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London, England, 1809-12-03 00:00:00

.faret the issue of the Expedition was known ikere." This informa-
tion I received from your Lordship, in a Jester dated the 19th
q*fieptember. It was then perfectly neva to sue..

. I leave your Lun'ship to Sudge witat must have beep iny gar-
prize, sit hen after receiving from your Lordship, on the evening
of the 19th a September, his frank avowal of the real origin
tlf 'the conccaltwat maintained, during this latter and,:most
portant period, towards Lord Castlereagh, I received on the
follow* morning Lord Castlereagh% letter of the same date,
'staking me respousible for that concealment. •
I :have not to trouble y Our Lordship with any further observa-
tions. I have confined myself to matters growing out of Lord
Clastlereagli's letter, and out of your Lordship's statement ; oa
those alone have I any right to claim your Lordship's attention.
lo this address to your Lordship I have been compelled to
'resort, however rtAuctantly, to vindicate my private honour.—
..es to any clr against my public conduct, this is not the
*ode to reply to them. If any such shall be brought against
me, at the proper time and in the proper place, I shall be pre-
pared to repel them. I have the honour to be, with great re-'
meet, my Lord,

Your Lordship's most obedient humble servint,
GEORGE CAXEING•

TLIBATRIC JURIES.

• As general laws cannot be framed so as to apply in all
points to specific cases, it will often happen that a literal
adherence to them may pl'oduce • injustice to the innocent,
and afford security to the guilty ; but even these diti4dvatt-
tnes we are willing to submit to; for general goed,. well
knowing that the merits of the case must be finally sub-
mitted to a Jury of honest, perhaps simple, men, who wilt
dispense:pat/cc, though they cannot procure redress.. To
such a decision, the Public, and we should conceive even
the Police Magistrates, must be anxious, that both the
Theory -and practice of the present Theatrical Rowe, may
soon be submitted, in order that John Boamay know'
far he may go, and no farther." If, indeed, we
ate to judge of the public right in the manner in which
hither 4; has been dispensed, all contrpul of that pub-
lic over the sage, and indeed over the whole Theatre, is
notbiug more than an empty name ; one person has been
committed, or obliged to find bail, for hissing, because the
Box-keeper thought he hissed too much ; another for ap.
plauding, because the Box-keeper thought he applauded
tpo much : many have been taken up for exciting the au-
d, fence to make a nois:!. and another for calling out silence!
The advocates for the new reading of the StalutOs, may
tell us, that these are not insulated facts, but actually
forming part of « system qf riot; this, however is the _very
point we deny ; a point, too, which fortunately must be
determined, not as a point of' law, bet as a matter of fact,
and that by a Jury'. But we .are told that the Mana,;ers,
out of tenderness to the Public, will not press the cases to•
a decision ; out of frnderness to themselves, perhaps,- they
limy note but ins for the interest and honour of the Pub-
lig, as fives ;he right of the Variou*individuals, that it
silt.tild bebrought to a decision, otherwise the &cline of
.Opposition, as• the law is aupposed to be at pre,seet,
wtil be tantammult to a general gagv,iug of the visions to
the Theatre who will then, indeed, literally becotno the
audience, and may thus be forced to hear whatever sash a
Manager may chime to patronize ; nay, even that Mana-
ger, without fear of a hiss, may then give so many new
readings,z that Shakespeare himself will be no loneritn-
telligible, and the Theatre at last become so thinly attend-
41,,Lhat th,ose who venture there, must run the risk of
catclaing cohl, and of being tormented with *itches ! Who
can tell, indeed, but that those *by sit silent at Brandon's
benefit, may be.carried to Bow-streot for not applanding,
whilst those who prevent their :friends from going, by ask-
ing them to dinner oa that day, run be 'indicted for a
eanspirne#
Act° ttos tenderness for the Publie, we would have been
,last if it ha 4 made its appearave a little earlier in the
4eissue, before the laternal arraogetneuts of a piablic Out

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