The Sun. — London, England, 1819-10-07 00:00:00

Mr, EtliToa,The call of loyalty end justice I ) " not been disregatded by the Cititens of Nor sileh ; in the course of only a few days, upwards of 1600 persons of all ranks came voluntarily and cheerfully forward to sign the Declaration which lately appeared In your paper; and net only the 'lumber, but the respectability of the list, When compared with the meagre Meeting to which it *!0 1 ,1 3 opposed, gives a triumphant answer to t 1 use ‘vho held up our city to public odium, for "'a:staining sentiments and principles which by ''n means influence the great mass of our popula tion. Another proof has lately been given of the sen `intents which pervade the most respectable part of our community.—Our principal Coffee-room, *hie') contains amongst its Subscribers most of the leading men of rank and fortune in the city, has for a long time admitted the Courier, Globe, Sun, Star, Morning Chronicle, and Times, News papers, have of late had great reason to be dissa tisfied with the partial, false statements of the last of these Papers, especially since the damning Proofs of misrepresentation, suppression, and falsehood, given in its Report of the Proceedings of the Meeting held here on the 16th September, to prejudge his Majesty's Ministers, the Magis trates and Yeomanry of Manchester.--The An imal Meeting of the Subscribers to this Room took place last Tuesday, when it was proposed and carried, willa only two dissentient voices, that The Old Times should hr discontinued; and as the Gentlewat► who first brought that recreant Paper into public estimation is understood to be th e Conductor of The New Times, it was decidedly determined that the latter Paper should he taken in lieu of the discarded one.--I remAin, Sir, Your most obedient Servant, • St. Giles, Norwich, Oct. 6. JAMES ST. JOHN. FOR THIS SUN. 'r Between two Stools, - &c.—.V.llgar Proverb. Me. EDITOR—The efforts of the Old Times to 'retain its ancient Patrtyis and obtain new Friends amongst the RefiPmers have conratteiy tailed. It Ita i discovered, why it too late, the justice of the adage above quoted. It has inspired conteloot for its degen(rate columns L4tuungst its oid aid Steady supporters, without having gone far elrOtigh to ensure the confidence and stapport of the new men. The tile is the stutn!)lin;:-block, a name is every thing."—" Would yon, said Zir. Shandy, have your son named Judas fl" A Radical of 1794 would have been contaminated by touching merely! the margin of the Tunes; it Was interdicted—for it was Loyal. lint, it says, fair seems to say, with Richard, " Now I sin itu so far in sin, that sin must pluck on sin," knd has come to the &termination of fraternizing 'ith the Radicals, and changing the obnoxious title for one more appropriate ; you will there fore, Sir, not feel much surprise when, with !scissors in hand, hastily intending to cut up and afford your astonished readers some &riming con viction of its betesy and deviation from sound and honest principles, you are saluted with a sight of the Radical Times ! cut in brazen charac ters, and substituted tot its present ambiguous appellation. You will be still more surprised when you bear, 11 at the first week's profit under yes new title will be devoutly devoted to the fund for the relief of the Sufferers by the Manchester 'Massacre, as it is emphatically called ; and still So when they announce that all advertise. Thetas for that and similar purposes will be in serted gratuitously iu the Radical Ti»tes. In the zteatt lime, Sir, you may be assured that you cannot 8:11;er the vanity rat the Ci , izetts concerned i ," that enlightened pablie.stion more than by an the Civic Christening, which nothing .hut. their extreme delicacy and blushing rno''esty procrastina'es, by hailing it upon all proper ma aittns as the Radical Times. COGNOMINATER. SHIP NEWS. PORTSMOUT2I, OCT. 6.--Arrived his Majesty's *tip Owen Glendower from the Eastward ; Ra leigh and Spartan from Leith also the Oro. 11.1° C 1 C), STRICKLAND, nom the Downs for India; Clav ernur Harcourt, Wtt.som, from ditto for De- r ara ; Bacchus, WiLsoN, from ditto for :11l giero Chapman transport from Quebec ; and Lur o n ra, ALBERT, from the Downs—the latter has received considerable damage, in consequence of being run foul of last night by his Majesty's allip Raleigh off Dunnose. Passed up Channel the Triton, MARSHALL, from Quebec. D E") OCT. 6 —Arrived, and sailed for the ItiNer, tile Ajax, CLARK, from Madras and the C 4 i)e• Passed through the Downs his Majesty's ' hi ll Lee, in 48 hours, from Leith for Ports mouth. MILFORD, OCT. 4.—Put in here, leaky, the Agiticnnrt, MATulk.u, from Quebec ; she must dischare to repair. PNzANcE, OcT. 4.—The Dutch 74, Prince I :red erie k , i s so leaky that part i es f rom t h e s h ore , " e been constantly pumping her since her arri- The crew are very sickly. A sloop of war is hourly expected to take her to Plymouth. The linoksellers of Halifax, in Nova Scotia, 61 ‘-mtitating each other in the publication of I,Yl`"graphical Works—two Histories of that ~ r ' evilite having been lately published there, with : 4 1 s a n d H ates, drawn and engraved by Artists " that Country. MR. KERN.--(LETTER II.) Ma. EDITOR—Ihe more we examirte the Let ter obtruded upon the Public under the name of Mr. KeAN, the mstre we must be convinced that it could not have heen written by that Gentleman. It is impossible that one who slims such a judi cious conception of the characters which he per forms could have produted a work marked by so much vanity, and such weak reasoning. Rut to proceed in my endeavours to rescue hii character from the suspicion of arrogating such import ance, and acting; with sneh indiscretion. The Author of the Letter says, in words imputed to Mr. KLAN, " when the Theatre fell into the hands of Mr. ELLISTON (" thing you mean"), 1 understood that he had made such arrangements as were a virtual breach of my articles, at►d 1 was to einbirrass an undertaking of such riblt and importat►ce, by returning to claim their fulfilment." Why should the Author of the Let- ler aCCUSC Mr. KEAN of so much rtiShl)eSS as to think of violating his brides without full Proof, and how could he have understood, or from whon►, that such arrangements had been n►adc. ? Would not Mr. KHAN rattier have shewn hi► good sense by ascertaining the fact ; but %di y should Mr. Et.usToN he suspected of intending to violate the existing °Motion., of the former man,gement ? Here I must pause a moment', to notice the lofty language imputed to kit. KEAN of " taking upon himself the teponsibilily 01 hi eakin4 with Mr. ausToN," that is, ....ilhdra wing from the The atre, Would not one suppose that the matter in contemplation relat-d to the interest= of an Etn pireit It ‘youhl not have been surf:rising, had not the tvriter been personating Mr. KEAN, It he had introduced the couplet applied to 11r. GARIZICK•-•••• A Nation', taste dhprnd, on You, " Prrhap- a Natio,'s virtue too " But now Jet us comirier hat " !he virtual brefich" of Mr. KUAN'S art.cles ‘vo,tl(l he, all suited by the Le , ter writer. According a this statement, MI. lisitt4 was to be " 31(vrager ou the o i r ,j os ott vs ho .t, hr pky e rt." Li it that au Ac:or could have demaiided such a power, of that, it he oasi, the regular Managers woull have deb4sed thein-:elves so low its to concedu ! Bat what wou!il be the natute of this rwer the pow I 0 t cxelod ug every resp, ctabte Actor Actress tram every .ittrt in the saint Play, lest any of them stiou'it share in public applauge, soul, of course, of ria•iglllog all Ihe parts to such petsons as might ate too contemptible to a thni , of comp oison. B. r• must be thought of w h o cou ld calmly submit to be told, as implied by such a rry , tt•itiotl, that 'hey wanted judgment to cast a Play theuiseives ? Tiptsc, indeed, who would hear such 00 iuwult 1/31/olt be expected to make any concession that on tingovetnahle spirit could require. Mr. KEAN cannot be the character thus represented. Did Mt. GARRICK of Mr KENIBLE, or any other great Actor, since the origin of the English Si.lre. ever venture to require such a power I There, is nothing like it tot record. The nex• grievance which Mr. NN is male to apprehend is, that his dame wool(' not. " continue as large in the bills as the Committee first chose to advertize This passage Li explessen with more cunning than Letto-wri:ei• tins usually displayed; for it Ite..-•113 tO throw the act a t,n t:Le Commit Lee, BA if it bad been eolu»teercd by them, and had not been requirt.J by Mr. KLAN ; but :net, the Letter writer forgets his e.intnna, and makes Mr. KEAN COOSidet it as an essential point, on which he was likely to insist, an] in that case that ?I r. aus- Tote would then be forced to hreak with \fr. Do wTON, who had in his articles stipaLated that Mr. KEAN'S name should he Overt ized like others. And why should Mr DoaTots, Actor of first. rate " in his line," Hi the Letter•writer says. assent to such an ilenlious distinction in favour of Mr. haAN 2 \Vhatuver Dlr. K FAN 's !DAV he, they are not superior to those of Mr. DowToN, and are by no means so general. fi..o that Mr. Dosi,TON did not want 91 1 01 an invi:tiotis pre emineoce, yet he might properly , opliose it, %sell from respect to the theatrical pr itession io general, as to his own nit cited rank. But tb, whole must be imaginary ; M. KEAN never co. Id to , ee distrusted his own talents so notch as t• J s pp o se that they requ:rtat the bed ! sleriag of large letters Btu ',low ditf,reot NMS the pr.ctice of Mt. NEMELE. When he perfot turd the chief part in a Play the characters were ar raneed in the hills according to their dramatic rank, the King first. &c. What a modest contrast would this exainple exhibit in favour of Mr. KEMBLa, it it could he supposed that Mr. KHAN had actually insisted on such a marked distinction! It is evident, according to the Letter, that Mr. KHAN would insist on his tight to be Manager on the nights of his own performance, even under the Management of Mr. ELLISTON, who has in curred such a risk in undertaking that Manage ment, hilt who, an able and experienced Actor, was to become a mere non-entity when Mr. KEAN peitormed. But it seams "that Mr. ELLISTON had provided against the alternative of MrlcaaN's yield ing to Mr. Do wToN, or Mr. DOWTON to him," by engaging Mr. VANDENHOFF, an Actor, whom the Letter states to be of " the first consequence— whose high talents deserve the first place, and whom it would therefore be degrading to make second to any one." But how did the engage ment of Mr. VANDENHOFF obviate the alterna tive 1 Why, because Mr. KEAN then thought that it seas bust for him to withdraw for a time, as he would not give up his own right, though Mr. VANDENHOFF *vas not likely to insist on such all invidious distinction. The Letter-writer was certainly not aware of the compliment which he thus paid to Mr. VANDENHOFF at the expence of Mr• KEAN ; for if both were to be engaged, Mr. KEAN, according to the Letter-writer, would still insist upon his right. But, Mr. Editor, I have taken up too much of your Paper, at a time when the. Empire itself is likely to be involved in the Tragedy of Rebellion, 'unless Ministers are better Managers of a State titan the late Committee of Old Drury were of a Theatre. 1 felt it, however, to be incumbent on me, as a sort of duty to Mr. KEAN, from whom the Public, as well as myslf, have derived so RHICII pleasure, to endeavour to prove that he could not have exacted any of the conditions imputed to him, or have b een the wtiter of the Letter to which some blundering friend has taken the liberty of annexing his re_ spectitble signature. CANDIDUS. reTreri3 moieribu.s poteta. Q. HoR. FLAC. Cann. Ode 9, Vib. 4. Whilst talkative Drapers our woes ere recounting, And in praise of political virtue co* warm— Jottti MILL slily asks—" Pray, Sir ! who kept the Fountain ? " De practice and precept at all times conform ?" MULL-MULL: [FOR THE SUN.] ,Arena tulit, sumtis occumbere fortis in arrnis, Snrizeret in patriain (I;'im Catilina suain. Anna ferux pcpulo -,uadet capienda Cynegus, 4 Ipse tulus tuttnn ferre recusat onus. Ille nefas patritt superesse superstite duxit; I - Tic seems inculumi credidit esse mori. 41. K"WOC, Anglicd HvINT, tel rAncd I:bc loeo perinde dogleader. * o * As the above will affora scope for a competition among our Poetical Correspondents, We hope that some of theth will favour us with Translations. THE THEATRES: Dnutty-LAsa.—The Comedy of Wild Oats was represented at ibis Theatre last night, and went off again with great spirit before a nume rous audience. The only ChHtige was the resump tion of the par , of John Dory by Mr. GATTIR.—The Afterpiece was Nu Song No Supper, in which a Miss . Povey, who made her first appearance, acquitted Ili.rselt very well io Margaritta, but chiefly as a Vocal P , lorMer HUSsELL and Ox'Jean', in Robin And Endless, gave strong support to this agreesble lit l Opera. COVENT-GARDVN.—The Tragedy of Isabella was represented last night at this Theatre. Mts. BUNN performed the melancholy Heroine with great simplicity and feeling ) and without any of that cargo of convulsions which other Performers hate lately brought forward.--Mr. MAcatiADY's Biron was highly respectable, and Mr. C. ll KEMBLR, as nsual, was excellent in Carlos Th-. new Afterpiece, entitled The Gnome- King, or the Giant Mountains, i one of the most magnificent specta , les of the kiwi that has been see: for many years. The dialogue seenicd to be marked by imagery andpoe'ical spirit. The scenes y, chiefly the work of Getcsriz, is highly beathirill and picturesque. WHITMORE also has some goo l scenes' The whole is indeed superb and striking. 'rite story is taken from German Tales, translated by HOLCRoFT mans' veats ago, and the Gnome King i 6 the Number Nip, an old magical po er of Germany. We have not room to detail tine fable, nor co,uld any detail give the reader any idea of the splendour of the piece, which Was well supported, not only by the musical excellence of Miss 'case, but her unaffected acting, as well hy TEBRY, the Gnome King, FARRBN, FARLEY, ABBoTT, Btr. &c. Report assigned this piece to Mr COLMAN, but it was written, we understand, by a young Student at Cambridge, who has shewn ttis taste by attending to the model of (Annus, a s well as his own talents for that species of compo sition. The piece was very well received. SPORTING INTELLIGLNrE. NEWMARKET FIRNT OCIOBER !MEETING, 1819. WEDNEYDAY, OCT. B. Fifty GulnPas, free fur any horse, &c. futtr•yr-old; to carry 7st. 41b. five, sst. 51b. six, Bst. 11lb. and aged, 9st. B.C. Mr. Rush's b. f. Romp, 4 yrs 1 Ld Jersey's b. h. Cannon 13a11, aged I to 8 on Cannon Bail. One-third of a Sobscription of '2sgs each, for three•yr-old colts, Bst. alb. unit fillies, Bst. tali. A.E. Bona fide the pro perty of Subscribers. D. of Portland's hr. c. Tiresias The remains of the late Sir EDVALID KNATCH.• BULL, Baronet, and one of the Metnb2rs for the County of Kent, were deposited, on yesterday week, in the family vault, Mersham. The mourn ful procession was preceded from his seat at Pro veirer by the Yeomanly Cavalry, the trumpeters playing, the Dead March in Saul. The hearse drawn by six horses, was followed by four moulting coaches ; and the charger of the late Bat °net, beating his sword, armorial beatings, &c. The mournful cavalcade was closed by the carriages of several of the Nubility and Gentry of the Conroy. On Sunday last an interesting little girl fell into the river, near the bridge at Sandwich, and was drowned. It was some hours before the body was discovered. ATTEMPT TO STAB A CoxsTABLE.--John Rear dolt, a coal heaver, was token to Lambeth-street, by Moses Fortune, one of the officers, on a war rant, charged by John Penny, an officer belong ing to the Court of Requests at Whitechapel, with attempting to stab him, while in execution of his duty. Prosecutor deposed, that he went to the prisoner's lodging to serve au execution, and on enteriog the room, and informing the prisoner of his business, he seized a large knife and made several stabs at him, which he luckily warded off, and was obliged to escape without executing his duty. A warrant being granted, Fortune, the officer, went to execute it. The prisoner at tempted to stab hint in a similar manner, bOt having his pistols with him, he presented one at the prisoner, which frightened him, and lie laid down his knife, after which he was with much difficulty taken, and he was committed for want of bail. PKWVIDISNTIAL ESCAPH.—..A few (lays ago, little girl, residing with her parents, No. Lime -street, Borough, whilst playing with some others at the third floor window, over-balanced herself, and fell into the sheet. Several per sons who saw the fall uttered a piercing shriek, having no doubt but she was killed, and her parents ran out almost distracted ; but to their great surprise the child got tip much fright ened, but apparently without any other injury than being covered with mud. The overjoyed pa rents, not thinking it possible that she could have fallen such a distance without breaking some of her bones, sent for Mr. VAIIX a Surgeon in the lie ighbourood, who, after examining her body minutely, declared that she had not received the knit injury, either internally or externally, TRANSPORTATION OF CONVICTS. Atrt. EDITOR-1 hold it to be the duty of every individual who may be intrusted with any infor mation which tends to prove that men in re sponsible situations do their duty, m make it known to the Public, who have a right to re ward and punish according to ihe Merits or de merits of their Servants. And as much has been raid about the misery and wretchedness constant ly experienced by Convicts in their ttansporta- lion to New South `mates, I am tl►e more in clined to lay before the Public the following ex tract of a Letter from a young man on board the Granada Convict Ship, commanded by C4ptain A. DON►LtS, dated Rio Janeiro, July 20, 1819, to his mother. This yonug man wa. tinder sentence of death, but with many others I had the happi ness of signing a Petition to his Royal Highness the PRINCE, REGENT, for a cn,nnr►tallon of the sentence to transportation for lite, which was graft ciously received, and the request granted. I have the Letter in my possession, and d wish sincerely that his Royal Highness could see the «•h:sle of it, as I am convinced that the appear , ances of real contrition in this young man would satisfy his Royal Highness that Royal Clemency in this instance has not been extended improperly, or without lIICCCFS (EXTRACT.) " I have another thing to acquaint you with, which I am sure you will be glad to hear, thaw is to say, that tie Captain has behaved himself very much like a Gentleman, which I am sure ha is; and likewise the Doctor, who is sent flout Go. vernment to be in charge of us. for he has beett ready to grant all our reasonable requests ; and has done every thing in his power to keep us clean and comfor;ahle, in which, I ant Very i , appy io say, he has succeeded and in fact we hare been treated wore like Free Passengers than Conricts by aa the Officers, for 1 am sore there has no; sailed before such a co.nort able sWp, for there bas not been ate person to s,y very ill oil board of her e nor yet a man boen flogged, and that is >t great Ihing to say. I do not say this hec=iuse thry look at the kite's, for they never Open the letters, but 1 say h because they are worthy of praise, :+ir every one of us has been astonished we have been used so %veil, and I have no doubt it will he con tinued. I ant sorry I cannot say more, but be sure to give my kind love to toy sister, and ex hort her to read the Bible, and I hive no doubt she will, if she does not already. 1 have read none tore than I tdoo,ld have done if this had not happened, and I now find that sin which I once loved, has become as bitter as poison to me." I will not further trespass on your columns than to say, I any ready to show letter to any one who may desire it ; and remain, Sir, Yonr obedient Servant, 19, Cecil-street, Oct. 5, 1619. W. GURNEY.' EMIGRtTION FROM AMERICA --.-The ship Mag net, Captain 1). S. Oonr , ,N, of and from New York, bound to Liverpool, out twenty•two days, was boarded off Waterford harbour, on Sunday, by the Caroline pilot-boat. Sie had on board upwards of one hundred passengers (some ac counts say one hundred and eiglity,) the principal part of whom were persons who went out to America last spring, in the hope or bettering their condition, but who have been sadly itisappointed in their expectations. The Caroline hinted six teen of the passengers, who on Monday passed through this city, on their way to their respective homes.—They give, we under,tand, a melancholy account of the distress that prevails at New York mud the adjacent places, arising from the stagna tion of trade and the consequent scare;ty of specie —and represent the situation of the unfortunate emigrants front Ihe•e countries to be in general so deplorable, that thousands of them are prevented Prow returning, merely from the want of means to pay for their passage home.—(Waterford Paper.) It is said above 50 Carlisle weavers have re. turned front Philadelphia to England, not being able to find employment. Suicine.—An Inquisition was taken yesterday at the Blue Anchor, in Bast Smithfield, before JOHN WRIGHT UNWIN, Esq. Coroner, on the body of Esther Pat sons. It appeared that the deceased cohabited with a young man of the name of James Bennett, but some altercation hav ing taken place, caused a separation ; she came at different times to his lodging", entreating of him to give her admittance, stating that she had no way of support or place at residence : he would not hearken to her entreaties, but al ways sent her off; she at length & spiCing of his doing any thing fur her, told him that she would come and hang herself at his door. On Monday last he had occasion to leave home very early in the morning ; on go ing out he locked his door, and in the interim t: e deceased came and asked the landlady if he (Bennett) was at home. The landlady said he was not, but he would be in soon to breakfast ; the deceased said she would go and it out the stairs at his room door until he cattle in ; cordingly ►sent up stairs, and the landlady took no `farther notice of her. Bennett can►,t: soon ,otter, I and on going up st►►irs, the first thing that pre• sented itself to him, was the deceased suspend ed by a cord from the latch of the door ; she was inonedia , ely cot down, and Mr. Price, a surgeon, residing in liateliff Ilighway,was sent for and used every possible means to restore t►er,, bu: ell to no purpose. It appearing by the evidence of several persons that the deceased shewed symptoms of derangement previous to her committing tl►e act, the July returned a verdict, that she " hung herself, being in a state of temporary dt rangement of mind." ..... QUEEN•SQUARF..-Yesterday infornation waa given at this Office, that between six and sevea o'clock on the preceding Loid WALLS COURT, having oceision to call at Nu. 4, mint James's-place, he left his horse in core of a to .1), who came up to him upon seeing hint St. Janaes's-street, to hold till he returnee; but in his absence the fellow decampel with the horse, bridle, and saddle, and although immediate inqiiii y has been mAile, he has not since beets beard of. I ;