stationed, and the man had gone so repeatedly to him, yet he never thought proper to ask any of the Officers, or even the Ser. jeants, relative to j.bcse goods. There was no doubt, but if all the evidence had come before a Court and a Jury, they would conclude that be must have been conscious that he had not come by them honestly. It was submitted on the part of Mr. Wife, that he was innocent of any impropriety, and his readiness to acknowledge the whole was a proof of that innocence ; besides, he was not in circumstances such as would enable him to pay a heavy penalty ; he did not mean to contend against the justice of the case, but rested on their humanity, and offered to pay 51. penalty. . _ Mt:. Conant - observed, that the act was very decisive ; it provided, that if, on any pretence what soever, the articles were received or purchased, such person should be liable; and though the defend ant had bought those cloaks for only live shillings each, yet it was to be considered, that the poor roldiers from whom they were stolen, were put under stoppages to the amount of di. lOs. for every cloak. He then, in order to satisfy the Counsel for Mr. Wolfe, had the Black, mentioned in our report yest:rday, swi,rn. who deposed that his name wa: Jackson, but liad been enlisted a private in theSecoitil Life Guard., by the name of Mite . cll. He knew r:*.r. cloaths on the table to be his own regimentals, aad remembered, that on Monday last he went to Wolfe's with them. who received them, and gave him twenty-seven shillings for them ; at the same time telling him, he would lend him money when ever he wanted it. Some time ago he was passing by Wolfe's shop with a pair of leather breeches in Isis hand : he bought them from him, and asked, had he any other cloaths to dispose of ? that he was perfectly safe in selling them to him, as he bad a room up stairs for them where they would not, he seen, and that be had a way of disposing of them abroad. IS WAS contended on the part of Wolfe, that as he had exposed the cloaks for sale, and had made no concealment whatever when the offices , vent to him, it was to be presumed that be was uncon scious that they were obtained in any improper way ; and this na of the Defendaat was a contra. • I I d;,iin,l•4%) the evieence of the friac - c, woad: ; stpod r'_ in the most favourable light: under t: circdmsteStes, and as 'money was not the.koh 4 et of the gentlemen of the regime n t , but an Piar , and as the Dt "dant bad a lingedamily, and wa s in poor cii clan,. it was hoped the penahies might be mitig !!ed. - ' Mr. CoN tor eeplied, that ' Ore deferic, did not appear to him ii:•*that way: the Defendant, it *as evident, had dom. , ISoth the one and the other to answer his own prito...iees. • He had assertet.tthe Con cealment, as all intioc.'ment,to the other to sell to him ; and had exposed th ' roods openly in his shop, with a view to avoid the charges now• brought against him, and to conctal hiTs:4 from suspicion. In every way, his own end: vete risweted. . The AO was to prevent pownbrokcri from ptirchirmg those kinds of articles from soldiers ; and if not put in force, these soldiers, would never have a steam" shirt to their backs. It was his wisir this bUshiess should be kneoWn to the people in that neight*ur hood, in order to deter them from such traffic in futore.• There was evidence of 6ftren or sixteen cloaks being stolen, Aim: of which were news lc was necessary some example should be made, to prevent such praftices. The officers of th:e regimen!. therefore, had agreed to take the penalty upon Sve cloaks, which, be trusted, would satisfy public justice. Mr. Wolfe requested leave to retire fora moment, to consult his agent. He soon after returned, and submitted to the penalty of 251. which was paidr Mr. CONANT told him it was a very dangerous trade which he followed, and advised him how he pradised in future. He reminded him of a lair, who, going out of town, left her house in care of a maid -servant, who, from time to time, had s .to him all the napkins, table-cluatbs, &c. belonging to her mistress, for which he got into a ve r y dangsmus situation. e concluded, by recommeetfmg to him to leave off that son of business, and set into at honest way of livelihood. A cla , ionet was then products!, which had h en stolen from the band of the same regiment. Mr. Milikeexe, a musical instrument maker, who pro duced it, declared it was brostAht to hitp, ail ita pieces, by a woman, who 'Ai., it had bee!: her Inn. band's : he declined purchasing it at first, till 1 o was persuaded she had got it ho..estly. The poverty of the woman, and this pe• suasion, at last prevailed on him to give her IS:. I r it. He adn i itt• d, he knew by the mark, that it had belor.ged to a mili tary band. The Magistrate explained to 11:m th' ell:nee of the offence, and the penalty aset ibe,l Isy Aft PAr. liament ; however, as he was well sattisfi-i e had purchased the instrumeni 'bone .ly and fai:ly, the penalty would not be ego - freed t he must suimit to redoguish the Chain:Act, w.t.cts was accordingly done. Hear., ibirrat, another jew-broker, tesisteg i 3 Davies•street. was brought up for an offence ,i..,:- lar to that of Wolfe's, he having purchased. Iron the same Black. one regimental cliak. He gated, that the Black, soonalter he ly)ught the first cloak from him, brought him some more ; but he refused to buy them, unless he brought une of his otfiCet's with him. The Bi;ck swore, that the reason alleged for not buying wac, because ht wanted snore for the cloak, than Harris would give him. He was then ordered to pay a fine of 51. A hackney-coachman was ti.ted 40e. for charging a Gentleman more than his fare for a set-down loom the India-House. Upon its bei^.? represented to the Gentleman, who was a Foreigner, that t'..e coachman had a large family. he declared it had been his intention to.give sha.e of the pettalti (20 shillings) to public charity: but, in consequence of this representation, he returned it to the coachman. ..u~~~ ..5: i uth al, t .14" ' • an 3 J,"- on. 1 11.01 •I set. I iu• i JOE MILLER. JOE MILLER PETER PINDARISED. Tin' herecl, Tins crandra keladiroonien TO THE EDITOR OF lIIE BRITISH PRESS. SIR, This facetious gentleman, whose jokes have been served up in alrfashions, and mingled with all corn. positions, froiW the orations in St. Steesen's, down to the comedies in our I heatres, "fro.. Me to the bottom of all wit," has never yet, /believe, been presented to the public in verse. What Iwt old propose then, is, that some one, who has nothing better to do (ard there are plenty who have not), 51..,t0d Peter Pi :darise a certain quantity of the best c•f those ascribed to Mr. .Lseph Mile,, and look for his reward in the sale of the volume. The Empe ror of the Gaul., to whom I am as necessary in his concetns, as my representative was in carrying on the shew with Punch, at my late favourite fair (Bar. tholomew), keeps my hands too full to permit me to undertake the task which I recommend ; and all I can da is, to offer a specimen of the manner in which would have it done. Worse than the sample, by 7.0 means in the world, but as much better as pot able. OLD NICK. PiM.as. OLYM. 0,1 2 A London Jockey, well known for s rqn!, Whew saddle nued he aptly sty"d a mule, Sinew when he rode, it ever tame to pal, That 'twos a something 'toixt a home and an; • Once ieft the wren, And as men travellers will, Went often down, And often up a hill At length a steep of fearful height Struck air horseman's wonerrirg sight; But wha did mon Corm him now. Wes that at bottom seem'd a slough. Doubtful he 'toad in thoughtful maid. 'When hard by in a brake A Clown he spied.; and thus bespoke : " is bestow hard of render Omar " Hani, essa r the Clews replied, " Ay, that it be With nimble pace be then descended, And up to bouts in mud his journey ended. Swearing at Clowns, he scorned and reed his MI, And wish' , l with all his heart the Devil had got 'ern; When out be bawled b his upon the !UP— "-Did you► stet rand, my, liras hand at bottom'" The Clown tviein'd with ►roadest grin, Which be resealed no mortal sin, " And re It be, 11l intrA ye imp bet, " blot roes net half-mop to the bottom yet!" ALARMING FIRE. Early yesterday morning, between Ilse-Irntrs of twelve and one o'clock, an alarming floe bru.e out at Mears. Hodgson and Co.'s, Sugar Reflnei.s. Chutds Lane, Whitechapel, which in a few hotir, con+umed the whole of the premise, tog then wi h the whole of the property therein contained, to a :onside..., la amount ; the firemen prevented, by their raerti n , the flames from communicating to the d'weili g house. It is a fortunate circumstance, that stliy hogsheads, newly purchased, which were to have been sent in the day before, were not dcliveted. The Whitechapel Volunteers assembled, to pre% ent persons from attempting to commit deprb.lA i ni. We are happy to find no lives were lost, or aoy other accident happened, excepting a mad bull haviug got loose, and, in spite of the Volunteers, made his way through them, with no other damage than four of them being overthrown in the mud. The fire' is su i , posed to have broke out in the stove, or lump-ro)m. Lichfieli races commence on Tuesd ty nett. • Ths number of capital horses that are e ant./ promise great sport. Exclusive df tiis Majesty's pier. Iv' ic't t, to be run for nn the first d a y, the following h. nes are entered for the Sweepstakes--Lord Gs a •• Wirer, Capt. RYAN'S Prior, Sir STSPHIN GLYNN'S Captain Aliodia,, Mr. Cuvrtirev's Lorre, !Vlr. Krt- ,1 LLSMANN Afaro, and iph igrnsa , Si r W . W. W AsAtoa, Sir C. lit may's Oriandu, &c. &c. On Saturday afternoon last, as two i , .considtr tte young men wete trying the speed of their h. r•ce through Salford Street, in &sex, one of -thorn un fortunately ran over a boy about six years of who was playing in the treet, and hurt him m, dreadfully, that he languished a few days only. and then died. The Coroner's inquest la; on the body. and a verdiet of detidroal DI was given by • Jury.—ln this ease the horse became forfeited to Lord of the Mono:, as a deodand. In consequence of the Tory great Demani lot Tickets and Shares at the old establp bed Lottery Office of Hospital , 'Lid Co. they 1. asp to recommend to all t. o e who piorpn-e p Chance in the present 4ta Loiter : fin ei he t t h, three 10000.. three 10,04 X).. t h te:• 5.c►4,N. or „ I otner Capital Prise, not to delay Lti; scg the sain immediately. N.B. Or:ders; by Lett••r nr Cartirr, f T and Sham. executed exaftiy on the mime .errua if present: ;'„e All Prizes, whether of ?01 eO.4YiOl p 41 4 .: Deniard at the Office of livaasor siNi Y 6, Corn hi IL \ t t, site: hem. 1.11! go to 11 , 1' 4 Nl.l. hr:,,. \! D:s, ll ion of of .u. 4 ICU [;:Jical Y. for 0 visit ; and, It• erdo, day he ~ frca wer y , Ra'rs. ad: \t. IstTrd tr,W3V, r vault, Fair il. a.. 1 rnakiug ce, !Ist As mug ttefui ach.zul Cala. st ends fur J a neo of It t 3 lo• of NI: to mike I no t tat P° • al ur,