The Sun.
London, England, 1830-10-30 00:00:00

ALTERING OF MASSANIELLO.

A printed paper, dated Oct. 26, has been sent
us, under the title of" On the People's Grievances,
and Advice to them on his Majesty's Visit to the
Theatre." Had the following passage from it any
effect on leading to the alteration of the play of Alas-
saniello

" Their Majesties, we see, intend, as the play bills
inform us, to visit Drury-lune Theatre on Thursday
evening next.
_ . _

" Now, it is not often that the English people
have an opportunity of being under the same roof as
their King and Queen; and we trust, therefore, that
you will, all of you, endeavour not to miss the pre-
sent opportunity—go to the theatre in thousands,
fill the house to the very ceiling.
" Friends and fellow-countrymen,—Your King,
we are convinced, is a good man, and he would re-
lieve his subjects if he was aware of their grievances
and had honest counsellors ; but unfortunately he is
surrounded by a parcel of flatterers and sinecurists,
whose interest it is not to alter the present system
of things; these rascals never allow the voice of the
people to reach ' the Royal ears;' they never allow
any papers to reach the Royal hands,' that might
tend to open the ' Royal eyes;' we are convinced
that our papers have never been permitted to pass
further than the King's mental physician, Sir Her-
bert Taylor, for, if he is any thing of a gentleman,
his Majesty would certainly have answered us. -You
have very seldom an opportunity of making known
your grievances to the person who has the most
power to relieve them ; and when you see his Ma-
jesty in the streets, instead of demanding your
rights, or imploring indispensable assistance,
your loyalty, forsooth, niust make you shout, and
doff your greasy cups;' thereby, not only neglect-
ing an opportunity of manifesting your real senti-
ments, but also conveying to the King a false idea of
the state of the country—making him believe, poor
man ! that you are the happiest of people, and him-
self the most beloved of monarchs. No longer fall
into this error ; but fail not all, who have a shilling or
two to spare, to be at Drury-lane on Thursday even-
ing next, and deafen ' the royal ears' with your
cries of distress; thunder out lustily for, ' Coned-
tutional Reform'—shout for no House of Peers'
'No Aristocracy'—demand ' Equal Representa-
tion for all persons arrived at years of discretion'—
insist on ' no more public Sinecures,' no more
Pensioners or Placemeo'—' no more vexatious
taxation, but one graduated Property Tax'—'no
more Church Abuses'—' no more Clerical Cor-
morants'—' no Monopolies'—petition for a Ge-
neral National Independent Guard'—tell him, if
lie will assist the People the People will assist him'
—and, above all, desire him to read the People's
Penny Papers.'
" Now, a word on the performances commanded
by their Majesties; two pretty Melodrames, end
one burlesque Farce—no dry sentimental Tragedy
or Comedy—no, no, no such stuff; but three very
pretty, very splendid entertainments; so that your
eyes will be well amused, even though your ears
should be better employed in listening to shouts
of Aristocratical enthusiasm and Democratical
dissatisfaction.
During the performance of The Brigand, let his
Majesty know that there are worse robbers in a
State than such as manfully profess themselves
to be such.
" Anil in illagonii*, when yen hear the spirit:
stirring songs of liberty, let the roof shake again
with your terrible chorus; and when you see the
Neapolitan rabble' rise against and triumph over
their tyrant, let your bursts of applause convince
his Majesty that you too would burl any tyrant
fi con his throne who neglected or abused the inte-
rest of his people.
"Be bold—be firm, and you may do much

any rate let not your King have an excuse that he is
ignorant of what you want; how we do wish he
would read our papers—Get him only to do that,
and leave the rest to us."

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

Two young Jews, named Jacobs and Levi, were
brought before Alderman SCHOLEY, charged with
having induced two boys, the children► of a respect-
able man in Houndsditch, to assist them in robbing
him.

The complainant, who is also a Jew, mentioned
the circumstances of the robbery with a great deal
of feeling, and his sons attended to give evidence.
One of the prisoners, it appeared, was apprentice
to the complainant, and a regular system of plunder
was carried on, which, if not detected, would, no
doubt, have led to the worst consequences. The
other prisoner was a dealer in sponge, and used to
go to the complainant's shop to purchase that article.
Ile became well acquainted with the two boys
through the introduction of the apprentice, and by
degrees prevailed upon them to give him sponge for
less money than ought to have been charged; at
last he used to go into the shop and give a shilling
or eighteenpence to one of the boys, and then he
had the run of the shop, and made free with sponge
worth 14s. or 15s. a-piece. The complainant begun
to miss his property, and to find that the out-goings
far exceeded the in-comings. His sons accounted
for the deficiency, by very candidly acknowledging
that they had assisted in the rubbery. The appren-
tice was privy to the transactions and a participator
in the profits.
Alderman SCHOLEY said the conduct of the pri-
soners was most nefarious, and he regretted that
they could not be prosecuted without the evidence
of the two boys, who might be destroyed beyond
redemption by the exposure.
The complainant was most thankful for this hu-
mane suggestion upon the part of the Alderman,
and stated that he could never, of course, think of
prosecuting when such might be the consequence to
his children.

The Alderman then addressed the prisoners and
the sons of the complainant, and predicted for all
of them great future disgrace and punishment if
they did not repent of the offence they had all com-
mitted.

The prisoner, who had acted as purchaser, and
who had by the bye shown a good deul of ingenuity,
here stilted, that be was not aware of having com-
mitted any offence; he had paid for the sponges he
was in the habit of purchasing, and why should not
a tradesman get articles as cheap as he could ?
The Alderman would show the prisoner how far
justified he was in getting the sponges upon such
terms, were it not for the peculiar circumstances of
the evidence.

Mr. Hobler said it was impossible to bring the
prisoners to punishment without subjecting those
who were reclaimable to very great hazard.
The prisoners were then discharged.

William Stephens was charged under the follow-
ing circumstance street-keeper stated, that be-
tween seven and eight o'clock. on Sunday morning
be saw a hackney-coach in Great Eastcheap, and
two men flogging the horses violently. Witness de-
sired them to desist. He then looked into the
coach, and saw a bag in it, but uo person was there.
He asked whose the property was, and was told by
the coachman that it belonged to the prisoner, who
stood on the pavement near the coach. The bag
contained u quantity of tea. While he was removing
the tea, the coachman told him the prisoner was
running away, but witness thought it unsafe to go in
pursuit. The owner of the coach afterwards told
witness where the prisoner was to be found.
An officer of excise seized the tea, which he be-
lieved to be smuggled.
_ _

Mr. nobler—Nay, how did you happen to smell
it out ? Oflicer—l was passing by accident, and
stopped to see what was the matter.
Mr. Mayow, the solicitor to the Excise, was con-
vinced that no felony had been committed in this
case. It was an act of mere smuggling.
Mr. Mayow then asked the prisoner where he
lived ?

Mr. nobler said the man was not obliged to give
his addreis, and
The prisoner said, without hesitation, that he re-
sided inn court near Redcross-street.

Mr. Mayow—Very well. As soon as you are
dismissed, you shall be served with a summons to
attend the Board of Excise.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

DEAR. Sta,—Having deemed it right to contradict the
absurd and groundless report which ascribed to Mr.
Brougham the pamphlets lately published by me, and having
just beard the names of a Noble Lord anl another Member
of the House of Commons suggested, with as little found i-
tion, I think it proper now to state, once for all, that I
shall no longer take notice of any such reports, as this is
the only means left of concealing the names of the authors,
which it is their undoubted right to keep secret.
I em, dear Sir, your obedient bumble servant,
Piccadilly, Oct. 30. JAMES RIDGWAY.

A correspondent informs us that on Thursday
evening, when his MAJESTY was proceeding along
gull to Drury-lane Theatre, a man, baying the appearance
of a journeyinsn.carpent-r, forced his way through the
Blues, which composed the Guard, to the Royal carriage.
On tieing noticed by his MAJESTY, the mechanic ex-
prersed a hope that some relief would be afforded to the
people in the course of the present Session of Parliament,
for they had, during several years, borne the enormous ex.
pencea which had been imposed on the nation without
murmuring. His MAJESTY listened to the appeal, and
returned an answer, at the same time extending his band,
shook hands with the poor fellow in a most hearty manner.
On his rejoining the mob the mechanic burst into tears,
and seemed deeply affected.

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Preparations for the reception of their MA-
JESTiga at Covent-Garden, on Monday, are zoing on with
unexampled splendour and magnificence. The ornaments
appertaining to the Royal box are entirely new, and the
whole of the decorations rich end tasteful in the extreme.
The retiring and drawing-rooms contiguous to the box
have been fitted up with beautiful satin paper, and from
the centre of the ceiling in the large room an or-mvlu
chandelier of immense breadth is suspended. The chair.,
sofas, and carpets, of a very costly description, are quite
new, and in the very best taste. The expence of them
must have been enormous.

Mr. Por.LocK and Mr. ALDERSON are said
to have both declined the proffered honours of the ermine.

On Saturday afternoon a worthy denizen of
Leith got intelligence (the veracity of which he never
questioned) that the Ex-King of France was walking on
the pier. Ile immediately communicated the circum-
stance in as private a manner as possible to some of his
most intimate friends; and having collected about half-a-
dozen, they gravely marched down the shore arm-in•arm,
twilit the intention of paying their respects to his Ex-
Majesty. All was right—they saw him walking along,
with staff in hand, iu a most gracious and easy manner,
apparently quite pleased with the scene around him ; and
having come up with him, they bowed, scraped, and wel-
comed him to their port. The King looked rather asto-
nished and queerish at their attention, and well he might,
for be turned out to be neither more nor less than an elderly
gentleman from Edinburgh, who is in the habit of taking
a stroll along the pier every Saturday afterawn,--)din,
burgh Obserrer.

ST. MICHAEL'S CROOKED-LANE.—IMS
church is to come down, to make way for the approaches
to the new London Bridge. The church is of very
ancient foundation, as appe..rs by JOHN DE BORTIAM, who
was Rector thereof, and died in the year 1304. The
church was, originally, a very small plain building, anti
stood amidst lay-stalls and slaughter-grounde, used by the?
lochers of Easteheap-markm.t. 't,he old clink.* kvas
tire!), destroyed in the great'fire tif 'London, in' T 666, and
the present edifice erected in its stead. The patronage of
this church was anciently in the Prior and Convent of
St. Augustine's, Canterbury, in whom it continued till
the year 1408, since which time it has been vested in the
Archbishops of that See, and is one of the 13 peculiars in
the city of London, belonging to Canterbury. Hence the
recent visit of his Grave to this church, lo de!errnine
whether he should oppo.so or support the Bill for taking it
rlown IR his plass) iii Pg!iwerit.