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THE 1,0& ON JOUItNALS. rxTIIACTS FROM THE D %MY MORNING PAPERS; October 24, 182/. [THE TIMES.] Among the mricles in the Hambtagh Mail is one of a curious nature. It is a speech by the King of Sweden to the Parliament (Storthing) of _Norway, on the occasion of some differences of opinion between them ; and as few models of the kind exist, so we do not think that this will be made the subject of very frequent imita tions in the form of speeches from the throne. The King is wise enough to consider it possible that his opinions may not always be better fouhded than those of the rest of mankind. There is no supercilious ceremony of expression, nor magnificent anger, nor sullen disappointment. The King tells the Storthing fairly, that he pro posed a certain mode of paying a public debt, becau.e. he conceived it to be the best mode, but that it is their right to differ from him ; " that he will know how to respect their consti " tutional jurisdiction, and that they will give " him au displeasure by frankly speaking their " . sentiments." This is a sort of language which well becomes a King who wishes for the confi dence of subjects. If he hopes to make his own prerogatives secure, it mu•st be by making the people feel that their rights are secure against all Royal encroachments. EM'ORNINGItONIN.E.] There is a laboured article in the Journal des Debats, on the subject of the interference of one Power with the internal affairs of another. This article is peculiarly deserving of, attention at the present moment, ac- the Journal des Daals is known to be the organ of the Villele or moderate part of the French Ministry. It is written, too, with considerable ability and , tact, and. though it has a- due leaven of high doctrines to render it, palatable in Courts, many of its positions are cer tainly incontrovertible. We were hardly prepared for the satire- which it conveys on the conduct pursued by hustria with respect to Naples, and consequently on the Courts which either tole rated or abetted that conduct. The interference of Austria could' only be justified, we are told, by the stipulation forced on Ferdinand by her, that he should allow of no innovation irr his do minions calculated to produce agitation in the Austrian territories—a stipulation irr itself incom patible with the Sovereignty of the King of Naples. The inference to which the observation of the Parisian Journalist obviously points, is that Austria must either have deceived, the other States when she forced that stipulation ow Fer dinand, or they must have basely connived at the -w rolly. [MOIINING POST.] The most contradictory statements continue to prevail in Paris, respecting the events in the frontier provinces of Spain. It is apparent, how ever, that an alteration has taken place in the torte of the Ultra Papers,. from which it may be. inferred that something with. which the 'Public is not, yet acquainted had contribirted to abate their hopes.—The arrival on the French frontier of many soldiers and officers of the Army of the Faith, in the condition of fugitives, three or four days after that on which a great battle was said to have been fought, throws some light on the conflicting statements, and may serve to encourage a confident hope that victory declared itself in favour of the Constitutionalists, who seem to have also gained possession of Irati. Should these events have really occurred, it would be impassible for the Royalists to protract the struggle and the sufferings of their country much longer. [BRITISH IleltES9.] Sir Robert Wilson has been compelled- to quit Faris by au order of the Police. He set out With Lady Wilson from that city on Thursday last. In his previous correspondence with the Police he solemny disavowed any views un favourable or unfriendly to the French Govern ment, and offered to take a police agent to at tend him during his stay. Ills remonstrance and entreaties were vain ; they ended in a peremptory notice for himself and his family to quit - in twenty four hours. The proceeding,. indeed, evinces that his conduct was free from offence. Did a foundation exist for any charge against ; him, or even the suspicion of an offence, he might have expected to share the fate of Mr. Bowring. Admitting, however, the purity of his intentions and the blamelessness of his con duct, we.do not : think, in fairness, that the French Government deserves the severe censure with which some of our contemporaries have,visited it in this affair. With his conduct in the case of M. Lavalette fresh in its recollection,. the French Government, must view his , presence with jea lousy, if not with suspicion, particularly at a moment when the public mind is alarmed by plots and conspiracies in every part of the coun try. We have seen the manner in which our own Government has enforced the Alien Act, and .it should teach us. a little forbearance to wards other Governments in the exercise of their power against aliens who do not enjoy their con fidence. LMORNING HERALD.] There is strong reason to hope that the force of law will in time put down the nuisance of low gaming houses. The exhibitions-, which have re cently- taken place before the Magistrates of Police, have already struck both the keepera and frequenters of these dens of mischief and depra vity with a salutary alarm. The officers of Police have acted with the most commendable promp titude and success--and with a continuance of the same activity and the facility with which, as we thint, the information requisite to con vict may be obtained', and evil cannot resist the operation of the Act of Parliament. — The penalty which it imposes, rigidly and no toriously enforced, is peculiarly calculated to be operative. Severity of punishment alone is not sufficient: Its force consists essentially in its degrading quality. Even a light degree of physical suffering and privation, whiCh the sufferer must recollect for the rest ,of his life with shame, carries with it more terror than the ssverest punishment which did not degrade.—i The disgrace of the punishment will even react upon the vice of gaming itself, and render it so disreputable and odious, that a regard for the mere law of opinion—which is, indeed, one of the most powerful of laws—will make men shrink from all contact with it. It is not known, nor could it be easily carculated, to what extent the ranks of guilt and shame are recruited from these preparatory schools of corruption. ' We do not mean to condemn the zeal with which libellous trash is hunted down, or deny the tendency of these publications to corrupt the popular mind; but it may be asserted, with out peril of departing from the truth, that these cradles of infamy—the gaming houses,—far ex ceed them in practical demoralization, and in furnishing victims for the severity of our penal code. The criminal jurisprudence of England is reproached with resting too exclusively upon the effect of punishment, without providing for the prevention of crime. In some respects this speaks rather the praise than the reproach of our free Constitution, whose genius allows to man a great latitude of freedom over his actions and his property. But this is a case in which no free dom is invaded—nothing required but the vigor ous enforcement of the law. It is matter of won der that in a city, possessing a police so strong and so well organized as London, society should not be purified of these pest-houses in the course of three months. Let them be attacked with the same rigour and earnestness with which the unlicensed gaming-houses in France, and unlicensed lotteries amongst ourselves, are assailed—in fact, let the interests of public morality be protected with the same zeal as those of the public revenue, and the event may be answered for. • POLICE INTELLIGENCE. SUPPRESSION OF GAMING , HOUSES. BO Iff-STREET.—Yesferday the persons who were on Tuesday detected in a Gaming-house in Pall Mall, were again brought up. Mr. Alley was to . have attended for them, but was detained at another place. John Clete, foreman to Mr. Green, a printer, proved printing 1,001) roulette cards, by order of the prisoner Samuel Brown.— Brown ordered him to make out the bill to Monk. Mr. HAitxtu repeated his former arguments, and urged the Magistrates to hold the defendant* to bail for limonths, under the old statute, and not to proceed upon the Vagrant Act. Mr. 11.a.r.r.s refused to do so, and said he should proceed upon the last named wholesome Statute. The prisoner Thomas then stepped forward and said, he had never been in the house before, and that he had heeo there but three minutes when the officers came. A person who owed him Money, promised to meet him there, and being much distressed he agreed to call, though with much reluctance. Mr. HALLS—How did you get in.? Thomas said he went throne' the passage and up stairs with out any interruption. Being asked what he was ? he said he ' was a seller of coals by commission. He would not mention the name of the person he sold for, but would write it down. .Mr. HALLS said he thought it was some such vagabond oc cupation. Sir R. Br RN 2E—Did you ever try your hand at any other oc cupation ?—as Reporter to a newspaper for instance? Thomas—Not I wish I had ; I have not talent sufficent.— He went on to say he thought it extremely hard he should be consigned to prison for a mere accidental visit. The Magistrate asked if anyiother of the prisoners had any ' account to give of themselves? No one answered. The officers engaged in the caption all declared that they had no doubt whatever that the prisoners were engaged in playing at an unlawful game. Mr. HALLs—.These persons were found at this house under ' circumstances, which, in my judgment, are quite sufficient •to warrant the officers in the conclusion which they, upon their oaths, declare they have formed upon the subiket. It is not necessary, in my opinion, to prove that any person was ac tually at play. If it is proved that gaming was going on, I re gard all persons present as participators in it. There are un doubtedly different degrees of guilt, which I shall take into consideration in adjudging the punishment. The hopes of the present, and the prospects of the rising generation are, in many instances, blasted by these iniquitous practices, and it is indeed high time that they were put a stop to. There is another circumstance, too, which renders the thing the more obnoxious--it is an importation from a foreign country brought here for the debasement and ruin of this. The worthy 111a gistrate then took a review of the evidence, and said—" Under these circumstances, I convict all the prisoners of playing at an unlawful game, and do therefore adjudge them to be rog ues and vagabonds within the full intent and meaning of this Act of Parliament. My judgment upon the defendants is, that Jackson be imprisoned two months in the House of Correction, there to be kept to hard labour ; that Monk, Samuel Brown, De Begre, and Marc, be imprisoned each for six weeks ; and the remainder of the defendants for one month each." Mr. HARMER immediately advised the defendants to appeal to the Sessions=a course which they determined to adopt, and. in the course of the day they put in bail for their appearance at the Sessions to prosecute Such appeal. They will of course be at large until the decision at the Sessions. PRETENDED SALE of PUBLIC SITUATIONS. UNIoN-HALL._Yesterday, a man about 50 years of age, of respectable appearance, named James Cooke ClarksOn, was brought before L. B. ALLEN, Esq., charged with having frau dulently obtained the sum dMk from 111 r. John Anderson, under pretence of procuring for him a Clerkship in the Revenue. Mr. Andersoh stated, that on the 14th of July last, he put an advertisement In a Morning Paper, offering a douceur of 100/. to any person that would procure for the advertiser, a per manent situauoti. On the following day, the witness received a letter from the prisoner, appointing a meeting at his house in Burton-place, Newington. The witness then detailed a series of contrivances by which the prisoner had • found means ,to get 1001. from him, under pretence of procuring him a 'situation in the Revenue Department. He had gone.so far as to produce a pretended note from Lord Lowther, and a forged copy of an appointment from the Treasury, but he had not al lowed them to,remain in witness's hands. The !witness afterwards received a note from the prisoner, stating that he was obliged, from his desperate necessities, to have recourse to the above expedient for relieving himself, and promising that he would settle all in the course of six months with the witness. A postscript added, "I am just leaving town for the country." The Magistrate ingaired if any of• the letters were in court ? Mr- Anderson said that he had the whole of the correspond ence with the prisoner "at his house,, with the exception of the appointment. Mr. ALLEN then observed, that the case must be adjourned, in order. to have the documents alluded to ; and asked the prisoner if he wished to say any thins ? The Prisoner—With due submission. I beg leave to ,state, that I gave Mr. Anderson my, acknowledgment for the money. I received from him, and which it was my full determination to have refunded, in the event of my not succeeding in • procur ing for him a situation ; and, he added, I now wish to pay him back the sum of 1001. fle was asked, whether he knew Lord Lowther, or any of those personages whose names were signed to the instrument ? but he replied he had no personal knowledge whatever of them. —The prisoner was then remanded. THE FIGHT BETWEEN WARD AND ABBOT. lIA-T T ON-GARDE N.— Yesterday two Gentlemen of sporting notoriety, accompanied by Ward the pugilist, who fought the pitched battle on the preceding day with Abbot at Moulsey Ilurst, attended before the sitting Magistrate, Mi. Serjeant SEL L ON, for the purpose of Wind's making an affidavit : one of the Gentlemen stated that he held stakes for a large sum of money depending on the fight of the preceding day, which. Ward, then present, lost ; that the Gentleman who backed Ward, suspecting that he sold the battle, refused to. consent to his (the applicant) paying the wager until 'Ward made oath that he fought as well as he could, and - that he lost the battle in con , •sequence of a blow he received on the neck.—The Magistrate 4ddressed the applicants, and informetrthem that, on their own confession, an information might be laid against them. for a breach of the peace, and that they would be liable to be sent to work at the mill in the House of Correction. He could not swear such an affidavit, where a man came voluntarily forward to make oath of a breach of the public peace. He ordered them to go about their business, and refused to comply with their request. I.4,3IBETII.STREET.—A fellow, in the dress of a dustman, who gave his name Thomm Hornca ale, was charged under Mr. Martin's Act with, cruelly and unmercifully beating two donkies, which he had drawing a " flying" dust-cart. —He was convicted in a mitigated penalty, and in default of payment he was committed for. fourteet days to hard labour in the House of Correction. OLD BAILEY, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 23. FORGERY. John. Benjamin Brooks, whose trial stood over from last Sessions, was indicted for forging a receipt and uttering it, knowing it to be forged, with intent to defraud Wm. Clarke. The prisoner, it will be ;ecollected, was subject to seVe ral examinations at Bow-street, which were fully reported in our paper at the time ; but we will bring the result be fore our readers in a few words. It appeared, then, that on the 12th of June Last, William Clarke brought an ac tion in the Court of Common Pleas, to recover the sum of 13/. ss. alleged to be due to him by Brooks. Brooks, in de fending this action, produced a check, on the back f which was written, as lie alleged, in the hand-writing of Clarke, a receipt for 151. 10s. for money received from Brooks, and not accounted for. Clarke, on his part, produced at the trial a debtor and creditor account, as between him and Brooks,which account had been delivered to him by Brooks himself ; and the result of this account was, that Brooks stood indebted to Clarke for the sum sought to be recovered by the action. The Jury in the Court of Common Pleas were satisfied by the evi, dence that was offered to them, that the receipt produced by Brooks was not in the hand-writing of Clarke, and they accord , ingly returned a verdict in favour of the latter. Brooks was committed to take his trial, on a charge of forging the receipt of Clarke, and he now stood in Court for that purpose. Messrs. ALLEY, CuawooD, and ADOLPHUS appeared for the prosecution, and Serjeant PELL and Blessts. BOLLAND and PLATT acted for the prisoner. Richard Hill, the attorney employed by Clarke, deposed, that after Brooks had been repeatedly . summoned to produce the check which had been exhibited in the Court of Common Pleas, at the chambers of Judge Best, he attended and said, that he had destroyed the document. This evidence was cor- roborated by that of Richard Hill, junior. Joseph Bicknell deposed, that he accompanied Clarke to Coldbath-fields prison, where Brooks was confined. Brooks requested Clarke not to appear at the examination at Bow street Office. Clarke said he would not, provided that money was deposited to cover law-expences. Brooks agreed to this, and placed 1501. in the hands of the witness. William Clarke, the prosecutor, was called, but Mr. Justice PARK would not allow him to be examined, because, as his name was alleged to be forged, he must be considered an in terested witness. Some other witnesses were examined for the prosecution, whose evidence was not very material. The prisoner addressed the Jury at great length, and then called several witnesses ; one of whom, named Turner, a clerk in Mr. Isaacson's office, swore that he was present when Brooks gave Clarke the check, having first desired him to indorse it, which he (Clarke) did in the presence of him (Turner) and a Mr. Arthur, who happened to be in the office at the time. This fact was corroborated by Mr. Arthur.' A number of witnesses gave the prisoner an excellent character ; and, after a long in vestigation, which did not terminate until ten o'clock at night, the Jury unhesitatingly returned a verdict of Not Guilty. lIIIDDLESIX SESSIONS, Oc T. 23. John Semple' was indicted for assaulting a person of the name of Lewis. The short facts of the case as they were proved in evidence were these :-.—The defendant found a boy in his orchard, steal ing his apples: he took the lad, and after dipping him in a horse-pond, put a rope round his body, and suspended him in the air for some time by means of a crane which was on his wharf in Camden-town. The prosecutor; alarmed by the cries of " murder" uttered by the lad, hastened to the spot. He remonstrated with the defendant, and in return for his humane interference received a sound beating. Witnesses were examined for the defence, by which it was endeavoured to-be sworn that the - prosecutor had the best of the fight, and was the first anressor. The Jury found the defendant Guilty, and he was fined IN. by the Comet. SIAM' S•ESSIONa. OCT. 2.3. This day the trial of henry Marshall, alias Moare, whose case some time ago excited so much interest at Union-Hall Office, came on. He is a young man of prepossessing appear ance, and not more than 18 years of age. It will be recollected that he endeavoured to pass for the sort of a gentleman of high rank anti fortune. He was tried for stealing a pistol. Thomas Reed', constable of Clapham, stated, that on Tues• day, the 4th of September, the prisoner was brought to the Clapham watch-house, and left alone for a few hours locked up in a room where there were several muskets and pistols loaded. The respectable appearance of the prisoner prevented all sus picion, and he was next day taken to Union-Hall on a charge. Afterwards a pistol was shown to witness at the office, or which pistol he was responsible as constable of the watch house. The prisoner said, on being charged with the robbery, that he did not take it for the purpose of stealing it, but for the purpose of shooting himself. It appeared from the evidence of Hall and another officer, that on the day after the prisoner was committed for not pay ing a hackney coachman his fare, he wa i s locked up in the strong room at Union-hall with two felons, and the report of a pistol was heard and a smoke issued from that room. The . pistol was taken out of the hands of one of the felons, who said he had got it from Marshall. The two felons had been so strictly searched, that it was impossible they could have taken in the pistol with them. The prisoner denied that he had stolen the pistol. The Jury found him Guilty. The CHAIRMAN said, he understood that Hall had inquir ed into the history of the prisoner, which it might be necessary to hear publicly. Hall said the prisoner's character was perhaps of one of the worst that had ever come before the Court. So far from being the son of a gentleman of rank, he was the son of a butler, and his mother was a poor washerwoman, who with difficulty sup :ported herself. 7he prisoner was her only son, and his habits from his earliest years had been most depraved, his propensity to thieving being quite incorrigible. Before he was 13 years old .he was sentenced to be transported for seven years, but his sen tence having been commuted to imprisonment at the Peniten aiary, he got out upon the public after a confinement of five years and a half. His first act, after passing the prison-door, was to go and rate his mother, from whom he stole five of her ;customer's shirts, and he had packed up 14 more to carry away. lie was not long in finding companions of his own stamp, with whom there was reason to believe he concerted an attack upon a house at Clapham Common. From the Common, where he did not meet his friends, he was driven off by a coachman, .who lodged him in the watchhouse for not paying his fare, and in that watchhouse he had stolen the pistol. Had the prisoner been acquitted on the present charge, his mother determined to prosecute him, to save him from the gallows. A note was handed to the Chairman from the Governor of the Penitentiary: It stated that the prisoner, who had been liberated but a week before he was taken into custody, was the worst of 1,800 prisoners whom the Governor had under his care. The CHAIRMAN said that he was sorry the law did not en able him to secure the prisoner for life. Particular care should he taken that he should not again go into the Penitentiary, however. I Sentence— Trausportatibn for seven years. The prisoner, who during the trial had conducted himself with the greatest humility, after the sentence smiled conternp. :thously towards the Court. ,• The confusion among the gamblers at the 'west end of the - town is indescribable. If any unusual noise is heard in the street while they are at play, they scamper out of the room, and hide themselves in the coal.hole, closets, and other places, while some of the worthy fraternity have a general scramble for the cash, get it after wards who can. ACCIDENT AT THE SURREY, THEATRE.--Yes terday evening, as Mr. CARNEGY was standing on his bead on the top of a spear, eight feet high, he unfortunately lost his balance, and was pre cipitated with great violence on the stage, though he had done the same feat the preceding evening with perfect facility. •A e are happy. to State that the injury received was not equal to the alarm which it excited, though Mr. CARNEGY received some severe bruises. Signor RAFFAELLE GARGUILLI, of Naples, the restorer of ancient vases in the Museo Borbonico, has been fortunate enough to discover a cement to be used in repairing those antique remains, which, through the carelessness of the workmen, ou t o f the ground. Neither fire nor or from other causes, are broken into fragments when dug water are necessary in applyin g it,and, when applied, it resists heat a nd humidity, and unites the parts so firmly, that the vas e or o th er a r ticle re-acquires its ring on being sounded. REVIEW OF THE STAGE. ORIGIN OF DRURY-LANE THEATRE, &c. The very scarce tract, intituled," Roscius An glicanus ; or, an Historical Review of the Stage," written by Old DOWNES, prompter to Sir WIL LIAM D'ATENANT'S Company, at the Lincoln's Inn-fields Theatre in 1662, gives the following curious account of the London Playhouses before the Civil Wars, and of the foundation and ori ginal Company at Drury-lane Theatre : " In the reign of Charles the First there were six play-houses allowed in town—the Blackfriars Company, his Majesty's Ser vants—the Bull, in St. John's-street—another in Salisbury-court —another called the Fortune—another at the Globe--and the sixth at the Cockpit in Drury-lane *, all of which continued acting till the beginning of the Civil Wars. The scattered rem nant of several of these houses, upon King Charles's Restoration, formed a Company, who again acted at the Bull, and built them a new house in Gibbon's Tennis-court, Clare-market ; in which two places they continued acting all 1660, 1661, 1662, and part of 1663. In this time they built them a new Theatre in Drury-lane : Mr. Thomas Killigrew gaining a patent from the King, in order to create them the King's Servants ; and from that time they called themselves his Majesty's Company of Comedians, in Drury-lane, whose names were Mr. Theo philius Bird, Mr. Hart, Mr. Mohun, Mr. Lacy, Mr. Burt, Mr. Cartwright, Mr. Clun, Mr. Baxter, Mr. Robert Shatte rell, Mr. William Shatterell, Mr: Duke, Mr. Hancock, Mr. Kynaston c Mr. Wintersel, Mr. Bateman, and Mr. Blagden." It appears from this list of Drury-lane players, that all the performers who had acted before the Civil Wars were selected to complete the com pany; and Kynaston taken from the company that acted under Rhodes, the bookseller, at the Cockpit, Drury-lane. Almost all of them are , mentioned as of sterling merit : 'cYintersel origi nally belonged to the private house, in Salisbury court, and is mentioned in the Key to the Re hearsal as a very judicious actor; Cartwright was of the same company as Wintersel. He was the donor,at his death,of a valuable collection of plays and MSS. to Dulwich College. Hart was apprentice to Robinson (of whom an account may be seen in ilialane's *pendia to Johnson and Steevens's Shakspeare.) He acted women's parts when a boy. Mohun was brought up under Ro binson, as Hart and others were. In his youth he acted Bellemonte, in Love's Cruelty, which part he retained after the Restoration. Burt was an apprentice to Shanke, and acted, in his youth, women's parts. This seems to have been the practice of the old actors to initiate their apprentices in the women's characters. Langbaine speaks of Lacy as of the most perfect comic actor of his time ; be was one of the re cruits which they engaged in the King's company, for there is no trace of his having ever acted be fore the Restoration. He wrote three plays, and died about the year 1684. To these were after• wards added the celebrated Joe Haines, Griffin, Goodman, and the following females : Mrs. Carey, Mrs. Anne Marshall, Mrs. Eastland, Mrs. Weaver, Mrs. Uphill, Mrs. Knep, and Madam Hughes. t " The company thus complete, they opened the new Theatre, in Drury-lane, on Thursday in Easter-week, being the Bth day of April, 1663, with the Humorous Lieutenant,which comedy was acted for twelve days successively." After specifying the principal plays acted during a number of years, and the performers in them,he adds further as to this Theatre—" These and many others were acted by the old company at the Theatre Royal, from the time that they began till the patent - descended to Mr. Charles Killigrew, ,which, in 1682, he joined to Dr. D'Avenant'S patent, whose company acted then at Dorset Garden, which, upon the union of the two companies, were created the King's Com pany, and have ever since performed at the Theatre in Drury-lane, under the name of his Majesty's Servants.' " Of the origin of the Dorset Garden Company l above alluded to, he gives the following account: r l —" In the year 1659, General Monk, marching then his army out of Scotland to London, Mr. Rhodes, a bookseller, being wardrobe keeper formerly (as I am informed) to King Charles the First's company of commedians in Black friars, getting- a licence from the then governing State, fitted up a house for acting, called the Cockpit, in Drury-lane, and in a short time com pleted a company consisting of Mr. Betterton, Sheppy, Lovel, Lilliston, Underhill, Turner, Dixon, and Noxes ; and the following, who com monly acted women's parts :--Mr. Kynaston, , James Nokes, Angel, Wm. Betterton, Mosley,l and Floid. These performed a number ofl plays there with considerable success, until Sir W. D'Avenant got a patent, creating Mr. Betterton and all the rest of Rhodes's, company the King's servants, to serve his, Royal High ness the Duke of York, at the theatre in Lincoln's Inn-fields; when his company being afterwards completed by other additions, Sir William, in order to prepare plays to open his theatre, it be ing then building in Lincoln's-inn-fields, rehears ed the first and second parts of the Siege of Rhodes, and the Wits, at Apothecaries' Hall ; and in spring, 166'2, opened his house with the said plays, having new scenes and decorations, being the first that were introduced (on a public theatre) in England." After several years, and that a great many successful plays had been performed here, a differ ence happening between the patentees and the chief actors—as Mr. Betterton, Mrs. Bracegirdle, ' and Mrs. Barry, the latter complaining of oppres sion from the former, they, for redress, appealed 'to the Lord Chamberlain,who, espousing the cause of the actors, with the assistance of Sir R. Howard finding their complaints just, procured from King William a separate licence for Mr. Congreve, and * In Randolph's " Muses' Looking Glass," (1630), in a humorous dialogue between Bird, a featherman, and Mrs. Flowerdew, wife to a haberdasher of small wares, two of the sanctified fraternity, who have brought feathers and pins for the Blackfriars"rheatre, the latter repeats the substance of a prayer made by one of their preachers, which thus enumerates the playhouses mentioned : ." That the Globe, 'Wherein (quoth he) reigns a whole world of vice, Had been consumed; the Phoenix burnt to ashes ; ! The Fortune, whipt for a blind whore ; Blackfriars ! He wonders how it 'scaped demolishing. I' th' time of Reformation ; lastly, he wished i The Bull might crosse the Thames to the Bear Gardens, And there be soundly baited." t These following came into the company afterwards : Mrs. Boutell, Mrs. Ellen Gwyn, Mrs. James, Mrs. Rebecca Marshall, Mrs. Rutter, Mrs. Verjttice, and Mrs. ,Knight. nelf the performers just mentioned to set uP jal company, calling it the Ne w Theatre in ;" tv coin's Inn-fields; and the house being bailtir°of a tennis court, they opened it the last da Yi n ve April, 1695, with a new comedy called for Love, which took twelve days successica':i About the end of 1704, Mr. Bett er ton assig n t , his licence and his whole company over to Cat e Vanbrugg, to act under him at the theatre i°', l Haymarket, which was opened the 9th of P.'_; 1765, and continued playing until the follow, year, when by agreement with Mr. Sivinohan,e the concurrence of the Lord Chamberlain'" transferred and invested his licence and gov e 7; ment of the theatre to Mr. Swinny, who br° u b g er with him from Mr. Rich—Messrs. Was , Cib yirs! Mills, Johnson, Keene, Norris, Fairbank, o ld Oldfield, and others, and united them to the rbi g company : Mr. Betterton and Mr. lin y de nr ies being the only remains of the Duke of 1"- ctobe r servants, from 1662 until the union in o 1706. iiminnommaiNZEIMMIIINNO LORD NeLsorr.—Among the n sces am orous e 4 brilliant exploits of the late war, none exc ee n g in its consequences, or is more cherished ° ll°- the.°. o our countrymen with fervent zeal, than morable victory of Trafalgar. By that de and battle the navy of France was annihilat ed; though we had to deplore the loss of Ene i t n o ry Hero, the importance of that gloriou s s l i c ibst in some measure blunted the Viet. or would otherwise have overwhelmed t he o: 4 • tion by the death of the immortal rig'" o o , —ln commemoration of that event, ° wh ite nual public dinner is held at the, ;' tl Hart, Wigmore-street ; and on Mocusaii t of anniversary of the never-to-be-forgotte n October was celebrated by a n umerous 3 ';;;s , This festival was held under the immed i i ii— ,aie tronage of the late Marquis of H e rtfoen n t he annually sent a second course of game. 'a e co• present occasion the room was elegantly por' rated with laurels and evergreens ;_ trait of the Hero, exquisitely painted 11." i ;bile was suspended over the President's chair , no les% at the end of the room a bast of t he el celebrated Wellington was conspicuen S A, the vated—both 'crowned with laurel. Ai h te ; or usual loyal teats, " The Memory of i ", i - poce; mortal Nelson " was drank in solemn 5 % 1 ; oss and when " The Duke of Wellington to ast, given by the Chair, as the succeeding Co w the applause was nearly overwhelming -- l b u e ofi s pany joining in the national anthem 0 1 ,'" tr ioeS strike home, as applicable to the two it'os,:s preservers of their country. The dinner ifse cellent, and the conviviality of the Meet`%cel' kept up to a late hour, supported by so le k e ffig' lent singing from Messrs. Saunders, sing , of Numerous emblematical designs of brii"—coce' tions decorated the walls ; and while thel onr pany were celebrating the achieveme nts 0 . se brave countrymen, they felt themoti . se he° n rounded by men who had nobly done th eir 5 ba Citl On Monday evening a travellei on 1161. as at, on his way from Edinburgh to Perth, vfrib tacked by three fellows, a few miles S o o a ses Kinross, near the junction of the. "-00 ferry and Bruntisland roads. One of hio grasped the bridle of his horse, o rderil re' to deliver up his money, to which 11 4 .0 1 plied by a smart stroke across the 11 so w face with a stout switch. The suddeue:ssadisb pain of the blow made the man re..„1111,10S his hold, when the traveller spurred ors 'other followed very close for a short distance 11% e loS s of the gang. He escaped, however, Wit,h, c , se ° of his hat, which had fallen off in the ""i501 51 meeting soon afterwards with som e P s trac e! he returned with them to the spot, b ut e sir could be found either of the hat or efider bers. This attack had been mad e ! h il ly Abet cumstances of great audacity. It was jar,. six o'clock, and the evening by no c o rer a carriage had passed only a few minut es withe rs and a carriers cart and other vehicles we re bee hecl „ it a very short distance.--A poor me n „ g sfle attacked the evening before by; hj sat ti l ie n th e i tt is supposed, but let off without n jurY t r ,, tij org found he had nothing to lose.-(' Courant, Oct. 21.) G COAL-MARKET, OCT. 23 7 Pri ce 44lo Ships at Market. Ships sold 41s 9a ,,, t 41. lOi Newcastle - - 6 Sunderland - - - BIRTHS. Yesterday, Mrs. Henry Douglas, of a ditughtf e a rt. gi Cegn' On the 22d instant, at Brighton, the lady e' Istif of of a daughter. , ier , , th ... e, Yesterday, in Great George-street., West inili c :aatigi lw.. Astley Cooper, Esq., of Cheverella, Herat 13 ' - 0 4 ,; MARRIED. , E y r ry , Peg,411 , - - On Tuesday, at High liTycivoimbe, Bucks, .".„...' dirt' - of Jeffery-terrace, Kentish-t n, to Elizab e `"? - , f t . aage:k of Richard Gellett, Esq. oft e ormer place', D.doro •-• se On the 21st instant, Henry, second son 01 .. - 1 , 4 00.1 0 00 0. Esq., of Clapham-common, to Mary, the Robert Podmore, of Clayton Priory, 10 . 7-11 Oil Esq. .. ff ieent p o f On Wednesday, the 16th instant, at Gretna - pc'tht cp_oi • Fraser, Esq. town clerk of Great Grimsby/till. gaseare. Lincoln, and' of London, solicitor, to At I D , - Y Ol lO7 - arg c* :Norfolk-street, Strand,'London, and of Bove,,r` e lwalk. of PI, At Aberdeen, on the 17th instant, A10 1911 ,,;" ; r,.. X a ue,:aveer,- , advocate in Aberdeen, to Jcssy Stewart, of t t e ' pec "" notg ar oo , 14 5: 00 0 ! : late Capt. Arthur Dingwall Fordyce, leo ( On the 20th of August, at Leeds; JosePueb. tie manufacturer, at the Bank, to Illargste l St ° l co pti nt ore, 4 ,,, 4 4 however, doomed to the long enjoymen t °.,,d,110!"-,Et, Oct, tress, for she almost immediately sickened' " - 0 001 11 13" the same church on the 18th of the followilt ivi ,l o ocu "pet as it was, it had sweets sufficient to caul the of i lood i d 7 , of her affections once more to encounter. ~114 1 00 10 0- " t ato he having been apin married at the Par l3 " ü bleSSe a 11° last : , to Grace Boys, after having lived 0 1 during the protracted period oflon e month. C ! Pr t t el I 1 4 gr -' ' e t t ' e d d a lli a 1 We • wstl et4 ' .t o W I o w vol . , A i te squ O ar n e t , he af T e d r a in i s i t i . lg , e a r t in h a is i f l a l n n tl e i i s e E s e n s an li d o us gr e, 17th year, James, youngest son of James.,._ e ldes ~,. On the 22d inst., at Tottenham, Georgla"-7 fila cif;. P P- or e ar of the late J. F. Desanges, Esq., age 42 George ' - 635 1 1" oli# At Kinshorn, on the 3d inst., the Itev- i n the o t .102,,,fi of the United Associate Congregation ther,...,..tkot . 0 , ri was 1 0 7 i.: of his age and 31st of his ministrY• Ile Igin is 1 1 0f trusive in his manners,-and a zealous • ts l 9 l. Da A v t id E lv di a n ts b o u n rg , l w i, ri o te n r t i h n e E l d Testament. vst b e r ell° s ig. On the 18th inst., in Lower 111ount-sl.7,„htet of cline, aged 10, Letitia Emma, eldest o_.llsLas., Colonel De Montmorency, H. P . ' Boyal.l luP 00 0 tb*, • TOO! lOW S 1 AA Printed and Published for the PRo ii c ol/ °Hive, No. 112, Strand, by J. sinthbuirgrt, ...t p0k..,00,..,,e110ft5it.._.4t.., N T/1% F oy Pr f P GE ub . ' EEi &f t . - 0 4y w,ril() or , Th • it b t • e xt , en c , I\i tra , g 4 lity ( U 2, 44,1: F GA (y r / Ap t.lct Ptnt l e j 4 Ikt