The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-09-15 00:00:00

COVENT-GARDEN TIIE4Tar.

The comic opera of The Maid of the win
last night rep?oted, mid, if possible, wills lm-missed
success. Mr. PItILIPPI again stistomed the est.
racier of Lord Ahntoorth, and was honoured with
applause. re general, stied as lieurifelr, as &sun.
guished either of his former sppear;it.cer, Llr i,
two, we think, likely to be the mere favourite of a
day—and we are sure that, if torte, sctetsce, suit
voice united, are worthy of public support rod stn,
conragrtnent, Mr. PitiLiPps must he, as he
s.rves to b., a very popolor singer. He
eitrored in " Love's young Dream." and
•' Eteleen's Bower," which lie executed to 11 ',lt '•
Or surpassing taste awl sv•eett.tv4, We weer gr„;;1,
delightei: with his rondo, " Sigh not fur tare."
winch tleecrveil nil encore ns much as the Pu:s lee
have already noticed. Eve!), part or his p.r,
formanre elicited warm applouse.
TREE appeared, for the occult(' time, as Putty.
She gain% on the tifY•ctiunt of the public, and a.;l,
we have tin doubt, become a great favourite. So.
we. encored in PECITTA'S air, " Sweetest Itivl,f

wry Sool," and a similar honour awaited It«r
thin of " loan; Love !" whi-h is ainerfortnint'l
of the inreit delicate and tasteful z.liararter.
flisttoP'a duet, " near Maid. by all my kopek
bliss." has been substituted for that which vim...,
troduced on Saturday evening. This it sn mitre—
men% 'file composition is wetly, and it Write&
the individuals who sin% it a fair opportunity of cll.-
playing their talents. separately, and in unison, it
was extremely well sung by Mr. N111.114'6 and
Miss Tess, and was all hut encored.

The interior!. of Sylecatcr Daggerwood
ed, in which Mr. YATES, as the hrro of the intl.-,
favoured the audience with Pe veral .xcellesit iinits.
tions of Mr. juurt k WHOLE, M. :14ATHEWS, en
Mr. YOUNG. His imitation of Mr. MATHEWS ia
most correct.

The entertainments concluded with the romane.!
of 'Slue heard—the part of Ibrahim by 11r. J.
RUSSELL, rice Mr. SIMMONS. whose rarlang:ho:v
exit we mentioned yettertlay. Mr. Itt
Gil the part with a great deal of spirit, and was
well received.

THE PRIAcE REGENT.

wAawicK, seprinesta 13.

On Thursday last his Royal Highness the P'
Regent, accompanied by the Nlarquis of fira4bir.
arrived at Warwick Castle, on a visit to the Eml
and Countess of Warwick. It was confidently re.
ported that his Royal Highness would houses the
races with his presence, and the course each day was
unusually c►owded: in this expectation, however, the
company were disappointed. Oa Friday his Wyatt
Highness, accompanied by the Countess of War.
wick and the Marchioness of Conyiighani, took an
airing in an open barouche, througli the town, the
carriage going nt a slow pace ; they then proceeded to
Leamington, the principal buildings of w;oeli pi:re
his Royal Highness minutely itepected, ut).l es.
prettied himself highly delighted with th;at
able watering-place. They returned to the Castle
to dinner. His Royal Highness was dressed in a
blue coat and white hut.

On Saturday his Royal Highne,s took anotlue-
airing in an open carriage, attended lac t Count-<s
of Mesbarough and the Countess of :Varivit k. At
*even o'clock the whole party sat down 1., . *amp-
tuous dinner, to which several leanlira of the cJunty
were invited, amongst whom were, Sir, Grey end
Lady Skipwith, Mr. and Mrs. Leigh, of Stoorlogh
Abbey; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mills, of Buford
Mr. and Mrs. Hibbert, of Farnborough; Lord S.
Helens, the Marquis of Conyngham, Sir B. InJout-
field, Sir C. Greville, and Colonel Thornton, were
also present. In the evening %he whole town of
Warwick was atost brilliantly illuminated, and se-
veral transparencies and devices were exhilhted.
The Tower of St. Mary's Church was illuminated,
and exhibited a grand display of light to the sat-
rounding county. C. Mills, Eq. the Member for
the Town, had his huu'e at Bart:lid also illuiniastrii.
The Corporation of Warwick, at three o'clock ea
Saturday, pioceeded in grand state to the (;astir,
to present their Address, to which his Royal Hlgh-
nem, was pleased to return a most gracious saner?:
C. G. Wade, Esq. senior Alderman, officiated 44
Mayor. _ _ .

On Sunday the illustrious viritor atierdoi
service at St. Mary' p, a hen au excellel.t etret.,.;
preached by the Rev. J. B tier, Vicar, end I)
%untie Chaplain to the Earl of Warait',. 'l' •
church was crowded to excess. The Co-i•era!::;;
attended in their scarlet robes.

To-morrow his Royal Highness leaves the Ctit!..
for town in order to receive the Atidreo of iiir City
of London on the Throne relative to the late pro-
ceettiugs at Manchester. He will iinnietliattly •r'-
terwards proceed to Brighton, and ell
board the Royal yacht for Plymouth.
It was his Royal Highness's intention hi hove
visited Cumbe Abbey, the seat of Earl Craven, but
business io town obliged him to leave this poet of
the world snou ts. than he intended. The Itioiquio
and Marchioness of Hertford did not accompany hi.
Royal Highutos to Warwick Cootie.

The PRINCE REUENT has ,opoitited to-tuctriv.,
at two o'clock, for the Sheriffs of London to 'smn
upon him at Carlton-house, to learn his Royal
pleasure as to receiving the Address of the Common
Council, respecting the late proceedings ut Alai.-
cheater; mid it is understood that the time appoint-
ed will be at an early hone on Friday morning.
The following Requisition was on Thursday wry-
ing sent to the Alayur of Cann, signed by u great
number of tl:e meinhers of that Corporation :-
6, We particularly request you will insmeilinteiy rid;
Meeting of the members of the Corporation of (7ana, to
into their must serious consideration the otttra,t,--s coinittittel
at Manclwster, by the yeomanry, on the ltilh of AMC tit, 641,
is order to adopt such Resolutions as to theta ms) arra,
necessary ow this nielauttioly catastrophe."
—The Mayor having refused to comply with the
above request, a Meeting will be convened I,y Ow
requisitionists, at their hall, of which due notice wta
be given.—/ Myntonth Tekgraph.)
An order front his Royal Highness Prince •
POLO was received a few days ago by a trark,::, •
in Edinburgh, directing • Highland bonnet, w.! •
soma tartan scarfs, to be prepared before hits
rival there. The articles are compered of the riche,'
materials—of the Royal or STUART pattern of
tartan. The bounet, which is uncommonly el,-
gant, is topped with a crown of blue velvet, 50...
mounted by a beautiful plume of black feathas.

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K.
1.

REQUISITION
TO THE HIGH BAILIFF OF SOUTHWARK.

We stated three or four days ago, that • deputa-
tion from die inhabitants of the Borough of South-
wark lied waited upon the High Bailiff, for the pm-
pose of knowing when it would be convenient for
him to receive them, with a Requisition to convene
a Politic Meeting of the inhabitants at the Town
Holl, in express their sentiments upon the late pro-
ceedisigs at Manchester. The High BAiliff sp.
pointed yesterday to receive the Deputation. At our
o'clock yesterday, according to appoint orient, Meson..
Gunk.., Ault, Black, •ttdStre.gll_t , waited upon
the High Bailiff, and presented to him a formal
Requisition to convene a Meeting of the Inhabi-
tants ofthe Borough. for the purpose already nwn-
I toned. The Gentlemen who composed the Depu-
tation were received with great politeness by the
High Bailiff, who after resoling the Requisition,
informed them that he would take time to con-
sider of the propriety of their request. The
Gentlemen impressed epos the High Bailiff the
necessity of their receiving an early answer, and
urged the appointment of a day for that pur-
pose, when the latter declined fixing a day for
delivering his answer, hut assured them they
should receive it in sufficient time for convelling a
Meeting on Tuesday or Wednesday next, if lie, on
misideration. should approve of their request. The
Requisition is couched in strong terms, but not
stronger than is necessary to characterise the late pro-
ceedings at Manchester, in the winner in which they
have been viewed from one end of the country ill
the other. Should the High Bailie (which it is
difficult to anticipate) refuse to convene a Bo-
rough Meeting in the Town Hall, it is, we
understand, the intention of the inhabitants them-
selves to convene a Public Meeting, at such time
and place as they shall deem fit and proper, to
express their sentiments upon the Manchester pro-
ceedings. Wherever they meet, they will receive
the per!,onal assistance and support of both of their
able and independent Representatives.

INQUEST
OS MR. SIMMONS, THE COMEDIAN.

An 1 olitisitinn was taken yestereay at the Bark? Mow
rulthr-tionse, Mount-street, before A. Gell, Esq on the
holy of thin unfortunate deceased, who met his death un
Saturday night last.
Mr. Simmons, as most of oar readers know, was a most
respectshle member of the Theatre-Royal, Covent-garden,
to which company he belonged many years, and his talent
bad ever met with unqualified approbation. The evidence,
its to the calamitous event, 1/11111 as follows :
William Chapman, servant to Mr. Thomas Wardon, No. 5,
Ilanoveesqaare, Angled, that the wife of the deceased, had
some business to do in the boom, and at eight o'cloek he
railed for her, but she not being ready, he waited until she
was enabled to accompany him. At lea o'clock witness let
the deceased and his wife out by the area sate, and having
ascended two or three steps in his way out, he soddenly fell
backwards, the wife close behind him. IVititem picked him
p and carried hint within the house, but he died instantly.
Ile did not appear to have been drinking, and he fell directly
backwards. Ik. Hyam was seat for, bat be used no means
to restore animation, satisfied that such could be of nu
purpose, as the deceased was past recovery.
Tile beadle here stated, in the absence of the surgeon, that
the deceased had died of apoplexy, and as the doctor informed
Leta.
Margaret Simmons, wife of the deceased, who gave her evi-
dence seder affliction which excited much sympathy in the
Court, slated she had been married to him 16 years, and he
had called upon her to escort her home, as stated by the last
%anew. She related the manner in which the deceased fell
hidoelids flora the steps, and whether he was in a fit or not
she could not tell. She held her arm out to save him, and
hit .114 uttered this expression, she manifested the must
%ze:::seti grief. When recovered she said," I thonght / heard
hurl hrrtilht."

'l'o some ovestions put by the Jury to the Beadle, respect-
inz the gtve of the appearance of the deceased, who was in a
p..i.id state, be said that hie face or Suoday evening resem-
bled thm or a black man.

Another witness, of the highest respectability, stated it to
tke opinion of Dr. Heaviside, that the deceased had died
of. apoplexy.
111 r. "canton, the performer, stated, that the deceased was
weak in tlw eyes ; that Dr. Taylor, the oculist, had told him,
that unless he was bled often, he would die by apoplexy.
Mr. Robinson, and several friends of the deceased, were
present.
The Jury ',horned • verdict—t' Died by tie visitation of
God in a _tit of Apoplexy."

Yvsterday so 'roiest was held before Charles 'mown,
F•fl. at the Swan, Battersea, on the body of dohs Thomas
1) i4nell, Esq. father of eleven children, the two youngest
teal hays, but a few days old, when it appeared in evidence
th it :he deceased on Friday last got to the top of one of
u Allot trees, in his garden at Battersea, a height of 30
Pet, to pick some walnuts, which he occasionally threw
dawn to his children, who were under it; when one of the
ones cried out," Father, pray do sot fall." No sooner
li id the child spoken the words, than the branch upon which
the deceased stood broke Joao, and he was precipitated to
the bottom, in the progicas of which his head strock some
lattice work, and heat it down. His head was dreadfully
Cartured, and he lingered until Saturday, when he expired
exclac;atiirg agony. Verdict—Accidental Death.

An Inquest was lately takes before Wm. Trig. Esq.
at I'maiswick, Gloucestershire, on the body of Jobs Wood,
on illegitimate child, aged four yeses, said to bare died of
administered by the husband of his mother. After a
mm,,,, investigation before a respectable Jury, It appeared
that the mother of the child bad circulated a report, that
inr liii,hand bad rivets hint poison, and propagated a cry of
miled,r in the neighbourhood. But the Jury were satisfied
of the mni's innocence, and returned a nrdict—Died by
the visitolbs of God.

No ease of any interest occured yesterday at the
London Se►sious.

A correspondent informs us, that a pauper of
It mime of Witt:Tan FIELD. who once moved in
3 highly respectable rook in society, and who had
reached the advanced age of 77 years, was coin.
:tutted, about • week since, from one of the work-
:nises in the County of Surrey to the House of
(.:orrectibut,'Hoesernatiger-lime, for 14 days, for re.
fusing to work. We have no reason to su-peet the
ac.-uracy of viiis statement, and we cannot forbear
!Pe expiession of our disapprohatiou of such a sen-
tence. We are strong advocaats for inculcating
11.41,11 s of ioduetry on the inmates of work-houses,
lind, in It cases, we should be far from objecting
to the use of coercive measures for this end; but,
111 the instance before us, it requires no more than
coalition share of humanity and feeling. to are
tlig they were altogether misplaced. Grey hairs
alone, independently of the claims arising from
n-km.lone and the descent of better days, should
• k•ve protected the poor old man from such &grads.
I;tg treatment.

Clrr smarms.

Yesterday pa Lard Mayor held a Court of Aldermen .
Mr. Alderseuto Rothwell, illimilr ekes. attended, and gave
bond to take upon himself tke amid oilier. _ . .

The Lord Mayor delivered in a repot of the meetings in
dinithllckl, ow She 21st of July and 26,11 of dueiht
and of the mossores adopted to preserve the pnhlie peace.
Thanks were unanimously voted to his Lop!ship for his
conduct on shone occasions. and also to the several public
bodies, special cuestahles. Mc. for which see advertisenieui.