The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-07-17 00:00:00

WINDSOR, SCNDAY, Jtmy 16.

This afternoon his Majesty took his usual airing, at-
tend LA by his suite, and drove down the Long Walk, across
the Frogtnore road, and proc.,eded through the new en-
trance to the Castle (the King not going through the
town), where his Maj, sty remained till four o'clock, when
his Majesty renewed his chive in the Park, on his return to
the Rnyal Lodge to dinner. The King appeared in the
enjoyment of excellent health.
There have been a great number of visitors to-clay, to
view the Castle. Among them were Lord Holland and
family.

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I From the Baltimore Patriot of June &I

Mr. Kean played Richurd last night before a pretty full
house. On his first appearance upon the stage, he was
greeted with three rounds of applause, which he sallow-
ledg,ed with apparently very grateful and heartfelt saluta-
tions, but before he had time to utter a word, several per-
sons in diffirent parts of the house commenced hissing,
screaming, and beating the doors and seats with their sticks
and bawls. A twist of tobacco was thrown, which struck
Mr. Kean on the leg ; nothing else was thrown during the
evening. This was responded to by a general cry of " Turn
'tn out, bravo Kean, go on," &e. Upon this two placards
were suspended from the boxes, on one of which was
painted in large letters " The friends of Kean will be
silent," on the other, " Kean for ever." Two or three of
the disturbers were taken vi et assn., and thrust out of the
house. The opposition then seemed to decline a further ex-
periment of acting which could do the other the most harm,
as there appeared a most karfel odds against them. A
very decided majority of the audience were either neutrals,
or friends to Kean, and wished to see the play, or were de-
tei mined to pot down all opposition. Accordingly the
neutrals were silent, and some young men, warm friends
of Kcan, took it upon themselves to rid the house of all
hissers and opponents, in the execution of which there
were a gordly number of set-foo. With the exception of
" the spilling a little claret," we believe no bodily harm
was done. The noise within, the windows being all opmi
on account of the heat,was heard at a considerablo distance;
this naturally collected together a very large assemblage of
spectators, we should think not less than 3000, in front of
the theatre; and when the master spirits within began to
" turn them out," sonic disaffected in the street began to
pelt the windows with stones and other missiles—hut be-
fore two dozen panes of glass were broken. the Mayor of
the city arrived with the watchmen and bailiffs, and all was
quiet without. By this prompt and energetic. performance
of his duty, the Mayor probably saved the property of
private citizens from injury, and the city from the oppro-
brium of riot. And we take pleasure in the reflection, that
the command to disperse was promptly obeyed by the per-
sons collected, no one, we believe, offering sufficient resist-
ance to make it necessary to take him into custody. This
disposition of subordination is creditable to our citizens, and
shows that though they may be zealous, and even mis-
taken in the object of their zeal, they have a due sense of
the respect they owe to themselves and the civil au-
thorities.

Ever and anon, during the whole performance, the house
was interrupted with noise and little rows in the upper lobby,
which were very annoying to Mr. Kean and that portion of the
audience who desired to witness undisturbed the perform-
ance of Richard the Third, by " the proud representative
of Shokspeare's heroes." Had the friends of Mr. Kean
been quiet themselves. and nut so often deafened the house
with their clamorous applause, for the purpose of silencing
the hisses, it is most likely all would have been tranquil
before the dose of the first act. For our part, we say, let
those who like Kean us an actor (and we have heard no one
approve his private conduct), go to sec him if they please—
those oho do not, stay away. To give him empty boxes is
the greatest punishment that can be inflicted. A distur-
bance there, like any where else, is against the law, and
leads to no good purpose, and will always be discounte-
nanced by an upright moral people.

From the Federal Guzitte of Baltimore.]
Mr. Kean was engaged by the managers to perform
eight nights in this city, and in pursuance of that engage-
ment appeared first on Wednesday night, in the character
of Richard 111.

I n Baltimore, as in other parts of the United States, there
are a number of persons who profess to have moral or
patriotic objections to Kean, and therefore were desirous
that he should not act in Baltimore ; while a number of
the friends of the drama had an anxious desire to see him
as an actor—a desire which prevailed over, or made them
disregard the objections. The audience was large, although
very few respectable females were present. There was,
therefore, much less opposition manifested to the play, or
the most conspicuous actor, than has occurred in many
other instances; and whatever disturbance was produced
during the evening, resulted principally, if not wholly,
from the imprudent or tnisiaken zeal of persons professing
to be friends of the actor. The next day it was announced
that Mr. Kean would perform again on Friday evening ;
but in the course of Thursday, the manager was assured
that the objections to Mr. Kean were so wrong as to have in-
duced a number of persons to determine that they would
assemble at the theatre when he next intended to perform,
fur the purpose of manifesting their disapprobation, and
as there would probably be also an assemblage of Mr.
Kean's friends, it was feared that an unpleasant disturb-
ance would be the result. _ _

'lite managers, believing the representation, and being
unwilling to permit anything which might disturb the
tranquillity of the city, very properly, with :11r. Kean's
consent, determined to close the theatte here and proceed
with the company to Philadelphia, where it is understood
Mr. Kean will complete his engagemint.

The Duke of York's intended removal from Mr. Green-
wood's villa at Brompton, to proceed on a visit to the
Duke of Rutland, at Belvoir Castle, is postponed, his
It..yal Highness's present temporary residence at !tromp-
ton being considered a very healthy spot ; in fact,
scarcely any more so, and where he has the advantage of
being visited by his medical attendants, which could not
bare been the ease had his Royal Highneta gone to B Avoir
Castle. His Royal Highness rode out on horseback on
Siturday ; the remainder of the day the Royal Dnke gave
his attention to military business with Sir Herbert Taylor,
his Royal Highness's Military Secretary.
It is with regret we have to state that the Princess
Augusta was slightly indisposed with a cold yestt tday anti
on Saturday, which prevented her Royal Highness from
leaving the house. The Duchess of Gloucester, and the
Princess Sophia, visited their Royal Sister yesterday.
The Duchess of Kent, accompanied by the Princess
Feodore, honoured the Italian Opera House with her
presence on Saturday evening.
Mr. Secretary Canning left Fanlight, near Hastings, the
scat of Mr. Planta, on Saturday morning, and proceeded to
Coombe Wood, where he arrived in the afternoon to dinner,
on a visit to the Earl of Liverpool.
Earl Bathurst left town on Saturday morning, on a visit
to the Earl of Aberdeen, at Stanmore.

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The Earl and Countess of Abingdon havegiven several
grand dinner parties within these few days, at their house
in Stanhope-street, May-fair, late Viscount Bulkeley's.
Among the company were Mr. and Mrs. Bouverie, Lord C.
Wellesley, Mr. E. Drummond, Lord and Lady Markur,
the Misses Ker, Mr. and Mrs. Bertie, Mr. Stanhope, Sir
Benjamin llobbouse, Miss IVickhain, Mr. K. Dawkins,
Colonel Strutt, Earl of Macclesfield, Colonel Parker. lord
and Lady Gage, Lord and Lady Mornington, Mrs. Hamil-
ton, &c. &c.
Two King's Messengers were sent off on Saturday even-
ing from the Secretary of State's Office for Foreign Affairs,
with despatches for abroad.
C.: ap: yeE.—A letter is given in the Conslibitionnel, com-
municated by the Greek Committee at Paris, in which it
I is said that Ibrahim Pacha died of the wounds received in
entering ftlissolonglii, and that his body is to be trans-
ported to Egypt. The renegade Sere is also said to be
dead.

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