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GENUINE REJECTED ADDRESSES. The following Address appears in a pamphlet un di:l-this title, which we noticed yesterday. It is written by'a Gentlentan whose talents as -an Artist are justly in much estimation.—This •Address is suppw,bd to express the opinions of the Drury-lane Proprietors and the Compiny. - ADDRESS, BY WALTER HENRY WATTS. When that appalling element, whose rage With ruin had assant our Sister Stage, Impartially destructive, turn'd-its course, ,And overwhelrn'd us, with resistless force, Prostrate and- succourless—dismay'd—we lay ~,.night, that promis'd no returning day. Bereft Of all its antient gorgeous slate, A glooMy clines, grandly desolate, • The Most , ,lamented o'er her fallen fane, Nor breath'd her sighs, nor shed her tears in vain: Touch'd with her sorrows, an enlighten'd band, (Form'cl from the boast and promise of the land) Advaned, their renovating aid.to give, • And bid once niore Dramatic Genius live. .• To them our early, ardent thanks are due - • Our fond anticipations dwell on you. For their benign, •disinterested zeal, A reverential gratitude we feel :- To von we turn, our hearts with hope elate, Anil hail in you the masters of our fate. As souse fair Paid, rear'd by parental care, With Pious fervour pours 116 - daily prayer For those, who, guardians of her tender youth, Her beauties cherish, and preserve tier trutt► : But When, in swett maturity of charms, the quitS.a mother's for a husband's arms, A deeper, searmir interest swells her breast, in every act, in every glance confest ; Her - sole solicitude to win his praise— Belov'd protector of her future days t SiThate'er the varying images that pass With rapid chaua o'er our theatric glass; Whether it faitlifiilly, but darkly show. The sad affinities of Vice and Woe, Or brilliantly reflect, 3vithout alloy, The splendid fo:inS of Virtue and of Joy ; Whether with wise research,' in gust array, historic truths it-learnedly display, Or sportivOy across its surface flit - The gay creations of inventive Wit ;' To what•emotion it may e'er give birth, Anger, or admiration tears, or mirth— One animating motive will incite Our zeal in the career begun to-night : To gain that awful voice whose sound is fame, Our single, ceaseless; honourable ann. TILE GREAT NATIONAL THEATRE. - ADDRESS FOR THE ,OPENIZ , IG OF THE GREAT THF.ATEE, ST. STEPHEN'S, INTENDED TO BE SPOKEN BY MR IVII-Tllll-1), -IN THE CHARACTER OF THE FIRST rußiciAN, IN " COR.IO LANUS." TRANSMITTED BY STURIUS VARIUS. " Hear ye this Triton of tke .lifingowes? Mark ye his absolute ' shall P.' . Since we all were born equal, I boast not my station, But you'll letrae remind you, Lord Gli-Y'S my relation! • • ,eau not to brag 'a. the pow'r Ipos7:e.;s • ' But I'm Thury-Lane Manager, nevertheleSs! One should not be coin that one's talents ar,?great I claim hut—to manage the stage of the State!! O.P.'s! we hare rattled so long in this row, , that 'twere madness indeed to capitulate now; We nint stand by each other, or all are undone: Either hang we together, or hang we alone ! Then let not defeat and discouragement fret you, But follow the pattern that Drury has set you. - Old Diary, that always was worried and rack'd, diAresses in law, or di:itresses in fact, Till, like Dido, descried, she sank on a pyre, , And was out* the frying-pan into the fire. There were friends, 1.-.; restore the concern in a trice, But it was not assured to a. third of itsprice they asked me to•take it, the smooth with the rough, • -For they knew I had always assurance enough.. But assurance is vain withotit policy too; So I kept the concern in the hands of a few, - Wm will do what I like, and will like what I do. Of old it was thought that the'props of a stage Are the talents your skill or your luck may engage; But I've set that ridiculous notion at rest, And taught my Committee that cheapest is heat; For talents, I thought, might at last he our masters, And the prop; that I trust are the rows of pilasters. Next, anxious to bring down all genius yet lower, I struck from the free-list some dozens or more, • Of authors and wits, who had freedom before. Indeed, Mr. C—NN—S has dealt me such hits, • That I'm rather afraid of the freedom of wits : And freedom, although we may call it a good, Is a matter most cursedly misunderstood. Interpreted rightly, I take it to be A pledge that no check shall he put up upon me, But thai whilst I myself am indulg'd, I may still 'Pot checks upon others as much as I will. Then follow the pattern that Drury has set, Take me for your head, you'll be conquerors yet. The . plan in which,pese, I so well persevere, I'll follow in all My performances here : I'll grasp and I'll gripe, I will squeeze and demand, 'And skin er'ry flint with a merciless hand, Till fati,4ued indignation no longer shall rouse, And the meni'q of freedom belost in the House : • I'll put merit. and talent at once on the shelf, And monopolize all things fin. you—and myself! The circumstances attending the capture of the brave . Count WlNzEflGEhttng, afford another ex ample of the cOwardly.spirit by which the French ruffians in Moscow were actuated. WINZENGE RODE and an Officer of cavalry, in their eagerness to save the further effusion of blood, or rather from an ill-judged humanity towards -the mis creants who remained in the Kremlin, gallopped forward with white .handkerehiefs in their hands, to beseech them to cease firing, as resistance was vain. They were taken prisoners in the act of waving a flag of truce !—This, however, is but a petty atrocity, compared with those which.the French hourly committed in Moscow. Marshal KUTUSOW, the gallant Chief of the Russian Armies, we understand, is in the 75th year of Itiogige, and, has lived from his infancy in camps. lie has lost an eye, and received musket balls through both his cheeks, and - froth other' wounds, in former wars, is scarcely_able to mount his horse ; but all his bodily infirmities are com pensated by the greatest mental activity, and the thoSti!unconquerable spirit. ' A young man of the name of FOWLER, nudes took, ybsterday morning, to go on foot from Lon don to Tatling. End, on.the Oxford road, and re turn ; the whole lifting 36 miles from the place of starting, in six hours, for a wager of 120 guineaS. The pe4lestrian perforMed .12 miles within the first two hours, and increased his speed the next hour, but he was beat at the end of the fifth hour,'hav ing more than eight miles to perforth. He must have won the match but for the badness of the roads. LONDON : Pr:htcd by TIIONIAS WOOD, of No. 22, ,Russell-court, Brydges-street, Corent-gat At the 6UN ekWICE, .No. 112, 6traile., where Advertisements, tirdc)- ADDRESS • TO TI lE, INFIAIirrANTs _OF WESTMINSTEII; The Provisional Committee, formed to conduct the establishment of the Westminster Auxiliary Bible SOciety beg leave td call the attention of the inhabitants of Westminster to the importance of the formation of an A6:iliaryYle Society for that city. They think it unnecessary to en large upon the general merits of the British and Foreign Bible Society,, or to point out the ad vantages of local societies connected-with it. The general establishment of such societies, through out the country, proves the opinion entertained by the public of their utility ; and the Committee trust that the inhabitants of Westminster Will not be backward in supporting the efforts which. are making in other parts of the metropolis, and throughout the kingdom, to promote the Univer sal KnoWledge of the Scriptures of Truth. It peculiarly becomes this city, - the immediate seat of our Government, and Legislature, to show its sincerity in the , cause of that religion, which is embodied in our laws, and forms the basis of our Government ; and in no - place is such an, establishment more. demanded by local circum "stances. _ _ In this part of the .metropolis_are combined acid. brought into almost immediate contact, the most distant orders of society, the greatest extremes of, affluence and poverty, of dignity and depression,' of information and of ignorance. There is con sequiently no place where the temptations of vice are more powerful, or the effervescence of pas sions more violent and dangerous ; and none, therefore, which more requires the influence' of . good example, and the restraints of religion, not only to promote huhVidual virtue and : happiness ; but to secure society from injury, ,the laws from violation, and the public peace from outrage. How imperfectly the - means of religious instruc tion have' yet been provided for this great mass of population, nowithstanding the exertions ,of the clergy and. different ministers, the inquiries made by'the Committee have sufficiently. evinced. - Among 1 15,449 persons, of whom 10,017 can read , contained in 4,402 families, which haVe been visited; only 1,62 G. bibles - were found, and of these 283 were imperfect Or mutilated. , -The want of the . Scriptures among the more indigent inhabitants does not appear to arise from indifference, or disregard of the revealed Word of God, but to proceed from the actual difficul tiesof tfieir situation ; for nearly all expressed their . anxiety to obtain it, and many were willing to do so by considerable sacrifices. . . It might have been supposed, that the want of the Scriptures in this district would have been •to a considerable degree supplied by religious and charitable institutions already existing and par ticularly by the 'Thitish and Foreign Bible Society. It, however, appears, that among the families vi sited,- a very few cmly have received a bible, either from the British and Foreign Bible So ciety,. or from tiny other. This circumstance, although it chews the ne cessity of a local_ establishment. such as • is now proposed, is not to be imputed to any defect' in those excellent institutions, or to be ascribed only to the extensive designs in- which they are 'en- . , gaged; butin a great nicasure to the peculiar na ture of the population of Westminster. Tbe more opulent 'part of its inhabitants regard it only as a temporary residence for purposes of business or society, which occupy their whole attention, and are connected by all the ties of local attachment and benevolent intercourse with ' the poorer neighbours of their country habitations, while they scarcely consider contiguity of residence in town as forming any bond of mutual 'acquaint ance. Many of them, therefore, who are mem bers of the existing societies, and , exert them selves most laudably for the instruction of the poor in different parts of the country, have done little for the improvement of those of the' metro- polls. The Committee beg leave to express their hope, ' that these benevolent persons will not think the claim of their poor neighbours in this .city super seded by what they may have afforded elsewhere ; and particularly that they will not withhokl the influence-of their names and sanction from the So ciety, though they may think other places have stronger claims on their liberality. This Society. affords them an opportunity, which, to many of them, is not likely in any other-way- to occur, of a public and solemn, yet _unaffected declaration of their attachment to that religion which consoles their hearts and regulates their conduct. The ef fect which a general association of the inhabitants. of Westminster, in the cause of revealed religion, would have upon public opinion, both at home-and abroad, is beyond calculation. The Bible Society has already been a, great instrument in the hands of Divine Providence in, clearing this nation from the reproach of infidelity, which, while it- waf-ex ultingly charged upon it by sonic foreigners; - and invidiously by others, was, till of late, so little refuted by' our manners-or professions, that it was too often admitted with shame and- sorrow, by the most sincere and reflecting of our own countrymen. But the Bible Society has br6ken the spell of ill-placed basliftilneSs; and we haVe lately-seen many of the most distinguished of- our laity, as well as our clergy, not only liberally eon-. tributing their substance in the •cause of the Gos pel, though plausible reasons were industriously suggested to them for evasion and indifference; but taking that share of public personal exertion which could only be attributed to a conviction of its divine origin and inestimable value, too firm to be shaken by the fear of singularity or - ridi cule. These exertions, however, though their effect has been deep and .extensive, have hitherto been scattered and divided, rather bearing the charac ter of effusions of individual zeal, , than of na •tional sentiment. But the City of Westminster comprehends so large a proportion of whatever is distinguished in .the nation, so general an as semblage of its various parts, that the union of this City could not fail to Convey . to all parts, of the Country, the conviction of public feel in or to Strike foreign nations as the col lected homage of Britain to her Saviour and her God. While those nations contemplate, the blessings of a land preserved from ruin amidst the wreck of so many countries, let them find cause to remark,• that in this land, - however faulty in tnany re spects,-reverence for the Word of God is emi nently conspicuous. The British Nation is called upon by -all - the• blessings' it has itself enjoyed, by all the judg ments which are fallen upon others, to set the ex ample of pure religion, and genuine reformatiOn to mankind. Let it not refuse to bear the voice which speaketh from [leaven. Was _there ever a time when such an example was .more urgently demanded, or more awfully enforeed by all the circumstances of the world, or could it at any other time appear with more salutaryinikence And among the cities of Great Britain wl:icla can take the lead its the cause of reformation with so much efficacy, as that which has long set the ex ample of arts, of manners, and it is to be feared, of vices to the rest of the nation ? - • The corruption introduced by a great metropo lis has long been the subject of lamentation amorrg moralists, but its influence will be no less power ful in the cause of truth and virtue. The sympa thiesof benevolence and the ardour of 'devotion are not less capable of being diffused among as- . sembled multitudes, than the contagion of vice ; and we shall be able with ,jester confidence, to im plore the protection of the Almighty on our No bles and our Legislature, when they shall have publicly avowed their reverence to his Word, and their confidence in his power. On Saturday afternoon his Royal Highness tile Duke of CLARENCE, accompanied by Lord YAR MOUTH, dined at the Angel Inn, Norwich, 014 - their route from Houghton to Saxmundham, where they will mekt the PRINCE REGENT, &c.— Their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of YORK and CAMBRIDGE proCeeded from Houghton to Thick ling, to join a,shooting party at Lord StHcfmtn's. THE RUSSIAN BOY t-1 marvellous bfiy, of tett years of age, bath' created much astonishment among the frequenters of the Stock Exchange, by his wonderful_ adroitness at calculation is a sort of. admirable Crichton, in his. way. A bet was laid to a considerable amonitt a few d tvs since, by a Merchant, with a Gentlethan who is reputed tp be the first accomptant in that cele brated coffee-house, upon the point of figures, and calculation, as abstruse, that it' took him one Hour to prepare the question, which the boy im— mediately answered in one minute: an objectiou was taken as to the accuracy of the child's answer,, but, after 3 very serious investigation, it'svas ad mitted, that the boy's answer was correct A. great lottery contractor, who was present, iwtant ly gave the boy a ..guinea that was coined in' the reign of William 111. and demanded to know how many years,, months, and days had elapsed "since the period of its coinage . ; all which he an swered, promptly, to the admiration of the whole circle, who subscribed fifty pounds as a present td this calculating phenomenon. It seems that he is a native of Russia, who bath been one voyage to the United States of America,- front Whente . he, came, at the commencement of the prt se -It re- . grated troubles, reconiimmtled to a mere nage Gentleman of this city ; .and it is further added, but with what degree of truth we cannot ans \vet., that he can neither write or read. Thursday,.about two O'clock, as Mr. :1--farrion, the proprietor of the Tavistock Hotel, Covent-. garden, was sitting down to dinner, lie was dis- . turbed by an unusual noise made by a quantity of 'fancy pigeons be had on the top of the house.--= On his going up stairs with his friend Mr. Downs, he saw a hawk of extraordinary size seize upon one of them, and fly away with it : they watched the direction he took, and saw him alight on the steeple of: the New Church in the Strand.-- Mr. Downs took his gun and was kindly permit ted by Mr. Fletcher, in the Strand, to go op the top of the house :he fired at the hawk, and-it fell into the church-yard. It measured three feet fri m. the tip of one wing to the other, 22 inches from the beak to the tip of the tail, and 16 inches in the girth. .A hawk paid a similar visit to the-Ta vistock hotel about. five years ago. LAW REPORT. COURT OF CHANCERY, NO; 20. MARTIN AND OTHERS, ASSIGNEES OF ---, A BANK- RCPT, V. RODGERS. Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY moved for an injunction to present the defendant from prOsecuting a suit in a Court of Common Law, against the plain tiff's.: They, as assignees of the bankrupt, sold an estate to the defendants for. 50001. and . received 1,0001. as a deposit. There being some difficulty in making out. the title, the defendant brought his action to recover the deposit, although he knew the plaintiffs had paid it away amongst the creditors of the bankrupt ; they were - willing to go before the Master to prove the title. Mr.'HART, Counsel for the defendant, said ; his client was willing to refer all the matters in dispute to the Master, on condition that the deposit was paid into Court. The LORD CHANCELLOR observed, he had riot a doubt but an auctioneer was liable to be called on to pay into Court the deposit, for he could be only considered as a stake-holder, under which consideration he would not grant an injunction, as it related to Martin, in • his capacity of auc tioneer ; but i❑ the cause against the assignees, they might take it without paying the money into Court. COURT OF KING's BENCH, Nov. 20, THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE V. BUYER. This was an action brought by the University of Cambridge against the defendant, who is a bookseller, to receive penalties under the Sth, of Anne; in consequence of his having neglected to deliver to the warehouse-keeper of the Stationers' Company, copies of a certain publication (Fox's History), for the use of the said University. The action was originally tried before LordEllenbo rough", and a verdict was obtained for the plain tiff, subject to a future argument. Mr. LITTLEDALE this day persisted in the argu ments which he had adduced upon the trial. 'He stated, that by certain statutes passed in the reign mf Charles the Second, it' was enacted, for the encouragement of literatury, that a certain num ber of copies of all bOoks which might be pub lished, should be sent free of expence to the Universities of England. By a subsequent Sta tute of the Bth Anne, these Statutes were con-; firmed, and after vesting ,in the' author,' ,pub lisher, or purchaser; the privilege of reserving to himself the sole advaritaes to be derived from his copy-right for 14 years, as a return for that protection, it enacted that nine copies of all books so published should be entered in Sta • tioners' Hall, for the 'purposes afOresaid ; the Colleges of Scotland, as well as the English Col leges, having the right to copies of such works. By the Statutes of the 'lsth and 41st Geo. 111. further provisions were made for the name par-, pose, and particularly the last enacted, that the Universities of Great Britain, including those of Dublin and'S'cotland, sbonld be e,ltitled to copies of all works " entered at Stationers' Hall.!' The ground o' resistance to the action pn the part of the defendant was, that the work upon which penalties were sought, to be recovered, had not been entered at Stationers' Hall, and f,e-proprie tors not having derived any advantage -from the protection of their privilege under the statute of Anne, but contenting theinselves with their re medy at Common Law; did not think they were bound to make The voluntary contribu tions 'to the Universities, which had been con tended for. In answer to' this. Mr. LI;TTLEDALE argued, that the clear and manifest meaning of the Act of Anne, was to secure to the Universities, for the.' encouragement, of literature, free -.of expellee, copies of all works which should be published, taking for granted that 'the proprietors, for their own sake, would make those entries in Stationers' Hall, which were to convey to the Colleges the advantages intended. That the Acts of the . 15th of Geo. HI. had only stipulated that these advan tages were to be derived from. such works as were entered at Stationers' Hall, he was fully aware, yet from the clear and indisputable intent of the former Act, he, was satisfied that the-Legislature, in framing the- latter Acts, .had laboured under a misconception. In this opinion, be trusted the Court would coincide, and see therjustiee of con firming the Verdict in favour of the Mr. BROUGHAM generally contended, that • the Statutes of the 15th and 41st ot. Geo,Jll. were not liable to the same interpretation as those of Charles 11. and the Bth of Anne. This, he said, was evident from the wording of that of.the 41st of the King—..which expressly stipulated, that the Universities were intitled only to copies of works, the titles of which had been reßistered in Sta tioners' Hall. This registry had never been made of the book in..question; by hiS client—and as he had never attempted to avail himself of the privi leges which the Bth of Anne had protected, bitt contented himself with the remedy, in ease of an - infringement on,his,copy-right, - which the Com mon • Law, as already admitted,' afforded. He, Mr. Brougham, linnibly submitted, that. he was not bound tO fUrnish to the public libraries, the' copies contended for. • Mr. LITTLEDAISE having replied,' Lord Et.LENSoRouGH, in giving judgment, ob served, that the sound ride of construing any statute was to look to the body of the thing to be construed, to collect..the • meaning and intention of the thing so to be, construed, and, if clear and intelligible ,to decide accordingly. He admitted that tbe\Statutes of Geo. 111. might be subject to a different interpretion to those of Anne and Charlefi, but still this interpretation might beinade without violating the original text. Some ditli ' culty. certainly did arise upon due consideration of all the Acts, yet as the clear meaning of that of Anne was to prevent any elision of the'Statutes of. Charles,' and to secure to the Universitiee , the advantages of obtaining copies of all works tree of expense, he apprehended, in framing of the Act of the 41st of the King, a misconception of the former Acts must have taken place— , -and con struing the Statute of Anne in its plain and intelli gible sense, he certainly thought the verdict in favour of plaintiff' ought to be confirmed. BIRTHS. On the 4th inst. the Lady of William Yatman,F.sq. of Arun del-street, of a sou. On the nth inst. at Ryton Grove, Northumberland, the Lady of Henry Curwen, Esq. of a son. On-Tuesday last, the Lady of James Seton, Esq. of Ihsley- House, in the County of Hants, of a daughter. • On the 18th inst. at Twickeillmin, the Lady of F. G. Car michael,Esq: of a daughter. At his house in Manchester-square, the. Lady of T. W*, Milner, Esq. of her Bth son, being her 13th child now living. ; - MARRIED. . .. On the 20th ult. at the King's Chapel, Gibraltar, Viscount Malpas, eldest son of the Earl of Cholmondelev, to Caroline , second daughter of his Excellency-Lieutenant-General Calop" bell, Lieutenant-Governor. _ On Saturday last, at Antony Church, Captain HenryJanc , of his'Majesty's ship Indian, to Miss Jane Prynu, of Porpoin'-7i sister to Dr. Prvnu, of Plymouth Dock. On Tuesday, 'fliotnas li'atkinson Payler, Esq. of Iloden, i 3 -Kent, to Mrs. O'Callaghan, of Cado.gan place. DIED. Ou the Stb of February last, at Bombay, Lieutenant Joho r Veitch, orthe 4th Nativ: Infantry. On Tuesday, at his -house in Collegc-square,Bristol, Ace. Geurge liomfray, Prento - r of the Cathedral in tl;') 1 City. Lately, :4 Bath, Miss Grace Carruthers, slaughter of ;tll O , late W. Carruthers, Esq. of Broien':.-hill, Gloucestert , hi re. :it Alford, Lincolnshire*, Mrs. G. Gatehouse ' in the year of her age : she actually cut her teeth about two year * since. On the 18th inst. in Dorsetshire, in the 43d year of his get Char:es Nowell, T.q, late of - the Duke of York's Office, .lone Guards. On Thursday morniw, at Charlton Mrs. Thomas Chawi berhyt.e. , On the 19th inst. in Park-street, Mrs. Elizabeth Neill' aged 56. KS YESTERDAY. • Bank Stock, India Bonds, , Navy 5 per Cent. 90iii South Sea . Stock, Irish 5 per Cent. - Exchequer Bills, aid. per OP 4 per Cent. 73th • , . 23. pr. 3 per Cent... Red. 58 571 - ' Ditto, 3-id. per day, 4s. 64. Pr" 3 per Cent. Con. 59 . 58 59 Omnium, 54 pr. .- Bank L. Ann. 14 15-Itiths 15 Bank, 218 India Stock, Cons. for 15th Nor. 59i 6t,. PRICE OF STOC COAL MARKET, Nov. 20 lien ; bv WILLIAM .ARMICEII SCRIPPS, Swat.hon-street, Grosvkl:)r-stitiare, )1' the Paper, Letters for the EditOr, &c. (post p*v), must be addressed. Ships at Maract. Ships sold. Price. 4. 26 Newcastle . . 16 . . . 41s. 6d. to Sis• • 71 Sunderland . . . . 4i . . . 40s. Ott. to 45.;. o.‘ HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDG TO-MORROW' , Morning, 37 minutes after . 4. I Evening, Q minutes after :7.