The Sun.
London, England, 1801-10-27 00:00:00

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Drzky-Lane.
inctisposrtian .of a principal Performer, ac-
cording to the account of the Play-bilis, occasioned
the Tragedy Of Richard the Third to be postponed.
The useful and affeding woes of George Barnwell
were therefore represented instead of the lofty
crimes of a bloody usurper.

The youth and figure of CHARLES KEMBLE
are very well suited to the unhappy Hero of this
domestic Drama. He performed the charaeler with
feeling and ability, and was recompensed by the
applause of a much larger audience than could be
expeEled to attend a play not much adapted to the
taste of the times, and very little calculated to please
the higher order of Auditors.

Covent-Ga)-den.

Richard the Third was represented at this Thea-
tre last night, and CoOKE seemed disposed to re-
trieve his reputation by more than ordinary zeal to
do justice to the Hero of the Piece. He supported
the part indeed throughout with great spirit and
impressive energy. He' is an Aftor who weighs
what he titters, and does not view a part by tradi-
tional lights, but obviously thinks for himself. In
his emphasis last night- we, however, thought he
was wrong, though'we shall content ourselves with
giving only the following-instance. When Lady
Anne threatens to destroy that beauty. which Rich-
ard pleads in extenuation of his crimes, he says,

" These eyes could not endure that beauty's wrcck,
" You should not 6/enthi) it if I stood by."
The antithesis is evidently between wreck and
blemish, but COOKE did not mark the distin&ion.
However general spirit rather than critical nicety
is required by a- public audience,. and as he is not
deficient in the one he; may be excused if he oc-
casionally fails in the other. The house bad a
very large Audience, a proof that this ACIor is far
from declining in his popularity.

The Dublin 'Theatre opens on the vi of next
rhonth, under the management of Mr. IioLMAN.
Mr. BANNiSTER, Jun. it is said, bas purchased a
Share in the Dublin Theatre, and is in a few days
to set off to Ireland, in order to employ his talents
in support of his new property.
The Newcastle Theatre is open .this week, it
being the. Fair week at that place.
Miss HEARD, who belonged to Drury-Lane
Theatre, is now in STEPHEN KEMDLE'S Company
at Newcastle. _ _ _

Qurcx, it is said, is in treaty with the Drury_
Lane Managers to perform Little Isaac. He is
much more wanted for that part in his old quarters,
at Covent-Garden.

Mr. Btiowx, 'who was many years ago the hero
of the Bath Stage, and who-performed at the Hay-
market during the management of the elder COL-
mm4, is soon to make his appearance at Covent Gar-
den, as Betverly, in the Tragedy of TL Gamester.

Mr. SHERIDAN has returned to town, and, ac_
cording to report, is going to employ himself
vigorously in new arrangements for the interestof
the Theatre. The.success of Pizarro, though only
touched up by his pen, points out the best mode of
arrangement, and strongly indicates the eagerness
with which the people would flock to any original
produce of his Muse.

Many illiberal animadversions have been made in
the Public Prints upon the Theatrical Charaaers
who appear in Front Seats at` the Theatre. We
were in hopes that the oldprejudices against the
theatrical world were at an end, and that the en-
lightened judgment of the times would have classed
Aaors with .Professors in other provinces of the
liberal arts. So many respetab!e men and women
have raised the -theatrical char.ater of late years,.
that it might be supposed the profession in general
would no longer he- the obje6t of invidious, nar-
row-minded refleffions. Why should not those who
contribute so much to the public gratification, have
an equal right with others to participate in public
amusements themselves?

If the 9th of November is to be celebrated with
great splendour in Paris in honour of the Petite, we
have no doubt that on that day the City of tondon
will at least be equal to the City of Paris in all the
solid parts of the festival. The appointment of
Lord Mayor'i daj for a Parisian holiday, seems as if
it were not intended that the rivalry of. the two
countries shciuld henceforth be confined to rnanu
faduresi but should also reach to articles of con-
sumption.

Yesterday the London Session's were opened
before the Recorder, the Sheriff's, and several of the
City Aldermen. The only trial of any note was the
KING GIBSON.

This was an indiainenf for keeping •A disorderly
house, in the Oki 'Change, Cheapside. The principal
evidence was Frances' Hart, who said she had, hired
herself as a servant to Mrs. Gibson, thinking it to
be a private house, but coon found that it was an
house of ill-fame. This she proved by a detail of
circumstances 'which it is iinnecessafy to specify;
This evidence was corroborated by the Parish
Officers, who expressed it to be Ihe desire of the
Parish that this house should he indited.
The Defendant had nothing to urge in defence,
excepting the ingenuity that, fell from his Counsel,
which not being supported by evidence, the jury
found both the Defendant and his wife guilty, and
sentenced them to One Yedr's imprisonment in
Newgate.

A little boy of six years of age, in petticoats,
being put on a poney last week, in WalWoi-th, was
run away with over the fields leading 'to Camber_
well. The servant had just turned his back, when
the reins being over the poney's head, he galloped
off. The child was soon thrown over, and hung in
the stirrup, and in this situation was dragged a
quarter of a mile. It is. very singular that the
child escaped, in consequence of his petticoats, with
only some very severe bruises.
A man named Griffiths lately died at Thimgay,
in Wales, who had been 89- years martied to his
now surviving widow, and during that long period
had never been ten miles nom home.

'CiERKENWELL SESSIONS,

ZiONDAY; OCT. z 6.

Ttt t Sessions for the County
.of Middles'ek corn.
inenced before W. MAlNwAtti NG, Esq. A num-
ber of traverses were tried ; the folloWink were the
most material :

Charles Fancock was indiaed for assaulting-Mary
Slaughter.
It appeared that' the Prosecutrix had foimerly,
when the Dog and Duck was in its zenith, figured
away as a celebratedfille de joye ; but, for several
years past, had become domesticated with a corn
factor, at Hornsey, who', suffering his extrava-
gance to exceed his means, became indebted to the
Defendant, a tailor, in the sum of about 901. The
Defendant took out a Writ, and proceeded with the
officer and his follower to the corn-faftor's house ;
but every gate was barred, and they in vain essayed
to gain admittance. Determined to try the effea:
of stratagem, the Defendant and Tom Touch, the
Bailiff's follower, vaulted the garden wall, and,
advancing with cautious steps, secreted themselves
in the privy, as the most convenient place they could
find, where they lay perdue for several hours.
The Prosecutrix gently opened the door, when the
Tailor and the Bailiff burst out, knocked her down,
cut off her toe-nails, as she said, and threw her
head foremast into a water-tub. In the mean time
Dorrel had bolted the door of the house, and se-
cured himself; and the Prosecutrix, to avoid the
necessity of his opening it, got a ladder and went
over the wall. The Defendant and the Bailiff, fiod-

ing they could .not catch the person they were in
pursuit of, effeeted their retreat. .The defence set up
was, that the Prosecutrix had made tIA first assault,
accompanying it with the most abusive language ;
that she h►d seized the Defendant, and, in the a6t of
struggling, they both fell into the water-tub ; that,
as to. cutting off her toe-nails, her toe was trod upon,
and the nail might have been bruised ; and that,
lastly, . after the Defendant and the Officer went
away, the Prosecutrix exulted in her victory; threw
a bason at them, and saluted their' with a volley of
stones.

The CHAIRMAN, in summing Pp the evidence,
censured in Very severe terms, the condutt of the
Defendant 'and the Officer,' in presuming to break
into the premises of Mr. Dorrell, in order to execute
a Warrant. It was what they had no right to dc,
and any violence used by the Prosecutrix, upon
discovering them, was justifiable.—The Defendant
was found Guilty.

William Hobbs was indiaed for an assault upon
John Eades. The Prosecutor was walking along
Bethnal,green-ftelds,. with a young Woman, and the
Defendant came up and behaved with indecency to-
wards her. Upon the Prosecutor's renionstrating
with him on.the impropriety of his condua, he fell
upon and beat him most unmercifully. He then
'followed him to a public'-house, where he again beat
and swore he would murder him,. and he afterwards
pursued him to a chandler's shop in the neighbour-
hood, where the Prosecutor concealed himself by
getting up a chimney, till Officers arrived and took
the ..Defendant into custody.—The Defendant was
found Guilty.
The CHAIRMAN ordered the Defendant to he im-
prisoned for One Year in the House of Correaion.
Thomas William Fletcher was indiaed for as-

saulting John Atlee, on the Bth of September last,
From the evidence in this case, it appeared, that
the Prosecutor was the twopenny Postman deliver-
ing the letters within the district of Chancery-
Lane: The Defendant was an Attorney living in

Quality-Court. On the day stated in the inaiet-
ment, the Prosecutor delivered a letter at the house

of the Defendant, direeted for Mrs. Fletcher, which
was carried up stairs to the Defendant; Whb, after
he had broken it open returned it, and refused to
pay the poStage. The Postman said, that the rea-
son for refusing payment must be indorsed on the
back of the letter, according to their official forms,
or lie himself must be responsible to the Office. The
Defendant then inclosed it in a cover with another
direaion;., but the ProseCutor could not take it, so,
and broke off the cover : an altercation ensued,
when Fletcher knocked him down.

Tile jury returned a Verdian of Guilty.
Mr. MAINWARINa observed, that the Postman
nitist be considered as an officer of the public, and if
he were to be assaulted upon every dispute resped-
ing postage, hip btisiness would never be done, and
the public must be Most material sufferers. Upon
this consideration, the Court therefore fined the De-
fendant 161.

Mary Taylor wag indicted for assaulting Eliza
beth

Thc-i Defendant Was Wife to a butcher,' and the
Proseeuttix wife to a goldstnith in ,her neighbour:
hood. On the 'St of June last, the i?roseeutrix went
to the shop of the Defendant for the purpose of
buying a Shodlder of lamb, but as she saw,
none.to ple.ae her, the Defendant told her she could
cut one from a qUarter„Whicii would prove very ex-
cellent. It was cut off', but did not. please, which
caused-a dispute between them:. The bile retused
to take it, acid the other insisting, as it was
cut of, it must .be paid for. The.bdtcher's wife
carried it to her neighbour's, and threatened to
throw it through the Windows, if it were not
taken in.. The goldsmith's Wife sent it back again ;.
upon which the Defendant beat it about the head of
the Prosecutrix, whiCh was-the Assault complained
of. The Jury having found her Grillo', the COurt
sentenced her to a fine of

PETER WHITFILD BRANCKER, tS4. is eleaed
Mayor of Liverpool, and WILLIAM TERRY, Esq.
Mayor of Sephton.

It is reported, that by a secret article in the
Treaty between France and Portugal, the latter
Power has ceded to the Republic a small part of
the Brazils. Such is the rumour to which some
degree 61 credit is annexed. It is obvious, how-
ever' that all the treaties concluded with the in-
ferior Powers of the Continent, must be materially
affeaed in their provisions by the arrangements be-
tween this country and Franee.

Last week a pregnant woman was killed by the
overwrning of a cart in which the was riding near
Alford,

S'ath"L A Nn.

xpiidaintr,l4, OCT. /2:

INSTRUCTIONS were received yesterday by Co..
lonel FERRIER, to suspend the recruiting for the
Arniy until further otdersi thOse Regiments i the
East India excepted.