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THEATRES. rRCRT-J.ANB. The appeal which was made to the public by the respectable Manager of this Theatre, for the relief o f persons destitute of nightly shelter, proved en. tirely successfal.• At a very early hour the pit and galleries were crowded to excess, and before the conclusion of the first act of the play the boxes exhibited a scene of elegaoce and beauty far sur passing any ilitirg we have witnessed for • long time. N ever , i n d re il, did the benches of Old Drury pre ..ert a more Inv•ly or more magnificent appearance —the more lovely it appeared, when we reflected that it was charity which attracted that splendid house— that it was to relieve and to shelter the friendless and homeless, that our benevolent fellow-citizens last night pressed around the avenues of this theatre. The entertainments of the evening commenced with an Address, written for the occasion, which was recited by Mrs. W. Weer. The graceful person of this accomplished and able actress—her impressive sod elegant action—her strong, varied, and harmonious voice—and, most of all, perhup., the feeling she displayed, gave great effect to that forcible and eloquent appeal. Mrs. WEST was frequeutly interrupted by the cheers of the audience. The comedy of The Dramatist followed. Mr. ELL:atom's Vapid has been justly considered one of his happiest efforts. Last night he played it with great animation and spirit. The other per formers sustained their respective parts with the usual success. The ploy was succeeded by A Tribute to St. Cecilia. The strength ofkthe company appeared on the stage, and were served with tea, coffee. &c. by servants in livery. Here shall soft Charity, was given in the finest style by Mr. BRAHAM said Mr. T. COOKE. After which Mow CAREW sang Aald Robin Grey. She was loudly encored. Glorious Apollo, by Messrs. BRARAII. Cooke, sod Sutra, was given in a menace which afforded perhaps the richest and finest specimen of vocal powers. Miss BYILKE sang that affecting Irish air, Sa vour:seen Delisk, with greet feeling and great power of execution. She was loudly applauded. The whole concluded with God moo the Kiag, in full chorus. by the strength of the company. This truly national air was received with the loudest ac clamations. The new pantonsine of J.rk and the Bean Stalk concluded the evening's entertainment. _. In the early port of are night the Lotto MAYOR and Mr. Alde►man WOOD entered the Theatre; they were immediately recognired and warmly greeted. The liberal conduct of the Manager will. no doubt. be estimated as it ought by a generous community. The following is THE ADDRESS, warn= IT JAMIE TROUPStor, ESQ. AND RECITED it MRS. W. WEST. If i■ the lapse of years one hour is cast, 'Which Memory's spell shall hallow to the last; One little space whose joys shall ofi return, To bid each heart with kindling rapture burn ; That hone is ame—when bright in every eye Demos the pare blaze of England's Charity ; That hour is now—when gemin'ill with Beauty's tear, The Muse of Pity brings her offenses here! Long on this spot the Drama's voice hash spoke, . . And In each lweast according echoes woke ; I.ong bath this 'brine her favoned Temple been. And her own Shakrpeare ruled the matic scene ! To-night-10r one brief 'tight, we yield its power, Tu court the influence of a softer hour, And ask that aid, for which the poor man's prayer Shall rise to I.l..aven, and win a blessing then! Friends of II:e Friendless!—Ye, whose bounties flow To dry the tears of Wretchedness and %Woe ; Thts is a cause where Princes juin your train, Life's pulse to quicken, and life% fires sustain ; To-night we plead fur Misery and Distress, We ask n shelter fur the shelterless! Oh, hear!—ln pity hear the wanderer's cry, Fatni+h'd, sod Glut beneath, a wintry sky. Vasided shall they fall? No! you will hear The mourner's anguish, and his babe's despair, Vale, slueciinr, houseless, naked, when they sue, When thyir I:,st earthly hype is th'il on you— You will for!,:d their sinking hearts to break, And bless tht. sufferers for their sorrows' sake. Joy to thee, Island Queen ! whose deeds of worth Shed their wide Iplage o'er all the ',copied calla,. Iti;l:ind!---what immortal lays Cue hymn thy glory, or record thy praise! Irliereer the wretched weep, the pour complain, Thy Boothia; voice forbids to weep in vain; Thine are ill , Palaces for helpless age, Where care and comfort every want assuage; Where the worn Soldier, and the veteran Tar, Still boast of 'Valeria° sad Trafalgar ; Love's angel visitant to thee is given, And Pity lingers from her *taller Heaver ! Friend, of the Stage! whose fostering, warm applause, Within lbesc walls bath raised its drooping cause; Proud of your smiler, still be it ours to *hew Huw dear we prize the honours you bestow; But prouder still, that our fund hopes were true, And this night'r boon is sanctified by you. ..• COT ENT.G RDE N. Miss WENSLET performed the part of Beatrice, in the comedy of Much Ado about Nothing, lest Bright. This was a much better effort teen than her performance of Mao lind. Being almost freed from any expressions of distress, her powers explod ed to the lively characteristic of her part, and she proved herself the possessor of a fond of genuine comic humour, which her greatest admirers had probably not attributed to her. She shone most when exciting Benedict to tight Claudio; she there discovered that variety of mangier, and tffec. ti.e change of expression, which, though rigo rously denimided by the passionate exigencies of the part, hive so seldom been supplied. Mr. CzeittEs Kt:SIDLE performe,l Benedict as well, perhaps, as it ever has been performed. He was, if any thing, a little ton ponderous in his declamation io the quarre: N ih Claudio. The latter personage was well surto:lied by Mr. Anatol F .. Dogbeery, by Mr. BLANCHARD, was profoundly stultified, through EMERY is preferable it; the part. Aliso FOOTE *as very effective in Hero. The ex cellent glover " SigA no Beare Ladies," was encored. The piece pee ample arid urn:tingled satisfaction. SURREY TWILIT/IE. Last night ■ new hiotorical ratio-dram .tic bur 1, it% called Ivanhoe; or, the Jew's Darghter, was produced at this theatre, With uncommon splen dour. It io, as tile name &notes, token from the new novel of LAURENCE 1 . 1-311.1.CT0N, Erg. a work alaiuntling with energy, mill which tr to display •of' varied and contrasted int 'dent% of *trot% and ungoitrieohle passion, mid above all, the exquisite d, lineatitm or romantic female character, the whole set oft with the pomp and splendour of chivalrous pageantry. was perhaps more adapted thin any other production of the same celebrated author, fur dramatic r ffect. • The performance was preceded by an Address, in the way of Prologue, from Miss COPELAND, which was delivered in a very pleasing manner. Of the I two point+ it contained, one was superfluous, and the other unnecessary. It entreated the audience I not to expect, in the narrow compass of three acts, the full incidents of three bulky volumes, and if ! the effort was a failure, to murkier it as the first ! offence ever committed at that theatre. The tri. %million,. success or the piece relieved the wit prietor from any appreliensi )))) s on the beta r point. We are relieved from the necessity . of going fully into the story of the piece, as the book itself in ii.t be in every body's hands. The plus dramatised by Mr. DIBUIN are the most vigorous of the original; those that carry 114 [MIA to the r hivalrons days of error de Lioa—lo the contemplation of "the hot, teiniw-treitus, ate, fierce youth of Christendom," before the ele ments of Saxon and Norman character were melted down into a settled consistency. The piece begins with the opening of the Novel. the scene between the swineherd, Gurrh (WYATT), and the fool of the Saxon, It'amba (Frrzwit.ussi) ; it is then carried on, pretty nearly in a literal Milliner, to the arrival of Sir Brion de Bois Gailbert (It sNuouall), aad the Friar (W. S. CuarnieLev), iu the hall of the old Franklin." The 41 poorer way-fareu," who claim shelter out of the stormy night, are also pre sent. The Jew (I-In:rem), who is berried along with the current to the touruatneed, at Ashby. The Palmer, /reshot. (W Awns). in his pilgrim's dis guise, partakes of the cheer of the hearth, while the stately Saxon Princess floweisis (Mrs. W. S. CHATTER LEY) and the noble host do the honours of the table. The whole story of the escape of the Jew' from the cupidity of the Templar, and of his ultimate fate, and gratitude to his protector. Ivanhoe, whom he furnishes with armour for the tournament, is then literally told in suc cessive scenes. The Jew's beautiful daughter hebrees (MISS TA I' LOR)—and never could she have a more lovely representative—is introduced at the tournament, and the whole treachery of Su. Brian developed ; the dialogue, particularly the noble recites between bins and Rebecca in the castle, being almost literally the Defuses and impassioned diction of the admirable novelist. The attack on the castle brings forth Sir Reginald Froat•de Ewe (Comuet.i.). and the despoiled and desolate tunes (Mrs. Ilitoues), the Madge Wild fire of the piece, made a great impression in the performance. The conflagration of the castle, through her meant., is admirably contrived and dis.. played : and the piece closes with the trial of the supposed sorceress, which is very fully given with all chivalrous accompaniments. The feats of the (Jaknown Xaeglit (Itinuwav), and the exploits of Wohia flood (Mr. Paves), sire fully given in the Aurae of the performance. • The merit of adaptation is all we presume to which Mr. Quoits can aspire in this piece, for the noble sentiments of the original are literally preserved in the dialogue of the performers—it is impouible, however, to withhold from him the praise of a judiciosn adherence to costume---FROISIARD him self could not cavil at either the dresses or the greater part of the scenery. They are both novel and splendid. The performers cannot be too highly • p-aised--this tribute is due to all (with a single exception). though our limits only enable us by Mime to make a brief selection from the principal. Somebody played the Grand Master of the Tens piers by accident, we imagine, for FAWcETT's name was in the hills. He seemed very unfit for the character, but perhaps it was suddenly imposed upon him by some accident. Miss TAY I.OR't per sonal graces, as well as the taste and judgment of her acting, did justice to the author's conception of this interesting character, and this high com pliment is no inure than her desert. Mrs. CH A7' TERLEY was extremely dignified and impressive, soil she made the most of the character. Some good songs are interspersed throughout the piece : FITZWI L LIAM has some 111111110NUA one.. The piece was throughout loudly applauded by one of the most numerous mid fashionable audi ences that we ever recollect to have seen tit this heatre, and unnouoced for repetition amidst thunders of applause. Fine sentiment, admirable scenery. and excellent acting, formed sin irresistible combination. Definition of the word CADAVER, ati lately given by Mr. Jivince flotanYn; CA Caro. DA Data, VER Fermilss.—Coro Data Vertnibus. We understand that the family from the West Indies, olio lodged in Mr. Kee's house, have re covered the trunk containing the diamonds and other valuables property supposed to have been de. stroyed in the lire. In clearing away the ruins yesterday, the trunk was found in the rubbish much scorched on the outside, but the contents were not injured. Persons serving in corps of yeomanry cavalry are exempt Irma the horse duty, as they were tor inerly, notwithstanding their having entered Into composition for their taxes. l'he amount of the duty on horses used in the yeomanry cavalry to br ascertained by producing the necessary docu ments. A roller pump, on au improved principle, for which a patent has been obi:titled, has fur ►otue time pa-t hero erected at Worcester, for the pur pose of rai-ang water front the river Severn into the large Ito-to of the Worcester Canal, where it throws up 900 g Moos its a minute. A most atrocious charge of rape is now under the inves tigation of the pollee, at which the mind sinks with horror. A gentleman of the highest respectability, in London, who has a country house in Hertfordshire, leaves his children there uoder•the care of two female servants, who, it turns out, have cohabited wish Iwo men. One of the females, after remaining all night with a mass, conveyed <oleo(' the infants, under eleven years of see, to the fellow she bad slept with, soil who defiled her. The matter will be published iu a day ur two. On Tuesday afternoon the howe of Mrs. COU SINS. is Pepper-street, Winches. r-row, South. wads, was privately and feloniously entered by some person or persons unknown, who took away a gold watch, a quantity of silver table and tea spoons, satin and other dresses. and portable pro perty to the value of about 501. Mrs. COUSINS sent immediate information of the robbery to Union-Hall Police Office, and two constables are. on the alert. ROYAL COBURG VIRATRI?, hump 20, 1920. TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRITISH PRESS. . „ ilea—A* the Theatres, both major and minor, now' forns tech • conspicuous and important portion of the amuse. melds of society, and occupy >aids • material share of ifs attention, besides COUlnbtatitiz sit ev.enllfl l y 111 if* improve ment sod gratification, I sb .11 us doe eau apology fir address. imr, to the Putolie, througlo the extensive circulation of your columns, such communications as may still further elucidate the present question' between the Coburg and Droirplane Theatres, fur to that tame has the emoted come at last. At the period of my lasi communication on this subject. I was nut aware the information w3ll actually laid against soy theatre, it having been postponed on points of law from tune to. time ; hut such Is as since turned out to be die fare as it was received by the Magistrate ,, , with, as I understand, atom , . he'll:ll4m i 1.0 week. This information is laid nominally by the Sub•ClentnOtee of theory-lane Theatre, hoot trstionibly, I have good reason to believe, by Mr. Igliatun ; certainly the tat Gentleman in the whole wage M . theatrical mamenne t t whit should loam instituted so ungrateful, so mogracioiss, and au op. pressive a pi reircutiou , as I shall proceed to skew hereafter. The Patentee...4.f Covent-garden Theatre hare, (or the present, declined tsetse any part its Giese diger:ie. fool proceeding:, These Grath-men, I trust, have seen the inkstmanity tool lajustice of their wishes, the impracticability of them, and their rename comeiproces to themselves, should they have cars ied them Into executoun, mid I abritlil hope have wisely declined that fur ever, which could only have hero comely. ed by them in a moment of haste and error. Bat U. Ellis. tem. Oh, Shame! where is Ilioldaeb!. fergettine that when exiled from the Royal Theatres, it was the Motor 'Theatres that opened their fostering arms to receive him, unmindful that he was the first to lead the Miunv Theatres into that species of representatimo' in which he is. Mow the fi rst to complain, regardless that but for the liberality he expo mow ed from the public at Minor Theatres, he would sal lone Maud in the proud but precarious situation of lessee of a Royal Theatre, he is the first 1J raise his pairieidal arm against the parent shrines that sheltered and enriched him; mid *phut every principle of justice, honour, s o d grati tude, seek for their destruction that have proved his preser vation! He will, perhaps, deny that he is at all concerned its Ibis disgrareful prosecution, boot I will remind him of his repeated public assertions, when hr was only Manager of Di wry-lase is contemplation, that the first slop he should take wooed be to suppress the Minor Theatres altogether ; mut I will beg of him to call to mind in particular a con versation that took place last summer. in the Coburg Thea tre, between himself and Mr. William Illwrynture, its then Stage Manager, in which be expressly intimated his intro. Lien of putting • stop to the Colin. Theatre representing nay thing like • 'animist drama, soul request him to rend lett, ou that Gentleman reminding loin, that the Colung Tlti site was only represent ins the same species of pieces he bad introduced when lessee of the Suits y, his acknowledging the justness of the observation, with the addition that though he hail dune so, be did nut meow to allow soy one else the like toleration. 1 will not pay Mr. Ellinou so ill a cotnpli meut as to suppose loins Mucha. Pt at the inumestt lie made these observation's. yi t I can scarcely conceive he could be otherwise when he denounces that at a crime o n others which he had so repeatedly declared ought to be tolerated in himself. As far as policy goes, it is lon. questionably subtle policy in Mr. Elliston to make Mr. Ward—poor Mr. Ward ! the convenient Secretary of Ma nae,ement, the tolerant suffering cat's-paw, to poll out fur the great monkey the fruits of persecution from the fire tif the law; but ameredly some out's finer. will toe burnt in the operation. Thai Mr. Ellistun is the usteusible tot eon of the present prosecution is evident. It cannot be supposed fur • moment the Noble and Honourable Gentle men who now form the Sub-Committee of Drury-lane have •ny share in such as unjust sod ungracious trausactioe—a transaction which cannot in any manner benefit themselves. They are too generous—too liberal for such a proceeding,. Mod they been so inclised, would they soot bare commenced such proceedings whets the Theatre was under their own management, and root stow, that it is under the menage meat of another person, pursuing, as he says, the must pros perous career Undoubtedly! Welt I openly too call upon them, I have not the least fear but that they would deny nll purticipatiun in a transaction, the snort of which is thus ' nominally laid on their shoulders, and the odium of which they are thus artfully made to bear; besides, ' so 'coil of these Gentlemen, I believe, are perfectly acipiamted with the fact, that the very existence I of Drury-lane Theatre is owing to the father of the man whose property that Theatre is now so ungraciously, so un go-Melons, attempting to destroy. It is very well kinawn to mail persons, that preceding the last destruction of Drury later Theatre by fire, the salaries of that establishment for many succeeding weeks canoe solely out of the pocket of my father, Mr. Francis Glossop, till 'an accumulated advance hail been made to Mr. Sheridan of 13,6001., fur which large sum the only enure he ever received was a divideud of 20.6 d. in the pound in motley, and a further dividend of 21.. GJ. in shares, which shares hone since decreased in value nearly seventy per cent. Su couch for 'palinode and consistency ! It may to many persons be matter of great surprise and conjecture what Mr. Elliston's motives can be in suppress ing the Minor Theatres, and throwing out of employ so large a hotly of brother performers, as tae must necessarily de by such a step. Stone persons may be led to infer, that he means, by overstocking the market, to cause 'ouch a dote. nitration of dramatic latent, as shall enable him to procure the services of men of the first-rate genius and ',Willy, for • compensation scarcely amounting to the hire of a me. chaotic ; but though I am perfectly well aware of Mr. Ellis. ton's pewehant for a Moodie and that nicety of calculation in reusuirerating men of genius, which has procured Lion from many persons the character of a hard dealer, lu use tau harsher a term, yet I should hope, for the sake of libe. ratify, honour, gratilvde, and every better feeling of a man, not to soy habitual feeling of a Gcollernan, such is not Mr. Elliston's view in taking the present step. Of all the monopolies of mankind, that of the mind is the most injurious—of nil species of slavery, that of intellect and talent is the most hateful. Let us carry on a fair traffic in all we can render disposable. ' . boot in the name of huma nity, let us not create a coostrahind commerce in the race duns of genins—let us not depreas and debase, by &precis nue, the noble faeolties of the mind. As a man of mind and genius yourself, Mr. Ellision, disdain, despise, disclaim such detestable intentions. I cannot, will not think these are your views in your present proceedings agoilost Doty Theatre, and yet if thi y are nol, Joy what motives ran you be actuated, boot those of as all-grasping avarice, an over. weaning ambition to reign doe sole and absolute arbiter of the theatrical monarchy. Ambition, to use a quotation, Mr. Ellistuit, with which your theatrical memory must be fami " 1 charge thee, ling sway ambition ; by that sin fell the nagels"—by that too may you fall. The Millie diseeming public that have raised you to your present prosperity, can, if insulted sad trifled with, in like degree degrade you. Re flect then 1 conjure you, you the steps you ale owe taking; beware, lie wise, and retract its time; you have written a hook, Mr. Ellistun, at least I find your name prefixed to one, which you seem most nuaceountably to have 'for gotten, as your present sentiments are so diametrically opposite to those which are expressed with suds force in every page of it. When I first perused il, I was tempt ed to believe your name had been prefixed by mistake, as I conceived it impossible any man, po • ing the least consistency and principle, could blow but and csold so strong ly it tlw same breath; het a glance at sloe first half page, wherein there uccors no less than sixteen great f's, re-Enured one—for no one who has had the ',leaser, of hearing you speak, or has read any of your epistolary productiuns, can be unaware of your intimate acquaintence with that great personal pronoun, or doe pleasant and imposing deeney of egotism with which you invariably use it—has to put the question of your authorship of die book in (pieties' to rest at once, and to re-imbue your mind with those mentimests which, if they really proceed from pm, du honour both to your heart and head, I shall refresh your recollection with such passages from the work, as must lead you either to recant your present sentiments, and openly espouse my cause, or tacitly acinsueledge you are not the author of the work in genitive, but have practised a deceit ova the public ley aflisiug your name to another mar's writing, or else be content to be regarded as the greatest renegade in principle -~- and opission of which the !Berms/ world ever hail an ca. ample. In motion these extract.. I shall not only be s., v. tug you by bringiog your consistency to • test, and re minding you of Ileetioneuts of lilvertolity and Wismar you appear to Wove forrelea, but I sh• 11 be miter:ally aiellog myself, for by a lamp species of p-eseeiot •heorvotence, i your book appearsta bare been written cameos!y to defeat noy attack that way he aside avails: mole and si•ailar Theatres. The public are. perhaps. uanepoamtrel grata t the preciee motives which liable , .1 me to build soil aspen the Coburg Thew,. Independently of a predi- ; tedious for theatrical pursuits. and t01.f0u.1.1. rinert fin. I the lamented Priaeess by whores it was p.vn..irrd, and whose name it was to bear, I felt in the surds of the 2.1 and 3d pages of the p'. (sec to tbt Iso .k 1., q.t.alio*, which purports to he • * Copy of a Memorial pr.-armed to the Loral Chainberlal• by the Committee of NI infest of the Thestre-floyal, Drury lane. sod he the Peoprielors of I she Theatre-Royal, Covesit.garden, stains% the Olympic sad Runs Pareil, with Copies of two Letters in reply to the coo- tents of such Memorial, addressed to the Lord Chamber. laiu by Robert Woo Pllistoo, Coq. Cona-than,"—* I felt," I say, " no Ilcgra.lation in beconsisg the Proprietor of such • Theatre, •do I feel the slightest, in being it, P..oprietur now. Were ex 'topics mooted of such purchases, how many might be quoted. Part of the caroling, produced by the incomparable t•lents of Mr. Siddotos, was lard out in • share of Nadler's Wells; Mr. King, the distiogniaked CY- , median, and for some time the manage of Drurrhose Theatre, was also a proprietor of Ssdler • is Wells. Amaber eminent actor, Mr. Wrotogliton, and who was also for some time the manager of Drury lane Theatre. was a Proprietor of Sadler's Welts. To seas/ cravate WHIM I anew ; THEME HAD uree. Alta mot.t.o /TILL use. • mums:at ArTislarT To mums( • Nlltsoo' Tn sot; but that soft of disparagement had no infloence 0111 me. On she contrary, I thou.yht, and experience has stranothetted sty opinion, thlt in the situation in which the rheatees Royal. Drury-lane and ('snot-giorilen, had beryl placed by their ronelortors, Minor' Theatres were of import ance to the public that perliinansnres of Op• description to chi h the !krises of Jliaor Theatres extend, isoglit, if executed, afford a rational and highly entertainiag order nf ameamment, amid at prices more condole* , with hinters, as well as with yenruil roartaieace, than those aback the eondetclom of the Theatre Royal I speak ~r. had chosen to establish; I thought that, in such Theatres, possibly the public might occasionally see, altholor.ls a little out of flier places. some of their old . foraitritrs, whoa' cabal, or a manors spirit, had driven Aunt their proper posts in the Theatres Royal, and to whom I might, without the least disrespect, offer such resource. My 111.11 was to give the best entertainments 1 mould, withia thepro per powers of my license t, at the Mist reasonable prices I could, and by degrees to brighten up soy Theatre, sues its appointments, so as to make it worthy of every description of visitor who should enter it. lam tie from having done, yet, all 1 hare intended to do; and which the statforr of my atalkor , fp trooM entitle inc to do. But thus far, mil, it may he apparent that I have dune something." With this first 'sumac' from Mr. Pittston's work, I Mast now leave him. lit his own words, " lam fir from haring done yet all I intend to do, and which the nature of his hook allows me to do, but thus far even it may be apparent I have done something." la my next, ter-marrow, I will pursue my examination of his reply, and till I have completely gene through it, make such further extracts said comments as I am convinced will proveof essential service to him next Wednesday, when the case is fixed to be argued before the Magistrates; also some remarks on MI able Letter addressed to me under the signature uf Dramatics's —I am. Sir, Your obedieut obliged Servant, J. GLOSSOP, Proprietor of the Royal Coburg Theatre. • Mr. IF. l listrin most now know this fact with double knowledge, as Prat-firm and Practicer. Dow sitnatious alter sentiments! 'tis upporluuity that make sippers of us all. t What Mr. Elfish)* conceived to be the proper powers of his limiter, at the Surrey Theatre, and which license was the same as that smiler which the Coburg Theatre is grow open, will be best illustrated by • list of a few pieces, whirls, among otbrn, be Mekr-drimaiized, and Podolia-riser', and performed there during his lesseerhip i—k - inc liichard 111. Macbelh, limey Moon, Beggar's Opera, Lions! rind Ctn. riesa.Gooroo hiureirafl.ris Cabinet, Pizarro. Draninlisl, Mayor of Garrall, Three and She Deuce, Mr to Ili. or Lore, Of Age To-neorrove. Lodoishn, Forte Thieves, For. hares Frolic, ha. &c. This is but one sample out of a thousand of the present Drury-lane Alauager's estu►istrpey, (airiness, and caaduur! AMERICAN SAILORS. NOTICE FROM THE I.OND MAYOR. lilnn‘inn Hulot, January 17. The Lord Mayor has great pleasure in stating, that, in consequence of the observations which he felt it to be his duty to make the other day, at the inertial( for clwltcring and relieving the bouseless, he has had ■ communication with the American Vier-Vonsul, who informs hint, that the Ameri can sailors who have served can hoard British chips are nut actually precluded from relief at his office on that account, although they Ftt (rivulets ly make that no excuse fur applying at the Man Con-house; and further, that be has at present about 100 destitute *tauten, whom he daily supplies with Wit:- big, food, clothing. and medical assistance, by means of fonds furnished him by the Government of the United States, se. venal of these men having to his knowledge served many yearn in the British navy. This Gentleman states also, that in his official capacity be has lately contracted for the pas. sage of 60 of the aforesaid men by a 111.111 M 1 bound fur Ame rica, now in the London docks. Mr. YOUNG played Brutus, in Mr. PAYNE'S tragedy of Brutus, at the Newcastle Theatre on Wednesday se' 00000 ght. Upon the settlement of the Government, when OLIVER CROMWELL was declared Lord Protector of England, envious alterations were made to the state of the representation of England. By the Act then passed (or settling the constitution of this country. Mancliester was allowed to send one Member to Parliament, and the representation of the county was extended to FOUR Members at the same time. EDUCATION.—The riicient Britons, the Saxons as well as the English, under th- Noimatis and the Plentagettets, were on uneducated prople. The art of printing, invented in the reign of I lEN KY the Sixth, by serving to increase the number, and di minish the value of books, conferred a new chariot ter on the subjects of the Tunnies and STU ARTS ; end foundations of lemming were these laid, which have matured under the Gur.Leus, and have at tained Ultimate perfection in the age of GEORGE 111. whose ambition it is said to have been, that every man in his dominions should be aisle to read the Bible and the I listory of his Country. Yesterday morning a young man, named Joust sos. attempted to commit suicide iu a hickory coach which he had hired. The report of the pistol brought moistener, wheu it was discovered the ball had only slightly won:oiled his vide-. ATTEMPT AT FIRE RAISING. —EarIy on floe morning of Friday, the 7th instant, some incendia ries attempted to set tire to the storelititive at the Shell; Iron-works, by breaking a pane of glass, and throwing • burning peat into one of the apartments; fortunately the room was occupied at the titue by the clerk and the baker, upon whose Fed it alighted. and who succeeded its extinguishing the flans«s be lore any thing was consumed, excepting soute louse estraw.—( Edinburg!. Paper.) - 1 .• errs Yesterday the Lord _Mayor held IsCoert ofCommen Cjun. • eil at What!, which was very numerously attended. A Petitnne was prevented from Mr. Tipper, sad other in. babosnis of the Ward of Bread-street, against the return of Mr &smart •Elliott to ha a Common Csmarilman of the amid Ward, he holding as appoiwtmest ender the Corporative as City PAuter ; sod, after mach Jiscassioss, it was referred the Geoer.al Purposes Committee to rustoine ■ad report. COSIPIA INT AGAINST THE ALDFRME FOft ALLEGED NEGLECT OF bury. Mr. Oldham permeated • Memorial from the Freemen sentitioned on the Jury at tbr Loudon Sessions, .whieli were to Inv.' beers at Guildhall on the 17th December. The Mi neola! 0119 as follows: Snewerm—That your Mentor:obits were dely emaresso ed to attend the Adjouraird Srwwns, at tie Guildhall of the City or Immlon, an the seventeenth day of December WI, to teem the Jury for the trial of Prisoners, and for rich Inlays. dillies as are usually discharged by the Jury at Sessioni. That accordingly your Memorialists assembled at Guild hall at a quarter before ten of the clock to lbe forenbun, where they remained till about Ins minutes after Irltllflf At the cluck, Rhea, in consequence of there being only 01w Al ' demon in attendance upon his duty on Hest oi the Recorder was at length obliged So adjourn the Sensuous till the kith of January ins. Thus, in anssequence of this dereliction of duty by the Magistracy of this City, your Memorialists and the Council lust a coasiderahle portion of their valuahle limn; the due administration of jest': e hie beer infringed, and several unfortunate prisonn Cl`ll` n..i frt. spots moults for waist of bail, have been incarcerated tin the succeeding Session,. Your Memorialists feel it their duly to lay these ereurn *tames before your Honourable Court, eel doubling but as list protectors of the rights, liberties ' and fraachiiiesot the Milieus at large, you will promptly a dopt ouch nseasoire as will turvoit a repetition of an evil so great in its nature, and su +Alarming to its consequences. And your Memorialists will ever pray. Mr. ()Limas &flared, dial, in bringing forward a menials too this anbject, be meant within: personal to the reepeef. Mile body so which he alluded. Twelve saauths ago ne had etiise to niake a complaint similar to that which he was alrott to state, and he had supposed that there could have torso no longer sup weeeseity 1 . 04 , drawing the mon. of the public so so painful a siihjeet. It had been 1.1- &red, in cowowptence of the stir ihat was made upon the .former occasion, 'bat the Aldermen on the rota for The Ses sings should be duly saissetnited. Something more effecinal I must be June, for on a recent OCCAlli4la the wiled of she Al dermen upon the rota for the Loudon Se sinus at Goildhall, had caused the utmost inconswilieuee, and the sitsfiimanate pristine's who were 111 he presumed inetwent oiled they wire foetid guilty, were detained • month longer that, was necessary in pris m s. But the Old Halley, the Justice room at Guildhall, and other places %%here it was the duly of the Aldermen to attend, were slob neglected, and the Court of Aldermen would not take up the matter them olves, but were control to lei it be bronelit into the Coon of Common Council. This neglect is nut to be met with, when it was thought expedient by stoney( the Members of Court to moments certain individuals. It was then easy eiiiinzh to collect thirteen Aldermen upon • late notice. The- neglect to which the Meinuried referred was of the most culpable kind, but the fret was, the evil arose from the eye tem. After the Aldermen once passed the highest honour to which they mold attain, they Incense indifferent sad sank into apathy. If they were cent hark to their conatitueuta the 'mil would be certaiu i,f 'caress. if diet/or:nitro of there unshorn; Wall limns! to seven years they would use a little cannon. It was indeed to be apprehended that Hie owly means of remedying the evil effectually Paneled in calling them to the Court of King's Kenai to auswer a rule why au Wl . ..rotation shouldinnt be filial against them. Ile concluded with moving that the Memorial be referred to a SLleet Committee. . Mr. SAVAIIa seconded the motion. He stated the puff : tub** of the weir, rence al the Sessions, having been anis- MOM:a VI the Jury. Mr. Minx boned, that the question would not be made party one. Mr. Alderman Wenn declared, that as for himself. he 810441 perfectly car-used for aliceece up the oicasioa alluded to, MO his brother Aldermen were, in his opinion, as fire from all imputation. Ile begged to know hunt the seconder of the metiun, whether all time Livery Were present upon the occasion Mr. SAVAGe said, that if they were not press 11, they cer tainly would hart been Geed. Mr. Alderman Wonff—" Then you can't say whether they were all present or not !" Mr. .101,0 said, their absence did not alter the case against the Aldermen. Mr. Alderman Woos declared, that the rota was most cor rectly attended to. There never had necurred a ithtu his know ledge, an instance of neglect upon the part of the Aldermen, apes the regular Ltiedun Sessions. that how did the circum stance cum planted of happen .! It was the practice of the Re corder to a, air n day for Ilse Sessions at the COlll-10- Ault of those 21 111 C Old Bailey. It was true Sessions, summonses were scut nut, Limit that was nut the ease until the night hi form-. He devoted all his time to the public. Ile had received no summons upon this occasion, mid had no notion that the Sessiona were to be Is , kb With respect to the ex ►taus of the Aldermen, there were nu Magistrates in time kingdom who did 11l much. The nudism for a criminal inform. , sin I would, in Ilia opinion, he greeted with much difficulty. The feet was, the Recorder ought to Ax the adjournment day at a proper I ime, and thee ov mistake could easily occur. Mr. FAvyt.L agreed is the eteceseity of iaquiry. Mr. Jacaa cusuidered the enplane:jou of the worthy Alderman highly satisfactory. He deprecated the quarr. l between the Court of Aldermen and the Court of Coninemu Council; and said, that after all that hod heti' said, the 'barge amounted to a mere accidental omission upon a siugie day. Mr. JAMES raid Le could sot help thinking that there was a strong necessity for ifiquiry. Mr. Alderman ATKINS said, he never upon any Mein int' was absent when it was his duty to attend. He routended that the Recorder could Nut fairly fix a day fur the Ad:snug-u -m, London Sessions at an earlier period than he usually fur 'whorls could tell on what day the Old Bailey Sessions would terminate. With respect to lIIe idea of referrer; the Memorial to a Committee, he by nu nurses Owned that such a penceeslmg would have a proper elh et. He, fur WIC, wineld certainly refuse to attend such Committee, whatever respect he might have fur the individuals that composed it. Mr. Alderman WAITIMAN said, lie was convinces{ that the question was brutualit forward by men who was influ enced by a sense of peddle slaty alone. Aldtrmais WOOD would not hold up his hand against in quiry, but he wished that those other Aldermen who mete upon tin- lute were present, for he fell convince& that they would excuse themselves as effectually as he had done.— Ile condemned the conduct of the Court of Aldermen apron the question of their proceedings against our of these brethren mei ordain of the Lively, but he wished to see ell indiguant freliug on the part of the Commun . Council at an end. Mr. OLDHAM shortly replied. He contended {list the ?Niemen' eithir suffered, or might have seffered, from lime übscoce of the Aldermen; and mul, he had lward nothing to induce him to withdraw i.e tivaltly his motion. The mot' 0000 was then carried iu the atfiesnatare, and a Special Committee was finally appointed to consoler the same, and repast whether any and what proceedings should take place in consequence thereof. Upon the Petitieu of Mr. Thomas Hughlon, the Court mianimmisly voted use hundred guineas to brut, to he ap. plied hi his relief its slith 111.41111 C, As Mr. Richard Jump au.{ Mr. Peter Skipper should dunk fit, the 104111 e briog in coo. sideration of the losses sustained by him in cousequeoce of the mob which brake into the house of Mr. Kea, in the !shinnies, IN LII•Ce111111CT 1816, where lie resoled. 'flee Brimlgliumus Committee presented a Repoli relative to the liability of the expeuses of the Magistrates of the No rough being defrayed uut of the Bridgelionse feuds, which being read, was ordered to be printed. A Special Committee was appointed to eisasitler the pre trial state of the Leedom workhouse, and report their aopt• own whether any steps cut be takes Cur deieg the saw away. 1 : P. , +e