The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-03-19 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR.

Defend me, Sir. from all this dismission in the House Omni
seperseditie " Climbing Boyi"—autl using ,6 Machinery
.r"
Why mit.Sir, at finer idrike at the root of the evil, aud offer
a prenaiiim of 501. or lt.ol. to an artist, who would con-
struct a lire•plece that by a proper draft would consume
the smoke like an Argiroirs lamp ?—then there would be nei-
ther smoke, soot, or Climbing Boys. The thing would be
done in a nark, and the town air rendered as sweet and clear
as that of the country.
Yours, dam.

FUMA.

TO THE EDITOR OF TIER BRITISH PRESS.

Stn—My hours are at this moment too much, and I am
proud to say, too well occupied, to be ikvoted to such no.
worthy subjects as the lOWAN and its author; hut to con-
fute the malicious propagations emanating only from a
corrupt heart and little 'Mud, I think it n ry to
state, through the medium of your Paper, that no such
con Misr ever passed between Mr. Burke and my.
self as the public prints have specified, ■nd that Miss
Kelly (whose talents I look on with enthusiastic admire- i
Lion) never was, to my knowledge, allotted any character
in the play. Mr. Peter Moore, one of the Drury.lane Com-
mittee, mind with some ability say personal compas-
sion for Mr. Burke, in consequence of which I undertook to
act in his play; and bad it been produced, I should have
done my utmost to have fulfilled my duly to that public
whose name I teach my child to bless, to whose protection my
gratitude alone is due, and over whose unprejudiced mind I
malevolence can never have an influence. On reading the
tiagedy of" Deranged/ale/leer (for that was the name it
was known by its the Greenroom) to my professional brethren,
the only feelings it excited were oncontrullable laughter, and
pity fur the author. From this criterion I took the liberty of
suggesting to the management, the impropriety of proriticing
a play winch must have been attended with considerable ex-
pense, when there was not in it one gleam of hope for it. suc-
cess. There is certainly some pretty poetry in the character
which was to have been sustained by Miss Cithitt ; and after
that, I will say, in good set terms, Mr. Bloke's tragedy is the
wriest of the bad. In this opinion I ant joined by the whole
of the dramatic corps that were to have been concerned
is it, and particularly by the present aching manager,
whose jodgment as an artist, and conduct as a man, form
an impregnahle bulwark in my defence. The publication
uf Deranged Intellect" is all the answer necessary fur the
author's attack upon my judgment; and fur bra inventive
fabrications I publicly tell him, that he has cot uttered use
word of truth in the whole of his aspersions; and I thus leave
him to Isis contemplations, with disgust fur his falsehood
sod pity for his fully.—l have the honour to be,
You► Mat obedient Servant,
ll,Clarges-strett,Maschl7. EDMUND KEAN.

The election of a Scots Peer, in the room of the
late Earl of F.mtoi., took place yesterday at Holy-
rood-house. Edinburgh, when it is expected Lord
BELHAVEN will be chosen by a considerable ma-
jority. The Earl of SELKIRK is the other Can-
didate.
We are informed that the Spanish Commissioner
has made up all the charters for ships waisted for
the Cadiz expedition. Those obtained in Liver-
pool, we understand, are hired at '204. per tots.—
( &emir% Paper.)
By *deicer from Surinam of the loth January,
received in the City, we learn that the Government
Ordinance of his
Slave Trade
. permitting the
foreign colony to
Indies.