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et 5302. LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4. 181 g.

THEATIMROYAL, DRURY-LAN B.

Thin day is published, pries 3.1. or 2s. ed. a Duren for
RADICAL REFORM. In FIVP
Moiled for F C. mot J. Rivingtan, :So. St, St. P.otrit
Ch►►reirprd, and Nu. 1, tritterloo-plocr,

Tins EVENING, SATURDAY, Dec. 4,
hie Majesty', Serraots will perform the Opera of

ARMY CONTRACTS.
COMMISSARIAT DIPAIITMI ENT, TRRASORT
CUAMIIRRS, Decrstactt 1, 1819.
NOTICE i>s herrlov ylsvru, tins' the A ',tent fir
Comnsimariat Supplies is ready to receive PrOpOINIS
for supplying sorb of his Majesty's Tromps as may he en-
camped in the Vicinity of SAlldhurxt, in the roomy of
with BREAD, MEAT, roRAGE. STRAW. ci,A IA and
CANDLES, for One 1"- me. from 1:5111 December Hex.; such
Proposal to he sent in on or before IVeilorsilm, the 14111
Dees umber instant (but mine will be rterived aft. r Twelve
o'Clork on that day,,, and if sent by post, the postage insist
be paid.
Proposals must be mot for the Whole of the Articles; and
each Proposal must have the Letter which is annexed to the
Tender properly filled up by Two Persons of known Pro-
perty engaging to become bound with 11. e Party tendering
in the Animint staled in the printed Particulars fur Ilse
due Performance of the Contract ; and no Proposal will
be noticed unless made on a printed Tender, imil the Micro
expressed in Word., sit Length.
Particulars of the Coutract may be had upon Application
at the Chambers, between the Ileum of Eleven and Five.

THE SIEGE OF BELGRADE.

The Qrraskicr, Me. peahens, who will introduce the Duet
is( •• When thy LOOM beeves the sigh," with Miss Byrne;
o 11y Inuit with lova is heating ;^ the poet "Shall the
mountain look down to the valley or plods," with Mr. T.
Cooke: and " The night invites to love;" Colonel Cuben.
here first time), Mr. T. Cooke ; yttsenk, Mr. Bailer; Leo-
pold. Mr. Ilsrley ; Peter (first time), Mr. Prarman. Kathe-
rine. Mao Carew (her first appearance in that character);
Gleitn. Bland; Ulla, Miss Byron, who will sing the
Sung of Haste, idle Tinse."

Just published, in foulscsp !two. price ss. boards.
CATI-1 LUNA:* Tule. iu rive Cantos.—
Lumiou: Printed (or Hubert &whist, SI, Strand.

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After which the Farce of
MOI)ERN ANTIQUES;
ON THE MERRY 310IJRNERS.
Coddetop. Mr. *soden; Frain-, Mr. Harley; Hearty,
Mr Steredoih ; Jan, Mr. Knight. Mrs. Cnekletap, Mrs.
; Conontile, Mrs. Orger ; Bedada, Miss Phi-
11P4 ; N 21,, llisa Bell'.
Dotes 7. ; Second Price 3s. 6.l.—Pit 3.. 6.1.; Second
Pr!er la—Lower Gallery es.; Second Price Is.—Upper
Gillery h.; Seemed Prier 64.
The Bnx Office will he ripen from Ele►en till Five n'Clork
—Plom to he taken of Mr. Rodwell, Riot Rook-keeper.
P..vair Fluxes se he had (nightly) of Mr. Spring, who is ago-
ei4,l Coau•t►uller a( the Hoz-Office Receipts, the Private
rovi :HA Ticket Department, as well as the greets' arrange.
urn.; of the Doors.

Ito Mon.liy, the Tragedy of Ring Richard the Third.
0:1 Tneoisy. the Opera of Guy Manaering.
A Dew Comedy, its five acts, is in active preparation.

THEATRE-ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.

EVENING. SATURDAY. Dec. 4,
will he acted the Musical Drama of

ROll ROY MACGREGOR.

Sir Fred. rick Version, Mr. Ezerton ; Rashleigh nabalrli-
•ti•iie, Sir. Abbott ; FfalltiStlnbatilistone. Mr. Durtnet ; Cap-
tam Tliorniriss, Mr. Centime.; Rob Roy Macgregor Campbell,
11.sere.oly ; Doogal, Mr. Emery; Haillie Nicol Janie,
Mr. Logion Diann Vernon, Miss M. Tree; Helen Mac-
gregor, Mrs. Faiseil.

To which will be added the Farce of
iiiTSBAN DS AND WlVe5.

Sir Pereeriiie Peery, Mr. Blanchard; Captain Tickall,
Mt J 1.01141 liViineem, Mr. Abbott; Farmer Clever, Mr.
F.mrry ; Humphrey Grub, Mr. J. Russell. Lady Sarah Peery,
)11s. Fatted; Mix, Beatimunt, Miss Foote; Dame Bristly,
Mrs. Daveisport ; Rose, Mrs. T. Hill.
Buows Is.; Second Price 34. Bd —Pit 3s. 61; Second
Prim la.—Lower Gallery Rs.; Second Price lc—Upper Gal-
-14 14.; Ser•oaul Price 641.
On Monday, the Tragedy of Coriulaausa-Tom Thumb
the Crest —rmil The Sieep.vraiker. . .

Ito Tite..day, 'flie Conway of Errors, with The Miller and
lit, Mn,.'

Paddle iw resperifolly informed, that Mks Macaulay
i. root3EcLl fin a limited number of diens and wall make her
first Nrpearnare in a new Tragedy.

nut THE BENEFIT OF MR. H. JOHNSTUN,
And she last Night of his Appearance.
ASTLEY'S AMPHITHEATRE,
Un,lcr the Patronage of their Royal Highnesses the Panel
Leiria and Duke of York.
/IN MONDAY NEXT, December 6. will
I 1 be performed, the highly poplar Melo-Dramatic Tale
ci Enchantment, called
ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES!
T!ie Piece produced under shedirection of Mr. W. Barrymore.
114.arac (she Captain), Mr. H. Juhustuu; and Mor-
/13, Mrs. W. Barry ttttt re.
HORSEMANSHIP.
to the course of the Evening, the popular Scotch Ballet of
THE GRETNA BLACKSMITH.
To couclude with the Equestrian Melo-Dramatic Spectacle of
RICHARD TURPIN,
THE HIGHWAYMAN.

292, STRAND.
al lin~i, ODY, and CO. moat respectfully
mfient the Public, that their PATENT SELF-Art-
.ll.'olM: TRUSSES continuer to he recommended by all
the most .tninent Surgeons in Town sad Country. The
'prise.; :•-e qo eons,' itcted as to admit of increase or de.
etrr.e s ,ire and force; will answer for right or left side,
s::limst the Ir art inconvenience to the w , requiring no

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under-sirup, or other galling bandage.
The Patratees have the honorir to snpply the Army and
Nsry, the Naval and Military Hospitals, the Duet-yards
ait4 Ofllll2llif, the Marine !Mir/nary, the Honourable East
buts* Company, the City of Looulon I'nm. Society, the Mary.
Wivrlistumbe, Bristol, and Denbigh lafirmarit.s,
the I7i4illrues Hospital, &e. the. &c.
1111.160-tory. 292, Strand, London; et a la Galerie du
Millis Royale, No. 163, a Paris.
N.ll.—Prrson* residing in the country, *ending the cir-
con,ir ,•orr of the body across the hips, may depeud apes
neme Ire-mutely fitted.
Sold hy Butler and Sons, No. 34, Satkville.strect, Dub-
ho; stol..or ar Inure Druggists in every principal Taw. in
E5:;•...1.

lIA-LAIiD and Co. told first-drown Prize
rat 2n,0001. in the preterit Lottery.
'I.XT THURSDAY TWO of 10000/. (Nosey sad
(outola) fur the Two first-dews Prizes.
SIX of ?.0.900/. are still uadrawn, Two of which must be
thaws t.est Thuraday, and all of the. say be draws os
that dlr.
Title.% and Shares are selling by HAZARD and Co.
Rural Excluinee-este ; 26, Conduit; and 324, Oxford.
suers, termer of Swallow-street.

NEXT THURSDAY every Ticket will be Drawn. with
the Chance of SIX of 20,0001.! ALL of which may
lw gained NEXT THURSDAY. The Find-drawa Prise
iu each Class will have 20,0001. therefore TWO of so.ooot.
will lirdet Wed is the First Five Moults NEXT THUM
Y
J. SIVEWRIGHT, Sole Contractors
•J, • remedially inform the Public that wart,' all the
Twkeis are maw delivered sod it is expected that the saints
will hr disposed of before the Drawing brews NEXT
THURSDAY. Tickets and Shares are ea Sale at J. and
SIVEHRIGHT'S Fortunate Offices,
3?, EORNHILL; I it, HOLBORN •
31, HAYMARKET ; 141. OXFORD-STREET.
they Sold, is Shares, FIVE Capital Prizes Forst Day.
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I F you HAVE bought Iwforr BUY AGAIN!
IF
as all the Tickets and Shares bought on or before
1,1•1 Day are drawn. If you HAVE NOT busght before
HUT NOW. as there ere 8411 Undress, beelike Mk;
t Josh,. bIX PRIZES of ttopo
Ail of which may be Drawn NEXT THURSDAY,
Stb DECF.MBEtt.
Tickets and Shires, warranted Uudrawn, are Win by
T. KISH, Sterek-Broker,
4, Corsbill, sad 9, ararieterera,
And by his Agent* in the Connery.
•.• RISH has alreedy Sold FIVE CAPITALS in the pee.
seat Lottery. Hie Agent at Liverpool sold pars of one
of the 20,000 f. Primo drew* die Virst Day, soil his
Agent
at E.liabstria sold port of the other Prise of wan. the
same Jay.

three detrrosimil that the Prelate* should not be
allowed to imporl ; but to the principle of that
decision fe could riot unseat, and he might soy the
mune Of Sayers' cam. in 173 t. which was also f!
the Stole Trials. Ilastug said thus ranch, he
should take up no mare of their Lordships' time,
but move that the Bill be read a second ti
Earl Giosvehoh strongly urged the impulicy of
the isseaserea proposed by Ministers, concern-
ing the present stale of the country, and observed
that the resell( Bill took away the only security
the people Ilshl 'spinal the enormous puirers of the
Attorney-General.
Lord Emilie said, that the noose should re-
ceive with great coati any proposal for altering the
anctert law of the. country. The right of traverse
was one lung esialslishetl, and if any inconvenience
had been felt from it, be was entitled to argue that
st would at an earlier period kms been altered. To
prove its being the long-recognised law of the pun.
try. be cited me wpirilow-er toff Chief Janie*
lisle, by whom it was fully admitted. So also it
was recognised by the Legislature itself in the pre-
amble of a late Act of Parliament, arid with such
authorities before them, he had expected that his
Noble and binned Friend would have ahewn more
new light to manifest their former errors. If the
right of traverse were taken away from. mistletoes-
mars, how was the unology of the law preierved ?
The Noble Lord observed. that in carer of treason
the law afforded great indulgences to the seemed—
su great, indeed,. as to reflect • lustre wpon this
country in the eyes of foreign nations. The extent
of them isidulgeoces he illustrated by reference to
the case of Hatfield, who had attempted the lifeuf our
present Sovereign, and for whom he (Lord Erskine),
whet, at the bar, had acted sr Counsel. When lie
was applied to tit, behalf of the accused. he asked
his Noble Friend, Lord Kenyon, whether he was
obliged to 'Word his services to the accused ?
Lord Kenyon told him that lie assuredly was, and
that no Gentleman of the bar would be justified in
declining to act fur a prisoner who had desired that
any particular Counsel should he essigned to him.
This was a great indulgence. The prisoner was
also entitled to a copy of the indictment. to a list
of the jurors, of the witnesses who were to be
brought against him, a COneellient length of time
before his trial, and he was filially to be accused by
double the number of witnesses who were required
in other capital cases. He saw no moon for taking
away every indulgence from the accused, in cases
of misdemeanor. He asked nothing fur the ac-
cused, but that they should be left as they were,
and this request was the more reasouable, m new
laws were in course of enactment, which would
reader the people of this country inure obnoxious
to accusation than they had been previously. But
in whatever manlier the present measure may affect
the Defendant, it sensed that the Attorney-Gene-
rid was still left in possession of all those grinding
powers which ought long since to have been de.
stroyed.—(Hear.)—fie wished as much as any
Noble Lord opposite to destroy the evil that now
existed, but lie differed materially from them in
the manner of effewing this object. as one physi-
cian in attendance upon a thitie;:t, may differ from
another in the mode of treatinent ; hut lie thought
if any chaiages were effected, they should operate
equally upon the prosecutors and the defendants.
blear.)—The present Bill, he remarked,
came in had company. and fur that reason he liked
it the worse, for the system proposed was one from
which he anticipated the most pernicious results.
The Earl of LivEitrour. did nut rise fur the
purpose of going two the details connected with
the present Bill, which in his upinton might he
more satisfactorily treated in the Committee, and
he did nut feel himself competent to enter into a
technicel exatninati 111 l of the subject, either with
his Noble Friend on the Woolsack, or the Noble
and Learned Lord who had just spoken. He
would however sat., that sinless this Bill were
passed, they might as well say at once, '4 Let there
be as much sedition and blasphemy its the country
as was pleasing to any person in it." He agreed
fully with what fell from the Noble and Learned
Lord (Erskine). that no alteration should ever be
made in the ancient law of the country, unless • case
of urgent necessity was clearly 'shown. Ile would go
even a step 'farther. and pay, that no matter how
absurd a law may appear in theory, if do practical
iocutiveineuce could he sliewoi to arise from it, it
would be much better to let the old law contieue.
' It would be difficult, lie conceived, in theory, to
reconcile the difference tied existed between the
law of treason and murder upon the one hand, and
the law of misdemeanor on the other. If they
went about to make a code or laws for a new
i country which never before bad any, it would,
he thought, be considered a great absurdity
to compel tremolo seethed of the greater of-
fence to plead in • short period, arid give a
very great indulgence of many mouths to per-
sons accused of minor offences. This too was the
More reinarkeble, as the indulgence was given to
the permit, whose offence was bailable, and who
every "'moth, week, day, or hour, might testiest his
offehce, and was refused to the person who was
confined in prisms, who was therefore secure, and
prevented from repeating his guilt. Besides, it
would seem advisable in all cases that the trial
should follow the offence as soon a. possible, that
ponishment might appear to be the necessary con-
siequetice of the crime cot 1111 l itted. Suit certainly
would be thought, if they were legislating de novo,
but he would concede to the Learned Lord that
they were nut now legislating de novo, and that the
old law ought not to be changed, unless the
ureeticy of the necessity were manifest. He was
the last runt) in the country who would infringe the
liberty of the press, which was undoubtedly the
beet security for the freedom of the country ; but
let the House look to the horrible abuses lately
committed, and say whether it were possible that
they could be suffered to continue. The Mum
had condemned the public asemiugo lately held;
but Hunger at they were to The public, the
evil mein free than woo se oothiag .coo.