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BARTON, of bo t ,`: flute r e gi en Goswell-road, opposite Spencer-street, and No. 21, .eet. ki e?-row, Finsbnry-square, by which violations of ...,......_ abl e privilege he Las been injured to an deu- MI .2 a mnunt, butes he has some difficulty in proving the ;7 1 in which such violations have taken place, he takes 4 1 7 ° PPortunity of stating that he will liberally reward . 4 , 11 e hi m who will give him such information as will 4 ,1 1 e him to detect and convict the partiei who have 111 egolly trespao , ed upon his Patent right. The above l op Jplo3 P l ies equally to England and Scotland, in both which . Ontries Mr. Ba: ton's connections are extensive. Ail bit ..aa i a -4 BARTON'S IMPROVEMENTS will be found !i t htilitn , 2 E 5 n g t to n e 3 8 0 i n per 1 Cent. e and 3 upwards mratp: ; P c t U c a e b N r l i t e i P fi e S c o a ' n t c e & e s : n o ' s ; ' th e kingdom may be seen at Mr. B.'s residence. They "". : t ;riadver u f4° l e t n t t e a d nfr t oa l ne l r i ma e gae t n l y ie oinf gr tE ea heN te inG st °'lN l t m ErS p es r , ovements in the tb' L'I„.B. STEAM-ENGINES, STEAM-VESSELS, and ti It ` 4I IAGES constructed on the most improved Prin. P. "' and MACHINERY in general executed according "i Gider, tt emi t er% add es 1 above, will receive immediate on. r se( as 'CH, J 4 OF 1110 114 'fore the care of the l r ear from W I t imps custom . .. Mow,' Iy, after swing by i ion Was iam Heil aga i n st impressie° pm to 51 se's sale ipt. The . . parue o . l EDITOR WANTED, show 03 . AVOR. a NEWSPAPER about to be Esta tinst flel oo . wii. bushed in a large Provincial Town, the Population a nonsil l da oo 10 1, and of the immediate neighbou'hood , exceeds signet', iis t ier The Salary will be liberal (from Two Hundred f ro m the • °d P m Pounds to Three Hundred and Fifty Pounds per mean ie% 0 ::"), and will be increased if the sale should become )fated 1 15 oima Ti e Political principles of the Newspaper will be L, and 0 74 o—Reform, the most Radical, in the Legislature and sr d Si ate tv ,, , and the most unsparing Retrenchment in the e rale; rydesteZXPenditure are intended to be most strenuously ad 're: igia l l ii , and insisted upon. In ! n g l' ; ' / .4 4 .— e Z t lera (post paid) to be addreste , l to J. C. 8., at tig tbe '6f/Alii 6. Batty,. Melville and Co., Wholesale Stationers, it wss,e i eragate-street, London. ro coplei --L- '--------_____:__ ing„to ..- . 4 Al l p ir , . UNIVERSITY OF LONDON. it ;' btit . ,, tr t I: 11 E SPRING COURSES OF MEDl oind 1P : th e CAL LECTURES will commence on THUESDAY, , ery: beet l e 44,, of January. set, to tli s 4ATOMY, Professors PATTISON and BENNETT. s, howelgtritAATOMICAL DISSECTIONS and DEMON he Act, i 40N TIONS, under the direction of Professors PATTl hera and BENNETT, assisted by Messrs. QUAIN and 3,pet r, ,:CLIPS, law ' •ul '4 A TURE and TREATMENT of DISEASES, Pro , tnuai '''• !'sr CONOLLY. ci . profCLINICAL MEDICINE, at the Middlesex Hospital, avittgi e v `'fir WATSON. . 1r gale; 4 CHCWIFERY and DISEASES of WONIEN and less theji , SURGERY, Professor PATTISON. net rise r fis, O '•EBIA MEDICA and THERAPEUTICS, Pro ...r 11101%180N . was p '4 . . ITIEEDaitc*ISTRY, ' Professor TURNER. 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Bs. superbly bound in Morocco, ESTALL'S GREAT BRITAIN illustrated, containing 119 beautiful views in pe qu n a rtse F vo P i a u r ni tl e h o i f is the United Kingdom. This splendid just been completed at an enormous ex it i s a ,bUt, With the expectation of a very extensive sa,e, 1 4414 ;nered to the public at a price little above what is e of binding. st charged for a blank album of the same size and Charles Tilt, 86, Fleet-street, THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. 1. 1 7 . ,or !. os. l Ait st s !* .40 1 o f Philo-Radical" is correct as to his statement 06. d' ti n y et. Public defaulters and I hope it will attract the atten !. 122"-- 1 V I Z ' of that well-inlentioned and hard working Minister, l'i s he°,""t Althorn This rising statesman, from his per ..--' ----•"'ne. i3 / I Ll tl a ,: i ! a d public - integrity, pors'r:sses the public confidence. --- ____f--' h 0 " I""trn and felt that he did not court office, and that e li a % -n IY accepted it front a sense of public duty—that be PR 0U alrthitiOn to gratify—no individual purposes to r..i:..__/ 'ect. , lie Ile rands quite distinct from his predeces.o without— • ner t.P cs s t ,":") . act fearlessly, and bring before the public, o are a tiJ o / L. P4rty dread or party calculation, every delinqrient who and (7 ,;,/ I:lialut,ed the trustwhich has been placed in him. He " " !. i - -e, ' not attend f. .1 interests or dread the frowns of Blau ,/ ` 44 rrip t a to '" ni y ' exposure, distnisial, atooj,iri and an d insolent patrons, or the . hunberj ttio_sPu°4lnent of their more corrupt and insolentthruerie -,--,/ . vs ...<„, ti t , b He cares to displease no one. Wherever . . te ussell ° „/ th t en, or shall be, misconduct, it will be only requisite letto"„/ 4 t it t hottld t Lord Althorp's knowledge to be .7 0 " r ti is t:9 / 0 fZ r o et t ted and i c rti o n m is e hed e . " Philo-Radical" seems to hare T w o-lett' . No t e ty ° a tnore recent defaulter, Mr. Theodore Hook.— e l c ' s i I lrs Tr h ave been taken to enforce the law against . him. .Cohn. 'lodore Hook's offence was connected with the riby o / ----5?,- f ore Pe3artVut i, is r , i) t . h e e s r i e!o .i r ri e g , the duty of my Lord Goderich, ier,--"/ th 'at ' t ° take th q . . t os a u t r t e h , e t head of that depart hat the sentence of w ill " l elan nl ere -"I T eMe ' that the monies ab oi, str acw ay he carried into effect, or --V° sh f ire" 4 refunded. Lord Goderich must despise the others of ridicule and the sting of satire, and laugh, as , f , _ta will do, at the jeux desprit with which the columns :: Weekly journal will he most probably filled. th, elthilo-Radical" is quite correct in his statement that duty • i 0 Clarendon holds an office to which no severe . J '. l " mtachrd it is a sinecure. His Lordship is Chief s u y l e t : ee , i n Eyre, -- north of Trent, with a salary of 2,2501. 1141 -i,a44 Which, on his decease, is to be abolished : he of 1. 5 -"id ", a large sinecure in the office of the Ducky ttor "Ca "er• How his Lordship can enjoy the delightful largely and the smiling lawns of Grove Park, receiving so 4 fr tira the public purse, without the performance of -7', labour, and with the recollection that every as poor ir k i, r, rtcr toils in his paradise f or his daily bread h been hi' r a relative, is to me inconceivable. RADICAL. he torlo tki ii;P e a. r e' r e a,:e e, e ase od . o f is wher" .1'2 0 2% elarket cj t' • Pric' Is 14 (7, I . * fell • the - letter from Paris asserts that the KING has in f iNi a firm resolution of never consenting to the en - r btoil ieti sri of capital punishment. The public sentiment ktecilvessin this feeling of the KING, as .. t .. hen.hole nation 4 , t'. p i n i.o n that, after sparing the life . of POLIGNAC, p oi °:er criminal should ever suffer death in France. The .1 in P ar i s admit the great power of Russia, but d er i ve tiZ fro th the enthusiasm of their countrymen, which Prex Ps or s p, and beet may make th em rus h on the cannon of their at. t a 11.11 y an i rres i st ibl e i mpetuosity put Lisarmy Thp n a b .„ - vcueen's Theatre, Tottenham -street, w ill k " - 41 co Saturday, the 29th instant. The comp my, for tl i , ! per, is a strong one, embracing amongst its members %v ulkiving :--141esers. J. RUSSELL, of Drury-lane and i n l ' . nt garden Theatres; GREEN, from Bath, and known lit k °, n dcn bY a season's performance at Cevent-garden ; ktof ate nor, and E. SEGUIN, a bass, both singers )I:,oasiderable promise from the Royal Academy of Music. • GLovEst and her daughter, Mrs. EVANS, late Miss ,144%1.,0, vett, and M. 'fumy, from the Haymarket, * e ll i'lls V Ennon, a pupil of Signor VELLuzi, who is tlttlitter-aPii°o44nitioefs.. The theatie will open with an opera and The interior of the theatre has under -111.0,,ed ecrnplete metamorphosis, and is very greatly im.. ter m; ' as well before as behind the curtain, which al- XI I% Vns have been effected under the superintendence of apie4.iNsron. The whole of the scenery is new, and a of t h i d drop has been painted by STANFIELD. The whole ken: PerGrrnances will be conducted under the active genient of the new be Mr. M,F.saann. el!t ol • e, Del:agC , a pte, t ) 1( ' e•, of 14) No. 11,967. FROM THE GAZETTE. OF LAST NIGHT. The Pavilion, Brighton, Sept. 11, 1830. The King was this day pleased to confer the honour of Knighthood upon David Erskine, Esq. of Dryburgh Abbey, Berwickshire, and of the Holmes, Roxhurgshire, F.A.S. and R. A. Edinburgh, Captain of the Royal York Rangers, late of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. War Office, Jan. 17, 1831. MEMORANDUM.---lES Majesty has been pleased to de clare himself Colonel in Chief of the Household Brigade of Cavalry, consisting of the Ist and 2d Regiments of Life Guard, and the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards, dated Jan 14, 1831. War Office, Jan. IS. Royal Regiment of Horse Guards—Cornet W. 'Murray to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Cosby, promoted; Ensikn A. T. Aluaro, from the 78th Foot, to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Murray ; Cornet A. T. Munro to be Adjutant, vice Cosby, promoted, Jan. 18. let ltegiment of Dragoon Guards—Lieut. J. B. Morris to be Captain, by purchase, vice Skinner, who retires ; Cornet Hon. W. D. Irby to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Morris ; H. D. Sands, Gent. to be Cornet, by pur chase, vice Irby, Jan. 18. 7th Dragoon Guards—W. Sandilands, Gent. to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Shirley, appointed to the 7th Light Dragoons, Jan. 18. 4th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Cornet W. Skip with to be Lieutenant, by purchase, Tice Henderson, pro moted ; L. Dalgleish, Gent. to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Skipwith, Jan. 18. 7th Light Dragoons—Cornet A. Shirley, frnm the 7th Dragoon Guards, to be Cornet, vice Cox, who ',tires, Jan. IS. Ist Regiment of Foot—Quartermaster H. Mair, from the late 2d Royal Veteran Battalion, to be Quartermaster, vice L. M'Kay, who retires on the half-pay, Jan. IS. 16th Foot—Lieut. H. Coppinger, from the half-pay of the 60th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Deakins, appointed to the 23d Foot, Jan. 18. 23d Foot—Lieut. J. Deakins, from the 16th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Francis, appointed Adjutant of a Re cruiting District, Jan. 18. 311th Foot—Quartermaster W. Pepperall, from the half-pay of the 32d Foot, to be Quartermaster, vice Howe, retired with a commutation allowance, Jan. 18. 42d Foot—L. Macquarie, Gent. to be Ensign, by pur chase, vice Lord Cardross, whose appointment has not taken place, Jan. 18. 54th Foot—A. Herbert, Geni. to be Ensign, by pur chase, vice Nevill, appointed to the Ist Dragoon Guards, Jan. 18. 73d Foot—Ensign W. Dawson to be Litutenant, by purchase, vice Daly, who retires ; W. B. Faunce, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Dawson, Jan. IS. 79th Foot—Lieut. R. Manners, from the 56th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Macdonell, promoted. Jan 18. 84th Foot—L. L. White, Gent. to be Ensign, by pur chase, vice Goslini promoted, Jan. 18. 91st Foot—Ensign B. Campbell to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Lloyd, who retiree; A. Campbell, Gent. to he Ensign, by purchase, vice B. Campbell, Jan. IS. Ist West India Regiment—Capt. R. Hughes, from the half-pay, to be Captain, vice Fitzgerald, who retires, Jan. 18. UNATTACHED.—Lient. J. A. Henderson, from the 4th Light Dragoons, to be Captain of Infantry, by purchase, Jan. 18. BILZVET.-Lieut.-C9l. Hon. L. Stanhope, on the half pay Unattached, to be Colonel in the Army, he having returned the regulated difference to full- pay of Infantry ; Lieut.-Col. W. Cross, on the half-pay Unattached, to be Colonel in the Army, he having repaid the difference he received on exchanging to half-pay, July 220830. 111E3LO1ANDA.—:Tiie Christian names of Lieutenant Schneider, on the half• pay Unattached, arc Robert Wilmot. The rank of Surgeon Camilleri, of the Royal Malta Foncibles, is local and temporary in the island of Malta only. Office of Ordnance, Jan. 15. Royal Regiment of Artillery. Major-General B. Young to be Colonel-Commandant, vice Seward, deceased, Jan. 8. Crown-office, Jan. 18. MK3IBIRS RETURNED TO SERVE IN Tills PRESENT rAKLIAMEXT. BOROUGH OF BEERALSTON.-David Lyon, of Lower Grosvenor-street, in the county of Middlesex, Esq. in tht room of Lord Lovaine, now Eal of Beverley, and one of the Petra of the. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, of the Upper House of Parliament. BURGHS OF FORFAR, PERTH, DUNDEE, ST. ANDRFAVS, AND Corm-- —The Right Hon. Francis Jeffrey, Lord Advocate of Scotland, the last election of a Burgess for the said class or district of Burghs having been de termined to be void. ..... BOROUGH OF BANDON BRIDGE.—tie Right Hon. Francis Btrnard, commonly called Lord Viscount Bernard, of Castle Bernard, is Ireland, and Connaught-place, Lon don, in the room of the Hon. James Bernard, commonly called Viscount Bernard, who has succeeded to the title of the Earl of Bandon. [The Gazette also contains a list of the Irish Peers qualified to •ote for a Representative Peer at the ensuing election, in consequence of the vacancy caused by the death of the Earl of Bandon.l DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY. Thomas Blake, Brighton, victualler. BANKRUPTS. James May and Patrick Brodie, Fenchurch-street, ta vern-keepers, to surrender Jan. 25, at two, 28, at three, and March 1, at two, at the Court of Commissioners. Winter, Williams, and Fessick, Bedford-row. James Bedwell, London-road, Surrey, bedstead-maker, Jan. 25, 28, at twelve, and March 1, at one, at the Court of Commissioners. Gunner, Great James-street, Bed ford-row: John B ynon, Scarborough, draper, Jan. 25, 28, at nine, and March 1, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Ashurst, Newgate-street. George James Hill, Camberwell, oilman, Jan. 25, at twelve, Feb. 1, and March 1, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Fyson and Beck, Lothbury. Matthew Skipp, Commercial-road, Middlesex, iron merekant, Jan. 25, Feb. 1, and March 1, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Evitt, Price, and Lucas, Haydon-square. Edward Marshall, Liverpool, grocer, Feb. 7,8, and March 1, at one, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool. Maudsley, Liverpool; Adliogton, Gregory, and Faulkner Bedford-row. William Doubleday, Manchester, tea-dealer, Feb. 7,8, and March 1, at two, at the Clarendon-buildings, Liver pool. Gandy, Liverpool; Chester, Staple Inn. William Smith, Brick-lane, Spitaltields, baker, Jan. 28, Feb. 1, and March 1, at one, at the Court of Com missioners. Simpson, Copthall.buildings, Throgmorton street. Anselm Shears, Friday-street, Cheapside, silk-ware houseman, Jan. 25, 28, at nine, and March 1, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Lloyd, Thavies-inn, Holborn. John Pearson, Long Eaton, Derbyshire, grocer, Feb. 15, at eleven, at the King's Head Inn, Duffield, 16, at eleven, and March 1, at two, at the King's Arms Inn, Derby. Mousley and Barber, Derby ; Few, Hamilton, and Few, Henrietta-street, Covent-garden, London. Henry Cleaver, Market Lavington, Wiltshire, linen draper, Feb. 4,5, and March 1, at twelve, at the Castle Inn, Devizes. Williams, Verulam-buildings, Gray's-Inn, London ; Wall, Devizes. John Elisha Williams, Norwich, grocer, Feb. 3, at three, 4, at five, and March 1, at ten, at the White Lion Inn, Norwich. Wire, Saint Swithin's-lane, London; Marston, Norwich. . , James Cherry, Coventry, painter, Jan. 31, Feb. 1, and March 1, at twelve, at the Craven Arms Hotel, Co ventry. Rye, Golden-square, London. John Wild and Giles Shaw, Oldham, Lancashire, cotton-spinners, Feb. 1,2, at nine, and March 1, at one, at the Palace Inn, Manchester. Hadfield and Grave, Manchester ; Wald and Johnson, Temple, London. Nathaniel Nathan and Walter Nathan, Mansell -street, Goodman's fields, quill-merchants, Jan. 25, at ten, Feb. 1, and March 1, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Spyer, Bread-street-buildings. James Iluckland, jun. and lien., High-street, Deptford, linen-drapers, Jan. 25, at twelve, Feb. 1, anti March I, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Hutchinson and Imeson, Grown-court, Threadneedle-street. Jan. 25, at George Skinner, Avely, Essex, grocer, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 19, 1831. twelve, Fel,. 8, at eleven, and Miren I, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Lofty, King-street, CheapsiJe. DIVIDENDS. R. B. Cooper, Princes-street, Lambeth, distiller, Feb. 8, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners —H. R. Kirkman, St. Paul's Church-yard, silk-warehouseman, March 29, at eleven, at the Court of C;mmissioners A. Thomson, New Grove, Able-end-road, nurseryman, Feb. 11, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners —L. Potty, Bristol, carver, Feb. 8, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners—T. Davison, Birkenshaw, Yorkshire, woollen cloth manufacturer, Feb. 8, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners—J. Austin, High-street, Shoreditch, arorer, Feb. 8, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners_... J. Peer, Coleman-street, coachm•sker, Feb. 8, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners—W. West, Brendenbury, Herefordshire, farmer, Feb. 21, at twelve, at the Feathers Inn, Ledbury, Flerefordshire—J. Burraston, Hereford, coal-merchant, Feb. IS, at eleven, at the King's Head Inn, Ross-S. Timms, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, confectioner. May 3, at eleven, at the Queen's Head Inn, Ashby•de•la-Zouch— R. W. Wills, Barnstaple, Devonshire, linen-draper, Feb. 16, at eleven, at the Golden Lion Inn, Barnstaple— J. Birks, Barnsley, Yorkshire, druggist, Feb. 15, at eleven, at the King's Head Inn, Barnsley—J. Bidniead, Cheltenham, plumber, Feb. 12, at eleven, at the office of Mr. J. Chadborn, Gloucester—T. and B. Hogg, Leeds, woollen cloth manufactures, Feb. 9, at eleven, at the Court-house, Leeds. the Lord Chamberlain, in which he was informed that he had surrendered the patent originally granted to Devenant aml Killigrew—and as he had sub mitted himself to her Majesty, permission was by that letter given him to imet comedy and tragedy; and he begged their Lordships to observe the ex press terms and stipulation upon which the grant wag made to him ; he was there strictly required and enjoined not to permit Rich, or any person con tinted kith or deriving under his patent, to have the slightest interference with the privilege given him to act Comedy and Tragedy. Now could it be possible for language to speak more plainly as to the right of the Crown to limit, or suspend, or withdraw those patents under which alone he sup posed • it was intended to maintain the mo nopoly of the great Theatres ? After that, it would really be waste of time for him to trouble their Lordships with a single consideration beyond what that letter suggested. The Learned Counsel went on with his history of the Theatres through the grant of the invent to Sir R. Steele; the transfer of Gifford's company from Goodman'-- fields to Liecoln's-inn-fields, without a license, and in the teeth of the patent ; the revocation of Sir R. Steele's patent, and also that of Mr. Rich ; the licensing of a new playhouse in the Haymarket, in 1720; the grant of a patent in 1722, to Wilks, Cibber, Betterton, and others; the sale of a patent to Highmore, from him to Fleetwood, then to Gar rick and Lacy, and down to Sheridan; the exist ence of a theatre conducted by Fielding, which had ne license, in the year 1736, when the Licensing Act was passed ; till he came to the petition pre sented by Betterton, which, with a slight alteration, would be effectually expressive of the sentirhents of those who appeared for the winter theatres at the present moment. He complained against the ex istence of a second theatre, as they would now against a third, as tending to enhance the emolu ments of performers, and to extend their market, as encouraging foreigners, dancers, rope and ladder performances, reducing our national theatres to a level with the exhibitions at Bartholomew fair. Thus, then as now, each party was disposed to extol his own wares, and cry out, " There is nothing like leather." —(A laugh.)—He thought, then, that his client was at least as well entitled as others to say a word in favour of what he proposed to produce,and it was this—that his object was to be attained through an encouragement and a fostering of native talent, and the cultivation of a taste for British music. He then reverted to the incorporation of the Royal Academy of Music, proceeding from the notice of that topic to observe, that what his client applied for was not only unobjectionable in itself—not only likely to prove convenient and beneficial to the public, but was no novelty—it had actually been enjoyed by that gentleman's father. He contended that the patent rights of the other theatres were not worth a farthing—that they were valueless in law— and that, if they at the present moment existed at all, they were riot of force to disturb the perform ances of others; and, even were it possible fur any one King to restrain or limit the authority of any of his successors—which it was not, and which no one was absurd enough to imagine—yet it was a' power which Charles 11. never exercised. As we are increasing, said he, at the rate of 500 a day, it is to be presumed that the population of the metropolis advances in proportion ; and from that he con tended, that soon Drury-lane and Covent-garden would be too small to contain the play-going people of London—nothing but larger Theatres would meet rite difficulty. Then he begged their Lordships to observe how reasonable were the Paten tees: they required permission to keep their Theatres open during the winter months, when great extent of space was not an object of much convenience to the public; and when the raging summer months came, they required that his Majesty's subjects should be shut up in a small and close Theatre ; and if their despotic temper was allowed in that instance b to e pursue i v t e s r bredt a m cha id n l ge incourse, c n o t u h r e s e t , n a t heir e n i e r r i s i e o x i tstep . tiithe people wo'tli tl made it convenient, to declare that they, forsooth preferred the summer to the winter, and the licensed Theatres would only have the refuse portion of the year. If their patents were good for anything, they were as good for the summer as the winter ; and if good for anything, they must b e as va lid against Ita lian as against English Opera. Was it to be en dured that foreigners should be encouraged, and na tives of this country not patronised ? He was not opposing the Italian Opera, hut was merely contend ing that when the upper classes had their peculiar enjoyments so carefully attended to, it was no un reasonable matter to expect that those of the middle orders should not be negl ecte d. t i e lamented the practice of excluding the poorer classes from many innocent amusements in the open air and else where, which 'they formerly were in the habit of enjoying; and, in that view, he thought . that their Lordships co u ld d o nothing b etter, on the present occision, than recommend to the Crown a plan to enable the middl e an d l ower c l asses of the people to enjoy, at a moderate cost, entertain ments of so innocent a nature as those which Mr. Arnold contemplated providing. As respected the size of the theatre, he believed that no one could go into one of the great theatres without feeling extreme inconvenience from their size. The first thing which struck any one going from one of the larger to one of the smaller theatres was, that in the latter a small man upon the stage looked like a giant —not, indeed, in mind or talent as an actor, but in stature. They (the Patentees) had enlarged the theatres in such a way, that the audience were compelled to wear, at first, opera glasses ; and lately, these being insufficient for vision in the ex tended area of these buildings, it had been neces sary to introduce instruments of greater power— lunettes, he thought they were called—and at length, if these theatres were further enlarged, he supposed we roust go to diem provided with a telescope to assist the aught, and a little /tearing trumpet to catc h . the sounds from the stage ; and at last, pee haps, it will be advis a bl e t o h ave a s p ea ki ng trumpet to communicate with one's acquaintances in the further end of the pit.—(Laughter.)—He (Sir E. S,) always regr e tt e d i n t h ose t h eatres to see a man e xhaust . his strength, i n e ff orts a l most va i n , to ma k e his voice audible, or his action distinctly ob servable to his &want spectators. When Shak speare gave hi s ce l e b rated i e j unct i on to the actors of his plays, that they should not " o'crstep the modesty of nature," he could not have contemplated that they sh ou ld h ave to perform i n theatres of such inordinate extent. If the proprietors of those build ings should go on enlarging them, the public would, doubtless, be much obliged to them if they could, at the same t i me , exten d t h e v i s ion and improve the hearing of the audience in the same Proportion.—(A laugh.) If they could do so, then th e y oug h t not to op p ose the ex t ens i on of useful instrue:ion, of which he (Sir E. Sugden) considered the theatre to be a vehicle, when pro perly conducted. He did not think it desirable that we should become a nation of fiddlers or singers ; yet he thought that no other amusement could be so calculated t o make the English people attached to their country, its language, arid its institutions, as that in which they heard their national stories and songs combined with their national music. He did not object to the Italian music or drama. He only asked for fair play to the hovers both of the English and of the Italian Theatre. Let those who prefer red the - latter to the English go to the ' Italian Theatre, For those who preferred the English could have no theatre better conduced than Mr PRICE 7D. Arnold's had been. If that gentleman were con- Clued to the smaller season, no benefit would be con ftifred on him by the granting of his license so re ?tri ctvd. The expensiveness of such an establishment :Vonld be so great, that if their Lordships should lot grant him the whole year, he could not be abl:• o maintain his theatre. He felt perfect confidence •hat their Lordships had considered every particular vliich he had submitted to them, and that they .would view that application in favour of English -kill in such a light as would lead them to recom mend it to the protection of the Crown. Mr. HARRISON said that the first point to which he had to pray their Lordships' consideration was that to which his Learned Friends on the other side had first addressed themselves, respecting the pre ' rog,rat ire of the Crown to grant such patents. On that pont they said that all the prerogatives of the Crown were as old as the Crown itself. Their next argument was respecting the Statute of Alo qopolies; the next respecting the grant of one Monarch binding his successor from the exercise of a privilege; and the fourth was, that if those pa tents were not grants, binding the successor, they were not analogous to the grant of markets and fairs. The next subject for consideration was, whether those patents had been forfei , ed by anything which had occurred since the year 1662. The next consi deration was, whether the Crown bad not so sanc tioned those patents for 40 years past as to put an end to all doubt respecting them, especially in the arrangement entered into in 1790, with the sasc tion of the Crown, and afterwards in the-argument before the Privy Council in 1810; and further, by the refusal of Parliament to an application against them. Under such sanction, property to a great amount having been embarked, a claim was esta blished upon the Crown not to grant that which would interfere with that property to a ruinous ex tent. . He thought that the position laid' down by Sir E. Sug,den, respecting the prerogatives of the Crown being as ancient as the Crown itself, was scarcely tenable. -- There were some privileges which had a more modern origin. But the fact was, that the exercise of this particular privilege ma; as at.- dent as time—legal memory, In the prolegomena of Malone, who wrote in the year 1781, plays are related to have been performed in London under the Royal permission long before that time. That writer relates, that mysteries and other enter tainments were performed in Smithfield, by mer chants, who made use of them as means of in ducing people to frequent their booths and pur chase their commodities. In the time of Richard a petition was presented to the King, praying him to prevent ignorant persons from representing on the stage passages from the Holy Scriptures, whereby persons who had, at great expence and study, fitted themselves to perform in such mysteries, were-greatly injured. In the reign of Henry VII. grants of money were paid from the Exchequer for the performance of plays, especially in French. In the reign of Edward VI., the prerogative was exer cised' in the prohibition of playa in London and Westminster. Afterwards an Act of Parlia ment, the 30. h of Elizabeth, declared all players to be vagrants, except those who had license from tire Crown,'or from a Baron; and they were considered vagrants from that tame until the 10th George 11., when it was finally settled what should be the law respecting such persons. From those facts he was entitled to say, that the Crown had considered the protection and the regulation of players to belong to its privilege from the earliest period. The King was the great conservator of the peace and morals of the realm, and, as such, he had especially the controul of dramatic entertainments, which were immediately connected with the public morals. The LORD CHANCELLOR—Your argument would extend much further than to the stage. What is there more important to public morals than the con duct of the Press? and yet it is not assumed to be controlled by the prerogative of the Crown without an Act of Parliament. Mr. HARRISON continued—Yet there were par ticulars connected with the Press over which the prerogative of the Crown was exercised—the print ing of bills, paragraphs, and proclamations. The prerogative of the Crown was exercised for the sake of the public peace, in regulating and in granting to individuals many other important things—markets, fisheries, ferries, &c. which would otherwise be en joyed in common by all the people. From those facts, he submitted, it was plain that the argument of Sir E. Sugden against the privilege of the Crown could not be supported by principle or by precedent. He (Mr. Harrison) had not only shown that so early as Richard 11. the Crown had exer cised its prerogative respecting the players, but that the patents granted since that time had been recog nised by the Act of Parliament, in the tenth year of the reign of George 11. lie had a right to con sider this Statute, taken with the Statute of Ann, to be declaratory of the law, and in them the patents and licenses were distinctly recognized as being of sufficient authority to exempt persons acting under them from the penalty of vagrancy, which actors not so protected would incur, according to those two Statutes. That recognition by the Legis lature of the power of the Crown to grant those pa tents, was a complete answer to Sir E. Sugden. Now the Act of 25th Geo. 111., in granting to Justices of the Peace the power of granting licenses to players, especially provided, that no licence should be granted so as to interfere with the interest of persons having a previous license—no license being allowed to be granted by a Justice within eight miles of a place in which players were already performing by license. In the patents granted to Davenant and Killigrew, the privilege of representing plays, tic. was made distinctly exclusive. The next argument of Sir E. Sugden had been, that these patents would be void by the Statute of Monopolies. Now, certainly, the words of the Act did not include pri vileges given by the patents. The monopolies for bidden were of things which are made, bought, sold, or used. The mere circumstance of the pa tents giving an exclusive right did not bring them within the meaning of that Act. The argument would have had much more weight, had the pa tents given to particular carpenters or others the exclusive right of making articles- to be used in those theatres. But a complete analogy to the case of the theatres would be found in that of public markets ; an-exclu , ive right to which the King un doubtedly had a right to grant. But there was no analogy between the right to exhibit entertainments in a theatre, and the right to make cards for sale.' The latter was, as his Learned Friend (Sir E. S.) had argued, one of the things comprehended in the Statute of Monopolies, the former was not. Nor had his Learned Friend shown anything in support of the argument respecting that law. The next consideration was respecting the fran chise or grant, and it would answer all his purposes if he showed the patents to be either; for in that case, it was plain, as in the case of a market, by the rule quo ad durnnum, the person possessing- the privilege could prevent any other from interfering ; or, if they were put merely upon the question of justice, he was not quite sure but that in respect to the jurisdiction of the Court which he was then addressing, lie would find on that ground a strosger protection than on any oilier. In that case, the Crown would he more cautious in making a second grant to interfere with the first, titan in a case where a legal remedy could be ob tained. (The Learned Gentleman then read the observations of Lord '1 hurlow on those patents be fore read by Sir Edward Sugden, and argued, that it was the opinion of that Judge that it would not be advisable for the Crown to grant any license, whereby the property embarked under the faith of he patents might be iujuriously affected.) lie did not deny that the Crown-could revoke the it: vents; as, in point of fact, it might be said to have (lobe before. The patentees did not stand upon their right, but upon that princirde of justice, in respect . to which Lord Thurlow had said, that he would not advise the Crown to revoke a grant, upon the faith of which many thousands of pounds had been expended, unless it conkl be shown that the paten tees were so embarrassed as to be unable to fulfil purposes for which the grant had been made. oe those grounds the patent was, on that occasion, refused to O'Rielly. In 1790, with the ex press concurrence of the Crown, the second pa. tent, then in the hands of the proprietors of Covent-garden, was passed over to Mr. Sheridan, the lessee of Drury-lane. Now, as respncted the legality of the patents, even supposing that the Crown had before that transfer revoked them, or that they had become void, as was aegued by Sir E. Sugden, in consequence of their having been united, the Crown, in giving its sanction to the stipulations under which one of those dormant pa tents, as they were termed by his Learned ;Mend was transferred from Covent -garden to a ury-lane , virtually revived them both. The Learned Counsel hen proceeded to read an extract from a deed ex- ecuted by Mr. Sheridan on the one part, and three others on the second part, by which it was agreed that the Italian Opera-house should perform Italian Operas only, and that right should not be encroached upon yy the other Theatres. This deed received the approbation of the Duke of Bedford, and was sanctioned by the King himself in the year 1791;, although the arrangements in the deed, in conse quence of some long Chancery suite, were not ac tually put in force till 1813. This, he appre hended, was a complete recognition by the Crown . of the validity of the patents;. and on the founda tion of that recognition, large sums of money were laid out in the rebuilding of Drury4ane Theatre; a long lease be'ng alto given by the Duke of Bed ford. In the year 1809, Drury•lane, it would be recollected, was burnt down.' -From the expenccs which would attend the rebuilding, an application was made for permission to build a third Theatre. He (Mr. Harrison) was Counsel there along %I ith some of their Lordships, and he recollected Mr. Sheridan speaking in behalf of his property very ably for a considerable time. Sri EDWARD SUDDEN—This was an application for the chartering of a Corporation. Mr. HARRIS iik said that he was aware of that fact ; but the whole of the discussion turned upon the relati re situation of Covent-garden and Drury line, and the probable effect that it would have upon them, more especially the hitter, encumbered as it was with so many previous debts, to a very large amount. It was contended then, that the two patents would riot be injured, and the applicants for a third Theatre made an offer to deposit fifty thou sand pounds to meet the demands of the Drury lane creditors, supposing that the third theatre would have a prejudicial effect upon them; that, however, was not considered sufficient, and the ap plication fell to the ground. In the following year a motion was made to bring in a Bill, authorising the building and licensing of a third theatre, which was opposed very strenuously by that able Member, Mr. Whitbread, who obtained leave to postpone the reading of the Bill for six weeks, in order that be might inquire whether or not such aßill would injure the two Theatres. At the end of that period he over came the difficultiesattendant upon the first occasion, and, by clearly showing the probable injurious effect of a third theatre upon the two existing oncs,the Bill was thrown out. In consequence of the discussion,. attendant on that occasion, a Bill was afterwards brought in and passed, which had for its object the regulation of Drury-lane Theatre by a Committee, &c. It appeared from the clause of that Act, that two persons, named White and Ann Martindale, were to receive a considerable sum in consideration of the interest that they bad in the patent derived from Charles the SeCond, after the expenses atten dant on the house had been defrayed. Thus the patents had been sanctioned and recognized in the first instance by the King, and in the Second by the Parliament. Could it with justice, then, be said, that the patents were not worth the paper on which they were written ? He apprehended not, and that their Lordships would also be of the same opinion. In consequence of this recognition, a long lease was granted by the Duke of Bedford, and various expenses were incurred in rebuihlaig the theatre. The Learned Counsel then went on to say that it was never his intention to put his whole case on the exclusive rights of the patents as granted by Charles 11. In fact he could not do so, as the discussion would be naturally crippled, from the di versity of documents lying in various places, which it would take a very long time, and the ingenuity of a most intelligent solicitor, to collect, and then put in the proper form to be brought into Court, He had only made these remarks from the great at tention which the other Counsel had paid to the patents. Their (Drury-lane) memorial, signed by Captain Polhill and Mr. Lee, had been drawn up ia a hurry, and put into the Lord Chamberlain's hands in September, merely in answer to Mr. Arnold's petition, not suspecting that such a solemn dis cussion as the present would come on. If they had had any such suspicion, Counsel would have been employed to draw up something like a case, instead of the simple grounds given in the me morial. The Learned Counsel said that lie would give explanations, if it were required, for every transaction since 1662, which had been argued upon by the other side, in derogation of die patents. This, however, he was of opinion, he had no need to do, as he had a very strong case on the recognition and transactions that had occurred shortly after Mr. Arnold had a license granted to him by George the Third. This Monarch, it was well known, entertained a very strong predilection, nay, prejudice, for English music and English musicians. Mr. Arnold, in consequence of this, proposed to his Majesty to build a theatre, which was to be the ex clusivelydevotedto encouragement the ot . English musicians cultivation and composers, as well as to rival the Italian Opera house, by which foreigners took heaps of money from the English. Nothing could be more gratifying to King George, and he at once granted the license to Mr. A. to open the Lyceum. But did that gentle man act up to his proposition ? No; he did not use his license for one year, and then entered into an agreement with Mr. Sheridan to allow his The itre to be used on that gentleman's account, in consideration of his receiving some of the profits, and being made the composer. Not till the end of three years did he use his license; and this, he should submi was a forfeiture of the license, according to his Learned Friend's doctrine, that non-usal was aban donment; and that using a thing granted for one distinct purpose for another purpose, was a violation and forfeiture. The Learned - Counsel then pro ceeded to show that Mr. Arnold's theatre was re fused an extension of the license at one time, and that it was with some difficulty he obtained a re newal of his license in 1812. The Learned Coun sel was going into another argument, when The LORD CHANCELLOR said it would be better to adjourn. Monday and Tuesday would be the most convenient clays for the next sittings, when he hoped the arguments would be brought to a close. The Learned Counsel on both sides hoped so too, and said they would endeavour to comprise their arguments within that time.—The Court ad journed at ten. A WORD Is SEASON.—A correspondent. observes, "What embarrassments would be relieved acd good effected at a time like the pre,ent, were the wealthy part of our neighbours, quickly after delivery, to examine and discharge their Christmas bills, instead of letting them remain unheeded for months, as is too gemerally the Large placards have been this day extensively posted through town, announcing a charity dinner i at MeautsoN's, on Wednesday next: O'CoxtiEr.r. Lc chair.—Dublin Evening Parket. CERTIFICATES, FEB. 8. F. Crook, Oxford-street, linen-draper--11. H. Higham, New Bond-street, hatter—T. Brooks, jun., Hunter-street, Brunswick-square, music-seller—T. Barclay, Fore-street, Litnehouse, anchor-smith—W. Line, St. Ps.urs-terrace, Camden -town, builder—J.E. Dix, Lamb's Conduit-street, tea-dealer—S. Bird, Leominster, Herefordshire, victualler. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. R. Whitworth and Co., Rivington, Lancashire, cotton spinners—J. Graham and Co., Lincoln's•inn, solicitors— T. R. Flint and Co., Margate, ironmongers—NV. and J H. Bare, Colchester, fish-carriers—G. Mills and T. Lloyd, coal-merchants—S. Hassett and R. Waller, Goodtnan's stile, Church-lane, Whitechapel, brass-founders--W. Ack land and D. T. G. Mil, Bideford, Devonshire, surgeons— J. and J. Turner, Shelley, Kirkburton, Yorkshire, cloth manufacturers—T. Knight and J. Waters, Davies -street, Berkeley-street, skin-salesmen—R. Harrison and J. An ders; Liverpool, provision•dealers—W. Raynor and Co., Edward-street, Portman-square, saddlers—J. Pringle and Co., Milford, South Walls, rope-makers—J. E. Eburne and AV. Knight, Coventry, ribbon-dressers—W. Batson and T. Huteson, I3urringham, Lincolnshire, maltsters —J. Carson and J. 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Russell, Edinburgh, leather-factors—J. and H. Madden, Frome Selwood, So meraetsbire, grocers—J. and T. Lee, Warrington, Lanca shire, sail-cloth-manufacturers--J. Coulstock and H. Martin, Reigate, Surrey, millers—M. Robinson and Co., York, druggists—R. Hawkins and G. D. Monteith, Brierley-hill, Kingswinford, Staffordshire, surgeons. RIGHTS OF THE PATENT THEATRES. Yesterday evening, at the usual hour (seven o'clock), the hearing of Counsel upon Nit. Arnold's petition was renewed. Sir E. B. SUGDEN proceeded with his argument. The first case to which he called their attention was O'Rielly's, in which the Lord Chancellor of that day (Lord Tburlow) said that the King might, if he pleased, license twenty new playhouses within the metropolis, and even in Covent-garden and Drury-lane; but it was for his Majesty to consider if that would be proper and right. So exactly said Mr. Arnold ; he sought for nothing more, in the way, at least, of proving any matter of strict right, than to make it apparent to their Lord ships that the Crown possessed the clear and undeniable right of licensing as many playhouses as his Majesty might be advised it was proper to license ; and having done that, he merely submited to the Crown, in the form of petition and supplication, that his license be restored to him. Lord Tburlow, in giving an opinion in O'Rielly's case, went on to say that he did not know whether the other Theatres had their Patents in fee or not ; but of this he felt perfectly assured, that whether they bad or nor, they had better not provoke inquiry, and he entertained not the least doubt that their Patents would not stand a moment if abused. Thus, then, he had the great authority of Lord Tburlow, that those Patents would not stand a moment if the privileges which they conferred happened to be abused; but even if not abused, he thought it could be collected from what his Lordship said—though certainly he had expressed no distinct opinion to that effect—that those patents had no, legal validity whatever. When an application was made for a third Theatre in the year 1810—an application that probably was re membered by one, at least, of their Lordships (the Lord Chancellor), who, having been then at the bar, was concerned in the cause— • The LORD CHANCELLOR—Yes, I think I was for Covent-garden. Sir E. B. SUGDEN resumed—On that occasion Drury-lane fully admitted the right of the Crown, as no rational man could deny that right—the right of the Crown to grant as many new patents as it thought proper, and to say to any Theatre in London, you shall not set up a monopoly. He would now refer generally to what had been the patent rights, and what had been the history of those Theatres in respect of their patents from the original grant of the patent to the present time, premising that he did not profess to be minutely accurate. Io 1662, as had more than once bee:: stated to their Lordships, two patents were granted ; these were afterwards united in Rich, in the year 1681. By the deed made in that year—to which Killigrew, on the one part, and Davenant, Betterton, and Smith of the other, were parties—there was a clear abandonment of one of the patents, and an attempt to unite both in the hands of one man. Now, as a lawyer, he found the utmost difficub y in thscovering which of the patents was intende,i to be abandoned—that is, which of the two waa proposed to be suspended by that alleged deed ei union— a deed that, in his ap prehension, had the effect of di sso l v i ng b ot h patents; at least, he conceived that such a union had taken place as precluded subsequent severance. In such a state of things it became impossible that the right should undergo any other change than that ofrevert ing to the Crowns. In the year 1695, a license was granted to Bettert on for Drury-lane; and in 1705, a license was granted for a theatre in the Old Tennis court, Lincoln's Inn-fields ; a license was also granted to Congreve and Vanbtaigh, for an Italian Theatre in the Ha)market ; and'in 1708, the two companies were re-united, and the Haymarket Theatre conti nued to give Italian performances. In 1709, Rich, who up to that time had been performing in Covent- Garden Theatre, was silenced for misconduct, but he still kept his patent. In that matter there walk nothing done till the month of November, 1709, when on the 19th of that month a license was granted to Collier, fur Drury-lane; and this he considered to be a matter of much importance. A license was granted to that person by a letter from