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THRATRII.ROY A L, ORO RT-LA N It. •
TtB EVENING, WEDNESDAY. May 17.
ins Majesty's Sereaate wilt perfidies the Tragedy et
KING LEAK.
Kin Leer, Mr.Keers; Duke of Be filially, r.
Duke of Cornwell, Mr. Presley; Duke of nosy, Mr.
Tiosapomi ; Earl of Giesler, Mr. Holland; Earl of Cent,
Mr. Pope; Edgar, Mr. Rae; Umbra, Mr. Itareard. Gown,
Um MOM"; Regan, Mrs. Egoism ; Cr:odds*, Mrs. W.
Wool.
After wkith (4th time), a sewMissieel Dodos, is two Acts,

BRITISH 0411.1.,8RY. PALL-HALL
"TIMM GALLERY irtil be OPENED with an
,EXHIBITION of PORTRAITS, reporeattiot soon
a 'be most Persons is the History ••4I Woo.-
tore of the United Hiooloso, ea THURSDAY NEXT, Übe
nth lostaut.
Et OeiTfi

JOHN YOUNG.

1• the prey.
A QUEEN'S APPEAL.
" Die■ et Mee Dreit."

called
THE LADY AND THE DEVD-
WatThift, Mr. Elliott's; Jeremy. Mr. Marley; •Sipor Ra-
fael, Mr.Dattie; Claudia°, Mr. Barnard. Zephyr's*, Mies
telly; Negombo, Mrs. Bland.
To.sverrew,. TM Maimed Tower, with TM Leap sad
tie Devil.
O■ Friday, %leg Lear, with The Lady and the Devil.
Os Whit Monday, a new Tragedy, entitled Virginia, or
The Fall of the Decemviri, in whith Mr. team will ■eetais
the principal character.

PIETER ACTED.

THEATRE-ROYAL, COV NT-GA RD N.
THIS EVENING, WEDNESDAY, May 17,
be peodueed, /rat time, a sew Histories( Tn.
gedy, called
VIRGINIUS;
Or, THE LIBERATION OF ROME.
Apples Claudius, Mr. Abbott ; Virginias. Mr. Macready ;
Iritius. Mr. C. Bearable; Claudius, Mr. Connor; Smelts
Dralattes, Mr. Terry; Nettlesome, Mr. Egerton.
Miss Foote ; Semis, Mrs. Fusco.
The Prologue to be spokes by Miss S. Booth; the Epi.
fugue by Miss Brunton.
After which, the Farce of
HONEST THIEVES.

Cat' lour! Careless, Mr. Connor; Capt. Manly, Mr. Came,;
Abel. Mr. Chuppindale; Obadiah, Mr. W. Farren ; Teague,
Mr. Juloustuue. Ruth, Miss Foote; Mrs. Day, Mrs. Daiwa-
purl
A Private Box may he Ind fur the session, or tightly, of
lie, Brandon, at the But office.
To.murr.iw will be produced, first lime, a new Musical
Duna, to two acts, called The Battle of Bothwell Brig.

g: and J. SIVEW RIGHT hag to remind
e i thr rub:ie that TO. MORROW, May IS, the Lottery
glgs.s The Two First Priv' will each receive in addinua
Cusisuls. The Wheel counting
FoU It Prises of 30,0001.
TWO Prises of 10,0001.
FOUR Prizes of 1,0001.
Ac. &c. forgoing
Sewler-eiglit Capital Prise in Money sad Cones.

EMPLOYMENT FOR THE POOR.

. .
Wairsoord Undraw■ Tickets and Shares are on Sale at
'low ter, Fortunate Wages, No. 37, Cora ill; 11, Hot-
ta...so ; 28, Haymarket and 141, Oaford•atreet; where they
;viol the following Capitals, drawn the Forst Day :
No. 9,814 a Prize of 20,0001.
13,756 a Prose of 5OOl.
3 per Cent. Consols.

(ENE-FOURTH of the Tickets in the present
1,1, Lottery dawn, and yet there remain Four oC 30,000/.
Ton of 10,000/. and 72 other Capitals to drams —TICKETS
and SHARES for the chance of the above Druid Prizes are
non oa Site by
EYTON, Stock-Broker.
2, CORN HILL, and LOM BARD.STREET,
Where C.ipital Prizes, in an immense amounk, have lately
been distrituiled to the Poise.

All Busingn is the Public Feeds transacted wit?,
&Wily mod disPalch•
The swat Day of Drawing will be TO-MORROW, the
Deb of May, when the Two First nista will be entitled to
10.1900 L Cultivate each.

11111119 DAY, by Act of Parliament, Tickets
1 and !Wes will be on Sale se CARROLL'S, the Con-
warier, isswil late in the &tinier, as TO-MORROW
IfoIINING TWO PRIZES of 10,000/. Three per Cent.
(4.asok. MUST BE DRAWN, ►esides Ten or Twelve
other Capitals. The Wheel contains
4
2
4
&c. Svc. forming in Money and Cuomo's,
78 CAPITAL PRIZES.

Wirranled Uudrawn Ticket• sad Shares are Selling by
CA II ROLL, Contractor, No. 19, Cornhill, and *6, Word-
street, London, who Shand and Sold, in the NM fro months,

•
1.367 200001 7.003 0,000/.
706 $l,OOO/ 2,226. • ...2,0001.
4,133 20,0001. Ike. ke.

CARROLL Shared and S.dil FOUR Capital Prises that
were drawn the First Day, 27th April.

TO CAPITALISTS.

rro be SOLIiar;sIEEIGiBLE ESTATE
JIL for INVESTMENT, near Rosa, in Herefordshire, v!s.
the several Farms of Upton Court, Whittock's End, Bul-
lock's End, and Holcomb, being load of the first rate quo-
ins, !slog contiguous, and let to most responsible tenants
fur upwards of 1,1001. a year. The whole fuming a property
must desirable for Trustees, or persons desirous of making
a good Investment in Land.
Pie particulars apply to Mr. Wakefield, Lind Surveyor,
No. St, Pall mall q or to Messrs. Brace and Selby, Solici-
tors, Surrty-street, Strand.

TO BE BOLD BY PRIVATE CONTRACT.

ACAPITAL double-fronted FAMILY MAN-
SION, standing on am Estate of about 100 Acres, on

the borders of Hertfu;dirbire and Essex, shoot twenty miles
, from London. The Hoes/ is moat pl tly situated in a
Park Lawn of abort severity Acres, and from the size, num-
' tier, and distribution of the apartments, is adapted for the
commodious residence of a large and genteel family. The
wail is dry sad healthful, the views agreeable, the roads et-
cellent, sad the neighbourhood highly respectable. The
i Citate is divided into suitable Farms, and ornamental Plan-
. *aliens are interspersed, connected by walks kept np at a
tiding carcase; attached to it is the Aiivowsoa of the
Parish, with a good Rectory House, and • Matter (which, as
evil as the surroandieg country. m) well stocked with Game.
"Irt, be viewed with tickets only. which. with farther par-
} t 14-. Oar', may be had of Mr. Wak. lio 111, R 0.41, Pall-wen.

TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION,
AY MR. EVANS,
At his House, No. 56, Pall.mall, THIS DAY, WED-
ft ES DA Y, May 17, sod TO-MORROW, May 18.
SPLENDID BOOKS, ORIGINAL DRAWINGS,
MISSALS, sod GLOBES.
AVA COLLECTION of HOOKS,
Books of Prints, Illuminated Minato, with exquisite
Ministers Nintiop, splendid %Yorks of Natural History, •
Pair of capital Globes, &c.; including Sliakepeare's Plays,
first edition, 1617; Musk Francois, 4 vole. in 6, brilliant
impressions, Haney proofs ; Cabinet de Crowit. I vols.
large paper; Galerie de Florence ; Gakrie Patois
Royal; Le Brim, Gakrie des Printers Flamands, 3 vols.
morocco; Boydell's Shakspeare, 10 vole. ruaeis ; Boyer's
Edifies of Home's &Wood, 10 vols. roesia ; Fuester's Bri-
thili Gallery, proofs; Le Vaillaut, thermos d'Afripie,
6 vols. largest paper, matured ;rates; Hiotoire des Pigeons,
coloured plelsit, acts.

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tees the Noble Burl who had Ott eat de*n. if.
VLiereopusif thought be had dietincily stated
utestion to eater 'generally into the qiiestior,
lilies it woe brought distisietly baffle their Lot 1.
*pa. But it was said that his hisjelly's Minister,
walk to commence the invevdrgoitiii. lie tatv
speed that it wits the imperative duty of
teressent to examine seriemly into all the polirs
coeseeted with so page a question, sod that irapy
had hot:inquired into them ell, they inessced
• bread' di till*. deity. But if they, knowing
the Meas. of intrunigition at their disimml.
dettook an inquiry and failed.then they *mild ite-
tourejustlyeteneurahle; not so any ether present or
persons who iltay take up the inquiry in thetrst
isstause, and then call for interniation during the
steps of the investigation. He lens not new of
those who thought that critical eiretionstalters Were
slump relieved by the beetle of doing
or* mom'', he tessughrTheiniternies or#, 'Male
oftlen the other iaWbshd that IN Ittil mare harm then
eirtittisal good *needed the agitation Of topics, eiter'e
the expected benefreial ninths were doubtful Soil
unattainable. Let them look to their Statute-beak,
and see robot had been done there in post ages.
rind with the beit intentions, in rethedy evils it.
trade. The complaint would then appear. that is
stead of being chargeable with having done tub
little, they had in feet done far too niteh.—(ffeir.
hear.)—When the question rtgularly came on ly
would be prepared to state to What • exteut ht
thought remedies were possibly calculated to mi-
tigate the evil, and how far their appticarion errs
practicable. At all events, he trusted they mould
preface the particular motion, by a general view of
the whole case.—(Hear, bear.)
Earl Ginuretwot explained, that thoneb he
concurred iu the necessity of the inquiry bei:ig a
wide and general one, yet he thought the oiily re-
medy would be found in the spplication of the
strictest economy in administering the atlvirs and
regulating the expenditure of the country. fie Was
sorry to say, he saw no tendency in the measures of
his Majesty's Ministers to resort to this. as he
thought, only means, of relieving the public distress.
The Petition was then laid on the table.

Earl STANHOPS in bringing forward hit wino
tion for • Select Committee, to consider of the
bat means of providing employment for the labeler.
ing classes of the community, mid that he OH
deeply impressed With the impoitanee of the sob.
ject he had undertaken to 14 before their Lord.
ships. This motion he considered necessary in the
extraordinsry circumstances under which use conu-
try was placed. In every part of it the want of
employment had been productive of the severes4 •
distress, and in same instances had led to acts of
insubordination and iriolrnce. It was an important
duty to ascertain' if in this state of things any ed's
ploymeot could he provided for the pour. for the
state in which they were now placed could net
be viewed without apprehension and alarm. Pie
knew that when lawless violence had reseed its head,
it became the duty of Government to put it down
without delay. When a than's house was on fire, the
first step was to put nit the conflagration, the neat
to ascertain the hand. The was no maxim more ttot
than that of Lord Bacon—m That in order to altar
sedition, you must expel the matter of sedition."
Unless the,, the matter of sedition, which was the
distress of the people, was inquired into, no ade-
quate step would be taken to prevent its cooties.
sake. No measures of coercion could effect this
object ; distress alone had led to it. During the
convulsion of the Fteuch Revolution, some of the
lowest of society had mounted into the most pro.
minent and lucrative offices. This example kept
alive • similar spirit of ambition, if it deserved that
name, among the same classes in other hoontties,
and a period of distress was always that in which
such spirits could stork with efficacy. It was only
by the force of prevailing distress that demago-
gues had beets enabled to congregate such laolt
collections of the people. He would not say that
if no distress prevailed, some disaffectson would
not be found to exist, bit he would !Arm that
were it not for the real distresses of the peo•
pie, the disaffection alluded to would have
been confined to a very narrow spot in society. Its
what were called the good old tides, when the iO-
dustry ofthe people had play, and when they lived
in peace and contentment, the very boys iu the
street would have pelted such demagogues if they
adopted the practice of haranguing then'. The
present state of the coUntry was much altered !loin
that it formerly held, the pressure of tstation *as
now severely felt by all, but it fell in • more
peculiar degree upon one class of society ; for the
menufacturing district, by no deans bore the dine
proportion of the poor's-rates that the agnate..
tural did, though they largely contribated to swe:l
the claims upon that fund. Oa what ptincip;c
of justice ought Ibis inequality be sufferetil ?
Why should it be felt by that clad which
was the moat substantial resource of the coun-
try, and was qaite independent of foreign
trade, or foreign markets The inducement.
of high wages and idleness had drawn • cite:-
siderable number of the labouring poor to ma-
nufacturing districts, where the greatest possible
encouragenseut was held to Manages. for Vie
children that relished, instead of being a burden ti
the parents, were at a very tender age • dame a
absolute profit to them at some employment is got
manufactories. Fro. this sprung that surrabood.
ant population, foe so large 'ponds of which no twi-
ployment could now be found. Miierstrie'
toust be the situation of that people, when their.Go-
vertunent deemed it a boots to them, and when they
accepted it as such, to be expst t«trli trots Ste ;
homes, and placed upon • distant soil—a rehmvst
that in former times, so far from briag coirioderei)
a boon, would .be deemed • severe puniolissient,
It was in the large manafectariug districts tti:pc
all the facilities were bead st essraitft* Wee
bodies of ales together at sat body's. body's. iit jy
so • korai district it world brae Wm. :it:
psisiWtt•
to Ease eoasesisd'sleb a marling .