The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-10-16 00:00:00

THEATRES.

DRURY- LANE.
The friends of this establishment were Nat night
admitted to take a view of the venous improve-
Neuts which lave been made during the recess.
The assemblage of visitor, was very numerous, in.
-.eluding several fashionable parties. We have
• already given a detailed account of the splendid
-'embellishments, which reflect so much credit on
**Me and liberality of the Oillrlagalliellt. The
'wily novelty last night was the display of the new
drop curtain, which is fancifully ornamented: its
most prominent features are the figures of the
Comic and the Tragic Muse. In the centre there
appears an open space; behind which, but con-
meted with it, is seers what nosy be termed • smaller
certain, on which is depicted an whole-length figure
SHAILIIPIA IL This may be drawn up, and, we
believe, it is upon • new plan, by which the Stage
Manager, or other persons in brief authority,
may enter through this opening when it is accessory
to msLe any communication to the audience.
The theatre last sight permuted a curious scene ;
the stage crowded with all descriptions of persons,
The various groups Of female visitors (the greeter
pigt at whom were is full deers), intermingled with
the workmen engaged in completing the arrange.
meats preparatory to its openiug this evening, to-
gether with the variety of nosppropetated material,
glitch, though carelessly strewed about, was 'Getty
sod brilliant, gave it an entirely fanciful appear.
sace. All the spectators, however, seemed eager to
'sprees their admiration of the combined elegance
and splendour which were conspicuous throughout,
and separated with saucer, sod hearty wishes for
the success of an establishment which possesses so
many additional and Powerful claims to public
patronage.
Ade-mascre.
This interesting Theatre closed last night, after a
most deservedly successful mason whether we look
to the merit of the works produced, or the talent
• with which they were supported. The following
appropriate address was spoken by Mr. T. DIBDIN,
Iros merits as stage manager cannot be too highly
appreciated
I' LAMS MID GUITLII3IIIII.4 am &wired by the Prs.
prieurn to parrot yea with their slater, and grateful at.
Ithowirdsmeats for the very I.beral pstreasge with which
yes have bosoered the laaaall which tertgasies this
" They beg to assure yon, that the Wag vocative we are
deemed so stuff's, .hall be employed is every exertioa to Km
der this house and its establiahmest worthy a cualissaate of
year generous support.
" During oar short teasivaip we have to thank yes! Is.
dalgesce for the complete success of every novelly we have
resented; and among she sew essebdates who have whew
tired ape* the,e boards, a mow Lady, whom posy dhoti"
✓isme sword ban raised le the highest reek of monied pro.
hosier', will ever hove to Vraiiiliti Amber lest ellerts were
am ewraged by the fries* sad perms of the Haymarket
Theatre. The Performers atm WA so express their high
eme of the kiadaess pee have skews them; sad 1 Item
Larlies sod Grille- ea, 11 may sot be deemed Intrusive if
take the liberty of thanking each of them. who have by their
teal, alacrity, arid talent, earned wills egret every Intention
at the esmageoleet. la the maim of she Proprietors, the
Performers, 'set most hembly tit my lowa, white !Attie a
grateful leave, I wish yea every peasilie tropisms sill she
MOM of summer shall reuse our Wipes to meet, sad ardeut
viebes is merits the &tyre mashies of your (averted pee.
tram."

The Earl and Countess of COVINTIT are enter-
taining a large party of friends at their seat, Crouse,
Worcestershire. The Duke of GLOUCESTIft is
shortly expected there.

_ .
The Esrl of HARRINGTON, we are happy to
levn, is recovering fast from his severe At of the
gout.

Mr. F•11QUBAll, the wealthy East Indian, who
wend, purchased Foothill Abbey, together with
01 its appendages, for between three and four
ursdred thousand pounds, paid down, last week,
woe thousand pounds for a house in Portland-place.
An American Paper lately, among a collection of
mi.cellaneons pstraglaphs, under the title of
"Things in General," published the following:—
" A lottery is advertised is Delaware, for the pur-
t'ose of drawing comfortable births iu a burying.
ground

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MOMPAOUTIL—At the Mayor's dinner. held on
ileutley se' ght, the old-fashioned ten gallon
measure was spin brought forward, and twice tilled
link excellent punch. It was borne to the table in
final by three of the officers of the Chief Magi.-
true, oho stand with goodly race, giving the
hraltln of these friends 11'110 bad so ably itapparted
Ilkir great emus&

ISLE OF WIGHT, Oacoste I.

Cows.-The brilliancy of the last Hunting
Club Ball, which took place in the metropolis of
the island, on Friday, the 4th instant, eclipsed all
former attempts of the kind. The Town Hall of
Newport was the arena of attractioo, and was most
tastefully decorated for the occasion. We shell mot
attempt (for that were beyond our powers) to give
a description of the beauty, fashion, and elegance
which were displayed. The fair daughter of Col.
Campbell. of Gatcomb House, presided as the
Lady Patroness of the evening, and was assisted by
the Comptroller, Mr. Fleming, our much esteem-
ed County Member, and the other gentlemen
steward., by whose conjoint and spirited exertions ,
the entertainment was conducted and concluded
with extraordinary satisfaction and edit.
It is in contemplation, we understand, to com-
mence forthwith considerable improvements in this
town. George Ward, Esq. the munificeot pro-
prietor of Northwood Park, who has Arrays an '
eye to the comfort and accommodation of the

public, as well as the prosperity of the town, has
become the purchaser of the Fountain Inn, and the
adjoining public-house: on the back premises of
which, extending onward the sea, lie purpose* t•
erect a suite of apartments upon a scale commensu-
rate with the increasing popularity of the place, and
that shall command uninterrupted views of the de.
fightful amphitheatre which nature has formed in
this almost unrivalled bay.
Northwood House has been of late the ecene,of
unexampled gaiety and good cheer. On Thursday
last • splendid dinner was given by Mr. Word, to
which were invited many of the respectable visitor*
and resident gentry in the town and neighbourhood.
Ou the following Tuesday evening Sir George
Leeds, of Westhill, gave ■ similar treat at hit
charming villa, which terminated in • hall, in the
conducting of which the liberality and taste of the
worthy Baronet and his beautiful and amiable L,dy
were eminently conspicuous.

MARGATE, OCTO BSA 13.

The amusements of this place are now confined
to the oat card los, the ball, on Thursdays, and
dinner parties. • Among other innormlions are three
Masters of the Ceremonies, instead of one,
_ viz.—.
Captain FIFILINCH, for Margate; Captain HAMM
for Ramsgate ; Captain Foasu, for Bruadatairs.
Among the other vicissitudes may be named the
violent death of Mr. Joao FOLLSR, the architect
of the place, who committed suicide by tatting his
throat on Thursday last in a fit of insanity. This
catastrophe was nearly followed by another; a Lady
attempted to throw herself over the Eastern Cliff
this morning; fortunately one of the mariners had
loog observed her distracted steps, and promptly
prevented the fatal resolve. She was safely conveyed
' to her friends.
Great activity is kept op against the samigglers ;
the loped boats, from Gravelines, we longer
swatch the shores; at every fifty poem may be
SKID a 111111 D dressed as a seaman, armed with a pistol
in a belt. and a hanger at his side. rhea argils/ea
regolatiog gun.brigs iu the offing. 1.6,!•1,1,
• .-. rlitbt
OPENING OP AN ORGAN AT KEW Ca/ 'TI

Os Sandal their Royal Highttemes the Duke niCa.4ll.gs;
Primes. Auguste, the Duchess of Kew, and Primes" framier;
atteaded neornlitg service at the church of Kew, whew as
arias, permitted to 'bat pariah by his Majesty, was ipese4
by Dr. Clement Smith; cathedral aerviee wax perfuseed
epee this occasion, and beautiful anthems, Re., were gives
with the greatest effect by mane of the young nestles*. sad
Hewers. Clark, Gouldes, and Hanes, ef bis Majesty's chapels
royal. Most excellent 'reasons were preached, and liberal
collect lose amok f..r the endowed free school of the place.Tbe
sermon in the morning was by the Rev. Dr. Hemming, of
Hampton; that is the evening by the Ret. H. White, Ow
ofeiatiag animater of Kew; end the congregations were
apkudid NW "uncross.

ST. PAUL', Dot generally
known that St. Paul's Cathedral will, through the
whole of the ensuing winter, be brilliantly ilia.
minuted with gas lights whenever it stall be neceo.
wiry daring divine service. The candlesticks and
chandeliers, by the help of which it has been bi-
therto partially lighted up, have been reffered to
remain in case of accident., but DO use Is otherwise
' intruded to be made of them. The pipes have been
' some time since laid down, and traversing the crypt,
ascend into the choir and body of the church,
whets they are concealed by passing through the
- centre of eight elegant pillars of gilt braes, the
eummiti of which are each furnished with three
lisrge burners. Four more pillars of a similar de-
'orription, but of greater magnitude, adorn the
railing in front of the altar, uud by the brilliancy
K die light they will afford, supersede the necessity
of continuing the pair of tall wax tapers which hi-
therto have stood upon the altar.
MATllMONT.—Compluint of the difficulty ex-
perienced io um-tying the marriage noose has been
ling sod loud, but we lire in happier timer, and
the grievance (wiruhile dicta) seems now to run
' quite the other way. Among the numerous ob-
stacles to the looer's leap, the pro home public. ad-
vertisement on the church door is particularly dwelt
upon. Oa this subject it may not be unamosing
to hear whit Satter Foix says of "the olden tune,"
which, it will appear, was not without its means of
imposing a "weight on the wings of love:"—" In
1359 people of all ranks were married at the church
door. When ELIZAISTM of France., daughter of
Heusi 11., married PUMP 11., King ut Spain,
EUsT•cilla Da BILLAT, Bishop of NU., performed
the celebration of the nuptials at the church door
of Notre Dame. Apparently it was then thought
indecent to giant permission in the church itself
for a man and woman to go to bed together.
Formerly the bride and bridegroom were not
allowed to go to bed until it had bees blessed.
It was a little additional perquisite fu► the
priest. The priests of Picardy were very trouble-
some: they pretended the newly-mat tied could not.
without their permisvios, sleep together for the first
three nights after nuptials. Au erre•t appeared,
March 19, 1409. prohibiting the Bishop of Amiens
and the Curates of that town from exacting any
more money from new-married people on that pre-
tence, and it further decreed that the said lobs-
biteots might so sleep, each with his bride, with-
out permission from the Bishop." Let as beer so
more complaints of the Learned Doctor—be is a
Civil Doctor indeed compered with others who
bate eseddled with the Holy

FUNERAL OP
THE Lir& " SAMUEL 1311001.1.

The remains Alf this highly-respected Citizen
had been removed from Margate, where he died on
the 6th instant, to has house at Toruham Green,
and yesterday was the day appointed for their in-
terment in the family vault in the church-yard of
the Savoy, in the Strand. At nine o'clock in the
morning the Westminster Committee assembled at
the Crown and Auchor Tavern, Stand, the place at
which the deceased ha. so frequeutly met them
during the long period he has acted as their Chair.
man, and every preparation being made, precisely
at eleven o'clock the Members of the Committee,
and other public and private friends of the deceased,
began to enter the mourning carriages, and shortly
after proceeded in diadem' mourning coaches along
the Strand, Cockspor-street, Regent-street. and
Piccadilly, to Hyde Park-corner. Here this part
of the funeral procession hotted on the met,' side
of the road, near the Green Park, and awaited the
arrival of the body and family attendants from the
horse of the deceased at Tambora Green.
At the early hour of nine o'clock that neighbour.
hood and.the road to-Turnhare Green, were crowded
with spectators anxious to pay their last respects to
the remains of the deceased. At twenty minutes
after twelve o'clock the body arrived in a hearse
drawn by six horses. The Committee and other
(muds again moved. and turned off to the north
side of Piccadilly. A stoppage for a few minutes
took place. Ili the interval Sir Francis Burdett,
• Mr. Douglas Kinnsird, and Mr. Starch, emend
the la.t carriage of the cavalcade that came from
the S•rand—aud the whole being rsistshalleil by
the persons lu atteudauce, proceeded iu the follow.
iug order :
Undertakers' Moistest as horsebact.
Two Mutes moulted, la their proper name.
Nosraing Coaches, is which were she Committee a sachet
of Electors and other Friends of the decessal„ who at.
tended as poblie errosads.
The Uodatakee (Mr. (ldltesiks).
Two Mates, ..sated.
Please of Feathers.
Two Hales, =owned.
THE HEARSE,
Draws by six hones, adorsed with sembers. Muds. he.
attended by Pages.
' Marais( Coach, draws by Gar bones, la which wets the
boas of the deceased.
IllossalogCoseb, draws by firer hones, la 'which wee BA.
'sliver of Ilse deceased.
Mosralog Coach, draws by free hams, Is which ware old
amd esteemed Felted@ of the deceased.
Musraisg Coach, draws by rose horses, is which ware dm,
Executors sad !Mirka'.
Mounding Coach, draw, by roar hawses, is which way Ha
Medical Anesdami sad two Fridge.
In this order the procession moped drag Picca-
dilly, Regent-street. Cockspeeetteet, the south
side of the statue at Chariog.creite, along the
Strand ; attended by a vast concourse of people to
its final destination et the Savoy Church, in the
Strand, where many of the shops were shot op.
Upon the arrival of the proemial) at 5.9*y-street
the Committee and other friends alighted frees the
mourning coaches, and formed a line on each side
of the street to the church door, betwee' which the
Apeommelaw mimosa fain yin; oast
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The
THCEVIT
Covered wit► • black velvet P N via Pall-
bearer', sees; shoo we rr llor Primes Barden,
Mr. Aldersaas Welikssa, sad Joseph Mew, Esq.
MOURNERS:
Eldest too, Mr. J. W. Brooks.
Mr:Meery

melts.
Mr. lheittif eeal Mr. /*alley.
Fur lielogoaw, two mad two.
Frannie of the deeeeeol, two awl two.
The Executers.
The Deeesed's Solicitor.
Medical Atteodaat Dr. Cow.
Two Fayed&
The Committee, /cc. who had formed the ave.
nue, turned inward after the last of the family. and
joined them in procession, two sod two, to the
Church, the whole of which was 611e4 by the
mourners and friends of the deceased. The Charity
Children of the parish of St. Mary.te.Stiaud at.
tended, and sung au occasional hymn.